Well, since teh intertubes don't come with a tone of voice, and there is no irony box, and I'm not psychic, and there are some pretty awful things that can be found on teh intertubes....

You're right. I missed the irony.

My apologies.

I used 23andMe for analysis of my saliva. The DNA is mine, what I choose to do with the information is my choice alone. Same as palm reading and seeing a psychic (if that's what you're into), or peeing into a cup - I can act on the information or not, my choice. If the FDA is so worried about and more importantly has time and money to spend engaging this company on the possible health effects of users who act on the information, I'd say their priorities are fucked up or at least their motivation is unclear.

Point of contrast - here's another product that can possibly cause harm, but were's the cease and desist for this one? I can go down to the corner store and buy a known to be addictive product, with labels that indicate "Smoking Kills", but the tobacco companies are still free to sell it and go about their business. The accuracy of the tests conducted on addiction, health effects etc. related to tobacco are still in debate. You know "We're still working on it". We choose whether we want to use this product, even though it doesn't only put the users life at risk (presumably) but also those around the user (presumably), same as we choose what do with 23andMe reports. However, I'd wager the known risks and costs associated with allowing tobacco use to continue is orders of magnitude higher than it ever will be for the 400,000 or so customers that have used 23andMe to sequence a portion of our genome. Why don't we work on the hard & obvious problem first?

Tempest in a tea cup.

ps. I wonder what the ulterior motive is? Perhaps the FDA is in cahoots with Monsanto in planning copyright on specific genetic sequences for humans, as they do now for crops. Hmmm... they could call it the Soylent Green experiment.

It's amazing how clueless the people are about this. Makes me amusingly wonder about the "street psychics" you see sometimes in Las Vegas etc etc etc...Maybe, they're just guys with an assistant using a laptop talking into a microphone feeding to small ear canal speaker LOL...

It's like I'm psychic...amazing what 90 seconds of searching can find:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/06/justice/new-mexico-search-lawsuit/

"Hildalgo County K-9 officer did inform me that he had dealt with Mr. Eckert on a previous case and stated that Mr. Eckert was known to insert drugs into his anal cavity and had been caught in Hidalgo County with drugs in his anal cavity," the affidavit said.

I am not a fan of the "War on Drugs"...

I'm also not a fan of sensationalist news stories and the people that perpetuate them.

All I know is that if I had been there I would have been like:
"Hell YES! Now we're fuckin' talking! Bring some psychic shit to into this bitch of a planet!"
I would have been so happy, and then soooo pissed when they told me it was fake. Might have had to punched someone for getting my hopes up.

Remember, Rupert Sheldrake *actually believes* in psychic powers.

In this video he sets up a bunch of straw-men arguments to knock down. Just by using (and abusing) the language of science and framing it inwords like "dogma" that we associate with religion doesn't mean that anything else you have to propose has any validity.

He believes that by "morphic resonance" that "natural systems, such as termite colonies, or pigeons, or orchid plants, or insulin molecules, inherit a collective memory from all previous things of their kind".

Hmmm. I'm waiting or your peer reviewed paper on this with interest.

I dunno. I can kinda get behind her idea.

Yeah, at first glance it seems ridiculous, but you're not looking at the big picture!

If Muslims aren't allowed to write about Christianity, then Christians aren't allowed to write about science. It gets even better:

- creationists cannot write about evolution
- homeopaths cannot write about medicine
- republicans cannot write about government
- and psychics cannot write about fucking anything

This kind of bullshit pisses me off to no end. A great chunk of my life is dedicated to education and scientific research, and there are millions of ignorant people who believe this shit. People like these pose as educated minds so they can prey on them, and this bullshit is the modern equivalent of seances and psychics.

Your video, Psychics Humiliated On National TV, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Wow...your ability to overcome his previously flawless and incredible psychic powers is truly fantastic and you are a hero for defeating his genius system. You are a force to be reckoned with!

>> ^bmacs27:

I didn't ignore any of his directions! He said horizontal and vertical, so I went horizontal and vertical. It's not my fault your stupid game can't predict me!
>> ^Confucius:
>> ^bmacs27:
I moved right from the start to wrap over to the V. He was wrong as soon as he said your hand is either "here" or "here". Then I landed on the house after seven moves, and he was wrong again, but this time I didn't have a tile for my finger so I couldn't see how much wronger he could be.

....does not follow directions well and yay...basic math.

System Shock 2 is my #2 game of all time (only beaten by the original Half-Life) so when Bioshock came out, I was really psyched that I'd get to return to that FPS/RPG style of gameplay. I thought they did a lot of things great in Bioshock (the art style, the graphics, the story, the physics and mechanics of the gameplay), it's always the things that didn't make sense to me that stick in my mind first whenever anyone brings it up. Vending machines that sell ammunition? (That never made much sense to me in SS2 either.) Psychic abilities that summon......bees? They're little things, but it's always stuff like this that breaks the immersion for me. Anyone else like that?

Then that makes River, what..., the sexy psychic sorta psycho super assassin part of himself that he's lost? If that's true then Mal has more voices in his head than Sybil.

I got the point of Ears' gaffe/save. It's as unimpressive as his "leadership" and your comment.


>> ^KnivesOut:

HA there it is! Some ignorant moron quoting just the first part and completely missing the point.
I'm a fucking psychic.>> ^quantumushroom:
"My muslim faith...export jobs"...someone needs a new Teleprompter.

HA there it is! Some ignorant moron quoting just the first part and completely missing the point.

I'm a fucking psychic.>> ^quantumushroom:

"My muslim faith...export jobs"...someone needs a new Teleprompter.