i suppose it was inevitable that a service came about for ridiculously uptight 'process excellence-oriented' middle-managers who love the smell of their own farts to try and reduce their shitty lives into a series of hookups with their own kind.
Thanks for Obama for exhuming the world's most boring debate. Again, evidence will appear inconclusive and even if it does or does not have a warping effect on children, there is already a good regulatory body in check for age classifications.
It is very easy to blame these things, but finding out how parents can be better educated and supported in communicating and dealing with problem children (which does include not buying them violent video games they are too young for) seems to be more of an important question. of course this is always going to be a no-no for conservatives since any solutions are almost certainly going to mean an increase in tax.
is this another case of people trying to silver bullet their lives into happiness/healthiness by medicating themselves with food?
Why is simply admitting that human health is a complex set of factors that can never realistically be applied to the general population, but rather requires a total holistic approach, and that anything else requiring this much zeal is largely emotionally damaging?
It doesn't really hurt anyone, but it does turn sour. My mother is a breast cancer survivor and she told me a lot about her experiences meeting with other women (some of whom are now dead, which upsets me somewhat).
In particular she struck up a friendship with one woman who was very outspoken in meetings, and told her the 'must reads' for any woman going through breast cancer, and handed her a book she had with her. It was a diet book for women with cancer, HEAVILY annotated and sticky-noted by this woman, to a shocking degree.
When she showed it to me, I realised there was a culture of blame among women with breast cancer; you are 'at fault' for getting cancer because you had the audacity to eat or drink X and must make penance by following these self-help books. I felt sick after I came to that realisation.
I would surmise taking it further and that any nutrition advice of this kind is really just a set up to blame people for their failures when they wind up with something serious.
Of course taking care of yourself is good, and people should be encouraged to do so, but any advice outside of your doctor should really be taken dubiously, all pseudoscience aside.
No, no, theyre fully aware of that. The people behind this are the Halden Reactor Project, they already operate this small nuclear reactor that was (don't know if it still is) used to power a paper mill. The whole thing is just for some clout in world research. Leave it to the Norwegians!
They're a wonderful bunch of people, I had the chance to study some safety in software engineering principles with them, about 6 months ago. I had no idea they were planning to implement Thorium.
They do a huge bunch of research in Human Factors, and half of the team basically hack about with Kinects as their job designing AR solutions rehearsing dangerous nuclear sites/oil rigs
I imagine its a third systems engineer maximising profits/suckered into buying it, a third RFID manufacturers aggressively trying to consume marketing share and a third the proportion of people in the world who are really creepy and should stop spying on people.
Its unwieldy for most purposes in addition to the privacy concerns, but I'm reticent to go all Alex-Jones-fly-off-the-handle hysterical about this.
1984 is seemingly the only book everyone has read.
It is really frustrating to see people simplify all economics, (evidence-based) social psychology and proper appraisal of philosophy applied to historical perspectives only to reduce our future to these bizarre extremes.
The only reason people even give 1984 its credibility post Cold-War is that its two chief components, the television and surveillance camera became a reality. This is not to trivialise the presence of surveillance, but honestly, I'm amazed anyone can read it past the hysterical Room 101 bit.
BWN is basically just 1984 told from the bourgeoisie perspective, the specifics are different but both themes are two sides of the same coin.
tl;dr 1984 is the print version of those crackpot websites that are all made in Frontpage, where every other word is formatted differently and there's a maddening tree of stream of consciousness ramblings, some of which lead to nowhere. The whole hoary debate can be summarised as basically one legible paragraph of that.
as horrible as it is for him, and as vile as his colleagues were, i really don't care his writing style. it reads like a bad fan fiction half the time.
plus the run dmc segue into the 'what i wore today' image was a bit gratuitous