3,511 Forum Posts by "JudgeDredd"
geez. now quotes are not handled correctly?! lol
At 2/13/13 01:58 AM, Ceratisa wrote:Seriously, comparing human-level consciousness to a mouse brain.. that has to be a joke.You don't understand anatomy if you think that is a joke.
Even basic (assumed) similarity of mouse and human anatomy have proven false.
âEUoeItâEUTMs amazingâEU
âEUoeThis is a game changerâEU
"It helps explain why every one of nearly 150 drugs tested at a huge expense in patients with sepsis has failed. The drug tests all were based on studies in mice. And mice, it turns out, can have something that looks like sepsis in humans, but is very different from the condition in humans."
âEUoeThey were so used to doing mouse studies that they thought that was how you validate things,âEU he said. âEUoeThey are so ingrained in trying to cure mice that they forget we are trying to cure humans.âEU
âEUoeThat started us thinking.. Is it the same in the mouse or not?âEU
The group decided to look, expecting to find some similarities.
But when the data was analyzed, there were none at all.
âEUoeWe were kind of blown away,âEU
You mean the pathways we form just by thinking?
...Neuroplasticity. Which can alter the very way our brain functions through mental stimulation and exercises.
Correct.
The way our traditional education system works is that we spend (on average) about 20 years having stuff poured into our brains in classroom settings. We head off to class everyday not expecting to be challenged unless there's an expected test. If you think of the brain as a sponge, designed simply to mop up knowledge then that's fine. And this is certainly true when we are young..
"Once the child is born, the billions of neurons start to interact with each other creating neural pathways within the nervous system. Since each individual neuron can make at least 15,000 new connections, there are infinite amount of connections and circuitry can be established to form a childâEUTMs experience and capabilities. The reason behind this is because the brain is the most malleable during these early years."
The implication here is that the brain becomes much less malleable with age. When taught formally for 20 years it becomes almost rigid. It may also depends on what you do with your free time, but many of us are "sponges" at home as much as when in school because that is what society valued the most. And knowledge of many subjects is great, but it is wasted without the creative spark needed to synthesize that knowledge. Today this problem is best expressed as "Who needs years and years of memorized knowledge when i have Google or Wikipedia always at my fingertips?"
So where does our creative spark come from? This is what we're really asking when talking about mental stimulation and exercises. Here we can look back to one of the most creative individuals of our age; Einstein said âEUoeWhen I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.âEU
And what is Fantasy? For most of us it's when we dream at night. We're able to let go our conscious minds and drift off into an unconscious creative state. There we evaluate our past, present and future in very uncontrolled and abstract ways. But unfortunately we are left almost completely unaware of the processes and conclusions, except for brief glimpses as we start to return to consciousness when we wake up.
Meditation or drugs on the other hand offer us an ability to journey into a higher abstracted state whilst still retaining conscious control of our thoughts in order to focus on specific ideas. This 'ease of transition' is one appeal of taking drugs.
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At 2/13/13 12:14 AM, Ceratisa wrote: [THC] does not promote brain development
In another study, Barry Jacobs, a neuroscientist at Princeton University, gave mice the natural cannabinoid found in marijuana, THC (D9-tetrahydrocannabinol)). But he says he detected no neurogenesis, no matter what dose he gave or the length of time he gave it for.
Seriously, comparing human-level consciousness to a mouse brain.. that has to be a joke.
"Promote brain development" is not referring to growing neurons, it's about opening un-tapped (dormant) neural connections and higher pathways.
At 2/9/13 03:09 PM, Camarohusky wrote: The Taliban and Al Qaeda all exist today in no small part because the Soviets cut and ran in Afghanistan leaving the most ruthless and vicious warlords to claim the remnants.
10 myths about Afghanistan... #5. After the Soviets withdrew, the west walked away.
"Far from forgetting about Afghanistan in February 1989, the US showed no let-up in its close involvement with the mujahideen. Washingtonblocked the Soviet-installed President Mohammad Najibullah's offers of concessions and negotiations and continued to arm the rebels and jihadis in the hope they would quickly overthrow his Moscow-backed regime."
This was one of the most damaging periods in recent Afghan history when the west and Pakistan, along with mujahideen intransigence, undermined the best chance of ending the country's civil war. The overall effect of these policies was to prolong and deepen Afghanistan's destruction, as Charles Cogan, CIA director of operations for the Middle East and south Asia, 1979-1984, later recognised. "I question whether we should have continued on this momentum, this inertia of aiding the mujahideen after the Soviets had left. I think that was probably, in retrospect, a mistake," he said
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..internet back again :P
Ceratisa wrote:
@Judge
Would you be opposed to a drug that somehow magically recreated the same relaxation you got without getting high?
Or would you find that unacceptable?
As i said, relaxation isn't a big part of it for me. I'm more creative or motivation user.
I helps me to focus on whatever important thing i'm doing. Like 'being in the now'.
Some people might study at length various forms of meditation for similar effects.
On a good day it puts you 'in the zone' and you can work on it very effectively for many hours.
The creative side needs care. There's a saying that every idea you have stoned seems brilliant, but not so great when you're straight again. A fairly common problem is getting really cool ideas, and then do nothing about them.
That's where depression sometimes arises. It's important to try to follow through on good ideas.
To explore them further, write them down, and work on them either straight or stoned later on.
Each person is different on how they use it.
There's a lot of stereotyping about being loser or dopey.
That's a case of believing what you want to believe.
Reality is it's been used as a gateway to religion, self-exploration, etc since we were primitive cavemen.
Even the issues with short-term memory i believe are more to do with how the brain is working
on a different fundamental level. It's like re-organizing your room into a better functioning design,
but then simply forgetting where you put something.
There's nothing really comparable to it, otherwise we'd be advocating that instead. ;)
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At 2/6/13 11:18 AM, Ceratisa wrote:
Okay see medical isn't valid cause this is about recreational use of Marijuana,
Which you have yet to prove is a good thing, just that it isn't bad, and that some other options are bad.
Recreational is only a small part of marijuana use in my own life.
Socializing might be a part of it. Relaxing another.
For myself i'd say it's more an occupational use. I work well on it as a coder or designer.
It helps me see everything better.. which is a long story of course.
Living up to one's own hyperbole (showing by doing) is not often an easy thing.
There's slight problem of living in a parallel mindset where we have to pretend
it's legal when it ain't, just not to focus on more paranoid thinking.
Then once past that some mind exploration is possible.
That's where religious spiritual (Rasta etc) thoughts are.
So that could be recreational.. if we can call it that ..like from atheist viewpoint.
So a multi-various lot of reasons.. which all sadly have convoluted explanations.
"Judge, jury and executioner: Legal experts fear implications of White House drone memo"
..now where have i heard those words before?
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"The Federal Aviation Administration is due to release regulations [in 2015] for unmanned aircraft
in domestic airspace. Once those regulations are in place, the FAA predicts that 10,000 commercial
drones will be operating in the U.S. within five years." (2020)
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At 2/6/13 02:13 AM, Ceratisa wrote: Once again, you've failed to actually support marijuana. Just mention other stupid shit people do.
Anti-depressant.
(i kinda mentioned that indirectly)
..and Medical.
(post above on this page)
.. and Healthy Recreational
(last post)
At 2/2/13 12:53 PM, milchreis wrote:
I'm more concerned about how and if Newgrounds will support these types of animations though.It does already.
I don't see any HTML5 games and animations portal..
Are you referring to drag and drop conversion by some software?
At 2/5/13 08:27 PM, Ceratisa wrote: How many drugs are legalized for their pure recreational use?
You know what dopamine and endorphins are? That's right, the bodies natural highs.
People do the most crazy shit like jumping out of planes hundreds of times.. just for recreation.
Drive fast cars. Run until they drop down dead.
Is that illegal? No.
Food releases both as far as i'm aware. That's the bodies "reward system".
Heart disease is the world's #1 killer. There are food addicts.
Epidemic disease like diabetes related to poor diets and bad foods.
Millions dying every year.
Is going to a greasy fast food outlet illegal? No.
Sex probably releases both.
You and i would not exist if they didn't.
It's causing overpopulation, hunger and millions of deaths.
Is recreational sex illegal? No.
So what's your point?
Because i can do it sitting down, healthily, and while working at my computer.
Not affecting anyone, and at much less risk than any "natural high".
Why isthat still illegal?
Once again bringing up how harmful alcohol is, is not a pro marijuana argument. It is a anti alcohol argument.
Alcohol is special. You drink, and it makes you thirsty (alcohol dehydrates) and you drink some more.
The more you drink the more you want to drink because you lose the function of reason.
You keep on drinking and your chances to die are very high.
It's a poison. Advertised everywhere. Billboards.. at children. That should be illegal.
That's why we compare with marijuana.
On a dating site i can't even say i smoke marijuana. (they censor my profile when i added it)
But they have smoking and drinking. And it's all over the dating site. Mentioned twice on some pages.
That is either ill-informed or immoral, so the comparison needs to be made.
And it doesn't mean that we want alcohol prohibition.. ("anti-alcohol" like you said).
It just means there is very real harm caused by legal drugs, and very safe alternatives are still illegal.
How many people are "forced" to drink and smoke simply because having a joint is too risky? (jail, etc).
That's why we talk about (current) legal and easily available drugs.
At 2/5/13 07:47 PM, Ceratisa wrote:At 2/5/13 07:28 PM, JudgeDredd wrote:But that simply isn't true. When you are mentally less capable of responding high on Y, Y is at least partially responsible for the accidental death.At 2/3/13 12:01 AM, Ceratisa wrote: Because X is acceptable why can't I do Y? That doesn't really make any sense here.It makes sense if lots of people DIE from both X's ...and not 1 recorded death from Y.
You're talking about 100,000's to 1.
Tobacco has killed over 100 million people worldwide. Marijuana still has no (direct) recorded deaths.
At least with marijuana, there are healthier ways to partake.. cakes, vaporisors, pills..
At 2/5/13 07:20 PM, Camarohusky wrote:
No, goalposts changed.
The root word of "privacy" is "private". Not Public. Private.
Agreed, it's mainly a percetion problem.
We definitely grew up thinking we're private citizens going about our private lives.
That has all changed. Cameras are already everywhere. In public. In and now in the home.
Kids toys, early robots, every device we buy pretty much has a camera, and most are now web connected.
At what point do we (all) just accept (this new perception of) reality?
Younger generation already accept this. Older folk not so much.
At 2/3/13 12:01 AM, Ceratisa wrote: Because X is acceptable why can't I do Y? That doesn't really make any sense here.
It makes sense if lots of people DIE from both X's ...and not 1 recorded death from Y.
Being Intoxicated effects more than just you, I'm not sure how selfish one would have to be to not understand that.
Too bad your personal decisions effect others when you get high.
Being depressed affects others ..and that doesn't involve drugs ..so not sure how being "high" (happy)
does affect others any worse than being depressed and straight. Quite the opposite in fact.
At 2/5/13 10:49 AM, Korriken wrote:
also, the government doesn't even know who the average american is. if you've done something to get the government's attention and make them want to hit you with a missile, then you've accomplished something.
1.8 Gigapixel cameras..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxNyaXfJsA
With ^these^ types of drones, nobody who walks the street (or leaves their house at all) will be excluded. Case closed.
Who needs missiles? If you post on the net that you're gonna go slaughter some kids.. then they track you loading up ya truck with something that looks like weapons.. you can bet your ass that you're gonna be taken out one way or the other.
Oh yeah, and why shouldn't America have these if they are already used overseas on other nations territory?
Welcome to the new reality. Drones Everywhere. Controlled by Anyone and Everyone.
At 2/2/13 12:18 PM, TheMason wrote: Things are going good. I've shifted gears twice since '08, I went back active with the Air Guard once I got back from my deployment and didn't go back to finish my PhD.
Now I'm back in school to get my HS social studies certificate. Much better path for me.
I take it the govt pays for it after duty?
Just been checking the Collab-thing-a-ma-jig. They prolly need few more options in the dropdowns.Hey...hope to see you back in here sometime!
Cool. I'm kinda on G+ and thought i should start cross-posting some of the political stuff.
I went all mobile (android like the rest here ;) and tablet.. but netbooks are dirt cheap so
finally got one which makes easier.
Definitely the future comin' along now. Some tech is mindblowing..
Good news.. a Kiwi played Judge Dredd in the new movie.
Bad news.. it wasn't me :( ...and i haven't seen it yet. (net bandwith is bit low) lol
Once bitten, twice shy....
"less than 24 hours after the first news reports of the existence of the third-party [file search] engine surfaced, Dotcom blocked it"
http://mashable.com/2013/01/31/mega-first-search-engine-bloc ked/
At 7/22/09 04:48 PM, scarneck wrote: Marijuana still wont be legal for young teens. If it is legalized it will most likely be 18+ or 21+ I'm uncertain of which.
How about medical?
http://www.alexneedshelp.com/about-alex
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At 1/30/13 12:30 PM, Camarohusky wrote: Tentative date for new kidney set: March 1st. Just need the doctoring committee to confirm it.
Ahh geez, best o' luck Cam!
You too moref*bs! (damn.. and thought i was one of the oldies here ;)
Hey Mason, how's it kickin?
Yeh, haven't been around since Obama got in (..err well, since Bush departed)
Shits heating up a bit.. can't explain here but just get that feeling.. maybe it's me.
Just been checking the Collab-thing-a-ma-jig. They prolly need few more options in the dropdowns.
At 11/26/12 10:32 PM, Jmayer20 wrote: The reason Communism will never work is because it defy's human nature. Most human beings are greedy by nature.
Greed is against nature. Wanting more dead wildebeest than you can eat is cultural suicide.
Saying greed is human nature is bullshit. Propaganda by way of advertising pushes greed. The Capitalist system depends on advertising to indoctrinate greed. Just about everything in the supermarket is forcing us to buy 2 or more to get a 'fair price'. Forced up-selling wouldn't be necessary if greed was an innate human trait.
The few people want to own 30 cars.. it's cos they were brainwashed by owning 30 toy cars when they were young, or suffer from some undiagnosed psychological deficit.
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At 11/11/12 01:30 AM, PorkyPieDoucheBag69 wrote: I dont see why people care to smoke weed.
I care to just about consider moving to the US.
Supporting a good law ($) is lot easier than constantly bemoaning a bad law, or going against the system just outta protest.
That's the whole point of having separate states in the first place... ~ choice!
At 11/20/12 12:32 AM, theburningliberal wrote: So... how is everyone?
Since 2006, i've done a whole lot of nothin'
Oh wait.. i wrote this post. Well yeah.. that's something.
And just before writing this post i got divorced.
And just before that my ex and i had 2 more sprogs.
And ze oldest sprog has now finished high school.
But besides that, nothin' much.
*watches Mt Doom erupting*
Quadcop: "Halt, or you will be sliced & diced for carbon recyc."
At 10/25/11 09:54 AM, bcdemon wrote:At 10/23/11 04:26 PM, Ranger2 wrote: You also have to realize that at the time we went in, the UN, England, US, Iran, and Russia all truly believed he had WMDs.So the UN sends in inspection teams to find these WMDs. They had US intelligence on where these WMDs were and where to search. But they couldn't' find anything except stuff still under UN lock and key from previous inspections...
The UN inspection team nullified the US/UK claim that Saddam had WMD. That is why they (US-UK-Spain) went on their own and signed a war pact.
Hans Blix, the inspection leader referred to the US intelligence on Iraqs WMD as "going on a wild goose chase".
Both Saddam and Gaddaffi threatened US affairs, Saddam wanted to trade oil in Euros, and Gaddaffi wanted to resurrect the Gold standard. That's your justification.
Well said.
Indeed, the whole WMD thing was a red herring purely as justification of an illegal war. At the very most was a potential concern that Saddam was still a loose cannon and might have at some stage fired something at Israel, but Israel has REAL WMDS (nukes!) so that would be fully suicidal, not to mention the no-fly-zone covered a good proportion of Iraqi land (mostly in the south) which pretty much nullified any such risk.
.At 10/25/11 09:40 AM, bcdemon wrote:
Libyan infrastructure was one of the best in Africa.
The problem with Gaddafi was that he had his time and did some good things for his country and could have easily seen the "Arab spring" uprisings as the writing on the wall, and stepped aside gracefully and wth dignity and leaving his long legacy for the history books. But the second he (or any despotic leader for that matter) decides and states openly that they would rather see their own nation destroyed in civil war rather than standing aside, then they deserve no sympathy in my opinion.
In all likelihood Saddam may have suffered the same fate by his own people, we'll never know. But the Arab spring has shown that when a time has come, a nations people can rise up (notwithstanding imbalances of weapons) and take down leaders who refuse to see the overwhelming tide of their own people has changed. I'll repeat thou, the issue with Saddam's overthrow and death was based wholely on lies to the American people, and tying Saddam to the whole "war on terror" campaign, and cared nothing about the safety and well-being and dignity of the Iraqi people in general (excluding the numerous accounts of mistreating his own people, in particular the northern Kurdish folk who suffered the most) but ultimately the American led invasion killed and maimed far more Iraqis than would have if Saddam had been left to face the Arab spring uprising of his own people, thereby following the natural course of events as they have surely unfolded. The lesson is pretty clear (at least to those not occluded by brainwashing of ridiculous lies for some hidden agenda) that circumventing events by unilateral invasion was clearly the greater evil, as in the case of Iraq.
(..by cellphone)
At 10/16/11 11:43 AM, Camarohusky wrote:At 10/16/11 08:58 AM, homor wrote: This situation is currently being mirrored almost exactly with the Cartels in Mexico.Poverty, not drugs, created the Cartels in Mexico..
Poverty is coming to (north) America real soon..
Meanwhile..
http://www.newser.com/story/131147/calif -medical-association-backs-legalizing-po t.html
At 10/21/11 04:34 PM, aviewaskewed wrote:At 10/21/11 01:16 PM, satanbrain wrote: Withdraw and return after the next massive terrorist attack.Except Iraq was not attacked over terrorism. It was attacked based on a perceived fear that Saddam had, and/or was actively developing chemical and biological WMD's. Knowing what you're talking about is fun.
Saying why they were invaded doesn't mean "why they were really invaded".. we were here 10 years ago and saw how they ignored the reality on the ground for some wacky fiction.. The IAEA were there doing inspections and not getting much resistance.. the US decided UNILATERALLY to ignore all evidence and invade a sovereign nation (a leader of whom once worked for the CIA, and bought weapons from the USA...) Knowing what really happened is even more shocking than "FUN".
At 5/22/11 11:03 AM, Camarohusky wrote:At 5/22/11 10:07 AM, Ericho wrote: if you want to have children.I can say from experience that most people who have children weren't necessarily trying to at that time.
Yet i can say categorically that that's EXACTLY what they were trying to do, just that their brain was in chemical LUST mode, where 'she'll be right' and 'it won't happen to me' ..as with all drugs, complete denial takes over.
At 5/12/11 10:24 AM, Camarohusky wrote:At 5/12/11 01:33 AM, Iron-Hampster wrote: overly generalized: there is a lot of food that does more harm than good out there..Umm.. not really. The drugs he was speaking of were illegal ones, not legal ones.
Technicalities. It's always technicalities.
Statistically more people die every year taking legal drugs, than illegal drugs. (ie. regardless of the legal status of the drugs in question)
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At 4/29/11 02:06 PM, JudgeDredd wrote: "Curtis is currently finishing a new documentary for the BBC called 'All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace'"
All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace begins on BBC2 on 23 May at 9pm.
"What the series shows is how this idea spread into the heart of the modern world, from internet utopianism and dreams of democracy without leaders to visions of a new kind of stable global capitalism run by computers. But we have paid a price for this: without realizing it we, and our leaders, have given up the old progressive dreams of changing the world and instead become like managers - seeing ourselves as components in a system, and believing our duty is to help that system balance itself. Indeed, Curtis says, "The underlying aim of the series is to make people aware that this has happened - and to try to recapture the optimistic potential of politics to change the world."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2 011/may/06/adam-curtis-computers-documen tary
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At 5/6/11 07:21 AM, gumOnShoe wrote: The best way to do this is to bring the new community to the real world. Overlay the social networks with topography maps and GPS on the real world. Let communities rate each other real time and set their goals in real time. Let them share information at will...
It'll happen sooner than most think it will.
