Jiffy pop armor.

It's not as if the protesters actually need to watch the clip to know how offensive they find it, or why.

So far the full movie has only had one poorly-attended screening in Hollywood. It's not online. The YouTube clip is a short preview, and it doesn't appear that the violent protesters even had to watch *that*. Someone they trusted told them they...I mean their prophet... had been insulted, and that was enough.

It's interesting that this is hitting Republican donors. Republicans tend to claim to see regulations as something to be avoided, as big-government, anti-free-market, babysitting when people and/or the free market should take responsibility.

However, this is exactly the sort of "there ought to be a law" technically-legal-but-unethical business practice that regulations, at their best, can and do address. Right now this guy is probably protected from a solid fraud case because he puts the disclaimer, albeit in tiny print and in an unlikely place to read it. But regulations could be promulgated that would require any page site that accepts political donations to post disclaimers of proper level of font size, prominence, and in clear language.

Such regulations already exist for, for example, the credit card "box" that clearly, states terms of credit card offers, including the APR, fees, etc. Before the "box" regulations, this info used to be squirreled away, in fine print, obscure language, if it was to be found at all. And like the donors, people often found themselves unwittingly fooled out of real money because they were duped.

Oh, dismissive, unsupported appeal to authority.

I take it this is the first you've heard on the subject. That particular article --in Wired (the nerve!!!)-- won a few awards: The Best American Science Writing 2010, The Best Technology Writing 2010, and the 2010 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award.

There no dearth of scholarly articles focusing on placebo effect either, as you'd have found if you had cared to look. For example, http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleID=175282 Though I suppose one could always continue to disregard the idea if by deciding to characterize a measurable, significant increase in prefrontal cordance --perhaps even depression itself-- both as merely subjective phenomenon.

I heard this explained well through a joke.

A neurologist went into the emergency room, saying he was in great pain. "Where does it hurt?" he was asked.

"In my head."

Whoops, looks like I some words.

This seems terribly unfair, given the increasing effectiveness of placebos over time.

Seriously. http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all Given that particular standard, current drugs be more effective than they would have in the past in order to successfully pass clinical trials.

EA seems to focus its creativity into innovating new and increasingly subtle ways to nickel and dime players. You really have to hand it to them, that is one area where they shine.

It's not just in multiple levels of payment options for new content or in enhanced gameplay. They've taken it to the level of the psychological effect that branding has to mask the sensation that they're sucking money out of your pockets. Pick any game in the "Play4Free" universe, and see just how far you can actually get "playing" for "free". Then reflect on the choice of name: Play4Free. Why imply that a nonfree service is free? Maybe research showed that this kind of branding gave people less sense of how much money they were actually spending. It certainly strikes me as something straight from the late night infomercial school of salesmanship.

If you look at if from their perspective, they continue to do an impressive. It's just that their theory of game design is obviously not that they should necessarily create enjoyable, entertaining, engaging games, but rather to design games that extract as much money per player as possible. Enjoyment, entertainment, playability: these are all simply tools to be used to that end.

I mean, if I had the entire run of the series, which I don't. But if I did, could I pass along my copies of Willis's acting work without paying more money? Or will he want me to have to pay money to his estate to watch it, for "his" share, even after he's dead?

Similarly, my own humbleness is what makes me so great. In fact, I'm almost certainly one of, if not the, most humble people you'll ever encounter.

Using virii is like holding your handgun sideways: it might not be correct, but it just feels *so* cool.

Odd that you'd get a troll downvote for this post. I don't understand why you would, aside from you perhaps having /. enemies. Is that it? If not, do you have any idea why?

Glad it helps! There's one other aspect to the miming thing that seemed to work in a cognitive behavioral sense. While smoking the invisible cigarettes, savor the "hits" just as you would the smoke. Blow air rings, do the nostril-mouth trick... but pay particular attention to the "flavor" of the air.

For me, consciously paying attention to how the air tasted --the same way I'd noted the variations between brands of cigarettes-- seemed to quickly remap my brain to very strongly prefer the taste of clean air. Cigarettes still objectively taste and smell the same to me, and I still remember what it used to feel like enjoying that taste. But now, after what I guess was conditioning my brain to savor the sweet, clean, crisp flavor of air, that familiar old cigarette taste just has always tasted awful in comparison.

I'm not sure about the UK, but in the US I believe that most traffic cameras are aimed to take a photo of the rear license plate, and only use a front camera when it's necessary to get a simultaneous picture of the driver (for red light violations, for example.)

I wish this were more widely known. I foolishly picked up a pack a day cigarette habit for a few years, and I finally managed to quit about ten years ago. By far, the most useful thing for me to do when I got cigarette cravings past the third day (by which time the physical withdrawal symptoms end) was to mime through the actions of lighting and smoking an invisible cigarette. The level to which this satisfied my cravings was profound, and I think it was the key to my finally being able to quit for good.