Serra - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I wonder if it is the diseases.. (Score 1) 349

by Serra on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @01:39AM (#29347451) Attached to: Placebos Are Getting More Effective

Still, I wish you good luck in solving your problem. I don't mean to seem disrespectful, but I am curious. . . Have you looked at the obvious stuff? --Like getting a job which you love, doing lots of exercise outdoors for the fun of it, eating properly and generally diving into the work of cleaning out all the false automatic crap from the machine of your mind?

-FL

This is one of the most offensive questions I have read in a long time. Wow. Have you considered what it must be like to live with a terrible illness?

I don't have RLS, but I can promise you that any person with a nasty chronic disease has devoted more time than you can imagine trying to figure out how to solve their problem. They probably spend most of their free time researching and coming up with ways to alleviate just a teeny tiny portion of the misery that they are experiencing. They have spent hours talking to doctors and all of their free time on message boards talking to other people in the same situation.

Before you give random medical advice to someone about a disease they have lived with for _years_, consider that their life probably revolves around it and if 'doing exercise outdoors' was a solution, they would certainly already be doing it.

Faction Changes Coming To World of Warcraft 209

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @03:41AM from the you-still-won't-win-battlegrounds dept.

A Blizzard representative today announced that they're working on a service for players to switch factions in World of Warcraft, going from Horde to Alliance or vice versa. "There's still much work to do and many details to iron out, but the basic idea is that players will be able to use the service to transform an existing character into a roughly equivalent character of the opposing faction on the same realm. Players who ended up creating and leveling up characters on the opposite factions from their friends have been asking for this type of functionality for some time, and we're pleased to be getting closer to being able to deliver it." They also said there would be "some rules involved with when and how the service can be used."

Comment Re:parents? (Score 1) 716

by Serra on Monday June 08, 2009 @05:15PM (#28256745) Attached to: Kids Score 40 Percent Higher When They Get Paid For Grades

I have to wonder if the parents became more involved with their kids once money was brought into the picture.

I think another study needs to be done to see if there is a way to encourage parents to be good parents and if that affects kids' scores

Good thought. What about paying the parents if the their kid gets good grades?

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