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Comment So does this prove that Tom Cruise, John Travolta (Score 1) 208

and the other crazies were right all along, that psychiatry is not a real science?
Or does it just prove that the general understanding of math and statistics (except among matematicians) are fields that are in free fall, and that a few years from now, college graduates won't even be able to recite the multiplication table up to 10?

Comment Re:Because Grief is a harsh mistress (Score 1) 313

Nonsense.

Regardless of religion, all cultures from far back have a concept of peace in death. Death brings peace. Even if peace just means absense of motion. The idea of people being brought back for dead is considered creepy. They are called zombies, exception I guess is the jesus zombie, which was a well publicized parlour trick.
Even atheists care about what happens to their remains.
Some happily give their remains to science, some prefer to get incinerated and sprinkled, others prefer to get buried 6 feet under. I am sure a small minority would be content to be stuck in a freezer instead of incineration of being eaten by worms, but culturally, most humans do not swing that way. Nither do they prefer to be hoistred on a pole and used as a flag, or displayed in a circus side show as a freak.

It might be based entirely on superstition that we need to treat the dead with some respect. In reality, it is the Memory of the dead ones we must treat with respect, and if teh dead one is sent off in a freakish way, that overshadows the other memories of the dead one.

So yes, deep freezing teh girl is a horrible thing to do, and is extremely disrespectful to the girl. Grief can cause people depression, and depressed people can do crazy things, These are mitigating circumstances, but it is still a fact that the girl is being treated with the utmost disrespect.

That you speak otherwise just shows how ignorant you are about the world, humans, and culture. You might think you are being neutral and scientific, but you really are just being pedantic AND ignorant. Science does not exist in a vacuum.

Comment Re:Because Grief is a harsh mistress (Score 1) 313

It is disrespectful to the child.
Instead of resting in peace in the same tradition as her forefathers, which is how most people prefer to be disposed of, she is condemned to eternal undeadness in a freezing facility like some freak. And not by her own choice. I find this whole industry grotesque and morbid.

Comment Re:Hasn't this been proven to be junk science? (Score 2) 313

The odds are not irrelevant at all. In fact they are essential when it comes to separating from false hope and real hope and wishful dreaming.

When the odds are impossible, with chance of a positive outcome at exactly zero, the hope is irrational, at least if you know or should know that it is 0.
When the odds are possible, such as a one billionth chance of winning the lottery, the hope is slim, although rational. If your estimation of the probability is far removed from reality, then also this hope would be irrational. For example, I can buy a lottery ticket, but expect on continuing with that the rest of my life without seeing a profit. I can hope to win, rationally. However, if you go and buy a lottery ticket, and then proceeds to buy a new ferrari and a house as if you'd already won the lottery, then your hope is irrational.

When I at my ripe age enter a marathon trace, I don't hope to win. I can hope to finish in 5 or 6 hours or whatever it is, several hours after teh winners have crossed the goal line. I could hope of being among the top contenders in my age group, or even win the age group. If I hoped to win the whole thing, not only would I be irrational, I'd probably cause severe harm to health trying to compete at a level far beyond abilities.

Likewise, if your project has 3 weeks worth of effort remaining before it is anywhere near done, but the deadline is in 30 minutes, then the hope of making that deadline is irrational, and trying to rush things to make that deadline would probably do more harm than good..

Comment Re:Yeah, (Score 3, Insightful) 313

Yup, I use it to save money on my travels.
Just ship my frozen head with UPS to nearest cryogenic lab, and get stitched up.
Luckily three are lots of labs that have perfected the technique of splicing together the nerve threads, thawing the body parts, not to mention freezing the body parts without the use of poisonous chemicals preventing the water in the body from crystallizing and ripping the human flesh to shreds during the thawing process.

Honestly, I think the whole cryogenics industry ought to be frogmarched to jail and never let out. Is it quackery, fraud, and cruel, preying on grieving relatives, selling false hopes, engaging in grotesque experiments with human remains.

Comment They should have thought of that before fellatio (Score 0) 108

When they have put that dick in their mouth, they might as well swallow.

What fucking asshats occupying these committee seats thinks that just because you can find a word in the dictionary, should it be allowed as one of the core road signs on the internet.

Let ICANN eat a bowl of dicks for breakfast until eternity.
And guess what ICANNS Irish Oat meal might not be what you think it is,
I never though I could ever write such a post and be 100% on topic....

Comment Re:It's too late (Score 1) 126

Well, you cannot really trust any review or rating system without doing a lot of sanity checking and your own home work.
Look at the pattern in terms of reviews with similar language.
Distribution of stars. Amount of gushing reviews.
Competency of the reviewers. For this it helps to have some competency yourself.

And your own subject matter expertise. If a product is aimed at beginners of anything, they will tend to write overly positive or negative reviews.
Too positive, because they don't know how to assess the quality of an item. Too negative, colored by them not understanding the item.

If there is an abundance of a varieties of a particular product, I might go with just average stars to thin the herd before digging into the reviews.
I don't thin I have ever been surprised by the quality of a product, If it is an important or expensive item, I will also seek reviews outside of amazon, or user groups.

I never ignore the reviews, That would be stupid. I have steered away from many lemons by heeding warnings. Especially if a seller has poor customer service and the item is NOT fulfilled by amazon. I take a chance on a dubious item only if it has the amazon return policy.

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