The path out of depression has been well documented in Dr. Martin Seligman's book Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life. He has spent 30 years of his life in the field of positive psychology and has multiple case studies showing how people can get over "learned helplessness" in all three realms of personal, pervasive and permanent.

http://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/1400078393/

He has a talk on Ted:
http://www.ted.com/talks/martin_seligman_on_the_state_of_psychology.html

And a website with some questionnaires:
http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/Default.aspx

To use Chris Farley, who unfortunately committed suicide due to depression, as an example I provide three typical phrases that he would use in his work:
Personal: I suck!
Pervasive: Everything sucks!
Permanent: It will always suck!

Please note that motivational speakers are typically all optimists and people who are unmotivated go to them for a "motivational fix" which lasts for about two weeks without optimism to back it. See also the typical person who starts a diet, exercise regimen or other self improvement plan.

Thank you very much for your reply. That answers my question.

Please continue trolling each other

Um, you do realize that he has been trolling you for a long, long time, right? From what I can see, and I don't come here very often, he has specifically chosen to troll you with accusations of being gay and you keep biting.

A few thoughts come to mind.
1) You are not able to distinguish between reality and being trolled.
2) You are projecting.
3) All of the above.

I've been laughing at you being strung along since I last checked in here months ago.

TTFN, dude.

To be clear, which of the following are you stating:
1) He makes the conservative movement look foolish when in fact the conservative movement is not foolish.
2) He makes the conservative movement look foolish, which doesn't help because it is foolish enough already.
3) I just like to troll him to see his reactions.

Just wanting some clarification there as you did not reply directly to my original question of:
What about conservatism do you consider foolish? EMWTK.

Life at slashdot wouldn't be as much fun without him coming here to make conservative foolery look ... foolish!

What about conservatism do you consider foolish? EMWTK.

It may be too late, but perhaps someone could talk with Viva Computing, LLC who now owns the assets of Star Bridge Systems. It was not specified in the news release if they also own the intellectual property.

Congratulations on finding a job. I hope it is everything you want it to be.

And keep being awesome.

They are made out of meat.

There is so much drama and backstabbing by this guy I think you could write an opera on the subject.

Keep up the great work. I always look forward to your posts about the guy.

Heh. If I could fit it legibly into three inches of vertical space I would.

Yes. I designed them myself. They do on on demand manufacturing. I made $5 today.

Rossi should run with a big campaign with a few other people wrangling for his position. After Murry totally slaughters Rossi (he should let them) they would have spent so much time and money on him they would have forgotten about the other contenders who will, up to that point, be invisible.

Is it possible to run for office for the primary, change your mind and have someone else run in your stead? You know, bait and switch?

If they are unwilling to play nice, I see no reason anyone else should.