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Comment: ADHD is an invented Syndrome (Score 1) 603

by sakari (#39067491) Attached to: Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought

Right on. I could easily get a ADHD -diagnose if I wanted to, it's just made up words to keep those bright young minds under medication and ultimately, under control. Addicted, hooked to the medical system.

ADHD is an inventend syndrome. Something to sell more Big Pharma Drugs to our kids, or more precisely, adults who think that their children need this. If kids were really told about what these so-called ADHD -drugs do to their system, they would use their Common Sense (kids still have it) and determine that this is toxic to their system.

This is why it's called ADHD. So we'll get confused what is happening. Oh, it's ADHD! Yeah, my kid has that too. Oh, your kid is not listening to the lies they are being showed down their throats in school? Give them some Adderal!

And at the same time we are forgetting wtf we are doing, giving kids highly addictive and behaviour changing drugs. Imagine if you had been growing up while taking amphetamine every day ? What kind human would you grow up to be? What kind of psychological reactions are forming in these kids bodies and minds as they are growing up while being under the influence of this stuff?

Putting amphetamines on these young kids bodies will get them concentrated, sure. It's goddamn amphetamine. Amphetamine is used to keep soldiers awake and functioning as machines of war. Hitler used to get shots of amphetamine in his eye given by his medical staff everyday. Amphetamine is what fueled the Finnish Army during the cold war. It's goddamn amphetamine! Nothing to play around with, really.

This performance driven, money-overcomes-everything society wants to produce happy little worker drones, who are ready and willing to work those 60-80 hour weeks, no questions asked. Adderal and other psyche altering drugs are the tools for keeping us concentrated, sedated, happy little numb people that we are. Feeling depressed? Here, take this! Bing, no emotions, you are a Robot, ready to go to work 5 days a week.

Is anyone asking what side-effects this stuff has ? Blocking of emotions ? Rail-driven thinking ? Not seeing the big picture, focusing on little things ?

Kids shouldn't need any psyche-altering medications to begin with. What they need is just some love and care.

Comment: Re:Well it's hot and techy, what could go wrong? (Score 1) 268

by sakari (#38900783) Attached to: Facebook Reportedly Filing $5 Billion IPO Today

You do realize you don't have to put in lots of information, don't you? There's very, very, very little that Facebook actually requires you to enter.

You do realize that Facebook is _designed_ so that you are encouraged to input as much as information all the time? And that this encouragement comes from the fact how the system is built. So everytime I use Facebook, I feel like it's trying to trap me into inputting more data about myself, or make me change the privacy settings every other month, or do something to _actively prevent_ Facebook from getting my location/photos/information etc etc.

The system is inherently designed to annoy the crap out of the user with constant illusion of New Data coming in from my "so called friends". It is designed to keep the user hooked, and never let go. This can get very annoying over time, even if I had very little data in the system. If you like it, fine go ahead, use it as you do. I find the place to be a huge waste of energy Ultimately. What can you do with Facebook that cannot be done more efficiently with other systems ?

Do we really need this one, huge place to store all of our data and let one big vendor to decide what to do with this data ?

Comment: Re:Awesome (Score 2) 156

by sakari (#38875155) Attached to: Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block Pirate Bay

I claim the backseat with my boyfriend...

It's a shame he and I can't help to create a new human race on your Brave New World, but not for lack of zeal, I assure you.

You can't ? Why Not ? Who is stopping you ? Somebody else or ultimately, yourselves? If we want change, we have to Become the Change. There is no other way. Just do it! Live your dreams.

The mass media and government wants you to stay put, stay mentally ill, stay hypnotized by the TV and News. Stay where you are right now, be afraid. This is the message that they put out there. Break that mental prison and be free, achieve your dreams. You have all it takes to do it. We have all it takes to Build a New World. Love and Light my sister.

Comment: Turn the cancer transmitters on Full Blast! (Score 1) 60

by sakari (#38837611) Attached to: 1st 'Super Wi-Fi' Net Goes Live In North Carolina
You know, Battlestar Galactica had one thing that I really liked, that they used only wired communications. Maybe we should go back to wired communication also, I'm at least getting sick and tired of being blasted by 10-15 WiFI networks all the time. Go back to wires, it's faster, causes less air traffic, is more secure. What's the problem? Do we really need to use our iPads while in the toilet or while flying to another country ?

Comment: (Don't) BE EVIL ! Why not "BE NICE"? :) (Score 1) 208

by sakari (#38801875) Attached to: Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace To Google: Don't Be Evil

What do you think this kind of slogan reminds you? Of being nice? Of course not, it reminds you of first to "Be Evil", and then think about the "Dont". When will we learn that by focusing on negatives (dont do this, dont think about white rhinos) we will only remind us of the thing we are trying to negate.

When a man tries to quit smoking, all he can see is "Smoking Allowed" everywhere. Constant reminders of the thing we are trying to negate with the "NOT, DONT" operator. I believe our Human Programming doesn't really understand negatives, we should always choose the positive versions:

"Be Nice" "Friendliness Allowed"

Or such ways of expressing our thoughts. We do not understand NOT -operators in our brain, we have to first think about the thing and then try to inverse it. Takes too much energy! Why not focus right away on the positive version of the command. Think about it.

Comment: Re:U.S. law is the new international law (Score 1) 1005

by sakari (#38758788) Attached to: Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy
Thank you for writing this. One of the best comments I have read for a long time. Very informative and bold of you to say this stuff out loud, thank you sir. We are being pulled into this big control scheme, and those who have control of the music industry and movie industries have enough money to pull it off. The thing that can stop this is ACTING ON IT, doing something about it, when it hits our countries, we hit the streets and make it CLEAR AND LOUD that we are not taking this shit!

Comment: Accept Death (Score 0) 536

by sakari (#38712088) Attached to: Programming Prodigy Arfa Karim Passes Away At 16

My heartfelt condolences to her family. She was so young and so gifted, with such a future ahead of her. :(

Not trying to be cold here, but death is part of life. There is no future really, there is only this moment. Why grief for something that is not ?

Accept the fact that you and me are going to die and live life to the fullest. She sounds like she did just that. We all make choices in our lives, even the moment when we die. We are all one and playing a game where death may not seem like it is our choice, but ultimately everything we do and everything we are born with we have chosen. Death is natural.

Comment: Re:They're not really stealing from bank (Score 1) 529

by sakari (#38223534) Attached to: Anonymous Threatens Robin Hood Attacks Against Banks

They're stealing from everyone, which is unacceptable. Anon has finally gone batshit insane.

How is this different from the current capitalist system? Bankers stealing from those who are in fear of losing their houses, their jobs, even their lives. The real culprits here are the bankers and rich capitalist stock manipulators who keep on making money off the skin of those who have no backbone to stand up against them.

Comment: Re:Illusions (Score 1) 344

by sakari (#38184836) Attached to: The Science of Humor

Why aren't illusions hilarious?

Illusions usually are static, there is no aspect of discovering a new view. Jokes work by first letting the audience assume that the state of things is normal, then offers a new perspective for them.

I find that humour is a way for us humans to learn new ways of looking at the world around us. Good comedians are also great at looking at the world from a different viewpoint and sharing it with the audience. Look at Jerry Seinfeld, Joe Rogan, Bill Hicks etc.. all great observers of normal things, but from a different angle than normally.

Comment: Re:More nostalgia goggles (Score 2, Insightful) 401

by sakari (#37727194) Attached to: Who Killed Videogames?

How is this fundamentally ANY different from what video games have been doing since the dawn of time?

It is fundementally different, because of the design objectives. They are designing the game to hook the player in by putting monetary gain as the primary motivation of design, not playability or making the game fun for the players. Monetary gain is the objective of this game.

This creates very different kind of games than those that were originally designed for just the love of making videogames!

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