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Comment This is the Best Choice (Score 1) 443

it's a shame that the first comment on this would be from an actual victim. I already know that expecting a car to fly is unreasonable considering it would not be safe to take off or land on rural roads because of traffic concerns and flying through space is just a scientific hypothesis, really bias. When I first looked through the results, I estimated that this place is really spacey. folks here are going to have to stop expecting to fly. think of the road. for example, the tenability of improvements on ericson pass (39.935408,-112.606115). my next thought was, what looks like a reasonable expectation as I saw that there is some secondary concern for saving lives. so my final thought is this: if the real concerns are safety, those other flights of fancy can take a hike, because automakers need to focus on saving lives from: for example the japan earthquake where some cars (death traps) later showed up on u.s. beaches.

Comment promise (Score 1) 205

The best types of objection to this trend include unified-marriage-identification practices and IRC. The worst aspect of this trend is it leads toward nationalized RFID, which is Biblical. Another biblical thing is coming true today: [gaza palestine's only agenda the abolition of israel.] An obvious concern citizens will have is [does the government have enough FLOPS to break its own RSA?]

Comment antipsychotic (Score 1) 209

with regard to this article's claim: "researchers could predict hospitalizations at 80% in data from 42 men with bipolar disorder and 46 men with schizophrenia." Then, are Neuroleptic drugs the answer? From Wikipedia (Neuroleptic): "All antipsychotic drugs tend to block D2 receptors in the dopamine pathways of the brain. This means that dopamine released in these pathways has less effect. Excess release of dopamine in the mesolimbic pathway has been linked to psychotic experiences. It has also been proven[citation needed] less dopamine released in the prefrontal cortex in the brain, and excess dopamine released from all other pathways, has also been linked to psychotic experiences, caused by abnormal dopaminergic function as a result of patients suffering from schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. The additional effects on serotonin receptors may be why some of them can benefit the "negative symptoms" of schizophrenia.[87]" So, what receptor blocking does Thorazine offer, for example? From Wikipedia: "Dopamine receptors (subtypes D1, D2, D3 and D4), Serotonin receptors (5-HT1 and 5-HT2), with anxiolytic, and antiaggressive properties, Histamine receptors, 1- and 2-adrenergic receptors, and M1 and M2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors." The count of receptors blocked are not well diminished with other Neuroleptics. No neuroleptic drug blocks only D2 or only (D2, 5-HT1, and 5-HT2.) If such a drug did exist, it would be reasonable to expect that everybody starts using it. The fact that the mental disorders listed have only been correlated to the D2 receptor also brings up this question: Are we just trying to prevent clients from experiencing a Power Trip? Back to the article's claim: "genes: predict suicidal behaviour by analyzing someone's blood; can identify people at risk of committing suicide." The judicial treatment of the word "schizophrenia" is (from observed judges) to define the term as "someone at risk to harm oneself or others." If I accept this as the definition, I lose faith with Neurologists and Psychiatrists. Libertarians are also on point as being deinstitutionalist because of the principle of noninitiation of force. A major decision from the courts on intervention/intitutionalization vs. rights was made on the subject [Can you force someone to sign up for Medicaid?] A typical three-week Hospital stay to address mental health Costs Federal Medicaid $48,000.00 According to a prominent court decision, Yes you Can force someone to sign up for Medicaid. Also, Hospitals offer no choice as to Which Neuroleptic is administered: In fact, most mental health patients are subject to Takedowns which include injections. In many cases in Hospitals, the involved Psychiatrist (who perscribes the drug used) has not met you. In most cases (eg. screaming patient), from what I hear, Ativan is used.

Comment Police SWAT (Score 3, Interesting) 835

I am the victim of a Police SWAT which happened in 2007. I lost my (food svc.) job at the time. When it happened I was visiting with a couple of neighbors in my apartment. The police at the time did not read a Miranda warning, and called the judge to obtain a warrant and permission to hold trial right there. After being asked a few innocuous questions, I was taken to the local hospital behavioral medicine unit. The police were frantic, and I believe this took place on a Sunday night. The Landlord had indicated I was going to be evicted, but IIRC I was well within the allotted time-frame to prepare to move. A number of years have passed since that time. Only a few years ago, a thief broke the lock on my storage unit and stole a few computers and most everything I had except my books and files. I am and was nonviolent. I am not and was not addicted to any drug, and I had not drunk nor smoked. I did not shout nor yell. The above happened in the freedom-loving community of Provo, Utah.

Comment it makes about as much sense as... (Score 1) 279

why do you think that a revolution of or including public speech would be successful? most americans believe in the two-party system. why would violence change that? unless you can point to some valid point (implicating most americans and pointing to your rhetoric), your revolution is against nothing but the american gun. vigilante justice offers no legal recourse. It is not a popular move. to say it favors a party to 911truthnews.com vs. U.S. generals is to say that some appellate jurisdiction to your vigilantism already agrees with you for a reason relevant to the case. If you can't use the law or the polls to state your case, you have no case. So, do I think he should be subjected to treatment which blocks the D2 receptor, serotonin receptors, and androgen receptors, or do I just think he should be sent to prison? since his revolution appears to be nothing more than the thrill of resisting authority, getting excited, or remembering hate, I want to say go ahead and give him a neuroleptic. soon enough he will realize what his mind is doing, that he has no appeal, and that his enemy is conjecture. If you still think of his actions as treason: why are his lawsuits against his captors and not his purported enemy? there is no good reason to take him seriously. he is not asking for justice. If you think his health is a concern to me or you: why would you say you ever did care about that? he obviously has friends who are an enemy to the U.S.A. presumably the only ones who were capable of expressing a viewpoint to him at the time he committed. it's a shame his opinion of them is now nothing more than a pack of cards: two of spades. ten of spades. ten of clubs. queen of clubs. the guillotine is nothing more than an optical illusion. to just say that's disgusting and move on would completely disregard his bad chess. it disregards his diagnosis. if you disregard his diagnosis why are we even talking about him in the first place.

Comment pills as self-? (Score 1) 931

"Belief was associated with not only improved psychological well-being, but decreases in depression and intention to self-harm," So, instead of referring to the likelihood the inmate/patient has to hide/stop the pills, it's journalism to refer only to self-harm. Try, Belief was associated with long-term success on antidepressants.

Comment insane (Score 1) 181

Those Hackers should now have a lot of information about me. I was deported into homelessness in 2008 when two other ladies decided I wasn't responsive. Amid threats of Hospitalization, I signed back onto Medicaid. Haven't been off of it since. If you wonder what the State Insane Asylum is like, it is essentially a prison where you can't see the stars ever, and the most important thing is a policy against yelling. Papers and personal items are routinely stolen from their admits. I now live in a nursing facility because of the option I was given: face a diagnosis which was not invasive, or put the diagnosis back into limbo because of perscriptions, with an escape to potential freedom. I chose the former. Now there is no one watching me. No one cares. At the Asylum there was constant visibility, roomate pairs, and mind control. Showing affection was impossible. And it is done to them for no crime. Bottom line I support the Hack. I still have my own bank account. There was information accessed which should be troubling to the public (information about shot brutality) which I don't really have access to myself unless I could afford to correspond with the entity via FOIA. If there was interest, there should be investigative reporting. Utah separated the department of Health from a new department of Drug Addiction and Safety(sp?) in the news last year. So the Department of Health isn't housing a bunch of druggies one should suspect. There is a girl there, Allison, who has been there for years and no one would ever know her name. She's just a young girl absorbed in scientology. It really feels unfair to me to lock them away from the stars.

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