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I worked on a musical piece called Bedlam. It was used in a dance to demonstrated the decent into insanity. This is about my contribution, and my experience surrounding the work.
Getting the opportunity to voice act in a piece revolving around mental health was great. Here is a post about my perspective on the endeavor. #music #mentalhealth #voiceacting
No Man's Discovery: If you're alone in space, who defines the roses you smell?
No Man's Sky has been one of the more hyped releases in a long time. There has been some noted (See: elsewhere) differences between what we were told we would get, and what we got. Backlash ensued. There are many who have attempted to find new and interesting ways to shit on Hello Games, and their ambitious project. Like stowaways on the hype train. Products of all varieties are often misrepresented in advertising. As consumers we know this by now. I'm not saying it's ok. That it exist and we should adapt accordingly. For example, do you believe menu boards in fast food restaurants? No. No one does. We know that it is just advertising. Demonstrating the absolute best case scenario. You could purchase a quintillion cheeseburgers before you find one that looks anything like it's advertising material. We've adapted to advertising like that in other facets of life. But we believe the demonstrations at Trade Shows?
The amount of content is this game is a too much by design. 18 Quintilian planets. That number is impossible to comprehend. To see each one for only 1 second would take a 585 billion years. It's been said that these planets are mostly quite similar. That there isn't a stark level of differentiation between them. As if they all came from a single source. Which is exactly what we were told would be happening. All of these planets have been generated by an algorithm. A set of rules to define an entire universe. Even in "reality" there are scores of humans trying desperately to understand the physical and biological algorithms that have created the universe our flesh vessels exist within.
All of these planets don't even exist in the game or on a server. There something to be said that in a game of this scale most of the data is audio. Pieces for the audio engine to pull from as it procedurally generates music for your experience. Instead planets are generated by a system of seed numbers on your gaming machine when you're there. Not stored and loaded information. When you leave a system it no longer exists. The next time you go there it will be recreated exactly the same.
If you find my home system, it will be the same to you as it is to me. When no one is there, it doesn't exist. Some changes are logged in the servers to call forth when a player enters. The destruction of space stations is an example from Wikipedia. Interestingly enough, the PS4 version and the PC versions log everything on separate servers. So there are two parallel universes being explored. Comparing the two after a few years could be an interesting way to show the differences human interaction can create over time.
A purpose in this game is to discover new planets, animals, rocks and so on. All logged on the servers so that other players may wander through the universe and find evidence of your existence in it. I want ask though. How much merit is there in discovering something inside a virtual universe? To me it doesn't seem like a great deal right in 2016. Just one of the mechanics in a game I am playing. However as our technology develops and people find themselves increasingly engrossed in additional realities these questions may find importance.
Some people don't consider E-Sport to be legitimate competition because it happens within a virtual reality. Do you think E-Sport achievements deserve recognition within the physical world? Are we all competing against each other for discovery within No Man's Sky? Does this legitimise being the first to make the discovery. Even if the discovery was just a new, unique expression of a mathematical algorithm? You had real competition and you won!
I am relatively grounded in this reality. This physical world is the first one I experienced. It is my "Mother reality". It will always be, for me, the standard to which all other (Alternate, Augmented, Virtual) realities are compared to. This may not be the "Mother Reality" for all humanity in the future however. No Man's Sky is never going to be the world someone first learns how to exist within however.
Let's use the Matrix for an example. If while plugged into the Matrix, you discover a new plant no one has ever seen before. That discovery would be a real one for everyone plugged in. That's the only reality available to them. To them, it is their "Mother Reality". They would be credited (hopefully) and recorded in history within that reality. It has merit right? But in Zion, does that merit carry over? Even for the same person? By extension, it totally counts that I have a level 100 Tauren Warrior right?
How does, if at all, human achievement translate between realities? Do realities have their own historical records. Separate to each other. On different servers perhaps? What happens if you compare the two. In the case of No Man's Sky, the time of discovery is relative to the date in our "mother reality". How will that happen if the game is released on Xbox however? If I discovered something one month into the games release, So it has been discovered 1 month after the recording of history in that universe. It then comes out a year later on Xbox, and the same thing is discovered 1 week after its release. Only a week after the beginning of recorded history in that universe. Although it's a year later in the timeline of "mother reality". Its all relative to itself, but how do they relate to each other, and how do we relate to it?
No Man's Sky has inspired me to spend more time in thought, then playing it. Invited me to think a little more on what our consciousness is. Is it just a sum of sensory inputs, recalled memories and social ideas? Is it a great multidimensional force. A soul. Even now I only feel a mild call to explore this interactive wallpaper generator. I may find a cool planet to share with people. Possibly an interesting species, or something that looks like a dick. I've heard that playing only to "pass" the game will be unrewarding. Jumping from new planet, to new moon, to new system will ultimately find none of them fulfilling. The more time expanding your understanding and knowledge of fewer planets has seemed to be more enjoyable for me and others. Far more gratifying for sure.
There is no reward system built into this "game". Some of the backlash is towards that. It will not reward your efforts. I feel the point is to be free to explore a universe. How are you free to do anything in a game, while an objective exists? Even then your free exploration is a defiance to the objective. There are some games where you could hear "I played 40 hours before touching the main narrative." There is a bit of a difference. There is usually still someone else telling you what to do. Scripted side-quest. A stumbled upon escort mission. An out of place, poorly voiced, NPC. Sweet Lewt. Someone will give you direction. Meaning. Purpose. No Man's Sky doesn't hold your hand and tell you how to spend your time. It understands that it is your time to spend. However you please. It just provides a vast, kinda bland space to do it in. Sometimes it's relaxing to exist within a space were no one will tell you what to do, absolutely nothing matters, and yet you still feel a little engaged.
I wrote this about a week ago and have sat on it since. I have been hesitant because it gets a little heavy in parts. Worried about showing the more depressed side of myself. Which has been at conflict with why I've been doing this in the first place. So here it is. If you get through it all, and that may not be "fun", then thank you. It was my birthday recently. Usually a day filled with presents, cake, and egocentricity. It may come as a surprise when I say I choose not to celebrate the occasion. Honestly I'm not 100% sure as to why I've decided not to. I've tried on multiple occasions to articulate my point of view and it always feels like it's coming up short. There are multiple reasons why I have chosen this for myself. None of them has risen to the surface as the definitive catalyst behind my rationale. This turned out to be quite a long and a little heavy. I've written this to explore my own philosophy. I'm posting it because it would seem like a waste not to. I don't like gifts. I don't really like the whole premise of having to give a gift to someone just because a calendar has decreed it so. It feels forced. It feels like an act of "keeping up appearances". I'm sure we have all experienced either ourselves or others stressing over the act of gift giving. Will it be the right gift, will it arrive on time, will they already have it, will me and another person get them the same gift. I don't like this whole process. It feels like a burden. I prefer seeing something and thinking, "Person-X will enjoy that" and going about it that way. Not waiting until the right day to give them a gift. It's easy to pretend someone is in your thoughts when there are calendars and reminders telling you to think of them. It is in the spontaneity of gift giving that feels like a true demonstration of how you carry another in your heart. Date based gift giving is a whole process I wish to avoid. In order to do so I have done everything in my power to stop people giving me gifts for my birthday. I feel like receiving a gift because of a designated time creates a precedent to return a gift. I don't like the stress of giving birthday presents, so it is not fair to receive them either. Part of me also doesn't like gifts because I am impatient. I want what I want when I want it. In the past the month of March has meant that I am not to buy myself things. Instead I am supposed to hand off the idea to someone else and sit and wait. Maybe they will get it for me, maybe they wont. Either way I am no longer in control of what I can and can not buy myself. To expand further on the subject of presents I have to go into another holiday I don't support, Christmas. Christmas time is strange for a child/adolescent. After the Christmas period has past there is always this question, "What did you get for Christmas?". I need to preface this next part with some backstory. Our family did not have a lot. Mum raised my sister Amber and I on her own. She did a great job and I am eternally grateful. I know this is going to sound like it but believe me, I am not complaining. There just wasn't much money to be spent on Christmas presents. I enjoyed all the gifts I received. I am grateful. However there was a part of me that knew friends had received gifts I perceived as better. That is simply a reflection of the means available. I assure you there are richer families with sadder children at Christmas time. It was during the comparison of gifts in which I felt inadequate. I know now that any comparison to another can only lead to unhappiness. The problem is that the association between gifts and a feeling of inadequacy has remained. Regardless of it being for Christmas or a birthday. I don't want Facebook wall posts. It is that path of least resistance when it comes to wishing someone a happy birthday. It just doesn't feel right to publicly display this sort of thing. If someone means a lot to you then by all means message them. Talk to them. Call them. Inbox them even. Doing it on someone's wall publicly feels false. It feels like you are showing off your relationship with them. As if to say that you are the cream of the friendship crop. This is usually pretty easy to avoid by just not displaying my birthday. If a couple people post "Happy Birthday" then the flood gates are open. I will elaborate a little more on this later but I feel like there is a root in the feeling of control. I don't like the feeling of control of my own birthday taken away. This is more an issue with Facebook then with birthdays. We've all seen the obligatory birthday posts too. The "Oh look don't worry I didn't forget you on your birthday!" posts. The basic "Happy birthday, have a good one!" posts. These are great to receive as messages or literally any other form. Just not a publicly displayed one. It reeks of herd mentality to me. Doing it just because other people are. If 50% of your friends list posted about jumping off a cliff, would you post about it too? #IHopeNot I already feel like friendship with me is a burden upon those who experience it. I'm not 'fun', or 'entertaining'. A lot of my thoughts and feelings appear (to me) to be "against the grain". I have a 0 interest in pretending to like things I don't like, just to be easy to get along with. It's dishonest. I made this choice years ago. It does mean I feel different. I feel isolated. I feel boring in comparison to the 'fun' I see other people having together. As such I don't want people to have to go out of their way for me. To be burdened by the idea that they have to get me something. Perhaps this is just another manifestation of my self isolating behaviour. That's an issue for another day. I can already feel my body temperature rising just thinking about it so I'm going to leave that alone for now. Dress up parties. Look I know when it comes to my birthday I can just not throw a dress up party. My issue is that dress up parties will forever be associated with birthdays. They're the only reason you're allowed to instil a dress code for people to follow in order to celebrate you. Feels a little North Korean. I want to be comfortable. I want to wear the clothes I like and be able to present myself in a manner that displays how few fucks I give about appearance. The issue is that I have friends who I wish to celebrate their birthday with. They also insist that if I want to come and celebrate them I have to look like a superhero (for example). To be fair there have been some interesting, unique themes. I can count them on one hand however. People have died defending my right to dress how I please. I don't want to hand that over to idea that I'm a bad friend if I don't adhere to the dress-code. The insistence that I have to dress up creates an internal conflict. Between my fear of not being a good enough friend, and my need to not conform with a crowd. I like disappearing into crowds and becoming indistinguishable. I do not like changing myself to be accepted by the crowd. I know this has become general on the subject of dress up parties. It just my association between them and birthdays that has possibly played a role in my dislike of my own birthday. I don't like having control taken away from me. No one does. Which is funny because the reality is that none of us are in control. No one. All we can control in life is ourselves and how we react to stimuli. Birthdays seem to tell you the day is all about you, and then remove the control of it from you. All day you receive things. Blessings, gifts, well wishes, affection, maybe an over-the-pants-handy if you're lucky. You have no control over the celebration of you. It feels abrasive to the ego in a way. My attempts to stop the celebration of me on the 29th of March is perhaps just an attempt to regain control. I don't feel like I am a person who deserves to be celebrated. Maybe I am just trying to align reality with my self image? Perhaps once that is better I will change my mind. Only time will tell. I also don't like the idea that any one day is more special than any other day. The sun rises. The sun sets. 24 hours will pass whether you observe it or not. I had this jotted down as a major point but I may have nullified it in my previous paragraphs. I thought that any one day shouldn't be celebrated more than any other day. I may have proven to myself that isn't the case in writing this all down. The day is just when a person is celebrated. It is not the day itself. This part has been a major aspect in my need to stop the observation of my birthday. That the day itself isn't special. That may be a misunderstanding based on the nomenclature. Birthday. Day. To celebrate ones birthday is to celebrate the DAY of birth. At least that was my understanding. I think I was wrong. Its just the day of which the person is celebrated. In an attempt to write an article on why I don't think birthdays should be celebrated, I may have gained a deeper understanding of myself. First of all, That self comparison to others is poisonous. That I don't have control over reality, no one does. These things I already knew. There are just consequences from an older understanding of how I should live. The other thing is that I feel like I shouldn't be celebrated. That I'm not worth celebrating. That might be hard to read, but it has been a revelation. Now I don't know how I feel. Clearly this needs to be addressed. If you continued reading this whole article, thank you. I consider it a birthday gift. I appreciate it. I'm going to walk away from having written this torn between emotions. Between sombre dissatisfaction I hold towards myself, and the feeling of having a direction to start in to fix it. Writing has become a way for me to try and gain some self worth. In doing so I may have uncovered another aspect in which gaining self worth may make my life better and more enjoyable. It's heavy, and yet I feel like a weight has been lifted. In closing, love yourself readers. I'm going to try and get better at it. Please do the same. Xo.
HOLD THE PRESSES! I just read an uncited article on the internet and now I'm convinced. If you want your children and only your children to be healthy you need to rethink immunisations. #BigPharma are generating millions buy selling these one use only vials of disease! Immunising and protecting your child from infectious disease may cause them some discomfort? No one will be slightly inconvenienced again if we can have our way. Would you like a dead child or a risk at a manageable illness? Did you know that the first vaccine produced, for smallpox, didn't work? If that isn't enough of a reason to never try it again then I don't know what is. "One and done" is what we say in the Paleo field. If it doesn't work straight away, then you need to stop straight away. Some vaccines where found to contain dangerous chemicals. Such as Monosodium Glutamate (MSG), antibiotics, and even GMOs. WE TAKE A BIG ISSUE WITH GMO. No organism should be modified in any way. No organism should be modified to meet our demands as a species. We should continue the good Paleo lifestyle that has gotten us to this point as a civilisation. There is no evidence that organisms change naturally in response to a changing environment. That's called the THEORY of evolution. It's just theory. Would you trust the health of your children to a mere theory? Public opinion is in and it shows some people believe a infectious or dead child is a better solution than a single case of Autism. Remember no one can tell you how to raise your children. The mere implication that someone can dictate a set a rules for others to follow is unlawful. #TheDoctored I know our faithful readers out there are now terrified. Dave has enlightened us. Now let me tell our flock that there is no need to worry. Old mate #RigorousRob is going to help you out! Here is the link to the alternative therapies article: http://www.offthegridnews.com/…/natural-vaccination-alterna… I know what you are saying, "I simply don't have enough time to read such an important article". So I'll tell you what, I'll save you guys the time. I'm going to break down some of the options to help you fail safe your immune system, and protect your family. 1. Breastfeeding This is a no brainier guys. The best defense for your body is straight from your mother (nature). We know when a mother breastfeeds her child, she passes her immunity on. Protecting him or her from diseases that formula fed babies are not protected from. Breast milk also provides many essential vitamins, minerals, digestive enzymes, and hormones. Guess what. It's not just for infants anymore! It can be for everyone: http://www.mothersmilkbank.com.au/ is a site where you can order breast milk online and stock up. Don't let the babies be the only ones who are protected. Let the milk flow my friends! 2. Probiotics I'm sure everyone with their ear to the ground knows what probiotics are. Incase you're new to these Paleo parts let me help you. Probiotics are live bacteria and yeasts that are good for your health, especially your digestive system. By pumping good bacteria into your body you a liberating yourself from the sickness and filth that surrounds you and your family. To be honest I've always found that yoghurt is the most enjoyable way of getting these healthy bacteria into your system. Now with extensive research I can say Bacteriotherapy (Fecal Transplants) is the quickest and most effective way to get healthy bacteria into your system. So the way I see it you have two options that are both safe and easy for you and your loved ones. 1. Collect the fecal matter of the healthiest person you know (I can give away samples if need be) and fashion it into a Popsicle for easy insertions. Or follow this guide for a recipe for yogurt enemas: http://www.health-information-fitness.com/yogurt-enema.htm And then pick yourself up an enema kit here: https://enemakits.com.au/s…/enemas/enema-kit-rubber-2000-ml/ Finally let this guy take you through the process: https://youtu.be/LcDXOVCP2bM?t=7m21s This will give you the healthiest immune and digestive system around. The best part of this simple therapy is that it is probably safe for the little rug rats in your care. 3. Vitamin D supplements I feel like a bit of a fool repeating myself again guys but in case you missed an earlier post in the pages history Heliotherapy is making a huge difference in people lives. Heliotherapy is a means to get as much Vitamin D into your body as humanly possible. The link below will also tell you about all the amazing benefits of this turn around jump shot therapy: http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/heliotherapy-benefi…/ Here in Perth a ridiculous law was passed banning the use of solarium's. Another conspiracy by the local government to create pasty unhealthy people to boost their hospital intakes. I'm sure that it's just business as usual everywhere else in the world. The old adage one mans junk is another mans treasure couldn't be closer to the truth however. Sun beds are being released back to the people. You can pick up a cheap bed and install it in your own home, allowing you control over your families Vitamin D levels all year round. So what about closing comments? I will say this much. Trust us, and take any action towards safeguarding your health. We have done the research and we bring you the hard facts. #ResearchRob There you have it folks. We've alerted you to a problem you may not have known about, and tried to push the solutions too. I hope everyone walks away from this article with a deeper understanding of the Anti-Vaccination movement. All you need is some yoghurt, breastmilk, a fecal transplant and sun. With these simple things, she'll be right as rain. #TheDoctored
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I think we all have an inner child. This isn't some crazy thought or anything special. Its pretty common. I like the idea. That wondrous, innocent, fun having, tantrum throwing, vegetable hating, emotional roller coaster of a human being is someone we never grow out of. We will always love to explore like children do. It may be part of why some people love holidays. The idea of going somewhere new and seeing new and exciting things. We like to craft things, like children do. Our skill level just increases, as does people's expectations and level of what they will except from us. More importantly our inner child has desires. It wants things. Things that can be destructive to us. Just like a child, it doesn't care for the consequence. Now I'm not trying to shit on your inner children, readers. Shitting on children is not OK. Instead what I'm trying to say is the we need to take care of our Outer Adult too. The outer adult has the responsibility of any adult trying to take care of a child. Taking care of child (I assume) isn't easy. They don't like it. They want what they want, not what you want for them. Children get to enjoy life the way they do because they have an adult filtering responsibility out. The problem I've been having is that I am all Inner child, No outer adult. As such I'm not on top of my responsibilities as much as I'd like to be. My inner child makes all my food, and time-spending choices. I can even picture the two arguing in a time when I have to make a choice. Young Dave is a cunt. He is way too good at getting Adult Dave to see his point of view. All the information and knowledge in the world on the repercussions of poor choices doesn't help Adult Dave win the argument. I'm writing this out to really reinforce this idea to myself. That I have to deny Young Dave what he wants because he's a FUCKING CHILD AND SHOULD DO WHAT I SAY! I KNOW WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU! Adult Dave really has to pick up the parenting reigns now and whip this child into shape. Young Dave should be running around, having fun, discovering the world, but he is not. Instead he is anxious, shy, has low self worth, and not sure what happiness feels like any more. So I have a responsibility to Young Dave to be a good parent to him. To learn how to tell him no. Self discipline, I believe it's called. I lack it. It isn't going to be easy. Nothing in this life is both easy and worth doing. Things may be 'fun' or 'entertaining' but they won't be rewarding. Young Dave would be happy with a easy, hollow existence. Adult Dave is the one who has to try and be content with the life I've lived once I reach my deathbed. As such, they don't see eye to eye at all. It's not all doom and gloom however. Young Dave will be able to enjoy life on a deeper level as a healthy boy. I believe he is responsible for the euphoria that comes with great experiences. All of those massive positive feelings could be him. I think that may be why they are dulled currently. So this is a life change worth making. Even if I'm wrong, (this is all based on what I think, not what I know) what's the worst that could happen? Oh shit, I'm healthier now. NNNOOOOOOO!
We here at Paleomedicine love to hear about alternative treatments for medical conditions. I'm sure this is of no surprise to our massive, passionate, reader-base. So when we stumbled across this amazing piece of research we couldn't stop our burning, itching, desire to bring it to you all. We are hoping this treatment goes as viral as the infection it attempted to cure. In the early 20th century Julius Wagner-Jauregg discovered a rather unconventional treatment for a common infection. This was before #bigpharma squashed the market with their cheap and easy to manufacture solution. The infection in question, Syphilis. Wagner-Jauregg's solution may seem unconventional. It had a 15% mortality rate, which compared to the usual fate of a Syphilis sufferer is amazing progress. It had been known for a while that Syphilis infections responded Pyrotherapy. Traditionally speaking Pyrotherapy is the process of raising a patients body temperature high enough to kill infections. This was done with hot baths, steam treatment, or even electric blankets. Wagner-Jauregg was a man who liked to think "outside of the box", and lived by the motto, "A man with character needs no principles". This is important to note because as a millennial raised by the media, Ive learnt that someones character defines the validity of their body of work. He decided to venture away from regular methods of Pyrotherapy. Instead he decided to begin a new treatment called Malariotherapy. In order to treat the progressive paralysis of late-stage syphilis he inoculated his Syphilis patients with the blood of patients suffering from Tertian Malaria. The fever brought on by malaria often raised body temperature so high that it treated the neuropsychiatric disorder known as "General paralysis of the insane", the late stages of syphilis. Wagner-Jauregg was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Medicine for this discovery. So there you have it folks. Don't worry about that embarrassing syphilis infection ever again. Now you know about an alternative, free treatment. Just hop on down to your local river and hope to be bitten by just the right mosquito. Then we can all exhale a sigh of relief knowing that your Syphilis infection will be removed from the gene pool. Until next time readers, Keep your money away from modern medicine, #TheDoctored
I enjoy CD's. I enjoy actually owning a physical copy of the music. It's so much more than just having the item however. There are some benefits of being patient and getting the CD vs obtaining to songs ASAP. For example, here are some similarities with movies. If you're really excited to see the movie it can be tempting to watch it via a downloaded cam version, or even a review copy with warning text at the bottom occasionally. The thought that you get to see it early is enthralling. Aiming to be the first person you know to have gathered this new "thing" to start watching and discover. You are cheating yourself however. Like a child cheating on a test just to pass won't fully learn the lesson, You won't get the fullest experience. There have been many people that have seen it before you. Same with the music. Through out the process of being; written, recorded, mixed, mastered, manufactured, transported, reviewed, and any other steps along the way, there have been quite a large amount of people who have already experienced it. For this article I wish to compare it to the sense of discovery. By rushing the gate you are not the first one to discover anything. Instead all you have done is diminished the quality of what you can discover. Like a movie, in order to rush and see it (often but not always) there is a large amount of quality loss. If it's a handy cam version then its not going to look right. Part of the information conveyed to you is lost. As with music, if its a "web rip", purchased from iTunes, or "normal" quality stream, it will suffer information loss too. Not including the physical aspects and just looking at the amount of information available, music purchased through iTunes is less than 20% of the information on the actual disc. This was needed in the times of dial-up and low data caps but is a slap in the face of the consumer in today's market. It can be argued that analogue is the purest form of information transfer in regards to audio (tape, vinyl). Analogue is not digitized so there isn't really the same kind of numerical measurement of difference between it's intended quality and conveyed quality. It has its own "information loss" too. It can be argued that it makes it sound warmer. The same can be said for older projectors, video/audio tapes, and photographs. By presenting a warmer representation of something not designed with that in mind, it has being altered. What you are getting is not the truest representation of the experience as it has been designed. Now to return to a previous point. The feeling of discovery. When you wait for the product, you are not being robbed of discovering it early. Instead your discipline is rewarded with a fuller, more engaging immersion in your initial experience. First impressions are important, the experience that has been created does not get another at your initial reaction. You now get to listen to what has been created while looking through the supplied booklet. Inside can be accompanying art, lyrics, sometimes even hidden secrets within parts of the casing, or differences between the track list and the CD's internal Table on Contents creating hidden Pre-Gap tracks. A great example of this can be found on album Prisoners, by The Agonist. Around 5:55 into the track Ideomotor, a cd player will change over to track 7, counting up if the player can handle negative timing, otherwise the track will stay at 0:00 for 2 minutes while a sweet instrumental plays, before kicking into Lonely Solipsist. This creates a hidden track that can not be selected, but must be heard through the albums progression. When the album is ripped to individual tracks however the instrumental song is just tacked onto the end of track 6. Most Audio CD's are in the "Redbook" format. I'm sure some of you reading this may remember Hybrid/Enhanced discs that came with Video clips, Games, or other extras for when the CD was used in a PC. This is defined as the "Bluebook" format. On a side note, some video game discs employed the "Blackbook" format. This simply means they didn't conform to a standard format. Making the discs harder to make an exact copy of on consumer grade disc burners. One example used by Sony for the PSX includes "Bad Blocks" Young Dave wasted many blank discs trying to get around this DRM (Digital Rights Management). Too many. To further go into the sense of discovery you can find in a music CD, I'll take the article into the scary realms of... Dun dun dun... Subjective taste! I like metal. I like that you can't hear and interpret the lyrics on the first listen. If you have the disc and it came with lyrics then you have the resources to find them. Metal lyrics can take weeks to be put online after release so the only way you'll be able to know is if you participated in the release. Its almost like a form of time sensitive DRM. (Metal has built in DRM, the "blackbook" format is used often as a form of DRM, and metal-heads almost exclusively wear black Causation or just correlation? There's no data so the debate is still in the air on this one.) You can even give it a listen with out the lyrics. Try to pick up what you can. Then cross check with your book and see what you got right and wrong. Alternatively you can never look into what the lyrics actually are. You can keep listening to the track and try to interpret the lyrics yourself. In this you can find advice, comradery, inspiration, and much more. The important thing is you found it for yourself. It took work. It wasn't easy. Almost learning to like chilli, it takes some time to build up to it. When you do though it can make the food so exhilarating and rewarding. Importantly enough you weren't fed these ideals. You discovered them within the material for yourself. It wont feel so abrasive to take them on board.
I feel that scientists are asking for a little bit too much trust from the general public. How do we know that these wild, scary, and uncomfortable claims are true. Sure they are double blind, placebo controlled tests but why should we let that penetrate our wall of ignorance? Like all the greatest minds we think a big strong wall should be erect to keep away things we don't understand. Look at Francis Crick for example. He was one of the co-discoverers of DNA. He also believed in the idea of Directed Panspermia. Directed Panspermia is the notion that life could have been started on earth from biological matter from space. It also suggest that we may be able to send biological matter to uninhabited planets to seed life there. In face "Panspermia" is derived from Greek and means "All Seed". Look at the Greek economy, now back at me, now back at the Greek economy, and finally back to me. Does it look like the Greeks know what is going on? The fact that Francis Crick thought this idea is worth considering is evidence that he can't be trusted. As such I move that the idea of DNA be removed from medical history. We here at Paleomedicine would like to return to medicines glory days of the four humours (Yellow bile, Black bile, Blood, and Phlegm). This way a medical degree will be much shorter, resulting in more doctors and a healthier society. If discoverer of something great ever suggests an idea that seems strange or unusual, we should quickly "throw the baby out with the bath water" as to make sure our society is untainted. #TheDoctored
There is a simple way to tell the character of person. One simple habit you can watch that will tell you a lot about how they will affect your life. It is as simple as when they fill up the ice tray. I think we all have gone to the ice tray, taken out a few blocks and put the tray back in. Thinking "Yeah! People are going to able to come along and use some ice later because I've left some behind". There are some assholes who take the last of the ice and leave the tray in the freezer. Empty. As long as your being better then "That Guy" you're a good person. Right? It kinda feels like taking the "path of least resistance" to being a good person. It's being a good enough person. I'd argue that one who is truly a good person will take the time to refill the ice tray even if it's half full. If you have one of those freezers with the built in ice trays and catcher then only empty one, and refill it. Leave the other one full and ready for use. You don't need to compete over ice, it's not a limited resource. There's no need to take just what you need and leave just enough. Take as much as you fucking want. Then replenish it completely so they next person may enjoy the bounty of ice you have prepared. Just fill it up again any way. Why the fuck not. You never know how much ice the next person is going to needed. What if you go to make drinks for a few friends and bam! Not enough ice. Even though you left enough there for the next person, that amount doesn't suit their needs. Wouldn't you want to arrive at an ice tray and see it full? You should want that for everyone. Whether they want some cold water on a hot day, a scotch on the rocks, or are curious about introducing ice in their sex lives. Help them enjoy themselves. Life is hard enough already. Let the frozen river flow!
I still have internet access through my phone. Using it as a WiFi hot spot I have 5 gigabytes a month. This week I've allowed myself 1 gigabyte of data and it has changed my browsing habits in a big way. I haven't touched YouTube, Imgur, or torrented hours of shows and movies. I wouldn't pay proper attention to them enough anyway. I would just have them on while browsing the internet on my phone. There's still more social media usage than i would like, but it doesn't use too much data. It's important to note though, I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. My internet usage has redirected towards getting information, syncing documents, or downloading Pokémon yellow. Now most of my computer usage is productive. It's amazing. It has also re-framed the way I'm viewing the consumption of megabytes. It's not a commodity after all. It's kinda the perfect thing to sell because you don't have to create them. You don't have to wait for them grow old enough to harvest. It's not like food, electricity, or prostitutes. Megabytes have a logistical cost, sure. You have to transport them. You have to perform maintenance on the network of cables, servers, and pay to keep them running. What you are selling will never run out. I'm not sure if I'm getting to some kind of valid point. I may be overthinking something simple to try and confirm to myself that I'm making the right choice. The result is undeniable. I am far more productive without the option to go spelunking into the cavern of the internet.
Do you occasionally suffer from a sore throat only to find you don't have an lozenges readily available? Not looking to hand over your hard earned money to to pharmacy? Well in the 1500's there was a practice that we here at Paleomedicine think should return. Album Græcum is the main ingredient, and is easily found for free down at your local dog park! Simply ground it down to a fine powder and mix it with some free honey found in a local bee hive, and you have a time tested remedy for a sore throat. What is Album Græcum you may ask? Put simply it is dog poo that has turned white with exposure to air. This remedy can even be applied to cuts and abrasions as a plaster to help keep nasty things out while it heals. That's two uses for a freely available medicine. Show me a commercially available, free medicine that can boast these statistics and I will resign right here and now. #TheDoctored
Night 1: I'm alone and the wolves are after me. Recently i have moved into an apartment to call my own. Well not quite to call my own as its a rental but semantics aside, its mine. I've received so much generosity from friends and family that this hasn't registered as real. Getting out into reality is super easy it seems. I sure it will take a few days for the gravity of this to settle in. There's a shared laundry that I have a key too, but it appears to have a coded lock so it's pointless. I haven't got the code and i haven't encountered a neighbour to ask about it. I'll contact the rental agency for the details one day, but the move has been such a whirlwind that it has not been on my mind. In hindsight, I should have done a load of washing before moving but here we are. Lesson learned. While approaching the building last night I noticed a van parked in an unusual spot but I don't think to much of it. I walk down the path, turn right, walk to my door and try and open it. The entrance to the door is not well lit and I am encumbered by my work belongings. Singlehandedly I fumble for the distinctly scratched up key that I know is for my flyscreen door. After a few attempted turns it appears to not be working. Obviously I've grabbed the wrong key. Which means I've either learned the wrong key for the door, or I have a false memory that I trusted. The fallibility of human memory is well documented, so it's not a stretch of the imagination that I have made a mistake. That is until it hits me, I'm trying to open my neighbours door. As I double back the way I came I wonder how I had gotten it so wrong. A simple mistake, sure, but i had walked to and from this door many times over the weekend moving things in. Then i see the van. Which just so happens to be parked in front of a footpath. The footpath I remember from moving. There are two paths, and I have chosen the wrong one. I hope this isn't a pattern of decision making I stick with. I get inside, put everything in my hands down, and head back out to the car to grab some items I had received from my Nan. As I'm walking back up I notice that the neighbour on the other side now has their door wide open. Are they watching me? Had they heard me fucking around with the wrong door, does it look like I'm loading someone else's stuff into my car at night? No, no they were not watching me it seems. I had left my own door open to bring things in with ease, but insisted on walking past my apartment to the neighbour's again. All the while casting judgment onto myself for watching me. And in that moment I got a nice reminder of how even when I get worried others are judging me, it's could be because I'm being too self critical. The people around me aren't criticizing me for being imperfect. In this instance they don't even know I exist. If they've seen me, they would have no idea of my identity so the thoughts and opinions of me they form aren't even tangible to my identity. I just have to let those thoughts dissipate into the ether. They are heavy burden that I have no need or desire for.
I tell you what, I'm sick of buying antibiotics from these so called modern 'doctors'. More like pill swindling thugs for #bigpharma. They've been selling so many antibiotics that they may run out. I say it's time we start using some alternative medical treatments and take our health back out of the hands of industry. 21 years after reports of antibacterial properties of rivers in India, French-Canadian microbiologist Félix d'Hérelle discovered a virus that was parasitic to bacteria. He named them Bacteriopahges. Bacteriophage therapy was a treatment developed in a country denied modern medical techniques and is still being used there today. Many studies have even been performed on the efficacy of Bacteriophages. They are viruses that attack and kill bacteria! Antibiotics will be wishing to be this effective. It's nice to have choices when you need to see to your health. #TheDoctored
Have you ever felt completely drained? Like you're running on empty? Need to recharge your battery? Don't drag yourself all the way to the kitchen for a coffee or the shop for an energy drink. There is a permanent, once of solution to your troubles. With a Radium Ore Revigator you can concoct your own recharge fluid over night. All you need is water! Overnight the water in enriched buy the uranium in the walls of the jug, bombarding your cells with "...health-giving electric atoms." #TheDoctored
We all know how much of a pain teething children can be. If only there was a way to get this over and done with quickly and causes us as little pain as possible. Well there used to be a method that achieved just this and its time it came back into medical fashion. When a baby’s teeth would begin the process of coming through the gums surgeons can take a scalpel and slice open the tissue over the teeth to allow them to come through. It's a process called Cutting Teeth. You may have even heard the phrase before, That's how common this used to be. Or if surgery on your child seems too drastic of an option for you, there is always Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. It was originally designed to help with teething. #TheDoctored http://www.chadhayesmd.com/cutting-teeth-part-1-the-fascin…/
Have you been feeling tired, hot, and more easily irritable recently? Then you obviously need a good ol' fashioned detoxification. Why purchase expensive detox programs from salesmen looking to deceive you when you can create your own solution on the cheap? Doesn't it seem silly to put a chemical into your body to get chemicals out? Next time, consider the more traditional remedy. an Enema. Flush all the badness away with natural water! No chemicals here. Enemas can even be relationship building as helping someone with their enema is a great way to bond. #TheDoctored http://alternative-healthzine.com/enemas-their-history-and…/
There's no need to be out of pocket when you find yourself having paid an arm or leg recently. Why choose an expensive modern solution or deal with a complicated 3D printer when you could utilize a time tested prosthesis? Get down to your local black smith or cobbler and have them knock one of these up in a jiff. #TheDoctored