GIMP 10; + HYPNOSIS @/.
Time flies
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on Wednesday November 23, @11:19AM (#14101416) (http://www.simnet.is/~gnarlin/index.html)
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Dr Milton Erikson
(Score:5, Informative) <[moc.xoblaerym] [ta] [htomlem]> on Wednesday November 23, @12:34AM (#14098391) (Last Journal: Saturday June 12, @06:53PM)
What was amazing about Erikson was that he noticed that life is rife with trance states, most of them shallow, temporary, and skilfully deployed for survival purposes. Think about this the next time you get home from a tense commute without really remembering exactly how you operated the car.
He found somewhat more suggestible cases, and took advantage of what he saw as our natural facility with trances, and of our heavy reliance on metaphor to get through the day. (Of course, I oversimplify.) Plus he was a damn good psychiatrist. Basically, a prodigy. He would find ways of putting people into trances of various depths, for various lengths of time, using freaky techniques like the rhythm of his voice tuned to the listener's body responses, and barely noticeable emphasis on certain words, not unlike fictional characters in the Dune series. Not easy to reproduce.
His ideas later led to NLP, or Neuro-Linguistic Programming... YMMV.
Damn those pesky terrorists [wikipedia.org]
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A testable theory
(Score:5, Interesting) on Tuesday November 22, @06:48PM (#14096782) (Last Journal: Wednesday April 27, @12:58PM)
Hypnosis might have a negative reputation if you buy the movie "mind control" version, which has nothing to do with reality, and shame on anyone who even thought it was. It has long been a testable theory, and research has shown that every 90 minutes or so the brain goes into a slightly hypnotic state, daydreaming if you will. This is a natural process of the brain. It's still not known how or why this happens, but the effect has been known for a long time.
It's a very weird thing to demonstrate to someone who's long held the negative "its' a crock of shit" view based on what they've seen on movies or in stage hypnosis.
I'll give you an example of something that a psychotherapist (long story) did for me. When you get into that relaxed state, that's not quite as relaxed as sleeping, but its still a very numb relaxing pleasant feeling, the hypnotist "tests" your state in numerous ways. The most popular one is telling you your eyes are glued shut and no matter how hard you try you cannot open them... then a few minutes later asks you to try, but you will not be able. Every time this happens to me, I *KNOW* I can open my eyes, I'm fucking positive about it, I *KNOW* they're not glued shut, I *KNOW* the hypnotist is a lying bastard, full of shit.. but you know what... I don't wanna... I like them shut. It's difficult to explain, but you just find yourself wanting to go along with fun little things like that.
That's a crude little insight into what a hypnotic state feels like and the level of "control" anyone has over you. Try it yourself, you dont have to believe in it. If anything, its just a great way of relaxation. I use it at night as a cure for insomnia. A guided session helps me get to sleep within about 10 minutes. You might argue that this is just the power of suggestion, or the placebo effect... but that's exactly what's its meant to be.
I also make my own mp3's depending on what I'm looking for.. If preparing for a job interview I run through the interview over and over again in a hypnotic state. It's a great way of mental rehearsing something. Better than just doing it in front of a mirror....
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Article Still Minimizes Hypnosis
(Score:5, Interesting) .../... A persons conditioned reflex response mechanism which is like the body's memory can feel pain from an ordeal that they were not even aware of when the traumatic event was taking place. Many soldiers and others subjected to stresses that they are shocked by have a consciousness that is overwhelmed as if like a conductor falling into an orchestra. When people dont know how to handle their emotions, or are subject to extreme stresses,they lose some conscious awareness and fall into the gears of their own cognitive and emotional machinery. That's the root for a tremendous amount of mental suffering. Not surprisingly many of the original psychic ruptures take place at home and in the schools when people are kids and get upset by the cruelties, neglects, family problems etc. Media, marketers and politicians etc use these mechanisms (even if only indirectly aware of what principles they are using) by emotionalizing groups of people and then giving them ideas and suggestions. WHen adds play that energizing music and give people feelings and ideas they are trying to condition them hypnotically. People will accept such motivations as if it came from them. Hypnotic elements are all around us and yet it's hardly recognized for what it is. A lot more people can be hypnotized that that article states. One reason people can't be hypnotized is because they are hypnotized already by lifes events and stresses. The correct way to use hypnosis to get someone to stop smoking would be to "un-hypnotize" them. Thats why when a person tries hypnosis for smoke cessation it only works for a little while. Hypnotists don't hypnotize people as much as take over a pre existing state. A fact people don't realize about hypnosis is that intellectual people and people who use their imaginations a lot are the best subjects for hypnosis. People who study a lot are used to focusing their minds and they tend to be sensitive to authority ( a good hypnotists greatest asset is a authoritarian manner) - all good conditions for hypnotic manipulation. One reason artists and such suffer is because they are very open in their own minds to all sorts of forces taking their objectivity captive.==============
Re:Time flies
(Score:5, Insightful)Besides, professionals wouldn't use Gimp even if it supports CMYK. They'd still use Photoshop because that's what they were thaught at school. Implementing CMYK wouldn't solve anything at all - the peopel who complain would just move on to new things to complain about.
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In unrelated news...
(Score:5, Funny) <[moc.liamg] [ta] [adardl]> on Wednesday November 23, @10:09AM (#14100891) (Last Journal: Thursday October 27, @05:48AM)
Why reinvent the wheel, when you can just... patent it?
[[life, n: The whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.]]
http://religiousfreaks.com/
Debra Lafave, a 25-year-old female teacher, pleaded gulity to having sex with a 14-yr-old student today. This little vixen "took care" of her student in the classroom once and in a car while the kids 15-yr-old cousin drove them around. I wish I had teachers like this in school. By now, some of you are wondering why I even carried this story. Well to be honest it’s because she looks damn good, and I find the cross around her neck interesting as well. She’s a good Christian girl I bet. On a sidenote though, I found it shocking that she will serve no jail time, whereas this poor woman, gets 30 years! I’m not condoning sex with minors (although I would have considered myself blessed had Debra been my teacher), but 30 years for getting some highschoolers high and banging their brains out hardly seems to merit that amount of time. You can guarantee if she looked like the Debra, she would have received no jail time. You can bet on that. Or maybe Debra got off easy because she’s got the crucifix on :) You decide.------==========----
http://www.nbc10.com/image/5375047/detail.html
Believers Flock To Virgin Mary Tree
Image Discovered In Bark
http://www.nbc10.com/news/5375322/detail.html#
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R Some See Jesus On Truck Tailgate
At Least 150 People Make Pilgrimage
http://www.nbc6.net/news/5380739/detail.html#
Virtual Hypnotist related stuff:
Complete history of all my hypnosis software
History chart of my hypnosis software
My hypnosis mp3s and the HypnoHouse software
Original version of the Brainwave Synchronizer: Kyma Mindwave by Michael Herbert with bugfixes by me
Also check out Hypnotizer 2000, which this software is a rewrite of.
HypnoTunnel, an old program modified by me in 1999 (updated in 2004)
ColorTunnel 2.0, a rewrite of HypnoTunnel, originally included in Hypnotizer 2000
Old version 1.1 here
Other hypnosis software:
Erotic Inducer (warning - adult related)
MindController (mostly in Russian) links 1 2
Self Hypnosis Engineering Studio Standard and Pro
Adobe Audition (previously Cool Edit, previously MindSync) - brainwave generator
Hypnoice (hypnotic spiral induction)
SHARM (Self Hypnosis and Relaxation Machine)
Good hypnosis websites:
Hypnosis Flash Animation (where I got the Brainwash preset)
Hypnosis and Mind Control in the Movies
General hypnosis sites
Victoria M. Wizell, C.M. Ht. of Hypnotherapy of Nevada.
Information about hypnosis, self-hypnosis, weight-loss, sexual issues,
stress, smoking, and much more. Private sessions and extensive
selection of hypnosis programs available. http://www.hyptalk.com
More Links (go to the link section in the site)
Re:How about google?
(Score:5, Informative) on Wednesday November 23, @08:34AM (#14100059) (Last Journal: Tuesday November 02, @11:06AM)
"Star Wars filetype:torrent"
They already have a torrent search.
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
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8.75 Million in Venture Capital?
(Score:5, Funny)I can't believe I'm eating IMITATION Kraft Dinner because I gave to this guy.
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SQL support!? Are you sure?
(Score:5, Funny)Thank you Captain Obvious! Until I read the headline on slashdot, I was concerned the new DB2 might not support SQL queries. Now I can sleep tonight.
On a radical tangent, I was thinking of buying a new car. Has anyone heard if the new cars from GM have wheels that turn? I'm not sure because it doesn't say on the website anywhere. I really hope the new cars have wheels that turn. If the wheels didn't turn... that'd be like a database without SQL... or something.
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Re:Silly
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on Wednesday November 23, @03:56AM (#14098901) (http://allthatishuman.blogspot.com/)
All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.
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http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/11/23/0228258
Original reasons for using MySQL replaced by...
(Score:5, Insightful)* PostgreSQL wasn't available in a native version on Windows and their developers were still mastering the codebase they inherited (they mastered it around 7.3, before that they tiptoed around making massive changes).
* Firebird wasn't open sourced yet (before summer 2000).
* and SQLite wasn't released either (before summer 2000).
The above 3 conditions are no longer valid.
Many of us use MySQL because so many other software packages are already designed to work with it. Like Windows, it doesn't matter even if better alternatives exist because this one reason alone is most compelling if the software is "good enough".
In other words, the original technical reasons for choosing MySQL over others has been replaced by a compelling new reason: the same reason many people use Microsoft Windows today.
In a nutshell:
* If I want a super fastest lookup table without SQL, I'll use something like cdb or tinycdb.
* If I want a fast and simple database requiring only a tiny subset of SQL, I'll use something like SQLite.
* If I want a modern, full-featured, and free rdbms/ordbms, then I'll use PostgreSQL.
* If I want compatibility with most 3rd-party software, then I'll use MySQL.
All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.
posted by USSSlavebation @ 11/24/2005 10:12:00 am
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