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The funny thing is she IS a highly qualified professional nurse with decades of experience. One of the smartest people I know, still nuts though.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Placebo.. and also an "health practitioner" (or quack, as it is) that listen to you..
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Remember - the placebo effect canbe about 30% effective.
Convolute into that that her clients are believer to begin with for going to such therapy. There's also the need for attention she give them - possibly for illnesses that others in medical professions of a less esoteric nature tell them (perhaps politely) that it's all in their head.
PT Barnum famously figured out how to make a buck from this part of human nature.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: meditation among students with the use of crystals
How ridiculous! Do they need a specific clock frequency to meditate? Do they get hot if they meditate too hard and the clock frequency is too high? Do they have a static or a dynamic architecture? If it's dynamic, their minds will be completely cleared in less than a millisecond at a clock of 0 Hz. You don't need a crystal for that! And if it's static, then not even 0 Hz (or any other frequency) will make any difference.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: If it's dynamic, their minds will be completely cleared in less than a millisecond at a clock of 0 Hz.
You are making the unwarranted assumption that there was anything in their minds to begin with. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Irrelevant. They are cleared, independent of what was in there before. Resistance is futile.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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You Will Be Exterminated Exfoliated !
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: The school has a chiropractor on staff to give adjustments to students and staff
My son had seizures when he was very little and the doctors were never able to find anything wrong. One visit to the chiropractor and he never had a seizure again. Don't knock chiropractors.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: meditation among students with the use of crystals.
Meditation has been scientifically proven to be beneficial. I don't know what the crystals are supposed to do though.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: I've a confirmation that there's no cure for stupid.
So, you never considered.. how we raise sheep/dogs/pigs?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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SkyNet is here to help, and beg to differ! 
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: there's no cure for stupid
Even more worrying is that this is a school head.  Hopefully, there will be many parents that decide, this is not the place to trust with the education of their children.
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5teveH wrote: Hopefully, there will be many parents that decide, this is not the place to trust with the education of their children.
Unlikely. This is in America, where there is a case for every nut.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: there is a case for every nut.
One word: Haredi .
One day: Shabbat
One item: Rocks
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Compared to what goes on in American cities?! That's not even Little League!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Here's a preposition to consider.
You are, for the most part, surrounded by hostile (or borderline) neighbors who will attempt to kill arbitrary innocent strangers at any moment. Meanwhile, others are putting their resources heavily into annihilating you.
Who has the luxury of time to spend their time in thoughtless indulgences? In it's way, even peace* has its price.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Who has the luxury of time to spend their time in thoughtless indulgences?
There is nothing more self-indulgent than being a Haredi man. 
I think that this debate is not really suited to CodeProject, but I'm willing to take it to e-mail, if you prefer.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Would do: no email link in your profile/post (use link in mine if you wish).
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Step 1: Prepare patties from a dead cow. If cats are present, be prepared to surrender the lion's share of the dead cow.
Step 2: Prepare the secret Big Wraith hamburger sauce. It can also be used as cat deterrent before all of the dead cow disappears. I changed the recipe. Instead of sweet paprica powder, I use jalapenos now.
Step 3: Pile up the buns, cheese and other stuff before firing up the grill. These should mostly be cat safe, but the bowl with the Big Wraith sauce will make sure that the lion does not find the cheese.
Step 4: Roast the cow! (About to happen in a few seconds)
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: Step 4: Roast the cow!
Don't you grill on a grill?
The algorithm appears incomplete. I fail to see how these steps make one burp. 
Also, what, if any, is the cat's contribution to the burp?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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The algorithm has not ended yet. The last steps involve putting the Big Wraith together, eating it and then burp.
I would also be prepared for some exception handling:
catch(OutOfDeadCowException ex)
{
Grill(ex.cat);
}
catch(GeneralCatException ex)
{
Grill(ex.cat);
}
finally
{
Burp();
}
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Like software there's front-end and (well, to be polite) business rules and the back end.
The burp, only accounting for the front-end invocations is merely a foreboding omen as to the "final outcome". You may well lose your mind . . .
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Ha! All that has been delegated to a service (http://localhost.digestion.asmx) and the burp is the proper response when the service goes to work.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Google Argentina's domain name bought by man for £2[^]
I hope they refunded his money!* 
* But it seems not ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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After a recent post, it occurred to me that we rarely see a good balance between architecture and code.
I often see:
under-architected, over-coded.
But I've also encountered:
over-architected, over-coded.
Personally, my goal is always "under-coded" (meaning, as little code as possible), and I find that that drives a certain amount of architecture, usually during the coding, not before the coding.
So it strikes me that the missing category:
well-architected, well-coded
is something that must be done simultaneously. Not the "architecture first" approach, not the "code as a hack" approach, but rather, while coding, considering where "architecture" can facilitate "well-coded."
And by architecture, I don't mean gloriosky layers of abstractions, thousands of interfaces, DI and IoC. To me, architecture includes writing small functions and maximizing code re-use (there are more, but I'm writing a post in the Lounge, not an essay.)
Thoughts?
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"Design (architect) from the top down, then implement from the bottom up."
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