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Is there any way that a potential customer for this service could be convinced that their data was actually removed from these 100+ sites and that they can be convinced what that really actually accomplished? Are there other sites that provide similar services and you could present a comparison showing the pros and cons of each service? If you could do those things then this might more interesting to me. But I have seen some data collection/data search sites that have an opt-out feature down at the bottom along with a disclaimer that yes, if you ask us to remove your data we will do that, BUT you must realize that does not remove your data from the other thousand or billion sites on the net that also have your data and this opt-out is going to do nothing to remove your data from any of them.

Is there a list of criteria for demoralization, hopefully written in the same form as the DSM4 criteria https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK36406/table/ch1.t1/ for depression? It seems this would have been the 4th paragraph in his article if he was really trying to make his case for the misuse of these. I did some searching and didn't find this. Perhaps related, I've been in contact with people labeled depressed and some seemed more frustrated, angry and bitter rather than having just given up, but those don't seem to be any better match for demoralized or depressed. Maybe a distinction is "what goes on inside your head" versus "dealing with other people and economics and you can't make them do or give you what you want."

Can anyone make out or find the lyrics for this? I've listened to it over and over. I've asked someone else if they can make it out. I've done searches. I'd like to understand what it came up with. Thanks

> where I have been able to use the right hemisphere of my brain to visualize concepts rather than subvocalizing the words

Would you provide any references or documentation on how someone else might learn to successfully do that?

Taking your sphere question literally, you might first consider a 1-dimensional world and all the points in that world that are a distance of 1 from the origin. After that consider a 2-dimensional world and all the points that are a distance of 1 from the origin. Then a 3-dimensional world. After that you mastered that you might do a Google search for wiki 3-sphere and see what you find.

If you haven't already done so then you might read "Patent It Yourself Your Step-by-Step Guide to Filing at the U.S. Patent Office" by David Pressman, published by Nolo. There is a vast amount of expertise in that book. There are also "How to Make Patent Drawings" and "Inventor's Cookbook" to go along with that, also from Nolo, but I have not read those.

Alternate the digits, or the bits, of the two numbers and prepend 0's onto the shorter number if needed. Accomplishes this in 2n digits or bits instead of 2^n.

You might do a web search for Dr. David Hanscom and read some of his stuff to see if you could apply any of that to your situation. I've never been to him, but I've listened to him and read some of his stuff.

I have seen two different ideas about this in the past. One: money laundering. Anyone can say they are a book seller and sell to themselves or an accomplice, pay the fees and taxes and the rest is then legitimate income. Two: warring bots. One bot keeps raising their price slightly above the most expensive other copy for sale. And when there are two such bots there may be no upper limit. In the past I've seen books priced for $1000 U.S. or more when identical copies were for sale for a few dollars.

The computer with all financial information is disconnected from the net. A new computer does email and web surfing. Both have Mcafee and MalwareBytes. All computers work within a Standard User account and I hold the admin password. I use TeamViewer with security tight to monitor. They have been trained to not click on anything asking them to and to let me know the minute any questionable email or pop-up appears.

Not suggesting you do or don't do it yourself, but you might read the book "Patent it yourself: your step-by-step guide to filing at the U.S. patent office" by David Pressman from Nolo Press. That has a lot of experience in those pages. He has done four other books on the same topic that you might also read.

If your phone provider/plan supports it then http://nomorobo.com/ is wonderful. But, as with everything else, the industrious telemarketers have begun programming their system to try to evade this. I would prefer if it would show the caller id of the call it was blocking, but it doesn't do that.

There was a newspaper column a decade ago urging people to write a "Read This If I am Dead" document describing how to actually find and do all the large and small things that you want done when the contents of your brain are gone. Thinking carefully about that, writing, revising and simplifying it to the point that someone will be able to actually do that when I am gone is probably the best thing I ever did. Google used to be able to find the contents of that column, but it appears gone now. There is a book now "Read This When I am Dead" by Presley and Howard on likely the same subject.

I was surprised by sections in "Lying" by Sam Harris where he wrote "Why don't we agree that you won't ask me that so I won't have to tell you the truth." A much more extreme position is Brad Blanton's "Practicing Radical Honesty" and other books by him. He admits in one of his books the huge personal cost he has seen people suffer when people tell everyone all the truth all the time, but he still thinks it is worth it.

The thin book "The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations" by Dietrich Dorner offers one explanation of how and why we got where we are today. If I remember correctly, he says that a million years ago we were so few and the world so large that there was nothing we could do that would make a dent in the world, it was all about grabbing everything you could to just survive and side effects meant nothing. Fast forward to the present, the teeter totter has tipped, the situation has reversed, side effects far outweigh getting what you need to survive. But our brains haven't caught up with the changes in last 2000 years, let alone a million. He goes on to show lots of current examples of our intuition being no match for current complex problems and how to try to learn to better deal with that.