I think the US are winning the war of pys warfare...

All around the world, we are more UStenized rather than modernised

Is being Americanised good or bad? It all depand on the the world power at that time. Prior to tha people were "Britianised" and before that the Ducth and Potoguise.

As I see it, the next world power is either China or India. Then there is a new waves of brian washing to gear up for the new lifestyle.

i agree with u....mind is all over matter.....Even to be a true warrior, one need to be brave, once u fear, u lose already.....n fear is actually a product of what we think

Fear is good. So long as it is not incapacitating.

Luke, fear, anger, agression .... the dark side. I get the feeling this is beinging to sound like some Jedi trainning.

That's just a 'marketing strategy', in my opinion. What you own or achieve materially does not concern me as an individual. An LV bag is just an LV bag, an iPhone is just an iPhone. They are just 'names' that are waiting to have you labelled, to suck your hard-earn cash dry because they do not come cheap at all. I don't perceive that somebody who has a Chanel bag swinging on her pretty shoulder to be better than me.

There types of parasite that can control other animal behavior, i remember there's 1 type of worm that infect snail and totally control the snail to climb to the most top of bush branches, so it can easily seen and eaten by bird, so the birds can spread the parasite else where via it's feces,.. i dunno what it call already...


anyway i found below on parasite that can control the host mind:

Body-Snatching Barnacles and Zombie Crabs



Written by Alan Bellows on 27 September 2005

BarnacleThere is no small number of unsettling parasites crawling, flying, and swimming about the Earth, the lucky ones hitching rides on hapless host organisms. And while many parasites are harmless, or even beneficial in their way, others can wreak havoc with their hosts’ existence. The worst of these offenders can actually force their host to do their will.

A tiny barnacle called Sacculina is one such parasite. Upon finding a host crab, a female Sacculina will crawl over the crab’s surface until she finds a chink in the armor: a joint. She then ejects her protective shell, reducing herself to a gelatinous blob, and invades.

Inside the host, the parasite grows long, root-like tendrils throughout the crab’s body, eventually emerging as a bump on the its underside. During this process she renders the crab infertile, and creates a small opening in the crab’s back that will allow a male Sacculina to make residence there. Soon the crab is filled with millions of Sacculina eggs and larvae, and like a zombie, the crab cares for these eggs and larvae as though they were its own, losing all interest in mating. When a male crab is infected, the parasite alters its physiology and behavior to be female, to better care for the Sacculina’s young.

The parasite basically rewires the crab for its own ends, and the crab becomes a helpless vehicle, expending its energy caring for the young organisms that will move on to inflict themselves upon other crabs.

Article on the University of Hong Kong website

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The cuckoo also gets others to cares for it's young, but doesn't do any rewiring. Merely exploiting the inability of the victim to tell its own offspring from that of the cuckoo's.

Try to read more at http://www.livescience.com/health/050317_b..._interface.html

A person moving mouse cursor on a computer screen is an insignificant accomplishment. Heck, even a monkey can do it.

But if the person is a quadriplegic controlling the cursor with nothing but brainwaves, now that would be interesting. And it's been done.

Brain-computer interface systems, although still in developmental and experimental stages, are becoming increasingly more powerful and applicable. Advancements in neural signaling research make it one of the hottest fields in biomedical engineering.

Earlier this year, researchers indeed trained four people suffering epilepsy to move a computer cursor with the power of thought. The patients, who were waiting to have brain surgery, were already fitted with small sheets of signal-detecting electrodes on the surfaces of their brains.

The patients were asked to perform certain tasks - such as opening and closing their hands and sticking out their tongue - while scientists determined what brain signals were associated with these movements.

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Next, the signals from these movements were matched up with movements of the cursor on the screen. For example, the thought of opening of the right hand might move the cursor to the right. The subjects were then asked to move the cursor from one spot to another on the screen by thinking about making the movements.

The patients had some difficulty at first, but each was able to control the cursor with their thoughts and with over 70 percent accuracy after a few minutes. One patient was operating at 100 percent accuracy by the end of the trial.

"All our subjects were able to control the computer cursor using imagined representations of motor movements," said Daniel Moran of Washington University.

This study was the first to prove that sensors placed on the surface of the brain are preferable to the standard forms of sensors - either embedded deep in the brain tissue or worn as a cap. They are less intrusive than an embedded variety and potentially more stable and powerful than the cap, which receives weak brain signals that have passed through the skull.

The BrainGate

Only a handful of clinical studies include quadriplegics as participants. One at Brown University and Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc., is working to develop a system called BrainGate.

In this-one patient pilot study, a sensor is implanted on the surface of the primary motor cortex, the area of the brain responsible for movement. The sensor, smaller than a penny, has hair-thin electrode probes that penetrate about a millimeter into the brain and are designed to pick up electrical impulses from the motor neurons.

About twice a week the participant performs cursor-moving tasks with his thoughts that are meant to demonstrate proof of principle of the technology and to evaluate the quality, type, and usefulness of neural output control that patients can achieve.

BrainGate offers several advantages over other systems, its creators say.

"First, BrainGate provides an interface with a computer that works immediately, without weeks or months of training," John Donoghue, director of Brown's Brain Science Program and a co-founder of Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems Inc., told LiveScience. "Secondly, a user can operate the device without requiring great concentration.

Cursor control is "about as natural as using one's own arm," Donoghue said. The patient can, for example, carry on a conversation while moving the cursor.

"And, thirdly, because BrainGate connects directly to the part of the brain that ordinarily controls hand movement and gestures, it provides significantly more utility than devices that rely on 'substitutes' for the brain's own arm movement signal, such as eye movements. Using eye movements, for example, to control a computer prevents one from looking elsewhere during use -- something that is very unnatural and cumbersome."

The goal of Donoghue's study and its follow-ups is to develop a safe, effective, and unobtrusive universal system for physically disabled people to control a wide array of devices, such as computers and wheelchairs, with their thoughts.

"Moving a wheelchair with BrainGate is beyond the scope of this study," said Donoghue. "Although, our first trial participant has used his thoughts to control a TV and move a robotic hand and arm."

Monkey see, monkey do

Since it can difficult to get government permission to run human clinical trial of this kind, the bulk of the research for brain/machine interfaces has been done with monkeys.

In 2003, researchers at Duke University taught rhesus monkeys to consciously control the movement of a real time robotic arm using only feedback from a video screen and their thoughts. The monkeys appeared to operate the robotic arm as if it were their own limb.

A team led by neurobiologist Miguel Nicolelis implanted a tiny array of brain-signal-detecting microelectrodes in the monkey's brain. They trained the monkey with a joystick that moved a cursor on a screen, and, once the monkey had mastered that task, the robotic limb was added to the feedback loop. After a few days, the monkey realized the connection between moving the cursor and moving the arm.

Once that connection was established, the researchers removed the joystick. The monkey slowly figured out that it could still move the cursor and robotic arm by moving its own arm. After a few days without the joystick, the monkey realized that it could move the robotic arm without moving its own.

It had mastered a neuroprosthetic limb.

"[The monkey's] arm muscles went completely quiet, she kept the arm at her side and she controlled the robot arm using only her brain and visual feedback," said Nicolelis. "Our analyses of the brain signals showed that the animal learned to assimilate the robot arm into her brain as if it was her own arm."

The brain circuitry had actively reorganized itself to incorporate an external device.

"Actually, we see this every day, when we use any tool, from a pencil to a car," said Nicolelis. "As we learn to use that tool, we incorporate the properties of that tool into our brain, which makes us proficient in using it."

Andrew Schwartz, a neurobiologist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, has taken the progress made at Duke to another level. Schwartz has trained monkeys to feed themselves pieces of fruit using just their brainwaves and a robotic arm.

Unlike the experiment at Duke, where the robotic arm wasn't in close proximity to the monkey, Schwartz has restrained the monkey's arm and placed the robotic limb as close to the monkey as possible.

The robotic arm moves like a normal arm - it has fully mobile shoulder and elbow joints. The "hand" is a simple gripper that allows the monkey to grab its food.

"The robotic limb takes the desired hand position as input and has on-board hardware that controls the torque motors to move the limb to the desired decoded position, Moran explained. "This is really no different than sending a desired cursor position to a computer."

Schwartz has recently made improvements to the computer algorithms that will make it easier for the monkeys to learn to operate the robotic arm. The improvements will also help Schwartz and his team to develop brain devices with smoother, more responsive, and precise movements.

Looking to the future

Commercial application of brain-computer interface systems is still years away, and developers have set the bar high.

Moran would like to return movement to the body, saying his "overall research goal is to transmit cortical signals over a break in a spinal cord." He would also like to see the development of better neuroprosthetic limbs.

Donoghue has similar goals for the near-term usage of the BrainGate. In addition to developing a smaller, wireless device for the patient to wear, he is demonstrating that human brain waves could be used to control neuroprosthetic limbs.

"The ultimate goal of the neuromotor prosthesis is to use physical systems - smart sensors and implantable electronics - to restore a considerable degree of function to paralyzed limbs," Donoghue said. A neural sensing system with adequate processing of signals could potentially drive muscles through implanted stimulators."


"[For the] long term, we want to develop a system that allows humans with paralysis to move their limbs in a way that they can carry out useful movements and lead independent lives. And we want to develop a new class of neurotechnologies that can diagnose and treat disease and restore lost functions in humans," said Donoghue. "These are ambitious goals, but we believe they are realizable."

This post has been edited by Potatojii: Oct 14 2010, 09:09 AM

bags dont have those oem whatever thingy u said.

braun buffel is a brand i admire, of the not-so-high price for a leather bag made in germany.

LV is made of canvas. designs like speedys, neverfulls and tivolis are there for ages and ages.. no designer cost but the bag is only canvas. the price is 8-10 times the price of a braun buffel.

isn't that a result of branding?

Friend... let me share a personal experience of mine...

I visited this place(P&C) laa... a rich tycoon`s mansion... there`s this gigantic oil painting of scenary... i accidentally bump into it and caused it to fall from its hanging place. i was like.. Ohh Sh1t... it it breaks, I will have to pay 100k for it...

Then suddenly, time stops, my body feels like a tonne... as real as it can gets... I cant stand up.. my legs were numb, my body is too heavy for my leg to support....

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Added on October 16, 2010, 5:54 pmPoliticians might consider to popularise this as food... so that all people eat


This post has been edited by Awakened_Angel: Oct 16 2010, 05:54 PM

Actually politicians are like that lol

What if you could help people to create positive and lasting change in them, as well as feelings of faith, hope and love? ...
And, what if you could hurt people to induce amnesia, fear, insecurity and doubt in destructive habit control? ...

Perhaps, the closest thing to manipulating Mind Control ability is the use of Linguistic Patterns, which are the spoken phrases that can act as “triggers” to some people who hear them. Simply put, these language patterns “persuade covertly” and control how they respond and cause them to be influenced to do things without their knowing.

In connection with the type of Mind Control that used in many ads and sales copywriting is the Embedded Commands. Although learning embedded commands is not difficult, but applying them requires some practice. And gratefully, only a few dedicate enough time to learn to utilize or listen for embedded commands.

Embedded Commands are indirect suggestions that are hidden within sentences. When used effectively with a subtle shift in voice tonality or non-verbal cue, the listener easily feel this ‘click’ and the command delivers suggestion to show the unconscious mind without the conscious mind being aware of it, and the listening person will unconsciously follow the spoiler of commands.

Sometime it is so true that most of the people will change their eyes on you when you are driving bigger car. Er. I'm not one of them owning/driving it. but for sure if we think we have stable financial status, earning extra , we will change our mindset too.