Filling up a Hard Drive

[Tallgeese]

...Crae to explain paranoid schizophrenia then?

Arguably, what delusions are is self-generated sensory activity in the brain that the brain forgets to mark as self-generated.

[AamirM]

I have a VERY small hard drive (60 GB).

Most of it is filled with OS installations (XP, Fedora 7 and NetBSD). Quite a lot of it is also filled with dev tools (VS 2008 and VS.NET 2003, 4 installations of MingW) and SDKs (Windows, DDK, DirectX etc...).

I also do programming on FPGAs (Xilinx mainly) and PLCs (Siemens) and their development suites are very huge as well.

And yes, illegal stuff as well. Heck, I even downloaded GCC from a warez site once (don't ask why). Most of them are ebooks and ROMs.

Last but not least, my avatar says something :D .

[grinvader]

...Crae to explain paranoid schizophrenia then?

It comes from an interpretation of the <paranoid or schizophrenic>'s interaction with reality and with other people, which has a couple of similarities. Not enough to make paranoia a subset of schizophrenia.
Some similar aspects, but different. One does not lead to the other. One isn't an underlying base of the other.

Anyway, the american psychology society is a firm believer of that interpretation, causing students to be kinda forced to learn it. And american cop series to host case after case of schizoparano killer (serial or not).
Unsurprisingly, that interpretation isn't shared on this side of the water.

Note, actual borderline cases do exist, but they are rare.

Arguably, what delusions are is self-generated sensory activity in the brain that the brain forgets to mark as self-generated.

That fits a schizophrenia delusion, not a paranoid one.
For parano stuff, you need hard, real facts, interpreted in a delusive manner and applied to an oversized ego.
"You opened the door with your left hand tonight, it means you're hiding something from me. You must be scheming something against me." is a typical paranoid's delusion. Hence the 'smart' conspiracy stuff.

A schizophrenic delusion is... less plotted. "I'm not eating peas, because the scientists put microscopic cameras in every pea, to SPY MY INSIDES !!" (← real life case).
Also less threatening in a rational point of view.

Oh, and paranoids don't hear voices.
They are way too important to have anyone else in their head.

I have a VERY small hard drive (60 GB).

10 + 40


BOOYA

Edit: 500 GB ?

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