"...user count will be reduced by at least 60 percent which essentially cut the worth of the company in half."
That wouldn't be a bad thing, now would it?
Piracy is a game of tech ping pong. You secure it. We break it. Back and forth. From cassettes to computers.
There was a gnarly idea back in the Napster days - charge a monthly fee for unlimited music downloads. Say, $10/month factored into your Internet bill.
If you only had 1 million subscribers that would still be $10 million a month in revenue, and it would require little more than a server farm to operate.
Being able to download anything anytime for cheap would certainly put a big dent in piracy - there would be little to no incentive, and the music industry would still make millions.
> Many of them are damaged phones that have been refurbished by enterprising merchants.
Here in Canada, at least one telecom provider also swaps damaged phones with "refurbished" phones as part of their warranty program. I know this because I used to work for them.
Customers are under the impression that they are getting a new replacement device from the company. Unfortunately they don't tell the customer that they are getting someone else's old phone which has been "refurbished" - and some of the replacement devices are actually in worse condition than the original broken phone.
For example, one customer opened the box and found the replacement phone "in about 20 pieces". Another received a replacement phone with someone else's personal data still on it. This is common.
I won't mention their name, but many Canadians jokingly refer to them as "Robbers".
Perhaps it didn't work for you, but it has worked for others. And it has been documented. (Chemotherapy usually kills people; but sometimes it helps them too. Nothing is 100% effective.)
>she suffered a stroke because of the way the treatment was delivered
If treatment wasn't administered properly and therefore didn't work, that is not surprising.
> got some legal attention.
Not surprising at all.
> It's such a pity that patients, in their considerable emotional distress, actually believe that kind of stuff.
What's worse is people's blind faith in modern medicine. With the exception of emergency services and a few others, modern medicine is little more than glorified barbarianism. If they aren't shoving your body full of pills, they're cutting pieces out of you.
Prevention is the key here. A healthy diet, regular exercise and a positive attitude goes a long way. As does open-mindedness and not being afraid to try something new.
Acidity levels in your body are largely affected by your diet.
Eating more alkaline foods - vegetables, generally speaking, and eating less acidic food - such as meats, will also cause acidity levels in the body to change - often dramatically.
This also explains why vegetarians have much lower cancer rates (and health problems in general) than non-vegetarians.
> Changing the internal structure of it that dramatically will just ensure death.
Yes, if it gets too acidic one might be riddled with cancer.
The same principle applies here - the more alkaline the body is the less likely you are to get cancer. If you already have cancer, you have a much better chance of surviving it by adopting an alkaline diet.
Baking soda and most vegetables reduce acidity levels, which helps the body fight cancer.
Especially if their doctor tells them "the accepted treatment is chemotherapy.. blah blah blah.." and "...that baking soda stuff - don't believe everything you read on the internet. It's not an accepted medical practice". Doctors can be sued for not following "accepted" practices.
As for documenting successes, I have provided some links. As this is a relatively new discovery I don't know if there are 1000 people who have tried it yet. I think that we will hear more and more success stories with baking soda treatments in the coming years.
However, even if baking soda treatments had only ever cured one single person's cancer (and there have been more than one) then it is still a very important treatment to dedicate serious research to.
Big Pharma does not have a "perfect bureaucracy". If they did we would NEVER hear anything about effective new alternative treatments such as baking soda, marihuana or laetrile.
Instead, the few people who dare to venture into uncharted territories and report their findings to the world are often labelled nutters or conspiracy theorists.
2. There is nothing natural about Coke and Pepsi. They are artificial "slop" drinks and they most likely contribute to cancer. And baking soda cannot be patented.
It may sound silly, but I really don't think that "Pepsi NaHCO3" would be a big money maker anyway.
Personally, if I had cancer I would try everything else before I would accept barbaric chemotherapy treatments. As the saying goes, "if the cancer doesn't kill you, the chemo will".
When you have lost loved ones to cancer - and watched them suffer horrendously and miserably after receiving chemotherapy "treatments" - only to have their last days on earth be an agonzing, living hell for them - you start to question the validity of these treatments and begin open yourself up to the possibility that others who have had a very measurable success with unorthodox treatments may very well be onto something very real and special.
The theory behind it is that cancer grows in an acidic environment. Baking soda neutralizes the acidity making it more difficult for the cancer to grow and easier for the immune system to fight it.
Unfortunately, "mainstream medicine" has yet to accept this treatment as viable and effective; despite the fact that many people have had excellent results.
Cancer is big business, and I can't help but think that effective treatments like baking soda are shunned and discredited because big pharma has a vested interest in protecting their profits. That is to say that it is much more profitable to sell someone monthly treatments for the rest of their life than it is to sell them a cure once.
Especially if it only costs you 99 cents for a box of baking soda.
Going from being labelled "a “worker bee” on behalf of two groups advocating for women and Puerto Rican independence" to a terrorist is quite a stretch; especially with no evidence.
"Barr answered “no” when asked if she had ever been a member of an organization “dedicated to the use of violence” to overthrow the U.S. government or to prevent others from exercising their constitutional rights."
It would appear that something as innocuous as fighting for women's rights could get you labelled a terrorist by the over-paranoid U.S. Government.
This is just crazy.
To get rid of fruit flies I use a glass jar with an apple core inside and half a bottle of beer (dutch lager, but any beer should work).
Put a piece of plastic over the top; secure it tightly with an elastic band and poke tiny holes in it with a toothpick.
Sit it out near the fruitflies before work and when you get home 99% of them will be gone.
The only drawback is that you waste half a beer on these little pests. But at least you can enjoy the other half in peace.
Is this really necessary? Around here people don't seem to use the steering wheel anyway... or the signal indicator. In fact, I question whether some of them even open their eyes.
This is just one more way for the insurance companies to track you and provide you with insurance premiums based on your "driving history/usage". You're premiums probably won't go down - they will be "adjusted" to the new rate based on acquired data.
And you will likely be charged a "service" fee for allowing them to collect and sift through your personal driving/gps data.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if insurance companies started charging per kilometer - much like how ISP's now charge per gigabyte instead of a flat rate.
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Could this be the predecessor to the holodeck?
"...user count will be reduced by at least 60 percent which essentially cut the worth of the company in half." That wouldn't be a bad thing, now would it?
It's nice to see them making an effort to support Linux!
Piracy is a game of tech ping pong. You secure it. We break it. Back and forth. From cassettes to computers.
There was a gnarly idea back in the Napster days - charge a monthly fee for unlimited music downloads. Say, $10/month factored into your Internet bill.
If you only had 1 million subscribers that would still be $10 million a month in revenue, and it would require little more than a server farm to operate.
Being able to download anything anytime for cheap would certainly put a big dent in piracy - there would be little to no incentive, and the music industry would still make millions.
> DNA synthesis has become cheaper
Does this mean that, in addition to the Zombie threat, we should be worried about Chimeras, dragons, giants and satyrs too?
Sounds like Facebook for rich people. Bitchbook?
> Many of them are damaged phones that have been refurbished by enterprising merchants. Here in Canada, at least one telecom provider also swaps damaged phones with "refurbished" phones as part of their warranty program. I know this because I used to work for them. Customers are under the impression that they are getting a new replacement device from the company. Unfortunately they don't tell the customer that they are getting someone else's old phone which has been "refurbished" - and some of the replacement devices are actually in worse condition than the original broken phone.
For example, one customer opened the box and found the replacement phone "in about 20 pieces". Another received a replacement phone with someone else's personal data still on it. This is common.
I won't mention their name, but many Canadians jokingly refer to them as "Robbers".
Cash usually works better.
Stop me from using TOR and I stop you from being my ISP.
>The problem is that it doesn't work.
Perhaps it didn't work for you, but it has worked for others. And it has been documented. (Chemotherapy usually kills people; but sometimes it helps them too. Nothing is 100% effective.)
>she suffered a stroke because of the way the treatment was delivered
If treatment wasn't administered properly and therefore didn't work, that is not surprising.
> got some legal attention.
Not surprising at all.
> It's such a pity that patients, in their considerable emotional distress, actually believe that kind of stuff.
What's worse is people's blind faith in modern medicine. With the exception of emergency services and a few others, modern medicine is little more than glorified barbarianism. If they aren't shoving your body full of pills, they're cutting pieces out of you.
Prevention is the key here. A healthy diet, regular exercise and a positive attitude goes a long way. As does open-mindedness and not being afraid to try something new.
Acidity levels in your body are largely affected by your diet.
Eating more alkaline foods - vegetables, generally speaking, and eating less acidic food - such as meats, will also cause acidity levels in the body to change - often dramatically.
This also explains why vegetarians have much lower cancer rates (and health problems in general) than non-vegetarians.
> Changing the internal structure of it that dramatically will just ensure death.
Yes, if it gets too acidic one might be riddled with cancer.
The same principle applies here - the more alkaline the body is the less likely you are to get cancer. If you already have cancer, you have a much better chance of surviving it by adopting an alkaline diet.
Baking soda and most vegetables reduce acidity levels, which helps the body fight cancer.
Ok, i'll play....
1. Fear.
Many people are afraid to try anything new.
Especially if their doctor tells them "the accepted treatment is chemotherapy.. blah blah blah.." and "...that baking soda stuff - don't believe everything you read on the internet. It's not an accepted medical practice". Doctors can be sued for not following "accepted" practices.
As for documenting successes, I have provided some links. As this is a relatively new discovery I don't know if there are 1000 people who have tried it yet. I think that we will hear more and more success stories with baking soda treatments in the coming years.
However, even if baking soda treatments had only ever cured one single person's cancer (and there have been more than one) then it is still a very important treatment to dedicate serious research to.
Big Pharma does not have a "perfect bureaucracy". If they did we would NEVER hear anything about effective new alternative treatments such as baking soda, marihuana or laetrile.
Instead, the few people who dare to venture into uncharted territories and report their findings to the world are often labelled nutters or conspiracy theorists.
2. There is nothing natural about Coke and Pepsi. They are artificial "slop" drinks and they most likely contribute to cancer. And baking soda cannot be patented.
It may sound silly, but I really don't think that "Pepsi NaHCO3" would be a big money maker anyway.
Personally, if I had cancer I would try everything else before I would accept barbaric chemotherapy treatments. As the saying goes, "if the cancer doesn't kill you, the chemo will".
Enough said.
When you have lost loved ones to cancer - and watched them suffer horrendously and miserably after receiving chemotherapy "treatments" - only to have their last days on earth be an agonzing, living hell for them - you start to question the validity of these treatments and begin open yourself up to the possibility that others who have had a very measurable success with unorthodox treatments may very well be onto something very real and special.
Of course, naysayers will always naysay.
Baking soda may help.
The theory behind it is that cancer grows in an acidic environment. Baking soda neutralizes the acidity making it more difficult for the cancer to grow and easier for the immune system to fight it.
Some examples:
http://drleonardcoldwell.com/2...
http://www.naturalnews.com/042...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
http://www.bibliotecapleyades....
Unfortunately, "mainstream medicine" has yet to accept this treatment as viable and effective; despite the fact that many people have had excellent results. Cancer is big business, and I can't help but think that effective treatments like baking soda are shunned and discredited because big pharma has a vested interest in protecting their profits. That is to say that it is much more profitable to sell someone monthly treatments for the rest of their life than it is to sell them a cure once. Especially if it only costs you 99 cents for a box of baking soda.
Some features were hidden away so the dwarves wouldn't trodden upon it.
Going from being labelled "a “worker bee” on behalf of two groups advocating for women and Puerto Rican independence" to a terrorist is quite a stretch; especially with no evidence. "Barr answered “no” when asked if she had ever been a member of an organization “dedicated to the use of violence” to overthrow the U.S. government or to prevent others from exercising their constitutional rights." It would appear that something as innocuous as fighting for women's rights could get you labelled a terrorist by the over-paranoid U.S. Government. This is just crazy.
A tweeting toilet is the shit.
I originally tried with with just fruit and it wasn't very effective. After adding the beer, it was quite effective.
"Males of this genus are known to have the longest sperm cells of any studied organism on Earth"
Fruit Fly Sperm
To get rid of fruit flies I use a glass jar with an apple core inside and half a bottle of beer (dutch lager, but any beer should work). Put a piece of plastic over the top; secure it tightly with an elastic band and poke tiny holes in it with a toothpick. Sit it out near the fruitflies before work and when you get home 99% of them will be gone. The only drawback is that you waste half a beer on these little pests. But at least you can enjoy the other half in peace.
If you want to impress me how about shortening the life of fruit flies? 30% is a good start...
Is this really necessary? Around here people don't seem to use the steering wheel anyway... or the signal indicator. In fact, I question whether some of them even open their eyes.
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This is just one more way for the insurance companies to track you and provide you with insurance premiums based on your "driving history/usage". You're premiums probably won't go down - they will be "adjusted" to the new rate based on acquired data. And you will likely be charged a "service" fee for allowing them to collect and sift through your personal driving/gps data. It wouldn't surprise me at all if insurance companies started charging per kilometer - much like how ISP's now charge per gigabyte instead of a flat rate.
Dungeons & Dragons RPG (Gary Gygax era).