"Our ancestors were able to make due with water as a drink and so our bodies should be acclimated to it." Sorry, but do you have any proof for this except from "it should be, because out ancestors did it"? You may disguise it with some evolutionary selection handwaving, but basically you are propagating the romantic notion of 'le bon sauvage' (the good wild [man]). Did you ever compare the average lifespan of 'our ancestors' with the current average lifespan? Maybe current culture does some things detrimental to your health, but overall it is much better then what our ancestors had to go through if you measure it by lifespan. The other hidden argument that you use is that it is morally better to restrict yourself and almost never indulge on luxury. What are you, some monk that derives pleasure (oh no, bad!) from chastising himself? The article was about someone making a health scare over an additive that has been tested and approved decades ago, on the basis of some muddy test in-vitro by, afaict, one researcher. Where are the references to peer-reviewed journals, have others replicated his results, etc. People apparently have a hard time understanding that a poison is not only in the substance, but also in the dose. It could very well be that with normal consumption you never reach a significant dose that has any effect at all. I think that there is more danger in the trip to the grocery store wit your car, than there is in the additives in the soda pop you buy there.
Rightly said! Few americans will realize they are the bad guys in most cases. But their hegemony will not be for long and I think most americans are fearing that. They need to realize that after a country looses its leading role, they will not be trown to the wolves and their country invaded (although I don't think a civil war is impossible in the US). The US does not have the mandate to be the worlds policeman, so there is little need to waste all that money on their military. If they'd invest it into their own economy, then maybe they'd stay on top a little longer. The USSR came down from overspending on its military, the US will meet the same fate. let's prepare the emegency aid rations for when it finally does.
No,.cm does not stand for cambodia, it stands for cameroon. And no, he is not registering domains in that TLD. He made a deal with the local registar to put a wildcard on *.cm, so _all_ queries for names not existing in.cm would redirect to his agoga service. I envy this guy too, but he played by the rules. unfortunately the rules do not state that everything you do should be make the web better. Good on him!
Quite true. However, what your schoolsystem is also trying to learn you/your kids, is that authority isn't fair, and they can do whatever they wish. So later when these kids get in a position of authority, they will know exactly what to do. Fascist states don't plop into existence out of nowhere, there needs to be a certain basis for them where the dictator can base his power on. There is little need for actually learning something intellectual (an independent intelligentia is bad for a dictatorship), but the lesson how to behave in a fascist dictatorship needs to be imprinted pretty good. How did you notice I don't really like the way your country/culture is going?
perhaps you would explain how your plan(?) solves the problem of RIAA having the money to corrupt the US? As far as I can tell people want to be clones to a certain extent. You didn't get that idea to be original all by yourself, now did you?
A large enough call to every artist to not sign any RIAA contracts would have a bigger impact, because people might actually do that. Stop listening to music that you think defines your style/personality? why not ask to stop breathing?
How good for you that you are so strong, mr Anonymous Coward. That will be of good use when we deport you to the moon to mine regolith. BTW, I hope you can feed and breath off a 30 Watt solar panel?
Seriously, are you nuts? Did you notice that Uruguay is not part of the United States, and has no tradition to sue everybody for anything? Parents in the rest of the world would not sue the webcam manufacturer because their kid used that brand while prostituting him/herself. They would be able to admit their own failure at parenting, which is exactly what it is. So yes bad things will happen, even with these devices around. Some bad things may even happen more often with them around. But in no way can you blame a simple device for the acts of other people. Kids and parents have their own responsibility, and no computer diminishes that.
remember they only have 30 watts to spend, so anything that involves a lot of accerlerating and braking is out of the question. Solution: use a conveyor belt (at least one of the entrants will). Just take tiny bites and transport it slowly to the dumpsite, but use a lot of buckets in the chain, so that the total transported load is high enough. 150 Kilo in 30 minutes means 5 kilo per minute => 10 loads of 500 gram per minute. In fact, on another scale this is what is being done in stripmines, so you can copy part of their solution: excavators that transport the dirt with conveyors. Given the size of the sandbox with no obstacles, programming it should not be too hard.
I guess part of the documents you have to dispose of are the guest lists of your twice yearly duck-fest?
It would only be homeopathetic if you follow the correct diluting procedure: bang the container 10 times on a leather cushion to mix, throw away the contents and fill with new alcohol. So you'd have to let your guests eat the duck, beat them up with a leather cushion, make them give up their stomach content, fill them with alcohol and beat them up again. Rinse lather and repeat for more potent medicine...
Some facts to back up your opinion please?
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So basically you are saying that people will choose a more unhealthy lifestyle and that the spending per capita goes up if healthcare is free? So name me any country where this has happened? And if the reverse can be found in overwhelming numbers, will you admit your whole theory is just a fantasy based on party ideology instead of reality? In that case, I urge you too look at any country in Europe that has this socialized healthcare you detest so much. Europeans are much more healthy and spend an order of magnitude less on healthcare than USians.
Now it is time to stick your head in the sand again...
1200 women sounds like a lot, but if the incidence of what you are trying to measure is low, your standard deviation is going to be quite high. Say, 600 women take the real pills, 600 a placebo. Now I take a reasonable sounding figure out of thin air: 1/3 of all people are diagnosed with cancer at one point in their lives, and for arguments sake, the incidence is not related to age (it is!): this means that the chance per year to contract cancer is 1:3 / average lifespan= ~1:225. The study lasted 4 years so for 600 controls, you'd expect an incidence of cancer of around 10, and the claim a reduction of 60 %, so they got 4 cancer diagnoses in the treated group. So how high is the chance that this difference of 6 cancer cases caused by the treatment, and how high is the chance that it is caused by chance? It has been a long time since I had my course in statistical methods, and I don't know how to calculate. Somebody better versed in statistics is invited to provide those answers (or correct my questions:). My guess is though that some effect might be significant with a 95% error margin, but the quoted 60% reduction is not proven. You need more data for that.
If MS can charge $3 for their software, but in other venues charge more then 300 for nearly the same, can that be considered as anti-competitive dumping? Let's just hope that the next US government will break up Bills empire and throw the upper management in jail.
If the price rises $75, that can be considered a $75 windos tax, that is 42%!
So if a majority wants a Jews exterminated because they made you lose the last war then that is OK too? People are not exposed to everything anyone wants to show them. You have to make an effort to turn on the TV or read that paper. Such majority rule also induces self censorship when people get afraid to say what their minority views are. Self censorship is one of the worst forms of censorship because it can never be determined whether any censorship took place at all. It is an extreme form of conservatism, as all new ideas first have to be a minority opinion before they can reach a majority. You might as well kill yourself before you get an new idea that gets you into trouble.
I am not laughing with you, I am laughing at you. (hint: where am I from?) I certainly do think that the RIAA should not be allowed to use the court system the way they do, and I do think your country is long overdue for a regime change. You can infer my opinion on guns, militias and shooting people from my previous comment, but indeed you need some measure of smartness to do so.
And why would they have the right to that day in court when it is certain they will drop this suit once they have their coveted names to extort? This is a clear sign of corporatism, now where is that well regulated militia you were so proud of?
A few nitpickings: A fusor as invented by Farnsworth et al. (and ongoing navy-funded research by Bussard et al.) does not use magnetism to hold the plasma in place, not all fusion research is done with tokamaks (although most money is spent on them). The plasma in a fusion reaction does not fall apart due to gravity. The effects of heat (and thus pressure) is much higher than those of gravity.
ICF in this form may work, but do they have a method to harvest energy yet? are they close to break even? In theory one could capture emitted alpha particles (they have an energy/speed of several million electron volts, which translates to a very small current of a few million volts), but AFAIK, nobody has done such a feat yet.
Exactly what I thought. Why are we supposed to read the fscking article when the summary (most likely lifted from TFA) boasts this nonsense. Oh wait, I could also abstain from this unavoidable flamefest. I read something about shoemakers instead. Shoes are worn in businesses, so they are biz apps too!
I recently installed Ubuntu on my fathers new machine. He was very pleased with it, but disappointed that he couldn't watch youtube anymore. I guess he is booting into windows to do that. In theory it might be possible to use nspluginwrappers to use 32 bit firefox plugins on his 64 bit machine, but in practice that would mean that I need to invest a couple of hours to install (and cleanup after his failed attempts). Getting these extra flavour things to run was a bit of a disappointment, I though Ubuntu took care of everything...
Somehow you missed the fact that did not make any value judgements about terrorism. I will make one about you now: you are a coward, unable to grasp anything that does not fit in your propaganda infused excuse for a brain. There, can you see the difference now? (probably not)
Countering bias with an opposing bias just makes both you and the other party look like biased assholes.
And how is objecting against the term terrorist, or mentioning that there's two sides to every story an opposing bias? I have no interest whatsoever in that conflict, do you understand?
And your instantaneous move to claim "ad hominem" while true
I am truly sorry to be faster of comprehension than you are.
[...] does not answer to the fact that you may be an apologist. The past history of a speaker is almost as important as what he/she is saying at any given point.
A 'fact' that 'may be'? So it is not a fact at all? And why would my history as a speaker be of any consequence to the meaning of my posts? It looks like you try to apologise for an ad-hominem. Apologies accepted!
Um, are you new here? Is this your first day reading slashdot? have a look at my userID? See, I'm not the one cowardly hiding behind an AC post. You're an idiot, and yes that's an ad-hominem, but you used at least three logical fallacies in your post, so I'm still behind. And two wrongs make a right, or did you just run out of arguments? It's not even ad-hominem, since in this post you are not trying to discredit me to distract from my message, it's just simple namecalling. Even for the points you think I am wrong, all you can say about them is is that you think they are wrong, but you 'forget' to give any reason. Or am I wrong because some AC says so? The point you still refuse to accept is this: there are two sides to every story. The suicide bomber does not see himself as an evil terrorist, he (and his supporters) see himself as a martyr giving the ultimate sacrifice for a good cause. That he uses terrorism as his instrument is just what he feel he is being forced to use. You and I don't agree with him, but it helps if you can at least acknowledge his points of view. Unless offcourse you are not interested in an open discussion where you could learn something, but just wan to reinforce your own beliefs. Amen to that then?
Their most defining description depends on what side of the conflict you prefer. Even Gandhi would have been called a terrorist leader by the British, even though he was strictly non-violent. Or what about (the start of) the American revolution? Would you like to read a paper that constantly refers to the US as neofascist scum?
Where did I ever say such a thing? Misquoting me in such a fashion is slanderous.
And intentionally misinterpreting someone else is no good style either. There were quote marks, but no sane person would construct it as a quote of something you said. It correctly said out loud what you only implied though.
Anti-American riots flared in the 1960s and 1970s in much of Western Europe, especially in the era of the Vietnam War.
Are you starting to see a pattern yet? Do you know that people in the rest of the world usually are allowed their own opinion, so you can find both anti and pro sentiments in the same continent/country?
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"Our ancestors were able to make due with water as a drink and so our bodies should be acclimated to it."
Sorry, but do you have any proof for this except from "it should be, because out ancestors did it"? You may disguise it with some evolutionary selection handwaving, but basically you are propagating the romantic notion of 'le bon sauvage' (the good wild [man]). Did you ever compare the average lifespan of 'our ancestors' with the current average lifespan? Maybe current culture does some things detrimental to your health, but overall it is much better then what our ancestors had to go through if you measure it by lifespan.
The other hidden argument that you use is that it is morally better to restrict yourself and almost never indulge on luxury. What are you, some monk that derives pleasure (oh no, bad!) from chastising himself?
The article was about someone making a health scare over an additive that has been tested and approved decades ago, on the basis of some muddy test in-vitro by, afaict, one researcher. Where are the references to peer-reviewed journals, have others replicated his results, etc. People apparently have a hard time understanding that a poison is not only in the substance, but also in the dose. It could very well be that with normal consumption you never reach a significant dose that has any effect at all.
I think that there is more danger in the trip to the grocery store wit your car, than there is in the additives in the soda pop you buy there.
Rightly said!
Few americans will realize they are the bad guys in most cases. But their hegemony will not be for long and I think most americans are fearing that. They need to realize that after a country looses its leading role, they will not be trown to the wolves and their country invaded (although I don't think a civil war is impossible in the US). The US does not have the mandate to be the worlds policeman, so there is little need to waste all that money on their military. If they'd invest it into their own economy, then maybe they'd stay on top a little longer. The USSR came down from overspending on its military, the US will meet the same fate. let's prepare the emegency aid rations for when it finally does.
No, .cm does not stand for cambodia, it stands for cameroon. And no, he is not registering domains in that TLD. He made a deal with the local registar to put a wildcard on *.cm, so _all_ queries for names not existing in .cm would redirect to his agoga service.
I envy this guy too, but he played by the rules. unfortunately the rules do not state that everything you do should be make the web better. Good on him!
Quite true. However, what your schoolsystem is also trying to learn you/your kids, is that authority isn't fair, and they can do whatever they wish. So later when these kids get in a position of authority, they will know exactly what to do. Fascist states don't plop into existence out of nowhere, there needs to be a certain basis for them where the dictator can base his power on. There is little need for actually learning something intellectual (an independent intelligentia is bad for a dictatorship), but the lesson how to behave in a fascist dictatorship needs to be imprinted pretty good.
How did you notice I don't really like the way your country/culture is going?
perhaps you would explain how your plan(?) solves the problem of RIAA having the money to corrupt the US? As far as I can tell people want to be clones to a certain extent. You didn't get that idea to be original all by yourself, now did you?
A large enough call to every artist to not sign any RIAA contracts would have a bigger impact, because people might actually do that. Stop listening to music that you think defines your style/personality? why not ask to stop breathing?
How good for you that you are so strong, mr Anonymous Coward. That will be of good use when we deport you to the moon to mine regolith. BTW, I hope you can feed and breath off a 30 Watt solar panel?
Seriously, are you nuts? Did you notice that Uruguay is not part of the United States, and has no tradition to sue everybody for anything? Parents in the rest of the world would not sue the webcam manufacturer because their kid used that brand while prostituting him/herself. They would be able to admit their own failure at parenting, which is exactly what it is. So yes bad things will happen, even with these devices around. Some bad things may even happen more often with them around. But in no way can you blame a simple device for the acts of other people. Kids and parents have their own responsibility, and no computer diminishes that.
remember they only have 30 watts to spend, so anything that involves a lot of accerlerating and braking is out of the question. Solution: use a conveyor belt (at least one of the entrants will). Just take tiny bites and transport it slowly to the dumpsite, but use a lot of buckets in the chain, so that the total transported load is high enough. 150 Kilo in 30 minutes means 5 kilo per minute => 10 loads of 500 gram per minute.
In fact, on another scale this is what is being done in stripmines, so you can copy part of their solution: excavators that transport the dirt with conveyors. Given the size of the sandbox with no obstacles, programming it should not be too hard.
I guess part of the documents you have to dispose of are the guest lists of your twice yearly duck-fest?
It would only be homeopathetic if you follow the correct diluting procedure: bang the container 10 times on a leather cushion to mix, throw away the contents and fill with new alcohol. So you'd have to let your guests eat the duck, beat them up with a leather cushion, make them give up their stomach content, fill them with alcohol and beat them up again. Rinse lather and repeat for more potent medicine...
So basically you are saying that people will choose a more unhealthy lifestyle and that the spending per capita goes up if healthcare is free? So name me any country where this has happened? And if the reverse can be found in overwhelming numbers, will you admit your whole theory is just a fantasy based on party ideology instead of reality?
In that case, I urge you too look at any country in Europe that has this socialized healthcare you detest so much. Europeans are much more healthy and spend an order of magnitude less on healthcare than USians.
Now it is time to stick your head in the sand again...
1200 women sounds like a lot, but if the incidence of what you are trying to measure is low, your standard deviation is going to be quite high. :).
Say, 600 women take the real pills, 600 a placebo. Now I take a reasonable sounding figure out of thin air: 1/3 of all people are diagnosed with cancer at one point in their lives, and for arguments sake, the incidence is not related to age (it is!): this means that the chance per year to contract cancer is 1:3 / average lifespan= ~1:225. The study lasted 4 years so for 600 controls, you'd expect an incidence of cancer of around 10, and the claim a reduction of 60 %, so they got 4 cancer diagnoses in the treated group. So how high is the chance that this difference of 6 cancer cases caused by the treatment, and how high is the chance that it is caused by chance?
It has been a long time since I had my course in statistical methods, and I don't know how to calculate. Somebody better versed in statistics is invited to provide those answers (or correct my questions
My guess is though that some effect might be significant with a 95% error margin, but the quoted 60% reduction is not proven. You need more data for that.
If MS can charge $3 for their software, but in other venues charge more then 300 for nearly the same, can that be considered as anti-competitive dumping?
Let's just hope that the next US government will break up Bills empire and throw the upper management in jail.
If the price rises $75, that can be considered a $75 windos tax, that is 42%!
So if a majority wants a Jews exterminated because they made you lose the last war then that is OK too? People are not exposed to everything anyone wants to show them. You have to make an effort to turn on the TV or read that paper.
Such majority rule also induces self censorship when people get afraid to say what their minority views are. Self censorship is one of the worst forms of censorship because it can never be determined whether any censorship took place at all.
It is an extreme form of conservatism, as all new ideas first have to be a minority opinion before they can reach a majority. You might as well kill yourself before you get an new idea that gets you into trouble.
I am not laughing with you, I am laughing at you. (hint: where am I from?) I certainly do think that the RIAA should not be allowed to use the court system the way they do, and I do think your country is long overdue for a regime change.
You can infer my opinion on guns, militias and shooting people from my previous comment, but indeed you need some measure of smartness to do so.
And why would they have the right to that day in court when it is certain they will drop this suit once they have their coveted names to extort?
This is a clear sign of corporatism, now where is that well regulated militia you were so proud of?
A few nitpickings: A fusor as invented by Farnsworth et al. (and ongoing navy-funded research by Bussard et al.) does not use magnetism to hold the plasma in place, not all fusion research is done with tokamaks (although most money is spent on them).
The plasma in a fusion reaction does not fall apart due to gravity. The effects of heat (and thus pressure) is much higher than those of gravity.
ICF in this form may work, but do they have a method to harvest energy yet? are they close to break even? In theory one could capture emitted alpha particles (they have an energy/speed of several million electron volts, which translates to a very small current of a few million volts), but AFAIK, nobody has done such a feat yet.
This user feels compelled to mention that it was never alive anyway and neither was your invisible friend.
Exactly what I thought. Why are we supposed to read the fscking article when the summary (most likely lifted from TFA) boasts this nonsense.
Oh wait, I could also abstain from this unavoidable flamefest. I read something about shoemakers instead. Shoes are worn in businesses, so they are biz apps too!
I recently installed Ubuntu on my fathers new machine. He was very pleased with it, but disappointed that he couldn't watch youtube anymore. I guess he is booting into windows to do that. In theory it might be possible to use nspluginwrappers to use 32 bit firefox plugins on his 64 bit machine, but in practice that would mean that I need to invest a couple of hours to install (and cleanup after his failed attempts). Getting these extra flavour things to run was a bit of a disappointment, I though Ubuntu took care of everything...
Somehow you missed the fact that did not make any value judgements about terrorism. I will make one about you now: you are a coward, unable to grasp anything that does not fit in your propaganda infused excuse for a brain. There, can you see the difference now? (probably not)
And how is objecting against the term terrorist, or mentioning that there's two sides to every story an opposing bias? I have no interest whatsoever in that conflict, do you understand?
I am truly sorry to be faster of comprehension than you are.
A 'fact' that 'may be'? So it is not a fact at all? And why would my history as a speaker be of any consequence to the meaning of my posts? It looks like you try to apologise for an ad-hominem. Apologies accepted!
Um, are you new here? Is this your first day reading slashdot?
have a look at my userID? See, I'm not the one cowardly hiding behind an AC post.
You're an idiot, and yes that's an ad-hominem, but you used at least three logical fallacies in your post, so I'm still behind.
And two wrongs make a right, or did you just run out of arguments? It's not even ad-hominem, since in this post you are not trying to discredit me to distract from my message, it's just simple namecalling.
Even for the points you think I am wrong, all you can say about them is is that you think they are wrong, but you 'forget' to give any reason. Or am I wrong because some AC says so?
The point you still refuse to accept is this: there are two sides to every story. The suicide bomber does not see himself as an evil terrorist, he (and his supporters) see himself as a martyr giving the ultimate sacrifice for a good cause. That he uses terrorism as his instrument is just what he feel he is being forced to use. You and I don't agree with him, but it helps if you can at least acknowledge his points of view. Unless offcourse you are not interested in an open discussion where you could learn something, but just wan to reinforce your own beliefs. Amen to that then?
Their most defining description depends on what side of the conflict you prefer. Even Gandhi would have been called a terrorist leader by the British, even though he was strictly non-violent. Or what about (the start of) the American revolution?
Would you like to read a paper that constantly refers to the US as neofascist scum?
And intentionally misinterpreting someone else is no good style either. There were quote marks, but no sane person would construct it as a quote of something you said. It correctly said out loud what you only implied though.
Are you starting to see a pattern yet? Do you know that people in the rest of the world usually are allowed their own opinion, so you can find both anti and pro sentiments in the same continent/country?