Try the "Diet Supplement" Industry
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Cyberchondria
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· Score: 2, Interesting
The US "Diet Supplement" business is far worse on the internet than drug companies. Almost any search about health matters turns up some of them. Supplement peddlers aren't allowed to make claims about the efficacy of their products to cure specific diseases, so they rely on non-specific but disquieting suggestions about how your health might suffer should you pass up their potions. Long laundry lists of potential benefit are presented, but it all has to be very vague, since they seldom have any research showing definitive results. Anyone who has read that far is now full of anxiety - and might be ready to buy!
Most supplement makers are small time operators that don't have the resources for big time advertising. The internet is the perfect place for them, and vague anxiety is their perfect sales pitch
The so called environmental working group does not employ a single scientist. It just gathers press clippings. Bill Moyers is whining journalist. Philip Landrigan is a notorious quack. What's so "useful" about these links?
Sorry, but FAIRs standards of truthfulness are sadly lacking. They were, for instance, behind the infamous Super Bowl battering hoax. It's organizations like FAIR - not just corporations - that need to be kept honest.
If your looking for studious regard for facts, fair.org is not such a great place to start. They were the source of Super Bowl Battering hoax as well as the Rule of Thumb for Wife Beating hoax.
Why are comments about outsourcing programming work to India always modded up? What is so insightful? It's the same thing that's on slashdot every day.
Exciting Times
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· Score: 3, Interesting
It's a shame the reviewer repeats the conventional wisdom that the 1950's in the United States was an unexciting period. This gets said over and over again, but doesn't become true as a result. The 1950s were times of enormous social change and cultural achievement - it was during this time, for instance, that New York supplanted Paris as a center for the world of art. It was then that jazz - the most important musical movement of American history - came into full flower. And it was a time full of conflict and complexity in world affairs during which the United States experienced great success. It was really a much more exciting time than the sixties, which offered inferior music (rock & roll) inferior art (Andy Warhol) mixed results in world affairs and economic mismangement (Johnson's inflation).
I doubt resolution on Iraq will kick start the economy, but, looking longer term, remember that, due to the age profile of the U.S. population, people are going to be retiring in droves soon. The U.S. workforce will shrink and labor shortages will appear. But until that happens Slashdot will continue to rerun this same story in one guise or another, and the same xenophobic responses about too many H1-B visas will be forthcoming. In the long term, unemployment and underemployment are not the real worry - wage driven inflation is. Once those insufferable Baby Boomers have retired, wages are going to be driven up for those remaining in the workforce, and then we should all be glad to have immigrants to help carry the load.
The reason pure object based persistence has never overtaken SQL based technologies is the clarity and simplicity of the table model. Object databases have no data model - they rely on the developer to build one. For that reason, it is difficult to make use of the stored data outside of the context of the applications that store it. The table abstraction is incorporated into many, many useful applications -applications that users like. In most cases that makes it well worth the effort required to externalize data into tables. Data that are highly complex or that contain large amounts of pure binary (e.g. image) content are reasonable candidates for object persistence, but otherwise it's too closed box.
Analysis that calls itself unbiased is seldom really removed from some framework of opinion. If it were, it would be incapable of giving any useful perspective - the analyst would be at a loss as to which questions to answer. We're all much better off when the analyst stops affecting the pose of the disinterested observer and tells us what he really thinks. In practice (e.g. in the New York Times) objectivity has little to do with having an open mind - it's about presentation in a style that purports to give equal weight to views that have customarily been recognized as the two poles of public opinion on an issue. As long as the speaker's views remain couched in this style, he is exempt from charges of bias. But often, there's alot of research behind the story, and the analyst could tell us so much more, if only he didn't have to be unbiased.
The foreign concept is that movies are "art." A movie is a commercial enterprise usually undertaken by a consortium of entertainment companies and production related businesses. Its production is governed by a committee. Few of the results should be considered art.
A US based application of GPS is just as vulnerable to the official who controls the off button as an application based in Brussels. The fact the US security apparatus controls GPS affects all GPS users, not just those in the US. An EU based system would not likely be any better in this respect. On second thought, maybe if EU "consensus" was required to shut it down we could all rest easy, knowing that it will never happen;-)
that anyone took this seriously. Doesn't the part about Oprah and the testimonials reveal this as a joke? I was hoping to be moderated up as "Funny" but instead I'm a "Troll!" Boo Hoo!
It's well known that WiFi causes cancer and affects peoples brain waves and sleeping patterns. Studies by the Sweedish Public Health authorities have confirmed all of this in detail. The wireless industry has been successfull in surpressing all of this for years, but once the cable providers hear they're about to get cut off, all of it will suddenly become public, causing a flood of testimonials about dead relatives to appear on Oprah. The invisible microwave menace is about to be exposed, and we'll all be able to return to a happier time when radiation induced mental illness was unknown and nobody lived long enough to contract cancer.
You might want to "dust off" the Brave New World of Work as well - since it was published almost two years ago. Old news from an aging windbag sociologist.
I've read the constitution, and I did not see privacy mentioned. There are certainly limits to government actions with respect to individuals, such as prohibitions against arbitrary search and seizure, but this does not amount to a grant of specific privacy rights. Other nations, such as Italy, do have specific guarantees regarding privacy of communication written into their constitution, but the US does not.
Who said corporate heads shouldn't take personal responsibility for their actions? The point is that the kind of legal actions that Bill L. and his ilk undertake aren't really about holding executives accountable, they're about peeling off cash for the legal eagles. Every decline in the stock market is an opportunity.
This article uncritically assumes that the difference in perspective between young and old - the so-called generation gap - is somehow a new phenomenon (if you can call something that supposedly started in the '60s new anymore). Baloney! This is as old as humankind, and has been recorded ever since people have been writing.
Just because people keep repeating such nonsense doesn't mean it's true
I used to develop for Cray systems that ran an operating system CTSS (see here ) , but I thought it stood for Cray Time Sharing System. Is this the same as the Compatible Time Sharing System?
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The US "Diet Supplement" business is far worse on the internet than drug companies. Almost any search about health matters turns up some of them. Supplement peddlers aren't allowed to make claims about the efficacy of their products to cure specific diseases, so they rely on non-specific but disquieting suggestions about how your health might suffer should you pass up their potions. Long laundry lists of potential benefit are presented, but it all has to be very vague, since they seldom have any research showing definitive results. Anyone who has read that far is now full of anxiety - and might be ready to buy!
Most supplement makers are small time operators that don't have the resources for big time advertising. The internet is the perfect place for them, and vague anxiety is their perfect sales pitch
The so called environmental working group does not employ a single scientist. It just gathers press clippings. Bill Moyers is whining journalist. Philip Landrigan is a notorious quack. What's so "useful" about these links?
Sorry, but FAIRs standards of truthfulness are sadly lacking. They were, for instance, behind the infamous Super Bowl battering hoax. It's organizations like FAIR - not just corporations - that need to be kept honest.
If your looking for studious regard for facts, fair.org is not such a great place to start. They were the source of Super Bowl Battering hoax as well as the Rule of Thumb for Wife Beating hoax.
Why are comments about outsourcing programming work to India always modded up? What is so insightful? It's the same thing that's on slashdot every day.
It's a shame the reviewer repeats the conventional wisdom that the 1950's in the United States was an unexciting period. This gets said over and over again, but doesn't become true as a result. The 1950s were times of enormous social change and cultural achievement - it was during this time, for instance, that New York supplanted Paris as a center for the world of art. It was then that jazz - the most important musical movement of American history - came into full flower. And it was a time full of conflict and complexity in world affairs during which the United States experienced great success. It was really a much more exciting time than the sixties, which offered inferior music (rock & roll) inferior art (Andy Warhol) mixed results in world affairs and economic mismangement (Johnson's inflation).
I doubt resolution on Iraq will kick start the economy, but, looking longer term, remember that, due to the age profile of the U.S. population, people are going to be retiring in droves soon. The U.S. workforce will shrink and labor shortages will appear. But until that happens Slashdot will continue to rerun this same story in one guise or another, and the same xenophobic responses about too many H1-B visas will be forthcoming. In the long term, unemployment and underemployment are not the real worry - wage driven inflation is. Once those insufferable Baby Boomers have retired, wages are going to be driven up for those remaining in the workforce, and then we should all be glad to have immigrants to help carry the load.
Is it ever.
The reason pure object based persistence has never overtaken SQL based technologies is the clarity and simplicity of the table model. Object databases have no data model - they rely on the developer to build one. For that reason, it is difficult to make use of the stored data outside of the context of the applications that store it. The table abstraction is incorporated into many, many useful applications -applications that users like. In most cases that makes it well worth the effort required to externalize data into tables. Data that are highly complex or that contain large amounts of pure binary (e.g. image) content are reasonable candidates for object persistence, but otherwise it's too closed box.
Analysis that calls itself unbiased is seldom really removed from some framework of opinion. If it were, it would be incapable of giving any useful perspective - the analyst would be at a loss as to which questions to answer. We're all much better off when the analyst stops affecting the pose of the disinterested observer and tells us what he really thinks. In practice (e.g. in the New York Times) objectivity has little to do with having an open mind - it's about presentation in a style that purports to give equal weight to views that have customarily been recognized as the two poles of public opinion on an issue. As long as the speaker's views remain couched in this style, he is exempt from charges of bias. But often, there's alot of research behind the story, and the analyst could tell us so much more, if only he didn't have to be unbiased.
The foreign concept is that movies are "art." A movie is a commercial enterprise usually undertaken by a consortium of entertainment companies and production related businesses. Its production is governed by a committee. Few of the results should be considered art.
A US based application of GPS is just as vulnerable to the official who controls the off button as an application based in Brussels. The fact the US security apparatus controls GPS affects all GPS users, not just those in the US. An EU based system would not likely be any better in this respect. On second thought, maybe if EU "consensus" was required to shut it down we could all rest easy, knowing that it will never happen ;-)
that anyone took this seriously. Doesn't the part about Oprah and the testimonials reveal this as a joke? I was hoping to be moderated up as "Funny" but instead I'm a "Troll!" Boo Hoo!
It's well known that WiFi causes cancer and affects peoples brain waves and sleeping patterns. Studies by the Sweedish Public Health authorities have confirmed all of this in detail. The wireless industry has been successfull in surpressing all of this for years, but once the cable providers hear they're about to get cut off, all of it will suddenly become public, causing a flood of testimonials about dead relatives to appear on Oprah. The invisible microwave menace is about to be exposed, and we'll all be able to return to a happier time when radiation induced mental illness was unknown and nobody lived long enough to contract cancer.
After all, Europe is the birthplace of the modern police state.
Nothing of the kind is "well known." You assume expansion of trade to be a zero sum game - which it isn't.
You might want to "dust off" the Brave New World of Work as well - since it was published almost two years ago. Old news from an aging windbag sociologist.
Think you'll be able to bring one of these aboards an airplane
For a good list of scams try this
I've read the constitution, and I did not see privacy mentioned. There are certainly limits to government actions with respect to individuals, such as prohibitions against arbitrary search and seizure, but this does not amount to a grant of specific privacy rights. Other nations, such as Italy, do have specific guarantees regarding privacy of communication written into their constitution, but the US does not.
Who said corporate heads shouldn't take personal responsibility for their actions? The point is that the kind of legal actions that Bill L. and his ilk undertake aren't really about holding executives accountable, they're about peeling off cash for the legal eagles. Every decline in the stock market is an opportunity.
The badlands are in South Dakota, not Nevada.
This article uncritically assumes that the difference in perspective between young and old - the so-called generation gap - is somehow a new phenomenon (if you can call something that supposedly started in the '60s new anymore). Baloney! This is as old as humankind, and has been recorded ever since people have been writing.
Just because people keep repeating such nonsense doesn't mean it's true
Check this out. FFTs in java!
I used to develop for Cray systems that ran an operating system CTSS (see here ) , but I thought it stood for Cray Time Sharing System. Is this the same as the Compatible Time Sharing System?