I am really enjoying reading your posts. they are truly great. I have to tell you a story because I just know you will love this one and I would like you to explain actually what happened rather than call me a liar, hypocrite, faith-based moron or any of the other monikers that many would assign to this story.
Several years ago I went to one of those faith-based healer types who I had heard some good stories about. I am naturally pretty sceptical subsequently expecting nothing to very little. I would guess then that the placebo effect can be discounted. Anyway, this woman held her hand about three inches from my forehead and chanted some stuff in a language that I didn't understand (it was definitely asian though). She did this for about ten minutes and told me that I had a problem with one of my kidneys. i then lay on my stomach and she again held her hand a few inches above my kidneys and chanted her stuff.
After this was all over (about forty minutes it all took) I was busting for a piss and went to the toilet. I stood there trying to pee and couldn't. It was an odd sensation not painful but just weird. After about five minutes of really trying hard to pee something solid shot out of my penis along with a small amount of blood in the urine that followed the object. This was VERY PAINFUL and caused me to break out in a serious sweat and feel extremely sorry for myself. I then looked in the mirror (it was a bathroom after all) and as well as being very pale I had a growth like a large boil in the dead centre of my forehead and this was where she had been holding her hand!
Being a zit squeezer with decades of experience as soon as I got home I laid into the sucker on my forehead and what came out I can only describe as being like a very small semi-translucent rock. Very strange stuff.
At no time did this person touch my body anywhere in anyway. I partook of no food or drink and it cost no money as she was doing this to help her fellow man
If a person is severely deficient in vitamins and minerals pumping them full of them will make a noticeable difference. If their needs are met before visiting one of these 'types' then it will make absolutely no difference.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Placebo was twice as effective at curing stuff this century than it was last century. So please try to remember just where it is you're posting your subversive material. Are you a communist?
You honestly don't believe that the the trillion dollar a year medical-pharmaceutical-industrial-miltary-machine would ever lie to us to ensure their profits. That would be like claiming that banks loan you money they created out of thin air.
I had one of those old Celerons many years ago where the processor sat on a board that was then plugged into the motherboard (I think the guy called it a riser). I was always having HDD corruption problems and no one could find out why. It turned out to be the board that the cpu plugged into to everyone's surprise. So I can definitely believe that a nerve being pressured in your back could have a deleterious affect somewhere else in your body that couldn't be traced to your back.
Sometimes faith in hard science can blind people to obvious and simple to deduct truths
That's correct -- all of those are insufficient to show causality. That's why all of the scientific theories you refer to were confirmed by substantially more thorough experimentation than you suggest.
It certainly appears to have had some value for him. i think that's all he said. I can also say that after breaking my neck many years ago and suffering debilitating headaches that a chiropractor managed to fix my problem. Of course it may have decided to just fix itself randomly but I choose to suspect that the chiro had something to do with it. Sorry for being so superstitious
here's an interesting link. I realise it's not a very popular CPU but this could be done to every single chip going out of a fab plant. Would it be that outrageous to think that someone in the design/fabrication process could sneak this onto the silicon without it being noticed? Or, if it was a state sponsored program then it definitely wouldn't get noticed.
I know that. A lot of heroin users don't smoke pot, but they probably did once... Of course, not all cannabis users will try harder drugs, I never said that (so you can relax).
Trust me I am extremely relaxed and I didn't think for one second that you were implying that.
I say "yet" because I would very much like to understand how perception of drug "hardness" varies across cultures.
I would assume that the scale is pretty similar in all countries that are under the auspices of the UN. It's funny in a sad way that the drug that does the least harm is the one that is considered the hardest of the hard. And no I am not using heroin (not this second anyway) %/
I saw a couple of years ago a tutorial on how to modify the firmware on a dlink router so that it would automagically modify any.exe sent through it to add a trojan of your choice or design to the file. It required a very expensive doodad to do the actual modifying but it was an interesting read.
I just added this as it isn't necessary to counterfeit the hardware. You just need to be a middle man in the supply chain. I will see if I can find the article and add a link to it as the know-how required was script kiddy level so it will be of great interest here. I guess you could just do a good old break and enter too.
So let's say everything was bugged at manufacture. It would be pretty trivial to have a plant at a major OS provider who could advise the buggers(that's worth at least two mod points) the license keys being used in specific industries and then activating the bugs based on this data.
Why do you say that you dont know much about that(yet)? is this something you are studying, are you planning on scoring some smack tonight? What's the story? Here's some information for you a lot of heroin users don't smoke pot.
I guess if the study has been going on for sixty years than the smoking bit probably has very little relevance. I asked my Mum and she told me to shut up so I must be right.
And some people use it as the only 'broadband' service they can get in the country is wireless and Telstra is apparently the only player for my location. I pay $129.95 for 10GB and if I go over (which I have this month already - 9 days to go until bandwidth reset) it gets slowed down to around half the speed of a 14.4 modem having call waiting problems. oh, whoa is me.
If I could have another provider I would in a millisecond because Telstra really, really, really sucks
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Is history knowledge? if so, then I might not exist also.
The one thing I have learnt in this entire discussion is why Tom Cruise said he was going to sue Stan(?) in England
I am really enjoying reading your posts. they are truly great. I have to tell you a story because I just know you will love this one and I would like you to explain actually what happened rather than call me a liar, hypocrite, faith-based moron or any of the other monikers that many would assign to this story.
Several years ago I went to one of those faith-based healer types who I had heard some good stories about. I am naturally pretty sceptical subsequently expecting nothing to very little. I would guess then that the placebo effect can be discounted. Anyway, this woman held her hand about three inches from my forehead and chanted some stuff in a language that I didn't understand (it was definitely asian though). She did this for about ten minutes and told me that I had a problem with one of my kidneys. i then lay on my stomach and she again held her hand a few inches above my kidneys and chanted her stuff.
After this was all over (about forty minutes it all took) I was busting for a piss and went to the toilet. I stood there trying to pee and couldn't. It was an odd sensation not painful but just weird. After about five minutes of really trying hard to pee something solid shot out of my penis along with a small amount of blood in the urine that followed the object. This was VERY PAINFUL and caused me to break out in a serious sweat and feel extremely sorry for myself. I then looked in the mirror (it was a bathroom after all) and as well as being very pale I had a growth like a large boil in the dead centre of my forehead and this was where she had been holding her hand!
Being a zit squeezer with decades of experience as soon as I got home I laid into the sucker on my forehead and what came out I can only describe as being like a very small semi-translucent rock. Very strange stuff.
At no time did this person touch my body anywhere in anyway. I partook of no food or drink and it cost no money as she was doing this to help her fellow man
What do you say to that?
You may find solace in the fact that if she won't let you do the foot massage thing you can at least sniff her shoes when she's not watching.
You're pretty clearly not informed enough about medicine to make an informed judgment either.
Which website is this again?
If a person is severely deficient in vitamins and minerals pumping them full of them will make a noticeable difference. If their needs are met before visiting one of these 'types' then it will make absolutely no difference.
Did a chiropractor rape your dog or something?
And no, Placebo doesn't cure anything.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Placebo was twice as effective at curing stuff this century than it was last century. So please try to remember just where it is you're posting your subversive material. Are you a communist?
You honestly don't believe that the the trillion dollar a year medical-pharmaceutical-industrial-miltary-machine would ever lie to us to ensure their profits. That would be like claiming that banks loan you money they created out of thin air.
I had one of those old Celerons many years ago where the processor sat on a board that was then plugged into the motherboard (I think the guy called it a riser). I was always having HDD corruption problems and no one could find out why. It turned out to be the board that the cpu plugged into to everyone's surprise. So I can definitely believe that a nerve being pressured in your back could have a deleterious affect somewhere else in your body that couldn't be traced to your back.
Sometimes faith in hard science can blind people to obvious and simple to deduct truths
That's correct -- all of those are insufficient to show causality. That's why all of the scientific theories you refer to were confirmed by substantially more thorough experimentation than you suggest.
All of them? Sir, surely you jest.
It certainly appears to have had some value for him. i think that's all he said. I can also say that after breaking my neck many years ago and suffering debilitating headaches that a chiropractor managed to fix my problem. Of course it may have decided to just fix itself randomly but I choose to suspect that the chiro had something to do with it. Sorry for being so superstitious
My Gawd your signature has revealed an awesome truth to me. It explains at least some of the USA's awful spelling choices.
here's an interesting link. I realise it's not a very popular CPU but this could be done to every single chip going out of a fab plant. Would it be that outrageous to think that someone in the design/fabrication process could sneak this onto the silicon without it being noticed? Or, if it was a state sponsored program then it definitely wouldn't get noticed.
I know that. A lot of heroin users don't smoke pot, but they probably did once... Of course, not all cannabis users will try harder drugs, I never said that (so you can relax).
Trust me I am extremely relaxed and I didn't think for one second that you were implying that.
I say "yet" because I would very much like to understand how perception of drug "hardness" varies across cultures.
I would assume that the scale is pretty similar in all countries that are under the auspices of the UN. It's funny in a sad way that the drug that does the least harm is the one that is considered the hardest of the hard. And no I am not using heroin (not this second anyway) %/
I saw a couple of years ago a tutorial on how to modify the firmware on a dlink router so that it would automagically modify any .exe sent through it to add a trojan of your choice or design to the file. It required a very expensive doodad to do the actual modifying but it was an interesting read.
I just added this as it isn't necessary to counterfeit the hardware. You just need to be a middle man in the supply chain. I will see if I can find the article and add a link to it as the know-how required was script kiddy level so it will be of great interest here. I guess you could just do a good old break and enter too.
Until the restraining order kicks in.
Sounds to me like you've dated girls before
So let's say everything was bugged at manufacture. It would be pretty trivial to have a plant at a major OS provider who could advise the buggers(that's worth at least two mod points) the license keys being used in specific industries and then activating the bugs based on this data.
Why do you say that you dont know much about that(yet)? is this something you are studying, are you planning on scoring some smack tonight? What's the story? Here's some information for you a lot of heroin users don't smoke pot.
I have a pair of fongs
It would quite possibly make them all turn gay
I guess if the study has been going on for sixty years than the smoking bit probably has very little relevance. I asked my Mum and she told me to shut up so I must be right.
I've been following this thread and I just thought that those interested would like to know that i think I have caught depression.
And some people use it as the only 'broadband' service they can get in the country is wireless and Telstra is apparently the only player for my location. I pay $129.95 for 10GB and if I go over (which I have this month already - 9 days to go until bandwidth reset) it gets slowed down to around half the speed of a 14.4 modem having call waiting problems. oh, whoa is me. If I could have another provider I would in a millisecond because Telstra really, really, really sucks
I suspect that the gravitational waves are obscured by the dark matter