My grandfather smoked, yet his death was declared to be a cause of asbestosis, unrelated to smoking.
I'm guessing the study parent alluded to may have found that the exposure to asbestos greatly increased the miners' susceptibility to lung damage via cigarettes... I'll have to investigate this and confirm it.
Moral of the story, asbestos and smoking are both bad, and you should avoid both. I smoked from age 13-19, and now years later still have some problems with endurance running, but my lungs seem infinitely better than they were when I smoked. If anyone reads this and wants to quit, check out Allen Carr's "Easy Way to Stop Smoking" - the book is great but the video is excellent and was a tremendous help in my efforts to quit... There might be an.iso floating around on the intertubes if you feel like hunting;)
Don't feed the trolls:P
I'm a Christian and believe in creation; moreover I believe that no scientific experiment will prove once-and-for-all either the existence of God or the non-existence of God, because there will always be men who take the results of experiments and adapt them to fit their preconceptions, according to cognitive dissonance. Sadly there are many wierd types that stand up and denounce scientific results as being incorrect without first checking the evidence... But I must assert that mankind will never achieve Godhead, contrary to what Oprah Winfrey and other nutty new-age types would have you think.
I'm obviously no scientist, but given your references to quantum physics and subatomic particles I'll wager that you are a great deal more familiar with the cold hard facts than I am, so I'll ask you a question: Can you give an example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome?
Causility was not responding to GP saying "Fuck em", he was responding to an AC who said:
if you're not a common thief you have nothing to worry about. how about you stop acting like the law is there to break and that this is some kind of socio-political movement. anyone with half a brain knows that it's about you fucks being a bunch of cheap faggots.
Thus was the discourse directed at an uninformed defender of what is in my opinion an extortion racket, who also implied that everyone who violates copyright law is a "common thief" - akin to "all Jews are greedy", "all arabs are terrorists", "all americans are George Bush" etc etc. As you can see, Causality did not by any stretch argue against the "fuck em" stance, he eloquently elaborated on that stance in an effort to give AC a clue as to why exactly the RIAA can get fucked.
Sorry mate, but catholicism certainly did not invent the term soul. Catholicism is not Christianity; be wary of generalizations on this point. If you do your research, you will find that Catholicism has irrevocable ties with Freemasonry, voodoo and otherwise strange societies and activities...
Looking at countries where Catholicism is the predominant force (the Phillipines, Haiti etc) one can see "the varnish crack" as Bill Schnoebelen says; and it can be seen for what it is - veiled pagan superstition and ritual.
Just read what the Bible has to say about idolatry, graven images etc and then look at the Catholic church with the whole Mary thing and you'll have an idea what I'm saying.
Well it's still nowhere near as bad as it is here in New Zealand. We've *always* had bandwidth caps, and the leading provider (Xtra, owned by Telecom NZ) stings people HARD once they go over their measly bandwidth allocation. They unscrupulously take advantage of the average New Zealander's ignorance and rape them for everything they are worth. If I was to turn on my television (something I never do, its used as a small table) I would see ads for Xtra promoting "OMG BROADBAND INTERNET FOR THE PRICE OF DIALUP!!11!!11!oneone1" claiming that for $20 a month you can have more bandwidth than you'll probably read. In extra-fine print at the bottom of the screen it says that you only get 200MB per month and that surcharges apply once you go over this limit. Note that this small text is unreadable by their target audience, which is the elderly that know nothing about computers and are blissfully oblivious to the fact that on this deal they are going to get charged hundreds of dollars for going over the cap. When I was 12 and living with my grandmother, on 56k dialup, some sleazy bastard telecom representative phoned her with a hyped-up offer that we could upgrade our internet connection - to the fastest connection available - for free - but only today. The catch was that you were charged $1 for every MEGABYTE over something like 500MB - we were absolutely clueless when it came to bandwidth and didn't understand why the internet bill was between $400 and $500 every month.
In the states you guys really don't know how lucky you are with broadband, not only is it over ten times as fast as ours, but it seems to be much cheaper. If you're really complaining about caps like 150GB, go and buy a box of tissues.
When I was living with my father (at age seventeen) there was a program installed on the home computer called Cybersitter - a ridiculously conservative censorship program that in theory filters out text deemed "sinful" or "offensive".
The strange thing is, it was *supposedly* Christian. What it did was replace bad [sic] words with several blank spaces, but it was far too heavy-handed - even the world "girl" was deemed inappropriate.
I'm Christian, which is something this program claims to promote, but if I tried to post the ten commandments somewhere the result would be many confused people staring at "thou shalt not " (murder is a bad word), "thou shalt not commit " (adultery is a bad word) etc etc
The last thing I did before I moved out was delete system file for the administrator accounts password (cant recall the filename) so I could purge the system of the bullshit.
History has shown time and time again that censorship only works if your objective is to piss people off and/or keep people ignorant. Of course, the governments of the world go for the latter; unfortunately the people that would rather bury their heads in the sand are a large majority. /rant
Yes, because Microsoft is strongly opposed to censorship.
I wonder how this will apply to the Great Firewall of AUSTRALIA? The news of late has been a magnitude more disturbing than the norm. Reading the signs of the time, it is clear that the elite at the top of the trapezoid of power are preparing to shear the sheeple.
Micro$oft is the opposite of what it claims to be - it is a MegaFirm and not prepared to make any sacrifices whatsoever for Freedom. Moreover, Google isn't really in much of a position to criticize others for intruding upon the privacy of others now, is it? One of the first things I do every time I boot Windoze is kill GoogleUpdate.exe, and theres now google.exe as well. Annoyingly, these are listed as SYSTEM processes, which is misleading in one sense, however in the sense that it is part of a system of control it is painfully honest.
To quote the great Edmund Burke, "All that is necessary for evil men to triumph is for good men to do nothing".
I'll end this rant by planting a seed that will hopefully take root... The most appropriate immediate response that I can think of to this is a good old Google Bomb - if this BBC article was the top of the list when "hypocrisy" was searched, we'd have a small piece of justice./rant
"Piracy is a robbery committed at sea, or sometimes on the shore, without a commission from a sovereign nation."...
-- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate
...
Sure, I download a few movies, few games, some music... But am I really a threat? The large majority of what I download is comprised by things that I wouldn't pay for if downloading wasnt possible, so nobody is losing any money from me.
If I exceptionally enjoy something that I've downloaded then I will allocate a portion of my meagre income to support it. But when corporations pull stunts like this it actually makes me want to pirate [sic] their material. I saw a line on/. once that sums up my feelings about intellectual property quite nicely - "I don't believe in imaginary property"
Now these draconian corporations make me out to be a swashbuckling maniac with an eyepatch and a pegleg? This is truly a mad state of affairs.
Hmm... We have all the major news networks controlled by a totalitarian government, roughly 90% of the population making serious decisions based on the opinions of celebrities, and now static electricity generating votes... George Bush must really love television.
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My grandfather smoked, yet his death was declared to be a cause of asbestosis, unrelated to smoking.
.iso floating around on the intertubes if you feel like hunting ;)
I'm guessing the study parent alluded to may have found that the exposure to asbestos greatly increased the miners' susceptibility to lung damage via cigarettes... I'll have to investigate this and confirm it.
Moral of the story, asbestos and smoking are both bad, and you should avoid both. I smoked from age 13-19, and now years later still have some problems with endurance running, but my lungs seem infinitely better than they were when I smoked. If anyone reads this and wants to quit, check out Allen Carr's "Easy Way to Stop Smoking" - the book is great but the video is excellent and was a tremendous help in my efforts to quit... There might be an
Better show some respect, lest I simulate your pancreatic meltdown over a period of time!
Ye-Yeh.
Don't feed the trolls :P
I'm a Christian and believe in creation; moreover I believe that no scientific experiment will prove once-and-for-all either the existence of God or the non-existence of God, because there will always be men who take the results of experiments and adapt them to fit their preconceptions, according to cognitive dissonance. Sadly there are many wierd types that stand up and denounce scientific results as being incorrect without first checking the evidence... But I must assert that mankind will never achieve Godhead, contrary to what Oprah Winfrey and other nutty new-age types would have you think.
I'm obviously no scientist, but given your references to quantum physics and subatomic particles I'll wager that you are a great deal more familiar with the cold hard facts than I am, so I'll ask you a question: Can you give an example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome?
Maybe in a few generations noone will be saying FR1ST P0ST!@!11111!!!1!!1!!one
ACH! Mine stollen ist stolen!!!
And your sigs about Grammar Nazis... Now that's class.
You deserve at least +222. That is by far the best comment I've read on /.
if you're not a common thief you have nothing to worry about. how about you stop acting like the law is there to break and that this is some kind of socio-political movement. anyone with half a brain knows that it's about you fucks being a bunch of cheap faggots.
Thus was the discourse directed at an uninformed defender of what is in my opinion an extortion racket, who also implied that everyone who violates copyright law is a "common thief" - akin to "all Jews are greedy", "all arabs are terrorists", "all americans are George Bush" etc etc. As you can see, Causality did not by any stretch argue against the "fuck em" stance, he eloquently elaborated on that stance in an effort to give AC a clue as to why exactly the RIAA can get fucked.
This coming a mere 30 minutes after an asteroid strike in central Australia!!
That's a great precedent.
"I heard the turkey say a bad word" LOL LOL LOL FSCKING LOL
Sorry mate, but catholicism certainly did not invent the term soul. Catholicism is not Christianity; be wary of generalizations on this point. If you do your research, you will find that Catholicism has irrevocable ties with Freemasonry, voodoo and otherwise strange societies and activities...
Looking at countries where Catholicism is the predominant force (the Phillipines, Haiti etc) one can see "the varnish crack" as Bill Schnoebelen says; and it can be seen for what it is - veiled pagan superstition and ritual.
Just read what the Bible has to say about idolatry, graven images etc and then look at the Catholic church with the whole Mary thing and you'll have an idea what I'm saying.
*pulls out the gouger* In Communist India, source opens YOU!
Ok sir, I'll get off your lawn.
Who's the sad bastard that modded this guy troll? Someone had to say it, and this guy said it well!
Well it's still nowhere near as bad as it is here in New Zealand. We've *always* had bandwidth caps, and the leading provider (Xtra, owned by Telecom NZ) stings people HARD once they go over their measly bandwidth allocation. They unscrupulously take advantage of the average New Zealander's ignorance and rape them for everything they are worth. If I was to turn on my television (something I never do, its used as a small table) I would see ads for Xtra promoting "OMG BROADBAND INTERNET FOR THE PRICE OF DIALUP!!11!!11!oneone1" claiming that for $20 a month you can have more bandwidth than you'll probably read. In extra-fine print at the bottom of the screen it says that you only get 200MB per month and that surcharges apply once you go over this limit. Note that this small text is unreadable by their target audience, which is the elderly that know nothing about computers and are blissfully oblivious to the fact that on this deal they are going to get charged hundreds of dollars for going over the cap. When I was 12 and living with my grandmother, on 56k dialup, some sleazy bastard telecom representative phoned her with a hyped-up offer that we could upgrade our internet connection - to the fastest connection available - for free - but only today. The catch was that you were charged $1 for every MEGABYTE over something like 500MB - we were absolutely clueless when it came to bandwidth and didn't understand why the internet bill was between $400 and $500 every month.
/rant
In the states you guys really don't know how lucky you are with broadband, not only is it over ten times as fast as ours, but it seems to be much cheaper. If you're really complaining about caps like 150GB, go and buy a box of tissues.
When I was living with my father (at age seventeen) there was a program installed on the home computer called Cybersitter - a ridiculously conservative censorship program that in theory filters out text deemed "sinful" or "offensive". The strange thing is, it was *supposedly* Christian. What it did was replace bad [sic] words with several blank spaces, but it was far too heavy-handed - even the world "girl" was deemed inappropriate. I'm Christian, which is something this program claims to promote, but if I tried to post the ten commandments somewhere the result would be many confused people staring at "thou shalt not " (murder is a bad word), "thou shalt not commit " (adultery is a bad word) etc etc The last thing I did before I moved out was delete system file for the administrator accounts password (cant recall the filename) so I could purge the system of the bullshit. History has shown time and time again that censorship only works if your objective is to piss people off and/or keep people ignorant. Of course, the governments of the world go for the latter; unfortunately the people that would rather bury their heads in the sand are a large majority.
/rant
Yes, because Microsoft is strongly opposed to censorship. /rant
I wonder how this will apply to the Great Firewall of AUSTRALIA? The news of late has been a magnitude more disturbing than the norm. Reading the signs of the time, it is clear that the elite at the top of the trapezoid of power are preparing to shear the sheeple.
Micro$oft is the opposite of what it claims to be - it is a MegaFirm and not prepared to make any sacrifices whatsoever for Freedom. Moreover, Google isn't really in much of a position to criticize others for intruding upon the privacy of others now, is it? One of the first things I do every time I boot Windoze is kill GoogleUpdate.exe, and theres now google.exe as well. Annoyingly, these are listed as SYSTEM processes, which is misleading in one sense, however in the sense that it is part of a system of control it is painfully honest.
To quote the great Edmund Burke, "All that is necessary for evil men to triumph is for good men to do nothing".
I'll end this rant by planting a seed that will hopefully take root... The most appropriate immediate response that I can think of to this is a good old Google Bomb - if this BBC article was the top of the list when "hypocrisy" was searched, we'd have a small piece of justice.
"Piracy is a robbery committed at sea, or sometimes on the shore, without a commission from a sovereign nation." ...
-- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate
...
/. once that sums up my feelings about intellectual property quite nicely - "I don't believe in imaginary property"
Sure, I download a few movies, few games, some music... But am I really a threat? The large majority of what I download is comprised by things that I wouldn't pay for if downloading wasnt possible, so nobody is losing any money from me.
If I exceptionally enjoy something that I've downloaded then I will allocate a portion of my meagre income to support it. But when corporations pull stunts like this it actually makes me want to pirate [sic] their material. I saw a line on
Now these draconian corporations make me out to be a swashbuckling maniac with an eyepatch and a pegleg? This is truly a mad state of affairs.
Hmm... We have all the major news networks controlled by a totalitarian government, roughly 90% of the population making serious decisions based on the opinions of celebrities, and now static electricity generating votes... George Bush must really love television.
Personally, I'd be rather careful when it comes to ID fraud... Don't want to end up doing the Jailhouse Rock