It sounds like a standard mine tailings dam to me. You can see it on Google maps? So what? You can see much smaller tailings dams all over the world on Google maps. Yeah, they're disgusting, but we'd need to completely stop using metal to get rid of them.
The important thing is not that it's a tailings dam, but how it's constructed and managed - and there's no hint of that. A properly constructed and managed tailings dam shouldn't be a major environmental issue, but a poorly constructed or managed one is a disaster. I suspect this falls into the latter category (most of them seem to), but it would be nice to have some details.
Garlic is a very effective antibiotic - but only when it's raw, cooked garlic doesn't work. Garlic juice was used in the trenches in the first world war for fighting infection. I don't know about the other stuff, but the garlic on its own would kill MRSA in some circumstances.
Unless you are willing to consider a revival of eugenics, we are headed down a dark path.
Be like Hitler, you mean? That didn't exactly end well, did it?
Maybe we just need to consider sharing the work around more fairly. The current trend is opposite to that - with more and more workers doing unreasonably long hours. It's time for governments to legislate a maximum working week of 30 hours.
[......] few would consider the top third to be "rich".
Few of the top third, you mean. Rich people rarely seem to consider themselves rich - they often complain about how hard they've got it and they always seem to want more. But by any sane standard the top third are extremely rich - whether you compare them to the bottom third or to the top third 50 years ago.
They certainly have far far more than their fair share of the worlds resources.
I'm somewhat stunned that you don't think the medical community would notice that.
I don't know why you're stunned. The medical industry's not very smart. There's a lot of things that seem like they should be obvious to anyone with half a brain, but which don't get picked up by the medical industry for decades. They're also almost entirely driven by what makes profits for the pharmaceutical industry. Over prescription of antibiotics anyone?
Another example is biopsy. It's been glaringly obvious to me for decades that the worst thing you could do to a suspected cancer is to chop into it - but chopping into it (biopsy) is the first thing quacks normally do when they suspect a lump could be carcinogenic. And, guess what, research has finally found that biopsy (along with other standard procedures) can lead to metastasis (Juratli et al 2014). And it's usually the metastasis that kills people. It doesn't bear thinking about how many people have been killed by the so-called "treatment".
In a couple of decades, maybe someone will think of doing some research into the role of fluid retention in obesity - unless they already have, but you didn't bother citing it.
Reference Juratli, M A, Sarimollaoglu, M, Siegel, ER, Nedosekin, DA, Galanzha, EI, Suen, JYand Zharov, VP 2014, 'Real-time monitoring of circulating tumor cell release during tumor manipulation using in vivo photoacoustic and fluorescent flow cytometry', Head Neck, 36, 1207–1215. doi: 10.1002/hed.23439
As someone who is married to someone who has struggled with her weight for all her life, and has done everything including a strict 1000 calorie diet with very little results, I KNOW there is more to it than "just don't eat as much".
Have you considered the possibility that at least some of the excess weight is fluid rather than fat? The body seems to retain fluid in response to conact with environmental contaminants. In my case (and i'm not really fat), i get fluid retention from breathing in the fumes pumped out by computer cooling fans - presumably mainly flame retardants. It has other effects than just fluid retention (cough, headache, etc) and different computers have different effects - presumably because they use different classes of flame retardants - but the fluid retention is quite noticeable and can happen quickly.
All electronic equipment seems to be drowned in flame retardants before it leaves the factory, as does furniture, carpets, etc. Flame retardants are volatile organic compounds which may also be persistent pollutants, and have been linked to an array of different health impacts. Some have been banned (e.g., polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and dibrominated phenyl ethers (DBEs) - banned by the EU in about 2005) but they just keep replacing them with other ones, which have unknown effects. Brominated flame retardants seem to be being phased out because of health concerns, and replaced with fluorinated ones- which i supect may prove to be worse.I believe brominated flame retardants were developed to replace chlorinated ones - again because of health concerns.
Anyway, i think fluid retention caused by environmental toxins merits investigation to determine its role (if any) in obesity.
Maybe, by and by, we'll find that some obesity is caused by the wrong gut bacteria, and some by bad habits.
Maybe, but i doubt it's as simple as that. I think the dogma that obesity = excess fat is severely confounding our understanding of this issue. One thing i never see discussed anywhere is the contribution to obesity made by fluid retention - which i suspect is considerable.
Everyone seems to assume that excess flesh is fat, but that's not necessarily the case. The body can retain fluid in response to environmental contaminants of various types and most people live in ever more toxic environments. If you seal people into houses with electronic equipment, furnishings, carpets, etc, all of which have been drowned in flame retardants - volatile organic compounds which have been linked to many different health impacts - it seems likely that at least some of them will end up with some degree of fluid retention as a result.
Antibiotics flame retardants, and shit food are probably the three main contributors to obesity. Wrong gut bacteria is one product of antibiotics use.
It's always puzzled me why so many Christians fear death, when they claim to know they are going to a place vastly superior to this one.
That's because they can only delude themselves to a certain extent. Deep down they know that when they die that's it. Nothing. But they try and believe that's not true. So, of course, because they spend their whole lives desperately clutching a delusion, they never come to terms with oblivion. All but the most gullible ones live their lives desperately fearing reality.
The idea that you make a conscious decision about your sexuality has been debunked so many times it's not even funny.
Unfortunately all theories about the origins of sexuality have been comprehensively debunked. Nobody really has any idea - although plenty of people think they do.
Personally i don't see why it matters. Why should somebody's sexuality be of any concern to anyone else? The only sane reason to care is if you want to fuck them.
Unless maybe you are capable of parthenogentic reproduction, something mammals seem to be incapable of.
That's irrelevant. The gp said "Without a species, the genes are dead-enders." - which is always true. Sooner or later something about the environment changes and makes it inhospitable for any given phenotype. The species survives if there are a sufficient range of different phenotypes that some individuls can cope with the changes. That's why potato blight caused famine in Ireland.
Those data? Please keep that sort of language to the pretentious halls of academia! ICT people generally say "that data".
Data is not plural - any more than sand is. You don't say "the sand on the beach are golden", do you? Why not, if you say "data are"? In both cases we're talking about things in bulk, not a collection of individual data items or sand grains.
And what's "data" the plural of, anyway? Not "datum" - the plural of that is "datums", as in
As GPS, a satellite-based location system, matured and became accessible to the public, the need to extend and better define the earth's spheroid and associated datums became more pressing.
(ESRI.com)
Treating the word "data" as if it's plural is nothing but pretentious academic wank.
Yup, I feel sorry for people that don't ever drink.
When they wake up in the morning, that is the best they will feel all day!!
I know nothing about not ever drinking, but a few years back i went for a year without drinking alcohol (or coffee or tea, etc) - and when i woke up in the mornings that was pretty much the best i'd felt all my life!
Unfortunately, circumstances conspired to gradually start me drinking again.
A good reverse osmosis system will remove most anything larger than a water molecule... that includes just about any pharmaceutical molecule you'd care to name.
Of course it will. But RO is very expensive and complicated and requires specialised maintenance. It's also not mentioned in TFA (although it could be in the video, i don't know - reading TFA is quite uncool enough on/. - without watching TFV).
Recycled (usually called "reclaimed water") water is not the topic [......]
I don't know what you're on, but maybe it's the pharms in recycled water. How is recycled water not the topic? Are you suggesting "Water From Human Waste" isn't recycled?
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It sounds like a standard mine tailings dam to me. You can see it on Google maps? So what? You can see much smaller tailings dams all over the world on Google maps. Yeah, they're disgusting, but we'd need to completely stop using metal to get rid of them.
The important thing is not that it's a tailings dam, but how it's constructed and managed - and there's no hint of that. A properly constructed and managed tailings dam shouldn't be a major environmental issue, but a poorly constructed or managed one is a disaster. I suspect this falls into the latter category (most of them seem to), but it would be nice to have some details.
No, of course the cat can't be simultaneously alive and dead - that's Schrödinger's point.
I wish people would stop crapping on about that fucking cat when they have no idea what it means.
Garlic is a very effective antibiotic - but only when it's raw, cooked garlic doesn't work. Garlic juice was used in the trenches in the first world war for fighting infection. I don't know about the other stuff, but the garlic on its own would kill MRSA in some circumstances.
Unless you are willing to consider a revival of eugenics, we are headed down a dark path.
Be like Hitler, you mean? That didn't exactly end well, did it?
Maybe we just need to consider sharing the work around more fairly. The current trend is opposite to that - with more and more workers doing unreasonably long hours. It's time for governments to legislate a maximum working week of 30 hours.
[......] few would consider the top third to be "rich".
Few of the top third, you mean. Rich people rarely seem to consider themselves rich - they often complain about how hard they've got it and they always seem to want more. But by any sane standard the top third are extremely rich - whether you compare them to the bottom third or to the top third 50 years ago.
They certainly have far far more than their fair share of the worlds resources.
I won't care at all once i'm dead!
[......] I say go for it!
Except there's no chance of it going anywhere.
I'd gladly give my life for a one-way trip for at least the guarantee of take-off and journey to Mars.
Why? It's not like you'd be able to sit back and reminisce about it afterwards.
I'm somewhat stunned that you don't think the medical community would notice that.
I don't know why you're stunned. The medical industry's not very smart. There's a lot of things that seem like they should be obvious to anyone with half a brain, but which don't get picked up by the medical industry for decades. They're also almost entirely driven by what makes profits for the pharmaceutical industry. Over prescription of antibiotics anyone?
Another example is biopsy. It's been glaringly obvious to me for decades that the worst thing you could do to a suspected cancer is to chop into it - but chopping into it (biopsy) is the first thing quacks normally do when they suspect a lump could be carcinogenic. And, guess what, research has finally found that biopsy (along with other standard procedures) can lead to metastasis (Juratli et al 2014). And it's usually the metastasis that kills people. It doesn't bear thinking about how many people have been killed by the so-called "treatment".
In a couple of decades, maybe someone will think of doing some research into the role of fluid retention in obesity - unless they already have, but you didn't bother citing it.
Reference
Juratli, M A, Sarimollaoglu, M, Siegel, ER, Nedosekin, DA, Galanzha, EI, Suen, JYand Zharov, VP 2014, 'Real-time monitoring of circulating tumor cell release during tumor manipulation using in vivo photoacoustic and fluorescent flow cytometry', Head Neck, 36, 1207–1215. doi: 10.1002/hed.23439
Fair enough. It happens sometimes!
Sorry, no. Obesity is not caused by bacteria (or genetics, or "conditions"). Obesity is caused by consuming more energy than you actually use.
Citation? And what part does fluid retention play in this? None, according to your theory. I think you're wrong.
Honestly, how a site full of self-professed science geeks keeps ignoring basic thermodynamics continues to blow my mind...
If you're so smart, explain the thermodynamics of fluid retention.
Of course, if you were really as smart as you think you are, you wouldn't post a/c.
I can reach, and maintain, most any weight goal I choose. I have done this. As I said previously, it is not always *easy*, but it is always doable.
A.
Your medal's in the mail.
As someone who is married to someone who has struggled with her weight for all her life, and has done everything including a strict 1000 calorie diet with very little results, I KNOW there is more to it than "just don't eat as much".
Have you considered the possibility that at least some of the excess weight is fluid rather than fat? The body seems to retain fluid in response to conact with environmental contaminants. In my case (and i'm not really fat), i get fluid retention from breathing in the fumes pumped out by computer cooling fans - presumably mainly flame retardants. It has other effects than just fluid retention (cough, headache, etc) and different computers have different effects - presumably because they use different classes of flame retardants - but the fluid retention is quite noticeable and can happen quickly.
All electronic equipment seems to be drowned in flame retardants before it leaves the factory, as does furniture, carpets, etc. Flame retardants are volatile organic compounds which may also be persistent pollutants, and have been linked to an array of different health impacts. Some have been banned (e.g., polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and dibrominated phenyl ethers (DBEs) - banned by the EU in about 2005) but they just keep replacing them with other ones, which have unknown effects. Brominated flame retardants seem to be being phased out because of health concerns, and replaced with fluorinated ones- which i supect may prove to be worse.I believe brominated flame retardants were developed to replace chlorinated ones - again because of health concerns.
Anyway, i think fluid retention caused by environmental toxins merits investigation to determine its role (if any) in obesity.
Maybe, by and by, we'll find that some obesity is caused by the wrong gut bacteria, and some by bad habits.
Maybe, but i doubt it's as simple as that. I think the dogma that obesity = excess fat is severely confounding our understanding of this issue. One thing i never see discussed anywhere is the contribution to obesity made by fluid retention - which i suspect is considerable.
Everyone seems to assume that excess flesh is fat, but that's not necessarily the case. The body can retain fluid in response to environmental contaminants of various types and most people live in ever more toxic environments. If you seal people into houses with electronic equipment, furnishings, carpets, etc, all of which have been drowned in flame retardants - volatile organic compounds which have been linked to many different health impacts - it seems likely that at least some of them will end up with some degree of fluid retention as a result.
Antibiotics flame retardants, and shit food are probably the three main contributors to obesity. Wrong gut bacteria is one product of antibiotics use.
It's always puzzled me why so many Christians fear death, when they claim to know they are going to a place vastly superior to this one.
That's because they can only delude themselves to a certain extent. Deep down they know that when they die that's it. Nothing. But they try and believe that's not true. So, of course, because they spend their whole lives desperately clutching a delusion, they never come to terms with oblivion. All but the most gullible ones live their lives desperately fearing reality.
You are not funny.
You mean you didn't find it funny - which is not the same thing at all.
I found it funny, therefore the gp is funny.
He dedicated his body to his conviction, he personally suffered for what he believes is the path to a better life [......]
He died for a better life?
That's like fighting for peace. Or fucking for celibacy.
It's so i can put my music on it and get better sound quality when i play it on my car stereo.
The idea that you make a conscious decision about your sexuality has been debunked so many times it's not even funny.
Unfortunately all theories about the origins of sexuality have been comprehensively debunked. Nobody really has any idea - although plenty of people think they do.
Personally i don't see why it matters. Why should somebody's sexuality be of any concern to anyone else? The only sane reason to care is if you want to fuck them.
Unless maybe you are capable of parthenogentic reproduction, something mammals seem to be incapable of.
That's irrelevant. The gp said "Without a species, the genes are dead-enders." - which is always true. Sooner or later something about the environment changes and makes it inhospitable for any given phenotype. The species survives if there are a sufficient range of different phenotypes that some individuls can cope with the changes. That's why potato blight caused famine in Ireland.
[......] could someday carry those data [......]
Those data? Please keep that sort of language to the pretentious halls of academia! ICT people generally say "that data".
Data is not plural - any more than sand is. You don't say "the sand on the beach are golden", do you? Why not, if you say "data are"? In both cases we're talking about things in bulk, not a collection of individual data items or sand grains.
And what's "data" the plural of, anyway? Not "datum" - the plural of that is "datums", as in
(ESRI.com)
Treating the word "data" as if it's plural is nothing but pretentious academic wank.
Yup, I feel sorry for people that don't ever drink.
When they wake up in the morning, that is the best they will feel all day!!
I know nothing about not ever drinking, but a few years back i went for a year without drinking alcohol (or coffee or tea, etc) - and when i woke up in the mornings that was pretty much the best i'd felt all my life!
Unfortunately, circumstances conspired to gradually start me drinking again.
Asprin is poison but my cardiologist tells me to take one everyday. Life is fatal, enjoy yourself "a little."
That's because your cardiologist owns shares in pharmaceutical companies.
A good reverse osmosis system will remove most anything larger than a water molecule... that includes just about any pharmaceutical molecule you'd care to name.
Of course it will. But RO is very expensive and complicated and requires specialised maintenance. It's also not mentioned in TFA (although it could be in the video, i don't know - reading TFA is quite uncool enough on /. - without watching TFV).
Recycled (usually called "reclaimed water") water is not the topic [......]
I don't know what you're on, but maybe it's the pharms in recycled water. How is recycled water not the topic? Are you suggesting "Water From Human Waste" isn't recycled?