That would have to be a massive evaporator to actually cause an effect on the local climate.
Evaporation is adding water to the atmosphere. Condensation is removing it.
the urbanization of the desert has actually added to the relative humidity via increased plants and the watering of them.
Because the water they are using was pumped up from underground...
Remember most of that water is returned directly to the environment via sweating and urination.
I don't know about you, but I don't generally go around urinating on the ground. Usually it's flushed and either put underground where it can't escape for hundreds of years, or travels off to some distance river, lake, or ocean.
You might think that 300 gallons a day is a lot of water, but keep in mind that the atmosphere contains 1.12E17 gallons of it, and that only represents 0.0031% of the water on earth.
That is a ridiculously small number. For the US army in Iraq, you're probably talking about 10s of millions of gallons per day.
but keep in mind that the atmosphere contains 1.12E17 gallons of it
Most of which is in places with excess moisture (like over the oceans, lakes, tundra, etc), rather than evenly distributed around the globe. The deserts have far less than their fair share of this moisture.
And removing perhaps just 5% of the moisture in an area could have a dramatic impact, as the higher pressure could cause stronger winds. Though, since much of this water will be sweated right back out to the atmosphere, I have no idea what kind of an impact to really expect.
If this technology really works as well as is advertised, how bout the government does something with it a bit more productive than sending a bunch to the army?
Saving lives (of those delivering the water) and many millions of dollars seems awfully productive to me...
Like maybe buying thousands of these things and shipping them to many of the different places in the world where a lack access to fresh water is one of the most pressing health concerns of millions of people.
Those places that lack fresh water aren't exactly swimming in gasoline to run these machines...
Conventional ground-water pumping and filtration is much cheaper and easier than complex systems which pull it from the air.
In fact, simple (home-made) sand filtration could eliminate most water-borne diseases at trivial expense.
However, for "off the grid" types, this is the last piece of the puzzle.
Umm, no.
Water for "off-grid types" was solved about 200 years ago, with cheap water pumps for wells. Pumping the water up 30 feet is surely a lot less power-intensive than trying to extract it from the air.
The only benefit this has is being completely portable.
To get a perfect interlaced signal out of a computer...
Setup Slackware 10.0 (1) on a fast machine, with a recent NVidia card (2)... Install the NVidia binary driver.
Configure X.org to use a 60Hz refresh. IF you are going to need S-Video out, use a resolution of 800x600 and set "Overscan" (in xorg.conf) to a large value, around 0.8 should work.
Get mplayer working with -vo gl. Add -dr for performance. Try different yuv= parameters to gl. Try with -vf bgr24. Once OpenGL output that works, add -vf tfields,softskip (3) which will give you (absolutly great quality) interlaced video output which will rival any professional setup. Hopefully that video stream will be accepted properly by whatever your broadcast hardware is. (I'm not an analog TV broadcast guy, so I have no idea what you may have)
Also add "echo 1024 >/proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your rc.local, so MPlayer can use rtc for accurate timing. You probably want to used the "-fixed-vo" option as well.
That should get you started, and the hardest part taken care of.
After that, it's largely left as an exersize to the reader...
bmovl (or the bmovl2 patch) should allow you to display any arbitrary on-screen graphic overlays you want.
You can write a very simple command-line program to control MPlayer via slave mode... As long as your program can keep a schedule, tell MPlayer the filename of the videos you want it to play, etc. you're all set.
If you're a real low-budget operation, you might even use MPlayer on a second machine to scan the video (before you broadcast it) for black frames. Then, you could use that info to have your scheduling program automatically insert your commercials where the feature's scene-changes occur.
And last but not least, you'll certainly want X11 running without any window manager, and probably an all-black background, to hide any minor mistakes that occur.
(1) I know Slack 10.0 will work perfectly (except for the NTP daemon) for your task. 10.2 has some X11 bugs.
(2) NVidia's binary driver is absolutely essential for proper OpenGL video output, so no ATI cards allowed.
(3) If -vf bgr24 is necessary for your NVidia card, the filter line is going to be tricky: "format=yv12,tfields,softskip,scale,format=bgr24"
I don't want to stand out in the sun all day, day after day picking fruit. Even if picking fruit all day payed better than IT does, I think I would find something else to do.
Good for you. I'm rather sure 80+% of the population disagrees, however. Myself included.
I would much rather let someone who wants to do the work come to this country and continue to have them do it.
Mexicans don't want to do the work any more than Americans do. They do it because it's the only option they have, considering their illegal status. Make them legal, and they will go to other jobs that pay more, or demand higher wages for their work, just like every other American.
Indentured servitude isn't a good policy, even if it's necessary to make US-grown pears profitable...
People pay a lot more per pound for Alaskan Crab than they do for pears. If the pears start costing what the crab costs, I think they will eat more crab.
It doesn't matter who eats what. Crab fishing is the hardest, most dangerous job in the world, yet it's all Americans that do it, not illegal immigrants... Because the pay is high enough to live on, unlike what farmers currently pay.
With pears being produced in other countries at lower prices, the farmers here will not be able to pass on price increases in order to pay higher wages. In the California Farm Bureau article I linked to in the GP, the farmer was talking about other pear farmers in the area buldozing their orchards.
Good for them. It's plain and simple economics.
If your business model depends on slave labor to be profitable, you don't import slaves, you change the business model.
Some farms are a marginal business with a lot of risk. Other farms make good money.
Subsudising the "marginal" farms with illegally-cheap labor, is not a smart move on any account. In a capitalist society, those companies NEED to go out of business, to make way for stronger competitors that can pay decent wages.
Maybe next year WalMart will have a shortage because all their workers left to go pick pears for more money.;)
I can only hope... That could only possibly raise the standard of living for the working-poor in this country.
Where we once exported lots of food abroad, maybe we can buy more food from countries that don't have our labor laws.
Funny you'd say that, since your solution to this problem is to sweep aside our labor laws, and allow indentured Mexicans to work for less-than minimum wage.
Hell, maybe it would suddenly be profitable to have farms IN MEXICO, where the Mexicans have rights, aren't afraid of being exported if they complain, etc.
California grows a lot of food and it is wierd to see it sitting on the ground rotting.
Employers have historically pulled LOTS of dirty tricks in the past, to try and get better deals on labor. It wouldn't suprise me if they are doing it again. After all, more expensive employees are far better than no employees at all.
At worst, if I was a farmer, I'd probably put up a sign along the lines of "Pick your own pears $5" and make some money, if not as much as usual. That's how capitalism works, when the situation changes, you change your business model the best you can. In the long term, MANY businesses profit far more, when they are finally forced to come to terms with changes, and think up new business models for their industry.
News viewership is terribly sad. It seems the worse the source, the more people watch it.
Evening News is taking it's cues from the morning shows. More in-depth coverage of "How did being kidnapped make you feel?" and people crying on camera, filling the time, and little to no time for substantive news from politics, war, economics, and general world news. School shootings are terrible, but spending half an hour every day for weeks, interviewing scared kids and parents, isn't helping anybody.
Evening News is bad, but local news is MUCH WORSE... If you think back to days before the invasion of Iraq, all of the major nightly news programs had a nice run-down of all of Bush's evidence, and why it was all utterly incorrect. The local news programs, however, just showed Bush's original sound bytes on the subject, and never followed up when new information came along. The viewership of local news is why some 70% of people (or whatever the figure) believed there were links between Bin Laden and Iraq.
The thing most people have forgotten, though, is that you are NOT stuck with just those crappy options. The alternate national newscasts are actually a lot better...
Both CBS and ABC have very good (fast-paced) morning newscasts at 4:30-5:00 am that are packed with news from the entire day, vastly unlike evening news programs, which are half commercials, crawl along at a snail's pace, and barely get through the three top stories of the day... Of note especially on/. they also have more of a tech slant than other news programs, reporting on the major developments, before you see it here on/.
If that isn't to your liking though, you also have the option of ABC's WNN around 2-4am every night. Over the course of an hour, they get just slightly more in-depth than the half-hour CBS/ABC morning news shows, and throw in lots of idle time, uncomfortable anchor chit-chat, and regular bits of fluff news pieces if you like a little of that.
Despite the opinion around here that news is crap and utterly worthless, I easily see some 98% of the news stories I care about in a half-hour a day, as opposed to spending a couple hours over a day, reading the same stuff through Google News or the like. So, IMHO, set your DVR for 4:30, and the news not only won't suck, but it will be quite useful.
And here in California, there is fruit rotting in the fields because border tightening has cut the supply of farm workers.
The whole "jobs Americans don't want to do" line is a convenient lie, fed to the public by both sides.
There is no such thing as a job Americans don't want to do, just jobs people (with any rights) won't do for the wage. Companies don't want to engage in capitalism and raise wages, so they try to get people with no rights, that will take anything they can get, because they can't get many other jobs in their situation. Republicans want to legalize the practice of companies exploiting foreigners (guest worker program), while the Democrats want the xenophobic voters to be less worried about losing their jobs to foreigners.
As for "jobs Americans don't want to do..." It isn't illegal immigrants jacking off horses to collect sperm, cleaning up the droppings of zoo animals, working at landfills, sewage plants, oil platforms, Alaskan crab fishing, etc. etc. The most awful jobs in the world, are done by good old Americans, who supposedly don't have the stomach for picking fruit.
So you out of work IT folks, get out there and pick lettuce, corn, tomatoes and pears!
You make it sound like there's some inherent reason people would NOT to do the job... Hell, there are many people who PAY for the privledge of visiting orchards so they can pick fruit for themselves.
The public basically abandoned cartridge-based removable storage a few years ago;
Only because CD caddies were an expensive mess. That soured everyone on the idea, despite the problems of bare discs.
(Anyone remember the Castlewood Orb? Or any of the other HD-based removables? I do; the cost per MB was atrocious.)
Caddies can't make underlying tech any better. Why do you blame it for all these formats' shortcommings?
Why would anyone want to move back to the days of proprietary cartridges and drives, when we've come so far from there?
Propritary? No.
Standard, compact caddies that protect CDs/DVDs/etc. from finger prints, dust, scratches, etc. YES!
What's more, scratched have been keeping disc density seriously limited for decades. With a hard casing ensuring the discs will never be handled directly, you can go to denser and denser disc formats, at the same time reducing the ammount of space wasted on checksums.
I'd much prefer improvements to the existing CD/DVD formats which preserve at least the physical format (allowing for easy backwards compatibility)
Forward compatibility is just a matter of buying a few caddies, and putting your old CDs/DVDs in them. It will only be a fairly small hassle in the short-term.
You've blustered a lot and OOOOHH made me a "foe". Very reasonable response.
You act like I punched you in the face... Yes, I mark people as FOEs when they make more heat than light, so I don't waste more of my time banging my head against the wall with them in the future.
Plenty of people dislike US foreign policy without being idiots.
Plenty of intelligent people dislike specific aspects of it, but not as a whole. It has very clearly benefitted the world greatly, as I explained quite clearly. You didn't dispute any one of the reasons I listed, you just ignored them entirely.
Just try and find one intelligent, knowledgable expert on the subject, who thinks the world shouldn't be policed by anyone, that the UN has done more harm than good, etc. There's no question the world is better off for the US policing it.
Slackware isn't Fedora or Gentoo... It's not okay if the system is untested, unstable, buggy, etc. Besides, 2.4 is just the default, you can select a 2.6 kernel just as easily, during the install.
The world record for survival is a nasa test at 52G.
An in those types of test, the G forces were ONLY for fractions of a second. Humans have an even harder time handling sustained G forces.
I fail to see why being embedded in a fluid would make things better.
Presumably to prevent your lungs from being crushed by the pressure. Not that they'd do so well when filled with a few gallons of liquid that has become heavier than a car, due to the G forces.
Comparable statistics aren't easy to Google, but a quick look found that the NIH (US National Institute of Health) alone granted $27.3B in fiscal 2003 for heart disease. In contrast, AIDS reseach got $591M (about 41% of the US total) and breast cancer got $693M. The numbers suggest that quite the opposite of your claim is true.
The NIH is not typical here. The fact is that AIDS and Cancer are recieving many times more funding than CVD (per person affected by the diseases).
You know, there's a lot of scientists in this world and they're capable as a group of studying more than one problem at a time.
As well they should. They should not, however, be spending all their time and effort on the diseases that are MARKETED the best, rather than those that have the biggest real impact.
Quote me where I said breast cancer had nothing to do with diet.
You said breast cancer had less of a link to nutrition than heart disease, which is simple wrong. It's a contributing factor in both, and not a major factor for either.
Ok, so most of the 7 million deaths happen in developing countries, considering that WHO standards that's about 80% of the total world population and considering that other areas show that in the US and Russia alone there is over one million deaths? Don't play a numbers game, you've already lost seeings as where 2 developed nations already make at least 14% of the deaths that they're talking about.
I find these two run-on sentences utterly incomprehensible, so I can't possibly argue.
Oh, so now I should go and research every post you've ever done? Get real.
Instant straw man. Very nice.
You don't even bother to read my posts that are in THIS thread.
I specifically said my other posts IN THIS THREAD. It's not exactly asking a lot for people to read OTHER replies before bringing up exactly the same questions repeatedly.
In any case, you quote sources which say the opposite of what you claim, base your facts on supposition and misquoting disparate sources, won't even both to switch over to my other post where I covered all this in detail, and you've just devolved into wining about the wording of my posts. So with that, I'll let this thread die. Perhaps it will make you feel better to get the last word in...
The firmware could be useful to many people, we just have no idea what they could do with it because we're not given enough documentation for the device.
I've never bought into the philosophy of "we can't guess until we try."
in which case we'd likely be free to create a clean room implementation of the blob and distribute that.
You already are. You can skip the step of going to court and spending huge ammounts of money...
What seems strange is that de Raadt is calling for BSD-licensed "binary blobs". I can't imagine why he would want that in favor of BSD-licensed code
Because the source code for firmware is completely useless to all but 5 people on the planet. The firmware isn't the driver, the firmware is just a binary chunk that "SHOULD" be burned into eprom on the hardware.
Funny you'd provide that link, considering that it directly disputes your own specious claim that breast cancer risk has nothing to do with nutrition, unlike (you say) CVD.
Heart Disease is more common in the 3rd world, where they don't have big macs, french fries, bowls of ice cream, time to sit around on a coutch... or even couches in many cases.
That's odd, I was just over at the WHO and they seem to think differently than you. Check it out for yourself [who.int]
WTF?
In what way does the WTO's report disagree with anything I've said?
You do know that "3rd world" and "developing" are synonomous, don't you?
And second: I carefully quoted all my sources about CVD, none of which are "blogs" or anything of the sort. You just didn't bother to look at my other post in this thread where I went into great detail.
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Do soldiers go around urinating outdoors? I expect much of it will go into either:
Septic tanks where it will take hundreds of years to sink into the water-table before eventually being pumped back up by humans.
OR
Sewers, where it will be wisked away to some distant river, lake, ocean, and still be removed from the LOCAL environment.
Evaporation is adding water to the atmosphere. Condensation is removing it.
Because the water they are using was pumped up from underground...
I don't know about you, but I don't generally go around urinating on the ground. Usually it's flushed and either put underground where it can't escape for hundreds of years, or travels off to some distance river, lake, or ocean.
That is a ridiculously small number. For the US army in Iraq, you're probably talking about 10s of millions of gallons per day.
Most of which is in places with excess moisture (like over the oceans, lakes, tundra, etc), rather than evenly distributed around the globe. The deserts have far less than their fair share of this moisture.
And removing perhaps just 5% of the moisture in an area could have a dramatic impact, as the higher pressure could cause stronger winds. Though, since much of this water will be sweated right back out to the atmosphere, I have no idea what kind of an impact to really expect.
They dehydrated the water to save space...
That's right. In America we poor beer right into the water supply, and save a step...
Saving lives (of those delivering the water) and many millions of dollars seems awfully productive to me...
Those places that lack fresh water aren't exactly swimming in gasoline to run these machines...
Conventional ground-water pumping and filtration is much cheaper and easier than complex systems which pull it from the air.
In fact, simple (home-made) sand filtration could eliminate most water-borne diseases at trivial expense.
That link doesn't say anything about anything. It's a Minnesota company talking about humidity in general.
Umm, no.
Water for "off-grid types" was solved about 200 years ago, with cheap water pumps for wells. Pumping the water up 30 feet is surely a lot less power-intensive than trying to extract it from the air.
The only benefit this has is being completely portable.
To get a perfect interlaced signal out of a computer...
/proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your rc.local, so MPlayer can use rtc for accurate timing. You probably want to used the "-fixed-vo" option as well.
Setup Slackware 10.0 (1) on a fast machine, with a recent NVidia card (2)... Install the NVidia binary driver.
Configure X.org to use a 60Hz refresh. IF you are going to need S-Video out, use a resolution of 800x600 and set "Overscan" (in xorg.conf) to a large value, around 0.8 should work.
Get mplayer working with -vo gl. Add -dr for performance. Try different yuv= parameters to gl. Try with -vf bgr24. Once OpenGL output that works, add -vf tfields,softskip (3) which will give you (absolutly great quality) interlaced video output which will rival any professional setup. Hopefully that video stream will be accepted properly by whatever your broadcast hardware is. (I'm not an analog TV broadcast guy, so I have no idea what you may have)
Also add "echo 1024 >
That should get you started, and the hardest part taken care of.
After that, it's largely left as an exersize to the reader...
bmovl (or the bmovl2 patch) should allow you to display any arbitrary on-screen graphic overlays you want.
You can write a very simple command-line program to control MPlayer via slave mode... As long as your program can keep a schedule, tell MPlayer the filename of the videos you want it to play, etc. you're all set.
If you're a real low-budget operation, you might even use MPlayer on a second machine to scan the video (before you broadcast it) for black frames. Then, you could use that info to have your scheduling program automatically insert your commercials where the feature's scene-changes occur.
And last but not least, you'll certainly want X11 running without any window manager, and probably an all-black background, to hide any minor mistakes that occur.
(1) I know Slack 10.0 will work perfectly (except for the NTP daemon) for your task. 10.2 has some X11 bugs.
(2) NVidia's binary driver is absolutely essential for proper OpenGL video output, so no ATI cards allowed.
(3) If -vf bgr24 is necessary for your NVidia card, the filter line is going to be tricky: "format=yv12,tfields,softskip,scale,format=bgr24"
Good for you. I'm rather sure 80+% of the population disagrees, however. Myself included.
Mexicans don't want to do the work any more than Americans do. They do it because it's the only option they have, considering their illegal status. Make them legal, and they will go to other jobs that pay more, or demand higher wages for their work, just like every other American.
Indentured servitude isn't a good policy, even if it's necessary to make US-grown pears profitable...
It doesn't matter who eats what. Crab fishing is the hardest, most dangerous job in the world, yet it's all Americans that do it, not illegal immigrants... Because the pay is high enough to live on, unlike what farmers currently pay.
Good for them. It's plain and simple economics.
If your business model depends on slave labor to be profitable, you don't import slaves, you change the business model.
Subsudising the "marginal" farms with illegally-cheap labor, is not a smart move on any account. In a capitalist society, those companies NEED to go out of business, to make way for stronger competitors that can pay decent wages.
I can only hope... That could only possibly raise the standard of living for the working-poor in this country.
Funny you'd say that, since your solution to this problem is to sweep aside our labor laws, and allow indentured Mexicans to work for less-than minimum wage.
Hell, maybe it would suddenly be profitable to have farms IN MEXICO, where the Mexicans have rights, aren't afraid of being exported if they complain, etc.
Employers have historically pulled LOTS of dirty tricks in the past, to try and get better deals on labor. It wouldn't suprise me if they are doing it again. After all, more expensive employees are far better than no employees at all.
At worst, if I was a farmer, I'd probably put up a sign along the lines of "Pick your own pears $5" and make some money, if not as much as usual. That's how capitalism works, when the situation changes, you change your business model the best you can. In the long term, MANY businesses profit far more, when they are finally forced to come to terms with changes, and think up new business models for their industry.
News viewership is terribly sad. It seems the worse the source, the more people watch it.
/. they also have more of a tech slant than other news programs, reporting on the major developments, before you see it here on /.
Evening News is taking it's cues from the morning shows. More in-depth coverage of "How did being kidnapped make you feel?" and people crying on camera, filling the time, and little to no time for substantive news from politics, war, economics, and general world news. School shootings are terrible, but spending half an hour every day for weeks, interviewing scared kids and parents, isn't helping anybody.
Evening News is bad, but local news is MUCH WORSE... If you think back to days before the invasion of Iraq, all of the major nightly news programs had a nice run-down of all of Bush's evidence, and why it was all utterly incorrect. The local news programs, however, just showed Bush's original sound bytes on the subject, and never followed up when new information came along. The viewership of local news is why some 70% of people (or whatever the figure) believed there were links between Bin Laden and Iraq.
The thing most people have forgotten, though, is that you are NOT stuck with just those crappy options. The alternate national newscasts are actually a lot better...
Both CBS and ABC have very good (fast-paced) morning newscasts at 4:30-5:00 am that are packed with news from the entire day, vastly unlike evening news programs, which are half commercials, crawl along at a snail's pace, and barely get through the three top stories of the day... Of note especially on
If that isn't to your liking though, you also have the option of ABC's WNN around 2-4am every night. Over the course of an hour, they get just slightly more in-depth than the half-hour CBS/ABC morning news shows, and throw in lots of idle time, uncomfortable anchor chit-chat, and regular bits of fluff news pieces if you like a little of that.
Despite the opinion around here that news is crap and utterly worthless, I easily see some 98% of the news stories I care about in a half-hour a day, as opposed to spending a couple hours over a day, reading the same stuff through Google News or the like. So, IMHO, set your DVR for 4:30, and the news not only won't suck, but it will be quite useful.
The whole "jobs Americans don't want to do" line is a convenient lie, fed to the public by both sides.
There is no such thing as a job Americans don't want to do, just jobs people (with any rights) won't do for the wage. Companies don't want to engage in capitalism and raise wages, so they try to get people with no rights, that will take anything they can get, because they can't get many other jobs in their situation.
Republicans want to legalize the practice of companies exploiting foreigners (guest worker program), while the Democrats want the xenophobic voters to be less worried about losing their jobs to foreigners.
As for "jobs Americans don't want to do..." It isn't illegal immigrants jacking off horses to collect sperm, cleaning up the droppings of zoo animals, working at landfills, sewage plants, oil platforms, Alaskan crab fishing, etc. etc. The most awful jobs in the world, are done by good old Americans, who supposedly don't have the stomach for picking fruit.
You make it sound like there's some inherent reason people would NOT to do the job... Hell, there are many people who PAY for the privledge of visiting orchards so they can pick fruit for themselves.
Only because CD caddies were an expensive mess. That soured everyone on the idea, despite the problems of bare discs.
Caddies can't make underlying tech any better. Why do you blame it for all these formats' shortcommings?
Propritary? No.
Standard, compact caddies that protect CDs/DVDs/etc. from finger prints, dust, scratches, etc. YES!
What's more, scratched have been keeping disc density seriously limited for decades. With a hard casing ensuring the discs will never be handled directly, you can go to denser and denser disc formats, at the same time reducing the ammount of space wasted on checksums.
Forward compatibility is just a matter of buying a few caddies, and putting your old CDs/DVDs in them. It will only be a fairly small hassle in the short-term.
You act like I punched you in the face... Yes, I mark people as FOEs when they make more heat than light, so I don't waste more of my time banging my head against the wall with them in the future.
Plenty of intelligent people dislike specific aspects of it, but not as a whole. It has very clearly benefitted the world greatly, as I explained quite clearly. You didn't dispute any one of the reasons I listed, you just ignored them entirely.
Just try and find one intelligent, knowledgable expert on the subject, who thinks the world shouldn't be policed by anyone, that the UN has done more harm than good, etc. There's no question the world is better off for the US policing it.
Umm... Should I repeat what I said?
Everyone blows this out of proportion.
Slackware isn't Fedora or Gentoo... It's not okay if the system is untested, unstable, buggy, etc. Besides, 2.4 is just the default, you can select a 2.6 kernel just as easily, during the install.
Kernel developers decided not to even try and keep the mainline 2.6 line stable. So, it's no surprise that distros which want ridiculously stable systems would stay with the 2.4 kernel as long as practical.
So why does nobody have the same complaints about Debian?
An in those types of test, the G forces were ONLY for fractions of a second. Humans have an even harder time handling sustained G forces.
Presumably to prevent your lungs from being crushed by the pressure. Not that they'd do so well when filled with a few gallons of liquid that has become heavier than a car, due to the G forces.
Are you sure about that?
It strikes me that under 10,000Gs, fuels would compress and heat-up dramatically, making them dangerously volitile.
That "expensive card" isn't going to be a door-stop for the next 2 years, you know.
What argument? You haven't disputed a single one of my points yet.
The NIH is not typical here. The fact is that AIDS and Cancer are recieving many times more funding than CVD (per person affected by the diseases).
As well they should. They should not, however, be spending all their time and effort on the diseases that are MARKETED the best, rather than those that have the biggest real impact.
You said breast cancer had less of a link to nutrition than heart disease, which is simple wrong. It's a contributing factor in both, and not a major factor for either.
I find these two run-on sentences utterly incomprehensible, so I can't possibly argue.
Instant straw man. Very nice.
I specifically said my other posts IN THIS THREAD. It's not exactly asking a lot for people to read OTHER replies before bringing up exactly the same questions repeatedly.
In any case, you quote sources which say the opposite of what you claim, base your facts on supposition and misquoting disparate sources, won't even both to switch over to my other post where I covered all this in detail, and you've just devolved into wining about the wording of my posts. So with that, I'll let this thread die. Perhaps it will make you feel better to get the last word in...
I've never bought into the philosophy of "we can't guess until we try."
You already are. You can skip the step of going to court and spending huge ammounts of money...
Because the source code for firmware is completely useless to all but 5 people on the planet. The firmware isn't the driver, the firmware is just a binary chunk that "SHOULD" be burned into eprom on the hardware.
Funny you'd provide that link, considering that it directly disputes your own specious claim that breast cancer risk has nothing to do with nutrition, unlike (you say) CVD.
WTF?
In what way does the WTO's report disagree with anything I've said?
"Most of these deaths are in developing countries."
http://www.who.int/entity/cardiovascular_diseases
You do know that "3rd world" and "developing" are synonomous, don't you?
And second: I carefully quoted all my sources about CVD, none of which are "blogs" or anything of the sort. You just didn't bother to look at my other post in this thread where I went into great detail.