For insisting a 47-year old bridge be repaired to remain usable and safe, and for contradicting their chairman's personal opinions about the planet in a business decision about a single bridge.
It does have one thing going for it - homoeopathic medicine is delicious! It's essentially little globules of sugar (except the liquid ones - which pretty much evaporate on your tongue anyway). Much more preferable to regular medicine : )
Some research does show certain molecules working in high dilutions. I'm not convinced, though intrigued, and the researchers are as clueless as anyone else (and good enough to admit it instead of making shit up).
J. Sainte-Laudy, N. Boujenaini and Ph. Belon. Confirmation of biological effects of high dilutions. Effects of submolecular concentrations of histamine and 1-, 3- and 4-methylhistamines on human basophil activation. Inflammation Research, Volume 57, Supplement 1 / April, 2008
Brown V, Ennis M. Flow-cytometric analysis of basophil activation: inhibition by histamine at conventional and homeopathic concentrations. Inflamm Res. 2001 Apr;50 Suppl 2:S47-8.
I think the Brits did the prudent thing by pulling the money until it was confirmed to work, but right now I'd label it [citation needed] instead of [outright wrong]. More research, m'lord?
if by civilisation you mean economy, and even then it may very well have.
As long as there are stores of value that are backed by some form of permanence (nobility/national credit), economies can go on. Gold is only important by popular consensus, and that keeps it important, in an unending cycle. There are no objective reasons why it should be so valuable as a metal - one which can be replaced in most technical applications by less expensive alternatives.
And I don't like your tone. What makes you assume another person wouldn't "actually understand" your point, Einstein?
I understand, but my comment was more along the lines of what Buffet says about gold -
Gold gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.
Gold at least is a store of value and a safeguard in bad times. A million dollars for a comic book? Cannot compute. To each his own, I guess.
It may be valuable as a cultural artefact, which pushed up its price to a million dollars, but is it worth it? A comic book, really? Although imo, it's still far more meaningful than a lot of what passes as modern 'art'.
How about stoic? A soldier's soldier one can look up to, instead of the modern trendy metrosexual? There is a reason why the men (and women) who won the Forties are called the Greatest Generation.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, is he not?
We don't fight al-Qaeda because of some grand notion of good and evil. We fight them because they fight us. When one of our soldier makes a kill, it's heroic. When one of them does it, it's cowardly and heinous. When a government authorises a plane to be flown into a ship, it's an admirably patriotic act. When a person or non-state group does it, it's terrorism.
One more thing: don't use words without appreciating their full import. This guy was not a fundamentalist - he was not against taxes in general, but a very specific tax that he had reason to believe was unfair and exploitative, to the extent that it made him feel like a slave in his own country. That is not fundamentalism; it's frustration and desperation.
I feel sorry for the individuals who lost their lives, and for their families. As for the IRS and American taxation in general, no tears. Either don't tax (the Emirates), or tax and make it worth it (the Netherlands).
Taxation as it stands now is a cruel impediment to the American dream for common Americans.
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I see nothing noble in the anti-maleria/pro-patent Gates Foundation. Not a damn thing.
If you don't see what's noble about anti-malaria research, you may benefit from eye surgery.
That still doesn't make it right.
Good to know you'd give up a tax deduction because it wasn't 'right'.
For insisting a 47-year old bridge be repaired to remain usable and safe, and for contradicting their chairman's personal opinions about the planet in a business decision about a single bridge.
... you are making sick people healthy, but not the way we want you to.
If there were a way to cure AIDS with the placebo effect, would we pass it by?
All you'd need is a glass of water, and you'd never be found.
In eastern India, where it's common.
It does have one thing going for it - homoeopathic medicine is delicious! It's essentially little globules of sugar (except the liquid ones - which pretty much evaporate on your tongue anyway). Much more preferable to regular medicine : )
Some research does show certain molecules working in high dilutions. I'm not convinced, though intrigued, and the researchers are as clueless as anyone else (and good enough to admit it instead of making shit up).
J. Sainte-Laudy, N. Boujenaini and Ph. Belon. Confirmation of biological effects of high dilutions. Effects of submolecular concentrations of histamine and 1-, 3- and 4-methylhistamines on human basophil activation. Inflammation Research, Volume 57, Supplement 1 / April, 2008
Brown V, Ennis M. Flow-cytometric analysis of basophil activation: inhibition by histamine at conventional and homeopathic concentrations. Inflamm Res. 2001 Apr;50 Suppl 2:S47-8.
I think the Brits did the prudent thing by pulling the money until it was confirmed to work, but right now I'd label it [citation needed] instead of [outright wrong]. More research, m'lord?
hemopathisizing
Hemopathy, what's that?
how do patents work in america?
My patent, you cannot has. NOM NOM NOM.
That pretty much covers it, yeah.
Mod parent up. And again. And again.
I invented trolling for false patent markings (patent pending).
"We've hidden the Uranium here, here, and here."
wasn't that a free, democratic election by the German people that brought Hitler to power?
Proves a point about democracy not being merely about turning up to elections, I guess. And checks and balances.
modern civilisation wouldn't exist without gold
if by civilisation you mean economy, and even then it may very well have.
As long as there are stores of value that are backed by some form of permanence (nobility/national credit), economies can go on. Gold is only important by popular consensus, and that keeps it important, in an unending cycle. There are no objective reasons why it should be so valuable as a metal - one which can be replaced in most technical applications by less expensive alternatives.
And I don't like your tone. What makes you assume another person wouldn't "actually understand" your point, Einstein?
Gold gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.
Gold at least is a store of value and a safeguard in bad times. A million dollars for a comic book? Cannot compute. To each his own, I guess.
It may be valuable as a cultural artefact, which pushed up its price to a million dollars, but is it worth it? A comic book, really?
Although imo, it's still far more meaningful than a lot of what passes as modern 'art'.
Once upon a time, men would have been sitting on top of that rocket.
I doubt it. It's only putting a satellite in orbit. Why'd anyone put men on that rocket?
Mod parent 'unappreciative', 'glass quarter-empty', and 'nitpicking boss from Hell'.
PS. Really impressed at how deeply you looked into this. Respect.
It's at about 11 km above the ground after 75 s. At that height, the speed of sound is 295 m/s (WolframAlpha). So it is a sonic boom.
I love Mondays. On a Monday, anything is possible.
That is a genuinely novel and interesting sig. Is it a quotation from someone, or is it you?
mindless unfeeling automatons
How about stoic? A soldier's soldier one can look up to, instead of the modern trendy metrosexual? There is a reason why the men (and women) who won the Forties are called the Greatest Generation.
War is not about who is right, but who is left.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, is he not?
We don't fight al-Qaeda because of some grand notion of good and evil. We fight them because they fight us. When one of our soldier makes a kill, it's heroic. When one of them does it, it's cowardly and heinous. When a government authorises a plane to be flown into a ship, it's an admirably patriotic act. When a person or non-state group does it, it's terrorism.
One more thing: don't use words without appreciating their full import. This guy was not a fundamentalist - he was not against taxes in general, but a very specific tax that he had reason to believe was unfair and exploitative, to the extent that it made him feel like a slave in his own country. That is not fundamentalism; it's frustration and desperation.
I feel sorry for the individuals who lost their lives, and for their families. As for the IRS and American taxation in general, no tears. Either don't tax (the Emirates), or tax and make it worth it (the Netherlands).
Taxation as it stands now is a cruel impediment to the American dream for common Americans.
create a partnership/hire another person, and have multiple concurrent projects.
Oh... I was thinking along lines of binary fission. Never mind.
Thankfully, the electricity is provided by little fairies running in hamster wheels. That solves that.