When you mention "overpriced poison" the first thing that comes to my mind is MMS. Industrial strength bleach sold as cure for pretty much everything that may ail you, from cancer to HIV to autism.
Yes, you're supposed to drink that drain cleaner. What did you expect?
Check Amazon and other vendors for it, then shop around for sodium chlorite (not chloride, which would at least be harmless), then ponder who is the asshole that wants to sell us overpriced poison as medicine. Hint: It ain't Roche and Pfizer.
Science doesn't only accept the placebo effect as fact, it even factors it in when testing a new drug, why do you think double blind studies are double blind?
Actually multi cellular organisms are complicated enough that it dying happens in many stages. Some parts of you are actually still alive when you've croaked, e.g. your fingernails and hairs keep growing for a little while after your brain and the rest of your body has been dead.
Basically what happens when a person dies (unless it's a violent death, which has of course completely different effects), you can notice the shutdown of the citric acid cycle. One thing that you can notice here is that people who are about to die are smelling faintly of Acetone due to that breakdown. So in case you smell like Acetone and haven't been cleaning PCBs lately, you might want to dictate your will to whoever is around, and make it quick, you probably only have minutes.
How we die and what happens during our demise is actually pretty well understood and documented. You might want to read it up, it's actually quite interesting. The exact moment a person dies is, by the way, defined as the moment when his brain stops working. We have to define that moment because our body doesn't completely die at one single point in time, else procedures like organ transplantation would be virtually impossible.
Vaccines are not a cure and certainly are not marketed as such. You get vaccinated when you are healthy (actually, being healthy and having a stable immune system that isn't occupied elsewhere is pretty much the basic requirement for getting a vac shot), whereas you take homeopathetic sugar pills when you're sick, hoping that it will cure you.
While correct, this is fine for things like headaches or other pain, maybe a less severe case of the cold and similar problems where your body is quite capable of dealing with the problem itself, given time.
But we're talking about people using that quackery to combat dangerous diseases and even cancer, and that's where you should probably try to get some actual medicine instead of ritual circle dancing.
If that's your approach, I would recommend joining my pizzapathy therapy concept.
Every time I have a headache, I eat a pizza cardinale. Then I wait 2-20 hours and presto, headache gone. It works near flawlessly.
Sometimes my headaches get worse. That doesn't mean my pizzapathy doesn't work, that's just initial worsening. After another pizza, I'm usually fine.
But sometimes it does actually not work. My current working theory is that the pizza was incorrectly stored by the store or they made some mistake at the manufacturing. I have experimented with replacing the pizza cardinale with a pizza tonno, with some promising results. It did actually work nearly as well, though the side effects of fish breath remains.
Yes, they do. But they aren't using anything else that could remotely be considered science, why bother trying to make them use the correct scientific terms?
Considering how little faith the US people have in its "establishment" and how much they despise everything that comes out of Washington, this pretty much doubles as advertising for quackery.
I usually ask for a proof that passes scientific rigor. I.e. must apply universally where it makes a claim, has to account for all the "but if" cases and doesn't discount everything that contradicts it as some conspiracy by the powers that are.
All this was inspired by the principle—which is quite true within itself—that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.
—Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X
(Most of what you find in that book is extra grade baloney, but this one is sadly true. For reference, just look around how many people still believe a lot of that junk after all those years)
But just because you don't like the "approved" news you turn around and listen to someone spouting baloney? That's like those idiots that don't want to believe what science showed to be real and instead turns to any quack trying to sell snakeoil, from flat earth to virus-denial.
Being skeptic of what you're told is fine. But turning around and going "I don't want to believe what A tells me, so B must be right even if it's harebrained nonsense" is prime grade bullshit.
Over here, anyone publishing anything is required to run a retraction at the same size in the same font on the same page for the same amount of time (and so on, you get the idea) as the original story if said story turns out to be fake.
That sure shut up a lot of tabloids that loved to invent shit. Enforce this on blogs and you'll see that bullshit stop pretty fucking quickly.
Make the damn phone thicker than a sheet of tinfoil and it won't bend any time anyone looks at it oddly. Might even let you put sensible connectors back in.
Western Digital. MTBF on their drives is above average (but not yet anything to write home about, but if one of their drives croaks, their RMA policy and handling is stellar.
Of course, we first have to lay off 23.000, and it goes without saying that those 9.000 will be hired via temp agencies and only if you offer us some kickbacks, else we're going to build those cars in Romania.
Coworker goes to lunch and locks his PC, you go and steal his cookies and mess with his project files while making it look like it's him.
Many fat client applications have been replaced by REST apps and web based approaches, and many companies do not use HTTPS for servers that can only be accessed internally. Yes, even companies that should be security conscious. The attack scenario is not webservers out on the internet but company-internal servers. Once I was even told by a client that this actually increases their security because port 80 is never accessible from the outside, so it's safer (I still have the bite marks on my tongue, I think).
And locking USB ports isn't always an option.
Though I have to say, I'm very glad this happened, for it will certainly support my case for more encryption even for servers that have no business communicating to the outside world.
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When you mention "overpriced poison" the first thing that comes to my mind is MMS. Industrial strength bleach sold as cure for pretty much everything that may ail you, from cancer to HIV to autism.
Yes, you're supposed to drink that drain cleaner. What did you expect?
Check Amazon and other vendors for it, then shop around for sodium chlorite (not chloride, which would at least be harmless), then ponder who is the asshole that wants to sell us overpriced poison as medicine. Hint: It ain't Roche and Pfizer.
So ... the solution eventually found a suitable problem.
Science doesn't only accept the placebo effect as fact, it even factors it in when testing a new drug, why do you think double blind studies are double blind?
Actually multi cellular organisms are complicated enough that it dying happens in many stages. Some parts of you are actually still alive when you've croaked, e.g. your fingernails and hairs keep growing for a little while after your brain and the rest of your body has been dead.
Basically what happens when a person dies (unless it's a violent death, which has of course completely different effects), you can notice the shutdown of the citric acid cycle. One thing that you can notice here is that people who are about to die are smelling faintly of Acetone due to that breakdown. So in case you smell like Acetone and haven't been cleaning PCBs lately, you might want to dictate your will to whoever is around, and make it quick, you probably only have minutes.
How we die and what happens during our demise is actually pretty well understood and documented. You might want to read it up, it's actually quite interesting. The exact moment a person dies is, by the way, defined as the moment when his brain stops working. We have to define that moment because our body doesn't completely die at one single point in time, else procedures like organ transplantation would be virtually impossible.
Vaccines are not a cure and certainly are not marketed as such. You get vaccinated when you are healthy (actually, being healthy and having a stable immune system that isn't occupied elsewhere is pretty much the basic requirement for getting a vac shot), whereas you take homeopathetic sugar pills when you're sick, hoping that it will cure you.
While correct, this is fine for things like headaches or other pain, maybe a less severe case of the cold and similar problems where your body is quite capable of dealing with the problem itself, given time.
But we're talking about people using that quackery to combat dangerous diseases and even cancer, and that's where you should probably try to get some actual medicine instead of ritual circle dancing.
If that's your approach, I would recommend joining my pizzapathy therapy concept.
Every time I have a headache, I eat a pizza cardinale. Then I wait 2-20 hours and presto, headache gone. It works near flawlessly.
Sometimes my headaches get worse. That doesn't mean my pizzapathy doesn't work, that's just initial worsening. After another pizza, I'm usually fine.
But sometimes it does actually not work. My current working theory is that the pizza was incorrectly stored by the store or they made some mistake at the manufacturing. I have experimented with replacing the pizza cardinale with a pizza tonno, with some promising results. It did actually work nearly as well, though the side effects of fish breath remains.
Yes, they do. But they aren't using anything else that could remotely be considered science, why bother trying to make them use the correct scientific terms?
Considering how little faith the US people have in its "establishment" and how much they despise everything that comes out of Washington, this pretty much doubles as advertising for quackery.
I usually ask for a proof that passes scientific rigor. I.e. must apply universally where it makes a claim, has to account for all the "but if" cases and doesn't discount everything that contradicts it as some conspiracy by the powers that are.
All this was inspired by the principle—which is quite true within itself—that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.
—Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X
(Most of what you find in that book is extra grade baloney, but this one is sadly true. For reference, just look around how many people still believe a lot of that junk after all those years)
But just because you don't like the "approved" news you turn around and listen to someone spouting baloney? That's like those idiots that don't want to believe what science showed to be real and instead turns to any quack trying to sell snakeoil, from flat earth to virus-denial.
Being skeptic of what you're told is fine. But turning around and going "I don't want to believe what A tells me, so B must be right even if it's harebrained nonsense" is prime grade bullshit.
You do understand the difference between free speech and slander, yes?
Over here, anyone publishing anything is required to run a retraction at the same size in the same font on the same page for the same amount of time (and so on, you get the idea) as the original story if said story turns out to be fake.
That sure shut up a lot of tabloids that loved to invent shit. Enforce this on blogs and you'll see that bullshit stop pretty fucking quickly.
You can buy a brand new iPhone 7, and you can even keep your old iPhone 6 as an additional bonus!
Good lord, in other cults at least the service is free! It only steals your time, not your money.
Then again, there's offering, so... but who drops that much into the plate?
Make the damn phone thicker than a sheet of tinfoil and it won't bend any time anyone looks at it oddly. Might even let you put sensible connectors back in.
But it only happens "if you drop it repeatedly on a hard surface and handle it roughly". Now try to prove you didn't.
Western Digital. MTBF on their drives is above average (but not yet anything to write home about, but if one of their drives croaks, their RMA policy and handling is stellar.
Odd. That's exactly what my ex-girlfriend has been telling me...
So you got robbed twice.
Of course, we first have to lay off 23.000, and it goes without saying that those 9.000 will be hired via temp agencies and only if you offer us some kickbacks, else we're going to build those cars in Romania.
What's that "fellow" you're talking about? Corporations know no nationalities, unless of course certain nations offer them kickbacks.
I remember them from the late 90s when they handed out those shiny hipster coasters.
Coworker goes to lunch and locks his PC, you go and steal his cookies and mess with his project files while making it look like it's him.
Many fat client applications have been replaced by REST apps and web based approaches, and many companies do not use HTTPS for servers that can only be accessed internally. Yes, even companies that should be security conscious. The attack scenario is not webservers out on the internet but company-internal servers. Once I was even told by a client that this actually increases their security because port 80 is never accessible from the outside, so it's safer (I still have the bite marks on my tongue, I think).
And locking USB ports isn't always an option.
Though I have to say, I'm very glad this happened, for it will certainly support my case for more encryption even for servers that have no business communicating to the outside world.