Guns in the hand of people also means that the people who can afford the largest guns also have the largest influence. It makes no difference to a system where money buys the government directly, except that it requires more bloodshed.
Or just be like me and not care about in-car-entertainment. All I use the car radio for is listening to some news channel. I don't have ever burned a CD for my car, I never took a bought CD in my car, I don't have any USB-based devices or anything else.
Sometimes I wonder how many people like to state that "The car body is made from steel" to make an argument the car was not blue. It seems to be some sentence once learned in some class or read in some book that reoccur again and again without ever being called in question. There are other themes (like: "Nikola Tesla is the most underreported inventor"), but this one always striked me as especially odd.
I once learned that Democracy is a measure of how easy it is to remove someone from power. If it requires a bloodshed, you live in a tyranny. If it requires some violent pressure on someone, it's not as bad, and if all it takes is a public statement of wishing someone else in power, you are pretty close to a full democracy. Elections in this case are just a means to an end, a way to formulate a public statement. A referendum would be another way. As it seems from the study, it's nearly impossible to remove someone in power via a public statement, because the amount of money to bend the public statement in your favor is so exceptionally large, that only some elites can afford it.
And you expect the media to be able to correctly asses the abilities and the inner workings of a secret agency in a foreign country? And not just blindly speculating what could have happened? Does the media read the press releases of the KGB, where the KGB announces his new spy programs?
If there are any new tactics at the KGB and the chinese Zhong Chan Er Bu, they surely will not tell the papers you are reading. And if any american intelligence agency detects new tactics of foreign spy agencies, they won't put out a press release either. So we have wild guesses in the news papers you read, and nothing else.
What we have is the former head of the NSA excusing before Germany for completely misunderstanding the german sensibilities when it comes to complete surveillance of everyone. We have about every intelligence agency running to their respective government to demand more money, and we have the intelligence agencies of Brazil and Germany begging for pardon for being that inept.
I wonder where you get that (surely classified) information from and what you deserve for revealing it to the enemy. Yes, chinese and russian spies can read slashdot, and you are revealing secrets here.
Fertilizing the ocean with iron will not increase the fish population, it will rather kill it off. Yes, phytoplankton will increase, but at the same time this will bind much of the oxygen in the ocean, thus animals (including fish) will just suffocate. Ask someone who lives near the ocean what happens if you have an algae bloom: fish populations die.
Climate change is quite well understood (science is never settled). And the question if climate change is something we are largely responsible for is answered with a sound yes. There are some nests of people still trying to argue that, but they are mainly located in the U.S.. The rest of the world just shrugs the shoulders about the ongoing debate in the U.S. and thinks: Americans, ey? Can't just accept a fact, if it means they might be wrong.
They were not a serious problem 200 years ago, because 200 years ago, there were many more serious problems overshadowing them. Basicly the only illness you can catch today that didn't exist 200 years ago is AIDS.
There are times when a child can receive up to 6 vaccines at the same time and that's a little bit shocking.
Yes, they get a preparation that is called Hexavac. It is one shot with six vaccines. It works. And you prefer your child to get six shots? Six times in a doctor's office, six times being pierced, being hurt and feeling dizzy afterwards? I prefer Hexavac everytime (and both my children got it).
Actually, she is against vaccination in general, and the alleged vaccination-autism-connection was just playing in her hand. Now that the anti-vaccination stand shows to have detoriating effects like the outbreak of illnesses that once were thought to be in check, she backpedals on the anti-vaccination stand and uses the alleged connection to defend herself.
Not only that, but people with some distance to the situation and only superficial knowledge are not blinded by facts and details. We have the same phenomenon with predicting sport results. There, people who are not absolute fans or professionals in the sport usually fare better at predicting results as they don't give too much weight on some details, or their own preferences, which in the long run prove to have much less influence than expected. Instead they basicly tend to put teams or athletes they often heard about in front and less famous ones more to the back.
So you have three group of people: Those who don't know anything, and who indeed are the worst predictors, then those who have some basic understanding of the situation, who are the best predictors, and then the specialists, who know intricate details and have very profound knowledge, who aren't very good at predicting because they give too much weight to single aspects and have some very strong opinions or emotions about the situation which blinds their judgement.
Because the population of the whole of Liechtenstein could fit into a football stadium, whereas Singapore has a a few more inhabitants. With the murder rate of Singapore, Liechtenstein would have not a single murder in 9 out of 10 years.
Carbon atoms don't cure anything either, but in combination with hydrogenium atoms, oxygen atoms, nitrogenium atoms, sulfur atoms, phosphorus atoms etc.pp., they do. What we need is to account for the fact that the brain believing to have received a dose of medication has some effect. So we have to compare the actual medication and the brain believing to get the actual medication.
As our mind is also a very strong influence of our health, we have to control for the influences of the mind too. So we actually need those placebos, so the mind doesn't know if it got the real thing or if it just got something.
Homeopathy is indistinguishable from, "Take good holistic care of yourself and keep psychologically strong!" - two important pieces of advice which are significant to health. If medicines alone were so effective, you wouldn't need to do the whole double-blind placebo-controlled trial thing, would you? It'd be obvious from the medicine's effect alone.
Not quite. You need the double-blind placebo-controlled randomized studies because medicines are not the only source of improving health. We are able to overcome most illness by ourself. Our tissues can regrow, we have an immune system to fight of diseases, and our liver and kidneys getting us rid of toxins all the time. If medicine was the only game in town, then yes, we could just do a simple before-after analysis and see solely the effects of medicine. As we have enough abilities to self-heal, and we are constantly under other internal and external influences (diets, environmental influences, behaviour etc.pp.), we have to filter out the effects of medicines against all those other influences, and thus we need those complicated settings for medical studies.
Herbs and other plants are not "alternative medicine". They are medicine, pure and simple. Many of our pills are herbs and other plants too, you just don't recognize them anymore. Aspirin is basicly willow bark cooked in vinegar, and many cough medications contain thyme as their main ingredient for instance. What we don't have are good natural sources for antibiotics as most molds, our main sources for antibiotics, are toxic and need heavy processing until their antibiotic substrances can be used for medication. So those tribes are depending solely on general good health and their immune system to fight off infections, and if their immune system doesn't have an answer to a new strain of bacteria, they die quickly.
I think it shows a deeper problem. Data retention was active already (PRISM is one of the programs that are known), but in the hand of the intelligence agencies. Police departements were envious of the capabilities of the agencies (and probably got some information considered useful from them) and rallied for their own data retention programs, but they had to be legal to be admissible in court.
So in each country where the Minister of Interior affairs or a top police officer was always pressuring for a data retetion law, there was probably a data retention program already in place, whose results were just unusable in public (e.g. in court).
Read the fine print again: The E.U. considered the current data retention laws according to the directive to be incompatible with the human rights as laid down in the Treaty of Lisbon. So this actually invalidates the data retention laws in all countries who adhered to the directive, e.g. all of them with the exemption of Ireland, Germany, where struck down before by the German Constitutional Court, and Austria, which never got the act together.
We are in a sad shape when the whole population of the own country is considered "the enemy". And only then "helping and abedding the enemy" is a valid accusation. If you think otherwise, then any published news would be treason, because each news also helps the enemy.
Actually, the oldest known horseshoe crab fossils are 70 million years younger than those of Fuxianhuia protensa. And 70 million years is a long time, even considering evolution. 70 million years ago from today, dinosaurs still ruled supreme on earth.
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Guns in the hand of people also means that the people who can afford the largest guns also have the largest influence. It makes no difference to a system where money buys the government directly, except that it requires more bloodshed.
Or just be like me and not care about in-car-entertainment. All I use the car radio for is listening to some news channel. I don't have ever burned a CD for my car, I never took a bought CD in my car, I don't have any USB-based devices or anything else.
I once learned that Democracy is a measure of how easy it is to remove someone from power. If it requires a bloodshed, you live in a tyranny. If it requires some violent pressure on someone, it's not as bad, and if all it takes is a public statement of wishing someone else in power, you are pretty close to a full democracy. Elections in this case are just a means to an end, a way to formulate a public statement. A referendum would be another way. As it seems from the study, it's nearly impossible to remove someone in power via a public statement, because the amount of money to bend the public statement in your favor is so exceptionally large, that only some elites can afford it.
I think what we have here is you pulling accusations out of your ass without backing them up.
If there are any new tactics at the KGB and the chinese Zhong Chan Er Bu, they surely will not tell the papers you are reading. And if any american intelligence agency detects new tactics of foreign spy agencies, they won't put out a press release either. So we have wild guesses in the news papers you read, and nothing else.
What we have is the former head of the NSA excusing before Germany for completely misunderstanding the german sensibilities when it comes to complete surveillance of everyone. We have about every intelligence agency running to their respective government to demand more money, and we have the intelligence agencies of Brazil and Germany begging for pardon for being that inept.
I wonder where you get that (surely classified) information from and what you deserve for revealing it to the enemy. Yes, chinese and russian spies can read slashdot, and you are revealing secrets here.
Lets suppose, we just exclude the U.S., and then we have the consensus that GW is human caused.
Fertilizing the ocean with iron will not increase the fish population, it will rather kill it off. Yes, phytoplankton will increase, but at the same time this will bind much of the oxygen in the ocean, thus animals (including fish) will just suffocate. Ask someone who lives near the ocean what happens if you have an algae bloom: fish populations die.
Climate change is quite well understood (science is never settled). And the question if climate change is something we are largely responsible for is answered with a sound yes. There are some nests of people still trying to argue that, but they are mainly located in the U.S.. The rest of the world just shrugs the shoulders about the ongoing debate in the U.S. and thinks: Americans, ey? Can't just accept a fact, if it means they might be wrong.
They were not a serious problem 200 years ago, because 200 years ago, there were many more serious problems overshadowing them. Basicly the only illness you can catch today that didn't exist 200 years ago is AIDS.
There are times when a child can receive up to 6 vaccines at the same time and that's a little bit shocking.
Yes, they get a preparation that is called Hexavac. It is one shot with six vaccines. It works. And you prefer your child to get six shots? Six times in a doctor's office, six times being pierced, being hurt and feeling dizzy afterwards? I prefer Hexavac everytime (and both my children got it).
Actually, she is against vaccination in general, and the alleged vaccination-autism-connection was just playing in her hand. Now that the anti-vaccination stand shows to have detoriating effects like the outbreak of illnesses that once were thought to be in check, she backpedals on the anti-vaccination stand and uses the alleged connection to defend herself.
So you have three group of people: Those who don't know anything, and who indeed are the worst predictors, then those who have some basic understanding of the situation, who are the best predictors, and then the specialists, who know intricate details and have very profound knowledge, who aren't very good at predicting because they give too much weight to single aspects and have some very strong opinions or emotions about the situation which blinds their judgement.
Because the population of the whole of Liechtenstein could fit into a football stadium, whereas Singapore has a a few more inhabitants. With the murder rate of Singapore, Liechtenstein would have not a single murder in 9 out of 10 years.
Carbon atoms don't cure anything either, but in combination with hydrogenium atoms, oxygen atoms, nitrogenium atoms, sulfur atoms, phosphorus atoms etc.pp., they do. What we need is to account for the fact that the brain believing to have received a dose of medication has some effect. So we have to compare the actual medication and the brain believing to get the actual medication.
In the video, it is mentioned that Land Rover itself calls it "Transparent Hood" in North America.
As our mind is also a very strong influence of our health, we have to control for the influences of the mind too. So we actually need those placebos, so the mind doesn't know if it got the real thing or if it just got something.
Homeopathy is indistinguishable from, "Take good holistic care of yourself and keep psychologically strong!" - two important pieces of advice which are significant to health. If medicines alone were so effective, you wouldn't need to do the whole double-blind placebo-controlled trial thing, would you? It'd be obvious from the medicine's effect alone.
Not quite. You need the double-blind placebo-controlled randomized studies because medicines are not the only source of improving health. We are able to overcome most illness by ourself. Our tissues can regrow, we have an immune system to fight of diseases, and our liver and kidneys getting us rid of toxins all the time. If medicine was the only game in town, then yes, we could just do a simple before-after analysis and see solely the effects of medicine. As we have enough abilities to self-heal, and we are constantly under other internal and external influences (diets, environmental influences, behaviour etc.pp.), we have to filter out the effects of medicines against all those other influences, and thus we need those complicated settings for medical studies.
Herbs and other plants are not "alternative medicine". They are medicine, pure and simple. Many of our pills are herbs and other plants too, you just don't recognize them anymore. Aspirin is basicly willow bark cooked in vinegar, and many cough medications contain thyme as their main ingredient for instance. What we don't have are good natural sources for antibiotics as most molds, our main sources for antibiotics, are toxic and need heavy processing until their antibiotic substrances can be used for medication. So those tribes are depending solely on general good health and their immune system to fight off infections, and if their immune system doesn't have an answer to a new strain of bacteria, they die quickly.
As the NSA is the enemy, I welcome everyone betraying them.
So in each country where the Minister of Interior affairs or a top police officer was always pressuring for a data retetion law, there was probably a data retention program already in place, whose results were just unusable in public (e.g. in court).
Read the fine print again: The E.U. considered the current data retention laws according to the directive to be incompatible with the human rights as laid down in the Treaty of Lisbon. So this actually invalidates the data retention laws in all countries who adhered to the directive, e.g. all of them with the exemption of Ireland, Germany, where struck down before by the German Constitutional Court, and Austria, which never got the act together.
Because the english speaking countries in the E.U. don't have that much of each?
We are in a sad shape when the whole population of the own country is considered "the enemy". And only then "helping and abedding the enemy" is a valid accusation. If you think otherwise, then any published news would be treason, because each news also helps the enemy.
Actually, the oldest known horseshoe crab fossils are 70 million years younger than those of Fuxianhuia protensa. And 70 million years is a long time, even considering evolution. 70 million years ago from today, dinosaurs still ruled supreme on earth.