Then only 15000 count. If you are committing suicide, there are just as many non gun related ways to do that. Cars beat that as well as beer.
Wow, that's cold... You really think ~20,000 deaths a year don't matter?
Your statement belies an ignorance of how many suicides happen. A huge percentage of them are impulse decisions made feasible by access to a readily available firearm. Sure, some people are determined to kill themselves and will find another way if they don't have access to a gun. But a substantial percentage of them would not literally because of the effort involved, surprising as that may seem. Keep them away from firearms and a lot (not all) of those people would live to see another day. You cannot deny that access to a firearm is a rather convenient and efficient way for a person with suicidal thoughts to act upon those thoughts successfully.
Furthermore you are ignoring the fact that more than a few of those self inflicted deaths by firearm are not suicides. They are accidents of one form or another. Responsible gun ownership (which I support) comes with an acknowledgment of the real world dangers presented by ready access to firearms.
This headline makes it sound like the third party screens were responsible for the problem, when it was Apple being a bunch of self-righteous assholes and ignoring the law.
What law precisely did they break? Please be specific. They cannot legally prevent you from modifying your phone but there is no requirement that they support or cooperate with you in doing so. Seems fair to me as long as everyone understands that arrangement going in. If you want to figuratively speaking void the warranty, knock yourself out. If you want Apple's help then you had better play by their rules. If you don't like their rules buy something else. It's not like Apple is a monopoly.
This is quite true. The problem is that a non trivial percentage do use firearms in anger and we generally don't know in advance which ones they are.
Or do you seriously believe there are only twenty thousand or so gun owners in the USA?
I know there are were about 38,000 deaths by firearm in the USA last year and about 15,000 of these were not suicides. It's true most firearm owners are decent law abiding people but enough aren't that its a serious problem.
And imagine that someone cuts you off on the road. You're totally enraged at this awful behaviour. So, you immediately reach for the gun in the trunk of your car???
I have seen with my own eyes someone brandish a gun due to road rage. (no nobody got shot) Yes it was illegal and no they didn't seem to care. I've known quite a few people to carry loaded firearms in the glove compartment or other easily accessible locations. Do you seriously think someone who would consider brandishing a gun for such a trivial reason or who is so paranoid they think they need a loaded pistol within reach at all times would give a shit about the fact that transporting a weapon in such a fashion is likely illegal? It's not responsible people like (probably) you that I'm worried about. It's the people with anger management problems or high levels of paranoia that worry me and the fact that I can't reliably identify them until it is too late to avoid them.
I'm not paranoid about home assistants, but I'll be damned if I was going to let someone override my control of my car.
I'm not paranoid about the various home assistants either but I don't really see the point in them. My phone can already do more or less everything they can do and it's rarely not at my side. What problem is such a device solving for me? I like a good gadget as much as most people reading this but there has to be some utility function to make it worth bothering.
Onstar is basically an (overpriced) concierge service with some access to your car controls. I don't have a principled objection but similar to the home assistant devices very little of what Onstar provides is really of much value to me so I don't really see the point. If I get locked out there are solutions for that and what else does it provide that my phone doesn't do better? Plus I can upgrade my phone - good luck doing that with your in car concierge hardware.
Europol officials have shut down WebStresser, a website where users could register and launch DDoS attacks after paying for a monthly plan, with prices starting as low as $18.25.
So someone who signs up for a service like this really is saying they intend to cause harm. While logistically difficult to prosecute everyone, it would seem logical that every user of this service should find themselves in some legal hot water. I cannot think of a single lawful reason why someone would need to use a service like this. And if there isn't a law against using a service like this there darn well should be. Obviously the providers of this "service" should be put in jail but I would argue the users of the service are really no less culpable.
The most common uses of the word cracker are as a flat piece of dried bread and as a racial epithet. No journalist is going to use that word to describe computer related activities. Get over it.
That's the job of a journalist, to educate people.
No it isn't. The job of a journalist is to report news. This is not news. It's an old and lame attempt by a group of computer geeks to try to claim a word means something other than what it means to 99.9% of the general public.
They missed used the word.
No they did not. They used it in exactly the way it is most commonly used. If that irritates you that is your problem not theirs.
What good did EVER result from inventing new words?
Lots actually. New words are routinely required to accurately or concisely communicate new concepts. For example when a new particle is discovered we assign it a new word to describe the particle ("positron" for example) so that people can talk about it without using an entire paragraph. The word hacking was utilized to describe a particular activity. Over time it's come to mean something slightly different. That's how language works.
Just think of all the politically correct bullshit circulating. You used to call people with dark skin something I can't even write here anymore.
Are you seriously complaining that society now frowns on you using a vile racial epithet?
And now the racists use those "PC words" to make fun of the whole politically correctness and mock it.
And what is the problem? That's how language works.
You think it would be any different if you invent something new for "hacking"?
Maybe but you'll have to convince a lot of people to use the term. It will happen organically if it does happen. In the mean time it really isn't something that matters much. All you have to do to clarify that some form of hacking his helpful is to use a second word to clarify what you are saying. Not a big deal.
What you're asking for is not a new word, but for the public to understand a nuance of something they don't frankly give a shit about
Most understand the nuance just fine. They just don't use a single word to describe the nuance. They use one word to describe the activity ("hacker") and another to describe the motivation ("criminal" for example). When they leave out the word describing the motivation there is a default assumption of something nefarious but if you say "charitable hacking" or "playful hacking" or "helpful hacking" (most) people will understand what you mean just fine.
The problem is that a bunch of computer geeks want the word to mean something other than what it does and they won't let it go and move on despite the rest of the world not giving a shit about their pedantry.
Hacking and Hackers get a bum rap. Headline scream "Every Nitendo switch can be hacked." But that's good right? Just like farmers hacking their tractors or someone re-purposing a talking teddy bear. On the other hand, remote hacking a Intel processor backdoor or looting medical data base, that are also described as hacking, are ill-motivated.
This conflates the activity with the motivation. Inappropriately in my opinion. All the activities described above are "hacking" because both are a form of tinkering with a piece of technology to do something. The motivation behind such activities is irrelevant to what it is. We already have separate words for the motivations which are perfectly adequate. We don't need a single word to describe the activity and the motivation or if you get such a word you'll need at least two of them and probably more. There is nothing wrong with saying "criminal hacking" or "security hacking" or "playful hacking" or etc.
There have been attempts to do this in the past (see cracking) which have largely been ignored by the public at large because it provides no additional information. There is legal hacking and illegal hacking. There is creative hacking and malicious hacking. Don't make the problem more complicated than it is.
Contract out most of the work done by the city. Then if one of the contractors gets hit with ransomware, it's their problem. If that contractor can't meet obligations, switch contractors.
Here in the real world it's not that simple. You need to think it through. Just because you outsource something doesn't make the problems magically go away. In many cases it actually is harder and more expensive to oversee the contractors than it is to do the job in house. There are real world consequences to suppliers not delivering and fixing problems is very often not as simple as switching suppliers. Good luck replacing the water treatment plant administration or the public transportation authority or the police or the fire department when they can't meet their obligations. When a building contractor fails to deliver it generally means huge cost overruns and switching can be difficult or impossible in many cases. How do you plan to replace the public schools that you now are contracting? Have fun replacing the company contracted to plow your roads in the middle of a snowstorm. Do you seriously think that any contractor with a brain isn't going to insist on clauses that make them difficult to remove?
Frankly there is a lot of stuff you absolutely do NOT want your city to contract out. Profit motives can be difficult to align with the interests of the citizenry and some important activities simply aren't profitable enough to contract out even if you wanted to.
Well unless we are planning to get rid of bison or water buffalo which are generally bigger than cows that isn't likely to be true even for captive animals. Heck some breeds of draft horses are about the same size as the biggest cows. The biggest draft horse ever weighed in at about 1525kg.
You are right. Since you do your work at home on a desktop PC with 2 to 3 large monitors, it doesn't matter. Lets go on to the next article.
No lets continue to fuss and argue over an insignificant design detail with no clear right answer which makes no discernable difference in our work flow and over which we have no influence. Much better use of our time.
Or did you think that laptop makers are eagerly awaiting a verdict about what to do from slashdot readers?
Same with the screens which are so glossy they cannot be used outdoors.
Is this a big problem for you? Not being snide. I honestly cannot remember the last time I used my laptop outdoors for any meaningful period of time. I understand the problem if you wanted to but this just isn't a use case most people have most of the time.
With all of these horizontal bars invading our vertical space, a 16:9 screen quickly starts to feel cramped, especially at the typical laptop size. You wind up spending more time scrolling through content than engaging with it.
I have a different take in that it doesn't really matter. Basically, who cares? Most of my work is done at my desks at work or at home so I have desktop PCs with 2 or 3 large monitors on each one. I also rotate one of the monitors 90 degrees so I can view an entire page of a printed document without scrolling. I lose a TON of efficiency trying to work on a single small laptop screen. Not saying laptops are bad tools (they're great) but worrying about whether 16:9 or 4:3 is marginally better kind of misses the big picture.
I do have and use my laptop when I need to travel or in metings but for most of the work I do there isn't a laptop made with enough screen real estate to really be efficient. Minor difference in aspect ratio just really aren't all that important. 16:9 or 4:3 doesn't make a meaningful difference in my work flow. What I actually need is the ability to open and use 3-4 (or more) windows at a time. For example this morning I had some work instructions I was creating, our inventory system, a tooling database, and a customer drawing all open at the same time and I needed data from each. Trying to switch between these documents on a tiny 15" screen would result in a huge negative impact on productivity for me. Now your workflow might be different and that's fine. Some stuff I do can be done very efficiently on a laptop - I don't need multiple windows to email.
Five years from now, none of the major fears like blocking sites they don't like will have materialized, but Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. will be more one sided than ever.
That's adorable you actually seem to believe that. If there is money to be made in blocking content then it will be blocked. The precise nature of the block is yet to be determined but it will happen in some form or fashion. Do you seriously think Comcast isn't going to prioritize their own content over everyone else's who doesn't pay them an arm and a leg? They've effectively gotten a government endorsed protection racket. "Nice website. Would be a shame if no one could see it..."
Your cell production HAS been outsourced, to bacteria. They outnumber your "human" cells about 10 to 1
That number you are citing is not accurate if you believe the latest research. Furthermore the numbers are estimates with huge error bars and variance around them. And the current estimates (closer to 1:1) are certain to be revised further as we learn more. The numbers you are citing come from a back of the envelope estimate based on flawed assumptions.
Furthermore the largest repositories of bacteria "inside" the human body is the gut which is technically outside the body. I'm oversimplifying of course but think of it topologically and you are essentially a weirdly shaped toriod. The bacteria in your gut serve vital functions in keeping you alive (outsourcing is a fairly accurate term) but bacteria located there are only inside your body in the same sense that a bit of food you haven't finished chewing yet is contained "inside". Until your body absobs the contents and it passes the wall of your intestines it isn't actually part of you. It's just some stuff you are carrying around no different than some bacteria on your outer skin.
Funny how "Western" medicine is also increasingly shown to not be reproducible.
Only to morons (like you!) who run away screaming with their fingers in their ears when they hear the word "evidence" and who want to believe that there is something more to eastern "medicine" than a good story. Or did you think all those diseases were cured by modern medicine with ginseng tea and acupuncture?
The problem is that the dosage prescribed by Homeopathy is too low to have any effect.
No the "dosage" in homeopathic "cures" is literally indistinguishable from zero. Worse they make some ludicrous claims about water having "memory" which you have to be a weapons grade moron to actually believe.
The core methodology of Homeopathy is to find something that will cause effects similar to what you want to cure or prevent
That is the cover story. The core methodology is to lie to people and convince them that they are buying something that is somehow more than overpriced bottled water.
However, you appear to be labeling anything designated as "homeopathic" as fraud which would be a mistake.
It's not a mistake. Homeopathy absolutely is fraud and provably has zero medicinal impact greater than placebo. We don't allow people to sell placebos and claim they are medicine so I don't understand why we allow homeopathy quacks to do the same.
The "science" of homeopathy is complete and utter bullshit, but ultimately it relies on herbal remedies and those can be efficacious as others have noted.
The only thing homeopathy relies upon is the gullibility of the person purchasing/using it. There is no measurable or therapeutic amount of any remedy of any kind (herbal or otherwise) in homeopathic "remedies". There is no mechanism of action that is based in any biochemistry known to man. Anyone selling homeopathy is a criminal. I don't even care if they really believe it works. They are selling people false hope and making a handsome profit doing so.
That's not the end of land lines. It's the end of POTS service. You can have a land line that uses VOIP and doesn't require a general purpose internet connection. I've got one sitting right next to me in my office. It's a phone but it uses it's own routers and isn't connected to our office computer network in any meaningful way.
Honestly, if you make a medical claim, you better have some fucking proof. I still have no idea how homeopaths haven't been arrested for making misleading claims about the curative power of nothing.
I've wondered that exact thing myself. Homeopathy is nothing more than fraud. It is quackery in its most transparent form.
At least traditional Chinese medicine has at least some track record for a few things which actually work.
Not much but I'll grant a few herbs and the like. I'm still not convinced acupuncture is better than placebo and there is no explanation of a mechanism of action.
* Scenery -- how many fucking billboards do we need visually polluting our spaces??
That's actually one of the beautiful things about Hawaii. When I visited there were ZERO billboards anywhere. It was lovely. Now I haven't seen the entire state but I've been all over Oahu and didn't see a single one.
BTW you forgot about having zero respect for your Privacy. I have zero interest in being tracked around the internet by advertising companies.
Screwing over the US economy would only end up meaning that China would never be paid back the debt owed by the US. I don't think they want to shoot themselves in the foot.
Sigh... That's not how it works. China holds treasury bonds which are readily sold in the open market unless you hold them to term. China can sell them on any bond exchange in the world or directly to third parties any time they want and there isn't a damn thing the US can do about it. The only problem really is finding buyers for that many bonds. Furthermore it would be absolutely insane of the US to try to not repay their debt. The value of the US dollar rests on the belief that the US (like a Lanister) always repays its debts.
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Then only 15000 count. If you are committing suicide, there are just as many non gun related ways to do that. Cars beat that as well as beer.
Wow, that's cold... You really think ~20,000 deaths a year don't matter?
Your statement belies an ignorance of how many suicides happen. A huge percentage of them are impulse decisions made feasible by access to a readily available firearm. Sure, some people are determined to kill themselves and will find another way if they don't have access to a gun. But a substantial percentage of them would not literally because of the effort involved, surprising as that may seem. Keep them away from firearms and a lot (not all) of those people would live to see another day. You cannot deny that access to a firearm is a rather convenient and efficient way for a person with suicidal thoughts to act upon those thoughts successfully.
Furthermore you are ignoring the fact that more than a few of those self inflicted deaths by firearm are not suicides. They are accidents of one form or another. Responsible gun ownership (which I support) comes with an acknowledgment of the real world dangers presented by ready access to firearms.
This headline makes it sound like the third party screens were responsible for the problem, when it was Apple being a bunch of self-righteous assholes and ignoring the law.
What law precisely did they break? Please be specific. They cannot legally prevent you from modifying your phone but there is no requirement that they support or cooperate with you in doing so. Seems fair to me as long as everyone understands that arrangement going in. If you want to figuratively speaking void the warranty, knock yourself out. If you want Apple's help then you had better play by their rules. If you don't like their rules buy something else. It's not like Apple is a monopoly.
No, most gun owners don't ever murder anyone.
This is quite true. The problem is that a non trivial percentage do use firearms in anger and we generally don't know in advance which ones they are.
Or do you seriously believe there are only twenty thousand or so gun owners in the USA?
I know there are were about 38,000 deaths by firearm in the USA last year and about 15,000 of these were not suicides. It's true most firearm owners are decent law abiding people but enough aren't that its a serious problem.
And imagine that someone cuts you off on the road. You're totally enraged at this awful behaviour. So, you immediately reach for the gun in the trunk of your car???
I have seen with my own eyes someone brandish a gun due to road rage. (no nobody got shot) Yes it was illegal and no they didn't seem to care. I've known quite a few people to carry loaded firearms in the glove compartment or other easily accessible locations. Do you seriously think someone who would consider brandishing a gun for such a trivial reason or who is so paranoid they think they need a loaded pistol within reach at all times would give a shit about the fact that transporting a weapon in such a fashion is likely illegal? It's not responsible people like (probably) you that I'm worried about. It's the people with anger management problems or high levels of paranoia that worry me and the fact that I can't reliably identify them until it is too late to avoid them.
I'm not paranoid about home assistants, but I'll be damned if I was going to let someone override my control of my car.
I'm not paranoid about the various home assistants either but I don't really see the point in them. My phone can already do more or less everything they can do and it's rarely not at my side. What problem is such a device solving for me? I like a good gadget as much as most people reading this but there has to be some utility function to make it worth bothering.
Onstar is basically an (overpriced) concierge service with some access to your car controls. I don't have a principled objection but similar to the home assistant devices very little of what Onstar provides is really of much value to me so I don't really see the point. If I get locked out there are solutions for that and what else does it provide that my phone doesn't do better? Plus I can upgrade my phone - good luck doing that with your in car concierge hardware.
My brother had an account there.
Then your brother is an asshat.
Europol officials have shut down WebStresser, a website where users could register and launch DDoS attacks after paying for a monthly plan, with prices starting as low as $18.25.
So someone who signs up for a service like this really is saying they intend to cause harm. While logistically difficult to prosecute everyone, it would seem logical that every user of this service should find themselves in some legal hot water. I cannot think of a single lawful reason why someone would need to use a service like this. And if there isn't a law against using a service like this there darn well should be. Obviously the providers of this "service" should be put in jail but I would argue the users of the service are really no less culpable.
The word is informative
The most common uses of the word cracker are as a flat piece of dried bread and as a racial epithet. No journalist is going to use that word to describe computer related activities. Get over it.
That's the job of a journalist, to educate people.
No it isn't. The job of a journalist is to report news. This is not news. It's an old and lame attempt by a group of computer geeks to try to claim a word means something other than what it means to 99.9% of the general public.
They missed used the word.
No they did not. They used it in exactly the way it is most commonly used. If that irritates you that is your problem not theirs.
What good did EVER result from inventing new words?
Lots actually. New words are routinely required to accurately or concisely communicate new concepts. For example when a new particle is discovered we assign it a new word to describe the particle ("positron" for example) so that people can talk about it without using an entire paragraph. The word hacking was utilized to describe a particular activity. Over time it's come to mean something slightly different. That's how language works.
Just think of all the politically correct bullshit circulating. You used to call people with dark skin something I can't even write here anymore.
Are you seriously complaining that society now frowns on you using a vile racial epithet?
And now the racists use those "PC words" to make fun of the whole politically correctness and mock it.
And what is the problem? That's how language works.
You think it would be any different if you invent something new for "hacking"?
Maybe but you'll have to convince a lot of people to use the term. It will happen organically if it does happen. In the mean time it really isn't something that matters much. All you have to do to clarify that some form of hacking his helpful is to use a second word to clarify what you are saying. Not a big deal.
What you're asking for is not a new word, but for the public to understand a nuance of something they don't frankly give a shit about
Most understand the nuance just fine. They just don't use a single word to describe the nuance. They use one word to describe the activity ("hacker") and another to describe the motivation ("criminal" for example). When they leave out the word describing the motivation there is a default assumption of something nefarious but if you say "charitable hacking" or "playful hacking" or "helpful hacking" (most) people will understand what you mean just fine.
The problem is that a bunch of computer geeks want the word to mean something other than what it does and they won't let it go and move on despite the rest of the world not giving a shit about their pedantry.
Hacking and Hackers get a bum rap. Headline scream "Every Nitendo switch can be hacked." But that's good right? Just like farmers hacking their tractors or someone re-purposing a talking teddy bear. On the other hand, remote hacking a Intel processor backdoor or looting medical data base, that are also described as hacking, are ill-motivated.
This conflates the activity with the motivation. Inappropriately in my opinion. All the activities described above are "hacking" because both are a form of tinkering with a piece of technology to do something. The motivation behind such activities is irrelevant to what it is. We already have separate words for the motivations which are perfectly adequate. We don't need a single word to describe the activity and the motivation or if you get such a word you'll need at least two of them and probably more. There is nothing wrong with saying "criminal hacking" or "security hacking" or "playful hacking" or etc.
There have been attempts to do this in the past (see cracking) which have largely been ignored by the public at large because it provides no additional information. There is legal hacking and illegal hacking. There is creative hacking and malicious hacking. Don't make the problem more complicated than it is.
Contract out most of the work done by the city. Then if one of the contractors gets hit with ransomware, it's their problem. If that contractor can't meet obligations, switch contractors.
Here in the real world it's not that simple. You need to think it through. Just because you outsource something doesn't make the problems magically go away. In many cases it actually is harder and more expensive to oversee the contractors than it is to do the job in house. There are real world consequences to suppliers not delivering and fixing problems is very often not as simple as switching suppliers. Good luck replacing the water treatment plant administration or the public transportation authority or the police or the fire department when they can't meet their obligations. When a building contractor fails to deliver it generally means huge cost overruns and switching can be difficult or impossible in many cases. How do you plan to replace the public schools that you now are contracting? Have fun replacing the company contracted to plow your roads in the middle of a snowstorm. Do you seriously think that any contractor with a brain isn't going to insist on clauses that make them difficult to remove?
Frankly there is a lot of stuff you absolutely do NOT want your city to contract out. Profit motives can be difficult to align with the interests of the citizenry and some important activities simply aren't profitable enough to contract out even if you wanted to.
Well unless we are planning to get rid of bison or water buffalo which are generally bigger than cows that isn't likely to be true even for captive animals. Heck some breeds of draft horses are about the same size as the biggest cows. The biggest draft horse ever weighed in at about 1525kg.
You are right. Since you do your work at home on a desktop PC with 2 to 3 large monitors, it doesn't matter. Lets go on to the next article.
No lets continue to fuss and argue over an insignificant design detail with no clear right answer which makes no discernable difference in our work flow and over which we have no influence. Much better use of our time.
Or did you think that laptop makers are eagerly awaiting a verdict about what to do from slashdot readers?
Same with the screens which are so glossy they cannot be used outdoors.
Is this a big problem for you? Not being snide. I honestly cannot remember the last time I used my laptop outdoors for any meaningful period of time. I understand the problem if you wanted to but this just isn't a use case most people have most of the time.
With all of these horizontal bars invading our vertical space, a 16:9 screen quickly starts to feel cramped, especially at the typical laptop size. You wind up spending more time scrolling through content than engaging with it.
I have a different take in that it doesn't really matter. Basically, who cares? Most of my work is done at my desks at work or at home so I have desktop PCs with 2 or 3 large monitors on each one. I also rotate one of the monitors 90 degrees so I can view an entire page of a printed document without scrolling. I lose a TON of efficiency trying to work on a single small laptop screen. Not saying laptops are bad tools (they're great) but worrying about whether 16:9 or 4:3 is marginally better kind of misses the big picture.
I do have and use my laptop when I need to travel or in metings but for most of the work I do there isn't a laptop made with enough screen real estate to really be efficient. Minor difference in aspect ratio just really aren't all that important. 16:9 or 4:3 doesn't make a meaningful difference in my work flow. What I actually need is the ability to open and use 3-4 (or more) windows at a time. For example this morning I had some work instructions I was creating, our inventory system, a tooling database, and a customer drawing all open at the same time and I needed data from each. Trying to switch between these documents on a tiny 15" screen would result in a huge negative impact on productivity for me. Now your workflow might be different and that's fine. Some stuff I do can be done very efficiently on a laptop - I don't need multiple windows to email.
Five years from now, none of the major fears like blocking sites they don't like will have materialized, but Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. will be more one sided than ever.
That's adorable you actually seem to believe that. If there is money to be made in blocking content then it will be blocked. The precise nature of the block is yet to be determined but it will happen in some form or fashion. Do you seriously think Comcast isn't going to prioritize their own content over everyone else's who doesn't pay them an arm and a leg? They've effectively gotten a government endorsed protection racket. "Nice website. Would be a shame if no one could see it..."
Your cell production HAS been outsourced, to bacteria. They outnumber your "human" cells about 10 to 1
That number you are citing is not accurate if you believe the latest research. Furthermore the numbers are estimates with huge error bars and variance around them. And the current estimates (closer to 1:1) are certain to be revised further as we learn more. The numbers you are citing come from a back of the envelope estimate based on flawed assumptions.
Furthermore the largest repositories of bacteria "inside" the human body is the gut which is technically outside the body. I'm oversimplifying of course but think of it topologically and you are essentially a weirdly shaped toriod. The bacteria in your gut serve vital functions in keeping you alive (outsourcing is a fairly accurate term) but bacteria located there are only inside your body in the same sense that a bit of food you haven't finished chewing yet is contained "inside". Until your body absobs the contents and it passes the wall of your intestines it isn't actually part of you. It's just some stuff you are carrying around no different than some bacteria on your outer skin.
Funny how "Western" medicine is also increasingly shown to not be reproducible.
Only to morons (like you!) who run away screaming with their fingers in their ears when they hear the word "evidence" and who want to believe that there is something more to eastern "medicine" than a good story. Or did you think all those diseases were cured by modern medicine with ginseng tea and acupuncture?
The problem is that the dosage prescribed by Homeopathy is too low to have any effect.
No the "dosage" in homeopathic "cures" is literally indistinguishable from zero. Worse they make some ludicrous claims about water having "memory" which you have to be a weapons grade moron to actually believe.
The core methodology of Homeopathy is to find something that will cause effects similar to what you want to cure or prevent
That is the cover story. The core methodology is to lie to people and convince them that they are buying something that is somehow more than overpriced bottled water.
However, you appear to be labeling anything designated as "homeopathic" as fraud which would be a mistake.
It's not a mistake. Homeopathy absolutely is fraud and provably has zero medicinal impact greater than placebo. We don't allow people to sell placebos and claim they are medicine so I don't understand why we allow homeopathy quacks to do the same.
The "science" of homeopathy is complete and utter bullshit, but ultimately it relies on herbal remedies and those can be efficacious as others have noted.
The only thing homeopathy relies upon is the gullibility of the person purchasing/using it. There is no measurable or therapeutic amount of any remedy of any kind (herbal or otherwise) in homeopathic "remedies". There is no mechanism of action that is based in any biochemistry known to man. Anyone selling homeopathy is a criminal. I don't even care if they really believe it works. They are selling people false hope and making a handsome profit doing so.
That's not the end of land lines. It's the end of POTS service. You can have a land line that uses VOIP and doesn't require a general purpose internet connection. I've got one sitting right next to me in my office. It's a phone but it uses it's own routers and isn't connected to our office computer network in any meaningful way.
Honestly, if you make a medical claim, you better have some fucking proof. I still have no idea how homeopaths haven't been arrested for making misleading claims about the curative power of nothing.
I've wondered that exact thing myself. Homeopathy is nothing more than fraud. It is quackery in its most transparent form.
At least traditional Chinese medicine has at least some track record for a few things which actually work.
Not much but I'll grant a few herbs and the like. I'm still not convinced acupuncture is better than placebo and there is no explanation of a mechanism of action.
* Scenery -- how many fucking billboards do we need visually polluting our spaces??
That's actually one of the beautiful things about Hawaii. When I visited there were ZERO billboards anywhere. It was lovely. Now I haven't seen the entire state but I've been all over Oahu and didn't see a single one.
BTW you forgot about having zero respect for your Privacy. I have zero interest in being tracked around the internet by advertising companies.
and where can I download the empirical data of the double blind studies?
That's the beauty of traditional Chinese "medicine". It only works if you don't try to check to see if it actually works.
Screwing over the US economy would only end up meaning that China would never be paid back the debt owed by the US. I don't think they want to shoot themselves in the foot.
Sigh... That's not how it works. China holds treasury bonds which are readily sold in the open market unless you hold them to term. China can sell them on any bond exchange in the world or directly to third parties any time they want and there isn't a damn thing the US can do about it. The only problem really is finding buyers for that many bonds. Furthermore it would be absolutely insane of the US to try to not repay their debt. The value of the US dollar rests on the belief that the US (like a Lanister) always repays its debts.