Most people will probably just see a huge Corporation taking advantage if these people are allowed to do what they plan on doing, but I have to say that I'm impressed.
Practically sacrificing for the greater good is an admirable attribute. I have to thank these Japanese Seniors for restoring my faith in humanity.
Thats your own personal Biases reading into that what you will.
I'm actually playing Vanilla WoW on a private server at the moment. The game isn't an MMORPG anymore, its closer to an MMOFPS. On live servers I basically don't have to interact with anyone at all except to raid.
Also, wait to read that without the rest of the post. The rest of the post in response to the parent post provided your context.
Given that I'm playing WoW still, and an older version, your argument has a severe lack of credibility. Also I'm on this private Vanilla server with a bunch of friends who also quit live. I would be paying a sub fee and playing on Live servers if they opened a Vanilla or TBC realm. WotLK wasn't as good as either of those, and it was the beginning of the slide towards MMOFPS-dom, but it was good enough to keep me subscribed and playing on live servers and not trying to muck about with privates.
You however are spouting the reflexive defensive "well people are burning out and trying new things" crap that most of the WoW fanboys are spouting. I was never a fanboy, yet I played nonstop for over 5 years. Without the recent(past 8 months or so, some of it came in before cata) massive changes I would still be playing.
In fact at no point have I said that I was "bored" with it or that it "feels old". You should probably re-examine why you yourself play it(from your responses I assume you do) and stop trying to justify why others are quitting and you should keep playing, other than the necessity to feed your addiction.
There are many multiple things that have caused the overall decline, however the things you've listed are the ones that always always crop up.
I myself quit not long after I was struck by how similar running a dungeon now was to joining a random team death match server on any given FPS.
The bottom line ends up being for most of us: If I wanted to play something totally uninvolved and mostly automated for a quick adrenaline rush then I'd be playing an FPS or something instead.
However, I signed on for an mmoRPG when I got WoW and thats not what I'm getting anymore.
He's been completely thwarted in this thread with those inconvenient things that we call "facts".
Got smoked by an AC with actual, real, peer-reviewed, published scientific journals that concisely point out why he's completely wrong.
Besides which, I know for a fact that pretty much everything I eat that comes from any sort of farm: yes that includes the supposed "organic" farms, is GM. Almost nothing we eat today hasn't been genetically modified from its original version in some way. The only things you can say haven't are wild game. Even wild berries etc probably have some GM in there somewhere due to people farming them at some point then the results populating out through the wild.
P.S. I'd much rather be eating a GM turnip that due to an additional gene increases my risk of getting cancer by like.02% than eat the ones covered in DDT or its new replacements. Part of the big push for GM foods is as a freaking safety mechanism. So that we're not ingesting small amounts of neuro toxins etc on a regular basis.
Since this got upmodded I'd like to point out that World of Warcraft still charges for boxed media, and is in effect exactly the model they're trying to push CoD towards.
The major problem with that is the same problem they're having with WoW now that they've pushed it into a more FPS type game. (Random join groups, random join pvp, removal of all the previous in game community consequence for being a douchebag)
This has caused a ~12% decrease in player population since Cataclysm release when they put the final nails into... er, finishing touches onto WoW. I predict this trend will continue, and that the result of their putting a sub fee system into CoD will cause the same.
The fact of the matter is that there are other options, and they're killing off the original design ideas that got their franchises popular to begin with. I hate to think that such huge franchises can be created based on blind luck, but given their general misunderstanding of what makes their games fun to play to begin with I can't see any other possible way they've managed to come up with these huge successes.
Oh wait, they didn't create most of them. They bought the companies that did after their suits managed to pretty much destroy their own top-selling franchises.
This I admit is a big problem with GMO at the moment.
However, this is a problem with the corporations themselves and the fact that the bought and paid for government is still allowing patents on genetics. Its not a problem with the practice itself.
For everyone else: You'\re jumping off the deep end. GMO is the same as selective breeding, its just faster. You could eventually produce crops resistant to bacteria x, or you could just add gene y from species b that does this already then test for side effects.
The only measureable difference between GMO and selective breeding is the time scales involved. Corn didn't exist, at all. It eventually mutated from some other plants because a genetic mutation that was beneficial to the farmer was found and was mass reproduced after it was found. Another genetic mutation made it larger, then another one caused more cobs on a stalk, until we have modern corn. Theres nothing more or less natural about it. It was probably a mutation that would have caused it to die off in the wild, but was desirable to humans so it lived.
Same thing with cows, they'd be extinct now except some of them mutated the single best survival mechanism ever: being tasty and docile.
Research inevitably goes Lab -> Greenhouse -> Uncontrolled conditions.
Eventually it HAS to be tested in the wild or else you won't ever be able to use the product.
I'd also like to point out that you have been eating GM plants your entire life. Wheat? Hundreds of years of selective growing of only the best stock. Its the same thing it's just been done on a farm instead of in a lab.
Corn? Corn didn't even exist in its current form a thousand years ago, yet it was in its current form before the GMO corps were even founded. I'll bet dollars to doughnuts you eat corn or corn products on a regular basis though don't you?
There need to be restrictions in place on it, but only because they can now make more massive changes to the plant more quickly, not because making changes is in general a bad thing.
Of course it isn't. That is one of the reasons that Sony in particular is being targeted however.
From what I can gather of the situation people that may not want to be involved in criminal activity are pissed off enough to help those that have no such qualms in some easily-denied way.
Basically, Sony has pissed off enough people that it has painted a large target on its back saying "Come get me". This has an effect of making Sony the largest path of least resistance for anyone with questionable morals.
Somewhere out there, there's an army of hackers with a world map and a bunch of pins. Also, an intense dislike of Sony.
FTFY.
Sony pissed off exactly the wrong people. Many many many times over. They've had this coming for awhile.
Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with any said army. I am simply surmising based on the massive and intense hatred of sony amongst groups of people among whom I have several acquaintances. All for similar reasons, each with his/her own particular straw that broke the camels back. Recent events are really just fanning the flames of a fire sony had already started.
All that number assumes is current consumption levels. It'll probably be less than 1/10th of that in reality, but 25,000 years is still a long time. However cheap power will lead to an increased standard of living for everyone. Increased standard of living invariably leads to decreased reproduction rates. Many first world countries are already below replacement rates.
Also: Current uranium reserve estimates in northern canada alone could power the current 16% nuclear power consumption of the planet for over 1500 years by conservative estimates. Allowing for no increase thats 240 years at current rates with a switch to full out uranium tomorrow, no breeders, just whats currently in use. Even allowing for the increase rates we've seen over the last 50 years or so we come out to a number thats higher than what you stated just for the deposits in one area of the globe. That makes me question where you're getting your data.
It should be stated that 36.8 years is only using currently open and operating mines. Estimated uranium and thorium reserves are 3+ orders of magnitude higher. Breeder reactors put it into the 250,000+ year range, AKA the "We are likely to have moved off the planet or killed everyone on it already" time-scale. Some estimates have it in the millions of years.
In my personal experience speed limits on highways make people that are too nervous and shouldn't be driving on them to begin with feel safer, and able to drive on them. My mother is a prime example of this. She either shouldn't have a license or should be restricted to roads with a speed limit of 60km/h or less. She's way too nervous and in a serious event simply can't react fast enough.
I had to save both our asses from rear-ending a dump truck that twisted off its u-joint and stopped abruptly as the drive shaft slammed into the ground. She was death gripping the wheel, I had to turn it and her for the car to veer into the other lane to avoid the collision. If she'd been in the car with someone else, or alone, that would have been an accident with one or multiple fatalities. The only thing that saved us then is that she was too scared to think of slamming on the brakes, which would have meant I wouldn't have been able to turn the car in time.
Its anecdotal I know, but at least 2 male and almost every female member with a few exceptions in my family are like this. Then they complain when other people don't follow the law to the letter etc. and it wasn't their fault. If you can safely avoid rear-ending someone when something goes wrong in their car or they don't follow the rules etc it should be your fault when you don't avoid it.
It is a newer and stupider version. I really don't know why you are surprised however. This one single phrase has saved me a lot of frustration since I heard it: Think of how stupid the average person is. Now remember that half the population is even dumber.
Heres the thing: If it wasn't for anti-nuclear nutjobs, which they couldn't predict, those promises would probably be a reality by now. We're about 15-20 years behind in nuclear power research due to anti-nuclear nutjobs preventing funding of new more efficient, less dangerous nuclear plants.
Funny part is, those same nutjobs are the ones that are also responsible for keeping the old, less-safe designs going, as there is nothing to replace them.
No, thats a common misconception from what is for some reason a very very vocal minority. Though, I can only speak for canadian chiropractics on that score really.
Chiropractors here tend to understand that a massage therapist does do a lot of what they do. What they do however is far more targeted and they are trained to help restore function. Going to a chiropractor here will probably hurt like fucking hell the first few times at the very least, and won't improve much after that, however it will help a lot with certain types of injuries.
Soft tissue damage injuries that have nearly all the way healed but need some coaxing or some bone realignment are the ones that they're particularly good with.
The problem is that sometimes, some symptoms can be caused by a nerve that is pinching somewhere that a bone is out of line or a massive tensing of muscles caused by pain that you can't even really feel anymore could be causing something. In my case I also had tension headaches, and as a result of the back adjustments and overall mobility improvement the muscles in the back of my neck relaxed more and they've now gone away for the most part. Some of the reason they are there is other stress, but some of it was the back pain and now there is improvement.
The stuff isn't nearly a cure-all, but sometimes it causes what could be seemingly random symptoms to improve. The main thing to remember is that stress can cause all sorts of wierd symptoms and chronic pain causes severe amounts of stress. Its as simple as that. Thats why occaisionally they get the miracle case where a whole boatload of things just sort of disappeared. However 99% of the time that doesn't happen.
The man has a spinal cord injury. Not a spinal COLUMN injury(though he had that too). Spinal cords do not magically heal no matter what you do to them.
I really, really wish that you nutjobs would shut the hell up. Chiropractors are a godsend, for some injuries. I blew out a portion of my disc between t11 and t12 years ago. It caused all sorts of havoc and got to the point where I could very nearly no longer walk. Chiropractic care and a good regimen of exercises turned this around completely The pain had caused muscles to tense and throw all sorts of things out of place. The chiropractor got everything back into shape, and the back pain subsided a fair bit.
Heres the news flash: My disc is still blown. It did not magically heal, nor will it. An adjustment may allow space for some extra tissue to grow make the injury less painful, but thats about it.
The worst part is your post has a hint of truth, but heaped on it is a mountain of crackpot bullshit. You're giving chiropractors everywhere a bad name, and on behalf of those of us who know how much good they CAN do I say: Please, go crawl under a rock somewhere and stay there. Its people like you that mean a lot of folks can't get their chiropractic physiotherapy covered when it could potentially be the only thing that will get them real relief.
On a scale of possible business issues, bait and switch of one processor for a slightly slower one is pretty damned close to the bottom of the barrel. Its above bad health insurance and required to pay into but useless work pension plans but only just barely.
"Whereas, in the World Health Organization's 2006 report of the Chernobyl Forum expert group on the 237 emergency workers who were diagnosed with ARS, ARS was identified as the cause of death for 28 of these people within the first few months after the disaster. There were no further deaths identified, in the general population affected by the disaster, as being caused by ARS. Of the 72,000 Russian Emergency Workers being studied, 216 non-cancer deaths are attributed to the disaster, between 1991 and 1998. The latency period for solid cancers caused by excess radiation exposure is 10 or more years; thus at the time of the WHO report being undertaken, the rates of solid cancer deaths were no greater than the general population."
From the same freaking wikipedia page you just quoted. I rest my case. Troll.
You seem to really believe your diatribe. That or you're a very good troll.
I did nuclear PROVEN worst case against coal PROVEN best case. You specifically ignore the fact that I specficially excluded any third world mines. The best coal mining death/ton rates exist in the EU and the US, those were the rates referenced. If you use third world rates Nuclear becomes several hundred times safer as a proven technology.
At this point you're either mentally handicapped or trolling.
The worst accident in history with nuclear didn't kill "100,000ds" of people. It killed a couple hundred. The next two worst "catastrophic events" in the nuclear industry world? They killed zero people.
Industrial accidents around coal plants kill more workers yearly, even adjusted for coal being used much more, than the nuclear industry(excl. Chernobyl) has in its entire life span. Even including Chernobyl the coal industry, plant accidents alone, kills as many as have died for nuclear power every 5 years.
Now, as coal mines, and oil factories, of necessity, CANNOT EXIST without their fuel supplies, the dangers of those activities must be included as well. Ignoring the third world death rates, and just using the BEST CASE coal mining death rates(deaths per ton), the coal industry kills 2x the amount of people yearly as have died for nuclear, including the mining activity, ever.
I'm now not comparing apples to apples, or oranges to oranges. I'm comparing Coal best case against nuclear worst case. Nuclear still wins.
There is a difference between courage and stupidity.
Many Americans seem confuse the two constantly.
Standing up for what you believe in is courage. Standing up for a minor issue that you believe is wrong at the drop of a hat when it could cause you to be jobless for a nice while is stupidity. The proper thing to do in that situation is to report the activity to someone further up the chain, if available. Otherwise just ignore it and look for a job elsewhere.
Hmm, I've never actually read that section of the law myself. I guess I should have, though while IANAL I have been misled by one apparently(friend of a friend type thing).
I guess for prostitution however the age of majority would affect it since there is an implied contract there. Its a little moot however since they apparently have it written out specifically for that situation, which isn't surprising.
Was the 18 age of consent for a sex worker thing in there before Harper started mucking about with the laws though? If it wasn't then perhaps I got good information at the time.
In Thailand, like many other countries that are not the US(not that you'd know these countries exist) The minimum age for it to be actual child prostitution is 14, not 18. This one fact reduces the 40% of total prostitution being child prostitution on that very slanted wikipedia article down to around 5%. Which given the amount of prostitution plus general illegal activity means it actually is being prosecuted.
Shit, Canada made it onto the map for "massive child prostituion in British Columbia" a few years ago due to a Wikipedia article. Article stated age of majority was 18, It wasn't. It was 14, in addition, the prostitutes to which it referred were all vast majority over the new statutory age which is 16. I'm personally good with this change. 14 is a little too low to set the bar, but a LOT of fucking people can(and do in the US or so I've heard) get caught with a 16 or 17 year old because they look like freaking 25 or something.
I have a few friends that would probably be in jail right now, and honestly, if it had been a different night and I hadn't had a girlfriend at the time, to look at the girls, it could have been me.
You're living in a dream world. The man explained why you're wrong and you cite ideas and "should be's" to counter him. The cold hard fact is that not all people are created equally. Some simply don't have the capacity to BE reasoned with.
Most respond better with a little respect conditioned into them. I've suffered the abusive type and the proper kind of corporal punishment. The proper kind is exactly as was described above. You knew the rules, you disobeyed them anyways, there were consequences. You respected the person that did that, you didn't fear them. The abusive person, yes, you simply feared them, but abuse isn't what we're talking about here.
Its people like you that are the problem with modern society. Its people like you that have cause me to see in my time a 8 year old boy curse out and HIT his mother hard enough to make her bleed in the middle of a store while she sat there and did nothing. I was raised, for most of my childhood, in a home where if I had done something like that, my ears probably wouldn't have stopped ringing until after I got home. You know what? I would have deserved it.
You are a coward hiding behind "morality" and "enlightenment". You disgust me.
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Most people will probably just see a huge Corporation taking advantage if these people are allowed to do what they plan on doing, but I have to say that I'm impressed.
Practically sacrificing for the greater good is an admirable attribute. I have to thank these Japanese Seniors for restoring my faith in humanity.
Thats your own personal Biases reading into that what you will.
I'm actually playing Vanilla WoW on a private server at the moment. The game isn't an MMORPG anymore, its closer to an MMOFPS. On live servers I basically don't have to interact with anyone at all except to raid.
Also, wait to read that without the rest of the post. The rest of the post in response to the parent post provided your context.
Given that I'm playing WoW still, and an older version, your argument has a severe lack of credibility. Also I'm on this private Vanilla server with a bunch of friends who also quit live. I would be paying a sub fee and playing on Live servers if they opened a Vanilla or TBC realm. WotLK wasn't as good as either of those, and it was the beginning of the slide towards MMOFPS-dom, but it was good enough to keep me subscribed and playing on live servers and not trying to muck about with privates.
You however are spouting the reflexive defensive "well people are burning out and trying new things" crap that most of the WoW fanboys are spouting. I was never a fanboy, yet I played nonstop for over 5 years. Without the recent(past 8 months or so, some of it came in before cata) massive changes I would still be playing.
In fact at no point have I said that I was "bored" with it or that it "feels old". You should probably re-examine why you yourself play it(from your responses I assume you do) and stop trying to justify why others are quitting and you should keep playing, other than the necessity to feed your addiction.
This is exactly what I'm talking about.
There are many multiple things that have caused the overall decline, however the things you've listed are the ones that always always crop up.
I myself quit not long after I was struck by how similar running a dungeon now was to joining a random team death match server on any given FPS.
The bottom line ends up being for most of us: If I wanted to play something totally uninvolved and mostly automated for a quick adrenaline rush then I'd be playing an FPS or something instead.
However, I signed on for an mmoRPG when I got WoW and thats not what I'm getting anymore.
He's been completely thwarted in this thread with those inconvenient things that we call "facts".
Got smoked by an AC with actual, real, peer-reviewed, published scientific journals that concisely point out why he's completely wrong.
Besides which, I know for a fact that pretty much everything I eat that comes from any sort of farm: yes that includes the supposed "organic" farms, is GM. Almost nothing we eat today hasn't been genetically modified from its original version in some way. The only things you can say haven't are wild game. Even wild berries etc probably have some GM in there somewhere due to people farming them at some point then the results populating out through the wild.
P.S. I'd much rather be eating a GM turnip that due to an additional gene increases my risk of getting cancer by like .02% than eat the ones covered in DDT or its new replacements. Part of the big push for GM foods is as a freaking safety mechanism. So that we're not ingesting small amounts of neuro toxins etc on a regular basis.
Since this got upmodded I'd like to point out that World of Warcraft still charges for boxed media, and is in effect exactly the model they're trying to push CoD towards.
The major problem with that is the same problem they're having with WoW now that they've pushed it into a more FPS type game. (Random join groups, random join pvp, removal of all the previous in game community consequence for being a douchebag)
This has caused a ~12% decrease in player population since Cataclysm release when they put the final nails into... er, finishing touches onto WoW. I predict this trend will continue, and that the result of their putting a sub fee system into CoD will cause the same.
The fact of the matter is that there are other options, and they're killing off the original design ideas that got their franchises popular to begin with. I hate to think that such huge franchises can be created based on blind luck, but given their general misunderstanding of what makes their games fun to play to begin with I can't see any other possible way they've managed to come up with these huge successes.
Oh wait, they didn't create most of them. They bought the companies that did after their suits managed to pretty much destroy their own top-selling franchises.
This I admit is a big problem with GMO at the moment.
However, this is a problem with the corporations themselves and the fact that the bought and paid for government is still allowing patents on genetics. Its not a problem with the practice itself.
For everyone else: You'\re jumping off the deep end. GMO is the same as selective breeding, its just faster. You could eventually produce crops resistant to bacteria x, or you could just add gene y from species b that does this already then test for side effects.
The only measureable difference between GMO and selective breeding is the time scales involved. Corn didn't exist, at all. It eventually mutated from some other plants because a genetic mutation that was beneficial to the farmer was found and was mass reproduced after it was found. Another genetic mutation made it larger, then another one caused more cobs on a stalk, until we have modern corn. Theres nothing more or less natural about it. It was probably a mutation that would have caused it to die off in the wild, but was desirable to humans so it lived.
Same thing with cows, they'd be extinct now except some of them mutated the single best survival mechanism ever: being tasty and docile.
Research inevitably goes Lab -> Greenhouse -> Uncontrolled conditions.
Eventually it HAS to be tested in the wild or else you won't ever be able to use the product.
I'd also like to point out that you have been eating GM plants your entire life. Wheat? Hundreds of years of selective growing of only the best stock. Its the same thing it's just been done on a farm instead of in a lab.
Corn? Corn didn't even exist in its current form a thousand years ago, yet it was in its current form before the GMO corps were even founded. I'll bet dollars to doughnuts you eat corn or corn products on a regular basis though don't you?
There need to be restrictions in place on it, but only because they can now make more massive changes to the plant more quickly, not because making changes is in general a bad thing.
Of course it isn't. That is one of the reasons that Sony in particular is being targeted however.
From what I can gather of the situation people that may not want to be involved in criminal activity are pissed off enough to help those that have no such qualms in some easily-denied way.
Basically, Sony has pissed off enough people that it has painted a large target on its back saying "Come get me". This has an effect of making Sony the largest path of least resistance for anyone with questionable morals.
Somewhere out there, there's an army of hackers with a world map and a bunch of pins. Also, an intense dislike of Sony.
FTFY.
Sony pissed off exactly the wrong people. Many many many times over. They've had this coming for awhile.
Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with any said army. I am simply surmising based on the massive and intense hatred of sony amongst groups of people among whom I have several acquaintances. All for similar reasons, each with his/her own particular straw that broke the camels back. Recent events are really just fanning the flames of a fire sony had already started.
All that number assumes is current consumption levels. It'll probably be less than 1/10th of that in reality, but 25,000 years is still a long time. However cheap power will lead to an increased standard of living for everyone. Increased standard of living invariably leads to decreased reproduction rates. Many first world countries are already below replacement rates.
Also: Current uranium reserve estimates in northern canada alone could power the current 16% nuclear power consumption of the planet for over 1500 years by conservative estimates. Allowing for no increase thats 240 years at current rates with a switch to full out uranium tomorrow, no breeders, just whats currently in use. Even allowing for the increase rates we've seen over the last 50 years or so we come out to a number thats higher than what you stated just for the deposits in one area of the globe. That makes me question where you're getting your data.
It should be stated that 36.8 years is only using currently open and operating mines. Estimated uranium and thorium reserves are 3+ orders of magnitude higher. Breeder reactors put it into the 250,000+ year range, AKA the "We are likely to have moved off the planet or killed everyone on it already" time-scale. Some estimates have it in the millions of years.
In my personal experience speed limits on highways make people that are too nervous and shouldn't be driving on them to begin with feel safer, and able to drive on them. My mother is a prime example of this. She either shouldn't have a license or should be restricted to roads with a speed limit of 60km/h or less. She's way too nervous and in a serious event simply can't react fast enough.
I had to save both our asses from rear-ending a dump truck that twisted off its u-joint and stopped abruptly as the drive shaft slammed into the ground. She was death gripping the wheel, I had to turn it and her for the car to veer into the other lane to avoid the collision. If she'd been in the car with someone else, or alone, that would have been an accident with one or multiple fatalities. The only thing that saved us then is that she was too scared to think of slamming on the brakes, which would have meant I wouldn't have been able to turn the car in time.
Its anecdotal I know, but at least 2 male and almost every female member with a few exceptions in my family are like this. Then they complain when other people don't follow the law to the letter etc. and it wasn't their fault. If you can safely avoid rear-ending someone when something goes wrong in their car or they don't follow the rules etc it should be your fault when you don't avoid it.
It is a newer and stupider version. I really don't know why you are surprised however. This one single phrase has saved me a lot of frustration since I heard it: Think of how stupid the average person is. Now remember that half the population is even dumber.
Heres the thing: If it wasn't for anti-nuclear nutjobs, which they couldn't predict, those promises would probably be a reality by now. We're about 15-20 years behind in nuclear power research due to anti-nuclear nutjobs preventing funding of new more efficient, less dangerous nuclear plants.
Funny part is, those same nutjobs are the ones that are also responsible for keeping the old, less-safe designs going, as there is nothing to replace them.
No, thats a common misconception from what is for some reason a very very vocal minority. Though, I can only speak for canadian chiropractics on that score really.
Chiropractors here tend to understand that a massage therapist does do a lot of what they do. What they do however is far more targeted and they are trained to help restore function. Going to a chiropractor here will probably hurt like fucking hell the first few times at the very least, and won't improve much after that, however it will help a lot with certain types of injuries.
Soft tissue damage injuries that have nearly all the way healed but need some coaxing or some bone realignment are the ones that they're particularly good with.
The problem is that sometimes, some symptoms can be caused by a nerve that is pinching somewhere that a bone is out of line or a massive tensing of muscles caused by pain that you can't even really feel anymore could be causing something. In my case I also had tension headaches, and as a result of the back adjustments and overall mobility improvement the muscles in the back of my neck relaxed more and they've now gone away for the most part. Some of the reason they are there is other stress, but some of it was the back pain and now there is improvement.
The stuff isn't nearly a cure-all, but sometimes it causes what could be seemingly random symptoms to improve. The main thing to remember is that stress can cause all sorts of wierd symptoms and chronic pain causes severe amounts of stress. Its as simple as that. Thats why occaisionally they get the miracle case where a whole boatload of things just sort of disappeared. However 99% of the time that doesn't happen.
The man has a spinal cord injury. Not a spinal COLUMN injury(though he had that too). Spinal cords do not magically heal no matter what you do to them.
I really, really wish that you nutjobs would shut the hell up. Chiropractors are a godsend, for some injuries. I blew out a portion of my disc between t11 and t12 years ago. It caused all sorts of havoc and got to the point where I could very nearly no longer walk. Chiropractic care and a good regimen of exercises turned this around completely The pain had caused muscles to tense and throw all sorts of things out of place. The chiropractor got everything back into shape, and the back pain subsided a fair bit.
Heres the news flash: My disc is still blown. It did not magically heal, nor will it. An adjustment may allow space for some extra tissue to grow make the injury less painful, but thats about it.
The worst part is your post has a hint of truth, but heaped on it is a mountain of crackpot bullshit. You're giving chiropractors everywhere a bad name, and on behalf of those of us who know how much good they CAN do I say: Please, go crawl under a rock somewhere and stay there. Its people like you that mean a lot of folks can't get their chiropractic physiotherapy covered when it could potentially be the only thing that will get them real relief.
On a scale of possible business issues, bait and switch of one processor for a slightly slower one is pretty damned close to the bottom of the barrel. Its above bad health insurance and required to pay into but useless work pension plans but only just barely.
"Whereas, in the World Health Organization's 2006 report of the Chernobyl Forum expert group on the 237 emergency workers who were diagnosed with ARS, ARS was identified as the cause of death for 28 of these people within the first few months after the disaster. There were no further deaths identified, in the general population affected by the disaster, as being caused by ARS. Of the 72,000 Russian Emergency Workers being studied, 216 non-cancer deaths are attributed to the disaster, between 1991 and 1998. The latency period for solid cancers caused by excess radiation exposure is 10 or more years; thus at the time of the WHO report being undertaken, the rates of solid cancer deaths were no greater than the general population."
From the same freaking wikipedia page you just quoted. I rest my case. Troll.
You seem to really believe your diatribe. That or you're a very good troll.
I did nuclear PROVEN worst case against coal PROVEN best case. You specifically ignore the fact that I specficially excluded any third world mines. The best coal mining death/ton rates exist in the EU and the US, those were the rates referenced. If you use third world rates Nuclear becomes several hundred times safer as a proven technology.
You are comparing different types of Energy.
At this point you're either mentally handicapped or trolling.
The worst accident in history with nuclear didn't kill "100,000ds" of people. It killed a couple hundred. The next two worst "catastrophic events" in the nuclear industry world? They killed zero people.
Industrial accidents around coal plants kill more workers yearly, even adjusted for coal being used much more, than the nuclear industry(excl. Chernobyl) has in its entire life span. Even including Chernobyl the coal industry, plant accidents alone, kills as many as have died for nuclear power every 5 years.
Now, as coal mines, and oil factories, of necessity, CANNOT EXIST without their fuel supplies, the dangers of those activities must be included as well. Ignoring the third world death rates, and just using the BEST CASE coal mining death rates(deaths per ton), the coal industry kills 2x the amount of people yearly as have died for nuclear, including the mining activity, ever.
I'm now not comparing apples to apples, or oranges to oranges. I'm comparing Coal best case against nuclear worst case. Nuclear still wins.
There is a difference between courage and stupidity.
Many Americans seem confuse the two constantly.
Standing up for what you believe in is courage. Standing up for a minor issue that you believe is wrong at the drop of a hat when it could cause you to be jobless for a nice while is stupidity. The proper thing to do in that situation is to report the activity to someone further up the chain, if available. Otherwise just ignore it and look for a job elsewhere.
Hmm, I've never actually read that section of the law myself. I guess I should have, though while IANAL I have been misled by one apparently(friend of a friend type thing).
I guess for prostitution however the age of majority would affect it since there is an implied contract there. Its a little moot however since they apparently have it written out specifically for that situation, which isn't surprising.
Was the 18 age of consent for a sex worker thing in there before Harper started mucking about with the laws though? If it wasn't then perhaps I got good information at the time.
Protip: 3-4 years ago that was probably true.
Well, it is, and isn't.
In Thailand, like many other countries that are not the US(not that you'd know these countries exist) The minimum age for it to be actual child prostitution is 14, not 18. This one fact reduces the 40% of total prostitution being child prostitution on that very slanted wikipedia article down to around 5%. Which given the amount of prostitution plus general illegal activity means it actually is being prosecuted.
Shit, Canada made it onto the map for "massive child prostituion in British Columbia" a few years ago due to a Wikipedia article. Article stated age of majority was 18, It wasn't. It was 14, in addition, the prostitutes to which it referred were all vast majority over the new statutory age which is 16. I'm personally good with this change. 14 is a little too low to set the bar, but a LOT of fucking people can(and do in the US or so I've heard) get caught with a 16 or 17 year old because they look like freaking 25 or something.
I have a few friends that would probably be in jail right now, and honestly, if it had been a different night and I hadn't had a girlfriend at the time, to look at the girls, it could have been me.
You're living in a dream world. The man explained why you're wrong and you cite ideas and "should be's" to counter him. The cold hard fact is that not all people are created equally. Some simply don't have the capacity to BE reasoned with.
Most respond better with a little respect conditioned into them. I've suffered the abusive type and the proper kind of corporal punishment. The proper kind is exactly as was described above. You knew the rules, you disobeyed them anyways, there were consequences. You respected the person that did that, you didn't fear them. The abusive person, yes, you simply feared them, but abuse isn't what we're talking about here.
Its people like you that are the problem with modern society. Its people like you that have cause me to see in my time a 8 year old boy curse out and HIT his mother hard enough to make her bleed in the middle of a store while she sat there and did nothing. I was raised, for most of my childhood, in a home where if I had done something like that, my ears probably wouldn't have stopped ringing until after I got home. You know what? I would have deserved it.
You are a coward hiding behind "morality" and "enlightenment". You disgust me.