Maybe we could rig up a 'reverse healing' crystal - something based on discordant crystal structure field blah that would give anyone in the area cancer. Then anyone who believes crystal healing works could be kept away by them, and the sensible people would recognize the harm-crystal is as much nonsense as the heal-crystal and ignore it.
Read the sony leak documents and you get some idea what may be going on. He was instructed to do more 'positive' stories and less weight-loss. Viewers do not like to be given a list of things that might kill them or reminded that their slovenly lifestyle and love of pizza are probably going to be detrimental to their health. They do like to be told of the miracle cures that will make all their health concerns go away, ideally without paying too much. The Dr Oz Show is inspired by and directly patterned on Oprah, which rose to success based on a very similar approach: Tell the audience what they wish were true, and they'll come back for more.
Capsaicin isn't just a pesticide - it's a very nifty highly-selective pesticide that affects only those creatures that cannot spread the plant's seeds, while doing nothing at all to those that make good propagation vectors. It deters consumption by all mammal species, except for the one exception that actually enjoys inflicting pain upon itsself.
His previous endorsements include numerous dubious weight-loss products, reiki, homoepathy and faith healing. He used to be a doctor, but then he became a TV personality too - and his medical 'advice' on TV is driven by purely commercial motives: He says whatever brings in the ratings and keeps the viewers returning. Even the British Medical Journal has condemned him for the lack of scientific backing for many of his recommendations.
It makes more sense if you read some of the leaked documents from Sony relating to the show. They shed a bit of light on what's going on: Sony are trying to launch him to greater fame by using Oprah as a model, and issue directives regarding what he is supposed to endorse or avoid saying based on market research. The documents indicate some concern from producers that his show was focusing on weight loss and discouraging repeat viewing (No-one likes to be reminded they are fat), so he was told to find something that viewers would really like to hear. Like some miracle cures.
He is mentioned extensively in the Sony leaked documents. I skimmed through them. Sony was very pleased with him - they consider his show to be one of their most successful and profitable.
They also told him to do fewer weight-loss segments, because it makes the audience feel negative.
And Surface (non-pro) tablets would initially be restricted to only running Microsoft-approved software from their store, but would have a trivial option you could change to remove this restriction without having to resort to dangerous hackery.
That approach runs into escalation problems. If the US starts using the legal system as a tool to surpress European companies and milk them for fines, the EU will respond in kind - and you end up with both sides suffering. It's a reason there are international treaties intended to hinder protectionism. Not that this has done anything to stop Russia or China from using the strategy.
Until I found the entirely-serious non-hoax article claiming that most of the leading Nazi party members were gay, and the holocaust was actually the homosexual agenda's plan to exterminate the jews for refusing to accept their sinful nature. That's when I realised that nothing I could possibly make up would be one-tenth as silly as what they actually believe.
At least one school I know of still has some encyclopedias still predating the fall of the soviet union. There's no reason to replace them, because no-one ever reads them.
You're not quite right about the molecular printers. To forge historical artifacts needs molecular printers that can also print in defined isotopic ratios. Alternatively you could disassemble an artifact of similar composition from the desired location and date and reuse the material.
The internet is a great thing for hoaxes, just because they spread so fast. My favorites all exploit some form of social, religious or political confirmation bias - they spread because people read them and assume they must be true because they reenforce what they already believe. Like the story of how the Plymouth colony was almost destroyed by an attempt to practice a communist economy leading to mass-starvation until the reintroduction of private property saved everyone, or any one of the many free-energy machines you can find demonstrated on youtube that would surely benefit mankind if evil corporations were not surpressing them.
How about using a non-high-speed parachute? Rocket it down to low velocity a kilometer up, deploy chute. You won't be able to aim very precisely, but you just need a big, flat expanse of land, and those are easily found.
My desktop has a slightly-off ACPI implimentation. Linux (at least this distro) crashes during kernel init unless you add acpi=off. This is a fairly common problem: Windows has a horribly off-spec ACPI system, it's a real mess, but manufacturers test extensively to make sure their mainboards are fine with it and include all the required workarounds. They have little reason to test so extensively for linux, and so can crash when given an OS that actually follows the standard.
It failed less than the first attempt did. I don't like extrapolating from two sample points, but this does suggest improvement. Perhaps attempt three will get it right.
Australia, America and the UK are good rich countries. You can sell a series for $40 there - doesn't matter if it's via box or netflix. But China is a huge market too - and one where most people can't afford $40. You'd get hugely higher sales at a lower price, $10 or so. But if you do that, you create a situation where some enterprising individuals can go and buy the series for $10 in China, load up a shipping container, haul it to America and sell it for $20. The free market at work, balancing out a distorted price.
In the physical world, such behavior manifests as grey market imports. In the online world, as VPN services for media. The underlying economics is the same, and in both case producers will take countermeasures. They may exploit natural linquistic barriers (ie, make sure the China release doesn't have English-language audio or subtitles), or they may introduce technological barrier like region codes and geo-locking.
In this case, yes - but only because Assange really is someone of such high profile that a government conspiracy is not only plausable, but expected. America pulled strings and had a presidential plane grounded on just an unconfirmed suspicion Assange might be aboard - do you think their moral standards would prohibit them meddling in Swedish law enforcement?
Get Assange on espionage charges, and you make a martyr. No matter what you do to him, he'll remain a hero to many. But get him on a rape conviction and you destroy his reputation: His supporters will shuffle uncomfortably away, and no institution of media will continue to defend him.
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A lot of supplements are quackery, including those he endorses.
Maybe we could rig up a 'reverse healing' crystal - something based on discordant crystal structure field blah that would give anyone in the area cancer. Then anyone who believes crystal healing works could be kept away by them, and the sensible people would recognize the harm-crystal is as much nonsense as the heal-crystal and ignore it.
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Google. Use it.
Read the sony leak documents and you get some idea what may be going on. He was instructed to do more 'positive' stories and less weight-loss. Viewers do not like to be given a list of things that might kill them or reminded that their slovenly lifestyle and love of pizza are probably going to be detrimental to their health. They do like to be told of the miracle cures that will make all their health concerns go away, ideally without paying too much. The Dr Oz Show is inspired by and directly patterned on Oprah, which rose to success based on a very similar approach: Tell the audience what they wish were true, and they'll come back for more.
Capsaicin isn't just a pesticide - it's a very nifty highly-selective pesticide that affects only those creatures that cannot spread the plant's seeds, while doing nothing at all to those that make good propagation vectors. It deters consumption by all mammal species, except for the one exception that actually enjoys inflicting pain upon itsself.
His previous endorsements include numerous dubious weight-loss products, reiki, homoepathy and faith healing. He used to be a doctor, but then he became a TV personality too - and his medical 'advice' on TV is driven by purely commercial motives: He says whatever brings in the ratings and keeps the viewers returning. Even the British Medical Journal has condemned him for the lack of scientific backing for many of his recommendations.
It makes more sense if you read some of the leaked documents from Sony relating to the show. They shed a bit of light on what's going on: Sony are trying to launch him to greater fame by using Oprah as a model, and issue directives regarding what he is supposed to endorse or avoid saying based on market research. The documents indicate some concern from producers that his show was focusing on weight loss and discouraging repeat viewing (No-one likes to be reminded they are fat), so he was told to find something that viewers would really like to hear. Like some miracle cures.
He is mentioned extensively in the Sony leaked documents. I skimmed through them. Sony was very pleased with him - they consider his show to be one of their most successful and profitable.
They also told him to do fewer weight-loss segments, because it makes the audience feel negative.
Try some of the mods. The gameplay gets better - and the stability gets worse.
And Surface (non-pro) tablets would initially be restricted to only running Microsoft-approved software from their store, but would have a trivial option you could change to remove this restriction without having to resort to dangerous hackery.
That approach runs into escalation problems. If the US starts using the legal system as a tool to surpress European companies and milk them for fines, the EU will respond in kind - and you end up with both sides suffering. It's a reason there are international treaties intended to hinder protectionism. Not that this has done anything to stop Russia or China from using the strategy.
Until I found the entirely-serious non-hoax article claiming that most of the leading Nazi party members were gay, and the holocaust was actually the homosexual agenda's plan to exterminate the jews for refusing to accept their sinful nature. That's when I realised that nothing I could possibly make up would be one-tenth as silly as what they actually believe.
At least one school I know of still has some encyclopedias still predating the fall of the soviet union. There's no reason to replace them, because no-one ever reads them.
You're not quite right about the molecular printers. To forge historical artifacts needs molecular printers that can also print in defined isotopic ratios. Alternatively you could disassemble an artifact of similar composition from the desired location and date and reuse the material.
The internet is a great thing for hoaxes, just because they spread so fast. My favorites all exploit some form of social, religious or political confirmation bias - they spread because people read them and assume they must be true because they reenforce what they already believe. Like the story of how the Plymouth colony was almost destroyed by an attempt to practice a communist economy leading to mass-starvation until the reintroduction of private property saved everyone, or any one of the many free-energy machines you can find demonstrated on youtube that would surely benefit mankind if evil corporations were not surpressing them.
As soon as politics enter, no source is ever reliable.
How about using a non-high-speed parachute? Rocket it down to low velocity a kilometer up, deploy chute. You won't be able to aim very precisely, but you just need a big, flat expanse of land, and those are easily found.
Maybe we could replace the barge with the world's largest box of packing foam peanuts? Non-flamable foam, of course.
The wright flyer flew five times. It crashed five times. It was just simple enough that the brothers could repair it after each 'landing.'
We have Kerbal players now.
It's worse than a multiplier: It's an exponent.
My desktop has a slightly-off ACPI implimentation. Linux (at least this distro) crashes during kernel init unless you add acpi=off. This is a fairly common problem: Windows has a horribly off-spec ACPI system, it's a real mess, but manufacturers test extensively to make sure their mainboards are fine with it and include all the required workarounds. They have little reason to test so extensively for linux, and so can crash when given an OS that actually follows the standard.
It failed less than the first attempt did. I don't like extrapolating from two sample points, but this does suggest improvement. Perhaps attempt three will get it right.
No, you've still got the same situation.
Australia, America and the UK are good rich countries. You can sell a series for $40 there - doesn't matter if it's via box or netflix. But China is a huge market too - and one where most people can't afford $40. You'd get hugely higher sales at a lower price, $10 or so. But if you do that, you create a situation where some enterprising individuals can go and buy the series for $10 in China, load up a shipping container, haul it to America and sell it for $20. The free market at work, balancing out a distorted price.
In the physical world, such behavior manifests as grey market imports. In the online world, as VPN services for media. The underlying economics is the same, and in both case producers will take countermeasures. They may exploit natural linquistic barriers (ie, make sure the China release doesn't have English-language audio or subtitles), or they may introduce technological barrier like region codes and geo-locking.
In this case, yes - but only because Assange really is someone of such high profile that a government conspiracy is not only plausable, but expected. America pulled strings and had a presidential plane grounded on just an unconfirmed suspicion Assange might be aboard - do you think their moral standards would prohibit them meddling in Swedish law enforcement?
Publicity.
Get Assange on espionage charges, and you make a martyr. No matter what you do to him, he'll remain a hero to many. But get him on a rape conviction and you destroy his reputation: His supporters will shuffle uncomfortably away, and no institution of media will continue to defend him.