Sounds like your plan would just redistribute the wealth from the antivirus folks raking it in now to the repair shops that might come to thrive in a virus-hysteria-free environment. Maybe not so bad - even a non-tech like myself could make money rebuilding virus-crunched machines for the un-fittest masses. But I still find the "ounce of prevention" idea superior.
Besides, in my experience, those who are not the computer-savvy fittest still have lots of pr0n to share. Gotta keep 'em operational.
mod this up, but there is as yet no "infuriating" option.
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"Studies have repeatedly shown that the 'laying on of hands' is particularly effective..."
What studies? Name sources! Studies funded by or otherwise affiliated with "Liberty University" do not count.
BTW, osteopathy, some chiropractic, and "therapeutic touch" are legit, but people refrain from calling them "laying on of hands" to avoid that "old world pentacostal charm."
FDA's decision that these are not medical devices and thus don't fall under FDA regulations strikes me as odd. Here's how FDA defines "medical device:"
"The definition of a medical device appears in section 201(h) of the FD&C Act. A device is "...an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article, including a component, part, or accessory, which is recognized in the official National Formulary, or the United States (U.S.) Pharmacopeia, or any supplement to them, intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals, or intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals, and which does not achieve any of its primary intended purposes through chemical action within or on the body of man or other animals and which is not dependent upon being metabolized for the achievement of any of its primary intended purposes."
So why is a silicone bag under the skin a medical device and a rice-grain-sized electronic gizmo is not? Contact lenses are FDA regulated devices. Tampons and pads are regulated. Band-aids are regulated. This thing is being marketed as something to facilitate access to medical information, and it certainly affects the function of whatever body part it's implanted in by making that part suddenly able to produce information through interaction with radio waves. How is that not, "intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals, or intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals?" Someone? Anyone? This strikes me as FDA saying, "ooh, controverted issue. Run away! Run away!"
Um, he hasn't gone against a single law of the nation in which he's doing this work. And yes, he wants his name in scientific papers - all scientists want recognition for their achievements. As for this guy being "another Mengele," I might suggest you do some reading on Dr. Mengele, followed by some reading of what this guy's doing, and hopefully begin to realize just how ludicrous your statement is.
In the 3 sentences that comprise the body of your post, you begin with an outright lie (born of equal parts ignorance and malice), move on to a meaningless and inane observation of the sub-motivations of all scientists, and close with an ad hominem attack so misinformed as to reveal the lazy, irrational, knee-jerk nature of your expressed opinion. Looks like you scored a shrub "trifecta" of obnoxious blathering.
Not so fast - one must remember to unselect "plug & play OS" in the BIOS for Red Hat 7.2 to install correctly and detect the NIC for eth0. I hate to admit how many RH installs I went through, and how many attempts to configure the card manually, before I realized the basic error of my leap-before-looking approach. Fixed the setting in the BIOS, and the RH install proceeded smoothly. Point being, tinkering in the BIOS to enable a functional install is not newbie-compatible. Linux on the desktop is, in my opinion, for people who care enough to learn, not for the "insert CD, use OS" crowd.
by any chance the older lady from the Onion's "What do you think" section? The black guy? The pouty-mouthed blonde? Had some serious deja vu with your comment...
"Induce the cells to create their own structure by passing electric currents through the chunk as it forms, and/or to use a ceramic rod as a substitute for a bone..."
Woohoo! Inanimate carbon, er, ceramic rod! Is there anything this guy can't do?
Email.com did the same thing about a month ago. I received a message stating that mail forwarding would no longer be provided as a free service, but would cost something like 10 or 20 bucks a month. I can understand this - they made no money by forwarding my mail. But they're certainly not going to make any money off of me with this modified bait n' switch routine.
Mail forwarding is an "I'll live without it before I'll pay for it" kind of thing for me. Simple and expeditious electronic person-to-person contact... bah!
And where's the violence? I mean, was he a larger man than you physically? Was he armed? This story would be a whole lot better if it ended with: "and then I skinned him with a straight razor and soaked him in pickle brine."
"He also explained that there are many subtle ways that these sorts of devices can break that would cause unspeakable damage..."
Hrm. He must have been referring to the company's other new gadget, the Laryngotron, which mounts inside the user's mouth and blasts the vocal cords with powerful radiation ("so they can talk like Prof. Hawking," a company rep. said).
Alright, maybe I'm just missing something obvious here (perhaps poor punctuation?), but who the hell is "Stevie," and what has he to do with that marvelous song? Is he the mysterious 5th Beatle or something?
"Someone lives in a high-crime area. Should the government pay for him to live there, since the government knows that it can't enforce the laws 100% of the time and keep the area crime-free?"
It's called public housing (section 8 of the non-Klinger variety), and while yours isn't exactly the reason outwardly given for its existence, it's spot-on as a retrospective justification!
And just what sort of disease would "Trail of Tears" be? Or "Wounded Knee?"
Sure, alot of settlers wanted peaceful coexistence. But lots more wanted to fulfill their "manifest destiny."
And don't forget that lots of people died of disease in concentration camps around the time of WWII. Shall we refrain from calling that a "genocide" as well?
So how about instead of genocide, we settle for "wanton and intentional destruction of the vast majority of a race of people?" Seems honest to me.
"That's why I always vote for the guy that I think will reduce the size of government."
But what exactly do you mean by that? Seems to me that most often it means stop spending tax money on programs certain groups don't like (NEA, farm subsidies, etc.). That may be all well and good, but it's not gonna keep corporate "free speech" out of receptive congressional/senatorial/etc. hands.
Either way, you'd have (1) been horribly jaundiced,(2) lost one finger from each hand, and (3) possessed some of the worlds worst hair. See, sometimes parents are right.
The bootloader (looks like GRUB) ate my MBR, despite my explicitly telling it not to do so. Very rude of it. The OS looked nice, though, before I destroyed it in a fit of rage for willfully disregarding my instructions.
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Besides, in my experience, those who are not the computer-savvy fittest still have lots of pr0n to share. Gotta keep 'em operational.
What studies? Name sources! Studies funded by or otherwise affiliated with "Liberty University" do not count.
BTW, osteopathy, some chiropractic, and "therapeutic touch" are legit, but people refrain from calling them "laying on of hands" to avoid that "old world pentacostal charm."
"The definition of a medical device appears in section 201(h) of the FD&C Act. A device is "...an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article, including a component, part, or accessory, which is recognized in the official National Formulary, or the United States (U.S.) Pharmacopeia, or any supplement to them, intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals, or intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals, and which does not achieve any of its primary intended purposes through chemical action within or on the body of man or other animals and which is not dependent upon being metabolized for the achievement of any of its primary intended purposes."
So why is a silicone bag under the skin a medical device and a rice-grain-sized electronic gizmo is not? Contact lenses are FDA regulated devices. Tampons and pads are regulated. Band-aids are regulated. This thing is being marketed as something to facilitate access to medical information, and it certainly affects the function of whatever body part it's implanted in by making that part suddenly able to produce information through interaction with radio waves. How is that not, "intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals, or intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals?" Someone? Anyone? This strikes me as FDA saying, "ooh, controverted issue. Run away! Run away!"
In the 3 sentences that comprise the body of your post, you begin with an outright lie (born of equal parts ignorance and malice), move on to a meaningless and inane observation of the sub-motivations of all scientists, and close with an ad hominem attack so misinformed as to reveal the lazy, irrational, knee-jerk nature of your expressed opinion. Looks like you scored a shrub "trifecta" of obnoxious blathering.
Now ask, "why climb a mountain."
Woohoo! Inanimate carbon, er, ceramic rod! Is there anything this guy can't do?
Because it's much harder to invent onerous licensing schemes for tangible slabs of silicone.
Mail forwarding is an "I'll live without it before I'll pay for it" kind of thing for me. Simple and expeditious electronic person-to-person contact... bah!
And I thought that stuff was only good on a bagel...
Hrm. He must have been referring to the company's other new gadget, the Laryngotron, which mounts inside the user's mouth and blasts the vocal cords with powerful radiation ("so they can talk like Prof. Hawking," a company rep. said).
It's called public housing (section 8 of the non-Klinger variety), and while yours isn't exactly the reason outwardly given for its existence, it's spot-on as a retrospective justification!
Sure, alot of settlers wanted peaceful coexistence. But lots more wanted to fulfill their "manifest destiny."
And don't forget that lots of people died of disease in concentration camps around the time of WWII. Shall we refrain from calling that a "genocide" as well?
So how about instead of genocide, we settle for "wanton and intentional destruction of the vast majority of a race of people?" Seems honest to me.
"That's why I always vote for the guy that I think will reduce the size of government."
But what exactly do you mean by that? Seems to me that most often it means stop spending tax money on programs certain groups don't like (NEA, farm subsidies, etc.). That may be all well and good, but it's not gonna keep corporate "free speech" out of receptive congressional/senatorial/etc. hands.
Porn industry well funded? You'd think they could afford a new soundtrack.