They've done it where toothpicks were twiddled against the person's skin, giving them the impression that they had a needle stuck in. It was equally effective as "real" acupuncture because the effect is all in the mind.
Bad example. There are a whole lot of back and joint problems that don't require surgery to be fixed but can be fixed / helped by physical therapies, massage, stretches, exercise, etc. I'm sure there are some chiropractors who are quacks but for the most part it seems like evidence-based medicine to me.
Alt-Med has been growing like gangbusters, its popularity at an all time high: it must work.
You mean people are idiots. Most alt-med is garbage that has either been demonstrated to be ineffective or equivalent to a placebo (e.g. acupuncture), actually harmful (e.g. taking HIV-positive people off ARVs to "cure" AIDS), or not even worth investigating (e.g. homeopathy). The rest of it isn't alt-med, it falls under the purview of regular straight-up medicine (e.g. nutrition).
Medicine should be evidence-based. Alt-med isn't medicine because it isn't based on evidence.
That said, the pharmaceutical comapnies need to be regulated better and the FDA, NIH, etc. need to end their immense conflicts of interest.
I remember when white-collar criminals still shared a sense of national identity. A true patriot would drive a car made out of hundred dollar bills and middle-class American taxpayers.
No. Occassionally new common passwords will pop up (perhaps "googleplus" on Google+ for example) and they'll ban it, but in general this action will force people to invent new passwords. The use of creativity will result in a broader set of passwords, not a different narrow set.
As well, this is trivially automated. No need to do studies and manually ban.
I'm not one to argue that Apple users are intelligent, but this is Apple's fault for mixing "third generation iPhone" with "third generation mobile network" in their naming. It's obviously much easier to conflate the ideas than it is to dissociate them.
Of course, this works in their favor. Just like it works in the carriers' favor to call their 3G and 3.5G networks "4G". Consumers are dumb.
7 is excellent, a true successor to XP. XP is only still around because of poor people who don't torrent or have ancient hardware, and incompetent IT departments.
Policing the Dunkin' Donuts isn't going to prevent many crimes. Policing areas where crimes occur will prevent crimes, or at least force the criminals to expend energy going elsewhere. This is called "the police being smart and doing their jobs" and it's nothing like Minority Report.
Samsung sells everything to everyone. I'm sure they'd happily take a small profit hit now in order to force Apple to pay them royalties on every device they have sold and will sell. It might not work out in their favor, but it's probably worth a shot.
Then we'll develop a mic with hardware encryption, or you can just run the audio through another box to be encrypted before running it into your main box.
I wonder exactly how far medicine has been set back by this. Researchers trying to investigate genetic or genetically-influenced diseases cannot be happy. They've unwittingly been missing information, and treating false information as valid, for a long time.
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They've done it where toothpicks were twiddled against the person's skin, giving them the impression that they had a needle stuck in. It was equally effective as "real" acupuncture because the effect is all in the mind.
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Bad example. There are a whole lot of back and joint problems that don't require surgery to be fixed but can be fixed / helped by physical therapies, massage, stretches, exercise, etc. I'm sure there are some chiropractors who are quacks but for the most part it seems like evidence-based medicine to me.
Alt-Med has been growing like gangbusters, its popularity at an all time high: it must work.
You mean people are idiots. Most alt-med is garbage that has either been demonstrated to be ineffective or equivalent to a placebo (e.g. acupuncture), actually harmful (e.g. taking HIV-positive people off ARVs to "cure" AIDS), or not even worth investigating (e.g. homeopathy). The rest of it isn't alt-med, it falls under the purview of regular straight-up medicine (e.g. nutrition). Medicine should be evidence-based. Alt-med isn't medicine because it isn't based on evidence. That said, the pharmaceutical comapnies need to be regulated better and the FDA, NIH, etc. need to end their immense conflicts of interest.
You don't get it either. There are orders of magnitude more Anonymous members. Arresting 12 is not "a nationwide crackdown", it's a f*cking joke.
You think the government and its agencies will see it that way? I wish I had your kind of optimism.
I remember when white-collar criminals still shared a sense of national identity. A true patriot would drive a car made out of hundred dollar bills and middle-class American taxpayers.
I once heard a single FBI agent could listen to 7000 wiretaps of innocent civilians at the same time.
The grammar isn't good enough for it to be auto-generated.
No. Occassionally new common passwords will pop up (perhaps "googleplus" on Google+ for example) and they'll ban it, but in general this action will force people to invent new passwords. The use of creativity will result in a broader set of passwords, not a different narrow set. As well, this is trivially automated. No need to do studies and manually ban.
That's TWO decades.
I'm not one to argue that Apple users are intelligent, but this is Apple's fault for mixing "third generation iPhone" with "third generation mobile network" in their naming. It's obviously much easier to conflate the ideas than it is to dissociate them. Of course, this works in their favor. Just like it works in the carriers' favor to call their 3G and 3.5G networks "4G". Consumers are dumb.
Mod parent down. Illiteracy should be punished.
Mod this up!
You can buy a used desktop that will run Win7 no problems for $100. I've seen NEW computers as low as $200. No excuses.
7 is excellent, a true successor to XP. XP is only still around because of poor people who don't torrent or have ancient hardware, and incompetent IT departments.
It's expected from Google. Not as much Yahoo, though it's not really surprising.
Policing the Dunkin' Donuts isn't going to prevent many crimes. Policing areas where crimes occur will prevent crimes, or at least force the criminals to expend energy going elsewhere. This is called "the police being smart and doing their jobs" and it's nothing like Minority Report.
You're talking about the US, right?
Samsung sells everything to everyone. I'm sure they'd happily take a small profit hit now in order to force Apple to pay them royalties on every device they have sold and will sell. It might not work out in their favor, but it's probably worth a shot.
Still, at least they can look down on Chrome.
I'm running Chrome 12. What?
Then we'll develop a mic with hardware encryption, or you can just run the audio through another box to be encrypted before running it into your main box.
Thanks for the clarification!
I wonder exactly how far medicine has been set back by this. Researchers trying to investigate genetic or genetically-influenced diseases cannot be happy. They've unwittingly been missing information, and treating false information as valid, for a long time.
THIS.