Point 1) Placebos have an effect, except when they don't, such as when a drug is replaced with another which counteracts the original's effects.
Point 4) A placebo controlled study showed that homeopathic remedies are effective.
It doesn't say that the studies in point 4 was "placebo controlled". It sounds more like the cells they were testing were in a pitri dish, not in a person. It does mention that no large-scale placebo-controlled study of homeopathic remedies has been shown to be effective.
If the homeopathy study has any validity, it should have been replicated independently several times by now. Has it? (I don't know, I'm just askin'). I'm surprised that the article didn't comment on the importance of this.
FTFA:
The study, replicated in four different labs, found that homeopathic solutions - so dilute that they probably didn't contain a single histamine molecule - worked just like histamine.
and providing absolute limits on the power any state government could weild against it's citizens.
I'm not sure about that last -- the fact that it was spelled out in the 14th amendment ("No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.") suggests that if it was implied in the original document, it was not sufficiently so.
Additionally, the first says "Congress shall make no law", not "There shall be no law". Coupled with the fact that several states had established religions at the time of founding, this suggests that the limitations on power applied only to the federal government.
Of course, the issue of how states can treat their citizens has been an enduring source of tension both before and after the 14th amendment, so I don't see either course as being a real solution to the problem.
Here you lay down the law, saying, "Welcome to capitalism" yet in your post above you say, "How about stop whining and give them a little support".
Well, which is it? Nero is entering a niche market with 80% of potential users' needs met by a free competitor. Why not welcome them to capitalism? Instead, you stomp your feet and complain that users aren't cheering the arrival of a product they don't need and don't want.
There are plenty of cheers to go with the purist complaints when somebody ports something interesting to linux (like a popular game), but who the hell cares about Nero? As for the switchers you allude to, is there really anyone out there who is willing to give up their favorite games and office suite, but their cd-buring app is keeping them tied to Windows? It strains belief.
Maybe some people will use it maybe they won't. But the collective shrug seen here strikes me as an entirely appropriate response. Welcome to capitalism.
PCs stopped using 16-bit addressing with the 386. Even video modes barely use 16-bit numbers anymore.
Each hex digit is a four-bit binary nibble. Thus you use four fingers to count them -- 0xC for Victory and so forth. Counting to sixteen is all you need for hex, just like counting on ten fingers serves for decimal. Counting to 2^16 has hardly any incremental value.
So while I'm not really taking a side here, because I haven't read the research, I'm imploring you to do the same, and keep an open mind about things. Just because something doesn't happen to you, doesn't mean there isn't a discernable effect in the entire population.
So, keeping an open mind, as you say -- where are the bodies? Youth murders peaked in 1993 and have fallen substantially since.
Looking at the big picture, the release of Doom I and the rise of ever more graphic and violent games seems to have sparked a long, steady *drop* in youth murders. It seems foolish to argue that the drop is actually caused by the increase in video game violence -- but it seems even more foolish to argue that there is a causal relationship when the data show an inverse correlation.
I'm so sick of this guy's so-called "hacker" fame. He tricked a bunch of early tech no-nothings into telling him their passwords and protocols and now he's living off it forever. Jobs and Woz hacked the phone system, but then they went on to produce something. What has this guy actually ever produced, written, made?
Why are you sick of it? When he went to jail the guy was treated like Lex Luthor or something. It seems to me like the overcompensation now is paying for the overreaction then -- in some karmaic sense, anyway. I say let him milk it.
...the morons on Slashdot and at the New York Times didn't bother to even interview his coworkers
And you did? Are you going to post a link to Talon News for us? Maybe Newsmax? You're just making this stuff up, but you give every indication of believing it. It's disturbing.
Good as the Bush people are at playing "not me", your "analysis" doesn't work here. Even if Clarke totally blew it himself (and I doubt your insinuation) his critique of the rest of the administration was still wiltingly accurate. If he was such a fool, why didn't someone else -- say, the National Security Advisor -- pick up the ball? Because the memos didn't give seat numbers? Your lame attack only proves his case.
I love the concept of nuclear power from an air-quality standpoint, but the incredibly dangerous and voluminous waste it produces is more than I can ignore
Please do some research on this before you buy into "dangerous and voluminous" waste FUD. The vast majority of such "waste" can be used to produce electricity in breeder/plutonium reactors. Most of the remainder can also produce electricity, though at above-market costs. An agressive program of reprocessing and transmutation could reduce the time that waste is more radioactive than uranium ore to under 500 years and reduce the volume of such waste to under 50 cubic meters per year -- and that is assuming all of our current electrical and transportation energy is supplied by nuclear power. Such a program would only add about 10% to the cost of electricity. And even if you blew off the expensive transmutation, 97% of the current waste is U-238 and plutonium which can produce electricity at competitive costs.
Google around for the Advanced Fuel Cycles Initiative for more info.
Pyonyang's nuclear program started well before the Clinton administration, which is why the Clinton administration had to deal with North Korea's nuclear program. Did you think they offered LWRs just for the hell of it?
Because the politics section was invented during the US elections, and many international slashdotters scream, stamp and foam at the mouth when they are presented with "US-centric" content.
But as is usual, what began as a concession has been reframed as a grave insult.
Oh, come on. Please provide some evidence that the weapons being built were constructed with materials provided by the Clintons. Any evidence.
North Korea already had a civilian use nuclear program in place when they signed the NPT and allowed inspections in 1985. The only reason Clinton got involved after that was because the CIA thought the North Koreans weren't sticking to the deal. In other words, there was plenty of nuclear material in North Korea well before Clinton got involved.
Yes, Clinton's plan failed to do anything to solve the problem, except perhaps delaying the inevitable and perhaps not even that. But the Rushbot revisionist history is childish, stupid and unnecessary.
Well, I am secular as well, and I think your view of scientific inquiry is a little skewed. How is this different from the standard method of forming a hypothesis and subjecting it to experiment? Further, it is not infrequent that hypothesis is defended in the face of early experimental challenge -- why should this be any different?
So yes, the religious view of the shroud is ahead of any experimental facts that would support that position. It may be even farther from the facts than usual because the hypothesis is based on mythological evidence. But Troy and the North American Viking settlements were based on mythological evidence, and "let's go prove it" produced interesting results in those cases. I don't see why anything being done here is any different except to Christians and christophobes.
It is a time of uncertainty. the empire's ambiguous tariff statutes mandate close reexamination of galactic export quotas. Interim Princess Agoomba has co-chaired a subcommittee to draft amendments to existing trade policies.
Meanwhile, regulatory agencies are being heavily lobbied by a consortium of mercantile interest groups and their suppliers to streamline loading restrictions for class C cargo vessels. The shipping...
Yes, but remember we're talking about *patents* here, not just code. Not only can you not copy code, you can't even implement the concept on your own under another license.
Yes, it's better than not being able to implement those ideas in any form, but just barely.
I remember they were a little mystified when Bruce Perens took them to task for their patent portfolio at just the time they were basking in the glow of being open source's hero vs. SCO.
I am both pleased and amazed that they acted to shore up that weak link to the community.
If you think it's overrated, you've never had SMP on your desktop.
If I had to choose I would pick a dual 1 GHz system over a single 2 GHz system. Everything works together so much more smoothly. Grandma would be able to browse the web, play mp3s and record Matlock all on the same machine at the same without missing a beat.
SMP belongs on the desktop -- I think when people try out the new dual cores, they're going to wonder how they ever got along without them.
I was just looking into that. Unfortunately, I think the guy was using the ASP's most optimistic projections for oil production from algae, rather than their actual results.
I read through the source paper and saw the "1 quad per 700 sq miles" (or whatever it was), but I also read that their best species produced 4-5g lipids per m^2 per day. Plugging in numbers, I came up with a land area figure 10x higher than his, and that was with substantial efficiency improvements.
Here it is with current fuel/heating consumption of 16m bbl/day.
bbl/day 16,311,000 kg/m3 900 gal/m3 264 gal/bbl 42 bbl/m3 6.29 kg/m2 0.00434 m2/m3 207,373 m2/bbl 32,991 area 538,119,501,466 sq km 538,120 sq mi 210,203
I may have missed something else in the report, but until someone shows me the math, I'm filing it under "future tech".
we have to commandeer a huge amount of land for solar and wind farms and those are political and financial undertakings that are NOT an easy sell
First, you're forgetting nuclear and second, what's your alternative? The hydrogen model is based on ever-decreasing supply of oil -- thus, ever-increasing prices. The political will will follow the high prices, and we can't respond to scarcity with continued consumption...so, hydrogen.
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Point 1) Placebos have an effect, except when they don't, such as when a drug is replaced with another which counteracts the original's effects.
Point 4) A placebo controlled study showed that homeopathic remedies are effective.
It doesn't say that the studies in point 4 was "placebo controlled". It sounds more like the cells they were testing were in a pitri dish, not in a person. It does mention that no large-scale placebo-controlled study of homeopathic remedies has been shown to be effective.
If the homeopathy study has any validity, it should have been replicated independently several times by now. Has it? (I don't know, I'm just askin'). I'm surprised that the article didn't comment on the importance of this.
FTFA:
The study, replicated in four different labs, found that homeopathic solutions - so dilute that they probably didn't contain a single histamine molecule - worked just like histamine.
and providing absolute limits on the power any state government could weild against it's citizens.
I'm not sure about that last -- the fact that it was spelled out in the 14th amendment ("No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.") suggests that if it was implied in the original document, it was not sufficiently so.
Additionally, the first says "Congress shall make no law", not "There shall be no law". Coupled with the fact that several states had established religions at the time of founding, this suggests that the limitations on power applied only to the federal government.
Of course, the issue of how states can treat their citizens has been an enduring source of tension both before and after the 14th amendment, so I don't see either course as being a real solution to the problem.
Here you lay down the law, saying, "Welcome to capitalism" yet in your post above you say, "How about stop whining and give them a little support".
Well, which is it? Nero is entering a niche market with 80% of potential users' needs met by a free competitor. Why not welcome them to capitalism? Instead, you stomp your feet and complain that users aren't cheering the arrival of a product they don't need and don't want.
There are plenty of cheers to go with the purist complaints when somebody ports something interesting to linux (like a popular game), but who the hell cares about Nero? As for the switchers you allude to, is there really anyone out there who is willing to give up their favorite games and office suite, but their cd-buring app is keeping them tied to Windows? It strains belief.
Maybe some people will use it maybe they won't. But the collective shrug seen here strikes me as an entirely appropriate response. Welcome to capitalism.
PCs stopped using 16-bit addressing with the 386. Even video modes barely use 16-bit numbers anymore.
Each hex digit is a four-bit binary nibble. Thus you use four fingers to count them -- 0xC for Victory and so forth. Counting to sixteen is all you need for hex, just like counting on ten fingers serves for decimal. Counting to 2^16 has hardly any incremental value.
And if you don't like it, then 0x4 you.
Real programmers have sixteen fingers.
Count hex using four fingers instead -- it has the advantage of showing you the bitmask as well.
And yes, I relax in front of my desktop PC. I don't even own a tv.
So while I'm not really taking a side here, because I haven't read the research, I'm imploring you to do the same, and keep an open mind about things. Just because something doesn't happen to you, doesn't mean there isn't a discernable effect in the entire population.
So, keeping an open mind, as you say -- where are the bodies? Youth murders peaked in 1993 and have fallen substantially since.
Looking at the big picture, the release of Doom I and the rise of ever more graphic and violent games seems to have sparked a long, steady *drop* in youth murders. It seems foolish to argue that the drop is actually caused by the increase in video game violence -- but it seems even more foolish to argue that there is a causal relationship when the data show an inverse correlation.
I'm so sick of this guy's so-called "hacker" fame. He tricked a bunch of early tech no-nothings into telling him their passwords and protocols and now he's living off it forever. Jobs and Woz hacked the phone system, but then they went on to produce something. What has this guy actually ever produced, written, made?
Why are you sick of it? When he went to jail the guy was treated like Lex Luthor or something. It seems to me like the overcompensation now is paying for the overreaction then -- in some karmaic sense, anyway. I say let him milk it.
Well, it said 12% efficiency, so I'd assume they meant per square *meter*, since 120 W/sq m corresponds to 12% efficiency.
120 Watts per square inch would rock, though -- it's about 200 times the theoretical maximum.
Most of his coworkers thought he was a wacko.
Which of his coworkers thought he was a wacko?
And you did? Are you going to post a link to Talon News for us? Maybe Newsmax? You're just making this stuff up, but you give every indication of believing it. It's disturbing.
Good as the Bush people are at playing "not me", your "analysis" doesn't work here. Even if Clarke totally blew it himself (and I doubt your insinuation) his critique of the rest of the administration was still wiltingly accurate. If he was such a fool, why didn't someone else -- say, the National Security Advisor -- pick up the ball? Because the memos didn't give seat numbers? Your lame attack only proves his case.
Whitewash indeed.
I love the concept of nuclear power from an air-quality standpoint, but the incredibly dangerous and voluminous waste it produces is more than I can ignore
Please do some research on this before you buy into "dangerous and voluminous" waste FUD. The vast majority of such "waste" can be used to produce electricity in breeder/plutonium reactors. Most of the remainder can also produce electricity, though at above-market costs. An agressive program of reprocessing and transmutation could reduce the time that waste is more radioactive than uranium ore to under 500 years and reduce the volume of such waste to under 50 cubic meters per year -- and that is assuming all of our current electrical and transportation energy is supplied by nuclear power. Such a program would only add about 10% to the cost of electricity. And even if you blew off the expensive transmutation, 97% of the current waste is U-238 and plutonium which can produce electricity at competitive costs.
Google around for the Advanced Fuel Cycles Initiative for more info.
Pyonyang's nuclear program started well before the Clinton administration, which is why the Clinton administration had to deal with North Korea's nuclear program. Did you think they offered LWRs just for the hell of it?
So it didn't work. Neither did anything else.
Because the politics section was invented during the US elections, and many international slashdotters scream, stamp and foam at the mouth when they are presented with "US-centric" content.
But as is usual, what began as a concession has been reframed as a grave insult.
Oh, come on. Please provide some evidence that the weapons being built were constructed with materials provided by the Clintons. Any evidence.
North Korea already had a civilian use nuclear program in place when they signed the NPT and allowed inspections in 1985. The only reason Clinton got involved after that was because the CIA thought the North Koreans weren't sticking to the deal. In other words, there was plenty of nuclear material in North Korea well before Clinton got involved.
Yes, Clinton's plan failed to do anything to solve the problem, except perhaps delaying the inevitable and perhaps not even that. But the Rushbot revisionist history is childish, stupid and unnecessary.
Well, I am secular as well, and I think your view of scientific inquiry is a little skewed. How is this different from the standard method of forming a hypothesis and subjecting it to experiment? Further, it is not infrequent that hypothesis is defended in the face of early experimental challenge -- why should this be any different?
So yes, the religious view of the shroud is ahead of any experimental facts that would support that position. It may be even farther from the facts than usual because the hypothesis is based on mythological evidence. But Troy and the North American Viking settlements were based on mythological evidence, and "let's go prove it" produced interesting results in those cases. I don't see why anything being done here is any different except to Christians and christophobes.
So did you notice this "disturbing trend" before or after you noticed the picture of Bill Gates as a borg?
Come on.
It is a time of uncertainty. the
empire's ambiguous tariff statutes
mandate close reexamination of
galactic export quotas. Interim
Princess Agoomba has co-chaired
a subcommittee to draft amendments
to existing trade policies.
Meanwhile, regulatory agencies
are being heavily lobbied by a
consortium of mercantile interest
groups and their suppliers to
streamline loading restrictions for
class C cargo vessels. The shipping...
Yes, but remember we're talking about *patents* here, not just code. Not only can you not copy code, you can't even implement the concept on your own under another license.
Yes, it's better than not being able to implement those ideas in any form, but just barely.
"Farsi" *is* persian, or Parsi, but the word is altered for Persia's conquerors, who lack a "P" sound in their language.
I remember they were a little mystified when Bruce Perens took them to task for their patent portfolio at just the time they were basking in the glow of being open source's hero vs. SCO.
I am both pleased and amazed that they acted to shore up that weak link to the community.
Ever onward!
If you think it's overrated, you've never had SMP on your desktop.
If I had to choose I would pick a dual 1 GHz system over a single 2 GHz system. Everything works together so much more smoothly. Grandma would be able to browse the web, play mp3s and record Matlock all on the same machine at the same without missing a beat.
SMP belongs on the desktop -- I think when people try out the new dual cores, they're going to wonder how they ever got along without them.
I was just looking into that. Unfortunately, I think the guy was using the ASP's most optimistic projections for oil production from algae, rather than their actual results.
I read through the source paper and saw the "1 quad per 700 sq miles" (or whatever it was), but I also read that their best species produced 4-5g lipids per m^2 per day. Plugging in numbers, I came up with a land area figure 10x higher than his, and that was with substantial efficiency improvements.
Here it is with current fuel/heating consumption of 16m bbl/day.
I may have missed something else in the report, but until someone shows me the math, I'm filing it under "future tech".
we have to commandeer a huge amount of land for solar and wind farms and those are political and financial undertakings that are NOT an easy sell
First, you're forgetting nuclear and second, what's your alternative? The hydrogen model is based on ever-decreasing supply of oil -- thus, ever-increasing prices. The political will will follow the high prices, and we can't respond to scarcity with continued consumption...so, hydrogen.
The $75 billion is per year.
The $1 trillion is over many years.