umm, you were talking about the 'evolution' of menopause, not sure what anything you're saying now has to do with that.
Active modern american? That's a laugh, how about we talk about the general population, you can't pick and choose your populations. Second, US'ians were never anything to be proud of, they've never really had healthy diets and westerners in general don't have rich balanced culinary diets, but the USian culture has very little experience with food in general since it's so young.
Depends on where you live. The one contract I read for my mom here in Canada states that the phone belongs to the company until the contract is fulfilled.
Maybe it has less to do with 'evolution' and more to do with diet. This is the problem with western science always generalizing cultural norms to the human population as a whole.
Most Westerners eat garbage or severely unbalanced diets and it has a large effect on fertility, sperm mobility, and 'aging' effects.
Try western diet devoid of phytoestrogens. This isn't very common in other cultures and if you read some Aristotle he talks about women bearing children into their 60's.
Rats will go into a defensive crouch pretty much at any sudden unexpected stimulus. Put an electrode into a pleasure center and activate it and the rat will go into a defensive crouch. You see this all the time when shaping in skinner boxes.
It would be very hard to say that they were re-experiencing that specific memory.
That's why I made the comment. Though I don't have any problems with reading comics on my A500 and prefer my Nook Touch for some manga, I wouldn't mind a new Ipad for reading programming books and pdfs.
And your translation? What about context? Just because someone says something shouldn't exist doesn't mean that it's their mission to wipe it from the face of the earth. Have you ever heard the US government speaking about how these hostile regimes shouldn't be allowed to exist/continue... wait, bad example, because the US actually does go around invading other countries and wiping out their governments.
That's laughable. Apparently you've never done any medical research nor seem to understand the politics and economics of medical/pharmaceutical research.
What is wrong with people's reasoning abilities these days? Yes, science doesn't set out to prove a null hypothesis, because it can't, so to automatically BELIEVE that something isn't true because it hasn't been proven is absurdly stupid and is taught in Logic 101. Get yourself an education. Don't be stupid.
Wow, paranoid much? Let me guess, you have no Iranian friends right? No language abilities? No intelligence? The world is a scary place when you don't know how to investigate it yourself.
You need to learn how to read. I never said I believe in homeopathy, in fact I really don't believe in anything including science. I base everything on evidence, however, I require proper evidence and not scientific fanboi nonsense, so I choose to examine everything personally. Homeopathy isn't something that I care about either way so it's not worth my effort. Science fanbois believe stupid things that most people swallow without thinking such as women being born with all their eggs, nerves not regenerating, staring into the sun will blind you, etc... all things that 'science' claimed or repeated without any actual proof and which were later proven to be false. Do you even realize how much garbage keeps getting perpetuated in science books that is based on no evidence whatsoever?
What I state is credible. Take for example acupressure points. Western medicine mostly thinks it's garbage because nobody could understand how these points were discovered. You'll find slashdot science fanbois thinking that people were just randomly sticking needles in people (it didn't even start with needles). Most people can't understand the points because they can't feel them, however masters of the art claim that they can feel them. Science fanbois dismissed this because most westerners are so out of touch with their bodies they can't even feel their own heartbeat. However, science then came up with a machine that could detect these points and suprise suprise they're in the same places that the masters who can feel them with their hands said they were. Now, whether the methods of stimulation that are used actually accomplish anything on these points is beside the point. The point is that you can't automatically dismiss something because it goes contrary to your belief, that is not science. The other point is that anything that humans have accomplished requires time and training to master.
Besides, don't you see how ridiculous you seem when (because of your lack of reading ability) you claim I believe homeopathy works in the face of lack of evidence, when you claim it doesn't work which is a belief and something that can never be PROVEN by science? Don't be stupid.
No, it's to say that not all microphones on tablets suck, or not all programs suck at fft, or simply that here's a tablet that can easily be used to tune a guitar, literally EXACTLY what I said.
What the hell is wrong with NT's reading capabilities that they simply can't parse a string literally?
Nor are we talking about Islamic states threatening to wipe Israel off the map... unless you've drunk the Kool-aid provided by the US government with their mistranslations.
I believe Skinner gave almost the exact same speech as you.
Slight exaggeration, but I'm sure everybody gets the picture, well, at least those who know what behaviourism is.
Writing a neural net isn't hard, it's actually computationally and programmatically simple if you even have a cursory understanding of how neurons work. The problem is somehow equating neural nets with consciousness and the real problem is explaining consciousness in the rare case of those who don't really have brains. Moreover, consciousness doesn't even have a clear agreed upon description, it'll vary from camp to camp and quite obviously you seem to belong to the simplistic deterministic camp in which nirvana is always a decade away.
Let me give you a basic problem with your reading skills. I never said I believe in Homeopathy.
That aside, I really don't care either way whether it is true or not, hence my not wanting to dig out sources from something I've read years ago.
As for homeopathy being only 200 years old, you are sadly mistaken. The believe that energy in other objects can be manipulated and changed in other objects exists for millenia, just look at occult practices, even back to pagan rites where gross ritual is used as the means for generating and directing this energy.
Just for a thought experiment, let us postulate that energy (after all, what we perceive as a concrete world is just the eddying and flow of energy) can be manipulated, just as something like clay can. It takes years, maybe decades for most people to be able to competently manipulate clay into doing what they want it to do, it requires an intense understanding of the composition of clay itself, it's properties, how it reacts under different circumstances, etc..., as well as intense knowledge of one's own body such as balance, alignment, efficient movement, etc... You can put any person in front of a potters wheel and have him imitate the movements of a master but most likely he's just going to end up with a broken piece of clay. What makes you think that manipulating the very fabric of nature would be any easier or simpler to accomplish? So, ever think that performing the dilution is just the outward copying of the movements and not the whole picture? Perhaps the only thing that the dilution does is get the water and manipulator familiar with the energy pattern and the real work is done by the manipulator manipulating the water to adopt this pattern after the component is removed? After all, it has been shown that conscious thought directed at water can change it's crystallization.
Your requests for data are meaningless as well, for you could give someone all that information about clay and that still wouldn't give them a clue about the other half of the puzzle which is the actual manipulation.
Of course, one must remember that in all professions there are charlatans and quacks, including science where there are numerous incompetent studies, numerous cases of falsified data, and numerous cases of 'scientists' selling out to big corporations. Do you judge the whole of something because of the charlatans,quacks, and incompetents? If so, you aren't a skeptic, just a science fanboi.
A skeptic doesn't swallow anything as truth, that includes the belief that homeopathy doesn't work because nobody has proven it yet, do you not know how science works? Is it also not possible that it has never been shown to work (by researchers) because the researchers are not skilled in the technique? Just like normal lab work requires physical precision of which the majority of people are lacking (just look at ceramic glaze results in labs as compared to in pottery studios) perhaps homeopathy requires a precision which western researchers are not skilled in. This is how a real skeptic thinks.
I'm not here for your edification, get your own sources.
The USA does not like to correct misinformation from the past. Hell, they still call native americans Indians and it's been nearly 4 centuries that they've known they weren't in India!
Said by someone who clearly knows nothing about psychology. Ah, slashdot, where clueless people post with authority, basically saying don't believe them, believe me because I say so.
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Only partially joking, I can't check if those are flight only arrivals or not since I can't load up US govt data from canada.
Active modern american? That's a laugh, how about we talk about the general population, you can't pick and choose your populations. Second, US'ians were never anything to be proud of, they've never really had healthy diets and westerners in general don't have rich balanced culinary diets, but the USian culture has very little experience with food in general since it's so young.
Depends on where you live. The one contract I read for my mom here in Canada states that the phone belongs to the company until the contract is fulfilled.
They aren't an accomplice to the theft, they're only facilitating the resale of the stolen device. Big difference there.
Most Westerners eat garbage or severely unbalanced diets and it has a large effect on fertility, sperm mobility, and 'aging' effects.
Try western diet devoid of phytoestrogens. This isn't very common in other cultures and if you read some Aristotle he talks about women bearing children into their 60's.
It would be very hard to say that they were re-experiencing that specific memory.
umm, no. Compare a Samsung series 7 to a 15" macbook pro. Double the memory, higher res screen, and $1000 cheaper, thinner, and lighter.
That's why I made the comment. Though I don't have any problems with reading comics on my A500 and prefer my Nook Touch for some manga, I wouldn't mind a new Ipad for reading programming books and pdfs.
Scholarly approval? Sorry can't do that, I guess you'll just have to stick with your biased, unscholarly, unapproved, government propaganda.
And your translation? What about context? Just because someone says something shouldn't exist doesn't mean that it's their mission to wipe it from the face of the earth. Have you ever heard the US government speaking about how these hostile regimes shouldn't be allowed to exist/continue... wait, bad example, because the US actually does go around invading other countries and wiping out their governments.
What is wrong with people's reasoning abilities these days? Yes, science doesn't set out to prove a null hypothesis, because it can't, so to automatically BELIEVE that something isn't true because it hasn't been proven is absurdly stupid and is taught in Logic 101. Get yourself an education. Don't be stupid.
Wow, paranoid much? Let me guess, you have no Iranian friends right? No language abilities? No intelligence? The world is a scary place when you don't know how to investigate it yourself.
What I state is credible. Take for example acupressure points. Western medicine mostly thinks it's garbage because nobody could understand how these points were discovered. You'll find slashdot science fanbois thinking that people were just randomly sticking needles in people (it didn't even start with needles). Most people can't understand the points because they can't feel them, however masters of the art claim that they can feel them. Science fanbois dismissed this because most westerners are so out of touch with their bodies they can't even feel their own heartbeat. However, science then came up with a machine that could detect these points and suprise suprise they're in the same places that the masters who can feel them with their hands said they were. Now, whether the methods of stimulation that are used actually accomplish anything on these points is beside the point. The point is that you can't automatically dismiss something because it goes contrary to your belief, that is not science. The other point is that anything that humans have accomplished requires time and training to master.
Besides, don't you see how ridiculous you seem when (because of your lack of reading ability) you claim I believe homeopathy works in the face of lack of evidence, when you claim it doesn't work which is a belief and something that can never be PROVEN by science? Don't be stupid.
What the hell is wrong with NT's reading capabilities that they simply can't parse a string literally?
Don't be stupid.
Slight exaggeration, but I'm sure everybody gets the picture, well, at least those who know what behaviourism is.
Writing a neural net isn't hard, it's actually computationally and programmatically simple if you even have a cursory understanding of how neurons work. The problem is somehow equating neural nets with consciousness and the real problem is explaining consciousness in the rare case of those who don't really have brains. Moreover, consciousness doesn't even have a clear agreed upon description, it'll vary from camp to camp and quite obviously you seem to belong to the simplistic deterministic camp in which nirvana is always a decade away.
awesome for manga...and if you're not a stuck up douche.
I can tune my guitar perfectly on my android A500.
That aside, I really don't care either way whether it is true or not, hence my not wanting to dig out sources from something I've read years ago.
As for homeopathy being only 200 years old, you are sadly mistaken. The believe that energy in other objects can be manipulated and changed in other objects exists for millenia, just look at occult practices, even back to pagan rites where gross ritual is used as the means for generating and directing this energy.
Just for a thought experiment, let us postulate that energy (after all, what we perceive as a concrete world is just the eddying and flow of energy) can be manipulated, just as something like clay can. It takes years, maybe decades for most people to be able to competently manipulate clay into doing what they want it to do, it requires an intense understanding of the composition of clay itself, it's properties, how it reacts under different circumstances, etc..., as well as intense knowledge of one's own body such as balance, alignment, efficient movement, etc... You can put any person in front of a potters wheel and have him imitate the movements of a master but most likely he's just going to end up with a broken piece of clay. What makes you think that manipulating the very fabric of nature would be any easier or simpler to accomplish? So, ever think that performing the dilution is just the outward copying of the movements and not the whole picture? Perhaps the only thing that the dilution does is get the water and manipulator familiar with the energy pattern and the real work is done by the manipulator manipulating the water to adopt this pattern after the component is removed? After all, it has been shown that conscious thought directed at water can change it's crystallization.
Your requests for data are meaningless as well, for you could give someone all that information about clay and that still wouldn't give them a clue about the other half of the puzzle which is the actual manipulation.
Of course, one must remember that in all professions there are charlatans and quacks, including science where there are numerous incompetent studies, numerous cases of falsified data, and numerous cases of 'scientists' selling out to big corporations. Do you judge the whole of something because of the charlatans,quacks, and incompetents? If so, you aren't a skeptic, just a science fanboi.
I'm not here for your edification, get your own sources.
The USA does not like to correct misinformation from the past. Hell, they still call native americans Indians and it's been nearly 4 centuries that they've known they weren't in India!
Don't be stupid.
Clueless. A skeptic wouldn't derive any of the nonsense you mention from this.
Said by someone who clearly knows nothing about psychology. Ah, slashdot, where clueless people post with authority, basically saying don't believe them, believe me because I say so.