Isn't is a little odd that a manufacturer would associate themselves with homeopathy to add legitimacyto their product health claims???
I suspect that Zicam doesn't do a damn thing, and I really doubt that with the huge number of people who take it that an average of 13 people per year losing their smell would be a large enough number to even make the assertion of some sort of causal relationship - hell I don't even see any correlation there.
East Los Angeles Community College astrophysics curriculum easy enough for an 11 year old to complete.
He probably is a smart kid, but I think that this story says more about the (apparent) sad state of the East Los Angeles Community College than it says good about this 11 year old.
Seems to me that what is needed is a large number of people abusing this law and lodging false complaints with the aim to deny service to random/ non-random people before the legislators will be able to understand what a stupid law this is. Once enough of their (voting) constituents are adversely affected they'll either rescind it or be voted out of office.
So this is probably a stupid question, but as I understand things, a PAP smear is actually a test for HPV which a woman can (I assume) contract with or without her cervex. While it is true that HPV is very much the leading cause of cervical cancer, they are not one and the same. If all the above is true, then doesn't a PAP smear still make sense no matter the state of a woman's cervex? And for that matter, I do believe that men can catch HPV also, why is it that we test woman twice a year and men never?
So you have proof that those proposals will "destroy the ecological balance of the planet"??? Since when has this planet ever been in an "ecological balance" anyway?
The point is that HE subjected his audience to the mosquitoes (or symbolically did, or threatened to or whatever.) We DO NOT subject people in developing nations to mosquitoes - they're just part of the environment. I don't see them protesting about problems we have over here, why should I protest the way they live their lives?
You can keep your shame, no hypocrisy here, I am shameless.
This is a beautiful illustration if the Liberal mindset. Rather than trying to raise the poor by eliminating mosquitoes he's trying to equalize everyone by lowering the wealthy.
Yea, I know it was really just a symbolic gesture, but that's why I'm examining the symbolism inherent in it. There are a probably a million ways he could have gotten his point across about the dangers of malaria and the urgency of dealing with the problem, but he chose to do so in a manner of knocking the "rich" down to the level of the "poor."
I think it says a lot about the guy, and the way he thinks.
Capitalism is simply what naturally happens when people are allowed to run their own lives. How can you logically draw a line and say that it's OK to have X amount of dollars, but immoral to have Y? Who died and made you Moses?
Damn right I want "freedom from public services, freedom from labor unions, freedom from environmental regulation, freedom from anything..." I want you and the government, the church, my neighbors, their dog, and pretty much the entire rest of the planet the hell out of my life.
I'm not arguing here that copyright infringement is acceptable.
Since the content producers aren't exactly hurting, so how can one it be argued that the status quo (i.e. rampant file sharing) is unsustainable? Especially in light of it being sustained right now and over the past several years.
Even if those points are true (I am a man-made-global-warming doubter myself. I dunno, I just think that temperature changed can be better explained by THE HUGE BALL OF NUCLEAR FIRE around which our planet revolves) a film with that many deliberate falsehoods hardly contributes to "world peace." If the truth cannot stand without the support of lies, is it really the truth?
Oh, and let's not forget that one of the principal reactions "responsible" for the hole in the ozone layer (i.e. the rapid photolysis of Cl2O2) has been demonstrated to not have the effect necessary to explain ozone depletion (not to mention that the ozone hole has been shrinking of late.)
I just don't understand what a propaganda file chock full of inaccuracies, misleading data, and outright falsehoods had to do with the promotion of peace?
How about the following court findings (thank you Great Britain)
* The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming. The Government's expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.
* The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
* The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming. The Government's expert had to accept that it was "not possible" to attribute one-off events to global warming.
* The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming. The Government's expert had to accept that this was not the case.
* The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice. It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.
* The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant's evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.
* The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching. The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.
* The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously. The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.
* The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.
* The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.
* The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand. The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.
He does make it clear that the add-ons are for the professional versions only, but HE DOES NOT cite either the US statute or the EULA clause prohibiting the development of add-ons for Express versions. Just a bunch of hot air as far as I can see.
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Clinton never submitted it to congress for ratification either.
Besides, the same people have been crying about the impending doom that awaits us only 10 years down the road for the past 40 years. They can't even predict the weather next week, but they can predict the climate a decade from now (even though not one of their previous predictions has ever come to pass.) Give me a break.
Ya know, I've never quite understood why people get into such a snit about other countries subsidizing their industries. I know it's not "fair" to their US competitors, but the net effect is the same as if those governments were handing out money to US consumers who buy their products. That's money being transfered from their economy to ours and it provides additional pressure on our industries to streamline their operations in order to compete, pressure that's not brought to bear on our foreign competitors because of their government subsidies. So where am I worng?
I dunno about anyone else, but after a month or so of asking me to install WGA, my copy of Windows installed it silently without asking me or giving me a EULA or anything. Not that I use Windows for anything other than utilizing websites that require IE.... but it still pisses me off that they installed it without my permission.
I'm guessing that's because Apple's not got a (almost) monopoly in the PC market, and therefore antitrust wouldn't apply. Looks to me like Adobe might say that MS Office has a virtual monopoly in the office suite market and that MS is using their market dominance to squeeze Adobe out.
As I recall, this was really about preventing his name from being used in some work of fiction (a book or movie, I don't remember which) and the use of his full name in Wiki was used to by the author to defend his use of the name.
Dontcha know? Because Kerry and his supporters are intellegent enough to argue 2 mutually exclusive points at the same time and stand behind both of them.
And they're so vague. "Linux has to grow or die..." Umm, isn't that the way of everything? In a dynamic world (this world) things change. Change usually is either beneficial or detrimental - and this can be oversimplified into "grow or die." Since Linux has been growing since 1991 there's no reason to expect it to stop unless it ceases to be.
Now what might be impressive would be if he predicted the direction of growth and got that right - but he's not even predicting that.
I like his regular columns much more than his "predictions"
Ah, but with DRM MS will have to use some sort of encryption, which under the DMCA would be illegal to decode in any non-MS product. Step 2 would be for MS to use encryption in all their documents "because we've integrated IE (Insideous Encryption) into the Office Suite and it's really impossible for use to remove it without breaking Office..." Then non-MS office suites will be unable to read documets that the 95% of the world who uses MS Office produces. </parenoid-rant>
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Isn't is a little odd that a manufacturer would associate themselves with homeopathy to add legitimacyto their product health claims???
I suspect that Zicam doesn't do a damn thing, and I really doubt that with the huge number of people who take it that an average of 13 people per year losing their smell would be a large enough number to even make the assertion of some sort of causal relationship - hell I don't even see any correlation there.
East Los Angeles Community College astrophysics curriculum easy enough for an 11 year old to complete.
He probably is a smart kid, but I think that this story says more about the (apparent) sad state of the East Los Angeles Community College than it says good about this 11 year old.
Seems to me that what is needed is a large number of people abusing this law and lodging false complaints with the aim to deny service to random/ non-random people before the legislators will be able to understand what a stupid law this is. Once enough of their (voting) constituents are adversely affected they'll either rescind it or be voted out of office.
So this is probably a stupid question, but as I understand things, a PAP smear is actually a test for HPV which a woman can (I assume) contract with or without her cervex. While it is true that HPV is very much the leading cause of cervical cancer, they are not one and the same. If all the above is true, then doesn't a PAP smear still make sense no matter the state of a woman's cervex? And for that matter, I do believe that men can catch HPV also, why is it that we test woman twice a year and men never?
So you have proof that those proposals will "destroy the ecological balance of the planet"??? Since when has this planet ever been in an "ecological balance" anyway?
The point is that HE subjected his audience to the mosquitoes (or symbolically did, or threatened to or whatever.) We DO NOT subject people in developing nations to mosquitoes - they're just part of the environment. I don't see them protesting about problems we have over here, why should I protest the way they live their lives?
You can keep your shame, no hypocrisy here, I am shameless.
This is a beautiful illustration if the Liberal mindset. Rather than trying to raise the poor by eliminating mosquitoes he's trying to equalize everyone by lowering the wealthy.
Yea, I know it was really just a symbolic gesture, but that's why I'm examining the symbolism inherent in it. There are a probably a million ways he could have gotten his point across about the dangers of malaria and the urgency of dealing with the problem, but he chose to do so in a manner of knocking the "rich" down to the level of the "poor."
I think it says a lot about the guy, and the way he thinks.
You cannot increase freedom by reducing freedom.
Capitalism is simply what naturally happens when people are allowed to run their own lives. How can you logically draw a line and say that it's OK to have X amount of dollars, but immoral to have Y? Who died and made you Moses?
Damn right I want "freedom from public services, freedom from labor unions, freedom from environmental regulation, freedom from anything..." I want you and the government, the church, my neighbors, their dog, and pretty much the entire rest of the planet the hell out of my life.
I'm not arguing here that copyright infringement is acceptable.
Since the content producers aren't exactly hurting, so how can one it be argued that the status quo (i.e. rampant file sharing) is unsustainable? Especially in light of it being sustained right now and over the past several years.
I think atheism is more properly defined as a belief in the non-existence of god or gods.
Agnosticism is closer to not having any beliefs pro or con to the existence of god(s).
Even if those points are true (I am a man-made-global-warming doubter myself. I dunno, I just think that temperature changed can be better explained by THE HUGE BALL OF NUCLEAR FIRE around which our planet revolves) a film with that many deliberate falsehoods hardly contributes to "world peace." If the truth cannot stand without the support of lies, is it really the truth?
Oh, and let's not forget that one of the principal reactions "responsible" for the hole in the ozone layer (i.e. the rapid photolysis of Cl2O2) has been demonstrated to not have the effect necessary to explain ozone depletion (not to mention that the ozone hole has been shrinking of late.)
I just don't understand what a propaganda file chock full of inaccuracies, misleading data, and outright falsehoods had to do with the promotion of peace?
How about the following court findings (thank you Great Britain)
* The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming. The Government's expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.
* The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
* The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming. The Government's expert had to accept that it was "not possible" to attribute one-off events to global warming.
* The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming. The Government's expert had to accept that this was not the case.
* The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice. It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.
* The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant's evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.
* The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching. The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.
* The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously. The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.
* The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.
* The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.
* The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand. The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.
He does make it clear that the add-ons are for the professional versions only, but HE DOES NOT cite either the US statute or the EULA clause prohibiting the development of add-ons for Express versions. Just a bunch of hot air as far as I can see.
Clinton never submitted it to congress for ratification either.
Besides, the same people have been crying about the impending doom that awaits us only 10 years down the road for the past 40 years. They can't even predict the weather next week, but they can predict the climate a decade from now (even though not one of their previous predictions has ever come to pass.) Give me a break.
Ya know, I've never quite understood why people get into such a snit about other countries subsidizing their industries. I know it's not "fair" to their US competitors, but the net effect is the same as if those governments were handing out money to US consumers who buy their products. That's money being transfered from their economy to ours and it provides additional pressure on our industries to streamline their operations in order to compete, pressure that's not brought to bear on our foreign competitors because of their government subsidies. So where am I worng?
I dunno about anyone else, but after a month or so of asking me to install WGA, my copy of Windows installed it silently without asking me or giving me a EULA or anything. Not that I use Windows for anything other than utilizing websites that require IE.... but it still pisses me off that they installed it without my permission.
I'm guessing that's because Apple's not got a (almost) monopoly in the PC market, and therefore antitrust wouldn't apply. Looks to me like Adobe might say that MS Office has a virtual monopoly in the office suite market and that MS is using their market dominance to squeeze Adobe out.
just my wild-ass guess.
As I recall, this was really about preventing his name from being used in some work of fiction (a book or movie, I don't remember which) and the use of his full name in Wiki was used to by the author to defend his use of the name.
Or something similar to that.
I see nothing evil about reducing (by any amount) the money our beloved federal government gets to take from the citizenry(sp?)
Dontcha know? Because Kerry and his supporters are intellegent enough to argue 2 mutually exclusive points at the same time and stand behind both of them.
And they're so vague. "Linux has to grow or die..." Umm, isn't that the way of everything? In a dynamic world (this world) things change. Change usually is either beneficial or detrimental - and this can be oversimplified into "grow or die." Since Linux has been growing since 1991 there's no reason to expect it to stop unless it ceases to be.
Now what might be impressive would be if he predicted the direction of growth and got that right - but he's not even predicting that.
I like his regular columns much more than his "predictions"
If God had intended us to go around naked, we would've been born that way, dammit!
Ah, but with DRM MS will have to use some sort of encryption, which under the DMCA would be illegal to decode in any non-MS product. Step 2 would be for MS to use encryption in all their documents "because we've integrated IE (Insideous Encryption) into the Office Suite and it's really impossible for use to remove it without breaking Office..." Then non-MS office suites will be unable to read documets that the 95% of the world who uses MS Office produces.
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And all this time The Register has been lampooning Captain Cyborg. I guess Warwick was right the whole time.
without a digital signature (which isn't all that common in email today anyway) it can't currently be authenticated.
And for bogus email that's electronically coppied, just look at all the virus warning/urban legend emails out there.