He had WMDs, at least of the chemical kind. How do we know this? Because we gave them to him, and then the Russians gave them to him! He also used them in the Gulf War.
As for bio and nuke... well we don't have any of those types of Iraqi WMDs in our hands at this point. However as we were invading from the south and east a LOT of vehicles were exiting the country out of the west to Jordan and Syria. No one knows what those vehicles contained. There was preliminary intell that suggested he had a nuke but no fuel for it; thus a trade with N Korea.
Also, Saddam was the master of hiding things in the desert. During the Gulf War we found entire MIGs buried in the sand. It would be ludicrous to think they never existed. To put those thoughts into a few facts:
Back in October a gentleman was hiking in California (close to the same size of Iraq) and discovered a crashed WWII Airmen frozen in the mountains (on the surface). The plane had been there for 63 years in a public area, open to anyone, on our own soil, and in fact it was one of our National Parks! They were only about 35 miles from Fresno! http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=local&id =3549625
The mountains in Iraq's are around 9,800ft This park looks to be roughly 10,000ft http://nps.gov/seki/pphtml/maps.html>. Using that same logic, it could equally be 60-100 years before any buried WMDs are found in Iraq's desert or mountains; assuming they are even found at all.
As to the oil, if we were after oil then we simply would've occupied/plundered from Kuwait and called it a "protection royalty". Why invade Iraq when we have a country that only exists because at our pleasure - Kuwait?
No oil has really been removed from Iraq; at least not to the US. If there was a greater supply on the market prices probably would've dropped by now, but they have actually been on the increase since the invasion. Even though we would be justified in taking some of Iraq's oil as a reparation for Saddam's atrocities, the Bush admin has repeatedly stated over and over again that the US will not take Iraq's oil because he doesn't want people to think that the invasion was about oil.
Hate to break it to ya, this conflict wasn't about oil. People who think it was need to learn how to remove their cranium from their rectum.
Of course someone would say something this moronic as an AC.
First off I would say that you should be ashamed of yourself for your dislogic, listening to FUD, and inability to think critically.
Secondly, if we were after oil then we simply would've occupied/plundered from Kuwait and called it a "protection royalty". Why invade Iraq when we have a country that only exists because at our pleasure - Kuwait?
Third, no oil has really been removed from Iraq; at least not to the US. If there was a greater supply on the market prices probably would've dropped by now, but they have actually been on the increase since the invasion. Even though we would be justified in taking some of Iraq's oil as a reparation for Saddam's atrocities, the Bush admin has repeatedly stated over and over again that the US will not take Iraq's oil because he doesn't want people to think that the invasion was about oil.
Hate to break it to ya, this conflict wasn't about oil. People who think it was need to learn how to remove their cranium from their rectum.
When I posted to mod parent up, it was supposed to go underneath your post. Your original post there was the one I wanted modded up. I guess I was confuesd at 3am;-)
I am glad to see someone else on here finally gets it.
Finally, someone on/. who understands the gravity of the situation!
If a nuke was set off in any part of the US, no current politician would be able to resist the public outcry...no make that demands, to glass an entire country or region. The rise of public opinion would be stronger than WWI, WWII, KW, and Vietnam combined! If the person in power here in the US didn't retaliate with nukes I would be willing to bet they would be ousted and replaced with someone who would. An event like that as you mention would change US foreign policy, and even world opinion instantly.
With that being said, I hope it never happens.
However, some insight on things. Everyone believed that Saddam had WMDs prior to our invasion of Iraq. CIA, MI6, Mossad, etc all were in agreement. Well, Saddam couldn't get a nuke to the US, but he might could get one to Israel. As you said Israel has stated many times in the past few years that they are prepared to defend themselves and retaliate mercilessly at any aggressor regardless of world opinion or US intervention.
If you remember just prior to our invasion of Iraq N Korea unplugged the cameras inside their nuclear reactor and began to fire it back up. N Korea is under heavy heavy sanctions and needs crude oil. Iraq needed nuclear fuel for a hydrogen bomb. I suspect they were either about to make a trade, or they had already made the trade.
This is why we invaded Iraq in my opinion; Saddam was trading oil for processed uranium with North Korea, and he would then be a direct threat to Israel if he had a working nuke. The US knows that if Israel is attacked there is no holding them back so we decided to take out Saddam and make the whole situation go away before the entire MidEast was turned into glass. Invading N Korea wasn't really an option as we didn't want to deal with the Chinese aspect of that equation. Also logistically and practically Iraq was a much eaiser target at the time. Iraq had no major allies or at least none that would stand up to a US invasion. Their business partners (France/Germany) were not willing to go to war with the US over the invasion of Iraq, but they did voice loudly their opposition because they were selling a great deal of arms and technology to Saddam.
When I was in college I worked at Blockbuster Video. Well, our local area had a "campus cash" coupon book that was distributed to something like 50,000 or so. Our regional office decided to take out an ad and put coupons in there. Well, they didn't run it by their legal department and thus didn't think to put any sort of disclaimer or limits on it etc.
Well, we had people who had stacks of these things and would come in several times a week to get free videos (the coupon was for 1 free older DVD). Management tried to tell these people they were abusing the coupons but since there were no limits or fine print, BB would be in violation of "bait/switch" laws if they didn't honor the coupons. There was nothing we could do about it.
I loved it because it made an ass of whoever wrote/designed the coupon. Needless to say, the following semester when the coupon book was printed again, the same mistake was not made!
But actually, I guess people don't generally think this'll hurt them because: 1) The bullet will land very very far away (depends on the angle) 2) The bullet will "reach an apex and eventually have zero speed because of a change in acceleration and thus vectors" 3) They fail to also take into account that even though it is just "falling" at the normal rate of acceleration due to gravity, that it doesn't have much surface area, is designed to be aerodynamic, and has a very high terminal velocity.
If I remember correctly a human has a terminal velocity of somewhere between 150-250 MPH. Not very fast in the grand scheme of things, but fast enough to kill you if you hit a brick wall, or the ground, at that speed. Well, a bullet has much less surface area, thus a much higher terminal velocity.
Sadly though, my post wasn't fiction, it was fact. Could you imagine being that unlucky to just be walking along and all of the sudden drop dead due to a bullet falling from the sky. I mean what are the odds?
Man Arrested In New Year's 'Falling Bullet' Death Bullet Traveled 1 Mile Before Piercing Man's Heart
POSTED: 5:51 pm EST January 14, 2005 UPDATED: 10:28 pm EST January 15, 2005
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Orange County sheriff's deputies have arrested a 24-year-old man Friday who allegedly fired a bullet into the sky on New Year's Eve that later fell to earth and pierced a man's heart, according to Local 6 News.
Henry McDaniel, 75, was walking in a neighborhood near Orlando just before midnight when he collapsed in the street, witnesses and sheriff's officials said. He had been at a party celebrating the New Year with friends and had decided to visit another house.
Before he collapsed, McDaniel told friends who were standing with him near the street: "Boys, something hit me. Something hit me."
Doctors at Orlando Regional Medical Center later discovered the bullet, which struck his heart.
Officials blamed the death on a common but illegal practice by New Year's Eve revelers to shoot into the air and began an investigation.
On New Year's Eve, an Orlando police officer responded to the 1000 block of Plymouth Avenue after reports of gunshots.
The Orlando police officer reportedly confiscated a gun from Richardo Roach, 24, (pictured, left) and then contacted the Orange County Sheriff's Office after hearing about McDaniel's death. Roach reportedly admitted to firing the gun into the air, Local 6 News reported.
The weapon was examined forensically by the Sheriff's Office and then by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. It was determined that the confiscated weapon fired the round that killed McDaniel.
The bullet traveled more than one mile before it came down and hit McDaniel, Local 6 News reported.
Roach was interviewed by officers and later arrested. He has been charged with manslaughter.
Exactly - I have a degree in the recording industry. I work in the live entertainment industry as an audio engineer, and also in broadcast as a radio producer here in Nashville.
You hit the nail on the head. Previously the albums promoted the live shows. Then when the Beatles released the Sgt Pepper album that changed.
The live shows were a tool to the lables to promote the albums. The Beatles were one of the first groups to quit performing live, and only release albums.
Well, enter the late 90's - that reverted things back to their pre-Beatles status! Bands (even the big ones) would make a trickle on their releases, but make a lot of money on their live shows. In otherwords, the profit for the performer is in the live industry, not the recording industry. The establishment, slow as usual, ignored this for along time.
The Copyright Law of 1976 and others provide for statuatory damanges. That is punitive damages which have no real cost/damanges associated with them. This is what is called actual damages vs statuatory damages.
Since the amount of material she has allegedly infringed with, is probably only a few hundred dollars, the plantiffs will probably seek statuatory damages. The law says that those damages can be as high as 150,000 per song for a non-commercial infringment.
I am not an attorney, but I work in the recording industry as an audio engineer, and have had a few copyright law classes.
I attended and graduated from MTSU's Mass Communication Recording Industry department. He was there often.
He is a BIGTIME liberal. Good friends with Al Gore (who was also at my school often) and tends to share a lot of the same ideas including a major lack of understanding about technology.
I would wager that almost anything this guy does and says is an attempt to forward his own liberal agenda.
#1 - You might be correct... perhaps it is the basilar membrane itself that hardens and not the fluid inside. It has been a while since I have studied this and my memory is shady.
#2 - Those were the words straight out of the mouth of the audiologist. I am not a medical expert so I cannot intelligently debate this point.
#3 and #4 - Wouldn't some of these items increase the blood pressure or in the case of aspirin thin your blood? And with my understanding of tinnitis it is this increased bloodflow near the ear drum which causes the ringing, or beating sensation? If that is the case, then it will absolutely increase the effects of tinnitis.
I am curious as to your education on this subject. Mine is secondary as my focus wasn't specifically hearing, but audio engineering which is not the same subject obviously. To work with sound you do not have to have a complete understanding of how hearing works, simply a fundamental grasp of the concepts involved. I am of course always interested in learning more.
And most of my fellow Christians don't understand that seperation of church and state is A GOOD THING!
Iran is an examploe of a nation that has NO seperation of church and state.
See here is the thing, yeah it's all fun and games if the people that hold your belief are able to exercise power over the law, however when people who don't agree with you hold the power, the tables are turned.
This is again why the government should be limited to its most basic functions.
I used to be a Republican and then grew up and discovered they are practiaclly just as sorry as the Democrats. In fact they might as well be one single party with only minor differences: the Demorubs or the Republicrats.
In 2000 I almost voted for Pat Buchanan but lived in Florida and would've rather have had Bush than Gore, and in 2004 I voted for Mike Badnarik the Libertarian canididate. Unfortunately though so many people tend to vote for the 'lesser of the two evils'.
The only time in recent history that we had a real debate was when Ross Perot forced the two major parties to discuss issues and not just soundbites. If you remember, he did research, showed charts, facts, figures, and hard data. He didn't do sounbites, feel-good statements, or political bs. For a breif moment in time the US was FORCED to look at the issues in a quantative perspective.
I would like to see the Green Party have more membership as well as the Libertarians and perhaps even the Reform Party. Anything to detract from this two-party political oligopoly that currently exists.
In reality most people only precieve up to 18k and can barely hear about 14k or 16k or so.
At birth the average upper range of hearing is anywhere between 18k-22k.
Not all people that are deaf are deaf due to noise induced hearing loss.
The fluid in the basilier membrane can sometimes harden prematurely but more often than not it simply hardens with age. This is behind the choclea deep inside the ear. I am sure there is more research you can do on this if you are interested.
While I was in college studying as an audio engineer I was a memeber of the Audio Engineering Society. We would have frequent guests come in and once we had an audiologist. Here is some of the information she gave us:
Smokers are twice as likely to suffer from hearing loss as smoking reduces the oxygen levels in and around the ears.
Beer, salt, chocolate, and caffeine are the worst types of food that can be eaten in terms of its affect on the ears.
Caffeine is a stimulant and speeds up blood pressure and the effects from caffeine intake usually subside after about 3 days of absence. This of course includes sodas, coffee, tea, etc etc
Aspirin, anti-inflammatory agents, and any type of steroids can be detrimental in the long run as well. She suggests ibuprofen over anything if something must be taken for pain or headaches. Aspirin will significantly increase the possibility for tinnitus also.
Most hearing damage occurs in the range of 2-4k as 2.7k is near the resonant frequency of the ear canal. Speech reception is not impaired until there is about a 30dB loss of hearing
Usually 4-43% of classical musicians usually experience loss throughout the course of their professional careers. 13-50% of rockers usually experience hearing loss.
She also mentioned a phenomenon known as Temporary Threshold Shift (TTS). TTS occurs when repeated exposure to high SPLs tend to increase our threshold for intelligibility. In other words after a show with high SPL's, people generally have to speak louder to be heard. If TTS is repeated often enough it can become permanent.
TTS will usually dissipate after 3 or 4 days however along with TTS high SPLs increase heart rate thus possibly leading to headaches and irritation.
Of course she says never use a "Q-Tip" to clean the ears as anyone with more than 2 brain cells is aware of. She actually has patients that have punctured their ear drums with these things before. As a matter of fact she has a large sign in her office with a photo of a "Q-Tip" and an X through it.
There have been times when I will walk into a room where the TV is supposedly off, just a blacks creen (no LED indicators on the front) and I will mention that the TV is on, walk up to it, and turn it off. The other people in the room will be like "how did you know that"
This really suprises me because I am an audio engineer and I OFTEN times listen to music at 110+ dB A SPL. I would've thought my hearing would have been shot by my ripe old age of 23;-)
Shrinking the federal government to increase state government responsibility? Now you sound like an old-school Republican... geeze!!
ha ha ha.... I am just messing with ya, but in all seriousness I'm glad there are still people who consider themselves liberal these days that do not have these idiot whack-job psuedo-intellectual attitudes about things. In other words there are still intelligent liberals around.
Perhaps you are really libertarian and don't know it. You should try The World's Smallest Political Quiz (it only takes about 45 seconds): http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html
Most liberals (and unfortunately some conservatives too these days) want MORE government intervantion in their lives, not LESS. The founding principles of the libertarian movement are:
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He had WMDs, at least of the chemical kind. How do we know this? Because we gave them to him, and then the Russians gave them to him! He also used them in the Gulf War.
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As for bio and nuke... well we don't have any of those types of Iraqi WMDs in our hands at this point. However as we were invading from the south and east a LOT of vehicles were exiting the country out of the west to Jordan and Syria. No one knows what those vehicles contained. There was preliminary intell that suggested he had a nuke but no fuel for it; thus a trade with N Korea.
Also, Saddam was the master of hiding things in the desert. During the Gulf War we found entire MIGs buried in the sand. It would be ludicrous to think they never existed. To put those thoughts into a few facts:
According to the CIA World Factbook
Iraq land = 437,072 sq km
http://odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz
California land = 410,000 sq km
http://enc.slider.com/Enc/California
Back in October a gentleman was hiking in California (close to the same size of Iraq) and discovered a crashed WWII Airmen frozen in the mountains (on the surface). The plane had been there for 63 years in a public area, open to anyone, on our own soil, and in fact it was one of our National Parks! They were only about 35 miles from Fresno!
http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=local&i
The mountains in Iraq's are around 9,800ft This park looks to be roughly 10,000ft http://nps.gov/seki/pphtml/maps.html>. Using that same logic, it could equally be 60-100 years before any buried WMDs are found in Iraq's desert or mountains; assuming they are even found at all.
As to the oil, if we were after oil then we simply would've occupied/plundered from Kuwait and called it a "protection royalty". Why invade Iraq when we have a country that only exists because at our pleasure - Kuwait?
No oil has really been removed from Iraq; at least not to the US. If there was a greater supply on the market prices probably would've dropped by now, but they have actually been on the increase since the invasion. Even though we would be justified in taking some of Iraq's oil as a reparation for Saddam's atrocities, the Bush admin has repeatedly stated over and over again that the US will not take Iraq's oil because he doesn't want people to think that the invasion was about oil.
Hate to break it to ya, this conflict wasn't about oil. People who think it was need to learn how to remove their cranium from their rectum.
Of course someone would say something this moronic as an AC.
First off I would say that you should be ashamed of yourself for your dislogic, listening to FUD, and inability to think critically.
Secondly, if we were after oil then we simply would've occupied/plundered from Kuwait and called it a "protection royalty". Why invade Iraq when we have a country that only exists because at our pleasure - Kuwait?
Third, no oil has really been removed from Iraq; at least not to the US. If there was a greater supply on the market prices probably would've dropped by now, but they have actually been on the increase since the invasion. Even though we would be justified in taking some of Iraq's oil as a reparation for Saddam's atrocities, the Bush admin has repeatedly stated over and over again that the US will not take Iraq's oil because he doesn't want people to think that the invasion was about oil.
Hate to break it to ya, this conflict wasn't about oil. People who think it was need to learn how to remove their cranium from their rectum.
When I posted to mod parent up, it was supposed to go underneath your post. Your original post there was the one I wanted modded up. I guess I was confuesd at 3am ;-)
I am glad to see someone else on here finally gets it.
MOD PARENT UP!
/. who understands the gravity of the situation!
Finally, someone on
If a nuke was set off in any part of the US, no current politician would be able to resist the public outcry...no make that demands, to glass an entire country or region. The rise of public opinion would be stronger than WWI, WWII, KW, and Vietnam combined! If the person in power here in the US didn't retaliate with nukes I would be willing to bet they would be ousted and replaced with someone who would. An event like that as you mention would change US foreign policy, and even world opinion instantly.
With that being said, I hope it never happens.
However, some insight on things. Everyone believed that Saddam had WMDs prior to our invasion of Iraq. CIA, MI6, Mossad, etc all were in agreement. Well, Saddam couldn't get a nuke to the US, but he might could get one to Israel. As you said Israel has stated many times in the past few years that they are prepared to defend themselves and retaliate mercilessly at any aggressor regardless of world opinion or US intervention.
If you remember just prior to our invasion of Iraq N Korea unplugged the cameras inside their nuclear reactor and began to fire it back up. N Korea is under heavy heavy sanctions and needs crude oil. Iraq needed nuclear fuel for a hydrogen bomb. I suspect they were either about to make a trade, or they had already made the trade.
This is why we invaded Iraq in my opinion; Saddam was trading oil for processed uranium with North Korea, and he would then be a direct threat to Israel if he had a working nuke. The US knows that if Israel is attacked there is no holding them back so we decided to take out Saddam and make the whole situation go away before the entire MidEast was turned into glass. Invading N Korea wasn't really an option as we didn't want to deal with the Chinese aspect of that equation. Also logistically and practically Iraq was a much eaiser target at the time. Iraq had no major allies or at least none that would stand up to a US invasion. Their business partners (France/Germany) were not willing to go to war with the US over the invasion of Iraq, but they did voice loudly their opposition because they were selling a great deal of arms and technology to Saddam.
When I was in college I worked at Blockbuster Video. Well, our local area had a "campus cash" coupon book that was distributed to something like 50,000 or so. Our regional office decided to take out an ad and put coupons in there. Well, they didn't run it by their legal department and thus didn't think to put any sort of disclaimer or limits on it etc.
Well, we had people who had stacks of these things and would come in several times a week to get free videos (the coupon was for 1 free older DVD). Management tried to tell these people they were abusing the coupons but since there were no limits or fine print, BB would be in violation of "bait/switch" laws if they didn't honor the coupons. There was nothing we could do about it.
I loved it because it made an ass of whoever wrote/designed the coupon. Needless to say, the following semester when the coupon book was printed again, the same mistake was not made!
Man I hope that kid was using protection if he was probing around in a zombie's box!
One can pick up some nasty viruii from those zombies...
We could have the 2006 Music Row CD Party here in Nashville! ;-)
;-)
ha ha ha
Don't forget this is the state that gave us Al Gore- the inventor of the Internet
I bet that if you got a police report from either the Orlando PD http://www.cityoforlando.net/police/ OR the Orange County Sheriff's Dept http://www.ocso.com/ it would probably have this information in it.
Not if it has a high enough escape velocity ;-)
But actually, I guess people don't generally think this'll hurt them because:
1) The bullet will land very very far away (depends on the angle)
2) The bullet will "reach an apex and eventually have zero speed because of a change in acceleration and thus vectors"
3) They fail to also take into account that even though it is just "falling" at the normal rate of acceleration due to gravity, that it doesn't have much surface area, is designed to be aerodynamic, and has a very high terminal velocity.
If I remember correctly a human has a terminal velocity of somewhere between 150-250 MPH. Not very fast in the grand scheme of things, but fast enough to kill you if you hit a brick wall, or the ground, at that speed. Well, a bullet has much less surface area, thus a much higher terminal velocity.
Sadly though, my post wasn't fiction, it was fact. Could you imagine being that unlucky to just be walking along and all of the sudden drop dead due to a bullet falling from the sky. I mean what are the odds?
A falling bullet actually killed Henry McDaniel of Orlando almost a year ago. It was big news locally. Here is the scoop:
http://www.local6.com/news/4084756/detail.html
Man Arrested In New Year's 'Falling Bullet' Death
Bullet Traveled 1 Mile Before Piercing Man's Heart
POSTED: 5:51 pm EST January 14, 2005
UPDATED: 10:28 pm EST January 15, 2005
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Orange County sheriff's deputies have arrested a 24-year-old man Friday who allegedly fired a bullet into the sky on New Year's Eve that later fell to earth and pierced a man's heart, according to Local 6 News.
Henry McDaniel, 75, was walking in a neighborhood near Orlando just before midnight when he collapsed in the street, witnesses and sheriff's officials said. He had been at a party celebrating the New Year with friends and had decided to visit another house.
Before he collapsed, McDaniel told friends who were standing with him near the street: "Boys, something hit me. Something hit me."
Doctors at Orlando Regional Medical Center later discovered the bullet, which struck his heart.
Officials blamed the death on a common but illegal practice by New Year's Eve revelers to shoot into the air and began an investigation.
On New Year's Eve, an Orlando police officer responded to the 1000 block of Plymouth Avenue after reports of gunshots.
The Orlando police officer reportedly confiscated a gun from Richardo Roach, 24, (pictured, left) and then contacted the Orange County Sheriff's Office after hearing about McDaniel's death. Roach reportedly admitted to firing the gun into the air, Local 6 News reported.
The weapon was examined forensically by the Sheriff's Office and then by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. It was determined that the confiscated weapon fired the round that killed McDaniel.
The bullet traveled more than one mile before it came down and hit McDaniel, Local 6 News reported.
Roach was interviewed by officers and later arrested. He has been charged with manslaughter.
Exactly - I have a degree in the recording industry. I work in the live entertainment industry as an audio engineer, and also in broadcast as a radio producer here in Nashville.
You hit the nail on the head.
Previously the albums promoted the live shows. Then when the Beatles released the Sgt Pepper album that changed.
The live shows were a tool to the lables to promote the albums. The Beatles were one of the first groups to quit performing live, and only release albums.
Well, enter the late 90's - that reverted things back to their pre-Beatles status! Bands (even the big ones) would make a trickle on their releases, but make a lot of money on their live shows. In otherwords, the profit for the performer is in the live industry, not the recording industry. The establishment, slow as usual, ignored this for along time.
Obligitory joke:
A baby seal walked into a club...
You can see for yourself here:
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.pdf
They don't want millions of dollars of revenue being generated by someone who has no right to earn revenue off of those lyrics (ie sites with ads).
They don't care that the lyrics are out there as much as they care that they are not getting a piece of the income-stream pie.
It is nice to see someone else around here who knows and understands Copyright Law! ;-)
The Copyright Law of 1976 and others provide for statuatory damanges. That is punitive damages which have no real cost/damanges associated with them. This is what is called actual damages vs statuatory damages.
Since the amount of material she has allegedly infringed with, is probably only a few hundred dollars, the plantiffs will probably seek statuatory damages. The law says that those damages can be as high as 150,000 per song for a non-commercial infringment.
I am not an attorney, but I work in the recording industry as an audio engineer, and have had a few copyright law classes.
I have met John before.
I attended and graduated from MTSU's Mass Communication Recording Industry department. He was there often.
He is a BIGTIME liberal. Good friends with Al Gore (who was also at my school often) and tends to share a lot of the same ideas including a major lack of understanding about technology.
I would wager that almost anything this guy does and says is an attempt to forward his own liberal agenda.
Me? I'm a libertarian.
#1 - You might be correct... perhaps it is the basilar membrane itself that hardens and not the fluid inside. It has been a while since I have studied this and my memory is shady.
#2 - Those were the words straight out of the mouth of the audiologist. I am not a medical expert so I cannot intelligently debate this point.
#3 and #4 - Wouldn't some of these items increase the blood pressure or in the case of aspirin thin your blood? And with my understanding of tinnitis it is this increased bloodflow near the ear drum which causes the ringing, or beating sensation? If that is the case, then it will absolutely increase the effects of tinnitis.
I am curious as to your education on this subject. Mine is secondary as my focus wasn't specifically hearing, but audio engineering which is not the same subject obviously. To work with sound you do not have to have a complete understanding of how hearing works, simply a fundamental grasp of the concepts involved. I am of course always interested in learning more.
And most of my fellow Christians don't understand that seperation of church and state is A GOOD THING!
Iran is an examploe of a nation that has NO seperation of church and state.
See here is the thing, yeah it's all fun and games if the people that hold your belief are able to exercise power over the law, however when people who don't agree with you hold the power, the tables are turned.
This is again why the government should be limited to its most basic functions.
I used to be a Republican and then grew up and discovered they are practiaclly just as sorry as the Democrats. In fact they might as well be one single party with only minor differences: the Demorubs or the Republicrats.
In 2000 I almost voted for Pat Buchanan but lived in Florida and would've rather have had Bush than Gore, and in 2004 I voted for Mike Badnarik the Libertarian canididate. Unfortunately though so many people tend to vote for the 'lesser of the two evils'.
The only time in recent history that we had a real debate was when Ross Perot forced the two major parties to discuss issues and not just soundbites. If you remember, he did research, showed charts, facts, figures, and hard data. He didn't do sounbites, feel-good statements, or political bs. For a breif moment in time the US was FORCED to look at the issues in a quantative perspective.
I would like to see the Green Party have more membership as well as the Libertarians and perhaps even the Reform Party. Anything to detract from this two-party political oligopoly that currently exists.
Bush wanted to get Mayor Nagain's opinion on the recent Supreme Court nominations.
So he asked the NOLA Mayor what he thought about 'Roe vs Wade'.
The Mayor thought about it and said "I don't care how they get out of the city..."
20kHz is the accepted limit of human hearing.
In reality most people only precieve up to 18k and can barely hear about 14k or 16k or so.
At birth the average upper range of hearing is anywhere between 18k-22k.
Not all people that are deaf are deaf due to noise induced hearing loss.
The fluid in the basilier membrane can sometimes harden prematurely but more often than not it simply hardens with age. This is behind the choclea deep inside the ear. I am sure there is more research you can do on this if you are interested.
While I was in college studying as an audio engineer I was a memeber of the Audio Engineering Society. We would have frequent guests come in and once we had an audiologist. Here is some of the information she gave us:
Smokers are twice as likely to suffer from hearing loss as smoking reduces the oxygen levels in and around the ears.
Beer, salt, chocolate, and caffeine are the worst types of food that can be eaten in terms of its affect on the ears.
Caffeine is a stimulant and speeds up blood pressure and the effects from caffeine intake usually subside after about 3 days of absence. This of course includes sodas, coffee, tea, etc etc
Aspirin, anti-inflammatory agents, and any type of steroids can be detrimental in the long run as well. She suggests ibuprofen over anything if something must be taken for pain or headaches. Aspirin will significantly increase the possibility for tinnitus also.
Most hearing damage occurs in the range of 2-4k as 2.7k is near the resonant frequency of the ear canal. Speech reception is not impaired until there is about a 30dB loss of hearing
Usually 4-43% of classical musicians usually experience loss throughout the course of their professional careers. 13-50% of rockers usually experience hearing loss.
She also mentioned a phenomenon known as Temporary Threshold Shift (TTS). TTS occurs when repeated exposure to high SPLs tend to increase our threshold for intelligibility. In other words after a show with high SPL's, people generally have to speak louder to be heard. If TTS is repeated often enough it can become permanent.
TTS will usually dissipate after 3 or 4 days however along with TTS high SPLs increase heart rate thus possibly leading to headaches and irritation.
Of course she says never use a "Q-Tip" to clean the ears as anyone with more than 2 brain cells is aware of. She actually has patients that have punctured their ear drums with these things before. As a matter of fact she has a large sign in her office with a photo of a "Q-Tip" and an X through it.
This is her website:
http://hearubetter.com/about1.htm
Yes - I know EXACTLY what you mean.
;-)
There have been times when I will walk into a room where the TV is supposedly off, just a blacks creen (no LED indicators on the front) and I will mention that the TV is on, walk up to it, and turn it off. The other people in the room will be like "how did you know that"
This really suprises me because I am an audio engineer and I OFTEN times listen to music at 110+ dB A SPL. I would've thought my hearing would have been shot by my ripe old age of 23
Shrinking the federal government to increase state government responsibility? Now you sound like an old-school Republican... geeze!!
ha ha ha.... I am just messing with ya, but in all seriousness I'm glad there are still people who consider themselves liberal these days that do not have these idiot whack-job psuedo-intellectual attitudes about things. In other words there are still intelligent liberals around.
My hat off to you - and I love the Sneakers sig!
I think you might be confused.
Perhaps you are really libertarian and don't know it.
You should try The World's Smallest Political Quiz (it only takes about 45 seconds):
http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html
Most liberals (and unfortunately some conservatives too these days) want MORE government intervantion in their lives, not LESS. The founding principles of the libertarian movement are:
1) limited govenrment
2) individual liberties
3) free markets
According to your post, it looks like you meet 2 out of the 3 of those.
Here are some links for further reading on the topic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
http://www.cato.org/
http://www.lp.org/
Why do you call it dino-oil when it isn't from dinsaurs?
o rigin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_