God created us with immune systems and created us to be self healing...but with a catch. To have a healthy immune system, you have to eat good, vitamin-rich foods, drink pure water, get some sunlight and fresh air, get some exercise and get some good sleep...and be able to control stress.
Now huge amounts of people eat fast foods one, two, and three times a day, and the food is grown on burnt-out factory farms with zero minerals in the ground. We drink tap water with two poisons in it (chlorine and fluoride). Heck, some people never drink water that doesn't have a cup of corn syrup in it! And after they eat this crap, they take antacids that neutralize the very stomach acids trying to digest and get what little nutrition it can out of the so-called food eaten!
We cut sleep and then take pills or drink to sleep...and take pills to wake up. And in our waking hours, we reach for a pill for any little ache that comes along or antibiotics for every little sneeze.
We inject our little tiny babies with mercury and crap grown off of monkey livers and chicken embryos (or worse)...put the crap straight into their little veins.
Huge amounts of people don't exercise, and they stay inside for large amounts of time where the air quality is the worst, usually (and our news media constantly hits us with the message that sunlight causes cancer, anyway).
And when people get an infection like this, we poke fun at God for it! And when *you* get sick, you either blame God for it, or you pray to God to get healed...taking *zero* responsibility for the diet and lifestyle that got you sick in the first place (Ohhhh why, Lord? Why, did this happen to me???).
With this infection, it appears that about 50% of the people's immune system still works, in spite of our lifestyles. From what I see, they appear to be pretty intelligently designed.
God created us with immune systems and created us to be self healing...but with a catch. To have a healthy immune system, you have to eat good, vitamin-rich foods, drink pure water, get some sunlight and fresh air, get some exercise and get some good sleep...and be able to control stress.
Now huge amounts of people eat fast foods one, two, and three times a day, and the food is grown on burnt-out factory farms with zero minerals in the ground. We drink tap water with two poisons in it (chlorine and fluoride). Heck, some people never drink water that doesn't have a cup of corn syrup in it!
We cut sleep and then take pills or drink to sleep...and take pills to wake up. And in our waking hours, we reach for a pill for any little ache that comes along or antibiotics for every little sneeze.
We inject our little tiny babies with mercury and crap grown off of monkey livers and chicken embryos (or worse)...put the crap straight into their little veins.
Huge amounts of people don't exercise, and they stay inside for large amounts of time where the air quality is the worst, usually (and our news media constantly hits us with the message that sunlight causes cancer, anyway).
And when people get an infection like this, we poke fun at God for it! And when *you* get sick, you either blame God for it, or you pray to God to get healed...taking *zero* responsibility for the diet and lifestyle that got you sick in the first place (Ohhhh why, Lord? Why, did this happen to me???).
It appears that about 50% of the people's immune system still works, in spite of our lifestyles. From what I see, they appear to be pretty intelligently designed.
That is what is really bad, because just about everyone violates copyright, from your parents down to your little kid brother. It is like arresting people for being terrorists because they had bomb making materials under their sink...as does just about every single person in America.
If we are going to have laws, the punishment should fit the crime, and getting 60,000.00 out of some poor sap for doing the same thing that every other person is doing is just wrong. If someone was printing up 10 thousand copies of a CD to sell at flee markets, that might be a reasonable fine (maybe).
What we need to do is have some good old fashioned Black Sabbath The Mob Rules...and run a few RIAA execs up on a tree with a rope. Maybe that would put into perspective for them the concept of punishment fitting the crime.
Why yes, they always let fruitcakes take such positions as: director of Project Head Start's Medical Consultation Service, chairman of the Medical Licensing Committee for the State of Illinois, and associate professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health in the School of Medicine of the University of Illinois.
Why did Dr. Mendelsohn even bother? He could have just waited for the Internet and all the experts on Slashdot to set the record straight.
"The greatest threat of
childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to
prevent them through mass immunization." That statement was not made by
an unknown person posting on an Internet message forum or written by a
so-called "quack" involved with alternative medicine, but by the
award-winning Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D., who was a practicing pediatrician
for nearly thirty years, who also held positions such as director of Project Head
Start's Medical Consultation Service, chairman of the Medical Licensing
Committee for the State of Illinois, and associate professor of Preventive
Medicine and Community Health in the School of Medicine of the University of
Illinois.
In his book How To Raise A
Healthy Child In Spite of Your Doctor, Dr. Mendelsohn asked that readers
keep an open mind as he "attacked the 'bread and butter' of pediatric
practice," the equivalent, according to Dr. Mendelsohn, of a priest's
denying the infallibility of the pope. He then went on to outline his core
arguments against vaccination:
There is no convincing
scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with
eliminating any childhood disease.
It is commonly believed that
the Salk vaccine was responsible for halting the polio epidemics that
plagued American children in the 1940s and 1950s. If so, why did the
epidemics also end in Europe, where polio vaccine was not so extensively
used?
There are significant risks
associated with every immunization and numerous contraindications that may
make it dangerous for the shots to be given to children.
While the myriad short-term
hazards of most immunizations are known (but rarely explained), no one
knows the long-term consequences of injecting foreign proteins into the
body of your child.
There is a growing suspicion
that immunization against relatively harmless childhood diseases may be
responsible for the dramatic increase in autoimmune diseases since mass
inoculations were introduced.
As Dr. Mendelsohn pointed out,
routine vaccinations are the bread and butter of a pediatric practice, and
because of that, doctors continue to defend them to the death; "the
question parents should be asking," he wrote, "is: Whose
Death?"
At the end of the year 2000,
there were approximately 40 vaccines mandated in the AMA's (American Pediatric
Association) schedule, some of which are scheduled to be administered shortly after the baby
is pulled from the womb (and some of these are for diseases only a sexually promiscuous
adult or an intravenous drug user should have to worry about). The production
of the most common vaccines involves many things that would make most adults
recoil in
horrorif they knew more about it, yet we regularly
inject these concoctions straight into the veins of babies and children --
totally bypassing the normal route germs or viruses would use to enter the
human body.
Some of the ingredients in
vaccines include: neomycin, sorbitol, hydrolyzed gelatin, aluminum phosphate,
formaldehyde, ammonium sulfate, washed sheep red blood cells, glycerol, sodium
chloride, gentamicin sulfate, polymyxin, betapropiolactone, aluminum
hydroxide, phenoxyethanol (antifreeze), polysorbate 20, streptomycin,
polymyxin B, calf serum, and thimerosal (supposedly to be reduced or
eliminated in vaccines as a precautionary measure, since thimerosal contains
mercury). And the mediums used to culture the germs or viruses include human
diploid cells from human aborted fetal tissue, porcine (pig) pancreatic
hydrolysate of casein, chick embryos, embryonic fluid from chicken eggs, cells
cultivated from monkey kidney cells, and fetal rhesus monkey lung cells.
Where, even though they are supposed to be phased out, to this day often have fair amounts of mercury in them...and the amount of shots required for children has increased dramatically over the decades.
We have a control group to compare today's heavily vaccinated children against, too:
because they sound stupid. I had an ideal for putting up "speed bumps" that generated electricity when cars went over them. I e-mailed a big name in the alternative energy field, who was mentioned in a Slashdot article, and he laughed and said it would be "a good joke to tell at a party." And six to eight months later -- with serveral other people telling it was a dumb idea -- I open up Slashdot and see an article from a guy in England who has made something almost identical to my idea and has 200 cities wanting to buy his device. That just goes to show you what the big "experts" know. My good party joke was going to make some guy a ton of money. Of course, I was a little let down to see that someone had beat me to it, but that's life, I guess. And even though I researched and could find nobody working on the invention, that guy had been working on it for 11 years.
Ummm, let me add Quickbooks to the list. Not some replacement program that says it will import a QuickBooks files...but an actual Intuit Quickbooks for Linux. Also, a terminal server and clients built into Linux would just kick M$ butt. I have to hand it to M$, Terminal Server is cool, but if you want to use it legally, the licenses issue is a nightmare. But if we could get some programs like Quickbooks, TurboTax, etc., on the Linux desktop and have EASY intergrated terminal services similar to Remote Desktop...without the license hassel, it would hit Microsoft hard in the business market.
So much of the Internet either goes through the few companies left or through companies just like them. Try starting a wireless ISP in a rural area. Your back end from the PHONE COMPANY cost a fortune, so you have to have a huge number of customers just to break even on the cost of the T1. So you sign up people and get them off the phone system. So what? They are making a fortune off the T1 and they don't have to deal with end-users anymore, so they don't care. And to top it off, if you are in an area with DSL, you have to compete against the same phone company that provides your T1 line for customers!
With all the talk of grants and stuff for bringing high speed Internet to rural areas...one of the things that would really help is dropping the cost of business connections for WISP startups. But the phone companies aren't going to do it unless they are made to do it. They have everyone bent over a barrel and they could care less about changing things.
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Yeah, but, they were basically the first ones
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to have this flu. The reason it killed so many was the same reason that small pox killed so many indians, yet only a small, to low-moderate amount of Europeans who had small-pox. Basically, the people who did survive the 1918 flu had kids, and those kids had kids, with each generation passing on some immunity. It very well could be the same 'achy go to bed for a few days' virus that turned people's lungs into sponge in 1918.
You very well could spread small-pox among Native Americans now and, yeah some of them would die, but it would be more in line with the death rate for the rest of the population now, rather than the horrible death rate of the first ones exposed to it. Why? Built up immunity.
As someone who just recently tried to figure out the license mess of using Remote Desktop on Win 2003, I think the expensive license mess is going to be one of the things that makes MS look like crap and Linux come out smelling like roses.
I figure a) the biggest majority of people are in violation on their licenses for the use of software through Remote Desktop, or b) they want to stay legal but then find out how expensive everything is and don't do it at all.
At some point, you start thinking if Linux had similar terminal services and the apps that business people needed, oh for the love of God how much easier it would be to not have to worry about the 14 different types of licenses you need ON TOP OF the 5 CALs that you thought were all you needed when you started looking at $600.00 - $800.00 copy of Win 2003 Server with 5 CALs.
Do you know, if you bypass terminal services/citrix all together and use WinConnect Server XP (remote desktop for WinXP Pro), that if you had five WinConnect CALs, you are legally required by Microsoft to have a licenses for each person accessing XP remotely...plus the licenses for the software the people use.
Way back in the day, I ran a Wildcat BBS. Can you imagine what would have happened to the BBS scene if MS thought they could make BBSs have a DOS license for each person accessing a computer remotely? People would have thought they were freaking nuts.
Anyway, if there was good accounting software for Linux and good terminal services to use it remotely, it would kill MS in the small business market.
It seems like our entire economy is based top to bottom on how much you can screw somebody. An electrician's car breaks down, the mechanic screws him for just as much money as he thinks he can get away with, but that's ok because the electrician will screw you for just as much money as he can possibly suck out of you. And then all three of you get sick and go to a freaking doctor...who screws all three of you and your insurance company, if any of the bunch is lucky enough to have insurance. And then out of this pool of crap, we elect people to office, who promptly start screwing the public for as much money as they think they can possibly get away with without winding up swinging from a rope.
I finally broke down and watched most of Fahrenheit 9/11 tonight (ironically, ripped to my hard drive, off of a rented DVD), and I must say that my blood was boiling half-way through it.
I swear I sometimes wonder how the US has made it as long as it has. It is hard to believe we can remain competitive in the world economy, when so much of our money didn't come from any actual service or product, but rather comes from screwing people. I hope people enjoy it while they can, because one of these days the bubble is going to burst.
It reminds me of the excellent movie, the Devils Advocate. Only in our economy, the devil just isn't a lawyer, he is a doctor, a mechanic, the retail stores, the RIAA/MPAA, the politicians, the insurance companies, the salesmen, the retail stores, the manufacturers, the customers etc. etc., and each and every one of them is setting out to drown us in a sea of their dishonesty.
So how do they go about knowing how many virtual processors, or real ones, a person has, anyway? I would bet those surprise jack-booted thug raids would be fun, when they go to counting virtual servers. I can see it now..."Well, it looks like you are in compliance, but what exactly is this 'kill_vserver.bat' file I found here?"
Not my area here, so please excuse stupid comments, but I'm going to take it that a corp. edition of, say 2003 Server, is used that doesn't take product activation. So does it know it is being used on a virtual processor? Does it report the number of virtual processors or real processors back to MS? Or does MS just have to take your word for it?
As noted in another reply on this subject, XP (and I think 2000), will only allow one client to access its built in "server" at a time. Your comment that those CALs aren't valid for 2003 Server (XP Server?) confuses me. I think you could use the client on XP Pro to connect to a 2003 server, as the 2003 Server should have its own Terminal Server Licensing Server that comes with its own CALs (5 pack, 10 pack, etc.), indepent of the client OS. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that the CALs are server side, residing with the Licensing Server, not client side, correct?
I was just looking at this today. If I understand it right, and please feel free to freaking flame me if I don't, WinXP PRO will only allow one client to access the XP PRO Remote Desktop server at at time. Now I don't know about 2000, but the point is, you can't buy XP pro in place of Server 2003...unless you only needed one client to access the server at a time to begin with. I also take it that a person can't buy more CAL licenses for XP PRO, as well, because I looked for that a little bit, too, and couldn't find any CAL add-on packages.
Here, MP3.com tries to get some of the money back that they spent going to great lengths to make sure their service was legal:
Law.com is reporting that
MP3.com has filed a
malpractice lawsuit again Cooley Godward , a law firm, alleging that it was responsible for
allowing MP3.com to launch and subsequently be sued for copyright infringement by giving bad advice on the legality of My.MP3.Com (MP3.com
Sues Cooley Over Legal Advice). The charges are quite loaded,
alleging that Cooley was basically inept their legal analysis of fair use and
other copyright doctrines, and perhaps even misrepresented to MP3.com about
expert testimony the Cooley firm had secured.
This isn't a small lawsuit either. MP3.com wants $175
Someone didn't "upload" music that wasn't theirs. What MP3.com did was take advantage of the Right to format shift, starting a music locker service that worked like this: a user put a legit CD in their CD-ROM and it "beamed" the music to the locker in MP3 format. Now what they actually did was buy a ton of CDs and rip them to MP3, so that users only had to have access to a real cd to instantly get access to the exact same songs in MP3 format. To that end, MP3.com went to great lengths to make sure what they were doing was legal to begin with...and remember, it is legal to format shift AND the user had to have a real, physical CD of the same music to access the service (at which point they could have just ripped it to MP3 to begin with).
And he did so illegally, as the Constitution states clearly that only Congress can create a law. They get around this by calling things rules and regulations, but guess what, these "regulations" have the force of a law.
Here is something I wrote a while back:
The Constitution (Article I, Section 1) states that only congress has the power to make laws. The executive branch and the judicial branch have no legislative powers, whatsoever. And Congress does not have the constitutional authority to delegate its legislative power to institutions that are beyond electoral accountability to the American people.
So why is there never a word said about the fourth branch of the federal government: the unconstitutional and entirely illegal regulatory branch?
What are the alphabet agencies -- FDA, EPA, OSHA, and so on -- doing when they pass laws? And, while these laws are called regulations, so as not to upset anyone who might actually read the Constitution, the Webster's dictionary defines regulation as a rule, ordinance or law.
The Constitution states that citizens accused of a crime are entitled to a trial by jury and are considered innocent until proven guilty.
Somewhere down the line the IRS must have overlooked the Constitution when it was setting up its "tax courts." And, while the income tax may be constitutional, the IRS does not have the constitutional authority to override such basics as due process of the law or the rights of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, paper, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures. Nor does it have the constitutional authority to become a legislative body unto itself.
The IRS is far from being the only government agency that has thrown the Constitution to the wind.
Another good example would be the woman who found out her children were doing drugs. She thought she was doing the proper thing by telling her children to leave and notifying the authorities.
After monitoring her house for a couple of weeks, the DEA seized her house for participating in the drug business. She was never charged with a crime, nor convicted of a crime. It was left entirely up to her redress to attempt to reclaim her property.
This is not uncommon. The ability to document unconstitutional actions by the federal government is limited only by the amount of space given to write. Unfortunately, there is not much newspaper ink being used on the subject. And this is a shame because this is a problem that is not a partisan issue. Bringing an end to unconstitutional government stands to benefit many diverse segments of our population, including both the rich and poor and regardless of party affiliation.
If America is ever to return to its constitutionally limited government, these illegal federal agencies must be abolished. If laws are needed in certain areas they must be passed by Congress. If laws are unpopular, the citizens should be able to vote out the lawmakers that enacted them. This is not possible in the regulatory branch of the government, the majority of whom are not elected nor held accountable to the people.
If Napster had quit hosting its service on its own servers and opened up instead, like OpenNap, and let other people host the files, it could have sold downloads of its top-notch client for 5.00 a pop and made how many millions of dollars? Yeah, it is obvious they thought they would make billions when they controlled it all...but we all know how that turned out.
And actually, the way I did it was that me and a couple of guys I worked with would split the cost of registering the software. Yeah, not exactly the way it was supposed to work, but the author got money, and we got what we considered a semi-legal copy of the software, and we registered quite a bit of software.
Now, if I register a shareware program, quite a bit of it checks in with a server to validate the key, and if you even try and install it on say, your laptop, at the same time, you are screwed. I registered a couple of programs a while back that if my HD crashed, I guess I would have to e-mail the author and **beg** them to let me reinstall the programs.
And I tell you what, the amount of money leaving my hands has greatly reduced because of the above. I now look first to free/open source software or, believe it or not, commerical software, which is still light on the DRM, even though it is moving in that direction. If I smell DRM, I avoid the software at all costs.
I can only imagine that shareware author's revenue is decreasing...but hey, they cut down on some piracy...and all those big bad pirates who installed software they **paid** for on more than one computer in clear violation of the EULA.
not just a board game that costs 25.00 bucks to order. And to be really cool, it would be an online game that was open source, so people could modify it...maybe easly change languages so that it could be played in other contries that don't have the money to pay 25.00 dollars for a board game. Heck, with the price of gas, I would have a hard time coming up with 25.00 to blow on a board game right now
And of course, the board game could still be sold by this guy and plenty of people would still buy it. It doesn't have to be one or the other, there is room enough for everyone here.
Law.com is reporting that
MP3.com has filed a
malpractice lawsuit again Cooley Godward, a law firm, alleging that it was responsible for
allowing MP3.com to launch and subsequently be sued for copyright infringement
by giving bad advice on the legality of My.MP3.Com (MP3.com
Sues Cooley Over Legal Advice). The charges are quite loaded,
alleging that Cooley was basically inept their legal analysis of fair use and
other copyright doctrines, and perhaps even misrepresented to MP3.com about
expert testimony the Cooley firm had secured.
This isn't a small lawsuit either. MP3.com wants $175
million.
I would agree with Google and say that they have an open and shut case, but I thought that about mp3.com, too. Remember in that case, even though it is 100% legal to format shift, and that is what mp3.com was doing (you had to have access to a legit CD before mp3.com would give you access to the same songs in mp3 format), they got the crap beat out of them when it actually went to trial.
Our courts are behind the times and are consistently siding with the entrenched industry, it seems.
Anyway, I seem to remember mp3.com sued their lawfirm, which told them what they were doing would hold up in court. Does anyone know how that turned out?
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God created us with immune systems and created us to be self healing...but with a catch. To have a healthy immune system, you have to eat good, vitamin-rich foods, drink pure water, get some sunlight and fresh air, get some exercise and get some good sleep...and be able to control stress.
Now huge amounts of people eat fast foods one, two, and three times a day, and the food is grown on burnt-out factory farms with zero minerals in the ground. We drink tap water with two poisons in it (chlorine and fluoride). Heck, some people never drink water that doesn't have a cup of corn syrup in it! And after they eat this crap, they take antacids that neutralize the very stomach acids trying to digest and get what little nutrition it can out of the so-called food eaten!
We cut sleep and then take pills or drink to sleep...and take pills to wake up. And in our waking hours, we reach for a pill for any little ache that comes along or antibiotics for every little sneeze.
We inject our little tiny babies with mercury and crap grown off of monkey livers and chicken embryos (or worse)...put the crap straight into their little veins.
Huge amounts of people don't exercise, and they stay inside for large amounts of time where the air quality is the worst, usually (and our news media constantly hits us with the message that sunlight causes cancer, anyway).
And when people get an infection like this, we poke fun at God for it! And when *you* get sick, you either blame God for it, or you pray to God to get healed...taking *zero* responsibility for the diet and lifestyle that got you sick in the first place (Ohhhh why, Lord? Why, did this happen to me???).
With this infection, it appears that about 50% of the people's immune system still works, in spite of our lifestyles. From what I see, they appear to be pretty intelligently designed.
Usurper_ii
God created us with immune systems and created us to be self healing...but with a catch. To have a healthy immune system, you have to eat good, vitamin-rich foods, drink pure water, get some sunlight and fresh air, get some exercise and get some good sleep...and be able to control stress.
Now huge amounts of people eat fast foods one, two, and three times a day, and the food is grown on burnt-out factory farms with zero minerals in the ground. We drink tap water with two poisons in it (chlorine and fluoride). Heck, some people never drink water that doesn't have a cup of corn syrup in it!
We cut sleep and then take pills or drink to sleep...and take pills to wake up. And in our waking hours, we reach for a pill for any little ache that comes along or antibiotics for every little sneeze.
We inject our little tiny babies with mercury and crap grown off of monkey livers and chicken embryos (or worse)...put the crap straight into their little veins.
Huge amounts of people don't exercise, and they stay inside for large amounts of time where the air quality is the worst, usually (and our news media constantly hits us with the message that sunlight causes cancer, anyway).
And when people get an infection like this, we poke fun at God for it! And when *you* get sick, you either blame God for it, or you pray to God to get healed...taking *zero* responsibility for the diet and lifestyle that got you sick in the first place (Ohhhh why, Lord? Why, did this happen to me???).
It appears that about 50% of the people's immune system still works, in spite of our lifestyles. From what I see, they appear to be pretty intelligently designed.
Usurper_ii
A dog thinks, you feed me...you must be god.
A cat thinks, you feed me...I must be a god.
Usurper_ii
That is what is really bad, because just about everyone violates copyright, from your parents down to your little kid brother. It is like arresting people for being terrorists because they had bomb making materials under their sink...as does just about every single person in America.
If we are going to have laws, the punishment should fit the crime, and getting 60,000.00 out of some poor sap for doing the same thing that every other person is doing is just wrong. If someone was printing up 10 thousand copies of a CD to sell at flee markets, that might be a reasonable fine (maybe).
What we need to do is have some good old fashioned Black Sabbath The Mob Rules...and run a few RIAA execs up on a tree with a rope. Maybe that would put into perspective for them the concept of punishment fitting the crime.
Usurper_ii
Why yes, they always let fruitcakes take such positions as: director of Project Head Start's Medical Consultation Service, chairman of the Medical Licensing Committee for the State of Illinois, and associate professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health in the School of Medicine of the University of Illinois.
Why did Dr. Mendelsohn even bother? He could have just waited for the Internet and all the experts on Slashdot to set the record straight.
How ironic that you suggest low IQs on Slashdot!
Usurper_ii
"The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunization." That statement was not made by an unknown person posting on an Internet message forum or written by a so-called "quack" involved with alternative medicine, but by the award-winning Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D., who was a practicing pediatrician for nearly thirty years, who also held positions such as director of Project Head Start's Medical Consultation Service, chairman of the Medical Licensing Committee for the State of Illinois, and associate professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health in the School of Medicine of the University of Illinois.
In his book How To Raise A Healthy Child In Spite of Your Doctor, Dr. Mendelsohn asked that readers keep an open mind as he "attacked the 'bread and butter' of pediatric practice," the equivalent, according to Dr. Mendelsohn, of a priest's denying the infallibility of the pope. He then went on to outline his core arguments against vaccination:
There is no convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood disease.
It is commonly believed that the Salk vaccine was responsible for halting the polio epidemics that plagued American children in the 1940s and 1950s. If so, why did the epidemics also end in Europe, where polio vaccine was not so extensively used?
There are significant risks associated with every immunization and numerous contraindications that may make it dangerous for the shots to be given to children.
While the myriad short-term hazards of most immunizations are known (but rarely explained), no one knows the long-term consequences of injecting foreign proteins into the body of your child.
There is a growing suspicion that immunization against relatively harmless childhood diseases may be responsible for the dramatic increase in autoimmune diseases since mass inoculations were introduced.
As Dr. Mendelsohn pointed out, routine vaccinations are the bread and butter of a pediatric practice, and because of that, doctors continue to defend them to the death; "the question parents should be asking," he wrote, "is: Whose Death?"
At the end of the year 2000, there were approximately 40 vaccines mandated in the AMA's (American Pediatric Association) schedule, some of which are scheduled to be administered shortly after the baby is pulled from the womb (and some of these are for diseases only a sexually promiscuous adult or an intravenous drug user should have to worry about). The production of the most common vaccines involves many things that would make most adults recoil in horrorif they knew more about it, yet we regularly inject these concoctions straight into the veins of babies and children -- totally bypassing the normal route germs or viruses would use to enter the human body.
Some of the ingredients in vaccines include: neomycin, sorbitol, hydrolyzed gelatin, aluminum phosphate, formaldehyde, ammonium sulfate, washed sheep red blood cells, glycerol, sodium chloride, gentamicin sulfate, polymyxin, betapropiolactone, aluminum hydroxide, phenoxyethanol (antifreeze), polysorbate 20, streptomycin, polymyxin B, calf serum, and thimerosal (supposedly to be reduced or eliminated in vaccines as a precautionary measure, since thimerosal contains mercury). And the mediums used to culture the germs or viruses include human diploid cells from human aborted fetal tissue, porcine (pig) pancreatic hydrolysate of casein, chick embryos, embryonic fluid from chicken eggs, cells cultivated from monkey kidney cells, and fetal rhesus monkey lung cells.
Considering what exactly
Where, even though they are supposed to be phased out, to this day often have fair amounts of mercury in them...and the amount of shots required for children has increased dramatically over the decades.
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We have a control group to compare today's heavily vaccinated children against, too:
http://www.mercola.com/2005/may/4/amish_autism.ht
It would be interesting to run the same tests on 11-year old Amish kids and see how they compare.
Usurper_ii
because they sound stupid. I had an ideal for putting up "speed bumps" that generated electricity when cars went over them. I e-mailed a big name in the alternative energy field, who was mentioned in a Slashdot article, and he laughed and said it would be "a good joke to tell at a party." And six to eight months later -- with serveral other people telling it was a dumb idea -- I open up Slashdot and see an article from a guy in England who has made something almost identical to my idea and has 200 cities wanting to buy his device. That just goes to show you what the big "experts" know. My good party joke was going to make some guy a ton of money. Of course, I was a little let down to see that someone had beat me to it, but that's life, I guess. And even though I researched and could find nobody working on the invention, that guy had been working on it for 11 years.
Usurper_ii
Ummm, let me add Quickbooks to the list. Not some replacement program that says it will import a QuickBooks files...but an actual Intuit Quickbooks for Linux. Also, a terminal server and clients built into Linux would just kick M$ butt. I have to hand it to M$, Terminal Server is cool, but if you want to use it legally, the licenses issue is a nightmare. But if we could get some programs like Quickbooks, TurboTax, etc., on the Linux desktop and have EASY intergrated terminal services similar to Remote Desktop...without the license hassel, it would hit Microsoft hard in the business market.
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The software company's solution to that problem, shuld it happen in the US, would be to buy off congress to get this to happen:
Wal-Mart Clerk: Are you over 18, yes or no?
You: Yes
(Wal-Mart Clerk presses a button on her keyboard.)
Wal-Mart Clerk: Do you agree to the EULA, yes or no?
You: No
Wal-Mart Clerk: Sorry, I can't sell it to you.
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So much of the Internet either goes through the few companies left or through companies just like them. Try starting a wireless ISP in a rural area. Your back end from the PHONE COMPANY cost a fortune, so you have to have a huge number of customers just to break even on the cost of the T1. So you sign up people and get them off the phone system. So what? They are making a fortune off the T1 and they don't have to deal with end-users anymore, so they don't care. And to top it off, if you are in an area with DSL, you have to compete against the same phone company that provides your T1 line for customers!
With all the talk of grants and stuff for bringing high speed Internet to rural areas...one of the things that would really help is dropping the cost of business connections for WISP startups. But the phone companies aren't going to do it unless they are made to do it. They have everyone bent over a barrel and they could care less about changing things.
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to have this flu. The reason it killed so many was the same reason that small pox killed so many indians, yet only a small, to low-moderate amount of Europeans who had small-pox. Basically, the people who did survive the 1918 flu had kids, and those kids had kids, with each generation passing on some immunity. It very well could be the same 'achy go to bed for a few days' virus that turned people's lungs into sponge in 1918.
You very well could spread small-pox among Native Americans now and, yeah some of them would die, but it would be more in line with the death rate for the rest of the population now, rather than the horrible death rate of the first ones exposed to it. Why? Built up immunity.
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As someone who just recently tried to figure out the license mess of using Remote Desktop on Win 2003, I think the expensive license mess is going to be one of the things that makes MS look like crap and Linux come out smelling like roses.
I figure a) the biggest majority of people are in violation on their licenses for the use of software through Remote Desktop, or b) they want to stay legal but then find out how expensive everything is and don't do it at all.
At some point, you start thinking if Linux had similar terminal services and the apps that business people needed, oh for the love of God how much easier it would be to not have to worry about the 14 different types of licenses you need ON TOP OF the 5 CALs that you thought were all you needed when you started looking at $600.00 - $800.00 copy of Win 2003 Server with 5 CALs.
Do you know, if you bypass terminal services/citrix all together and use WinConnect Server XP (remote desktop for WinXP Pro), that if you had five WinConnect CALs, you are legally required by Microsoft to have a licenses for each person accessing XP remotely...plus the licenses for the software the people use.
Way back in the day, I ran a Wildcat BBS. Can you imagine what would have happened to the BBS scene if MS thought they could make BBSs have a DOS license for each person accessing a computer remotely? People would have thought they were freaking nuts.
Anyway, if there was good accounting software for Linux and good terminal services to use it remotely, it would kill MS in the small business market.
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It seems like our entire economy is based top to bottom on how much you can screw somebody. An electrician's car breaks down, the mechanic screws him for just as much money as he thinks he can get away with, but that's ok because the electrician will screw you for just as much money as he can possibly suck out of you. And then all three of you get sick and go to a freaking doctor...who screws all three of you and your insurance company, if any of the bunch is lucky enough to have insurance. And then out of this pool of crap, we elect people to office, who promptly start screwing the public for as much money as they think they can possibly get away with without winding up swinging from a rope.
I finally broke down and watched most of Fahrenheit 9/11 tonight (ironically, ripped to my hard drive, off of a rented DVD), and I must say that my blood was boiling half-way through it.
I swear I sometimes wonder how the US has made it as long as it has. It is hard to believe we can remain competitive in the world economy, when so much of our money didn't come from any actual service or product, but rather comes from screwing people. I hope people enjoy it while they can, because one of these days the bubble is going to burst.
It reminds me of the excellent movie, the Devils Advocate. Only in our economy, the devil just isn't a lawyer, he is a doctor, a mechanic, the retail stores, the RIAA/MPAA, the politicians, the insurance companies, the salesmen, the retail stores, the manufacturers, the customers etc. etc., and each and every one of them is setting out to drown us in a sea of their dishonesty.
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So how do they go about knowing how many virtual processors, or real ones, a person has, anyway? I would bet those surprise jack-booted thug raids would be fun, when they go to counting virtual servers. I can see it now..."Well, it looks like you are in compliance, but what exactly is this 'kill_vserver.bat' file I found here?"
Not my area here, so please excuse stupid comments, but I'm going to take it that a corp. edition of, say 2003 Server, is used that doesn't take product activation. So does it know it is being used on a virtual processor? Does it report the number of virtual processors or real processors back to MS? Or does MS just have to take your word for it?
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As noted in another reply on this subject, XP (and I think 2000), will only allow one client to access its built in "server" at a time. Your comment that those CALs aren't valid for 2003 Server (XP Server?) confuses me. I think you could use the client on XP Pro to connect to a 2003 server, as the 2003 Server should have its own Terminal Server Licensing Server that comes with its own CALs (5 pack, 10 pack, etc.), indepent of the client OS. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that the CALs are server side, residing with the Licensing Server, not client side, correct?
I was just looking at this today. If I understand it right, and please feel free to freaking flame me if I don't, WinXP PRO will only allow one client to access the XP PRO Remote Desktop server at at time. Now I don't know about 2000, but the point is, you can't buy XP pro in place of Server 2003...unless you only needed one client to access the server at a time to begin with. I also take it that a person can't buy more CAL licenses for XP PRO, as well, because I looked for that a little bit, too, and couldn't find any CAL add-on packages.
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Law.com is reporting that MP3.com has filed a malpractice lawsuit again Cooley Godward , a law firm, alleging that it was responsible for allowing MP3.com to launch and subsequently be sued for copyright infringement by giving bad advice on the legality of My.MP3.Com ( MP3.com Sues Cooley Over Legal Advice ). The charges are quite loaded, alleging that Cooley was basically inept their legal analysis of fair use and other copyright doctrines, and perhaps even misrepresented to MP3.com about expert testimony the Cooley firm had secured.
This isn't a small lawsuit either. MP3.com wants $175
Someone didn't "upload" music that wasn't theirs. What MP3.com did was take advantage of the Right to format shift, starting a music locker service that worked like this: a user put a legit CD in their CD-ROM and it "beamed" the music to the locker in MP3 format. Now what they actually did was buy a ton of CDs and rip them to MP3, so that users only had to have access to a real cd to instantly get access to the exact same songs in MP3 format. To that end, MP3.com went to great lengths to make sure what they were doing was legal to begin with...and remember, it is legal to format shift AND the user had to have a real, physical CD of the same music to access the service (at which point they could have just ripped it to MP3 to begin with).
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And he did so illegally, as the Constitution states clearly that only Congress can create a law. They get around this by calling things rules and regulations, but guess what, these "regulations" have the force of a law.
Here is something I wrote a while back:
The Constitution (Article I, Section 1) states that only congress has the power to make laws. The executive branch and the judicial branch have no legislative powers, whatsoever. And Congress does not have the constitutional authority to delegate its legislative power to institutions that are beyond electoral accountability to the American people.
So why is there never a word said about the fourth branch of the federal government: the unconstitutional and entirely illegal regulatory branch?
What are the alphabet agencies -- FDA, EPA, OSHA, and so on -- doing when they pass laws? And, while these laws are called regulations, so as not to upset anyone who might actually read the Constitution, the Webster's dictionary defines regulation as a rule, ordinance or law.
The Constitution states that citizens accused of a crime are entitled to a trial by jury and are considered innocent until proven guilty.
Somewhere down the line the IRS must have overlooked the Constitution when it was setting up its "tax courts." And, while the income tax may be constitutional, the IRS does not have the constitutional authority to override such basics as due process of the law or the rights of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, paper, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures. Nor does it have the constitutional authority to become a legislative body unto itself.
The IRS is far from being the only government agency that has thrown the Constitution to the wind.
Another good example would be the woman who found out her children were doing drugs. She thought she was doing the proper thing by telling her children to leave and notifying the authorities.
After monitoring her house for a couple of weeks, the DEA seized her house for participating in the drug business. She was never charged with a crime, nor convicted of a crime. It was left entirely up to her redress to attempt to reclaim her property.
This is not uncommon. The ability to document unconstitutional actions by the federal government is limited only by the amount of space given to write. Unfortunately, there is not much newspaper ink being used on the subject. And this is a shame because this is a problem that is not a partisan issue. Bringing an end to unconstitutional government stands to benefit many diverse segments of our population, including both the rich and poor and regardless of party affiliation.
If America is ever to return to its constitutionally limited government, these illegal federal agencies must be abolished. If laws are needed in certain areas they must be passed by Congress. If laws are unpopular, the citizens should be able to vote out the lawmakers that enacted them. This is not possible in the regulatory branch of the government, the majority of whom are not elected nor held accountable to the people.
If Napster had quit hosting its service on its own servers and opened up instead, like OpenNap, and let other people host the files, it could have sold downloads of its top-notch client for 5.00 a pop and made how many millions of dollars? Yeah, it is obvious they thought they would make billions when they controlled it all...but we all know how that turned out.
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And actually, the way I did it was that me and a couple of guys I worked with would split the cost of registering the software. Yeah, not exactly the way it was supposed to work, but the author got money, and we got what we considered a semi-legal copy of the software, and we registered quite a bit of software.
Now, if I register a shareware program, quite a bit of it checks in with a server to validate the key, and if you even try and install it on say, your laptop, at the same time, you are screwed. I registered a couple of programs a while back that if my HD crashed, I guess I would have to e-mail the author and **beg** them to let me reinstall the programs.
And I tell you what, the amount of money leaving my hands has greatly reduced because of the above. I now look first to free/open source software or, believe it or not, commerical software, which is still light on the DRM, even though it is moving in that direction. If I smell DRM, I avoid the software at all costs.
I can only imagine that shareware author's revenue is decreasing...but hey, they cut down on some piracy...and all those big bad pirates who installed software they **paid** for on more than one computer in clear violation of the EULA.
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not just a board game that costs 25.00 bucks to order. And to be really cool, it would be an online game that was open source, so people could modify it...maybe easly change languages so that it could be played in other contries that don't have the money to pay 25.00 dollars for a board game. Heck, with the price of gas, I would have a hard time coming up with 25.00 to blow on a board game right now
And of course, the board game could still be sold by this guy and plenty of people would still buy it. It doesn't have to be one or the other, there is room enough for everyone here.
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Law.com is reporting that MP3.com has filed a malpractice lawsuit again Cooley Godward, a law firm, alleging that it was responsible for allowing MP3.com to launch and subsequently be sued for copyright infringement by giving bad advice on the legality of My.MP3.Com ( MP3.com Sues Cooley Over Legal Advice ). The charges are quite loaded, alleging that Cooley was basically inept their legal analysis of fair use and other copyright doctrines, and perhaps even misrepresented to MP3.com about expert testimony the Cooley firm had secured.
This isn't a small lawsuit either. MP3.com wants $175 million.
I would agree with Google and say that they have an open and shut case, but I thought that about mp3.com, too. Remember in that case, even though it is 100% legal to format shift, and that is what mp3.com was doing (you had to have access to a legit CD before mp3.com would give you access to the same songs in mp3 format), they got the crap beat out of them when it actually went to trial.
Our courts are behind the times and are consistently siding with the entrenched industry, it seems.
Anyway, I seem to remember mp3.com sued their lawfirm, which told them what they were doing would hold up in court. Does anyone know how that turned out?
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