Re:A physicist's view on homeopathy
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You fucking idiot.
Re:Why not some mainstream fallacies?
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This is the usual retarded logic that pollution apologists use.
FACTS:
1. The less we understand the environment the more cautious we should be. This should be obvious. If you are ice-skating, you check the thickness of the ice. If you HAVE to go on the ice without knowing how thick it is you don't say "it isn't PROVEN that the ice is thin, so I'll jump up and down and stomp around."
2. Science never proves anything. Ever. Not even once. 'Science' is the current theories that best stand up to criticism. If this seems wrong to you then you have no idea and should not pollute the world with your misinformed asshat ideas.
3. Right now the evidence says that global warming is happening and is caused by human activities. Can I make the case for this? Absolutely not. However, there are people who know alot about this sort of thing. They tell me that the evidence points to human activity and global warming. The only 'experts' which say otherwise are working for energy companies.
4. A majority of scientists can be wrong. Scientists believed in Newtonian physics until the beginning of this century, and many refused to buy into relativity even then. However, with our imperfect human knowledge we must make decisions based on the best information that we have available. Is the best information to base a decision on "it isn't PROVEN that global warming is real or cause by human actions" or "experts say that it is real and the evidence we do have agrees with this conclusion"?
you're the idiot. Who gives half a crap if they have managed to get notepad to run on their POS? They can't even run minesweeper on it, except for the native WINE version.
I don't expect them to ever catch up with Microsoft. That is the problem. No one will ever care about their stupid 'OS' because it will never be as good as the real thing. They will keep making crappy improvements on it until NT4 is totally obsolete and there is no point to it. Then they will start a new project to emulate Windows 20X6 until they realize that they can't do that either before it is obsolete.
This project is crap. It will always be crap. Even if it was exactly the way they wanted it to be it would be crap. Being open source doesn't mean the OSS fairy comes along every now and then to make it important or relavent.
It is pointless, because if I am a business that needs NT4 for some reason there is already a product that can give me 100% NT4 compatability, and I ALREADY HAVE IT INSTALLED AND RUNNING. There aren't any corporations that are saying "I wish we could have the functionality of NT4 for this project, but we [just can't afford to buy it|can't find an OS that is NT4 compatible]. There are no home users saying [I wish I could use OSS that was just like NT4 but not as good and can only run 3 programs and is buggy as hell|I wish I could run NT4, if only there were an OS that was exactly like NT4 but there isn't].
Of course it is a good idea, no one would doubt that. The technology used in google is significant. It is a hell of a lot more than Brin just saying "man, I think I'll start a web page that lets people search every other web page in a fraction of a second and sorts the hits for relevence using an ingenius method".
Microsoft and Yahoo have spent millions on R&D and they don't even come close to what google has done, so yea, it takes more than just having the idea to make it work, ass.
This seems to completely miss the point of why it is smart to use Linux now.
1. Linux is "Good Enough" now. Maybe it is better than windows, maybe it is worse, but unless you are a dope, Linux can do what you want it to.
2. Linux improves every day. Most distro's have a twice a year release cycle, with noticable improvements each release. So long as the improvement is non-trivial this leads to #3,
3. Linux will be the best eventually, and by an ever widening margin. Open source is the future of software. Switching to linux now means that you won't have to 'upgrade' to it later, and you can contribute to it by finding those bugs now.
Of course some integrals are hard. That is why there is a table of integrals in the front (and back) cover of almost every calculus book. However, that does not mean you don't have to learn the method to solve those integrals.
Learning is MUCH more complicated than simply absorbing the ability to do certain well defined tasks. There are abilities gained when working hard math problems that are far more important than the math problems themselves, at least in the case of difficult integrals.
Having done 'large integrals' by hand (and having slid through using my TI-89) I can tell you that using a table (or math software) will come back to bite you.
Learning is SUPPOSED to be hard (see Pinker: The Blank Slate or How the Mind Works) because if it isn't hard then you aren't learning anything. You cannot find an easy way ('no royal road' -Euclid) and you cannot trick people into learning using gimmicks. You just have to sit down and work at it until you get it.
Your example of not being able to do a derivitive is CRAP. Everywhere in America are libraries, and every library has a calculus book. These will not be checked out, trust me. Go get one. Also, there is a publisher called "Dover" which sells fairly decent books for like 10 bucks. So the 100 dollars for a student edition of mathematica (I know I know it was free for you because you stole it) is hardly worth the money compared to what is available free or cheap. Note: If you are doing 100 or 200 level mathematics then you aren't doing anything that is really hard enough to require mathematica to do it, (except for diffyQ where they sometimes give assignments which require Matlab or Mathematica for charts and stuff).
I'm not sure I did it right, but when I installed debian it downloaded new packages from the repository. So my system was up to date from the instant I installed it. Windows users get to install 3 year old software!
Until linux figures out a way around this there will always be an adware gap.
If you cannot take a camera into a secure area, why would they let you take a comminucations device? In the US at least, any sort of 'government classified' material lives in a 'scif', which even includes white noise generators on all the doors and little red lights on the ceiling to warn you to cover up your work when someone who isn't secured is going to be inside the scif (which you might otherwise know as the emergency smoke-break alert system).
So I doubt that you are chatting on your cellphone while people around you are discussing classified material, your entire story smacks of bullshit.
Or maybe you just watched to many episodes of '24'.
First of all, the ability to detect hardware at boot time is pretty much taken care of by linux. However, things like the fstab and so on need to be updated. With that said, even Mandrake 9.2 (the last version I used) had the ability to detect hardware changes at boot time. I removed a HD from a computer, and installed it in another computer, every piece of hardware being different, and it booted and loaded X without any problems, or any need to configure anything.
Maybe all the people at work are trying to get you fired because you're a prick braggard nobody could possibly stand to be around. Maybe they don't like you because of YOU, and not because of their own failings, as you so conveniently believe. *I* don't like you, and I've only had to experience 40 seconds of your personality.
You are only flaunting your won ignorance. I cannot speak for whatever college you go to, but at U of Maryland the professors are almost all top notch, at least the one's that I have had or heard about. Why you think they seem as 'dumb as doornails' is beyond me. Perhaps you have a poor ability to judge intelligence, or assume if someone doesn't know everything that they are an idiot.
It is a safe bet that college proffessors are the most intelligent group of people that there are in the US. Even a sucky philosophy prof. has an understanding of every major philosopher's works (possibly except kant), which is alot more work than just being opinionated.
I completely understand where you are coming from though. You are judging the world from a position of ignorance. This is exactly the sort of egotistical thinking I was refering to in my post. YOU don't know what the heck philosophy prof's study, so it must be crap, since if it was important you would know it.
Saying that the liberal arts are 'subjective fields' and therefore there is no way to measure the understanding in those fields is more of the same kind of thinking. Beleive it or not, there is a several thousand year old tradition in the 'liberal arts', and while you can't well order the set of books, that doesn't mean that the fields are a combination of teaparties and fraud.
Frankly, you don't have any idea what you're talking about.
Perhaps, and I wouldn't doubt it, you are just talking out your ass without giving it any significant thought. If you decide to think about it, tell me, who isn't an idiot? I bet you put yourself at the top of the list!
I realize that there is probably a language issue here as well, but..
A big part of being successful is a sort of social engineering. If you can't handle that then you are very likely not going to be successful, and if you wonder why you aren't successful at that point then you are dumb, too.
The most skilled programmer might not be the best programmer to hire, if they are suffering from the sort of idiot-savant like condition that programmers are famous for. If they stink for instance, which is a bigger problem then you might think. It is self defeating to hire the best programmer and then not be able to employ them efficiently because no one will sit near them, and you can't bring them into meetings.
Finally, most profs AREN'T dumb. They are almost all very smart. On top of being smart, they have demonstrated that they know some stuff. Thinking that everybody else is dumb is a symptom of a sick and egotistical mind. I had a friend in college who thought that his philosophy proffessor was an idiot because "I always prove him wrong in class, so he won't call on me anymore." If you think that that is a reasonable statement then you too are probably an ass.
I call BS. 20 years ago there were like 10 guys in a basement somewhere doing computer graphics. Today there are multiple, and dare I say, open source ways to open image data. Plus there are more than 10 guys, so in 20 years there is surely going to be a market for software to open images taken today.
A beter analogy would be text files. Can you open all those weird text file formats? Sure, because it was common and people need to open them, so programs can deal with multiple types of text encoding.
Re:Disenchantment
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I doubt it. More likely you are just a prick who thinks everyone is dumb if they don't see things exactly the way you do, or if they disagree. I find it very very unlikely that you knew more than your professors in college, and then went on to a cookie cutter cube-job. Are you just that much of an underachiever? Something about your story just doesn't add up. You're smarter and more competent than everyone else, just like everybody else.
Welcome to the world, hotshot.
It is alot harder to be competent than to point out the incompetence of others. Noticing incompetence only requires the right knowledge on one topic at one moment in time, BEING competent requires the right knowledge/skill on every topic you deal with all the time, and the energy to actually do it.
Player Piano is about human's being replaced in their jobs by machines. For example, one person was asked to do his manufacturing job repeatedly while they recorded his movements onto a tape. Then he got the boot and they just played the tape into a sortof-robot that mimicked his movements. There were no computers at all in the story, really, just mechanical devices which mimicked movements stored on tape. There was no processing of the information on tape. In fact, the machines worked exactly like a player piano, thus the title, you idiot.
I don't know if you didn't actually read the book or if you are just illiterate or retarded, or maybe you're a liar. Regardless, stop making things up.
Let me be the first recomend that you post a followup to this. Your interesting story contributes greatly to this thread. It's good to know that you 1. Return alot of stuff, and 2. You used to work at best buy, so you have an 'in' to get around this new policy. There must be more to this story though, as I am captivated. Tell me, what are your buying habits at other stores? Do you have alot of returns at, say, circuit city? What about the grocery store? What color is the carpet in your living room? Do you like to go sledding?
Let me thank you for 20 seconds of my life well spent.
There is no way that this company can come out with thier first graphics chipset and have it be in any way reasonable right out of the gate.
Instead, it would be MUCH smarter to just wait until a chipset company goes bankrupt, and then raise money and buy a slightly older chipset, and all of it's documentation outright. This has the advantage of the millions of pre-existing cards using that or a derived chipset already in production/use. Possibly a company might even be willing to donate/sell at a cut rate a much older chipset. For example, I don't think it is really necessary for a chip like the s3 virge to remain propriatary for whatever company owns it today.
If it were fully released as open source then medium sized card manufacturers like Asus or MSI etc, who don't own the chipset tech for the cards they currently make, could get the free chipset almost immediatly put into production at a modern fab plant, which with minor modifications would make it several orders of magnitude faster. Since it is an older design it uses on die real-estate somewhat efficiantly (or at least uses a modest amount of area).
This guy doesn't seem to understand that the internet gives the user the choice of where to find the information they are seeking. So if www.sellout.com is starting to suck and be full of ads, www.realdeal.org will just start getting all the traffic instead.
Personally, I used to get about 50-150 spams a day. Now I forward all my email accounts to gmail, and that number is down to 2-3 spams per day (and they all seem to be from the same porn site for some reason). So where before I usually didn't even bother to sift through my email, now it is painless. Things get fixed. If spam made email useless, then I could just use something else, or a propriatary messaging service. Or set up a web page where people could send me messages. Whatever. It would be less convienient (then email working perfectly, which it never has) at first, but incremental improvements would quickly solve that.
The internet will never be threatened by alot of junk, so long as there is non-junk available somewhere.
Re: headache from RF?...studies forthcoming!
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You gave one (1) example of what you claim is an RF induced tumor. I gave some examples of some RF induced nothings. The burden of proof is on you. There isn't any study that shows that RF can cause any damage at all at the energy levels attained by human-carried equipment. Using AM radio as an example is NOT reasonable, since AM radio towers are by far the largest RF emmiters on earth. It is 6 or 7 orders of magnitude of difference in energy levels. Even in that hokey article you posted from, chuckle chuckle, alternativemedicine.com, it quotes only a statistically insignificant corrolation.
Let me explain to you what statistically insignificant means. If you take 7 people who use cell phones and then got brain tumors, and 4 of them got tumors on the side which they held the cell phone, this does not imply that cell phones caused the tumors. It implies that you have an odd number of people in your trial, and so there has to be one more with the same side or with the opposite side. A statistically insignificant corrolation is in NO WAY better than that example. It in no way implies that there is in fact a corrolation.
Idiot.
Re: headache from RF?...studies forthcoming!
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Yes, alternativemedicine.com says its so. This is not suprising.
The study reported a statistically nonsignificant increased risk for brain tumors on the side of the head on which the cellular telephone was used....
A statistically nonsignificant increase in risk exactly equivelent to no increase at all. In other words, the study shows that there is no corrolation to cell phones and the side the tumor appears on in people with tumors.
What we witnessed was that simply answering a cell phone call measurably stresses the body, immediately putting it into "fight-or-flight" mode.
Frankly, this article is rediculous.
It is possible to quote way-out-there websites which support any view. This article even tries to use a "statistically nonsignificant" corrolation to try to say that cell phones cause damage. If this is the best evidence available, I'll take my chances.
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You fucking idiot.
This is the usual retarded logic that pollution apologists use.
FACTS:
1. The less we understand the environment the more cautious we should be. This should be obvious. If you are ice-skating, you check the thickness of the ice. If you HAVE to go on the ice without knowing how thick it is you don't say "it isn't PROVEN that the ice is thin, so I'll jump up and down and stomp around."
2. Science never proves anything. Ever. Not even once. 'Science' is the current theories that best stand up to criticism. If this seems wrong to you then you have no idea and should not pollute the world with your misinformed asshat ideas.
3. Right now the evidence says that global warming is happening and is caused by human activities. Can I make the case for this? Absolutely not. However, there are people who know alot about this sort of thing. They tell me that the evidence points to human activity and global warming. The only 'experts' which say otherwise are working for energy companies.
4. A majority of scientists can be wrong. Scientists believed in Newtonian physics until the beginning of this century, and many refused to buy into relativity even then. However, with our imperfect human knowledge we must make decisions based on the best information that we have available. Is the best information to base a decision on "it isn't PROVEN that global warming is real or cause by human actions" or "experts say that it is real and the evidence we do have agrees with this conclusion"?
you're the idiot. Who gives half a crap if they have managed to get notepad to run on their POS? They can't even run minesweeper on it, except for the native WINE version.
I don't expect them to ever catch up with Microsoft. That is the problem. No one will ever care about their stupid 'OS' because it will never be as good as the real thing. They will keep making crappy improvements on it until NT4 is totally obsolete and there is no point to it. Then they will start a new project to emulate Windows 20X6 until they realize that they can't do that either before it is obsolete.
This project is crap. It will always be crap. Even if it was exactly the way they wanted it to be it would be crap. Being open source doesn't mean the OSS fairy comes along every now and then to make it important or relavent.
It is pointless, because if I am a business that needs NT4 for some reason there is already a product that can give me 100% NT4 compatability, and I ALREADY HAVE IT INSTALLED AND RUNNING. There aren't any corporations that are saying "I wish we could have the functionality of NT4 for this project, but we [just can't afford to buy it|can't find an OS that is NT4 compatible]. There are no home users saying [I wish I could use OSS that was just like NT4 but not as good and can only run 3 programs and is buggy as hell|I wish I could run NT4, if only there were an OS that was exactly like NT4 but there isn't].
This is at best a hobby OS.
You are a dope.
Of course it is a good idea, no one would doubt that. The technology used in google is significant. It is a hell of a lot more than Brin just saying "man, I think I'll start a web page that lets people search every other web page in a fraction of a second and sorts the hits for relevence using an ingenius method".
Microsoft and Yahoo have spent millions on R&D and they don't even come close to what google has done, so yea, it takes more than just having the idea to make it work, ass.
This seems to completely miss the point of why it is smart to use Linux now.
1. Linux is "Good Enough" now. Maybe it is better than windows, maybe it is worse, but unless you are a dope, Linux can do what you want it to.
2. Linux improves every day. Most distro's have a twice a year release cycle, with noticable improvements each release. So long as the improvement is non-trivial this leads to #3,
3. Linux will be the best eventually, and by an ever widening margin. Open source is the future of software. Switching to linux now means that you won't have to 'upgrade' to it later, and you can contribute to it by finding those bugs now.
(4. Stop being an asshat and install Linux.)
They gave you BARK!?
I guess that was an elite private school.
Of course some integrals are hard. That is why there is a table of integrals in the front (and back) cover of almost every calculus book. However, that does not mean you don't have to learn the method to solve those integrals.
Learning is MUCH more complicated than simply absorbing the ability to do certain well defined tasks. There are abilities gained when working hard math problems that are far more important than the math problems themselves, at least in the case of difficult integrals.
Having done 'large integrals' by hand (and having slid through using my TI-89) I can tell you that using a table (or math software) will come back to bite you.
Learning is SUPPOSED to be hard (see Pinker: The Blank Slate or How the Mind Works) because if it isn't hard then you aren't learning anything. You cannot find an easy way ('no royal road' -Euclid) and you cannot trick people into learning using gimmicks. You just have to sit down and work at it until you get it.
Your example of not being able to do a derivitive is CRAP. Everywhere in America are libraries, and every library has a calculus book. These will not be checked out, trust me. Go get one. Also, there is a publisher called "Dover" which sells fairly decent books for like 10 bucks. So the 100 dollars for a student edition of mathematica (I know I know it was free for you because you stole it) is hardly worth the money compared to what is available free or cheap. Note: If you are doing 100 or 200 level mathematics then you aren't doing anything that is really hard enough to require mathematica to do it, (except for diffyQ where they sometimes give assignments which require Matlab or Mathematica for charts and stuff).
I'm not sure I did it right, but when I installed debian it downloaded new packages from the repository. So my system was up to date from the instant I installed it. Windows users get to install 3 year old software!
Until linux figures out a way around this there will always be an adware gap.
Does it run linux?
How do you install adware in debian? I tried apt-get install virus, apt-get install adware, apt-get install malware, nothing works. man, linux is crap
I'm sorry, but I don't believe you.
If you cannot take a camera into a secure area, why would they let you take a comminucations device? In the US at least, any sort of 'government classified' material lives in a 'scif', which even includes white noise generators on all the doors and little red lights on the ceiling to warn you to cover up your work when someone who isn't secured is going to be inside the scif (which you might otherwise know as the emergency smoke-break alert system).
So I doubt that you are chatting on your cellphone while people around you are discussing classified material, your entire story smacks of bullshit.
Or maybe you just watched to many episodes of '24'.
First of all, the ability to detect hardware at boot time is pretty much taken care of by linux. However, things like the fstab and so on need to be updated. With that said, even Mandrake 9.2 (the last version I used) had the ability to detect hardware changes at boot time. I removed a HD from a computer, and installed it in another computer, every piece of hardware being different, and it booted and loaded X without any problems, or any need to configure anything.
Maybe all the people at work are trying to get you fired because you're a prick braggard nobody could possibly stand to be around. Maybe they don't like you because of YOU, and not because of their own failings, as you so conveniently believe. *I* don't like you, and I've only had to experience 40 seconds of your personality.
FALSE,
You are only flaunting your won ignorance. I cannot speak for whatever college you go to, but at U of Maryland the professors are almost all top notch, at least the one's that I have had or heard about. Why you think they seem as 'dumb as doornails' is beyond me. Perhaps you have a poor ability to judge intelligence, or assume if someone doesn't know everything that they are an idiot.
It is a safe bet that college proffessors are the most intelligent group of people that there are in the US. Even a sucky philosophy prof. has an understanding of every major philosopher's works (possibly except kant), which is alot more work than just being opinionated.
I completely understand where you are coming from though. You are judging the world from a position of ignorance. This is exactly the sort of egotistical thinking I was refering to in my post. YOU don't know what the heck philosophy prof's study, so it must be crap, since if it was important you would know it.
Saying that the liberal arts are 'subjective fields' and therefore there is no way to measure the understanding in those fields is more of the same kind of thinking. Beleive it or not, there is a several thousand year old tradition in the 'liberal arts', and while you can't well order the set of books, that doesn't mean that the fields are a combination of teaparties and fraud.
Frankly, you don't have any idea what you're talking about.
Perhaps, and I wouldn't doubt it, you are just talking out your ass without giving it any significant thought. If you decide to think about it, tell me, who isn't an idiot? I bet you put yourself at the top of the list!
I realize that there is probably a language issue here as well, but..
A big part of being successful is a sort of social engineering. If you can't handle that then you are very likely not going to be successful, and if you wonder why you aren't successful at that point then you are dumb, too.
The most skilled programmer might not be the best programmer to hire, if they are suffering from the sort of idiot-savant like condition that programmers are famous for. If they stink for instance, which is a bigger problem then you might think. It is self defeating to hire the best programmer and then not be able to employ them efficiently because no one will sit near them, and you can't bring them into meetings.
Finally, most profs AREN'T dumb. They are almost all very smart. On top of being smart, they have demonstrated that they know some stuff. Thinking that everybody else is dumb is a symptom of a sick and egotistical mind. I had a friend in college who thought that his philosophy proffessor was an idiot because "I always prove him wrong in class, so he won't call on me anymore." If you think that that is a reasonable statement then you too are probably an ass.
I call BS. 20 years ago there were like 10 guys in a basement somewhere doing computer graphics. Today there are multiple, and dare I say, open source ways to open image data. Plus there are more than 10 guys, so in 20 years there is surely going to be a market for software to open images taken today.
A beter analogy would be text files. Can you open all those weird text file formats? Sure, because it was common and people need to open them, so programs can deal with multiple types of text encoding.
Next time don't cut them in half.
I doubt it. More likely you are just a prick who thinks everyone is dumb if they don't see things exactly the way you do, or if they disagree. I find it very very unlikely that you knew more than your professors in college, and then went on to a cookie cutter cube-job. Are you just that much of an underachiever? Something about your story just doesn't add up. You're smarter and more competent than everyone else, just like everybody else.
Welcome to the world, hotshot.
It is alot harder to be competent than to point out the incompetence of others. Noticing incompetence only requires the right knowledge on one topic at one moment in time, BEING competent requires the right knowledge/skill on every topic you deal with all the time, and the energy to actually do it.
FALSE
Player Piano is about human's being replaced in their jobs by machines. For example, one person was asked to do his manufacturing job repeatedly while they recorded his movements onto a tape. Then he got the boot and they just played the tape into a sortof-robot that mimicked his movements. There were no computers at all in the story, really, just mechanical devices which mimicked movements stored on tape. There was no processing of the information on tape. In fact, the machines worked exactly like a player piano, thus the title, you idiot.
I don't know if you didn't actually read the book or if you are just illiterate or retarded, or maybe you're a liar. Regardless, stop making things up.
Let me be the first recomend that you post a followup to this. Your interesting story contributes greatly to this thread. It's good to know that you 1. Return alot of stuff, and 2. You used to work at best buy, so you have an 'in' to get around this new policy. There must be more to this story though, as I am captivated. Tell me, what are your buying habits at other stores? Do you have alot of returns at, say, circuit city? What about the grocery store? What color is the carpet in your living room? Do you like to go sledding?
Let me thank you for 20 seconds of my life well spent.
There is no way that this company can come out with thier first graphics chipset and have it be in any way reasonable right out of the gate.
Instead, it would be MUCH smarter to just wait until a chipset company goes bankrupt, and then raise money and buy a slightly older chipset, and all of it's documentation outright. This has the advantage of the millions of pre-existing cards using that or a derived chipset already in production/use. Possibly a company might even be willing to donate/sell at a cut rate a much older chipset. For example, I don't think it is really necessary for a chip like the s3 virge to remain propriatary for whatever company owns it today.
If it were fully released as open source then medium sized card manufacturers like Asus or MSI etc, who don't own the chipset tech for the cards they currently make, could get the free chipset almost immediatly put into production at a modern fab plant, which with minor modifications would make it several orders of magnitude faster. Since it is an older design it uses on die real-estate somewhat efficiantly (or at least uses a modest amount of area).
This guy doesn't seem to understand that the internet gives the user the choice of where to find the information they are seeking. So if www.sellout.com is starting to suck and be full of ads, www.realdeal.org will just start getting all the traffic instead.
Personally, I used to get about 50-150 spams a day. Now I forward all my email accounts to gmail, and that number is down to 2-3 spams per day (and they all seem to be from the same porn site for some reason). So where before I usually didn't even bother to sift through my email, now it is painless. Things get fixed. If spam made email useless, then I could just use something else, or a propriatary messaging service. Or set up a web page where people could send me messages. Whatever. It would be less convienient (then email working perfectly, which it never has) at first, but incremental improvements would quickly solve that.
The internet will never be threatened by alot of junk, so long as there is non-junk available somewhere.
Right after they release their web browser.
You gave one (1) example of what you claim is an RF induced tumor. I gave some examples of some RF induced nothings. The burden of proof is on you. There isn't any study that shows that RF can cause any damage at all at the energy levels attained by human-carried equipment. Using AM radio as an example is NOT reasonable, since AM radio towers are by far the largest RF emmiters on earth. It is 6 or 7 orders of magnitude of difference in energy levels. Even in that hokey article you posted from, chuckle chuckle, alternativemedicine.com, it quotes only a statistically insignificant corrolation.
Let me explain to you what statistically insignificant means. If you take 7 people who use cell phones and then got brain tumors, and 4 of them got tumors on the side which they held the cell phone, this does not imply that cell phones caused the tumors. It implies that you have an odd number of people in your trial, and so there has to be one more with the same side or with the opposite side. A statistically insignificant corrolation is in NO WAY better than that example. It in no way implies that there is in fact a corrolation.
Idiot.
Yes, alternativemedicine.com says its so. This is not suprising.
The study reported a statistically nonsignificant increased risk for brain tumors on the side of the head on which the cellular telephone was used....
A statistically nonsignificant increase in risk exactly equivelent to no increase at all. In other words, the study shows that there is no corrolation to cell phones and the side the tumor appears on in people with tumors.
What we witnessed was that simply answering a cell phone call measurably stresses the body, immediately putting it into "fight-or-flight" mode.
Frankly, this article is rediculous.
It is possible to quote way-out-there websites which support any view. This article even tries to use a "statistically nonsignificant" corrolation to try to say that cell phones cause damage. If this is the best evidence available, I'll take my chances.