Google claims they don't edit the news, that they provide an unbiased search engine into news sites.
If they are actually "editing" their news by vetting which sites are added to their search engine, then they can be held accountable for the content of the news articles they present - I don't think they want that.
I don't want to get into TMI, so let's just say I've learned to avoid doctors for anything more complicated than "I cut myself - can you sew this back on?"
I'd considered the possibility that it was a hoax (seeing how I suddenly started seeing references to it all over the place) but I hadn't considered the idea that it was deliberate marketing.
Since I can remember when Lupus was considered psychosomatic.
It's quite possible that we're looking different people with different parasitic or infectious diseases and that this website as simply bundled them all up and claimed they are the same thing.
wholesale area spraying of DDT is inappropriate, but the Africans, IIRC, use it as a household spray so that there isn't the same kind of accumulation of the stuff in the food chain.
Because you can spray it in your house without getting sick.
We aren't talking about using DDT as a wholesale agent-orange-nuke-the-forest type thing. Africans use it in their houses to kill mosquitos because it is much safer than other residential pesticides.
Except, of course, the UN pressures them not to do it on the off chance that bald eagles might visit those houses on their way to their nests in colorado.
I would think that would be quite hard to do - especially skype, since that's peer to peer; other than using something that sniffs every single packet on the backbone I can't see how they could collect everything - and even the backbone isn't going to see all traffic.
Other than "anonymous sources" who apparently feel it's very important to tell us about this - but not important enough to risk their jobs - is there any evidence that this story is true?
I mean - I'm not saying it *isn't* true, but we're basing a lot of outrage on something that's no more soundly based than any random internet posting.
Through various techniques we're building up a more detailed understanding of the shape of our own galaxy - this is easy to do when looking at other galaxies, but quite hard to do for our own - imagine trying to get a detailed map of the human body from inside the stomach.
Since it's hard to tell how far away stars are, what they've been doing is gathering motion and spectrographic maps of them - figuring out which stars are obviously affecting each other, which stars are chemically similar and so on, and building 3d models from these.
It was just a year or two ago we figured out the Milky Way is in the middle digesting another smaller galaxy in the direction of Saggitarius.
But we've also discovered that some games that I would rate "T" or even "E" get rated "M" - Metal Gear Acid and Acid II for the PSP are both rated "M", and for the life of me I can't figure out why.
"Sexual Themes"? Huh? Other than the fact that the female characters are jiggle way to much, I didn't notice anything. The violence isn't especially graphic, either, and the "blood" is, well, a red ring on the floor after the dead NPC vanishes...
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And property is theft.
Without copyright, there is no price mechanism.
All this "awareness raising" does is piss people off and harden their opinions - against you.
Persuasion is one thing, but the ridiculous protest strategies adopted by greenpeace, peta and now the fsf only make them the targets of ridicule.
it ensures that they will have no beneficial effect.
This is Bush's fault!
Google claims they don't edit the news, that they provide an unbiased search engine into news sites.
If they are actually "editing" their news by vetting which sites are added to their search engine, then they can be held accountable for the content of the news articles they present - I don't think they want that.
Not unless they got Popular Mechanics to back date a fake article to June, 2005.
So, apparently the hoax and viral marketing theories are both out the window, unless it's a hoax that's been years in the making.
I don't want to get into TMI, so let's just say I've learned to avoid doctors for anything more complicated than "I cut myself - can you sew this back on?"
I'd considered the possibility that it was a hoax (seeing how I suddenly started seeing references to it all over the place) but I hadn't considered the idea that it was deliberate marketing.
Since I can remember when Lupus was considered psychosomatic.
It's quite possible that we're looking different people with different parasitic or infectious diseases and that this website as simply bundled them all up and claimed they are the same thing.
who can't even approximately spell psychosis?
I'm also wondering how you manage to diagnose toddlers as hypochondriacs.
And here it is again!
Don't you have *anything* else to talk about?
even when it isn't even remotely relevant to the topic at hand.
What does it have to do with whether or not DDT causes eggshell thinning?
wholesale area spraying of DDT is inappropriate, but the Africans, IIRC, use it as a household spray so that there isn't the same kind of accumulation of the stuff in the food chain.
Because you can spray it in your house without getting sick.
We aren't talking about using DDT as a wholesale agent-orange-nuke-the-forest type thing. Africans use it in their houses to kill mosquitos because it is much safer than other residential pesticides.
Except, of course, the UN pressures them not to do it on the off chance that bald eagles might visit those houses on their way to their nests in colorado.
You gotta love when, on a science and tech website, a request for evidence is considered "flamebait".
I would think that would be quite hard to do - especially skype, since that's peer to peer; other than using something that sniffs every single packet on the backbone I can't see how they could collect everything - and even the backbone isn't going to see all traffic.
Ummmm...
Don't defense lawyers do that now? The lacrosse rape case comes to mind...
If the government told them that it *was* legal wouldn't that push legal liability onto the government?
Other than "anonymous sources" who apparently feel it's very important to tell us about this - but not important enough to risk their jobs - is there any evidence that this story is true?
I mean - I'm not saying it *isn't* true, but we're basing a lot of outrage on something that's no more soundly based than any random internet posting.
These are new.
Through various techniques we're building up a more detailed understanding of the shape of our own galaxy - this is easy to do when looking at other galaxies, but quite hard to do for our own - imagine trying to get a detailed map of the human body from inside the stomach.
Since it's hard to tell how far away stars are, what they've been doing is gathering motion and spectrographic maps of them - figuring out which stars are obviously affecting each other, which stars are chemically similar and so on, and building 3d models from these.
It was just a year or two ago we figured out the Milky Way is in the middle digesting another smaller galaxy in the direction of Saggitarius.
Seeing how these "galaxies" are smaller than many clusters, why are they called "galaxies"?
Is this just another arbitrary thing, like the difference between a "planet" and an "asteroid"?
But we've also discovered that some games that I would rate "T" or even "E" get rated "M" - Metal Gear Acid and Acid II for the PSP are both rated "M", and for the life of me I can't figure out why.
"Sexual Themes"? Huh? Other than the fact that the female characters are jiggle way to much, I didn't notice anything. The violence isn't especially graphic, either, and the "blood" is, well, a red ring on the floor after the dead NPC vanishes...
I have to admit, the Sprint had the stopping characteristics of an air hockey puck. Fun, though.
My 1987 Geo Metro/Sprint got 50 mpg highway. It was also cool to be able to make a U-turn on a narrow road without having to back up..