The problem is, humans have a history of using these differences for the greater bad, or creating differences out of their imagination for the oppression of one sex or another (i.e.women unable to vote).
That's why gender is a better explanation than it is a justification, if you get my drift.
You obviously have never lived with a woman other than your mother, or you are so brainwashed by college professors you are blind to the truth. Women are highly emotional and largely irrational. The extraordinary statistics of women and psychoactive substance use (35% of women will use antidepressants in her lifetime) provide further proof. The obsession of the medical community in treating every possible female medical disturbance, despite the fact women now live 5% longer than men shows you how far whining gets you.
Perhaps you don't agree that being excessively emotional isn't grounds to deprive someone the right to vote, but the reason is valid. It was not this crazy lie spread by the male conspiracy.
I noticed this at work where I used mozilla all the time. So, I just installed Opera. Never once had a pop up come with Opera 6 or 7. Sometimes I prefer Mozilla because over all it IS more stable, even if it is slow... But this made me switch.
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Har Har Har, you're just so fucking funny.
Or so incredibly closed minded you can do nothing but let your teachers drill you full of their emotional bullshit.
When the real results of overpopulation start to effect the quality of life of the people, they WILL fight to see who gets the bone. Our technological marvels have made this less of a problem as of late. There is only so much land however. Sooner or later its going to be us against them.
Back in the pre-industrial age this was ok, as at least warfare exhalted human existence. Human males have evolved to be killing machines. But today, one nuclear bomb... there is no glory in that.
So, maybe it is a path to extinction. I was wrong.
What about the thousands of asthma sufferers plagued by air pollution?
asthma is primarily caused by opioid peptides derived from wheat and dairy products. The percentage of the population with asthma has increased at a rate inversely proportionate to average pollution levels. Pollution has decreased substantially for several decades. When my grandparents lived in Manhattan in the 1920's and 1930's, asthma was pretty much unknown.
Wheat and dairy opioid peptides are added to foods to enhance their "taste". This is the same kind of taste as a line of cocaine. It only tastes good because it promotes an addictive response. Like with heroin and other narcotics, you quickly become tolerant to the mood altering effects. No one really feels the effects of these drugs, outside of the respiratory suppressing effects and intenstinal sedation resulting in constipation.
Btw, bread was always the solution to overpopulation. There is a reason Nero said all the people need are bread and games. People may not feel they are on drugs when they consume narcotics, but it makes them more content and easier to control. Give them mindless entertainment and they are no longer a threat of any sort.
Algebra, using the arabic numeral system inherited from India, is certainly arabic in origin. I would strongly argue however that Greek geometry (pythagorous) was very algebric in its nature. In fact, I bet the vast majority of people only know one algebreic formula, A^2 + b^2 = C^2. Perhaps Pythagorous did not know that was "algebra", but for practical purposes 2800 year old Greek geometry can solve many problems in the real world, as much so as algebra.
Arabs combined Greek writings on number theory with Indian script.
Arithmatic was around centuries before Mohammed was even born. Do you think the Roman census was based on observation alone?
Islam arose during a turbulent time in history, and took advantage of collapsing government around them. At least the Romans conquered other strong nations. Islam simply spread where there was the least resistance. Its brutality isn't to be despised because it was brutal, but because it was cowardly.
Assuming that this would even be possible, why not just built nanobots that you could then inject into a person that would seek out and destroy any nanomaterials that the human had ingested, inhaled, etc. Imagine a nanobot seeking out and destroying asbestos in the lungs.
A big reason is nanomaterials are becoming common industrial components TODAY, whereas nanobots are not going to be available for a very long time. The two have nothing in common other than the word "nano"
Al-Khwarizmi invented algebra around 780 (both "algebra" and "algorithm" are arabic words).The Bagdad physician, al-Razi, (865-925) produced a medical textbook that was the standard throughout the Islamic world. And Avicenna (Ibn Sina) was like the Isaac Newton of the Islamic world, who in 980 was making advances in medicine, physics and philosophy.
Many agree that many of the advances made in the Western World during the renaissance owe their beginnings to the science, math, and rational thought of the Islamic World.
I don't think so. I hear this a lot from those who seek to counter the obvious fact that Islam is as barbaric a religion as you can get.
What little rational thought has existed in this history of Islam is only because certain military thug lords decided to allow some of their intellectuals the freedom to read classical thought and science. All Islamic "rational" philosophy is nothing more than transposed Aristotle. Most of the medicine you desribed as coming from the arabs was described by Hippocrates. It was the Greeks who bred the unusually powerful Turkish poppy, from which analgesic strength opium can be obtained.
What little advancements existed in the muslim world were simply the result of pillaging the remnants of the Roman Empire. Muslims come, they suck a land dry until its people live in poverty and their culture stagnates. Every muslim area of the world was once vibrant and live, and now its degenerate, stagnant.
In particular what infuriates me about this modern ignorance of Islam is how much they destroyed from the classical world. They burned the great library at Alexandria. They destroyed countless temples, arenas, and theaters from antiquity. They stripped the great pyramid of its protective limestone encasing to build some hideous mosque.
Of course, we won't even get into the discussion of Constantinople.
The Christian world had its problems, but this was mainly due to the vast numbers of people immigrating west. There is a reason the western empire fell before the east. No one did (or still does) want to live in the traditionally Muslim lands. They are a desert wasteland. One of the things which caused the collapse of the Roman empire was changing climate. North africa was the primary source of food for much of the empire. It is no coincidence Islam began to show its ugly head at the exact same time as the desert expanded and the people starved. North Africa has been a hell hole every since.
Also, Lawrence of Arabia was a little misinformed about London. London (and Paris) both achieved their stature because they were the capitals of Britannia and Gaul respectively, their Roman provincial titles. London was hardly a village but a fortified city rather large for the frontier. They had aquaducts, public baths (still unknown in Arabia), plumbing, industry, and heavy fortifications. It was common practice to keep some public illumination, but probably no more than torches. London never WAS a village. It was created from the very beginning to be a fortress, around which grew a city. Since Roman imperial rule was brought to the region for fertile land and raw materials, it ultimately became a trading center.
(Only way to see some of the now banned Disney WWII propaganda films. Find "Educated for Death" to see some disturbing old material)
I would hardly say they are banned, one of them one an academy award in 1942 (the one where Donald dreams he lives in Nazi Germany). They aren't shown, I don't think, because they aren't in good taste and contain many stereotypes which are offensive to quite a few folks these days.
It IS out there, and is not banned, but there is a reason it is not shown on the Disney Channel on a regular basis.
That's an interesting analysis which fits pretty well with my idea of how capilatism deals with excess production
You have been reading too much marx. Excess production is pretty much irrelevant from a social standpoint. The history of wheat as a tool of social control goes way back to ancient egypt at least. As Nero said, all the people need are bread and circuses.
Industrialization was nothing more than a new way to keep the masses busy, to keep them from revolting. This was such a failure early on that compulsory schooling had to be instituted to train the masses to accept boredom, drudgery, and bureaucracy with open arms.
The fact that many companies add addictive substances to food is somewhat ancillary. It is not that they are capitalistic, it is that they operate with the express consent and support of the government.
Asthma cases are increasing by orders of magnitude every decade, the once rare condition of autism is now affected one in every 100 males. Americans spend over six billion dollars a year on laxatives. 1 in 7 americans will be on an antidepressant drug at some point in their lives. To the powers that be that control information and regulations... none of these things seem at all connected, and that is the problem.
The guiding principle of what you and I call society is control. It is not at all based in any concept of material wealth, it is an inborn desire in every man to impose his will on another. A small portion of men use pure violence. The vast majority attempt to enslave a man's mind. Religion. Government. Schools. Social Customs. Food. Most everything you hold dear is a construction, part of the prison for your mind.
Anyway, its a huge topic. Food and drugs are a minor aspect, I would look into the history of compulsory schooling first.
but here are some citations. You can get these journal articles from the US National Library of Medicine or from a commercial service like Medline. You will probably have to go to a library to get the whole articles.
1) Meisel, H.,Frister,H. in : Barth, C.A.& Schlimme, E., Milk Proteins : Nutritional, Clinical, Functional and Technological Aspects. Darmstadt 1988 / 143.
(2) Svedberg, J.et al, Demonstration of beta-casomorphin immunoreactive materials in in vitro digests of bovine milk and in small intestine contents after bovine milk ingestion in adult humans. Peptides 1985 / 6 / pag.825-830. , Loukas, S. et al, Opioid activities and structures of alpha-casein-derived exorphins. Biochemistry 1983 / 22 (19) / 4567-4573. , Zioudrou, C. et al,Opioid peptides derived from food proteins. The exorphins. J. Biol. Chem.1979 / 254 (7) / 2446-2449.
(3) Flood, J.F. et al, Increased food intake by neuropeptide Y is due to an increased motivation to eat. Peptides 1991 / 12 (6) / 1329-1332. , Koldovsky, O., Search for the role of milk borne biologically active peptides for the suckling. J.Nutr. 1989 / 119 (11) / 1543-1551.
(4) Teschemacher, H. et al, Chemical characterization and opiod activity of an exorphin isolated from in vivo digests of casein. FEBS Lett. 1986 / 196 (2) / 223-227. , Chang, K.-J. et al, Isolation of a specific mu-opiate receptor peptide, morphiceptin, from an enzymatic digest of milk proteins. J. Biol. Chem. 1985 / 260 (17) / pag. 9706-9712.
(6) Bell, R.R. et al, The influence of milk in the diet on the toxicity of orally ingested lead in rats. Food and Cosmetics Toxicology 1981 / 19 / 429-436. , Lembeck, F. et al,Substance P as neurogenic mediator of antidromic vasodilation and neurogenic plasma extravasation. Arch. Pharmacol. 1979 / 310 (2) / 175-183.
(7) Read, L.C. et al, Absorption of beta-casomorphins from autoperfused lamb and piglet
Using the same logic, one can treat kidney failure by drinking less fluid - if you drink only as much fluid as you lose, you cant get fluid retention and swell up (as people in kidney and heart failure tend to do).
This is not 100% accurate. In normal mammals in the wild, this would surely be true, but humans do not consume a natural diet. Salt and alcohol are two substances which will cause water retention. Another major culprit is cooked food, as heat damaged proteins cannot be utilized by your body and instead are secreted through your sweat glands as a waste product (same way as certain proteins in onions, giving your sweat a different odor). All protein is hydophobic, thus resulting in water retention in the outer layer of your skin. This results in acne, dry skin, and in many people facial edema.
Delete a gene from a mouse, and it gets fat, even on the same caloires of a normal mouse.
I have heard this before, but there was no such study. The gene in question seemed to involve hunger. The mice in question did consume more calories than the other mice. You cannot magically produce fat from nothing. A glucose molecule or a fatty acid molecule is the same size in an ant, elephant, or mouse. These people were also feeding mice wheat based pellets, ignoring a well known fact that wheat products contain opioid peptides and are addictive. Most likely, the genes had nothing to do with hunger but response to mu-opioid agonists, ie those mice crave opioid drugs more than others. This is also the case with humans. Opioid peptides derived from wheat and dairy products are added to pretty much every junk food. MSG is another addictive substance.
Point is, we didn't spend thousands of years in evolution without developing tight regulation of our metabolism.
There is not tight regulation as you speak, your metabolic activity is supposed to be tightly connected to appetite. Unfortunatley, our shift to a diet of cooked food, wheat, and dairy products has created a situation where people aren't craving the food but the drugs they contain. You have a drug delivery system rich in calories.
Thus the problem with simply dieting - for most people, in the long run, it just doesn't work.
It can easily work, if people eliminate addictive foods from their diet. But to comment on your statement, if what you say is true, then all hope is lost for the human race.
Because they are fighting their programming.
Programming? You mean like genetic programming? It is an absolute myth, plain and simple, that human beings are predisposed to gluttony. It is simply not true. A simple survey of photographs from past would show you that humans today are SICK, and it is not normal. Food has been plentiful in the US for most of its entire existence, yet obesity of the level today simply did not exist in the 19th century and early 20th century. Look at pictures of the beach at Coney Island in 1920 for example, when food was plentiful in NYC. There were no fat people at all.
There are plenty of examples, but the evidence is overwhelming that humans eating a normal western diet are following an addictive behavior pattern, not a normal human one.
I will give you a hint, governments do not want it to become widely known that opioid drugs are found throughout our food supply. It is only a secondary reason that companies add them so that profits increase due to customers eating and buying more of their crap. Governments want opioid drugs in foods because they create contentment in the people. Secondary effects like asthma and constipation are also quite handy in keeping a people from revolting.
You can sue in small claims court. The universal commercial code is not regulatory law, it governs how contracts and business relationships are recognized by the state. Thus, the poster was slightly wrong. Businesses don't HAVE to do anything according to the UCC, but you have the right to sue them.
There is a book in the bookstore now called The Matrix and Philosophy which will change your opinion on the movie. It is NOT the best book, but for someone who is not well read in philosophy it is a good start. It will at least point you in the right direction.
The Matrix does contain a lot of philosophy, more than any movie before it. Especially when you read a lot of Nietzsche, you will realize that many things you take for granted in your world (religion, government, morality) are nothing than constructs intended to enslave a man's mind. It is obviously a lot more complicated than that, but it is the truth. The matrix is the first movie I have scene which even touches upon this subject, let alone really conveys to the audience how this possible. Most people don't want to bother reading philosophy books for several years only to find out their church, their school, and their entire conception of their self worth was foisted upon them by their masters simply to keep them quiet.
The Matrix is not Sci-fi. It is a philosophical story. Anyway, good luck. Hopefully you will use your trollish moods in the future to a greater good, like opening people's eyes to the real world...
Two points. Notice he said CONSTITUTIONAL democracy. Iceland certainly had a democracy, but was lost to Denmark by 1500 IIRC.
Prior to the United States, a constitutional democracy did not exist since Athens.
In all honesty, the US is not a democracy, but a Republic loosely based on Roman governance and Athenian constitutional law. Pure democracy is nothing more than rule by majority which is always chaotic. In the United States of America, like in Athens, certain rights are guaranteed and cannot be deprived by the democracy.
Iceland was a democracy because of necessity, simply because the population was so small and no one group or person could assert control over the entire island. The entire population of Iceland is honestly LESS than the zip code in which I live TODAY.
Are you truly so dillusional that you unquestionably assume your own intelligence at all times? You couldn't even bother to go to an online dictionary and look up the word? Ahh... I love slashdot.
Hey what are you talking about? All those stations you mentioned are not at all inclined to socialist or communist viewpoints. They are mainstream news sources, broadcasting fair and balanced information the average American craves.
You right wing wackos just want everyone to belive in your sick, radical agenda. Pretty soon, the average American will have no choice but to be fed your fascist propganda, meanwhile the American Socialist Party will be forced to take to covert operations to broadcast a pirate radio channel.
I hope you get shot by another hunter when you are committing your acts of genocide. Or maybe get e. coli from eating that rare rabbit.
Well, Mr. Dumbfuck the issue isn't whether "would anything be different in an election".
If you do not like the way your government is being run, vote. The president is not a dictator, and congress still holds the power. The president will not be president in six years, probably in two. Pull your head out of your ass, stop listening to your liberal teachers and the media and realize that reactionary behavior such as yours immature and not at all helpful to your cause.
Controlling a society in the fashion described in 1984 can function well enough to keep the people from revolting against a figurehead, but duping them enough to completely corrupt the electoral process is hard.
I would say that the institution of public schools has been the only effective tool in training people to desire a leader of some sort. Compulsory schooling was in fact created for this very purpose. The powers that be did succeed on that front somewhat, but I think we still have something of an electoral process.
Anyway, I know what you mean... I just wanted to point out as bad as Bush is, he will be gone in two years.
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The problem is, humans have a history of using these differences for the greater bad, or creating differences out of their imagination for the oppression of one sex or another (i.e.women unable to vote).
That's why gender is a better explanation than it is a justification, if you get my drift.
You obviously have never lived with a woman other than your mother, or you are so brainwashed by college professors you are blind to the truth. Women are highly emotional and largely irrational. The extraordinary statistics of women and psychoactive substance use (35% of women will use antidepressants in her lifetime) provide further proof. The obsession of the medical community in treating every possible female medical disturbance, despite the fact women now live 5% longer than men shows you how far whining gets you.
Perhaps you don't agree that being excessively emotional isn't grounds to deprive someone the right to vote, but the reason is valid. It was not this crazy lie spread by the male conspiracy.
I noticed this at work where I used mozilla all the time. So, I just installed Opera. Never once had a pop up come with Opera 6 or 7. Sometimes I prefer Mozilla because over all it IS more stable, even if it is slow... But this made me switch.
Har Har Har, you're just so fucking funny.
Or so incredibly closed minded you can do nothing but let your teachers drill you full of their emotional bullshit.
transvestite. "She" fooled everyone.
This is WHY GTA is the root of all evil.
The traditional result of overpopulation is war.
When the real results of overpopulation start to effect the quality of life of the people, they WILL fight to see who gets the bone. Our technological marvels have made this less of a problem as of late. There is only so much land however. Sooner or later its going to be us against them.
Back in the pre-industrial age this was ok, as at least warfare exhalted human existence. Human males have evolved to be killing machines. But today, one nuclear bomb... there is no glory in that.
So, maybe it is a path to extinction. I was wrong.
What about the thousands of asthma sufferers plagued by air pollution?
asthma is primarily caused by opioid peptides derived from wheat and dairy products. The percentage of the population with asthma has increased at a rate inversely proportionate to average pollution levels. Pollution has decreased substantially for several decades. When my grandparents lived in Manhattan in the 1920's and 1930's, asthma was pretty much unknown.
Wheat and dairy opioid peptides are added to foods to enhance their "taste". This is the same kind of taste as a line of cocaine. It only tastes good because it promotes an addictive response. Like with heroin and other narcotics, you quickly become tolerant to the mood altering effects. No one really feels the effects of these drugs, outside of the respiratory suppressing effects and intenstinal sedation resulting in constipation.
Btw, bread was always the solution to overpopulation. There is a reason Nero said all the people need are bread and games. People may not feel they are on drugs when they consume narcotics, but it makes them more content and easier to control. Give them mindless entertainment and they are no longer a threat of any sort.
Algebra, using the arabic numeral system inherited from India, is certainly arabic in origin. I would strongly argue however that Greek geometry (pythagorous) was very algebric in its nature. In fact, I bet the vast majority of people only know one algebreic formula, A^2 + b^2 = C^2. Perhaps Pythagorous did not know that was "algebra", but for practical purposes 2800 year old Greek geometry can solve many problems in the real world, as much so as algebra.
Arabs combined Greek writings on number theory with Indian script.
Arithmatic was around centuries before Mohammed was even born. Do you think the Roman census was based on observation alone?
Islam arose during a turbulent time in history, and took advantage of collapsing government around them. At least the Romans conquered other strong nations. Islam simply spread where there was the least resistance. Its brutality isn't to be despised because it was brutal, but because it was cowardly.
Assuming that this would even be possible, why not just built nanobots that you could then inject into a person that would seek out and destroy any nanomaterials that the human had ingested, inhaled, etc. Imagine a nanobot seeking out and destroying asbestos in the lungs.
A big reason is nanomaterials are becoming common industrial components TODAY, whereas nanobots are not going to be available for a very long time. The two have nothing in common other than the word "nano"
Of course, RTFA.
Al-Khwarizmi invented algebra around 780 (both "algebra" and "algorithm" are arabic words).The Bagdad physician, al-Razi, (865-925) produced a medical textbook that was the standard throughout the Islamic world. And Avicenna (Ibn Sina) was like the Isaac Newton of the Islamic world, who in 980 was making advances in medicine, physics and philosophy.
Many agree that many of the advances made in the Western World during the renaissance owe their beginnings to the science, math, and rational thought of the Islamic World.
I don't think so. I hear this a lot from those who seek to counter the obvious fact that Islam is as barbaric a religion as you can get.
What little rational thought has existed in this history of Islam is only because certain military thug lords decided to allow some of their intellectuals the freedom to read classical thought and science. All Islamic "rational" philosophy is nothing more than transposed Aristotle. Most of the medicine you desribed as coming from the arabs was described by Hippocrates. It was the Greeks who bred the unusually powerful Turkish poppy, from which analgesic strength opium can be obtained.
What little advancements existed in the muslim world were simply the result of pillaging the remnants of the Roman Empire. Muslims come, they suck a land dry until its people live in poverty and their culture stagnates. Every muslim area of the world was once vibrant and live, and now its degenerate, stagnant.
In particular what infuriates me about this modern ignorance of Islam is how much they destroyed from the classical world. They burned the great library at Alexandria. They destroyed countless temples, arenas, and theaters from antiquity. They stripped the great pyramid of its protective limestone encasing to build some hideous mosque.
Of course, we won't even get into the discussion of Constantinople.
The Christian world had its problems, but this was mainly due to the vast numbers of people immigrating west. There is a reason the western empire fell before the east. No one did (or still does) want to live in the traditionally Muslim lands. They are a desert wasteland. One of the things which caused the collapse of the Roman empire was changing climate. North africa was the primary source of food for much of the empire. It is no coincidence Islam began to show its ugly head at the exact same time as the desert expanded and the people starved. North Africa has been a hell hole every since.
Also, Lawrence of Arabia was a little misinformed about London. London (and Paris) both achieved their stature because they were the capitals of Britannia and Gaul respectively, their Roman provincial titles. London was hardly a village but a fortified city rather large for the frontier. They had aquaducts, public baths (still unknown in Arabia), plumbing, industry, and heavy fortifications. It was common practice to keep some public illumination, but probably no more than torches. London never WAS a village. It was created from the very beginning to be a fortress, around which grew a city. Since Roman imperial rule was brought to the region for fertile land and raw materials, it ultimately became a trading center.
(Only way to see some of the now banned Disney WWII propaganda films. Find "Educated for Death" to see some disturbing old material)
I would hardly say they are banned, one of them one an academy award in 1942 (the one where Donald dreams he lives in Nazi Germany). They aren't shown, I don't think, because they aren't in good taste and contain many stereotypes which are offensive to quite a few folks these days.
It IS out there, and is not banned, but there is a reason it is not shown on the Disney Channel on a regular basis.
That's an interesting analysis which fits pretty well with my idea of how capilatism deals with excess production
,Frister ,H. in : Barth, C.A.& Schlimme, E., Milk Proteins : Nutritional, Clinical, Functional and Technological Aspects. Darmstadt 1988 / 143.
,Opioid peptides derived from food proteins. The exorphins. J. Biol. Chem.1979 / 254 (7) / 2446-2449.
,H. et al, Milk protein-derived opioid receptor ligands. Biopolymers. 1997 / 43 (2) / 99-117.
,Substance P as neurogenic mediator of antidromic vasodilation and neurogenic plasma extravasation. Arch. Pharmacol. 1979 / 310 (2) / 175-183.
You have been reading too much marx. Excess production is pretty much irrelevant from a social standpoint. The history of wheat as a tool of social control goes way back to ancient egypt at least. As Nero said, all the people need are bread and circuses.
Industrialization was nothing more than a new way to keep the masses busy, to keep them from revolting. This was such a failure early on that compulsory schooling had to be instituted to train the masses to accept boredom, drudgery, and bureaucracy with open arms.
The fact that many companies add addictive substances to food is somewhat ancillary. It is not that they are capitalistic, it is that they operate with the express consent and support of the government.
Asthma cases are increasing by orders of magnitude every decade, the once rare condition of autism is now affected one in every 100 males. Americans spend over six billion dollars a year on laxatives. 1 in 7 americans will be on an antidepressant drug at some point in their lives.
To the powers that be that control information and regulations... none of these things seem at all connected, and that is the problem.
The guiding principle of what you and I call society is control. It is not at all based in any concept of material wealth, it is an inborn desire in every man to impose his will on another. A small portion of men use pure violence. The vast majority attempt to enslave a man's mind. Religion. Government. Schools. Social Customs. Food. Most everything you hold dear is a construction, part of the prison for your mind.
Anyway, its a huge topic. Food and drugs are a minor aspect, I would look into the history of compulsory schooling first.
but here are some citations. You can get these journal articles from the US National Library of Medicine or from a commercial service like Medline. You will probably have to go to a library to get the whole articles.
1) Meisel, H.
(2) Svedberg, J.et al, Demonstration of beta-casomorphin immunoreactive materials in in vitro digests of bovine milk and in small intestine contents after bovine milk ingestion in adult humans. Peptides 1985 / 6 / pag.825-830. , Loukas, S. et al, Opioid activities and structures of alpha-casein-derived exorphins. Biochemistry 1983 / 22 (19) / 4567-4573. , Zioudrou, C. et al
(3) Flood, J.F. et al, Increased food intake by neuropeptide Y is due to an increased motivation to eat. Peptides 1991 / 12 (6) / 1329-1332. , Koldovsky, O., Search for the role of milk borne biologically active peptides for the suckling. J.Nutr. 1989 / 119 (11) / 1543-1551.
(4) Teschemacher, H. et al, Chemical characterization and opiod activity of an exorphin isolated from in vivo digests of casein. FEBS Lett. 1986 / 196 (2) / 223-227. , Chang, K.-J. et al, Isolation of a specific mu-opiate receptor peptide, morphiceptin, from an enzymatic digest of milk proteins. J. Biol. Chem. 1985 / 260 (17) / pag. 9706-9712.
(5) Teschemacher
(6) Bell, R.R. et al, The influence of milk in the diet on the toxicity of orally ingested lead in rats. Food and Cosmetics Toxicology 1981 / 19 / 429-436. , Lembeck, F. et al
(7) Read, L.C. et al, Absorption of beta-casomorphins from autoperfused lamb and piglet
Using the same logic, one can treat kidney failure by drinking less fluid - if you drink only as much fluid as you lose, you cant get fluid retention and swell up (as people in kidney and heart failure tend to do).
This is not 100% accurate. In normal mammals in the wild, this would surely be true, but humans do not consume a natural diet. Salt and alcohol are two substances which will cause water retention. Another major culprit is cooked food, as heat damaged proteins cannot be utilized by your body and instead are secreted through your sweat glands as a waste product (same way as certain proteins in onions, giving your sweat a different odor). All protein is hydophobic, thus resulting in water retention in the outer layer of your skin. This results in acne, dry skin, and in many people facial edema.
Delete a gene from a mouse, and it gets fat, even on the same caloires of a normal mouse.
I have heard this before, but there was no such study. The gene in question seemed to involve hunger. The mice in question did consume more calories than the other mice. You cannot magically produce fat from nothing. A glucose molecule or a fatty acid molecule is the same size in an ant, elephant, or mouse. These people were also feeding mice wheat based pellets, ignoring a well known fact that wheat products contain opioid peptides and are addictive. Most likely, the genes had nothing to do with hunger but response to mu-opioid agonists, ie those mice crave opioid drugs more than others. This is also the case with humans. Opioid peptides derived from wheat and dairy products are added to pretty much every junk food. MSG is another addictive substance.
Point is, we didn't spend thousands of years in evolution without developing tight regulation of our metabolism.
There is not tight regulation as you speak, your metabolic activity is supposed to be tightly connected to appetite. Unfortunatley, our shift to a diet of cooked food, wheat, and dairy products has created a situation where people aren't craving the food but the drugs they contain. You have a drug delivery system rich in calories.
Thus the problem with simply dieting - for most people, in the long run, it just doesn't work.
It can easily work, if people eliminate addictive foods from their diet. But to comment on your statement, if what you say is true, then all hope is lost for the human race.
Because they are fighting their programming.
Programming? You mean like genetic programming? It is an absolute myth, plain and simple, that human beings are predisposed to gluttony. It is simply not true. A simple survey of photographs from past would show you that humans today are SICK, and it is not normal. Food has been plentiful in the US for most of its entire existence, yet obesity of the level today simply did not exist in the 19th century and early 20th century. Look at pictures of the beach at Coney Island in 1920 for example, when food was plentiful in NYC. There were no fat people at all.
There are plenty of examples, but the evidence is overwhelming that humans eating a normal western diet are following an addictive behavior pattern, not a normal human one.
I will give you a hint, governments do not want it to become widely known that opioid drugs are found throughout our food supply. It is only a secondary reason that companies add them so that profits increase due to customers eating and buying more of their crap. Governments want opioid drugs in foods because they create contentment in the people. Secondary effects like asthma and constipation are also quite handy in keeping a people from revolting.
Here in NYC its $15.
It CAN be fun. And you recover $35. Better than nothing.
You can sue in small claims court. The universal commercial code is not regulatory law, it governs how contracts and business relationships are recognized by the state. Thus, the poster was slightly wrong. Businesses don't HAVE to do anything according to the UCC, but you have the right to sue them.
There is a book in the bookstore now called The Matrix and Philosophy which will change your opinion on the movie. It is NOT the best book, but for someone who is not well read in philosophy it is a good start. It will at least point you in the right direction.
The Matrix does contain a lot of philosophy, more than any movie before it. Especially when you read a lot of Nietzsche, you will realize that many things you take for granted in your world (religion, government, morality) are nothing than constructs intended to enslave a man's mind. It is obviously a lot more complicated than that, but it is the truth. The matrix is the first movie I have scene which even touches upon this subject, let alone really conveys to the audience how this possible. Most people don't want to bother reading philosophy books for several years only to find out their church, their school, and their entire conception of their self worth was foisted upon them by their masters simply to keep them quiet.
The Matrix is not Sci-fi. It is a philosophical story. Anyway, good luck. Hopefully you will use your trollish moods in the future to a greater good, like opening people's eyes to the real world...
Two points. Notice he said CONSTITUTIONAL democracy. Iceland certainly had a democracy, but was lost to Denmark by 1500 IIRC.
Prior to the United States, a constitutional democracy did not exist since Athens.
In all honesty, the US is not a democracy, but a Republic loosely based on Roman governance and Athenian constitutional law. Pure democracy is nothing more than rule by majority which is always chaotic. In the United States of America, like in Athens, certain rights are guaranteed and cannot be deprived by the democracy.
Iceland was a democracy because of necessity, simply because the population was so small and no one group or person could assert control over the entire island. The entire population of Iceland is honestly LESS than the zip code in which I live TODAY.
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is that the best you can do? you fucking moron? You assume most people are as ignorant as you? hahahahaha.
Just do yourself a big fucking favor, and buy a dictionary. You won't have to find yourself in this situation, trying in vain to save face.
Are you truly so dillusional that you unquestionably assume your own intelligence at all times? You couldn't even bother to go to an online dictionary and look up the word? Ahh... I love slashdot.
btw, here is the definition of irregardless.
Of course, it goes without saying that not only are YOU the idiot, but you are a hopelessly arrogant one as well.
Then why the fuck did you bother posting one?
Stupid jerk.
You need to get a sense of humor, commrade.
Hey what are you talking about? All those stations you mentioned are not at all inclined to socialist or communist viewpoints. They are mainstream news sources, broadcasting fair and balanced information the average American craves.
You right wing wackos just want everyone to belive in your sick, radical agenda. Pretty soon, the average American will have no choice but to be fed your fascist propganda, meanwhile the American Socialist Party will be forced to take to covert operations to broadcast a pirate radio channel.
I hope you get shot by another hunter when you are committing your acts of genocide. Or maybe get e. coli from eating that rare rabbit.
Well, Mr. Dumbfuck the issue isn't whether "would anything be different in an election".
If you do not like the way your government is being run, vote. The president is not a dictator, and congress still holds the power. The president will not be president in six years, probably in two. Pull your head out of your ass, stop listening to your liberal teachers and the media and realize that reactionary behavior such as yours immature and not at all helpful to your cause.
I do see your point, just don't 100% agree.
Controlling a society in the fashion described in 1984 can function well enough to keep the people from revolting against a figurehead, but duping them enough to completely corrupt the electoral process is hard.
I would say that the institution of public schools has been the only effective tool in training people to desire a leader of some sort. Compulsory schooling was in fact created for this very purpose. The powers that be did succeed on that front somewhat, but I think we still have something of an electoral process.
Anyway, I know what you mean... I just wanted to point out as bad as Bush is, he will be gone in two years.
what is a ricer?