No, the world needs portion control, regular meals and snacks of healthy foods, and a complete avoidance of restaurants (who compete with each other to serve you the biggest portion to make you come back) and fast food chains. And more exercise. Unfortunately daily habits leave very little room or interest in those things.
That is absolutely not the point of being a doctor - I certainly don't "guilt trip" my patients. I am a provider of information. I give them the information they need to make informed decisions about their health. What they choose to do is up to them, it really doesn't affect me one way or the other. Making your patients feel shame belongs to the old paternalistic model of medicine. That model is dead and buried, and has been for a long time. I'd hate to think there are colleagues who take joy in making someone feel bad about themselves. Maybe it's a cultural thing and that's how it is in the orient.
Not biased, merely pointing out that your conclusion "there is documentation so he existed" is not necessarily true. It's not about bias it's about critical thinking. Jesus said he would come back before the next generation was over - well he's a little late, see. The logical conclusion, instead of making crap up to justify the existence of a magical being, is to assume that people made up the magical stuff.
It could be. Stress. Stress releases cortisol and increases vascular tone through a higher baseline of catecholamines (epinephrine, norepinephrine) which leads to higher blood pressure. This puts more work on the heart since it has to increase its output to compensate for the increased resistance to blood flow. Stress can very well be a factor that causes a catastrophic event like this to happen. Usually when someone dies suddenly, it's a circulatory problem - stroke, heart attack, aneurysm, thrombosis. All of these have increased probabilities of happening when someone is under stress. Yeah, I'm a doctor, too - which is why I got so lucky and was standing in the middle of an ER when it happened to me:)
I'm pretty sure Hercules never existed. I'm also pretty sure there were no flying horses or gorgons, etc. The problem with your argument is that it makes no distinction between actual history and legend. If we talk about Plato, a guy who supposedly went around writing books and teaching philosophy, that is quite believable. When we talk about a guy who could perform miracles, raise the dead, and was the one and only son of "the almighty", well, I put him in the same category as other MYTHS AND LEGENDS. The legend is real, no arguments there.
Yes they do. Not often, but it happens. I had "sudden cardiac death". I'm alive because it happened in an emergency room in front of a doctor. They called code, and brought me back. I was 30. I'm still here at 45, 5 bypasses, a defibrillator implant and 8 stents later. The odds increase if you consider this researcher was probably a nerd like most of us, meaning he was probably sedentary most of the time, and probably didn't exactly eat the best stuff for his health.
Probably the worst thing he could do - remember what happened to Trotsky? How about Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh? Alexander Litvinenko? A small country that has trouble arresting its own criminals would be powerless to catch a professional.
United Kingdom and most other Commonwealth countries can't seem to get enough American dick these days. And of course France and Germany are busy with their noses up the American ass. Those countries certainly would boycott, and do anything else the US wanted. Including bleeding an entire generation, probably. Sigh. Why are politicians always so rash and ignorant of the consequences of their actions on the lives of real people everywhere?
War has already been cheapened and trivialized by America. Drone strikes. Intervening in sovereign countries (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya) to topple their governments without so much as a declaration of war. Without even bothering to cover it in the news. Et cetera.
Someone needs to call for sanctions on the US if they do this. Quite a few wars of aggression, drone strikes, human rights violations, etc can be cited as reasons why. I wonder what would happen if the whole world suddenly turned on the US.
Yeah talk about cutting your own throat to spite your face. AFAIK Snowden has done nothing wrong. A government cannot be allowed to get away with breaking the law by swearing its workers to secrecy and then accusing them of being spies when they point out that the law is being broken. That's what tyrants do.
What HAARP really doing is absorbing money in the hopes of producing some actually useful science, which they have failed to do so far. Ahh but government thinks that failure must be rewarded by throwing even more money at it, be it a bank or "scientific" research.
My thoughts exactly. The NSA will need another supercomputer "upgrade" before ISPs are "allowed" to increase available broadband speeds offered to customers./conspiracytheory
Agreed if it's your property you can usually do what you want. Provided you're within the by-laws. And sometimes in condominiums the home-owner's association places a cap on how many units can be rented. I'm not sure how that would translate to sub-letting rooms. More work for the lawyers I guess. I'm really in the wrong business.
Oh dear, using these devices will knock a whole year off of your life expectancy. That crucial year between 80 and 81, gone forever. Just think of all the soiled diaper opportunities you will miss! Yes I am being sarcastic.
What I mean is that poverty and lack of education makes for many people being willing to blindly follow these idiots and be bullied by "peer pressure" into staying quiet and accepting extremism. For exactly the same reasons that religion is very much on the decline in modern, educated countries. When you're educated you tend to take fanaticism with a pinch of salt. Of course there are highly educated, manipulative people who are more than willing to take advantage of their less fortunate bretheren. It's called politics.
No, there were hunger strikes too. Read more. Here's a book that describes some of the camps: Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck, Hans von Luck, 1989, Dell Books.
Yeah. You know where you saw a lot of hunger strikes in PoW camps? In the post war Soviet Union. Of course they hadn't signed the Geneva conventions, so technically they could get away with it and weren't breaking the law. But even the Soviets would give in after a few weeks of hunger strikes, and improve prison camp conditions. Of course I am making the assumption that the prisoners of PoW camps are not "prisoners of war", because even though the US wants to portray them as "enemy combatants", they really don't fit the definition as described in the conventions at all. A correct description would be "kidnapped partisans".
Violent extremism is a ideological disease that spreads in the same way as a infection through society.
[citation needed] Violent extremism is not a "virus" at all. It's a product of poverty and lack of education, making the masses exploitable by unscrupulous individuals who seek quick wealth and power. Educate your people and extremism disappears. Do you think it's because of the TSA and the DHS that the US suffers relatively little "terrorism" (both before and after 9/11)?
As for specificity and sensitivity of the "tests" for terrorism, I mentioned this problem oh, 10 years or so ago. I guess it's about time people start catching on.
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No, the world needs portion control, regular meals and snacks of healthy foods, and a complete avoidance of restaurants (who compete with each other to serve you the biggest portion to make you come back) and fast food chains. And more exercise. Unfortunately daily habits leave very little room or interest in those things.
That is absolutely not the point of being a doctor - I certainly don't "guilt trip" my patients. I am a provider of information. I give them the information they need to make informed decisions about their health. What they choose to do is up to them, it really doesn't affect me one way or the other. Making your patients feel shame belongs to the old paternalistic model of medicine. That model is dead and buried, and has been for a long time. I'd hate to think there are colleagues who take joy in making someone feel bad about themselves. Maybe it's a cultural thing and that's how it is in the orient.
Not biased, merely pointing out that your conclusion "there is documentation so he existed" is not necessarily true. It's not about bias it's about critical thinking. Jesus said he would come back before the next generation was over - well he's a little late, see. The logical conclusion, instead of making crap up to justify the existence of a magical being, is to assume that people made up the magical stuff.
It could be. Stress. Stress releases cortisol and increases vascular tone through a higher baseline of catecholamines (epinephrine, norepinephrine) which leads to higher blood pressure. This puts more work on the heart since it has to increase its output to compensate for the increased resistance to blood flow. Stress can very well be a factor that causes a catastrophic event like this to happen. Usually when someone dies suddenly, it's a circulatory problem - stroke, heart attack, aneurysm, thrombosis. All of these have increased probabilities of happening when someone is under stress. Yeah, I'm a doctor, too - which is why I got so lucky and was standing in the middle of an ER when it happened to me :)
I'm pretty sure Hercules never existed. I'm also pretty sure there were no flying horses or gorgons, etc. The problem with your argument is that it makes no distinction between actual history and legend. If we talk about Plato, a guy who supposedly went around writing books and teaching philosophy, that is quite believable. When we talk about a guy who could perform miracles, raise the dead, and was the one and only son of "the almighty", well, I put him in the same category as other MYTHS AND LEGENDS. The legend is real, no arguments there.
Do people that age just drop dead?
Yes they do. Not often, but it happens. I had "sudden cardiac death". I'm alive because it happened in an emergency room in front of a doctor. They called code, and brought me back. I was 30. I'm still here at 45, 5 bypasses, a defibrillator implant and 8 stents later. The odds increase if you consider this researcher was probably a nerd like most of us, meaning he was probably sedentary most of the time, and probably didn't exactly eat the best stuff for his health.
Probably the worst thing he could do - remember what happened to Trotsky? How about Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh? Alexander Litvinenko? A small country that has trouble arresting its own criminals would be powerless to catch a professional.
Or at least they are more discrete about it.
United Kingdom and most other Commonwealth countries can't seem to get enough American dick these days. And of course France and Germany are busy with their noses up the American ass. Those countries certainly would boycott, and do anything else the US wanted. Including bleeding an entire generation, probably. Sigh. Why are politicians always so rash and ignorant of the consequences of their actions on the lives of real people everywhere?
War has already been cheapened and trivialized by America. Drone strikes. Intervening in sovereign countries (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya) to topple their governments without so much as a declaration of war. Without even bothering to cover it in the news. Et cetera.
Someone needs to call for sanctions on the US if they do this. Quite a few wars of aggression, drone strikes, human rights violations, etc can be cited as reasons why. I wonder what would happen if the whole world suddenly turned on the US.
Yeah talk about cutting your own throat to spite your face. AFAIK Snowden has done nothing wrong. A government cannot be allowed to get away with breaking the law by swearing its workers to secrecy and then accusing them of being spies when they point out that the law is being broken. That's what tyrants do.
You must be new here.
What HAARP really doing is absorbing money in the hopes of producing some actually useful science, which they have failed to do so far. Ahh but government thinks that failure must be rewarded by throwing even more money at it, be it a bank or "scientific" research.
NSA don't need to hack the forums. They've got all the packets in and out of the servers saved on a disk. Not to mention a back door into the servers.
My thoughts exactly. The NSA will need another supercomputer "upgrade" before ISPs are "allowed" to increase available broadband speeds offered to customers. /conspiracytheory
Problem is, I've actually read lots of rental contracts whereas you're just making your anecdote up.
Agreed if it's your property you can usually do what you want. Provided you're within the by-laws. And sometimes in condominiums the home-owner's association places a cap on how many units can be rented. I'm not sure how that would translate to sub-letting rooms. More work for the lawyers I guess. I'm really in the wrong business.
Most rental contracts I've seen specifically prevent you from sub-letting your apartment. Minor detail.
Oh dear, using these devices will knock a whole year off of your life expectancy. That crucial year between 80 and 81, gone forever. Just think of all the soiled diaper opportunities you will miss! Yes I am being sarcastic.
What I mean is that poverty and lack of education makes for many people being willing to blindly follow these idiots and be bullied by "peer pressure" into staying quiet and accepting extremism. For exactly the same reasons that religion is very much on the decline in modern, educated countries. When you're educated you tend to take fanaticism with a pinch of salt. Of course there are highly educated, manipulative people who are more than willing to take advantage of their less fortunate bretheren. It's called politics.
No, there were hunger strikes too. Read more. Here's a book that describes some of the camps: Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck, Hans von Luck, 1989, Dell Books.
Yeah. You know where you saw a lot of hunger strikes in PoW camps? In the post war Soviet Union. Of course they hadn't signed the Geneva conventions, so technically they could get away with it and weren't breaking the law. But even the Soviets would give in after a few weeks of hunger strikes, and improve prison camp conditions. Of course I am making the assumption that the prisoners of PoW camps are not "prisoners of war", because even though the US wants to portray them as "enemy combatants", they really don't fit the definition as described in the conventions at all. A correct description would be "kidnapped partisans".
It doesn't. I scoff at the Nobel committee.
Violent extremism is a ideological disease that spreads in the same way as a infection through society.
[citation needed] Violent extremism is not a "virus" at all. It's a product of poverty and lack of education, making the masses exploitable by unscrupulous individuals who seek quick wealth and power. Educate your people and extremism disappears. Do you think it's because of the TSA and the DHS that the US suffers relatively little "terrorism" (both before and after 9/11)?
As for specificity and sensitivity of the "tests" for terrorism, I mentioned this problem oh, 10 years or so ago. I guess it's about time people start catching on.