Around 1977, smallpox was eradicated from the face of the earth. Millions of people who were dying of smallpox were suddenly not dying of it anymore.
Where did the West learn about the first inoculation methods? A black slave in the US in the 1700s told his master about a traditional method used back in Africa where you'd rub the puss from a smallpox victim into cuts on a healthy person. That person would get the disease, defeat it, and would be immune to smallpox. The slave's master tested the remedy, and found that it worked! people had a better chance of surviving a smallpox epidemic if they were inoculated than if they weren't!
Later, a doctor fighting a smallpox epidemic in his hometown demanded the milk maidens be inoculated. The farmers refused, saying that the milk maidens were immune to smallpox. It was discovered that after successfully fending off a much less dangerous cowpox infection, they were immune to smallpox!
Later, vaccinations were developed and the disease was wiped out, and it all started with a folk remedy, and science proving that the remedy worked.
Just a practical counterpoint to homoeopathy's message that science refuses to learn from traditional medicine, and a counterpoint to the idea that modern medicine doesn't want to eliminate disease. Science drops the dogma when something proves it works, and all the legitimate studies I've heard about said homoeopathy is no more effective than a placebo. Consider that for a moment: A remedy that started with a bit of traditional medicine from the mouth of an African slave was accepted around the world, while homoeopathy, which started as a theory within modern medicine, is considered quack science and not accepted by any serious scientists. Why? Because inoculation worked, and homoeopathy doesn't.
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Maybe you can't taste the chlorine in poor quality tapwater, but that doesn't mean nobody can.
Yes, you could probably titrate in a substance for the chlorine to bind to, then precipitate it out, but it's much nicer just spending 5 bucks for 24 bottles of water at the supermarket.
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So, other than giving homeopathy to one-hundred patients and giving a placebo to one-hundred other patients and seeing the difference, how do YOU suggest we measure the relative effectiveness of treatments?
Or you could throw something that has a chance of selling more than 2 copies into the harbour instead...
I mean, Throwing the latest Britney Spears album into the river is as useful as throwing the latest Micheal Jackson album into the river. You're actually doing the record companies a favour, because at least they can claim insurance on the materials!
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Nobody who actually likes doing those things would consider it productive. I've got thousands of dollars of music, audio, video, and art equipment hooked to my PC, and I've barely produced anything I'd show to anyone.
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I had similar issues playing Two Towers, but it turned out my machine was running out of spec. You should check out your video, CPU, and memory clock rates and try scaling them back a bit if you've got the option. For a game this intense on all three, it's entirely possible to get BSODs you wouldn't otherwise get, even in video games.
How the hell is a good, hard working hillbilly supposed to try to look intelligent and informed with more than one kind of dark skinned foreigner clogging the tubes?
Go to Mexico for probably the first time, then buy a house and fulfill the legal requirements for citizenship, then come back here, THEN GO BACK TO MEXICO, YOU DAMNED AMERICAN-AUSTRIAN CAMBODIAN SOON TO BE WETBACK!!!
I love it. It's a modern miracle that Americans wonder why the international community makes fun of them. Humour like that keeps my blood pressure low.
If you honestly think that *any* president of the US doesn't spend a lot of time very carefully thinking about the cost of military adventures - especially the cost of lives on the soldiers - then you need a lot more help than what a Democrat in the White House can give you.
Apparently he didn't think the lives of our soldiers were important enough to tell the truth about why we were going to war. Instead he blatantly lied about intelligence coming from that region, and made inferences to terrorism that the evidence has never supported.
[...]or why Liberals are a bunch of pansies that want to back out of a war we need to win and can win?
Ah, the problem there is, we won the war. Saddam Hussein and his republican guard have both been defeated. Right now, we're trying to win the peace. This is a much more difficult battle.
The two best historical examples of defeated countries being converted into peaceful democracies are Germany and Japan. Both countries had a powerfully homogenous, unified, nationalistic population; both countries had relatively strong pre-war economies; and both countries were subdued and pacified to the point where there would be negligable to no armed resistance by civilians. Compare it to Iraq today: Iraq is split into three factions, all of whom hate at least one of the other factions to the point of open warfare; the pre-war economy of Iraq was in tatters and had been since the Iran-Iraq war, before which Saddam Hussein actually did a great job of liberalising and modernising the country(Not that it matters, since that was the 1970s); The civilian armed resistance is far greater than the organized militia and army of the previous government.
The empires of France, Great Britain, and Spain all tell the story of what happens when you try to use force to suppress native people like that. Just a reminder, none of those empires are empires anymore.
As for why neither Democrats nor Republicans have real arguements, this is why. One fifth of Americans can't point out their own country on an unmarked world map. If you bring up a fact about WWII other than 'We kicked ass!' or 'Japan attacked us and we kicked ass!' or 'Hitler was evil and we kicked his ass!', you've just lost one fifth of the vote.
[...]or why Liberals are a bunch of pansies that want to back out of a war we need to win and can win?
Ah, the problem there is, we won the war. Saddam Hussein and his republican guard have both been defeated. Right now, we're trying to win the peace. This is a much more difficult battle.
The two best historical examples of defeated countries being converted into peaceful democracies are Germany and Japan. Both countries had a powerfully homogenous, unified, nationalistic population; both countries had relatively strong pre-war economies; and both countries were subdued and pacified to the point where there would be negligable to no armed resistance by civilians. Compare it to Iraq today: Iraq is split into three factions, all of whom hate at least one of the other factions to the point of open warfare; the pre-war economy of Iraq was in tatters and had been since the Iran-Iraq war, before which Saddam Hussein actually did a great job of liberalising and modernising the country(Not that it matters, since that was the 1970s); The civilian armed resistance is far greater than the organized militia and army of the previous government.
The empires of France, Great Britain, and Spain all tell the story of what happens when you try to use force to suppress native people like that. Just a reminder, none of those empires are empires anymore.
As for why neither Democrats nor Republicans have real arguements, this is why. One fifth of Americans can't point out their own country on an unmarked world map. If you bring up a fact about WWII other than 'We kicked ass!' or 'Japan attacked us and we kicked ass!' or 'Hitler was evil and we kicked his ass!', you've just lost one fifth of the vote.
This isn't a skype worm, it's a human worm. It requires humans to download and install a piece of malignant code, whereupon it simply uses skype to send messages to exploit further vulnerabilities in the human.
Blizzard gets plenty of bad press from the psychotic types who play the games until they die. I tried WoW for a couple days and that was the first thing a friend of mine said to me.
Thankfully, I realised that WoW sucks ass; it's paced to make money, not to be the least bit fun.
You're missing a key point: AMD has to have something to differentiate themselves from Intel. If they release an MCM quad-core chip, they're just following Intel. On the other hand, the press is eating up the monolithic quad-core chip, precisely because of the perception that the monolithic design is special and different from the existing quad-core chips.
Nerds have some of the greatest ability to procreate. It's insane. The problem is just priorities. If nerds went out there and learned what they needed to learn, and changed what they needed to change, they could be some of the most powerfully successful sexual beings on the planet.
My clients are not limited to the computer literate.
I take issue with that. Just because it's on a computer doesn't mean it's a "computer literacy" issue. It's JUST a literacy issue.
If I'm reading a copy of Huckleberry Finn online and I think it's the story about a pair of robots who head to the moon to fight nazis, it's not the computer to blame. It's a fundamental literacy issue.
This isn't a competitor using your trademark though, it's a competitor advertising towards people searching for a certain trademark.
If I ran a tissue company, you can bet your bottom dollar I'd be marketing towards the 'Kleenex' crowd. It's not actually using their trademark, they're not even using the word.
The reality [google.com] , not some marketing fiction, is that the majority of users can't tell the difference. That's fraud and the ACCC is right to intervene.
So Google is supposed to take responsible for some people's pathological ignorance?
"I thought buying Windows XP would let me fly! The fact that I'm a dumbass means it's FRAUD and it's WRONG and it's right for the FCC to go in and sue Microsoft!"
Actually, you're not as enlightened as you think. The people claiming that this and that don't exist are the people with a stake in claiming it doesn't exist. Most Goddites probably don't give two shits about global warming, and will probably accept the often stated theory that we're causing it and it exists. Large industrial interests, on the other hand, don't care much about evolution, but they'll fight Global Warming to the death, long after it's become unfashionable to do so.
Despite what the Goddites might be telling you, science isn't a religion. It's perfectly reasonable, and actually more or less required for the health of the discipline, to look at the proof behind scientific assertions and make your own judgements.
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Let me tell you a story to put this into context.
Around 1977, smallpox was eradicated from the face of the earth. Millions of people who were dying of smallpox were suddenly not dying of it anymore.
Where did the West learn about the first inoculation methods? A black slave in the US in the 1700s told his master about a traditional method used back in Africa where you'd rub the puss from a smallpox victim into cuts on a healthy person. That person would get the disease, defeat it, and would be immune to smallpox. The slave's master tested the remedy, and found that it worked! people had a better chance of surviving a smallpox epidemic if they were inoculated than if they weren't!
Later, a doctor fighting a smallpox epidemic in his hometown demanded the milk maidens be inoculated. The farmers refused, saying that the milk maidens were immune to smallpox. It was discovered that after successfully fending off a much less dangerous cowpox infection, they were immune to smallpox!
Later, vaccinations were developed and the disease was wiped out, and it all started with a folk remedy, and science proving that the remedy worked.
Just a practical counterpoint to homoeopathy's message that science refuses to learn from traditional medicine, and a counterpoint to the idea that modern medicine doesn't want to eliminate disease. Science drops the dogma when something proves it works, and all the legitimate studies I've heard about said homoeopathy is no more effective than a placebo. Consider that for a moment: A remedy that started with a bit of traditional medicine from the mouth of an African slave was accepted around the world, while homoeopathy, which started as a theory within modern medicine, is considered quack science and not accepted by any serious scientists. Why? Because inoculation worked, and homoeopathy doesn't.
Maybe you can't taste the chlorine in poor quality tapwater, but that doesn't mean nobody can.
Yes, you could probably titrate in a substance for the chlorine to bind to, then precipitate it out, but it's much nicer just spending 5 bucks for 24 bottles of water at the supermarket.
So, other than giving homeopathy to one-hundred patients and giving a placebo to one-hundred other patients and seeing the difference, how do YOU suggest we measure the relative effectiveness of treatments?
Or you could throw something that has a chance of selling more than 2 copies into the harbour instead...
I mean, Throwing the latest Britney Spears album into the river is as useful as throwing the latest Micheal Jackson album into the river. You're actually doing the record companies a favour, because at least they can claim insurance on the materials!
Nobody who actually likes doing those things would consider it productive. I've got thousands of dollars of music, audio, video, and art equipment hooked to my PC, and I've barely produced anything I'd show to anyone.
I had similar issues playing Two Towers, but it turned out my machine was running out of spec. You should check out your video, CPU, and memory clock rates and try scaling them back a bit if you've got the option. For a game this intense on all three, it's entirely possible to get BSODs you wouldn't otherwise get, even in video games.
Now we all know why the Maytag repair man doesn't get internet access.
Oh, I agree.
But if we're going to call it a 'worm' or 'virus', we've got to accept the vulnerability being exploited: The human.
DAMN YOU AUSTRIA-DWELLERS!
How the hell is a good, hard working hillbilly supposed to try to look intelligent and informed with more than one kind of dark skinned foreigner clogging the tubes?
Go to Mexico for probably the first time, then buy a house and fulfill the legal requirements for citizenship, then come back here, THEN GO BACK TO MEXICO, YOU DAMNED AMERICAN-AUSTRIAN CAMBODIAN SOON TO BE WETBACK!!!
I love it. It's a modern miracle that Americans wonder why the international community makes fun of them. Humour like that keeps my blood pressure low.
If you honestly think that *any* president of the US doesn't spend a lot of time very carefully thinking about the cost of military adventures - especially the cost of lives on the soldiers - then you need a lot more help than what a Democrat in the White House can give you.
Apparently he didn't think the lives of our soldiers were important enough to tell the truth about why we were going to war. Instead he blatantly lied about intelligence coming from that region, and made inferences to terrorism that the evidence has never supported.
Just a thought.
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[...]or why Liberals are a bunch of pansies that want to back out of a war we need to win and can win?
Ah, the problem there is, we won the war. Saddam Hussein and his republican guard have both been defeated. Right now, we're trying to win the peace. This is a much more difficult battle.
The two best historical examples of defeated countries being converted into peaceful democracies are Germany and Japan. Both countries had a powerfully homogenous, unified, nationalistic population; both countries had relatively strong pre-war economies; and both countries were subdued and pacified to the point where there would be negligable to no armed resistance by civilians. Compare it to Iraq today: Iraq is split into three factions, all of whom hate at least one of the other factions to the point of open warfare; the pre-war economy of Iraq was in tatters and had been since the Iran-Iraq war, before which Saddam Hussein actually did a great job of liberalising and modernising the country(Not that it matters, since that was the 1970s); The civilian armed resistance is far greater than the organized militia and army of the previous government.
The empires of France, Great Britain, and Spain all tell the story of what happens when you try to use force to suppress native people like that. Just a reminder, none of those empires are empires anymore.
As for why neither Democrats nor Republicans have real arguements, this is why. One fifth of Americans can't point out their own country on an unmarked world map. If you bring up a fact about WWII other than 'We kicked ass!' or 'Japan attacked us and we kicked ass!' or 'Hitler was evil and we kicked his ass!', you've just lost one fifth of the vote.
[...]or why Liberals are a bunch of pansies that want to back out of a war we need to win and can win?
Ah, the problem there is, we won the war. Saddam Hussein and his republican guard have both been defeated. Right now, we're trying to win the peace. This is a much more difficult battle.
The two best historical examples of defeated countries being converted into peaceful democracies are Germany and Japan. Both countries had a powerfully homogenous, unified, nationalistic population; both countries had relatively strong pre-war economies; and both countries were subdued and pacified to the point where there would be negligable to no armed resistance by civilians. Compare it to Iraq today: Iraq is split into three factions, all of whom hate at least one of the other factions to the point of open warfare; the pre-war economy of Iraq was in tatters and had been since the Iran-Iraq war, before which Saddam Hussein actually did a great job of liberalising and modernising the country(Not that it matters, since that was the 1970s); The civilian armed resistance is far greater than the organized militia and army of the previous government.
The empires of France, Great Britain, and Spain all tell the story of what happens when you try to use force to suppress native people like that. Just a reminder, none of those empires are empires anymore.
As for why neither Democrats nor Republicans have real arguements, this is why. One fifth of Americans can't point out their own country on an unmarked world map. If you bring up a fact about WWII other than 'We kicked ass!' or 'Japan attacked us and we kicked ass!' or 'Hitler was evil and we kicked his ass!', you've just lost one fifth of the vote.
This isn't a skype worm, it's a human worm. It requires humans to download and install a piece of malignant code, whereupon it simply uses skype to send messages to exploit further vulnerabilities in the human.
Blizzard gets plenty of bad press from the psychotic types who play the games until they die. I tried WoW for a couple days and that was the first thing a friend of mine said to me.
Thankfully, I realised that WoW sucks ass; it's paced to make money, not to be the least bit fun.
Comparing Guild Wars to WoW is about as extreme as comparing Diablo 2 to EverQuest, which I've seen several people try to do.
Fair enough. Guild Wars is much better designed since the creators don't need to stretch your playtime out to decades to make a few bucks.
Because AMD lost over half a billion dollars this quarter and they need to start making money?
You're missing a key point: AMD has to have something to differentiate themselves from Intel. If they release an MCM quad-core chip, they're just following Intel. On the other hand, the press is eating up the monolithic quad-core chip, precisely because of the perception that the monolithic design is special and different from the existing quad-core chips.
Nerds have some of the greatest ability to procreate. It's insane. The problem is just priorities. If nerds went out there and learned what they needed to learn, and changed what they needed to change, they could be some of the most powerfully successful sexual beings on the planet.
My clients are not limited to the computer literate.
I take issue with that. Just because it's on a computer doesn't mean it's a "computer literacy" issue. It's JUST a literacy issue.
If I'm reading a copy of Huckleberry Finn online and I think it's the story about a pair of robots who head to the moon to fight nazis, it's not the computer to blame. It's a fundamental literacy issue.
This isn't a competitor using your trademark though, it's a competitor advertising towards people searching for a certain trademark.
If I ran a tissue company, you can bet your bottom dollar I'd be marketing towards the 'Kleenex' crowd. It's not actually using their trademark, they're not even using the word.
51% of Americans voted for George Bush Jr. Twice.
Again, why should Google be held accountable for other people's ignorance and stupidity?
The reality [google.com] , not some marketing fiction, is that the majority of users can't tell the difference. That's fraud and the ACCC is right to intervene.
So Google is supposed to take responsible for some people's pathological ignorance?
"I thought buying Windows XP would let me fly! The fact that I'm a dumbass means it's FRAUD and it's WRONG and it's right for the FCC to go in and sue Microsoft!"
How are doctors and such supposed to find out about which drugs are on the market? Pixies?
Actually, you're not as enlightened as you think. The people claiming that this and that don't exist are the people with a stake in claiming it doesn't exist. Most Goddites probably don't give two shits about global warming, and will probably accept the often stated theory that we're causing it and it exists. Large industrial interests, on the other hand, don't care much about evolution, but they'll fight Global Warming to the death, long after it's become unfashionable to do so.
Erm....
Despite what the Goddites might be telling you, science isn't a religion. It's perfectly reasonable, and actually more or less required for the health of the discipline, to look at the proof behind scientific assertions and make your own judgements.