Considering that the majority, if not all of Osteopathy is a pseudoscience and treatments like Bowen technique are unproven it's no surprise your doctor wouldn't recommend it. I'd question any doctor who would.
He won with a combination of knowing the answers and making educated and lucky guesses. The fact that he justifies it later with his field's terminology is meaningless. This is nothing special - we all think like this. The fact that he gives these names is all well and good for his research but it's nothing new.
Frankly, the people who do those memory competitions are far more impressive than this guy, but at least they don't write 4 page essays on how clever they think they were.
Any information from complete stranger (on the street, or from the wikipedia, what's the difference?) is just that - a information to consider. Ignore it, or verify if it's true before making some real use of it.
You are a complete stranger; how can I trust this advice!!???
It's used in feng shui in the literal sense, as if there's LITERALLY positive and negative energy lines zipping about the place and turning a table to face west helps disrupt this energy flow.
Just because you're trying to twist it to suit your own definition shows how little you understand the claims made by feng shui practitioners, science, and human psychology. Also, if indeed I am talking out of my ass then considering your comment you should have no trouble in believing what I say too.
That's all well and good but feng shui practitioners claim it to be a science, which it clearly isn't. The PENN AND TELLER episode was about exposing the fact that this clearly wasn't true.
People can believe in whatever spiritual mysticism they like, but whenever anyone claims it to be a science that's when people like P&T, scientists and myself get mad:)
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What you CLEARLY don't understand is that anything based on a false premise is not correct, and is not a science. You already acknowledge the entire basis for feng shui (energies, urm.. NOT psychology) is not correct. Therefore anything based on that is false and immediately suspect.
What are you doing on Slashdot if you don't understand basic scientific principles like this? The only psychology aspect of this is the gullibility of human beings.
That depends, the $1.6billion was paid in google shares, and not cash, so it's tied into google's standing on the market, which I think is up at the moment.
I agree. For a site full of supposedly intelligent people there are a lot of angry boys who think it's their right to download the latest shit the MPAA\RIAA have to offer, and fuck them if they try to protect their investments. Whether it's their right or not is a legal issue - the real question is why do they waste their time on that shit anyway, whether they get it for free or not? Are hours of their lives watching this crap really well spent?
When they're on their death beds will they look back on their lives and say "I'm glad I never kissed a girl, it was much more fun watching the latest Hollywood bullshit, then bitching about it, and all for free, hahahalolroflmao..."
So, it's not so much saddening to know that there probably will be no resurrection for Firefly, but to hear Joss say it so defeatedly. That's just disheartening.
Then he shouldn't have used tired old sci-fi AND western cliches in his crappy little show, and maybe it would get the attention other more original shows get.
And for the record, I have never seen a single episode of any other show of Joss Whedon's creation.
Then you're clearly not aware of the fact that not only does he use old cliches he also re-uses his own character archetypes over and over again. Same characters, different names.
It was pretty bland, generic sci fi anyway which was being carried solely by the Buffy fanboys, who are terrifying in their obsessiveness. They make Star Trek fans look like mere hobbyists.
Though as banal as I found it, it still amazes me at what gets cancelled, and what doesn't. At least Firefly had a plot....
LEX??? - how many bloody series of that have there been!? I've never met anyone who liked it. Did you? Please reply, and tell me why! Did I just not "get it"? Did I have to be on drugs or have been anally probed by aliens to have enjoyed it?
but in other breaking news slashdotters deny evidence for global warming, the moon landing and Bill Gate's charity donations. (though admittedly that last one is a little difficult to believe, but hey, not wanting to believe something doesn't make it false)
While I'm against piracy of all kinds, and see little justification for it in most cases, (despite pirates hypersensitive claims to the contrary) I see this as a good move.
That's just the kind of twisted logic bullshit that keeps getting spewed on this site. More money for a company means more capital for new products, marketing, future investments and future developments (translation for the intellectually challenged: more jobs). That's how companies work for crying out loud. A company that puts all it's increased profits into bonuses for the management is a company that's out of business next year.
All companies operate this way, it's a basic function of economics. Whether you're an entertainment company, a building contractor, or a car manufacturer, if you don't obey this incredibly simple principle, you're out of business next year.
Why do people have such trouble with this? Is free stuff really worth looking like an idiot?
If 1 billion people actually paid for their software, music, games etc just think of how many more jobs that would create in the West. Not quite sure why you're on the side of 0day. If nobody pays for someone elses hard work, what have they done to deserve keeping it?
1. Stupid arguments like "Consoles Vs PCs" can be ended with a swift kick to the nuts
2. 12 Year old brats can be avoided easily, and if not - stepped on.
3. When you kill your roommate with a real gun, he stays dead
4. Women are nicer, and don't carry lethal knives, heavy armour, and/or the ability to roundhouse kick the shit out of you
5. You can travel to a new destination without waiting for the scenery to load
6. Trolls, nerds, and psychopaths are less likely to be roaming about
7. The threat of camping is greatly reduced
8. Due to #7 the surprise factor when you camp is greatly increased
9. Don't have to fight huge fucking monsters when you've finished your day's tasks
10. The sex is better
What's the bet the media companies are behind this somewhere?
That's incredibly presumptuous and a completely baseless accusation. There are lots of people who can clearly benefit from trojans, and someone obviously has seen the potential in video codecs as a nice "social engineering" way of fooling the gullible masses into downloading them. The average person generally searches for video codecs once in a blue moon - they have no way of knowing which sites are legitimate, or which files are legitimate. They'll download whatever sounds promising. In fact, the website looks far more legitimate than some of the genuine codec sites out there.
Smarter users might do regular intensive searching to make sure they are getting a legitimate file, but the average user will not. It's far more likely that the author of this trojan is just exploiting the fact that so many users of codecs are clueless than yet another paranoid conspiracy that the media companies are behind it. Really, will the slashdot editors ever get over their bias and just print actual NEWS.
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People are still going to steal these songs off of filesharing sites. Nothing will change. People will still want other people's hard work for free. Meanwhile they'll justify their theft with the usual nonsense about wanting to "try it first", or "it costs too much", or "art should be freeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!", or just plain "sticking it to those global corporations, hahaha I rule".
The recording industry as we know it now will mold and adapt into something else and businesses will adapt to whatever the new model may be. It might not be the RIAA next year, but it'll be something else that the thieving Slashdotters amongst us (thankfully a minority) will be bitching about. "Sticking it the man" is a dangerous and narrow minded approach to take with any industry.
People are unwilling to watch shit and pay for it.
Yet they're willing to waste two hours of their lives to watch it? Or even an hour just to watch half way through and turn it off because it's so bad. I think it's sad that people don't put value on their own time. It would cost $5 to rent it, but they'd rather steal it, then waste two hours of their lives to watch it, meaning they value their time at $2.50 an hour..
I think piracy is a poor reflection on people's own characters, and their distorted view that time is more expendiable than money!
That's a stupid analogy. Science is public knowledge, and science advances when the knowledge is freely used and spread.
Art is an expression of an artists own life, views, beliefs, hopes, dreams etc. They have every right to protect their work, since it's uniquely theirs. They can choose who they want to view it (e.g. give it away for free, or give it only to people who pay). It's not automatically everybody's right to own it just because they're too cheap to pay for it.
Art isn't information that humanity deserves to know, it's art.
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Considering that the majority, if not all of Osteopathy is a pseudoscience and treatments like Bowen technique are unproven it's no surprise your doctor wouldn't recommend it. I'd question any doctor who would.
Frankly, the people who do those memory competitions are far more impressive than this guy, but at least they don't write 4 page essays on how clever they think they were.
Any information from complete stranger (on the street, or from the wikipedia, what's the difference?) is just that - a information to consider. Ignore it, or verify if it's true before making some real use of it.
You are a complete stranger; how can I trust this advice!!???
It's used in feng shui in the literal sense, as if there's LITERALLY positive and negative energy lines zipping about the place and turning a table to face west helps disrupt this energy flow.
Just because you're trying to twist it to suit your own definition shows how little you understand the claims made by feng shui practitioners, science, and human psychology. Also, if indeed I am talking out of my ass then considering your comment you should have no trouble in believing what I say too.
People can believe in whatever spiritual mysticism they like, but whenever anyone claims it to be a science that's when people like P&T, scientists and myself get mad :)
What are you doing on Slashdot if you don't understand basic scientific principles like this? The only psychology aspect of this is the gullibility of human beings.
No.
That depends, the $1.6billion was paid in google shares, and not cash, so it's tied into google's standing on the market, which I think is up at the moment.
When they're on their death beds will they look back on their lives and say "I'm glad I never kissed a girl, it was much more fun watching the latest Hollywood bullshit, then bitching about it, and all for free, hahahalolroflmao..."
Thank goodness nobody said Universal Translator yet
Then he shouldn't have used tired old sci-fi AND western cliches in his crappy little show, and maybe it would get the attention other more original shows get.
And for the record, I have never seen a single episode of any other show of Joss Whedon's creation.
Then you're clearly not aware of the fact that not only does he use old cliches he also re-uses his own character archetypes over and over again. Same characters, different names.
Though as banal as I found it, it still amazes me at what gets cancelled, and what doesn't. At least Firefly had a plot....
LEX??? - how many bloody series of that have there been!? I've never met anyone who liked it. Did you? Please reply, and tell me why! Did I just not "get it"? Did I have to be on drugs or have been anally probed by aliens to have enjoyed it?
If the tissue in a T-Rex's bone is all soft no wonder they became extinct!
Ba Dum Bum!!
Valid questions, but it's a kid's show - I wouldn't overthink it.
but in other breaking news slashdotters deny evidence for global warming, the moon landing and Bill Gate's charity donations. (though admittedly that last one is a little difficult to believe, but hey, not wanting to believe something doesn't make it false)
While I'm against piracy of all kinds, and see little justification for it in most cases, (despite pirates hypersensitive claims to the contrary) I see this as a good move.
All companies operate this way, it's a basic function of economics. Whether you're an entertainment company, a building contractor, or a car manufacturer, if you don't obey this incredibly simple principle, you're out of business next year.
Why do people have such trouble with this? Is free stuff really worth looking like an idiot?
If 1 billion people actually paid for their software, music, games etc just think of how many more jobs that would create in the West. Not quite sure why you're on the side of 0day. If nobody pays for someone elses hard work, what have they done to deserve keeping it?
1. Stupid arguments like "Consoles Vs PCs" can be ended with a swift kick to the nuts 2. 12 Year old brats can be avoided easily, and if not - stepped on. 3. When you kill your roommate with a real gun, he stays dead 4. Women are nicer, and don't carry lethal knives, heavy armour, and/or the ability to roundhouse kick the shit out of you 5. You can travel to a new destination without waiting for the scenery to load 6. Trolls, nerds, and psychopaths are less likely to be roaming about 7. The threat of camping is greatly reduced 8. Due to #7 the surprise factor when you camp is greatly increased 9. Don't have to fight huge fucking monsters when you've finished your day's tasks 10. The sex is better
LOLROFLMAO!!
That's incredibly presumptuous and a completely baseless accusation. There are lots of people who can clearly benefit from trojans, and someone obviously has seen the potential in video codecs as a nice "social engineering" way of fooling the gullible masses into downloading them. The average person generally searches for video codecs once in a blue moon - they have no way of knowing which sites are legitimate, or which files are legitimate. They'll download whatever sounds promising. In fact, the website looks far more legitimate than some of the genuine codec sites out there.
Smarter users might do regular intensive searching to make sure they are getting a legitimate file, but the average user will not. It's far more likely that the author of this trojan is just exploiting the fact that so many users of codecs are clueless than yet another paranoid conspiracy that the media companies are behind it. Really, will the slashdot editors ever get over their bias and just print actual NEWS.
Respectful and very witty. Well done.
The recording industry as we know it now will mold and adapt into something else and businesses will adapt to whatever the new model may be. It might not be the RIAA next year, but it'll be something else that the thieving Slashdotters amongst us (thankfully a minority) will be bitching about. "Sticking it the man" is a dangerous and narrow minded approach to take with any industry.
Yet they're willing to waste two hours of their lives to watch it? Or even an hour just to watch half way through and turn it off because it's so bad. I think it's sad that people don't put value on their own time. It would cost $5 to rent it, but they'd rather steal it, then waste two hours of their lives to watch it, meaning they value their time at $2.50 an hour..
I think piracy is a poor reflection on people's own characters, and their distorted view that time is more expendiable than money!
Art is an expression of an artists own life, views, beliefs, hopes, dreams etc. They have every right to protect their work, since it's uniquely theirs. They can choose who they want to view it (e.g. give it away for free, or give it only to people who pay). It's not automatically everybody's right to own it just because they're too cheap to pay for it.
Art isn't information that humanity deserves to know, it's art.