Right there in France, we have a big lab called "Boiron" that's leader in homeopathy, makes regular mess in the media and have a *lot* of the population believe in its lies.
That's very sad. What do you think are the causes of the decline of intelligence in France that allows this sorry state of affairs? Is it the brain drain of people emigrating to England, Canada and the USA?
Is that everyone I know who believes in homeopathy also believes that the climate is getting warmer and humans are the cause of that.
I know quite a few counter-examples. Of my friends who are convinced that anthropogenic global warming is a fact, none of them partake of quackery. For my own part, I'm still on the fence about the global warming question, and I find it very disturbing to see the vitriol poured out on skeptics like Lindzen, and the only possible use I see for a homeopath in health care is as an organ donor.
Well, that's the heart of the problem, IMNSHO. This money was allocated by working the politicians instead of showing any merit to the proposed work. That seriously pisses me off.
-jcr
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Well, yes, but homeopathy isn't exactly fraud
Yes it is, because it claims more than placebo effects.
-jcr
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People may claim over and over about it being a fraud,
Umm, point of order there: it's not up to us to prove it's a fraud, it's up to the quacks to prove otherwise.
Honestly, as long as it doesn't interfere with other scientific endeavors, I see no problems with such things as homeopathy.
How do you feel about three-card Monty?
They may even stumble across something that is heretofore unknown, actually contributing to science in the process.
Nope. Not a chance.
Sneer all you like folks, but even the fundamentalist creationist types have a chance
Even less of a chance, since they do no work at all in any field of scientific inquiry. They just write up ever more long-winded versions of "nu-uh" to science.
-jcr
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Yeah, many slashdotters are opposed to Homeopathy, Scientology, and many other varieties of fraud.
What's your next guess? Apple sold a million phones faster than any other company ever has.
Apple was forced to drop the price
Nope. When you sell a million units, the economy of scale drops the manufacturing cost, which gave them far more leeway to drop the price and make a major move for market share.
Then, of coarse, there is the new iPod Nano Video, with its tiny screen. This isn't Tokyo, impractically small electronics have never taken off in America, and the new Nano will be no exception.
Want to bet?
As many other posters and TFA point out, it's not just Linux users, admittedly a small minority, that are being shut out; it's also Windows users who want to manage their iPod from the player of their choice.
Why, that must be dozens of users! Dozens, I say! How will Apple ever make up those losses?
Apple's insistence on dictating behavior on their users has crossed the line from insult to injury.
Oh, get serious. Apple offers a product, take it or leave it. Nobody's got a gun to your head.
Congratulations, Steve, you just lost a customer....and gained about a hundred in the time it took you to post this.
This expense is most likely not being paid out of their personal pockets, but by Google.
They bought the plane out of their own pockets. Why would you assume that Google is picking up the ramp fees?
Thanks for designing a great search engine, you've been well rewarded, you are irresponsible, and there's the door.
Hey, you want to fire them, all you have to do is buy 51% of the shares. That will run you about eighty-one billion dollars. Let us know when you're ready to put your money where your mouth is.
Its because making it big is 99% luck and less than 1% hard work.
That may be true in Hollywood, but it's not the case in the business world. Every rich person I know worked like crazy for years before they made it, and most of them still work sixty hours or more a week because they got rich doing something they love to do.
These guys made their money because they were in the right place at the right time
Don't forget that they also had the crucial insight that links to a page were a more useful ranking indication than keyword hits. Google isn't a case of catching IBM's fumble like Microsoft did. They had a great idea, they implemented it, and they figured out how to get paid for it.
it's not like the American dream is dead, it's the American dreamer that's dead.
Sounds like you need to find a new social circle. Here in the silicon valley, there's no shortage of people trying to get rich and/or change the world.
I would describe it as a land bridge between continents, rather like the one that once existed where the Bering straits are now. If geologists consider the isthmus part of north America, I won't quibble.
Oh, let me be clear: I don't blame Linus in any way for his sometimes rocky relations with RMS. I was speaking of the causes of RMS's resentment of Linus.
Slashdot Mirror
No, that's just one of the most polluted places in the United States.
-jcr
Right there in France, we have a big lab called "Boiron" that's leader in homeopathy, makes regular mess in the media and have a *lot* of the population believe in its lies.
That's very sad. What do you think are the causes of the decline of intelligence in France that allows this sorry state of affairs? Is it the brain drain of people emigrating to England, Canada and the USA?
-jcr
Is that everyone I know who believes in homeopathy also believes that the climate is getting warmer and humans are the cause of that.
I know quite a few counter-examples. Of my friends who are convinced that anthropogenic global warming is a fact, none of them partake of quackery. For my own part, I'm still on the fence about the global warming question, and I find it very disturbing to see the vitriol poured out on skeptics like Lindzen, and the only possible use I see for a homeopath in health care is as an organ donor.
-jcr
you science-nazis
Oh, this should be good..
Only once something can be clearly dismissed is it okay to see it as a fraud.
That's why we call Homeopathy a fraud. It never had any plausibility in the first place.
Also did you know that the pill can kill (yes, kill. Not lessen, fucking KILL) a womens sex drive? My wife had this problem.
Is that what she told you?
-jcr
She is a respected scientist;
Maybe she was before she started wasting the taxpayer's money on this woo-woo bullshit, but not anymore.
-jcr
Well, that's the heart of the problem, IMNSHO. This money was allocated by working the politicians instead of showing any merit to the proposed work. That seriously pisses me off.
-jcr
Well, yes, but homeopathy isn't exactly fraud
Yes it is, because it claims more than placebo effects.
-jcr
People may claim over and over about it being a fraud,
Umm, point of order there: it's not up to us to prove it's a fraud, it's up to the quacks to prove otherwise.
-jcr
Honestly, as long as it doesn't interfere with other scientific endeavors, I see no problems with such things as homeopathy.
How do you feel about three-card Monty?
They may even stumble across something that is heretofore unknown, actually contributing to science in the process.
Nope. Not a chance.
Sneer all you like folks, but even the fundamentalist creationist types have a chance
Even less of a chance, since they do no work at all in any field of scientific inquiry. They just write up ever more long-winded versions of "nu-uh" to science.
-jcr
Yeah, many slashdotters are opposed to Homeopathy, Scientology, and many other varieties of fraud.
-jcr
After failing to meet sales expectations,
...and gained about a hundred in the time it took you to post this.
What's your next guess? Apple sold a million phones faster than any other company ever has.
Apple was forced to drop the price
Nope. When you sell a million units, the economy of scale drops the manufacturing cost, which gave them far more leeway to drop the price and make a major move for market share.
Then, of coarse, there is the new iPod Nano Video, with its tiny screen. This isn't Tokyo, impractically small electronics have never taken off in America, and the new Nano will be no exception.
Want to bet?
As many other posters and TFA point out, it's not just Linux users, admittedly a small minority, that are being shut out; it's also Windows users who want to manage their iPod from the player of their choice.
Why, that must be dozens of users! Dozens, I say! How will Apple ever make up those losses?
Apple's insistence on dictating behavior on their users has crossed the line from insult to injury.
Oh, get serious. Apple offers a product, take it or leave it. Nobody's got a gun to your head.
Congratulations, Steve, you just lost a customer.
-jcr
what could you do short of fatally wounding 'em?
Well, you could try sarcasm...
-jcr
I had a mu before the F, but it didn't show up. Can't slashcode's 'plain old text' mode handle extended characters?
-jcr
Kids these days...
Who needs to hit anyone, when you have a nine-volt battery and a 500F capacitor?
-jcr
Umm.. Sounds to me like the bank needs to review the employment of their IT director.
-jcr
voila! sublight speed!
Big deal. I have sublight speed sitting at my desk.
-jcr
That's not what he said. Try reading it again.
-jcr
This expense is most likely not being paid out of their personal pockets, but by Google.
They bought the plane out of their own pockets. Why would you assume that Google is picking up the ramp fees?
Thanks for designing a great search engine, you've been well rewarded, you are irresponsible, and there's the door.
Hey, you want to fire them, all you have to do is buy 51% of the shares. That will run you about eighty-one billion dollars. Let us know when you're ready to put your money where your mouth is.
-jcr
No, that's Harvard. At MIT, you have to make the grade.
-jcr
Its because making it big is 99% luck and less than 1% hard work.
That may be true in Hollywood, but it's not the case in the business world. Every rich person I know worked like crazy for years before they made it, and most of them still work sixty hours or more a week because they got rich doing something they love to do.
These guys made their money because they were in the right place at the right time
Don't forget that they also had the crucial insight that links to a page were a more useful ranking indication than keyword hits. Google isn't a case of catching IBM's fumble like Microsoft did. They had a great idea, they implemented it, and they figured out how to get paid for it.
-jcr
it's not like the American dream is dead, it's the American dreamer that's dead.
Sounds like you need to find a new social circle. Here in the silicon valley, there's no shortage of people trying to get rich and/or change the world.
-jcr
With all due respect, Mr. Gore: blow it out your ass.
-jcr
You are a blind idiot.
Fuck you, too. Now that the formalities are dispensed with...
RMS doesn't try to force anyone to think his way
Did I ever say that he did?
-jcr
"Central America" isn't a continent.)
I would describe it as a land bridge between continents, rather like the one that once existed where the Bering straits are now. If geologists consider the isthmus part of north America, I won't quibble.
-jcr
Oh, let me be clear: I don't blame Linus in any way for his sometimes rocky relations with RMS. I was speaking of the causes of RMS's resentment of Linus.
-jcr