Many people agree with a less strident version of what you said.
However, I was not intending to be anti-Jewish in my grandparent comment. In fact, helping stop the out-of-balance conditions in Israel is pro-Jewish, and pro- every person on the planet.
"Northrup just needs to make it portable and widespread."
That "just" represents an enormous amount of engineering, and the idea
is that the U.S. taxpayer would pay for that engineering. Is helping Northrup
make a profit the best allocation of taxpayer money? Remember that, if for
some reason the weapon doesn't work well, Northrup will still get the money.
"Furthermore, why shouldn't the US be involved in Israel's
defense?"
This "ally" has a 3,200 year history of conflict with surrounding
people. Read the Torah. Read the old testament of the Christian Bible. There
is only a few lines of explanation; we will almost certainly never know the
full story. However, about 3,200 years ago an Egyptian pharaoh objected
strongly to the behavior of the tribe who eventually became the Jews. Why?
What were they doing? The only fragment of information is that they were
having too many children. But that explanation would require more detail;
certainly the other tribes living in the desert did not have methods of
population control. Or did they?
This "ally" cares only about itself. Those who call themselves "God's
Chosen People" don't really mean something good about themselves, they mean
that the rest of us are lesser beings in the eyes of the Israeli "God". If you
aren't Jewish, do you accept that you are a lesser being, and that anyone who
calls himself or herself Jewish is superior to you?
This "ally" believes in violence. The Torah says that the Israeli
"God" is himself violent, and participates in adversarial behavior, even
sometimes when he is being implored by a human leader to think carefully about
the results of his actions.
Most U.S. taxpayers don't realize that the U.S. government contributes
taxpayer money to Israel, perhaps $1,000 for every Jewish man, woman, and
child each year. If U.S. taxpayers understood more clearly, would they decide there were
no better places at home to spend the money?
The money given to Israel by the U.S. government is entirely for the
purposes of embezzlement. There are several levels of mis-direction involved,
but the money is, effectively, meant to be spent to buy U.S. weapons. So the
money really goes to the pockets of weapons company investors, like the Cheney
and Bush families.
There are only about 5,000,000 Jews living in Israel. Should the
entire way that the U.S. relates to world be arranged around the needs and
wants of only 5,000,000 people?
This is another attempt of Israel to involve the U.S. in Israel's defense. Israel needs this "Skyguard", not the United States. Israel's costs for development will be far lower if the U.S. taxpayer pays most of the bill.
There were several reasons that the U.S. started the present war with Iraq, in this order: 1) Israel wanted protection from Saddam Hussein, but didn't want to pay for it. 2) Wealthy investors wanted oil profits from Iraq. 3) The military and those with investments in weapons, such as the Cheney and Bush families, wanted any war. 4) There was concern that Iraq oil was sold to Europeans for Euros; that might deflate the dollar. 5) There are many people who call themselves Christian who are actually more angry than religious. They wanted a way to act out their anger.
-- U.S. gov. violence ended Iraq's thousands of years of violence. Oh, wait, it increased it.
Not sexist. Russo's company is on the way down. Look at the stock value for the last year.
We need to consider why Carly Fiorina and Russo are allowed to run highly technical companies when they don't know much about technical things. Reverse discrimination?
Everyone has 24 hours in every day. Google is growing VERY rapidly in complexity. Every hour spent preparing for extreme partying is an hour not spent managing Google, which is slowly getting out of control. For example, Google's human resources department has become abusive.
You know that a company is on the way down when its founders buy a 767. Buying a 767 indicates that being rich is beginning to occupy their thinking, rather than management.
From the WSJ article: Mr. Jennings says Messrs. Brin and Page "had some strange requests," including hammocks hung from the ceiling of the plane. At one point he witnessed a dispute between them over whether Mr. Brin should have a "California king" size bed, he says. Mr. Jennings says Mr. Schmidt stepped in to resolve that by saying, "Sergey, you can have whatever bed you want in your room; Larry, you can have whatever kind of bed you want in your bedroom. Let's move on." Mr. Jennings says Mr. Schmidt at another point told him, "It's a party airplane."
"Opera makes tons of money on its browser. Mobile phones, Nintendo's consoles, some vending machines, airplane media platforms..."
This is an example of a cultural phenomenon that is very strong on Slashdot: Try to see how someone could be wrong, rather than try to understand. You know I was referring to normal browser use.
Opera has lost a huge amount of money because of the company's wooden response to market conditions.
So, Opera should follow some rule someone invented, instead of being easier to use?
Notice that Microsoft's Internet Explorer also allows autocompletion with Tab key, Enter key method. People become dependent on the habit of that ease of use, and then find it is not available in Opera.
What sunk Opera's chances to make money on its browser, in my opinion, was
lack of attention to detail in the design of the user interface.
There's a good test available at present, and the experiment is being
performed all over the world. People can have both Firefox and Opera free, and
they choose Firefox. They choose Firefox even though Firefox is the still the
most unstable program in common use.
(The 1.5.0.4 version of Firefox is quite stable when the FlashBlock
extension is installed, but still, after days of many windows being loaded,
Firefox is so unstable that the Microsoft Windows operating system must be
re-started to return to original performance. My experience has been that
Linux remains stable, but that all Firefox windows must be closed to regain
performance of Firefox.)
Opera, on the other hand, is rock solid, and better at rendering web
pages that are designed around Microsoft Internet Explorer's goofy quirks.
Opera is also nicely configurable, and the configuration files are easier to
copy that those of Firefox. Opera has a built-in ability to save the
current browsing session, with all the tabs and the sequence of tabs. It's
much easier to do several independently operating installations of Opera; that
feature is supported by the installation program.
But there are subtle mistakes in Opera's user interface design. Both
browsers have a URL auto-completion feature, for example. In both browsers, if
I enter "vmware", for example, I see a drop down list of all the pages I have
viewed recently at www.vmware.com. But in Opera, I must choose one of those
pages with the mouse. In Firefox, I don't have to remove my hand from the home
row of keys; I just press the Tab key to choose the page I want, and then press
the Enter key.
Opera shows how mis-management can reduce the profit of a software
company. Opera cost $30 previously. That's an amount I would easily pay, if
there were advantages instead of disadvantages in the user interface. I spend
a lot of time with a browser, and $30 would be a tiny amount of money per
hour.
The Opera company is mismanaged in three ways, in my opinion: First,
Opera failed to recognize that the user interface design of a successful
product is a huge intellectual challenge, and that, when competing products
work fairly well, the user interface determines which will be most popular.
For professionals, the cost is a small issue.
Second, Opera, like all software companies of which I am aware, thinks
of product support as a very low-level job, and assigns it to people with a
teenage sense of responsibility. It's true that most product support requests
require little thinking. However there was no policy at Opera about teaching
product support specialists how to recognize requests that should be guided to
someone more skilled. My attempts, several years ago, to tell the Opera
company how the user interface could be improved were met only with
frustration. For example, someone who seemed that she was only working until
she could find a man to marry and have babies answered my suggestion about
tab-key autocompletion with nonsense.
Third, Opera, like most software companies, has poor marketing. Good
marketing requires someone who is very skilled at communication and who is also
willing to understand how to structure product support so that it is both
efficient and useful in guiding the development of the product. At Opera
apparently there has always been a lack of understanding of communication,
and a lack of connection of the communication with the technical details of
the product. There have been many subtle and not-so-subtle mistakes.
There are other unfortunate choices. Opera's excellent ability to
save the current browsing session is ruined by the fact that the session files
are now buried deeply in the Opera folder structure, and cannot be saved
elsewhere. That's a mistake that is recent; with version 6 session files could
be saved anywhere.
A Slashdot comment is not the place for a thorough analysis of Opera's
user interface, of course, so there are many other issues that aren't
mentioned here.
Judging from the outside, HP's CEO before Carly, Lew Platt, was a
terrible manager. But Carly was far worse.
While HP was under Carly, our company stopped buying HP products
because we would discover large problems within the first few minutes of
installation and use. If the disconnected-from-reality mood of HP's technical
support was any guide, things were VERY weird at HP while Carly was there.
A lot of HP's ability to make a profit comes from selling inkjet ink
for $8000 per gallon and from people who learned long ago that HP had the best
products, but have not updated their understanding.
Carly's former job was at Lucent Technologies,
another company on the way down. Lucent has gone from about 165,000 employees
to 30,500 employees, and from $84 share price to $2.37.
Note that Lucent is another company with a female CEO, Patricia Russo.
Both Carly Fiorina and Patricia Russo are heavily involved with Bush
league politics. They inhabit a parallel universe in which they are considered
a success while their organizations are on the way down, just some have
considered the the U.S. government a success as it has been on the way down since Bush was
elected. Losers find each other.
Some people think that someone with no technical experience, and
little respect for technical experience, can run a technical company. I think
that belief is hogwash.
That's not considered a cheap shot. Haven't you seen all the sigs that say, "Somewhere in Texas, a village is missing its idiot"?
Anyone trying to keep track of how many times talk show hosts have said or implied on national TV that George W. Bush is an idiot would need a team of helpers.
Of course, as the "religious" Republicans will tell you, "reality has a well-known liberal bias".
"That doesn't sound much better as far as credibility goes. Is there any scientific evidence to back up his assertion?"
Translation: "I don't know what's happening, and I didn't bother to read the comments in this thread, but I'm still skeptical."
Al Gore is a movie star: An Inconvenient Truth (2006). Read the IMDB comments, such as this one: "Fact-laden, straightforward documentary with some comic insertions".
Watch the movie advertisement on YouTube. " The most terrifying movie of the summer. You owe it to the planet to see the truth. Pledge to see An Inconvenient Truth opening weekend."
"It's a mind-boggling disaster epic that draws its special power from the fact that we are both the villains and victims of the story."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
Big mistake. Arpanet was DEFINITELY not the Internet. The entire purpose of DARPA is to learn more efficient ways of
killing people and destroying their property. The U.S. government is dominated
by people who make a huge profit from "defense"-related sales (like the Bush
family and Dick Cheney); they have helped make killing people the U.S.
government's primary way of relating to situations it doesn't like.
Eventually, some universities and defense-related companies (like
Tektronix) were allowed access to Arpanet. There were MANY people at the time,
maybe most of the users, who were extremely opposed to making the
Inter-network open to everyone.
Al Gore decided that the Inter-network should become a public utility,
and provided the funding to make that happen. Vint Cerf says that it is
doubtful that would have happened, at least when it did, without Al Gore's
understanding and support.
Without people like Al Gore, Slashdot would be a BBS.
You've been lied to by Karl Rove once again. (Karl Rove is "Bush's Brain".)
A lot of things Senator Gore says sound very wooden and otherwise poorly expressed. However, Gore delivers. In a private email message, Vint Cerf
told me that it was true that Al Gore was instrumental in the development of
the Internet. Before Mr. Gore's involvement, it was a semi-private utility
known as ArpaNet and NSFNet. Mr. Gore championed the development of the
private network as a public utility. This was years before Bill Gates, for
example, recognized its importance.
No, Vint Cerf is not a friend of mine; that's not the point. The point is that Senator Al Gore has a brain of his own, and a very good one.
Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska is known as someone who supports destructive causes. So, those who want corruption in the U.S. government go to him. Many people on Slashdot suppose that he views his ignorance as bad; on the contrary, he is openly advertising his ignorance so the corrupters will know to find him when they want someone who will help them corrupt.
A company that is great at providing dedicated hosting will almost certainly be excellent at providing shared hosting. So, the recommendations here have a VERY wide audience.
We always get our rebate money from Netgear and every other company. You need to know how to get it. The companies are deliberately involved in fraud, it appears to me. But there is always a way to get paid.
If anyone is interested, I will post instructions for getting rebate money.
I've had very serious problems with both business and "home" Netgear products. Sloppiness, poor technical support, failure to pay rebates, and other problems.
True: "Exercise will make your back pain go away."
Specifically, strengthening your stomach muscles by doing sit-ups or crunches helps your back muscles relax. Often where you feel the pain is not the position of the actual problem.
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Many people agree with a less strident version of what you said.
However, I was not intending to be anti-Jewish in my grandparent comment. In fact, helping stop the out-of-balance conditions in Israel is pro-Jewish, and pro- every person on the planet.
Thanks.
"Northrup just needs to make it portable and widespread."
That "just" represents an enormous amount of engineering, and the idea is that the U.S. taxpayer would pay for that engineering. Is helping Northrup make a profit the best allocation of taxpayer money? Remember that, if for some reason the weapon doesn't work well, Northrup will still get the money.
"Furthermore, why shouldn't the US be involved in Israel's defense?"
This "ally" has a 3,200 year history of conflict with surrounding people. Read the Torah. Read the old testament of the Christian Bible. There is only a few lines of explanation; we will almost certainly never know the full story. However, about 3,200 years ago an Egyptian pharaoh objected strongly to the behavior of the tribe who eventually became the Jews. Why? What were they doing? The only fragment of information is that they were having too many children. But that explanation would require more detail; certainly the other tribes living in the desert did not have methods of population control. Or did they?
This "ally" cares only about itself. Those who call themselves "God's Chosen People" don't really mean something good about themselves, they mean that the rest of us are lesser beings in the eyes of the Israeli "God". If you aren't Jewish, do you accept that you are a lesser being, and that anyone who calls himself or herself Jewish is superior to you?
This "ally" believes in violence. The Torah says that the Israeli "God" is himself violent, and participates in adversarial behavior, even sometimes when he is being implored by a human leader to think carefully about the results of his actions.
Most U.S. taxpayers don't realize that the U.S. government contributes taxpayer money to Israel, perhaps $1,000 for every Jewish man, woman, and child each year. If U.S. taxpayers understood more clearly, would they decide there were no better places at home to spend the money?
The money given to Israel by the U.S. government is entirely for the purposes of embezzlement. There are several levels of mis-direction involved, but the money is, effectively, meant to be spent to buy U.S. weapons. So the money really goes to the pockets of weapons company investors, like the Cheney and Bush families.
There are only about 5,000,000 Jews living in Israel. Should the entire way that the U.S. relates to world be arranged around the needs and wants of only 5,000,000 people?
Could someone explain to me why are VMWare and Microsoft rushing to give some of their virtualization products away free?
This is another attempt of Israel to involve the U.S. in Israel's defense. Israel needs this "Skyguard", not the United States. Israel's costs for development will be far lower if the U.S. taxpayer pays most of the bill.
There were several reasons that the U.S. started the present war with Iraq, in this order: 1) Israel wanted protection from Saddam Hussein, but didn't want to pay for it. 2) Wealthy investors wanted oil profits from Iraq. 3) The military and those with investments in weapons, such as the Cheney and Bush families, wanted any war. 4) There was concern that Iraq oil was sold to Europeans for Euros; that might deflate the dollar. 5) There are many people who call themselves Christian who are actually more angry than religious. They wanted a way to act out their anger.
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U.S. gov. violence ended Iraq's thousands of years of violence. Oh, wait, it increased it.
Not sexist. Russo's company is on the way down. Look at the stock value for the last year.
We need to consider why Carly Fiorina and Russo are allowed to run highly technical companies when they don't know much about technical things. Reverse discrimination?
Everyone has 24 hours in every day. Google is growing VERY rapidly in complexity. Every hour spent preparing for extreme partying is an hour not spent managing Google, which is slowly getting out of control. For example, Google's human resources department has become abusive.
You know that a company is on the way down when its founders buy a 767. Buying a 767 indicates that being rich is beginning to occupy their thinking, rather than management.
From the WSJ article: Mr. Jennings says Messrs. Brin and Page "had some strange requests," including hammocks hung from the ceiling of the plane. At one point he witnessed a dispute between them over whether Mr. Brin should have a "California king" size bed, he says. Mr. Jennings says Mr. Schmidt stepped in to resolve that by saying, "Sergey, you can have whatever bed you want in your room; Larry, you can have whatever kind of bed you want in your bedroom. Let's move on." Mr. Jennings says Mr. Schmidt at another point told him, "It's a party airplane."
"Opera makes tons of money on its browser. Mobile phones, Nintendo's consoles, some vending machines, airplane media platforms..."
This is an example of a cultural phenomenon that is very strong on Slashdot: Try to see how someone could be wrong, rather than try to understand. You know I was referring to normal browser use.
Opera has lost a huge amount of money because of the company's wooden response to market conditions.
So, Opera should follow some rule someone invented, instead of being easier to use?
Notice that Microsoft's Internet Explorer also allows autocompletion with Tab key, Enter key method. People become dependent on the habit of that ease of use, and then find it is not available in Opera.
What sunk Opera's chances to make money on its browser, in my opinion, was lack of attention to detail in the design of the user interface.
There's a good test available at present, and the experiment is being performed all over the world. People can have both Firefox and Opera free, and they choose Firefox. They choose Firefox even though Firefox is the still the most unstable program in common use.
(The 1.5.0.4 version of Firefox is quite stable when the FlashBlock extension is installed, but still, after days of many windows being loaded, Firefox is so unstable that the Microsoft Windows operating system must be re-started to return to original performance. My experience has been that Linux remains stable, but that all Firefox windows must be closed to regain performance of Firefox.)
Opera, on the other hand, is rock solid, and better at rendering web pages that are designed around Microsoft Internet Explorer's goofy quirks. Opera is also nicely configurable, and the configuration files are easier to copy that those of Firefox. Opera has a built-in ability to save the current browsing session, with all the tabs and the sequence of tabs. It's much easier to do several independently operating installations of Opera; that feature is supported by the installation program.
But there are subtle mistakes in Opera's user interface design. Both browsers have a URL auto-completion feature, for example. In both browsers, if I enter "vmware", for example, I see a drop down list of all the pages I have viewed recently at www.vmware.com. But in Opera, I must choose one of those pages with the mouse. In Firefox, I don't have to remove my hand from the home row of keys; I just press the Tab key to choose the page I want, and then press the Enter key.
Opera shows how mis-management can reduce the profit of a software company. Opera cost $30 previously. That's an amount I would easily pay, if there were advantages instead of disadvantages in the user interface. I spend a lot of time with a browser, and $30 would be a tiny amount of money per hour.
The Opera company is mismanaged in three ways, in my opinion: First, Opera failed to recognize that the user interface design of a successful product is a huge intellectual challenge, and that, when competing products work fairly well, the user interface determines which will be most popular. For professionals, the cost is a small issue.
Second, Opera, like all software companies of which I am aware, thinks of product support as a very low-level job, and assigns it to people with a teenage sense of responsibility. It's true that most product support requests require little thinking. However there was no policy at Opera about teaching product support specialists how to recognize requests that should be guided to someone more skilled. My attempts, several years ago, to tell the Opera company how the user interface could be improved were met only with frustration. For example, someone who seemed that she was only working until she could find a man to marry and have babies answered my suggestion about tab-key autocompletion with nonsense.
Third, Opera, like most software companies, has poor marketing. Good marketing requires someone who is very skilled at communication and who is also willing to understand how to structure product support so that it is both efficient and useful in guiding the development of the product. At Opera apparently there has always been a lack of understanding of communication, and a lack of connection of the communication with the technical details of the product. There have been many subtle and not-so-subtle mistakes.
There are other unfortunate choices. Opera's excellent ability to save the current browsing session is ruined by the fact that the session files are now buried deeply in the Opera folder structure, and cannot be saved elsewhere. That's a mistake that is recent; with version 6 session files could be saved anywhere.
A Slashdot comment is not the place for a thorough analysis of Opera's user interface, of course, so there are many other issues that aren't mentioned here.
Judging from the outside, HP's CEO before Carly, Lew Platt, was a terrible manager. But Carly was far worse.
While HP was under Carly, our company stopped buying HP products because we would discover large problems within the first few minutes of installation and use. If the disconnected-from-reality mood of HP's technical support was any guide, things were VERY weird at HP while Carly was there.
A lot of HP's ability to make a profit comes from selling inkjet ink for $8000 per gallon and from people who learned long ago that HP had the best products, but have not updated their understanding.
Carly's former job was at Lucent Technologies, another company on the way down. Lucent has gone from about 165,000 employees to 30,500 employees, and from $84 share price to $2.37.
Note that Lucent is another company with a female CEO, Patricia Russo.
Both Carly Fiorina and Patricia Russo are heavily involved with Bush league politics. They inhabit a parallel universe in which they are considered a success while their organizations are on the way down, just some have considered the the U.S. government a success as it has been on the way down since Bush was elected. Losers find each other.
Some people think that someone with no technical experience, and little respect for technical experience, can run a technical company. I think that belief is hogwash.
Okay, I'm guessing, maybe this is how it happened:
An eBay executive was sitting around thinking, how can I get $5,000,000 of bad, sink-the-company publicity for almost free?
YES, that's it!!!! Do something against Google, which is, today, the equivalent of doing something against cute kittens.
That's not considered a cheap shot. Haven't you seen all the sigs that say, "Somewhere in Texas, a village is missing its idiot"?
Anyone trying to keep track of how many times talk show hosts have said or implied on national TV that George W. Bush is an idiot would need a team of helpers.
Of course, as the "religious" Republicans will tell you, "reality has a well-known liberal bias".
Put the story in perspective: Only 20,264,082 (July 2006 est.) people live in Australia.
"That doesn't sound much better as far as credibility goes. Is there any scientific evidence to back up his assertion?"
Translation: "I don't know what's happening, and I didn't bother to read the comments in this thread, but I'm still skeptical."
Al Gore is a movie star: An Inconvenient Truth (2006). Read the IMDB comments, such as this one: "Fact-laden, straightforward documentary with some comic insertions".
RottenTomatoes rates the movie 92% positive.
Watch the movie advertisement on YouTube. " The most terrifying movie of the summer. You owe it to the planet to see the truth. Pledge to see An Inconvenient Truth opening weekend."
"It's a mind-boggling disaster epic that draws its special power from the fact that we are both the villains and victims of the story." -- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
Big mistake. Arpanet was DEFINITELY not the Internet. The entire purpose of DARPA is to learn more efficient ways of killing people and destroying their property. The U.S. government is dominated by people who make a huge profit from "defense"-related sales (like the Bush family and Dick Cheney); they have helped make killing people the U.S. government's primary way of relating to situations it doesn't like.
Eventually, some universities and defense-related companies (like Tektronix) were allowed access to Arpanet. There were MANY people at the time, maybe most of the users, who were extremely opposed to making the Inter-network open to everyone.
Al Gore decided that the Inter-network should become a public utility, and provided the funding to make that happen. Vint Cerf says that it is doubtful that would have happened, at least when it did, without Al Gore's understanding and support.
Without people like Al Gore, Slashdot would be a BBS.
You've been lied to by Karl Rove once again. (Karl Rove is "Bush's Brain".)
A lot of things Senator Gore says sound very wooden and otherwise poorly expressed. However, Gore delivers. In a private email message, Vint Cerf told me that it was true that Al Gore was instrumental in the development of the Internet. Before Mr. Gore's involvement, it was a semi-private utility known as ArpaNet and NSFNet. Mr. Gore championed the development of the private network as a public utility. This was years before Bill Gates, for example, recognized its importance.
No, Vint Cerf is not a friend of mine; that's not the point. The point is that Senator Al Gore has a brain of his own, and a very good one.
Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska is known as someone who supports destructive causes. So, those who want corruption in the U.S. government go to him. Many people on Slashdot suppose that he views his ignorance as bad; on the contrary, he is openly advertising his ignorance so the corrupters will know to find him when they want someone who will help them corrupt.
The Brinkster web site seems very amateurish to me. Look at the all caps: "TRAFFIC STATS (coming soon)". They don't yet have traffic statistics?
A company that is great at providing dedicated hosting will almost certainly be excellent at providing shared hosting. So, the recommendations here have a VERY wide audience.
Yes, it's probably time to get away from GoDaddy. People are reporting a lot of different areas of abuse.
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The U.S. government is so superior that Arabs should be happy to be killed by it?
We always get our rebate money from Netgear and every other company. You need to know how to get it. The companies are deliberately involved in fraud, it appears to me. But there is always a way to get paid.
If anyone is interested, I will post instructions for getting rebate money.
I've had very serious problems with both business and "home" Netgear products. Sloppiness, poor technical support, failure to pay rebates, and other problems.
The U.S. government wants more of your money to support killing Iraqis.
More war helps those whose friends and family and business associates have investments in weapons and oil, such as the Bush and Cheney families.
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When Arabs kill, that's bad. When the U.S. govt. kills, that's good?
True: "Exercise will make your back pain go away."
Specifically, strengthening your stomach muscles by doing sit-ups or crunches helps your back muscles relax. Often where you feel the pain is not the position of the actual problem.
Should have said, lightning is sometimes guided even on non-metallic paths.