All Jews I've known know how to spell "Semitic".
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I've never known anyone who is Jewish who could not spell "Semitic". Jewish people I've known have been very well educated. (However, when I say this, my Jewish friends always tell me they have known Jews who were poorly educated.)
So, I suppose you are not Jewish.
In the link to which you are referring, I express ideas that are common among Jews. You are not helping Jews when you try to suppress these opinions, you are hurting them.
Particularly, the corruption of the U.S. government by Jews is destructive toward them, not helpful. The U.S., by a process of embezzlement of taxpayer money, supplies free weapons to Israel. This has made the conflict there much worse.
In my opinion, the IsraCast web site is not honest. There seem to be many calls for "investment" in schemes which are not founded in scientific fact.
On Slashdot, public relations articles are king.
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Quote: "Science: How Zombies Work"
On Slashdot, zombies are science. The Slashdot article also advertises How Stuff Works.
Cars That Make Their Own Fuel are science, even though the cars are fueled with heavy blocks of Magnesium. The article also advertises an "investment opportunity" that seems fraudulent to me.
On Slashdot, Pillows that attack you while you sleep are science. (To me, that's far scarier than zombies.) The article also advertises an opportunity to contribute money to a "charity" that benefits pharaceutical companies.
On Slashdot, new methods of data compression can compress data much more than mathematics says is possible. The article advertises a company's press release.
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The parent comment is an example of Pentacostal politics. Jesus is God, and George W. Bush is his prophet, and the end-time is coming soon, so it doesn't matter how much the government borrows.
GWB is a dry alcoholic. Alcoholics are very practiced liars. His statements about religion are carefully scripted by Karl Rove.
My experience with SBC:
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SBC in Ventura, California is amazingly unprepared to do business efficiently.
As many people have commented above, LCD monitor response times are
like printer page print times. Manufacturers lie, and lie, and lie. Since all
online and print magazines (that I know about) are corrupted by taking money
for sneaky ads that are presented as reviews, it is difficult to know the
truth.
Samsung is reputed to be the manufacturer of the LCD panel used in
making the Dell 2405FPW, which is now on sale at Dell with a coupon for $784, if I
remember correctly. Supposedly, the 2405FPW is put together by BenQ in Hong
Kong. I'm using a 2405FPW as I type this, and it is the best monitor I've
seen.
Dell seems to be undergoing a social breakdown. I would think very
carefully before I bought something from them that they had a hand in
manufacturing. See this comment: Dell has tricky
prices.
My understanding is that Samsung has built a new factory to manufacture new technology in LCD monitors. People often report that the 2405FPW has no dead pixels. I haven't seen any dead pixels on mine.
(I don't have any involvement with any companies mentioned above, other than as customer.)
There are many books about blowback. That is one of the better ones. There is so much material that no one book even comes close to covering all of it.
Osama bin Laden said he was motivated to strike back at the U.S. when he watched the U.S. government's bombing of Beirut, Lebanon. I didn't even know the U.S. Navy was involved in war in Beirut until some news story reported bin Laden's complaint.
I'm against all violence. Those Americans who believe in violence, however, must realize that people who are attacked may decide to be violent in return.
Thirty years ago, if the U.S. government had prepared for peace as vigorously as it prepared for war, the wars would not have happened, I think.
From the Slashdot article: "The case numbering suggests that there were at least 153 investigations of misconduct at the FBI in 2003 alone."
What percentage of abuses were discovered? That's the next question.
The U.S. government's FBI, CIA, and NSA agencies, and others too secret to have public names, are the world's most well-funded world-wide secret police and surveillance agencies. When I read the many stories like the one in the Washington Post, I think those agencies are in many cases out of control.
Many of the present problems the U.S. has in the Middle East started in 1953 when the CIA overthrew a democratically elected president of Iran. The CIA calls those problems "blowback".
There is a conflict of interest. CIA employees get raises and promotions if there are more problems. So, the actions of the secret U.S. government agencies tend to favor the creation of blowback.
Weapons makers favor blowback, too. The profits are very high in weapons making, because a lot of negotiations can be secret.
There are two kinds of oil business. One is the normal kind. Another is the kind that involves extremely high profits allowed when there is secrecy, such as when there is a build-up of war-making capacity.
Both Arabs and some Jews are Semites. Being anti-Semitic would be against both of them. Less than 10% of Semites are Jewish.
Jews call people who are against Jewish policies "anti-Semitic" because they don't want people to say "anti-Jewish". That kind of indirection confuses the issue. The confusion is necessary because, in fact, Jewish violence is not better than the violence of other cultures.
If people began examining the reasons people are against Jews, they would discover that Jews have often corrupted the cultures around them for their own advantage, as they have done in encouraging the embezzlement of U.S. taxpayer money discussed in the grandparent comment.
Most Jews are not Semites. "Ninety percent of the world's Jews are descended from converts to Judaism, mostly the Khazars in what is now the southern USSR. The Khazars accepted Judaism as their monotheistic faith. They did not have the remotest connection with the Semites of the Holy Land."
After I posted the comment above, I began thinking that maybe IsraCast is
deliberately involved in fraud.
The article referenced in the Slashdot story is, basically, an
advertisement for investment. (See the information at the bottom.) That also
raises the issue of whether Slashdot editors are taking money for publishing
"science" articles that are actually advertisements.
Here is another comment about an article recently carried by Slashdot that seems mostly
either public relations or an advertisement for a "charity" to get money: Kindness, or maximizing shareholder value?
There are several problems with the IsraCast article referenced in the Slashdot
story:
2) A car using the technology does not "make its own fuel", as the
article says, but uses heavy cartridges of magnesium or aluminum.
3) The technique of using a hot metal and water to make hydrogen has
been known for more than 100 years. It is not new. The problem is the enormous
expense of refining the resultant metal oxide, with processes that, at
present, pollute heavily.
4) The article says that superheated steam and hydrogen enter the
combustion chamber. My understanding is that it is well known that such
engines have terrible problems with corrosion.
Here is another advertisement of an "investment opportunity" published
by IsraCast: Out Of The Box Thinking Produces Safer Water. Quote: "By taking the
UV source out of the water and projecting it into the quartz chamber,
Atlantium's engineers are able to supply homogeneous distribution of the UV
rays..." My understanding is that the method described is used in water
purification installations all over the world. It is not new. Note the request
for investment at the bottom.
IsraCast's biggest fraud, of course, is the typical Jewish one of
presenting Jews as peace-loving victims. When Israel came into existence in
1948, the land was already occupied by Arabs. These Arabs quite understandably
resent being pushed out of their land. (I'm against both Jewish and Arab
violence.)
The book, The Arabs by David Lamb discusses the violent takeover of Arab land by
Jews, among many other subjects. The book is very well written. The story of
the takeover is just the normal one that is recounted in many books.
According to a video interview I saw of Abba Evan, a famous Jewish
leader, at the end of World War II the Jews were not welcome in any European or North American country.
(David Lamb says the same thing.) The position of the Jews about this is that
the dislike is entirely unwarranted. However, widely different cultures have
objected to Jewish behavior since at least 3,200 years ago when an Egyptian
pharaoh had some problem with them.
Of all the cultures I've studied, the Jewish culture is the least able
to examine its own behavior.
Another Jewish fraud is getting American taxpayers to pay for
violent, immoral Jewish activities toward Arabs. Most
Americans don't know this, but the U.S. government supports the killing of
Arabs by supporting a scheme of embezzlement: U.S. weapons makers and other
largely secret influences have arranged that Israel be given about $5 billion
each year as "foreign aid". (The figure varies somewhat each year, and may not
be accurate for this year.) But the money can be used only to buy U.S.-made
weapons, like the American-made AH-64 Apache helicopter used to kill this Arab leader:
One thing I've learned over the years: Slashdot editors aren't much interested in science. The publish a lot of pseudo-science articles, or nonsense science articles like this one.
The issue here is that the process works, but it is very expensive in energy, because the metal oxide must be refined.
Anyhow, there is nothing new in the referenced article. The fact that it is possible to produce hydrogen using reactive metals has been known since perhaps 1860, maybe much earlier.
If I remember correctly, there was an explosion in Antoine Laurent Lavoisier's lab caused by hydrogen released by heating with metal. Mr. Lavoisier died in 1794, and not from the explosion.
From the article referenced by the Slashdot story: "The metal atoms will bond to the Oxygen from the water, creating metal oxide. As a result, the Hydrogen molecules are free, and will be sent into the engine alongside the steam."
This is just an example of moving the pollution elsewhere. The metal must be refined, at great cost to the environment. Then it is oxidized in a "pollution free" car.
At the top of each Slashdot page: "The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way."
That's the entire contract that binds Slashdot and those who comment on Slashdot. Any hidden contract that says differently is invalid. Why? Because that would be fraud.
fraud -- A deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain.
The people who own Slashdot, I'm guessing, know that if they asked for anything more than the contract at the top, Slashdot would be less popular. But lawyers in the U.S. are in general the most immoral group of people I've ever met, although there are many very moral lawyers, too. So, somehow, those who own Slashdot try to have both ways.
From OSTG Eula point number 6: "In each such case, the submitting user grants OSTG the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, all subject to the terms of any applicable license."
Do you really give Slashdot owners the right to modify your comments? I don't. For me, the ENTIRE contract is the one at the top of every Slashdot page. I own my comments. Slashdot is not responsible, and has no ownership, other than having the implied right to display my comments as part of the Slashdot discussion in which they were posted.
That line at the top of every Slashdot story is The Fine Print,
as it says. Any sneaky, hidden terms are invalid.
I fully agree. The problem here is that Novartis is presenting the photos more for their beauty than for their scientific information. That insults the thinking that goes into science. The real beauty of science is the thinking, not pretty pictures.
The whole thing is probably designed by a public relations agency to get free publicity for Novartis. Probably there is no one at the P.R. agency who has any interest in or respect for scientific investigation. However, that theory means that Novartis is out of control, or very much willing to mislead, because someone in top management at Novartis should have realized what they were doing was a mistake.
The Chinese on both the mainland and Taiwan have been stealing U.S. and European intellectual property for decades. They use any excuse they think will be accepted. It's possible that the excuse they are giving was market tested before they started to use it. The stealing is that sophisticated.
One way they steal is by buying the influence of corrupt U.S. politicians. Another way they steal is just by stealing.
Bruce Schneier is a very smart guy. This statement from his web log is foolish, and not typical: "Somewhere in the middle there is a reasonable amount of liablity, and that's what I want the courts to figure out."
If Bruce Schneier doesn't have a detailed plan, that shows how difficult it is to resolve the matter. "The courts" have very little knowledge or willingness to think carefully about this. In the U.S., court judges are often backed by those who want a weak judicial system, and other people, like U.S. President George W. Bush, who are corrupt and incompetent. For a list of books discussing the corruption, see: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
Look what the article is saying. The quote says that our "intentions" are equivalent to rat "intentions". This is wild guessing, and I believe there is no justification whatsoever.
My opinion: This is more disgusting Slashdot pseudo-science.
Consider what the article says:
1) Habits are remembered. (They could not be habits if they were not remembered.)
2) The memory is stored in the brain. (Good guess!)
3) Quote: "Graybiel speculated that the beginning and ending spike patterns reflect the nature of a routine behavior." Speculation is another word for guessing.
4) Quote: "It is as though, somehow, the brain retains a memory of the habit context, and this pattern can be triggered if the right habit cues come back,..." Another quote: ' "This situation is familiar to anyone who is trying to lose weight or to control a well-engrained habit. Just the sight of a piece of chocolate can reset all those good intentions," Graybiel said.' It's major pseudo-science to say that rat habits and human habits are similar.
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I've never known anyone who is Jewish who could not spell "Semitic". Jewish people I've known have been very well educated. (However, when I say this, my Jewish friends always tell me they have known Jews who were poorly educated.)
So, I suppose you are not Jewish.
In the link to which you are referring, I express ideas that are common among Jews. You are not helping Jews when you try to suppress these opinions, you are hurting them.
Particularly, the corruption of the U.S. government by Jews is destructive toward them, not helpful. The U.S., by a process of embezzlement of taxpayer money, supplies free weapons to Israel. This has made the conflict there much worse.
In my opinion, the IsraCast web site is not honest. There seem to be many calls for "investment" in schemes which are not founded in scientific fact.
Quote: "Science: How Zombies Work"
On Slashdot, zombies are science. The Slashdot article also advertises How Stuff Works.
Cars That Make Their Own Fuel are science, even though the cars are fueled with heavy blocks of Magnesium. The article also advertises an "investment opportunity" that seems fraudulent to me.
On Slashdot, Pillows that attack you while you sleep are science. (To me, that's far scarier than zombies.) The article also advertises an opportunity to contribute money to a "charity" that benefits pharaceutical companies.
On Slashdot, Men are more intelligent than women. The article advertises a university researcher.
On Slashdot, new methods of data compression can compress data much more than mathematics says is possible. The article advertises a company's press release.
On Slashdot, It is possible to get huge quantities of oil from shale. The article advertises Shell, and a scheme for further corrupting the government that could pay the corrupters billions of taxpayer money.
The parent comment is an example of Pentacostal politics. Jesus is God, and George W. Bush is his prophet, and the end-time is coming soon, so it doesn't matter how much the government borrows.
GWB is a dry alcoholic. Alcoholics are very practiced liars. His statements about religion are carefully scripted by Karl Rove.
SBC in Ventura, California is amazingly unprepared to do business efficiently.
Interesting. How to verify that?
Excellent. Very interesting and very well written.
Wikipedia on Blowback: Blowback is a term used in espionage to describe the unintended consequences of covert operations.
More monitor news:
As many people have commented above, LCD monitor response times are like printer page print times. Manufacturers lie, and lie, and lie. Since all online and print magazines (that I know about) are corrupted by taking money for sneaky ads that are presented as reviews, it is difficult to know the truth.
Samsung is shipping new monitors: SAMSUNG Provides Computer Users With Feature-Rich 21" And 24" Large-Screen LCD Monitors. Samsung claims "The SyncMaster 214T sports an eight-millisecond response time and the SyncMaster 244T offers a 10-milliseond response time."
Samsung's public relations agency has more info: Samsung Monitor Pressroom.
Samsung is reputed to be the manufacturer of the LCD panel used in making the Dell 2405FPW, which is now on sale at Dell with a coupon for $784, if I remember correctly. Supposedly, the 2405FPW is put together by BenQ in Hong Kong. I'm using a 2405FPW as I type this, and it is the best monitor I've seen.
Dell seems to be undergoing a social breakdown. I would think very carefully before I bought something from them that they had a hand in manufacturing. See this comment: Dell has tricky prices.
My understanding is that Samsung has built a new factory to manufacture new technology in LCD monitors. People often report that the 2405FPW has no dead pixels. I haven't seen any dead pixels on mine.
(I don't have any involvement with any companies mentioned above, other than as customer.)
Interested in reading about blowback? There is a book by that title: Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire.
Notes: Excerpts from the book.
There are many books about blowback. That is one of the better ones. There is so much material that no one book even comes close to covering all of it.
Osama bin Laden said he was motivated to strike back at the U.S. when he watched the U.S. government's bombing of Beirut, Lebanon. I didn't even know the U.S. Navy was involved in war in Beirut until some news story reported bin Laden's complaint.
I'm against all violence. Those Americans who believe in violence, however, must realize that people who are attacked may decide to be violent in return.
Thirty years ago, if the U.S. government had prepared for peace as vigorously as it prepared for war, the wars would not have happened, I think.
From the Slashdot article: "The case numbering suggests that there were at least 153 investigations of misconduct at the FBI in 2003 alone."
What percentage of abuses were discovered? That's the next question.
The U.S. government's FBI, CIA, and NSA agencies, and others too secret to have public names, are the world's most well-funded world-wide secret police and surveillance agencies. When I read the many stories like the one in the Washington Post, I think those agencies are in many cases out of control.
Many of the present problems the U.S. has in the Middle East started in 1953 when the CIA overthrew a democratically elected president of Iran. The CIA calls those problems "blowback".
There is a conflict of interest. CIA employees get raises and promotions if there are more problems. So, the actions of the secret U.S. government agencies tend to favor the creation of blowback.
Weapons makers favor blowback, too. The profits are very high in weapons making, because a lot of negotiations can be secret.
There are two kinds of oil business. One is the normal kind. Another is the kind that involves extremely high profits allowed when there is secrecy, such as when there is a build-up of war-making capacity.
You can read how the problems in the Middle East were created in this short and incomplete article: History surrounding the U.S. war with Iraq: Four short stories.
Both Arabs and some Jews are Semites. Being anti-Semitic would be against both of them. Less than 10% of Semites are Jewish.
Jews call people who are against Jewish policies "anti-Semitic" because they don't want people to say "anti-Jewish". That kind of indirection confuses the issue. The confusion is necessary because, in fact, Jewish violence is not better than the violence of other cultures. If people began examining the reasons people are against Jews, they would discover that Jews have often corrupted the cultures around them for their own advantage, as they have done in encouraging the embezzlement of U.S. taxpayer money discussed in the grandparent comment.
Most Jews are not Semites. "Ninety percent of the world's Jews are descended from converts to Judaism, mostly the Khazars in what is now the southern USSR. The Khazars accepted Judaism as their monotheistic faith. They did not have the remotest connection with the Semites of the Holy Land."
After I posted the comment above, I began thinking that maybe IsraCast is deliberately involved in fraud.
The article referenced in the Slashdot story is, basically, an advertisement for investment. (See the information at the bottom.) That also raises the issue of whether Slashdot editors are taking money for publishing "science" articles that are actually advertisements.
Here is another comment about an article recently carried by Slashdot that seems mostly either public relations or an advertisement for a "charity" to get money: Kindness, or maximizing shareholder value?
There are several problems with the IsraCast article referenced in the Slashdot story:
1) A car is shown in the The Car That Makes Its Own Fuel, but according to the article, no car exists.
2) A car using the technology does not "make its own fuel", as the article says, but uses heavy cartridges of magnesium or aluminum.
3) The technique of using a hot metal and water to make hydrogen has been known for more than 100 years. It is not new. The problem is the enormous expense of refining the resultant metal oxide, with processes that, at present, pollute heavily.
4) The article says that superheated steam and hydrogen enter the combustion chamber. My understanding is that it is well known that such engines have terrible problems with corrosion.
Here is another advertisement of an "investment opportunity" published by IsraCast: Out Of The Box Thinking Produces Safer Water. Quote: "By taking the UV source out of the water and projecting it into the quartz chamber, Atlantium's engineers are able to supply homogeneous distribution of the UV rays..." My understanding is that the method described is used in water purification installations all over the world. It is not new. Note the request for investment at the bottom.
IsraCast's biggest fraud, of course, is the typical Jewish one of presenting Jews as peace-loving victims. When Israel came into existence in 1948, the land was already occupied by Arabs. These Arabs quite understandably resent being pushed out of their land. (I'm against both Jewish and Arab violence.)
The book, The Arabs by David Lamb discusses the violent takeover of Arab land by Jews, among many other subjects. The book is very well written. The story of the takeover is just the normal one that is recounted in many books.
According to a video interview I saw of Abba Evan, a famous Jewish leader, at the end of World War II the Jews were not welcome in any European or North American country. (David Lamb says the same thing.) The position of the Jews about this is that the dislike is entirely unwarranted. However, widely different cultures have objected to Jewish behavior since at least 3,200 years ago when an Egyptian pharaoh had some problem with them.
Of all the cultures I've studied, the Jewish culture is the least able to examine its own behavior.
Another Jewish fraud is getting American taxpayers to pay for violent, immoral Jewish activities toward Arabs. Most Americans don't know this, but the U.S. government supports the killing of Arabs by supporting a scheme of embezzlement: U.S. weapons makers and other largely secret influences have arranged that Israel be given about $5 billion each year as "foreign aid". (The figure varies somewhat each year, and may not be accurate for this year.) But the money can be used only to buy U.S.-made weapons, like the American-made AH-64 Apache helicopter used to kill this Arab leader:
One thing I've learned over the years: Slashdot editors aren't much interested in science. The publish a lot of pseudo-science articles, or nonsense science articles like this one.
The issue here is that the process works, but it is very expensive in energy, because the metal oxide must be refined.
Anyhow, there is nothing new in the referenced article. The fact that it is possible to produce hydrogen using reactive metals has been known since perhaps 1860, maybe much earlier.
If I remember correctly, there was an explosion in Antoine Laurent Lavoisier's lab caused by hydrogen released by heating with metal. Mr. Lavoisier died in 1794, and not from the explosion.
From the article referenced by the Slashdot story: "The metal atoms will bond to the Oxygen from the water, creating metal oxide. As a result, the Hydrogen molecules are free, and will be sent into the engine alongside the steam."
This is just an example of moving the pollution elsewhere. The metal must be refined, at great cost to the environment. Then it is oxidized in a "pollution free" car.
Note this quote from the BBC article: "The government has said it will not market the drug commercially."
I don't believe this. My guess is that the government won't, but someone else will.
Microsoft's article on Monad: Getting Started Guide to Using the MSH Shell and Language.
At the top of each Slashdot page: "The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way."
That's the entire contract that binds Slashdot and those who comment on Slashdot. Any hidden contract that says differently is invalid. Why? Because that would be fraud.
fraud -- A deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain.
The people who own Slashdot, I'm guessing, know that if they asked for anything more than the contract at the top, Slashdot would be less popular. But lawyers in the U.S. are in general the most immoral group of people I've ever met, although there are many very moral lawyers, too. So, somehow, those who own Slashdot try to have both ways.
From OSTG Eula point number 6: "In each such case, the submitting user grants OSTG the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, all subject to the terms of any applicable license."
Do you really give Slashdot owners the right to modify your comments? I don't. For me, the ENTIRE contract is the one at the top of every Slashdot page. I own my comments. Slashdot is not responsible, and has no ownership, other than having the implied right to display my comments as part of the Slashdot discussion in which they were posted.
That line at the top of every Slashdot story is The Fine Print, as it says. Any sneaky, hidden terms are invalid.
I fully agree. The problem here is that Novartis is presenting the photos more for their beauty than for their scientific information. That insults the thinking that goes into science. The real beauty of science is the thinking, not pretty pictures.
The whole thing is probably designed by a public relations agency to get free publicity for Novartis. Probably there is no one at the P.R. agency who has any interest in or respect for scientific investigation. However, that theory means that Novartis is out of control, or very much willing to mislead, because someone in top management at Novartis should have realized what they were doing was a mistake.
Certainly my opinion of Novartis has worsened.
Read the book Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization.
The Chinese on both the mainland and Taiwan have been stealing U.S. and European intellectual property for decades. They use any excuse they think will be accepted. It's possible that the excuse they are giving was market tested before they started to use it. The stealing is that sophisticated.
One way they steal is by buying the influence of corrupt U.S. politicians. Another way they steal is just by stealing.
When someone picks beautiful colors, the photo becomes partly art.
The implication is that people wouldn't be interested in straight science.
Notice that most of the photos were artificially colored.
The contest seems to be public relations advertising. It is supported by Novartis, a pharmaceutical company that perhaps should not be trusted completely: Kindness, or maximizing shareholder value?
This is the real article by Bruce Schneier: Sue Companies, Not Coders
An excerpt at Bruce Schneier's web site is titled Liabilities and Software Vulnerabilities. (Scroll down to see it.)
Bruce Schneier is a very smart guy. This statement from his web log is foolish, and not typical: "Somewhere in the middle there is a reasonable amount of liablity, and that's what I want the courts to figure out."
If Bruce Schneier doesn't have a detailed plan, that shows how difficult it is to resolve the matter. "The courts" have very little knowledge or willingness to think carefully about this. In the U.S., court judges are often backed by those who want a weak judicial system, and other people, like U.S. President George W. Bush, who are corrupt and incompetent. For a list of books discussing the corruption, see: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
Look what the article is saying. The quote says that our "intentions" are equivalent to rat "intentions". This is wild guessing, and I believe there is no justification whatsoever.
My opinion: This is more disgusting Slashdot pseudo-science.
Consider what the article says:
1) Habits are remembered. (They could not be habits if they were not remembered.)
2) The memory is stored in the brain. (Good guess!)
3) Quote: "Graybiel speculated that the beginning and ending spike patterns reflect the nature of a routine behavior." Speculation is another word for guessing.
4) Quote: "It is as though, somehow, the brain retains a memory of the habit context, and this pattern can be triggered if the right habit cues come back,..." Another quote: ' "This situation is familiar to anyone who is trying to lose weight or to control a well-engrained habit. Just the sight of a piece of chocolate can reset all those good intentions," Graybiel said.' It's major pseudo-science to say that rat habits and human habits are similar.
When trying to save a template, I got an "Input/Output" error.