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...you knew, that question "Could enhancing one kind of thinking exact a toll on others?" is always answered with "yes". See it as a partially limited resource.
Well. I would not say that I trust the FDA anymore than any other government or pseudo-government organization. ^^ Which is somewhat at the same level as that holistic pseudoscience site: Veeery down below.
I got my source from a set of studies that were made, and i know that Monsanto tried to denounce the sources of those studies, and create their own ones. Which then were heavily criticized for doing exactly such insane stunts as the Stevia study.
By the way: I dunno, but even if both sweeteners (Aspartame and Stevia) do nothing bad to you, which one would you take: A) The one that is a plant-extract used for at least 5000 years without problems. (Stevia) B) The one that was developed by Monsanto as a biochemical weapon for the US government, and then when not so successful, found to taste sweet in light dosages. (Aspartame) ?
Hey, you can say what you will about Notes, but Lotus SmartSuite (esp. WordPro and 123) was the best office suite ever made, and still is. (Of course it's a bit stale in XML and Internet functions and looks, but the rest...)
And as long as nobody reimplements its InfoBox correctly(!), it always will be.
I wish, we would completely and fully abandon modal dialogs for editing apps. (But I also wish we would simply disallow nearly all usage of the mouse in a word processor.:)
I miss WordPro. Yet I still will not touch MS Word. And frankly, I think OOo Writer is just as bad as MS Word. Because they both imitate each other. I do not like WYSIWYG, and prefer to separate content, structure and design. So I found, that simple XHTML or TeX, with some scripts, suites me better than any office app.
Well, if they'd pay me two "Datahand Pro II"s, my healthcare, a "girlfriend" and a whole house to ho with it, and a secret-service-grade data protection system, I might be interested. ^^ And that's what I would tell them.
Well. It's all a question of cost (side effects + cash) versus gain (illusion of health).
The reason I say "illusion", is this: When was the last time, you saw a pill, that actually made your problems go away forever. You know what I mean. Them not coming back, as soon as you stop taking the stuff. Well, most medicaments (especially painkillers) are just telling your body to disable the alarms that went off because you did something wrong or got attacked by something. So you will not fix it. And you will learn nothing from it. You just keep paying... and paying... and paying...
What most people do not realize, is that virtually all of those diseases, that come "because of old age" and many of those that somehow can't be fixed, come from really loong times of doing something wrong or being in an unhealthy environment. At least a decade. If not much more. A small chemical imbalance can kill you, if you give it enough time.
Interestingly, there *are* doctors who know what the causes of that type of diseases are. Mainly the ones that work with many patients over very long times. And according to them (one of them being Dr. med. M. O. Bruker), those small (or not so small) imbalances (things like a bit denatured proteins, shortages of certain vitamins, and refined sugar, or short: processed food) cause those diseases. Do it right, and you never develop that shit. Which is very obvious, if you think about it.
I think, you only really see, how broken the system is, when you look at how little work there is actually done, to help you prevent getting sick. And of course, that doctors do not earn money for keeping people healthy, but get payed only when you become sick. What could possibly go wrong? ^^
Well, there are things that you can't ingest as fast as you would need for it to kill you.
I guess, even though your comment is anecdotal, that it's somewhat similar to Stevia. A sweetener made from a plant. It's used by American natives for thousands of years. To get to the point: Monsanto, makers of the cancerous Aspartame (who else? ^^), ordered a study. The result was, that you could become sterile from it. (Stay with me.) What they did not really put their emphasis on, was that the amount you had to eat, for it to be any dangerous, would be half of your body weight. Every single day. Try that with salt. ^^ Or even with water! (Yes. Too much water can kill you too. Same as not enough of it.) Or, well, pot.:)
Don't you mean author's right? You aren't a distributor, are you?
Besides, I still don't get, how you can assign a to copy things to one person/group, when it's impossible to stop others from copying, by definition? I mean, music that is physically impossible to copy, is physically impossible to hear. Same thing with video, or any other medium. And threatening people... well, I'm someone who only fights harder and more stealthy when I'm threatened. I would not recommend threatening people like me. ^^
Well, you as a man are there to be the dominant role and offer her a defined reality. I don't mean that in a evil "you think what I say" asshole kind of way. But in a '"he gives me safety and comfort" supportive guidance' kind of way. If she knows that you are very secure of your reality, she wants to join in, thereby leaving that superstitiousness behind.
Simple. Because all heavy elements (where heavy means heavier than hydrogen) are created in stars. That early, there were simply no stars before that, so nobody could produce them.
Of course, the star himself did produce them. But the question where my knowledge ends is: Do stars with that size burn right trough to the usual iron stage, or do they explode earlier, and if yes why?
You are still human, if you fit the definition of a Homo sapiens (eg flesh, genetics, e.t.c.). Simple as that.:) But you can be a person, without being human.
The error in this whole discussion stems from a false dichotomy. There is no "or" in the human/machine question. Humans are some biological form of machine. And most importantly: You can be part anything. Part human, part machine, part manbearpig.:)
Machines have long ago surpassed our running speed (cars/planes/trains) and our ability to farm/grow food (tractors) and our ability to hurl object (guns) and swim (boats) but we've always had the ability to out-think our machines.
Machines have done nothing. Machines like you describe them do not act. They are tools. Not the computer does something. The programmer did something with the computer. Not the car drove. You drove the car. And so on.
You wouldn't say, that a glove, or ever your hand "has done" anything. You used it. You controlled it.:)
Of course, it will not be guaranteed to be that way, in the future. ^^
A signature does not matter. The postal service here in Germany (Deutsche Post, post office in Gütersloh) simply forged my signature to blame it on me. I have paper proof of that in my archive. But I would have to sue them first, which would cost me more.
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...you knew, that question "Could enhancing one kind of thinking exact a toll on others?" is always answered with "yes". See it as a partially limited resource.
I heard they go well with telephone sanitizers. Maybe if you build a ship for them, and tell them some bullshit story about a great adventure...
"From this, on to our new segment: 'Shit that's never going to happen!'" :D
So are we Fox News now? Because IMHO TFA drips with sensationalist scaremongering. Or am I missing something here? (Not a rhetorical question.)
Hey moderators: Whoooosh! ^^
Well. I would not say that I trust the FDA anymore than any other government or pseudo-government organization. ^^
Which is somewhat at the same level as that holistic pseudoscience site: Veeery down below.
I got my source from a set of studies that were made, and i know that Monsanto tried to denounce the sources of those studies, and create their own ones. Which then were heavily criticized for doing exactly such insane stunts as the Stevia study.
By the way: I dunno, but even if both sweeteners (Aspartame and Stevia) do nothing bad to you, which one would you take:
A) The one that is a plant-extract used for at least 5000 years without problems. (Stevia)
B) The one that was developed by Monsanto as a biochemical weapon for the US government, and then when not so successful, found to taste sweet in light dosages. (Aspartame)
?
I recommend, that you implement the system that they implemented it Zürich in Switzerland. It is mathematically proven that there is no system that is more fair than this one.
There's a nice article about it in the German magazine "Spektrum der Wissenschaft". (German version of the "Scientific American".)
Grow up, perhaps? ^^
No. It's their new limitation for parallel-running apps. Window 8 is the basic starter edition.
Hey, you can say what you will about Notes, but Lotus SmartSuite (esp. WordPro and 123) was the best office suite ever made, and still is. (Of course it's a bit stale in XML and Internet functions and looks, but the rest...)
And as long as nobody reimplements its InfoBox correctly(!), it always will be.
I wish, we would completely and fully abandon modal dialogs for editing apps. :)
(But I also wish we would simply disallow nearly all usage of the mouse in a word processor.
I miss WordPro. Yet I still will not touch MS Word. And frankly, I think OOo Writer is just as bad as MS Word. Because they both imitate each other.
I do not like WYSIWYG, and prefer to separate content, structure and design. So I found, that simple XHTML or TeX, with some scripts, suites me better than any office app.
Well, if they'd pay me two "Datahand Pro II"s, my healthcare, a "girlfriend" and a whole house to ho with it, and a secret-service-grade data protection system, I might be interested. ^^
And that's what I would tell them.
Well, let it save your "race"... There problem solved.
Oh boy, I really hope nobody really does this...
Sure. I just will continue, to never open the door of the basement, and irradiate all my food while it gets trough the lock.
I also guess, we on /. wouldn't even notice this, if it weren't for those moles from the outside, bringing in such news as this. ;)
Well. It's all a question of cost (side effects + cash) versus gain (illusion of health).
The reason I say "illusion", is this: When was the last time, you saw a pill, that actually made your problems go away forever. You know what I mean. Them not coming back, as soon as you stop taking the stuff.
Well, most medicaments (especially painkillers) are just telling your body to disable the alarms that went off because you did something wrong or got attacked by something.
So you will not fix it. And you will learn nothing from it. You just keep paying... and paying... and paying...
What most people do not realize, is that virtually all of those diseases, that come "because of old age" and many of those that somehow can't be fixed, come from really loong times of doing something wrong or being in an unhealthy environment. At least a decade. If not much more.
A small chemical imbalance can kill you, if you give it enough time.
Interestingly, there *are* doctors who know what the causes of that type of diseases are. Mainly the ones that work with many patients over very long times. And according to them (one of them being Dr. med. M. O. Bruker), those small (or not so small) imbalances (things like a bit denatured proteins, shortages of certain vitamins, and refined sugar, or short: processed food) cause those diseases. Do it right, and you never develop that shit.
Which is very obvious, if you think about it.
I think, you only really see, how broken the system is, when you look at how little work there is actually done, to help you prevent getting sick. And of course, that doctors do not earn money for keeping people healthy, but get payed only when you become sick. What could possibly go wrong? ^^
Well, there are things that you can't ingest as fast as you would need for it to kill you.
I guess, even though your comment is anecdotal, that it's somewhat similar to Stevia. A sweetener made from a plant. It's used by American natives for thousands of years. :)
To get to the point: Monsanto, makers of the cancerous Aspartame (who else? ^^), ordered a study. The result was, that you could become sterile from it. (Stay with me.)
What they did not really put their emphasis on, was that the amount you had to eat, for it to be any dangerous, would be half of your body weight. Every single day.
Try that with salt. ^^ Or even with water! (Yes. Too much water can kill you too. Same as not enough of it.)
Or, well, pot.
You know where I'm going with this...
Don't you mean author's right? You aren't a distributor, are you?
Besides, I still don't get, how you can assign a to copy things to one person/group, when it's impossible to stop others from copying, by definition?
I mean, music that is physically impossible to copy, is physically impossible to hear. Same thing with video, or any other medium.
And threatening people... well, I'm someone who only fights harder and more stealthy when I'm threatened. I would not recommend threatening people like me. ^^
Hey, we all share out bandwidth gratuitously. We even upgrade out pipes and rip DVDs. ;)
PS sending some Bush officials to jail for torture would be an effective counter-argument to the allegation of single-party rule, would it not?
Well, somebody has to play the scapegoat. But I'm sure they'll find somebody completely unrelated.
[FAR OUT!] Normal(?) trends in town! TERRROOOR! :D
Yes, you have to be German and know that show to find it funny in the way it was intended to be. :D
Well, you as a man are there to be the dominant role and offer her a defined reality.
I don't mean that in a evil "you think what I say" asshole kind of way.
But in a '"he gives me safety and comfort" supportive guidance' kind of way.
If she knows that you are very secure of your reality, she wants to join in, thereby leaving that superstitiousness behind.
Simple. Because all heavy elements (where heavy means heavier than hydrogen) are created in stars.
That early, there were simply no stars before that, so nobody could produce them.
Of course, the star himself did produce them. But the question where my knowledge ends is: Do stars with that size burn right trough to the usual iron stage, or do they explode earlier, and if yes why?
Answer: Installing.
And then?
Installing.
Well, and then?
Well... installing. Then Portage broke.
You are still human, if you fit the definition of a Homo sapiens (eg flesh, genetics, e.t.c.). Simple as that. :)
But you can be a person, without being human.
The error in this whole discussion stems from a false dichotomy. There is no "or" in the human/machine question. :)
Humans are some biological form of machine. And most importantly: You can be part anything. Part human, part machine, part manbearpig.
Machines have long ago surpassed our running speed (cars/planes/trains) and our ability to farm/grow food (tractors) and our ability to hurl object (guns) and swim (boats) but we've always had the ability to out-think our machines.
Machines have done nothing. Machines like you describe them do not act. They are tools. Not the computer does something.
The programmer did something with the computer.
Not the car drove. You drove the car.
And so on.
You wouldn't say, that a glove, or ever your hand "has done" anything. You used it. You controlled it. :)
Of course, it will not be guaranteed to be that way, in the future. ^^
A signature does not matter. The postal service here in Germany (Deutsche Post, post office in Gütersloh) simply forged my signature to blame it on me. I have paper proof of that in my archive.
But I would have to sue them first, which would cost me more.