Especially note; Havlícek J., Gasová Z., Smith A. P. , Zvára K, J. Flegr J. (2001) Decrease of psychomotor performance in subjects with latent "asymptomatic" toxoplasmosis. Parasitology, 122: 515-520
Approximately 80% of French people are estimated to be infested with this parasite, through habitual eating of near raw meat.
Its strange really; Islam is almost the other way around.
First they had their expansion and conversion at sword point its true, but then there was a remarkable phase of civilisation where the Islamic world was far *far* more advanced both scientifically and socially than the Christian powers of the same period.
Now Islam almost seems to have reverted.
There are those who say that this is actually the result of a strategy of the Christian powers; they realised that they couldn't defeat Islam on the battlefield so they focussed on destroying the Islamic culture and society by more subtle means.
"Remember what happened to the technically challenged French in WWII?"
I dunno, I still believe that the reason the French got 'steam rolled' was because of their love of super rare beef which happens to contain the spores of a brain parasite which slows reaction speeds by as much as 20%.
"it's meant to be used over the battlefield, as a replacement for the Patriot"
hmmmm good point.
I wonder what will happen to RAF Tornados that get hit by this laser instead of a patriot missile? Maybe there will be fewer friendly fire casualties as a result?
"We bash MS, and get MS defenders countering with idiocy that makes it seem like it's all a battle of opinion over whether MS is a big bad company or simply misunderstood, or whether MS is a monopoly, or just highly talented"
Its not a matter of opinion. Its a matter of fact.
Anyone who thinks that MS is 'just highly talented' isn't worth the toilet paper they use to wipe their arse.
Yeah thats why I figure I'd never become a serial killer.
I mean, to make a difference to this planet I'd have to kill *billions* not just a few hundred here and a few hundred there.
Even if I managed to kill a million people, the human race would make that back up in the blink of an eye.
So I figure, what the heck? Its just not worth it.
Besides, the human race seems (on the whole) to have a defective survival instinct (eg cyclists) so I am sure that they will, ahem, take care of themselves.
"I had the same opinion when the first big wave of blogs hit. There was nothing interesting there, and I couldn't see the point."
Actually I recall it was the same back when the World Wide Web started off; at first there was nothing much except some research sites and.com's and then all of a sudden it seemed that everyone and their *dog* had a website and that it was invariably crap.
Maybe blogs have improved and I should give them a chance...
My main problem with the bloggers whose blogs I've tried to read is not their lazyness or balancedness but the way that they seem to think that other people are actually interested in reading about the latest meds their psychiatrist has prescribed them or the visit to the vet with their kitten that got a splinter in its foot.
Ie; their insufferable Lameness.
(and to me/. is not a blog, its more like usenet but via http instead of nntp).
"Bottom line, the music industry pushes out a pile of crap for the most part and it ALWAYS has"
Thats a generic problem with all industrialisation.
In fact, I'd say that industrialisation has fucked up almost everything it touches; the only thing that industrialisation hasn't fucked up is productivity.
But the industrialisation of music (more generally, entertainment), education and warfare (to name three) have royally screwed the human race.
"I don't think anyone there is stupid enough to think they can go back to NetWare."
I know people, younger than me (I'm early 40's), who have more computers at home than me (maybe a dozen) and who are really dedicated to NetWare and don't have one single Linux box among their home LANs. Who will spend all weekend trying to find hardware which will run the latest version of NetWare.
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You will find some relevent PDFs here;
http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~flegr/publpar.htm
Especially note;
Havlícek J., Gasová Z., Smith A. P. , Zvára K, J. Flegr J. (2001) Decrease of psychomotor performance in subjects with latent "asymptomatic" toxoplasmosis. Parasitology, 122: 515-520
Approximately 80% of French people are estimated to be infested with this parasite, through habitual eating of near raw meat.
IIRC the figure for the UK is closer to 30%.
Its strange really; Islam is almost the other way around.
First they had their expansion and conversion at sword point its true, but then there was a remarkable phase of civilisation where the Islamic world was far *far* more advanced both scientifically and socially than the Christian powers of the same period.
Now Islam almost seems to have reverted.
There are those who say that this is actually the result of a strategy of the Christian powers; they realised that they couldn't defeat Islam on the battlefield so they focussed on destroying the Islamic culture and society by more subtle means.
"Remember what happened to the technically challenged French in WWII?"
I dunno, I still believe that the reason the French got 'steam rolled' was because of their love of super rare beef which happens to contain the spores of a brain parasite which slows reaction speeds by as much as 20%.
"it's meant to be used over the battlefield, as a replacement for the Patriot"
hmmmm good point.
I wonder what will happen to RAF Tornados that get hit by this laser instead of a patriot missile? Maybe there will be fewer friendly fire casualties as a result?
I've played enough civ to know that when you get the SDI defense youj force build them everywhere you can as fast as possible.
And then you nuke any potential enemies who don't already have SDI defense.
In fact, I can scarce believe how the modern world is so much like the endgame of civ...
"but it looks like Disney is tring to make it into a kids movie."
Well yeah, its *disney*
If they'd released it under 'touchstone' then maybe Trillian would be sexy... but it'd still be total crap; Its *disney*, remember.
Even Hitchikers will be shit once disney get through with it.
"We bash MS, and get MS defenders countering with idiocy that makes it seem like it's all a battle of opinion over whether MS is a big bad company or simply misunderstood, or whether MS is a monopoly, or just highly talented"
Its not a matter of opinion. Its a matter of fact.
Anyone who thinks that MS is 'just highly talented' isn't worth the toilet paper they use to wipe their arse.
"No offense but for most of these, it doesn't appear you looked all that hard before you gave up on it."
/. identity you were talking to! He knows what he's talking about!
Dude, that was Steve Vamos secret
Yeah thats why I figure I'd never become a serial killer.
I mean, to make a difference to this planet I'd have to kill *billions* not just a few hundred here and a few hundred there.
Even if I managed to kill a million people, the human race would make that back up in the blink of an eye.
So I figure, what the heck? Its just not worth it.
Besides, the human race seems (on the whole) to have a defective survival instinct (eg cyclists) so I am sure that they will, ahem, take care of themselves.
"I had the same opinion when the first big wave of blogs hit. There was nothing interesting there, and I couldn't see the point."
.com's and then all of a sudden it seemed that everyone and their *dog* had a website and that it was invariably crap.
Actually I recall it was the same back when the World Wide Web started off; at first there was nothing much except some research sites and
Maybe blogs have improved and I should give them a chance...
My main problem with the bloggers whose blogs I've tried to read is not their lazyness or balancedness but the way that they seem to think that other people are actually interested in reading about the latest meds their psychiatrist has prescribed them or the visit to the vet with their kitten that got a splinter in its foot.
/. is not a blog, its more like usenet but via http instead of nntp).
Ie; their insufferable Lameness.
(and to me
blogs popular?
They may be popular with people who want to blog, but seriously, does anyone who does not themselves blog actually *read* blogs?
(Judging by the blogs I've tried to read in the past, they are the very *acme* of lameness).
"Bottom line, the music industry pushes out a pile of crap for the most part and it ALWAYS has"
Thats a generic problem with all industrialisation.
In fact, I'd say that industrialisation has fucked up almost everything it touches; the only thing that industrialisation hasn't fucked up is productivity.
But the industrialisation of music (more generally, entertainment), education and warfare (to name three) have royally screwed the human race.
yes, thats observant. So they were metaphorically brown.
Besides, the Germans were trying for world domination, thereby moving in on Americas 'action' in a different way.
"I don't think anyone there is stupid enough to think they can go back to NetWare."
I know people, younger than me (I'm early 40's), who have more computers at home than me (maybe a dozen) and who are really dedicated to NetWare and don't have one single Linux box among their home LANs. Who will spend all weekend trying to find hardware which will run the latest version of NetWare.
Otherwise, apparently intelligent guys.
Bizarre.
Ok ok, not anglo-saxon.
And the Germans were trying for world domination.
As (IIRC) Jello Biafra said 'Thats our fucking job! Thats *our* *fucking* *Job*!!!!')
"Robot-controlled Hummers that can't drive straight, but can still shoot."
And can do 10 miles per gallon. On sealed roads. Offroad that might drop to 5 miles per gallon.
I guess they'll be great for protecting fuel convoys...
No he doesn't; but when the USA do bomb people, they tend to be brown people.
When was the last time they bombed white people? That would be the Serbs. The Serbs were persecuting Muslims (brown people).
And the time before that, the Germans. The Germans were persecuting Jews (brown people).
The pattern emerging here is that when white people move in on Americas 'action', they get bombed.
But brown people just have to be brown, thats all.
Does the grunt just have to merely 'believe' that its an illegal order?
Or does he have to have a lawyer standing behind him and a sound legal argument prepared to present to the person giving the order?
Or what?
I'd have thought the rules of engagement in a war on fear were obvious; if it scares you, shoot it or blow it up.
And thats whats happening.
No, in fact if they met with any success they'd doubtless be burnt as witches
With the current, rather theocratic US administration, I'm surprised they don't try training field medics in faith healing...
If we could get these little guys to crawl across the face of a render wall, pressing reset buttons as needed, then I'll be impressed.
;)
all we need to do is dress up like a character from the game and do Bad Things?
I guess theres some value in anime 'cosplay' after all...
Now, where can I get a pokemon costume...
"what about the millions of cars on the road? Don't these suck up more oil than the power companies?"
Yeah, but a nuclear powered hum-vee might do more than 10 miles per gallon!