i don't have a definitive opinion on this issue. in the info that i found, the facts are drowned by noise and pseudoscience, and it's hard to discern truth from fiction. however, in homeopathy, certain poisons are used in very low (10^-12) concentrations to treat symptoms they would otherwise cause in normal concentrations (homeopathy is dissed in US, but rather popular in Europe; it was invented by a German).
also, naturopaths claim that ground level O3 is not a cause a pollution, but rather an effect, a sign of mother nature trying to clean itself.
Just like everybody else, I used to think that ozone is a poison and that it burns your lung. Ever since my father got lung cancer, almost every naturopath I talked to extolled O3's virtues. I even met on the 'net someone who holds a patent on something like this:
http://patents1.ic.gc.ca/details?patent_number=219 2602&language=EN_CA
The following is info he passed on to me:
Ozone therapy will propably be delivered by bubbling ozone through 20-200ml of blood outside of the body followed by re-infusion.
This procedure is called autohematherapy. It is benefitial for cancer because:
Increases oxygen content to tumor-this blocks angiogenesis (formation of new blood vessels)
Increases susceptibility of tumor cells to immune attack.
Ozone has some direct anti-cancer (induction of
cancer cell apoptosis (cell suicide) without affecting normal cells).
There is a lot of info on the net about ozone, some of it is exagerated claims, and some info is saying that ozone is useless. The truth is that ozone doesn't cure all, but it does have benefitial properties in cancer, HIV, and other chronic conditions.
http://www.oxytherapy.com/ (a general ozone site)
http://www.vasogen.com (this is ozone therapy, but the say it is "VasoCare" so that they patent it)
The Speccy was my first computer, back in hi-skule. I used to live in an Eastern European country where no software was available other than pirated. I amassed a large collection stored on my big roll-tapes and I even resold some at a nice profit. This is may be ethically wrong, but back then and there it was probably not illegal.
I loved those games and enjoyed them even though I would've probably never been able to purchase them legally. Most games came already cracked, and let me tell you, even though the hardware specs seem rather poor, those 48K went a long way!
A couple of years ago I installed an emulator and some of my favourite games (chuckie egg & nether earth) for my little bro. He played a bit, but soon thereafter he reverted back to the games he can play over the internet with his buddies (mostly nox, etc).
I think these games have very limited appeal today, and they are played only by die-hard fans who owned the real thang. IDSA doesn't even know what they're after, and if they took the time to try these games b4 actually calling the lawyers, they'd save everybody the aggravation.
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i don't have a definitive opinion on this issue. in the info that i found, the facts are drowned by noise and pseudoscience, and it's hard to discern truth from fiction. however, in homeopathy, certain poisons are used in very low (10^-12) concentrations to treat symptoms they would otherwise cause in normal concentrations (homeopathy is dissed in US, but rather popular in Europe; it was invented by a German). also, naturopaths claim that ground level O3 is not a cause a pollution, but rather an effect, a sign of mother nature trying to clean itself.
made a mist ake with the url: there's an extra space in the patent number; remove it and the link will work
http://patents1.ic.gc.ca/details?patent_number=21
The following is info he passed on to me:
The Speccy was my first computer, back in hi-skule. I used to live in an Eastern European country where no software was available other than pirated. I amassed a large collection stored on my big roll-tapes and I even resold some at a nice profit. This is may be ethically wrong, but back then and there it was probably not illegal. I loved those games and enjoyed them even though I would've probably never been able to purchase them legally. Most games came already cracked, and let me tell you, even though the hardware specs seem rather poor, those 48K went a long way! A couple of years ago I installed an emulator and some of my favourite games (chuckie egg & nether earth) for my little bro. He played a bit, but soon thereafter he reverted back to the games he can play over the internet with his buddies (mostly nox, etc). I think these games have very limited appeal today, and they are played only by die-hard fans who owned the real thang. IDSA doesn't even know what they're after, and if they took the time to try these games b4 actually calling the lawyers, they'd save everybody the aggravation.