I doubt most people actually know the true definition of homeopathic
Does it matter since it's all a scam? The problem here is instead of the usual grass clippings the scam artists involved believed their own bullshit and put a real poison in there. Do them for manslaughter like any other poisoners. They managed to fuck up a placebo. How fucked up is that?
Also, I've never heard of a homeopath suggesting a similarity between homeopathy and immunisation
If you know one I suggest mentioning it to them so long as you don't mind them ever talking to you again:) Psuedo-science scams are based on something real to drag people into the bullshit. See also "mesmerism", debunked by both Ben Franklin and Voltaire, which was based on magnetism. Mesmer had real magnets when magnets were rare but the rest was bullshit.
Indeed. They took a good idea from someone who was trying to make the world a better place and instead twisted it into a scam to take money from sick people. I'd better write some more to define the "good idea" because some will misunderstand or pretend to do so. The idea was to dilute a poison to the point where it would not kill the patient but would have an effect on a system that has a problem - eg. too much warfarin (used in rat poison) will kill you while a reduced amount inhibits blood clotting and will keep people in danger of strokes etc alive. The scam artists took that idea and decided that making money was more important than being sure that their supposed cures worked.
It is quite surprising this hasn't happened more often,
Here's one from as far back as 2011: https://thenextweb.com/au/2011... It's probably not making the news so much because it's probably normally thought of as a petty crime.
Seeing as I replied to your comments in one thread
One? It was around twelve threads on the same story - you were proud of it and wrote something about "fisking". Did you just read about this newly popular "gaslighting" bullying thing and decide to give it a try by picking on people here pretending stuff that has happened has not happened? Don't you have anything better to do than whine, moan and haunt posters here who have pissed you off?
What I wrote was related to the cables the item is testing and not the tester itself. It should have been very clear that my comment was one step removed from the tester.
Correction? He was completely wrong. All I wrote was Bush did it, and Crash even quoted something saying Bush did it (On December 19, 2008) in his goalpost shift where he tried to pretend he meant something other that what he had written previously. Besides, I would not even know where to look to find a "shrink". Do you have experience with these matters and can recommend one, perhaps one that tried to fix the sort of behavior you just exhibited?
Goalpost shift there Crash, from not Bush to Bush but extenuating circumstances. It's not an important issue so why not just admit your memory was a little hazy when you attacked my "bailout by Bush" that was definitely before Obama took office? Are you going to be consistent and give Trump the credit for tanks in Poland after the election or are you going to have it both ways and say that was Obama? See how silly your claim it wasn't really Bush because it happened in December (just like those tanks last month) really is - Obama wasn't sworn in in 2008 FFS!
I think you need to see a shrink about your paranoia.
So that spamming that's still there for all to see never happened? Oh I forgot, the shrink bit is just one of your stock phrases you use on people and doesn't have to have anything to do with the topic, it's not that pathetic bullying tactic, what do they call it, "gaslighting" at all is it?
Some things in history are indeed bad and that bailout by Bush was one of them.
Here is something to jog your memory: http://www.newyorker.com/news/...
Now how about you stop following me around with yet more silly "corrections" that turn out to be wrong. Please go haunt somebody else or give up on that habit entirely
How much are you willing to pay in taxes for customs to inspect and carefully vet every package coming in for false certifications?
You are a bit slower on the uptake than normal today, try some coffee. It's about what people get from their local vendors who buy in bulk and not mail order. It's about the sort of checking that is already going on for thousands of other products, just not USB cables, so the extra costs end up being minimal.
costs several hundred dollars
Make that many thousands when you've got a vendor ordering them by the shipping container.
A couple of decades back I was testing acetylene cylinders that a local business wanted to import. They failed. Badly. On multiple counts. They were an accident waiting to happen and may have caused a few accidents in India (or maybe not, that manufacturer had never made acetylene cylinders before). You don't get dangerous acetylene cylinders in the cheap bin, you don't get them allowed for sale at all. Why should USB cables that can burn your house down be treated differently? The consumer should not have to know better unless they buy direct from China or something.
Yes libertarians - I was one of those nasty people that was regulating your shit, but I was doing it from private enterprise even if the standards were endorsed by government. I was regulating your shit so you don't blow yourself up or eat fish full of mercury even though you say you want the freedom to do that. Well you may have that freedom soon.
In fact, traditionally, their success was attributed to the "protestant work ethic"
Something they have in common with the "rust belt" and the poorest bits of the deep south.
I know you hate the idea of people working together, but it's pretty obvious that it's the different government that has something to do with it and not just some stupid "poor people are lazy" line.
Any irrelevant ideological barrow could have been pushed from those numbers just by excluding all those people in China. eg. So it appears that places where people eat bread instead of rice are less corrupt. Who would have thought?
Sorry to reply again, but consider Trumps views on the first amendment and the eighth and you'll see why people are suggesting he won't let the constitution get in his way. That just leaves a compliant congress and a supreme court that he can top up until enough of them are compliant. No coup required for him to get exactly what he wants no matter what the constitution says.
True. My bank does this on their web page. You are unable to see what the transfer details are and the buttons that accept or cancel the transfer at the same time. It looks especially stupid on a large monitor. I think the box is fixed to something like 18 characters wide, so playing with font sizes does not help. That this stupid UI design bug has persisted for more than a year beyond annoying.
A lot of elements are simple enough that they would not have asked. For instance, with gnome2 and older KDE interface styles (both still popular) I've noticed users all seem to have changed the number of virtual desktops from the default two and they have named their virtual desktops. It's not the sort of messing about everyone was doing to get fvwm the way they wanted it some time ago but it's still modifying their GUI environment to make it easier to use. Also the applications as getting better at solving the problem at that level. I used to muck about with tiling and have little scripts to launch a lot of terminal windows, but now I just use "tmux".
Hey Trump cheerleader - how do you feel about paying 20% more for cars, fruit, computers and gasoline to fund the vanity project of the wall?
I wonder how long it will take you to catch on to why we are complaining about the guy and the obvious problem of having him in charge of anything important.
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Does it matter since it's all a scam? The problem here is instead of the usual grass clippings the scam artists involved believed their own bullshit and put a real poison in there. Do them for manslaughter like any other poisoners.
They managed to fuck up a placebo. How fucked up is that?
If you know one I suggest mentioning it to them so long as you don't mind them ever talking to you again :)
Psuedo-science scams are based on something real to drag people into the bullshit. See also "mesmerism", debunked by both Ben Franklin and Voltaire, which was based on magnetism. Mesmer had real magnets when magnets were rare but the rest was bullshit.
Indeed. They took a good idea from someone who was trying to make the world a better place and instead twisted it into a scam to take money from sick people.
I'd better write some more to define the "good idea" because some will misunderstand or pretend to do so. The idea was to dilute a poison to the point where it would not kill the patient but would have an effect on a system that has a problem - eg. too much warfarin (used in rat poison) will kill you while a reduced amount inhibits blood clotting and will keep people in danger of strokes etc alive.
The scam artists took that idea and decided that making money was more important than being sure that their supposed cures worked.
Here's one from as far back as 2011:
https://thenextweb.com/au/2011...
It's probably not making the news so much because it's probably normally thought of as a petty crime.
To a thief the hardware and power they can get for nothing is cheaper than an ASIC they have to buy.
See also Bitcoin miner trojans.
One? It was around twelve threads on the same story - you were proud of it and wrote something about "fisking". Did you just read about this newly popular "gaslighting" bullying thing and decide to give it a try by picking on people here pretending stuff that has happened has not happened? Don't you have anything better to do than whine, moan and haunt posters here who have pissed you off?
The calendar agrees with me.
Give it up spamboy.
What I wrote was related to the cables the item is testing and not the tester itself. It should have been very clear that my comment was one step removed from the tester.
Correction? He was completely wrong. All I wrote was Bush did it, and Crash even quoted something saying Bush did it (On December 19, 2008) in his goalpost shift where he tried to pretend he meant something other that what he had written previously.
Besides, I would not even know where to look to find a "shrink". Do you have experience with these matters and can recommend one, perhaps one that tried to fix the sort of behavior you just exhibited?
Cool link! Someone please mod that post up.
So that spamming that's still there for all to see never happened? Oh I forgot, the shrink bit is just one of your stock phrases you use on people and doesn't have to have anything to do with the topic, it's not that pathetic bullying tactic, what do they call it, "gaslighting" at all is it?
Some things in history are indeed bad and that bailout by Bush was one of them.
Here is something to jog your memory:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/...
Now how about you stop following me around with yet more silly "corrections" that turn out to be wrong. Please go haunt somebody else or give up on that habit entirely
It's well within what Walmart or a major cable distributor can do.
You are a bit slower on the uptake than normal today, try some coffee. It's about what people get from their local vendors who buy in bulk and not mail order. It's about the sort of checking that is already going on for thousands of other products, just not USB cables, so the extra costs end up being minimal.
Make that many thousands when you've got a vendor ordering them by the shipping container.
A couple of decades back I was testing acetylene cylinders that a local business wanted to import. They failed. Badly. On multiple counts. They were an accident waiting to happen and may have caused a few accidents in India (or maybe not, that manufacturer had never made acetylene cylinders before).
You don't get dangerous acetylene cylinders in the cheap bin, you don't get them allowed for sale at all.
Why should USB cables that can burn your house down be treated differently? The consumer should not have to know better unless they buy direct from China or something.
Yes libertarians - I was one of those nasty people that was regulating your shit, but I was doing it from private enterprise even if the standards were endorsed by government. I was regulating your shit so you don't blow yourself up or eat fish full of mercury even though you say you want the freedom to do that. Well you may have that freedom soon.
Something they have in common with the "rust belt" and the poorest bits of the deep south.
I know you hate the idea of people working together, but it's pretty obvious that it's the different government that has something to do with it and not just some stupid "poor people are lazy" line.
Such as the US automobile industry under Bush?
You forgot that one while pushing the Party line Komrade.
Any irrelevant ideological barrow could have been pushed from those numbers just by excluding all those people in China.
eg. So it appears that places where people eat bread instead of rice are less corrupt. Who would have thought?
Sorry to reply again, but consider Trumps views on the first amendment and the eighth and you'll see why people are suggesting he won't let the constitution get in his way. That just leaves a compliant congress and a supreme court that he can top up until enough of them are compliant. No coup required for him to get exactly what he wants no matter what the constitution says.
True. My bank does this on their web page. You are unable to see what the transfer details are and the buttons that accept or cancel the transfer at the same time. It looks especially stupid on a large monitor. I think the box is fixed to something like 18 characters wide, so playing with font sizes does not help. That this stupid UI design bug has persisted for more than a year beyond annoying.
The same reason their stuff is horribly slow without using a gaming card to render it - bad design.
A lot of elements are simple enough that they would not have asked. For instance, with gnome2 and older KDE interface styles (both still popular) I've noticed users all seem to have changed the number of virtual desktops from the default two and they have named their virtual desktops. It's not the sort of messing about everyone was doing to get fvwm the way they wanted it some time ago but it's still modifying their GUI environment to make it easier to use.
Also the applications as getting better at solving the problem at that level. I used to muck about with tiling and have little scripts to launch a lot of terminal windows, but now I just use "tmux".
Given that it is Microsoft we are talking about, do you really think that applies in any way at all?
In a Desmond Bagley spy thriller the automatic translator turned "hydraulic ram" into "water sheep".
Hey Trump cheerleader - how do you feel about paying 20% more for cars, fruit, computers and gasoline to fund the vanity project of the wall?
I wonder how long it will take you to catch on to why we are complaining about the guy and the obvious problem of having him in charge of anything important.