"The Fermi paradox says that if extraterrestrial civilizations exist, at least one of them should have colonized the entire galaxy by now"
Why can't there be loads of civilizations in similar states to our own, why *MUST* they be so advance that they would be capable of colonising the entire galaxy by now. Even if a civilization was more advance than us who is to say that they are capable of interstella travel. Dosn't this assume some kind of startrek technology is possible? What if its not. So a civilization builds an ark or two to escape a dieing solarsystem and moves to another, thats not talking over the entire galaxy is it?
If life is anything like our own, any sufficiently advanced civilization will have had plenty of chances to nuke themseves before they even got past their local moon.
You *already* pay this 2% when you buy anything on a credit card. As some others have stated. The exact amount depends on what the store has negoatated with its merchant bank. If you look at many receipts (here in the UK anyway), you see things like (ASDA example) you agree that 2% of the transaction will go to ASDA card services ltd but the price you pay remains the same.
In these cases you should be demanding that if you pay cash you get a 2% reduction!
I would be careful with this kind of thing, if you use it too much your muscles etc will depend on it, Try to correct your posture your self where possible, there are exercises you can do to help force your back/neck to where it should be but you would need to see a professional to get proper advice about specific excerises.
"Here's a contrary hypothesis: carpal tunnel syndrome and chronic back pain are stress related. That's not to say they aren't real, it's to say that the primary contributory agent is stress. People in repetitive data entry employment may have stressful lifestyles. The stress may be partially caused by the job, or there may be some other non-causal association."
Your hypothesis is well founded, My other half has a serious back problem that may or may not have been started by horse riding BUT now it is triggered by stress. If she gets too stressed it ends up with her back slipping seriously out of line and scyatica problems.
Exercise has had an huge benifit for two probably reasons:-
1. it helps the muscles get stronger and this protects the back
2. excerise is good for removing stress, but doing something physical it can help lighten mental problems and allow you to calm down.
On the other side, i suffer from a neck problem because of bad posture, now again this may not just be computer caused, i have always had bad posture when sitting at desks, you could argue that a pen and paper does me as much damage as working at a computer screen.
Now for me adjusting my posture at desks computer or not )has helped a lot but i still see a chiropractor. For me this works well, I pay for it out of my own money, no NHS no insurance and for me the money spent has really helped as well. My head was at one point 30mm to far forward, might not sound a lot but that puts a lot of stress on the base of the neck as the weight of the head is shifted, for me the chiropractor has helped get things back where they should be.
Now on to wrists, I have also sprained my rist using mice, the biggest problem, crap mice with balls, the ball gets dirty or warn then the mouse does not respond and you make 10 times the required number of movements, chuck it away and get an optical, also I had a mouse pad with built in wrist support, worst thing ever. What this causes you to do is keep your arm static and bend your wrist to move forward and backwards, after throwing this away and geting an optical mouse by wrist cleared up all on its own.
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"The Fermi paradox says that if extraterrestrial civilizations exist, at least one of them should have colonized the entire galaxy by now"
Why can't there be loads of civilizations in similar states to our own, why *MUST* they be so advance that they would be capable of colonising the entire galaxy by now. Even if a civilization was more advance than us who is to say that they are capable of interstella travel. Dosn't this assume some kind of startrek technology is possible? What if its not. So a civilization builds an ark or two to escape a dieing solarsystem and moves to another, thats not talking over the entire galaxy is it?
If life is anything like our own, any sufficiently advanced civilization will have had plenty of chances to nuke themseves before they even got past their local moon.
There are so many things wrong with that logic!
You *already* pay this 2% when you buy anything on a credit card. As some others have stated. The exact amount depends on what the store has negoatated with its merchant bank. If you look at many receipts (here in the UK anyway), you see things like (ASDA example) you agree that 2% of the transaction will go to ASDA card services ltd but the price you pay remains the same.
In these cases you should be demanding that if you pay cash you get a 2% reduction!
I would be careful with this kind of thing, if you use it too much your muscles etc will depend on it, Try to correct your posture your self where possible, there are exercises you can do to help force your back/neck to where it should be but you would need to see a professional to get proper advice about specific excerises.
"Here's a contrary hypothesis: carpal tunnel syndrome and chronic back pain are stress related. That's not to say they aren't real, it's to say that the primary contributory agent is stress. People in repetitive data entry employment may have stressful lifestyles. The stress may be partially caused by the job, or there may be some other non-causal association."
Your hypothesis is well founded, My other half has a serious back problem that may or may not have been started by horse riding BUT now it is triggered by stress. If she gets too stressed it ends up with her back slipping seriously out of line and scyatica problems.
Exercise has had an huge benifit for two probably reasons:-
1. it helps the muscles get stronger and this protects the back
2. excerise is good for removing stress, but doing something physical it can help lighten mental problems and allow you to calm down.
On the other side, i suffer from a neck problem because of bad posture, now again this may not just be computer caused, i have always had bad posture when sitting at desks, you could argue that a pen and paper does me as much damage as working at a computer screen.
Now for me adjusting my posture at desks computer or not )has helped a lot but i still see a chiropractor. For me this works well, I pay for it out of my own money, no NHS no insurance and for me the money spent has really helped as well. My head was at one point 30mm to far forward, might not sound a lot but that puts a lot of stress on the base of the neck as the weight of the head is shifted, for me the chiropractor has helped get things back where they should be.
Now on to wrists, I have also sprained my rist using mice, the biggest problem, crap mice with balls, the ball gets dirty or warn then the mouse does not respond and you make 10 times the required number of movements, chuck it away and get an optical, also I had a mouse pad with built in wrist support, worst thing ever. What this causes you to do is keep your arm static and bend your wrist to move forward and backwards, after throwing this away and geting an optical mouse by wrist cleared up all on its own.