Is there actually a part of the US where this is true? I thought AT&T's local phone service was only in the old SBC region, while Verizon comes from East Coast origins.
Butseriouslyfolks... I'd like to see someone argue that homeopathy DOES work if you do a placebo-controlled trial. A homeopathic placebo-controlled trial, which means the placebo is actually undiluted. Hey, 100% of the patients given placebo arsenic died, and only 50% of the patients who took the diluted version! Whaddayaknow: a diluted dose of arsenic cures arsenic poisoning.
Keep in mind: Of the three things you mention - thyroid levels, joint inflammation, and ability to climb stairs - only the first is even theoretically measurable. And unless you're switching the homeopathic remedy in and out, and confirming the change each time, and changing nothing else, you don't know that it's truly the medicine that's affecting it. Normal, cyclical events can appear to be cause-and-effect, and that's why people swear homeopathy works.
As for joint inflammation - you're taking a subjective measurement of that, so yes, both you and the doctor observing it are subject to placebo effect.
Climbing stairs: Are you measuring the maximum number of stairs the dog can climb before he's exhausted? No, since you can't measure his exhaustion. You're just noticing that he seems to have an easier time climbing stairs than before. Maybe, again, it's a cyclical thing, or maybe you're giving subtle encouragement (the dog DOES sense your confidence, after all!)
Every time someone says "But homeopathy works on horses", I always ask how many horses they've interviewed. And you know what? The answer's always zero.
No, the rest of the message is "It's goin' down, y'all - like the wall of Berlin". Cleverly, the entire ciphertext is also the proper pronunciation Prince's old glyph.
How the hell are you people not making a bigger noise about these three egregious violations of your liberty?
Because the party that could politically gain from making civil-liberty noise about these actual civil-liberty issues is too busy making civil-liberty noise about healthcare.
Couldn't this also have the opposite effect? It allows me to take a risk and give you a personalized, non-bland gift, secure in the knowledge that if I guess wrong you'll be able to convert it without any inconvenience, and you'll *still* get "the thought that counts".
In TFA, the sample rules wizard shows that you only want Amazon to convert Aunt Mildred's gifts to certificates "after checking with me". So that'd do exactly what you want.
Much as I hate Amazon's one-click patent, *this* is actually a novel, clever innovation.
If you think last year's LEDs are too dim, you should see LEDs from the 1980s. They were so dark - (how dark were they?) - they were so dark, you had to shine a laser on 'em to see if they were on!
I think the companies that *don't* reign on top are also unable to adapt. Most companies do one thing well (at most) - ever - and if that one thing happens to intersect over time with what the market wants, they're successful for as long as that intersection lasts.
Newly released secret files show that Winston Churchill ordered a cover-up of an alleged encounter between a UFO and a RAF bomber
It should say:
Newly released secret files show that the grandson of Winston Churchill once claimed that Churchill ordered a cover-up of an alleged encounter between a UFO and a RAF bomber"
The iPhone is vulnerable to rooting attacks via its PDF handler by any web page. If and when someone writes a -malicious- exploit for that, wouldn't they just hide it in a page that gets LOTS more views, like porn? Why would they go to the trouble of putting it in a useful-but-geeky jailbreakme site?
You got modded funny, but that's what Google (surprisingly) doesn't get - Apple knows how to create such a strong brand that people want its product, and will pre-order it online, without even knowing the feature set.
I can see why AT&T would want the overall dropped-call rate to be confidential (it tells their competitors how they stand in call quality), but if they don't, why would AT&T then care about the rate for a specific phone?
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Dammit, now we have to fix the headline:
s/Joel Test Updated/Joel Test Updated Again (see comments)/
Is there actually a part of the US where this is true? I thought AT&T's local phone service was only in the old SBC region, while Verizon comes from East Coast origins.
the guy who died from homeopathic medicine?
Yeah, he forgot to take it and overdosed!
Butseriouslyfolks... I'd like to see someone argue that homeopathy DOES work if you do a placebo-controlled trial. A homeopathic placebo-controlled trial, which means the placebo is actually undiluted. Hey, 100% of the patients given placebo arsenic died, and only 50% of the patients who took the diluted version! Whaddayaknow: a diluted dose of arsenic cures arsenic poisoning.
Keep in mind: Of the three things you mention - thyroid levels, joint inflammation, and ability to climb stairs - only the first is even theoretically measurable. And unless you're switching the homeopathic remedy in and out, and confirming the change each time, and changing nothing else, you don't know that it's truly the medicine that's affecting it. Normal, cyclical events can appear to be cause-and-effect, and that's why people swear homeopathy works.
As for joint inflammation - you're taking a subjective measurement of that, so yes, both you and the doctor observing it are subject to placebo effect.
Climbing stairs: Are you measuring the maximum number of stairs the dog can climb before he's exhausted? No, since you can't measure his exhaustion. You're just noticing that he seems to have an easier time climbing stairs than before. Maybe, again, it's a cyclical thing, or maybe you're giving subtle encouragement (the dog DOES sense your confidence, after all!)
Every time someone says "But homeopathy works on horses", I always ask how many horses they've interviewed. And you know what? The answer's always zero.
we traditionally wear onion belts, you insensitive clod!
(I think I got two or three points there.)
Disagree! Everyone already knew that the King Henry IV was the head of France. No identification needed. -1, Obvious.
Noob.
-- jay@aol.com
OK, but there was Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street, whose death was handled with grace, which was admirable. So that's almost the same thing.
There's a restaurant, too, isn't there.
No, the rest of the message is "It's goin' down, y'all - like the wall of Berlin". Cleverly, the entire ciphertext is also the proper pronunciation Prince's old glyph.
Because the party that could politically gain from making civil-liberty noise about these actual civil-liberty issues is too busy making civil-liberty noise about healthcare.
Couldn't this also have the opposite effect? It allows me to take a risk and give you a personalized, non-bland gift, secure in the knowledge that if I guess wrong you'll be able to convert it without any inconvenience, and you'll *still* get "the thought that counts".
In TFA, the sample rules wizard shows that you only want Amazon to convert Aunt Mildred's gifts to certificates "after checking with me". So that'd do exactly what you want.
Much as I hate Amazon's one-click patent, *this* is actually a novel, clever innovation.
Florida.
Wait, you're saying Oracle (and Sybase) are not natively relational? Do tell more...
If you think last year's LEDs are too dim, you should see LEDs from the 1980s. They were so dark - (how dark were they?) - they were so dark, you had to shine a laser on 'em to see if they were on!
Don't ask me what they made the lasers out of.
Heck, the bubble memory and COBOL license alone cost $100K. I don't even want to think about the tape reader.
I think the companies that *don't* reign on top are also unable to adapt. Most companies do one thing well (at most) - ever - and if that one thing happens to intersect over time with what the market wants, they're successful for as long as that intersection lasts.
Summary says:
It should say:
Kinda different.
What?
The iPhone is vulnerable to rooting attacks via its PDF handler by any web page. If and when someone writes a -malicious- exploit for that, wouldn't they just hide it in a page that gets LOTS more views, like porn? Why would they go to the trouble of putting it in a useful-but-geeky jailbreakme site?
Doesn't this patent describe the standard DNS reverse-lookup performed by every MTA on the Received: headers since... nearly ever?
Yeah, for 100% you really want CRC or some sort of forward error correction.
You got modded funny, but that's what Google (surprisingly) doesn't get - Apple knows how to create such a strong brand that people want its product, and will pre-order it online, without even knowing the feature set.
I can see why AT&T would want the overall dropped-call rate to be confidential (it tells their competitors how they stand in call quality), but if they don't, why would AT&T then care about the rate for a specific phone?