It appears that the marked increase in the rate of autism, asthma, and attention deficit with hyperactivity throughout much of the world may be largely caused by the marked increase in the use of acetaminophen in genetically and/or metabolically susceptible children, and the use of acetaminophen by pregnant women.
Evidence is presented that Cuba's rate of autism is 298 times lower than that in the US. Cuba has compulsory vaccination of children, but acetaminophen is rarely prescribed and is not available OTC. In contrast,
In the United States, some physicians have started to advise parents to begin to take acetaminophen prophylactically daily 5 days prior to childhood vaccines; some children on such prophylactic treatment had an autistic regression that began prior to vaccination...
The study linked above also notes the following study that was also published in 2013:
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Yeah, that plugin was quite useful to me. I designed a set of wooden train tracks à la Brio, etc. and used this plugin to make the g-code so I could cut them out. It worked great.
It cracks me up that at least some French and Spanish people that I've met think North and South America are one continent, "America". The Spanish folk were all up in arms about racism and cultural elitism at the idea of North America being a continent separate from South America, until I explained it included everything down to the Isthmus of Panama, including Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, etc. And that it had to do with the location of tectonic plates. Then they quieted down.
Some kinds of crows are already really smart. They can fashion hooks out of pieces of metal, and seem to be able to learn from watching other crows. Maybe we should teach them how to start fires with bits of glass and bottles. Put some meat on some dead leaves, put a bottle on the leaves, wait for the sun to start a fire, and voila, cooked food. Once all the crows learn the trick, they can get smart like us'ns.
I'm glad that at least one branch of the Federal government has enough grounding to make a decision in favor of America's founding principles - that all men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. It's always been a struggle, and there have always been people who wanted to deny those inalienable rights to some Men: slaves, Native Americans, Chinese, women, and so on. Every time we pass a law or make a judgment that "yes, these people have inalienable rights too, and America protects those rights", we become a better nation, and perfect the ideal that was laid out in the Declaration of Independence.
They also call copyright infringement "piracy". It's not piracy. There are no boats, no brutal murders, no castaways, and no seizure of cargo. If the MPAA and RIAA can call copyright infringement "piracy", we should be able to call them "rapists".
It's not science for us if we are in a simulation. However, if there are scientists running the simulation, "Is this computer program a simulation of a universe" would be a scientific question. So, the applicability of scientific inquiry is relative to the situation of the would-be scientist.
What is unscientific for one person may be scientific for a person in a different situation.
Thus, we shouldn't say, "this is not science", but rather "this is not science for me".
"What you say is (mostly) true enough, but it doesn't follow that Simulism is nonsense. It is non-testable, at least as far as we know from our perspective, and therefore falls outside of the realm of science. But it may nonetheless be true."
Actually, that brings up an interesting point. Apparently what is "outside the realm of science" is actually relative to the context of the would-be scientist. For example, given the presupposition that there is in fact a simulation, this fact might be scientifically untestable to would-be scientists inside the simulation. However, the scientists outside of the simulation could easily test and prove that it was a simulation, because they were the ones running it.
Thus, a question can be scientific for one person, but not scientific for another, relative to their situations. The applicability of the scientific method to a given situation is relative!
It's bad form to criticize someone else's charity just because you think there is something more important. We're all different, we all have different passions, and we are all moved to help others using different talents and in different ways.
Also, people's needs differ in various parts of the world. Some people are not going hungry but could still use a boost to their education. There is enough need to go around, people should encourage each other's charity instead of attacking it.
Actually, I was in rural Cameroon in 2006. The cell phone company was rolling out 4G handsets, and people were buying them so they could watch the World Cup on their phone. People have cell phones who don't have grid electricity, running water, or paved roads.
You'll also see people with cell phones and little stands. It's like walking up to a pay-phone but it's a pay-cellphone. You pay a few CFA per minute or something. A cell phone in the hand *is* a source of income in itself, and Africans are smart enough not to kill the golden goose.
I thought you were going to say: Poke out people's eyes and make them install DRMed optic sensors. The Microsoft version would be ViziOrbs - Human Light Interface. And the Apple ones would be iBalls.
Yeah, it is really "I'm not smart enough" design. But that's what computers are for, right? A tool to fill in for the things our intellects aren't good at.
The scientists still design the variables that are allowed to mutate. And they design the criteria to decide which mutations "survive". So there is some intelligence still involved, and a definite goal in sight.
Non-US citizens may not have "bill of rights protection", but they do have the rights. That's the whole point: people have these God-given, inalienable rights by the fact that they are people. The US government may use its might-makes-right philosophy and ignore their rights, but they still have them. That just makes the US government wrong, and a violator of people's natural rights.
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There are some studies that were published in late 2013 that strongly correlate the use of acetaminophen in pregnancy or childhood with autism/ASD.
http://www.greatplainslaboratory.com/home/eng/Acetaminophen.asp (full text)
Evidence is presented that Cuba's rate of autism is 298 times lower than that in the US. Cuba has compulsory vaccination of children, but acetaminophen is rarely prescribed and is not available OTC. In contrast,
The study linked above also notes the following study that was also published in 2013:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673819/ (full text)
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Yeah, that plugin was quite useful to me. I designed a set of wooden train tracks à la Brio, etc. and used this plugin to make the g-code so I could cut them out. It worked great.
In the real world, it's called dying. The game doesn't shut down, you do.
FTFA: "The portal takes the form of a magnetic cylinder about as wide as Earth."
I think that qualifies as "large and imposing".
http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae445.cfm
The speed of electromagnetic waves is certainly known and is defined to be exactly 299,792,458 m/s in vacuum (same as the speed of light).
It sucks to have your car stolen, as I know from recent experience. Even worse having your house stolen.
It cracks me up that at least some French and Spanish people that I've met think North and South America are one continent, "America". The Spanish folk were all up in arms about racism and cultural elitism at the idea of North America being a continent separate from South America, until I explained it included everything down to the Isthmus of Panama, including Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, etc. And that it had to do with the location of tectonic plates. Then they quieted down.
Some kinds of crows are already really smart. They can fashion hooks out of pieces of metal, and seem to be able to learn from watching other crows. Maybe we should teach them how to start fires with bits of glass and bottles. Put some meat on some dead leaves, put a bottle on the leaves, wait for the sun to start a fire, and voila, cooked food. Once all the crows learn the trick, they can get smart like us'ns.
AKA, Ray Bradbury's /The Pedestrian/
http://englischlehrer.de/texts/pedestrian.php
They need to RTFDOI (Declaration of Independence)
I'm glad that at least one branch of the Federal government has enough grounding to make a decision in favor of America's founding principles - that all men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. It's always been a struggle, and there have always been people who wanted to deny those inalienable rights to some Men: slaves, Native Americans, Chinese, women, and so on. Every time we pass a law or make a judgment that "yes, these people have inalienable rights too, and America protects those rights", we become a better nation, and perfect the ideal that was laid out in the Declaration of Independence.
That's why there's Groovy. It makes working with Java pleasant and easy.
They also call copyright infringement "piracy". It's not piracy. There are no boats, no brutal murders, no castaways, and no seizure of cargo. If the MPAA and RIAA can call copyright infringement "piracy", we should be able to call them "rapists".
It's not science for us if we are in a simulation. However, if there are scientists running the simulation, "Is this computer program a simulation of a universe" would be a scientific question. So, the applicability of scientific inquiry is relative to the situation of the would-be scientist.
What is unscientific for one person may be scientific for a person in a different situation.
Thus, we shouldn't say, "this is not science", but rather "this is not science for me".
"What you say is (mostly) true enough, but it doesn't follow that Simulism is nonsense. It is non-testable, at least as far as we know from our perspective, and therefore falls outside of the realm of science. But it may nonetheless be true."
Actually, that brings up an interesting point. Apparently what is "outside the realm of science" is actually relative to the context of the would-be scientist. For example, given the presupposition that there is in fact a simulation, this fact might be scientifically untestable to would-be scientists inside the simulation. However, the scientists outside of the simulation could easily test and prove that it was a simulation, because they were the ones running it.
Thus, a question can be scientific for one person, but not scientific for another, relative to their situations. The applicability of the scientific method to a given situation is relative!
It's bad form to criticize someone else's charity just because you think there is something more important. We're all different, we all have different passions, and we are all moved to help others using different talents and in different ways.
Also, people's needs differ in various parts of the world. Some people are not going hungry but could still use a boost to their education. There is enough need to go around, people should encourage each other's charity instead of attacking it.
Jesus did anyways.
1. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind and strength;
2. and love your neighbor as yourself.
For religious freedom's sake, I think we can leave the first one to personal convictions, and just make the second one the law.
Actually, I was in rural Cameroon in 2006. The cell phone company was rolling out 4G handsets, and people were buying them so they could watch the World Cup on their phone. People have cell phones who don't have grid electricity, running water, or paved roads. You'll also see people with cell phones and little stands. It's like walking up to a pay-phone but it's a pay-cellphone. You pay a few CFA per minute or something. A cell phone in the hand *is* a source of income in itself, and Africans are smart enough not to kill the golden goose.
Long live the Republic of California! We don't even have to change our flag.
I thought you were going to say: Poke out people's eyes and make them install DRMed optic sensors. The Microsoft version would be ViziOrbs - Human Light Interface. And the Apple ones would be iBalls.
Yeah, it is really "I'm not smart enough" design. But that's what computers are for, right? A tool to fill in for the things our intellects aren't good at.
The scientists still design the variables that are allowed to mutate. And they design the criteria to decide which mutations "survive". So there is some intelligence still involved, and a definite goal in sight.
Non-US citizens may not have "bill of rights protection", but they do have the rights. That's the whole point: people have these God-given, inalienable rights by the fact that they are people. The US government may use its might-makes-right philosophy and ignore their rights, but they still have them. That just makes the US government wrong, and a violator of people's natural rights.