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That is completely true. My wife went to a chiropractor here in our home town for problems caused by repetitive movement. The owner of the clinic helped a little. While the owner was out of the country, he had another chiropractor fill in for him, and the the results were surprising. I later had back problems cause by of all things, a cheap pair of shoes. The problem kept getting worse and worse. One trip to this lady and I was walking upright again. A second trip and I was all better. She was a crazy hippie that believed in some bizarre things, but her chiropractic care was amazing. A couple of years later, we were living in Sacrament, and my wife needed to go to a chiropractor. One of her co-workers recommend one. I went with her, and while the guy was obviously making a big effort to look "professional", he was clearly a quack. He kept using the little clicky tool that chiropractors have for moving bones a small distance with great force, on the peoples temples. Clearly, banging a persons skull isn't going to make their backs feel better.
A big part of the problem is that there ARE quacks in the "alternative medicine" industry. So, when people want to deride them, they find a few quacks, point them out, and say, "See! It's all hogwash!" It is no better than pointing to a pill prescribing doctor who is no better than a drug dealer, and declaring all traditional medicine a grand drug dealing scheme.
Clearly the writer of this book is at best nieve, likely just dumb, and at worst dishonest. Making the statement that Herbal remedies don't work is simply stupid. Herbal remedies are simply taking drugs. That's right. The only difference between what a doctor would give you and an equivalent herbal remedy is the source and purity of the drug. Obviously, pharmaceutical companies have created drugs that don't occur naturally, and some claimed herbal remedies don't actually have any useful drugs in them. But, the claim that herbal reminds don't work is by definition saying that "if the drug occurs naturally, it doesn't work. I can only work if it is manufacture in a lab."
The authors claim that chiropractics doesn't work is equally stupid. Chiropractics is the manipulation of bones and joints. That means that if your arm gets yanked out of it's socket, and you go to the doctor and they pop it back in, THAT IS CHIROPRACTICS; An extreme example, sure, but chiropractics none the less. The authors claim the chiropractics doesn't work is by definition saying that "if your arm gets pulled out of it's socket, popping it back in place doesn't do any good".
While the number of quacks in homeopathy is immense, vaccines are basically homeopathy. The premise being that you get the body to fight a desires by introducing the same symptoms as the disease so that the body can heal itself. At best I would say that our medicine is too primitive to really get the benefits of homeopathy. With our advances in genetics, I have no doubt that we will eventually start making artificial vaccines. Once we make a vaccine that is not a watered down version of the real disease, we will be performing homeopathy by definitions. By claiming that a vaccine that is created in a lab won't work because it is created in a lab is just as dumb as saying that a drug that occurs naturally won't work because it is naturally occurring.
While I don't know much about the specific details of acupuncture, it is not a huge stretch to believe that manipulation of the nervous system can have profound effects on a persons health. "Traditional" medicine uses hormones regularly. We know that your nervous system can instruct your body to produce particular hormones. So, while, I have not looked heavily acupuncture, it is intellectually dishonest to claim that it is scientifically impossible.
Now that I have set up my first network boot, that doesn't seem like as daunting of a task. I will probably go that route myself. Of course, I've been planning to set up MythTV for something like 5 years now.
And yet, we are being told that all of the ice on the planet is melting because of higher temperatures. That is part of the problem with the global warming claim. Both increased and decreased temperatures are being reported. Both claims are being rationalized with "Your an idiot if you don't think there is global warming", "There is no debate", "There is a consensus in the scientific community", and "Go back to driving your SUV while talking on your cell phone". So, I as you this. Are all of the people that are claiming that the temperature is currently rising, lying, or wrong?
We see the same kind of poor logic applied to the worldwide reports of colder temperatures. The meme is "A single data point is not a global trend" and "localized weather can decrease while still having an increase globally", yet those same people turn around and use "single data points" and "localized weather" as proof of global warming.
The logic flounders completely when those pushing the global warming idea get to "The global warming deniers only believe there is no global warming because they are hearing their information from crappy journalists, who don't understand the science." Yet, the vast majority of people in the world are NOT climate scientists. They are just reading a different set of badly written reports by crappy journalists.
You know, that was my first reaction also, but it might not be as dumb as it sounds. The summery says that someone showed fish recognizing melody. That is interesting. Not as interesting as a super massive black hole in the center of our galaxy, but interesting none the less. Now, consider the kind of funding that would be needed to do this study. They are not going out catching sharks and building huge aquariums with specialized facilities to do this study. They are piping Christmas music through existing speakers in an already functioning aquarium that likely is already doing other studies. Even the music is likely already pre-existing. The only costs to this study would be in keeping track of what music is playing (which would be playing anyways), logging the behavior of the sharks, which they are likely already doing, and reviewing the results when it is done.
From a non-marine biologists point of view, it would be interesting to know if the music agitates sharks. If I made only twice what I make now, I might consider making a TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION of 20 or 30 thousand dollars to an aquarium for this kind of research. It would be interesting, and I might come out financially ahead from it. From a marine biologist's point of view, I can only imagine that this is at least as interesting as I find my PC specs, or OS choice. It also could have honest to goodness practical applications. Today, sharks are likely subjected to Christmas music in aquariums anyplace that Christmas is largely celebrated. So, if the music is going to cause the animals stress, it would make sense to turn the PA system off in the aquariums.
Didn't you know? Playing a game that you bought more than a year ago is PIRACY!!! Pulling that Atari 2600 and box of cartridges out of the attic and playing it is no better than robbing the local 7-11.
It is true. The benefites of running it on low power devices will makes Linux the entrenched OS instead of MS. In my household, we have 4 Windows systems, 1 linux file server, a linux Roku Netflix device, and a Linux TV. That makes 4 Windows Systems vs. 3 linux systems. Your average non-nerd would be less likely to have the file server and 3 of the windows boxes. We have reached the point that it would not be surprising to go into peoples houses and find more hardware running linux than windows.
I know that some people will say that "Your TV doesn't count because nobody knows it runs linux". It's presence in their TVs and Movie players and toasters and refrigerators will eventually come to their attention. They won't be interested, but when Linux gets spoken, it will no longer sound completely foreign. They will have seen the name in user manuals and configuration screens.
When a geek comes over to help them with their computer and suggest linux, the geek can point out the 5 or 6 other devices they have in the house that run linux, and the average Joe will see it less like an obscure nerd toy, and more like a new brand that they have never heard of.
No kidding! I think I just might bookmark this, and every time someone claims that schools are underfunded, just post a link to this question. This just shows, that schools have plenty of money.
This isn't 1980 anymore. We have 40 Gigabit Ethernet that runs up to 10km and IEEE is working to standardize 100 Gigabit over 40km. So, no, you wouldn't need routers at every major intersection. We don't have them now with our phone or cable, why would having competition suddenly changes the physics of transmitting data?
And, your scenrio of Joe becoming a telecom would be great. You would end up with ATT, MCI, Comcast, Verizon, Joe's, and maybe a couple of other locals. You could count on getting better internet service than when you get ATT and Comcast as the only choices, if even that many.
The thing that always gets me is that most of the (few?) people who don't believe in evolution, do believe in all of the parts that make up evolution. They believe that you get your traits from your parents. You get them through DNA/RNA/some physical thing in the sperm and egg. They believe that mutation happens from things like naturally occuring radiation. They believe that if you have a mutation and you breed, you can pass that mutation on to your offspring. They believe that mutations that are bad will make it less likely that you will breed.
No, it isn't a natural monopoly. It only seems that way because of lack of planning on cities part. The last mile should be a PIPE. No, not an internet connection that is called a pipe, but an honest to goodness hole through the ground pipe. The system should look a lot like a storm drain or sewer system. If you want to buy a service from Joe's home movie cable company, you should be able to have Joe's just pull a wire through the existing pipe to the larger main pipe, and all the way to their office where the video source comes from. Heck, if the city had data tubes, I could literally be on a neighborhood by having a line run from my house to my neighbors across the street. Of course, this would create MASSIVE competition, as the barrier of entry for a new cable company, phone provider or ISP would plummet.
No, the last mile is definitely not a natural monopoly.
You just have to be aware that many of the smog test codes start in a "Not Tested" state, and you will have to do some driving in the car before the "Not Tested" becomes a "Pass" or "Fail". At my last smog check, I had one test that just wouldn't run, but CA allows a certain number of "Not Tested" states and still pass the smog test. My understanding is they did this because some of the criteria for kicking off the tests are pretty complex. "Drive for 3 minutes at 50 mph within 3 minutes" kind of things. The kind of stuff that will likely eventually happen with normal driving, but it might take a while.
Seriously, in over 30 years of home video game playing I've owned over 30 different game systems, and not one would have any part damaged by moving the system while in use. Until the XBox360, I had not hear of any of the systems I did not own damaging the parts either. When a new product in a 3 decade old industry has a behavior that destroys that product, and not one of the devices over the previous 30 years had that behavior, you have to blame the device not the user.
I don't know about the Sweden case, but it does remind me of a product I saw for sale her in the US a few years ago. It was bath soap in the shape of lollipops and ice cream. They looked very real too. I would not for a second blame a small kid for thinking that they were food. I wouldn't blame an adult from being confused at a 3 foot difference. They looked that good.
Now, in that case, I don't know who was more stupid, the company that made a poisonous product that looked exactly like a food children would want to eat, or the adult that bought it. I came to the conclusion that everyone involve other than the hypothetical child was an idiot.
Install the GameTap client. While they have a pay service. They also have 150 free games. These are real commercial games including:
Tomb Raider Legend
Metal Slug 2
Bubble Bobble
Sensible Soccer 2006
King of Fighters '96
Robotron 2084
Elevator Action
Burger Time
Commandos 3
Warlords Battlecry III
Cannon Fodder
Hitman
More...
While the pay part of the service is worth the money, the free part has a suprisingly high number and quality of available games.
These are just the federal programs. Every state and local government is huge into food distribution as well.
Heck, here is a link for school faculty/administration from the California Department on Education on what they can do to help increase the governments involvement in food distribution.
It might not matter if your house has one hard drive in it. In my house, we have over a dozen drives. 5 Gbit/s might outrun a single attached drive, but USB was supposed to handle 256 devices attached at once. The only reason that we need 6 USB controllers on a PC is because it is just too slow. USB 2.0 was a bottle neck. I suspect that it still will be, but if it isn't the bottle neck, then don't complain about USB 3.0, complain about whatever has become the new bottle neck.
You know, I wouldn't be too upset if they went to using USB drives. I would let my kids and friends handle USB drives. Extra double bonus if the games would work through a standard USB hub. That way, you don't even have to worry about the socket on the game system breaking. you just have your kids plug into the hub. Plus, you could put the game system up high or hidden away, and only have the USB hub down low and visible.
It was the replace boards one-by-one style of repair. I'm not bragging about his skill. The point is that he DIDN'T have a lot of skills with computers. He was maybe a little better than what you would expect at a Best Buy or Fry's. Printers, he would break out a soldering iron for, but computers, no. That didn't stop the 'Data Recovery' software manufacturer from trying to convince him that all he needed to know was how to boot their software, and he would be a data recovery expert. No doubt, there are plenty of people that have gone for the sales pitch.
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Seriously, I told you I would have your money for you by Thursday!
That is completely true. My wife went to a chiropractor here in our home town for problems caused by repetitive movement. The owner of the clinic helped a little. While the owner was out of the country, he had another chiropractor fill in for him, and the the results were surprising. I later had back problems cause by of all things, a cheap pair of shoes. The problem kept getting worse and worse. One trip to this lady and I was walking upright again. A second trip and I was all better. She was a crazy hippie that believed in some bizarre things, but her chiropractic care was amazing. A couple of years later, we were living in Sacrament, and my wife needed to go to a chiropractor. One of her co-workers recommend one. I went with her, and while the guy was obviously making a big effort to look "professional", he was clearly a quack. He kept using the little clicky tool that chiropractors have for moving bones a small distance with great force, on the peoples temples. Clearly, banging a persons skull isn't going to make their backs feel better.
A big part of the problem is that there ARE quacks in the "alternative medicine" industry. So, when people want to deride them, they find a few quacks, point them out, and say, "See! It's all hogwash!" It is no better than pointing to a pill prescribing doctor who is no better than a drug dealer, and declaring all traditional medicine a grand drug dealing scheme.
Clearly the writer of this book is at best nieve, likely just dumb, and at worst dishonest. Making the statement that Herbal remedies don't work is simply stupid. Herbal remedies are simply taking drugs. That's right. The only difference between what a doctor would give you and an equivalent herbal remedy is the source and purity of the drug. Obviously, pharmaceutical companies have created drugs that don't occur naturally, and some claimed herbal remedies don't actually have any useful drugs in them. But, the claim that herbal reminds don't work is by definition saying that "if the drug occurs naturally, it doesn't work. I can only work if it is manufacture in a lab."
The authors claim that chiropractics doesn't work is equally stupid. Chiropractics is the manipulation of bones and joints. That means that if your arm gets yanked out of it's socket, and you go to the doctor and they pop it back in, THAT IS CHIROPRACTICS; An extreme example, sure, but chiropractics none the less. The authors claim the chiropractics doesn't work is by definition saying that "if your arm gets pulled out of it's socket, popping it back in place doesn't do any good".
While the number of quacks in homeopathy is immense, vaccines are basically homeopathy. The premise being that you get the body to fight a desires by introducing the same symptoms as the disease so that the body can heal itself. At best I would say that our medicine is too primitive to really get the benefits of homeopathy. With our advances in genetics, I have no doubt that we will eventually start making artificial vaccines. Once we make a vaccine that is not a watered down version of the real disease, we will be performing homeopathy by definitions. By claiming that a vaccine that is created in a lab won't work because it is created in a lab is just as dumb as saying that a drug that occurs naturally won't work because it is naturally occurring.
While I don't know much about the specific details of acupuncture, it is not a huge stretch to believe that manipulation of the nervous system can have profound effects on a persons health. "Traditional" medicine uses hormones regularly. We know that your nervous system can instruct your body to produce particular hormones. So, while, I have not looked heavily acupuncture, it is intellectually dishonest to claim that it is scientifically impossible.
Now that I have set up my first network boot, that doesn't seem like as daunting of a task. I will probably go that route myself. Of course, I've been planning to set up MythTV for something like 5 years now.
And yet, we are being told that all of the ice on the planet is melting because of higher temperatures. That is part of the problem with the global warming claim. Both increased and decreased temperatures are being reported. Both claims are being rationalized with "Your an idiot if you don't think there is global warming", "There is no debate", "There is a consensus in the scientific community", and "Go back to driving your SUV while talking on your cell phone". So, I as you this. Are all of the people that are claiming that the temperature is currently rising, lying, or wrong?
We see the same kind of poor logic applied to the worldwide reports of colder temperatures. The meme is "A single data point is not a global trend" and "localized weather can decrease while still having an increase globally", yet those same people turn around and use "single data points" and "localized weather" as proof of global warming.
The logic flounders completely when those pushing the global warming idea get to "The global warming deniers only believe there is no global warming because they are hearing their information from crappy journalists, who don't understand the science." Yet, the vast majority of people in the world are NOT climate scientists. They are just reading a different set of badly written reports by crappy journalists.
You know, that was my first reaction also, but it might not be as dumb as it sounds. The summery says that someone showed fish recognizing melody. That is interesting. Not as interesting as a super massive black hole in the center of our galaxy, but interesting none the less. Now, consider the kind of funding that would be needed to do this study. They are not going out catching sharks and building huge aquariums with specialized facilities to do this study. They are piping Christmas music through existing speakers in an already functioning aquarium that likely is already doing other studies. Even the music is likely already pre-existing. The only costs to this study would be in keeping track of what music is playing (which would be playing anyways), logging the behavior of the sharks, which they are likely already doing, and reviewing the results when it is done.
From a non-marine biologists point of view, it would be interesting to know if the music agitates sharks. If I made only twice what I make now, I might consider making a TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION of 20 or 30 thousand dollars to an aquarium for this kind of research. It would be interesting, and I might come out financially ahead from it. From a marine biologist's point of view, I can only imagine that this is at least as interesting as I find my PC specs, or OS choice. It also could have honest to goodness practical applications. Today, sharks are likely subjected to Christmas music in aquariums anyplace that Christmas is largely celebrated. So, if the music is going to cause the animals stress, it would make sense to turn the PA system off in the aquariums.
Didn't you know? Playing a game that you bought more than a year ago is PIRACY!!! Pulling that Atari 2600 and box of cartridges out of the attic and playing it is no better than robbing the local 7-11.
It is true. The benefites of running it on low power devices will makes Linux the entrenched OS instead of MS. In my household, we have 4 Windows systems, 1 linux file server, a linux Roku Netflix device, and a Linux TV. That makes 4 Windows Systems vs. 3 linux systems. Your average non-nerd would be less likely to have the file server and 3 of the windows boxes. We have reached the point that it would not be surprising to go into peoples houses and find more hardware running linux than windows.
I know that some people will say that "Your TV doesn't count because nobody knows it runs linux". It's presence in their TVs and Movie players and toasters and refrigerators will eventually come to their attention. They won't be interested, but when Linux gets spoken, it will no longer sound completely foreign. They will have seen the name in user manuals and configuration screens.
When a geek comes over to help them with their computer and suggest linux, the geek can point out the 5 or 6 other devices they have in the house that run linux, and the average Joe will see it less like an obscure nerd toy, and more like a new brand that they have never heard of.
Shhhhh.... Don't give the anti-cellphone nut jobs any ideas.
No kidding! I think I just might bookmark this, and every time someone claims that schools are underfunded, just post a link to this question. This just shows, that schools have plenty of money.
This isn't 1980 anymore. We have 40 Gigabit Ethernet that runs up to 10km and IEEE is working to standardize 100 Gigabit over 40km. So, no, you wouldn't need routers at every major intersection. We don't have them now with our phone or cable, why would having competition suddenly changes the physics of transmitting data?
And, your scenrio of Joe becoming a telecom would be great. You would end up with ATT, MCI, Comcast, Verizon, Joe's, and maybe a couple of other locals. You could count on getting better internet service than when you get ATT and Comcast as the only choices, if even that many.
The thing that always gets me is that most of the (few?) people who don't believe in evolution, do believe in all of the parts that make up evolution. They believe that you get your traits from your parents. You get them through DNA/RNA/some physical thing in the sperm and egg. They believe that mutation happens from things like naturally occuring radiation. They believe that if you have a mutation and you breed, you can pass that mutation on to your offspring. They believe that mutations that are bad will make it less likely that you will breed.
Then they say that evolution doesn't happen.
No, it isn't a natural monopoly. It only seems that way because of lack of planning on cities part. The last mile should be a PIPE. No, not an internet connection that is called a pipe, but an honest to goodness hole through the ground pipe. The system should look a lot like a storm drain or sewer system. If you want to buy a service from Joe's home movie cable company, you should be able to have Joe's just pull a wire through the existing pipe to the larger main pipe, and all the way to their office where the video source comes from. Heck, if the city had data tubes, I could literally be on a neighborhood by having a line run from my house to my neighbors across the street. Of course, this would create MASSIVE competition, as the barrier of entry for a new cable company, phone provider or ISP would plummet.
No, the last mile is definitely not a natural monopoly.
I believe you are correct.
In CA, smog shops have told me that they cannot pass any vehicle that has an engine light on, even for a loose gas cap error.
You just have to be aware that many of the smog test codes start in a "Not Tested" state, and you will have to do some driving in the car before the "Not Tested" becomes a "Pass" or "Fail". At my last smog check, I had one test that just wouldn't run, but CA allows a certain number of "Not Tested" states and still pass the smog test. My understanding is they did this because some of the criteria for kicking off the tests are pretty complex. "Drive for 3 minutes at 50 mph within 3 minutes" kind of things. The kind of stuff that will likely eventually happen with normal driving, but it might take a while.
Seriously, in over 30 years of home video game playing I've owned over 30 different game systems, and not one would have any part damaged by moving the system while in use. Until the XBox360, I had not hear of any of the systems I did not own damaging the parts either. When a new product in a 3 decade old industry has a behavior that destroys that product, and not one of the devices over the previous 30 years had that behavior, you have to blame the device not the user.
I don't know about the Sweden case, but it does remind me of a product I saw for sale her in the US a few years ago. It was bath soap in the shape of lollipops and ice cream. They looked very real too. I would not for a second blame a small kid for thinking that they were food. I wouldn't blame an adult from being confused at a 3 foot difference. They looked that good.
Now, in that case, I don't know who was more stupid, the company that made a poisonous product that looked exactly like a food children would want to eat, or the adult that bought it. I came to the conclusion that everyone involve other than the hypothetical child was an idiot.
Install the GameTap client. While they have a pay service. They also have 150 free games. These are real commercial games including:
Tomb Raider Legend
Metal Slug 2
Bubble Bobble
Sensible Soccer 2006
King of Fighters '96
Robotron 2084
Elevator Action
Burger Time
Commandos 3
Warlords Battlecry III
Cannon Fodder
Hitman
More...
While the pay part of the service is worth the money, the free part has a suprisingly high number and quality of available games.
I don't know what you are talking about. The Government is HUGE into food distribution.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/aboutwic/
http://www.fns.usda.gov/FSP/
http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Lunch/
These are just the federal programs. Every state and local government is huge into food distribution as well.
Heck, here is a link for school faculty/administration from the California Department on Education on what they can do to help increase the governments involvement in food distribution.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/nu/he/feedmorekids.asp
Isn't it great when you learn something new BEFORE you make a dumb ass statement? I always consider that a win.
Maybe, but now we have ridilan.
It might not matter if your house has one hard drive in it. In my house, we have over a dozen drives. 5 Gbit/s might outrun a single attached drive, but USB was supposed to handle 256 devices attached at once. The only reason that we need 6 USB controllers on a PC is because it is just too slow. USB 2.0 was a bottle neck. I suspect that it still will be, but if it isn't the bottle neck, then don't complain about USB 3.0, complain about whatever has become the new bottle neck.
You know, I wouldn't be too upset if they went to using USB drives. I would let my kids and friends handle USB drives. Extra double bonus if the games would work through a standard USB hub. That way, you don't even have to worry about the socket on the game system breaking. you just have your kids plug into the hub. Plus, you could put the game system up high or hidden away, and only have the USB hub down low and visible.
That's not true. Sometimes the format dies before it gets broken.
It was the replace boards one-by-one style of repair. I'm not bragging about his skill. The point is that he DIDN'T have a lot of skills with computers. He was maybe a little better than what you would expect at a Best Buy or Fry's. Printers, he would break out a soldering iron for, but computers, no. That didn't stop the 'Data Recovery' software manufacturer from trying to convince him that all he needed to know was how to boot their software, and he would be a data recovery expert. No doubt, there are plenty of people that have gone for the sales pitch.