Took two months before I started reading my first book. Show me any other language which is possible to casually learn in 2 months. For only speaking and reading: Japanese or Thai.
China even has all it's official news translated into Esperanto Interesting, I did not do any Esperanto since about 30 years, but that would be a nice reason to refresh it.
tests show knowing Esperanto halves the time it takes to learn additional new languages- which is the real reason I learnt it in the first place. European languages...
Subject could be just poked, without actually being stuck with a needle. Does not really work, as poking is enough in most cases.
Subject could be given a local or general anesthetic. That is interesting... but I guess it only would work if the subject does not notice the poke.
Subject could be asleep. If you do not wake up from that, I guess you have a problem that requires more hard core treatment.
Subject could have severed nerves. Subject could have spinal injury. Subject could be in a coma. That is actually done. But not as "test" but as therapy.
Subject could be given acupuncture without knowing which kind is it ("right", "wrong", "fake") - while being informed that the choice will be random. That is not what a double blind study is about. The subject has to be convinced that it gets the real thing. (At least that is it, how it is done right now, however you have a point, because that would "encourage" 'negative placebo effects'... uh uh, do I really get the real thing?)
Unfortunately the famous Oetzi has most interesting acupuncture points tatooed on his body, he is about 5,000 years dead.
The early emperors of China did mass studies with POWs... killed a few 10,000 people in that process in the attempt to find deep in the body acupuncture points on the "Facia skin" around organs.
That is all well documented and can still be read in modern libraries, in China. Unfortunately you have to be able to read "old school" Chinese characters or trust your translator.
As I understand it, Different practitioners have different patterns for what disorders or issues are treated by different acupuncture points. Actually they don't have.
If there is no verifiable association between the acupuncture points and the disorders, if it doesn't matter which acupuncture points are used, then that indicates it's a placebo effect. Yes, but first of all: that is not a double blind study:D Secondly: there is no such study, but if you know one, a link would be interesting. To see what they actually tried to do.
Anyway, kinda funny that adults dismiss simple stuff, that they could have tested themselves, because of magazine articles.
The second Emperor of China made acupuncture experiments on over 10,000 POWs. About half or even a full dozen of my friends are MDs/PhDs in medicine and practice acupuncture.
I rather believe them than a random/. poster who never ever bothered to read anything about the topic. About half the planet uses acupuncture as a traditional medicine. On top of that: in Europe we have about 500M inhabitants. And every health insurance pays for acupuncture treatment.
So: I go with the mass... but you are right, just because 10 billion flies eat shit, it does not mean that shit is good for you.
You have two friends A1 and A2. Your best friend has two friends B1 and B2.
If your friend posts something to his friends, he expects A (that is you) and B1 and B2 to see it. Not A1 and A2, your other friends. And he does not want to put his friends B1 and B2 into a group with you, so that he can "mail" to you and his friends,
The same is valid in reverse, if you "post" something you want B to see it an A1 and A2... not B1 and B2.
Managing that via "groups" would be a nightmare.
But if you only have 3 friends, I guess you can manage...
That Chi Gong is good because it "cultivates and balances your qi (life energy)" is nonsense And why would that be? Exercising your Facia and have it in good shape is nonsense, but exercising your muscles is good? Does not really make sense to me...
But no worries... if you exercise in the proper context you exercise your Qi/Chi/Ki/Facia automatically... regardless if you "believe in it" or dismiss it as nonsense.
And why bother with thousands of years? Wouldn't a modern, scientifically proven, examples suffice?
It would. But unfortunately it is forbidden to do experiments on prisoners of war. Also, we have no 10,000ds of POWs in modern times.
On the other hand you simply can read if a illness you suffer from has a an acupuncture treatment and try it. For that you do not need any outside party to make a study first... And it would cost next to nothing, compared with modern medicine costs for pills.
Actually there are no modern double blind studies about acupuncture.
I really wonder why intelligent people like you claim that. Hint: you can not double blind (neither the applyer of the needle nor the receiver know where he needle is placed) manual treat a human body.
Double blind studies only work with medicals etc. where neither the guy handing out the stuff nor the receiver know if they are getting the real stuff or not.
Half the planet is using acupuncture and related medical treatment like Shiatsu and Thai Massage (or similar things like Romiromi, Mirimiri or Lomilomi massage) or Moxa or simply "pressure point" therapy on acupuncture points. You want to tell me that you have a study in the US that proves that 4 billion people outside of the USA are treated wrong? I guess it is easily up to 5 billion people who have access to acupuncture and other similar treatments, and guess what? a) you need a medical diploma to practice it b) the health insurance is paying it
Sorry, it is really hard to believe that: i) a treatment I try is working ii) the doctors applying it need a MD/PhD iii) more than half the planet has it as basic therapy and not as "alternative" iIii) health insurances are paying it v) dozens of variations of the same principle exist (independent developed on different parts of the world) And: all that is "fraud". Sorry, I don't think so.
It is much more plausible that the US pharm. and health care industry simply is funding fraud studies and dismisses simple treatments because they rather like to sell pharmaceutics instead.
On the other hand: from an intelligent guy I would expect to simply try it and make up his mind instead of repeating stuff he has heard somewhere or read somewhere:D
E.g. if you are a smoker and like to quite, acupuncture support is one of the most successful therapies.
Yes, I have thousands of cases of evidence that QiGong is a very healthy thing. And those who practice know about "how it works", the "modern word" is Facia. Assuming that QiGong is a mild exercise is idiotic. It is a martial art and healing system. E.g. you might look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... probably you find better videos, but I'm to lazy to do your work for you.
Medicine helps in situations where medicine helps... e.g. a common cold. It does not really help when you have a slipped disc. Qi/Chi Gong does not help you either, but it might prevent getting a slipped disc.
No idea what you mean with "alternative medicine"... your country seems to only have wackos in that section of "medicine":D
Ah, come on! You are thnking to simple! Lets start a kickstarter campaign and lets build that guy a laptop with a second or third SoC. Then we wait on/. for the articles asking how to disable the second and third SoC because while he is working on his 'main computer' those SoC's are attacked from outside and secretly mining some coins...
Acupuncture is not based on 'points' on meridians. That is only a training and memorization tool. (Invented by a frensh doctor 200 years ago) Points and meridians are related or overlapping, but different concepts. The areas are most often as big as the size of the palm of patient. Also there are plenty of 'points' that have the same effect.
If layman do a 'double blind' study it is most likely that both needles are at the wrong point:)
Because I'm pretty sure that you don't read mandarin. 90% of the literature over the last 3000 years is unfortunately not english or available as translation. And I have not the time to search for you english literature. If you were actually interested in that topic you had informed yourself long ago.
You can not really test accupuncture with double blind studies, or how should the one poking you not know, kr know if he is really poking you? And how can you mot know if you get poked or not? There where attempts with double blind studies, where they used kind of electrodes to cause a fake sensation: turned out that electric stimulation had the same effect as a real needle. Hence we have since 30 years electronic and even laser based self accupuncture aparatus. And accupuncture works quite fine, no idea why americans are so anti to thousands of years old proven working technologies, that basically cost nothing und rarely have side effects.
And how should that work? Just because we here about vulnerabilities often, it does not mean every system is vulnerable. E.g. you isolate it with a firewall and only let it access systems that have its public key.
People familiar with the extent of Java API's would be able to develop applications far more quickly for Android than if they had just used Java the language but come up with a whole new standard library. That is actually what they did, but you have to implement all of java.lang (e.g. String) and obviously it makes not much sense to provide your own APIs for java.util.*, java.io.* etc. Basically you have to implement everything that starts with java.*
They would be super convenient, if you either change your mind and want to rebuild it a little bit or if you just want to work occasionally at an afternoon for 30 minutes.
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Took two months before I started reading my first book. Show me any other language which is possible to casually learn in 2 months.
For only speaking and reading: Japanese or Thai.
China even has all it's official news translated into Esperanto
Interesting, I did not do any Esperanto since about 30 years, but that would be a nice reason to refresh it.
tests show knowing Esperanto halves the time it takes to learn additional new languages- which is the real reason I learnt it in the first place. ...
European languages
That would have been pretty pointless as he had not gotten any meaningful answer.
That is what happens to people who jump bail.
The "concept" of bail does not exist in Europe.
Subject could be just poked, without actually being stuck with a needle.
Does not really work, as poking is enough in most cases.
Subject could be given a local or general anesthetic. ... but I guess it only would work if the subject does not notice the poke.
That is interesting
Subject could be asleep.
If you do not wake up from that, I guess you have a problem that requires more hard core treatment.
Subject could have severed nerves.
Subject could have spinal injury.
Subject could be in a coma.
That is actually done. But not as "test" but as therapy.
Subject could be given acupuncture without knowing which kind is it ("right", "wrong", "fake") - while being informed that the choice will be random. ... uh uh, do I really get the real thing?)
That is not what a double blind study is about. The subject has to be convinced that it gets the real thing.
(At least that is it, how it is done right now, however you have a point, because that would "encourage" 'negative placebo effects'
Unfortunately the famous Oetzi has most interesting acupuncture points tatooed on his body, he is about 5,000 years dead.
The early emperors of China did mass studies with POWs ... killed a few 10,000 people in that process in the attempt to find deep in the body acupuncture points on the "Facia skin" around organs.
That is all well documented and can still be read in modern libraries, in China. Unfortunately you have to be able to read "old school" Chinese characters or trust your translator.
Oops!!
As I understand it, Different practitioners have different patterns for what disorders or issues are treated by different acupuncture points.
Actually they don't have.
If there is no verifiable association between the acupuncture points and the disorders, if it doesn't matter which acupuncture points are used, then that indicates it's a placebo effect. :D
Yes, but first of all: that is not a double blind study
Secondly: there is no such study, but if you know one, a link would be interesting. To see what they actually tried to do.
Anyway, kinda funny that adults dismiss simple stuff, that they could have tested themselves, because of magazine articles.
The second Emperor of China made acupuncture experiments on over 10,000 POWs.
About half or even a full dozen of my friends are MDs/PhDs in medicine and practice acupuncture.
I rather believe them than a random /. poster who never ever bothered to read anything about the topic.
About half the planet uses acupuncture as a traditional medicine. On top of that: in Europe we have about 500M inhabitants. And every health insurance pays for acupuncture treatment.
So: I go with the mass ... but you are right, just because 10 billion flies eat shit, it does not mean that shit is good for you.
Your email client does not do groups ok.
You are A.
Your best friend is B.
You have two friends A1 and A2.
Your best friend has two friends B1 and B2.
If your friend posts something to his friends, he expects A (that is you) and B1 and B2 to see it. Not A1 and A2, your other friends. And he does not want to put his friends B1 and B2 into a group with you, so that he can "mail" to you and his friends,
The same is valid in reverse, if you "post" something you want B to see it an A1 and A2 ... not B1 and B2.
Managing that via "groups" would be a nightmare.
But if you only have 3 friends, I guess you can manage ...
Your eMail client has no timeline ... get it.
And how do you know that?
Any evidence for it?
That Chi Gong is good because it "cultivates and balances your qi (life energy)" is nonsense ...
And why would that be?
Exercising your Facia and have it in good shape is nonsense, but exercising your muscles is good? Does not really make sense to me
But no worries ... if you exercise in the proper context you exercise your Qi/Chi/Ki/Facia automatically ... regardless if you "believe in it" or dismiss it as nonsense.
And why bother with thousands of years? Wouldn't a modern, scientifically proven, examples suffice?
It would.
But unfortunately it is forbidden to do experiments on prisoners of war. Also, we have no 10,000ds of POWs in modern times.
On the other hand you simply can read if a illness you suffer from has a an acupuncture treatment and try it. For that you do not need any outside party to make a study first ...
And it would cost next to nothing, compared with modern medicine costs for pills.
Actually there are no modern double blind studies about acupuncture.
I really wonder why intelligent people like you claim that. Hint: you can not double blind (neither the applyer of the needle nor the receiver know where he needle is placed) manual treat a human body.
Double blind studies only work with medicals etc. where neither the guy handing out the stuff nor the receiver know if they are getting the real stuff or not.
Half the planet is using acupuncture and related medical treatment like Shiatsu and Thai Massage (or similar things like Romiromi, Mirimiri or Lomilomi massage) or Moxa or simply "pressure point" therapy on acupuncture points. You want to tell me that you have a study in the US that proves that 4 billion people outside of the USA are treated wrong? I guess it is easily up to 5 billion people who have access to acupuncture and other similar treatments, and guess what?
a) you need a medical diploma to practice it
b) the health insurance is paying it
Sorry, it is really hard to believe that:
i) a treatment I try is working
ii) the doctors applying it need a MD/PhD
iii) more than half the planet has it as basic therapy and not as "alternative"
iIii) health insurances are paying it
v) dozens of variations of the same principle exist (independent developed on different parts of the world)
And: all that is "fraud". Sorry, I don't think so.
It is much more plausible that the US pharm. and health care industry simply is funding fraud studies and dismisses simple treatments because they rather like to sell pharmaceutics instead.
On the other hand: from an intelligent guy I would expect to simply try it and make up his mind instead of repeating stuff he has heard somewhere or read somewhere :D
E.g. if you are a smoker and like to quite, acupuncture support is one of the most successful therapies.
Yes,
I have thousands of cases of evidence that QiGong is a very healthy thing.
And those who practice know about "how it works", the "modern word" is Facia.
Assuming that QiGong is a mild exercise is idiotic. It is a martial art and healing system.
E.g. you might look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... probably you find better videos, but I'm to lazy to do your work for you.
Medicine helps in situations where medicine helps ... e.g. a common cold. It does not really help when you have a slipped disc. Qi/Chi Gong does not help you either, but it might prevent getting a slipped disc.
No idea what you mean with "alternative medicine" ... your country seems to only have wackos in that section of "medicine" :D
Ah, come on! You are thnking to simple! /. for the articles asking how to disable the second and third SoC because while he is working on his 'main computer' those SoC's are attacked from outside and secretly mining some coins ...
Lets start a kickstarter campaign and lets build that guy a laptop with a second or third SoC.
Then we wait on
Acupuncture is not based on 'points' on meridians. That is only a training and memorization tool. (Invented by a frensh doctor 200 years ago) Points and meridians are related or overlapping, but different concepts.
The areas are most often as big as the size of the palm of patient.
Also there are plenty of 'points' that have the same effect.
If layman do a 'double blind' study it is most likely that both needles are at the wrong point :)
Because I'm pretty sure that you don't read mandarin. 90% of the literature over the last 3000 years is unfortunately not english or available as translation. And I have not the time to search for you english literature.
If you were actually interested in that topic you had informed yourself long ago.
You seem not to know what Chi Gong is, hint: google.
Or would you extend your idiotic claims to Yoga, Massage, Swimming or going into a gym, as well?
You can not really test accupuncture with double blind studies, or how should the one poking you not know, kr know if he is really poking you? And how can you mot know if you get poked or not?
There where attempts with double blind studies, where they used kind of electrodes to cause a fake sensation: turned out that electric stimulation had the same effect as a real needle. Hence we have since 30 years electronic and even laser based self accupuncture aparatus.
And accupuncture works quite fine, no idea why americans are so anti to thousands of years old proven working technologies, that basically cost nothing und rarely have side effects.
Everyone who practices Chi Gong or other internal arts knows that ... since millennia.
If you have disproven acupuncture, I would like to have some links, idiot.
And how should that work?
Just because we here about vulnerabilities often, it does not mean every system is vulnerable.
E.g. you isolate it with a firewall and only let it access systems that have its public key.
Of course it calls 911 when it feels mistreated, abused or even raped by (god forbid, brown?) untrained minimum wage repair slave!
No no, you got it all wrong again: being paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you!
People familiar with the extent of Java API's would be able to develop applications far more quickly for Android than if they had just used Java the language but come up with a whole new standard library.
That is actually what they did, but you have to implement all of java.lang (e.g. String) and obviously it makes not much sense to provide your own APIs for java.util.*, java.io.* etc.
Basically you have to implement everything that starts with java.*
They would be super convenient, if you either change your mind and want to rebuild it a little bit or if you just want to work occasionally at an afternoon for 30 minutes.