As events progress it's hard not to look at the EU and the Eurozone and see them as formative tools for a German dominated Europe. As the golden rule says, he who has the gold makes the rules.
Now admittedly Germany is backing into it, but one gets the feeling that the old Kaiser and Hitler got it wrong and that the best way to dominate Europe wasn't shooting, it was creating vast capital reserves and waiting for everyone else to become insolvent, so Germany can "save" them.
The Euro in particular is the most powerful weapon yet invented for German domination of Europe, and the French, rather than taking on the traditional role of counterweight, has become a lapdog.
And what ultimately can be done? It seems to be the nature of the game. In hockey, you can make higher penalties for fighting, checking and so forth and inherently the game would become safer. In football, well, the whole bloody point is the aggressive kind of attack. Unless you turn it into a touch game, the injuries will still be there, and if you do turn into a touch game, how many people will tune into Monday Night Football?
If you've suffered massive neurological damage rendering you a cognitive and emotional basket case, you still think the whole "he was selfish" tag applies? I can't quite figure out if your just sort of spouting some meaningless ideological line on suicide, or whether you really are a heartless and witless asshole.
My understanding is that the risks from frequent concussions is even higher in children. I don't think this has come out in football, but it's a growing concern in hockey, where kids can start playing at a young age, and hockey, if played properly should be significantly less risky than football.
I suspect this is the tip of the iceberg. What happens when they start delving into younger players and start demonstrating that high school football carries potentially greater risks than even college and professional football.
The problem here is that they have been tracking a large number of cases in these sports, and there's a frightening consistency to them. Yes, I suppose being famous and rich can cause erratic behavior, but can it also cause the kind of dementia we're seeing? If it was just crazy-ass super-rich sports guys, I doubt anybody would blink, but both postmortem examinations and scans on living professional athletes is showing clear damage, so while maybe spotlight exacerbates the condition, the underlying cause is frequent (in football, absolutely astonishing frequency) of these kinds of injuries. In the old days it was just assumed that athletes could shake concussions off, but we now know quite different, that no, the long term damage is being built on one blow at a time.
REad the fucking article. These studies have. Football players peculiar kinds of injuries to the brain that make them orders of a magnitude more likely to suffer cognitive and emotional problems than the average person on the street. That's rather the point. When you have dementia and depression rates in a certain occupation that are off the charts compared to the mean, that means the risks are far greater.
What if your employer has, for decades, misrepresented the effects of all those concussions and other serious blows? For a long time amateur and pro football organizations have gone out of their way to minimize what was an ever-increasing body of data suggesting that the sport was maiming players' brains. We're talking in many cases here about people who got into the sport in high school or early in college, groups notorious for gullibility. When you have a coach telling you the double-vision and headache is just a side effect and will go away and you'll be fine, and your eighteen years old and you love the game and your old man brags to the neighbors every day of the week that his son is on a football team, I'd say the odds are that you are not giving anything approaching informed consent.
Short of making it "no contact", it's difficult to see how one could ever avoid the kinds of injuries in question. Yes, you can make rule changes to reduce the risk to some degree, but as has been seen in hockey, try to make the game too safe, and suddenly it ceases to be appealing to the fans.
In a similarly compromised position. Whether that means a ban or not I don't know. I'm of little mind to go telling grown adults what they can do with their brains. There is, however, the issue of kids. It's becoming a huge issue in hockey, where some kinds of behavior have been banned, but the evidence that body checks and the like are dangerous, in fact more so for children than for adults.
What does that mean? Maybe it means you can't play football before you reach the age of majority. That in and of itself would completely fuck up professional football, as highschool football seeds college football which seeds the pro game. Cut out the first, and you'll likely lose a lot of talent.
My understanding is yes. And it isn't just football players who are prone. There is a growing body of evidence in professional hockey and boxing that similar kinds of injuries lead to long-term behavioral and cognitive disorders. Remember, the brain does it all, so if impacts are severe enough to nail one kind of higher function, it's enough bugger up another. Whether it's the cerebellum or the cerebrum, they're all vulnerable.
It demonstrates that Oracle thinks Java is. The court will ultimately decide if re-implementing the Java libraries does indeed constitute some violation of Oracle's IP.
It isn't the vaccines, and not vaccinating puts not only your own child at risk, but other children as well as herd immunity breaks down.
This has been dealt it. Wakefield was a fraud, and if things worked as they ought to, he'd be rotting in prison. There was no link between MMR and autism. Never was. Never ever ever ever was. You might as well not feed your child milk, because guess what, I'm sure you could make some correlation between milk and autism.
Let it be repeated into your dull, stupid, worthless brain. Correlation does not imply causation.
But I'm all for you denying your child vaccinations. By the same token I think it should be against the law for you to put them in public school, in any publicly funded daycare, that they should have to wear full environmental suits when around other children until all the parents of those children have signed a waiver.
Wakefield was the scam artists. Yes, lawyers, TV show hosts, celebrities and a whole host of incredibly fucking stupid people helped him, but at the end of the day it was his scam.
Hear that Andrew Wakefield, you murdering piece of trash! Real researchers are finding real causes for autism, and not making them up and compromising the health of tens of thousands of people to make a buck.
May you roast in hell, and in the meantime come down with some particular noisome and noxious kind of cancer that makes you smell like rotting flesh and cause unceasing and unbelievable agony.
First of all, I doubt that's true, and the only thing we have to tell that is the fossils, which do not give us any genetic information, so how do you imagine you could make such a bold statement?
I would consider the current copyright laws and the ones that they keep drafting and trying to push through every which way amount to a bailout. Rather than forcing the big media companies to compete, legislators are trying to build a wall around them.
To read an online magazine, you must also have a snail mail subscription?
There's nothing about this that makes any sense. It's stupid, ultimately self-destructive and only proves that the big media companies don't get it, and likely never will.
Just when you think even some branch of the industry gets it, they demonstrate they don't. It's hard to think of an industry more dedicated towards giving customers what they don't want, and doing everything in their power to make sure that more money slips through their fingers.
You see, Congress, this is what happens when you try to legislate an extinct business model back to health. You don't get better companies, you don't protect jobs or an industry, you just get lazy, stupid dinosaurs who continue to fecklessly drive towards the chasm.
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Hell, I stopped using WMP to play videos five or six years ago. VLC is awesome and lightweight, and sure is a helluva lot less of a fuss than WMP.
As events progress it's hard not to look at the EU and the Eurozone and see them as formative tools for a German dominated Europe. As the golden rule says, he who has the gold makes the rules.
Now admittedly Germany is backing into it, but one gets the feeling that the old Kaiser and Hitler got it wrong and that the best way to dominate Europe wasn't shooting, it was creating vast capital reserves and waiting for everyone else to become insolvent, so Germany can "save" them.
The Euro in particular is the most powerful weapon yet invented for German domination of Europe, and the French, rather than taking on the traditional role of counterweight, has become a lapdog.
You're allows your opinion and the right to be an insufferable twat.
And what ultimately can be done? It seems to be the nature of the game. In hockey, you can make higher penalties for fighting, checking and so forth and inherently the game would become safer. In football, well, the whole bloody point is the aggressive kind of attack. Unless you turn it into a touch game, the injuries will still be there, and if you do turn into a touch game, how many people will tune into Monday Night Football?
If you've suffered massive neurological damage rendering you a cognitive and emotional basket case, you still think the whole "he was selfish" tag applies? I can't quite figure out if your just sort of spouting some meaningless ideological line on suicide, or whether you really are a heartless and witless asshole.
My understanding is that the risks from frequent concussions is even higher in children. I don't think this has come out in football, but it's a growing concern in hockey, where kids can start playing at a young age, and hockey, if played properly should be significantly less risky than football.
I suspect this is the tip of the iceberg. What happens when they start delving into younger players and start demonstrating that high school football carries potentially greater risks than even college and professional football.
The problem here is that they have been tracking a large number of cases in these sports, and there's a frightening consistency to them. Yes, I suppose being famous and rich can cause erratic behavior, but can it also cause the kind of dementia we're seeing? If it was just crazy-ass super-rich sports guys, I doubt anybody would blink, but both postmortem examinations and scans on living professional athletes is showing clear damage, so while maybe spotlight exacerbates the condition, the underlying cause is frequent (in football, absolutely astonishing frequency) of these kinds of injuries. In the old days it was just assumed that athletes could shake concussions off, but we now know quite different, that no, the long term damage is being built on one blow at a time.
REad the fucking article. These studies have. Football players peculiar kinds of injuries to the brain that make them orders of a magnitude more likely to suffer cognitive and emotional problems than the average person on the street. That's rather the point. When you have dementia and depression rates in a certain occupation that are off the charts compared to the mean, that means the risks are far greater.
What if your employer has, for decades, misrepresented the effects of all those concussions and other serious blows? For a long time amateur and pro football organizations have gone out of their way to minimize what was an ever-increasing body of data suggesting that the sport was maiming players' brains. We're talking in many cases here about people who got into the sport in high school or early in college, groups notorious for gullibility. When you have a coach telling you the double-vision and headache is just a side effect and will go away and you'll be fine, and your eighteen years old and you love the game and your old man brags to the neighbors every day of the week that his son is on a football team, I'd say the odds are that you are not giving anything approaching informed consent.
Short of making it "no contact", it's difficult to see how one could ever avoid the kinds of injuries in question. Yes, you can make rule changes to reduce the risk to some degree, but as has been seen in hockey, try to make the game too safe, and suddenly it ceases to be appealing to the fans.
In a similarly compromised position. Whether that means a ban or not I don't know. I'm of little mind to go telling grown adults what they can do with their brains. There is, however, the issue of kids. It's becoming a huge issue in hockey, where some kinds of behavior have been banned, but the evidence that body checks and the like are dangerous, in fact more so for children than for adults.
What does that mean? Maybe it means you can't play football before you reach the age of majority. That in and of itself would completely fuck up professional football, as highschool football seeds college football which seeds the pro game. Cut out the first, and you'll likely lose a lot of talent.
My understanding is yes. And it isn't just football players who are prone. There is a growing body of evidence in professional hockey and boxing that similar kinds of injuries lead to long-term behavioral and cognitive disorders. Remember, the brain does it all, so if impacts are severe enough to nail one kind of higher function, it's enough bugger up another. Whether it's the cerebellum or the cerebrum, they're all vulnerable.
It demonstrates that Oracle thinks Java is. The court will ultimately decide if re-implementing the Java libraries does indeed constitute some violation of Oracle's IP.
It isn't the vaccines, and not vaccinating puts not only your own child at risk, but other children as well as herd immunity breaks down.
This has been dealt it. Wakefield was a fraud, and if things worked as they ought to, he'd be rotting in prison. There was no link between MMR and autism. Never was. Never ever ever ever was. You might as well not feed your child milk, because guess what, I'm sure you could make some correlation between milk and autism.
Let it be repeated into your dull, stupid, worthless brain. Correlation does not imply causation.
But I'm all for you denying your child vaccinations. By the same token I think it should be against the law for you to put them in public school, in any publicly funded daycare, that they should have to wear full environmental suits when around other children until all the parents of those children have signed a waiver.
Wakefield was the scam artists. Yes, lawyers, TV show hosts, celebrities and a whole host of incredibly fucking stupid people helped him, but at the end of the day it was his scam.
I think you mistook my mom for your cross-dressing dad.
I think the issue is more that we should despise US copyright law.
Hear that Andrew Wakefield, you murdering piece of trash! Real researchers are finding real causes for autism, and not making them up and compromising the health of tens of thousands of people to make a buck.
May you roast in hell, and in the meantime come down with some particular noisome and noxious kind of cancer that makes you smell like rotting flesh and cause unceasing and unbelievable agony.
First of all, I doubt that's true, and the only thing we have to tell that is the fossils, which do not give us any genetic information, so how do you imagine you could make such a bold statement?
If you have to ask the question, then you don't know what evolution is.
I would consider the current copyright laws and the ones that they keep drafting and trying to push through every which way amount to a bailout. Rather than forcing the big media companies to compete, legislators are trying to build a wall around them.
To read an online magazine, you must also have a snail mail subscription?
There's nothing about this that makes any sense. It's stupid, ultimately self-destructive and only proves that the big media companies don't get it, and likely never will.
Just when you think even some branch of the industry gets it, they demonstrate they don't. It's hard to think of an industry more dedicated towards giving customers what they don't want, and doing everything in their power to make sure that more money slips through their fingers.
You see, Congress, this is what happens when you try to legislate an extinct business model back to health. You don't get better companies, you don't protect jobs or an industry, you just get lazy, stupid dinosaurs who continue to fecklessly drive towards the chasm.
I wish I had mod points. I tip my hat you sir. Excellent Orwell reference.
You need to dismiss this belief that you alone are reponsible for your success.