Alex Jones and The Atlantic Monthly, noted wingnut, anti-globalist conspiracy rag: "Yet in the view of several vaccine skeptics, this claim is suspicious on its face. Influenza causes only a small minority of all deaths in the U.S., even among senior citizens, and even after adding in the deaths to which flu might have contributed indirectly. When researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases included all deaths from illnesses that flu aggravates, like lung disease or chronic heart failure, they found that flu accounts for, at most, 10 percent of winter deaths among the elderly. So how could flu vaccine possibly reduce total deaths by half? Tom Jefferson, a physician based in Rome and the head of the Vaccines Field at the Cochrane Collaboration, a highly respected international network of researchers who appraise medical evidence, says: "For a vaccine to reduce mortality by 50 percent and up to 90 percent in some studies means it has to prevent deaths not just from influenza, but also from falls, fires, heart disease, strokes, and car accidents. That's not a vaccine, that's a miracle." " http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200911/brownlee-h1n1
Sorry my friend! Theft is not justified by a feeling of moral superiority on the part of the thief. This is, after all, how the became pigs, in the first place!
"But to live outside the law, You must be honest" -- Bob Dylan, Sweet Marie
You really beleive it all to be this simple? Have you ever been in a room with either lawters from firms of this size, or with the technology marketing teams that fund them?
They are "interesting" rooms.
"DLA Piper is one of the largest law firms in the world and it is the only firm with more than 3,500 lawyers in North America and Europe. DLA Piper is a legal services organization whose members and affiliates are separate and distinct legal entities." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLA_Piper
IBM and Novell both are certainly money this firm takes. Probably Microsoft, too. All of these players have "proxies" that they push markets with - like cold war intelligence and battle operations. I have heard the planners at one proprietary vendor - supposedly Open Source advocate - talk about funding CentOS - to damage RedHat. They'd do so through participation in a third vendor consortium/forum. This stuff is common.
"Implementing the McChrystal plan will perpetuate the longstanding fundamentals of US national security policy: maintaining a global military presence, configuring US forces for global power projection, and employing those forces to intervene on a global basis. The McChrystal plan modestly updates these fundamentals to account for the lessons of 9/11 and Iraq, cultural awareness and sensitivity nudging aside advanced technology as the signature of American military power, for example. Yet at its core, the McChrystal plan aims to avert change. Its purpose - despite 9/11 and despite the failures of Iraq - is to preserve the status quo. . . .
If the president assents to McChrystal's request, he will void his promise of change at least so far as national security policy is concerned. The Afghanistan war will continue until the end of his first term and probably beyond. It will consume hundreds of billions of dollars. It will result in hundreds or perhaps thousands more American combat deaths - costs that the hawks are loath to acknowledge.
As the fighting drags on from one year to the next, the engagement of US forces in armed nation-building projects in distant lands will become the new normalcy. Americans of all ages will come to accept war as a perpetual condition, as young Americans already do. That "keeping Americans safe" obliges the United States to seek, maintain, and exploit unambiguous military supremacy will become utterly uncontroversial."
Is it not true that "dead babies" are the functional, practical and actual outcome of using the Predator drone?
There are ideological and political concerns that may accompany this fact, such as:
"It is worth the comfort of my life at home, that babies are killed in a distant land"
or
"The lives of those babies are an unfortunate consequence of a distant evil that we are compelled to oppose. That we rid the wold of one blackened heart is worth the dozen innocents who must perish in the effort."
or
"Regrettably several dead babies are necessary two sustain profitability."
Any way you slice it, Dead fuckin' baby. Dead fuckin' parents.
It still won't matter. You were born, and soon you will die. Yet you are concerned with a distant mystery - not the one upon which you are standing and cannot escape.
The difference between theory and practice is that nothing in the universe actually conforms to your perceptions and everything you know is not even wrong. You are not even really "you" in any sense beyond the illusory narrative created by the mind, to order its disparate sensations.
Black hole? Maths say they exist - but you will never really know, nor will it ever really matter - if you cannot even know your "self".
"In theory there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is". I paraphrase this as:
"To the imagination, it is identical with reality, when Reality is so totally comprehensive that all of imagination is an infinitesimal subset."
But the mind is a little thing - with such a limited set of tools and perceptions, on such a tiny scale.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah.
Alex Jones and The Atlantic Monthly , noted wingnut, anti-globalist conspiracy rag:
"Yet in the view of several vaccine skeptics, this claim is suspicious on its face. Influenza causes only a small minority of all deaths in the U.S., even among senior citizens, and even after adding in the deaths to which flu might have contributed indirectly. When researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases included all deaths from illnesses that flu aggravates, like lung disease or chronic heart failure, they found that flu accounts for, at most, 10 percent of winter deaths among the elderly. So how could flu vaccine possibly reduce total deaths by half? Tom Jefferson, a physician based in Rome and the head of the Vaccines Field at the Cochrane Collaboration, a highly respected international network of researchers who appraise medical evidence, says: "For a vaccine to reduce mortality by 50 percent and up to 90 percent in some studies means it has to prevent deaths not just from influenza, but also from falls, fires, heart disease, strokes, and car accidents. That's not a vaccine, that's a miracle." "
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200911/brownlee-h1n1
I guess if you are not a pro-ball cheerleader, you have nothing to worry about:
Washington Redskins Cheerleader Desiree Jennings Permanently Disabled From Flu Vaccine
http://video.najoomi.com/videos/0VMRWLgF8V8/Washington-Redskins-Cheerleader-Desiree-Jennings-Permanently-Disabled-From-Flu-Vaccine.html
http://loudountimes.com/blogs/loudoun-lowdown/2009-10-13/loudoun-lowdown-nicholas-graham-flu-shot-desiree/
http://video.aol.co.uk/video-detail/cheerleader-with-dystonia-from-flu-shot-may-have-it-all-in-her-head/2264303090
http://video.aol.co.uk/video-detail/update-on-washington-redskins-cheerleader-crippled-for-life-after-being-vaccinated/1581295953
http://www.huliq.com/8059/87650/nfl-cheerleader-suffers-irreversible-dystonia-after-flu-shot
And quite likeley fraudulent and actually harmful.
Do NOT inject contaminated virus proteins into MY bloodstream, thanks you very much!
Is that you?
It is not immoral to steal from the Pig Empire?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Book
Sorry my friend! Theft is not justified by a feeling of moral superiority on the part of the thief. This is, after all, how the became pigs, in the first place!
"But to live outside the law,
You must be honest"
-- Bob Dylan, Sweet Marie
HEY!
HTC has feet! I feel they are "more human", already!
Simplify?
The meter-makers want a customer. Otherwise, the old stuff still works fine.
Why not?
These days, at least half the equipment is manufactured in Chinese factories, to begin with.
Trust me on this one. There are wheels within wheels.
Forcris'sake!
The outfit was called "Danger".
What. It that like "break a leg"?
You really beleive it all to be this simple? Have you ever been in a room with either lawters from firms of this size, or with the technology marketing teams that fund them?
They are "interesting" rooms.
"DLA Piper is one of the largest law firms in the world and it is the only firm with more than 3,500 lawyers in North America and Europe. DLA Piper is a legal services organization whose members and affiliates are separate and distinct legal entities."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLA_Piper
IBM and Novell both are certainly money this firm takes. Probably Microsoft, too. All of these players have "proxies" that they push markets with - like cold war intelligence and battle operations. I have heard the planners at one proprietary vendor - supposedly Open Source advocate - talk about funding CentOS - to damage RedHat. They'd do so through participation in a third vendor consortium/forum. This stuff is common.
"It's a gas, gas, gas!"
I read that as "Trainspotted 800 years"
The bigotry is up the thread.
Well, everytime I don this old windbreaker, I just crack up. The lines are cheesey, but I cut 'em anyway.
Fart mashups! They are a real gas!
Yeah. We need to kill Moslems abroad - to make the world safe for your ignorant bigotry.
It is vital to certain parties that war become intractable, perpetual and expanding.
"War brings business to Feinstein spouse: Blum's firms win multimillion-dollar defense contracts in Iraq, Afghanistan"
Afghanistan - the proxy war
"Implementing the McChrystal plan will perpetuate the longstanding fundamentals of US national security policy: maintaining a global military presence, configuring US forces for global power projection, and employing those forces to intervene on a global basis. The McChrystal plan modestly updates these fundamentals to account for the lessons of 9/11 and Iraq, cultural awareness and sensitivity nudging aside advanced technology as the signature of American military power, for example. Yet at its core, the McChrystal plan aims to avert change. Its purpose - despite 9/11 and despite the failures of Iraq - is to preserve the status quo. . . .
If the president assents to McChrystal's request, he will void his promise of change at least so far as national security policy is concerned. The Afghanistan war will continue until the end of his first term and probably beyond. It will consume hundreds of billions of dollars. It will result in hundreds or perhaps thousands more American combat deaths - costs that the hawks are loath to acknowledge.
As the fighting drags on from one year to the next, the engagement of US forces in armed nation-building projects in distant lands will become the new normalcy. Americans of all ages will come to accept war as a perpetual condition, as young Americans already do. That "keeping Americans safe" obliges the United States to seek, maintain, and exploit unambiguous military supremacy will become utterly uncontroversial."
Why is the parent post "flamebait"?
Is it not true that "dead babies" are the functional, practical and actual outcome of using the Predator drone?
There are ideological and political concerns that may accompany this fact, such as:
"It is worth the comfort of my life at home, that babies are killed in a distant land"
or
"The lives of those babies are an unfortunate consequence of a distant evil that we are compelled to oppose. That we rid the wold of one blackened heart is worth the dozen innocents who must perish in the effort."
or
"Regrettably several dead babies are necessary two sustain profitability."
Any way you slice it, Dead fuckin' baby. Dead fuckin' parents.
That's Adolf Galland - and Rudolf Neubrandt... :-)
I call you "Baby Killers". There hasn't been an aerial dogfight component to "fighter" aircraft since Korea.
So stuff your "Top Gun", Nazi bullshit.
It would be an insult to men like Rudolph Galland to compare drone pilots to the Luftwaffe These aircraft - manned and otherwise - are built to reproduce the horror and WAR CRIMES of Guernica, on an order of magnitude undreamed of by Hitler or Goering.
http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/guernica/glevel_1/1_bombing.html
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/PicassoGuernica.jpg
Deliberate.
Self-referential observation.
I'm too busy being practical.
Well, ultimately I need to know if I'm buying any more cat food.
Cos he's a contrarian little prick, who can't appreciate Nichelle Nichols flashing a little bit of red panties?
What's not to like, apart from the - easily overlooked - semitophillic and globalist/military world-government metaphor?
It still won't matter. You were born, and soon you will die. Yet you are concerned with a distant mystery - not the one upon which you are standing and cannot escape.
The difference between theory and practice is that nothing in the universe actually conforms to your perceptions and everything you know is not even wrong. You are not even really "you" in any sense beyond the illusory narrative created by the mind, to order its disparate sensations.
Black hole? Maths say they exist - but you will never really know, nor will it ever really matter - if you cannot even know your "self".
"In theory there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is". I paraphrase this as:
"To the imagination, it is identical with reality, when Reality is so totally comprehensive that all of imagination is an infinitesimal subset."
But the mind is a little thing - with such a limited set of tools and perceptions, on such a tiny scale.