is also good for peripheral neuropathy in some situations.. It promotes nerve repair/regrowth, esp. when taken with arginine..
Reduce mold exposure, which makes your joints die.
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Many people who think they have RSI, I suspect, have been having their conditions aggravated by toxic mold exposure, which causes all sorts of aches and pains throughout your body. Molds of the stachybotrys, chaetmonium, aspergillius and penicillium kinds produce many different mycotoxins such as the trichothecenes, aflatoxins, ochratoxins, ergot alkaloids, etc. which can cause, among other things, cell damage and other kinds of apoptopsis. (This information is being suppressed by all sorts of big money interests.) Normally, your body repairs RSI-type damage, creating a sort of equilibrium, but in the presence of high levels of mycotoxins, it cant do so. This may also cause depression, ADD-like symptoms, and a host of other things. Much CFS and MCS may be due to hidden mold sources in home environments. Mycotoxin binders, like activated charcoal, inflammation reducers like omega-3s and antioxidants might help!
Increasingly, American companies seek to get rich by acting as the broker between vendors and custormers in other countries. For example, an American company might see selling the serives of Indian programmers to Chinese customers as more profitable than selling the services of American programmers. This may be true, short term, but ultimately, the customers will contract directly with the suppliers of the services, who have received a free education as part of the deal.
And without any customers in America, (after all, Americans need to have money in order to buy anything just like anybody else..so they need jobs..) ultimately the US economy will implode..
From our own short sighted greed and stupidity, I might add.. Unfortunately..
I think where this is all going is a sort of piece-work approach to work in which people will be 'on call' but they will only be paid for the time that they are devoting their undivided attention to their employer's business, as measured by biometrics. Modern eye-tracking software can sense where one's focus is on a screen, and software plug ins can determine what files are being worked on. This way, employers will be able to weed out their most productive employees from the herd and pay them accordingly, while dismissing the slackers who merely punch their time clocks.
This approach, which Frederick Taylor pioneered in the 1870s, is at the foundation of the prosperity seen by the corporation in the 20th century. Ultimately, machines will replace people, and that will be even more profitable!
The *average* Chinese worker (around a year ago) in the entire country, not just on the coast.. made around $300/year. However, wages are going up rapidly, so the average worker now probably makes much more, maybe $600 or more a year.
Engineers might make much more, as much as 6 or 7 thousand dollars a year.
I think the problem with the way most Americans look at global outsourcing is that they think that someone somehow owes them jobs because of their good looks. They couldn't be more wrong, in fact, the American economic system puts a burden on corporations to reduce their costs in any way possible, by exporting jobs, if necessary.
Under capitalism, people exist to help corporations build capital. Supply and demand clearly changes in situations of low demand and high supply, and as more jobs go overseas and/or are replaced by silicon chips, demand for workers will fall along with wages. Sooner or later something has to give, and my guess is that Americans will have to accept a much lower standard of living in that intirim period while there are still jobs, and will have to accept no income once they are truly obsolete. Incomes, however, will rise for that shrinking number of people who have irreplaceable creative skills that are not scriptable by computers. They will do well in an atmosphere of heady prosperity. However, their days are numbered.
Meanwhile, productivity will continue to rise, until no workers are producing infinite goods and services for a tiny number of elites.
What is wrong with this picture?
Authoritarianism is when a government believes it is God and that it has the right to determine who lives or dies.
Thats where we are going and it could destroy America and the rest of the world with it.
Seriously...
Unless they want to do their work..
Ultimately, machines will do all non-creative work, just look at Moore's Law..
Efficiency is good.. It's *society's* duty to sort the social implications of it all out.
Companies duty is to do what they do the best possible way they can.. which means doing it with efficiency.
What we should be doing is training people to *think* not how to do specific jobs. Those jobs will disappear, its a given. If people have the skills and the inquisitive minds to understand and embrace change, we will do well. If not, we'll fail.
Training people just to do todays 'jobs' means that their skills will be obsolete not long after they gain them.. OTOH, if we teach them the fundamentals they will need to understand tomorrows skills.. we'll do okay.. But we have to accept that the whole job thing is probably a 20th century thing.. the 21st century will probably be more about project based employment and gradual, accellerating replacement of people by machines..
Well, first off, what China does has no bearing on what the western world does. They're their own little micro-cosm.
Lots of westerners are going there to get kidneys. No wait. the world is getting smaller all the time. And life cheaper, it sometimes seems.
Secondly, jobs don't dissapear. Work is not a finite resource that gets depleted, work is a natural byproduct of human existence.
I disagree with this, because of the wonder of mass production (look up the work of Fredrick Taylor - who made industry incredibly more productive - invented 'deskilling') and the economics of scale, things get much cheaper when they are automated. how many people's jobs are really creative. And by that I mean, non scriptable. Not as many as we would like to think. Seriously.
Therefore jobs cannot cease to be, only the value placed on that work can fluctuate, and therefore the availability of work can move from place to place, as well as shifting between types of work. And thirdly, you just totaly raped Moore's Law. Please don't ever use it that way again.
I disagree.. I think it makes sense.. think about it..
China is already selling the prgans of thousands of executed prisoners a year.
The US and most of the rest of the developed world, are losing jobs rapidly, and thanks to Moore's Law, the entire world may be very hard to find work in in 20 or 30 years from now. Everything - housing, food, clean water, breathable air, electricity, clothing, are commodities that must be paid for, whether the purchaser has an income or not. Unless you have gobally scarce skills in 20 or 30 years - which will be rare, robots will do your job better than you ever could.. And far cheaper.. Seriously..
So what's so scary about organ selling? Perhaps kind of a reverse mortgage.. You get a few years of living high on the hog, eating real food.. drinking clean water.. away from the maddening crowds, as it were.. then it comes time to pay up..
-slice-
Actually, I think the likelihood of something like this is extremely high..
Just follow the trends a few years into the future..
I hear that state and federal governments are already charging prison inmates for everything associated with their stays.. What's so different about this?
Its supply and demand.. the magic of the marketplace..
Few of us really comprehend how restrictive the government there is. Its so restrictive that everyone who leaves the country must leave family members behind - literally as hostages. I am not just saying this because of BushCo propaganda about NK "They make US look good..." the level of government control there is unlike anything else anywhere on the planet. Its like China during the Cultural Revolution, and until just a few years ago, this represented total information control. Say the wrong thing, and you disappear, forever.. Often, your family (children, spouse, parents - whoever lives with you) - does too. Seriously..
Its ths stuff of nightmares..
The only North Koreans who surf the net from inside North Korea are very high-level KWP VIPs like Kim Jong-Il himself.. and maybe his immediate family and inner circle..
And I doubt if *any* of them besides the Fear Leader himself is surfing 'dissident' sites. And if he does surf your site, you wont be able to tell it from the IP address... North Korean net surfers use Internet connectivity that they buy from China and Japan..
Like parallel parking and driving in stop-and-go traffic jams.. (like when you just have to inch your car forward a few feet, then stop, then do it again)
Eventually, I see cars being able to drive themselves, and most delivery tasks will probably be handled by robotic vehicles. With Moore's Law being fairly right so far, I'd say that we are looking at around ten years till at least one standardized technology to enable driverless roads and deliveries (at least some roads) begins to be adopted. Yes, many people who currently earn their livings driving will eventually be tossed into the growing ranks of the unemployed - machines will be doing more and more with less and less.. We better get used to that inevitability, the end of 'the job' and figure out a way to adjust to it and still suitably incentivise people to do what they need to do.. I think this demands more education, not less.
Note: Public education was made universal as a response to the need for employees by the industrial revolution, a need that is now already declining in developed, high wage nations, and will accellerate and spread to low wage nations as well, as technology improves and enables more kinds of work to be done by machines.
The social implications of this are staggering. barring war, they are also pretty exciting. (A world of abundance, in which learning becomes much more important as mankind reaches for the stars?)
People may no longer 'work to live' - but hopefully, those who want to will work because they are excited by being able to add to the sum total of human endeavor and knowledge. (Those creative jobs are the only jobs that won't be done by machines)
Note to global governments. This will make nations far more vulnerable to EMP terrorism. The only predictably safe way to prevent terrorism - long term, is to eliminate the STARK inequalities that ruin the lives of so many millions (billions?) of people through preventable poverty. In 30 years, the world's population will begin to shrink naturally.
So we need to prevent global nuclear war, even if it means having to share a little..
They will just take and take and never give..
Seriously, life is too short to waste it in jobs that suck you dry and don't offer anything in return..
When they ask you to work late, tell them you have tickets to the symphony or something.. Don't let them take over your life or they won't ever realize when it's too much.
When the mandatory HDTV switchover comes in two years, many small towns (those that don't support cable) wont be able to receive antenna-based TV anymore. (those UHF frequencies basically are strictly line of sight) Satellite TV like Direct TV carries no local programming at all.. and is too pricey for poor rural dwellers..
many rural areas are also losing their schools as people have fewer children...
The potential for manufacturing meat through non-animal processes could change the rural ecosystem still further as ranching for meat production might become less attractive from a health perspective (because of Mad Cow) and eventually, nonviable economically (its a very pollution-intensive industry, so this could be a good thing..)
Its also obvious to me that the 21st century will see technology replace people in a lot of jobs.. making emplyment unnecessary for most of us, (unless we need the money of course, but 'jobs' will only be available to those with world-class creative skills)
We could see a lot of rural land revert to its natural state.. naturally.. restoring watershed, forests.. etc.
That would be nice..
A lot of soil contains some particularly nasty molds that generate serious biotoxins. Many mycotoxins, Lyme disease, some aquatic microorganisms, and several other biotoxin diseases have similar effects in the body.. especially in people who have certain HLA-DR types. Those people don't eliminate these toxins and, as I have heard, they become locked in the body by being trapped in a loop between the liver, bile salts, and small intestine.. They can cause serious damage to your health.
If you have mold-related illness, Lyme, or any of these other diseases you may not even know it, but they could be making you seriously ill (this is the situation I was in..)
I found out that a drug called cholestyramine helped a lot.. literally sucking the toxins out of this loop that I described earlier. It made a huge difference for me.
There is a lot of info on this at moldwarriors.com and chronicneurotoxins.com . Mold toxicity is a serious (and politically controversial.. watch people flame me on this!) problem and so is Lyme disease.. this approach seems to be a real breakthrough.. so save this info if you know someone who needs it.
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Will help prevent this. Especially if you take it with alpha-lipoic acid. Everyone should take them.
is also good for peripheral neuropathy in some situations.. It promotes nerve repair/regrowth, esp. when taken with arginine..
Many people who think they have RSI, I suspect, have been having their conditions aggravated by toxic mold exposure, which causes all sorts of aches and pains throughout your body. Molds of the stachybotrys, chaetmonium, aspergillius and penicillium kinds produce many different mycotoxins such as the trichothecenes, aflatoxins, ochratoxins, ergot alkaloids, etc. which can cause, among other things, cell damage and other kinds of apoptopsis. (This information is being suppressed by all sorts of big money interests.) Normally, your body repairs RSI-type damage, creating a sort of equilibrium, but in the presence of high levels of mycotoxins, it cant do so. This may also cause depression, ADD-like symptoms, and a host of other things. Much CFS and MCS may be due to hidden mold sources in home environments. Mycotoxin binders, like activated charcoal, inflammation reducers like omega-3s and antioxidants might help!
Note, I am not a doctor, no do I play one on TV.
Guess I was wrong...
Customers will write their own software with other software.. Just connect the boxes..
Increasingly, American companies seek to get rich by acting as the broker between vendors and custormers in other countries. For example, an American company might see selling the serives of Indian programmers to Chinese customers as more profitable than selling the services of American programmers. This may be true, short term, but ultimately, the customers will contract directly with the suppliers of the services, who have received a free education as part of the deal.
And without any customers in America, (after all, Americans need to have money in order to buy anything just like anybody else..so they need jobs..) ultimately the US economy will implode..
From our own short sighted greed and stupidity, I might add.. Unfortunately..
I think where this is all going is a sort of piece-work approach to work in which people will be 'on call' but they will only be paid for the time that they are devoting their undivided attention to their employer's business, as measured by biometrics. Modern eye-tracking software can sense where one's focus is on a screen, and software plug ins can determine what files are being worked on. This way, employers will be able to weed out their most productive employees from the herd and pay them accordingly, while dismissing the slackers who merely punch their time clocks. This approach, which Frederick Taylor pioneered in the 1870s, is at the foundation of the prosperity seen by the corporation in the 20th century. Ultimately, machines will replace people, and that will be even more profitable!
The *average* Chinese worker (around a year ago) in the entire country, not just on the coast.. made around $300/year. However, wages are going up rapidly, so the average worker now probably makes much more, maybe $600 or more a year. Engineers might make much more, as much as 6 or 7 thousand dollars a year. I think the problem with the way most Americans look at global outsourcing is that they think that someone somehow owes them jobs because of their good looks. They couldn't be more wrong, in fact, the American economic system puts a burden on corporations to reduce their costs in any way possible, by exporting jobs, if necessary. Under capitalism, people exist to help corporations build capital. Supply and demand clearly changes in situations of low demand and high supply, and as more jobs go overseas and/or are replaced by silicon chips, demand for workers will fall along with wages. Sooner or later something has to give, and my guess is that Americans will have to accept a much lower standard of living in that intirim period while there are still jobs, and will have to accept no income once they are truly obsolete. Incomes, however, will rise for that shrinking number of people who have irreplaceable creative skills that are not scriptable by computers. They will do well in an atmosphere of heady prosperity. However, their days are numbered. Meanwhile, productivity will continue to rise, until no workers are producing infinite goods and services for a tiny number of elites. What is wrong with this picture?
Authoritarianism is when a government believes it is God and that it has the right to determine who lives or dies. Thats where we are going and it could destroy America and the rest of the world with it. Seriously...
Unless they want to do their work.. Ultimately, machines will do all non-creative work, just look at Moore's Law.. Efficiency is good.. It's *society's* duty to sort the social implications of it all out. Companies duty is to do what they do the best possible way they can.. which means doing it with efficiency. What we should be doing is training people to *think* not how to do specific jobs. Those jobs will disappear, its a given. If people have the skills and the inquisitive minds to understand and embrace change, we will do well. If not, we'll fail. Training people just to do todays 'jobs' means that their skills will be obsolete not long after they gain them.. OTOH, if we teach them the fundamentals they will need to understand tomorrows skills.. we'll do okay.. But we have to accept that the whole job thing is probably a 20th century thing.. the 21st century will probably be more about project based employment and gradual, accellerating replacement of people by machines..
Lots of westerners are going there to get kidneys. No wait. the world is getting smaller all the time. And life cheaper, it sometimes seems.
Secondly, jobs don't dissapear. Work is not a finite resource that gets depleted, work is a natural byproduct of human existence.
I disagree with this, because of the wonder of mass production (look up the work of Fredrick Taylor - who made industry incredibly more productive - invented 'deskilling') and the economics of scale, things get much cheaper when they are automated. how many people's jobs are really creative. And by that I mean, non scriptable. Not as many as we would like to think. Seriously. Therefore jobs cannot cease to be, only the value placed on that work can fluctuate, and therefore the availability of work can move from place to place, as well as shifting between types of work. And thirdly, you just totaly raped Moore's Law. Please don't ever use it that way again. I disagree.. I think it makes sense.. think about it..
China is already selling the prgans of thousands of executed prisoners a year. The US and most of the rest of the developed world, are losing jobs rapidly, and thanks to Moore's Law, the entire world may be very hard to find work in in 20 or 30 years from now. Everything - housing, food, clean water, breathable air, electricity, clothing, are commodities that must be paid for, whether the purchaser has an income or not. Unless you have gobally scarce skills in 20 or 30 years - which will be rare, robots will do your job better than you ever could.. And far cheaper.. Seriously.. So what's so scary about organ selling? Perhaps kind of a reverse mortgage.. You get a few years of living high on the hog, eating real food.. drinking clean water.. away from the maddening crowds, as it were.. then it comes time to pay up.. -slice- Actually, I think the likelihood of something like this is extremely high.. Just follow the trends a few years into the future.. I hear that state and federal governments are already charging prison inmates for everything associated with their stays.. What's so different about this? Its supply and demand.. the magic of the marketplace..
Few of us really comprehend how restrictive the government there is. Its so restrictive that everyone who leaves the country must leave family members behind - literally as hostages. I am not just saying this because of BushCo propaganda about NK "They make US look good..." the level of government control there is unlike anything else anywhere on the planet. Its like China during the Cultural Revolution, and until just a few years ago, this represented total information control. Say the wrong thing, and you disappear, forever.. Often, your family (children, spouse, parents - whoever lives with you) - does too. Seriously.. Its ths stuff of nightmares.. The only North Koreans who surf the net from inside North Korea are very high-level KWP VIPs like Kim Jong-Il himself.. and maybe his immediate family and inner circle.. And I doubt if *any* of them besides the Fear Leader himself is surfing 'dissident' sites. And if he does surf your site, you wont be able to tell it from the IP address... North Korean net surfers use Internet connectivity that they buy from China and Japan..
Like parallel parking and driving in stop-and-go traffic jams.. (like when you just have to inch your car forward a few feet, then stop, then do it again) Eventually, I see cars being able to drive themselves, and most delivery tasks will probably be handled by robotic vehicles. With Moore's Law being fairly right so far, I'd say that we are looking at around ten years till at least one standardized technology to enable driverless roads and deliveries (at least some roads) begins to be adopted. Yes, many people who currently earn their livings driving will eventually be tossed into the growing ranks of the unemployed - machines will be doing more and more with less and less.. We better get used to that inevitability, the end of 'the job' and figure out a way to adjust to it and still suitably incentivise people to do what they need to do.. I think this demands more education, not less. Note: Public education was made universal as a response to the need for employees by the industrial revolution, a need that is now already declining in developed, high wage nations, and will accellerate and spread to low wage nations as well, as technology improves and enables more kinds of work to be done by machines. The social implications of this are staggering. barring war, they are also pretty exciting. (A world of abundance, in which learning becomes much more important as mankind reaches for the stars?) People may no longer 'work to live' - but hopefully, those who want to will work because they are excited by being able to add to the sum total of human endeavor and knowledge. (Those creative jobs are the only jobs that won't be done by machines) Note to global governments. This will make nations far more vulnerable to EMP terrorism. The only predictably safe way to prevent terrorism - long term, is to eliminate the STARK inequalities that ruin the lives of so many millions (billions?) of people through preventable poverty. In 30 years, the world's population will begin to shrink naturally. So we need to prevent global nuclear war, even if it means having to share a little..
They will just take and take and never give.. Seriously, life is too short to waste it in jobs that suck you dry and don't offer anything in return.. When they ask you to work late, tell them you have tickets to the symphony or something.. Don't let them take over your life or they won't ever realize when it's too much.
[Ellen Heber-Katz at the Wistar Institute http://www.wistar.org/research_facilities/heberkat z/research.htm%5D has been using gene therapy to develop mice that can repair their own hearts and even grow new limbs if they are cut off. This is a biggie..
When the mandatory HDTV switchover comes in two years, many small towns (those that don't support cable) wont be able to receive antenna-based TV anymore. (those UHF frequencies basically are strictly line of sight) Satellite TV like Direct TV carries no local programming at all.. and is too pricey for poor rural dwellers.. many rural areas are also losing their schools as people have fewer children... The potential for manufacturing meat through non-animal processes could change the rural ecosystem still further as ranching for meat production might become less attractive from a health perspective (because of Mad Cow) and eventually, nonviable economically (its a very pollution-intensive industry, so this could be a good thing..) Its also obvious to me that the 21st century will see technology replace people in a lot of jobs.. making emplyment unnecessary for most of us, (unless we need the money of course, but 'jobs' will only be available to those with world-class creative skills) We could see a lot of rural land revert to its natural state.. naturally.. restoring watershed, forests.. etc. That would be nice..
A lot of soil contains some particularly nasty molds that generate serious biotoxins. Many mycotoxins, Lyme disease, some aquatic microorganisms, and several other biotoxin diseases have similar effects in the body.. especially in people who have certain HLA-DR types. Those people don't eliminate these toxins and, as I have heard, they become locked in the body by being trapped in a loop between the liver, bile salts, and small intestine.. They can cause serious damage to your health. If you have mold-related illness, Lyme, or any of these other diseases you may not even know it, but they could be making you seriously ill (this is the situation I was in..) I found out that a drug called cholestyramine helped a lot.. literally sucking the toxins out of this loop that I described earlier. It made a huge difference for me. There is a lot of info on this at moldwarriors.com and chronicneurotoxins.com . Mold toxicity is a serious (and politically controversial.. watch people flame me on this!) problem and so is Lyme disease.. this approach seems to be a real breakthrough.. so save this info if you know someone who needs it.