I'm sorry for what you're going though. If vaccines worry you, you may want to investigate other potential harmful toxins: pesticides in fruit and vegetables, hormones and injections in animals for meat, BPA in plastics, common chemicals used in house buildings, pollution, etc., etc., etc.
FWIW, I would be very interested in the research you conducted when arriving at your conclusion to not vaccinate. I will be having children soon, and have read the anti-vaccine stories. However research has dictated there is no correlation between vaccines and autism, and I believe it.
Disclosure: I am a scientist in the medical field and while I don't work on vaccines and toxins, I am familiar with statistical methods used to arrive at these conclusions.
The amount of information required to be the "top" of your field has increased tremendously since the early 1900's, and consequently requires more time to learn everything.
An analogy is video games. Back in the 80's, games were typically made by a few (or even one) people on a shorter timeline than today's top games, which require a large studio with typically a very large amount of people working together.
How do you know that frozen DNA degrades over time? If a large enough sample is found (intact people/animals have been found frozen in glaciers) I'm sure they can find enough good DNA to make a proper clone.
Cells will "eat" gold nanorods. What are the implications of ingesting these things? Surely having an abnormal amount of metal material inside a cell of microscopic proportions will have some effect on it. I've seen cells gobble up the nanorods, very interesting. They're so small they go right through the cellular membrane. What are the implications of other types of nanomaterials?
Do a search, there's tons of journal articles out there.
While using Linux may be a solution for many on/., it won't work for real people who do real work with Office applications, photo or video editing, many industrial simulation and application programs, etc. And NO, Openoffice, Gimp and VMware just don't cut it for most users.
Linux is great though for a home PC for advanced users who want to surf the web and chat with their friends.
Most uncomplicated extensions will work fine with the new Firefox. The reason that all will fail by default is that ALL extensions must have a string stating which versions of Firefox they are compatible with -- so when a new version of Firefox comes out, the developer must test their extension, and modify the compatibility number.
For most extensions, it's as simple as changing 2.0.+ to 3.0.+ or something similar and it will work fine.
BUT there may be minor code changes that require a partial rewrite of the extension for it to work, or worse, crash the browser -- this is why ALL extensions fail by default.
If this was the person's only copy of pictures from the past two years, the cost may be priceless. I would certainly pay $2000 to retrieve the data, however, it's is an expensive lesson to make backups.
I've had several drives crash on me, now I make regular backups onto another PC and dvd's. The dvd's are stored at two locations for redundancy (home and work).
The author may have used "my" drive to streamline the story, after all, once he received it from his brother in law, he sent it to recovery, so it became "his".
However it really does read like an ad, with very little insight into how they work.
You don't need to encrypt the entire hard drive. I use Truecrypt, and it uses a single file to store all the documents you want to encrypt. You can name it whatever you want. Name it "system.dll" and put it in your windows directory and no one will know what it is.
They can't ask you to decrypt something they don't know is encrypted. Anyways you can always refuse to provide the password, but, don't expect to go on your merry way anytime soon...
No one should be traveling anywhere with confidential information, financial history or "elaborate" fantasies in their laptop without encryption. What if it was lost or stolen?
You'd think someone was crazy for crossing the border with their 10-year tax history and confidential information on their company in paper copies in a briefcase, if they weren't currently using them. Why keep them on the laptop? Same idea.
You are correct, we are likely exceptions. Unfortunately the media likes to blow things out of proportion and fear-mongering is rampant. I don't eat meat and welcome the day when I can eat test tube meat!
Most issues with GM veggies is the method they're grown and the IP surrounding them, and the negative environmental impact. Most people don't even know they're using GM products actually.
I fail to see the issue with artificially grown meat. Test tube babies were controversial at first. How about artificial implants (heart valves, hips, etc)? Hey, even synthetic oil is better than the real stuff!
Agreed. Monsanto's lobbying efforts are reminiscent of Microsoft's early bully tactics. Luckily many people actually care about their health and what they ingest and legislators have been resistant to further controlling the labeling of products (some have tried to BAN labeling these products as NOT containing the hormones... ??)
As a side note, rBST hasn't been approved for use in Canada and other countries, and the EU are fairly strict with Monsanto.
Driving is a privilege, not a right. Free speech is a right, and you are exercising that right now.
How is the agent in this case supposed to know the cat person didn't do anything wrong? They had a detector, detected radiation, and investigated. Nothing was amiss, so everyone went on their merry way. If police just randomly pulled people over for NO reason, then that is harassment and should be dealt with (and of course this occurs unfortunately). If police just bust into your house unexpectedly without reason, that is definitely harassment. They need a warrant and probable cause first.
I've seen Minority Report, think it's an excellent movie. Your analogy with the movie however is flawed. Minority Report is based on people taking action BEFORE they do it AND persecuting them for it -- not letting them go as in the cat case. I do agree however, that the USA is really cracking down on the freedoms of their people, and is slowly becoming a non-democratic nation...
How was the person harassed? The agent pulled him over, questioned him, then let him go. Justified, since they detected radiation source. Doesn't sound like harassment to me. If they ran up to him with guns drawn, cuffed him, questioned him for several hours, then yes, that would be harassment.
Compare this to metal detectors at clubs or airports. EACH person is individually scanned and searched. Is this harassment? An overstep of people's rights? How many people carrying weapons do they really find? It is a deterrent, as well as a detection system.
As far as low-tech, agreed, low tech can cause minor problems such as bombing a building and is much easier. A few causalities, makes the news, etc. A nuke going off though, however, that is significant. Destroy a city, widespread panic and fear, international news. Much like the WTC incident.
I remember playing on a computer my dad put together from a kit, and had a nice woodgrain finish. One game was canyon bomber or similar, but another was a maze game where you could walk around and once in awhile a ghost would appear in front of you. Aside from that, I don't remember anything about it. I don't think we even have pictures of it.
I was very young, 4-5 maybe, and don't even remember the house it was in.
In the street view of Google Maps, there are countless automobiles and specifically Fords in the pictures. They are low quality, but good enough to tell what type of car it is.
Try reading some of the other comments here. The likely scenario is the laser reflected from another surface and hit the eye, if just briefly. The spot size would be larger than a mm at such a distance, it is certainly possible by just waving a laser around at the general area and scoring a quick hit.
The machine is also worthless without a trained operator to use them. It requires knowledge of the body, vascular system, organs, etc to know even where you're looking. The computer doesn't just spit out an answer with the disease, and the operator isn't the one who reads the images. An MD does.
I have news for you, HFCS is used extensively in North American products. Corn is commonly "modified", either by selective breeding or scientifically. Either way they're both GM -- so if you want to avoid so called Frankenfoods, better cut out all that corn syrup.
I don't have a problem with the actual GM foods, it's the environmental impact they have on the ecosystem I have issues with.
They already have this in Canada, and people's faces aren't blurred. There hasn't been a lot of publicity about this site yet though: http://www.virtualcity.ca/
Good point. But the study mentions the tumours are fast growing, malignant and lethal. Perhaps in this study, the animals already had cancer and it chose to metastasize around the implant. Hmmmm, that really has lots of potential applications (early detection, removal, etc), unfortunately, I doubt that's the case!
Several years ago when IBM released their much hyped Deskstar performance series hard drives, I bought one. It was more expensive than the others, but since I was doing some video work at the time, I figured I would splurge even though I was a student.
It died a horrible death only three years later, just outside of warranty. Despite a class action lawsuit against IBM (in the US, not Canada) I couldn't get it replaced. There was apparently a fix for it, simply by downloading a program, but really, who looks for updates to their hard drives?
IBM further went into my bad books, after it simply sold off the business to Hitachi instead of fixing their mess. It really left a sour taste in my mouth for IBM...
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FWIW, I would be very interested in the research you conducted when arriving at your conclusion to not vaccinate. I will be having children soon, and have read the anti-vaccine stories. However research has dictated there is no correlation between vaccines and autism, and I believe it.
Disclosure: I am a scientist in the medical field and while I don't work on vaccines and toxins, I am familiar with statistical methods used to arrive at these conclusions.
The amount of information required to be the "top" of your field has increased tremendously since the early 1900's, and consequently requires more time to learn everything.
An analogy is video games. Back in the 80's, games were typically made by a few (or even one) people on a shorter timeline than today's top games, which require a large studio with typically a very large amount of people working together.
How do you know that frozen DNA degrades over time? If a large enough sample is found (intact people/animals have been found frozen in glaciers) I'm sure they can find enough good DNA to make a proper clone.
Do a search, there's tons of journal articles out there.
Linux is great though for a home PC for advanced users who want to surf the web and chat with their friends.
For most extensions, it's as simple as changing 2.0.+ to 3.0.+ or something similar and it will work fine.
BUT there may be minor code changes that require a partial rewrite of the extension for it to work, or worse, crash the browser -- this is why ALL extensions fail by default.
I've had several drives crash on me, now I make regular backups onto another PC and dvd's. The dvd's are stored at two locations for redundancy (home and work).
However it really does read like an ad, with very little insight into how they work.
Perhaps there is something similar for the Amstrad.
Worst case scenario, find a person with an Amstrad, then list the program code and take pictures every page ...
They can't ask you to decrypt something they don't know is encrypted. Anyways you can always refuse to provide the password, but, don't expect to go on your merry way anytime soon...
You'd think someone was crazy for crossing the border with their 10-year tax history and confidential information on their company in paper copies in a briefcase, if they weren't currently using them. Why keep them on the laptop? Same idea.
You are correct, we are likely exceptions. Unfortunately the media likes to blow things out of proportion and fear-mongering is rampant. I don't eat meat and welcome the day when I can eat test tube meat!
I fail to see the issue with artificially grown meat. Test tube babies were controversial at first. How about artificial implants (heart valves, hips, etc)? Hey, even synthetic oil is better than the real stuff!
As a side note, rBST hasn't been approved for use in Canada and other countries, and the EU are fairly strict with Monsanto.
How is the agent in this case supposed to know the cat person didn't do anything wrong? They had a detector, detected radiation, and investigated. Nothing was amiss, so everyone went on their merry way. If police just randomly pulled people over for NO reason, then that is harassment and should be dealt with (and of course this occurs unfortunately). If police just bust into your house unexpectedly without reason, that is definitely harassment. They need a warrant and probable cause first.
I've seen Minority Report, think it's an excellent movie. Your analogy with the movie however is flawed. Minority Report is based on people taking action BEFORE they do it AND persecuting them for it -- not letting them go as in the cat case. I do agree however, that the USA is really cracking down on the freedoms of their people, and is slowly becoming a non-democratic nation...
Compare this to metal detectors at clubs or airports. EACH person is individually scanned and searched. Is this harassment? An overstep of people's rights? How many people carrying weapons do they really find? It is a deterrent, as well as a detection system.
As far as low-tech, agreed, low tech can cause minor problems such as bombing a building and is much easier. A few causalities, makes the news, etc. A nuke going off though, however, that is significant. Destroy a city, widespread panic and fear, international news. Much like the WTC incident.
I was very young, 4-5 maybe, and don't even remember the house it was in.
I'd love to see Ford take on Google here.
This story was tagged with VIRII?? WTF. It's viruses people. I can understand people misusing virii in messages, but a tag?? Yikes.
Try reading some of the other comments here. The likely scenario is the laser reflected from another surface and hit the eye, if just briefly. The spot size would be larger than a mm at such a distance, it is certainly possible by just waving a laser around at the general area and scoring a quick hit.
The machine is also worthless without a trained operator to use them. It requires knowledge of the body, vascular system, organs, etc to know even where you're looking. The computer doesn't just spit out an answer with the disease, and the operator isn't the one who reads the images. An MD does.
I don't have a problem with the actual GM foods, it's the environmental impact they have on the ecosystem I have issues with.
They already have this in Canada, and people's faces aren't blurred. There hasn't been a lot of publicity about this site yet though: http://www.virtualcity.ca/
Good point. But the study mentions the tumours are fast growing, malignant and lethal. Perhaps in this study, the animals already had cancer and it chose to metastasize around the implant. Hmmmm, that really has lots of potential applications (early detection, removal, etc), unfortunately, I doubt that's the case!
It died a horrible death only three years later, just outside of warranty. Despite a class action lawsuit against IBM (in the US, not Canada) I couldn't get it replaced. There was apparently a fix for it, simply by downloading a program, but really, who looks for updates to their hard drives?
IBM further went into my bad books, after it simply sold off the business to Hitachi instead of fixing their mess. It really left a sour taste in my mouth for IBM ...