It's kind of like the MP3, which was one of the first formats that the *consumer* picked out, and media companies hated. I can kind of see both sides of the metering argument, but it would be nice if the market had a say in it, rather than it being just a bunch of bastards trying to pay off congress to ram it down our throats.
> There are several viruses known to trigger the autoimmune response
Still significant. Do a search for the *bovine* enterovirus and diabetes. In the alternative medicine world, cows milk has been linked to diabetes ever since I can remember. A quick google shows this link has now been proven:
Interaction of enterovirus infection and cow's milk-based formula nutrition in type 1 diabetes-associated autoimmunity.
Source
Immunogenetics Laboratory, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. johanna.lempainen@utu.fi
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Enteral virus infections and early introduction of cow's milk (CM)-based formula are among the suggested triggers of type 1 diabetes (T1D)-associated autoimmunity, although studies on their role have remained contradictory. Here, we aimed to analyse whether interactions between these factors might clarify the controversies.
MATERIALS:
The study population comprised 107 subjects developing positivity for at least two T1D-associated autoantibodies and 446 control subjects from the Finnish diabetes prediction and prevention cohort. Enterovirus, rotavirus, adenovirus, respiratory syncytial virus and bovine insulin-binding antibodies were analysed from prospective serum samples at 3-24 months of age. Data on infant cow's milk exposure were available for 472 subjects: 251 subjects were exposed to cow's milk before 3 months of age and 221 subjects later in infancy.
RESULTS:
Signs of an enterovirus infection by 12 months of age were associated with the appearance of autoimmunity among children who were exposed to cow's milk before 3 months of age. Cox regression analysis revealed a combined effect of enterovirus infection and early cow's milk exposure for the development of ICA and any of the biochemically defined autoantibodies (p=0.001), of IAA (p=0.002), GADA (p=0.001) and IA-2A (p=0.013).
CONCLUSIONS:
The effect of enterovirus infection on the appearance of T1D-associated autoimmunity seems to be modified by exposure to cow's milk in early infancy suggesting an interaction between these factors. Moreover, these results provide an explanation for the controversial findings obtained when analysing the effect of any single one of these factors on the appearance of T1D-associated autoimmunity.
For bad things, it's like your brain and bad things have Velcro on each other, and everything bad thrown at the brain sticks. And for good things, it is like our brains are coated in Teflon; everything good thrown at it slides right off.
Anyone interested in this should get a copy of the Happiness Hypothesis, by Jonathan Haidt. If a good thing happens and a similar bad thing happens, most people remember the bad thing. In fact, it takes something way better to happen to cancel out a run-of-the-mill bad thing.
I think this is why people are preppers and are stockpiling guns and ammo. And, it's why zombie movies are all the rage. America is in a perfect storm for all of it to happen. Why? Because our crazy American worldview mixed with our religious beliefs. It's a dangerous combination when the future doesn't look real bright anyway, but now you think it is inevitable that we are in the End Times.
Throw in a federal government that can't stop printing money, a large number of blockbuster movies about The End, the guy standing at the front of the church telling you it was foreordained, and mix it with America, which isn't hinged real well to begin with, and what do you get? The crazies that we are.
I don't think we are going to find the answer to our problems in a pill. It's consumed us. We take 3/4ths of the world's pills here in America. How well has it worked for us?
ALL HOPE IS LOST.:)
I see the world totally different after reading this book, though: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
Just remember, it is this way be design. Public education really took off at the same time as industrialization. The goal was not to educate, but to produce factory workers.
Since we no longer have factories, I guess they no longer felt the need to as much as they were.
The question is, are they good jobs? We have done everything possible to destroy the middle class. You can argue 1% vs. 99% until we are blue in the face, but the fact is, what built America was a strong middle class. The logical conclusion is, if you want to unbuild America, you destroy the middle class. Mission accomplished, America.
I'm a libertarian-leaning independent, so I hate both parties. But, I find the Republicans piss me off the most, because they kept waving American flags as they shipped our good-paying jobs overseas.
In other countries, they work just to buy food. In America, we work just to pay health insurance...if you can get it. If someone where I work put their whole family on health insurance, they would work close to two weeks out of the month just to give it to an insurance company. And god forbid they actually need to use it, because there went the other pay check.
On the bright side, there is that month out of the year where you get three pay checks! At least we have that.
Everyone keeps coming up with suggestions to put them back on top. Everyone just shut up. I like them exactly where they are at. They still provide some competition in the marketplace, which is good. They did, however, get knocked down a few pegs...which is really where we want them at, right? I for one, don't want MS to have a killer phone/tablet. Keep them around, but in the exact spot they are in now: NOT ON TOP.
> In my younger life I would write entire programs in my sleep that solved intractable problems
I've done this too, several times. I can't tell you how many times I spent all afternoon on something and got nothing but errors, and the next morning I have it done and working 30 minutes after I get to work. I don't recall what I dreamed those times though. It could have just been a good night's sleep that helped.
One time, however, I remember very clearly figuring out how to loop through some data and get the results I was looking for. I wrote the code and debugged it in a dream, and the next day I just typed it all in and had it working in no time.
Now there is a good employee. Work all day and all night.
MANILA, Philippines - Far as your pearly whites may be from your heart, dental experts say a small dental problem can go a long way. In fact, keeping your teeth healthy may just save your life.
We ditched OwnCloud for GoodSync. OwnCloud in theory works OK. However, if someone with a laptop is away from the Internet, it is real bad about losing all the client settings and just quits syncing. Also, in the right circumstances, it can generate a huge amount of files by versioning during collisions.
GoodSync is not perfect, either, but it is far superior to OwnCloud. Is it free? No. Work better? Yes.
In theory, GoodSync has support. I was not thrilled with it. We kind of got cross and they thought I was rude, and I think they aren't that good at support.
Pros: They have a server version that runs on Linux.
Cons: The Windows Server version costs a fortune. Spotty support for the Linux version. Support for the Linux version is basically, "Linux is hard," don't use it if you don't know what you are doing."
Studies show even taking antibiotics as a kid can make you fatter as an adult. You ever wonder why they give cattle antibiotics? I always thought it was to keep the cows from getting sick in the sorry conditions (factory farmed) cattle have to live in. May be some part of the equation, but they also do it to fatten them up:
The nontherapeutic use of antibiotics is ingrained in livestock and poultry operations because producers believe that chickens, cows, and pigs—particularly those that are not healthy to begin with—gain weight faster when these drugs are added to their feed.*
Some parents of kids -- especially those not healthy to begin with -- insist that the doctor give their kids antibiotics. A very large percentage of doctors will, even though they know they aren't needed.
No. It's antibiotics. Blaming it on hand cleaner is like running your AC, but complaining about how much charging your cell phone is running up your electric bill.
Two studies this week suggest that using antibiotics may save people’s lives, but could also change their metabolisms. Put together, the studies suggest that taking antibiotics might alter digestion to help people absorb calories from food they normally would be unable to digest.
Every human carries pounds of microorganisms that we couldn’t live without. They break down food and extract nutrients like Vitamin K for us. Antibiotics will kill some of these beneficial organisms, which is why so many doctors now tell patients to eat yogurt after taking a course of the drugs, to replace some of the good guys.
We've had to evaluate several systems for possible deployment where I work. Invariably, they want to route all calls through a central server. So if someone on a site a hundred miles away wants to talk to someone on the same site, it routes the call all the way back to a main server, then all the way back to the tower and out over the air. Who gives a crap about delay or user experience any more?
Why do they do this? They say customers are requiring all calls to be logged, and sending all traffic back to the server is the only way to do it.
What freaking customers? The NSA?
I've been obsessed with tech since I was a teenager. I do not like what I see on the horizon. Lucky for me, I got to use the Internet before every keystroke I made was logged.
Many years ago, I worked for a gov. subcontractor scanning and converting military documents to electronic form. We tried everything out at the time, and TypeReader Pro was by far the best.
Now that was years ago...but to date, I've never found anything that worked as good as it did.
The bigger question is, when is opting out not going to be an option? At what point is not having a facebook account going to be against the law? At one time, I would have said that was insane...but it's getting pretty damn nutso around here these days.
How to Beat a Lie Detector Test (Secrets Series) by Steve Gillman (Jul 20, 2010) Beat the box: The insider's guide to outwitting the lie detector by Vlad Kalashnikov (1983) Deception Detection: Winning The Polygraph Game by Charles Clifton (May 1991)
I've had a website devoted to alternative cancer treatments almost since the start of the Internet. I wonder if they will knock, or just kick the door in?
Slashdot Mirror
Obviously, they are battle hardening, in order to protect our data from the NSA.
It's kind of like the MP3, which was one of the first formats that the *consumer* picked out, and media companies hated. I can kind of see both sides of the metering argument, but it would be nice if the market had a say in it, rather than it being just a bunch of bastards trying to pay off congress to ram it down our throats.
Not a bug, but a feature. It was added to make it easier for the NSA to put all of its "metadata" to easy use.
> There are several viruses known to trigger the autoimmune response
Still significant. Do a search for the *bovine* enterovirus and diabetes. In the alternative medicine world, cows milk has been linked to diabetes ever since I can remember. A quick google shows this link has now been proven:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21922634
Interaction of enterovirus infection and cow's milk-based formula nutrition in type 1 diabetes-associated autoimmunity.
Source
Immunogenetics Laboratory, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. johanna.lempainen@utu.fi
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Enteral virus infections and early introduction of cow's milk (CM)-based formula are among the suggested triggers of type 1 diabetes (T1D)-associated autoimmunity, although studies on their role have remained contradictory. Here, we aimed to analyse whether interactions between these factors might clarify the controversies.
MATERIALS:
The study population comprised 107 subjects developing positivity for at least two T1D-associated autoantibodies and 446 control subjects from the Finnish diabetes prediction and prevention cohort. Enterovirus, rotavirus, adenovirus, respiratory syncytial virus and bovine insulin-binding antibodies were analysed from prospective serum samples at 3-24 months of age. Data on infant cow's milk exposure were available for 472 subjects: 251 subjects were exposed to cow's milk before 3 months of age and 221 subjects later in infancy.
RESULTS:
Signs of an enterovirus infection by 12 months of age were associated with the appearance of autoimmunity among children who were exposed to cow's milk before 3 months of age. Cox regression analysis revealed a combined effect of enterovirus infection and early cow's milk exposure for the development of ICA and any of the biochemically defined autoantibodies (p=0.001), of IAA (p=0.002), GADA (p=0.001) and IA-2A (p=0.013).
CONCLUSIONS:
The effect of enterovirus infection on the appearance of T1D-associated autoimmunity seems to be modified by exposure to cow's milk in early infancy suggesting an interaction between these factors. Moreover, these results provide an explanation for the controversial findings obtained when analysing the effect of any single one of these factors on the appearance of T1D-associated autoimmunity.
Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
A PBS series described it like this:
For bad things, it's like your brain and bad things have Velcro on each other, and everything bad thrown at the brain sticks. And for good things, it is like our brains are coated in Teflon; everything good thrown at it slides right off.
Anyone interested in this should get a copy of the Happiness Hypothesis, by Jonathan Haidt. If a good thing happens and a similar bad thing happens, most people remember the bad thing. In fact, it takes something way better to happen to cancel out a run-of-the-mill bad thing.
I think this is why people are preppers and are stockpiling guns and ammo. And, it's why zombie movies are all the rage. America is in a perfect storm for all of it to happen. Why? Because our crazy American worldview mixed with our religious beliefs. It's a dangerous combination when the future doesn't look real bright anyway, but now you think it is inevitable that we are in the End Times.
Throw in a federal government that can't stop printing money, a large number of blockbuster movies about The End, the guy standing at the front of the church telling you it was foreordained, and mix it with America, which isn't hinged real well to begin with, and what do you get? The crazies that we are.
I don't think we are going to find the answer to our problems in a pill. It's consumed us. We take 3/4ths of the world's pills here in America. How well has it worked for us?
ALL HOPE IS LOST. :)
I see the world totally different after reading this book, though: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
Life is what *you* make it.
Just remember, it is this way be design. Public education really took off at the same time as industrialization. The goal was not to educate, but to produce factory workers.
Since we no longer have factories, I guess they no longer felt the need to as much as they were.
The question is, are they good jobs? We have done everything possible to destroy the middle class. You can argue 1% vs. 99% until we are blue in the face, but the fact is, what built America was a strong middle class. The logical conclusion is, if you want to unbuild America, you destroy the middle class. Mission accomplished, America.
I'm a libertarian-leaning independent, so I hate both parties. But, I find the Republicans piss me off the most, because they kept waving American flags as they shipped our good-paying jobs overseas.
In other countries, they work just to buy food. In America, we work just to pay health insurance...if you can get it. If someone where I work put their whole family on health insurance, they would work close to two weeks out of the month just to give it to an insurance company. And god forbid they actually need to use it, because there went the other pay check.
On the bright side, there is that month out of the year where you get three pay checks! At least we have that.
I think we just found our culprit.
Everyone keeps coming up with suggestions to put them back on top. Everyone just shut up. I like them exactly where they are at. They still provide some competition in the marketplace, which is good. They did, however, get knocked down a few pegs...which is really where we want them at, right? I for one, don't want MS to have a killer phone/tablet. Keep them around, but in the exact spot they are in now: NOT ON TOP.
> In my younger life I would write entire programs in my sleep that solved intractable problems
I've done this too, several times. I can't tell you how many times I spent all afternoon on something and got nothing but errors, and the next morning I have it done and working 30 minutes after I get to work. I don't recall what I dreamed those times though. It could have just been a good night's sleep that helped.
One time, however, I remember very clearly figuring out how to loop through some data and get the results I was looking for. I wrote the code and debugged it in a dream, and the next day I just typed it all in and had it working in no time.
Now there is a good employee. Work all day and all night.
Maybe they don't get cancer because they die of heart disease first: Tooth decay can cause heart problems
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/lifestyle/11/25/10/tooth-decay-can-cause-heart-problems
MANILA, Philippines - Far as your pearly whites may be from your heart, dental experts say a small dental problem can go a long way. In fact, keeping your teeth healthy may just save your life.
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You know what else protects against cancer? Alzeimer's disease. People who get cancer rarely get Alzeimer's, and people who get Alzeimer's rarely if ever get cancer. see: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_138596.html
We ditched OwnCloud for GoodSync. OwnCloud in theory works OK. However, if someone with a laptop is away from the Internet, it is real bad about losing all the client settings and just quits syncing. Also, in the right circumstances, it can generate a huge amount of files by versioning during collisions.
GoodSync is not perfect, either, but it is far superior to OwnCloud. Is it free? No. Work better? Yes.
In theory, GoodSync has support. I was not thrilled with it. We kind of got cross and they thought I was rude, and I think they aren't that good at support.
Pros: They have a server version that runs on Linux.
Cons: The Windows Server version costs a fortune. Spotty support for the Linux version. Support for the Linux version is basically, "Linux is hard," don't use it if you don't know what you are doing."
Studies show even taking antibiotics as a kid can make you fatter as an adult. You ever wonder why they give cattle antibiotics? I always thought it was to keep the cows from getting sick in the sorry conditions (factory farmed) cattle have to live in. May be some part of the equation, but they also do it to fatten them up:
Some parents of kids -- especially those not healthy to begin with -- insist that the doctor give their kids antibiotics. A very large percentage of doctors will, even though they know they aren't needed.
* http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-system/industrial-agriculture/prescription-for-trouble.html
No. It's antibiotics. Blaming it on hand cleaner is like running your AC, but complaining about how much charging your cell phone is running up your electric bill.
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/antibiotics-may-help-make-you-fat-studies-show-958812
Could antibiotics make you fat?
Two studies this week suggest that using antibiotics may save people’s lives, but could also change their metabolisms. Put together, the studies suggest that taking antibiotics might alter digestion to help people absorb calories from food they normally would be unable to digest.
Every human carries pounds of microorganisms that we couldn’t live without. They break down food and extract nutrients like Vitamin K for us. Antibiotics will kill some of these beneficial organisms, which is why so many doctors now tell patients to eat yogurt after taking a course of the drugs, to replace some of the good guys.
We've had to evaluate several systems for possible deployment where I work. Invariably, they want to route all calls through a central server. So if someone on a site a hundred miles away wants to talk to someone on the same site, it routes the call all the way back to a main server, then all the way back to the tower and out over the air. Who gives a crap about delay or user experience any more?
Why do they do this? They say customers are requiring all calls to be logged, and sending all traffic back to the server is the only way to do it.
What freaking customers? The NSA?
I've been obsessed with tech since I was a teenager. I do not like what I see on the horizon. Lucky for me, I got to use the Internet before every keystroke I made was logged.
TypeReader Pro http://www.expervision.com/ocr-software/desktop-ocr-typereader-7
Many years ago, I worked for a gov. subcontractor scanning and converting military documents to electronic form. We tried everything out at the time, and TypeReader Pro was by far the best.
Now that was years ago...but to date, I've never found anything that worked as good as it did.
It's just starting here: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_stillman?printable=truetPage=all
If you just give us all your money, you can get your kids back...else...foster homes.
The new government required online IDs will take care of that for us...
The bigger question is, when is opting out not going to be an option? At what point is not having a facebook account going to be against the law? At one time, I would have said that was insane...but it's getting pretty damn nutso around here these days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q97hBJ7alKI
SWAT team raids for petty offences
The police holding kids for ransom
I mean F it. Why don't we wear burkas and execute women drivers while we are at it. Shit.
A quick search on Amazon turned up:
How to Beat a Lie Detector Test (Secrets Series) by Steve Gillman (Jul 20, 2010)
Beat the box: The insider's guide to outwitting the lie detector by Vlad Kalashnikov (1983)
Deception Detection: Winning The Polygraph Game by Charles Clifton (May 1991)
I've had a website devoted to alternative cancer treatments almost since the start of the Internet. I wonder if they will knock, or just kick the door in?