We can also try to find a substance that affects said bacteria and nothing else, and then flood the stomach with that.

The danger there is that very few substances we've found affect just the one type of bacteria.

The problem here is that at that point your platform doesn't matter - in fact, companies do get granted injunctions on trademark matters all the time. You might have noticed some more important ones reported on Slashdot - and trust me, this is only the tip of the iceberg.

No, organized religion is an advantage towards group cohesion, and good group cohesion in those times meant it's members were a lot less likely to die early.

Your average Slashdot reader is always in a state of needing to consume caffeine.

Fuck you you little ignorant shit.

I have a very serious, crippling disease. I spend more than half of my day managing medical treatments, and I need frequent surgery to keep me alive and I still can barely walk - and not always even that. It consumes so much of my time I have weeks I can accomplish nothing but keeping the symptoms at bay.

Life as it is doesn't have a level playing field. Society doesn't have a level playing field. I'm a pariah, a joke to people around me - when they bother to acknowledge the hobbling cripple at all. Picking on the cripple is good fun - ignoring the cripple is what people do most of the time.

So take your just world fallacy and shove it up your ass. Life isn't fair.

And to add to that point:

People dying is very bad advertising for new medications, so FDA has an interest in preventing that. However, if someone else can be blamed for the death - or if it causes symptoms that can be treated or reversed - suddenly FDA cares much less.

Because if someone hacks a pacemaker the death can be blamed squarely on the hacker and FDA's hands are clean. Despite letting a dangerous, hackable pacemaker enter the market.

In many ways, FDA approval resembles a brand. And I suppose in that analogy supplements are "offbrand products".

The purpose of the FDA is to keep the profits of the pharmaceutical industry high. And nothing else.

FDA, for example, has entirely skipped on regulating "supplements". No matter their claims or effects, as long as they don't contain restricted substances.

So, reply to small nuisance with an act of terrorism?

I can very well see why you posted anonymously.

Another way you won't have to use Steam to benefit from this: The Steam development effort has already brought a lot of driver patches along, improving mostly 3D performance.

Portal 2, CS:GO and Dota 2 are all recent Valve games.

More importantly, Valve is very much a major player in publishing - these days more so than in developing. They likely can keep their developing arm going on longer than the lifespans of current staff with the profits from their publishing arm.

The game library for Steam Linux will likely be Valve's titles and a wide library of 3rd party independent titles at first. Certainly nowhere near Steam Windows, but still nothing to sneeze at.

Should fully wiping out all your data be as easy as pressing a button?

On the relevant hand, my point from the beginning was "China being worse doesn't make the problems the US has any less severe". That's why I used Hitler and Stalin - you can argue one to be worse than the other, but even if you're successful, that doesn't change that they both were Very Bad People.

So, the black spots in US history... simply weren't?

Whitewashing the past and ignoring the significant problems even today and excusing them as "China is worse". Hitler was worse than Stalin.

So, a type of food notorious for the human rights abuses it's farming causes (and the amount of sugar and fat), fat, fat and a food that has animal abuse as a core part of it's production (and is full of fat)?

No wonder you'd need to eat vegetables to feel better about yourself. Or for that matter, to stop your stomach from screaming out for help.

It is a sad day when an AC calling people morons is the most insightful participant of a discussion.