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Comment What about if works for unknown (yet) reasons? (Score 0) 526

Let me start saying this: I was cured in two different conditions (a chronic recurrent throat infection at age 9 and allergy at age 32). First time I was just a kid who had to take pills every couple hours and some drops every other day. Second time I was an adult who grew tired of trying several diffent alergy treatments that worked for sometime and them I had to start over again. Let's say it was all placebo effect - I don't disagree, it may be - but when I was 9 I didn't know squat about homeopathy it was just another kind of medicine. Placebo by proxy you may say. Perhaps. But then, why nobody talks about placebo effect releated to conventional medicine? When I developed the alergy problem every new treatment gave me some relief and I did believe I've found the cure so why the placebo effect didn't work? When I started to take homeopathy for my allergy, I couldn't care less, I tried because I've already tried everything and it was covered by my health insurance so why not?
I'm not claiming this is the case but why it's so hard for people dissing homeopathy that it may actually work for reasons yet unkonwn to science?
All I can say, it worked for me twice, for two different problems and in two different points of my life. It's cheap, and if it's just water, won't hurt so why not try? Even if it works by placebo effect, it works so no harm done.

Comment Re:Innovation is... (Score 2) 449

Remember - Canonical was one of Shuttleworths' venture capital schemes. He thought that he could launch a new linux distro, market the heck out of it, and get his 30x payday.

There's nothing to remember because it's just not true. If Canonical were a VC scheme, he would have fled a long time ago and not continuing to support and expand the company.

Comment Re:Guilty plea (Score 1) 1855

It's not what I call them that I am debating with you, I am complaining about the legality of the whole thing. By any conventions or international laws that the USA signed of those guys could not be considered soldiers. So the law/convention is wrong, fine, let's change it. But that does not give anyone the right to go against it. We can't just ignore them because we don't agree or don't fit our agendas.

Comment Re:Guilty plea (Score 1) 1855

I see your point but I am talking about the intention. There was never the intention to capture and try but to kill. You talk about armed soldiers but there was no declaration of war so he couldn't be considered a soldier by the Geneva Conventions.
I know it is a gray area but I wish the USA had shown some higher morals by capturing and trying or at least tried to do that instead of going after a manhunt with the declared purpose of killing.

Comment Re:Guilty plea (Score 1) 1855

So, if someone comes to a cop in the middle of the street, say in Texas, where capital punishment still exists, and says "I killed those people found in the park yesterday", the cop should shot him dead right there? You can tell me this guy maybe crazy. I could say the same about Bin Laden and who can prove him or me right or wrong without due process? Because he said so? Because people believe in him? Because other people died for him?
Due process is about following procedures and the law.
Again, good riddance with him but this was murder, no more, no less.

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