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National Security =/ Paywall. More dumb loopholes.

Corn subsidies don't promote really food security, they prop up a food additive industry, fuel industry and the ranching industry. If subsidies were targeted at *only* corn that was meant for direct human consumption (not animal feed, HFCS, etc)....then maybe it might be possible to label it as a "food security" program. But when the majority of corn acreage is dedicated for animal feed or HFCS, or ethanol production, its much more than just a simple "food security" program...

reduced to using real sugar

My point exactly. Make the industry stand on its own two legs goddammit. The US Government has enough money leaks already. Sure HFCS prices will rise without subsidies, but that's capitalism for you. Once industries are faced with the *real* price of corn, sugar and ethanol alternatives will be sought out and maximized. A cheap or cheaper alternative will be found, that's innovation.

Corn subsidies breed stagnation, not innovation.

Kill the corn subsidies, period. They prop up the house of cards that hold the corth ethanol and HFCS industries that would otherwise not exist because they can't survive in a real capital market.

The sooner these tax-payer-subsidized industries get the rug pulled from under them, the sooner things like cellulosic ethanol and other *real* technological innovations can come to fruition.

Having fleeting dreams of real, future events or being able to partially read people's minds could be evidence of insight. This seems the most probable explanation. I've personally experienced fleeting dreams of detailed future events that turned out to be true, but at the time I just brushed off the dreams as just dreams. Some mixture of intuition, imagination and chance played into these dreams being true - for all the ones that *did* come true, there were countless many others that didn't materialize. Add up enough failed ones and you will eventually find one that does come true.

yeah, it's riddled with 'em, sorry. No coffee means one=on, placebo=Placebo and so forth.

Thanks for the clarification, I meant "a" Placebo effect. There are different kinds of effects that come from placebos, depending on a person's response. To quote your third link:

" people believe these phenomena are real but they are only fooling themselves. The placebo effect is not an effect, but only a change in perception."

I politely disagree. That change in perception *is* an effect, even though it is highly subjective. An awesome song can affect someone who likes it, and produce a good feeling "effect". Same thing goes one here.

The change in perception is the key here. Placebos are absolutely ineffective medically - I could snack on Placebo pills all day and not have much effect, if I didn't believe in their "power". Scam artists capitalize on this perception-changing affect unfortunately, but there is still a benefit to this perception changing if used to help the patient and the patient isn't being charged for it.

You're absolutely correct. The National Institute of Health has studies that show the Placebo effect can actually be effective treatment for certain diseases in certain cases, such as certain forms of mild depression (in the head). There's a real fine line between what the brain can control and real, physical or biological issues that can't be controlled by the brain. Placebos are quite cheap compared to actual medicine,depending on what one considers a valid Placebo.

The laying of a Priest's hands is financially cheap, and might be just enough to help someone if they believe enough in the action to activate the Placebo Effect.

Through your years of research on faith healing, homeopathy and other "magical" cures...have you found some of them more "effective" than others due to the Placebo Effect? Many people have superstitions, charms and other things they personally believe bring them good luck...and I wonder how much of this magical healing and luck bringing is real due to the Placebo Effect. Of course it is not "magic", but the power of a Placebo is still statistically valid in certain cases it seems.

> But a neanderthal is not a human (not as we know it). Most consider it to be a different species.

Could any (non-human) primate today fit in with our society as a citizen? Not likely. Neanderthals on the other hand were *culturally similar* to humans. They had musical instruments and had similar cultural habits. If one were born today, giving them full citizen rights would seem to be the most logical thing to do. They could probably learn basic human language at *least*, and probably lead a somewhat normal life in a human world.

My question is are *we* culturally mature enough to handle them. It was just 40 years ago African American humans in America had to reassert their rights.... and even having a black president stirs some folks' pots. Can we handle Neanderthals with respect, or would we treat them like Bigfoot?

> But a neanderthal is not a human (not as we know it). Most consider it to be a different species. Could any (non-human) primate that exists today fit in with our society as a citizen? Not likely. Neanderthals on the other hand were *culturally similar* to humans. They had musical instruments [discovermagazine.com] and had similar cultural habits [ucdenver.edu]. If one were born today, giving them full citizen rights would seem to be the most logical thing to do. They could probably learn basic human language at *least*, and probably lead a somewhat normal life in a human world. My question is are *we* culturally mature enough to handle them. It was just 40 years ago African American humans in America had to reassert their rights.... and even having a black president stirs some folks' pots. Can we handle Neanderthals with respect, or would we treat them like Bigfoot?

just sayin'

Rural areas. Dialup and satellite internet suck in this application. 3G? Unless one has a large data cap or uses their console infrequently.

See comment below, "Let's not get over ourselves, shall we?"