+1 Insightful

The second paragraph of the "Incidence and Importance" section of the relevant Wikipedia article (Iatrogenesis) lists some interesting references and numbers...

People think I'm crazy having only gone to the doctor a few times in the past decade and a half, and I see people in the comments here looking askance at herbalism and other folk healing traditions, but I feel much safer relying on these for everyday problems.

Obviously, garam masala can't perform heart surgery and lovage can't treat epilepsy, and I'm not saying to forgo science in favor of tradition, in fact it would be great if there were more studies on the properties of herbs and their essential oils, etc.

The fact is that there are safer alternatives to running to the doctor every time something seems slightly amiss with one's health!

I'd rather cry in a city bus than a Mercedes...

The divisiveness of calling others "sheep" aside, making money is a goal of business. Business that does not serve those people who pay them will fail, unless of course they are backed by law (and therefore physical force) that is interested in protecting business over the very people law is meant to protect.

I hope you would not say that "muslim women anonymously complaining about stoning" are cowardly. (Don't take offense, but I think you understand the word "cowardice" too broadly.) There is bravery in many acts that do not put one's person unduly at risk. There are brave people who die unnamed.

I would also question your assumption that you have the right to be given the source of a communication addressed to you or anyone else. Now, I agree that there are situations when you have that right, such as the examples you give of unjust anonymity.

So... I am not sure where that leaves our conversation :)

No, they are pretty much the same. A choice between two parties that suck the cocks of different corporate interests, while spouting their own brand of divisive rhetoric (that they rarely act on) is not a choice.

There is anonymity, and there is cowardice. While they sometimes collide, they are very, very different.

The article says that one pound of nanocellulose can be used to produce 100 pounds of the plastic. So what else is in it? Maybe it's a journalistic error, but it would seem that that violates physical law...

It's a bit more complicated than that. In American English, "the police" is a plural noun. Whereas, "the police department" is a singular noun.

That is, unless you are convicted of a felony.

Voting is a way to reach consensus between those who agree to heed its outcome. Corporations are at the mercy of the government less and less. Government is at the mercy of the corporations more and more. Let us also note that what is true in the US is not true or not as true in some other countries. I mean, most of the world's top economies are corporations rather than countries.

Don't forget that things change. Because the majority of those in power today are pampered, lazy pigs doesn't mean that tomorrow they won't be pampered pigs with intentions of institutionalizing corporate feudalism for the next 300 years.

Tell us another story grandpa! Please?

Man, those were the days. It's funny to think of hanging out on BBSs and how slow even raw ASCII was. Going to the campus or the library because it was the only place with "blazing fast" internet. War dialing and playing moria in VMS. Endless stacks of floppies...

Dammit! I wanted to be the most pedantic! I want my frist pedancy!

Almost everything you say seems to be a misunderstanding of the best features of NHibernate.

NHibernate provides modular caching, so this is what you want. Generally, the data in the database is used by the application, so the more that is in memory the better.

It is perhaps the only library that allows true OO for database driven apps in .NET You may think it is "more complicated" than the ad-hoc data widgets provided by Microsoft, but those are tools ill fitted for any serious application. The benefits of a well defined object model are not to be sniffed at.

I sort of doubt this. Can you provide a ticket number for this bug?

Perhaps if you are writing one-off homepages and photo albums and can't be bothered to learn how to write decent programs (or maybe you are a VB programmer anyway).

As the author of several 10,000 to 100,000 user web applications, I can tell you that NHibernate's transactions and the lock construct from C# are amazing. Furthermore lazy loading and relationship mapping work great in NHibernate... It is very easy to specify when you want a relationship to be lazily loaded and when not, a simple attribute value needs to change.

(This is what lazy loading is for and it is very easy to set it on or off.)

As a final thought, I would ask why to use NOSQL databases with C# when you can use NHibernate and memcached to persist objects without a need for another data layer? There are plenty of valid reasons either way. And I'm sorry to take the piss out of you, but you don't know what you are talking about.