Never heard of a homeopathic vaccine. You're making shit up now? That doesn't make YOU look very smart.

Uhhhhhh - define "big industry". I suppose that in the third world and/or places where people are uneducated, and/or places where superstition rules, homeopathy is "big industry". Here, in the industrialized world, homeopothy is probably fairly large, in total. But, compared to pharmaceuticals? No way. Pharma is bigger by an order of magnitude, at least.

Looky - you have pharma pushing pills for fifty dollars a pop, shots for up to $1000, and they have people HOOKED on their crap for life.

Homeopathy? Not so much.

Now, if you want to include those persons who market exotic potency concoctions - dried tiger testicles and ground up rhino cock - then you're talking BIG dollars. Those things aren't exactly homeopathy though. Related, yes, but not quite it.

LOL @ Band-Aids! I think the kisses start losing effectiveness about the time kids start mingling in day-care and kindergarten.

There might be some valid reason NOT to trust conventional medicine. All, or nearly all, of those reasons stem from the fact that Big Pharma is more interested in selling you high dollar drugs, than they are in curing you of anything. How many times in recent years, has a medicine been recalled because it wasn't doing what was hoped? That "restless leg syndrome" thing comes very readily to mind - that was a scam from start to finish. Then, other drugs have been recalled because they proved to be more hazardous than helpful. In effect, Pharma was using the public as guinea pigs. And, of course, some patent is about to expire, so Pharma finds some "new use" for that drug, and applies for a new patent, making it impossible for the generic drug companies to sell that drug at a tremendous discount.

Yes, I would say that there is valid reason to distrust what you would call conventional medicine.

There is that to consider.

Also - even if homeopathy WERE no better than placebos, then there are times when placebos are better than nothing. Little kid falls down and goes boom-boom. He comes running to Mommy, who kisses his boo-boo and tells him it's all better. Nothing but a placebo, but it transforms the little guy from a snotty nosed, sniveling little mess, into Superman. Superman goes running off to save the earth again. Placebos have their place.

As for homeopathy - if it makes the patient feel good, it has value. The ancient Greeks knew that much of your health derives from your mind.

LOL @ the moderations - everyone who moderates has seen the request to raise people up, rather than to tear people down. Funny, some people just don't see the point in that.

Me? I mistake sarcasm and jokes sometimes - obviously - but I would never mod you down because I disagree with you.

Some people, eh?

Curses? nCurses, maybe?

If I'm going to that level, I'll be more straightforward. She's been identified - and we have an office in her city. She can expect a couple of our agents to be visiting her home, as well as the children's school. If/when she says she doesn't HAVE any children, remind her that her sister/mother/cousin does. Better than a curse, IMHO - even if she believes in curse, I don't, and I'll not make a convincing threat with it. I DO believe in tough men with guns carrying a grudge though. We see them in any city of the world, every day.

VLC routinely synchronizes audio and video files - I suppose that it could also syncrhonize a "timed transcript" with an audio file. Better yet - why not just make a video of the transcript scrolling down the page as the audio plays? There are a whole bunch of people on Youtube who have figured out how to do that.

The thing is, they don't need controls on the page for audio playback. Just hang the damned file up there, and let me point VLC or something at it. All the controls necessary reside right here, in my box.

Maybe that's why I have such a hard time with Windows machines. I learned on a TRS-80. I had a keyboard, a little sorta square box, a cassette player, and a screen. Plug them all together, plug in the power, turn it on, wait for the prompt, then c-load your program. Or, just make up your own program in basic. No floppy, no "drive" at all, just the cassettes. It took a couple years to graduate to a "disk operating system" - first there had to be disks! Ahhhh - the lazy, crazy, hazy days of DOS 3.1 . . . . Everything went downhill when they started plugging computers into the telephone lines.

Visit Amazon - I just read this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It appears that all of these stories are translated into English: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb...

Note that there are two names on each book - Liu's name, the author, and various other names, the translators.

I started with this one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Excellent story. Somewhat transparent, I had the heroine's circumstances figured out in the second chapter, but still a good story. Good short story, I should say, but worth the buck it cost.

"Or even how humanity will be different in the billion years of his story?"

Why should humanity be different in the next billion years? And - if he IS different, why should you know or understand that difference?

I've an idea that humanity will continue to do exactly what humanity has always done. Grow, expand, consume resources, and compete with himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

http://www.srware.net/en/softw...

https://code.google.com/p/chro...

For most intents and purposes, there is little real difference. SRWare clearly states here, http://www.srware.net/en/softw... that they hack Chromium - but on other pages, they compare Iron to Chrome.

If you're working from the same source code, the only real differences are those features that you might enable/disable when compiling. Am I right? If so - then it might be argued that Chrome is the more intrusive, more invasive version of Google's spyware. Chromium would be less intrusive spyware. And, Iron is an attempt to turn off all the spyware.

No, you're still not making an accurate representation.

DEBIAN'S USERS are groups such as Ubuntu, Mint (which uses both Ubuntu and Debian on different distros) Sparky, I think CrunchBang - that is, subordinate distros use Debian.

At this point in time, Sparky is paying attention to what I want, and supplying what I want in a working environment, all powered by the latest Liquorix kernel. I've seldom installed and/or assembled a desktop directly from Debian. However, Mint's LMDE had my attention for quite some time after Ubuntu abandoned it's users.

Since then, the Enlightenment desktop has grown bigger and stronger, so I've wandered further afield into Arch-Linux land, but keep bouncing back into Debian land. (basically, I'm following the best support for Enlightenment - if Ubuntu would deign to work on E, I might even give them another try. Then again - maybe not.)