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Comment Re:Yes it matters (Score 0) 668

Well, Western medicine is geared towards medicine that is mass-produced and is the same for everybody.

Anything that does not fit the pattern is essentially forbidden, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Phage therapy is an alternative to antibiotics, has no side effects and is dirt-cheap. (Literally: Phages can be grown by using local sewage-water, because that water contains exactly those bacteria you want to fight) The problem is that they only work for a very specific strain of bacteria, therefore the phages have to be grown to match the patient's infection and some phages may work only for a few dozen patients. - Far too few to justify making the huge testing necessary for medication.

So phages are de-facto illegal, even though they are risk-free and there is a huge problem with antibiotics and they are the only chance against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

To be fair, this overregulation was imported from the East (think Byzantine Empire, Chinese Empire, etc.) and is not really a Western idea. Nevertheless it is today a feature of Western medicine.

Comment Re:Absence of OPSEC is compensated by disinformati (Score 1) 180

Poroshenko also once held up Russian civilian passports from supposedly dead Russian soldiers in a press conference - obviously not knowing that Russian soldiers have military (that means different) passports.

He seems to be one of those people who cannot distinguish a plausible lie from a wild fary-tale.

Comment Re:Why IPv6 is broken (Score 1) 595

but hey you think it's all good and there's no problems.

OK, I give up. You IPv6-people are unwilling to understand the simplest things.

I never said that "it's all good". What I did say is that IPv6 is incapable of solving that problems that we indeed have with IPv4. And the reason is incompatibility.

10 years ago, people like you already scared people by claiming that "IP addresses run out". Well yes, but people preferred to create workarounds for IPv4 than switch over to the incompatible IPv6. And the same will happen in the next 10 years.

I told you why that happened but you simply refuse to listen. So it will continue to happen.

Comment Re: Absence?! (Score 2) 595

How often do I have to explain that the software stacks are irrelevant and it's about the compatibility of addresses and configuration?

Because that is where millions of man-hours are invested: In the configuration of the network.

Comment Re:Why IPv6 is broken (Score 1) 595

typing "ip addr add fd00::101.102.103.104/128 dev eth0" on a Linux box will work.

Yes it would work on that box, but all the other boxes that need to access that computer will have to change their configuration from "101.102.103.104" to "fd00::101.102.103.104/128" so no, it will not work, which was the point.

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