Comment Re:Scary (Score 1) 141
Why would you post this sentiment online, from a computer?
Why would you post this sentiment online, from a computer?
If you can post the section of the US Constitution that specifically addresses the right to privacy, I think that would be educational for all of us here.
A CEO, or indeed any executive for that matter, fired for something as absurd as not doing their job very well? What is this world coming to? Well, I certainly hope she at the very least has the comfort of a multi-million-dollar severance package.
Actually, from TFSummary...
"A technology will be appearing soon in TVs that fingerprints what is onscreen and sends that information to an internet server able to identify the content, whether it's live TV or another source, like a DVD."
I was going to say, doesn't Gatorade do this already?
And you used the magic words, "if" and "should he be convicted". Respectable.
C|N>K
Most of the geeks I know are also foodies, and a large percentage of them love to cook.
Shoot, our connection to the internet is down. What can we do for fun now?
Want to watch a mo... oh, shoot.
After having read the friendly article, it's clear that Nintendo's designers didn't design this controller. In fact, before this incident they may not have been aware that it existed. The family apparently had to look for - and look pretty hard - a realistic-looking gun controller for the Wii manufactured in a foreign country.
Yes, that's right, as gun owners they went to considerable effort to obtain for their 3 year old child a toy that looked as much as possible like the actual firearms present in their home.
What can you even say?
Or, you might assume that people who are really sick soon learn that homeopathy does nothing for them and seek some treatment based on something other than distilled water, thereby reducing the percentage of homeopathic patients who actually suffer serious health concerns.
News flash: if you go to a hospital, you're going to find sick people there. The obvious conclusion to draw is not that going to a hospital makes you sick.
It doesn't take anything specific to produce a placebo effect. That's exactly what the placebo effect means, actually. So these people could be given anything at all, there's no need for them to receive any specific substance (particularly a specific homeopathic remedy).
But there's also the nocebo effect. Which is to say that it isn't true that treatment by placebo is free from negative side effects. If you believe you're getting real medicine, and you believe that real medicine produces side effects, then you may suffer from them.
Besides which, homeopathy ain't exactly cheap.
Even if the government stops paying for homeopathic medicine, you can just take your last subsidized dosage and add it to a gallon of distilled water. Not only do you now have more of it, it's now phenomenally more powerful! And when you're almost out, you can do it again! And it only gets better!
Seriously, why ever pay for this stuff more than once?
Seriously, read up on homeopathy. It's not herbal medicine. Really. Actually read. I'm serious.
Factorials were someone's attempt to make math LOOK exciting.