If you feed anyone a special diet they can lose weight. Also note, their diet included "certain Chinese herbal medicines." So sure it worked, it worked just fine. And the media that covered it fell for that hook line and sinker. Including slashdot.

Now if these results came out of a real double blind study with controls and whatnot (like more than one patient?) this would be an interesting story. Now, it'll just generate diet spam.

and like an idiot, I forgot the fourth rule.

RULE IV: BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET and what's beyond.

NRA basic pistol, rifle, every single hunter's education course in the nation (and many other nations) as well as thousands of safety websites, videos, and general use books. Jeff Cooper put it this way, and this is the way it's taught in safety courses world wide.

RULE I: ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED
RULE II: NEVER LET THE MUZZLE COVER ANYTHING YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO DESTROY
Rule III: KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER UNTIL YOUR SIGHTS ARE ON THE TARGET

And yes, the shouting is on purpose.

both, they've provided both for as long as I can remember, at least three or four years. MTAs are covered under the RBL, the URIs under the antispam "cloudmark authority" engine. One blocked at the connect phase, one at the end of the data phase.

Cheese; Like beer and wine.

All of the grocery stores around here (upstate NY) have large selections of cheese. Wegmans, a brand from the Rochester, NY area, but spread throughout much of the north east, has had a cheese shop in each store for at least 20 years, and prior to that, had a large selection in the deli case. I remember, quite vividly, a buddy purchasing a wedge of some brie cheese in 1989 and being completely disgusted, before AND after tasting it. But it grew on me, and now I use that cheese in recpies on a regular basis.

Today, really for the past twenty years, they've expanded the offerings, and the shop carries literally hundreds of different cheese selections, type X aged Y years/months, packaged by the roll, log, slice, wedge, runny, moldy, from just about every variety you can name including local small-batch cheese makers and large name ones, imports and domestics.

While it's true that the vast majority of "cheese" consumed is garden variety cheddar or worse "American Cheese" whatever the hell that is, or even worse, "Cheese" in quotes, there is a huge selection of actual gourmet cheeses sold each day all over the place.

Like beer. The shit beer people drink in bulk, Bud or whatever, is generally garbage, but there are thousands upon thousands of craft beer brewers all over that produce some of the finest quality beer in the world, and wines from California, New York and even Utah, win awards the world over. Both these wineries and breweries do very well for themselves, as do the cheese makers.

In many regions, the last decade has seen even your corner gas station carying craft beer. My local Hess station has as fine a variety of beer as the best beer pubs, complete with growler fill stations. Even the lowest grocer has a wide variety of fine beer today.

The catch is that you can't rule out other delivery methods. They could stick one on a ship flagged from some other nation, and drop it in any port city on the globe. That, and a medium yield nuke, in the dozen to hundred kiloton range, exploded over the US, would provide sufficient EMP to knock the country to it's knees economically. The military would still be largely available to return the punch in the face, but the economy? Forget it. Millions would die during the resulting power outage, and millions more around the globe would starve for want of US food exports.

The same for any nation that took the brunt of the attack. No deaths immediately, but loads of misery and death in the longer term.

So don't discount their abililty to get this thing into any orbit, no matter how unstable, because eventually it's going to cross directly overhead.

yeah: guy discovers cloudmark domain blacklist is used by two cloudmark customers. At least, that's my opinion. this information isn't new, this list has been around for years, and you don't get on it easily. It takes multiple reports from multiple accounts before they add you.

go fuck yourself dywolf, I'm no racist and even if I was, it would have nothing to do with this situation. He invited people who represent organizations whose stated purpose is racist at it's core. They are actively trying to take over the world, literally, and convert or kill everyone in their path. They stand for slavery, treating women as property, rape as as a hobby and just about everything evil in this world. It's in their fucking literature they hand out at brunch.

In this case, the job of POTUS is to sick the Marines on them, and blow the rotten bastards to smitherines.

Unless you want your mother, wife, daughters, sisters, and any other female member of your family to be killed for even looking the wrong way at a boy. Honor killings, something these freaks find completely acceptible.

Except there's a metric shit ton of evidence that shows the rebels in Syria executing and attacking civilians, executing prisoners, and generally being criminals.

this isn't diplomacy, this is war. Do you know the difference? Giving our enemies weapons didn't work out so well for us in the past, did it.

try not to bury your head too deep in the sand

what does that have to do with it? We shouldn't be bombing Libya and we shouldn't be rebuilding their infrastructure as a result, thanks for making my point for me.

we're supplying arms to all of them. we're supplying intelligence to some of them, and we actively participated in some others. We didn't protect civilians from being massacred in Libya, we just sped up the war.

and then the so-called commander-in-chief let those people into the white house! It's an outrage, and he should certainly not be reelected today, he should be impeached starting now, get him out of office before he can negotiate a deal with those terrrorists

The rebels in this case are committing attrocities left and right, they're flying the flag of Al Queda, they're not our friends, and they're not the enemy of our enemy in a way that makes it valuable to help them out. We have no business being in any of these rebellions from Libya all through the middle east.

That's just insanity and screw you main stream media and leftists and democrats for not screaming bloody murder about it.

That little project you just spent your life implementing including medicines, machine tool making machines to make more machines, engines, fuel refineries, distilleries, medical device making (gloves, tubes, sterilizers), chemical plant and all those things would go POOF the second your neighbor who wasn't smart enough to build this project decides he's going to take it from you or burn it.

In fact, I up the ante by including lasers, big powerful lasers, targetting systems and build an anti-mortar defense system to defend the plant against attack.

The need to defend it is directly proportional to the value of the project. Something that could boot strap a civilization is priceless.