Yes this IS a self-referencing double post, but when I saw a comment by you directly in the thread (after I posted) I figured I might as well address you directly.

Don't respond by trying to defend your existing work, respond by improving your work.

In fact this whole event could be a great source of inspiration. Imagine a large yellow © navigating through mazes.

Super IPa©

"Instructions: Inspired by arcade classics and based on corporate greed! You control IPa© (Intellectual Property & Copyright).
The aim is to eat all the $ in the maze, while avoiding four Independent Programmers. There are [DMCA] power-pills available in each corner which temporarily turn the Independent Programmers into Frightened Infringers. Chase them down and devour them! Constitutions also appear and can be eaten for additional points.
Thank you to Bamco Nandai for the back story and to Rambler for the satire."

ps. if anyone actually wants to take this idea I hereby give full concept ownership to the public domain, and all who fly the pirate flag.

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There's a lot of good advice all over this page about originality that both can protect a developer legally and just make for a better quality.

In fact this whole event could be a great source of inspiration. Imagine a large yellow © navigating through mazes.

Super IPa©

"Instructions: Inspired by arcade classics and based on corporate greed! You control IPa© (Intellectual Property & Copyright).
The aim is to eat all the $ in the maze, while avoiding four Independent Programmers. There are [DMCA] power-pills available in each corner which temporarily turn the Independent Programmers into Frightened Infringers. Chase them down and devour them! Constitutions also appear and can be eaten for additional points.
Thank you to Bamco Nandai for the back story and to Rambler for the satire."

ps. if anyone actually wants to take this idea I hereby give full concept ownership to the public domain, and all who fly the pirate flag.

| ©X
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The primary effectiveness of coffee comes from the stimulant properties of caffeine (take a couple of shots from an inhaler in close proximity with coffee and you'll notice that the stimulant effects of both compound for an unpleasant jittery effect).

HOWEVER the bitter vapors may very well increase the effectiveness.

I'm not surprised by this at all, based on decades of experience with bronchial problems.

Things I've noticed:
Cinnamon tends to have a soothing effect; particularly a "tea" of cinnamon with a shot of whiskey for good measure

hanging my head over a steaming bowl of water seems to help, tossing in fragrant spices seems to help more

Certain things do create a "content based sensation" in the lungs when inhaled; fragrant steams and inhalers themselves come to mind. (I've always had the weirdest feeling of being able to taste cold air, when it gets down a little below freezing I experience a smoky sensation that doesn't seem to come from anywhere in particular)

ok so it IS a joke without a punchline and another weird-baby thing... but this is not a baby's face plastered on existing scenes.

This is very impressive production quality.

I'm the type of guy who at this point says "BobMcD" said it best.

Well thank Darwin that humans evolved a bad smell after they die!

and yes I am being exceptionally pedantic about this; but Ive gotten tired of people who quote beliefs without understanding what they're saying; at that point it's just another form of religion.

Not a biologist.....
but, If an immune response to other stimuli causes a increase somewhere between X and Z then a "significant increase" is one that either falls within that range or at least approaches it.

So if the increase reaches X.01 it has matched the "significant" criteria, but just barely.

like I said, not a biologist, but semantically speaking that's what the statement means.

You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

"Origin of life" debates aside the "body will boost its immunity when it detects a possible disease threat" is an example of a system, not of an evolution.

Unless you are trying to imply that transforming to a different developmental stage by producing more IL-6, which would be sort of like saying that trees are evolving every time they produce leaves.

Words mean things, and meanings are important.

btw: I wouldn't be bothering to point this out... but someone already beat me to the more obvious flaw in your comment.

H.G. Wells wrote the War of the Worlds.

Orson Wells did the radio play.

There were no aliens... but there were probings.

My IQ is high enough that I question the validity of IQ tests; So I think of myself as "about average".

On the other hand...
The average person is 'not smart enough" to reach that conclusion; putting me back ahead of the game.

This all leads me to think that belief in any method of measuring intelligence invalidates it's own conclusion, or that the conclusions that can be drawn invalidate the method.

Either way once you've opened the box Schrodinger's cat is now just as smart as the average dead cat.

Glad you survived.

Having had many old as crap cars I've experienced the opposite, when you're going at speed on the highway and suddenly your brake cable snaps your first response better be to control the car through the transmission... otherwise your life ends as someone else's bumpersticker.

Like a lot of emergencies when it hits the fan all you've got to get you through is your past experience. I'd always say that someone should have "driving a standard" in their past experience.

Now you can have your brains and eat them too....

If this turns out to be a double post sorry.... it looks like /. somehow ate my first one

I find all sorts of business practices immoral and unacceptable... however no government anyway has passed a law against them.

Being philosophically evil is a standard business practice, and some (such as myself) might argue that capitalism as it exists rewards such evil. But the fact that something is clearly WRONG does not make it ILLEGAL.

Take your hypothetical flour example, there are no Anti-competitive practices described:

He has not colluded with competitors.
He is not preventing entry of anyone into the market.
His supplier is not contractually bound to deal only with him (or even with him at all).
He is doing the opposite of dumping.
His current position seems like a monopoly, but the presence of monopolistic circumstance is not illegal (particularly in short term situations); what is illegal is preventing competition from occurring.

and further more he is not even a monopoly.... Why?
Which governmental body has jurisdiction?
The Country or State? The $5 reseller is not the only person to sell flour within their jurisdiction so he is not engaged in a monopoly.

You have a lot of anger and frustration... this is good.
But only if you do something with it; and it has to be the right thing. Yelling "That's illegal" when something is not illegal is not the right thing.
Either work towards changing "legal" to be more representative of "fair", or educate others.

Before you can do any of this you must educate yourself.