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>> Most of the people in that list, I've never heard of.
>
> And, as we know, you have an *excellent* mathematical education. ;-)
Fun thing: Grab 10 random people on the street, ask them if they know
who Euclid or Euler was. ;-)
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On 12/01/09 03:43, Invisible wrote:
>>> Most of the people in that list, I've never heard of.
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>> And, as we know, you have an *excellent* mathematical education. ;-)
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> Fun thing: Grab 10 random people on the street, ask them if they know
> who Euclid or Euler was. ;-)
Be prepared to dodge their blows.<G>
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Sabrina Kilian wrote:
>> If, and this is a big if, it actually does do something in some obscure cases, I am
still not sure that the unfortunate side effect of finding this out, that of having a
huge number of people insist that it still does work for allergies, and pointing at
non-related studies of something that it does work for, is worth the relatively small
benefit that might be gained from it.
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> That I have to disagree with. People claim and believe that new drugs do
> all sorts of things that they just can't, and we let those individuals
> promote and sell the drugs to doctors! If a treatment works, knowing
> about it is worth the fact that some people out there may try to spin
> things their own ways. Unfortunately, that happens, but it will happen
> with any treatment, new or old or rediscovered.
I did say "small benefit" right? If it was a huge one, I would say
"weather the storm, until the clueless mostly disappear." The problem
is, its hardly clear that the benefit is *large enough*, or couldn't be
gained some other, less abuse prone, way.
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If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
if version = "Vista" {
call slow_by_half();
call DRM_everything();
}
call functional_code();
}
else
call crash_windows();
}
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Actually, I believe this device could really be useful : think to WHO really
carry bombs and weapons... Mostly fanatics, often pretty stupid - stupid enough
to carry guns and bombs anyway. So they may pretty much be stupid enough to
believe this device to work.
This only goal of this device is disuasion. It might actually work well this
way, it USA doesn't prove to everyone how useless it is...
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