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Ha, I love the terms on his Flickr page: "License (c) All Rights Reserved"

Excellent. My plan to ferret out grammar pedants has succeeded beyond my wildest wishes! Muwhahahahah! Now to enslave them to copy editing Nigerian scam letters.... ;-)

That is a simple and clever workflow. The problem is that burnable DVD's are not archival. They start to degrade in as little as 1 year—so while it is an ok short term solution you'll need another archive back up in a different media.

"Instead of getting just one high-capacity memory card and risk losing all of your photos, have multiple low-capacity cards. That way, if one craps out, you'll still have a majority of your photos that are safe, instead of having all of them go down the drain at once."

"And "throttled internet" is still considered "unlimited internet", if only in the most technically speaking terms. "

Lar Har, if unsupported false accusations are all you have rather than any substantive response I'd say it is pretty clear you know that you don't have facts or evidence on the side or alt med.

If your position is so tenuous that you have to close your eyes and avoid so much as even reading my post lest your beliefs be challenged by facts and evidence then I'd say you probably know that much of alt medicine is not efficacious but are unwilling to face that fact.

Sorry Lar Har, but there is no secret conspiracy against Naturopaths—well, not that I know of. I'm not in the medical industry, so unlike naturopaths I don't have a financial interest in this—other than not wishing to see money wasted on inefficacious treatments.

"But my trust issue alarms go off when I think of 1,500 gallons of water being held back by just a few millimeters of PVC-coated tear-resistant (not tear-proof) polyester."

Lar Har, my conscious bias is towards reality. However, all humans have built in unconscious biases, and I know I can be fooled by my own perceptions. As physicist Richard Feynman noted, you are the easiest person to fool and the first rule of science is to not fool yourself; however you don't seem to seem to

Lar Har,

You might want to mention one of the real purposes of these tools, which is to convince naive people to use them to do the attacks and to take the actual risk. In the hands of such people the attacks made by these tools are all traceable back to the user. And users of the LOIC can and have gone to jail.

"Then I went to a Naturopath who gave me acupuncture, herbs, and other treatments. Guess who helped me?"

"Right now, it seems that the published studies on arnica are inconclusive as to its benefits. However, it is well known that there are significant issues with the integrity of publishing of medical trials and I don't know if a thorough search of all unpublished and shelved trials has been done or not."

"Homeopathy has been around for more than 200 years and is regulated by the FDA. It's a vibrational medicine which is created by highly diluting natural materials using the "law of similars""

"I have met some amazing Naturopaths in my day but *every* field of medicine has quacks."

"Though the NFL is partially responsible for this, they aren't really to blame. "

"herbalism, which is basically just the practice of deriving medicine from plants."

Exactly. $7 for around 3,000 calories comes out to a mere $.0023 per calorie!

"A lot of people use the word homeopathy interchangeably with natural medicine."