Posts by Abaddon

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Guys, do you lay your wifi laptop on your lap?

by Elsewhere in

jw
friends

one of the things i enjoy most about wifi is the way i can sit in my favorite living room recliner and surf the web while watching spongbob.

i was just sitting here browsing around the web when it suddenly occurred to me: am i microwaving my "boys"?

has anyone heard if there is are, ahem, "manly" dangers to using a laptop on the lap?

Abaddon

OK, go to 'Start', 'All Programs' and look for the 'Common Sense' Application.

R U the only male doing this?

Has this been happening for enough years for a wave of fertility issues confined to male laptop users with WiFi to be detected?

If the answers to the above are not enough, consider;

In a recent experiment, people who claimed to be extra sensitive to mobile phone masts were found to be unable to tell whether they were on or off, but if they thought they were on they still felt ill and manifested physiological symptoms.

Not one cluster of illness related to mobile phone masts has been proven to any satisfactory level or scientific rigour.

The best longitiudinal (over time) studies to date have not found any linkage between mobile phone use and and health issues in normal usage. 'Continual' usage for ten years or more might have a very small chance of giving you a brain tumour.

Workers in ocupations that exposed them to high RF radiation in the past 50 years have provided no evidence of increased occupational health risks, apart from one or two people who accidentally cooked themselves in freak accidents.

WiFi access points and cards et. al use power levels at most 10% as high as the most powerful modern cell phones, more usually around 2%.

Basically, you are more at risk from tight jeans or underwear. and the heat of a laptop's other innards raising the temperature of your balls to one unsuited to spermatogensis, than the minute thermal load of a WFi connection, or any other RF risks of the same.

31

Does your boss have a right to call you on vacation?

by TresHappy in

jw
friends

two weeks ago, i went on a family vacation.

there was a voice mail on my cell phone from my boss.

i didn't respond to it.

Abaddon

They have the right to call.

I have the right to ignore the call. One client's an old woman (as in whinginging moaner), and I just tend to ignore his calls.

Normally I answer, and have ended up with an extra days leave for a half hours work helping my boss out. I think this might have something to do with the level of disapproval I can generate down a phone line.

In total it's been maybe six phone calls in five years vacations (and this being Europe that's six months holiday over five years, so not bad), and I'm a Manager so I need to suck it up as an emergency is, well, an emergency. Only exception was this year when there were two small tasks partially completed when I left that I needed and expected to be contacted on during the first couple of days.

But for lower down the ladder it's an impostion.

27

The Ghost Dance and the Slaughter at Wounded Knee

by frankiespeakin in

jw
friends

the peaceful ghost dance started by by desparate indians hoping for freedom, from the the greedy white man and his government caught on and was adopted by many tribes which frightened the us government that an uprising was in the making which was brought to an abrut end in the slaughter at wounded knee i have collected several renditions:.

i did not know then how much was ended.

when i look back now from this high hill of my old age, i can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered along the crooked gulch as plain as when i saw them with eyes still young.

Abaddon

It is interesting to note that the Jack Wilson or Wovoka, the Paiute founder of the 'Dance In A Circle' had his original, pacifistic, co-operative intentions supplanted as his new idiation of the traditional circle dance spread to other tribes. He believed "all evil in the world would be swept away leaving a renewed Earth filled with food, love, and faith".

The Lakota seemed to take a more radical slant on it, believing (as anyone who has read Black Elk Speaks knows) that it would cause the white man to be swep away. As westerners first contact with the movement was through the Lakota we call it by what they called it. It's adoption frighten ignorent and brutish reservation supervisors. Yet another tragedy followed on from that.

See wiki for details

29

Responding To Posters With An Agenda, Who Won't Listen To Reason

by minimus in

jw
friends

why do we do it??

?

Abaddon

Why?

Boredom
Mischeviousness
Using the idiot as a teaching aide for lurkers
Coz I like arguing

49

What Have You Purchased Thru The Internet?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i'm not a big fan of internet shopping.

what about you?

Abaddon

Books, CD's, DVD's, a camera, a range cooker, a chicken coop, airline tickets, a package holiday, train tickets, concert tickets, condoms, sex toys.

Never had any problems. My magic rabbit's foot allows me full SSL-VPN point-to-point encryption using a 1,024 bit Blowfish algorhtym...

30

What's your take on "faith healing" ...

by Frequent_Fader_Miles in

jw
friends

does it really happen, or is it a fake?.

know anyone personally who was cured by a faith healer?.

Abaddon

r.a.m.

but I'd never go on tv because you don't through pearls before swine.

Don't you think you are being a little self-rightous to define anyone who might watch TV as swine?

Do you have a TV? LOL.

And anyway, you hide behind the 'testing god' defence.

He tests us, so why not test him? LOL.

In any case, people in a double blind experiment would not as individuals be testing god.

You would have two groups of people; those who pretended to be ill and those who were ill, as classified by medical doctors beforehand.Each group would have even numbers of believers, cynics and agnostics. They would be healed by two groups of people, one group of actors peteding to heal, another of claimed real healers.

The people oberving would not know if the people were ill or the healers were real. The healers would not know if the peope were ill, the people would not know if their healer was real.

You would collate the statistics and perform a longitudinal (over time) study of the people to see if they got better. It is an astoundingly simple experiment to design, and it is down to the believers to put experimental data where their mouths are if they want to be taken seriously.

So, no one testirng god but nasty scientists who do that anyway. The belivers would be genuine in their belief and expectations.

52

Have/Do you 'fake' orgasms?

by AK - Jeff in

the theme of last nites 'seinfeld' rerun.

it was a hoot!.

well.... do you fake them?.

Abaddon

Easy, you just teach it to spit on command...

Seriously? Running dry happens, multiple male orgasms (where only the last one is wet) happen, but they are still orgasms.

I have heard guys claim they faked it (whilst wearing a condom) so they could go to sleep, but have never had sex quite that bad.

It is also far harder for women to fake orgasms than often thought, if you know your sexual female physiology.

Noise is no indication; some girls are silent as the grave until the moment of truth (a little off-putting the first time you sleep with them), others make loads of noise until they come and then not only stop making noise but also stop breathing for what seems like ages (again, a little off-putting the first time, especially for them when you start CPR), I don't know any way a man or woman (yes women can too) can fake ejaculation short of camera tricks, but you can normally feel the pelvic contractions, and the strength and regularity is just different to when it is deliberate.

Re.spam. Okay, I can understand the Viagra et. el spam; problems in that area can not be nice. I can understand the attraction of claims for pills that make you longer (although like the rest of male humanity would deny any need) - and if I responded to every lengthening spam I got (do they know something I don't?) I could make love to female members of JWD in New York without leaving my desk in Holland.

But what is it with these spams that offer to double the volume of your ejaculate? Never, ever has any woman said "oh, that was nice, but I'd like you to have more sperm". At least not to me... and I don't think this is due to me having nuts like a chimpanzee.

Any guys had complaints or girls made complaints about the volume of sperm?

30

What's your take on "faith healing" ...

by Frequent_Fader_Miles in

jw
friends

does it really happen, or is it a fake?.

know anyone personally who was cured by a faith healer?.

Abaddon

In view of the past failure of those who believe in it to ever demonstrate it in a manner that a science journal or court of law would aoccept as satisfactory proof

In view of the failure of those who believe in it to set up a simple double-blind test that woul determine whether it had any beneficial effect

In view of the proven fact people are able to feel better or worse according to how they think they should feel, even down to the level of measurable physiological responses

... I "take it" as wishful thinking, that despite being 100% moonshine actually seems to work for some people sometimes because they believe it will.

I'm quite happy for those who believe in it to believe in it, but won't patronise them by lying to them that I do too. I hope I get afforded the same latitude.

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Marijuana may increase psychosis risk, analysis says

by ithinkisee in

(article link)

marijuana may increase psychosis risk, analysis says.

london, england (ap) -- using marijuana seems to increase the chance of becoming psychotic, researchers report in an analysis of past research that reignites the issue of whether pot is dangerous.

Abaddon

It isn't really news that recreational psychoactive drugs should be avoided by those with a history of mental instability, or that persons using psychoactive drugs should seriously reconsider their recreational drug use if they have any contraindications. It has definitely become clearer in the past decade that teenagers should avoid heavy pot usage, as they seem especially susceptible to cannabis-linked psychosis.

Of course, there is the old correlation is not causation thing.

It may be that people with certain psychological traits (and therefore weaknesses) are drawn to psychoactive drugs. Do people who go to certain websites (say geeks to Slashdot) go because of internal factors or because of eating lots of M&M's? Statistically one could show correlation between eating M&M's (or other typical 'sat in front of a computer all day' snack) and reading techie websites.

Anecdotally I feel there is causation, but that it only effects some - just like some people are especially susceptible to contracting lung cancer if they smoke cigarettes, or some people are more susceptible to alcoholism.

Equally of course, whilst it may be true those experiencing contraindications SHOULD stop, it could well be they are in the group least able to do so.

What is untrue is that cannabis is getting stronger to any significant level.

What is true is that moving it from class B to C has made supply easier and heavy use easier.

What is not true is that there has been a large increase in users as a result of moving it from B to C.

What is true is that people being admitted for treatment are more frequently diagnosed as probably needing treatment due to cannabis use.

This leaves us with a drug that has been used for thousands of years, that causes far less damage to non-users than alcohol, and that damages the health of users to a greater or lesser extent than other recreational drugs (including nicotine or alcohol), and that may be especially damaging to some more than others, just like other recreational drugs, and that represents an equal risk overall as some commonly accepted and played sports.

But, of course, viewed like that doesn't make for column inches...

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Has Islam lead to an increase in Atheism?

by nicolaou in

ever since 911 and the subsequent attacks in bali, madrid, and london it seems that everyone feels they have a licence to criticise islam (they do).

fundamentalist and many mainstream christians deride the backwardness of a religion that creates suicide bombers and 'honour' killers.

of course, it was only a small group of hardcore islamist extremists that carried out these attacks but the whole community has been tarred by them, and perhaps in some sense it is only right that the majority of 'reasonable' and peaceful muslims do accept the part they play in providing the soil for these people to grow in.

Abaddon

Illyrian

I started that with;

And are they looking at the same table in making their summary?

Are you a they? I think not. I called them liars. Not you.