There are still many "uncontacted" tribes in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples). I find the Sentinelese people most fascinating of them all. They violently fight anyone getting near their island. They are probably lucky to be on a place where not many resources can be extracted, so no body bothers them.
Sir, you have trolled these poor people very hard. And they fed you surprisingly well.
All this thread is quite amusing and almost a tutorial on trolling. Very bold generalizations somehow insulting almost all the developers on the world. With ideas that are obviously false and are not nearly related to the OP.
And yet you've got an amazing degree of attention and had the dedication and energy to keep the pointless discussion going on for hours.
Please stop playing their game. The 1%, or maybe the 0.01%, wants the rest of us to fight stupidly over which country is better. "My laws are better", "your banks are crap" etc
This is a world wide class warfare we are living. Don't play the countries confrontation games. Don't be their pawn.
We the people should be together against the powerful ones and demand our rights everywhere, not just in our country.
We need to globalize justice, not just the economy.
Quackery isn't quite as bad as radioactive toothpaste or heroin syrup to calm the baby, but it's still pretty bad.
People with HIV are told to stop taking "poisonous" ARV meds, and to drink a concoction of lemon juice, garlic, ginger, etc. This isn't some obscure quack either, it's the president of a country, and the health minister of that country. When the deputy health minister spoke out she was sacked. (http://www.irinnews.org/report/73679/south-africa-deputy-hea...)
People talk about the evils of big pharma, and that they're only in it for the money. Pharma does have many problems, but the solution isn't to go to the greedy quacks selling vitamins as a cure for all cancer or a cure for AIDs/HIV. And Rath made a lot of money from selling vitamins.
There are many examples from the developed world too. I link to the African stories because the statistics were just so mind-boggling when HIV/AIDS was at its worst.
Well, it's not just in our industry. Alcohol is basically not treated as a drug by society. But its abuse have consecuences as bad as any other "hard" drug.
"Clad in nothing but underwear, he was suffering from uncontrollable hiccups and burdened by a horribly swollen stomach." While some internal organs were destroyed and he was slowly dying. Terrible.
That said, if not alcohol he would have found something else. The problem was not the drug itself.
Agree on this Kudos :) I activated it by accident (didn't know how they work). I don't regret it. The article was entertaining. Ok. But. The number of false positives with this kudos system is probably very high. You should click to confirm. Anyway, I don't like a web page where I have to be very careful where I put my mouse over. Feels like a minefield. </off-topic>
Totally agree, I think the Kudos system implemented in Svbtle and other clones is fundamentally broken until there's a way to undo it. Just hovering and waiting in place for a trivial action is a pain (and many people toggle with it accidentally thinking it's some whimsical animation), no less that being at the top of the page is completely backwards in itself; put it at the bottom after I've already read the post enough to judge it.
I don't think this implies we are losing diversity. Internet makes easy to connect with like minded people and share information. That sounds good.
Like minded people around the globe becomes more alike? Maybe. But just in the field they share. And they started with similar interests anyway.
