09-21-2012, 07:34 PM | #16 |
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Maybe this goes some way toward explaining post-menopausal Mothers-in-Law?
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09-22-2012, 05:13 AM | #17 | |
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She said "she is not against Copyright, but the concept of intellectual property is a wrong term to her ..." yeah, right. Here is the link, for the ones that speak german (or want to check out google translator). It also shows the woman itself. I think if she would be ugly, she would have much less media attention. http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschla...-Buch-Download However, what also should be mentioned: before the book was even released, she already earned 100.000€ (about $130.000) in advance. And, even more interestingly: The biggest german newspaper (or how I like to call them "crap-paper") also reported about this book. And according to them, the whole book is just boring and crappy ... |
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Or this could just be the topic of her next book. Quote:
Invade and conquer: Nicotine's role in promoting heart and blood vessel disease nicotine is three times as toxic as arsenic and one and one half times as toxic as strychnine. Study Claims Nicotine Causes Cancer |
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09-22-2012, 07:55 AM | #19 |
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Re the medical advice at the bottom on #18 -- none of the four links are peer-reviewed, and the one-peer reviewed study linked from inside on of those links is mouse research. This evidence comes no where near meeting the Hill Criteria of Causation used to conclusively prove tobacco smoking as a whole is dangerous.
I had no idea coming in when people should and should not be using nicotine. And reading those last four links in #18, I still don't. I realize that you were just responding to xg4bx, who also made a medical claim about nicotine. In general, I would question whether MobileRead is a good source of medical advice. I would personally suggest http://www.cochrane.org/ as an alternate web-based medical information source. But, then, since you read it here, don't believe it Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 09-22-2012 at 08:00 AM. |
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The third link gives information on how lethal nicotine actually is, and it's quoting a book. It also gives definitions of nicotine form a medical dictionary (it's poisonous), and from a dictionary of toxicology (one of the most toxic and addicting of all drugs and it is toxic by all routes of exposure including the intact skin). I don't know how far I would have to look to find a peer reviewed article of the discovery that nicotine is lethal, but there is a New York Times article from 1921 about a case where nicotine was the cause of death, so it's safe to say that 90 years ago people weren't confused about the dangers of nicotine. As for the fourth link, yes, I know that at this point it is only proven that nicotine is carcinogenic to mice, and it will take a while until it gets to human testing. But this is far from "nicotine unto itself isn't harmful". |
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09-24-2012, 10:00 AM | #24 |
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This was a good laugh here in Germany and the "Pirates" didn't handle this very well. As long as you are on receiving side of "no copyright", it's all fun, but when you are on the giving side, it changes a little.
Anyway, the former general-secretary of the "Pirates" announced that the book she is writing shall be copyright-free, so anyone can copy it. She is obviously a little more into the stuff her party advocates. (Source (German): http://www.fr-online.de/literatur/ma...,17899850.html) |
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just to add this:
recently, I read a blog of a german book pirate. This guy said, he believes that all the big fuzz (aka. Shitstorm) was made up. A publicity stunt. Before all this happened, no one cared (or even knew) about her book. Then, after all this copyright stuff became big news, many people talked about her. And another, similar stunt: not too long ago, the wife of former german president wrote her autobiography. Well, "coincidentally", at the same time, rumours appeared that she worked in redlight district before her marriage. She sued several people and companies (including Google) - but she claimed that this rumours date back to 2006 ... So, just when the book was released, she started to fight all this rumours? What a coincidence ... |
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