Posts made by nordicblue

It sounds to me that you are the one doing the double speak, not the lawyers.  How exactly is this a "chaotic system" as you say.  Maybe your point would be clearer if you didn't try to sound so erudite.

@rawr:

@nordicblue:

Alright, then explain why you think this is a false cause fallacy.  GABA doesn't need to make you stupid.  It decreases brain function is the areas affected, mainly executive functioning in the frontal lobe and allow the limbic system to go unchecked.  Teenagers make more rash decisions than adults due to their underdeveloped frontal lobe, which does not keep their amygdala in check.  :crazy2:

In regards to the false cause in the study : it's a transitional logic flaw. If A->B=true and B->C=true, that doesn't mean A->C=true.

That is absolutely what is means.  It is called the transitive property.  Any valid argument with true premises, will also have a true conclusion.

No, it is theoretically impossible. Read the Red Queen Hypothesis.  STDs are an adaption and coevolution of the host-parasite symbiosis that exists between man and disease.  There will always be disease, because it too evolves in order to survive as we learn to conquer old diseases.

Red Queen Hypothesis.–The "Red Queen" hypothesis is used to describe two similar ideas, which are both based on coevolution. The original idea is that coevolution could lead to situations for which the probability of extinction is relatively constant over millions of years (Van Valen 1973). The gist of the idea is that, in tightly coevolved interactions, evolutionary change by one species (e.g., a prey or host) could lead to extinction of other species (e.g. a predator or parasite), and that the probability of such changes might be reasonably independent of species age. Van Valen named the idea "the Red Queen hypothesis," because, under this view, species had to "run" (evolve) in order to stay in the same place (extant).

The phrase "Red Queen hypothesis" comes from Chapter 2 in Through the Looking Glass (Carroll 1872). In Alice's dream about the looking glass house, she first finds that things appear left-to-right, as if shown in a mirror. She then finds that chess pieces are alive. She will later encounter several of these pieces (most notably the Red Queen), after she leaves the looking glass house to see the garden.

Alice decides that it would be easier to see the garden if she first climbs the hill, to which there appears to be a very straight path. However, as she follows the path, she finds that it leads her back to the house. When she tries to speed up, she not only returns to the house, she crashes into it. Hence, forward movement takes Alice back to her starting point (Red Queen dynamics), and rapid movement causes abrupt stops (extinction).

Eventually, Alice finds herself in a patch of very vocal and opinionated flowers; the rose is especially vocal. The flowers tell Alice that someone like her (the Red Queen) often passes through, and Alice decides to seek this person, mostly as a way to escape more verbal abuse. When Alice spots the Red Queen, she begins moving toward her. But, the Red Queen quickly disappears from sight. Alice decides to follow the advice of the rose, and go the other way ("I should advise you to walk the other way"). Immediately she comes face-to-face with the Red Queen (see Lythgoe and Read 1998).

The Red Queen then leads Alice directly to the top of the hill. Along the way, the Red Queen explains that hills can become valleys, which confuses Alice. Already, in this world, straight can become curvy, and progress can be made only by going the opposite direction; now, according to the Red Queen, hills can become valleys and valleys can become hills.

At the top of the hill, the Red Queen begins to run, faster and faster. Alice runs after the Red Queen, but is further perplexed to find that neither one seems to be moving. When they stop running, they are in exactly the same place. Alice remarks on this, to which the Red Queen responds: "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place". And so it may be with coevolution. Evolutionary change may be required to stay in the same place. Cessation of change may result in extinction.

Vegan food tastes terrible, you can have it.  :puke:  :sickr:
Why shouldn't people on welfare do drug tests?  :rotfl:

I would agree with you.  I got this list when I googled blue, white, pink and gold-collar workers.  Just because a job may be gold-collar in definition doesn't make the person lazy or con artist.  However, by definition, these create cash-rich people, with a low education requirement.  That also is not to say that just because you do these jobs that you are not smart.

Alright, then explain why you think this is a false cause fallacy.  GABA doesn't need to make you stupid.  It decreases brain function is the areas affected, mainly executive functioning in the frontal lobe and allow the limbic system to go unchecked.  Teenagers make more rash decisions than adults due to their underdeveloped frontal lobe, which does not keep their amygdala in check.  :crazy2:

Whatever that means  ??? ???

Well if you think it is a junk study, then stay fat and see what happens.  Your argument is besides the point.  Being fat is unhealthy.  As you say, try reading more than "29 people who were having fMRIs and noticed a trend".  Excess adipose tissue increases the length of blood vessels, which increases stress.  Cortisol is releases in response to stress.  Cortisol increases GABA production, which induces neural inhibition, i.e., decreases brain activity.
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Is this your autobiography?

@groovedware:

I am not racist but people different than me have less value…

I couldn't have said it better.  :rotfl:
Interesting!!! hippies, uber politically correct, vegans, people who wear cut-off jeans

:true: Some people are as fat as that panda!!! :cry2:

@nagysanci:

Wonderful and hot they are! I would kiss their peckers through the material of their underwear until they cum.

Which ones

@groovedware:

@MrMazda:

You could call it slut shaming, but that would imply that I am actually ashamed of what happened, when the fact is that it really doesn't bother me anymore.

Sorry, I did consider the implications of my statement when I made it being that you are a slut capable of shame and meant to add a caveat but despite that I stand by my original stance, that statement was slut-shaming even if you are the Virgin Mary who was immaculately seroconverted.

I just like pressing your buttons.  temper, temper.  Let us not be tangential.  The topic is being fat makes you stupid.  :cool2:

only ironic tattoos, like tattoos in languages you cannot read, make you an art fag.

unlikely

@phillo:

Oh there's definitely a dismissive, hateful undertone to the wording of many profiles I read. I tend to be into guys 25-45 and my various profiles state that and I don't need to put "ABSOLUTELY NOT INTO GUYS OVER 50" though I get messages from older men a lot. I'm wondering if the nastiness of certain profiles reflects a more widespread degradation in our basic cultural civility? Are the people who put "no fats/no fems" in their profile the same people who will cut you off in traffic, talk on a cell phone while at a register and fail to hold open a door?

That's definitely a non-sequitur there. There is nothing wrong with not liking fat people or effeminate men.  In addition to that, we went from not liking fat or effeminate people to saying they cut you off as if only masculine gay guys don't hold the door open.  There are plenty of raging queens who are judgemental and will behave uncivilized.  I prefer someone who says what they feel instead of hiding behind a veil of political correctness.

@YORCH32:

done it. not so hot.

I don't agree but suit yourself.

Wealthier people tend to take better care of themselves and the men are more metrosexual.  They have time to get manicures and do manscaping.  I would always choose someone who tries to keep up their appearance above those who don't.

The term gold-collar worker is coined from spending money on a gold chain and driving an Escalade, whilst spending all of your disposable income, living paycheck appearing cash rich and being asset poor.  They don't save for rainy days.