Somehow the concept of 'protecting' consumers from scams especially via laws sounds pretty ineffective to me. Educational information is certainly called for either public or private, the expression Caveat emptor is still probably the most effective route to take. Being skeptical is the best human protection mechanism.
As an engineer I can clearly see if something is bullshit in my area, but when it comes to let's say medical treatment I am totally bullshit unprotected so the only thing I can rely on is doctors credentials. In other words there must be a way to effectively RETALIATE against someone who exploited your lack of expertise in given area. Retaliatory measures must be proportional to the damage caused, it should include things like time I have wasted in result etc.
Somehow the concept of 'protecting' consumers from scams especially via laws sounds pretty ineffective to me. Educational information is certainly called for either public or private, the expression Caveat emptor is still probably the most effective route to take. Being skeptical is the best human protection mechanism.
As an engineer I can clearly see if something is bullshit in my area, but when it comes to let's say medical treatment I am totally bullshit unprotected so the only thing I can rely on is doctors credentials. In other words there must be a way to effectively RETALIATE against someone who exploited your lack of expertise in given area. Retaliatory measures must be proportional to the damage caused, it should include things like time I have wasted in result etc.This x10,000.
It's rather like the herbal medicine industry. Unlike a truly delusional form of quackery like homeopathy (as an example), there's nothing inherently insane about the idea of herbal medicine. In fact, many of our medicines are synthesized from chemicals produced by plants and animals. You need to look much deeper into issue before you find out that "alternative medicine" is not tested by the FDA, and why that's such a big deal. The idea itself that herbs can have significant pharmacological effects is not crazy, it's the details of which plants are claimed to have which effects that are unsubstantiated by evidence.
The trouble with the homeopathy is that they say that sell a product 100% natural, but the really is that el 99% is filling and the 1% is natural to expensive price than if you get the medicinal plant of the country.
And the evidencies can give between quotation marks because these are very manipulable according to interests of Lords of World.
"Before the olive oil was the worst oil on the world , today it is the best of world"
"Before the pork meat was the worst meat of the world,today the pig is olive tree with legs"
"Recently, the grease was the enemy public number one, today is the sugar that is more dangerous that the cocaine"
The trouble with the homeopathy is that they say that sell a product 100% natural, but the really is that el 99% is filling and the 1% is natural
The trouble with the homeopathy is that they say that sell a product 100% natural, but the really is that el 99% is filling and the 1% is natural
You head out into the bush, totally secure that your GPS device 's batteries are full and all of a sudden the device dies, WITHOUT WARNING. Depending on how lost/prepared you are could at this point lead to you dying as well.I'd never go out on such a trip without a spare GPS+batteries (and plenty of water and some food).
What's so great about "natural"?
I invite any homeopathist to go outside and start eating random plants to see what happens.
Just ask them if they eat food at home with traditional Chinese eating tools, or if they believe that western scientists have invented something better than that?
A fallacious comparison based on cultural bias and your inability to use chopsticks properly. Chopsticks are cheap, easy to manufacture, easy to clean, more precise and present a lower environmental impact than knives and forks.
a) Their main diet (rice) is totally unsuited to being eaten with thin wooden sticks.
c) You're going to have to explain the "more precise" part to me over a plate of button mushrooms in oyster sauce.
You see, you don't know how to use them.
Lift rice bowl, shovel...
You'd be amazed at the speed a hungry Chinese teenager can empty a bowl of rice with chopsticks.
You see, you don't know how to use them. Lift rice bowl, shovel... You'd be amazed at the speed a hungry Chinese teenager can empty a bowl of rice with chopsticks.
You see, you don't know how to use them. Lift rice bowl, shovel... You'd be amazed at the speed a hungry Chinese teenager can empty a bowl of rice with chopsticks.
The original statement does need to be qualified: Chopsticks are unsuitable for eating rice consistent with Western standards of table manners.
You see, you don't know how to use them. Lift rice bowl, shovel... You'd be amazed at the speed a hungry Chinese teenager can empty a bowl of rice with chopsticks.
The original statement does need to be qualified: Chopsticks are unsuitable for eating rice consistent with Western standards of table manners.
You do realize that we're both having a bit of a giggle, don't you?
a) Their main diet (rice) is totally unsuited to being eaten with thin wooden sticks.
You'd be amazed at the speed a hungry Chinese teenager can empty a bowl of rice with chopsticks.I bet a western spoon (or fork) is even faster
Then again I wouldn't know a better way to eat Sushi than using chopsticks.
You head out into the bush, totally secure that your GPS device 's batteries are full and all of a sudden the device dies, WITHOUT WARNING. Depending on how lost/prepared you are could at this point lead to you dying as well.I'd never go out on such a trip without a spare GPS+batteries (and plenty of water and some food).
You see, you don't know how to use them. Lift rice bowl, shovel... You'd be amazed at the speed a hungry Chinese teenager can empty a bowl of rice with chopsticks.
The original statement does need to be qualified: Chopsticks are unsuitable for eating rice consistent with Western standards of table manners.
You do realize that we're both having a bit of a giggle, don't you?
Am I curious enough to read on and find out how this thread got onto chopsticks? . . .
Nah.
I never mastered using chopsticks well enough to eat rice so I usually ask for a spoon
Real sushi eaters use fingers.
It's almost impossible to do elegantly with chopsticks.
You head out into the bush, totally secure that your GPS device 's batteries are full and all of a sudden the device dies, WITHOUT WARNING. Depending on how lost/prepared you are could at this point lead to you dying as well.I'd never go out on such a trip without a spare GPS+batteries (and plenty of water and some food).Harsh but frank, if you go out on a journey where your life could be endangered by getting lost and don't pack a compass, you're an idiot and probably not much loss to the gene-pool.
Harsh but frank, if you go out on a journey where your life could be endangered by getting lost and don't pack a compass, you're an idiot and probably not much loss to the gene-pool.