air conditioning may be making us fat
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From: Dave Frightens Me on 20 Jul 2006 05:56 On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:45:42 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Carole Allen writes: > >> Yes, the symptoms come from the immune response. > >You finally looked it up? Good. > >> You are not >> answering the question of WHY the immune responses differ in healthy >> and compromised systems, thereby resulting in fewer symptoms with a >> compromised immune systems. > >Then again, maybe you didn't. In any case, I'm tired of explaining >it. Maybe you need a lie down. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Dave Frightens Me on 20 Jul 2006 05:58 On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:15:12 GMT, carolea7(a)comcast.net (Carole Allen) wrote: >On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:39:24 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> >wrote: >>I don't know who the Aspergers are. >> >>-- >Asperger's Syndrome: >Individuals with AS can exhibit a variety of characteristics and the >disorder can range from mild to severe. Persons with AS show marked >deficiencies in social skills, have difficulties with transitions or >changes and prefer sameness. They often have obsessive routines and >may be preoccupied with a particular subject of interest. They have a >great deal of difficulty reading nonverbal cues (body language) and >very often the individual with AS has difficulty determining proper >body space. Often overly sensitive to sounds, tastes, smells, and >sights, the person with AS may prefer soft clothing, certain foods, >and be bothered by sounds or lights no one else seems to hear or see. >It's important to remember that the person with AS perceives the world >very differently. Therefore, many behaviors that seem odd or unusual >are due to those neurological differences and not the result of >intentional rudeness or bad behavior, and most certainly not the >result of "improper parenting". > >By definition, those with AS have a normal IQ and many individuals >(although not all), exhibit exceptional skill or talent in a specific >area. Because of their high degree of functionality and their naivetĀ, >those with AS are often viewed as eccentric or odd and can easily >become victims of teasing and bullying. While language development >seems, on the surface, normal, individuals with AS often have deficits >in pragmatics and prosody. Vocabularies may be extraordinarily rich >and some children sound like "little professors." However, persons >with AS can be extremely literal and have difficulty using language in >a social context. Damn, he's a textbook case. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Dave Frightens Me on 20 Jul 2006 06:00 On 19 Jul 2006 22:08:18 -0700, jeremyrh.geo(a)yahoo.com wrote: > >Dave Frightens Me wrote: >> On 19 Jul 2006 09:46:36 -0700, jeremyrh.geo(a)yahoo.com wrote: >> >> > >> >Mxsmanic wrote: >> >> jeremyrh.geo(a)yahoo.com writes: >> >> >> >> > What makes you imagine that? >> >> >> >> It's not imagination. Personal attacks are one of many fallacies in >> >> debate; people who resort to them erode their own positions. >> > >> >Indeed you do. >> > >> >Another thing that erodes your position is dishonest snipping, >> >> It's not dishonest, just irritating. > >I beg to differ - the effect, and I believe the intent, is to >misrepresent his interlocutor's position. Actually, I think it's a mental condition, and that he does not do it on purpose. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Dave Frightens Me on 20 Jul 2006 06:01 On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:11:18 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Dave Frightens Me writes: > >> How is this newsgroups not representative of the world? We think >> you're a loser, and apparently so does the world - which is why your >> life is so poor. > >The world has not expressed an opinion. Isn't reality its opinion? -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Dave Frightens Me on 20 Jul 2006 06:03
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:01:36 +0200, Wolfgang Schwanke <see(a)sig.nature> wrote: >"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop(a)earthlink.net> wrote in >news:e9k80u31i3a(a)news2.newsguy.com: > >> >> >> Wolfgang Schwanke wrote: >> >>> Actually there's a whole language built on that concept. It's a >>> constructed language based on Latin which any speaker of a modern >>> Romance language can understand on the spot. Google "Interlingua", >>> there are numerous websites in that language. I bet you can read them >>> fluently. But to speak or write it, you have to study it first. >> >> Is that the same as "Esperanto", or something different? > >Different. Both are constructed languages (out of several hundred >others), but the concepts are completely different. Esperanto is a kind >of linguistic Frankenstein monster with vocabulary taken from many >different European languages mixed together. You have to study it in >order to understand anything. > >Interlingua is based solely on Romance (or Latin if you will). The >choice of words, the details of the specific word forms and grammar >rules are intentionally designed such that speakers of Italian, >Spanish, Portuguese, French or Romanian can understand them just like >that, without prior learning. Because of this, there are several >hundred million people on the planet who can understand Interlingua, >even though most of them probably never heard about it. You can tell I >like this idea. A very curious idea, but it's let down by the fact that speakers of Romance languages can easily pick up another living Romance language instead. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |