Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Bionicle Instructions

first episode


And to whet your appetite ...


Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Example Of A Hair Salon Blueprint

These parties give away skepticism

Yes, I'm late for Day celebration Skepticism, luckily the great quantity and, above all, quality, blogs who participated in the initiative launched a year ago Watermelon Project is to not take me to less. But, although late, I would like to put my two cents, in the form of suggestions to give in this time where we all become so generous, so consumed and so wasteful. Only, unlike those proposed today Javier Cavanilles , mine are designed specifically to be given away to those unrepentant gullible we all have in our environment. To see what they seem.



1 .- To believe in magnetic therapy: two magnetic bracelets.

Yes, not one, but two of those magnetic bracelets chachipiruli you heal up the careers of stockings and socks. Why two? Well, for a demonstration as simple as this:




2 .- To believe in orbs : photographic orbs generator .



For the uninitiated, the orbs are those round spots that often appear in photographs, especially when taken with flas. For many believers in the paranormal is ghosts (yes, it sounds like), energy fields (we know that "energy is that something can explain everything") or simply an inexplicable phenomenon as the top of a pine. But for those who know something about photography and / or have half a brain, it is simply the light reflected by suspended particles . So

to generate a number of orbs no more than increase the amount of particulate matter with something like this:


Fill it with water, throw a couple of sprays of water and taking pictures paranormal like hotcakes!



3 .- bracelets believers in balance: the Tower-Balance .


already know that balance bracelets are so powerful that they can reach up to someone like Leyre Pajin to the rank of minister. Or alternatively, you can get to bring down both the Ministry of Health as to direct it Leyre Pajin, as you prefer.

The fact is that believers in the effectiveness of these gadgets ensure that improve balance and stuff, so nothing better to test him this:


only have to buy the toy, replace the dummies by Power-Balance or other timopulsera of your choice, and pulls, to show who has better balance.



4 .- For believers in homeopathy: The Homeopathic Challenge .

Who

more, some less, it also has a believer in the homeopathy among relatives and friends, right? Well, sure to love ... eh, no, not like it, but it sure will come in handy our Homeopathic Challenge.

The thing is to buy a homeopathic potinque those that come in tubes, number them, emptying one or more of them and refilled with pure lactose. Well, I mean pure lactose is not energized, of course.



And then there is more to give to our family homeopath challenging him to discover what tubes contain a miracle cure and what not. You can use the media you want: take them to analyze, take them to see if it will cause a reaction pathogenetic or, for that matter, to invoke the spirit of Hahnemann by Ouija. Anyway: do not hit ...



5 .- For believers in the Shroud: Fit to Christ!


And finally, a great idea that I have taken here. Just made a reproduction of the Shroud (as this , but can also download and print Internet or simply draw) and a doll Jesus Christ (the author of this post recommended, although other this is not bad), and then try to wrap the doll so that Shroud fits the picture. Certainly no easy task:




Well, you see the fun is guaranteed ... at least for you. And as gullible friends, I fear that the most likely to continue as convinced as ever, but at least no longer give the grill with his nonsense. That's something, right?

That's it. And a happy solstice.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Disadvantages Of Water Cooled Engines

Ham


And if someone does not like to be endurance.

(Picture obtained from The big ham)




Updated to 20 December. I quote here : José Reyes

recognizes that in this story is a victim "and not me, although I am suffering from anxiety attacks and arrhythmias. The victim is the poor boy, who in addition to suffering abandoned by his parents in their academic career is concerned, is being intolerant and fanatical education, "he said.

Whereupon there is more to say.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Doujinshi Bulma Brief

The courts and the egg

I know the usual expression is" the venue or the egg . " Come on, that is often asked as a waiver of some material to keep a right, privilege or honor itself. Or, more commonly, the waiver of a right in exchange for compensation.

Well not. this case we must fight for the egg, but also by the courts.

Although the egg also has plenty of forum (and I leave the puns, really): "Law Sinde "rondón casting a Final Disposition of Bill Sustainable Economy seems to me quite impresentable from a legal point of view and under the rule of law. Join originally planned legal consequences only for serious crimes to a procedure with fewer guarantees that the handling of a traffic ticket (which is saying) is something very satisfying for that industry "content" that has not yet realized that we are in the XXI century, but any citizen you should make your hair stand on end, so involved and, above all, the precedent that implies.

But the venue, alas, The forum is the straw that breaks the camel. As account Antonio Delgado, "Law Sinde" is not just a nonsense in itself, but also the process that led to its creation and, barring some miracle, its imminent approval. a process which is summarized in a long series of pressures our leaders ("theoretical rulers?) By the U.S. followed by the corresponding lameness of these.

As well remembers Javi Peláez, national sovereignty resides in the English people. So says the Constitution and it should happen in any country. But cases as "Sindegate" or the even more bloody of U.S. pressure (and assignments of our government) to avoid prosecution for the death of Jose Couso show that our social and democratic state law also has more than one facet of banana republic. Only without the republic, of course.

I do not know if we can fix that or how. But at least showing that some, many, we are not at all agree with this policy of "send you" and "Yes, bwana."

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Stand Up Tan Can How Does It Work

Homeopathy endangered (now I)





In early 2007, supporters of homeopathy launched a petition which headed this way:


was scary, right? According to these people (and I quote verbatim from the copy held here )


If no changes in the draft, the consequences may be:
- disappear all injectable ampoules,
- Will all the oral medications with more than one component if any component is a power of less than D4.
- Will all the preparations in D4 or less power.
- disappear all routes of administration other than oral or external
- The homeopathic in danger, mentioned above, must undergo a similar record to that of chemical drugs allopathic, a technically feasible lgo (3).


But, alas, it was a false alarm. As we back then, the dread decree, regarding homeopathy, was an almost verbatim copy RD 2208/1994, which regulates the licensing and registration of "medicines" homeopathic for more than a decade.


A year later, in 2008, the multinational Sisters of Mercy homeopathic launched a new campaign under the slogan "Yes Homeopathy, which still alive in the network . I met her when I received an alarming email which asked me urgently my signature on, I quote, a law to end homeopathy, but his goal was far more prosaic: as said then Web
platform

Dear friend,
The Ministry of Health wants to publish Ministerial Order clearly a negative for homeopathy as it is demand exorbitant rates for homeopathic medicines, are denied the possibility of incorporating pharmaceutical innovations and, ultimately, does not take into account the specificity of these drugs.
If approved as currently drafted, this Order may result a drastic reduction drugs currently available in the market, thereby limiting treatment options for conditions treated with these drugs, since allergies to nervousness child dermatitis and even in palliative care, where homeopathy is used to reduce side effects of conventional medication and improve quality of life of patients.


And that is the crux of the matter, as we have at the time was precisely this, that the Ministerial Order was going to make homeopathic laboratories to pay registration fees. And we can not say they would be forced to pay them like any other pharmaceutical company because it was not the case: in reality the rate for the use of "medicines" homeopathic is rather smaller than expected for conventional. But go, need the money (another thing is that someone is able to determine how many peels , as we mentioned in the entry, with the numbers did homeopathic laboratories, of course, impossible), and if caring industries homeopathic NGOs could save, it's better to the pockets of its shareholders, of course.


Well time passed, the Registration Act was passed (by holding the special treatment for homeopathic products, which are general exemption from the obligation to demonstrate its effectiveness ), and the draft Ministerial Order stayed in a drawer in a hidden instead of the Ministry of Health, so that companies philanthropic homeopathic still enjoy impunity and would tax any society for themselves.

And in these results that now comes news that it can certainly pose a serious and real threat to homeopathy, and we have no campaign, or signatures, or whining to get an exemption from payment of fees, no nothing. Les

story. As this article says ,



The Council of Europe seeks to counterfeit medicines
The Council of Europe has agreed to the first international regulation sought by the manufacturing, distribution and sale of counterfeit drugs.

Okay, you say, but homeopathic products, even of a joke, for legal purposes are drugs and therefore " true ", right? Well, technically yes, but we'll leave that issue for another day. What concerns us now is just the next sentence. Which says that

also act if products are launched that they have not obtained proper authorization, but not harmful [emphasis added] .

De hecho, en el documento de trabajo del Comité de Ministros del Consejo de Europa se propone lo siguiente:


Article 8 – Similar crimes involving threats to public health
Each Party shall take the necessary legislative and other measures to establish as offences under its domestic law, when committed intentionally, in so far as such an activity is not covered by Articles 5, 6 and 7:
     a. the manufacturing, the keeping in stock for supply, importing, exporting, supplying, offering to supply or placing on the market of:
       i. Without medical products WHERE Such Authorisation Authorisation is required under the domestic law of the Party;

[ Article 8 - similar offenses involving a risk to public health
Each Member State shall take legislative and other measures to establish as criminal offenses under their domestic law, when committed intentionally, and as these activities are not covered by Articles 5, 6 and 7:
a) Manufacture, storage distribution import, export, distribution, supply distribution or placing on the market: i.
Medical products without authorization when such authorization is necessary under the law of the Member State.]


remember that Spain, as a member state would be required to adopt such legislative measures, probably modifying the existing Article 360 \u200b\u200bof the Penal Code to include as a crime to sell drugs and not without doing the paperwork prior, as is clear from the wording today, but without having obtained the mandatory pre-market approval.

So let's get back to homeopathy. As suspected at the time , and as they came to confirm the Director of the English Agency for Medicines and Health Products and even representatives of the industry own charitable homeopathic , not one of homeopathic products sold in Spain has been authorized as a medicinal . Not one.

So now you know: go collecting signatures, mounting campaigns against the evil Council Europe and others. Even as a last resort, require for the competent authority to resolve once on the files you have on the table since 1994, but resigned to this I assume that most are rejected for being outlawed products, or even having to face the hard sacrifice to pay taxes like anybody else. Whatever.

But do it quickly. For if it prosper, that they "sell like homeopathic medicines really have crime" may cease to be a rhetorical expression and happen to have literal meaning.


PS: Thanks for the warning, Manuel.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Phisohex Compared To Phisoderm

Holy Innocents: Father Angel

guess that more than one have had the feeling that this year the Holy Innocents arrived three weeks early after seeing this:


acquitted the defendant, whom for that respect the deletions call Angel M uñoz B artrina , is none other than the named Father Angel, a priest (or not, go figure) which has been more than two decades dedicated to transmitting messages that you receive personally from the Virgen del Remedio (good , and the Devil), to attract fans and, above all, a juicy receive donations, either in person or through the so-called "Board of Slavery of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. "Which maybe find it familiar but is, according to legend, the boy spent time involved in the famous" occurrences of El Escorial "before deciding to start their own shed.

Sea as that is, a few years ago the families of two of the contributors to the fortune pious Father Angel decided sue him for committing various crimes of misappropriation and fraud. To those who soon were joined two other tax crimes, because what is not learn well finished Father Angel during the years of its formation is the convenience of having the accounts in order to finance to ensure complete impunity.

Because, really, as things are what the scam is not going anywhere. For a long nose that have thrown the thing and many unwary to those who have plucked the English legislation and case law is generally considered that such activities are not scam, but from any other point of view, these individuals are, no doubt a vulgar scammers. In fact, the judicial proceedings against Father Angel suffered a series of delays due to the competent magistrate refused to prosecute him for fraud, accepting only the two counts of tax fraud. The tenacity of the accusers and their lawyers also managed to finally will bring him to trial as a swindler, but the result, as we have seen, has only been successful for Father Angel.

As narrated in the Judgement,

By Maria Dolores ... it has been alleged that the accused and people in their immediate surroundings, using deceit and manipulations, convinced it's sister, now deceased, Jeanne-Marie ..., so that they hand over the floor of his property, situated in the street ... Valencia, simulating the donation through a purchase, since there was no consideration to the transmission. Moreover, it contends that it donated from various jewelry and paintings, and even signed a loan amounting to EUR 15,245.39 for the purchase of a Ford Mondeo, which is registered in the name of a member of the Board before referenced, and whose payment was made under it.

On the other prosecution, is saying the Judgement

By Pedro Juan ... it has been alleged that the accused and people in their immediate environment, through deception and psychological manipulation, caught the will of his mother Angeles ... and while he was young, from 1992 to 2003, and during that time period it came off of a sum of money not less than 36,000 euros in respect of payment of fees, delivery jewelry and cash contributions.

The trouble is that the Judgement itself closes both factual

saying There is no evidence that any of these acts were performed by devices ... moved by any deception or psychological manipulation, rather than looking like the place in full exercise of their freedom.

And, as stated by the Prosecutor during the act of the trial,

sentence for fraud do not ask because I understand that criminal law does not protect unwary

Or, as Javier Cavanilles appointment in this wonderful entry ,

healers, miracle workers and people who move in the esoteric world can not deceive a person of average education

Consequently, despite allegations that individuals maintained their conviction petition, the High Court ruling that

crimes of fraud or misappropriation against the accused have not been tested in any way because of the statements of witnesses appeared, excluding those who exercise the prosecution, does not follow that they were forced or manipulated to make deliveries psicológicamiente or grants for the accused or the organization of religious significance that has created around him. Rather, all witnesses testified that they made such transmissions willingly and heritage in order to assist in carrying out the charitable purposes that inspire the actions of the accused and of that religious organization. So little more can be said about the absence of the crimes of fraud and misappropriation that are subject to prosecution, because the acts of these devices have not been moved by deception. Even those who accuse particular title have been able to prove that their sister or mother acted mentally tricked or forced, because beyond his assertions do not see any testing done, unless used as a presumption against the accused, inadmissible in law.

So you see, Father Angel has followed in the steps that they say was his mentor, and is acquitted of the crimes of fraud and misappropriation.

As for tax crimes ... Well, the Court disregarded the initial statements of Father Angel, who claimed she had not submitted their declarations of Finance because he believed that a priest was free (yes, that's the nose level to which the individual arrives), but an expert report under which it is possible that the tax debt left to pay for each year is less than EUR 120,000, the limit beyond which fraud is a crime. And while the Court assumes no good figure, given that even the Treasury nor did his duties well and reached a final settlement has no other choice but to acquit the defendant under the principle of presumption of innocence.

Ultimately, that Father Angel did not have to move from their convent Picassent to another facility located in the same municipality . He is innocent. A holy innocent, come on.

And yes, it is anticipated that the Treasury continues its inquiries and finish rather than imposing a flood of economic sanctions. Sanctions that could even plunge definitely the pool bar, unless the Virgen del Remedio it, ahem, correct throwing a hand as it did at other times (it's the memorable film of the Virgin of the Father speaking through Angel to recommend to the faithful who buy lottery of the Board). Or, well, his other interlocutor, Satan.

But obviously, people will not see even a penny are cheated, or their families. With laws in hand, all you can do the victims of this type of deception (such as healers, diviners, spiritualists and other miscreants) is not to fall into the trap. Hopefully this story, like many other similar, will make many take warning, even from somebody else, before it is too late.


Note Bene: Los Angeles As there are many, and few parents Angel should clarify who is the guy in question. Here you have it a few years ago, in mystical ecstasy ...






... and here a few days in full ... well, full bench of the Provincial Court of Valencia:




The photos come from here and here respectively.