Evolution of Diet, causes of inflammation, & autoimmune diseases, particularly MS

[Guest guest]

I am forwarding this from the

MS-Diet@groups forum.

I recommend that you watch the audio video

and slide presentation at

http://wildhorse.insinc.com/directms03oct2007/

The presentation is just over 1 hour long.

It is quite scientific and therefore hard

to understand at times, but I just let those bits go over my head, and try and

get the general gist of it.

I think you need MS powerpoint software to

see it, but Jock says (see below) that you can also use software called

openoffice that you can download free from

http://openoffice.org

Tommy

PS        NB, I

think this link may only be available for a short period

From:

MS-Diet [mailto:MS-Diet ] On Behalf Of Jock McTavish

Sent: 01 December 2007 04:22

MS-Diet

Subject: Re: [MS-Diet] Slides

Loren Cordain's lecture - no you don't need powerpoint

hey guys, you don't need powerpoint.

powerpoint costs lots of money. as do all the microsoft

programs.

and you don't feel right to have pirate copies

and microsoft is chasing down illegal copies anyway.

install openoffice.

it's complete and even more than microsoft programs.

and in dozens of languages.

it's free.

it's better.

it reads and writes all the microsoft office formats.

word. excel. powerpoint.

and even more, it includes an equivalent database

(microsoft sells access database for an additional $600)

there's a functioning community help system.

http://openoffice.org

the link you gave andrew for the file download is as you

identified, just the slides.

http://download.yousendit.com/651C16AA4FC5FDE3

the link at ms-direct is for the presentation with the

audio/video of cordain's talk.

it links to a feed service http://wildhorse.insinc.com/directms03oct2007/

openoffice can play both the slide version and the

audiovideo version.

highly recommended

jock

ps.

another reason i like open office is that it is a

swords-to-plowshares story. here's a short hyperbolic version.

a few years back when the soviet union crashed, the american

congress passed a law making it illegal for americans to export high level

internet encryption systems and also requiring all american encryption to have

a " backdoor " so that police agencies could on court order, break any

encryption. this was to allow the equivalent of wiretapping. so sun computers,

a competitor to microsoft with a large customer base of engineers around the

world, did an interesting thing. first they bought a little computer company in

germany

so that they could be " offshore " from american law. then they went to

moscow and

hired the code making and breaking department of the kgb (who at the time were

unemployed). they moved these folks to germany and offered their customers

high level encryption without breaking this restrictive new american law. turns

out this little company in germany

had copied the microsoft office protocols into unix (the principle engineering

op sys). sun had no interest in it so made it available as a freebe for it's

customers so they could type letters and such on their engineering computers.

then a couple of years ago they ported it into other common computer systems,

including microsoft and apple. and kept it free - mostly to aggrevate microsoft

because microsoft wouldn't use the sun language java and made a similar

language called javascript. (kind of like the way microsoft lifted code from

apple to make windows). it was called star office. it became so popular that it

drained their servers. so they funded a non-profit foundation and renamed the

programs " open office " under the new gnu open source protocols where

folks give away code. they also decided to put it into as many languages as

possible and try to make it available to the most people possible in the world.

they have done it. it's in 124 languages now!

don't make bill gates richer, use open office.

[MS-Diet] Sides

Loren Cordain's lecture

Hi folks

If anyone wants to download the slides for

Loren Cordain's lecture, you can do so for the next 5 days but you will need

Powerpoint on your PC.

Here is the link. Click here.

http://download.yousendit.com/651C16AA4FC5FDE3

Drew