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There's a guy who does an excellent job of reviewing serious health and nutrition research and explaining it. He's covered many of the statin studies. His web site is most useful here because I can point to explanations that point to real studies, rather than pointing to real studies and writing a bucket load of explanations.

Here we go...

Lower LDL post heart attack predicts an higher chance of being dead in the next 3 years:
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%20and%20heart%20attack%20survival

Statins give cancer to men who respond well to statins
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%20and%20the%20J-LIT%20study

If you're in the lowest cholesterol group as a result of taking statins, you have a 600% increase in the risk of a cardiovascular death
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%20and%20the%20J-LIT%20update

10 year all cause mortality in low dose statins is lowest at 250 mg/dl. Higher at lower and higher levels. Dramatically so for cardiac events.
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%20and%20Son%20of%20J-LIT

A little bit on statins fixing the wrong properties of LDL and HDL. I.E. total volume rather than size and number.
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%20and%20Son%20of%20J-LIT

A 50% increase in being dead on Crestor, courtesy of the JUPITER study, buried in the data so as not to cause embarassment.
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%20heart%20attacks%20and%20JUPITER

A more complete review of the JUPITER study with fewer difficult words.
http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/11/when-news-sounds-too-good-statins-new.html

Lets hope you don't have Familial hypercholesterolemia and take this drug.. 1000% increased chance of stroke or heart attack. Yay for statins!
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%20pacitimbe%20and%20ACAT

Oh dear. Statins increase the oxidation of LDL. No wonder they kill so many people.
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%3A%20statins%20and%20oxLDL

The traditional piss taking of Ancel Keys massaging of saturated fat data to get the wrong result, extended to statins.
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%20presentation%3A%20Between%20countries

Lowering of LDL does not correlate with atheroma volume decrease. Whoops. Where did my hypothesis go?
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%3A%20ASTEROID%20destroys%20lipid%20hypothesis

Killing more unsuspecting patients with torcetrapib in the RADIANCE1 and RADIANCE2 studies.
http://high

There's a guy who does an excellent job of reviewing serious health and nutrition research and explaining it. He's covered many of the statin studies. His web site is most useful here because I can point to explanations that point to real studies, rather than pointing to real studies and writing a bucket load of explanations.

Here we go...

Lower LDL post heart attack predicts an higher chance of being dead in the next 3 years:
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%20and%20heart%20attack%20survival

Statins give cancer to men who respond well to statins
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%20and%20the%20J-LIT%20study

If you're in the lowest cholesterol group as a result of taking statins, you have a 600% increase in the risk of a cardiovascular death
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%20and%20the%20J-LIT%20update

10 year all cause mortality in low dose statins is lowest at 250 mg/dl. Higher at lower and higher levels. Dramatically so for cardiac events.
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%20and%20Son%20of%20J-LIT

A little bit on statins fixing the wrong properties of LDL and HDL. I.E. total volume rather than size and number.
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%20and%20Son%20of%20J-LIT

A 50% increase in being dead on Crestor, courtesy of the JUPITER study, buried in the data so as not to cause embarassment.
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%20heart%20attacks%20and%20JUPITER

A more complete review of the JUPITER study with fewer difficult words.
http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/11/when-news-sounds-too-good-statins-new.html

Lets hope you don't have Familial hypercholesterolemia and take this drug.. 1000% increased chance of stroke or heart attack. Yay for statins!
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%20pacitimbe%20and%20ACAT

Oh dear. Statins increase the oxidation of LDL. No wonder they kill so many people.
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%3A%20statins%20and%20oxLDL

The traditional piss taking of Ancel Keys massaging of saturated fat data to get the wrong result, extended to statins.
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%20presentation%3A%20Between%20countries

Lowering of LDL does not correlate with atheroma volume decrease. Whoops. Where did my hypothesis go?
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/Cholesterol%3A%20ASTEROID%20destroys%20lipid%20hypothesis

Killing more unsuspecting patients with torcetrapib in the RADIANCE1 and RADIANCE2 studies.
http://high

I'm getting pretty good battery life out of my Nexus 5.

Stare at THIS for a few minutes.

You're cured!

If not, there's always Hypnotoad. All Glory to the Hypnotoad!

>beneficial not just in lowering LDLs, but also rates of myocardial infarctions(heart attacks), coronary heart disease, and overall mortality.
While raising the rates of other diseases like cancer to a greater extent and in significant populations (like women) offering no benefit at all.

So if you limit your view to heart disease and related diseases statins sometimes appear to work.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22677075

But if you measure all cause mortality, they're a disaster.
If you do a quite big study and report it honestly, you might find the statins don't help much with anything
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2008/11/cholesterol-heart-attacks-and-jupiter.html
But sometimes you have to stop the study before the evidence becomes too clear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUPITER_trial

CBO estimated ACA would require $10B. Congress approved $1B. http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-not-take-victory-lap-on-obamacare.html?m=1

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iTRZNhZGJkE/TdjpS-44TrI/AAAAAAAAAJg/LS2aJFqLCL0/s1600/english.jpg

Text: "The curtains where blue"

What the critic thinks: "The curtains represent his immense depression and his lack of will to carry on."

What the author meant: "The curtains were fucking blue."

I have another reason for opposing Obamacare: It is immoral. "Thou shalt not steal'"

Suppose you woke up tomorrow and the Constable was towing away your car.

The reason is that the widow woman down the street can't afford to buy one, she needs one to go to work, and yours is handy. Besides, you have job, you have money, you can obviously buy another if you want. Are you happy now? Are you better off now? Is Society better off?

And since the Constable and title people don't work for nothing, about every 5th car they seize must be sold to pay their expenses.

And here's the kicker: If YOU seized someone else's car to give to another less-privileged person, you would be arrested for theft.

IMO, since you cannot authorize another person to do something that would be illegal for you to do, you cannot authorize government to do it either.

So, one of my favorite stories is about Davy Crockett's "Not yours to give" speech to Congress: http://www.fee.org/library/detail/not-your-to-give-2#axzz2k1CYkjKQ

Unfortunately, it is not true: http://crockettincongress.blogspot.com/2009/10/not-yours-to-give-fable-re-examined.html

However, the proposition and conclusions seem to be correct, and I agree with the sentiment.

I didn't say that. My point was that libertarian ethics are incompatible with utilitarianism, as Ayn Rand herself pointed out.

You implied it. But let me address this point. First, Rand is hardly an expert on Libertarians. Keep in mind that Libertarians, as a group, rejected Rand... don't confuse Objectivists with Libertarians! They are not the same at all.

But more importantly, second: you have gotten your own point wrong. Rand despised what she called Utilitarianism. Saying that Libertarianism is incompatible with it is actually a compliment.

"I made no mention of Keynes. Modern economic theory was founded by John Stuart Mill, and others, using the techniques of the utilitarian calculus to describe rationality and create a framework for modelling rational interactions."

Wrong again. Certain economic philosophy -- not to be confused with the science of economics -- was promoted by Mill. And subscribed to by few. "Most modern economists" -- especially those involved in government -- neither believe in or follow Mill's philosophy. Rather they are dyed-in-the-wool Keynesians, and most even admit it.

Much of modern mathematical economic theory on the other hand, as opposed to philosophy, was formulated by the early Austrian school. Early Austrians proposed a great deal of the math that is not a part of "mainstream" economic theory, and was "borrowed" by the proto-Keynesians (interventionists) and later Keynes himself, and made Gospel. (It should be noted that Mill's philosophy also included interventionism, but again we have to distinguish between political economic philosophy and "economics". They are not the same things.)

Later Austrians have argued that the math is only conceptual and does not actually model the real world, and that interventionism only interferes destructively with, rather than supports, free markets. That concept is still rejected by Keynesians, even though 80+ years of experience shows it to be fundamentally true.

And he got the plans off the INTERNET!!!
http://diymaketech.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-to-make-emp.html
OMG I'm gonnna cover my house in tin foil!

I think this could be a hoax. It's not a scientific paper, not in a peer-reviewed journal's letter section. It appears via a Google circles posting from Kerry Emanuel who is a well-known, though partially reformed, climate denier. It looks like the Google+ account the letter is published in was just created. Plus, the facts are either skimpy & wrong. Saying we cannot ramp up solar & wind power fast enough, but can ramp up nuclear, is directly in opposition to what's happening. Solar installations are going up by double-digit percentage points each year, and meanwhile we haven't had a new nuclear power plant in over 40 years. The only pair that is underway (which is pictured in the Yahoo! story) is years from completion. There are only 19 permit applications active for new nukes in the US, and the power industry (which is notoriously risk-averse) has for decades shied away from their huge liability and expense.

1,700 inserts per second is pretty easy for any modern RDBMS on decent hardware. Here's PostgreSQL doing 14,000 per second on a laptop, for example. My company routinely handles 40,000 inserts per second into Cassandra on midrange AWS virtual servers.

Properly tuned Oracle is probably pretty quick, but these days so is properly tuned everything else.

His name is Yahtzee

Most Americans have a pretty high opinion of England, Canada, Australia, Germany, and Japan. Do those countries send foreign aid to the US, to curry good will among Americans?

Of course not, we're all rich and have much to offer each other in terms of economic activity. Poorer countries don't, and poverty is a breeding ground for extremism and blame-shifting to outsiders, especially foreigners. Just look at how the economic downturn over the past few decades has coarsened American politics in a way not seen since the Great Depression.

Of course not. Trying to buy goodwill is like paying a blackmailer. It doesn't work, won't work, can't work, and only the morally bankrupt think otherwise.

Did you know that America is pretty popular in Iran with the people, especially young people? This is in spite of our policies towards their government, and it's largely because they love our cultural exports: movies, music, fashion, computers, etc. Hollywood is America's greatest ambassador.

Unfortunately for us, China isn't nearly so myopic about foreign aid. They've seen the benefits we derived throughout the latter 20th century, and they are building relationship with Africa, because for them Africa represents both a source of raw materials and a future market for their manufactured goods. Trade with Africa has ballooned from roughly $1 billion a year in 1980 to $55 billion in 2006 to $166 billion in 2011. Most of the investment has been in banking, energy, and infrastructure -- all with the intent of creating a massive market in a part of the world the West has largely ignored. (Most of our aid to Africa is little more than an agricultural subsidy to our own farmers). They've given out massive loans with less restrictions than Western banks and with more loan forgiveness. As a result, we aren't Africa's largest trading partner anymore. China is, and as a result, regimes that don't support the values we've traditionally supported in the region are much stronger than they would have been had we been more involved.

It's not a matter of morality, though that provides a fig leaf for most aid programs. The reasons governments invest in foreign aid is always for their nation's selfish benefit.

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That reminds me of this gem:Overflow in sorting algorithms

That little bug just sat around for a few decades before anyone noticed it.

Quick summary: (low + high) / 2
May have an overflow which is undefined behavior. Really every time we add ints it's possible. Just usually our values don't pass the MAX.

Those working on self-driving cars and those that are watching the technology already know that any such car would need an absolutely 100% rock solid OS.

This changes nothing.

But then its principal advocate is Google, where good enough gets pushed to production, left to languish and spring cleaned out of existence in a couple years.
So in spite of the engineers knowing this, the trend is worrying.
Especially when some of these cars are starting to be drive-by-wire and the trend is that there will exist no physical linkage between the human interface and the cars brakes, engine, steering.

Some how the assurance from and AC that "all is well" and Trust them, they are Scientists, just rings hollow.

I must step in here and make a few comments because I am both a tech person and an artist. How did that happen? When I was graduating from Rutgers with a degree in physics, my parents gave me a nice 35 mm camera outfit. A decade later the Princeton Ballet was paying me for my ballet photos. Photography has always been an important hobby of mine. It has also helped me in important ways at work. It has helped me to develop an artistic side that communicates better than too many tech people. It also helps me to understand society -- both the larger one and the tech one -- better than most.

Let me point people to my Flickr site where I am known as Chuck Divine. There are over 40,000 images there. My Science Fiction Art has gotten me attention in Washington, DC art circles.

I eventually got into IT, partly because I was good at it, partly because I liked doing it and partly because I could make a decent living at it. My career has taken me to all sorts of places -- including NASA. At NASA where I saw some good people doing good work -- and some screwing up so badly that it caused major accidents like that which happened to the Space Shuttle Columbia. Do check out the report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. It is a well done analysis of a tech organization that needs significant reform.

I have also gotten involved in the STEM problem. Some of us are calling it the STEAM problem. The A stands for the Arts. It seems that scientists and engineers with an artistic side are more productive in their tech field than people without that side. They also work better with other people, tech and not tech. Some years ago I wrote a public policy paper titled Aerospace Workforce Issues that gets into this topic in some depth.

Let me finish by telling people here that people who know me describe me as bright, friendly and a bit shy and quiet -- most of the time.

That's more than enough for now. I hope I have been able to get some tech people to consider opening their minds a bit.

This time, we got the following crossword puzzle clue : More than just suspicious of that also known as More than just suspicious of 4 letters . First, we gonna look for more hints to the More than just suspicious of crossword puzzle . Then we will collect all the require information and for solving More than just suspicious of crossword . In the final, we get all the possible answers for the this crossword puzzle definition. Here are other similar crossword definitions: In the know about , Not taken in by , please read more on: http://mordo-crosswords-solution.blogspot.com/2013/10/.html

Please remember that there is basically no experimental evidence for any of this speculation. No. Experimental. Evidence. There is barely evidence for general relativity type black holes*, no evidence at all for Hawking radiation, and thus of course no evidence for the theoretical infrastructure built on top of Hawking radiation.

And, plenty of (theoretical) papers have looked at this and come to alternate conclusions.

I suspect that when we actually do start experimenting with black hole event horizons directly we will find that some crucial fact was missed which invalidates all of this theoretical work, but I could just be in a grumpy mood.

* There is plenty of evidence that there are very dense collections of matter in the centers of galaxies and other locations in the universe, dense enough that at least some of them have to be black holes in general relativity, but that is not proof that the black holes predicted by General Relativity actually do exist, even though it is very reasonable and convenient to label these objects "black holes" for most purposes, . (The issue is that other theories of gravity have different types of black holes, or none at all, and G.R. cannot be regarded as experimentally proven in this regime.) Only recently has there been any direct evidence for an event horizon, one of the key predictions for a general relativistic type black hole, and we are still waiting on the detection of gravitational radiation from a newly formed black hole, which is what it will take for this issue to really be nailed down.

Black hole firewalls don't really exist.

Here's a summary:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6334

and the long paper:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6335

Resolving the issue.

In short, the black hole paradox doesn't exist and can be explained.

Motl has a really nice summary as well:

http://motls.blogspot.com/2013/10/raju-papadodimas-isolate-reasons-why.html

Unless you pay alot extra for a dvr.

Why would you need to buy an expensive TiVo DVR from an alot instead of just plugging an HDHomeRun receiver into your existing living room PC?

http://missingbytes.blogspot.com/2012/12/self-drive-engage.html

TL;DR : We need to create a framework for an insurance-type policy for licensing self drive vehicles.

google's car may be a great driver in nominal driving conditions but as i've posted before, it cant deal with all situations. if your car cant deal with situations a person can, it's not a safer driver, it's a non-driver.

- bad weather (e.g. heavy snow)
- construction areas
- odd situations

dont believe me? how about the lead engineer?

of course if we added electronic assistance to the road itself (special markers/paint for lines) it could solve the first two but it's the unforeseen that is the biggest issue.

The Blogspot implementation: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/10/recaptcha-just-got-easier-but-only-if.html In order to leave a comment on the post you have to do the following three steps. Step One: Decipher that often undecipherable StreetView street number. Step Two: 'OCR' that rarely legible text from Google Books project. Step Three: Sign-in with your Google or OpenID account. As I see it, the first two steps are completely unnecessary torture of end users for the sole benefit of the Google shareholders. Not to mention how far reCAPTCHA is from the Section 508, and WCAG accessibility standards. See: http://captcha.com/captcha-accessibility.html

This is from May of 2012...

http://avyupdates.blogspot.com/2012/05/iphone-avy-beacon-app-jokes-on-you.html

Browsers (especially IE) complain if your encrypted page includes unencrypted content (like iframes served from a a third party ad server) and rightly so. Google can get away with it because they serve their own ads

Then use the ads that Google serves. A month ago, Google announced HTTPS support for AdSense.

I asked myself how much waste is generated to, say, run my house for 30 years. It turns out to be about a train car full of coal vs a bit more than a tablespoon of nuclear waste. The spent fuel production of the entire U.S. is about two tractor trailers full per year. (And that's without reprocessing.) The amount goes up if you include low-level waste like irradiated concrete and steel. But that's stuff you can bury for a couple hundred years and it'll be safe.

I did a similar calc for nuclear vs. wind. Yes a single wind turbine looks more attractive and is cheaper than a nuclear plant, and safer to maintain. But people fail to realize that to equal the power output of an AP1000 nuclear reactor (1154 MW * 0.9 capacity factor = 1036.8 MW average output), you'd need over 4700 MW worth of wind turbines (4700 MW * 0.22 capacity factor, which is the world average for 2011 = 1034). I was gonna re-do the calcs for all to see but while search for wind turbine tonnage I found a site where someone's already done it. The numbers led him to the same conclusion as me: For the same power output, nuclear is simply better than wind or solar - in terms of steel and concrete use, carbon emissions, cost, and safety.

Blacks are inferior as a group.

Look at the way all of the blacks just go apeshit so to speak over a bunch of fucking sneakers of all things!

Then ask yourself why white people don't riot over the latest Apple gadget even though they gather in large crowds waiting for them. I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh does anyone remember when the blacks rioted like crazy after Hurricane Katrina? Isn't it JUST A LITTLE STRANGE the way white people in Colorado banded together and helped each other when they were hit with a natural disaster instead of rioting and looting like the blacks did? I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh and blacks are responsible for nearly all the murders in Marion County! That is what you would expect from a violent tribal uncivilized race.

Interesting when a black man admits blacks are to blame for the hellhole that is (86% black) Jackson Mississippi? Quote: "Look at recent history, like in South Africa, when apartheid was abolished,” Lambus said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “Blacks went on a crime spree.""

It goes on and on. Probably no point in posting this since people who are objective already understand the destruction and violence and cost blacks bring anytime they are abundant. It is not just USA. All over the world black-governed nations are hellholes. But objective people knew this. It is the people indoctrinated to believe that acknowledging FACTS is somehow "racist" who just can't admit it. None are so blind as those who will not see.

Blacks are inferior as a group.

Look at the way all of the blacks just go apeshit so to speak over a bunch of fucking sneakers of all things!

Then ask yourself why white people don't riot over the latest Apple gadget even though they gather in large crowds waiting for them. I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh does anyone remember when the blacks rioted like crazy after Hurricane Katrina? Isn't it JUST A LITTLE STRANGE the way white people in Colorado banded together and helped each other when they were hit with a natural disaster instead of rioting and looting like the blacks did? I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh and blacks are responsible for nearly all the murders in Marion County! That is what you would expect from a violent tribal uncivilized race.

Interesting when a black man admits blacks are to blame for the hellhole that is (86% black) Jackson Mississippi? Quote: "Look at recent history, like in South Africa, when apartheid was abolished,” Lambus said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “Blacks went on a crime spree.""

It goes on and on. Probably no point in posting this since people who are objective already understand the destruction and violence and cost blacks bring anytime they are abundant. It is not just USA. All over the world black-governed nations are hellholes. But objective people knew this. It is the people indoctrinated to believe that acknowledging FACTS is somehow "racist" who just can't admit it. None are so blind as those who will not see.

LEDs are more directional. Direction matters more.

Depends. For low pressure sodium, it has a very narrow light emission spectrum. There are notch filters available that will filter out the entire low pressure sodium spectrum leaving the rest alone. And then the sky is dark once more when looking through a telescope.

LEDs, on the other hand, completely screw this up by emitting broad spectrum. You can't filter them efficiently. Game over.

  http://palomarskies.blogspot.com/2009/05/why-astronomers-love-low-pressure.html

So sure, direction matter if all you care about is general brightness of the sky. But for people with filters trying to live with light pollution, LEDs is game over.

This is aside the health effects that light pollution has and the low-pressure sodium lights are more efficient than LEDs (and don't disturb the circadian rhythm).
      http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/153402/

One of these sets of numbers is smaller than the other. Determing which is left as an exercise for the reader.

One of these sets of numbers is missing a whole host of related costs: i.e. the lengthy appeals process that almost all prisoners subject to the death penalty attempt, staff costs, amortized costs of fixed capital like the electric chair itself.

This is why the last time that someone was killed by firing squad in the US, the execution alone cost $165,000 -- well over the mere $5 you quote. Utah estimates that it costs them $1.6 million more to execute a prisoner than to hold them for life without parole.

Not only do you drastically underestimate the cost of the death penalty, but you also drastically overestimate the cost of life without parole (LWOP). California spends an average of $47,000 per prisoner/year. Texas is even cheaper at about $17,000 per prisoner. Neither is anywhere near $200,000.

The entire US population must be really spoiled and lazy, because in the rest of the world a guy on a scooter will deliver your order in all those conditions.

Scooters? ... Scooters???

I don't know how it works over on your side of the pond, but here, most pizza delivery drivers are male. And again, I don't know how it works over there, but here, guys on scooters are mocked relentlessly. Scooters are fundamentally incompatible with the traditional American mentality. We have cycles with 8.2L V10 engines, and you expect us to ride scooters?!

I'm sure that someone that owns one of these, these, or these would just love to bolt one of those awesome looking insulated boxes to the back of their bike. And I'm sure those uber-rich pizza delivery drivers don't mind having "a car on standby to fill the big orders".

It's raining out? No pizza for you. Snowing, you also gotta come pick it up yourself. Really cold out? Really hot out? No delivery.

The entire US population must be really spoiled and lazy, because in the rest of the world a guy on a scooter will deliver your order in all those conditions.

Also, I can't imagine the additional airflow resulting from not being enclosed in a passenger compartment will do wonders to keep your pizza piping hot while it travels to your residence.

They have insulated boxes on the back. Your food will arrive steaming hot.

And they usually have a car on standby to fill the big orders.

At least it's not as bad as perl http://cubicspot.blogspot.com/2008/05/perl-is-terrible-language.html

The postal service is self-supporting, or at least it is supposed to be.

Nope, not since Nixon, Reagan and Bush reconfigured it to fail, I'm afraid. It's supposed to die, as part of the ongoing campaign to eliminate middle-class employment.
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The USPS is still turning a profit and hasn't been funded by taxpayers since 1971

What kind of nation wouldn't fund a post office anyway?

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A local newspaper owner runs ads for prostitutes in his magazine. He also has a site (backpage.com) that has been accused by a local DA of being a conduit for child prostitution. An edit was made last week talking about this.

Page in question.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan_Pulcrano&action=history

Talk page with links to articles backing up the edit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dan_Pulcrano

Reliable sources

        Change.org petition http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-providing-the-means-to-sell-girls-and-boys-for-sex
        http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/05/22/san-jose-weekly-paper-pressured-to-remove-escort-service-ads
        http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Weekly-Paper-Under-Fire-Over-Adult-Ads.html
        http://meyerweed.blogspot.com/2013/08/san-jose-inside-vs-integrity.html
        http://www.protectsanjose.com/content/sjpoa-presdient-unland-responds-metro-editor

Skeezy.

How about this open issue: The official healthcare.gov phone number spells FUCK-YO when you dial it.

Blacks are inferior as a group.

Look at the way all of the blacks just go apeshit so to speak over a bunch of fucking sneakers of all things!

Then ask yourself why white people don't riot over the latest Apple gadget even though they gather in large crowds waiting for them. I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh does anyone remember when the blacks rioted like crazy after Hurricane Katrina? Isn't it JUST A LITTLE STRANGE the way white people in Colorado banded together and helped each other when they were hit with a natural disaster instead of rioting and looting like the blacks did? I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh and blacks are responsible for nearly all the murders in Marion County! That is what you would expect from a violent tribal uncivilized race.

Interesting when a black man admits blacks are to blame for the hellhole that is (86% black) Jackson Mississippi? Quote: "Look at recent history, like in South Africa, when apartheid was abolished,” Lambus said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “Blacks went on a crime spree.""

It goes on and on. Probably no point in posting this since people who are objective already understand the destruction and violence and cost blacks bring anytime they are abundant. It is not just USA. All over the world black-governed nations are hellholes. But objective people knew this. It is the people indoctrinated to believe that acknowledging FACTS is somehow "racist" who just can't admit it. None are so blind as those who will not see.

Blacks are inferior as a group.

Look at the way all of the blacks just go apeshit so to speak over a bunch of fucking sneakers of all things!

Then ask yourself why white people don't riot over the latest Apple gadget even though they gather in large crowds waiting for them. I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh does anyone remember when the blacks rioted like crazy after Hurricane Katrina? Isn't it JUST A LITTLE STRANGE the way white people in Colorado banded together and helped each other when they were hit with a natural disaster instead of rioting and looting like the blacks did? I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh and blacks are responsible for nearly all the murders in Marion County! That is what you would expect from a violent tribal uncivilized race.

Interesting when a black man admits blacks are to blame for the hellhole that is (86% black) Jackson Mississippi? Quote: "Look at recent history, like in South Africa, when apartheid was abolished,” Lambus said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “Blacks went on a crime spree.""

It goes on and on. Probably no point in posting this since people who are objective already understand the destruction and violence and cost blacks bring anytime they are abundant. It is not just USA. All over the world black-governed nations are hellholes. But objective people knew this. It is the people indoctrinated to believe that acknowledging FACTS is somehow "racist" who just can't admit it. None are so blind as those who will not see.

They say no.

Blacks are inferior as a group.

Look at the way all of the blacks just go apeshit so to speak over a bunch of fucking sneakers of all things!

Then ask yourself why white people don't riot over the latest Apple gadget even though they gather in large crowds waiting for them. I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh does anyone remember when the blacks rioted like crazy after Hurricane Katrina? Isn't it JUST A LITTLE STRANGE the way white people in Colorado banded together and helped each other when they were hit with a natural disaster instead of rioting and looting like the blacks did? I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh and blacks are responsible for nearly all the murders in Marion County! That is what you would expect from a violent tribal uncivilized race.

Interesting when a black man admits blacks are to blame for the hellhole that is (86% black) Jackson Mississippi? Quote: "Look at recent history, like in South Africa, when apartheid was abolished,” Lambus said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “Blacks went on a crime spree.""

It goes on and on. Probably no point in posting this since people who are objective already understand the destruction and violence and cost blacks bring anytime they are abundant. It is not just USA. All over the world black-governed nations are hellholes. But objective people knew this. It is the people indoctrinated to believe that acknowledging FACTS is somehow "racist" who just can't admit it. None are so blind as those who will not see.

Blacks are inferior as a group.

Look at the way all of the blacks just go apeshit so to speak over a bunch of fucking sneakers of all things!

Then ask yourself why white people don't riot over the latest Apple gadget even though they gather in large crowds waiting for them. I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh does anyone remember when the blacks rioted like crazy after Hurricane Katrina? Isn't it JUST A LITTLE STRANGE the way white people in Colorado banded together and helped each other when they were hit with a natural disaster instead of rioting and looting like the blacks did? I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh and blacks are responsible for nearly all the murders in Marion County! That is what you would expect from a violent tribal uncivilized race.

Interesting when a black man admits blacks are to blame for the hellhole that is (86% black) Jackson Mississippi? Quote: "Look at recent history, like in South Africa, when apartheid was abolished,” Lambus said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “Blacks went on a crime spree.""

It goes on and on. Probably no point in posting this since people who are objective already understand the destruction and violence and cost blacks bring anytime they are abundant. It is not just USA. All over the world black-governed nations are hellholes. But objective people knew this. It is the people indoctrinated to believe that acknowledging FACTS is somehow "racist" who just can't admit it. None are so blind as those who will not see.

And a good horse rider with multiple horses can do a lot better than that. For example, Commanche and Mongol riders could easily do 75 to 100 miles a day by this means.

Again, you've changed the criteria to multiple horses. A peasant would be unlikely to have access to a single horse let alone have access to
multiple horses along a route. Most likely during this time though period people would rarely travel further than the closest village and only
traders would travel to the next village probably with a donkey or two. Even today most people rarely travel further than the closest town to
do business except on special occasions.

A human can keep up a 3mph walk forever as well.

Not in reality. I notice that typical thru travel times for the Appalachian trail (2100 miles) are between 150 and 210 days which is again close to 10 miles a day.

When I was in college we went on a hike to the bottom of the grand canyon for a week. None of us were in great shape, did any training, or probably near as fit as a peasant who worked all day in the field every day yet we averaged about 20-25 miles a day for a week with heavy packs on rough terrain and making camp each night.

Healthy college students - for only a week. A peasant who works all day in a field is not going to be that fit because they aren't doing that sort of exercise and they just wouldn't be that healthy either due to nutrition, disease, and poorly treated injury.

For endurance running a human is every bit as good as a single horse. The pony express used multiple horses because horses are faster over short distances but over multiple days a human is actually faster. A good runner can do alot more than 35 miles per day.

And a good horse rider with multiple horses can do a lot better than that. For example, Commanche and Mongol riders could easily do 75 to 100 miles a day by this means.

The article on humans outrunning every animal on the planet is in error since horses are faster with similar endurance. They just can't be carrying a heavy rider all the time.

Your example illustrates the insanity of the current system and the perverse incentives it creates.

Most people with diabetes should never have gotten it in the first place because it's so easy to prevent in most people: they get it because of obesity, poor diet, and lack of exercise. But they don't make the necessary lifestyle choices because they don't understand the serious consequences. Doctors have no incentive to push patients to make changes, and few are even qualified to give people advice on weight loss and diet. And people get little financial feedback either, since their premiums are not affected very much, if at all.

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2012/07/what-causes-type-2-diabetes-and-how-can.html

Then, mild cases of diabetes are often treatable with diet and other lifestyle changes, changes that have lots of other health benefits and cost nothing. But doctors have no incentive to push such no-cost solutions; it requires lots of time and supervision of patients and results in no profit for them. It's more profitable and simpler for them just to start putting people on drugs and insulin because, hey, it's covered anyway.

And if people have diabetes that requires insulin injection can be provided with insulin and (if needed) antibiotics for next to nothing. Almost everybody could pay that out of pocket, it's so cheap. If people carefully control their diabetes, there is no reason for them to get seriously ill. But, of course, if you are an obese patient who doesn't exercise and has acquired a lifetime of bad habits and lack of concern for your health, you aren't suddenly going to be able to monitor your health and control your diabetes.

And that's the point where it gets expensive: hospital care and expensive interventions due to poorly controlled diabetes.

Your example of diabetes illustrates nicely what's wrong with the current system and Obamacare-like coverage: it encourages everybody to do the wrong thing by making it cheap and easy to do the wrong thing for people's health. Instead of cheap and effective solutions, it encourages expensive and ineffective solutions. The end result is not just enormous medical costs, but also enormous human suffering.

The rate of spread of the Black Death versus the rate of spread of other plagues at different times?

There's the third pandemic of the bubonic plague which spread from Pakhoi, China in 1882 to Hong Kong in 1894, then from (probably) Hong Kong to western India in 1896.

Pakhoi, China to Hong Kong is a pretty short distance, yet it took the plague many years to travel that route.

Hong Kong to western India is about 2,000 miles at the crow flies. Assuming it took exactly two years for the plague to travel that distance, it averaged about 3 miles a day.

So, was southern China a "small world" in 1882? How about Hong Kong and the ports of British India? I could see it being very likely that there was regular traffic between Hong Kong and British India, yet the plague traveled slowly between the two points. Perhaps the plague isn't as quickly traveling as human beings, for various unknown reasons.

While not arguing with your general premise, the standard myth of Galileo vs. the Church turns out to be fundamentally incomplete. This long winded treatise does it justice.

I thought this was an interesting take on Bitcoin:

http://ianso.blogspot.com/2013/10/bitcoin-as-law-enforcementnatsec.html