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It sounds like whatever stats someone shovels your way is what you believe, ...

If it fits what you already believe. Which is normal. And why people like you don't get to the make the decisions.

Oddly enough, the lead author for this Boston University study refused to take outside funding; this study was paid for by Boston University, with no grants provided by groups with a strong bias on either side of the issue.

and who paid for this study exactly?

That is an interesting question.

According to Forbes Bindu Kalesan says the the Boston University study was "self funded".

Sorry to break it to you, but you're the one who doesn't seem to grasp the problem.
If you're talking about coal powerplants vs nukes, the correct metrics isn't brainpower, but "deaths per PWh".
And coal is many orders of magnitude deadlier than nuclear power, even with Tchernobyl and Fukushima.
Global warming isn't the only negative impact of coal powerplants : miners are dying in the thousands per year, in China alone (another example : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...), and air pollution is alarmingly high close to the powerplant, even with good filters.
A coal powerplant in Japan or Germany also has an high impact on people in Sudan, Syria or Tuvalu due to climate change.
The impact of Fukushima is pretty much limited to the Fukushima region.
Sorry for the forbes link, but this article really is relevant to the discussion : http://www.forbes.com/sites/ja...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ma...

You said "You lose the ability to adjust to civilized life as you get old." That's patently absurd and outrageously ageist.

And yet it's true:

Here's how the geography of aging works: Americans are most likely to move to the core cities in their early 20s, but this migration peters out as people enter the end of that often tumultuous decade. By their 30s, they move increasingly to the suburbs, as well as outside the major metropolitan areas (the 52 metropolitan areas with a population over a million in 2010).

The key flaw in socialism remains excessive concentration of power. The end.

you mean like capitalism?

That report linked flooding from a glacial lake with an increase of sexually transmitted infections in women. "I was fascinated by how two seemingly disparate issues could be so intimately linked through glacial ice," Rushing said. "I wanted to know more about the relationship between women and ice, so we pursued the topic from climate-change vulnerability to knowledge."

Global Warming cause

"Are they hitting a wall of unmanageable complexity?" No, my view is that Microsoft has hit a wall built of many years of technically incompetent top management.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was called "Monkey Boy". The January 16, 2013 issue of BusinessWeek magazine has a large photo of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (now replaced by Satya Nadella) with the headline calling him "Monkey Boy". See the BusinessWeek cover in this article: Steve Ballmer Is No Longer A Monkey Boy, Says Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The BusinessWeek cover says "No More" and "Mr.", but that doesn't take much away from the fact that the magazine called Ballmer "Monkey Boy" -- on its cover.

Worst CEO in the United States: Quote from an article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer: "Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today."

Another quote: "The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft when it comes to destroying shareholder value -- and jobs." (May 12, 2012)

Who would want to work for "Monkey Boy"? Microsoft is apparently not able to hire socially competent people. Apparently Satya Nadella was chosen because he was the least annoying person. However, he does not seem to me to be the kind of person who can handle the enormous conflicts inside Microsoft.

This is my guess: Someone at Microsoft said, "Google and Facebook are collecting data about customers and selling it; let's do that also." So Windows 8 was designed to try to sell "Apps", as though Windows was a particularly trashy cell phone operating system. I was shocked when I first saw the Windows 8.1 GUI. Utterly incompetent. Now Windows 10 is apparently trying to imitate Google Android, which has become more and more invasive.

People who have work to do have already learned the GUIs they need. Even if the design is imperfect, that's what they know. They don't want wild changes.

It's scary. In the last few months, Windows 10 has been shown again and again to be sloppily designed and implemented, as well as being spyware.

Judging from comments on Slashdot, people try to find some technical reason for Microsoft's policies. They apparently have difficulty imagining that Microsoft managers are as incompetent as they are.

Some links:

Windows 8: NSA Backdoor Exploit in Windows 8 Uncovered (Aug. 22, 2013)

Windows: NSA "backdoor" mandates lead to a computer-security FREAK show Quote: "Microsoft Windows OS vulnerable to hackers, thanks to National Security Agency requirements." (March 6, 2015)

Windows: NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999 (June 7, 2013)

Windows 10, Microsoft hiding what it is doing: Microsoft has no plans to tell us what's in Windows patches. Quote: "Each update is a black box, and it's going to stay that way." (Aug 21, 2015)

Windows 10, Microsoft takes even more control: Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do -- here's how to opt out (July 31, 2015) But, of course, Microsoft can change the spyware to a

Police Drone Can Be Commandeered From 2 Kilometres Away, Hacker Claims
Hacker Says He Can Hijack a $35K Police Drone a Mile Away

Ahhhh. Mr. Money Mustache. The guy who preaches the frugal lifestyle, but is raking in $400 K/year (link not friendly if you have any ad blocking, sorry) from advertising and commissions for steering readers to high-interest credit cards. "Do as I say."

No thanks.

I think what you may be talking about is the Milton Friedman principle: a company’s primary purpose, and the purpose to which the CEO should solely focus, is to maximize shareholder value. A couple of generations have now grown up never knowing anything else. But the idea only dates back to the 1970's, but yet would have profound effects on the country, including the binding of executive pay to stock performance, and would ultimately contribute to the slash and burn antics of the buy 'em, split 'em, and sell 'em off for a quick-buck mayhem of the 1980's.

Have no idea whether this goo can ever be stuffed back into the tube. But the cult of feverishly favoring shareholders over employees and customers, where shareholders care only about quarterly portfolio values (if they're paying attention at all), tends to reward short-term cost-cutting, and does not inspire employee or customer loyalty. The best CEO's shield shareholder matters from employees, so that employees can concentrate on a future with the company rather than the next wave of layoffs.

For the exact same reason the TPP has generous provisions to "protect" textile and apparel in the US.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/da...

I doubt you will see Mark O'Neill go all teary-eyed before congress that tariffs on imported apparel should be removed because it costs other people too much.

Not to mention the H1-B program was expressly for an inability to find local talent, not that the talent costs more than you think it should.

Welcome to the idea that labor negotiations aren't suppose to be completely one-sided.

Negligable cost, and a small improvement in reputation.

I'm a cynic - especially in regards to Facebook.

I'm thinking of the ways they can monetize the research. Remember, their business model is to collect as much information about you as possible so they can sell directed advertising for a premium. They will mine the data, apply algorithms and Big Data techniques to create a very accurate profile of you.
It can backfire as it did to Target a few years ago: "How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did".

And it looks like they got off real cheap too.

But just remember, to Facebook, google, Yahoo! and every other "tech" company out there, we are nothing but pieces of meat to advertise shit to and sell shit to.

You said, 'You obviously have no idea what the word "spyware" means.'

You obviously haven't been reading the many, many, many stories. Here are links to just 7 of the stories about insecurity and links to 2 stories about bad management:

Windows 8: NSA Backdoor Exploit in Windows 8 Uncovered (Aug. 22, 2013)

Windows: NSA "backdoor" mandates lead to a computer-security FREAK show Quote: "Microsoft Windows OS vulnerable to hackers, thanks to National Security Agency requirements." (March 6, 2015)

Windows: NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999 (June 7, 2013)

Windows 10, Microsoft hiding what it is doing: Microsoft has no plans to tell us what's in Windows patches. Each update is a black box, and it's going to stay that way. (Aug 21, 2015)

Windows 10, Microsoft takes even more control: Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do -- here's how to opt out (July 31, 2015) But, of course, Microsoft can change the spyware to avoid blocking.

Microsoft can't be trusted: How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again? (June 17, 2013)

Microsoft releases EXTREMELY buggy software: Microsoft Kills Many Critical Flaws, Some 0-Days, Un-Trusts One Wildcard Cert (December 9, 2015) It is likely that there are many bugs Microsoft hasn't yet found.

Badly managed companies don't produce good products:

Microsoft has extremely bad management: The January 16, 2013 issue of BusinessWeek magazine has a large photo of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (now replaced) with the headline calling him "Monkey Boy". See the BusinessWeek cover in this article: Steve Ballmer Is No Longer A Monkey Boy, Says Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The BusinessWeek cover says "No More" and "Mr.", but that doesn't take much away from the fact that the magazine called Ballmer Monkey Boy -- on its cover.

Worst CEO in the United States: Quote from an article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer: "Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today."

Another quote: "The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft when it comes to destroying shareholder value -- and jobs." (May 12, 2012)

The EPA of corrupt settlements in legal cases. If crimes were committed, why should VW (or anyone) get away with them by funding leftist feel-good projects?

Here's hoping that the next administration starts "settling" these cases for an apology and a big donation to the NRA. Then maybe people will start paying attention to how corrupt this process is.

my words were stolen to promote a poorly written substitute to the story that i quoted and that i intended to share. if the plagiarist wanted to promote a different story, then that person should never have used MY NAME nor MY WORDS to do so. this bait-and-switch plagiarism should not be allowed to stand on this, or any, reputable site.

First off, calm down. Bait and switch - I do not think it means what I think you think it means. And given that the folks who make those decisions have been catching a load of bad feedback from references to Forbes.com, they did think your story was interesting enough to search out an alternative link.

That's all. I do suspect that you will never again have to worry about them "plagiarizing" any submission of yours in the future.

FYI: here's the link to the story that i shared: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gr...

i am sure you'll agree that the piece i shared is far superior to the bait-and-switched australian geographic story.

I'll never know, because I won't ever see that article, because I won't disable my adblocker. By the way, this isn't just petulance upon the part of many Slashdotters http://www.tripwire.com/state-...

https://adland.tv/adnews/forbe...

http://www.networkworld.com/ar...

Angler Exploit Kit and CryptoWall ransomware https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...

Befause Forbes is such a noted provider of these malware exploits, and demand you enable the mechanism to allow them installed on your computer in order to see their content - Naaahhh ain't happening.

Regardless - you cured your own problem with your outrage.

but the point is that I DID NOT POST THAT LINK. my words were stolen to promote a poorly written substitute to the story that i quoted and that i intended to share. if the plagiarist wanted to promote a different story, then that person should never have used MY NAME nor MY WORDS to do so. this bait-and-switch plagiarism should not be allowed to stand on this, or any, reputable site. FYI: here's the link to the story that i shared: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gr... i am sure you'll agree that the piece i shared is far superior to the bait-and-switched australian geographic story.

i did not submit that link. my headline and my words were stolen and the original link to the story i submitted -- http://www.forbes.com/sites/gr... -- was replaced with the australian geographic link. honestly, the australian geographic story pales compared to the story that i shared.

This doesn't apply to retail stores, but FYI banks are making exceptions for zip codes at gas stations because the fraud levels are so high.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ad...
Sorry for the Forbes link. :-(

People will work; it's in our natures.

I'm not sure I agree with your premise. I know that some people will always work. Myself and my mom for example. My two sisters probably wouldn't.

Are your sisters perhaps stay-at-home mothers? Because parents who stay at home to rear children have some pretty difficult jobs [1]:

Think you can’t put a price on motherhood? According to a new survey by Salary.com, a division of human resources consultant Kenexa, moms should be charging $115,000 per year for their work.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/je...

PHAH.
Like I'm going to blindly click some bogus link from some place calling themselves "phoronix".
Give us a link to the story from some source of reputable technical reporting, like Forbes.

Only U.S. companies were impacted like that, not companies in other countries, including multi-nationals with different companies in different countries.

From an anti-embargo article in Forbes: "Moreover, since Europeans, Japanese, and Canadians can travel and conduct business in Cuba unimpeded, the sanctions are rather toothless. The State Department has argued that the cost of conducting business in Cuba is only negligibly higher because of the embargo. For American multinational corporations wishing to undertake commerce in Cuba, foreign branches find it easy to conduct exchanges."

From a Clinton Administration State department report: "Rationing has been a staple of Cuban life since the early 1960's. During the early 1990's, Cuba's food consumption deteriorated sharply, when massive amounts of Soviet aid were withdrawn. On its own, without Soviet largesse and abundant food imports, Cuban agriculture was paralyzed by a scarcity of inputs and poor production incentives resulting from collectivism and the lack of appropriate price signals. In pre-Castro Cuba, by contrast, food supplies were abundant." one of many quotes showing that pre-revolution Cuba was much more prosperous and that it's collectivism that's killed Cuba. The only thing that propped Cuba up for a while was the much larger Soviet Union paying them off to be a thorn in the side of the U.S.

Here you go: http://www.forbes.com/sites/er...

My guesses:

1) Basically, Windows is dead. Countries will have to move away from using Microsoft products, since Microsoft has shown it cannot be trusted in ANY way. For example: Windows 10 phones home (A LOT) even with all reporting and telemetry disabled.

2) Microsoft wants to make money in the Facebook and Google way. Microsoft plans to mine all user data on all computers connected to the internet and sell the information.

3) The reason there will be no more versions of Windows is that Microsoft will do what Adobe Systems has done: Force users to move to a subscription model.

4) Windows users will isolate Windows from the internet, and use Linux on a different network with a cheap 2nd computer to connect to the internet. (But how to allow information interchange between the 2 networks?)

5) In response to users isolating Windows from the internet, Microsoft will make Windows stop working after a few days of no internet connection. Adobe Systems does that, in my experience, with CS6. (CS6 is the last version before the forced move to a subscription model.)

6) Satya Nadella, the new Microsoft CEO, was chosen because he was the least annoying candidate. He is apparently not the real controlling manager, but only someone to advertise.

7) Microsoft has a contract with secret U.S. government agencies to make Windows into what users consider to be malware.

8) Because Microsoft often releases buggy software, possibly because it is paid to do so by secret U.S. government agencies, Windows 10, with its many ways to connect to the internet, is now FAR less secure than before.

Not a guess, because verified by others: Microsoft is shockingly badly managed. The cover of the January 16, 2013 issue of BusinessWeek magazine has a large photo of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer with the headline calling him "Monkey Boy". See the BusinessWeek cover in this article: Steve Ballmer Is No Longer A Monkey Boy, Says Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The BusinessWeek cover says "No More" and "Mr.", but that doesn't take much away from the fact that the magazine called Ballmer Monkey Boy -- on its cover.

Slashdot commenters called Ballmer "Monkey Boy" for years before BusinessWeek called him that on the cover of its magazine.

Worst CEO in the United States: Quote from an article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer: "Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today." Another quote: "The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft when it comes to destroying shareholder value -- and jobs." (May 12, 2012)

Polar Ice Caps: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ja...

Hurricane Lull: http://www.livescience.com/507...

Greening of Africa: http://news.nationalgeographic...

These are "facts", and the "speculation" from the "Global Warming" nuts is also clearly documented. Here are a few good articles on exaggerated claims that never panned out:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...

http://www.thenewamerican.com/...

http://dailycaller.com/2014/03...

Please go ahead and make excuses as to why nearly 97% of all Global Warming Projections are wrong : http://www.westernjournalism.c...

Or perhaps you'll simply parrot someone else who doesn't actually know anything, or continue to believe "consensus = Science"

Brain cells and associated nerve connections are necessary to operate muscles. If you exercise more, or perhaps even hone a skill associated with exercise (playing basketball or tennis perhaps), then you would also expect the brain to grow connections associated with these activities.

So yes, the brain grows. Does it make a person smarter? Not necessarily, it makes a person more able to move that muscle with finer control.

Also, this seems to be a repeat of the same study in the past, though its first occurrence on /.?:

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/10/study-people-who-exercise-have-larger-brains-later-in-life/264017/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2013/10/13/how-exercise-makes-your-brain-grow/#18d2c88248c1

You're someone who never cashed in options, are you? When you have the options - they have potential value, but no real value until exercised. Then you get to pay income tax on the realized gains of those options (because they are realized in less than 1 year time - you typically exercise and sell on the same day, or at least within a week).

Now, you CAN take out loans against the value of your options, if the options are for publicly traded stocks. But then you're essentially mortgaging your future for payments today, and hope that the value of the stock continues to increase. If it doesn't - you get into really bad financial situations really quick. And even if that's not the case, the loan may be considered as income by the IRS and subject to full income tax.

Worst CEO in the United States: Quote from an article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer: "Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today." Another quote: "The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft when it comes to destroying shareholder value -- and jobs." (May 12, 2012)

Good try, but I'm still not clicking on the link, you Forbes shill. :-P

Or even better - hire your friend as COO, fire him after less than a year, but still make him earn $109M. http://www.forbes.com/sites/je...

"That is a matter of math, or not? Either you fix the wrong name plate, or you fix the place where you place them. I mean: if a wind turbine is rated to yield 8MW power at a wind speed of 30feet/sec but you put it on a place where that speed is rarely reached or exceeded, it can't be the wind mills fault."

Apparently, it happens often enough. One can put the blame on everyone else, the fact remains that the actual energy most windmills deliver are de facto a lot less than promised. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

note that the situation won't improve, since the first windmill-parks are obviously going to be build in the best wind-covered places. Additional ones will get *less* good spots, since the best ones are already taken. So, it's not that they can't technically possibly get to their vaunted maximum, it's that they just don't, in practise. This relates to the stochastic nature of wind.

Changing the 'nameplate' to a more realistic output would indeed solve that part...well: why, then, do green sites/blogs/groups never do that? Note that this would also mean that, when they compare 100 windmills of 8MW to a nuclear plant of 800 MW, they're actually NOT using an adequate comparison, since they would need, in fact, *300* windmills for that, thus, with triple the price - and still being stochastic in nature. It's math, yes. So why does the pro-camp not apply it correctly?

"The costs are calculated quite different than you think. A guy pacing a wind farm somewhere surely knows how much energy he can expect over the year and if an investment makes sense."

Wrong. You may not be aware of this, but wind-energy is *heavily* subsidies by the state, in most countries. This, in turn, means the actually efficiency DOES NOT (or at least, far less) matter, since they don't earn directly from the cost/benefit that it delivers, but by being subsidized. As long as you can make profit with the subsidies, it doesn't really matter *how* efficient it is. The taxpayers pays for it anyway. And that's also the reason why, in countries that stop with all those huge subsidies, a lot of those wind-mill companies close doors and can't survive. In short, the whole wind-energy industrial complex is a heavily subsidised one, which only survives thanks to those subsidies (aka, money that was first derived FROM the economy, thus).

"That is wrong. If that was the case you would need for every classical plant a classical back up plant, too."

?

What ARE you talking about? A gas-powered plant does not need a backup, because it's not stochastic in nature. It has a constant, well-defined amount of energy (gas) that it can use. It can do load-balancing. Thus, it can level out the peaks and valleys of demand and supply (of energy) on short notice.

The fact you say is wrong, simply indicates you are totally unaware of the facts. They do. It's not surprising you don't know, because many like you just don't research things, but repeat what others (greens) say (and of course, they'll always ommit things that speak unfavourable of it). Here, let me give you a link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/je...

Please read up before claiming something is wrong out of hand.

"Obviously, because of the continent wide grids, wind plants can back up each other just as classical plants back up each other."

No, they can't. Because every windfarm is stochastic in nature, not just your own. This means you're basically playing statistical roulette, and *hope* it will *ALWAYS* be enough. And: WHAT 'continent wide grid'? Do you have any idea what trillions that would cost?

"I stop here with debunking your bullshit."

No, please continue, since we were just coming to the good part. As you can see - I've provided links this time - it's YOU who are

The cover of the January 16, 2013 issue of BusinessWeek magazine has a large photo of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (now replaced by Satya Nadella) with the headline calling him "Monkey Boy". See the BusinessWeek cover in this article: Steve Ballmer Is No Longer A Monkey Boy, Says Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The BusinessWeek cover says "No More" and "Mr.", but that doesn't take much away from the fact that the magazine called Ballmer Monkey Boy -- on its cover.

Worst CEO in the United States: Quote from an article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer: "Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today." Another quote: "The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft when it comes to destroying shareholder value -- and jobs." (May 12, 2012)

So his stake in Xerox is 9.12%: "Carl Icahn (Trades, Portfolio) increased his shareholding of Xerox XRX +0.00% (NYSE:XRX) in January, a filing revealed Friday as the company announced increased partnership with him and major changes in line with his vision for the company.

Icahn’s funds purchased an additional 5,740,871 during the period from Jan. 4 to Jan. 8, at an average price of $10.05 per share. According to the filing, the purchases brought his total stake in the company to 92,377,043 shares, or 9.12% of its shares outstanding, and a boost of 12.2% from his last disclosure in December.

Icahn’s three selected board members will join a nine-member board of directors for the BPO company. The current board will begin searching for an external candidate for CEO of the BPO company and also allow Icahn to choose a representative to be involved in the search process, Xerox said.
[...]
“Happy to announce we reached an agreement with $XRX re: separation into two independent public companies,” Icahn said on Twitter TWTR +0.00% Friday. “We believe the separation will greatly enhance value for $XRX shareholders. I applaud and respect Ursula Burns for doing what she believes shareholders want – as @Donahoe_John did with $Ebay EBAY +0.00% and $PYPL. I hope and believe the results will be just as good for XRX shareholders.”

Icahn’s tweets referred to the division of Paypal (NASDAQ:PYPL) from eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) that he prompted last year and which became complete in July. Since they began trading separately on July 20, eBay’s shares have fallen 18.3% and Paypal Holdings shares have declined 6.7%."

-- Forbes link (sorry folks, but that's where the info was)

Icahn himself says he "reached an agreement" with Xerox. The guy is a famous corporate raider with a significant stake in the company. Whoever said Icahn had nothing to do with it is delusional or lying.

Do you know what the specs for a typical trash truck(3mpg) are and the battery you would need to run such a platform? How would you charge 15 or 20 of these monsters at night? (if you are lucky enough for battery to last during the day) The up front costs would be astronomical.

No need to imagine hypotheticals, you could just ask the guys who are doing it.

They seem pretty bullish on the idea and they've put their money where their mouths are, so to speak.

Apple is also the most valuable brand in the world:
http://www.forbes.com/powerful...

They should be leading in most anything they do. And they do. At least they design in the US (How many engineers does it take to patent a rounded corner on a phone? A: Ask Apple.).

If I had billions to gain, id try and disrupt an industry

There's actually truth to this. The organic industry is VERY profitable, and along with that, spend a LOT of money for political and advertising purposes. So many have this image of it being a collection of small geographically separate "locally grown" clubs, but that's just not the case. The fact is, organic food carries HIGH profit margins, and they don't like having conventional or GMO foods cutting into their sales, which is why they've launched a FUD campaign of their own:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jo...

If you don't want the Forbes link (I don't blame you, but use anti-adblock killer if you want to anyways) then here's another article, but not as detailed:

https://www.geneticliteracypro...

You clearly don't understand the concept of ruling.

You clearly don't understand the concept of RTFA. You should try that before you look any dumber. The whole lot of you.

Key segments from TFA:

European Commission investigation seen concluding by March

If the Commission decides to enforce a tougher accounting standard, Apple may owe taxes

There has been no ruling yet. Period. And if that ruling comes, (and if that ruling actually comes out as expected - it still may not) it means the Irish tax laws will have to be changed retroactively. To be fair, that information can only be found in better articles. Like this (older) one or this

Yeah, a form of patent-pending poison designed to simulate some of cannabis' good properties while providing all the usual side-effects and benefits of a drug. Benefits are defined as huge profits to the drug company who produced it.
 
  People have been making this shit for years. Surprising it hasn't received the bad press it deserves. If Bial had done the trials by coercing children in a shitty south American country a la GlaxoSmithKline the fines might have been only $17k per death.
 
It's like the idiots eating Aquabounty salmon, Aspartame and GMO corn instead of natural food that's been tested for safety in the real world for millions of years. You can't improve on marijuana.

that's what the US is doing

Not really.

Although there are a lot of total immigrants, the US also has a large population, so it is way down on the list of icountries in terms of the number of immigrants divided by population

• Graph here: http://censusstats.blogspot.co...
• article here http://www.forbes.com/sites/mo...

I like the "asteroid versus asteroid" concept: to move one asteroid out of the way, just hit it with another (smaller) one.

Furthermore, affordably subsidized individual health care plans are available to all Americans via a high-tech government-run web site.

Yes, those plans are so affordable their costs are skyrocketing by double digits in many cases.

So while I have to be leeched off by the smokers, drug users, alcoholics and obese, who never have to change their ways because someone else gets to pick up the tab, the costs keep rising and the insurance companies keep getting richer.

Which is not unexpected. When you have a captive audience you can charge almost what you want because people are forced to hand over their money to a private company. Quite an odd situation to be in considering all the anti-government/big government/thieving business rantings on this site. One wouldn't expect people to be so happy to give corporate CEOs that much more money.

It was a stupid tweet. Trump is on the record making it clear where his priorities are.

The local boy laughed, told the presidential candidate "yeah," and said: "I want to know your opinions on NASA."

Trump wanted to make sure he correctly heard the question, turning to those around him to clarify if the boy was asking about the national space program or the North American Free Trade Agreement. A woman near the boy shouted: "Space!"

"You know, in the old days, it was great," Trump told the boy, along with an audience of more than 600. "Right now, we have bigger problems — you understand that? We've got to fix our potholes. You know, we don't exactly have a lot of money."

One can agree with his sentiment or not (which he's made before), but he's certainly not going to be doing anything "inspirational" with NASA.

Nothing prevents me as a law-abiding citizen from owning guns and building up a small arsenal to slaughter people in the name of Santa Claus.

Nothing yet.

All the intelligence agencies won't have the slightest clue if I keep to myself and don't broadcast my intentions to the world at large.

You probably haven't read this yet. This is why the NSA collects metadata on every person on earth, including US citizens. Between the NSA and your tax form submissions, credit card purchases, and websearches, eventually computers will catalogue you, threat assess you, and put you on a list; assuming they haven't accomplished that already.

Microsoft has a long history of extremely incompetent management. For example, the cover of the January 16, 2013 issue of BusinessWeek magazine has a large photo of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (now replaced by Satya Nadella) with the headline calling him "Monkey Boy". See the BusinessWeek cover in this article: Steve Ballmer Is No Longer A Monkey Boy, Says Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The BusinessWeek cover says "No More" and "Mr.", but that doesn't take much away from the fact that the magazine called Ballmer Monkey Boy -- on its cover.

Worst CEO in the United States: Quote from an article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer: "Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today." Another quote: "The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft when it comes to destroying shareholder value -- and jobs." (May 12, 2012)

The sharp rise in inequality is driven by the complete disconnect between productivity growth and real wages, which used to track each other very closely. This disconnect appeared abruptly in 1971. So Reagan and China are not the origin of this problem whatever role that might have in perpetuating it.

Then we have the hottest decade in the 20th century - the 1930s.

No, the 1930s were not the warmest in the last century and not by a long shot. The information you based your claim on is profoundly flawed as it ignore ocean temperature changes. Given that the ocean covers the overwhelming majority of the earth's surface, I have no idea how any credible researcher could make that horrific a mistake.

The above concerns break the scientific method, therefore it's almost certain it's not CO2 causing it.

Feel free to think about that assertion in light ot the new evidence.

Algore's

Damn, did you really just do that? Seriously? And you did this after verbally lambasting me for stopping to lump you in with the people who call Al Gore, Algore?

Liars, cheats and swindlers often try to baffle people with bullshit.

Indeed.

Where's the theory (CO2 is causing GW), where's the experiment (yea, where is the experiment), can we reproduce this result (nope, sure can't. Not even in computer models.

I found dozens of similar reports, some from universities, others from Youtube and the like. You know what I didn't find, a single credible study that even tried to claim CO2 doesn't trap heat. As far as those in the scientific community are concerned, this isn't even up for debate, no more than the earth being flat or that angry humors cause upset stomachs.

It isn't that we have a lot more to learn, we certainly do. And you are most welcome to be skeptical, but only if you can actually present more than some guy's blog who ended up being shown he was completely inept.

Here's an example of just the kind of thing that should have no place in this argument. '97% Of Climate Scientists Agree' Is 100% Wrong - written by Alex Epstein

And who is Alex Epstein? Why he's "An energy philosopher, debater, and communications consultant, the Founder and President of the Center for Industrial Progress and head of the I Love Fossil Fuels Campaign." He is also the author of, "The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.

In short, he's an asshole with an opinion, not a scientist but he is a shill plugging his own book. Sadly, you are right. There are any number of people who are making money on this issue but most of them are on your side.

I'm sorry. There is no controversy. The world is not flat.

Not so true, in fact some generate false positives because of various techniques used to infer a risky file.

Which part of what I said do you consider not true? That Antivirus fails a lot of times? Here's a citation for you, with a quote:

no single AV vendor can detect most malware most of the time.

We need a government that supports the people (democracy), rather than a government that supports the rich and powerful (dictatorship of the rich).

Microsoft's Software is Malware. "Malware means software designed to function in ways that mistreat or harm the user."

Microsoft has a long history of extremely incompetent management. For example, the cover of the January 16, 2013 issue of BusinessWeek magazine has a large photo of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (now replaced by Satya Nadella) with the headline calling him "Monkey Boy". See the BusinessWeek cover in this article: Steve Ballmer Is No Longer A Monkey Boy, Says Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The BusinessWeek cover says "No More" and "Mr.", but that doesn't take much away from the fact that the magazine called Ballmer Monkey Boy -- on its cover.

Worst CEO in the United States: Quote from an article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer: "Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today." Another quote: "The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft when it comes to destroying shareholder value -- and jobs." (May 12, 2012)

The IRS steals money from taxpayers all the time through vague rules, questionable audits and outright confiscation.

Source, courtesy of the angry AC below: Why It's Scary When 0.15% Mobile Gamers Bring In 50% Of The Revenue [sic].

The text at that non-forbes link is incomplete. This different forbes link works for me, after allowing javascript from forbes and forbesimg:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/01/02/ask-ethan-is-interstellar-travel-possible/

But the article is underwhelming.