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Let me rephrase the question: How can someone starting out in the business determine what is original?

You can never be sure, especially if you're a newcomer to the field, that someone hasn't plowed that field before. How many times have you heard someone who isn't in tech come up to you and say "I've got this great idea ..." and they haven't even bothered to do the most cursory search, which would have revealed that it's not original at all?

Obviously you can't do this.

And then there's the whole question of timing. Sometimes, an idea's time has come, and multiple people will express it at the same time, then complain that someone else "stole their idea."

In other words, we're in an imperfect world, and you pays your money (or in this case, sweat equity) and you takes your chances. And the more experience you have, (hopefully) the less likely you'll end up pursuing an unoriginal idea.

Now, onto Harrison ... (rant time :-)

George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" was as blatant a ripoff as I have ever heard. I recognized it as a ripoff of "He's So Fine" by The Chiffons the first time I heard it (with 5 sisters, you can be sure that the radio was tuned to top 40 a lot). Considering that the Chiffons hit came out in '63 and got LOTS of air time over the next few years because it was such a hit, and that Harrison started writing My Sweet Lord in 69. He even admitted to the obvious similarities

Harrison admits to having thought "Why didn't I realise?" when others started pointing out the similarity between the two songs

On the question of subconscious plagiarism>

In a 1980 interview with Playboy magazine, John Lennon expressed his doubts about the notion of "subconscious" plagiarism: "He must have known, you know. He's smarter than that ... He could have changed a couple of bars in that song and nobody could ever have touched him, but he just let it go and paid the price. Maybe he thought God would just sort of let him off."

There is no question that Harrison was guilty of plagiarism - just "was it intentional or subconscious."

And the song sucks. The Chffons was a bouncy happy tune, Harrison's more like something you'd play at a funeral. But that's just my opinion, and obviously I'm in the minority :-)

Not sure that is even needed

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03...

Funny how Xerox didn't see it that way.

http://politicalsciencereplica... [wordpress.com]
http://www.nature.com/news/201... [nature.com]
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04... [nytimes.com]

One example?

wat

Egalitarianism

Wage gap myth:

http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf

Majors by Gender: Is It Bias or the Major that Determines Future Pay?

There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap

The Gender Pay Gap is a Complete Myth

Gender pay gap is not what activists claim

Equal pay statistics are bogus because they don’t compare like with like

Fair Pay Isn’t Always Equal Pay

Wage Gap Myth Exposed -- By Feminists

5 Feminist Myths That Will Not Die

The Wage Gap Myth

Don’t Blame Discrimination for Gender Wage Gap

The pay inequality myth: Women are more equal than you think

Women Now a Majority in American Workplaces

Labor force participation rate for men has never been lower.

Share of Men in Labor Force at All-Time Low

Women In Tech Make More Money And Land Better Jobs Than Men

Female U.S. corporate directors out-earn men: study

Female CEOs outearned men in 2009.

Women between ages 21 and 30 working full-time made 117% of men’s wages.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, single women between 22 and 30 years old earn an average of $27,000 a year. That’s 8% more than comparable men.

Workplace Salaries: At Last, Women on Top

Young Women’s Pay Exceeds Male Peers

The 15 Jobs Where Women Earn More Than Men

Women aged between 22 and 29 earn over £10 per hour on average, compared to men their same age who earn just under this amount.

Young women now earn more than men in UK

Egalitarianism

Wage gap myth:

http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf

Majors by Gender: Is It Bias or the Major that Determines Future Pay?

There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap

The Gender Pay Gap is a Complete Myth

Gender pay gap is not what activists claim

Equal pay statistics are bogus because they don’t compare like with like

Fair Pay Isn’t Always Equal Pay

Wage Gap Myth Exposed -- By Feminists

5 Feminist Myths That Will Not Die

The Wage Gap Myth

Don’t Blame Discrimination for Gender Wage Gap

The pay inequality myth: Women are more equal than you think

Women Now a Majority in American Workplaces

Labor force participation rate for men has never been lower.

Share of Men in Labor Force at All-Time Low

Women In Tech Make More Money And Land Better Jobs Than Men

Female U.S. corporate directors out-earn men: study

Female CEOs outearned men in 2009.

Women between ages 21 and 30 working full-time made 117% of men’s wages.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, single women between 22 and 30 years old earn an average of $27,000 a year. That’s 8% more than comparable men.

Workplace Salaries: At Last, Women on Top

Young Women’s Pay Exceeds Male Peers

The 15 Jobs Where Women Earn More Than Men

Women aged between 22 and 29 earn over £10 per hour on average, compared to men their same age who earn just under this amount.

Young women now earn more than men in UK

Egalitarianism

Wage gap myth:

http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf

Majors by Gender: Is It Bias or the Major that Determines Future Pay?

There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap

The Gender Pay Gap is a Complete Myth

Gender pay gap is not what activists claim

Equal pay statistics are bogus because they don’t compare like with like

Fair Pay Isn’t Always Equal Pay

Wage Gap Myth Exposed -- By Feminists

5 Feminist Myths That Will Not Die

The Wage Gap Myth

Don’t Blame Discrimination for Gender Wage Gap

The pay inequality myth: Women are more equal than you think

Women Now a Majority in American Workplaces

Labor force participation rate for men has never been lower.

Share of Men in Labor Force at All-Time Low

Women In Tech Make More Money And Land Better Jobs Than Men

Female U.S. corporate directors out-earn men: study

Female CEOs outearned men in 2009.

Women between ages 21 and 30 working full-time made 117% of men’s wages.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, single women between 22 and 30 years old earn an average of $27,000 a year. That’s 8% more than comparable men.

Workplace Salaries: At Last, Women on Top

Young Women’s Pay Exceeds Male Peers

The 15 Jobs Where Women Earn More Than Men

Women aged between 22 and 29 earn over £10 per hour on average, compared to men their same age who earn just under this amount.

Young women now earn more than men in UK

Egalitarianism

Wage gap myth:

http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf

Majors by Gender: Is It Bias or the Major that Determines Future Pay?

There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap

The Gender Pay Gap is a Complete Myth

Gender pay gap is not what activists claim

Equal pay statistics are bogus because they don’t compare like with like

Fair Pay Isn’t Always Equal Pay

Wage Gap Myth Exposed -- By Feminists

5 Feminist Myths That Will Not Die

The Wage Gap Myth

Don’t Blame Discrimination for Gender Wage Gap

The pay inequality myth: Women are more equal than you think

Women Now a Majority in American Workplaces

Labor force participation rate for men has never been lower.

Share of Men in Labor Force at All-Time Low

Women In Tech Make More Money And Land Better Jobs Than Men

Female U.S. corporate directors out-earn men: study

Female CEOs outearned men in 2009.

Women between ages 21 and 30 working full-time made 117% of men’s wages.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, single women between 22 and 30 years old earn an average of $27,000 a year. That’s 8% more than comparable men.

Workplace Salaries: At Last, Women on Top

Young Women’s Pay Exceeds Male Peers

The 15 Jobs Where Women Earn More Than Men

Women aged between 22 and 29 earn over £10 per hour on average, compared to men their same age who earn just under this amount.

Young women now earn more than men in UK

Banning firearms will not finish the problem, but will very likely decrease it.

In a Mailbox: A Shared Gun, Just for the Asking

If you search for "community gun" you can find some more articles, from different cities, all saying the same thing.

http://politicalsciencereplica...
http://www.nature.com/news/201...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04...

At Homestead, Pinkertons were trying to escort replacement workers into a steel mill. The strikers opened fire first, murdered a few Pinkertons, tried to burn alive Pinkertons who were attempting to surrender, and then after accepting the Pinkertons' surrender, proceeded to torture them.

From The New York Times, July 7, 1892, John T. McCurry quoted:

I was down at the foot of Beaver Avenue, Allegheny, yesterday, when Captain Rogers employed me to go up the river on his boat â" the Little Bill.

Our boat had in tow one barge of Pinkerton men and the Tide had the other. While going up, the Tide was disabled, and we took our barge up in front of Homestead, and then went back for the Tide's.

We made a landing at the Homestead mills about five o'clock this morning. The shore was crowded with the locked out men and their sympathizers.

The armed pinkerton men commenced to climb up the banks. Then the workmen opened fire on the detectives.

The men shot first, and not until three of the pinkerton men had fallen did they respond to the fire.

I am willing to take an oath that the workmen fired first, and that the Pinkerton men did not shoot until some of their number had been wounded.

The workmen were so strong in numbers that it was useless for the three fifty or four hundred Pinkertons men to oppose them further, so they retreated to the barges, carrying their dead and wounded.

One Pinkerton man was shot through the head and instantly killed, and five were wounded.

We backed out into the river, anchored the barges, and then took the dead and wounded men up to Port Perry, whence they were sent on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to Pittsburg. We then went down to Homestead again.

We were going along peaceably and expecting no trouble. When we reached the mills the strikers opened fire on the Little Bill from both sides. It was then I was hit.

The bullets broke the glass and splintered the woodwork. Captain Alexander McMichaels was at the wheel. The bullets crashed through the glass pilothouse, and to save his life, he had to rush below. Captain Rogers was on board, and he displayed great bravery.

When the firing commenced, we all laid down on the floor to escape the bullets, but I was not quick enough, and was wounded. There was a cessation in the firing, and the pilot secured control of the boat before it ran into the bank, which it came near doing.

There was no one on board at the time we were fired upon, but the crew, Captain Rogers, and one Pinkerton man, J.H. Robinson of Chicago.

When we approached Homestead from Port Perry we could see the attempts to set fire to the barges.

The strikers had a carload of what appeared to be oil, and were pouring it on the river and igniting it. The barges at this time were out in the middle of the river.

Yep, this would be right out of their play book, where step 1 would be to discredit "security applications" and create distrust of encryption - to change the public opinion of it.

The director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, said on Thursday that the “post-Snowden pendulum” that has driven Apple and Google to offer fully encrypted cellphones had “gone too far.” He hinted that as a result, the administration might seek regulations and laws forcing companies to create a way for the government to unlock the photos, emails and contacts stored on the phones.


Because if you create a back door for the .gov, only the .gov will be able to use it and will never abuse it. pfffft. too bad we don't have some type of golden key instead of a back door...

Perhaps war of 2012... ref: this

This is what they flat out admit:

In short, the officials say, while the N.S.A. cannot spy on Airbus and give the results to Boeing, it is free to spy on European or Asian trade negotiators and use the results to help American trade officials — and, by extension, the American industries and workers they are trying to bolster.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05... ...and that's what they admit...

China admits nothing and we have no proof that the hackers have anything to do with the Chinese government.

Things on your person can be searched based upon probable cause without the need for a warrant.

I guess you're not aware of this year's Supreme Court decision, Riley vs. California, in which they determined that police require a warrant to search your phone. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06...

Well, that's it then, the shamans of capitalism have spoken and they say the invisible hand spirits are mighty upset by these theories and we should never speak of them again! They've never led us astray before, have they?

From the NYT today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10...

Federal health officials effectively acknowledged the problems with their procedures for protecting health care workers by abruptly changing them. At 8 p.m. Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued stricter guidelines for American hospitals with Ebola patients.

They are now closer to the procedures of Doctors Without Borders, which has decades of experience in fighting Ebola in Africa. In issuing the new guidelines, the C.D.C. acknowledged that its experts had learned by working alongside that medical charity.

But...
The Doctors Without Borders guidelines are even stricter than the new C.D.C. directives

Even Walmart occasionally competes with other companies. This isn't simple business economics. And you're still a bootlicking shill.

From NYT:

Time Warner Cable operates in 29 states, but thanks to the old system of regional and municipal cable monopolies, Comcast and Time Warner Cable donâ(TM)t compete anywhere. Justice Department merger guidelines define geographical markets, which is why regulators weighing airline mergers examine competition on individual routes, not national market share. In New York, Comcast will simply supplant Time Warner Cable in the array of consumer television and broadband options, which include Verizonâ(TM)s FiOS service, RCN, DirecTV and the Dish Network.

âoeGiven that these are local markets, and that Comcast and Time Warner Cable donâ(TM)t overlap, the merger really has no impact on competition,â said Scott Hemphill, an antitrust professor and specialist in intellectual property at Columbia Law School.

Under conventional antitrust standards, itâ(TM)s pretty much an open-and-shut case. But some opponents have seized on the rarely invoked doctrine of potential competition â" the theory that, if Comcast were barred from acquiring Time Warner Cable, it would enter the New York market on its own.

Now, I'm no antitrust lawyer, but the guy they got to comment for the story is. The whole business is fishy as hell. 29 states and in not one single location do they compete. The only reason they get away with it is because they claim that if they were banned from acquiring each other, they would compete. "Sure, we would compete!" They've admitted they're doing it on a technicality--not on simple business economics.

You're the one with the blinders on. Again, how much do they pay you?

According to the Times she was not symptomatic at the time of that flight; however, I would consider it nearly criminal for her to have chosen, even lacking symptoms, to fly in a plane or be in any public confined space until well after the maximum possible incubation period after the last moment she could possibly have been exposed to the contagious patient.

The subsidaries necessary to get this project off ground include a 17 billion pound warranty by the government and a guaranteed price for the energy about 50% above the current market prices.

You can't fly without ID because they won't let you through security without it.

Yes, they will.

Yes, and? The spleen is vital at keeping those cells - it's where the cells originate from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

There also is some conjecture that post-splenectomy patients may be at elevated risk of subsequently developing diabetes.[4]

Actually, that is a very high risk of developing diabetes. And that risk increases significantly a few years after the operation as the original islet cells wear out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11...

Even though the islet cells were growing back, it was still unclear where the new cells were coming from. Before long, Dr. Faustman had a surprising answer. They were from the spleen, a fist-size organ on the left side of the diaphragm whose pulpy interior is filled with blood.

In a paper last year in Science, Dr. Faustman reported that she had cured female mice of diabetes and transplanted them with spleens from male mice. The islet cells that grew back were male, and they had come from the male spleens.

Could we cut the crap on the "Father" of the LED. Holonyak developed the VISIBLE LED. He would not have developed the visible LED, with the previous work on the infrared. Just like the maser preceded the laser. From my comment on the NYTIMES http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.... "As others have mentioned below, great inventions in science are not invented in a vacuum, but built on the work of many others. Before Dr. Holonyak, Dr. Rubin Braunstein of RCA first observed infrared emission from III-V compounds, and later Dr. Robert Biard patented the first infrared LED at Texas instruments. They are still alive, and happy to have contributed to the field. (Please see wiki ref below) (By the way Drs Robert J Biard and Rubin Braunstein are still alive and breathing, I talked to Dr. Biard yesterday in Texas, and (full disclosure, my father) Dr. Braunstein in Los Angeles.) Nick Holoynak was not the inventor of the LED he but the visible LED, the infrared LED preceded the visible LED. Why don't you ask Braunsteina and Biard what they think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... From above link: "Rubin Braunstein[16] of the Radio Corporation of America reported on infrared emission from gallium arsenide (GaAs) and other semiconductor alloys in 1955.[17] ....... In the fall of 1961, while working at Texas Instruments Inc. in Dallas, TX, James R. Biard and Gary Pittman found that gallium arsenide (GaAs) emitted infrared light when electric current was applied. On August 8, 1962, Biard and Pittman filed a patent titled "Semiconductor Radiant Diode" based on their findings, which described a zinc diffused pÃ"n junction LED with a spaced cathode contact to allow for efficient emission of infrared light under forward bias.........

China disagrees with you. The pollution is going to continue to be a problem, but they don't care. As long as you can see more than a block, it's "good enough."

Globally, there are almost 1,000 coal generators being built, again because it's cheaper because the external costs are automatically shifted onto others. Heck, even Canada's tar sands have been labeled "not so dirty any more" because people want energy and it's easier to change a label than to actually fix a problem.

Well, then, I guess it is time to show the cards: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10...

This article is 7 years old, the city abolished the practice in 2010 as far as I can tell. Not to say that it wasn't a ridiculous situation, just that it isn't still the case.

Well, then, I guess it is time to show the cards: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10...

2) If ads are too well-targeted then they become creepy

Creepiest ad I ever saw was ...

You might be interested in this (9 page) NYT Magazine article from 2012, How Companies Learn Your Secrets, about Target's targeted advertising algorithms. One case in point were pregnancy-related ads Target sent to a teenage girl, still living at home with her parents, based on some obscure buying habits. The father was outraged and complained to the store manager. Turns out she was actually pregnant.

Back in 2006, then outgoing network news anchor Ted Koppel wrote a New York Times editorial stating the obvious: The Iraq war is about oil. And though the Bush Administration at the time had vociferously denied this fact, two years before that even former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neil had said the same during a CBS interview.

So now Panetta's saying it will be a thirty year war. Prepare ourselves for lost treasure, spilled blood, and the tears of war over this nearly indefinite period that compares in length to England's old The War of Roses. All to control a declining resource that's causing serious global environmental harm to boot.

Who here notices that this 30 year timeline dovetails in nicely with the UN's IPCC's Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation

Scenarios generally indicate that growth in RE [Renewable Energy] will be widespread around the world. Although the precise
distribution of RE deployment among regions varies substantially across scenarios, the scenarios are largely consistent
in indicating widespread growth in RE deployment around the globe. In addition, the total RE deployment is higher over
the long term in the group of non-Annex I countries12 than in the group of Annex I countries in most scenarios (Figure
SPM.10).

[chart in document]

Scenarios generally indicate that growth in RE will be widespread around the world. Although the precise
distribution of RE deployment among regions varies substantially across scenarios, the scenarios are largely consistent
in indicating widespread growth in RE deployment around the globe. In addition, the total RE deployment is higher over
the long term in the group of non-Annex I countries12 than in the group of Annex I countries in most scenarios (Figure
SPM.10).

So a thirty year war to control world oil that ends at just about the same time global deployment of renewable systems are predicted to offset world energy needs. Huh.

Why the fuck did the US invade Iraq in 2003?

We resumed the hostilities suspended in 1992, because Saddam Hussein failed to fulfill his cease-fire obligations and our patience finally ran out. Yes, we should've done it earlier, but Bill Clinton was not the kind...

the US young service men and women I feel sorry for.

Yeah, the "sophisticated" (but impotent) Europe might be understanding it, but here in America we have a distinct dislike for mad dictators. Why, some of us even still subscribe to the doctrine of that previous adorable President from Chicago:

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

By withdrawing from Iraq too early, we failed the Iraqis. The fault, however, is not in invading in the first place, but in electing an incompetent "community organizer" to Presidency on account of his race — with a lunatic providing "foreign policy expertise"...

It is a shame, which Obama is finally beginning to rectify. Unfortunately, I doubt he'll succeed — not for lack of trying, but simply due to incompetence of a man, who never ran anything successful until his own election campaigns. Maybe, his spectacular failure will inoculate Americans against his kind of approach for a few decades — the way Jimmy Carter's presidency did in its time...

You missed the point. The chain is supposed to work this way:

* For the whole world to live like Americans in recent times, worldwide energy production will have to go up 5 times.

* Worldwide energy production cannot go up by 5 times in the time span being discussed.

* Therefore, the world cannot live like Americans in recent times.

* Therefore, Americans shouldn't be allowed to live like they have been living. We, the philosopher-kings, will tell everyone how they may live. They will accept this because the alternative is that everybody dies (our models say so).

From the tone of your post, I'd guess you agree with the above chain.

Personally, I'd say "Good luck convincing the Chinese to stop what they are doing." http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/new-co2-emissions-report-shows-chinas-central-role-in-shaping-worlds-climate-path/

The ethical implications are becoming a less of an issue; let us just print human hamburgers...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08...

Makes the term "Kobe beef" a bit ambigous though...

Having worked in a hospital (and in IT) for over decade, I can tell you that most nurses earn every penny of it.
yes, some of them are idiots, I know, so don't tell me about that one nurse who did ...

For one thing, there is this:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/...
and this:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.co...

Also, the body of knowledge a RN, PA, or LPN has must be constantly maintained and updated. Medicine is changing faster than any other industry. Seriously, IT does not even come close.

And then there is the other problem.
Sick people are fussy and cranky and a pain to deal with. And then there's the patient's family who raises hell because the nurse didn't do some thing that they read about on the Internet. It's a customer service job at its worst.

> After WWII most of these women didn't need to work any longer and the positions they left were filled by men returning from overseas.

You couldn't be more wrong. The percentage of bachelor degrees in computer science going to women peaked in 1984 at 37%. In 2010 it was only 18%.

1984 is more than a few years after the end of WWII.

If you wash religiously, you won't stink.

If you don't wash, you won't stink.

If you wash periodically, you will stink.

Human beings aren't supposed to stink. We're supposed to have bacterial cultures on our skin that prevent it. Washing kills those cultures.

Here's some evidence:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05...

Long story short, we use too much soap.

I too would like to see firearms laws based on evidence. However, the NRA killed the government funding for science-based research, and there wasn't much private research to fill in the gap. A whole generation of scientists and criminologists didn't make a career out of firearms research, because there was no funding for it. I'm not sure it makes any difference, because the decisions will probably made on the basis of politics, not science, in any case.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01...
N.R.A. Stymies Firearms Research, Scientists Say
By MICHAEL LUO
Published: January 25, 2011
The dearth of money can be traced in large measure to a clash between public health scientists and the N.R.A. in the mid-1990s. At the time, Dr. Rosenberg and others at the C.D.C. were becoming increasingly assertive about the importance of studying gun-related injuries and deaths as a public health phenomenon, financing studies that found, for example, having a gun in the house, rather than conferring protection, significantly increased the risk of homicide by a family member or intimate acquaintance.
Alarmed, the N.R.A. and its allies on Capitol Hill fought back. The injury center was guilty of “putting out papers that were really political opinion masquerading as medical science,” said Mr. Cox, who also worked on this issue for the N.R.A. more than a decade ago.
Initially, pro-gun lawmakers sought to eliminate the injury center completely, arguing that its work was “redundant” and reflected a political agenda. When that failed, they turned to the appropriations process. In 1996, Representative Jay Dickey, Republican of Arkansas, succeeded in pushing through an amendment that stripped $2.6 million from the

Depending on which news network you check depends on what you are told... At this point I feel the major news media is covering up the fact he was contagious since Wednesday of last week by either saying his symptoms started later or that he has been in the hospital since Sunday.
The person arrived here on the 20th. I have read some articles saying he started showing symptoms on Wednesday Sept 24th and that he went to the Hospital (the same hospital that has been readying itself to handle Ebola) he was then sent home with Antibiotics. He then came back several days later VIA ambulance because his condition worsened.
“After arriving in the U.S. on Sept. 20, the man began to develop symptoms last Wednesday and initially sought care two days later. But he was released. At the time, hospital officials did not know he had been in West Africa. He returned later as his condition worsened.”
http://www.stripes.com/news/us...

Failure 1: They never asked him and he never divulged he was from Liberia?
Failure 2: They misdiagnosed the issue as a common cold or bacteria infection.
Failure 3: will they really be able to trace everyone if he went somewhere in public while showing symptoms (he must have gone somewhere to get the antibiotic prescription filled, how many people in CVS, Rite-Aid etc. got exposed?)

Failure 4: They are assuming he will divulge even people who may be here illegally living with his friends or family. Most likely these people will not seek medical treatment nor be reported for fear of deportation they may finally report to the hospital when critically ill but in the interim they are an exposure risk to the general public.
Failure 5: The hospital was not using any Tyvex suits, booties, face masks, etc when treating this patient on Friday. They were using no EBOLA precautions. This article from the New York Times also contradicts completely the BS being spread through NBC news that just washing your hands will prevent contracting Ebola. Two problems with that are that washing your hands will not stop ebola if you came in contact with infected fluids or someone with ebola you can’t just wash it off. Secondly this study here proves americans do not wash their hands enough
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/s...
Here is the CDC recommendations to the hospitals which this hospital DID NOT FOLLOW until the patient came back
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/p...

The CDC list was revised after the doctors below spoke out about the initial precautions CDC recommended which were gloves and paper mask!

“But Dr. Michael V. Callahan, an infectious disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital who has worked in Africa during Ebola outbreaks, does not think it is wrong for hospitals to opt for more protective equipment.
The minimal precautions recommended by the C.D.C. “led to the infection of my nurses and physician co-workers who came in contact with body fluids,” Dr. Callahan said. “I understand the desire to maintain absolute protection in U.S. hospitals.”
Dr. Justin Fairless, an emergency physician in Tulsa, Okla., said that health care workers in Africa “are wearing the highest level of protection, but the C.D.C. recommendation lets us go down to the lowest level of protection.”
Dr. Fairless is considering buying his own air-purifying respirator to pair with a head-to-toe coverall. “I am not comfortable going to see an Ebola patient wearing a paper mask that doesn’t cover my entire face,”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08...

After the article CDC recently revised their recommendations to this:

Looks obnoxious doesn't it? That's because you fucking people who are like that are fucking obnoxious. No one takes fucking responsibility for their shit in anything, this included.

well since consensus is now that animal agriculture is responsible for most greenhouse gas emissions: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11... One easy thing we can do is stop eating cows, then stop eating all animal products.

Also even though I bicycle to work, I need to convince my boss to let me work from home "to stop climate change" ;-)

According to this article...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10... ... the guy walked around the US infected with Ebola for **9 DAYS** before he was isolated.

Astonishingly he was SENT HOME when he first presented himself to a medical practitioner exhibiting symptoms of the virus.

  The guy was visiting relatives in the United States, which implies he lives in Liberia, which implies he was probably easily identifiable as a foreigner. What sort of incompetent doctor sends someone home who has an accent African accent and is exhibiting ebola symptoms. Wouldn't you at least ask "have you traveled recently" ?

If he saw an incompetent doctor what other precautions did this doctor not take?

Yes, the point has came up again and again that ebola has mutated to an airborne form before. In 2012 Canadian researchers showed that Ebola Zaire could be transmitted in an airborne fashion from pigs to monkeys. Being transmitted between humans that way doesn't seem like a very large leap.

My thoughts are that it wouldn't exactly have to "go airborne" to become a catastrophe. MRSA isn't exactly airborne, but its nasty, sometimes fatal, and endemic to hospitals and health clubs all over the pretty sanitary (compared to Liberia) United States. Replacing MRSA with something that is essentially untreatable except for supportive care and is 80 percent fatal would be pretty damned heinous.

Past ebola outbreaks tended to burn themselves out pretty quickly. This one hasn't. Maybe that is because ebola finally got into an urban area. Maybe it is because all three of these countries (Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea) have dysfunctional health care systems and are recovering from horrific civil wars -- on the other hand, that sounds a lot like The Congo and Zaire before it. Something sure seems to be different this time. That should keep people up at night. I'd feel better if some smart people from the CDC or WHO or USAMRIID were trying to figure out what us different this time.

Another thing that comes to mind is that quality, up-to-date information about this outbreak is hard to find. About the most reliable source is the wikipedia page on the outbreak. I am kind of worried about the bland reassurances that we have nothing to worry about, and then reading opinion pieces like this one:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09... ... which to me, translated from epidemiologist-speak, seems to be saying, "run for the hills."

Like this?
Or this?
Or maybe this?

Ya...The Google is a great tool.

Time until Republicans start saying "Lift sanctions" 5...4..3..2...1

Last time it was your boy-wonder, who lifted the sanctions against Russia... Abandoning American ally Georgia for the sake of Putin's help against Iran. Ha-ha — much good did it do then...

Once you've factored in all the typical bullshit that surrounds your "$199 phone", you find that it probably is around $700 or more.

Actually, the universe itself is the ultimate free lunch. Dark energy too has been so described. In economics, banks expand their balance sheets to create a free lunch:

From Economics of Money and Banking, Part I, Lecture 5-5 "Correspondent Banking Bilateral Balances", from about 5:11 to 5:32:

Bank A is saying "I owe you a thousand dollars", Bank B is saying "No I owe you a thousand dollars." They both owe each other a thousand dollars. So they've created these deposits from thin air, they're just a swap of IOUs; they've expanded their balance sheets - both of them. How can that possibly do anything? You know - there's no such thing as a free lunch, it seems like it couldn't possibly do anything.

But it does.

Government created the first free lunch when Alexander Hamilton started running a National Debt by assuming the states' war debts in the very first administration. Conservatives were predicting doom and gloom within a few years then, yet standards of living have risen for over 200 years.

Utitlities should be a public good, not a profit-making entity. The government can and should create money (or borrow at zero cost through the Fed) to provide citizens with power. Profit creates perverse incentives, like garbage companies raising their rates when people use less garbage. Government should override these sociopathic tendencies of market signals.

Using all caps, as the parent post did ("HAVE TO BE PAID FOR"), is a sign that the argument is emotional, not rational. Free lunches exist all over. People try to deny them by yelling. Don't get distracted by them.

Yeah, Germany has it all figured out...

According to the New York Times (9-19-2013), not so much:

German families are being hit by rapidly increasing electricity rates, to the point where growing numbers of them can no longer afford to pay the bill. Businesses are more and more worried that their energy costs will put them at a disadvantage to competitors in nations with lower energy costs, and some energy-intensive industries have begun to shun the country because they fear steeper costs ahead.

Newly constructed offshore wind farms churn unconnected to an energy grid still in need of expansion. And despite all the costs, carbon emissions actually rose last year as reserve coal-burning plants were fired up to close gaps in energy supplies.

A new phrase, âoeenergy poverty,â has entered the lexicon.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05...
http://www.indialawjournal.com...

Take your pick or just Google it for yourself. It's common knowledge.

Captcha: provable

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/20...

From the NYT:
Some borrowers say their cars were disabled when they were only a few days behind on their payments, leaving them stranded in dangerous neighborhoods. Others said their cars were shut down while idling at stoplights. Some described how they could not take their children to school or to doctorâ(TM)s appointments. One woman in Nevada said her car was shut down while she was driving on the freeway.

From the summary:
Some borrowers say their cars were disabled when they were only a few days behind on their payments, leaving them stranded in dangerous neighborhoods. Others said their cars were shut down while idling at stoplights. Some described how they could not take their children to school or to doctor's appointments. One woman in Nevada said her car was shut down while she was driving on the freeway.

HughPickens.com may not be able to write for crap, but he can plagiarize like a motherfucking champ.

Yeah, that doesn't happen:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07...

" So as of 12:01 a.m. Saturday, the federal government began losing an estimated $25 million a day in tax revenue.

But did airlines simply pass on this savings to customers?

No, they did not.

Last week, evidently in anticipation of the taxâ(TM)s expiring, some airlines quietly began raising fares â" on average, roughly by the same amount as the federal taxes. Others did the same over the weekend, and most of the rest joined in on Monday. "

If a customer is willing to pay $X for something, and has for years, and the cost to make that something decreases, why would they ever decrease $X?

Negotiating pay is a major part of the equal pay issue, but I'm not convinced the solution is quite so easy. Simply put, a man asking for a raise is more likely to be listened to than a woman asking for a raise. See here.

The latest recession was never called the mancession.

How is this rated informative? It is plain wrong.

You could find the same few examples (among many others) with a simple Google search, but since that is obviously too much work ...

Mancession Definition
The Mancession
Thanks to the “mancession,” metrosexuals have become “manfluencers”
One Mancession Later, Are Women Really Victors in the New Economy?
Economy: The Man-cession and the He-covery
It's Not Just a Recession. It's a Mancession!

There's a limit to the fossil fuels we can burn, and they're only going to get more expensive. There is far more energy available from alternative sources, and switching to them could be economically beneficial soon. If you want energy starvation and poverty, just keep burning fossil fuels.