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.... said the Spider to the Fly.

Seriously - once this genie is out of the bottle there is no way to bottle it back up. The fear of employment repercussions, insurance, etc all become a concern.

“For me, I’m so excited about the possibilities to improve things for people, my worry would be the opposite," he told the New York Times's Farhad Manjoo. "We get so worried about these things that we don’t get the benefits Right now we don’t data-mine healthcare data. If we did we’d probably save 100,000 lives next year."

Eeesh.. I heard this same logic, earlier this year, being applied to the pooling of all NHS records for pharmacons and researches to peel through in the UK. "Think of all the causality linking and better and better benefits".. Eeep! What?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.nhs.uk/nhsengland/t...

They might be, but the "sophisticated information and disinformation" game works both ways, you know.

Russia in secret plot against fracking Nato chief says. "I have met allies who can report that Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called non-governmental organisations - environmental organisations working against shale gas - to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas. That is my interpretation.

I have met neighbors who said they know someone who is sure that Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen is full of shit, but I prefer to rely on facts instead of hearsay.

Anti fracking groups have AFAIK demanded that Rasmussen provide evidence for his "interpretation" or else apologize. Ah, here's the open letter.

It is interesting, though, Nato doing some product placement for the fracking industry, lashing out at Putin and saying: the devil hates fracking, so it must be a good thing. If you oppose it, you're obviously bought by the Kremlin, because everybody in the EU but Gazprom just loves fracking.

Next thing you know, we'll see some sort of a global Foreign Agent Law ... no, treaty, I mean treaty! Not a law, a treaty. My bad. Let's call it an agreement. And always remember: you can't trust the ... Russians.

This seems like a better solution for blood sugar monitoring: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...

Or does the upcoming iPhone claim to have some method that doesn't require getting access to blood?

One problem is that people will typically read the Wikipedia article first, and allow it to colour their perception. Big mistake if the article is biased to begin with, and a sort of kafkaesque situation for the victim. Wikipedia has known problems in this area, see e.g. Revenge, ego and the corruption of Wikipedia by Andrew Leonard; The tale of Mr Hari and Dr Rose – A false and malicious identity is admitted by David Allen Green; the story of Taner Akcam, Any political filth or personal libel can be hurled at the innocent, by Robert Fisk (originally published in The Independent); or that of Philip Mould, Mayfair art dealer Mark Weiss in disgrace after admitting poison pen campaign against rival Philip Mould, by Gordon Rayner.

The same day this comes out, the UK Telegraph runs a story about how NOAA has gone back and destroyed the temperature records by adjusting the data to prove that the computer models are working.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ear...

So who ya gonna believe? My advice... don't believe any of them, they are all liars with ulterior motives.

Thus the article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ear...

But don't let the quality of the available data cloud your judgment. Just "normalize it" to suit your models, no need to justify your methods. After all, statistics are easy for the average environmentalist wacko to understand.

But it seems to have stopped in the USA for that time... Globally might be another story.

Has the data been modified? Some have done that in the past and seem to be doing it now in some cases. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ear...

Does that invalidate your view? Perhaps not, but it does add to the case that you might be wrong.

And at the same time, there's a story that the NOAA has been fabricating their temperatures for years: The scandal of fiddled global warming data

Yes... but this student is still wrong on petrodollar politics; and I won't even go into that regurgitated propaganda.
There's no "myth". Many countries, Russia and China included, are tired of the arrogance of a single country dominating the world, and are looking for alternatives to the petrodollar monopoly. One recent example is Russian energy giant Gazprom's clients switching from the dollar to euro or renminbi
Russia and China continue calling for the dollar to be replaced as the international reserve currency. They're also setting up the BRICS version of the World Bank and IMF.

So in other news:
russia-china-banking-deal-to-exclude-dollar-in-transactions-symbolic-blow-to-dollar
alternative-to-dollar-close-to-reality-as-brics-coalition-expands-to-80-nations/a>
The-sun-is-setting-on-dollar-supremacy-and-with-it-American-power

Except that theyre the only one not cooperating with governments like China these days. Microsoft has been in agreements with them for years.

Keep up with current events, young'un - Google did an about-face on China over a year ago.

Google Shows China the White Flag of Surrender

Google hasn't been the "don't be evil" company for quite a while.

Coming soon to Android and Windows devices: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...

Bletchley Park looked to its most valuable resource — the veterans who worked there

...and fired them for daring to show historic computers to visitors. And then kicking out the amateur radio society to replace them with a gift shop, and finally putting up a chain link fence to make sure nobody accidentally visits the real museum in building H.

The only reason the current Bletchley park management haven't levelled the place to put up a Starbucks is that the donors might notice and cut off their multi-million pound gravy train.

More like they didn't want to be seen practicing Thierry Henry's "technique".

That's GPS based location tracking carried out by your phone. TFA is referring to nasties like this - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec... - where wifi enabled devices are tracked by wifi hotspots using their mac address.

If you believe that then you believe nonsense. The lack of personal belief in the divinity of Jesus and his offer of salvation doesn't undo his enormous influence as Messiah, the subsequent spread of Christianity beyond its Jewish origin, and the enormous influence Christianity has had in turn on religion, literature, music, law, and many other aspects of life and culture across the globe.

A non-Christian may not hold to the belief and sentiment that inspired Handal's Messiah, but the music is still played and sung. They don't cease to exist because of non-belief. The same holds true for the rest of the influence Jesus has had though the spread of Christianity.

Christianity spread in the Roman empire despite persecution. But if you think a Roman emperor 1700 years ago was the "real power" behind Christianity, how do you explain this today? The Romans are long gone.

China on course to become 'world's most Christian nation' within 15 years
Study: Christianity grows exponentially in Africa

You seem to be underestimating the influence of Jesus.

The Good, the Bad and the Forgiven

Its like many ideas presented to top US intelligence students.
Just enough history on todays enemy, the tech to do the work needed and the correct collection of happy short tech stories from the past.
Thanks to the work of whistleblowers the world now understands:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...
Different govs, the US, UK have total mastery of the 'net' via local shared facilities and people.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... (3 Jun 2014) http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04... (APRIL 23, 2014) The standard crypto offered is junk.
Entire generations have to rethink what the 'net' really is: predictive and trackable:
"US Secret Service wants sarcasm-detection tool for Twitter" (05 Jun 2014)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...
People read the headline but a bit further down is the fun part: "real-time" and the ability to identify 'influencers'.
Tech that was once at a budget level of a few nations agencies is now more wide spread at a federal level with a domestic role.

The linked story is Sensationist Bullshit, there is no such measure announced in the Queens speech, (Queens-Speech-2014-The-full-transcript)

The planned "Serious Crime Bill" will ensure sentences for attacks on computer systems fully reflect the damage they cause.

Given the current Computer Misuse act is absolutely useless this is a good move.

Here are some news which mentioned that the reason why UK wanted to have secret trials seems to be mainly because it wants to avoid revealing scandals like involvement in crimes against human rights:

http://www.theguardian.com/law...

http://iengage.org.uk/news/207...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

I meant Iceland. I knew proof reading could help, still I missed that.

And unless the history classes were propaganda, never even been conquered by the Brits.

That narrows it down a bit - see linked map.

Cost of nuclear station subsidy £96-£97 per megawatt hour
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

Cost of wind
£100 per megawatt hour
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ear...

Cost wise they are about the same.

  Currently in countries such as South Korea and China, typical construction times range from 4 to 6 years
https://www.oecd-nea.org/press...

Construction time is usually very short – a 10 MW wind farm can easily be built in two months. A larger 50 MW wind farm can be built in six months.
http://www.ewea.org/wind-energ...

Add in the time for planing etc and wind is faster.

"Mr Schmidt played in a key role in the re-election of President Barack Obama last month, helping to oversee Google's $700,000 donation to his campaign."

Link

"I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"

Were skeptic scientists kept out of the IPCC.

We [the Independent Climate Change Email Review] conclude that there is evidence that the text was a team responsibility. It is clear that Jones (though not alone) had a strongly negative view of the paper but we do not find that he was biased, that there was any improper exclusion of material or that the comments on the MM2004 paper in the final draft were “invented” given the (continuing) nature of the scientific debate on the issue.

So Jones' comment, in regard to MM2004, would be troubling on its own. However, not only did he apparently lack the power to exclude the paper, he was apparently unbiased in the final comments.

The other paper referenced in Jones' quote is also discussed in the link I provided.

"I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"

I wouldn't call the Daily Telegraph a tabloid.

Of course not. It's my go to source for the REAL truth on bigfoot, aliens, and the Loch Ness monster.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Hikers-capture-bigfoot-on-film

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.... - have-aliens-hijacked-voyager-2-spacecraft

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Mystery-alien-like-creature-seen-in-Bristol-harbour

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Has-Apple-maps-found-the-Loch-Ness-Monster

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Has-the-Loch-Ness-monster-finally-been-caught-on-camera

I wouldn't call the Daily Telegraph a tabloid.

Of course not. It's my go to source for the REAL truth on bigfoot, aliens, and the Loch Ness monster.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Hikers-capture-bigfoot-on-film

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.... - have-aliens-hijacked-voyager-2-spacecraft

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Mystery-alien-like-creature-seen-in-Bristol-harbour

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Has-Apple-maps-found-the-Loch-Ness-Monster

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Has-the-Loch-Ness-monster-finally-been-caught-on-camera

I wouldn't call the Daily Telegraph a tabloid.

Of course not. It's my go to source for the REAL truth on bigfoot, aliens, and the Loch Ness monster.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Hikers-capture-bigfoot-on-film

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.... - have-aliens-hijacked-voyager-2-spacecraft

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Mystery-alien-like-creature-seen-in-Bristol-harbour

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Has-Apple-maps-found-the-Loch-Ness-Monster

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Has-the-Loch-Ness-monster-finally-been-caught-on-camera

I wouldn't call the Daily Telegraph a tabloid.

Of course not. It's my go to source for the REAL truth on bigfoot, aliens, and the Loch Ness monster.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Hikers-capture-bigfoot-on-film

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.... - have-aliens-hijacked-voyager-2-spacecraft

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Mystery-alien-like-creature-seen-in-Bristol-harbour

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Has-Apple-maps-found-the-Loch-Ness-Monster

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Has-the-Loch-Ness-monster-finally-been-caught-on-camera

I was hoping to find one of Robert Llewellyn's videos to link for you, but I can't find it as he's done so many, and you can't search in videos!

But here's a recent article about some best in class green homes. One is not only self sufficient but sell half it's electricity to the power companies. The other is quoted as earning the houseowner 3500 UKP per year from selling electricity back to the grid. Which much be far more than half, considering bills for even inefficient houses. Yes, these are exceptions, but ones that show the limit is not just self-sufficiency but you can go far beyond that.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/pro...

What you're describing is honestly green-washed fantasy. Any solution needs to minimize distribution losses, must be available 24/7, and must be able to scale, and most importantly cannot try to coerce people to give up their standard of living.

Again, if you followed Robert Llewellyn's video blog Fully Charged, you wouldn't have that belief. In and amongst the EV reviews he visits universities, power stations and people with green homes, all who know far more than you or I on the topic. And all of them know this is coming.

One thing we haven't yet mentioned here: The smart grid: Rather than simply generating according to demand, devices which are non-time critical communicate with the grid and switch of and on to help regulate the demand to closer match the supply. Current items like fridges, freezers and AC are obvious candidates. But also EV charging falls into this category. Indeed the power companies talk of EVs as helping them match demand, because they can be charged overnight when demand from everything else is at a minimum. There's even talk of them being used for power smoothing - when you finish with your car for the day, the remaining power in the batteries can be fed into the grid, when electricity is expensive, and then the battery charged up fully when electricity is cheap overnight, ready for the next day.

If you want consumption of fossil fuels to decrease, carpeting the world in solar farms and windmills isn't going to suffice.

OK, you're starting to get annoying. I don't mind discussing this stuff, if we're going to keep it real. But I've already mentioned tidal, hydro and nuclear. Empty assertions which ignore more than have the sources I've already mentioned is not constructive.

And at no stage have I talked about giving up a standard of living. For sure reduction of usage is part of the answer, but things like insulation and more efficient technology does not lower the standard of living it enhances it.

The green movement is not a step back into history, it's progress into the future. It's fossil fuels that are the backward looking technology.

Well what this article says they had planned is about as annoying to me as a no used game policy: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...

There was an article a few years ago about how the oldest man of Japan had been deceased for a few years. Family was still collecting pension checks and never bothered to report the death.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
And when they went to see the second oldest person, she also passed away a couple of years before.

Yet, the left wing pushing man made Global Warming...err..excuse Man made Climate Change....err...excuse me, Carnon Tax Exchange.

That is A'OK.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ear...

This scam, of climate whatever change, that is being run by the monied elite and their academic lap dogs, is so transparent, one really wonders why they even bother trying anymore.

Bernie Madoff would be proud.

I'm wondering if you're one of these of people who's in denial about being overweight? :)

Nope, my body fat percentage is in the lean range and this can easily be glanced from my waist measurements, apropos of which:

Waist to height ratio 'more accurate than BMI'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/hea...

Ah, ok - you just want black cabs... fine...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

http://content.met.police.uk/N...

Again, 2 minutes of google.

Why so defensive of black cabs ?

Whose morality are you trying to impose?

I think the OP really meant 'moral'. Puting is in the midst of passing a bunch of laws pertaining to language. I believe one of the intents of this law is to extend new laws pertaining to foul language. (e.g., http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... ) The whole "slippery-slope" meme is present here.

I believe the OP was creating a thought-provoking message.

This is just another attempt of His Royal Heinous Putin to control thought. And, before you attempt to correct my spelling of 'highness'...no. I used heinous correctly.

Is this good enough evidence for you that Gore has made a ton of money trying to convince individuals, companies and governments to believe his lies and snippets of ice falling into the oceans. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ear...

The issue here isn't the stupidity of the users, but the article written by an uninformed author and an equally misleading /. summary.

The real issue is that whenever a page includes a Facebook like button, it has to reference the requisite Javascript files that are hosted on Facebook servers. So whenever you load a Hulu video page, your browser pings Facebook with information about which Hulu page you are visiting simply to render the button. It doesn't matter whether or not you click the like button: Facebook knows which Hulu page you watched either way. And since Facebook keeps track of this information even when you are logged out of your account, there is definitely no opt-in on the part of the user. IMHO, this lawsuit is completely justified.

Same here, I had a recall for my 2002 Ford Ranger a few years ago. I haven't owned that truck since 2007.
The recall had something to do with an ignition switch catching fire...even when the vehicle was not in use. Last I checked I don't think anyone's comp was at risk of bursting into flames due to a security patch not being installed.
Car comparisons won't work on this because if cars aren't recalled for dangerous flaws, owners and other people are in danger of injury or death. The only way my computer is going to kill someone is if i use it to beat them to death with it
(or if I play games on it for days on end.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.smh.com.au/articles...
And there are a shit ton more articles on that topic...

Same here, I had a recall for my 2002 Ford Ranger a few years ago. I haven't owned that truck since 2007.
The recall had something to do with an ignition switch catching fire...even when the vehicle was not in use. Last I checked I don't think anyone's comp was at risk of bursting into flames due to a security patch not being installed.
Car comparisons won't work on this because if cars aren't recalled for dangerous flaws, owners and other people are in danger of injury or death. The only way my computer is going to kill someone is if i use it to beat them to death with it
(or if I play games on it for days on end.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.smh.com.au/articles...
And there are a shit ton more articles on that topic...

Back in the 1980's the European phone network was a lot less reliable than the North American one so Europe needed various systems for off line validation of card charges, hence the wide spread use of smart cards. In North America vendors could all use online terminals to verify the validity of the mag stripe cards so there ws no need for costly smart cards. Current Chip and PIN systems are not as secure as people think as there was a major problem a few years ago in the UK where people were being charged with fraud for contesting various charges made on their chip and PIN cards which were assumed to be secure. Turns out a compromised point of sale terminal could get all the information necessary to make additional transactions without the card or re-input of the users' PIN. So yeah, if you own the point of sale system you own the cards. Chip and PIN would not have helped Target.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...

BTW the E carrier is faster than T carrier because the AT&T engineers didn't want the phone company to sell the housekeeping bandwidth so they reduced the number of bits available for housekeeping so that it could not support an additional voice channel. Turns out their fears were justified as in Europe the extra housekeeping channel was quickly just turned into an extra data channel and the their engineers were left with nothing.

For example, wait times were down for VA doctor visits in Arizona and waiting times in the ERs in UK's NHS are down, the government has no problem finding ways to lower certain metrics... And rewarding employees for their efforts!

The Marshal Islanders should be bringing charges against Hormel for genocide.
not sure if joking or not...

I think you have bigger problems if in fact it is true that "For a 4.5-billion-year-old Earth and a 13.8-billion-year-old Big Bang, acceptance was below 30 percent." I can imagine how it works: pupil learned from geology class about strata and tectonic plates and how mountains are formed and the fact that the Earth is 4.5 billion year old. Then the pupil go to the parents and asks about it and gets a reply from the parents that their pastor said the Earth is 6,000 years old and that mountains were formed in Noah's flood. America is really ruled by an oligarchy[1], because poll after poll shows the scientific illiteracy of the general American population.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

These are mathematical constructs that explain differences between our hypothetical starting at a unified point and the differences from the hypothesis that we observe in reality.

I don't get what where you getting with that. Scientific theories are using math to describe nature.

Inflation is a way to reconcile theory with observation.

Yes, and one of the observation is the flatness of the universe.

You only "need" these things to make the Big Bang theory work. That you "need" inflation to make the Big Bang possible is putting the horse before the cart. Normally theory follows observation, not vice versa as in the case with Inflation.

You don't need Inflation for the Big Bang. If the universe would not be flat, then Inflation would not be needed. But observations shows that the universe is flat.

Indeed the Big Bang theory may still be correct even if the Inflationary theory is proven to be incorrect.

We cannot observe the first 10^-31 seconds directly, so we need to deduce in a theory. But we can see the results of the first 10^-31 seconds of the Big Bang, the flatness of the Universe. We need to explain that, hence the Inflation theory.

Inflation theory is not a fact in the same way that we accept gravity or evolution as a fact, and really still stands to be verified. There are several competing theories to Inflation that aim to address the complications that Inflation introduces, which may in time be proven to provide a better explanation.

I never stated that. I wrote that the Big Bang is a fact.

I have news for you: we are in the Big Bang. We can see down in time to the first 380,000 years of the Universe, by a telescope. You do know that the speed of light is a constant and if you look at a star, for example, 30 light years away, you see how the star was 30 years ego. Then we look at a galaxy, say, a billion light years away, that means we see the light that was send a billion years ego. Now we look at the CMBR and we see the Universe like it was when it was just 380,000 years old. We cannot look further back in time because the CMBR is obscuring our view. So we can see the Big Bang from 380,000 years to today (13.7 billion years).

Look at the image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
We can see (with a telescope) everything that is the "Big Bang Expansion". The only thing we cannot see is beyond the CMBR, the first 380,000 years.

The Russian armies continuing to mass on Ukraine's borders?
Russian special forces and intelligence agents infiltrating Ukraine and instigating insurrection and incidents?
The Russians violating the Open Skies treaty to deny Western and US compliance inspection over-flights of Russia to hide their activity?
The UN finding that the Crimean election wasn't quite as free as claimed?
Putin admitting that the "little green men" in Crimea were, "surprise! surprise!," Russian soldiers after all?
Jews being told they must "register" in an area of Ukraine controlled by Russian separatists? which echoes the problems Russia has with National Socialists?
Russia taking up the "anti-fascist" fight after "defeating fascism" in Poland in 1939 (splitting it with the Germans), "defeating fascism" in Finland in 1940 (annexing Finnish territory), "defeating fascism" in Georgia in 2008 (taking territory from it), and now volunteering to "defeat fascism" in Ukraine despite the fact that Russia seems to be unable to defeat fascism at home?
That momentum is building in Ukraine's legislature for rearming with nuclear weapons which will ironically be accepting Putin's advice offered on Syria?

Ironically, the notion of reacquiring nuclear weapons as a security guarantee is a position publicly advocated by Putin himself: "If you cannot count on international law, then you must find other ways to ensure your security. ... This is logical: If you have the bomb, no one will touch you." -- Is Ukraine about to go nuclear again?

Most Ukrainians are neither loyal Russians nor fascists

Putin has promoted the notion that ethnic Russians were in danger. There has never been evidence for this unless you count as brutal repression a failed attempt to revive an old law making Ukrainian the sole language for court hearings and government forms. Putin calls for greater autonomy for the south and east of Ukraine, and more rights for Russian-speakers, while doing all he can to obstruct elections that would bring them back into the political process.

No doubt there is more. Do you have an inside scoop? Is it, as I fear, that the US is at fault?

I'm pretty sure that US hospital systems don't struggle with the nonsense you see in some of those "efficient" systems. There is no shortage of issues like that, and you seldom see that discussed as part of the package.

Don't leave patients in ambulances to hit A&E targets, hospitals told
NHS starves 1,165 to death

Hmm. Concerning the theocracy and Shia Islam part, what's your opinion on the most recent attempts to (re)introduce Jaafari law to Iraq?

Iraq poised to legalize marriage for girls as young as 9
Iraq ready to legalise childhood marriage

But the legislation, known as the Jaafari law, introduces rules almost identical to those of neighbouring Iran, a Shia-dominated Islamic theocracy.

Hail Zontar The Mindless, court jester and tormenter of the just!

I take it that you cannot imagine a European hospital or clinic not fully staffed for continuous 24x7 operations, with resources sitting idle just waiting to be put to use?

Doctor shortage reaching crisis, study warns

The German Medical Association (BÄK) and the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) announced the results of a study showing that medical care is becoming harder to find in some parts of the country, particularly rural areas.

The study made it clear “that the doctor shortage is not a phenomenon anticipated for some time in the future, but is an urgent threat,” said KBV head Andreas Köhler. ...

In hospitals, about 5,000 positions were unfilled, the groups said. A decade from now, nearly 20,000 senior physicians and head physicians will have retired.

Medical Leave: Romanian Doctors Fleeing Poor Pay, Corruption For Western Europe

UK has fewer doctors per person than Bulgaria and Estonia

Spanish doctors and nurses emigrate for work

French government fights doctor shortage in rural areas

Europe’s ageing population will face doctor shortage

It is estimated that by 2020, 230,000 doctor‘s roles and 590,000 nursing positions will need to be filled. In less than a decade, there will be a professional shortfall of 1 million jobs in the health sector (including all roles). This means that about 14% of the total demand for health services may not be covered. This prediction is reflected in Italy, where almost 42% of national health service doctors are over 55. There are 14,280 aged over 60 compared to 13,196 aged 30 to 39. This vacuum of personnel is destined be filled increasingly by immigrants. Already in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Poland, 30% of foreign doctors are from non-EU countries. This percentage rises to 60% in France and Italy and even 80% in Ireland and the UK. These findings are a report prepared as part of the project “Health Workers 4all“.

make sure the water they used didn't come from the gulf of Mexico. We all know that one is full of oil.

Nope, the bacteria ate most of it.

Intolerance is intolerance. And it will always exist. Mr Eich did not beat up gays, he simply exercised his right to an opinion. He exercised that right within the bounds of the law, as a proper citizen should. He was subsequently bullied out of a job.

Here is how it should be:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...

You're right, the moonshot was nothing more than a huge political stunt built on the back of the technological impetus of WWII as well as the political inheritance of that same war. I think something like "polio shot" would be a much better expression to represent something truly amazing that actually helped tons of people, as opposed to a quasi-religious ceremony that benefited only a few test pilots in rubber underwear and early nerds in horn-rimmed glasses, crew cuts and skinny ties.

Wow. You seem so sure about that.