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The hilarity of your comment could only be realized if you looked at my history of flinging hate at Oracle :)

http://thenthdoctor.wordpress.com/?s=oracle

http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2928985&cid=40396955

Based on a quick eye-sweep at your recent comments, we seem to agree on some things.

Funny pun, though :)

I'm sure that someone who manages to run not one, but two game-changing companies while already having succeeded with another one is both brilliant and a blowhard. However, I think that linking to a site that posts drivel like this (you have to read it to believe it....) http://boycotttesla.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/tesla-and-fisker-use-vaginal-orifice-to-trick-rich-guys-into-buying-cars/ and to gawker, which is the equivalent of a tabloid for tech, makes you sound like someone who believes that Aliens are replacing the president with a monkey-boy so that they can destroy the US through Universal Healthcare. I.e., a total crackpot.

• He had a lot of tension with his Paypal investors: http://gawker.com/227491/sequoia-erases-elon-musk : "Musk was a charismatic chancer, backed by the venture capital firm, with an online bank which wasn't going anywhere. He was involved in Paypal only in so far as he managed to talk his way into a 50-50 merger with the successful online payments service, and served as CEO until his wayward management style provoked a staff revolt."
• He had tensions with his wife(s): http://boycotttesla.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/the-problem-with-elon-musks-women/
• He had tensions with Tesla's founder: www.wired.com/autopia/2009/06/eberhard : "Teslaâ(TM)s Founder Sues Teslaâ(TM)s CEO"

Still brilliant - but (like many brilliant people) he can be quite the blowhard too.

They'd be foolish to evacuate..... If they left they'd miss out on that Darwin award! http://evacuatefukushimanow.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/%E7%A6%8F%E5%B3%B6%E3%83%BB%E3%81%84%E3%82%8F%E3%81%8D%E5%B8%82-swimming-in-fukushima/

Quote from WikiPedia "... On the ground, Engineers drive at breakneck speed on crowded roads without fear of collision, and upon reaching destination, will dismantle their cars so they won’t take too much parking space.".

Also, one can find hints regarding driving habits: "Korean drivers don’t rely on (or follow) rules, just what they can see (i.e. anyone may do anything at any time, so a driver must be vigilant)." ( http://koreanalyst.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/driving-in-korea-vs-america/ ).

Well

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I happened to read this last week, and could easily find it again. So: http://waronthemotorist.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/railway-safety-doesnt-need-scare-quotes-it-works/

(For some context on the first paragraph, if it rains many railway stations have recorded announcements like "due to the inclement weather conditions, please take care on and around the station and when boarding trains". The London Underground has loads of posters of people getting trapped in doors or falling down escalators, saying things like "watch your step after a night out: last year, 1 fatality, 452 injuries".)

The red graph at the bottom is for the whole UK (or maybe just Great Britain). Cycling is more dangerous per km than driving, but safer than walking or motorcycling.

The UK has some of the safest roads in the world, so the figures might not be so different elsewhere.

I'm a bit mystified as to why we do this. Hear me out:

When people ask to have limbs amputated because the person feels that having the limb doesn't make them feel whole (strange how you don't feel whole until part of you is removed?! That and/or because they have a sexual fetish for amputated limbs,) modern medicine denies that request, considers it to be abhorrent, and any medical professional who obliges the request is jailed and/or has their license to practice revoked. The treatment for the above condition is the same as if the person had a mental illness, and the solution is to change thinking patterns rather than surgery.

http://drmarkgriffiths.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/whats-your-crutch-the-bizarre-world-of-amputee-fetishes/

Yet when they ask to have their genitals mutilated and hormones thrown so far out of whack to the point of permanently handicapping them to a degree, it is viewed as a human right, and in some cases this voluntary surgery must be provided for free by the government, and they are called brave in some circles? Worse is that today there is very little in the way of counseling done, and some half of them end up regretting it after the fact.

http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Want-To-Reverse-Sex-Reassignment-Surgery/1608417

I'm not taking issue with transsexualism BTW, I'm taking issue with the idea that surgery is the answer.

No, the high blood sugar during gestation in an otherwise non-obese woman can grant differential insulin resistance to her child, who then, under the same diet as her mother, ends up being obese instead of normal weight.

Even if that's a thing that can happen you'd need this to be a huge effect to explain western obesity, and you'd need to show immigrants with the same lifestyle and diet don't get fat (they catch up, but there's lifestyle and diet confounders). You'd also need to explain one of Taubes own favourite examples The Tokelau Island Migrant Study who started getting fat in less then a generation.

The problem is that it very well may be that eating, appetite, activity, and even excretions, are driven by fat accumulation. And what I mean by that is that if the *first* order cause is fat accumulation, and that makes you hungrier, and lazier, and makes you eat more, and perhaps even excrete less, we need to be able to discern that.

Put another way, the orders of magnitude here are important, and I don't think that simply because the system is complex that all factors are of equal weight.

I never implied they were of equal weight, but they're all part of the picture and you're discounting every other factor and making it all the result of one root cause.

And it's a good thing that despite that there are some people out there who are willing to argue with textbooks :)

Oh I still argue with textbooks, but I've learned that the most common result is that I misunderstood the textbook. There's a difference between digging deeper into the consensus view because a certain part doesn't make sense to you, and digging in because you want to prove it wrong in a specific way.

The sad fact, and Taubes exposes this extraordinarily well in GCBC (even if you dismiss his conclusions), is that the nutrition science in this country has not been driven by science, but by pre-determined agendas, be it to sell more cereals and grains, or to demonize meat eating, or to prop up a pet theory by a powerful government science administrator.

Honestly, more than a science book, I found Taubes work to be more interesting on the history side of the equation.

Frankly my issue with Taubes is when ever I read/listen to him he sets off alarm bells. Why could I listen to an hour long interview with him talking about the dangers of carbs, sugars particularly, but also starches, and I never heard him mention Japan or China? Why when asked about Japan did he start talking about brown rice and 50 years in the past? Why in this summary of his book is Japan only mentioned once, and in the context of Sumo wrestlers who were also high protein in addition to high carb, and who may have chosen the extra calories from carbs because it lead to a healthier fatness? Why doesn't he talk about all the cases that seems to be problematic for his hypothesis? Even his post about the lipohypertrophy, presented like a coup de grace even though it didn't challenge conventional wisdom in the slightest.

Taubes weaves a very nice story, but when he's leaving out something as significant as Asia in his main argument you have to wonder why. A proper researcher embraces the conflicting evidence because it offers another part of the story, a crank ignores it because his goal isn't the truth but the theory. That's why I don't trust Taubes, his goal is to push his theory and I don't think he looks at conflicting evidence as anything other than something to explain away.

Here's something from 2011 http://greensengage.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/anti-israel-campaigning-losers/ and then things got a bit weird http://antonyloewenstein.com/2011/09/30/those-anti-semitic-greens-may-well-launch-a-pogrom-next/ and have not actually gotten less weird according to my friends down in Sydney.

FYI, here's the full post where the graph came from.

Given the early state of this technology, it could well be that this technology doesn't get into your computer until the time it would match Moore's law (ignoring of course, that Moore's law deals with transistor size, not clock speed).

Actually, if Moore's law would deal with clock speed, this would me more like reality catching up to it, after the current clock speed stagnation.

Perl 6 has been "new" for 12 years now. It still doesn't have a complete implementation...

12 years later its promised features are still relevant. But more than that the project still advances. Check https://6guts.wordpress.com/

;-)

kind of answers that one, doesn't it?

perhaps someone ought to fork it and fix it up... http://writeonly.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/whython-python-for-people-who-hate-whitespace/

Something I see often about developers and most developers know for themselves.

The first 30% to 60% of a project - especially if you are not simply tying frameworks together but creating most things from scratch - are fun. People work overtime without even knowing it. As soon as the tiresome stuff starts, and the mostly painfull/dull last 5% to 10%, motivation drops.

Well, as someone who develops games, it's actually 9001% creating experimental things and prototyping new ideas. Coming up with the core mechanic(s), and proofing the in-game player interface, etc. That's the hard part. I'd say less than one out of ten ideas plan out. Coming up with tangential mechanics and adding a bit of depth that works is the first 30% to 60% of the actual project, and putting the polish on something and seeing through is the rest, but there was a ton of effort you never even see, possibly even entire games that never see the light of day. Even if you do make public the "in-progress" game/ideas most of the them won't be known to the general public leading up to a successful project.

So, what if someone came along and does most of the experimenting and prototyping and comes up with something playable and fun. What if instead of coming up with your own ideas you just take that? What if you add a bit of the tangential stuff to someone else's proven core mechanics and gameplay platform. If you do that you can avoid all that pre-production work. That's what Notch Did.

So, if you got rich by co-opting someone else's ideas wholesale, and your own new ideas are bland and self admittedly devoid of fun... What would you do? Would you decide to go back to making procedural rip-offs of mario? Maybe hang out with some indie gamedevs since that's where you got your best idea from in the first place? Isn't that what Notch would do if he needed new ideas to execute before lesser funded folks could?

Oh, maybe not. Maybe Notch just needs less pressure, yeah, that's it... Let's ignore the whole "Creative Block" story that came out months ago: "It's just some kind of weird creative block that's been going on for too long and [0x10c] is going to be put on ice until we can fix that."

Huh, a weird creative block, that's actually very odd. Odder still that this cancellation is news... You know, most game devs, especially indies, suffer from having so many damn ideas they have no time to try them all out. A common problem is having TOO MANY projects going on at once, and these are just a few folks with zero dollars... The games you get could have been 50 times better in most indie devs' minds, they just had to stop adding stuff at some point -- Or strip stuff out to streamline gameplay. How Strange.

FYI: If you hang out with Notch, keep your ideas to yourself, especially if it's kind of fun. Don't get Zynga'd. Don't be Notch's next Infiniminer.

Then it's a question of wether it's a private or semi-private project or something that HAS to be finished. Sadly, many (unexperienced) developers tend to give their timeframe projections during those first "proof-of-concept" days or weeks, and then become even more frustrated when they realize they can't hold the deadline and everything becomes even more painful. I think most of us have been there. And since 0x10c was a very "special" idea from the beginning, I am not as surprised as I though I would have been that the project is shelved. At least he admits that it simply wasn't fun...not an easy thing to do when you speak about your own pet-project.

The Nazis were not left-wing

Yes they were. And merely blabbering "no they were not" with zero argument won't somehow magically unmake them.

When was the last time Fox suggested that the poor should be fingerprinted for the crime of being poor.

Sounds like there's a jackboot thug a-stirring in NYC. The left will never admit it but it's still true.

Define left. "Left" no more means "everything that I don't like" than do "right", "fascist", "Communist", "Marxist", "socialist", "libertarian", "conservative", "liberal", etc..

• Absurdly underestimates the cost of elevated viaducts (for which we have centuries of engineering experience and reliable cost estimates, which Musk ignored). This alone completely wipes out the supposed cost advantage over high-speed rail, even before you consider the extreme height required of the viaducts (because of the hyperloop's large turning radius) or the unexpected costs that usually arise in implementing brand-new technologies.
• Assumes acceleration numbers that are known to be unrealistic for passenger comfort. The thing would be a vomit express.
• Has a capacity that is a fraction of high-speed rail's.
• ...and several other problems.

Levy is not dismissing it "because it sounds a bit wacky." He's dismissing it because a realistic analysis shows that it is wacky.

Nope. As nice as recent KDE is, it is still a demonstrable resource hog: http://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops/
His semi-scientific experiment matches up with my experience. I have a KDE 4.10 box and a XFCE box (both on top of Arch, so I'm reasonably aware of how they are configured) that I use regularly, and KDE is incredibly more resource intensive than XFCE, even factoring in some things I have disabled in KDE and added on to XFCE.

Reminds me precisely of this toy I messed with as a kid. 1970's. remember Micronauts Rocket Tubes? http://2warpstoneptune.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/micronauts-rocket-tubes.jpg

Totalitarianism doesn't seem to like communication, and communism was (usually) totalitarian. You'll notice from this map that many of the places with freest communication are in fact fairly socialist, an economic system that today is generally paired with democracy.

http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/reporters-without-borders-press-freedom-index-2012.jpg

There is a great discussion from Alon Levy at Pedestrian Observations. Alon is a mathematician who is very knowledgable about transit issues and rail alignments in particular.

In stark contrast to most media (which seems incapable or disinterested in addressing the engineering issues and is basically repeating a press release) he has a number of specific issues:

• The cost per mile of construction estimates are way too low, probably by a factor of 10.
• At the planned speeds or even a fraction of them, the alignments would result in much higher passenger G-forces than any existing transit (although lower than many roller coasters) (.5g allegedly for Hyperloop, although it isn't clear how they could keep it that low, versus less than half that for Shinkasen and less for European HSR.
• The throughput is completely unrealistic
• The energy use estimates are not fair comparisons
• The increased speed would not result in significantly faster times than traditional HSR to downtown destinations, due to Hyperloop ending in Sylmar, quite a distance from LA.

Well to my calculation Godaddy has the most "popular" IP-address on the Internet. http://dnsdigger.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/what-single-ip-is-the-most-crowded-on-the-internet/

Fine, then feel free to present your evidence. Oh wait, you don't have any.

Just for fun, here are some other reports
from 2012: http://milescorak.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/inequality-from-generation-to-generation-the-united-states-in-comparison-v3.pdf
from 2010: http://colorlines.com/archives/2010/02/moving_on_up_and_hitting_a_wall_social_mobility_in_the_us_and_europe.html
from 2009: http://search.oecd.org/officialdocuments/displaydocumentpdf/?doclanguage=en&cote=eco/wkp(2009)48
from 2008: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2008/2/economic%20mobility%20sawhill/02_economic_mobility_sawhill_ch3.pdf
Or some historical numbers:
http://www.chicagofed.org/digital_assets/publications/working_papers/2005/wp2005_12.pdf

That last study finds that "mobility increased from 1950 to 1980 but has declined sharply since 1980". I guess the economy must have entered a sharp decline since 1980.

Oh wait....it didn't.

In the 1920s and '30s they would be called Fat Cats. and we still don't like them.

If later I say "I shut down the service not to help terrorists, as my service was meant only for horny partners and surprise birthday parties, not to really get un-snoopable communication", then I show everyone I am an incompetent and a simpleton.

Silent Circle and Lavabit are not shutting down because they do not want to help terrorists, they are shutting down because they do not want to be complicit in the violation of their customer's rights by the United States government. These companies would rather stop existing than to be compelled participate in an illegal monitoring program.

Lavabit Statement: "I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit."

Silent Circle Statement: "We see the writing the wall, and we have decided that it is best for us to shut down Silent Mail now. We have not received subpoenas, warrants, security letters, or anything else by any government, and this is why we are acting now. "

Silent Circle offered phone, video, and text services (Silent Phone and Silent Text) to be completely end-to-end secure with all cryptography done on the clients and their exposure to our data to be nil.

They just wrote in their blog that also closes following Lavabit's shut down to not “be complicit in crimes against the American people.”

I reviewed your profile. every post you make is a troll or flame of another person. I'm so sorry, but you must be the one in need of Haldol. go tranquilize yourself up, because I don't think anyone cares about you.

now, who says this isn't real? do you know that PhD scientists exist that say it is real? how about Cheryl Welsh over at mindjustice.org, who is also listed as one of six non-lethal weapons experts in the world. she happens to run a mind control and electromagnetic weapons website, all about people being targeted, spied upon, and abused with these weapons. there are also articles in the Washington Post about it. plus, there are PhD psychologists like Dr. Carole Smith who say it exists, and numerous other articles.

you are a noob who wouldn't even fight if you were told how you were being illegally spied on, and you apparently aren't worried if the government had a weapon that could invade your mind, torture, or hurt you from miles away -- you got no protection from this, and all you want to do is troll other people for talking about it. pity dude.

Apple's PowerBook 1400 had a removable book cover style lid so you could put in pretty pictures etc. A company called Keep It Simple Systems made a solar panel that slipped right in. (TidBITS article here). Here's a quote from MacFormat magazine describing it (source):

The PowerCover is especially neat because it fits into the BookCover slot on PowerBook 1400s, so you can leave it on more or less permanently. This will extend the battery life by around 35% (the PowerCover is, after all, a bit smaller than the Mercury II). KISS claims you can expect its products to give you up to 20 years of free energy. An extreme example of these devices’ usefulness is that of Ralph Harvey, a research scientist who uses a solar charger on his PowerBook in the Antarctic where power’s clearly at a premium. [...]

If they helped get your plain text http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data and
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57593339-38/nsa-docs-boast-now-we-can-wiretap-skype-video-calls/
to Android software and..."remotely activate the microphones in phones"..
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887323997004578641993388259674-lMyQjAxMTAzMDAwMTEwNDEyWj.html
The tame, low cost, US OS are they way in.
Tor exit nodes and colluding fun back in the day:
http://themostboringblogintheworld.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/what-the-invisible-wahington-dc-tor-nodes-mean-to-you/

Sure, get your wifi pineapple, but I've already got a wifi pineapple buster.

You do realize there are 21 levels of security above the President right? Anything involved in those levels do not report to the President, Congress, or us.
21 levels above President link
The majority of people have no clue these security levels exist. Question is, why do they exist? I thought the President was Commander in Chief not peon on the street. And why are they not held accountable to Congress or us? Excuse me, they work for US, we do NOT work for them.
So yeah, these "agencies" and military do as they please, when they please with impunity. Welcome to the new America.
Afraid yet? You should be. You should be very afraid.

I'm not sure if you can use 'nym' as a standalone word... perhaps the correct term would be 'hackronym'? Also, obligatory Vint Cerf

Coincidentally, a "space engineer" whose blog I read recently mentioned something similar as a way to generate revenue from the early phase of a lunar mining operation. I'm not sure I buy the numbers, but it's an interesting concept:

I can immediately generate revenue from the use of the laser communications system. Utterly secure, 25 gigabits/sec communications with an unhackable data server would easily be worth $150-250m/year in revenue to the U.S. government, based on the cost of the Advanced EHF and other wideband military satellites. The yearly cost to support this is $1-2m dollars, thus my first infrastructure payload for mining is already generating strongly positive cash flow.

There are a lot of upsides to putting controls systems on the net. Not applauding it, just sayin'. I wrote a blog article about it; here 'tis.

Other people with access to your computer (like repair shops) could label you as child pornographer for having pictures of your grandchildren playing on it (and your cellphone would be a liability too). Your digital life must become your self-censored digital life because someone could take out of context something you did or recorded and use it against you.

I've built a protocol which endevours to use the rest of the users in the system to warn its users if the system designers we're being coerced into helping some agent. I agree with the OP in that everyone can be made to help any agent who is convincing enough but the trick is to try to design that out and better still, throw it open to being decrypted if you have the keys so you can see exactly what's being sent to keep the system honest.

Declaring an interest, this is exactly the sort of system I've built.

I've never heard of an integrated TV tuner in a tablet.

When I was in Seoul a few months ago I was surprised to learn that almost all smartphones in Korea include a integrated TV turner, complete with antenna. You could see all these people commuting on the train watching broadcast TV - Even on flip-phones.

http://modernseoul.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/south-korea-vs-qatar-cell-phone-tv.jpg

In the end, most scientist presents with a set of equations or concept to understand, will inevitably spend some time plotting out or trying to pictorially described what it means, to help understand it.

The reporter Mark Sullivan ("Our Times," ca. 1930) made good use of imaginatively conceived charts and maps in his pioneering social history of the early twentieth century. The idea caught on as a way of playfully illustrating complex statistical data, political and social analysis.

The United States of Paranoia

Librarians are well used to this... for example MARC Records and after all they've had to deal with these sort of problems for a while... 1700 years in this case who are currently in the middle of a digitization project.

If Apple is that better they would STOP letting their contractor abusing the workers a long time ago

Back in 2010-2011, another contractor, Wintek, caused deaths and injuries to several of its workers due to n-hexane exposure - including one engineer who dropped dead while working

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/technology/23apple.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Anyone can come up with any kind of policy, and what Apple is doing is merely giving lip service to their "policy"

Especially after the death and injuries that had occurred in Wintek last time, Apple ought to have wised up and ensure that their so-called "policy" be strictly followed

First of all, do you know what hard-hitting journalistic work the NYT had to do to find out about that incident? They had to look into Apple's 2011 report. That's the source they give, and they obviously didn't know about it before. Wintek used n-hexane for all products for all customers - but only apple reported the incident, and only Apple required Wintek to stop using n-hexane and to provide evidence that they had removed the chemical from their production lines.

And talking about deaths: Samsung has been poisoning their workers for years so they die of cancer - and they don't clean up their act. http://stopsamsung.wordpress.com/

Yes, Helsingin Sanomat had a transcript, which clearly showed that Tomi, erm, misunderstood things in a little too imaginative way. As he so often does.

"well look, the way he calculated the N9 numbers is wrong" coming from people who actually had the numbers

Paranoid much? What tells you that the people debunking him on the internet have the inside data? From what I know, not many people in Nokia have access to the sales figures.

After that, anyone who wants to claim Tommi is a liar needs to not only point to an untrue statement but to show hard evidence that he made it deliberately and that he knew 100% that it was untrue at the time he said it.

Right, there's always the possibility that he's just a fool who passes his imagination for the real thing.

I understand that you have publicly put too much of your credibility into Tomi to admit you've been fooled (that is, I'm not assuming you are just a Microsoft hater using whatever scraps of baloney you can find on the internet), but man, grow some capacity for critical thinking.

If there wasn't much truth in what Tommi said, then the PR people would just ignore him.

That's right, and I think they still do. If you refer to Dominies Communicate, its author has a disclaimer.

I'm pretty sure we have discussed before and you are a legitimate and open Nokia employee.

I don't remember that we did. Moreover, I'm not. Furthermore, my livelihood was impacted when Nokia axed MeeGo, so I had an opportunity to become bitter about that. But I could see why they had to do that.

http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/ruins-of-forgotten-empires-apl-languages/#comment-6301

Computer science worked better historically in part because humorless totalitarian nincompoopery hadn't been invented yet. People were more concerned with solving actual problems than paying attention to idiots who feel a need to police productive people's language for feminist ideological correctness.

You may now go fuck yourself with a carrot scraper in whatever gender-free orifice you have available. Use a for loop while you're at it.

So what do they taste like?

Insects are most closely related to crustaceans. I haven't been able to try any larger insects, but I understand (from scientists I work with, who travel to remote places in the jungle and eat food they are offered as a gift) that they're pretty much like prawns, crayfish, crab, etc.

I have eaten tiny insects (waxworms, crickets, and something else I forget) and they tasted of cajun seasoning. This was at the insect museum in New Orleans.

in many cultures, eating shellfish is considered as strange as we think eating insects is.

There are some good pictures here: http://edibug.wordpress.com/list-of-edible-insects/

Geez, what a manipulative waste of time....

Luckily not everyone is as depressed as you appear to be. Here's a nice piece of "movie criticism" based on Time,
    http://lovepirate77.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/an-unconventional-film/

https://itkan.wordpress.com/

An image is worth a thousand word. It's worth more if you've seen the movie to understand my comment, however.

mainly: http://www.iayork.com/MysteryRays/2009/09/02/measles-deaths-pre-vaccine/#comment-37709

Other discussion:
http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/graphs/#Meas_Mort_UK_USA
"The main advances in combating disease over 200 years have been better food and clean drinking water. Improved sanitation, less overcrowded and better living conditions also contribute. This is also borne out in published peer reviewed research:
    "The questionable contribution of medical measures to the decline of mortality in the United States in the twentieth century". McKinlay JB, McKinlay SM, Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc. 1977 Summer; 55(3): 405-28.
    "Symposium: Accomplishments in Child Nutrition during the 20th Century. Infant Mortality in the 20th Century, Dramatic but Uneven Progress" Myron E. Wegman School of Public Health, University of Michigan: J. Nutr. 131: 401S--408S, 2001.
. . .
The majority of third world child deaths still occur despite vaccination. These children need proper food, clean water to drink and wash in and sanitation. We give them vaccines instead."

Although comments there disagree. Note that the first article (I linked to a comment) disagrees with the second. So, read both and all the comments and make up your own mind. One issue is looking at mortality vs. incidence. But which should we really care about more? What seems clear is that, at best, the measles vaccine is preventing on the order of 100 deaths per year in the USA, compared to tens of thousands of deaths per year a century in the past most of which were eliminated before the vaccine was introduced (via quarantine, nutrition, better care, and possibly even the disease itself evolving to be less deadly).

A lot of modern medicine, it seems, is to kick the healing can down the road a little farther and keep people working and going to school, instead of taking some time off to rest at home (including while fasting which can cure many diseases by boosting the immune system and providing time and circumstances for the body to heal itself).

Didn't make the front page, but a story I submitted a while back on the emergence of tools to track anyone questioning any aspect of vaccines:
"New surveillance tool to track posts about vaccines"
http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=47163539

Thank god they didn't pray to one of their Hindu Monkey Gods for answers! What a stupid thing it would be to pray to an invisible friend in the sky looking for answers to a problem on Earth. Or in the solar system at least.

But that's the point, these stylised maps are to navigate the transport system, not to get around at a surface level. They serve different needs. When you've a map where all the lines are geographically correct it makes it hard to understand how to get from station A to station B, make out the station names and there is a lot of wasted space! Have a look at the London underground geographical map vs the actual tube map for example.

Far better to have a map that fits the purpose. If you want to navigate at the surface level, buy a proper map.

It's been beated to death already. Thankfully somebody put up a collection of refutals so that we don't have to go through this over and over again.

You are the CEO of a large, profitable and industry-dominating multinational company

.... that has been hemorrhaging its customer base badly for the last several years, to the point of becoming an underdog real soon. As people in certain hockey-crazy nations say, you skate to where the puck will be when you get there, not where it currently is.

that built its success on a strategy of massive product differentiation and close relationships with its distribution channels.

Duh, you maintain that with a software platform that can hold its own in 2010s? Nokia falling out with its distribution channels is pretty much a myth, and if the Lumia 1020 is not massive product differentiation, I don't know what is.