The problem with allowing people the right to refuse vaccinations is that it impacts the wider community. Anti-vaccination has become an issue in Australia and the herd immunisation rates are falling. As a result of this there have been outbreaks of measles and whooping cough, the latest whooping cough outbreak being responsible for the death of an infant.
As for profit incentives and things like that. There is almost no profit in vaccines. It is the reason why governments around the world had to pool money in order to fund their research and manufacture. There is far more money in a margin cancer drug or a fat burning pill.
In the end we live in societies and being in those societies cost us some personal freedoms for the greater good. We pay taxes for services, we have laws that we must abide by, all of these are in effect giving up personal freedoms and power in return for societies advantages. Having infectious disease vaccines is something that you should do for yourself but also for society.
The particular vaccine you identified as having issues is a flu vaccine and flu vaccines by their nature are a higher risk vaccine. They have to be developed on short time scales based on which ever flu variant is in existence at that time. There were issues with a flu jab a couple of years ago in Australia that saw a young child die. As a result there is no push for flu vaccines to be mandatory or recommended for younger people. The MMR, Polio, Smallpox, HPV etc vaccines however are long tested, mature and safe. They should not be put into the same category as the flu vaccine.
In Australia your child's vaccinations are tracked by Medicare our centralised medical care provider. There was an error in the paperwork for my youngest which meant they thought she had missed one of her jabs. We were contact via mail and phone to check that this was the case and to see if there was a reason why. The person who called was obviously prepared to shoot down anti-vax arguments, but in our case our daughter had had them, it was an error in reporting by our local GP.
Australia has just instituted a policy that if you child is unvaxinated you lose any and all child support and wellfare. Dependent on your income this can be as much as $15k per child per year. This has happened as a response to whooping cough and measles outbreaks because of stupid anti-vax people.
One of my favourite places to visit is Yamagata and near to it Yamadera. There is an amazing shrine / temple complex at Yamadera that no tourists seem to ever go there. When we went there the owner of the cafe we stopped at was so excited to give us his english menu as it was the first time he had used it since he made it 5 years earlier.
Noise I can understand. As for the waiting for a train for first responders - I take it the train isn't elevated (I know nothing at all about the proposed design) but surely for a highspeed train you wouldn't want cars driving over the track, potentially getting stuck, dropping things.... I would have thought, perhaps wrongly, you would want either over or under passes for any road / rail crossings..... Christ the shinkansen is continuously welded rail because the joints were considered a risk, having a train doing 300+ and potentially hitting a stuck cement truck is insane!
Have fun! I did Tokyo, Nagano, Takiyama and Kyoto this time (4th visit to Japan). The snow monkeys near Nagano were very cool. The closest I have come to Onomichi and Fukayama is passing through them on the Shinkansen on the way to Hiroshima. One day we have the dream of owning a holiday house in Hiroshima we loved it that much.
Building the extra track is by far the more sensible option. It is also far less than double the cost. You already have all the machinery in place and people working on the design and build. The actual physical track cost is relatively small (compared to the total build cost). It would however still increase the cost, particularly of tunnels as they tend to be round so a small increase in size is multiplied massively.
Breakdowns will screw the entire system anyway. Whether or not it is a local or express setup. As for running late you are able to do pretty accurate modelling of how much trains will be delayed by high volumes of passengers. If you take the 95% percentile of station delay time and double that in your scheduling it will only be major cockups which impact the expresses.
Yeah I'm the same. I have these heated wars break out in my facebook feed.
Even more fun though is we have a friend who is expecting her second child in about 3 months and a person in the same friend group who is an anti-vaxer. Because there has been an outbreak of whooping cough (due to anti-vaxers) the expectant mum has said she wont be anywhere near the other mum or their child until her child has all the jabs.
That said the current government has just introduced new legislation that says if your kids haven't had their jabs you lose all child related wellfare. Dependent on your income that could be as much as $15k a year per child.
Thanks. I was under the impression they had connected a local line to all the Shinkansen stations. They have in Shin-Karashiki but from what I can see Shin-Onomichi doesn't have a connection to the local lines.
Of-course you do have to change platforms at a minimum and in some of Japan's stations that can mean a hell of a walk, they are that huge.
There is always an alternative approach, which is to have express and stopping all stations trains. Build the stations. The cost of an additional slab and building is relatively low in the total cost then have expresses stop at the majors and skip the smaller stations.
In Japan the Shinkansen stations are connected to or part of a larger general network station. The idea is that they connect hub stations to each other, not that the shinkansens are a stand alone station for the location.
As for security. You walk to them and get on. I was there 3 weeks ago with my family towing suitcases. No one even looked twice at us. The trains are wider than an aircraft and the seats much more comfortable. You also have the choice between allocated and non allocated seating.
Because there is no security, baggage check/reclaim, early boarding time and the stations are in main areas they end up being faster than flying in short distance travel. Finally because they are well connected stations already you catch the tube to the shinkansen alleviating any parking issues.
According to Oxfam (biased towards putting the wealth into the 1% category) 48% of the worlds wealth is held by the top 1% - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.... 48% of $250 Trillion is $120 Trillion.
$120 Trillion / 70 million is $1,714,285. Which shows if you want to get into the top 1% you need nearly 5 times as much money as you suggest.
I have 2 kids and I have some sympathy for the family and I can say that before having had my kids I wouldn't have.
According to the article both the parents are doctors so it would be fair to assume they are not stupid. They probably know that there is almost no chance of their daughter ever being restored, in fact they probably know it better than most. It would also be fair to assume that both being doctors that they are well paid, so $40,000 may not be that large an amount of money.
If one of my girls was dying and there was a random highly unlikely treatment I could try for $40k I can safely say I would do it. Would I get one of them frozen? Probably not but more for the points you made about everything from her past being long dead. The author Peter F. Hamilton actually uses suspension, where people are frozen for 1000 years or more, as criminal punishment in some of his novels.
As for the research, brain cancer in children is extremely nasty. It moves very very quickly and is fatal pretty much every time. It is also not that rare. The medical institutions will have already had everything they could use for research from her already. Having taking most of the left hemisphere there was little more her body could have been used for.
Except what if you want to land where there are no crews.
The barge is there because they are currently not allowed to land on the ground. The people monitoring it are there because this is still experimental. I would expect that a funnel would create all kinds of hard to predict blowback from the rocket itself and present its own engineering challenges.
If you consider Musk's stated goal of landing on Mars then landing without anything other than a flat patch of ground becomes necessary.
I believe the aim though is to require no special landing equipment. Given these tests are essentially covered in the launch price for the ISS SpaceX are likely to keep trying unassisted landings until they either succeed or say it is outside their capability.
It's a fireblast though rather than an explosion. When the rocket falls over the tank is ruptured and the fuel vapours pour out and are ignited. This then results in a flash fire and a pretty impressive fireball. There is nothing of any real strength containing the blast pressure so most of the energy is dissipated harmlessly into the air.
You would probably find the surface of the vessel is something like thin concrete over a steel plate. The concrete will likely only have minor damage that can simply be patched. If the hull hasn't been breached and the engines undamaged it is good to go.
I'm not sure if you a trolling or not.... The LG circle case is a folio style case so it has a door that closes over the screen. The case then has a small circle cut in it and the phone tailors your message notifications to fit inside the small circle. This way if you phone bleeps you can see what the message was without opening the phone case. You can also see who is calling you and answer / decline calls via the small window.
This role is to be an AO7 band 2 with a salary of $68,000. Now the private sector pays $180,000 for the same skillset so we are willing to offer a salary of $180,000 on a contract basis. The duration of the contract is 5 years.
This is a stupid policy, but irrespective of that it will be circumvented by the direct line managers before it is even put in place.
HR rule - All employees of a categorisation must be paid the same.
Hiring Manager - OK HR. Please create the new position Systems Engineer Class 7a please. This role is paid X.
HR - But you were hiring for a Systems Engineer Class 2.
Hiring Manager - Correct but we have had some scope change and require a Class 7a which is exactly the same as a Class 2 but paid $3,600 a year more and happens to look exactly like Joe Blogs here.
Also Dallas Buyers is rated in the 90%+ on rotten tomatoes. I've never seen it so I can't comment but if your movie flopped financially, but was critically acclaimed it would be easy to convince yourself it was all down to piracy.
The $5 Million budget was the cost of the film to be made. Out of that you need to take the costs of the cinemas, DVD production, advertising etc.
The box office take was $55 million for the movie. A quick bit of googling showed me that, on average, 51% of movie ticket prices go to the film studio. So gross revenue on the $55m comes down to $28m straight away. Then you need to guess what the advertising budget was. Old information says that in 2007 the AVERAGE spend on marketing hollywood movies was $37 million. Even if you halve that you are looking at cutting take down to under $10 million.
I have no idea what the other costs will be but it would not be hard to make a big dint in the remaining $5 million profit.
Because Dallas Buyers Club made almost no money. In total it made $59 million and out of that had to come all the expenses.
In comparison Frozen grossed $1.219 Billion at the box office alone. Lets not even count the merchandising on that film. That is why you don't see Disney suing over Frozen. They made their money and know they will destroy a cash cow in the process.
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The problem with allowing people the right to refuse vaccinations is that it impacts the wider community. Anti-vaccination has become an issue in Australia and the herd immunisation rates are falling. As a result of this there have been outbreaks of measles and whooping cough, the latest whooping cough outbreak being responsible for the death of an infant.
As for profit incentives and things like that. There is almost no profit in vaccines. It is the reason why governments around the world had to pool money in order to fund their research and manufacture. There is far more money in a margin cancer drug or a fat burning pill.
In the end we live in societies and being in those societies cost us some personal freedoms for the greater good. We pay taxes for services, we have laws that we must abide by, all of these are in effect giving up personal freedoms and power in return for societies advantages. Having infectious disease vaccines is something that you should do for yourself but also for society.
The particular vaccine you identified as having issues is a flu vaccine and flu vaccines by their nature are a higher risk vaccine. They have to be developed on short time scales based on which ever flu variant is in existence at that time. There were issues with a flu jab a couple of years ago in Australia that saw a young child die. As a result there is no push for flu vaccines to be mandatory or recommended for younger people. The MMR, Polio, Smallpox, HPV etc vaccines however are long tested, mature and safe. They should not be put into the same category as the flu vaccine.
In Australia your child's vaccinations are tracked by Medicare our centralised medical care provider. There was an error in the paperwork for my youngest which meant they thought she had missed one of her jabs. We were contact via mail and phone to check that this was the case and to see if there was a reason why. The person who called was obviously prepared to shoot down anti-vax arguments, but in our case our daughter had had them, it was an error in reporting by our local GP.
Australia has just instituted a policy that if you child is unvaxinated you lose any and all child support and wellfare. Dependent on your income this can be as much as $15k per child per year. This has happened as a response to whooping cough and measles outbreaks because of stupid anti-vax people.
One of my favourite places to visit is Yamagata and near to it Yamadera. There is an amazing shrine / temple complex at Yamadera that no tourists seem to ever go there. When we went there the owner of the cafe we stopped at was so excited to give us his english menu as it was the first time he had used it since he made it 5 years earlier.
Noise I can understand. As for the waiting for a train for first responders - I take it the train isn't elevated (I know nothing at all about the proposed design) but surely for a highspeed train you wouldn't want cars driving over the track, potentially getting stuck, dropping things.... I would have thought, perhaps wrongly, you would want either over or under passes for any road / rail crossings..... Christ the shinkansen is continuously welded rail because the joints were considered a risk, having a train doing 300+ and potentially hitting a stuck cement truck is insane!
I agree with this and have proposed it many times before. It doesn't even need to be long. 1 minute would kill HFT.
Have fun! I did Tokyo, Nagano, Takiyama and Kyoto this time (4th visit to Japan). The snow monkeys near Nagano were very cool. The closest I have come to Onomichi and Fukayama is passing through them on the Shinkansen on the way to Hiroshima. One day we have the dream of owning a holiday house in Hiroshima we loved it that much.
Building the extra track is by far the more sensible option. It is also far less than double the cost. You already have all the machinery in place and people working on the design and build. The actual physical track cost is relatively small (compared to the total build cost). It would however still increase the cost, particularly of tunnels as they tend to be round so a small increase in size is multiplied massively.
Breakdowns will screw the entire system anyway. Whether or not it is a local or express setup. As for running late you are able to do pretty accurate modelling of how much trains will be delayed by high volumes of passengers. If you take the 95% percentile of station delay time and double that in your scheduling it will only be major cockups which impact the expresses.
Yeah I'm the same. I have these heated wars break out in my facebook feed.
Even more fun though is we have a friend who is expecting her second child in about 3 months and a person in the same friend group who is an anti-vaxer. Because there has been an outbreak of whooping cough (due to anti-vaxers) the expectant mum has said she wont be anywhere near the other mum or their child until her child has all the jabs.
That said the current government has just introduced new legislation that says if your kids haven't had their jabs you lose all child related wellfare. Dependent on your income that could be as much as $15k a year per child.
Thanks. I was under the impression they had connected a local line to all the Shinkansen stations. They have in Shin-Karashiki but from what I can see Shin-Onomichi doesn't have a connection to the local lines.
Of-course you do have to change platforms at a minimum and in some of Japan's stations that can mean a hell of a walk, they are that huge.
There is always an alternative approach, which is to have express and stopping all stations trains. Build the stations. The cost of an additional slab and building is relatively low in the total cost then have expresses stop at the majors and skip the smaller stations.
In Japan the Shinkansen stations are connected to or part of a larger general network station. The idea is that they connect hub stations to each other, not that the shinkansens are a stand alone station for the location.
As for security. You walk to them and get on. I was there 3 weeks ago with my family towing suitcases. No one even looked twice at us. The trains are wider than an aircraft and the seats much more comfortable. You also have the choice between allocated and non allocated seating.
Because there is no security, baggage check/reclaim, early boarding time and the stations are in main areas they end up being faster than flying in short distance travel. Finally because they are well connected stations already you catch the tube to the shinkansen alleviating any parking issues.
No I think your maths is broken.
Current world population 7 billion. 1% of 7 billion is 70 million.
Credit Suisse estimates world wealth at over $250 Trillion - https://publications.credit-su...
According to Oxfam (biased towards putting the wealth into the 1% category) 48% of the worlds wealth is held by the top 1% - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.... 48% of $250 Trillion is $120 Trillion.
$120 Trillion / 70 million is $1,714,285. Which shows if you want to get into the top 1% you need nearly 5 times as much money as you suggest.
I have 2 kids and I have some sympathy for the family and I can say that before having had my kids I wouldn't have.
According to the article both the parents are doctors so it would be fair to assume they are not stupid. They probably know that there is almost no chance of their daughter ever being restored, in fact they probably know it better than most. It would also be fair to assume that both being doctors that they are well paid, so $40,000 may not be that large an amount of money.
If one of my girls was dying and there was a random highly unlikely treatment I could try for $40k I can safely say I would do it. Would I get one of them frozen? Probably not but more for the points you made about everything from her past being long dead. The author Peter F. Hamilton actually uses suspension, where people are frozen for 1000 years or more, as criminal punishment in some of his novels.
As for the research, brain cancer in children is extremely nasty. It moves very very quickly and is fatal pretty much every time. It is also not that rare. The medical institutions will have already had everything they could use for research from her already. Having taking most of the left hemisphere there was little more her body could have been used for.
My 2 year old was frozen and thawed. She has 5 twins still sitting in the freezer.
Except what if you want to land where there are no crews.
The barge is there because they are currently not allowed to land on the ground. The people monitoring it are there because this is still experimental. I would expect that a funnel would create all kinds of hard to predict blowback from the rocket itself and present its own engineering challenges.
If you consider Musk's stated goal of landing on Mars then landing without anything other than a flat patch of ground becomes necessary.
I believe the aim though is to require no special landing equipment. Given these tests are essentially covered in the launch price for the ISS SpaceX are likely to keep trying unassisted landings until they either succeed or say it is outside their capability.
It's a fireblast though rather than an explosion. When the rocket falls over the tank is ruptured and the fuel vapours pour out and are ignited. This then results in a flash fire and a pretty impressive fireball. There is nothing of any real strength containing the blast pressure so most of the energy is dissipated harmlessly into the air.
You would probably find the surface of the vessel is something like thin concrete over a steel plate. The concrete will likely only have minor damage that can simply be patched. If the hull hasn't been breached and the engines undamaged it is good to go.
I'm not sure if you a trolling or not.... The LG circle case is a folio style case so it has a door that closes over the screen. The case then has a small circle cut in it and the phone tailors your message notifications to fit inside the small circle. This way if you phone bleeps you can see what the message was without opening the phone case. You can also see who is calling you and answer / decline calls via the small window.
Or they will do it the way Governments do it.
This role is to be an AO7 band 2 with a salary of $68,000. Now the private sector pays $180,000 for the same skillset so we are willing to offer a salary of $180,000 on a contract basis. The duration of the contract is 5 years.
This is a stupid policy, but irrespective of that it will be circumvented by the direct line managers before it is even put in place.
HR rule - All employees of a categorisation must be paid the same.
Hiring Manager - OK HR. Please create the new position Systems Engineer Class 7a please. This role is paid X.
HR - But you were hiring for a Systems Engineer Class 2.
Hiring Manager - Correct but we have had some scope change and require a Class 7a which is exactly the same as a Class 2 but paid $3,600 a year more and happens to look exactly like Joe Blogs here.
Also Dallas Buyers is rated in the 90%+ on rotten tomatoes. I've never seen it so I can't comment but if your movie flopped financially, but was critically acclaimed it would be easy to convince yourself it was all down to piracy.
The $5 Million budget was the cost of the film to be made. Out of that you need to take the costs of the cinemas, DVD production, advertising etc.
The box office take was $55 million for the movie. A quick bit of googling showed me that, on average, 51% of movie ticket prices go to the film studio. So gross revenue on the $55m comes down to $28m straight away. Then you need to guess what the advertising budget was. Old information says that in 2007 the AVERAGE spend on marketing hollywood movies was $37 million. Even if you halve that you are looking at cutting take down to under $10 million.
I have no idea what the other costs will be but it would not be hard to make a big dint in the remaining $5 million profit.
The Hobbit had earned a billion by the end of January 2013.....
Because Dallas Buyers Club made almost no money. In total it made $59 million and out of that had to come all the expenses.
In comparison Frozen grossed $1.219 Billion at the box office alone. Lets not even count the merchandising on that film. That is why you don't see Disney suing over Frozen. They made their money and know they will destroy a cash cow in the process.