That the obnoxiousness of environmentalists doesn't outweigh our freedom, quality of life and overall sanity.
Personally, I fear the dangerously incompetent driving habits of the large number of slow and inattentive people on the road far more than those few fast, aggressive drivers. A Prius makes me fear for my safety a lot more than a Ferrari does.
I fear for the blind people endangered by silent electric cars far more than I fear the noise of a Ferrari, or even an environmentalist's old, clanky biodiesel.
In the end, at least a Ferrari adds beauty to the world, art on wheels, while a Prius just makes the world an uglier place.
I studied such as system in the IRS in school, and have worked with some DoD systems live. One problem is too many stovepipes, often dozens. All the data and business processes have to be integrated into the main system without an interruption of service.
To make it harder, the business processes are often convoluted and the data isn't normalized or even clean. I have seen, literally, layman-made (as in "some dude in the office knew Access and put this together") Access databases holding important information for tens of thousands of people. If the data is about people, even a 1% error rate in conversion means thousands to millions of people complaining. Imagine your tax record is one of the problem records, how it could screw up your life.
To make it even harder, add the political/contracting component, and often powerful users resistant to moving to a new system.
They already pulled back Disney's copyrights when they were about to expire. They already tried to make recording artists' work a "work for hire" with the copyright going to the label. Before the labels lose this revenue they will try, and may succeed, in having another law passed that will extend the period.
What if the government did get off their backs, but the company was also 100% responsible for any damages related to unsafe operation? What happened here would be a death sentence for TEPCO, but becuase of the government involvement, TEPCO will survive its mistakes.
The DMCA was almost entirely bought by the MAFIAA and so served their interests. The major exception was that the ISPs fought to have safe harbor included to protect their interests. Now the MAFIAA is going for round two, trying to eliminate the major part of the DMCA that didn't get written to their liking.
Next up: The triennial exemption rule. They're tired of fighting exemptions every three years, so this won't last long.
Notice nothing in this has a "for the people" ring to it.
The WHO is making both correct and incorrect statements
And of course you think the one about thimerosol being safe is incorrect. You can't cite the WHO as an authoritative source on the subject, and then pick and choose which WHO statements are authoritative.
The whole reason that budgets are so expensive and money is so limited is due to the polices that allow the pharmaceutical industry to enrich themselves at the cost of everyone else.
Whatever any other factors are, we remain with the basic fact that thimerosol is cheap, the alternatives more expensive, whether manufactured by companies or the government itself. So let's say you change our system a bit and save a billion dollars. Would you rather apply that to getting healthcare to more people or apply it to being able to afford vaccines that are now more expensive to manufacture and deliver due to a mercury ban?
What was the incentive for Dr. Salk to create the polio vaccine without a patent that exclusively gave himself or a corporate backer the right to manufacture said vaccine?
The incentive then was to cure the disease, and he had some funding. He also had a lot of volunteer help throughout the country and a relatively simple regulatory process. Today, the effort would cost billions, take decades, and expose Salk to numerous lawsuits.
There's a question for you. If your procedure is under the auspices of government, who do people sue in the case of wrongdoing? Sovereign immunity.
There are many solutions to the issue of R&D funding - I favor a bounty/reward system
We already have a reward-result system, where we pay universities to research things. Unfortunately, they now get to patent what was developed on the taxpayers' time. I do agree that patenting needs to stop. But would you prevent companies from coming up with cures on their own?
Developing nations with poor restrictions have become dumping grounds for all sorts of hazardous substances because its cheaper.
And that issue is completely divorced from the issue of mercury in vaccines, since it is safe. There is no reason to prohibit something that is safe and cheap. You're trying to make life-saving ventures more expensive just to satisfy irrational fears. You're going all over the map with tangents to try to get away from this basic fact.
It would land with parachutes, wait for the dropping plane to clear the area, and explode. This would send a shock wave through the ground to the bunker.
Even the new B61 has an airburst option, and dial-a-yield too (actually, even some older warheads had dial-a-yield, such as the Lance).
The costs of making safer vaccines are in the range of pennies
Times billions. Who do you propose pay for it?
There was actually a pretty decent WHO report on this not long ago that applies to ALL medicine.
WHO also says "there is no evidence of toxicity in infants, children or adults exposed to thiomersal (containing ethyl mercury) in vaccines."
The mildly increased cost can easily be handled by a variety of options from eliminating drug patents
What is the incentive to create the drugs anymore then?
to making laws against these adulterants in medical equipments
That doesn't "handle" the increased cost, it creates the increased cost. Here we are, trying to vaccinate as many kids as possible on a limited budget, and here come people like you trying to make the vaccination more expensive.
There are multitudes of benefits that come from this kind of ban.
There are absolutely none. The ban is just to appease people who cringe at the word "mercury" and believe fraudulent studies.
Highest average pay in the country, yet very low in the education rankings. It mainly goes by seniority, so if you taught for only three years you were entry-level.
Many of those teachers protesting in Wisconsin were making well over $80,000 per year, and Wisconsin is only in the middle for teacher pay. The average California pay is over $60,000.
As you say, Finland accepts only the best, trains them well and lets them do their thing. It does work.
But the US spends more per child on education than Finland does. We're actually ranked #4 in the world, way ahead of Finland. So saying "more money" without serious reform for quality of education just means throwing more money down a hole where it won't necessarily make anything better.
The DoD space budget is already around $17 billion (fluctuates higher and lower). The money that isn't, or wasn't, directly paid to NASA for launches and such basically takes over what NASA would have had to pay for if the DoD hadn't. So consider NASA's budget effectively doubled.
So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so many technologies can be traced back to the defense spending too. The DoD budget even pays for building, launching and running our GPS system.
A Core 2 Duo with 4 GB RAM, but you'll be waiting forever.
Just like with games, there's minimum specs that technically will work, just nobody's going to be happy with it. This is recommended specs, what the average developer could be happy with.
But, that truth being said, I still wouldn't mind him as president. Right now we have the powers that be going in disastrous directions, so there's no way Paul could get all of his wishes even with presidential power. However, being president he would have the power to change the course slightly towards something more sane. A sane middle-roader could at best keep the status quo.
One of his openness promises was that he "will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days."
He signed the non-emergency SCHIP program extension on Feb 4, 2009, only hours after it passed Congress.
Non-ionizing radiation can heat molecules through excitation. It is conceivable that enough could heat tissue so much that DNA is damaged, but that is absolutely beyond the abilities of a cell phone. It's sticking your head in a microwave oven.
It CANNOT directly mutate DNA like ionizing radiation does, which means stripping off electrons. This mutagenic property of ionizing radiation is the normal association between radiation and cancer.
At the upper edge of non-ionizing radiation and going into ionizing radiation is ultraviolet light, which can cause skin cancer through free radicals. Below this is visible light, which can still excite electrons. Below this is microwaves, and at the very bottom end of microwave is where microwave ovens and the highest frequency cell phones operate (although at orders of magnitude lower power levels) as well as WiFi and many other applications.
It is not PROVEN that it does or can cause these cancers or have effects, but is also not proven that it CANT.
It is not PROVEN that my cat can beat me at chess, but it is also not proven that it CAN'T. However, I'm betting that it can't.
is highly susceptable to mutation from outside radiation
Make that ionizing radiation. It can strip electrons, damage DNA. Cell phones produce non-ionizing radiation. They don't have enough energy to damage DNA.
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That the obnoxiousness of environmentalists doesn't outweigh our freedom, quality of life and overall sanity.
Personally, I fear the dangerously incompetent driving habits of the large number of slow and inattentive people on the road far more than those few fast, aggressive drivers. A Prius makes me fear for my safety a lot more than a Ferrari does.
I fear for the blind people endangered by silent electric cars far more than I fear the noise of a Ferrari, or even an environmentalist's old, clanky biodiesel.
In the end, at least a Ferrari adds beauty to the world, art on wheels, while a Prius just makes the world an uglier place.
I studied such as system in the IRS in school, and have worked with some DoD systems live. One problem is too many stovepipes, often dozens. All the data and business processes have to be integrated into the main system without an interruption of service.
To make it harder, the business processes are often convoluted and the data isn't normalized or even clean. I have seen, literally, layman-made (as in "some dude in the office knew Access and put this together") Access databases holding important information for tens of thousands of people. If the data is about people, even a 1% error rate in conversion means thousands to millions of people complaining. Imagine your tax record is one of the problem records, how it could screw up your life.
To make it even harder, add the political/contracting component, and often powerful users resistant to moving to a new system.
They already pulled back Disney's copyrights when they were about to expire. They already tried to make recording artists' work a "work for hire" with the copyright going to the label. Before the labels lose this revenue they will try, and may succeed, in having another law passed that will extend the period.
To make sure you don't get things like the earlier ultra-sluggish Android phones which makes for a very poor user experience.
But any modern mid-range phone hardware meets the minimum specs.
What if the government did get off their backs, but the company was also 100% responsible for any damages related to unsafe operation? What happened here would be a death sentence for TEPCO, but becuase of the government involvement, TEPCO will survive its mistakes.
The DMCA was almost entirely bought by the MAFIAA and so served their interests. The major exception was that the ISPs fought to have safe harbor included to protect their interests. Now the MAFIAA is going for round two, trying to eliminate the major part of the DMCA that didn't get written to their liking.
Next up: The triennial exemption rule. They're tired of fighting exemptions every three years, so this won't last long.
Notice nothing in this has a "for the people" ring to it.
By making quality stuff.
Apple could start making crap and coast on brand for a while before people got wise, but that obviously hasn't happened yet.
We rolled right over the Republican Guard. Sometimes literally when we couldn't be bothered to slow down to fight them.
Apple was offered billions by Google over Android, and turned it down. To Jobs it was about the product, not the money, and copycats pissed him off.
And of course you think the one about thimerosol being safe is incorrect. You can't cite the WHO as an authoritative source on the subject, and then pick and choose which WHO statements are authoritative.
Whatever any other factors are, we remain with the basic fact that thimerosol is cheap, the alternatives more expensive, whether manufactured by companies or the government itself. So let's say you change our system a bit and save a billion dollars. Would you rather apply that to getting healthcare to more people or apply it to being able to afford vaccines that are now more expensive to manufacture and deliver due to a mercury ban?
The incentive then was to cure the disease, and he had some funding. He also had a lot of volunteer help throughout the country and a relatively simple regulatory process. Today, the effort would cost billions, take decades, and expose Salk to numerous lawsuits.
There's a question for you. If your procedure is under the auspices of government, who do people sue in the case of wrongdoing? Sovereign immunity.
We already have a reward-result system, where we pay universities to research things. Unfortunately, they now get to patent what was developed on the taxpayers' time. I do agree that patenting needs to stop. But would you prevent companies from coming up with cures on their own?
And that issue is completely divorced from the issue of mercury in vaccines, since it is safe. There is no reason to prohibit something that is safe and cheap. You're trying to make life-saving ventures more expensive just to satisfy irrational fears. You're going all over the map with tangents to try to get away from this basic fact.
It would land with parachutes, wait for the dropping plane to clear the area, and explode. This would send a shock wave through the ground to the bunker.
Even the new B61 has an airburst option, and dial-a-yield too (actually, even some older warheads had dial-a-yield, such as the Lance).
Times billions. Who do you propose pay for it?
WHO also says "there is no evidence of toxicity in infants, children or adults exposed to thiomersal (containing ethyl mercury) in vaccines."
What is the incentive to create the drugs anymore then?
That doesn't "handle" the increased cost, it creates the increased cost. Here we are, trying to vaccinate as many kids as possible on a limited budget, and here come people like you trying to make the vaccination more expensive.
There are absolutely none. The ban is just to appease people who cringe at the word "mercury" and believe fraudulent studies.
US, #4, by money spent per student.
Highest average pay in the country, yet very low in the education rankings. It mainly goes by seniority, so if you taught for only three years you were entry-level.
Many of those teachers protesting in Wisconsin were making well over $80,000 per year, and Wisconsin is only in the middle for teacher pay. The average California pay is over $60,000.
As you say, Finland accepts only the best, trains them well and lets them do their thing. It does work.
But the US spends more per child on education than Finland does. We're actually ranked #4 in the world, way ahead of Finland. So saying "more money" without serious reform for quality of education just means throwing more money down a hole where it won't necessarily make anything better.
The DoD space budget is already around $17 billion (fluctuates higher and lower). The money that isn't, or wasn't, directly paid to NASA for launches and such basically takes over what NASA would have had to pay for if the DoD hadn't. So consider NASA's budget effectively doubled.
So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so many technologies can be traced back to the defense spending too. The DoD budget even pays for building, launching and running our GPS system.
I can't believe all these posts and no Dead Like Me reference yet.
A Core 2 Duo with 4 GB RAM, but you'll be waiting forever.
Just like with games, there's minimum specs that technically will work, just nobody's going to be happy with it. This is recommended specs, what the average developer could be happy with.
But, that truth being said, I still wouldn't mind him as president. Right now we have the powers that be going in disastrous directions, so there's no way Paul could get all of his wishes even with presidential power. However, being president he would have the power to change the course slightly towards something more sane. A sane middle-roader could at best keep the status quo.
One of his openness promises was that he "will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days."
He signed the non-emergency SCHIP program extension on Feb 4, 2009, only hours after it passed Congress.
We have a part of a cemetery in France holding the bodies of US soldiers we executed during WWII for breaking the rules, mostly rape and murder.
China at various times has conquered most of central and Southeast Asia.
Non-ionizing radiation can heat molecules through excitation. It is conceivable that enough could heat tissue so much that DNA is damaged, but that is absolutely beyond the abilities of a cell phone. It's sticking your head in a microwave oven.
It CANNOT directly mutate DNA like ionizing radiation does, which means stripping off electrons. This mutagenic property of ionizing radiation is the normal association between radiation and cancer.
At the upper edge of non-ionizing radiation and going into ionizing radiation is ultraviolet light, which can cause skin cancer through free radicals. Below this is visible light, which can still excite electrons. Below this is microwaves, and at the very bottom end of microwave is where microwave ovens and the highest frequency cell phones operate (although at orders of magnitude lower power levels) as well as WiFi and many other applications.
It is not PROVEN that my cat can beat me at chess, but it is also not proven that it CAN'T. However, I'm betting that it can't.
When it's government money spent in a period of high US unemployment, 500 manufacturing jobs is everything.
Make that ionizing radiation. It can strip electrons, damage DNA. Cell phones produce non-ionizing radiation. They don't have enough energy to damage DNA.