I believe Obama has other things on his schedule and the web site was probably delegated to others- maybe to contractors. I don't think that congress or the president is directly involved in managing the web site, so an absence of that level of management doesn't seem like a contributing factor. I suspect the problem lies in the absence of $ due to the shutdown. Contractors don't usually work unless they get paid.
The NYSE trading system is continually being upgraded to handle increasing traffic and contractors get paid to keep it all working. I would bet that if you stopped paying the people who keep it running you'd quickly see similar problems.
You're forgetting the "buy American" mentality that affects so many. And yes, it is generally older people who buy Cadillacs, many of whom were left with impressions from WWII and would not drive a German or Japanese car. Also, since they are rather expensive, older people are the one's with the means to afford such a car.
There are a lot of people who spend $k to by a wrist watch even though there are perfectly good and accurate watches available for $20. Watches are functional jewelry. A lot of people avoid digital watches because they aren't usually very nice looking.
There is a large segment of the US population that regards cars not just as transportation, but also a statement about themselves. Cadillac has always been a prestige brand. People who buy Cadillacs aren't interested in diving a Chevy volt because Chevy is a blue-collar brand. The fact that it costs more than a Volt or Tesla makes it MORE attractive to Cadillac buyers.
'Some individuals are predisposed to see the world more darkly than others,' Todd said. 'What we found is that a previously known genetic variation causes some individuals to perceive the world more vividly than others and, particularly, negative aspects of the world.'"
I'm tired of trying to be part of the solution. I want to be part of the problem.
I want to start by getting a Hummer, and not one of those tiny, wimpy, ones. I want one of the originals. I'm going to convert it to burn coal. I want to leave a trail of greasy soot that can be seen from space, everywhere I go.
We are doomed to destroying this planet long before we are capable of leaving it. We might as well go out with a bang!
In one sentence it says "Steve Jobs was... famously involved in designing the glass stairs at the Apple stores. " And then a sentence or two later it says "One key is that micromanagers must be experts." So Jobs was an expert on glass staircases?
done to determine whether this type of brush is effective, or more specifically, whether it is MORE effective than brushing with a standard manual or electric brush. At that price, it better be MORE effective.
Faith is where it's at! Looking at "science" journals is like looking at internet pron- it's a one way ticket to H-E-double hockeysticks! You need some proper churchin'!
computing. Right now, the vast majority of offerings come with Win 8 which no one seems to want. It will either drive desktop sales to Apple or if Goog isn't dumb, they'll solve the problem by providing desktops with Android or Chrome OS. Of course, linux is always lurking, but most people will stay away from linux because it is too different from what they are used to. It's too bad- linux has had MS beat on reliability for years, but people don't seem to care about reliability.
MS is just another also-ran in tablets like they are in phones and were in music players. Now they are becoming irrelevant in the desktop market, too.
I predict an accelerating increase in "update" frequency to my Win 7 installation to make sure it becomes unusable as quickly as possible (as was done with XP when Win 7 came out).
Back in the 1800's, people with asthma were told to go to live in desert environments like Phoenix to avoid all the allergens that can trigger asthma attacks. Doctors told people to do this even into the 20th century. The result is a huge concentration of the genes for asthma (and people with asthma) in the Phoenix/Arizona area.
The whole US is similar. The US was founded by religious zealots who were driven out of European countries because they were too nutz and people couldn't stand them any more. The genes for that brand of nuttiness have been mixing and gaining strength in the US ever since.
I'd like to see gun nutz go off to live somewhere (maybe the Citadel?) where their genes can similarly gather strength away from the rest of civilization. By strengthening that gene the problem will eventually solve itself- sooner or later they'll start letting children (not adults with child-like mentality, but actual children) carry guns and then the'll kill each other off before they can reproduce and we will have finally cleared the American gene pool of that bit of pollution.
No, I think they get paid so much because the TV networks charge huge amounts for the commercials that run during games and the players hire agents/lawyers that are good at getting a piece of the pie.
If they don't kill themselves or their family members first. All we need is a bunch of amateurs walking around with guns looking for any excuse to start shooting. Protect me? You gotta be kidding!
cynical comment on America's infantile fascination with things that go "bang!". I hope they display it along side binky's and other such icons of preintellectual babyishness.
There are a million possible explanations. Everyone is different. Caries is a function of personal habits, exposure to fluoride, both systemic and topical, your immune system, the anatomy of your teeth, diet, etc. There is no way to explain specifically why one person gets more cavities than another.
I hear patients tell me that they've never had problems with their teeth until they started going to the dentist. People seem to think that if there is nothing causing pain there is nothing wrong. That could not be further from the truth. I have extracted hundreds of teeth from people with mountain-dew mouth and meth mouth who have multiple teeth rotted down to the gum line. I always ask if any of those teeth ever hurt and frequently they tell me that those teeth never caused any discomfort at all. I don't know why, but it happens a lot. If lack of pain is the only measure of your own oral health I have two things to say to you: 1) go see a dentist anyway. 2) I wish you continued luck.
People say "Why should I go to the dentist- my teeth don't hurt. Every time I go there they want to take x-rays and drill holes in my teeth, and even pull some of them out, even though there is nothing wrong with them. I think it's just a racket to separate me from my money." So they don't go to the dentist and their conspiracy theory becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When they go to a dentist once every ten years they end up getting drilled and filled (if they are lucky) or worse.
Pay attention because I'm going to drop some knowledge on you: the lack of pain is NOT a reliable indicator of oral health, just as it is NOT a reliable indicator of health in general. Anyone who knows about the long term effects of high blood pressure or diabetes knows that both are seriously unhealthy conditions - ask someone with high blood pressure or diabetes if their illnesses cause them any pain.
Um. OK. I guess you folks missed my point (perhaps English is not YOUR first language), which is that fluoridated water is NOT a cure for all dental caries, as the previous poster claimed. I do know my patient's histories because I discuss it with each and every one of them. What I said is exactly what I meant. Simply drinking fluoridated water as a child is NOT sufficient to prevent ALL caries. It helps, but it does not replace the need to brush, floss, maintain a healthy diet, and get regular professional care.
I'm sure some of you are going to say "I never went to the dentist and I never had a cavity in my life." That happens rarely, but it happens, though I would ask how you know you never had a cavity if you never went to the dentist. I'm sure it means a lot to you rare cavity-free people, but a single data point is not statistically significant.
I can assure you, there is plenty of work for dentists without anyone having to try to promote cariogenic behavior. In fact, it is usually dentists who promote fluoridation of water as a preventive measure.
Oh wait, I know, fluoridation of water is some sort of conspiracy too...
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I believe Obama has other things on his schedule and the web site was probably delegated to others- maybe to contractors. I don't think that congress or the president is directly involved in managing the web site, so an absence of that level of management doesn't seem like a contributing factor. I suspect the problem lies in the absence of $ due to the shutdown. Contractors don't usually work unless they get paid.
The NYSE trading system is continually being upgraded to handle increasing traffic and contractors get paid to keep it all working. I would bet that if you stopped paying the people who keep it running you'd quickly see similar problems.
how much that the Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans are spending? As always with Detroit, too little, too late.
the govt shutdown helped create some of the problems.
You're forgetting the "buy American" mentality that affects so many. And yes, it is generally older people who buy Cadillacs, many of whom were left with impressions from WWII and would not drive a German or Japanese car. Also, since they are rather expensive, older people are the one's with the means to afford such a car.
There are a lot of people who spend $k to by a wrist watch even though there are perfectly good and accurate watches available for $20. Watches are functional jewelry. A lot of people avoid digital watches because they aren't usually very nice looking.
There is a large segment of the US population that regards cars not just as transportation, but also a statement about themselves. Cadillac has always been a prestige brand. People who buy Cadillacs aren't interested in diving a Chevy volt because Chevy is a blue-collar brand. The fact that it costs more than a Volt or Tesla makes it MORE attractive to Cadillac buyers.
'Some individuals are predisposed to see the world more darkly than others,' Todd said. 'What we found is that a previously known genetic variation causes some individuals to perceive the world more vividly than others and, particularly, negative aspects of the world.'"
and it came out of Samsung about 2 years ago.
I'm tired of trying to be part of the solution. I want to be part of the problem.
I want to start by getting a Hummer, and not one of those tiny, wimpy, ones. I want one of the originals. I'm going to convert it to burn coal. I want to leave a trail of greasy soot that can be seen from space, everywhere I go.
We are doomed to destroying this planet long before we are capable of leaving it. We might as well go out with a bang!
My sarcastic critique was aimed squarely at the poor logic demonstrated by author of the original article, not Jobs.
Perhaps you should examine your life to try to understand why you feel the need to defend Jobs whether he is being criticized or not...
In one sentence it says "Steve Jobs was ... famously involved in designing the glass stairs at the Apple stores. "
And then a sentence or two later it says "One key is that micromanagers must be experts."
So Jobs was an expert on glass staircases?
done to determine whether this type of brush is effective, or more specifically, whether it is MORE effective than brushing with a standard manual or electric brush. At that price, it better be MORE effective.
Faith is where it's at! Looking at "science" journals is like looking at internet pron- it's a one way ticket to H-E-double hockeysticks! You need some proper churchin'!
computing. Right now, the vast majority of offerings come with Win 8 which no one seems to want. It will either drive desktop sales to Apple or if Goog isn't dumb, they'll solve the problem by providing desktops with Android or Chrome OS. Of course, linux is always lurking, but most people will stay away from linux because it is too different from what they are used to. It's too bad- linux has had MS beat on reliability for years, but people don't seem to care about reliability.
MS is just another also-ran in tablets like they are in phones and were in music players. Now they are becoming irrelevant in the desktop market, too.
I predict an accelerating increase in "update" frequency to my Win 7 installation to make sure it becomes unusable as quickly as possible (as was done with XP when Win 7 came out).
Do they know that they are using an electric field to generate lift?
Satan put those so-called fossils there to confuse us and test our faith. Every intelligent being alive knows the world is only about 6000 years old.
Back in the 1800's, people with asthma were told to go to live in desert environments like Phoenix to avoid all the allergens that can trigger asthma attacks. Doctors told people to do this even into the 20th century. The result is a huge concentration of the genes for asthma (and people with asthma) in the Phoenix/Arizona area.
The whole US is similar. The US was founded by religious zealots who were driven out of European countries because they were too nutz and people couldn't stand them any more. The genes for that brand of nuttiness have been mixing and gaining strength in the US ever since.
I'd like to see gun nutz go off to live somewhere (maybe the Citadel?) where their genes can similarly gather strength away from the rest of civilization. By strengthening that gene the problem will eventually solve itself- sooner or later they'll start letting children (not adults with child-like mentality, but actual children) carry guns and then the'll kill each other off before they can reproduce and we will have finally cleared the American gene pool of that bit of pollution.
No, I think they get paid so much because the TV networks charge huge amounts for the commercials that run during games and the players hire agents/lawyers that are good at getting a piece of the pie.
If they don't kill themselves or their family members first. All we need is a bunch of amateurs walking around with guns looking for any excuse to start shooting. Protect me? You gotta be kidding!
Not 1/2 as annoying as all the attention the press gives gun nuts.
and that begs the question (which I already stated above), why should athletes get paid millions?
cynical comment on America's infantile fascination with things that go "bang!". I hope they display it along side binky's and other such icons of preintellectual babyishness.
There are a million possible explanations. Everyone is different. Caries is a function of personal habits, exposure to fluoride, both systemic and topical, your immune system, the anatomy of your teeth, diet, etc. There is no way to explain specifically why one person gets more cavities than another.
I hear patients tell me that they've never had problems with their teeth until they started going to the dentist. People seem to think that if there is nothing causing pain there is nothing wrong. That could not be further from the truth. I have extracted hundreds of teeth from people with mountain-dew mouth and meth mouth who have multiple teeth rotted down to the gum line. I always ask if any of those teeth ever hurt and frequently they tell me that those teeth never caused any discomfort at all. I don't know why, but it happens a lot. If lack of pain is the only measure of your own oral health I have two things to say to you: 1) go see a dentist anyway. 2) I wish you continued luck.
People say "Why should I go to the dentist- my teeth don't hurt. Every time I go there they want to take x-rays and drill holes in my teeth, and even pull some of them out, even though there is nothing wrong with them. I think it's just a racket to separate me from my money." So they don't go to the dentist and their conspiracy theory becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When they go to a dentist once every ten years they end up getting drilled and filled (if they are lucky) or worse.
Pay attention because I'm going to drop some knowledge on you: the lack of pain is NOT a reliable indicator of oral health, just as it is NOT a reliable indicator of health in general. Anyone who knows about the long term effects of high blood pressure or diabetes knows that both are seriously unhealthy conditions - ask someone with high blood pressure or diabetes if their illnesses cause them any pain.
Um. OK. I guess you folks missed my point (perhaps English is not YOUR first language), which is that fluoridated water is NOT a cure for all dental caries, as the previous poster claimed. I do know my patient's histories because I discuss it with each and every one of them. What I said is exactly what I meant. Simply drinking fluoridated water as a child is NOT sufficient to prevent ALL caries. It helps, but it does not replace the need to brush, floss, maintain a healthy diet, and get regular professional care.
I'm sure some of you are going to say "I never went to the dentist and I never had a cavity in my life." That happens rarely, but it happens, though I would ask how you know you never had a cavity if you never went to the dentist. I'm sure it means a lot to you rare cavity-free people, but a single data point is not statistically significant.
I don't understand. Are you a dentist? And what does changing the subject line have to do with the reliability of what I am saying?
I am confused.
Ah! The old conspiracy theory of dentistry!
I can assure you, there is plenty of work for dentists without anyone having to try to promote cariogenic behavior. In fact, it is usually dentists who promote fluoridation of water as a preventive measure.
Oh wait, I know, fluoridation of water is some sort of conspiracy too...