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  1. Re:you mean capitalism works? on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not the epinephrine, it's the epipen that's got the protection.

    Wrong answer, Autoinjectors have been around for a long time, we're talking 1980's. Now they are a medical device and fall under FDA501(k) regulations, but anyone that can meet those requirements can enter that market.

  2. Re:you mean capitalism works? on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No they could raise their prices because Heather Bresch, CEO of Mylan Corp is the daughter of Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, allowing her company to engage in price gouging in a FDA regulated industry on a medical device whose purchase by all US schools is required by theUS Dept of Education regulations.

  3. Re:you mean capitalism works? on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That whole supply/demand thing isn't a myth?

    Unpossible.

    Heather Bresch, CEO of MylanCorp and daughter of Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, engaged in price gouging in an FDA regulated industry on a medical device whose purchase by all US schools is required by Federal Regulation is hardly an example of a free market, in fact it would be a better example of Governmental interference in one.

  4. Re:Breadth & Accuracy 120 years ago on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: 1

    Weather being an instance of Climate, and weather being unpredictable over long ranges,

    A roulette wheel spin is unpredictable over the short term, but this doesn't stop casinos from taking a very predictable share of the bets.

    Climate has numerous quasi-cyclic and interdependent forcings, for A roulette wheel to be similar,

    1. the slots of a color would have to increase in size when the ball falls on their color,
    2. the rpms of the wheel would have to increase when someone won, and decrease when no one did.
    3. The croupier would have to launch the ball faster when there are more players,
    4. Any player that wins 4 times in a row gets shot by his neighbor for cheating
    5. Any player that loses 9 times in a row robs the house
    6. the wheel is in a bus travelling down a bumpy highway
  5. Re: Breadth & Accuracy 120 years ago on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: 1

    - The second link is about the AMA, which is not made up of the same folks that would be publishing climate science research. From their website:

    Our more than 13,000 members include scientists, researchers, educators, broadcast meteorologists, students, weather enthusiasts, and other professionals in the fields of weather, water, and climate.

    Well the problem is there really is no definition of who a Climatologist is, compared to a field like physics, it not even a science. Physicists have been around for a millennia, a degree in Climatology for a decade or two. I would say a typical AMS member is certainly more competent in climate matters than people like Cook and Lewandowski. The whole 97% thing just reeks of the appeal to authority fallacy.

    One of the great commandments of science is, "Mistrust arguments from authority." ... Too many such arguments have proved too painfully wrong. Authorities must prove their contentions like everybody else. Carl Sagan

  6. Re:Misleading headline on 'Tooth Repair Drug' May Replace Fillings (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, that's just the diameter of a #1/4 round tungsten carbide friction grip dental bur, the smallest they come in, they were working on rat's molars; on human teeth they'd probably use a #4, the #8's are 1.2mm diameter.

  7. Re:Recommended by 0 out of 5 Dentists on 'Tooth Repair Drug' May Replace Fillings (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The group that are going to have find new jobs are all the people involved in dental prosthetic's. Nobody is going to have false teeth for example when you can just grow new ones. Even things like crowns, inlays and onlays will go the way of the dodo, just remove the tooth and grow a new one.

    So the future is bright for dentists, remarkably less so for those involved in the production of dental prosthetic's and associated industries.

    I've been hearing that for 30 years now and I'm still making dentures, now the crown and bridge guys are getting their asses handed to them by CAM. Of course there is not enough money in our end to lure in any fresh meat and schools are closing left and right. Our state has only 15 seats in school, so when I retire, you people better keep your teeth.

  8. Re:Unless it costs more on 'Tooth Repair Drug' May Replace Fillings (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Since they're using stem cells from the pulpal chamber, when this would work you're already past fillings and into the crown area, and if it fails to work on you it means a root canal too.

  9. Re:This may lead to an even more interesting... on 'Tooth Repair Drug' May Replace Fillings (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually this will not do what the BBC headline implies it will, the drug Tideglusib will cause the regeneration of dentine by the natural stem cells present in the pulp cavity, when there is a penetration of the pupal chamber. What this will do is prevent recurring carries (decay) under existing Fillings from turning into crowns and root canals, and prevent recurring carries (decay) under existing crowns from turning into root canals and extractions.

    What it's not doing is growing enamal, Growing enamal is the brass ring.
    Full article, Promotion of natural tooth repair by small molecule GSK3 antagonists.
    Still very good news, if it works on Humans like it does on Rats, that doesn't always happen in the real world.

  10. Re:Breadth & Accuracy 120 years ago on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: 1

    Well said, I don't take an accusation of ignorance as an insult, but as an invitation to educate, I am curious as to why deference to qualified professionals isn't practised by the current class of Climatologist toward those who preceded them?

    When the results concerning the instability of non-periodic flow are applied to the atmosphere, which is ostensibly nonperiodic, they indicate that prediction of the sufficiently distant future is impossible by any method, unless the present conditions are known exactly. In view of the inevitable inaccuracy and incompleteness of weather observations, precise long-range forecasting would seem to be non-existant. Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow Lorenz, 1962

    Weather being an instance of Climate, and weather being unpredictable over long ranges, would by necessity place a great burden of proof on the climate models to prove they are valid. So far the models haven't prove very robust in the mid-range forecasts as the IPCC keep lowering the estimates of predicted decadal warming with each report.

  11. Re:To All The Cimate Deniers Out There on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: 1

    ... the amount of Greenhouse Gases produced by Mankind far outweigh the Pollutants naturally produced by the Earth 2.4 MILLION pounds of Co2 are released by us every second -- that's 207.36 BILLION pounds of CO2 every day. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ca... That amount DWARFS the amount of CO2 the Earth produces naturally -- in fact the Earth now produces less than 1% of the CO2 in the atmosphere
    https://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcan...

    Okay, take a breath, now humans add 29 gigatons of CO2 a year, but natural sources add 771 gigatons, Humans add a little less than 4% of the total emissions. The CBS link wasn't wrong, but they just threw out a big scarry turd to be sensational, and the USGS link was just talking about volcanoes not all natural sources.

  12. Re:Stop already with tying every disaster to GW on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: 0

    Except there really isn't any increase in extremes in weather, if anything there is less.

  13. Re: Breadth & Accuracy 120 years ago on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: 1, Informative
  14. Re:Breadth & Accuracy 120 years ago on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: 0

    The only reasonable opinion these people can have (myself included) is the position of the vast majority of climate science researchers. The other 0.001% of the population can continue to challenge current theories.

    The gall of those heathens, only we the anointed have the right to prophecy, only we know the secret rites, how to shake the beads and rattles! Insolent dogs, You'll anger the Gods, just tender the tithe without question. Pay no attention to the man behind the paywall, the smoke and mirrors are simply for your protection.

  15. Well played, right after the cusp of "too soon"

  16. So true. This planet's going to be doing fine, a few species might not make it, but then again, I'm not so sure that certain critters going extinct is such a bad thing. That homo sapiens for example sure is a cancer to the world, and throughout its existence there have been ice caps. One can only hope that their demise also means his.

    See there it is, this Global Warming Alarmism is really about self-loathing and anti-humanism.

  17. 1400 AD, that would be the middle of the Little Ice Age version 1, when crop failures and famine were common and the black death killed about 30-40% of Europeans and temps were 1.5K below average.

  18. siberian mosquitoes

    malaria was once rampant throughout Europe, the United
    States, and into Canada, and that major problems with malaria
    existed even into the 20th Century. For example, in the 1940s
    in the Russian/Finnish War, malaria in Finland was one of the
    major causes of morbidity in troops. Even before then, in the
    1920s, there was a massive epidemic of malaria—a devasta-
    ting epidemic—in 1922 and 1923—which went right up
    through Siberia, and into Archangel on the White Sea, close
    to the Arctic Circle. Global Warming Won’t Spread Malaria, PAUL REITER, Ph.D.

    Sorry for your experience but it had more to to do with the DDT ban than global warming.

  19. >help rich American white guys keep their jobs

    > sys-admin Kurt Ho

    Is Kurt Ho a white american?

    Touch`e, the only thing worst than a rich American white guy, a successful self-sufficient minority guy!

  20. No, that's the beauty of it, once the diversity dept has driven out all of the white people to increase diversity, they can bring them back in to further increase diversity.

  21. So the outsourcing of IT jobs to a foreign business using the misapplication of Federal Government legislated H1B visa program from a State Government Land Grant Public University receiving government funds from multiple State and Federal agencies is somehow a failure of Capitalism, that's your story?

  22. This maybe a little bigger than that, from what I know of Wayne State/Detroit Medical Center, they now have 3 campuses, one of which contains 4 hospitals, the other two have two hospitals, each hospital has hospital networks for accounting, patient care, medical equipment, administration, academics and research. Lots of things were probably jerry-riggered in the heat of battle with intentions of going back later to apply permanent fixes that never happened and were never documented.
      Makes you wonder how many Windows servers are running on developer licenses waiting to expire in 4 to 6 months.

  23. The President of the university is Janet Napoliano, the former US Attorney General under President Obama, she's probably not to concerned with Trump's agenda other than to oppose in anyway she can. Strangely her salary as President of UC is larger than Obama's or Trump's as President of the US.

  24. Oklahoma has low taxes, and that's about all it has. What good is cheap if it's absolutely worthless?

    No most Cali expats in IT move to Austin TX Area.