If every woman had twins and died during child-delivery then 2.0 children would be zero population growth, but be cause we give birth primarily in the first third of our lives, the real situation is much more complex. Perhaps one day I'll write a computer simulation and find out for sure, but I'm sure it's much closer to 1.3 than 2.0.
Apparently the people who write our laws. The Washington Post does seem to get more than their fair share of these "p2p leaks", I wouldn't be surprised if they know the system of how congress names files and actively searches the p2p networks for them. Seems reasonable if the Post can do this, that others with more nefarious purposes can also.
So in a system that should have clocks synchronized to less than a microsecond nobody bothered to run "ntpdate" even once in hundred days ? And surely the military has better clock synch than a stupid home pc ? This is stupidity, also known as "human error", causing those deaths. It's a case of "the correct answer to the wrong question".
First the system predates the internet by a decade or two so no NTP, and secondly that part of the system doesn't care what the time is, it's only interested in an measured interval.
High-resolution timekeeping has been accomplished pretty successfully already...
I wonder how much time and money was spent in research and development for this thing
If memory serves me correctly the patriot (the missile portion of the system) use a 80186 CPU so I'm not too sure if the algorithms for Hi-Res time will even run on it, of course my knowledge of it comes from back when even the phrase "phase arrayed antenna" was classified and we called it SAM-D. The some of the birds it replaced used electron tubes.
Interesting but first that figure of mine was for both Third-party payors (health insurance) and Malpractice, in your link while unclear seemed to only include the clinician's malpractice insurance's claim payments. In reality the Clinician generally has his/her own malpractice policy, the first level corporation often has it's own malpractice policy and some time the second level corporation has it's own Malpractice policy and the second level corporation frequently provides coverage for selected staff members.
1. The Clinician is typically an employee of the first level corp which must do it's own taxes, fed state and local income taxes so it need a CPA and usually a Lawyer on retainer. This is to provide liability insulation to the Clinician's personal assets from Malpractice charges, but the costs aren't included in your reference.
2. The first level corporation is usually contracted by the second level corporation which typically owns the physical assets, the AR and it also must do it's own taxes and probably it's own malpractice policy. Most of the staff members are employees of the second level corp which of course means taxes CPAs and lawyers.
3. Don't omit the Malpractice provider has multiple levels of management lot of clerical staff and Lawyers and accountants sucking out money.
4. On the patient side you have a Lawyer working on contingency for a third of the settlement plus expenses; those expense include the lawyers billable hours at $300-450 per hour, expert witnesses at $300-450 per hour which amount to half, so the patient gets about 20% but that 20% isn't 20% but an annuity that pays the 20% over twenty years so the annuity company gets a healthy cut of the malpractice dollar too.
The above is why I called Malpractice an industry, hell it can cost a $1,000 dollars in wages just to find the patient records in bulk storage if a former patient hints at a malpractice case only to discover we didn't even do that procedure 5 years ago.
Double the vaccinations = double the risk. They are for different antigens, so it's not just a double dose of the same thing.
The normal seasonal flu vaccine typically has 3 different strains in it, if the wasn't the rush to get the H1N1 vaccine out as soon as possible it would have went into the seasonal vaccine and nobody would have thought anything about it.
I'll tell you I work in the healthcare industry and I'm usually pretty libertarian in my view point but the insurance industry and the malpractice industry is sucking up 70-80% of the healthcare dollar today. Even I am starting to think that even the government could fuck it up any worse.
The published influenza effectiveness studies are extremely flawed, they consist of what is called cohort studies and the source of the flaw is what is called the healthy patient effect. These studies take a population of persons who have died while having the flu or flu like symptoms and determining which had received a flu vaccine and which hadn't, and they universally show that people who had a flu shot are 50% less likely to die of the Flu or a Flu like illness. What they leave out is in the years where the flu shot didn't provide immunity from the strain of the flu in circulation, people who had a flu shot are still 50% less likely to die of the Flu or a Flu like illness. Even more amazing people who had a flu shot are still 50% less likely to die from any cause during flu season and 60% less likely to die off-season!
Now I'm not arguing that getting the flu shot doesn't provide a high degree of immunity to the flu for people with healthy immune systems, but these are the people who typically don't die from the flu or complicating secondary infections. The proof for reduction in mortality just isn't there and because of that the risk to benefit ratio isn't the slam dunk we were lead to believe. What about immuno-compromised people, the people who need the protection the most? Quite frankly the studies are even more ambiguous in this area, the people who need the immunity the most get the least effect from the vaccines, so again the risk to benefit ratio isn't the slam dunk we were lead to believe.
The point he was making is actually it's not relevant to a discussion of nuclear power plant safety in regards to accidental malfunctions because in this case many of the safety devices were specifically turned off and the triggering event was deliberately initiated to see what would happen without proper authorization; in short it didn't "blow up" it was "Blown Up".
This problem should go away after all of the liberal arts majors that went into teaching get trained in this new fangled ciriculum subject called "Critical Thinking" and then pass it along to their students.
Well since this "Novel H1N1" flu has been reported to have the genetic aspects of human, swine and avian flu I'll continue to use my personal term for it, the "flying-pig flu".
Where is the multi-million dollar crusade against gingivitis?
I think you need to pull your head out of the sand, or at least visit your dentist, there are two whole dental specialty groups devoted to preventing and treating the periodontal spectrum diseases, the Dental Hygienist and the Periodontist. Emerging research is implicating periodontal disease as a factor in very inflammatory disease process that means everything from type II diabetes, to arthritis to heart disease. If you don't think that's a multi-billion dollar crusade, then you haven't seen what the manufacturer's rep from Oral B, Crest, Phillips bring around every couple of months' hell just the free samples to the staff must amount to Multi-Millions nationwide.
Yes the early reports were truly hysterical, but in reality, we don't know how many of those early deaths had the flying-pig flu through testing verses assumption, or even if those that were tested and had the H1N1 virus in there bodies whether or not they had multiple viral infections or not. Nobody is disputing that a real case of influenza is much more serious than a common head cold, but that the claims of death reduction for vaccinated persons vs. non-vaccinated in regards to influenza hasn't been demonstrated to the same degree of scientific rigor that we have been lead to believe. Personally I'll be getting both vaccinations by choice because historically I've gotten sick less often and felt less sick when I did after getting a flu shot, especially if it was for the correct strain
For the love of God man, think about all of those poor Physicists, Engineers and Technicians that would be out of a job and slowly starving while living in the starlight hotel if we did that!
If it were an AC connection it would allow for more distributed automatic load-frequency mechanism. Should one power station fail, there will be more power stations available across the board to ramp up their generation resulting in a faster recovery, and again a more stable grid. This is not the case here however, being DC, no standard distributed load frequency mechanism exists making it harder for the other grids to rescue the one with the failure. This does however reduce the risk of a cascading failure.
I may be naive in saying this next point, however it should hopefully make electricity cheaper by allowing it to be used from the cheapest source available across the country. Say it's a windy day at a wind farm, now the whole country will be able to benefit from the cheaper energy, and on a calm day the standard sources can be used instead.
The inverters will automatically synchronize with the existing grid frequency and phase, this is robust technology, it is even used in wind turbines to allow them to sync with the grid no matter how fast the turbine is spinning. Also I think your under-estimating the enormity of the system it will basically allow power to flow from the East coast of North America to the West coast. For example the Ems powerline crossing consists of 2 389KV circuits; in the Northeast Blackout of 2003 we lost 10 345KV lines, 2 240KV lines and about 20 138KV lines.
No bullshit I was just about to hit the submit button an a slashdot post when the power went out, I thought "shit I knew I should have bought that UPS" but what had happened was the Northeast Blackout of 2003. I was right on the western edge of it, driving 12 miles west everything had power; in short 55,000,000 people without electricity for 3 days, the sky was actually dark at night and I was disappointed when the power came back on.
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If every woman had twins and died during child-delivery then 2.0 children would be zero population growth, but be cause we give birth primarily in the first third of our lives, the real situation is much more complex. Perhaps one day I'll write a computer simulation and find out for sure, but I'm sure it's much closer to 1.3 than 2.0.
Desalination isn't good enough, eventually salt will build up in the soil, the garden oasis of Mesopotamia is now called the Iraqi salt marshes.
Apparently the people who write our laws. The Washington Post does seem to get more than their fair share of these "p2p leaks", I wouldn't be surprised if they know the system of how congress names files and actively searches the p2p networks for them. Seems reasonable if the Post can do this, that others with more nefarious purposes can also.
So in a system that should have clocks synchronized to less than a microsecond nobody bothered to run "ntpdate" even once in hundred days ? And surely the military has better clock synch than a stupid home pc ? This is stupidity, also known as "human error", causing those deaths. It's a case of "the correct answer to the wrong question".
First the system predates the internet by a decade or two so no NTP, and secondly that part of the system doesn't care what the time is, it's only interested in an measured interval.
High-resolution timekeeping has been accomplished pretty successfully already...
I wonder how much time and money was spent in research and development for this thing
If memory serves me correctly the patriot (the missile portion of the system) use a 80186 CPU so I'm not too sure if the algorithms for Hi-Res time will even run on it, of course my knowledge of it comes from back when even the phrase "phase arrayed antenna" was classified and we called it SAM-D. The some of the birds it replaced used electron tubes.
Interesting but first that figure of mine was for both Third-party payors (health insurance) and Malpractice, in your link while unclear seemed to only include the clinician's malpractice insurance's claim payments. In reality the Clinician generally has his/her own malpractice policy, the first level corporation often has it's own malpractice policy and some time the second level corporation has it's own Malpractice policy and the second level corporation frequently provides coverage for selected staff members.
1. The Clinician is typically an employee of the first level corp which must do it's own taxes, fed state and local income taxes so it need a CPA and usually a Lawyer on retainer. This is to provide liability insulation to the Clinician's personal assets from Malpractice charges, but the costs aren't included in your reference.
2. The first level corporation is usually contracted by the second level corporation which typically owns the physical assets, the AR and it also must do it's own taxes and probably it's own malpractice policy. Most of the staff members are employees of the second level corp which of course means taxes CPAs and lawyers.
3. Don't omit the Malpractice provider has multiple levels of management lot of clerical staff and Lawyers and accountants sucking out money.
4. On the patient side you have a Lawyer working on contingency for a third of the settlement plus expenses; those expense include the lawyers billable hours at $300-450 per hour, expert witnesses at $300-450 per hour which amount to half, so the patient gets about 20% but that 20% isn't 20% but an annuity that pays the 20% over twenty years so the annuity company gets a healthy cut of the malpractice dollar too.
The above is why I called Malpractice an industry, hell it can cost a $1,000 dollars in wages just to find the patient records in bulk storage if a former patient hints at a malpractice case only to discover we didn't even do that procedure 5 years ago.
Evidence of bias in estimates of influenza vaccine effectiveness in seniors(abstract) Lisa A. Jackson 1 *, Michael L. Jackson 1, Jennifer C. Nelson 2, Kathleen M. Neuzil 3, and Noel S. Weiss 4 ,International Journal of Epidemiology, full text in PDF. Does the Vaccine Matter? is a good lay article on the matter.
Off hand I'd guess that he needed all of the typical childhood vaccinations plus Hepatitis B and probably Meningitis
You forgot the "and also owns stock in competitors" part.
Double the vaccinations = double the risk. They are for different antigens, so it's not just a double dose of the same thing.
The normal seasonal flu vaccine typically has 3 different strains in it, if the wasn't the rush to get the H1N1 vaccine out as soon as possible it would have went into the seasonal vaccine and nobody would have thought anything about it.
I'll tell you I work in the healthcare industry and I'm usually pretty libertarian in my view point but the insurance industry and the malpractice industry is sucking up 70-80% of the healthcare dollar today. Even I am starting to think that even the government could fuck it up any worse.
The published influenza effectiveness studies are extremely flawed, they consist of what is called cohort studies and the source of the flaw is what is called the healthy patient effect. These studies take a population of persons who have died while having the flu or flu like symptoms and determining which had received a flu vaccine and which hadn't, and they universally show that people who had a flu shot are 50% less likely to die of the Flu or a Flu like illness. What they leave out is in the years where the flu shot didn't provide immunity from the strain of the flu in circulation, people who had a flu shot are still 50% less likely to die of the Flu or a Flu like illness. Even more amazing people who had a flu shot are still 50% less likely to die from any cause during flu season and 60% less likely to die off-season!
Now I'm not arguing that getting the flu shot doesn't provide a high degree of immunity to the flu for people with healthy immune systems, but these are the people who typically don't die from the flu or complicating secondary infections. The proof for reduction in mortality just isn't there and because of that the risk to benefit ratio isn't the slam dunk we were lead to believe. What about immuno-compromised people, the people who need the protection the most? Quite frankly the studies are even more ambiguous in this area, the people who need the immunity the most get the least effect from the vaccines, so again the risk to benefit ratio isn't the slam dunk we were lead to believe.
Toyota used this glass for a while in Japan and discontinued it because of RF suppression
as it's one way to get Maria off that damned phone in the car!
They can get a tax number, form a stock club and pool their resources.
I'll bet a whole city or two have been abandoned to underground coal mine fires; Centralia Pennsylvania comes to mind for one.
If I tied dynamite to your car's exhaust pipe to see what would happen, would an explosion be an accident?
Because it was a nuclear plant and it blew up?
The point he was making is actually it's not relevant to a discussion of nuclear power plant safety in regards to accidental malfunctions because in this case many of the safety devices were specifically turned off and the triggering event was deliberately initiated to see what would happen without proper authorization; in short it didn't "blow up" it was "Blown Up".
This problem should go away after all of the liberal arts majors that went into teaching get trained in this new fangled ciriculum subject called "Critical Thinking" and then pass it along to their students.
Well since this "Novel H1N1" flu has been reported to have the genetic aspects of human, swine and avian flu I'll continue to use my personal term for it, the "flying-pig flu".
Where is the multi-million dollar crusade against gingivitis?
I think you need to pull your head out of the sand, or at least visit your dentist, there are two whole dental specialty groups devoted to preventing and treating the periodontal spectrum diseases, the Dental Hygienist and the Periodontist. Emerging research is implicating periodontal disease as a factor in very inflammatory disease process that means everything from type II diabetes, to arthritis to heart disease. If you don't think that's a multi-billion dollar crusade, then you haven't seen what the manufacturer's rep from Oral B, Crest, Phillips bring around every couple of months' hell just the free samples to the staff must amount to Multi-Millions nationwide.
Yes the early reports were truly hysterical, but in reality, we don't know how many of those early deaths had the flying-pig flu through testing verses assumption, or even if those that were tested and had the H1N1 virus in there bodies whether or not they had multiple viral infections or not.
Nobody is disputing that a real case of influenza is much more serious than a common head cold, but that the claims of death reduction for vaccinated persons vs. non-vaccinated in regards to influenza hasn't been demonstrated to the same degree of scientific rigor that we have been lead to believe. Personally I'll be getting both vaccinations by choice because historically I've gotten sick less often and felt less sick when I did after getting a flu shot, especially if it was for the correct strain
For the love of God man, think about all of those poor Physicists, Engineers and Technicians that would be out of a job and slowly starving while living in the starlight hotel if we did that!
If it were an AC connection it would allow for more distributed automatic load-frequency mechanism. Should one power station fail, there will be more power stations available across the board to ramp up their generation resulting in a faster recovery, and again a more stable grid. This is not the case here however, being DC, no standard distributed load frequency mechanism exists making it harder for the other grids to rescue the one with the failure. This does however reduce the risk of a cascading failure.
I may be naive in saying this next point, however it should hopefully make electricity cheaper by allowing it to be used from the cheapest source available across the country. Say it's a windy day at a wind farm, now the whole country will be able to benefit from the cheaper energy, and on a calm day the standard sources can be used instead.
The inverters will automatically synchronize with the existing grid frequency and phase, this is robust technology, it is even used in wind turbines to allow them to sync with the grid no matter how fast the turbine is spinning. Also I think your under-estimating the enormity of the system it will basically allow power to flow from the East coast of North America to the West coast. For example the Ems powerline crossing consists of 2 389KV circuits; in the Northeast Blackout of 2003 we lost 10 345KV lines, 2 240KV lines and about 20 138KV lines.
No bullshit I was just about to hit the submit button an a slashdot post when the power went out, I thought "shit I knew I should have bought that UPS" but what had happened was the Northeast Blackout of 2003. I was right on the western edge of it, driving 12 miles west everything had power; in short 55,000,000 people without electricity for 3 days, the sky was actually dark at night and I was disappointed when the power came back on.