Traffic fatalities in the US ---> 42,000 per year.
Around 30,000 of these deaths could be attributable to the risk seeking behaviour and lower reaction times caused by Toxoplasmosis. This would make it as dangerous as the flu virus and one of the biggest killers in the US.
Half the worlds population is infected with a mind controlling parasite which causes a 2.65 times increase in traffic accidents. This could be one of the most underestimated killers on the planet.
"Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis: a retrospective case-control study
Human latent toxoplasmosis leads to prolongation of reaction times [11] and changes in personality profiles [12,13]. These changes are probably side effects either of the rodent-aimed manipulative activity of Toxoplasma or of some pathogenic activity of the parasites in the brain. The changes cannot influence the risk of predation in modern humans; nevertheless, prolongation of reaction times could increase the risk of other incidents such as traffic accidents. If this is true then the prevalence of toxoplasmosis in participants in traffic accidents should be higher than in the general population living in the same area.
Here we report the results of retrospective case-control study that compares the seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis in persons injured in traffic accidents with the seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis in general population living in the same area.....
The value of the odds ratio (OR) suggests that subjects with latent toxoplasmosis had a 2.65 (C.I.95= 1.76-4.01) times higher risk of a traffic accident than the toxoplasmosis-negative subjects. "
Sack a third of all programmers and productivity would improve. There are many people in this industry who are mentally incapable of ever being competent programmers. They can't cut maintainable code and their bug ridden spaggetti mess just causes problems.
My experience from 10 years of contract coding is that the top third of programmers do 90% of the work, the next third do 30% of the work, and the bottom third do -20%. Sack them and productivity would improve.
Anyone with the money, the time and the inclination can get smallpox. All it takes is an airticket to Siberia, a bus trip to a cemetery and a shovel. The virus lives in frozen cadavers.
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"There are other transgressors: Saving Private Ryan forgets that even the landing craft delivering US soldiers to the D-Day beaches were piloted by the men of the Royal Navy".
This is incorrect. I've met someone who piloted a landing craft at Normandy delivering American soldiers to the Omaha landing area. He was serving in the American Navy not the Royal Navy. Whatever it's historical transgressions, you can't fault Saving Private Ryan on this account.
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Traffic fatalities in the US ---> 42,000 per year.
Around 30,000 of these deaths could be attributable to the risk seeking behaviour and lower reaction times caused by Toxoplasmosis. This would make it as dangerous as the flu virus and one of the biggest killers in the US.
Half the worlds population is infected with a mind controlling parasite which causes a 2.65 times increase in traffic accidents. This could be one of the most underestimated killers on the planet.
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See the results of the study here:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/2/11
"Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis: a retrospective case-control study
Human latent toxoplasmosis leads to prolongation of reaction times [11] and changes in personality profiles [12,13]. These changes are probably side effects either of the rodent-aimed manipulative activity of Toxoplasma or of some pathogenic activity of the parasites in the brain. The changes cannot influence the risk of predation in modern humans; nevertheless, prolongation of reaction times could increase the risk of other incidents such as traffic accidents. If this is true then the prevalence of toxoplasmosis in participants in traffic accidents should be higher than in the general population living in the same area.
Here we report the results of retrospective case-control study that compares the seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis in persons injured in traffic accidents with the seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis in general population living in the same area.
The value of the odds ratio (OR) suggests that subjects with latent toxoplasmosis had a 2.65 (C.I.95= 1.76-4.01) times higher risk of a traffic accident than the toxoplasmosis-negative subjects. "
Sack a third of all programmers and productivity would improve. There are many people in this industry who are mentally incapable of ever being competent programmers. They can't cut maintainable code and their bug ridden spaggetti mess just causes problems.
My experience from 10 years of contract coding is that the top third of programmers do 90% of the work, the next third do 30% of the work, and the bottom third do -20%. Sack them and productivity would improve.
You are naive.
Anyone with the money, the time and the inclination can get smallpox. All it takes is an airticket to Siberia, a bus trip to a cemetery and a shovel. The virus lives in frozen cadavers.
This is incorrect. I've met someone who piloted a landing craft at Normandy delivering American soldiers to the Omaha landing area. He was serving in the American Navy not the Royal Navy. Whatever it's historical transgressions, you can't fault Saving Private Ryan on this account.