A local newspaper owner told me last week that 80% of a newspaper's income is from legal notifications. Cities have legal obligations to publish notifications regarding meetings, sales, and such. State law says they much use a local paper that's existed for more than 3 years and has a subscriber base of a certain number. Of course, these same notifications could easily be included in utility bills or other, much less expensive alternatives. Basically taxpayer money is being used to keep newspapers alive.
A high school graduate can earn $45,000 working as an assistant manager at a local gas station or restaurant. They could spend 4+ years working hard to get a degree in engineering or science, owe $100,000+ afterward, and earn a starting pay of maybe $55,000. Long term, top pay for a manager anywhere is higher. Why bother with engineering or science?
Average pay for science and engineering jobs has been largely stagnant for the last 20 years. While many science and engineering jobs have moved outside the US, workers from other countries have moved to the US, all driving down salaries. Now add that long term research is pretty much gone in the US and even research labs compete for what they can turn out in the next six months.
A Mayo clinic study found 70% of sinus infections are viral instead of bacterial, so antibiotics actually make the infection worse. In addition, the antibiotics harm the rest of your immune system, leaving your worse off than before.
My ENT introduced me to anti-viral nasal sprays for sinus infections. More of the drug reaches the infection and your GI system is left unharmed. The catch is they must be compounded at a pharmacy, need to be refrigerated, and are only good for 30 days. Many insurance companies cover them, but a lot of doctors don't know that option exists and just prescribe antibiotics.
Our pediatrician said she could make $100,000 extra a year if she pushed vaccines like other doctors, but she couldn't ethically do so. She described the effectiveness and risks of adverse reaction of each vaccine and let her patients make their own decision.
Let's see. You inject a vaccine containing mercury or aluminum directory into a child's blood stream and wonder why a neurotoxin like that can cause seizures?
Okay, let's ignore that. Ignore that by injecting the child with the vaccines recommended by the CDC will end up injecting them with 144 times the toxic level of mercury according to the EPA.
Oh, let's also ignore the pediatrician who's child was changed from normal to severely autistic by vaccines. He refused to listen to the 'it can't be vaccines' claims and did his own research. He cured his own child with by a process with chelation he developed that removed the mercury from their system.
Let's also ignore the gene discovered that makes 15% of the population unable to remove heavy metals such as mercury. Do you think that portion of the population have higher instances of autism? Try reading the research and studies.
It's amazing to see all the claims here that there are few or no studies proving dangers of vaccines when in reality they do exist. Does everyone just join the herd with their opinion blindly without checking the studies?
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” -- Adolf Hitler
A friend's wife spent three weeks at a 'top' US hospital where many tests were performed. None of twenty-two doctors could diagnose what was wrong, and each passed the issues on to the next doctor. My friend listed the symptoms and posted them on a medical advice forum called 'wrongdiagnosis.com'.
When several people on the forum suggested a diagnosis that fit all the symptoms, he printed out information about the diagnosis and gave it to the primary doctor. The doctor studied the information, ordered yet another test to verify the diagnosis, and said he was right.
So, after 22 doctors performing tests, not one could suggest a diagnosis that fit all the symptoms. A post to a free forum yielded better information that was verified by the primary doctor.
There are good reasons people study health and medical information online before seeing a doctor.
Amazing. Mercury, a known neurotoxin, can't be what caused neurological damage. Next, they'll probably say carbon dioxide is bad even though it's used in photosynthesis to generate the oxygen we breathe.
Oh, wait, they've done that. Well, at least the pharma industry will be happy with all this.
When visiting a doctor for a sinus infection, he said that in India they would take a swab from my nose, determine in a few minutes with a microscope what bacteria was bothering me, and give me a specific antibiotic that was known to work well.
In the USA, he said insurance tells them to just proscribe an antibiotic and if it doesn't work, they'll come back. The ten minutes of lab work isn't covered by insurance, so they don't do it. I asked if I could pay cash for the test with the microscope, but he refused and said he'd get in trouble.
Most doctors follow insurance rules, worry about liability, and treat symptoms, in that order.
Trying out a new doctor (an MD), they interviewed me a bit and when they heard I'd been on a bunch of antibiotics recommended I purchase a three month supply of probiotics. They also recommended I drop taking allergy drugs after being on the priobiotics after a few weeks. A few weeks later, no more allergy symptoms and no need for allergy drugs any more.
This doctor actively reads and publishes in medical journals, but it still surprised me that they recommended probiotics.
At Bookmooch, you can trade books with many, many others. The only cost is postage for mailing out books. With Media Mail, that's under $3 for several books.
In a company all-employee meeting last week, a director told us they could get three or four developers or scientists from India for the same cost as one of us. He then proceeded to tell us to expect 'restructuring' in the next six months.
At least he was honest. Time to look for a new career...
Several years ago I had to honor to meet Frederik Pohl at a science convention. After talking to him for a while, I discovered him to be an absolute gentleman. Finding an author that treats fans like that is a great surprise.
So, there are two reasons to buy his books: his books are great and to support a great author.
It seems like the only reasonable approach is to use a small diesel generator engine to generate electricity. That is used to charge a small bank of batteries (i.e. 3 to 6 of them) and provide extra power to an electric motor that drives the transmission and moves the car. A few people have converted their car with this approach and end up with around 130mpg.
This allows the generator to run at optimimun efficiency (rpm) and not waste energy like conventional vehicles. Add regenerative brakes to make it even better. The only hard part of this approach is connecting the electric motor to the car's current transmission.
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The Predator is just a remote controlled, flying camera and missle launcher. There's a person on the other end controlling everything, flying the Predator and launching the weapon. This is a drone? Hardly. Cute article, even if they didn't research what they're talking about.
Now, if someone would create a true, sentient, BOLO tank...
Put up a small windmill that generates power on top of your garage. Get/make an electric vehicle, recharge it every night. Sell the excess power to the electric company and get a check from them every month. See http://www.homepower.com/ for a starting point.
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A local company hires CS majors with a year of experience for about $30K. They prefer H1B employees when possible.
A local newspaper owner told me last week that 80% of a newspaper's income is from legal notifications. Cities have legal obligations to publish notifications regarding meetings, sales, and such. State law says they much use a local paper that's existed for more than 3 years and has a subscriber base of a certain number. Of course, these same notifications could easily be included in utility bills or other, much less expensive alternatives. Basically taxpayer money is being used to keep newspapers alive.
A high school graduate can earn $45,000 working as an assistant manager at a local gas station or restaurant. They could spend 4+ years working hard to get a degree in engineering or science, owe $100,000+ afterward, and earn a starting pay of maybe $55,000. Long term, top pay for a manager anywhere is higher. Why bother with engineering or science? Average pay for science and engineering jobs has been largely stagnant for the last 20 years. While many science and engineering jobs have moved outside the US, workers from other countries have moved to the US, all driving down salaries. Now add that long term research is pretty much gone in the US and even research labs compete for what they can turn out in the next six months.
A Mayo clinic study found 70% of sinus infections are viral instead of bacterial, so antibiotics actually make the infection worse. In addition, the antibiotics harm the rest of your immune system, leaving your worse off than before. My ENT introduced me to anti-viral nasal sprays for sinus infections. More of the drug reaches the infection and your GI system is left unharmed. The catch is they must be compounded at a pharmacy, need to be refrigerated, and are only good for 30 days. Many insurance companies cover them, but a lot of doctors don't know that option exists and just prescribe antibiotics.
Our pediatrician said she could make $100,000 extra a year if she pushed vaccines like other doctors, but she couldn't ethically do so. She described the effectiveness and risks of adverse reaction of each vaccine and let her patients make their own decision.
Hasn't Perlmonks done something close to what they describe for a long time?
Let's see. You inject a vaccine containing mercury or aluminum directory into a child's blood stream and wonder why a neurotoxin like that can cause seizures?
Okay, let's ignore that. Ignore that by injecting the child with the vaccines recommended by the CDC will end up injecting them with 144 times the toxic level of mercury according to the EPA.
Oh, let's also ignore the pediatrician who's child was changed from normal to severely autistic by vaccines. He refused to listen to the 'it can't be vaccines' claims and did his own research. He cured his own child with by a process with chelation he developed that removed the mercury from their system.
Let's also ignore the gene discovered that makes 15% of the population unable to remove heavy metals such as mercury. Do you think that portion of the population have higher instances of autism? Try reading the research and studies.
It's amazing to see all the claims here that there are few or no studies proving dangers of vaccines when in reality they do exist. Does everyone just join the herd with their opinion blindly without checking the studies?
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” -- Adolf Hitler
A friend's wife spent three weeks at a 'top' US hospital where many tests were performed. None of twenty-two doctors could diagnose what was wrong, and each passed the issues on to the next doctor. My friend listed the symptoms and posted them on a medical advice forum called 'wrongdiagnosis.com'.
When several people on the forum suggested a diagnosis that fit all the symptoms, he printed out information about the diagnosis and gave it to the primary doctor. The doctor studied the information, ordered yet another test to verify the diagnosis, and said he was right.
So, after 22 doctors performing tests, not one could suggest a diagnosis that fit all the symptoms. A post to a free forum yielded better information that was verified by the primary doctor.
There are good reasons people study health and medical information online before seeing a doctor.
Amazing. Mercury, a known neurotoxin, can't be what caused neurological damage. Next, they'll probably say carbon dioxide is bad even though it's used in photosynthesis to generate the oxygen we breathe.
Oh, wait, they've done that. Well, at least the pharma industry will be happy with all this.
When visiting a doctor for a sinus infection, he said that in India they would take a swab from my nose, determine in a few minutes with a microscope what bacteria was bothering me, and give me a specific antibiotic that was known to work well.
In the USA, he said insurance tells them to just proscribe an antibiotic and if it doesn't work, they'll come back. The ten minutes of lab work isn't covered by insurance, so they don't do it. I asked if I could pay cash for the test with the microscope, but he refused and said he'd get in trouble.
Most doctors follow insurance rules, worry about liability, and treat symptoms, in that order.
Trying out a new doctor (an MD), they interviewed me a bit and when they heard I'd been on a bunch of antibiotics recommended I purchase a three month supply of probiotics. They also recommended I drop taking allergy drugs after being on the priobiotics after a few weeks. A few weeks later, no more allergy symptoms and no need for allergy drugs any more. This doctor actively reads and publishes in medical journals, but it still surprised me that they recommended probiotics.
If everyone was smart, McDonald's wouldn't exist because no one would eat there.
Most businesses implement only pieces of Agile and fail to understand, much less implement, the reasons for Agile.
At Bookmooch, you can trade books with many, many others. The only cost is postage for mailing out books. With Media Mail, that's under $3 for several books.
In a company all-employee meeting last week, a director told us they could get three or four developers or scientists from India for the same cost as one of us. He then proceeded to tell us to expect 'restructuring' in the next six months. At least he was honest. Time to look for a new career...
Several years ago I had to honor to meet Frederik Pohl at a science convention. After talking to him for a while, I discovered him to be an absolute gentleman. Finding an author that treats fans like that is a great surprise. So, there are two reasons to buy his books: his books are great and to support a great author.
This allows the generator to run at optimimun efficiency (rpm) and not waste energy like conventional vehicles. Add regenerative brakes to make it even better. The only hard part of this approach is connecting the electric motor to the car's current transmission.
The Predator is just a remote controlled, flying camera and missle launcher. There's a person on the other end controlling everything, flying the Predator and launching the weapon. This is a drone? Hardly. Cute article, even if they didn't research what they're talking about. Now, if someone would create a true, sentient, BOLO tank...
Put up a small windmill that generates power on top of your garage. Get/make an electric vehicle, recharge it every night. Sell the excess power to the electric company and get a check from them every month. See http://www.homepower.com/ for a starting point.