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  1. plan B - modern vitamin plan on Seasonal Flu Shots Double Risk of Getting Swine Flu, Says New Study · · Score: 1

    I am approaching the mature age and used to catch everything, several times almost fatally some years ago, following living in very North America (no sunlight).

    Now I take an iron free, low copper multivitamin, vitamin C four times a day, a B50 complex, and a 2000 or 5000 iu vitamin D3 each day, per the latest medical science on D. If someone sneezes right on me all gooey, or I feel scratchy, I immediately go to hourly on the C until I "forget" and double the D. See the vitaminDcouncil.org and www.vitamincfoundation.org/ Sick people go to bowel tolerance on C and 15,000 iu on vitamin D for up to 3 days.

    Read it an weep for those friends and family who died unnecessarily. Read it and live.

  2. Re:Surprised? on The US's Reverse Brain Drain · · Score: 1

    Wealthy neighborhoods can have their own water and sewer systems. Bottled water or drinks outside. Happens in the 3rd world all the time.

  3. vax now largely unnecessary on Seasonal Flu Shots Double Risk of Getting Swine Flu, Says New Study · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I am approaching the mature age and used to catch everything, several times almost fatally. Now I take an iron free, low copper multivitamin, vitamin C four times a day, a B50 complex, and a 2000 or 5000 iu vitamin D3 each day. If someone sneezes right on me all gooey, or I feel scratchy, I immediately go to hourly on the C until I "forget" and double the D. See the vitaminDcouncil.org and www.vitamincfoundation.org/ Sick people go to bowel tolerance on C and 15,000 iu on vitamin D for up to 3 days.

    Read it an weep for those friends and family who died unnecessarily. Read it and live.

  4. skidding and speed differential on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1

    Serious speed differentials cause accidents and kill, 5 mph and 45 mph are incompatible in higher traffic times and areas.

    Also where I live, skidding is a common problem on roads, even motorcycles are inadequate vehicles. There are no old and long term motorcyclists, they literally disappear after several years. We have separate bike paths but those paths are seasonal, winter shuts them down.

  5. TCP/IP, selling knowingly defective products on Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The fix is to NEVER buy Microsoft products, again. Microsoft is a defective corporation that has made a mint off of selling knowingly defective products and reselling the HOPE that these defects will be fixed in the next update but reneging again, and again, and again, and again. MSFT's example of no/low quality has become the new American metric of quality, its business plan, corroding our society's business and work ethic, a complete mockery of the consumer laws on mechantability, deservedly debasing our reputation for quality goods.

    Since the government has been ineffective in enforcing these laws, falling for MS legal theories, only insistent market rejection will [partially] protect a consumer from the borg. No doubt we will be seeing more FUD IP attacks, like SCO, traceable to MSFT. Good luck to all. Fsck MSFT.

  6. Re:anti-solar prejuices, prior neglect, re PhDs on Surprise Discovery In Earth's Upper Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    PhDs were from those schools, not those schools' faculty.

    Prof was fired as an outside consultant and consulting company with a payroll of about a dozen with a cushy contract, about $3m/yr in today's scrip, by a Fortune 50 company, not as a professor. And it was an unpublicized matter that neither wanted out in public.

    The prof would have jeopardized future funding, grants and donations where he was actively seeking about $50m in today's scrip, and had been lead to expect a good chunk of it if he could deliver technically and politically. The contracting F50 company and manager would have been further embarrassed over various failure issues.

  7. Re:anti-solar prejuices, prior neglect on Surprise Discovery In Earth's Upper Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    I am 20+ yrs annoyed how long various solar questions and basic research have remained unplowed ground, with rather dismissive treatment in the AGW stampede. I note numerous irregularities in the AGW shove similar to deliberate actions that in my personal experience got PhDs (e.g. Cornell, Hopkins, one a nationally known professor) fired for said irregularities.

    I also think that the real GA Landis might have some conflict of interest with my statement, such as the InP solar cell patents that might benefit from an AGW hysteria. However I do think that orbital solar is a potential major industry down the road as the major step into the industrialization of space, for 30+ years. Just not down the socialist roads. I

  8. anti-solar prejuices, prior neglect on Surprise Discovery In Earth's Upper Atmosphere · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sounds like another shoe drops in the solar - terrestial interactions with regard to global warming and climate change. Why wasn't this found 20 years ago? Because IPCC and NASA haven't been diligently working a major term, the many solar-terrestial interactions, in the general energy equation? Because they are happy worshipping simplistic false models that say "Send academia, modelers and autocrats more money"?

  9. Odious on "Wiretapping" Charges May Be Oddest Ever Recorded · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Having such a recorder might be potentially important for memory impaired people on details and for the strong oral promises of con artists later denied.

  10. Water vapor is not a serious problem on Astronomers Find the Calmest Place On Earth · · Score: 1

    Water vapor can easily be 99.99+% removed from any fixed source(electrical gen, living quarters), to be condensed and frozen/used elsewhere. Only adds cost and some energy use.

  11. fit but hazardous Canadia; cheap effective change on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 1

    "We also have a relatively large fraction of our male population working in mining, fishing, logging and farming, " might have higher accidental death rates but it sounds great for fitness, a far more important item for average life span. I have not noticed fat Canadians the way I see fat Americans. ie. how many 100 kg Canadians at college age or 150 kg, 200 kg, 250+ kg adults do you see.

    If we cut our sugar and starch intake by 1/2 to 2/3, eat even cheap colored veggies like cabbage, and take a *modern* multivitamin (e.g. with 2000 iu D3 + 2x RDA on vitamin Bs + C, low iron for most), we probably would pick up a few years of lifetime and hundreds of billions of dollars savings.

  12. Naval waste on US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thermodynamically a huge waste.

  13. Woman's house, whose castle, whose mi$take on Woman's House Mistakenly Auctioned by Bank · · Score: 1

    I'd say lawyer letter and lawsuit potential to fully restitute damages. Several someones appear to not have properly investigated this sale including the buyer and Chase. Lucky, no one got shot or hurt, because in other places the confrontation potential, with such strange, instant demands to surrender the castle, might be higher.

    And one or two cops might not be enough. e.g. about 12 years ago, a manager for a Fortune 50 company got drunk (again), slapped the wife and before you know it, we had a 7-8 person SWAT team sealing the neighborhood and climbing roofs (including ours). In my city 1/4 of the houses probably have *a lot* of firepower (338 WinMag+, full auto, 2000+ rounds, and/or 10 or more guns). However, they waited and he was passed out when the remote control robot went in.

  14. Self serving BSA advert. on Why the BSA Is Less Reviled Than the RIAA · · Score: 1

    Self serving BSA advert. BSA primarily goes after businesses, presumably often based on inside company sources, even if deceptively obtained. Still a slimey business from what I have heard. e.g. overkill and unreasonable demands on documentation where good faith evidence exists for legal software, especially for vanishingly small percentages of incomplete documentation. Which I personally believe is a form of business fraud.

  15. re: hype kiddie s--- Si ! on The Music Industry's Crisis Writ Large · · Score: 1

    I agree with "hyperproduced kiddie s--- artists" as an audience exploitation and fatigue factor.

    I remember when my daughter was 7 or 8, D: "Brit-Neee!" (infatuation) A few years later I asked her what happened to her infatuation with BS. D: "britney" (flat, ugh).

  16. Re:Forever? - inherently defective - re EULA bs on RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" · · Score: 1

    I don't believe in the tooth fairy or EULAs. I own the copy, not the song (copyright), if you will. Anything that interferes with that is in my eyes a defect or illegal destraint.

    I don't recognize a purported, non-negoitated contract, invisible at the time of cash sale (no signature). Ultimately US courts should constrain EULAs in the future. However, I am starting to short weight spurious, banana peel republic legislation here, too. I've already had almost 30 years in and out experience with 3rd world governments, where ultimately effective law is mostly a personal moral issue coupled with defensive capacity, their FUD for my money/skills, and "tribal" connections. I am coming to see more freedoms as much better preserved de facto in the advancing 3rd world than here.

    To set your mind at rest, I don't knowingly buy products that give crap product or service, so the RIAA products are safe from me and vice versa. An aside, I use OO and Firefox, mostly, and Linux will soon, finally, set me free.

    As the US becomes more consumer unfriendly, the more often I am not going to consume bad US "goods". I'll spend my money elsewhere for a better deal. As for US companies that like to play tough and step on people, they had better practice on a rusty nail or a rattle snake first before they try their luck with me. Step 1, I make them bored or cry til they bounce off the ceiling until they fix it. Else, Step 2 is to find their other customers to entertain and horrify them with *facts*. And I have a lot more nasty attitude with predators (I am normally a quiet wallflower). I've made some people rich, for free, and more recently, others fail, for cause with extra chances. Corp America really should go back to the concept of good product, good service at a good price rather than gotcha marketing and pseudolegal attacks.

  17. Re:Forever? - inherently defective on RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Depends on whether you see this as inherently defective mechandise as well as a violation of the long time US principle of legal preference for "in fee simple sales".

    The song copy that I buy is *my* property. I am constrained by copyright to not infringe it by creating and redistributing more copies. Berne copyright, EULAs and DCMA are all corrupt, monopolistic doctrines that should ignored, fought if necessary.

  18. disappearing CDs on RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" · · Score: 1

    Problem is that the CD is disapppearing as a sales medium. First the indie stores but soon most physical stuff will be doomed by cheap internet distribution. The RIAA allowing more internet access as soon they have secured a more perfect monopoly with pay per use.

  19. Re:Dangerous parallels on Temperature Data Wants To Be Free · · Score: 1

    I've actually outed bullshit studies, serious scientific error and misrepresentation where profs with Ivy and JHU PhDs lost multimillion dollar contracts for being knowingly and catastrophically wrong, even after my being lynched 30 against 1. IMO, politics in science have been getting worse every decade. The IPCC-related personnel behavior issues here are especially problematic.

  20. Dangerous parallels on Temperature Data Wants To Be Free · · Score: 0, Troll

    "My dog ate it" and "It's sooopper secret" for foundational IPCC data is the last refuge of scoundrels and frauds. This nonsense has been going on for 10-20 years depending on how you count the timing of AGW alarmism's full frontal assault. A 1000x bigger scam than Bernie, more dangerous than Adolf and Josef combined.

  21. shhhh....don't botch the agency subsidies on Adobe Chided For Insecure Acrobat Reader · · Score: 1

    If they make a really secure program, who is going to replace the FSA (Russia) and NSA (USA) subsidy payments?

  22. RIAA zombie, bot or borg, It's dead Jim. on Kazaa To Return As a Legal Subscription Service · · Score: 1

    Even an attempt resurrection of Kazaa under these circumstances, once again shows a total disconnect between customer base and the RIAA types. Zombie, bot, or borg - needs a brain shot or total disintegration.

    Limited catalog, DRM, $20/mo, database issues. Insultingly ridiculous "outreach". No doubt the failure of "new Kazaa" will be cited as "we tried" or future "market damage". Sic semper tyrannis.

  23. tiresome, misdirected country on Backlash Builds Against US Copyright Blacklist · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The world is obviously growing tired of a noisy, broke, bullying USSA as it vacilates choosing between a Nazi America and a Soviet America, hellbent on "decarbonizing" an already cooling planet and charging for every thought or memory.

  24. Li vs. Carbon nanotube ultracapacitors in 10 years on Bolivia Is the Saudi Arabia of Lithium · · Score: 1

    Make hay while the sun shines. Boliva should establish the resource fund and take gringos' money as long as it lasts. In 10 years, the carbon nanotube ultracapacitors may blow lithium storage out of the water. Any leftover from mining 5.4 million tons of lithium would still treat a lot of bullet-resistant glass and bipolar cases... Schindall [2006] said. ``Then in 10 years, you begin to see the cost crossover point," when capacitors become as cheap as standard rechargeable batteries. Still progressing: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4252623.html, 2008, http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21938/?nlid=1646&a=f, 2009

    But no doubt a slow, intrusive Bolivian governement will then blame their lack of further sales on los norte americano diablos.

  25. Bloomberg terminal, -ee on Air Force One Flyby Causes Brief Panic In NYC · · Score: 1

    "Marc Mugnos was reprimanded for not apprising the mayor,"...unavailable for comment. Won't be surprised if he doesn't find out about a second kind of Bloomberg terminal.