Germany has some problems the US doesn't have that you have somehow forgotten to mention. Like demographics - like an ageing and shrinking population. That distorts the labor figures you mentioned, and very dramatically. Ultimately this makes the future look pretty grim for Germany.
One more thing the Germans had to deal with, is having to more or less rebuild former eastern Germany from scratch. This was one very expensive thing to do.
There are few economies in the world that wouldn't have been crippled by such a stunt.
The US isn't as bad as it is often portrayed, but sadly also not as good as some would like it to be.
This implies you are in a position to reject. It also implies the company would want you, because you would fit into their racial/religious/sexual preferences/age/... profile.
If one outlaws discrimination, you naturally end up with carefully phrased questions or making yourself a target for legal actions by those rejected.
Especially if the bucket of money is outrageously large and will provide a permanent revenue stream. Also there is a large risk of loosing all of it if someone else published it.
It won't fly, as antibodies are cheap and not complicated to do. Seriously, do you really believe Big Pharma is going to let it happen ? A treatment simple like this would jeopardize their business, risking billions of dollar. They'll do something to stop this treatment in its tracks. They always do. Sound paranoid ? I wish. It's more like realistic. Their purpose is not really to cure cancer, but getting a maximum profit from it.
I call bullshit. First of all you don't risk anything by finding such a "simple cure". There are a lot of people and a lot of them will get cancer at one time so there is a very large customer base and no shortage thereof in the long term. For the length of the patent you could sell this stuff at almost any price. Do you really think one company would keep an invention locked up (and risk loosing it to someone else) that would bring them truckloads of money?
Not to mention all the free PR you'd get.
Also I don't really believe in conspiracies that rely on large groups of people to keep quiet, make no mistakes and act against their own private interests.
It's just above the comment section, 2 lines down from the "Next" page link. Just in case you have to revisit the site for an other article somewhere in the future
In the days past you didn't have to sniff glue for your daily fix. You just placed the teachers handouts on your face and took a deep breath. If really fresh, the color could transfer too though, but life is never easy.
Yeah but Europe is really happy to bitch about that. The US on the other hand should try follow their own laws (or the Geneva convention) for a while before exporting.
The ancient Chinese must have played a lot of Scrabble
Wouldn't Chinese be a rather problematic language to natively play scrabble in? I have to admit that my knowledge of the Chinese alphabet is rather limited, but a written language made from syllables (bad) and complete word symbols (worse) might not be ideal to come up with a game like scrabble. Or does my lack of knowledge give me wrong ideas?
Languages built on latin (or greek, or cyrilic,...) letters just seem to work better.
QR Code containing VCard on the back. Tada, became relevant and useful again.
I couldn't agree more. Anyway I don't think it's the card itself that is obsolete, but the practice of throwing useless cards around like confetti. I have no idea how many useless cards I have already thrown away, but sometimes they come in useful. But usually only if I wanted the info in the first place.
People keep phrasing this like OPERA came out with a headline like "Neutrinos Travel Faster Than Light, and If You Disagree, You're a Stupid Doodyhead."
That is not what happened. OPERA basically said "Hey, we have this anomalous result that we don't really think could be right, but we looked at all our stuff and couldn't find the problem. Please help us fix this. Thanks."
Yeah but that does make a lousy headline, don't you think?
Who came off with the idea that having doctors work for hours that would be illegal for truck drivers? It's not like the lack of sleep and concentration could harm patients. It might be really interesting to find out how many people die each year, because the doctor could think straight anymore. Lack of sleep has a lot in common with being drunk, but a truck leaving the road makes a far easier news story than a doctor messing up medications because he just had another 24h shift.
The world would be a far better place if those responsible for such things had to face the consequences instead of those who don't really have a choice if they want to keep their job. I'm still dreaming of the day when an executive goes into jail because he risked the life of others by letting doctors (or other critical proficiencies) work insane hours.
Ah the possibilities of starting a pro-/anti-nuke, liberal vs tighter regulations and many more...
But let's stay nice today and just state a few simple facts:
Nuclear is about as dangerous as possible, if not properly built, maintained and inspected by an independent(!) group
The benefits of having nuclear power are big and the risk of something going wrong is rather low, but
If the shit hits the fan, it does so big time.
There are newer and safer designs available, but most reactors in the wild are older versions
Nuclear isn't actually that cheap if factoring in ALL external costs. (Waste storage for a few thousand years, insurance that would completely cover the costs in case of meltdown, etc.)
Other energy sources have other drawbacks (pollution, price, radioactive fallout-yes I'm looking at you coal-, having to hand over money to dictators and many more)
My opinion on this? Nuclear is fine because it produces a lot of energy with a comparatively low environmental impact. It is quickly adjustable to current needs and is independent of wind or weather. But if there ever was one industry that needs tight oversight and jail time for any manager that fucks up security it is nuclear. The oil spill was bad, but it is over. Though it will take many years for the ocean to regenerate it will. But if a reactor blows up for good, the damage stays with you for several hundred years. So you have to make damn sure it never happens.
I, for one, would love to be more surprised that 'security' has, in information systems as in the physical world, grown a nasty underbelly of people and entities who don't really distinguish between 'security' and 'surveillance' (and, quite possibly, 'offensive capability').
But it's all just for protection. (Though probably not yours)
If you have a huge tank of compressed gas in your basement your scenario isn't that unlikely. Though I strongly doubt the debris to fly more than a few hundred yards. Also the neighborhood might be able to profit from the nice little pond that formed in the crater.
Mmmh looks like I need to watch more TV comedy and be less easily pissed of.
But I still think the world would be a better place if more countries would sweep out the skeletons from their closet and be as open about it as the Germans. East India Trading Company, opium war, massacres of civilians in India, leaving your allies behind to be killed while running back over the channel (UK), Diplomatic threats/ big outcry because one country (France) makes it a crime to deny a genocide you committed (Turkey - that by the way still denies it being one), inviting your fascist friends over to bomb the shit out some poor farmers (Spain-Guernica), imprisoning and or killing thousands of people who question your rulership (China, among others), killing or deporting the native population of an entire continent, slave trade, overthrowing democratic governments and instating dictators, spitting in the face of the Geneva convention and your own legal system "for freedom" (US), just waiting a reason to try out all those nice new weapons you've got, while having no idea what such a war would look like and killing millions of people through sheer stupidity (all of Europe right before WW I). There are to many things being happily ignored by the nations responsible for it.
The list is endless, but it looks like need to get a little less cranky and step down on the caffeine today.
Sorry for the ranting and going postal on some poor joker.
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Germany has some problems the US doesn't have that you have somehow forgotten to mention. Like demographics - like an ageing and shrinking population. That distorts the labor figures you mentioned, and very dramatically. Ultimately this makes the future look pretty grim for Germany.
One more thing the Germans had to deal with, is having to more or less rebuild former eastern Germany from scratch. This was one very expensive thing to do. There are few economies in the world that wouldn't have been crippled by such a stunt.
The US isn't as bad as it is often portrayed, but sadly also not as good as some would like it to be.
This implies you are in a position to reject. It also implies the company would want you, because you would fit into their racial/religious/sexual preferences/age/... profile.
If one outlaws discrimination, you naturally end up with carefully phrased questions or making yourself a target for legal actions by those rejected.
Especially if the bucket of money is outrageously large and will provide a permanent revenue stream. Also there is a large risk of loosing all of it if someone else published it.
It won't fly, as antibodies are cheap and not complicated to do. Seriously, do you really believe Big Pharma is going to let it happen ? A treatment simple like this would jeopardize their business, risking billions of dollar. They'll do something to stop this treatment in its tracks. They always do. Sound paranoid ? I wish. It's more like realistic. Their purpose is not really to cure cancer, but getting a maximum profit from it.
I call bullshit. First of all you don't risk anything by finding such a "simple cure". There are a lot of people and a lot of them will get cancer at one time so there is a very large customer base and no shortage thereof in the long term. For the length of the patent you could sell this stuff at almost any price. Do you really think one company would keep an invention locked up (and risk loosing it to someone else) that would bring them truckloads of money?
Not to mention all the free PR you'd get.
Also I don't really believe in conspiracies that rely on large groups of people to keep quiet, make no mistakes and act against their own private interests.
It's just above the comment section, 2 lines down from the "Next" page link. Just in case you have to revisit the site for an other article somewhere in the future
looks like a lawn we kids need to get off. I do miss the vinyl record scratch loop and the sound when you placed the needle on the record though.
In the days past you didn't have to sniff glue for your daily fix. You just placed the teachers handouts on your face and took a deep breath. If really fresh, the color could transfer too though, but life is never easy.
Nice
A nice fun article (annoyingly presented for maximum ad viewing as usual) although they were kind of stretching near the end.
I thoroughly suggest using the "print" view on the page. Everything on one page and far less junk to ignore.
Yeah but Europe is really happy to bitch about that. The US on the other hand should try follow their own laws (or the Geneva convention) for a while before exporting.
The ancient Chinese must have played a lot of Scrabble
Wouldn't Chinese be a rather problematic language to natively play scrabble in? I have to admit that my knowledge of the Chinese alphabet is rather limited, but a written language made from syllables (bad) and complete word symbols (worse) might not be ideal to come up with a game like scrabble. Or does my lack of knowledge give me wrong ideas? ...) letters just seem to work better.
Languages built on latin (or greek, or cyrilic,
Anytime someone mentions business cards I always think of the scene in american psycho.
"oh my god, it even has a watermark."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ux3vncNNLg
Thank you for sharing this wonderful gem.
QR Code containing VCard on the back. Tada, became relevant and useful again.
I couldn't agree more. Anyway I don't think it's the card itself that is obsolete, but the practice of throwing useless cards around like confetti. I have no idea how many useless cards I have already thrown away, but sometimes they come in useful. But usually only if I wanted the info in the first place.
People keep phrasing this like OPERA came out with a headline like "Neutrinos Travel Faster Than Light, and If You Disagree, You're a Stupid Doodyhead."
That is not what happened. OPERA basically said "Hey, we have this anomalous result that we don't really think could be right, but we looked at all our stuff and couldn't find the problem. Please help us fix this. Thanks."
Yeah but that does make a lousy headline, don't you think?
Who came off with the idea that having doctors work for hours that would be illegal for truck drivers? It's not like the lack of sleep and concentration could harm patients. It might be really interesting to find out how many people die each year, because the doctor could think straight anymore. Lack of sleep has a lot in common with being drunk, but a truck leaving the road makes a far easier news story than a doctor messing up medications because he just had another 24h shift.
The world would be a far better place if those responsible for such things had to face the consequences instead of those who don't really have a choice if they want to keep their job. I'm still dreaming of the day when an executive goes into jail because he risked the life of others by letting doctors (or other critical proficiencies) work insane hours.
. I wish there was a zombie Newton that would eat all the brains in Hollywood
I'm pretty sure that already happened. At least it would explain a lot of the crap we're getting from the movie industry.
But let's stay nice today and just state a few simple facts:
My opinion on this? Nuclear is fine because it produces a lot of energy with a comparatively low environmental impact. It is quickly adjustable to current needs and is independent of wind or weather. But if there ever was one industry that needs tight oversight and jail time for any manager that fucks up security it is nuclear. The oil spill was bad, but it is over. Though it will take many years for the ocean to regenerate it will. But if a reactor blows up for good, the damage stays with you for several hundred years. So you have to make damn sure it never happens.
Mmh looks like you mixed fusion and fission at least once in your reply.
My guess is they are waiting for the outrage (where applicable) to either calm down, or wait to sell a "system update" for a hefty fee.
probably that your brain contradicts his line of thinking
I, for one, would love to be more surprised that 'security' has, in information systems as in the physical world, grown a nasty underbelly of people and entities who don't really distinguish between 'security' and 'surveillance' (and, quite possibly, 'offensive capability').
But it's all just for protection. (Though probably not yours)
If you have a huge tank of compressed gas in your basement your scenario isn't that unlikely. Though I strongly doubt the debris to fly more than a few hundred yards. Also the neighborhood might be able to profit from the nice little pond that formed in the crater.
Am I the only one having a weird vision for a new godzilla movie?
But on the other hand, houses in San Francisco don't tend to substitute shoji screens for walls.
On the other hand being crushed by a paper wall is far less likely than by one made of bricks.
The image of little bacterial cells with pointy ears and tiny bows really made me smile.
Mmmh looks like I need to watch more TV comedy and be less easily pissed of.
But I still think the world would be a better place if more countries would sweep out the skeletons from their closet and be as open about it as the Germans. East India Trading Company, opium war, massacres of civilians in India, leaving your allies behind to be killed while running back over the channel (UK), Diplomatic threats/ big outcry because one country (France) makes it a crime to deny a genocide you committed (Turkey - that by the way still denies it being one), inviting your fascist friends over to bomb the shit out some poor farmers (Spain-Guernica), imprisoning and or killing thousands of people who question your rulership (China, among others), killing or deporting the native population of an entire continent, slave trade, overthrowing democratic governments and instating dictators, spitting in the face of the Geneva convention and your own legal system "for freedom" (US), just waiting a reason to try out all those nice new weapons you've got, while having no idea what such a war would look like and killing millions of people through sheer stupidity (all of Europe right before WW I). There are to many things being happily ignored by the nations responsible for it.
The list is endless, but it looks like need to get a little less cranky and step down on the caffeine today.
Sorry for the ranting and going postal on some poor joker.