Given the size of the trial, it's really unlikely that it prevents less than 90% of the cases of Ebola that would otherwise develop. So while I agree that 100% continuing is all that likely, especially if you start including immune suppressed people such as the HIV positive, those with cancer, transplants, young children, the elderly, etc... Still, if you vaccinate 100% of those eligible for it and it provides 95% immunity to Ebola, odds are the vulnerable won't be exposed at all, because you'll have something like 5% of the flare-ups from a wild source, and such flareups should mostly be individual, not thousands.

On the other hand, thinking about Ebola and vaccines reminded me that vaccines have made an even deadlier disease less problematic - Rabies. It wasn't until a relatively short time ago that we had any survivors from the symptomatic stage, and even then getting those requires putting them into a medical coma for a while.

But with the vaccine we realistically save thousands of human lives every year in the USA alone, and that's with mostly vaccinating animals, not people, and only vaccinating humans who we suspect have been exposed or work in a higher exposure risk area.

Not necessarily. I'd say it remains 'nice' even if it only lasts for 6 months, so long as it works on 'most' strains, but said strains are identifiable.

The critical part here is that it works when given close to exposure. That makes it like the rabies vaccine. Ebola outbreak? You hit everybody in the village up with it, and it remains at 1-2 cases, not hundreds.

If it's 100% effective for life with 1 shot, it goes way beyond 'nice'. As such it would beat most vaccines today, as most vaccines are: Only about 90% effective, require multiple shots to reach that effectiveness, only last a limited period of time, etc...

Flu - annual(though that's for a wide number of varieties), Tetanus - 10 years, Hep A - 2 does, Hep B - 3 doses, Chickenpox - 2 doses, etc...

Its like saying "Hey, Chevrolet, you know your customers like the radio station set to 101.9, why cant you engineer your cars to respect their choice instead of forcing your nefarious 101.5 agenda."

Yeah, but this is a Mozilla car analogy we're talking about here.

In the current 2015.7 model, release, the UX team has decided that a 5-button hamburger menu on an AM dial (and only from 1100Khz to 1150KHz in 10KHz increments) is all that's needed. Users who want to access a wider range of frequencies in the AM band are free to write an extension or purchase a third-party radio head unit.

To further improve the user experience, we remind prospective extension developers that in the Aurora channel for the 2016.1 model year, the about:config setting for frequency.megavskilohertz has been removed, along with the FM antenna. The UX team has made this recommendation based on telemetry that suggests that few drivers actually listen to FM radio, especially since the 2013.6 model, in which the AM/FM toggle switch was removed because the UX team for 2012.1 felt it was cluttering the dashboard.

I like Mint. It is my favorite current distro. I call it Linux for Retards because, well, it is. You can just install and be done with it on every single configuration I have tried. There is something to be said for that. I also like CentOS lately, but that is a bit bloated.

Yeah, I read the abstract and glimpsed at the study. Given my older resources I could almost certainly provide proof that it is an absolutely absurd conclusion to be made based on that data. Inconsistent lighting is bad for drivers and bicyclists. Dark sections are horrific for pedestrian traffic and bicyclists. This is a known truth - at least in my country and we are not that dissimilar.

If you do decide to take this on and need some studies I can probably access some of the paid journals (if need be) through my old business. I doubt that they would do you any good - if your council is anything like our political system they will simply not be read. Anyhow, if you do then the email address listed is working.

I tossed the email up to see what would happen as far as spam goes. So far? Not a noted increase in quantity or filtering. I've done this with GMail in the past and had worse results. I am kind of surprised that Outlook (Microsoft) is doing this well. Of course, I have no idea what they are dropping silently.

Well... You're going to need a strong stomach, a baklava, and bat... You know what to do.

I do not know how your legal system works in these regards BUT petition the hell out of your council. Old people vote, have them protest too. It probably will not be as effective as pushing them off the curb and stomping on them but it certainly is nicer.

I am thinking...

VNC maybe? Still going to need a laptop at that point. I think VNC (Vino or RealVNC or even the FOSS TigerVNC) and a wireless HDMI connection may just be the ticket. It is the best solution I can come up with at this point.

This is one of those times where what really mattered is what made you happy at the time. Those times are too few as we are part of a society. I am glad you enjoyed it and the person who replied to your original post probably does not understand. A lady friend and I, no honeymoon - we did not wed thankfully, celebrated in a car instead of even taking the RV. We spent about 8 months packed into the car, staying at hotels when the mood struck, and never really with a destination in mind.

We'd hope on a highway and get off whatever exit struck our fancy at that moment in time. We went anywhere we wanted, zig-zagging across the country (back and fourth and up and down many times) while having no itinerary. We never really reserved a hotel room - instead we would call ahead before we rolled into that area and hope for the best. Many nights were spent in the car and many photographs were taken. Some days we would muster up the courage and drive straight through. A number of days had more than 1000 miles logged - some a few hundred higher than that.

Why? Because it made us happy. The end result was well over 30,000 miles as I recall. We went and did anything we felt like at the moment. We had no destinations really. Once, in the panhandle of Florida, we decided to visit Roswell, NM. Our first stop on that journey was way down in in the tip - to Dade County and Miami and then out to the islands for a single evening. Sure, it added something like 1300 miles to the trip but, frankly, that was the point.

There are times and places where opinions do not matter and where what you want is what is best. Cherish those moments. I will trot out the tired, old, cliché. You only live once.

That is why I said that if they wanted to do it on their own then let 'em. We can not always change what the council does and we can not do it quickly. Until then? Get out and give them a hand if they need it or want it. If they do not want help then, yeah, let 'em go.

I hope, when I am 80 (not so very far away), that I am still chasing skirts and having a hell of a good time - if I am alive, of course. I hope I will not have to rely on folks. I'd also like to know that help was there if I want it. I currently sort of live by this model though I am more a helper than not. I do have a lady that I pay a salary to. She does my cooking (most of it), cleaning, and shopping. She works about 20 hours a week.

I pay her $400/wk. I offered her a raise a month ago and she declined it. I think I am just going to start having her take extra out of the ATM and then just giving it to her. (She has her own card and PIN. I trust her completely and, frankly, I would not know if she stole from me.) She tells me when the account is getting low and I go get more put into that account. My accountant hates me for it, I like being his source of ire.

Anyhow, yeah... Petition the council to change back and, in the meantime, help 'em out if you are able. Get on your neighbor's case and have them help. Unfortunately, things are unlikely to change unless there is a drastic event that makes them change back to keeping the lights on. You're going to have to have someone fall and break a hip, get drastically beaten in a robbery, or just get worked over by thugs.

I am not suggesting that you help them do this. But... If tipping old ladies is your thing and you want the lights back on... ;-)

My other suggestion is just as worthless... It involves getting them all sparkled scooters and fireworks. It is best that I not type it out.

I am fluent in typo. It is all good.

I will have to try that. I am a Buddhist (but not a fucking monk, damn it) so I am always trying to be mindful. I am also an atheist so it is not like I worry about my soul. The best of both worlds I suppose. Anyhow, I shall be mindful of my play when I try it again. Should I note an improvement I will remember to reply in another thread when I see your moniker.

I could compile a couple of studies and show (I suspect) that all urban streets should be well lit at times where there may be pedestrian or bicycle traffic. We just need to make sure that we are grounding this on facts and not hyperbole. I am almost 100% certain that I can show the benefits outweigh the negatives (there are few and they are trivial). Areas with inconsistent lighting are actually worse than none or sporadic lighting. This is, in part, what I based my career on. The standard recommendation is 150' apart or as close as existing poles allow for dense urban streets. Few places adhere to the standards. Some over, some under... Nobody seem to listen to the advice they paid good money for.

It will also vary depending on the performance of the vehicles immediately ahead of, oncoming-and-passing, or crossing ahead of the street view vehicle. Especially the first: The sensor will be running in the exhaust plumes of the vehicles ahead of the street view car, so the map will be a very non-random sampling.

On the other hand, the partculate and "volatile organic compounds" sensors will produce some very interesting data. The latter is what the federal standards call "unburned hydrocarbons" when emitted from an engine, and the output of modern engines is vanishingly small. But many species of evergreen trees emit them in enormous quantity, as part of their ongoing chemical warfare against insects that eat trees. That's what the blue haze around pine-forested mountains (such as "the Smoky Mountains") is about. You can literally destroy (by extreme and long-term contamination) an automotive conformance test cell (the room where they test the car's emissions), requiring it to be torn out and rebuilt, by placing a Christmas tree in it overnight.

I expect some towns in remote, forested, mountain areas, where people move "for their health" and "for the clean, fresh, air", to get a rude awakening. B-)

But I doubt it will affect the extremely tight standards for automobile engines - except maybe to cause a flap that tightens them further. These days many engines are so clean that running then can IMPROVE the air quality in some places (such as portions of Los Angeles, with topography that created such a thermal inversion that a single settler's campfire could leave the whole valley filled with smoke for a day or more) by inhaling and burning far more hydrocarbon and particulate pollutants than they create.

I knew you lived in the UK but I was starting to wonder if, maybe, you had started life in West Virginia, United States. ;)

Of course, given that the prosecutors didn't want an indictment in the first place and given that the prosecutors are the ones in charge of trying to convict the defendants, one wonders what the chances of actually getting a conviction are...

Mozilla is whining anyway; when they switched search providers from Google to Yahoo I had to go through and specify it on EVERY INSTANCE of Firefox I have. Since I use --no-remote and segment my web browsing this was actually a royal pain in the ass. Granted, Google was the old "default," so I had never changed it, but it was still an undesired change in behavior. If they're going to whine about Microsoft doing the same thing then they ought to look at their own behavior.

Firefox is still my browser of choice for personal use but for others I've started to recommend Chrome. It's just less hassle to support it for your luser friends. The future of Firefox and Mozilla is not an encouraging one, which is a pity.