More B.S. California's problem with water shortages is mostly due to Man Made Regulations! Read about how they are restricting water flow to 'protect' some little minnow. http://online.wsj.com/news/art... and http://westernfarmpress.com/bl...

So they had a form of Pig Latin back then too? "issKay emay Iyay'may ikingVay"

I was going to say "Let me Google that for you!", but Wolfram provides a very detailed answer. http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...

CFL's DO NOT last longer. I've tested that theory a few times in my house and NONE of those that I bought (any name brand) lasted longer than the incandescent bulbs that had been in place before and after the CFL's died. I've stocked up on real light bulbs.

So now, AFTER the last manufacturer of incandescent bulbs in America has closed up shop they want to use some special rules or tricks to make them legal again. Too little too late. This legislation is a perfect example of how BOTH parties are lost to the average people. I'm very Conservative and was critical of Bush for signing this (as if he would have heard or cared that I was critical of anything he did) along with the rest of the RINO Republicans that went along on this. We used to have a thing called 'Free Markets' in this country and this law is just a shining example of how the Government is actually controlling the marketplace. In a few more years LED's will be effective AND affordable, there was no harm in letting those come to market on their own. However, there is harm in forcing the mercury laden CFL's into the marketplace. Now we have homes filled with little toxic bombs just waiting to contaminate (heart-string tug) our kids with mercury.

Ask Hibbing, MN how they moved their city when it was found to be sitting on a huge Iron Ore deposit. They did it.

And your Kardashians are any better? At least the Robertson family EARNED their wealth by starting an actual company and working hard to make it successful long before there was a TV show about them.

We can add all Global Warming and Climate Change stories to the hoax news. We can also add "If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" to the list of hoax news stories. And it's a long list.

I would argue that first to file is as important as first to discover. There are scoundrels and then there are SCOUNDRELS that even if they are doing discovery/invention that will falsify data to claim they were "first". The discover/invention process needs to be documented much like scientific method and independently verified.

The EU rule that a patent must be file before announcement is ludacris. Public announcement AND demonstration of a discovery/invention in fact should improve the standing of a patent application if we are really concerned with patent trolls.

When I was a Navy Corpsman I did blood draws all the time. I also taught others how to do them by letting them use my arm for their first 'stick'. I can tell you that we are always just guessing that a vein will be good enough to draw blood. On men and women with large visible veins its a different issue. They are easy to see and they usually have good blood flow. However they tend to roll to one side or the other when you hit them with a needle. On those with veins that are hidden we are sticking 'blind'. We do our best to feel for a pulse in locations we know there to be veins and then stick the needle in until its hits the vein. Usually we hit the vein. Sometime though we don't and sometimes the vein just collapses.

The tools this robot has are a major advantage. IR to see the veins and ultrasound to tell if there is good blood flow. Those two tools would help most any phlebotomist increase their accuracy rate. The only thing that would concern me is that I didn't see or read anything that indicates the robot can tell how deep the vein is located. Sometimes they are on or near the surface and other times they are much deeper.

I would let the robot test on me just like I used to let new corpsman test on me.

Drats - I wasn't logged in when I posted this.

Here try this data: Murder rates world wide. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

Please not the very high rates of murder in countries that ban guns. Also, look at violent crime rates. Just because guns are banned does not mean people don't find another weapon to use. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-country-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html

To stop all of this you'd have to ban people.

Ah the memories - TTL Cookbook! I still have that on a bookshelf in the basement.

Somewhere between learning to write my first "Hello World" program on the Apple IIe (and the TI99/4A) and making a career out of programming years later, I went to schools for Computer Repair and Bio-Medical Electronics. I still have a pile of 7400 series IC chips and my breadboards amongst other electronic components. I learned analog and digital circuit design in the late 80's. The logic learned in those classes still applies to everyday programming today. No matter what I did in those previous careers, the training I did then still applies today. AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR and XNOR are still the 7 basic logic elements that make up all digital electronics and programming. From there Truth Tables are built and boolean algebra is applied to create any and all circuits and code today. In my humble opinion these are still essential to training people new to various IT fields. It's like having to learn nous, verbs, adverbs and adjectives in order to write understandable thoughts. If you lack this basic understanding learning the more advance concepts is difficult at best. It's good to see these are still being taught somewhere.

Now I'm more curious as to who's names are on the list. Which party or parties is trying to hide something? I find it odd that a newspaper reporters are worried about the privacy of anyone these days. Makes me wonder if some of the reporters or someone higher up at a newspaper is on the client list.

Next, were the payments for the Zumba lesson or sex? Maybe the sex was the free choice of adults that just happened to be conducting other legal business at the time? Just wondering here.