but never could figure out what her qualifications were. Sure, she was the president's wife, but did she participate in decision making?

It seems to me that the press has elevated the status of the first lady to co-president. I don't buy it. Being married to a president doesn't make you presidential material any more than being married to an engineer makes you an engineer.

If there was something wrong with my car I wouldn't call the mechanic's wife/husband, I'd call the mechanic.

about to leave. What about the valueless employees? You know, the ones who actually do the work and can be replaced with a phone call...

'So as part of our recruiting process we don’t negotiate with candidates. We come up with an offer that we think is fair. If you want more equity, we’ll let you swap a little bit of your cash salary for equity, but we aren’t going to reward people who are better negotiators with more compensation.

Except the executive positions...

I was under the impression that H1B visas were for slaves, not entrepreneurs. My understanding of H1B visas is that they are sponsored and that if you leave the sponsored job, you have to go back to wherever you came from. That's what makes it so attractive for employers. The H1Bers can't complain about low wages and long hours under threat of being sent back to where they were trying to get away from.

Is it different for white people coming from European countries?

The Nomad Pro2 (a newer unit) is available in the US.

Modern X-ray equipment, using phosensitive phosphor plates and digital sensors, are much lower powered than used to be used for film exposure. The X-ray units are designed so the beam is directional- there's very little scatter to the sides. Many dental X-ray units are hand-held (see http://goo.gl/pMHu8j) and pose nearly zero risk for the operator. The operator is in greater danger of injury from dropping the device on their foot than they are from exposure to the beam if they are operating it per instructions.

The practice that is dangerous is dental personnel holding the film in the patient's mouth and making the X-ray exposure. I've seen pictures of a dentist's hand who had been doing that for about 30 years. His thumb and finger tips looked like they had been burned off.

electric power pricing that California came up with in 2000/01?

Yeah, the free-market always finds a way...

by putting their stuff into the Cisco boxes in the factory. Wait, aren't they already doing that?

I originally built it to serve audio to my squeezeboxes, but recently started using it to stream video via Plex. I used a Shuttle XS35 V2 (I built it a couple years ago when that was a current model) with 4GB ram and a 1TB HDD (for now). The Shuttle box is fanless- a good idea in a dusty crawl space, and completely silent. It is also very small and light, so you might even find room for it in the house. It can be mounted behind a TV easily. Total investment $300.

Vortexbox is a media server specific linux distro that works very reliably and is designed for remote management via a web server. It includes Logitech Media Server, Plex, and a bunch of other useful apps.

I have it connected to the network by ethernet, and it streams to two PS3s (with paid app) and one Roku. My wireless network (820.11g) is too slow for 1080p streaming but handles 720p just fine. One PS3 is in my theater system and is wired to the network and 1080p streams fine.

was trying to compile the firmware for my 3D printer. It turned out that the latest firmware (at the time) would not compile in latest version of the Arduino IDE. I had to hunt for a load an older version of the Arduino IDE to get it to work.

Open source is OK, but when you really have to get something done, a product that a bunch of people are paid to maintain and add to (Microsoft being the most notable exception) is usually going to work better. I always liked PIC microcontrollers and their IDE because it all just worked reliably and there was tons of support available. I have no idea how Arduino get so popular so fast when PIC stuff was already so cheap and easy to use.

remedy for any condition?

Let's say I'm a competitor who wants to produce a homeopathic medicine for which I do not have the original substances that need to be diluted. All I do is buy one dose of the competitor's product and dilute it further and repackage it with my label. The more it is diluted the better, so my diluted stuff is better than the original.
Now multiply that by thousands of people who would like to be in the homeopathic remedy business. Why would anyone "research" and look for new "active ingredients" (or should I say activum ingredientium to confer the scientific sound that latin sounding names lend this sort of magic)?

What about rain? Rain hits just about everything and ends up in our drinking water supply, so drinking water is an extremely dilute form of virtually every "active" homeopathic agent. Why buy any sort of homeopathic remedy when all you have to do is drink water and you'll get them all?

Human stupidity expands without limit.

You're confusing having a slick web site with having medical knowledge.

Why are they still in business? Because maintaining a web site is very inexpensive, and maybe they host the site and operate in a country where the authorities leave them alone.

Why do they have an "education" wing? To get people like you to think they are a legitimate operation.

Why are people against...? Because it is not based on science and has been demonstrated many times to be essentially worthless.

Look around you. Your phone, TV, the internet, your car, everything you have is the result of applying science. None of it is based on magic or wishful thinking, or prayer. It's based on people figuring out what works and what doesn't and leaving behind the things that don't, including homeopathy.

Toxic mold causes real symptoms that cannot be treated with water. If you're living with toxic mold you'd probably better move away.

The last time I checked, ringing in the ears and anxiety were not allergic reactions.

Do wifi signals cause any of these symptoms?

Chuck?

Yes, because it's a widely known fact that ALL conditions, including cancer, diabetes, broken bones, arthritis, osteoporosis, dental caries, baldness, ulcers, dog bites, rotator cuff injuries, high blood pressure, anemia, depression, Parkinsons, Alzheimers, bromodrosis, etc., respond to antibiotics.