I'd add that the UPSs I have purchased in the past have failed more often than the computers I had plugged into them. No more UPSs for me, thanks.

Absolutely. Then I want and had some dark chocolate because someone somewhere said it was good for me.

This is exactly what the Medical Device tax - that was a part of Obamacare - does. Taxes Medical Device Manufacturer's top line, not the bottom line.

My local phone company finally started unbundling DSL and land-line, which played a part in our own cord-cutting.

Wow - TiVo is still around? who knew?

Oh yeah - newspapers. A perfect source for about 1% of yesterday's news.

We cut the cord 3 years ago November 1st. The only think I really miss is college football - but hey - there is a radio for that! And now that I have Sonos, which I can use to pipe TuneIn throughout the house and listen - it's awesome. Netflix is the only content we pay for on a monthly basis, and it'll be another year before I've watched everything on there I want to see.

lmgtfy

Weaponized PowerPoint is redundant. Powerpoint has been a weapon against clear thinking, preparing for a meeting, and keeping people interested in what you're saying for a long time.

And, of course, PowerPoint has already caused the space shuttle to crash. http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

There is a series of articles out there on the Interwebs about a company losing a satellite because they couldn't use the patented Boeing math.

However - back to the original comment - since you *are* a patent attorney - is the original statement "you can't copyright the math" true? or false? Thanks!

Totally agree. Maybe once a month a single 'spam' message ends up in my inbox, and maybe 2 or 3 non-spam ends up in my spam folder. But even the ones that end up in the spam folder are from mailing lists or subscriptions. I've never had an actual hand-written e-mail from a person I know, writing to me about something we actually need to discuss, end up in the spam folder.

This.

Finland, Finland, Finland.
Finland has it all.

Saying that something is more lethal doesn't mean the same as saying it kills more people. What it means is that it is more "sufficient to cause death". So, while it's very true that more people have died from H1N1 than from EBOV, EBOV is still far more lethal.

http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/est... says that between April 2009 and April 2010 there were 61M cases of H1N1 resulting in 12.5K deaths. WHO says that, so far, there are 7192 cases of EBOV in the West African outbreak, and 3286 deaths.

I'll let you do the math.

Oh - by the way - the government has their own EMR. VistA/CPRS used by the VA.

It's written in MUMPS too - and can't inter-operate with anything without an act of congress.