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Comment Re:Electric Universe (Score 2) 225

I believe that there is some wiggle room, looking at the electric universe theory.

Actually, Electro-Temporal Unification Theory shows that "electric universe" and "timecube cosmology" make the same predictions at the critical energy density point in 8-space, and is in good accord with all available evidence.

Unfortunately the paper was publised by a certain Jack N. Withya, so most cosmologists haven't bothered to read it.

Comment Re:And yet (Score 4, Interesting) 268

Given the premises of this thread (the costs and salaries of work immigration need to be controlled by the state), here a half-serious suggestion:

Have work immigrants be employed by your federal govermnent, not by the company they work for. The immigrant reports their working hours and conditions to the government, and they get their salary paid out from there. The government dispatches the worker to the company, and get the salary and other costs paid back from them.

The great benefit is that the worker is no longer there at the mercy of the company, and has no incentive to accept bad conditions or missing pay checks from them. And in any labour dispute they have the backing of a major legal and administrative organization. The government gets a clear view of exactly who the work immigrants are and what they do for their employers. The companies are relieved of some of the responsibility for these workers. Everybody has a common, single point of focus where they can turn in case of problems.

Comment Rigged statistics. (Score 3, Interesting) 183

more people die in 1 month from the flu in africa (over 5 K from the last article i saw ) than they die from ebola last year.

But those people dieing of of the flue are often compromised in some other way, such as old age or malnutrition.

you might as well say that more people in africa die of old age every day than all ebola deaths combined.

The reason people fear ebola is that unlike old age, it spreads and attacks the healthy.

Unless you are literally playing in a sick persons bodily fluids, the risk is almost 0

the exact same exaggeration is true of flu. You catch flu by being in close proximity to someone with the flu or some a vector that can temporarily support the flu's transmission, just like ebola.

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