Around here we call it the Swooshstika.

I got very lucky, I went to my doctor within a few hours of the pox appearing, and he had me on antivirals about 5 minutes later. Stopped it in its tracks.

and Guitars. http://www.allmusic.com/album/...

The same virus that cause chicken pox in kids will lurk in your body for decades and can come back and give you Shingles. For seniors it can cause nerve damage and crippling pain, even blindness if you are very unlucky. Chicken Pox may not seem like a big deal, but trust me you do not want Shingles.

This is what narcissistic psychopaths do; they blame other people for their own problems. Girls don't want to go out with me. It's clearly their problem, nothing to do with me, so I will kill them all.

Just to be clear, we are talking about a $5 million limit to a liability insurance policy. It doesn't cost $5 million. I pay about $250 a year to raise my minimum $200k liability to $3 mil. Apparently I'm a bit above the local average, most people here have about $2mil coverage. If I had more personal assets, and I lived in a more litigious place I would probably go for the max $5 mil .

Algol W!

He went in and did as much damage as he could, in a sort of drive your semi through the front door kind of way, failed to cover his tracks, got caught, confessed, and is doing 4 years hard time. Better that he walked away with his head held high and never looked back.

He should have followed best practices:

1. Be patient. Wait. Wait at least a year. In that time they will have let any number of people go, and you won't be the go-to suspect.

2. Plan ahead. Make sure there are a few well concealed back doors into their systems. A few ex-employees who didn't have their accounts deleted, maybe a vendor login. Write down the details, don't email them to yourself.

3. When you are officially fired, step away from your computer. Insist that someone disable all your accounts and access privileges. Have witnesses.

4. When it's time to strike, don't use your home computer and don't use your laptop at the closest starbucks. Bounce everything through TOR and a couple of VPNs. Don't short the stock first. Excessive paranoia is the key.

5. Lay your groundwork carefully. Make sure ALL the backups are corrupted first. Plan your logic bomb so it deletes all traces of itself. Your attack payload should ideally wipe every server and every workstation like you hit them with DBAN.

6. Trigger your logic bomb, log out, and never ever ever log back in again.

You are the only person on earth who comes to a till with the correct change. I have had to stand in line behind any number of cash using undiagnosed Alzheimer's sufferers as they try to count out $3.97 in nickels dimes and quarters and take 5 minutes to complete their purchase.

Chip and pin with RFID ftw. The total comes up on the PIN pad. I tap my card on the pad. It spits out a receipt and I move on. Total time 15 seconds. Worst case, I actually have to slide my card into the reader, hit ok a few times and enter the PIN. Total time 30 seconds.

So, how much permethrin would I need to not use to avoid accidentally killing my neighbours cat?

Transport Canada has given the Canadian Railroads 3 years to replace the old dot 111 cars. About 65,000 of them according to FP. Of course we just blew up a small town (Lac Megantic) and killed about 50 people with a trainload of Bakken crude, so maybe TC was motivated.

As you say, a failure of leadership in the US. It's not like the US government hasn't saddled railroads with multi-billion dollar unfunded mandates before. PTC for example.

Around here the railroads have been doing diversions around towns where it makes sense. The city trades land with the railroad. The city gets the relatively more valuable downtown railway lands (right of way plus railyards), gets to close a whole lot of at grade road/rail crossings (better traffic flow, much safer), plus no more noisy stinky trains downtown, and in return the railroad gets a corridor around the town plus a bunch of extra land on the outskirts of town to build a new (bigger) yard. A lot of times the city and railway get together to build a big-ass industrial park (with railway service) near the new yard, and usually if you do it right the new industrial park has convenient highway access for intermodal (containers) traffic. The only downside for the railway is a slightly longer route, otherwise it's a win, win, win for everybody.

No offense, genuinely curious. I have read (ok skimmed) the actual report. From what I understand, the SG formed a committee, they reviewed a large swath of the existing studies available at that time and their main conclusion was that smoking caused cancer and emphysema and was strongly linked to heart disease. People who smoked had a 10 times increase in rates of death from cancer compared to non-smokers. These were (I think?) conclusions based on existing statistics, and not original research.

Not being an epidemiologist, I can't really tell where the science is lacking.

"On January 11, 1964, Luther L. Terry, M.D., Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, released the first report of the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health. On the basis of more than 7,000 articles relating to smoking and disease already available at that time in the biomedical literature, the Advisory Committee concluded that cigarette smoking is—

A cause of lung cancer and laryngeal cancer in men

A probable cause of lung cancer in women

The most important cause of chronic bronchitis"

Which of these conclusions do you consider "Outright Lies"?

The Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health came out in 1964. It clearly and undeniably showed the evidence that smoking was harmful. Now, 50 years later, only about 1/2 of the states have actually banned smoking in enclosed public spaces.

Why does anyone expect America to respond to AGW any quicker or more effectively?