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Comment Re:Skewed Results (Score 1) 208

Indeed, candidate selection has as much to do with outcomes as anything else when you select only 2000 people for your study. What is the mix or city dwellers, office workers, those having outdoor activities, daily walks or not, healthy diets & drugs or not? It can get iffy real quick.

I can believe the researchers tried to get a mixed profile, but it would be good to read the participant selection survey results.

Comment Living Positively (Score 1) 698

Kids need to understand how to be able to accomplish to the limit of their ability for themselves, their family and profession. To do that they need to have the knowledge & self-control to stay healthy in all ways, in spite of peer pressures today.

Kids also need to understand how to deal with loss as it is a part of life and that is difficult to comprehend when young. Maybe it can be stated in a positive light, "Now we both know we have a limited time together, we can focus on important things so you can get the most out of your life."

Helping a child to accomplish something significant really does stick with kids. Steve Jobs told how much he appreciated what he learned from his step-dad in understanding how to build things and why they had to be done "right." Each kid is different.

Comment Re:Refuse to decrypt your "image" & Jail (Score 1) 406

Accidental loss of PGP keys and then what?

Once you have keys the law will no doubt say you have to turn them over. But what if your hard drive blew up or you lost your computer or worse, the NSA stole your computer to frame you?

"Guilty and sentenced to jail until the victim, er uh defendant gives up his keys!"

Comment Re: Umm... Lulz.Markets will Rule (Score 3, Interesting) 253

Prediction is Greece will exit the EU because of inefficient use of all forms of resources. They have been pseudo-socialist giveaway state for so long w/1 in 3 workers working for the state's institutions, they've collectively forgotten market economics is what runs countries effectively.

Venezuela is the prime example of wasteful redistribution policies by a government which collapse a society (military takeover is next.)

Greece will change fairly soon and it will be somewhat painful or they will deteriorate toward Venezuela's position, in which case it will impoverish Greece's working class.

Comment The younger generation will eventually rule! (Score 4, Interesting) 57

Christian Amanpour, a journalist, who visited her young relatives in Iran when journalists could finally return to Iran, talked with young relatives. She noted those young people just wanted to finish their education and get jobs, homes and families just like their relative who were in Europe; who they communicate with using VPNs, of course.

The young people in Iran are generally sharp and educated (more on VPNs than US kids) and they will eventually change Iran. Even the top leader recently noted they need to break up the monopolies in Iran (read controlled by the Republican Guard) so more innovation and business activity can grow & create more jobs.

Right now, many women in Iran, given half a chance, escape to Europe and never come back. Iran will change whether the Mullahs like it or not.

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