A year or so from now, after Ebola has run its course in the third world and the only Ebola the US has suffered came from the travelers the Feds refused to impede in any way, will there be a follow up story asking if the local and state governments and corporate health care system should be recognized for their effectiveness?

Didn't think so.

What is the likelihood of actually benefiting from lower costs due to less net expenditure on, for instance, respiratory illnesses? How does that compare to the likelihood of incurring the far higher $/kWh cost of renewable energy sources?

<mclaughlin-voice> The answers are negligibly small and metaphysical certitude </mclaughlin-voice>

Also, renewable energy consultancy concludes renewable energy is cheaper. Yay for double standards; when oil companies publish pro-fossil fuels research it is dismissed out–of–hand as the junk science/propaganda that it is.

Remember, any limitations on travel to the US is racism. Please stop being racist and trying to get the government to follow your racist policies. Be careful to avoid indulging any of your latent racism by criticizing Mr. President Obama for not implementing racist policies in the form of travel restrictions. Also, until the US has incurred a proportion of Ebola infections similar to that of Liberia et. al it is a racist nation exhibiting its usual racist tendencies.

And be sure to log in and tag this whole story about an Ebola death as 'racism,' as other more racially conscious people already have.

Thank you — the management.

The one, solitary answer offered by The Good and The Great — after they finish telling us the jerbs their policies have eliminated are "never coming back" — is "Education." Now our youth are wallowing in a trillion+ of debt to pay for advanced high school "degrees," our campuses are now indistinguishable from the ghettos that surround them and we have thousands upon thousands of surplus postdocs milling around.

Yeah, I miss the days of staunchly pro-life, tax cutting, communist hating Democrats that aggressively expanded military spending during peacetime, appointed moderates like Rehnquist and Scalia, outlawed hiring of illegal immigrants and causally joked about nuking the Soviets on live radio.

Where did those Democrats go, anyhow?

Capstone Turbine Corporation makes the LNG burning turbine for this application. Here is a good video about it, showing the vehicle in operation and explaining the trade-offs; basically high initial capital costs with good long term savings in fuel and maintenance. Regenerative braking is a big win both in fuel savings and maintenance for garbage trucks which can perform more than 1000 hard stops per day.

Technical details on the turbine include; 200 lbs, 250 hp, 40,000h service life between overhauls (13+ years @ 8h / day.) The turbine has air bearings to eliminate wear, which implies a gas generator/power section arrangement to drive the generator, I believe.

Yeah. They used Honeywell, a cut rate, shade tree operation that isn't one of the top three commercial avionics producers on Earth. And the results prove it too â" with dozens of no reported operational interference problems at all. Boeing's profit focused greed is killing ever more passengers per mile, in some alternate universe where your worldview makes sense.

Yes. Other prerogatives now apply; namely arguing that greedy corporations are trying to kill they're customers by resisting regulators.

Holder is a lame duck, so he's saying and doing things that he would have avoided previously. You see, after they claim poverty ("they cut our budget") the next most common excuse of a government official for their offences and failures is "I can't answer for my predecessor/I wasn't in charge at the time." Holder is saying and doing things so his replacement won't have to.

Often the barrel isn't the feature that engenders the greatest significance in a legal sense. There is no functional difference between the barrel of a fully automatic military M-16/M-4 etc. and a semiautomatic civilian AR-15; in the case of Colt or FN manufactured rifles these are often the exact same part. The difference between full and semi auto is found exclusively in the lower receiver.

I don't know if this is why AR-15 lowers are the serialized part, but it wouldn't surprise me. It used to be legal for civilians to buy new manufacture fully automatic rifles in the US and I imagine the ATF would have wanted to record which lowers were which at a time when both were sold.

As for difficulty of manufacture; barrels/chambers are the hardest parts to make, but that doesn't mean they're particularly hard. Small specialty barrel manufacturers and even individual competitors make barrels for themselves and their customers every day. A lathe, end mill and broaching machine constitute the basic tools. Clever buyers can obtain that stuff for under $20,000.

As an NRA member I can assure you they are representing me. I pay them to do so and I observe that they do indeed pursue the agenda I expect of them. Membership fees constitute almost half of NRA revenue. In my case that does not include additional voluntary donations to ILA, which amount to about 300% of my membership fee, annually.

To the extent that the NRA also represents the interests of weapon manufacturers they represent me indirectly, as I am a patron of those manufacturers, and it pleases me when the profits of those manufacturers are protected from politicians and pressure groups and their hysterical gun grabber instincts.

If I were naive I might think it ironic that so many who advocate so loudly for citizen involvement in government indulge so much hate for one of the most legitimate political advocacy operations in the US; an organization that seeks no special privileges beyond rights inherent to our citizenship and does so largely with money voluntarily contributed by millions of common people that have no expectation of a bennie check appearing in their mail. But I am not naive and not at all surprised that an actual manifestation of the desires of actual citizens is anathema for liberals/statists.

He shouldn't have too much trouble finding work. Alton Nolen, the guy that beheaded a co-worker in Oklahoma this morning in another incident that is also Not Terrorism had only been released from prison a year ago:

This guy will plead to criminal mischief or something, do 18 months and return to commit more non-terrorist crimes.

We've had evidence for years. The SEC records from the Madoff investigation showed the same pattern. The auditors and investigators carefully step around the turds, carefully do not look beyond a strictly limited scope of investigation. They do this because they report to corrupt bosses, appointed by corrupt politicians, voted in by an electorate pursing its narrow self interests.

None of the above has changed, so naturally we're doing it all over again. They're quietly loosening lending standards again, only this time they have the Fed to print and keep the banks capitalized while it's happening instead of after the fact, so the next credit bubble detonation will be even more violent.

Enjoy. You voted for it. And you'll keep voting for it as well because doing otherwise would involve correcting too much of the world view you been trained with.

But but but Drones! Government Drones!!!1

Nailing rich people though........ I bet this particular case of government drones gathering intelligence on citizens gets a pass. Because on Slashdot, the only thing worse than rich people are their corporations. This site came to mind pretty fast when I spotted this story.