Lots of things work for Norway, and lots of other countries, that doesn't work for us. We are abnormal when it comes to the rest of the world. Now that may not always be a bad thing...but normal we are not.

A dual boot Windows 8.1 and Steam OS machine. I'm not really feeling the need for Android on a PC. Anyone else?

I setup an older version at work to sync important files between laptops. Version wasn't that far behind. We had nothing but trouble with it. If clients didn't hit the network or Internet, sometimes the clients would just lose all their settings. And client setup was not trivial, so I had to be the one to do it. Also, it would sometimes create a huge number of dupe files, which were versioned in order to stop collisions.

All in all, we ditched it for Goodsync. Not perfect, but it doesn't just one day up and lose all its settings for no apparent reason or create hundreds and hundreds of dupe files.

From here on out, it is nipple interfaces!

I get tired of the false meme that "oh, we would have cured disease X already if the results weren't being suppressed in a big conspiracy"

This guy was on to something good. When he was farting around in the lab, he got funding. When he started to get results, the funding vanished. I love his statement in bold below:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/science_news/4273366.html

So how did you get it funded up to this point?

There is some private funding and the university put some funding into it. And also, at early stages when we studied the mechanisms of these mice, we had one Mitchell Cancer Institute grant, several small grants from Cancer Research Institute. But they all stopped funding me. It was kind of a strange situation. I thought it was our common goal to come up with a new weapon to fight cancer, but the moment I announced I had a new weapon to test in real human cancer situations, everybody shied away.

there is no one single disease, "cancer."

Scientists are in "complete surprise" that cancers closely resemble each other across widely varying organs, according to Dr. Douglas Levine of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the principal investigator on a new endometrial cancer study published Wednesday in the journal, Nature.

"The problem," leading to existing drug treatments performing at an unsatisfactory 10% death rate, was in "the traditional methods for categorizing the leukemia," said Dr. Timothy Ley of Washington University in St. Louis, who co-led a study simultaneously published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

"Cancer of the uterine lining closely resembles the worst ovarian and breast cancers... telling evidence that cancer will increasingly be seen as a disease defined primarily by its genetic fingerprint rather than just by the organ where it originated," says The New York Times' interpretation of these results.

Cancer gets cured about once a decade, sometimes by real doctors, sometimes by "quacks." I could show stats from real doctors with similar results to this one, which never saw the light of day once it was discovered (or rediscovered).

People don't actually like creativity, even in medicine:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/12/creativity_is_rejected_teachers_and_bosses_don_t_value_out_of_the_box_thinking.html

Staw says most people are risk-averse. He refers to them as satisfiers. “As much as we celebrate independence in Western cultures, there is an awful lot of pressure to conform,” he says. Satisfiers avoid stirring things up, even if it means forsaking the truth or rejecting a good idea.

In medicine, innovative things happen all the time. When *you* go to the doctor, you get the same ol' thing that has been done since 1952.

I can see both sides of a controlled burn. Yes, it is probably the right thing to do. But the first time it got out of control and burned a bunch of houses down, the crap would hit the fan. Can you imagine the news footage of the people who's houses were burned down by a fire set intentionally by the government. Wow. I don't generally like politicians more than anyone else, but even I could understand the motivation to not be put in this position.

Dude, you have to start at 0, so it is 9,999,999 kids.

Under President Carter, inflation was high but the deficit was at one of it's lowest points in many decades. When Reagan came in, inflation went to nothing and the deficit sky-rocketed. If you suddenly got a bunch of credit cards for you household and maxed them out, you couldn't help but increase your standard of living...at least until the bills started coming due.

But on some level, I agree with you. We have to get the Feds where they can't spend money that we don't have. Period.

Fear sells. It isn't just the government that uses it. Spend an afternoon listening to Alex Jones or Talk Radio in general. Watch what people are watching on TV and the movies. Zombie and horror movies are big time right now. Look at what everyone is being told in church, "it's the End Times."

It's all just capitalism in action. If fear makes people part with their money, then someone is going to be dishing out the fear.

I don't know what the exact solution is, but in capitalism, when the market dries up, the sellers move on to different markets.

Under President Carter, inflation was high but the deficit was at one of it's lowest points in many decades. When Reagan came in, inflation went to nothing and the deficit sky-rocketed. If you suddenly got a bunch of credit cards for you household and maxed them out, you couldn't help but increase your standard of living...until the bills started coming due.

The point being, there is other ways of screwing us than printing money. Reagan was a master at it. Not only did he screw us, but we loved him while he did so. Heck, many conservatives want someone like him back in office. We are so delusional as a nation, that if it didn't come out of *my* pocket, it is fantastic.

Well guess what? The deficit comes out of our children's pockets. Fantastic, I know. Right?

But on some level, I agree with you. We have to get the Feds where they can't spend money that we don't have. Period.

I wonder if Snowden might not be a bubble popper? I sure would hate to have a ton of debt in cloud infrastructure here in the US right at the moment.

No. It's who you know...on the ***Internet***. So now you need Facebook to get credit, and Google+ to get hired. Don't use these services because of privacy issues. That's fine, you just won't get credit or a job.

It's like when I used to have to run credit checks on people, and they didn't want to give me their social security number. That's fine, I don't care. You just will not get this product you are wanting without forking it over. Now keep in mind that I totally agreed with the people, but like a good Nazi, I was just doing my job.

Obviously, they are battle hardening, in order to protect our data from the NSA.