This plays right into Nestle's hands. Their CEO has already screamed that "Nobody has a right to water". They are currently draining a number of aquifers and want access to the Great Lakes. All during the great California drought, they continued to suck water out of the aquifers and then sold that water back to the inhabitants. This is decidedly not a good plan.

Prior to Nixon's gift to a major donor, healthcare was non-profit, from what I've read. After that, once healthcare was allowed to make a profit, the emphasis has been on "treatments", not "cures". Why fix something and get paid once when you can cash in on suffering forever by "treating" it?

By the way, 20 years ago, we had the same guns we have now but we didn't have mass murders like we have now. The difference is the mass prescription of SSRIs...

Just sayin'

NO! NO! NO! NO!!!
They're already handing out SSRIs like candy for everything imaginable. People with PTSD do not need anti depressants. Also, MANY people who are put on these things are NOT monitored for behavioral and mental changes. The more we hand these things out without FREQUENT monitoring, the more problems we're going to have with grandiose suicides. According to things I keep reading, nearly ALL of the mass murderers (especially the ones that suicide) are on SSRIs.

I have a friend that was put on SSRIs for depression. Yeah, she was depressed. After starting those damn things, she went positively suicidal. To the point that we were all taking turns checking on her to make sure that she hadn't offed herself. She told the doctor about it and he said to "let the meds settle in". Seriously! She told the doctor that she was feeling VERY suicidal and he told her to basically "ride it out". Finally, she just quit the damn things and after a couple of weeks was back to her normal self.

I realize that SSRIs *may* help a lot of people, but it doesn't take very many bad experiences to do some serious damage... My friend was ready to take herself out in a spectacular way. Can anybody guess where the school shooters are coming from?

So now they're saying that *5 times* as many people need to be on these things. Really!? Of course, Big Pharma (tm) makes boatloads of money on them and we have more suicides and murders.

By the way, my friend wasn't a teen. She was in her late 40s. The bad effects are not just limited to teenagers...

Yeah, that was the theory behind ADA... We know where that went

Obfuscated electronics design contest: solving a simple problem in a complex manner. Destruction of battlefield electronics is not a new science. A small gridwork of thermite inside the case and a small igniter. Trigger how you will.

Don't we have better things to spend research money on?

In general, most places that I've been in during my 30 year career have had managers and supervisors generally wearing golf shirts and khaki pants or something similar. This is for places that have no real dress code other than clean, in good repair and not offensive.

I would take a look around the company and see how the rest of the team leaders dress. Regardless of how the geeks dress, you're going to need to peddle influence in order to get your budget and policies passed. The better you dress (without overdressing your higher level managers, the more respect you can garner from people that have no clue about IT.

Check out what your manager and his peers wear and go even with that or *one* step lower. If the company president wears jeans and band tee shirts, it don't matter none...:-)