It was written by Deborah C. Peel, an Austin native who happens to be president of the National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers. I know nothing about Ms. Peel or the group, but her words speak eloquently for themselves.

In a nutshell: The Bush administration is trying to change the law to eliminate the requirement that you consent before your medical records are released. Doctor-patient confidentiality will be replaced by, in all effect, government ownership of your medical records.

I've read the government "fact sheet" that explains how they claim to be strengthening protections. What it boils down to is that they're REMOVING your protections, and adding to the number of ways the health care provider has to tell you that if you get treatment, your information won't be private . . . Read the article - and then, if you feel there's a problem here, send your comments to the Department of Health and Human Services right away. There's only about a week left in the comment period.[SJ Games website]

 

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lished patent applications bolster the tantalizing speculation that Mr. Kamen may indeed have something much bigger up his sleeve."  [Scripting News]

A Stirling powered Segway... interesting. Doing my thing: A methane burning refuling station that draws gas off the sewer pipes to power the electrical generation. Put them on every street corner, or jsut at public transport stations, so that your scooter can recharge while you are off in the city.

If a community/city adopted these, you coudl pay to lease it as public transport, of course, the liablity is going to be murder, but to cut down on traffic would be pretty sweet.

Interesting, very interesting. Use this stirling engine for power generation in remote farms, or tap landfills to get the methane from the breakdown of biomass, and you have reliable power far away from any grid. This also allows for local co-generation reducing power costs by tapping into the otherwise lost resources.

Gah. NASA is developing Stirling engines for use in space. This is perfect application for a stirling engine, given how it works. Set the hot side to face the sun, and the cool side looking out at the inky blackness of space, and you are set. If you wanted to maximize the heat generation from the light coming in, you could use a cluster of  fiber optic tapers to maximize light gathering.

I seem to be getting a lot of hits from google for   X P  k  e  y   g e n e r a t i o n . (I don't want to encourage them.) Interesting.

Blog readers then go to the site, read the article, thereby delivering hits for said journalist. Since hits are the cash of the web, I propose the following:

Rather than linking to the article itself, thereby delivering hits for our troll, link to the cahed version of it on Google (or some other search engine) if at all possible, thereby denying the troll the hits they are trawling for.