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New health secretary…

“To be clear, a Health Minister who believes in magic sugar pills is like a Chancellor who believes – literally – in money trees. Or a Transport Minister who believes in perpetual motion.”

 

Jeremy Hunt, new health secretary, called for the NHS to be dismantled and supports homeopathy – bengoldacre – secondary blog.

Sounds great!

Film story???

Why is this not a film? This man was for real!

“La Rouchefoucauld met Hitler, joined the Resistance, and, with the permission of de Gaulle, who told him, “Even allied to the Devil, it’s for La France,” joined the British reconnaissance agency Special Operations Executive (“Churchill’s secret army”). With the S.O.E., he learned how to crack safes and how to “kill a man with the flat of his hand.”

The World’s Most Interesting Obituary? : The New Yorker.

The First Moon Walk…

It is hard to believe that we’d ever take a gamble like this again. Maybe a generation that had been through World War II and a Korean war was more willing to take chances.

“It is true that we were cautious in our planning. There were many uncertainties about how well our Lunar module systems and our Pressure suit and backpack would match the engineering predictions in the hostile lunar environment. We were operating in a near perfect vacuum with the temperature well above 200 degrees Fahrenheit with the local gravity only one sixth that of Earth. That combination cannot be duplicated here on Earth, but we tried as best we could to test our equipment for those conditions.”

Neil Armstrong Talks About The First Moon Walk : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR.

Setting precident…

“What does worry me about this lawsuit is that it’s going to lead to many more. And it makes patents even more important, and as such, more valuable. That could end up hurting many companies, both large and small. And it could distract from innovation because everyone will be so preoccupied with filing patents, looking for ones that they might be infringing upon, or in court.”

parislemon – The Costs.

Surely now that everyone has seen this happen rather than having to suffer more cases, other companies will just not copy.

I’m sure that every patent lawyer in every competitor is working this weekend reviewing the case against their product pipelines.