Isotopia

Rebuttal of Bill Sardi's
"Eighteen Reasons Why You Should NOT Vaccinate Your Children Against The Flu This Season"

By David Kessner and Chris Hanson

Original article: http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi119.html

In the bad old days, C was barely more sophisticated than Assembly with fancy macros.

Some would say little has changed. An unattributed quote reminds us that "C combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease of use of assembly language".

A solid sci-fi time-travel adventure with archeobiology and quantum physics. And an aluminum briefcase.

So, picture the situation. You need to iterate the contents of an STL container, performing a given operation on each one.

Here's a little morsel that might save someone a bit of trouble.

C++ objects can have sub-objects ("has-a") and parent classes ("is-a"). This morsel doesn't concern itself with the parent class's objects but rather the encapsulated sub-objects defined by our very class. These encapsulated sub-objects can be initialized at construction time by an initializer list. Any objects that aren't initialized there you should initialize in the constructor itself, but it's preferred to do them in the initializer list if possible (for a variety of reasons including performance and code cleanliness).

I was bored during the snowstorm and had too much time in the garage.

Classic early Vinge hard sci-fi, with some great technological twists.

Just uphill from the Parmalee Gulch/Indian Hills exit on Highway 285 southwest of Denver is a steep hill, at the base of which is a sharp corner. It's the site of many accidents, including the ones I covered last fall. This one was a night incident (Aug 10th, 2008) that I arrived at after being at work late one night. A tractor-trailer, traveling northbound (downhill) went straight where the road curved to the right, and crossed the median.

Deliciously tasty vampire novel on the Mississippi River.

We switched to using PDF as the online help format for our new Visual Nature Studio 3 product, which is a switch I greatly welcome. Previously we used non-paginated basic HTML, broken up into over a hundred "chapters", one for each major topic or window in the program. When the user invoked the help menu or F1 key, the software would determine what window was active, and map that to an HTML filename. I would then use ShellExecute to launch the users preferred web browser to view the file in question.

The admittedly good-looking Sarah Palin has been featured in some interesting photos.

My son got "Elefun" as a gift a while ago, and despite having promise, it underdelivered. Until now.

The Intarwebz are abuzz with the shocking revelation that China "faked" the stunning "walking footprints" fireworks sequence of the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Vinge swings for the fences with this Singularity novel and scores a grand-slam.

Charles Stross takes technological civilization off the deep end. Again.

A fairly amusing collection featuring early works by a top-notch author.

From the "haven't we passed this intersection twice already" department, let's take another look at the chicanery involving the photos of Iran's missile launch. Is there more here than a bad Photoshop job?

Iran must be jealous of Fox News' 733t Photoshop sk1llz because they've gotten into the game too.

Silicon Alley Insider and MediaMatters report that Fox News is up to some pretty juvenile tricks, retouching photos of people it doesn't like. What was done to the photos, and was it an accident? The answer may disgust you.

The thread that would not die. Apparently "OpenDNA" has now made a template birth certificate you can download and make your own Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth for fun and profit. It's somewhat fashionable now to question the ancestry of all of the images -- is the Obama certificate a fake made from the OpenDNA one?