Americans are divided about whether the problems associated with the health-care law’s federal website are a short-term issue than can be solved, or a long-term issue that signals deeper troubles, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Thirty-seven percent of respondents say that the website woes are a short-term technical problem that can be fixed, while 31 percent believe they point to a longer-term issue with the law’s design that can’t be corrected.

Another 30 percent think it’s too soon to say.

What an idiotic survey.

The 31% who say "the law’s design that can’t be corrected" aren't saying anything about the fucking website; they're complaining about the Obamacare demon that haunts their imaginations.

And neither they, nor the 37% who say it will be fixed, know a thing about what the site's actual technical problems are, let alone what fixing them will require. No, this is nothing more than a "Do you like Obamacare?" survey.

And $100 says no more than 0.01% of the people surveyed know even what an HTML form is, let alone how to write one.

On the other hand, it's pretty surreal to watch a program roll-out being called play-by-play by our ignorant and scandal-hungry media. They have utterly no idea what they're talking about, but they don't care. Gotta fill up those news-hours. Gotta feed the hysteria mills.

Does Obamacare require insurers to cover excess ranting?

Princeton's freshmen again have chosen Adolf Hitler as "the greatest living person" in the annual poll of their class conducted by The Daily Princetonian. Ninety-three votes were given to the German Chancellor, as compared with twenty-seven to Albert Einstein in second position and fifteen to Neville Chamberlain in third.

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Go to the Wikipedia front page, open the "Print/export" thingy on the left margin and click "Create a book". You can then start adding pages to your book. When you're done adding pages, you can arrange them into chapters, then export it as a slick PDF - images are included and references will be organized at the end. You can even order a printed version.

Be an editor!

A new study says that each year approximately 7,500 children are admitted to U.S. hospitals with gunshot wounds and more than 500 children die during hospital admission from these injuries.

An abstract of the study, titled "United States Gunshot Violence--Disturbing Trends," was presented on Sunday by researchers at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Fla. The study also found that states with higher numbers of firearm ownership had higher proportions of childhood gunshot wounds.

These days, getting a Ph.D. is probably the last thing you want to do if you are out to revolutionize the world. If, however, what you propose is an idea, rather than a technology, it can still be a valuable asset to have. Dr. Eugene McCarthy is a Ph.D. geneticist who has made a career out of studying hybridization in animals. He now curates a biological information website called Macroevolution.net where he has amassed an impressive body of evidence suggesting that human origins can be best explained by hybridization between pigs and chimpanzees.

I'm sure.

My meth empire has so far made $2,299,481,352,700 in Clicking Bad!

• Batches cooked: 448,657,399,614
• Batches hand-cooked: 7,755,375,897
• Batches sold: 349,673,554,148
• Batches hand-sold: 18,359,184,064
• Total upgrades purchased: 50
• Total cash earned: 19,103,198,956,478
• Seconds spent playing: 185,779

I'm currently making $1,102,068,750 per second in sales and am producing 28,790,000 'batches' per second. And I have $304,610,013,902 laundered.

I have a Meth Star and Space Mules. But there is still more money to be made and more ways to make it!

Bitches.

But it's becoming a Continent-wide phenomenon. More bikes were sold in than cars — for the first time since World War II.

This prompted us to look at the figures across the 27 member states of the European Union for both and . New-car registrations for Cyprus and Malta weren't available, so we took them out of the comparison.

Here's what we found: Bicycle sales outpaced new-car sales last year in every one of those countries, except Belgium and Luxembourg. The top five countries by bicycle sales can be seen in the top chart.

In this country every man adopts some particular slang-whanger as the standard of his judgment, and reads everything he writes, if he reads nothing else; which is doubtless the reason why the people of this logocracy are so marvellously enlightened.

Washington Irving, being sarcastic, in 1807.

Because, like most people, I don't live in LA or NYC, movies, TV shows and books are never set in places where I've lived. I've never been able to watch a movie and think "Yeah, I know that place." Of course I never knew that was something I was missing, either. But, I just discovered that this guy, James Fenimore Cooper, wrote this book, "The Last Of The Mohicans", in 1825 and it's set in the area north of Albany NY, specifically at Fort William Henry on the south end of Lake George. I grew up in that area, and worked every summer either in Lake George village, or for the ice company that delivered all up and down the lake. Fort William Henry is still there, looking out over the lake, mildly entertaining tourists from NYC and Montreal.

I haven't read the book, but we did watch the 1992 movie adaptation of it last weekend. And I was able to sit there, thinking "Hey, half the streets in the area are named after the six people sitting at that table!" and "I used to ride my bike from Fort Edward to Fort William Henry - takes about an hour!" "That's my place!" Imagine my surprise!

Looking at the scenery in the movie, I also thought "Hey... those mountains, those shrubs, they all look familiar, but something about them is not quite right..." And that's because it was filmed, not in the Adirondacks where the story is set, but in my current home state of NC. So, I'm watching NC scenery ("Hey, they're at Table Rock! We sat right on that boulder!") standing in for upstate NY locations. Two for one!

Yeah yeah, so I'm 21 years late.

Now that I know the story, I'm baffled as to why:

1. Kids in that area aren't taught anything about the French and Indian war
2. Kids in that area aren't required to read that book

We had to read a lot of Dickens, Joyce and Shakespeare, innumerable British poets, Johnny Tremain, The Scarlet Letter, The Good Earth but nothing set in the area. We studied the US revolution, US in the 1800s, the Chinese revolution, US civics, etc., but I don't remember ever hearing about the French and Indian wars. Or maybe I was asleep that month. I did a lot of sleeping in high school.

This does not sound awesome.

A new study published in Journal of the Neurological Sciences has identified a link between Acyclovir - also known as the common cold sore cream Zovirax, (which can additionally be used to treat herpes, chicken pox and shingles) - and Cotard's syndrome, a rare condition causing people to believe they have died, that parts of their body do not exist, or that they have 'lost' their blood and internal organs.

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Examples of the syndrome have included a woman who used acyclovir as a treatment for shingles, then became overwhelmed by a strong feeling that she was dead. Even when symptoms lessened, she was adamant that her left arm did not belong to her. Another sufferer in 1990 believed that he was dead and was in hell, after being taken to a warm South Africa from colder Scotland, in an effort to help him recover.