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Shut up! Shut up!
Poland? That's a long way to go from CA to have a meeting. Weren't some of the CIA black sites in Poland? Perhaps Poland has laws which make it easier to keep secrets. Or am I making connections that aren't there?— February 11, 2015 6:45 a.m.
Edison screws its employees, too
I think it's difficult to enforce unless there is something really blatant like what SCE does. Qualcomm is probably following the letter of the rules in most - if not all - cases. I think the only way to limit this is to reduce the number of H1B visas.— February 9, 2015 10:25 p.m.
FDA undercover
The ideal goals of personal liberty can get a bit blurred because in real life it can be hard to completely separate what someone is doing to themselves vs. what they are doing to someone else. I think something will have to change with the vaccination situation due to the current measles outbreak. Hopefully (IMO) enough parents who haven't vaccinated their kids will change their minds. In my view, from what I've read the supposed link between vaccines and autism is pretty much a gross misinterpretation of cause vs. correlation. Supposedly autism rates started increasing about the same time as vaccination rates started increasing. But to my understanding there are ZERO credible medical published studies which conclusively demonstrate that vaccination causes autism or other problems. To me it's OK for someone to hold an off-beat belief as long as it doesn't hurt anyone. If someone wants to wear a tin-foil hat in their basement bunker to protect themselves from alien mind-reading waves that's fine with me. But the problem is when an off-beat belief puts others at risk. I heard something interesting from an radio interview with a pediatrician who has decided to stop accepting patients if they refuse vaccination. Apperently the vaccination system actually DOES NOT work if there are a significant number of people who opt out. That's what we're seeing now. Even people who ARE vaccinated have a small chance of catching the illness. It's a low rate, say 1-2%. But if the overall vaccination rate is high, say 99%, then there is very little risk of the disease spreading to the few people who didn't develop good immunity from the vaccine. "Group immunity". If the vaccination rate drops below 90% or so then the group immunity goes away so the kids who got the vaccinations, but happen to be one of the kids for whom the vaccines didn't work very well, can still get sick.— February 8, 2015 6:15 p.m.
FDA undercover
The down side is loss of personal freedom. I tend to believe in personal freedom. From a civil libertarian perspective one could argue that adults should have the right to do anything with their own bodies they like as long as it's not harming other people. But I also think purist philosophies can be impractical so exceptions can be made. While I tend to believe in maximizing individual liberty, I do think that the case with tobacco is one for which an outright ban on tobacco products should be seriously considered.— February 8, 2015 11:11 a.m.
Edison screws its employees, too
I think the problem is it's hard to prove abuse unless an employer is really blatant like this example. An employer can always write a job description that's so narrow that only the person they want to hire is "qualified". The H1B engineers probably get paid somewhat less than similarly qualified Americans would - but they get paid enough that it doesn't raise a red flag. It's hard to prove that someone is getting underpaid if they're making 90K instead of 110K. I think the bigger downside of the H1B programs will be seen when more of these workers return to their countries of origin and use what they have learned at U.S. companies to start new companies that compete with U.S. companies.— February 7, 2015 6:46 p.m.
Lawyers on the wrong side of the law
Maybe there was judge tampering as well as witness tampering. I'm also surprised he wasn't permanently disbarred. What possible value is this guys "legal" work to society?— February 5, 2015 7:27 p.m.
Lawyers on the wrong side of the law
This sounds like something the fictional lawyer Saul Goodman from AMC's "Breaking Bad" series and upcoming "Better Call Saul" series would have done.— February 4, 2015 7:27 p.m.
Chargers stadium task force "packed"
Silliness cubed when the taxpayers are paying for it. I would say if the Chargers/NFL and some consortium of hotels and private investors think it's a good investment they should be free to finance and build a combined stadium/convention center. If it's so profitable you'd think private investors would be lining up get a piece.— February 4, 2015 11:45 a.m.
Former public utilities president's home searched
I think making climate change A priority for state leaders would be a reasonable thing to do (although as I've said I don't really agree that should be a priority at the state level). But I don't think it should be THE ONLY priority. State leaders shouldn't automatically allow corruption and agree to non cost-effective transportation solutions just because somebody labels things as "green". "Green" shouldn't be a magic word that automatically trumps everything else.— February 3, 2015 2:27 p.m.
Former public utilities president's home searched
I do believe that conserving resources and taking steps to combat climate change is important but I don't really think it's something local - even state - governments should be concerned with. This quote is an example of why I question if fighting climate change should be a CA agenda - I think it should be kept at the national and international level. Sticking the "green" label on things has almost become a "get out of jail free card" which justifies corruption and/or wasteful spending. As long as something is "green" who cares how much of other people's money is getting spent? That seems to be Brown's attitude towards energy and the high speed train.— February 3, 2015 7:08 a.m.