No Link Between Vaccines and Autism

U.S. Court Finds No Link Between Vaccines, Autism

A special federal court ruled yesterday that vaccines do not cause autism and that thousands of families with autistic children are not entitled to compensation, delivering a major blow to an international movement that has tried for years to link childhood immunizations with the devastating disorder. [Parents have been] misled by physicians who are guilty, in my view, of gross medical misjudgment.

I guess parents want to blame someone/thing. I’ve heard theories of toxins in the GI system causing ASDs, and that may be observable. But people, you need a mechanism not a conspiracy. It would be cheaper to fix a problem and pay off the victims than to have an increase of ASDs in society.

Anyway, I feel sorry for parents with children who require constant care. Worse for children who may be wrapped up in a world they can’t deal with, but let’s fine real solutions and improvements, not blame and quick fixes.

Apple Wannabie Microsoft to open retail stores like Apple

AppleInsider | Microsoft to open new retail stores like Apple

Analysts expected Apple to fail when it announced plans to begin opening stores back in 2001…. Ten years later, Apple’s 251 retail stores, 41 of which are outside the US, employ nearly 16,000 employees and contribute more than a quarter of the company’s profits. The iconic stores give Apple a public face and serve as training centers as well as sales outlets. At the release of the iPhone, Apple’s retail store locations helped to whip up a media frenzy with enthusiastic buyers camping out in long lines…

Microsoft has operated at least one retail store in the past, an 8,500 square foot development at the Metreon in San Francisco called “microsoftSF,” launched during the dot com boom in 1999. In addition to rows of software boxes and demonstrations of Microsoft’s ill fated WebTV Network, the store also displayed art installations, such as one involving Microsoft Mice decorated by various people, and sold microsoftSF merchandise..;. The location closed two and half years later and is now a Sony Playstation store.

Poor M$, when have they not been derivative. Is there anything they can do for themselves and make a success out of it? Even if this doesn’t flop, it will be just another “Ya, me too!” marketing gesture by the bully on the block.