| 2011-03-16 11:02:16
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| 11:02:16 | MoEnzyme | More irrational market behavior cause by unhinged media hysteria re: Japanese Nuclear Plant Damage ---> http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/japan_nuclear_crisis_triggers_run_on_anti_radiation_pills/2011/03/12/ABIdRIe_story.html?wprss=rss_homepage |
| 11:02:34 | MoEnzyme | Japan crisis causes run on anti-radiation pills in U.S. |
| 11:03:07 | MoEnzyme | The Japanese nuclear power plant crisis is triggering jitters about radioactive fallout hitting the United States, even though experts say that is highly unlikely. |
| 11:03:10 | MoEnzyme | Fearful residents have flooded health officials in western states such as California, Washington and Oregon with anxious questions, and some authorities have begun issuing updates about air monitoring for radiation. |
| 11:03:24 | MoEnzyme | “We opened a hotline and have fielded hundreds of calls from the worried public,” said Michael Sicilio of the California Department of Public Health. |
| 11:03:39 | MoEnzyme | The two U.S. companies that make potassium iodide, which can reduce the risk of thyroid cancer from exposure to iodine-131, are being overwhelmed by demands for the medication from individuals, pharmacies, hospitals, day-care centers and others. |
| 11:05:01 | MoEnzyme | “People are terrified,” said Alan Morris, president of Anbex Inc., of Williamsburg, Va. “We’re getting calls from people who are crying and saying things like, ‘Please. Can’t you help me? Can’t you send me anything?’ ” |
| 11:05:26 | MoEnzyme | Both companies, along with state and federal officials and independent radiation experts, have been trying to reassure people that the chances of significant amounts of radiation reaching the United States from Japan are negligible, making such precautions unnecessary. |
| 11:08:06 | MoEnzyme | Mo: Ironic even, to hear the company itself trying to quell the very hysteria which is probably driving its profits way up at the moment. I guess after you've run out of the product, and hence no longer able to profit even more, the incentives for truth telling return somewhat. |
| 11:08:26 | CruelOctopus | * CruelOctopus sighs. |
| 11:10:24 | MoEnzyme | I guess it makes some sense. Since you can't really meet the demand anymore, that might be a good time to start telling the truth just to quell the customer dissatisfaction at the moment. |
| 11:11:49 | MoEnzyme | Plus you wouldn't want your competitor to get too much of an advantage over you. I notice that there were no quotes from the other company producing the same medicine. So the quotes are coming from the company which ran out of product first. |
| 11:12:58 | Sat | I've read that taking those ant-radiation pills without radiation exposure gan fuck up one's thyroid. |
| 11:13:32 | Sat | It'd be kind of ironic to have a bunch of people damaging themselves unnecessarily. |
| 11:14:12 | MoEnzyme | Sat, yeah, well if that's the case, publicizing the lack of necessity can lay greater liability on the other competitor who continues to profit from the hysteria. |
| 11:14:37 | Lucifer | CruelOctopus, did I show you http://estimate.bz/ ? |
| 11:16:26 | Sat | I probably shouldn't have, but couldn't resist buying this outside the auction - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&rt=nc&nma=true&item=160556827333&si=REFDm2iiVbhp%252FlNR%252BDUW%252BpNE1IM%253D&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT |
| 11:16:40 | Sat | I've wanted one of these explorers. |
| 11:17:18 | Lucifer | I developed Galton in python using the web.py microframework |
| 11:17:28 | Lucifer | very quick to prototype |
| 11:17:37 | Sat | check out the description. |
| 11:17:45 | Lucifer | all source available if you follow the github link |
| 11:20:31 | Sat | * Sat scratches the Thunderhorse Explorer off his maybe list now that he commited to the 79 E/2 |
| 11:22:11 | Sat | * Sat now has three guitars that are older than, or the same age as, his girl friend. |
| 11:22:29 | Sat | stoppid internet tempting me to spend mony. gah |
| 11:23:00 | Sat | good thing I made extra last month with the side coding gig. |
| 11:25:53 | Sat | * Sat decides to action off his first explorer to offset this one. |
| 11:26:39 | Sat | auction^ |
| 11:27:48 | Lucifer | is CruelOctopus jealous of Sat's acquisition? |
| 11:28:37 | Sat | * Sat is envious of himself now. |
