Stay away. Don't move here.

I used to work for a health care company that just switched to Cerner for EMR from its competitor Epic. My first thought was "oh boy, here come the legal demands..."

You have a right to protest. They have a right to fire you for it, and have you removed from the premises. In my opinion, you should also not be able to win a retaliation suit in such a case. You and your employer both have rights.

If you don't want employees to protest your behavior, amass a bunch of followers. No doubt you can come up with some way to achieve that through hiring and layoff practices. Just don't be surprised if their work is low-rate.

It's hard to write something that will blow peoples' minds when you're writing in a genre that's had decades of writers mining the same material. But we ought to beware of survivor bias; the stories we remember from the Golden Age are just the ones worth remembering. Most of the stories that got published back then were derivative and extremely crude. Today, in contrast, most stories that get published are derivative but very competently crafted. I guess that's progress of a kind but in a way it's almost depressing.

I think the most recently written mind-blowing sci-fi (or perhaps weird fiction) novel I've read was China Mieville's *The City & the City*, which tied with *The Windup Girl* in 2010 for Best Novel Hugo. I was impressed both by the originality of the story and the technical quality of the writing.

I recently read Ken Liu's translation of Liu Cixin's *The Three Body Problem*, which I enjoyed. In some ways it reminds me of an old Hal Clement story in which the author works out the consequences of some scientific idea in great detail, but the story also deals with the fallout of China's Cultural Revolution and the modern rise of public anti-science sentiment. So this is a foreign novel which doesn't fit neatly into our ideas about genres of science fiction. It's got a foot in the old-school hard science fiction camp and foot in the new wave tradition of literary experimentation and social science speculation camp.

Do you ever research *anything* before running your mouth?

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Tennessee is a slight downgrade from Texas when it comes to taxes. If their goal was dodging taxes and nothing else, they'd have done far better by just going one state over.

WTF are you blabbering about?

Quick changes result in issues, such. But utilities must shift from focusing on selling power to distributing it, something they're supposed to be good at. They'll only do the right things when it costs them not to.

More than anything, this is an opportunity to decentralize power production for good. Creating cheaper but less efficient storage systems is part of it, as is creating permanent incentives to shift usage to maximum production times. We've been told to raise our thermostats during hot middays so often its automatic, but now we may need to freeze the house at 3pm and coast through the night with little A/C.

Of course! When the summary says "attract troves of health-care professionals" they don't mean doctors and nurses, they mean the armies of middlemen who simultaneously get between you and your doctor and suck money from the system that could be used to pay ACTUAL care providers. When they say "Nashville is an established health center" they mean a health industry LEECH center not a locus of quality healthcare.

I am, too, generally a free trade proponent, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the situation in China. They do use tariffs, but mostly they just destroy you using the media and unlawful means, including jailing your company officers who are stupid enough to enter the country when they want some new concession.

China is one of the worst places in the world to do business. That was ok back when China was growing like gangbusters and they needed foreign investors, but they're like Firangi on steroids.

Also this just in: a watched pot never boils

And coming up at 11: watching paint dry