But how many dependents on that $1,500 / mo., and is that Net or Gross? I'll guess Net, as Gross would work out to be $9.37/hr on 40 hr weeks, or less than what a team leader makes working fast food. Another view, that's $18,000 / yr, poverty level + 8k.
I've lived on that, and less, and while more money doesn't equal happiness, it does equal a better overall standard of life for my family.
But are you more than just a technology user? This is a joke, based upon the
hype from the election cycle about how nerdy Obama is, because he uses a PDA
Smartphone. Wow. Who knows, maybe somewhere there is a geek in there, but right
now all I see is a tech using lawyer. To put it another way, bits don't lie and
can't be spun.
Above, someone asked if Carter was a nerd/geek President. I would agree that
Carter is a nerd (nuclear engineer and all that), and was a good example of why
we make such bad politicians. We tell stuff like it is, or at least how we
think it is. If there is a steaming pile in the room, we declare it as such and
demand a cleanup, possibly with some recycling. A politician will paint it
differently, depending upon the audience, maybe polish it, and then just leave
it be until it quits stinking and everyone forgets about it.
Then again, I just made a comment in Idle!
Have fun with the rockets. Little Estes solid fuel rockets was how I got my
son interested in science; finally something fun to do with the knowledge.
Before long, he was building his own.
And Margaret Chan, quoted a bit more down on the page:
"We know that the novel H1N1 virus preferentially infects younger people. In nearly all areas with large and sustained outbreaks, the majority of cases have occurred in people under the age of 25 years.
In some of these countries, around 2% of cases have developed severe illness, often with very rapid progression to life-threatening pneumonia. Most cases of severe and fatal infections have been in adults between the ages of 30 and 50 years. This pattern is significantly different from that seen during epidemics of seasonal influenza, when most deaths occur in frail elderly people. Many, though not all, severe cases have occurred in people with underlying chronic conditions.
Based on limited, preliminary data, conditions most frequently seen include respiratory diseases, notably asthma, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, autoimmune disorders, and obesity.
At the same time, it is important to note that around one third to half of the severe and fatal infections are occurring in previously healthy young and middle-aged people. Without question, pregnant women are at increased risk of complications. This heightened risk takes on added importance for a virus, like this one, that preferentially infects younger age groups."
Now, whether any of this makes it more of a threat to humanity than what we normally get is a subject of popular debate, which means it gets talked about, which means it sells to talk about it more and create headlines mentioning it. No one mentions West Nile viurs much anymore, which had only 1, 356 reported cases in the US during 2008. But, there were 44 total, or 3.2%, fatalities, Maybe it is just what people want to talk about, since that sells advertising space.
The only notable part to me for H1N1 is how many cases are still in the Northern Hemisphere when we are nearly at Summer, FluTracker. I did not compare that data to other sites, or have find a baseline to compare, so it may just be normal.
Public education exists to guarantee that the proletariat is educated enough
to be productive mammals in the predicted environment. This includes public
funding of higher education. Some students will exceed, some will fail, but
most will just go along. Funding, and standardized tests to keep or obtain
future funding, controls what is taught and how.
And no, paying on a thirty year mortgage does not make one a property owner, not if they still earn a living by selling their labor.
</Heavy Cynicism>
And I agree, never ever is "Because they said so" acceptable. One needs to at least think if what "they" said is reasonable.
Just out of curiosity, is the hardware newer than the XP install disk?
I think that the newer Linux distribution versions kick XP's butt in initial driver installations because they were created after the hardware.
For the record, XP lives here as a VM on a Suse 11.1 host, just for my flatbed scanner, that will never have a SANE, Vista, or 7 driver written for it.
Yep, have the modified 747 doing lazy figure eights of the coast. The one really bad possibility then become fallout in Japan.
Anyone who thinks that the ABLs are for defending against Russia are lacking knowledge. The U.S.S.R and U.S.A both made some many missiles, with so many warheads, and then so many possible launch locations (air, sea, land; we got 'em all covered), that there was no way to complete a surprise attack and not be exterminated in retaliation. M.A.D. actually worked.
I think the terms are worded incorrectly. "Makes" is not the same as "profit". And that is one huge difference when you are self-employed and live at your place of business, like a farm. That point is one of the huge problems with starting higher tax rates for people "making" more than $250,000. If self-employed, they are like any other business. The margin is likely less than 10%. They might make $1,000,000, but have spent $900,000 to make it.
To put it another way, a self-employed $250,000 is not the same as a working for JP Morgan $250,000. This is a core problem of our income tax system.
Heh, your sig was too true this time. Then again, this Bloomberg article doesn't cite its source. "In 2008, then-President George W. Bush, working with a Democratic Congress, proposed ending or reducing 141 federal programs. Of those, 29 were terminated or trimmed for a savings of about $1.6 billion. "
Either way, few cuts will happen as the only way to get anything done is to get along, and getting along in politics means not taking too much from everyone else.
Some might answer that this would be why the database would be needed. It would start at birth cradle (pics, stats), contain the government paid health inspections/checks up, and end at the coffin (pics and stats). And for a case like yours, or one of my co-workers, it could be helpful. When the injury flares up 10 years later, in another state, the history would be in the centralized DB. Without the central DB, the retired physician still retires the records.
I suspect that we would still want some type of data retention restrictions. Who really needs to know when you are 70 that you once had an STD at 16, or an abortion, or were suicidal? You would still need to bring your own certified copies along with you to the new doctor, unless everything was kept forever. And if it is kept forever, that deep knowledge of our personal lives, it better have one seriously mean (criminal punishment) NDA for anyone with access attached, with equally mean punishments for those who falsify records.
Me, I'm still missing the part where I understand how digital records = lower costs + improved care. My local MD, he won't charge less for a physical, the tetanus shot will be same and so on. Sure, the assistant can pull the digital chart faster, ummm, not. Turn and look at alphabetized wall vs. enter data in fields and query. Paper also has a slower rate of failure, compared to HDDs anyway. And the only folder that I have access to while in the room alone is mine. The only way this saves real time is in the big clinic/HMO settings, the places that process patients.
Frak that. I'm a person, not a thing to have its condition processed efficiently.
I think of it differently. Han is an experienced criminal in Star Wars. Luke is still quite naive.
Han says that the MF made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs, obviously not a measure of time. Luke asks if that is fast. Han then knows that Luke is an interstellar NOOB. While not nice, this type of behavior was something that made Han Solo interesting in the first films. He went from a selfish smuggler that would have ejected his passengers in space to a selfless leader.
But like the another change made to the story, where Greedo fires first to make Han not the aggressor, the back-story was created to make Han nicer. I guess we just can't have mean, selfish, egotistical smugglers nowadays.
There are lots of other hits too. And that isn't even beginning to touch what undercover reporter have exposed from within North Korea. Did ya know that human tastes like pork? How about opium being more profitable a crop than any grain while costing less in upkeep than the populace the grain would have fed. Ya don't think that the CIA was alone in exchanging drugs, guns, and cash, do you? How about these reporters?
Invading Iraq was a geo-polical move, possibly a bad one, but that won't be known for a few more years. North Korea, the country that invaded South Korea, is actual dangerous if you live in Japan or South Korea. Kim has successfully, and repeatedly, extorted aid and concessions by threatening his neighbors then backing off if he is just given what he demands. This was with both the Bush and Clinton administrations. Russia and China tolerate him, as he is their geo-political bishop piece.
Thanks! Somehow, in all of the other GRUB vs. LILO discussions I've read this difference was never mentioned. GRUB being able to read filesystems makes a logical reason for using it instead of LILO.
Same here, but my shoulder was the abused point, going mouse to num-pad to letters and back. With the mouse on the left side, both arms have to go wide from the home keys about the same distance.
Somewhat off-topic, but I remember this Mac commercial, sometime around 1996, showing this dad figure buying a PC, going to set it up with his son, and several hours later still being puzzled by the term "C:". Apple was claiming that their stuff "just works".
Of course, Microsoft's response was to start having more deals with hardware manufacturers to have Windows 95/98 pre-installed.
Why with our hugely open society we have so few terrorist acts? It can be either because there really is no terrorist threat here (for whatever combination of causes) or that the threats are prevented before maturing.
This BBC story is a re-lease. The original BBC article stated that, according to anonymous Turkish authorities, the uranium was located by satellite and the information was given to Turkey to affect the arrest. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2286597.stm
Is interrogating someone over 24 hours without allowing them to rest (so 24 + the time before detention since the suspects last sleep) torture? Is being physically threatened while restrained torture?
Lots of stuff happens domestically, within our borders by local law enforcement on legal citizens. Whether is it morally correct, that depends on the situation and the beholder.
Interesting, that the hardware and OS is old, while supposedly they were being careless with money. So, courtesy of the article, they get a pointless shot at at the "technical inferiority" of the previous administration, a pass on spending to upgrade to current new hardware, and the concept of a technical person being one who uses a Blackberry being in office.
The first couple silly political things, I don't care. They are just politicians making noise. And they should upgraded the hardware, to the best choice for longevity. But, claiming that someone is tech-savvy for using a fraking PDA/phone irritates me. That would be like me claiming to have racing skills because I have a car that might go more than 120 MPH
The tax cheat is getting the pass because he's the only guy in the Federal Reserve that correctly forecast the financial meltdown BEFORE it took place. In another time, there's no way he gets the nomination, but, since the whole economy is melting down, being the smartest guy in the room actually matters more than paying your taxes on time.
Are you sure about that? The whole "criminal/bad boy turns good and saves the day" makes for a good story, but do we want that? Companies decline to hire people for lesser misdeeds, and for less important positions.
There was a lot of talk about the financial market problem2 in 2004-2006, enough to convince me to get out of the markets entirely. The bubble was only missed by those who did not want to see it.
Ghost the machine, move on to genuinely interesting problems.
Agreed. Occasionally though, I have to play with one. Make no mistake, that installation is no longer to be trusted and will be wiped regardless of the outcome. Just a bit of challenge to enjoy for me.
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Depends upon who you believe. I have no idea about this site, TheyEatWhat
Anyway, some people choose to give in, for whatever reason, to a lack on intelligent standards.
But how many dependents on that $1,500 / mo., and is that Net or Gross? I'll guess Net, as Gross would work out to be $9.37/hr on 40 hr weeks, or less than what a team leader makes working fast food. Another view, that's $18,000 / yr, poverty level + 8k.
I've lived on that, and less, and while more money doesn't equal happiness, it does equal a better overall standard of life for my family.
But are you more than just a technology user? This is a joke, based upon the hype from the election cycle about how nerdy Obama is, because he uses a PDA Smartphone. Wow. Who knows, maybe somewhere there is a geek in there, but right now all I see is a tech using lawyer. To put it another way, bits don't lie and can't be spun.
Above, someone asked if Carter was a nerd/geek President. I would agree that Carter is a nerd (nuclear engineer and all that), and was a good example of why we make such bad politicians. We tell stuff like it is, or at least how we think it is. If there is a steaming pile in the room, we declare it as such and demand a cleanup, possibly with some recycling. A politician will paint it differently, depending upon the audience, maybe polish it, and then just leave it be until it quits stinking and everyone forgets about it.
Then again, I just made a comment in Idle!
Have fun with the rockets. Little Estes solid fuel rockets was how I got my son interested in science; finally something fun to do with the knowledge. Before long, he was building his own.
Lots of reasons listed here: "The difference with H1N1 swine flu is that the virus is almost exclusively targeting people under 65."
And Margaret Chan, quoted a bit more down on the page:
Now, whether any of this makes it more of a threat to humanity than what we normally get is a subject of popular debate, which means it gets talked about, which means it sells to talk about it more and create headlines mentioning it. No one mentions West Nile viurs much anymore, which had only 1, 356 reported cases in the US during 2008. But, there were 44 total, or 3.2%, fatalities, Maybe it is just what people want to talk about, since that sells advertising space.
The only notable part to me for H1N1 is how many cases are still in the Northern Hemisphere when we are nearly at Summer, FluTracker. I did not compare that data to other sites, or have find a baseline to compare, so it may just be normal.
<Heavy Cynicism>
Public education exists to guarantee that the proletariat is educated enough to be productive mammals in the predicted environment. This includes public funding of higher education. Some students will exceed, some will fail, but most will just go along. Funding, and standardized tests to keep or obtain future funding, controls what is taught and how.
And no, paying on a thirty year mortgage does not make one a property owner, not if they still earn a living by selling their labor.
</Heavy Cynicism>
And I agree, never ever is "Because they said so" acceptable. One needs to at least think if what "they" said is reasonable.
I've not tried a Linux VPN yet. Suse lists StrongSwan and OpenVPN. Have you any experience with either of them?
Just out of curiosity, is the hardware newer than the XP install disk?
I think that the newer Linux distribution versions kick XP's butt in initial driver installations because they were created after the hardware.
For the record, XP lives here as a VM on a Suse 11.1 host, just for my flatbed scanner, that will never have a SANE, Vista, or 7 driver written for it.
Yep, have the modified 747 doing lazy figure eights of the coast. The one really bad possibility then become fallout in Japan.
Anyone who thinks that the ABLs are for defending against Russia are lacking knowledge. The U.S.S.R and U.S.A both made some many missiles, with so many warheads, and then so many possible launch locations (air, sea, land; we got 'em all covered), that there was no way to complete a surprise attack and not be exterminated in retaliation. M.A.D. actually worked.
I think the terms are worded incorrectly. "Makes" is not the same as "profit". And that is one huge difference when you are self-employed and live at your place of business, like a farm. That point is one of the huge problems with starting higher tax rates for people "making" more than $250,000. If self-employed, they are like any other business. The margin is likely less than 10%. They might make $1,000,000, but have spent $900,000 to make it.
To put it another way, a self-employed $250,000 is not the same as a working for JP Morgan $250,000. This is a core problem of our income tax system.
Heh, your sig was too true this time. Then again, this Bloomberg article doesn't cite its source. "In 2008, then-President George W. Bush, working with a Democratic Congress, proposed ending or reducing 141 federal programs. Of those, 29 were terminated or trimmed for a savings of about $1.6 billion. "
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=a_DwtiY4MbpM&refer=home
Either way, few cuts will happen as the only way to get anything done is to get along, and getting along in politics means not taking too much from everyone else.
With your point about more doctors being needed, I wholly agree.
Some might answer that this would be why the database would be needed. It would start at birth cradle (pics, stats), contain the government paid health inspections/checks up, and end at the coffin (pics and stats). And for a case like yours, or one of my co-workers, it could be helpful. When the injury flares up 10 years later, in another state, the history would be in the centralized DB. Without the central DB, the retired physician still retires the records.
I suspect that we would still want some type of data retention restrictions. Who really needs to know when you are 70 that you once had an STD at 16, or an abortion, or were suicidal? You would still need to bring your own certified copies along with you to the new doctor, unless everything was kept forever. And if it is kept forever, that deep knowledge of our personal lives, it better have one seriously mean (criminal punishment) NDA for anyone with access attached, with equally mean punishments for those who falsify records.
Me, I'm still missing the part where I understand how digital records = lower costs + improved care. My local MD, he won't charge less for a physical, the tetanus shot will be same and so on. Sure, the assistant can pull the digital chart faster, ummm, not. Turn and look at alphabetized wall vs. enter data in fields and query. Paper also has a slower rate of failure, compared to HDDs anyway. And the only folder that I have access to while in the room alone is mine. The only way this saves real time is in the big clinic/HMO settings, the places that process patients.
Frak that. I'm a person, not a thing to have its condition processed efficiently.
Physical security would be a problem. Any machine that you have physical access to is quite vulnerable to you.
I'm thinking that you will not be getting an answer. Maybe just hyperbole?
I think of it differently. Han is an experienced criminal in Star Wars. Luke is still quite naive.
Han says that the MF made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs, obviously not a measure of time. Luke asks if that is fast. Han then knows that Luke is an interstellar NOOB. While not nice, this type of behavior was something that made Han Solo interesting in the first films. He went from a selfish smuggler that would have ejected his passengers in space to a selfless leader.
But like the another change made to the story, where Greedo fires first to make Han not the aggressor, the back-story was created to make Han nicer. I guess we just can't have mean, selfish, egotistical smugglers nowadays.
Ummm, you're off by a decade or two if you think the kidnapping stuff comes from Bush.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Japanese
There are lots of other hits too. And that isn't even beginning to touch what undercover reporter have exposed from within North Korea. Did ya know that human tastes like pork? How about opium being more profitable a crop than any grain while costing less in upkeep than the populace the grain would have fed. Ya don't think that the CIA was alone in exchanging drugs, guns, and cash, do you? How about these reporters?
http://cbs13.com/local/north.korea.americans.2.963243.html
Invading Iraq was a geo-polical move, possibly a bad one, but that won't be known for a few more years. North Korea, the country that invaded South Korea, is actual dangerous if you live in Japan or South Korea. Kim has successfully, and repeatedly, extorted aid and concessions by threatening his neighbors then backing off if he is just given what he demands. This was with both the Bush and Clinton administrations. Russia and China tolerate him, as he is their geo-political bishop piece.
Thanks! Somehow, in all of the other GRUB vs. LILO discussions I've read this difference was never mentioned. GRUB being able to read filesystems makes a logical reason for using it instead of LILO.
Same here, but my shoulder was the abused point, going mouse to num-pad to letters and back. With the mouse on the left side, both arms have to go wide from the home keys about the same distance.
Somewhat off-topic, but I remember this Mac commercial, sometime around 1996, showing this dad figure buying a PC, going to set it up with his son, and several hours later still being puzzled by the term "C:". Apple was claiming that their stuff "just works".
Of course, Microsoft's response was to start having more deals with hardware manufacturers to have Windows 95/98 pre-installed.
Why with our hugely open society we have so few terrorist acts? It can be either because there really is no terrorist threat here (for whatever combination of causes) or that the threats are prevented before maturing.
This BBC story is a re-lease. The original BBC article stated that, according to anonymous Turkish authorities, the uranium was located by satellite and the information was given to Turkey to affect the arrest. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2286597.stm
Is interrogating someone over 24 hours without allowing them to rest (so 24 + the time before detention since the suspects last sleep) torture? Is being physically threatened while restrained torture?
Lots of stuff happens domestically, within our borders by local law enforcement on legal citizens. Whether is it morally correct, that depends on the situation and the beholder.
Interesting, that the hardware and OS is old, while supposedly they were being careless with money. So, courtesy of the article, they get a pointless shot at at the "technical inferiority" of the previous administration, a pass on spending to upgrade to current new hardware, and the concept of a technical person being one who uses a Blackberry being in office.
The first couple silly political things, I don't care. They are just politicians making noise. And they should upgraded the hardware, to the best choice for longevity. But, claiming that someone is tech-savvy for using a fraking PDA/phone irritates me. That would be like me claiming to have racing skills because I have a car that might go more than 120 MPH
The tax cheat is getting the pass because he's the only guy in the Federal Reserve that correctly forecast the financial meltdown BEFORE it took place. In another time, there's no way he gets the nomination, but, since the whole economy is melting down, being the smartest guy in the room actually matters more than paying your taxes on time.
Are you sure about that? The whole "criminal/bad boy turns good and saves the day" makes for a good story, but do we want that? Companies decline to hire people for lesser misdeeds, and for less important positions.
There was a lot of talk about the financial market problem2 in 2004-2006, enough to convince me to get out of the markets entirely. The bubble was only missed by those who did not want to see it.
Ghost the machine, move on to genuinely interesting problems.
Agreed. Occasionally though, I have to play with one. Make no mistake, that installation is no longer to be trusted and will be wiped regardless of the outcome. Just a bit of challenge to enjoy for me.