I disagree. Even having it as a "right for it to be available to you" means other people's time, money, and resources will be forced to be available to an individual whether or those other people wanted to provide it in the first place.
The 2nd issue with health care as a right is that not one ever discusses the responsibilities that go along with that right. For example the 1st amendment gives us freedom of speech but it is limited via many court rulings (i.e. screaming fire in the theater).
So assume for a moment that health care is a right what responsibilities must be put on the individual? For example you have the right to health care if you don't eat like a fat pig and exercise.
I'm afraid in this political environment the rights would be massive with no individual responsibilities.
Does your school/university check your homeworks/theses for plagiarism? Nowadays, probably Yes, but are they doing it properly? Little is known about plagiarism detection accuracy, which is why we conduct a competition on plagiarism detection, sponsored by Yahoo! We have set up a corpus of artificial plagiarism which contains plagiarism with varying degrees of obfuscation, and translation plagiarism from Spanish or German source documents. A random plagiarist was employed who attempts to obfuscate his plagiarism with random sequences of text operations, e.g., shuffling, deleting, inserting, or replacing a word. Translated plagiarism is created using machine translation
Except a single breach can get you millions of patients files vs. having to grab a handful of paper charts.
Or once we go digital the odds are all your medical records will be in one stored spot. Get that I have all your info. Right now if you want all my medical info you would have to go to various hospitals/providers/etc. Not as easy and a lot more riskier (i.e. having to break into physical buildings).
Digital records will do a lot good however in this case security (from systems to users not installing crap, etc) have to REALLY be addressed this time around.
And like all things I believe it won;t and simply be dismissed as paranoia:-)
No it's not fud. It is a serious concern that many providers have about EMR (electronic medical records). Doesn't mean we don't go down that path but it does mean we have to SERIOUSLY address security this time around.
I've been in the field for many years in various areas (health care, clinical drug trials, pharmaceuticals, etc) and have done several research studies on it for one of my graduate degrees.
In theory it is great access to your medical records, better patient/doctor conversations, ability to easily switch providers. However they are issues (like security) that are not being seriously addressed.
As for your second statement "normalized electronic health record format" we already have started down that road with HIPAA X12 EDI transactions. Standard query and responses for claim submital, claim payment, member benefit and eligibility, etc. Do we have more to do? Yup but standards are coming and guess what I am fine with it!
For those (like me) who have been involved in the HIPAA 4010 rollout (what a "smooth" ride) and now the upcoming HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 conversion (to catch up to the rest of the world) know they are a lot of issues.
Major credit card companies either can't or won;t take the necessary precautions to protect credit card information. So what if there is a breach, identify theft, headaches, etc?
Now what makes you think hospitals, private doctors, etc. are going to be able to protect their data any better? They have less money then the credit card companies.
Can you imagine a million patient digital medical record breach? The black mail or power that could be leveraged over people?
Some good points in the article don't get me wrong. Right now I am going back for my 2nd master's degree. Being a little wiser now then my first time around I know one of the most important things (besides knowledge) is networking especially in this economy.
Seeing a prof. face to face or going for a few beers after class helps build a strong network one can leverage.
I'm not sure the pure online experience will allow for such strong networking. I know a few people who have done the pure online degrees (Univ. of Phoenix) when I ask them about their class mates, networking, etc. pretty much the answer I have received was there was none (or very little).
So it will be interesting to see how that aspect plays out.
I think they were referring to the TV part of your cable service not the internet part. I pay $40 a month just to have 70 standard channels with no cable box.
You can't be serious? it costs money to actually do good research? You mean reporters who want to go into war zones to let us know what is going on would actually like a support structure in place and compensation for putting their lives in grave danger?
Maybe once all these people who want money to do reporting go away we can go to a free model where the state supplies all our news for nothing! No worries there...
I'd be interested to know what metrics sales people are measured against. At the end of the day what a person is measured against is how they will behave..period.
I bet there is a lot of unintended consequences going on about metrics which higher ups never seem to get.
So your marginal cost of listening to music went up (buying the better headphones) but your overall marginal benefit went negative (mp3 collections sounds like crap).
I believe the value (benefit - cost) an average user would get out of replacing all their digital mp3s with a better format and getting the better speakers will not be greater then the value of staying put because the cost will still be greater then the benefit.
The exception to my rule of course will be the people who do care about the best sound one can get no matter the cost/benefit realization but I think this is a small percentage of the population.
Except most people are playing their music through basic headphones while going to work, school, gym,etc. and all the background noises associated with the activities. They are not sitting in a sound proof room with the best speakers, amps, etc. to notice a difference.
For those that might notice the difference I bet you the marginal benefit of getting to the next level does not out weight the marginal cost so people don't care.
More likely it is because the Marginal benefit does not out weigh the marginal cost of the perceived "Value" of the next step up.
How much benefit do I really gain from switching over my digital collection (and the devices)so I can have a better perceived "Value" of sound?
What is the cost of this? First need to replace all Mp3s with a higher quality format. So this costs time and money. More then likely most people are listening to said music through crappy headphones or speaker systems. What will the cost be to get speakers to reproduce the sound from the now "better" music files?
Now that's a strategy they dont teach you in business school. You want the hurdle to be high so your compliment products can't be developed as quickly or cheaply (money) which your product depends on for sales?
If sony didn't want their console associated with shoddy games then they certainly failed, just go to gamespot, IGN, etc and see how many crappy games are on the platform (like all consoles have).
Sony messed up and are trying to cover their asses with a lame ass statement.
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And so does my fiance. She wanted to try Netflix. So after 10 sec. download netflix was running. Joined Netflix in under a minute. Clicked on the first move to stream now 1 second later it was in my queue on my 360 hit play and wow...
Turned it off. Told my fiance what to do (turned off the 360 so she had to start from scratch). 1 min later we are watching Panâ(TM)s Labrynth in HD never missed a beat. bye bye cable!
Fallout 3 is faster on the loading screens, and less popups Ive noticed. The only thing I have an issue with is I couldn't get my USB keyboard to work in the 360...
Very true. I think with XBOX 360 (I dont have a PS3 so I cannot comment on it) and their new party chat feature being released in Nov. this might the year of the console MMO.
if they require a mouse and keyboard for the game (I cant get to the article at work) it won't add a lot of overhead. How much is a basic USB mouse and keyboard going to run you?
This is beyond the realm of reality so cut me some slack...
Corporations (or their top execs) are starting to buy military hardware. Do you think we will ever see a corporation declare war on another corporation?
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I disagree. Even having it as a "right for it to be available to you" means other people's time, money, and resources will be forced to be available to an individual whether or those other people wanted to provide it in the first place.
The 2nd issue with health care as a right is that not one ever discusses the responsibilities that go along with that right. For example the 1st amendment gives us freedom of speech but it is limited via many court rulings (i.e. screaming fire in the theater).
So assume for a moment that health care is a right what responsibilities must be put on the individual? For example you have the right to health care if you don't eat like a fat pig and exercise.
I'm afraid in this political environment the rights would be massive with no individual responsibilities.
Dear mods get a sense of humor. The article is about plagiarism and here I am copying the summary of the article from someone else. See? Funny!
Does your school/university check your homeworks/theses for plagiarism? Nowadays, probably Yes, but are they doing it properly? Little is known about plagiarism detection accuracy, which is why we conduct a competition on plagiarism detection, sponsored by Yahoo! We have set up a corpus of artificial plagiarism which contains plagiarism with varying degrees of obfuscation, and translation plagiarism from Spanish or German source documents. A random plagiarist was employed who attempts to obfuscate his plagiarism with random sequences of text operations, e.g., shuffling, deleting, inserting, or replacing a word. Translated plagiarism is created using machine translation
Except a single breach can get you millions of patients files vs. having to grab a handful of paper charts.
:-)
Or once we go digital the odds are all your medical records will be in one stored spot. Get that I have all your info. Right now if you want all my medical info you would have to go to various hospitals/providers/etc. Not as easy and a lot more riskier (i.e. having to break into physical buildings).
Digital records will do a lot good however in this case security (from systems to users not installing crap, etc) have to REALLY be addressed this time around.
And like all things I believe it won;t and simply be dismissed as paranoia
No it's not fud. It is a serious concern that many providers have about EMR (electronic medical records). Doesn't mean we don't go down that path but it does mean we have to SERIOUSLY address security this time around.
I've been in the field for many years in various areas (health care, clinical drug trials, pharmaceuticals, etc) and have done several research studies on it for one of my graduate degrees.
In theory it is great access to your medical records, better patient/doctor conversations, ability to easily switch providers. However they are issues (like security) that are not being seriously addressed.
As for your second statement "normalized electronic health record format" we already have started down that road with HIPAA X12 EDI transactions. Standard query and responses for claim submital, claim payment, member benefit and eligibility, etc. Do we have more to do? Yup but standards are coming and guess what I am fine with it!
For those (like me) who have been involved in the HIPAA 4010 rollout (what a "smooth" ride) and now the upcoming HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 conversion (to catch up to the rest of the world) know they are a lot of issues.
But you are right my whole post was simply FUD
Major credit card companies either can't or won;t take the necessary precautions to protect credit card information. So what if there is a breach, identify theft, headaches, etc?
Now what makes you think hospitals, private doctors, etc. are going to be able to protect their data any better? They have less money then the credit card companies.
Can you imagine a million patient digital medical record breach? The black mail or power that could be leveraged over people?
Some good points in the article don't get me wrong. Right now I am going back for my 2nd master's degree. Being a little wiser now then my first time around I know one of the most important things (besides knowledge) is networking especially in this economy.
Seeing a prof. face to face or going for a few beers after class helps build a strong network one can leverage.
I'm not sure the pure online experience will allow for such strong networking. I know a few people who have done the pure online degrees (Univ. of Phoenix) when I ask them about their class mates, networking, etc. pretty much the answer I have received was there was none (or very little).
So it will be interesting to see how that aspect plays out.
I think they were referring to the TV part of your cable service not the internet part. I pay $40 a month just to have 70 standard channels with no cable box.
I watch 5 channels of those 70. A la cart please?
Yes because the ONLY cost to make a game is distribution. There are no other costs.
You can't be serious? it costs money to actually do good research? You mean reporters who want to go into war zones to let us know what is going on would actually like a support structure in place and compensation for putting their lives in grave danger?
Maybe once all these people who want money to do reporting go away we can go to a free model where the state supplies all our news for nothing! No worries there...
I'd be interested to know what metrics sales people are measured against. At the end of the day what a person is measured against is how they will behave..period.
I bet there is a lot of unintended consequences going on about metrics which higher ups never seem to get.
So your marginal cost of listening to music went up (buying the better headphones) but your overall marginal benefit went negative (mp3 collections sounds like crap).
I believe the value (benefit - cost) an average user would get out of replacing all their digital mp3s with a better format and getting the better speakers will not be greater then the value of staying put because the cost will still be greater then the benefit.
The exception to my rule of course will be the people who do care about the best sound one can get no matter the cost/benefit realization but I think this is a small percentage of the population.
Except most people are playing their music through basic headphones while going to work, school, gym ,etc. and all the background noises associated with the activities. They are not sitting in a sound proof room with the best speakers, amps, etc. to notice a difference.
For those that might notice the difference I bet you the marginal benefit of getting to the next level does not out weight the marginal cost so people don't care.
More likely it is because the Marginal benefit does not out weigh the marginal cost of the perceived "Value" of the next step up.
How much benefit do I really gain from switching over my digital collection (and the devices)so I can have a better perceived "Value" of sound?
What is the cost of this? First need to replace all Mp3s with a higher quality format. So this costs time and money. More then likely most people are listening to said music through crappy headphones or speaker systems. What will the cost be to get speakers to reproduce the sound from the now "better" music files?
Now that's a strategy they dont teach you in business school. You want the hurdle to be high so your compliment products can't be developed as quickly or cheaply (money) which your product depends on for sales?
If sony didn't want their console associated with shoddy games then they certainly failed, just go to gamespot, IGN, etc and see how many crappy games are on the platform (like all consoles have).
Sony messed up and are trying to cover their asses with a lame ass statement.
It was a sad time. There was no:
TubGirl
MeatSpin
Two Girls on Cup
Ya well somebody has to make sure them tubes aren't clogged...
You mean the first multi racial president. He is 1/2 black and 1/2 white.
Yes it does...go to watch now..click genres...and there is an HD section....7 pages worth of stuff but it will grow
Question for you. When you created an account for your wife does that account need to pay for gold membership? Or xbox live arcade games?
For example my Account A I bought Worms (hmmm violent worm goodness) but when I set up another account it could only play the trial version of it.
You had me at...up up down down left right left right B A select start
And so does my fiance. She wanted to try Netflix. So after 10 sec. download netflix was running. Joined Netflix in under a minute. Clicked on the first move to stream now 1 second later it was in my queue on my 360 hit play and wow...
Turned it off. Told my fiance what to do (turned off the 360 so she had to start from scratch). 1 min later we are watching Panâ(TM)s Labrynth in HD never missed a beat. bye bye cable!
Fallout 3 is faster on the loading screens, and less popups Ive noticed. The only thing I have an issue with is I couldn't get my USB keyboard to work in the 360...
Very true. I think with XBOX 360 (I dont have a PS3 so I cannot comment on it) and their new party chat feature being released in Nov. this might the year of the console MMO.
if they require a mouse and keyboard for the game (I cant get to the article at work) it won't add a lot of overhead. How much is a basic USB mouse and keyboard going to run you?
That I feel like punching children.
This is beyond the realm of reality so cut me some slack...
Corporations (or their top execs) are starting to buy military hardware. Do you think we will ever see a corporation declare war on another corporation?
Gives a whole new meaning to hostile takeover...