Canada is having a health care crisis because leaders are lowering funding to it in an attempt to put it in a position to privatize it.
It's similar to what's happening to Medicare here in the states. You erode the system until it doesn't function, then use privatization as a way out. The reasons are simple, profits are there to be made if it's privatized, and unavailable if it's not, thus you must privatize because wealthy interests will pay you well to hand over the system to them.
That's one theory. The primary cause of the decline was because the health care funds were merged into the general pool by the Liberals, so they could access the funds for other initiatives, with the final goal of getting re-elected. [I'm politically liberal, but the Liberal Party is a bunch of crooks]
I could only see your theory explaining why it's not being fixed, because neither party could guarantee that they would be in power when the situation reaches the point where privatization is appropriate.
In the US the politicians don't have to be complicit in such a campaign (not to say they aren't), because pharmaceutical companies have an unlimited budget for lobbyists-for-hire, so they can throw enough wrenches into the system either way.
Fair enough. I run a quad-core Opteron audio rig with three monitors. I only use my laptop on tour or on the can, and I'm constantly cursing the keyboard layout and limited screen.
And it sucks to have the OEM cost of Vista built into new systems, but frankly it's worth paying that again so you don't have to use it!
Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada has free citywide internet. It's slow as a dog during the day but quite usable at night for basic browsing/emailing etc. Great for us touring musicians!
But a satellite dish will only help the reception, not the access point on a city-wide basis, so it's benefits are limited. However, it might give hope to cottagers where wifi is close but not quite.
What the article describes as going from zero bars to five, sounds like range extension by a factor of at least five, so let's use 100m as an unmodified standard range, that's about 1/16th of a mile.
It would also help by almost as great a margin to have a small reflective dish in front of the transceivers to direct forward signals back into the larger dish (a forward collector), or else most of the transmission will travel away from the intended target. That strainer hack would be about the right size for the job, perhaps too big, but imagine that facing back into the satellite dish, directing emissions out the larger dish in a straight line. That should boost the signal strength up by at least another 80%, so call it 9x range extension.
The same improvements would apply at both ends, so by my math, a well-configured line-of-sight array with dishes and forward collectors at both ends should achieve at least 18x range extension, definitely over a mile.
1. Go to computer store
2. Choose the components that suit your needs with the assistance of the store staff
3. Either build it yourself or have the shop build it for you
4. Purchase Windows XP
5. Install it or have the shop install it
I find it implausible that people who understand PC's well enough to choose XP instead of Vista can't build their own box. Ordering a pre-built PC is like saying "surprise me" when asked what toppings you want on your pizza.
I'd still rather pay less for my medical insurance - Especially since the patents I'm paying for are being ignored on both my Canadian and Mexican borders.
Woah. We pay through the ass for pharmaceuticals in Canada. We don't even get a free ride on pharms or medical procedures developed here. It either comes out of our taxes or our wallets.
Meanwhile, at least 20% of our medical graduates take jobs in the US or abroad. And we're facing a health care crisis ourselves.
I know there are a lot of industrialized countries that do not enforce medical patents, but Canada isn't anywhere near that list.
"Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby"
But you can't mail yourself to heaven.
But seriously, an atheist is someone who subscribes to a belief that there are no gods. There are religions, Wicca for example, that do not worship any god. Atheism is also practiced in organized groups much like congregations with "intelligent design". I would argue the only reason atheism is not considered a religion is that atheists don't want us to.
Granted, someone who rejects religion and does not engage in organized atheist practices would also be called an atheist. But you'd have to be pretty serious about not collecting stamps to be compared to actively organized atheists.
I think I counted once, there are 12 states with territory of a higher latitude than the southernmost point in Canada. The strange part is that Vancouver has much milder winters than Pelee Island, despite having a more northern latitude by over 650mi.
And actually the southernmost territory in Canada is Middle Island, just south of Pelee Island (home to some nice wineries), which is south of Point Pelee, the southernmost point of the Canadian mainland.
And there are far more Canadians with residences in southern US than in Maine, aka Snowbirds.
I was worried about getting modded OT but the Cannuck posts are scoring better than the Hawking ones!
Did you know that you can send free messages from ANY phone, even a payphone or to long distance numbers, simply by making a collect call and when it asks for your name, say a short message. Isn't that clever?
You could also send mail by writing the destination address as the sender's address and a bogus address as the recipient's, then write "insufficient postage" on it, drop it in a mailbox. Odds are that doesn't work anymore, but who knows.
You can also scrounge through a garbage can outside a grocery store for receipts, walk in, grab the items off the shelves, and ask for a refund.
Cute. I know what you mean. But bee dances don't involve interactivity.
Wanna really bug out on the subject matter? Check out the Discover Channel series Mammals vs. Dinosaurs the era where mammals are believed to have developed advanced hearing systems to hunt at night in order to survive.
Also check out this article which describes the properties of the inner ear as an argument against Darwinism!
The Bush administration refuses to ratify the Kyoto Accord
They then make bold and popular "clean air" initiatives, which depend on enforcement from the EPA
When called upon to enforce the "clean air" initiatives, the EPA is not provided the authority to do so, for example, by the ratification of the Kyoto Accord
The Bush administration sits back and says, "oh well, we tried"
As a sound engineer, I can assure you a 2-4kHz sensitivity is critical for many important things unrelated to speech. Specifically it is a critical frequency range for defense from predators. For example, it's common in horror movies to use a twig-snapping sound in that range to build suspense.
When mixing music, that range is of specific importance for drawing attention to foreground instruments and de-emphasizing background instruments. Should we then conclude that these proto-humans could jam?
I would also think that the 6-12kHz sibilance range is of paramount importance to speech. Just ask my half-deaf mother.
Don't moderate it -- look for pedophiles attempting to abuse children. If they're raping children, feel free to pass a law to execute or neuter them if convicted.
Part of moderating is reporting criminal behavior to the relevant authorities. There already is law against raping children, though obviously not so brutal as you suggest and unfortunately not very effective.
If you ask my, alt.* on usenet is the "heart" of the internet where the free exchange of ideas takes place and "anyone" can create a group for themselves, completely free of rules.
The internet and its users are growing up with more diverse needs and more complex abusive applications every day. The internet needs to grow up too, and facilities like alt.* cannot adapt without compromising their fundamental purpose.
Furthermore, if you can't find a suitable medium (Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Yahoo, etc etc) other than alt.* for whatever group you wish to create, then chances are the group's intentions are illegal, since every legal cause for discussion is well supported with facilities tailored to every type of group. And there's still IRC for kiddie-porn chit-chat and file exchange if you're so sympathetic for the poor disgruntled pedophiles.
If authorities keep alt.* operational just in order to catch criminals, they are in effect knowingly facilitating the criminal behavior, and everyone charged can claim entrapment as a defense. Whether it holds up or not I can't guess, but it still knots up the courts unnecessarily deliberating over why they didn't just shut it down. Then imagine the liability to the victims!
How much is saved by carrying 150x as much vs. the cost of refrigerating the conduits to 65K?
Last I checked, refrigeration was not an especially efficient process, especially with large exposed surface areas such as a long series of wires.
But that's ok, it's just 65 Kelvin, can't be that cold, it's a double-digit number just like we're used to, just a K instead of and F or a C.
65K is -340F fer fucks sake! That underground wire's surroundings average about 50F, so it's cooled by a matter of 390F to get it to superconducting levels!
Heating it is much easier with well established industrial componentry. Could you imagine heating a lengthy wire by 390F to 440F 24/7 just to get better conductivity? Cooling it to 65K requires customized experimental cryogenic gear costing WAY more!
There is no way the superconductivity savings outweigh the costs of refrigerating the line. Any reasonable scientist would have determined this on paper long before implementation. This is clearly some ridiculously over-privileged geek's science fair project at best.
Funny you should complain on one of the most progressively and thoroughly moderated forums. Try moderating alt.* to get rid of the pedophiles. It would be easier to restore a K-car out of the wreckers.
Ergo alt.* is a junker that needs to be put out of its misery, regardless of all the good folks that have nostalgia for the K-cars they drove before they got real jobs.
The more M$ abuses their power, the more people want to escape.
Oh if that were only true, but unfortunately the abuse of power with complete impunity is the ultimate corporate aphrodisiac. Everyone wants an umbrella like that to stand under.
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Canada is having a health care crisis because leaders are lowering funding to it in an attempt to put it in a position to privatize it.
It's similar to what's happening to Medicare here in the states. You erode the system until it doesn't function, then use privatization as a way out. The reasons are simple, profits are there to be made if it's privatized, and unavailable if it's not, thus you must privatize because wealthy interests will pay you well to hand over the system to them.
That's one theory. The primary cause of the decline was because the health care funds were merged into the general pool by the Liberals, so they could access the funds for other initiatives, with the final goal of getting re-elected. [I'm politically liberal, but the Liberal Party is a bunch of crooks]
I could only see your theory explaining why it's not being fixed, because neither party could guarantee that they would be in power when the situation reaches the point where privatization is appropriate.
In the US the politicians don't have to be complicit in such a campaign (not to say they aren't), because pharmaceutical companies have an unlimited budget for lobbyists-for-hire, so they can throw enough wrenches into the system either way.
Fair enough. I run a quad-core Opteron audio rig with three monitors. I only use my laptop on tour or on the can, and I'm constantly cursing the keyboard layout and limited screen.
And it sucks to have the OEM cost of Vista built into new systems, but frankly it's worth paying that again so you don't have to use it!
Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada has free citywide internet. It's slow as a dog during the day but quite usable at night for basic browsing/emailing etc. Great for us touring musicians!
Here is another smaller scale hack using a metal strainer/steamer as a collector.
But a satellite dish will only help the reception, not the access point on a city-wide basis, so it's benefits are limited. However, it might give hope to cottagers where wifi is close but not quite.
What the article describes as going from zero bars to five, sounds like range extension by a factor of at least five, so let's use 100m as an unmodified standard range, that's about 1/16th of a mile.
It would also help by almost as great a margin to have a small reflective dish in front of the transceivers to direct forward signals back into the larger dish (a forward collector), or else most of the transmission will travel away from the intended target. That strainer hack would be about the right size for the job, perhaps too big, but imagine that facing back into the satellite dish, directing emissions out the larger dish in a straight line. That should boost the signal strength up by at least another 80%, so call it 9x range extension.
The same improvements would apply at both ends, so by my math, a well-configured line-of-sight array with dishes and forward collectors at both ends should achieve at least 18x range extension, definitely over a mile.
Show me a system that isn't sensitive to someone who successfully hacked over a million systems by the time he was 18.
"Ok kids, we've got a special guest today, Big Mike here is going to teach you how to stop a pedophile."
Wine was in an alpha/beta state for what...16 years?
It took forever to work out the tannins...
1. Go to computer store
2. Choose the components that suit your needs with the assistance of the store staff
3. Either build it yourself or have the shop build it for you
4. Purchase Windows XP
5. Install it or have the shop install it
I find it implausible that people who understand PC's well enough to choose XP instead of Vista can't build their own box. Ordering a pre-built PC is like saying "surprise me" when asked what toppings you want on your pizza.
I'd still rather pay less for my medical insurance - Especially since the patents I'm paying for are being ignored on both my Canadian and Mexican borders.
Woah. We pay through the ass for pharmaceuticals in Canada. We don't even get a free ride on pharms or medical procedures developed here. It either comes out of our taxes or our wallets.
Meanwhile, at least 20% of our medical graduates take jobs in the US or abroad. And we're facing a health care crisis ourselves.
I know there are a lot of industrialized countries that do not enforce medical patents, but Canada isn't anywhere near that list.
"Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby"
But you can't mail yourself to heaven.
But seriously, an atheist is someone who subscribes to a belief that there are no gods. There are religions, Wicca for example, that do not worship any god. Atheism is also practiced in organized groups much like congregations with "intelligent design". I would argue the only reason atheism is not considered a religion is that atheists don't want us to.
Granted, someone who rejects religion and does not engage in organized atheist practices would also be called an atheist. But you'd have to be pretty serious about not collecting stamps to be compared to actively organized atheists.
it would be an innocent mistake to confuse our Cambridge (town) with your Cambridge (university)
You mean Wilfrid Laurier University in Cambridge Ontario, about 20mi east of Waterloo, where Hawking is considering moving?
That's right, Cannuck trivia that's on-topic!
And his synthesized voice tool should really be outfitted with an English accent :)
Instead he sounds like British teeth look.
I think I counted once, there are 12 states with territory of a higher latitude than the southernmost point in Canada. The strange part is that Vancouver has much milder winters than Pelee Island, despite having a more northern latitude by over 650mi.
And actually the southernmost territory in Canada is Middle Island, just south of Pelee Island (home to some nice wineries), which is south of Point Pelee, the southernmost point of the Canadian mainland.
And there are far more Canadians with residences in southern US than in Maine, aka Snowbirds.
I was worried about getting modded OT but the Cannuck posts are scoring better than the Hawking ones!
Cambridge is only 24km from Waterloo, eh?
Rolling dice is a mechanical random number generator, so you're not "repeating the same action" when you roll dice repeatedly.
That definition of insanity is a quote from Einstein. He's probably thought it through a little more than we would.
You might wanna listen to one of the other voices in your head. ;)
I wonder what kind of Internet my daughter will have when she grows up.
"When I was a kid, we didn't have no inter-neural Wi-Fi"
(the daughter winks a STFU SMS in reply)
And the president has no influence on the senate?
Google "bush kyoto accord" and you'll see dozens of articles attributing the non-ratification of the Accord to George W Bush personally.
Google "senate kyoto accord" and you'll see no such attribution.
Or am I reading those wrong too?
Did you know that you can send free messages from ANY phone, even a payphone or to long distance numbers, simply by making a collect call and when it asks for your name, say a short message. Isn't that clever?
You could also send mail by writing the destination address as the sender's address and a bogus address as the recipient's, then write "insufficient postage" on it, drop it in a mailbox. Odds are that doesn't work anymore, but who knows.
You can also scrounge through a garbage can outside a grocery store for receipts, walk in, grab the items off the shelves, and ask for a refund.
You can also grow up.
They're all clever. Take your pick.
A jam session is the bee dance of humanity.
Cute. I know what you mean. But bee dances don't involve interactivity.
Wanna really bug out on the subject matter? Check out the Discover Channel series Mammals vs. Dinosaurs the era where mammals are believed to have developed advanced hearing systems to hunt at night in order to survive.
Also check out this article which describes the properties of the inner ear as an argument against Darwinism!
Note the contradiction of the two examples ;)
Am I reading this right?
The Bush administration refuses to ratify the Kyoto Accord
They then make bold and popular "clean air" initiatives, which depend on enforcement from the EPA
When called upon to enforce the "clean air" initiatives, the EPA is not provided the authority to do so, for example, by the ratification of the Kyoto Accord
The Bush administration sits back and says, "oh well, we tried"
Tell me it's not that transparent!
...they won't have the administrative infrastructure to get the job done?
As a sound engineer, I can assure you a 2-4kHz sensitivity is critical for many important things unrelated to speech. Specifically it is a critical frequency range for defense from predators. For example, it's common in horror movies to use a twig-snapping sound in that range to build suspense.
When mixing music, that range is of specific importance for drawing attention to foreground instruments and de-emphasizing background instruments. Should we then conclude that these proto-humans could jam?
I would also think that the 6-12kHz sibilance range is of paramount importance to speech. Just ask my half-deaf mother.
I apologize, that does read like flamebait. I was just surprised at the sheer futility of the process.
Don't moderate it -- look for pedophiles attempting to abuse children. If they're raping children, feel free to pass a law to execute or neuter them if convicted.
Part of moderating is reporting criminal behavior to the relevant authorities. There already is law against raping children, though obviously not so brutal as you suggest and unfortunately not very effective.
If you ask my, alt.* on usenet is the "heart" of the internet where the free exchange of ideas takes place and "anyone" can create a group for themselves, completely free of rules.
The internet and its users are growing up with more diverse needs and more complex abusive applications every day. The internet needs to grow up too, and facilities like alt.* cannot adapt without compromising their fundamental purpose.
Furthermore, if you can't find a suitable medium (Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Yahoo, etc etc) other than alt.* for whatever group you wish to create, then chances are the group's intentions are illegal, since every legal cause for discussion is well supported with facilities tailored to every type of group. And there's still IRC for kiddie-porn chit-chat and file exchange if you're so sympathetic for the poor disgruntled pedophiles.
If authorities keep alt.* operational just in order to catch criminals, they are in effect knowingly facilitating the criminal behavior, and everyone charged can claim entrapment as a defense. Whether it holds up or not I can't guess, but it still knots up the courts unnecessarily deliberating over why they didn't just shut it down. Then imagine the liability to the victims!
How much is saved by carrying 150x as much vs. the cost of refrigerating the conduits to 65K?
Last I checked, refrigeration was not an especially efficient process, especially with large exposed surface areas such as a long series of wires.
But that's ok, it's just 65 Kelvin, can't be that cold, it's a double-digit number just like we're used to, just a K instead of and F or a C.
65K is -340F fer fucks sake! That underground wire's surroundings average about 50F, so it's cooled by a matter of 390F to get it to superconducting levels!
Heating it is much easier with well established industrial componentry. Could you imagine heating a lengthy wire by 390F to 440F 24/7 just to get better conductivity? Cooling it to 65K requires customized experimental cryogenic gear costing WAY more!
There is no way the superconductivity savings outweigh the costs of refrigerating the line. Any reasonable scientist would have determined this on paper long before implementation. This is clearly some ridiculously over-privileged geek's science fair project at best.
Funny you should complain on one of the most progressively and thoroughly moderated forums. Try moderating alt.* to get rid of the pedophiles. It would be easier to restore a K-car out of the wreckers.
Ergo alt.* is a junker that needs to be put out of its misery, regardless of all the good folks that have nostalgia for the K-cars they drove before they got real jobs.
The more M$ abuses their power, the more people want to escape.
Oh if that were only true, but unfortunately the abuse of power with complete impunity is the ultimate corporate aphrodisiac. Everyone wants an umbrella like that to stand under.