It is ultimately up to the patient being treated to make the decision about their own health. Not "big pharma" nor the federal government, it's your decision. I can not for the life of me understand why people are so intent on putting the responsibility for their health on to others when it is their life in danger... you would think that their own life would mean enough to do at least some basic research on the matter...
What was that? I think Dancing with the Stars is on!
/sarcasm
Seriously though, look how most Americans treat their own bodies (fat and happy).
As long as most of the sheeple are happy and continuing to get their daily/hourly fix of Big Media, they can't be bothered to think for themselves. Critical reasoning, specifically, money management, are simply not taught in our public schools. This is the root cause of America's downturn.
/rant
As fatalistic as it seems, I guess I am just not sure how to get America out of this situation without going through some serious pains.
Am not sure I see a point in consistency for consistency's sake, when you in the light of newer information you now know the original measurements are flawed.
At first glance, it seems that they are being intellectually dishonest. Why not use both methods just to see how they compare? Is it that they have an agenda? If so, what is that agenda? Could it be to fall in line with the popular current paradigm of the "environmental awareness" movements in an attempt to gain more funding from governmental institutions; thereby gaining power, thereby gaining more influence, thereby gaining more money, etc?? (order of operations might be incorrect, but you get the idea)
The question I have for the deeper thinking/. folk out there is, what can be done to prevent bad "science" with the way big corporations, government, church, and the loyal American Idol watching populous fiddle with the scientific process? Or, simply given enough time (50-100 years or longer), will science win in the end?
How much legitimate mail is dropped and how do you plan on handling the case where one of the companies with which you do business outsources their email to a Canadian or European company?
You have a good point: right now we don't have a metric to determine how much legitimate mail is being dropped.
However, email is not critical to our business. Email doesn't even make the top 5; fax, voice, and "face-time" are much more important.
Employees will deal with this the same as they deal with other technical anomalies: if they can't quickly resolve it on their own, they pick up the phone and call me.
Most importantly, if any entity we deal with does change their business model, we simply alter our scripts and life moves on.
Again, this is a hackish solution to an annoying problem. But, so far, I haven't heard of a a single case of a legitimate email being dropped because of the iptables rules denying traffic.
Don't use the steel wool anywhere near high-voltage. steel wool is crazy flammable (or is it inflammable..whatever...it burns). If you don't believe me, touch a 9v battery to the steel wool and watch it go up. Otherwise, interesting idea.
Perhaps its time to just firewall off Eastern Europe, Russia, and China and call it a day. Whitelist them when needed.
Been there, done that: At least on our email servers. In addition, I have blocked every country other than the US with an iptables deny rule ("they" can't even ping the mailserver). Before you start complaining, please be aware that I work for a small (approx 60 email accounts) US-based management company that only deals with other US companies. In the past 6-7 months that my iptables rules have been in place on the mail server, incoming spam has dropped 80-90%. In addition to blocking everything but the US IP space, we are running postfix/amavis/spamassassin/clamav/postgrey and have configured a few RBLs. Very little spam gets through these days.
If you would like my script, post a reply to this message, and I will either post the script directly in the comments or email you privately.
The solution to simply block off non-US IP space is an ugly vile hack to how the Internet was originally designed. Meanwhile back in modern-day reality, the hack works well.
Nonsense. The problem is that drug laws and enforcement (particulary in the US) are insanely draconian. Prohibition doesn't work; I think we have enough empirical evidence of that now. Legalise currently illegal drugs and we can actually start tackling problem drug use in a sensible way.
...and, if the government can control it, they can tax it. The only real way to get the governmental powers-that-be interested is to wave some money in their faces in the form of additional tax revenue. This would also make a nice segway from the war on drugs....just tax it.
Actually, as another poster pointed out, what is groundbreaking is that this is the first uber-small projector to actually be "for sale". As I understand it, all the other "small" projectors are expensive prototypes used in large corporate peeing contests at trade-shows.
Wrong. In many locations in the US, Judges are elected and need no prior experience. Judges without the legal background are much worse than "lawyer judges".
Silly me, I thought remote areas didn't typically have cellphone service. Nice to know that such services are available both in the Yukon and rural Michigan. Important, those two.
I currently have mod points, but have instead decided to respond.
In the long-term care business (read: nursing home/assisted living), we are required by the US federal government to use Microsoft Windows and IE(ActiveX) for data connection and submission respectively.
We don't want to be stuck in a situation where some unknown mechanism triggers a reactivation; especially in a nurses console, etc. We therefore, currently use the volume licensed version of WinXP Pro.
With that said, all we can purchase are stupid fscking Vista licenses. It made me cringe the first time I received the invoice containing "Vista" licenses (using an XP media pack).
So, of those 45% listed in the article, how many would you guess are actually running vista in production?
If you are interested, we are moving entirely to a customized version of Debian in a thin-client atmosphere on the machines that do not require windoze. And, trying to systematically move those windoze boxen to our VM cluster.:) Windows, meet sandbox.
Meanwhile, we are still stuck buying vista and inflating Ballmers numbers.
But the fact of the matter is, it is the entertainment industry attacking consumers, that is the biggest turn off, where the digital TV switchover will be turning off the set for the consumer, whom will not turn it back on so quickly... I mostly agree. However, you miss the big picture. As was recently mentioned in a post here on/.... In televison, the people are the PRODUCTS being delivered to the advertisers; the real customers. Let me say that again. The person watching television is merely a product being delivered to an advertiser. It does not matter what television content is produced or broadcast for it is merely the lure and mechanism to attract the most people into watching the advertisements.
Having not really thought about it much, is there a similar situation occurring with the **AA?
The one, seemingly obvious, question I have is, why aren't the cooling needs on generator/ups backup?
I have toured data-centers where even the cooling was on battery backup. The idea is that the battery banks hold everything as it is until the generators come fully online (usually within 30 seconds). The batteries/UPS transformers were able to hold the entire system for approx 30 minutes on battery alone irrespective of generator status. This also reduced the issues from quick brown-outs...no need to fire up the generator for a quick 2 second outage.
Why aren't data-centers like this built to be completely self-sufficient or autonomous?
Sadly, at least in the USA, you are wrong about the "...makes no sense to allow TV Advertisements for it."
Our medical professionals, the gate-keeps of the plethora of drugs available, deal with patients who walk in and say, "I have [these symptoms] which I think might be [this condition], and I understand that [this drug] can treat me, and I would like it please."
For lots of reasons more numerous to mention here, most doctors will simply say, "Alright," and move on to the next patient.
As for the drug companies, the direct-to-public advertising creates huge returns for the bottom line.
Right now, this is the system we deal with in the States. Should there be change? Maybe. Is change easy? I don't think so.
In the end, most of this doesn't matter. The problem isn't with the publicly-traded drug companies selling their wares. The problem is the stupid person who can't see through the advertising, turn on their brain, and understand that with everything there is a trade-off; in the case of drugs, side-effects.
I believe the real problem is with our draconian method of schooling. We treat our children and students as simple herd animals that must run the guantlet of education. In public school, we emphasize obeying the rules, but our society blatantly ignores logical, critical thinking, big-picture history, and in general, the sciences.
We are stupid selfish sheep^H^H^H^H^Hconsumers that can't think for themselves. This is why TV advertisements work. This is why our society is so self-destructive and is more interested in who is banging whom in Hollywood than actually looking at the needs of others.
Why don't you step away from the glow of electrons, and go do something positive and uplifting for someone else when there isn't any personal motive or potential gain. See what happens within yourself.
There are no such things as "weight sensors" for stop lights. The cuts in cement you see at a stop light are not pressure sensors. The cut in the pavement contains a loop of wire. The signal control hardware is using inductance to measure the amount of change in the electrical properties of the loop. You can think of this as simply a metal detector. (You can read more about it here)
And, you are right that problems do exist with motorcycles and bicycles. They often don't contain enough metal close enough to the sensor to trigger the light. In fact, a few years ago in the state of Tennessee, there was quite a stir in that legislation was passed to allow motorcycles to proceed through a red light after coming to a complete stop and waiting for a "reasonable amount of time" to correct for the fact that the sensors controlling traffic signals often fail to sense motorcycles. Minnesota has had the same law in place, and in fact, Minnesota's law was the basis of the Tennessee law. Other states have considered similar laws, although I do not know if any have passed.
Don't forget the unauthorized duplication of the fish too. What if it was genetically modified? Can these pirated copies be trusted? Where is the Genuine Advantage fish anyway?
Consider TVA's "Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant" in Chattanooga, TN (USA). Try 1,600,000 Kwh (1,600 megawatts)....in use since 1978. If I recall correctly, it had a payback of something like 8 years. It takes 28 hours to fill the reservoir, and can generate the 1,600 megawatts for 22 hours of continuous use.
It is too bad they don't allow tours anymore (they were free too!) down inside of the power station. "Security concerns" since 911. They had an awesome tour where you could see the turbine generators/pumps deep inside the mountain.
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In the 60's-80's it was communism.
In the 40's it was Nazism.
so on and so forth
the image alt tag to that xkcd image is:
Actual actual reality: nobody cares about his secrets. (Also, I would be hard-pressed to find that wrench for $5.)
In this case, I think the school example counts for "nobody cares".
This is the funniest comment I have read on /. in months! I current have a few mod points left, and desperately wish I could give you a 5+ Funny. :)
It is ultimately up to the patient being treated to make the decision about their own health. Not "big pharma" nor the federal government, it's your decision. I can not for the life of me understand why people are so intent on putting the responsibility for their health on to others when it is their life in danger... you would think that their own life would mean enough to do at least some basic research on the matter...
What was that? I think Dancing with the Stars is on!
/sarcasm
Seriously though, look how most Americans treat their own bodies (fat and happy).
As long as most of the sheeple are happy and continuing to get their daily/hourly fix of Big Media, they can't be bothered to think for themselves. Critical reasoning, specifically, money management, are simply not taught in our public schools. This is the root cause of America's downturn.
/rant
As fatalistic as it seems, I guess I am just not sure how to get America out of this situation without going through some serious pains.
CTRL+C .... CTRL+C .... [no response]... ALT+SysRq+B
Am not sure I see a point in consistency for consistency's sake, when you in the light of newer information you now know the original measurements are flawed.
At first glance, it seems that they are being intellectually dishonest. Why not use both methods just to see how they compare? Is it that they have an agenda? If so, what is that agenda? Could it be to fall in line with the popular current paradigm of the "environmental awareness" movements in an attempt to gain more funding from governmental institutions; thereby gaining power, thereby gaining more influence, thereby gaining more money, etc?? (order of operations might be incorrect, but you get the idea)
The question I have for the deeper thinking /. folk out there is, what can be done to prevent bad "science" with the way big corporations, government, church, and the loyal American Idol watching populous fiddle with the scientific process? Or, simply given enough time (50-100 years or longer), will science win in the end?
Isn't there supposed to be a chur-ching at the end of that statement, followed by, "I will be here all week." ;)
How much legitimate mail is dropped and how do you plan on handling the case where one of the companies with which you do business outsources their email to a Canadian or European company?
You have a good point: right now we don't have a metric to determine how much legitimate mail is being dropped.
However, email is not critical to our business. Email doesn't even make the top 5; fax, voice, and "face-time" are much more important.
Employees will deal with this the same as they deal with other technical anomalies: if they can't quickly resolve it on their own, they pick up the phone and call me.
Most importantly, if any entity we deal with does change their business model, we simply alter our scripts and life moves on.
Again, this is a hackish solution to an annoying problem. But, so far, I haven't heard of a a single case of a legitimate email being dropped because of the iptables rules denying traffic.
Don't use the steel wool anywhere near high-voltage. steel wool is crazy flammable (or is it inflammable..whatever...it burns). If you don't believe me, touch a 9v battery to the steel wool and watch it go up. Otherwise, interesting idea.
Perhaps its time to just firewall off Eastern Europe, Russia, and China and call it a day. Whitelist them when needed.
Been there, done that: At least on our email servers. In addition, I have blocked every country other than the US with an iptables deny rule ("they" can't even ping the mailserver). Before you start complaining, please be aware that I work for a small (approx 60 email accounts) US-based management company that only deals with other US companies. In the past 6-7 months that my iptables rules have been in place on the mail server, incoming spam has dropped 80-90%. In addition to blocking everything but the US IP space, we are running postfix/amavis/spamassassin/clamav/postgrey and have configured a few RBLs. Very little spam gets through these days.
I am using ipdeny.com for the lists of IP space sorted by country: http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/data/countries/all-zones.tar.gz
If you would like my script, post a reply to this message, and I will either post the script directly in the comments or email you privately.
The solution to simply block off non-US IP space is an ugly vile hack to how the Internet was originally designed. Meanwhile back in modern-day reality, the hack works well.
-JL
Nonsense. The problem is that drug laws and enforcement (particulary in the US) are insanely draconian. Prohibition doesn't work; I think we have enough empirical evidence of that now. Legalise currently illegal drugs and we can actually start tackling problem drug use in a sensible way.
...and, if the government can control it, they can tax it. The only real way to get the governmental powers-that-be interested is to wave some money in their faces in the form of additional tax revenue. This would also make a nice segway from the war on drugs....just tax it.
...you get a warning, then you're out...
The way you said that makes me think Comcast should yell, in a middle-eastern voice, "No soup for you!"
Actually, as another poster pointed out, what is groundbreaking is that this is the first uber-small projector to actually be "for sale". As I understand it, all the other "small" projectors are expensive prototypes used in large corporate peeing contests at trade-shows.
Chevy Volt anyone?
Wrong. In many locations in the US, Judges are elected and need no prior experience. Judges without the legal background are much worse than "lawyer judges".
Silly me, I thought remote areas didn't typically have cellphone service. Nice to know that such services are available both in the Yukon and rural Michigan. Important, those two.
I currently have mod points, but have instead decided to respond.
:) Windows, meet sandbox.
In the long-term care business (read: nursing home/assisted living), we are required by the US federal government to use Microsoft Windows and IE(ActiveX) for data connection and submission respectively.
We don't want to be stuck in a situation where some unknown mechanism triggers a reactivation; especially in a nurses console, etc. We therefore, currently use the volume licensed version of WinXP Pro.
With that said, all we can purchase are stupid fscking Vista licenses. It made me cringe the first time I received the invoice containing "Vista" licenses (using an XP media pack).
So, of those 45% listed in the article, how many would you guess are actually running vista in production?
If you are interested, we are moving entirely to a customized version of Debian in a thin-client atmosphere on the machines that do not require windoze. And, trying to systematically move those windoze boxen to our VM cluster.
Meanwhile, we are still stuck buying vista and inflating Ballmers numbers.
Having not really thought about it much, is there a similar situation occurring with the **AA?
Sounds like Rat Poison might be perfect for you.
The one, seemingly obvious, question I have is, why aren't the cooling needs on generator/ups backup?
I have toured data-centers where even the cooling was on battery backup. The idea is that the battery banks hold everything as it is until the generators come fully online (usually within 30 seconds). The batteries/UPS transformers were able to hold the entire system for approx 30 minutes on battery alone irrespective of generator status. This also reduced the issues from quick brown-outs...no need to fire up the generator for a quick 2 second outage.
Why aren't data-centers like this built to be completely self-sufficient or autonomous?
Wish I could mod this comment "witty". :)
Sadly, at least in the USA, you are wrong about the "...makes no sense to allow TV Advertisements for it."
Our medical professionals, the gate-keeps of the plethora of drugs available, deal with patients who walk in and say, "I have [these symptoms] which I think might be [this condition], and I understand that [this drug] can treat me, and I would like it please."
For lots of reasons more numerous to mention here, most doctors will simply say, "Alright," and move on to the next patient.
As for the drug companies, the direct-to-public advertising creates huge returns for the bottom line.
Right now, this is the system we deal with in the States. Should there be change? Maybe. Is change easy? I don't think so.
In the end, most of this doesn't matter. The problem isn't with the publicly-traded drug companies selling their wares. The problem is the stupid person who can't see through the advertising, turn on their brain, and understand that with everything there is a trade-off; in the case of drugs, side-effects.
I believe the real problem is with our draconian method of schooling. We treat our children and students as simple herd animals that must run the guantlet of education. In public school, we emphasize obeying the rules, but our society blatantly ignores logical, critical thinking, big-picture history, and in general, the sciences.
We are stupid selfish sheep^H^H^H^H^Hconsumers that can't think for themselves. This is why TV advertisements work. This is why our society is so self-destructive and is more interested in who is banging whom in Hollywood than actually looking at the needs of others.
Why don't you step away from the glow of electrons, and go do something positive and uplifting for someone else when there isn't any personal motive or potential gain. See what happens within yourself.
grep 'asia$' /usr/share/dict/words
/usr/share/dict/words
From Debian 4.1.1-21:
# grep 'asia$'
Anastasia
Australasia
Eurasia
Laurasia
Transcaucasia
aphasia
euthanasia
gymnasia
There are no such things as "weight sensors" for stop lights. The cuts in cement you see at a stop light are not pressure sensors. The cut in the pavement contains a loop of wire. The signal control hardware is using inductance to measure the amount of change in the electrical properties of the loop. You can think of this as simply a metal detector. (You can read more about it here)
And, you are right that problems do exist with motorcycles and bicycles. They often don't contain enough metal close enough to the sensor to trigger the light. In fact, a few years ago in the state of Tennessee, there was quite a stir in that legislation was passed to allow motorcycles to proceed through a red light after coming to a complete stop and waiting for a "reasonable amount of time" to correct for the fact that the sensors controlling traffic signals often fail to sense motorcycles. Minnesota has had the same law in place, and in fact, Minnesota's law was the basis of the Tennessee law. Other states have considered similar laws, although I do not know if any have passed.
Don't forget the unauthorized duplication of the fish too. What if it was genetically modified? Can these pirated copies be trusted? Where is the Genuine Advantage fish anyway?
Mod parent up!! This isn't simply theory.
Consider TVA's "Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant" in Chattanooga, TN (USA). Try 1,600,000 Kwh (1,600 megawatts)....in use since 1978. If I recall correctly, it had a payback of something like 8 years. It takes 28 hours to fill the reservoir, and can generate the 1,600 megawatts for 22 hours of continuous use.
More info from the horses mouth: http://www.tva.gov/sites/raccoonmt.htm
It is too bad they don't allow tours anymore (they were free too!) down inside of the power station. "Security concerns" since 911. They had an awesome tour where you could see the turbine generators/pumps deep inside the mountain.