I assume if they arn't tracking my location in the building, they could. It's a secure area...
They're just tracking your accesses. Not your location, unless you have to use that card somewhere else in the building. But you better believe that every time you use the card, it is logged. I maintain some of those systems. Probably not your particular one, of course.
in order to convince users that updates are worthwhile you need visible differentiation.
I hate visible differentiation. It's disruptive. Especially change for the sake of change, I can live with it if it actually improves something. Once I've figured out how to do stuff, where the menus are, what the shortcuts are, maybe customize the toolbar a little to get the functions I actually use up there, I resent it when the developers mess with it just to say "hey, look at what we can do, aren't we cool!". Then I spend a few hours figuring out how to put as much as possible back to the arrangement it was in before.
Maybe I'm an anomaly. Or just an old fart. I rarely change the GUI from the default unless it's to make some feature easier to use. And if I do make those changes, I want them to carry over to the upgraded version. The only software I use skins with is where the default eyesore verges on unusable (for some reason, media players tend to fall into this camp). Just give me the improvements under the hood, please.
The term you are looking for is "Yarmulke". Unfortunately, it is pronounced exactly like "Yamaka".
Seeing as the word is Yiddish, which is written with the Hebrew alphabet, there isn't really any definitive spelling in the Roman alphabet. Same is true with Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and a lot of other languages. Phonetic is as good as it's going to get, absent any official body that rules on spellings. The Chinese are trying to do that, which is why what used to be "Peking" is now "Beijing", though the Chinese name hasn't changed.
It's true that "yarmulke" is the most conventional English spelling.
has this guy filed a formal written complaint to the upper management stating that the IT department is not co-operating? Has he tried forging some good rapport with the IT department?
1. Formal complaint about IT to CEO. Done.
2. Forge good rapport with IT. Having trouble here, for some reason they don't seem to like me. They said something I didn't quite catch about me and the CEO.
Maybe I should have done that in another sequence?
[The DRM company and boss who fired a worker for expressing an anti-DRM view outside of work] have certain realities that they are faced with each day from all sides. His boss knows what the DRM "realities " are. He is faced with and is working with these each day. If he fails or loses focus, he will be out of a job or lose respect.
A boss or company (and its directors and/or owners) who fires someone for that deserves no respect. They are abusive scum. (I suppose calling a DRM company "abusive scum" is redundant, but that's a grammar issue.) They should be identified by name and photo, so that those unlucky enough to be inflicted with their presence in daily life will be warned, so those who choose can refuse to do business with them or extend them any courtesies.
I'd like to think those people who like to talk about "individual responsibility" would agree that the individuals responsible for the firing should be held individually responsible. But I'm not that naive.
It made more sense to announce the sunset of the product with a large amount of advance notice, and provide a reasonable upgrade path.
Assuming that the old software still functions and meets the needs of the customers, and recognizing that the upgrade is for your convenience rather than theirs, a "reasonable upgrade path" would be one that is free or essentially so.
Too bad they already awarded the contract to lockheed martin (someone had their palm greased in that deal), as my company deals with document conversion and archiving
So how much did you give to Jack Abramoff? Nothing? Maybe that explains it?
In most of the US, a public transportation system would be more expensive than cars.
Not if we ever stop subsidizing cars (highways, roads, runoff, military expense of securing oil supplies, pollution, injuries). Even in a country like the US that is laid out in an energy-inefficient way. Yes, we subsidize transit too, but nowhere near as much as automobiles.
If Osama Bin Laden pays a man, or funds a man, to fly a plane into a building, and you are in it, and you perish, Osama has taken away a right of yours: the right to life.
If George Bush pays a man to drop a bomb from a plane, or to point an M16 at you and pull the trigger, and you perish, George Bush has taken away a right of yours: the right to life. What's your point?
Let's see. OBL was responsible for the deaths of what, 3 thousand people? George Bush is responsible for the deaths of what, 100 thousand people by his attack on Iraq alone (civilians and military on both sides, final numbers not yet in)? I'll stipulate that the upcoming Islamic Republic of Iraq won't be any worse than Saddam's secular Iraq.
Should we assign relative evil by the number of deaths each is responsible for? I've always thought that one should multiply innate evil by power to arrive at some judgement of total evil. Bush is not as personally evil as either OBL or Saddam, but he is vastly more powerful.
Pommiekiwifruit wrote: Gah! Wash your hands, e.coli boy!
Personally, I don't put my penis into places where there are a lot of e. coli. I'm not passing judgement on those of you who do, merely pointing out that there are sanitary aspects that may not apply to the rest of us.
not all of the power output from the alternator is needed at any given time to power the vehicle's components... why let that excess energy go to waste?
That energy isn't going to waste. The greater the load, the harder it is to turn the alternator, so the more power it consumes from the engine.
But that's not how this gadget works. The hydrogen generated isn't really used to get more power directly, but to make the existing combustion of diesel more efficient. Which results in more power, and less incompletely combusted crud (that noxious cloud of soot when the truck accelerates represents wasted energy). At least, that's what TFA says.
" Do you not buy a magazine because it has too many?"
There are magazines I do not buy because of the ads. I do find ads somewhat more tolerable in mags because: they don't move or flash or try to play music; I can flip pages faster than I can load new screens; I can riffle and jump in on page 30 without having to plow through the intervening ads; the load time for an ad is almost always exactly the same.. significantly less than a second); and, the visual page of a mag (and even more so a newspaper) is large enough (and the layout is usually consistent enough) so that it's easy for the eye to avoid the ads.
TV, being linear, forces the ads to the exclusion of anything else, which is annoying in a different way. At least they're not in your field of vision while the stuff you want to watch is happening. And because they monopolize the TV, they serve as timeouts, time to go grab a beer, run to the bathroom, yell at the cat. I watch very little TV (at home, probably not more than a couple of hours in the last year).
when I do drive my car, I pay a large percentage of the price of gas towards transportation fees
The gas tax doesn't anywhere near pay for the cost of roads and their maintenance (don't forget the highway patrol, and the meat wagons to scrape up the roadkill after, cleaning up the lead- and MTBE-contaminated land and water). Maybe a third of the cost. And even so, most people wouldn't call 9-17% (depending on the US state you're in, calculated on the basis of $3.00/gal gas, 0.18/gal US tax, 0.10-0.33 state tax, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gasoline_tax ) a "large percentage".
"Men have larger brains than women by about 10 per cent and larger brains confer greater brain power, so men must necessarily be on average more intelligent than women."
So, yeah, men are smarter than women. But men with big heads are smarter than ordinary men. It's head size. (No, not that head, get your mind out of the gutter!) Finally, a payoff for the fact that I can't wear baseball caps because they won't adjust large enough, that off-the-shelf hats sit on top of my head like the fez on a monkey. (Ok, so that depends on the monkey's tailor.)
I can almost picture one of my relatives using a computer with a type-writer keyboard.
One of my first computer programs was one to turn my computer (with a daisywheel printer) into a typewriter. It did make filling out paper forms easier. No editing capability, though.
I learned to type on a manual, and with the exception of the Model M, I can't find a keyboard that I like. My wife complains that I pound the keys too hard, and she's right. I learned on an ancient Royal manual, and you had to press HARD on the keys.
Me too, but in the '70s I worked with an electric (IBM "D", then Selectric, then IBM MagCard, which had a keyboard like a Selectric), so I got used to a lighter touch. IMO the Selectric had the finest keyboard of any typing machine ever built (and the original Selectric had the classiest styling). The Model M is the nearest thing to it (I've still got one of the ones with a built-in trackball).
The habit stuck when I started using computers in the early '80s (adm3a terminals anyone?)....
IBM Displaywriter, then an ADM21. The LSI keyboards really sucked. But most keyboards today aren't much better.
50,000 a year isn't really that many people to kill, considering that some secular governments have killed far more people in shorther periods of time. Stalin and Mao, for example
You're saying, "Compared to Stalin, even George Bush looks good?" I expect most of us agree with you.
If you have a microwave, baked potatoes are a cheap easy way to get nutrition.
If you want baked potatoes, get a toaster oven instead, and get results that actually taste like baked potatoes.* I nuke potatoes, too, but the results are something like mushy boiled potatoes.
Grapes are good. In the summertime, freeze them, and they're like popcorn popsicles.
___ *And NEVER wrap your potatoes in foil. What that does is create the perfect incubator for botulism, especially if you keep them warm and don't eat them right away.
I see that all the time. can someone please explain its meaning?
It's not just "unix terminals". The ASCII code for backspace (BS) is 0x08, which is the same as the code for control-H. Indeed, some serial terminals had no cursor keys, BS was done by pressing ctrl-H, which is how WordStar ended up with that as a convention, as well as ^E^X^S^D for cursor-up,down,left,right. (The concept probably was borrowed from unix, as were a lot of other PC conventions of the day.) Serial terminals usually did display "^H" when you pressed the backspace. My first PC (c. 1982) used a Lear-Siegler ADM31A terminal that did this until I bought a hot-rodded BIOS chip for the terminal. The display and the keyboard were vastly superior to most other PCs of the day (for text, there was no graphics except block characters).
So it quickly became a convention in typed "speech" to show a dig as something rephrased, e.g. "moron^H^H^H^H^Hpolitician".
from research I've done..for a single buy, insurance is only about $3K+ a year or so
Depends. It wouldn't be such a problem if they gave that price to everyone. But they don't. Try telling them you're 60 and have health problems (say, diabetes and hypertension, common enough at that age, or breast cancer in remission), and see what that quote is. If they don't just hang up on you.
It's a benefit for a lot of people. Yup. Obviously not for me, though.
I see no proof that current phones don't last a while. For suitable values of "a while". A year or two.
the old phones lasted forever because they were big, analog, featureless pieces of shit. No, they lasted forever because they were well made. Of course their feature set was pretty much frozen when they were made. Now we have lots of features (most of which nobody uses) and a new crappy phone every year or two. (I'm not exempt.. I use the "redial" and CID buttons myself.) While I realize there are people whose lives will have a gaping hole in them if their phone doesn't have an Eminem ringtone, I'm not in that group.
I certainly don't consider $45K-$90K rich by any standards...especially if you are married and have kids.
No, I wouldn't call that rich. And you already pay way less taxes than in almost any other industrialized nation in the world. I'm talking about stuff like the estate tax, which only affected people with enormous estates, not people like you. Taxes on income other than wages.
And, anyone with a real job...shouldn't have a problem with health care...If you work, you can have health insurance.
I know plenty of people who have jobs but no health insurance. Maybe you don't consider those jobs "real", but the people who do them sure as hell do. Maybe if we require all employers to offer the same level of health insurance to all employees. (Though frankly I don't think it should be the employer's job to provide health care, any more than it is to provide fire protection and police coverage.) Me, I'm self-employed, and I can't afford health insurance.
the $$'s are misused to support an overly bloated mgmt. level
Mandates from Congress where Congress doesn't provide the funding to fill them are a bigger problem. That crap eats budgets up. It's easy for Congress to say "you must do this" when they're not planning on paying for it. Such as the expensive "All Children Left Behind" testing. Such as services for disabled kids. Such as nutrition programs.
Telephone in the US got cheaper when the Bells were broken up, especially for equipment.
Total cost of local service got more expensive. Equipment got cheaper, since you could then provide your own (no reason why this couldn't have been done pre-breakup, in fact I often did so though it was technically forbidden). But keep in mind that the quality of that equipment also got cheaper. WE knew what it cost to send a guy with a truck to fix your phone, so they built (expensive) phones that wouldn't break over a 20 or 30 year lifetime. Nowdays all the phones are cheap crap that you're lucky if it lasts a year.
Long distance service got cheaper. Since I rarely call anyone outside of my city, that's not much of a benefit for me.
so things like compulsory public education and public hospitals almost never work
Actually, they work reasonably well in most places, in spite of politicians who pander for votes by promising to cut the taxes for their rich buddies. Public education tends to be underfunded, not because it wastes money teaching, but because the pols keep dumping additional social-service-agency jobs and requirements onto the schools without providing funding to cover the costs (e.g. the misnamed "No Child Left Behind" law that fails to provide funding for the mandates it requires).
Health care does tend to lag behind other industrialized countries. Public hospitals tend to be underfunded because out of control health costs (drugs that cost 3x what they do in other contries, financing systems so complicated that health system overhead such as clerks and profit payments eats a third or more of health spending).
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Yes, firefox is indeed greater than women. Can women block pops up for you? No.
I don't know about you, but in my experience there are certainly women who can block pop ups for you.
The same way you get a patent on a drawing of Mickey Mouse.
You can't get a patent on a drawing of Mickey Mouse.
You can probably get a copyright. Maybe you can register your drawing as a trademark. But no patent.
I assume if they arn't tracking my location in the building, they could. It's a secure area...
They're just tracking your accesses. Not your location, unless you have to use that card somewhere else in the building. But you better believe that every time you use the card, it is logged. I maintain some of those systems. Probably not your particular one, of course.
in order to convince users that updates are worthwhile you need visible differentiation.
I hate visible differentiation. It's disruptive. Especially change for the sake of change, I can live with it if it actually improves something. Once I've figured out how to do stuff, where the menus are, what the shortcuts are, maybe customize the toolbar a little to get the functions I actually use up there, I resent it when the developers mess with it just to say "hey, look at what we can do, aren't we cool!". Then I spend a few hours figuring out how to put as much as possible back to the arrangement it was in before.
Maybe I'm an anomaly. Or just an old fart. I rarely change the GUI from the default unless it's to make some feature easier to use. And if I do make those changes, I want them to carry over to the upgraded version. The only software I use skins with is where the default eyesore verges on unusable (for some reason, media players tend to fall into this camp). Just give me the improvements under the hood, please.
The term you are looking for is "Yarmulke". Unfortunately, it is pronounced exactly like "Yamaka".
Seeing as the word is Yiddish, which is written with the Hebrew alphabet, there isn't really any definitive spelling in the Roman alphabet. Same is true with Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and a lot of other languages. Phonetic is as good as it's going to get, absent any official body that rules on spellings. The Chinese are trying to do that, which is why what used to be "Peking" is now "Beijing", though the Chinese name hasn't changed.
It's true that "yarmulke" is the most conventional English spelling.
has this guy filed a formal written complaint to the upper management stating that the IT department is not co-operating? Has he tried forging some good rapport with the IT department?
1. Formal complaint about IT to CEO. Done.
2. Forge good rapport with IT. Having trouble here, for some reason they don't seem to like me. They said something I didn't quite catch about me and the CEO.
Maybe I should have done that in another sequence?
[The DRM company and boss who fired a worker for expressing an anti-DRM view outside of work] have certain realities that they are faced with each day from all sides. His boss knows what the DRM "realities " are. He is faced with and is working with these each day. If he fails or loses focus, he will be out of a job or lose respect.
A boss or company (and its directors and/or owners) who fires someone for that deserves no respect. They are abusive scum. (I suppose calling a DRM company "abusive scum" is redundant, but that's a grammar issue.) They should be identified by name and photo, so that those unlucky enough to be inflicted with their presence in daily life will be warned, so those who choose can refuse to do business with them or extend them any courtesies.
I'd like to think those people who like to talk about "individual responsibility" would agree that the individuals responsible for the firing should be held individually responsible. But I'm not that naive.
It made more sense to announce the sunset of the product with a large amount of advance notice, and provide a reasonable upgrade path.
Assuming that the old software still functions and meets the needs of the customers, and recognizing that the upgrade is for your convenience rather than theirs, a "reasonable upgrade path" would be one that is free or essentially so.
After all, it's to save you money, right?
Too bad they already awarded the contract to lockheed martin (someone had their palm greased in that deal), as my company deals with document conversion and archiving
So how much did you give to Jack Abramoff? Nothing? Maybe that explains it?
In most of the US, a public transportation system would be more expensive than cars.
Not if we ever stop subsidizing cars (highways, roads, runoff, military expense of securing oil supplies, pollution, injuries). Even in a country like the US that is laid out in an energy-inefficient way. Yes, we subsidize transit too, but nowhere near as much as automobiles.
If Osama Bin Laden pays a man, or funds a man, to fly a plane into a building, and you are in it, and you perish, Osama has taken away a right of yours: the right to life.
If George Bush pays a man to drop a bomb from a plane, or to point an M16 at you and pull the trigger, and you perish, George Bush has taken away a right of yours: the right to life. What's your point?
Let's see. OBL was responsible for the deaths of what, 3 thousand people? George Bush is responsible for the deaths of what, 100 thousand people by his attack on Iraq alone (civilians and military on both sides, final numbers not yet in)? I'll stipulate that the upcoming Islamic Republic of Iraq won't be any worse than Saddam's secular Iraq.
Should we assign relative evil by the number of deaths each is responsible for? I've always thought that one should multiply innate evil by power to arrive at some judgement of total evil. Bush is not as personally evil as either OBL or Saddam, but he is vastly more powerful.
Pommiekiwifruit wrote:
Gah! Wash your hands, e.coli boy!
Personally, I don't put my penis into places where there are a lot of e. coli. I'm not passing judgement on those of you who do, merely pointing out that there are sanitary aspects that may not apply to the rest of us.
not all of the power output from the alternator is needed at any given time to power the vehicle's components... why let that excess energy go to waste?
That energy isn't going to waste. The greater the load, the harder it is to turn the alternator, so the more power it consumes from the engine.
But that's not how this gadget works. The hydrogen generated isn't really used to get more power directly, but to make the existing combustion of diesel more efficient. Which results in more power, and less incompletely combusted crud (that noxious cloud of soot when the truck accelerates represents wasted energy). At least, that's what TFA says.
" Do you not buy a magazine because it has too many?"
There are magazines I do not buy because of the ads. I do find ads somewhat more tolerable in mags because: they don't move or flash or try to play music; I can flip pages faster than I can load new screens; I can riffle and jump in on page 30 without having to plow through the intervening ads; the load time for an ad is almost always exactly the same.. significantly less than a second); and, the visual page of a mag (and even more so a newspaper) is large enough (and the layout is usually consistent enough) so that it's easy for the eye to avoid the ads.
TV, being linear, forces the ads to the exclusion of anything else, which is annoying in a different way. At least they're not in your field of vision while the stuff you want to watch is happening. And because they monopolize the TV, they serve as timeouts, time to go grab a beer, run to the bathroom, yell at the cat. I watch very little TV (at home, probably not more than a couple of hours in the last year).
when I do drive my car, I pay a large percentage of the price of gas towards transportation fees
The gas tax doesn't anywhere near pay for the cost of roads and their maintenance (don't forget the highway patrol, and the meat wagons to scrape up the roadkill after, cleaning up the lead- and MTBE-contaminated land and water). Maybe a third of the cost. And even so, most people wouldn't call 9-17% (depending on the US state you're in, calculated on the basis of $3.00/gal gas, 0.18/gal US tax, 0.10-0.33 state tax, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gasoline_tax ) a "large percentage".
"Men have larger brains than women by about 10 per cent and larger brains confer greater brain power, so men must necessarily be on average more intelligent than women."
So, yeah, men are smarter than women. But men with big heads are smarter than ordinary men. It's head size. (No, not that head, get your mind out of the gutter!) Finally, a payoff for the fact that I can't wear baseball caps because they won't adjust large enough, that off-the-shelf hats sit on top of my head like the fez on a monkey. (Ok, so that depends on the monkey's tailor.)
Read and weep, pinheads!
I can almost picture one of my relatives using a computer with a type-writer keyboard.
One of my first computer programs was one to turn my computer (with a daisywheel printer) into a typewriter. It did make filling out paper forms easier. No editing capability, though.
I learned to type on a manual, and with the exception of the Model M, I can't find a keyboard that I like. My wife complains that I pound the keys too hard, and she's right. I learned on an ancient Royal manual, and you had to press HARD on the keys.
Me too, but in the '70s I worked with an electric (IBM "D", then Selectric, then IBM MagCard, which had a keyboard like a Selectric), so I got used to a lighter touch. IMO the Selectric had the finest keyboard of any typing machine ever built (and the original Selectric had the classiest styling). The Model M is the nearest thing to it (I've still got one of the ones with a built-in trackball).
The habit stuck when I started using computers in the early '80s (adm3a terminals anyone?)....
IBM Displaywriter, then an ADM21. The LSI keyboards really sucked. But most keyboards today aren't much better.
Any other oldtimers with this problem?
Problem?
50,000 a year isn't really that many people to kill, considering that some secular governments have killed far more people in shorther periods of time. Stalin and Mao, for example
You're saying, "Compared to Stalin, even George Bush looks good?" I expect most of us agree with you.
If you have a microwave, baked potatoes are a cheap easy way to get nutrition.
If you want baked potatoes, get a toaster oven instead, and get results that actually taste like baked potatoes.* I nuke potatoes, too, but the results are something like mushy boiled potatoes.
Grapes are good. In the summertime, freeze them, and they're like popcorn popsicles.
___
*And NEVER wrap your potatoes in foil. What that does is create the perfect incubator for botulism, especially if you keep them warm and don't eat them right away.
I see that all the time. can someone please explain its meaning?
It's not just "unix terminals". The ASCII code for backspace (BS) is 0x08, which is the same as the code for control-H. Indeed, some serial terminals had no cursor keys, BS was done by pressing ctrl-H, which is how WordStar ended up with that as a convention, as well as ^E^X^S^D for cursor-up,down,left,right. (The concept probably was borrowed from unix, as were a lot of other PC conventions of the day.) Serial terminals usually did display "^H" when you pressed the backspace. My first PC (c. 1982) used a Lear-Siegler ADM31A terminal that did this until I bought a hot-rodded BIOS chip for the terminal. The display and the keyboard were vastly superior to most other PCs of the day (for text, there was no graphics except block characters).
So it quickly became a convention in typed "speech" to show a dig as something rephrased, e.g. "moron^H^H^H^H^Hpolitician".
from research I've done..for a single buy, insurance is only about $3K+ a year or so
Depends. It wouldn't be such a problem if they gave that price to everyone. But they don't. Try telling them you're 60 and have health problems (say, diabetes and hypertension, common enough at that age, or breast cancer in remission), and see what that quote is. If they don't just hang up on you.
It's a benefit for a lot of people.
Yup. Obviously not for me, though.
I see no proof that current phones don't last a while.
For suitable values of "a while". A year or two.
the old phones lasted forever because they were big, analog, featureless pieces of shit.
No, they lasted forever because they were well made. Of course their feature set was pretty much frozen when they were made. Now we have lots of features (most of which nobody uses) and a new crappy phone every year or two. (I'm not exempt.. I use the "redial" and CID buttons myself.) While I realize there are people whose lives will have a gaping hole in them if their phone doesn't have an Eminem ringtone, I'm not in that group.
I certainly don't consider $45K-$90K rich by any standards...especially if you are married and have kids.
No, I wouldn't call that rich. And you already pay way less taxes than in almost any other industrialized nation in the world. I'm talking about stuff like the estate tax, which only affected people with enormous estates, not people like you. Taxes on income other than wages.
And, anyone with a real job...shouldn't have a problem with health care...If you work, you can have health insurance.
I know plenty of people who have jobs but no health insurance. Maybe you don't consider those jobs "real", but the people who do them sure as hell do. Maybe if we require all employers to offer the same level of health insurance to all employees. (Though frankly I don't think it should be the employer's job to provide health care, any more than it is to provide fire protection and police coverage.) Me, I'm self-employed, and I can't afford health insurance.
the $$'s are misused to support an overly bloated mgmt. level
Mandates from Congress where Congress doesn't provide the funding to fill them are a bigger problem. That crap eats budgets up. It's easy for Congress to say "you must do this" when they're not planning on paying for it. Such as the expensive "All Children Left Behind" testing. Such as services for disabled kids. Such as nutrition programs.
Telephone in the US got cheaper when the Bells were broken up, especially for equipment.
Total cost of local service got more expensive. Equipment got cheaper, since you could then provide your own (no reason why this couldn't have been done pre-breakup, in fact I often did so though it was technically forbidden). But keep in mind that the quality of that equipment also got cheaper. WE knew what it cost to send a guy with a truck to fix your phone, so they built (expensive) phones that wouldn't break over a 20 or 30 year lifetime. Nowdays all the phones are cheap crap that you're lucky if it lasts a year.
Long distance service got cheaper. Since I rarely call anyone outside of my city, that's not much of a benefit for me.
so things like compulsory public education and public hospitals almost never work
Actually, they work reasonably well in most places, in spite of politicians who pander for votes by promising to cut the taxes for their rich buddies. Public education tends to be underfunded, not because it wastes money teaching, but because the pols keep dumping additional social-service-agency jobs and requirements onto the schools without providing funding to cover the costs (e.g. the misnamed "No Child Left Behind" law that fails to provide funding for the mandates it requires).
Health care does tend to lag behind other industrialized countries. Public hospitals tend to be underfunded because out of control health costs (drugs that cost 3x what they do in other contries, financing systems so complicated that health system overhead such as clerks and profit payments eats a third or more of health spending).