You're ignoring the circumstances of the situation. What's next, if you kill yourself in a car accident, it's your fault? Even if the seatbelt broke because it couldn't take the force of a crash? And it would have saved your life if it was engineered properly?
the facts, but just toss them aside...... etc
first thing its a game!!!
the strap is there for convenience its not a safety device. Its designed so you can dangle it on your wrist.
your previous examples are about life or death and in those situations yes I wouldn't expect them to fail.
I don't think it's worth attributing the teacher's support of Windows to some kind of fanatical support of union directives. From postal workers to teachers, truckers to plumbers, in my admittedly anecdotal experience I've found that the average professional has very little clue about his union's sources of funds and its goals.
this reminds of my school days....
Teachers are control freaks. This teacher felt they were losing control so he/she banned it. Get used it kid it gets worse as you get older. The trick is get hold of the power (money usually) then you can say f*ck you
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It'd be difficult to measure how many lives were saved by the checklist (as opposed to other factors). I bet he looked at the deaths, and then looked for mistakes in procedures (that could have been avoided with a checklist).................
I'm not sure if your getting the point of the article.
The article explains that in the "ICU" the technology exists to save people who would normally have no chance, If and only if, the proper procedures are carried out.
One person or a piece equipment not being available at the right time could be the difference of a patient living or dying.
With a checklist care can given in a consistent and methodical manner.
Towards the end of the article it talks about the little Austrian girl and that previous to her there had been many unsuccessful attempts at resuscitation. Each time they would get a brief glimmer of hope only for a person to be missing or a procedure not followed. When they started using a checklist people started surviving.
Slashdot please put this under Propaganda classification.
according to wiki - "Propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
While I don't mid a bit of propaganda for a good cause .
I think you have to call a spade a spade.
Information wants to be free.
I am Ashamed of you people, this is slashdot and someone here has just given us a Dorothy Dixer.
(Please note this is my interpretation I'm tiny whinny bit biased)
Well you see there was this Operating system called Unix that was written in the 1960's....
AT&T which was a phone company couldn't sell, due to the laws at the time, software so they allowed Unix to used by University's for a small fee.
[this is probably a bit loosely based on truth here]
In the 1980's the laws changed and AT&T could sell software.
Well AT&T said everything to do with Unix is ours and any software that has been added to Unix by the University's is also ours and pays us Mega amounts of cash to use it.
Well some people at University of California Berkeley (UCB) got very annoyed with this and released a version of UNIX without any AT&T code.
This version was called BSD 4.4-lite a court battle then ensued that ran until the mid 1990's.
Novell then purchased Unix from AT&T and some sort deal was done and UCB no longer distributes BSD.
heres a link to the story.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html
so lessons learnt
1) You will get sued
2) If you hang in there you might just win
3) Be prepared to cut a deal
4) [maybe this should have been first] Get a good lawyer !!!
5) You ever here of a guy called Richard Stallman ?
- sort of the same thing happened to him but he started something called the free software foundation.
http://www.fsf.org/
Nashville's recording industry is not the one of the reasons the University would "Patrol for Copyright Violations".
The Universities in this state were probably begging the Law makers for this so they could justify using draconian measures.
The reasons University's are doing this is because they want to enforce there Intellectual Copyrights.
If they were to have a court case involving Intellectual Copyright and one of the lawyers from other side said well the University doesn't enforce music copyrights.
I would imagine the the university would look kind of bad, maybe even lose the case.
Tell me of a University that you have visited lately that doesn't have signs up telling you about how copying is bad and illegal.
There very big on this at the moment even the lecturers are infected.
Sad thing is a lot of discoveries in the past have been where researchers have shared there work and there was no concept of Intellectual Copyright.
a good example is the research into DNA http://porpax.bio.miami.edu/~cmallery/150/gene/DNAdiscovery.htm
For a country that still thinks "primary production" being their main industry is a good thing, I think we would be shooting ourselves economically in the foot.
We are a country whose children are taught that sport is the be-all and end-all of their education, there are a few good universities for the hard sciences, sure, but we have a nationally funded Institute of Sport, a mecca for a generation of kids who spend 3.9 years waiting for the next Olympics to start, so they can see their hero...
I hear you . However this is also a good thing at least Australias not pretentious like France or super serious like America.
you need balance a healthy mind and body.
"I think there is a "race to the bottom" between the US, UK, and Australia as far as this goes anyways."
as apposed to countries like china or any asian or middle eastern country, which are just beacons of freedom.
I hope your being sarcastic.
(Calm thoughts , Calm thoughts)
Asian countries being beacons of freedom thats going to far !!!
Someone might actually believe you.
This is slashdot were everything typed is treated as fact after all.
Australia is the type of country that follows other countries
examples: Wars (1,2,Vietnam , Korea,Iraq ) Tv Broadcasting (PAL).
Internet filtering is no different .
I think it would be the great for Australia to have a space program.
The problem is that Australia's political system is not up to the task.
Wheres the votes in a Space Program ?
It would be too hard for the government of the day to explain why money is being spent on a Space program when it could be directed for example to the aged care or the health system.
This will end up in the too hard basket.
To all you americans ( Usa I mean, sorry Canada) this is your tax dollars being used wisely.
This technology will become vital when drought caused by global warming becomes more frequent.
Here in brisbane we are about to get recycled water as we have been in drought for 2 years.
[brisbane dam levels]
http://www.seqwater.com.au/content/standard.asp?name=DamOperationsAndMaintenance
[recycle water project]
http://www.westerncorridor.com.au/home.aspx?docID=1
Weird thing is brisbane for its population size has a massive dam - Wivenhoe Dam and were running out of water?
English Law is the Legal system Australia uses .
As Australia was at one time a colony of England we adopted there legal system.
If you were in say France you would use French law.
(thank your lucky stars if your not - no jury system there. If your are I feel sorry for you.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_France
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Economics models are like using goat entrails
Nonsense - barbequed goats entrails are quite tasty, while barbequed software - nyaagh!
hmmmm - yea alright i will give you that.
mod previous post up please
I'm surprised they even have lawyers in that colony of misfits.
Your not too far wrong sadly enough.
This story is really about australian debt recovery. In australia short of actual physical violence you use any tactic you like to recover debt.
You can even make threaten violence and scare the sh*t out of someone to get your money and the court will let you get away with it.
this is a link to a few who got fined. NOTE: ONLY FINED
http://www.fairtrading.qld.gov.au/OFT/OFTWeb.nsf/Web+Pages/3C3C486D9B068FDF4A256FDC007E3CB5?OpenDocument&L1=News
Economics models are like using goat entrails to predict the future so this wouldn't surprise me. sorry just had to put my 2 bits in
I don't see how that is even possible................ I've also managed to light my brother on fire, by accident, with denatured ethanol.....
LOL
"by accident" ... bullshit. I suppose when you lit the match that was an accident as well.
You're ignoring the circumstances of the situation. What's next, if you kill yourself in a car accident, it's your fault? Even if the seatbelt broke because it couldn't take the force of a crash? And it would have saved your life if it was engineered properly?
the facts, but just toss them aside...... etc
first thing its a game!!!
the strap is there for convenience its not a safety device. Its designed so you can dangle it on your wrist.
your previous examples are about life or death and in those situations yes I wouldn't expect them to fail.
I have two words to sum this case up - frivolous lawsuit.
I don't think I have heard of something so ridiculous to sue about.
People when you use the Wii you have to keep a hold of the remote/controller.
How hard is this to grasp? (sorry about the pun).
I don't think it's worth attributing the teacher's support of Windows to some kind of fanatical support of union directives. From postal workers to teachers, truckers to plumbers, in my admittedly anecdotal experience I've found that the average professional has very little clue about his union's sources of funds and its goals.
this reminds of my school days....
Teachers are control freaks. This teacher felt they were losing control so he/she banned it. Get used it kid it gets worse as you get older. The trick is get hold of the power (money usually) then you can say f*ck you
............. It'd be difficult to measure how many lives were saved by the checklist (as opposed to other factors). I bet he looked at the deaths, and then looked for mistakes in procedures (that could have been avoided with a checklist). ................
I'm not sure if your getting the point of the article.
The article explains that in the "ICU" the technology exists to save people who would normally have no chance, If and only if, the proper procedures are carried out.
One person or a piece equipment not being available at the right time could be the difference of a patient living or dying.
With a checklist care can given in a consistent and methodical manner.
Towards the end of the article it talks about the little Austrian girl and that previous to her there had been many unsuccessful attempts at resuscitation. Each time they would get a brief glimmer of hope only for a person to be missing or a procedure not followed. When they started using a checklist people started surviving.
"Some vaccines are unneeded. Chicken pox, for example..."
People used to die of chicken pox complications its just that we got better at medicine. Also chickens pox is a disease that can be worse if caught when an adult . http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a607029.html Your ever heard of shingles ? You may one day if you have had chicken pox. http://access.health.qld.gov.au/hid/InfectionsandParasites/ViralInfections/shinglesHerpeszoster_fs.asp
Unvaccinated, breastfed kids don't generally get sick. (very rarely)
This is untrue in the 1900 hundreds in the USA for every 1000 birth's 100 children would die before they reached 1 years old. All these children would have been breast fed. - http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4838a2.htm Its also not just about kids these same diseases cause death in adults and all these diseases are PREVENTABLE !!!. - http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056803.htm
Slashdot please put this under Propaganda classification. according to wiki - "Propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda While I don't mid a bit of propaganda for a good cause . I think you have to call a spade a spade. Information wants to be free.
so sorry !!! must have failed english
Hey Mode this story backup what do you mean off topic? If you read the story about bsd its a carbon copy of what this guy wants to do . :-(
actually thats a bad analogy .....
Hollywood takes good french movies and turns them into garbage.
I am Ashamed of you people, this is slashdot and someone here has just given us a Dorothy Dixer. (Please note this is my interpretation I'm tiny whinny bit biased) Well you see there was this Operating system called Unix that was written in the 1960's.... AT&T which was a phone company couldn't sell, due to the laws at the time, software so they allowed Unix to used by University's for a small fee. [this is probably a bit loosely based on truth here] In the 1980's the laws changed and AT&T could sell software. Well AT&T said everything to do with Unix is ours and any software that has been added to Unix by the University's is also ours and pays us Mega amounts of cash to use it. Well some people at University of California Berkeley (UCB) got very annoyed with this and released a version of UNIX without any AT&T code. This version was called BSD 4.4-lite a court battle then ensued that ran until the mid 1990's. Novell then purchased Unix from AT&T and some sort deal was done and UCB no longer distributes BSD. heres a link to the story. http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html so lessons learnt 1) You will get sued 2) If you hang in there you might just win 3) Be prepared to cut a deal 4) [maybe this should have been first] Get a good lawyer !!! 5) You ever here of a guy called Richard Stallman ? - sort of the same thing happened to him but he started something called the free software foundation. http://www.fsf.org/
Nashville's recording industry is not the one of the reasons the University would "Patrol for Copyright Violations". The Universities in this state were probably begging the Law makers for this so they could justify using draconian measures. The reasons University's are doing this is because they want to enforce there Intellectual Copyrights. If they were to have a court case involving Intellectual Copyright and one of the lawyers from other side said well the University doesn't enforce music copyrights. I would imagine the the university would look kind of bad, maybe even lose the case. Tell me of a University that you have visited lately that doesn't have signs up telling you about how copying is bad and illegal. There very big on this at the moment even the lecturers are infected. Sad thing is a lot of discoveries in the past have been where researchers have shared there work and there was no concept of Intellectual Copyright. a good example is the research into DNA http://porpax.bio.miami.edu/~cmallery/150/gene/DNAdiscovery.htm
For a country that still thinks "primary production" being their main industry is a good thing, I think we would be shooting ourselves economically in the foot.
We are a country whose children are taught that sport is the be-all and end-all of their education, there are a few good universities for the hard sciences, sure, but we have a nationally funded Institute of Sport, a mecca for a generation of kids who spend 3.9 years waiting for the next Olympics to start, so they can see their hero...
I hear you . However this is also a good thing at least Australias not pretentious like France or super serious like America. you need balance a healthy mind and body.
"I think there is a "race to the bottom" between the US, UK, and Australia as far as this goes anyways."
as apposed to countries like china or any asian or middle eastern country, which are just beacons of freedom.
I hope your being sarcastic. (Calm thoughts , Calm thoughts) Asian countries being beacons of freedom thats going to far !!! Someone might actually believe you. This is slashdot were everything typed is treated as fact after all. Australia is the type of country that follows other countries examples: Wars (1,2 ,Vietnam , Korea ,Iraq ) Tv Broadcasting (PAL).
Internet filtering is no different .
I think it would be the great for Australia to have a space program.
The problem is that Australia's political system is not up to the task.
Wheres the votes in a Space Program ?
It would be too hard for the government of the day to explain why money is being spent on a Space program when it could be directed for example to the aged care or the health system.
This will end up in the too hard basket.
To all you americans ( Usa I mean, sorry Canada) this is your tax dollars being used wisely. This technology will become vital when drought caused by global warming becomes more frequent. Here in brisbane we are about to get recycled water as we have been in drought for 2 years. [brisbane dam levels] http://www.seqwater.com.au/content/standard.asp?name=DamOperationsAndMaintenance [recycle water project] http://www.westerncorridor.com.au/home.aspx?docID=1 Weird thing is brisbane for its population size has a massive dam - Wivenhoe Dam and were running out of water?
English Law is the Legal system Australia uses . As Australia was at one time a colony of England we adopted there legal system. If you were in say France you would use French law. (thank your lucky stars if your not - no jury system there. If your are I feel sorry for you.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_France