Universities need to be reminded of what their primary mission is. State Universities need to be reminded of who pays their bills and who their primary admissions base should come from.
These high profile "professors" who are at the universities need to either go somewhere that does pure research or go actually teach some classes...and not just 1 or 2 graduate level courses a semester.
It is inappropriate that students and their families be saddled with the cost of supporting full time researchers. If you want the government to support it, fine, make your case in the stat legislature or congress. But separate it from the universities so that some poor sap from podunk working nights to put himself through college isn't subsidizing some Nobel Prize winner wanna be.
If they would just fucking pick something and COMPLETE it, stay with the basic design and develop a wide base of manufacturing for it, manned flight would be cheaper and more reliable. The Shuttle was an expensive sports cars with too many moving parts and too few suppliers.
I think they were on the right track with the Orion, but once again it was killed half way through development. You can't keep killing development programs half way through and then wonder why NASA wants more money.
They are pretty much trying to go from Doctors scribbled notes in a patients folder to a complete, online, centralized system. Just from a PM's view, think of all the "players" that have to be dealt with, existing systems that would have to be integrated, data conversion, equipment procurement, networking issues, privacy issues, reliability issues, etc. What a nightmare.
I would ask, why centralized? Just come up with a standard format for medical information and a simple application to enter and manage it. Patient takes a copy of their file with them after every visit on a USB key or something like that. It could be just like a medic alert bracelet. Or, a smart card, or...fill in the technology. They key is the Patient would have it and control it. Local copies are at their Dr.s office. Hospital needs a copy?, Just use the same paperwork they do now to request patient records.
Is it as bullet proof and comprehensive as a well designed and well executed centralized project like they were going for? No. But it's a damned sight better than the EMT trying to ask someone who's lying there with head injuries and amputated limbs if they are allergic to any drugs, which is pretty much what we have now.
Of course, if Anonymous had hacked Yahoo to intentionally to block emails or news for a Tea Party even, the Slashdot crowd would be tittering with pleasure and arguing about how they deserved it.
Buffet most likely pays more in taxes than his secretary makes in a year even if he is paying the Capital Gains rate of 15%. After all he is one of the richest men in the world.
Second, there is no way that anyone's salary is twice your salary and paying half your rate.
Violence in the world would go down by half just by eliminating the need for printer drivers. A technology which for some reason never made it out of the70's
I forget, what experiment did they do with the Earth? How exactly is AGW falsifiable? Where exactly is your proof? Hint, I don't have to prove you are wrong, you have to prove you are right. And remember, as we have all heard here a billion times, correlation =! causation.
What I really find entertaining is the tree rings. They used those as proxies up until, what, the late sixties? Then, for some reason for which I have not heard an explanation, the Trees decided to stop playing nice and NOT agree with the temps they were measuring.
So they kept the earlier measurements from when the trees were playing nice and ditched them when the trees stopped cooperating.
If tree rings are bad proxies now, they are bad proxies in the past.
What I really want to know is how all these trees got together and decided to fuck up the measurements.
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So, which are you...the first of the second?
I think it's a safe bet that this guy doesn't work for DHS or Google.
A "researcher" or a hacker trying to cloak himself in a veil of legitimacy?
Why exactly would a company other than Apple pay someone to spend their time figuring this out?
My microwave is always running off. This should make it easier for me to find it.
Great, all we need is a faster way to orchestrate a market crash.
1. Adopt a plan
2. Spend a ton of money
3. Abandon achievements and the plan.
4. Repeat.
In other words, it's wasted.
Universities need to be reminded of what their primary mission is. State Universities need to be reminded of who pays their bills and who their primary admissions base should come from.
These high profile "professors" who are at the universities need to either go somewhere that does pure research or go actually teach some classes...and not just 1 or 2 graduate level courses a semester.
It is inappropriate that students and their families be saddled with the cost of supporting full time researchers. If you want the government to support it, fine, make your case in the stat legislature or congress. But separate it from the universities so that some poor sap from podunk working nights to put himself through college isn't subsidizing some Nobel Prize winner wanna be.
If they would just fucking pick something and COMPLETE it, stay with the basic design and develop a wide base of manufacturing for it, manned flight would be cheaper and more reliable. The Shuttle was an expensive sports cars with too many moving parts and too few suppliers.
I think they were on the right track with the Orion, but once again it was killed half way through development. You can't keep killing development programs half way through and then wonder why NASA wants more money.
Parts of me thinks this would be a very cool and fun thing to do. The other part knows it would be the end of me.
Well...three standards isn't exactly a standard eh?
Yeah..that will really win a lot of people over.
Wait...I thought we didn't need a faster internet.
They are pretty much trying to go from Doctors scribbled notes in a patients folder to a complete, online, centralized system. Just from a PM's view, think of all the "players" that have to be dealt with, existing systems that would have to be integrated, data conversion, equipment procurement, networking issues, privacy issues, reliability issues, etc. What a nightmare.
I would ask, why centralized? Just come up with a standard format for medical information and a simple application to enter and manage it. Patient takes a copy of their file with them after every visit on a USB key or something like that. It could be just like a medic alert bracelet. Or, a smart card, or...fill in the technology. They key is the Patient would have it and control it. Local copies are at their Dr.s office. Hospital needs a copy?, Just use the same paperwork they do now to request patient records.
Is it as bullet proof and comprehensive as a well designed and well executed centralized project like they were going for? No. But it's a damned sight better than the EMT trying to ask someone who's lying there with head injuries and amputated limbs if they are allergic to any drugs, which is pretty much what we have now.
Of course, if Anonymous had hacked Yahoo to intentionally to block emails or news for a Tea Party even, the Slashdot crowd would be tittering with pleasure and arguing about how they deserved it.
Yeah, it really sucks, except for everything else.
Do you work for the Onion...no, really, do you?
Buffet most likely pays more in taxes than his secretary makes in a year even if he is paying the Capital Gains rate of 15%. After all he is one of the richest men in the world.
Second, there is no way that anyone's salary is twice your salary and paying half your rate.
Third, well, I'll let the AP say it.
All it takes is a simple google search
This is the THIRD worst, behind 1918 and 1956
Or you can go spelunking in the data here
Violence in the world would go down by half just by eliminating the need for printer drivers. A technology which for some reason never made it out of the70's
Cheerleader Toss is much more fun.
I forget, what experiment did they do with the Earth?
How exactly is AGW falsifiable?
Where exactly is your proof? Hint, I don't have to prove you are wrong, you have to prove you are right.
And remember, as we have all heard here a billion times, correlation =! causation.
What I really find entertaining is the tree rings. They used those as proxies up until, what, the late sixties? Then, for some reason for which I have not heard an explanation, the Trees decided to stop playing nice and NOT agree with the temps they were measuring.
So they kept the earlier measurements from when the trees were playing nice and ditched them when the trees stopped cooperating.
If tree rings are bad proxies now, they are bad proxies in the past.
What I really want to know is how all these trees got together and decided to fuck up the measurements.
Most of the records broken this summer in Texas were set in the 20's.
Anyone who lives in TX and pays attention to the weather broadcasts knows this.
Isn't that what being modded -1 does?
uh huh. Hundreds of times. By you and your pregnant girlfriend?