No no no, you see those who succeed in the free market decided to manipulate the legal system so that if anyone tried to innovate in some way that would reduce their market share they could sue them into oblivion.
I'm in Japan, and an overly large government was precisely an issue here. However, there has been a constant push to streamline it and reduce government size and spending. In the process that has brought "corrupt" government officials to the surface and many have been ejected. It's still not perfect but I do feel like things are generally getting better.
Really? Mango? Is there some deeper meaning in that like "Apple is a fruit and they were successful so let's use a fruit name?" Or to someone does Mango sound fast and cool? Is there target market South America/Africa/SE Asia?
If you pull the tab an alarm goes off. The Phone has 24/7 tracking, and it's one touch to call parents. Service isn't expensive either, certainly reasonable for worried parents. Above that are a whole selection of cell phones with features specifically tailored to children of specific age ranges and services are tailored to them so parents can do things like block features or put limits on things - but inter family communication is always free and always-on remote location tracking is on every model.
I guess they don't have the same phones and services in the UK?
I agree with you entirely - but the author is stupid enough to be relying on SUA so rather than that statement that "it is a kludge" I'd say it's a question of "is it a better kludge?".
Someone (Google?) should just make a language identical to Java and call it something else. Even existing Java compilers could compile it and existing Java VM's could run it! Then they should extend and alter it so we can call Vectors Vectors and use them like arrays, and do operator overloading, and other sugar that Javas "Everything is a Fucking Object, Now Shut Up" keeps us from.
Oh, and get rid of those damn fonts. The Sun Java fonts look like shit on any screen at any resolution. Oh and fix Java embedding in web pages, just fixing that we'd have a viable alternative to flash.
Even without insurance it would cost you less than $100 to be seen at a hospital and given medicine specifically mixed/made for you here in Japan.
Even foreigners? In Mexico, you could show up at a hospital with life-threatening injuries, but if you don't have a credit card, they'll kick you to the curb. That would never happen in the US.
Yes even foreigners. You will always be seen, even if you can't pay.
Maybe you should go somewhere with a working medical system and experience it first hand, then look back at the American system and re-evaluate it.
Everybody seems to like the Canadian system. Say we should model the US system after Canada's. But I went to an ER there with a fractured toe, and they said that they wouldn't be able to see me for 7 hours! 7 hours! My wife drove me across the border to Detroit and I was seen immediately.
Never been to Canada (or Mexico) but I would consider both of those systems broken. Just because you haven't been in a country with a medical system that is actually good doesn't mean they don't exist.
By the way my son had a high fever and he was maybe a year old at the time. If you wouldn't want to have your child seen by a medical professional immediately under those conditions then in my opinion you are irresponsible.
How high was his fever? If one of my kids had a high fever, you're right, I'd have 'em seen. But I wouldn't go to the ER because a high fever in a child of 1 year is not an emergency.
Here's an example of one time when my son had a high fever. He was 3 years old to the day (happened on his birthday). I went to give him a hug, and he felt like a frickin' radiator. This was on a weekend and his pediatrician's office was closed, so I brought him to a walk-in clinic where he was seen immediately by a nurse practitioner. She examined him and performed a rapid strep test, which came back positive. They immediately dispensed antibiotics and sent us on our way. Time from entering the clinic to exiting with medicine in hand, approximately 30 minutes. Total cost without using our insurance: $25.
So you can sit here and tell me our system is broken, but I'm sitting here and telling you that you just did it wrong. At the ER they should have advised you that your situation was not an emergency and that you should go somewhere else. I don't know why they didn't, but ultimately you went to the wrong place. You should have gone to a walk-in clinic, a pediatrician that accepts walk-ins (about half do), or urgent care.
Also, I have no idea why cost should have been an issue for you. Everyone who has ever traveled internationally knows that you need to have medical insurance that covers you in the foreign country that you're visiting, unless your national health care provides this for you. It sounds like you just were completely unprepared for a health-related event to occur while you were away from home. I can see why, since you were naive enough to think that you could just go to a hospital and get free care in any country in the world, you wouldn't bother preparing for such an event. Hopefully now you are older and wiser.
If your system is good enough for you then fine, use it as it is and ignore me, but I'm used to something better and when it comes to my kids I won't take anything less. It just so happens my wife is a nurse - my sons fever was very high it worried her. I also looked up the area I was in at the time and there is nothing called "urgent care" there.
"Use an embedded web server and a javascript application." - actually that's genius. It's not like you would need to start from scratch either, you could use Router firmware like OpenWRT to do it. OpenWRT also has SSH and Telnet included, and you could add VNC support through packages.
Even without insurance it would cost you less than $100 to be seen at a hospital and given medicine specifically mixed/made for you here in Japan. The staff would be professional and friendly and you wouldn't wait too long. Compared to Japan, the American system is very, very broken. Maybe you should go somewhere with a working medical system and experience it first hand, then look back at the American system and re-evaluate it.
By the way my son had a high fever and he was maybe a year old at the time. If you wouldn't want to have your child seen by a medical professional immediately under those conditions then in my opinion you are irresponsible. I'm glad I live in a country where under those conditions I can bring my child to the hospital and be seen immediately.
I'll continue to fill my free time working on personal projects or having sex or playing with my kids. I honestly don't get why anyone would want to spend extended periods of time leveling up a wizard so they can ride a glowing horse and I really, really hope that isn't the extent of the future of cyberspace.
By the way this was on SGI workstations and it was awesome. I still remember the first time I went into the SGI BIOS setup only to be greeted with a shell. That blew my mind.
I converted using some tools and a short guide, it was simple. I'm also using ORM (ActiveRecord), which brings me to your last statement there: "but I did not think it was feasible for agile development." -- So you are doing so much development IN the DB/DBMS you would even consider something like that? Just what kind of development are you doing? (I'm not attacking you here, I'm honestly interested - I touch the DB and raw SQL as little as possible)
I actually didn't want to mention it but after we received the bill for my wifes "lung" issue I called the hospital billing service. They said they needed to speak to my wife because she was the patient, I said she doesn't speak English and the woman on the phone lit up and said "oh, she's not a citizen then? we have financial aid you can use". I was extremely releived for a second, then she told me the forms were in Spanish so my wife could fill them out herself. I told her my wife was Japanese... to which she informed me "oh, in that case she's actually not eligible for financial aid them."
Perhaps it goes without saying, but the whole medical issue isn't the only reason I don't ever want to go back to America. As a concept and an ideal America is wonderful, but rampant government corruption, illegal immigrants, religion, and what appears to be a general apathy toward any sort of work or responsibility by the most-common American makes the very concepts that build America almost entirely irrelevant. Tag me flaimbait or troll or whatever, but I honestly think any educated American who dedicates themselves to their work should consider looking for a better life in another country.
He was a baby and had a high fever. If you don't get the correct medicine children in that situation can suffer serious brain damage. In Japan I would have been in and out of the hospital within a half an hour with a pack of medicine specifically made and measured for my child and it would have been free. As a parent when your child gets sick the first thing you should be thinking of is getting them proper care, and I'm really glad to be back in a country where I can actually get that without having to pay outrageous amounts of money.
And doctors make money by seeing patients, each time they see a sick kid they make money - I seriously doubt they are complaining.
Medical for children is free if they are citizens, 30% (or 20% depending on insurance type) after middle school. And you are not required by law to carry health insurance. For someone who lives in Japan you sure are uninformed.
My son had a fever and a cough. In Japan you go to the doctor and get it checked out and they give you medicine. And they told me it would have been over a thousand dollars to be seen in the ER. It was in California by the way - I get the impression things are different in different states.
Is one of the major reasons I'm never going back. The last time I went (which will be the last time, period) my son caught a cold and was turned away from three hospitals because we didn't have the right type of insurance. I guess I shouldn't say turned away, I should say they all told me that because I didn't have the right type of insurance and I didn't have the an appointment I would have to go to the ER, which would easily cost thousands of dollars. Here in Japan my son would have been seen immediately, for free, wherever we went. Our medical system isn't socialized either, so don't even try that argument.
Shortly after that my wife had some allergy related breathing issues and we went to a hospital that did accept the insurance we had to get medicine. They diagnosed her with a degenerative lung disorder and ordered up all sorts of tests. Even with the insurance everything cost over $2,000 and guess what - it wasn't a degenerative lung disorder but rather a simple allergy attack like we thought in the beginning. On top of that we found every hospital we went to seemed dirty, was staffed with doctors and nurses who didn't seem to give a shit, and were constantly asked the same questions over and over as if the staff didn't bother to even look at the papers the previous person had filled out. I'm not just talking about one hospital either, all of them we went to were like this.
So yeah, rich Americans go overseas for medical care? Wow, big surprise there.
From the "Firesale" article: "Keep in mind that these prices are in Canadian dollars" - check the exchange rate, 1USD buys you about 98 cents Canadian. The US dollar is now less valuable than the Canadian dollar. I got the impression the author is still assuming the opposite is true.
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Thank you for explaining that, I was totally lost as to what the hell the description was trying to convey.
No no no, you see those who succeed in the free market decided to manipulate the legal system so that if anyone tried to innovate in some way that would reduce their market share they could sue them into oblivion.
"Goodbye Steve, and thanks for everything. Even the stuff I hated."
Agreed. It's a shame he couldn't have lived in his success more as well. To die at the such a great peak I find very unfortunate.
I'm in Japan, and an overly large government was precisely an issue here. However, there has been a constant push to streamline it and reduce government size and spending. In the process that has brought "corrupt" government officials to the surface and many have been ejected. It's still not perfect but I do feel like things are generally getting better.
Really? Mango? Is there some deeper meaning in that like "Apple is a fruit and they were successful so let's use a fruit name?" Or to someone does Mango sound fast and cool? Is there target market South America/Africa/SE Asia?
We have cell phones specifically for children.
http://www.au.kddi.com/seihin/ichiran/kishu/mamorino/index.html
If you pull the tab an alarm goes off. The Phone has 24/7 tracking, and it's one touch to call parents. Service isn't expensive either, certainly reasonable for worried parents. Above that are a whole selection of cell phones with features specifically tailored to children of specific age ranges and services are tailored to them so parents can do things like block features or put limits on things - but inter family communication is always free and always-on remote location tracking is on every model.
I guess they don't have the same phones and services in the UK?
Then it's a temporary fix. I only said Google because they 1. Have a lot of money and 2. Have a vested interest in "Java".
I agree with you entirely - but the author is stupid enough to be relying on SUA so rather than that statement that "it is a kludge" I'd say it's a question of "is it a better kludge?".
I think Cygnus Solutions solved your problem about 20 years ago.
Someone (Google?) should just make a language identical to Java and call it something else. Even existing Java compilers could compile it and existing Java VM's could run it! Then they should extend and alter it so we can call Vectors Vectors and use them like arrays, and do operator overloading, and other sugar that Javas "Everything is a Fucking Object, Now Shut Up" keeps us from.
Oh, and get rid of those damn fonts. The Sun Java fonts look like shit on any screen at any resolution. Oh and fix Java embedding in web pages, just fixing that we'd have a viable alternative to flash.
Even without insurance it would cost you less than $100 to be seen at a hospital and given medicine specifically mixed/made for you here in Japan.
Even foreigners? In Mexico, you could show up at a hospital with life-threatening injuries, but if you don't have a credit card, they'll kick you to the curb. That would never happen in the US.
Yes even foreigners. You will always be seen, even if you can't pay.
Maybe you should go somewhere with a working medical system and experience it first hand, then look back at the American system and re-evaluate it.
Everybody seems to like the Canadian system. Say we should model the US system after Canada's. But I went to an ER there with a fractured toe, and they said that they wouldn't be able to see me for 7 hours! 7 hours! My wife drove me across the border to Detroit and I was seen immediately.
Never been to Canada (or Mexico) but I would consider both of those systems broken. Just because you haven't been in a country with a medical system that is actually good doesn't mean they don't exist.
By the way my son had a high fever and he was maybe a year old at the time. If you wouldn't want to have your child seen by a medical professional immediately under those conditions then in my opinion you are irresponsible.
How high was his fever? If one of my kids had a high fever, you're right, I'd have 'em seen. But I wouldn't go to the ER because a high fever in a child of 1 year is not an emergency.
Here's an example of one time when my son had a high fever. He was 3 years old to the day (happened on his birthday). I went to give him a hug, and he felt like a frickin' radiator. This was on a weekend and his pediatrician's office was closed, so I brought him to a walk-in clinic where he was seen immediately by a nurse practitioner. She examined him and performed a rapid strep test, which came back positive. They immediately dispensed antibiotics and sent us on our way. Time from entering the clinic to exiting with medicine in hand, approximately 30 minutes. Total cost without using our insurance: $25.
So you can sit here and tell me our system is broken, but I'm sitting here and telling you that you just did it wrong. At the ER they should have advised you that your situation was not an emergency and that you should go somewhere else. I don't know why they didn't, but ultimately you went to the wrong place. You should have gone to a walk-in clinic, a pediatrician that accepts walk-ins (about half do), or urgent care.
Also, I have no idea why cost should have been an issue for you. Everyone who has ever traveled internationally knows that you need to have medical insurance that covers you in the foreign country that you're visiting, unless your national health care provides this for you. It sounds like you just were completely unprepared for a health-related event to occur while you were away from home. I can see why, since you were naive enough to think that you could just go to a hospital and get free care in any country in the world, you wouldn't bother preparing for such an event. Hopefully now you are older and wiser.
If your system is good enough for you then fine, use it as it is and ignore me, but I'm used to something better and when it comes to my kids I won't take anything less. It just so happens my wife is a nurse - my sons fever was very high it worried her. I also looked up the area I was in at the time and there is nothing called "urgent care" there.
"Use an embedded web server and a javascript application." - actually that's genius. It's not like you would need to start from scratch either, you could use Router firmware like OpenWRT to do it. OpenWRT also has SSH and Telnet included, and you could add VNC support through packages.
Even without insurance it would cost you less than $100 to be seen at a hospital and given medicine specifically mixed/made for you here in Japan. The staff would be professional and friendly and you wouldn't wait too long. Compared to Japan, the American system is very, very broken. Maybe you should go somewhere with a working medical system and experience it first hand, then look back at the American system and re-evaluate it.
By the way my son had a high fever and he was maybe a year old at the time. If you wouldn't want to have your child seen by a medical professional immediately under those conditions then in my opinion you are irresponsible. I'm glad I live in a country where under those conditions I can bring my child to the hospital and be seen immediately.
I'll continue to fill my free time working on personal projects or having sex or playing with my kids. I honestly don't get why anyone would want to spend extended periods of time leveling up a wizard so they can ride a glowing horse and I really, really hope that isn't the extent of the future of cyberspace.
Why VNC? Why not SSH?
By the way this was on SGI workstations and it was awesome. I still remember the first time I went into the SGI BIOS setup only to be greeted with a shell. That blew my mind.
Excellent heads up. Somebody mod this guy up!
I converted using some tools and a short guide, it was simple. I'm also using ORM (ActiveRecord), which brings me to your last statement there: "but I did not think it was feasible for agile development." -- So you are doing so much development IN the DB/DBMS you would even consider something like that? Just what kind of development are you doing? (I'm not attacking you here, I'm honestly interested - I touch the DB and raw SQL as little as possible)
from MySQL to PG. It was easy. You should do it too.
I actually didn't want to mention it but after we received the bill for my wifes "lung" issue I called the hospital billing service. They said they needed to speak to my wife because she was the patient, I said she doesn't speak English and the woman on the phone lit up and said "oh, she's not a citizen then? we have financial aid you can use". I was extremely releived for a second, then she told me the forms were in Spanish so my wife could fill them out herself. I told her my wife was Japanese... to which she informed me "oh, in that case she's actually not eligible for financial aid them."
Perhaps it goes without saying, but the whole medical issue isn't the only reason I don't ever want to go back to America. As a concept and an ideal America is wonderful, but rampant government corruption, illegal immigrants, religion, and what appears to be a general apathy toward any sort of work or responsibility by the most-common American makes the very concepts that build America almost entirely irrelevant. Tag me flaimbait or troll or whatever, but I honestly think any educated American who dedicates themselves to their work should consider looking for a better life in another country.
Go look at one of those boxes: children under 2 - see a doctor. Right there on the box.
He was a baby and had a high fever. If you don't get the correct medicine children in that situation can suffer serious brain damage. In Japan I would have been in and out of the hospital within a half an hour with a pack of medicine specifically made and measured for my child and it would have been free. As a parent when your child gets sick the first thing you should be thinking of is getting them proper care, and I'm really glad to be back in a country where I can actually get that without having to pay outrageous amounts of money.
And doctors make money by seeing patients, each time they see a sick kid they make money - I seriously doubt they are complaining.
Medical for children is free if they are citizens, 30% (or 20% depending on insurance type) after middle school. And you are not required by law to carry health insurance. For someone who lives in Japan you sure are uninformed.
My son had a fever and a cough. In Japan you go to the doctor and get it checked out and they give you medicine. And they told me it would have been over a thousand dollars to be seen in the ER. It was in California by the way - I get the impression things are different in different states.
Is one of the major reasons I'm never going back. The last time I went (which will be the last time, period) my son caught a cold and was turned away from three hospitals because we didn't have the right type of insurance. I guess I shouldn't say turned away, I should say they all told me that because I didn't have the right type of insurance and I didn't have the an appointment I would have to go to the ER, which would easily cost thousands of dollars. Here in Japan my son would have been seen immediately, for free, wherever we went. Our medical system isn't socialized either, so don't even try that argument.
Shortly after that my wife had some allergy related breathing issues and we went to a hospital that did accept the insurance we had to get medicine. They diagnosed her with a degenerative lung disorder and ordered up all sorts of tests. Even with the insurance everything cost over $2,000 and guess what - it wasn't a degenerative lung disorder but rather a simple allergy attack like we thought in the beginning. On top of that we found every hospital we went to seemed dirty, was staffed with doctors and nurses who didn't seem to give a shit, and were constantly asked the same questions over and over as if the staff didn't bother to even look at the papers the previous person had filled out. I'm not just talking about one hospital either, all of them we went to were like this.
So yeah, rich Americans go overseas for medical care? Wow, big surprise there.
From the "Firesale" article: "Keep in mind that these prices are in Canadian dollars" - check the exchange rate, 1USD buys you about 98 cents Canadian. The US dollar is now less valuable than the Canadian dollar. I got the impression the author is still assuming the opposite is true.