The following quote is CmdrTaco's from the Slashdot FAQ (PENQUINS capitalized by me):
Personally, I have a pet peeve when people post comments saying things like "That's not News For Nerds!" and "That's not Stuff that Matters!" Slashdot has been running for almost 5 years, and over that time, I have always been the final decision maker on what ends up on the homepage. It turns out that a lot of people agree with me: Linux, Legos, PENQUINS, Sci (both real and fiction). If you've been reading Slashdot, you know what the subjects commonly are, but we might deviate occasionally. It's just more fun that way. Variety Is The Spice Of Life and all that, right? We've been running Slashdot for a long time, and if we occasionally want to post something that someone doesn't think is right for Slashdot, well, we're the ones who get to make the call. It's the mix of stories that makes Slashdot the fun place that it is.
Answered by: CmdrTaco Last Modified: 6/26/00
"Boring, smelly animal"? "Movie about said creature"? Homo sapiens are animals too.
I can't help you with GRUB. Regarding up2date, however, I recommend using yum (or apt) instead. Yum comes with the distribution, and it works wonderfully well, once you have substituted the appropriate mirrors for the defaults in/etc/yum.conf. There are several web sites that have information and tutorials on using yum (and apt), such as http://fedoranews.org, www.xades.com, www.geekspeak.org, www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO , www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraSources http://fedora.ar too.net/faq/samples/yum.conf
Your can also modify/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources so that up2date works properly. (See the above web sites.)
No honest physician who has spent any time in practice can say that he or she has never made an incorrect decision - one that injured a patient. A physician makes thousands of difficult decisions during a career, and not all of them are correct. In addition, some problems do not have a "right" answer, and this year's "right" answer may not be "right" next year. Physicians can but do their best in the circumstances at hand.
That said, lawsuits will happen as long as there are dissatisfied patients and trial attorneys to represent them. The current problem in our litigious nation is that in many states, the cost of malpractice insurance has risen so dramatically that it is forcing physicians, particularly in some specialties, to face early retirement or relocation to another state. Even retirement is impossible for some, because of the high cost of "tail" coverage, insurance for claims made after retirement; e.g., an obstetrician may be sued in some states by children that they delivered 18 years before, and their "tail" premium could be on the order of $600,000-800,000 dollars. These physicians cannot afford to stay in practice and cannot afford to retire. The rates that Medicare pays physicians and hospitals have been cut annually for several years and are often below the cost of providing the care; the rates that commercial insurance companies pay for services are usually tied to the falling Medicare rates. As a consequence, physicians and hospitals are being squeezed both from the supply side and from the cost side (particularly by the tremendous malpractice premiums). Medicine in many states in this country is approaching meltdown, and the public is dimly, if at all, aware of it.
The money for multimillion dollar settlements has to come from somewhere. At some point, the continued access to health care for ALL of the citizens should take priority over the payment of astronomical settlements for a relative few.
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The following quote is CmdrTaco's from the Slashdot FAQ (PENQUINS capitalized by me):
Personally, I have a pet peeve when people post comments saying things like "That's not News For Nerds!" and "That's not Stuff that Matters!" Slashdot has been running for almost 5 years, and over that time, I have always been the final decision maker on what ends up on the homepage. It turns out that a lot of people agree with me: Linux, Legos, PENQUINS, Sci (both real and fiction). If you've been reading Slashdot, you know what the subjects commonly are, but we might deviate occasionally. It's just more fun that way. Variety Is The Spice Of Life and all that, right? We've been running Slashdot for a long time, and if we occasionally want to post something that someone doesn't think is right for Slashdot, well, we're the ones who get to make the call. It's the mix of stories that makes Slashdot the fun place that it is.
Answered by: CmdrTaco
Last Modified: 6/26/00
"Boring, smelly animal"? "Movie about said creature"? Homo sapiens are animals too.
A correction to a URL:
Change "geekspeak.org" to "geekspeek.org"
I can't help you with GRUB. Regarding up2date, however, I recommend using yum (or apt) instead. Yum comes with the distribution, and it works wonderfully well, once you have substituted the appropriate mirrors for the defaults in /etc/yum.conf. There are several web sites that have information and tutorials on using yum (and apt), such asO , www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraSourcesr too.net/faq/samples/yum.conf
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources so that up2date works properly. (See the above web sites.)
http://fedoranews.org,
www.xades.com, www.geekspeak.org,
www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWT
http://fedora.a
Your can also modify
No honest physician who has spent any time in practice can say that he or she has never made an incorrect decision - one that injured a patient. A physician makes thousands of difficult decisions during a career, and not all of them are correct. In addition, some problems do not have a "right" answer, and this year's "right" answer may not be "right" next year. Physicians can but do their best in the circumstances at hand.
That said, lawsuits will happen as long as there are dissatisfied patients and trial attorneys to represent them. The current problem in our litigious nation is that in many states, the cost of malpractice insurance has risen so dramatically that it is forcing physicians, particularly in some specialties, to face early retirement or relocation to another state. Even retirement is impossible for some, because of the high cost of "tail" coverage, insurance for claims made after retirement; e.g., an obstetrician may be sued in some states by children that they delivered 18 years before, and their "tail" premium could be on the order of $600,000-800,000 dollars. These physicians cannot afford to stay in practice and cannot afford to retire. The rates that Medicare pays physicians and hospitals have been cut annually for several years and are often below the cost of providing the care; the rates that commercial insurance companies pay for services are usually tied to the falling Medicare rates. As a consequence, physicians and hospitals are being squeezed both from the supply side and from the cost side (particularly by the tremendous malpractice premiums). Medicine in many states in this country is approaching meltdown, and the public is dimly, if at all, aware of it.
The money for multimillion dollar settlements has to come from somewhere. At some point, the continued access to health care for ALL of the citizens should take priority over the payment of astronomical settlements for a relative few.