I genuinely feel sorry for you that you hold this viewpoint in the modern world - that it is acceptable to allow the poorer segments of society to go without healthcare because they can't afford to pay for it themselves.
You *must* leave the US on holiday to Canada or Europe and ask people how a nationalised healthcare system works. The safety net it provides really affects a nation's mindset. And, it's not as if we don't have the option of privately funded healthcare *in addition* to what the government provides.
I can pay for my own operations/drugs/investigations just to skip the queues and guess what? They'll turn out cheaper that the equivalent in the US, because the government has already paid those doctors/surgeons/bought the labs/ORs/driven a hard bargain with drug companies to get the cheapest price nationally.
We in the UK spend 6% of GDP on healthcare and have a system with flaws but one that's there for everyone. In the US, you spend 11% of GDP on healthcare, out of your own pockets, and still people slip through the cracks.
A little socialism goes a long way. Please try to forget all the ideas that have been implanted in your head about 'reds in the bed' and other McCarthy doctrines that serve only the rich elite of your nation. Think of 'your fellow americans'.
There is evidence that shows women who are victims of single-incident rapes are statistically more likely to conceive than normal sexually-active women.
Right then , care to explain why out of all the other natural forms of carbon we have floating around the planet, this one particular form is soooo rare?
Coal: 5,624,827,000 Tonnes produced in 2001 -International Energy Annual 2002
I think an interesting aspect of mental health treatment we're seeing here is the difference across the Atlantic, between the US and the UK.
In the US, individual psychiatrists regularly diagnose potentially serious conditions through short term observations and prescribe heavy medications to *children*.
In the UK, it requires the assessment of a couple specialist child psychiatrists and possibly a consultant pediatrician before you can even think of prescribing mental-health-related medications to people under 16 years of age.
These are serious medications for serious conditions. Not everyone who feels 'left out' or 'behind' or 'unliked' at school has depression/psychosis/autism. In most cases those feelings and thoughts are just a normal part of growing up. You've only had your mind and body for a few years and you're still figuring out how they work. Having a label attached to you at that age will make you live out the condition they say you have!
Antidepressants/anxiolytics/neuroleptics are not sweets to be handed out, and to those of you in the US, if *any* psychiatrist wants to put your kid on any medication, they'd better have a damned good reason (and second opinion) as to why.
And yes, IAAD (I am a doctor).
-Nano.
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I would suspect that this work has more profound implications for the development of schizophrenia - a disease of the limbic system circuitry (including the basal ganglia) than of understanding the development of Parkinsons.
Did you send your opinions to the copyright office via the Orphan Works website or via the EFF, or did you just decide to get on your soapbox here on/. and mouth off your opinions where they don't need to be backed up?
>>Tony Martin is the worst example that could possibly be used by the people advocating rights of homowners, in any sane society he would have been convicted.
On one hand, you seem to disapprove of the attitude 'You don't need to make stuff, just market stuff', which I read as 'You don't need to do research for the sake of it, just research things that can be sold' - the EXACT function of private R&D labs.
Then in the next breath you ask why the government needs to fund R&D? Because this is precisely the R&D that needs to be done - research for research sake, not for profit.
That is why governments fund R&D labs - broader focus, less interested in financial returns, just doing science for the sake of doing science.
Or do you find something inherantly wrong with that attitude? Your post is a confused as I am.
I was actually intrigued until I saw that clip. It's actually very tragic watching a grown man reciting and acting 10 minutes of film word for word.
He's not doing this humourously or injecting many of his own elements, he is deadly serious in trying to recreate a verbatim Star Wars Trilogy on stage.
You can hear the audience laugh in parts but it slowly turns from real laughter to awkward laughter when they realise he's taking this far too seriously.
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Britain? The NHS? The system you copied?
-Nano.
I genuinely feel sorry for you that you hold this viewpoint in the modern world - that it is acceptable to allow the poorer segments of society to go without healthcare because they can't afford to pay for it themselves.
You *must* leave the US on holiday to Canada or Europe and ask people how a nationalised healthcare system works. The safety net it provides really affects a nation's mindset. And, it's not as if we don't have the option of privately funded healthcare *in addition* to what the government provides.
I can pay for my own operations/drugs/investigations just to skip the queues and guess what? They'll turn out cheaper that the equivalent in the US, because the government has already paid those doctors/surgeons/bought the labs/ORs/driven a hard bargain with drug companies to get the cheapest price nationally.
We in the UK spend 6% of GDP on healthcare and have a system with flaws but one that's there for everyone. In the US, you spend 11% of GDP on healthcare, out of your own pockets, and still people slip through the cracks.
A little socialism goes a long way. Please try to forget all the ideas that have been implanted in your head about 'reds in the bed' and other McCarthy doctrines that serve only the rich elite of your nation. Think of 'your fellow americans'.
-Nano. (IAAD - I am a doctor).
Write to your politicians requesting something like the UK's Data Protection Act 1998.
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/19980029.htm
-Link to full text of bill.
-Nano.
There is evidence that shows women who are victims of single-incident rapes are statistically more likely to conceive than normal sexually-active women.
Statistically.
Google for it.
-Nano.
Read Peter F. Hamilton's 'Pandora's Star' - pretty much what you're describing here.
Or his Night's Dawn trilogy. Not as good though.
-Nano.
And if you don't remember that kid.....you WERE that kid!
Right then , care to explain why out of all the other natural forms of carbon we have floating around the planet, this one particular form is soooo rare?
Coal: 5,624,827,000 Tonnes produced in 2001
-International Energy Annual 2002
Graphite: 620,000 Tonnes p.a.
-www.roskill.com
Diamond: 0.5 Tonnes p.a
-Your figures given above
I call shenanigans!
-Nano.
Did you notice they've got an x86 binary of Darwin in that repository of theirs?
Interesting...
-Nano.
So if these are valid, how do I add them to Thunderbird?
-Nano.
It's a convenient get-out clause isn't it.
I think an interesting aspect of mental health treatment we're seeing here is the difference across the Atlantic, between the US and the UK.
In the US, individual psychiatrists regularly diagnose potentially serious conditions through short term observations and prescribe heavy medications to *children*.
In the UK, it requires the assessment of a couple specialist child psychiatrists and possibly a consultant pediatrician before you can even think of prescribing mental-health-related medications to people under 16 years of age.
These are serious medications for serious conditions. Not everyone who feels 'left out' or 'behind' or 'unliked' at school has depression/psychosis/autism. In most cases those feelings and thoughts are just a normal part of growing up. You've only had your mind and body for a few years and you're still figuring out how they work. Having a label attached to you at that age will make you live out the condition they say you have!
Antidepressants/anxiolytics/neuroleptics are not sweets to be handed out, and to those of you in the US, if *any* psychiatrist wants to put your kid on any medication, they'd better have a damned good reason (and second opinion) as to why.
And yes, IAAD (I am a doctor).
-Nano.
Umm...how about NO TAX instead?
Who'da thunk it?
Dupe on the SAME FUCKING PAGE!
/me turns blue holding breath.
Well, maybe if we all paid for subscriptions this kind of shoddy editing would disappear...
-Nano.
I would suspect that this work has more profound implications for the development of schizophrenia - a disease of the limbic system circuitry (including the basal ganglia) than of understanding the development of Parkinsons.
-Nano.
So a more legible document is one IN LATIN???
Is it just me or WTF?
-Nano.
Farmers.
Y'know....those vast swathes of agricultural workers who underpin much of the nation's food supply and therefore economy?
-Nano.
Did you send your opinions to the copyright office via the Orphan Works website or via the EFF, or did you just decide to get on your soapbox here on /. and mouth off your opinions where they don't need to be backed up?
>>Tony Martin is the worst example that could possibly be used by the people advocating rights of homowners, in any sane society he would have been convicted.
Umm...he was.
Eh?
On one hand, you seem to disapprove of the attitude 'You don't need to make stuff, just market stuff', which I read as 'You don't need to do research for the sake of it, just research things that can be sold' - the EXACT function of private R&D labs.
Then in the next breath you ask why the government needs to fund R&D? Because this is precisely the R&D that needs to be done - research for research sake, not for profit.
That is why governments fund R&D labs - broader focus, less interested in financial returns, just doing science for the sake of doing science.
Or do you find something inherantly wrong with that attitude? Your post is a confused as I am.
-Nano.
Just a heads-up on another program that says it doesn't come with spyware or adware:
Mercora free radio client.
MS anti-spyware spotted it trying to install the grokster adware bundle. Good catch.
-Nano.
Just the proof that Letterman is a turd.
-Nano.
Absolutely brilliant. Best sarcasm I've seen on /. in a while.
-Nano.
Shockingly funny.
-Nano.
Anyone thought of this as an apple XBoX? Firewire based pads?
DVI to TV output?
Maybe re-pack it and sell as a panther based competitor to the 'Phantom'?
Ho Ho.
-Nano.
Why is there not an option in IE that reads 'Never accept certificates/whatever from this site'?
There's the 'Yes, this once' and 'Yes, always' and 'No, this once' but not that 'Never' option...
-Nano.
I was actually intrigued until I saw that clip. It's actually very tragic watching a grown man reciting and acting 10 minutes of film word for word.
He's not doing this humourously or injecting many of his own elements, he is deadly serious in trying to recreate a verbatim Star Wars Trilogy on stage.
You can hear the audience laugh in parts but it slowly turns from real laughter to awkward laughter when they realise he's taking this far too seriously.
Just rather tragic, really.
-Nano.