I do that, not on purpose but its a cool surprise sometimes, this morning I accidently did that after hacking some php code and ended up at some site in thiland, anyways they screwed up and the page ended in.php-org so the server dumped all the code for their search page, you can find the weirdest stuff that way!
The window manager controls that, hit the X in upper right it closes the application running in the window, then closes the window. just [ctrl + w] tab closes, a simple one hand chord
The plant isn't profitable right now, they built in in the expectation that the FDA would decide that's not OK to feed your natuarly herbovour cattle animal guts; instead they decided it's not OK to feed cows, cows.
I rather suspect that the plants that start to profit when oil hits $70.00 a barrel(alot of different technics break-even right arround there), is the real reason oil isn't $70.00 a barrel. Normaly I'm against big government and taxes, but I think a tax to bring out-of-ground oil up to $70.00 a barrel might prove to be cheaper in the long run.
$320 and hour is cheap, half goes to malpractice insurance (Lawyers), part goes to staff nurses $20.00/hr, receptionist 15.00/hr billing 17.00/hr, then there are those pesky student loans to be paid off, office lease, capital equipment,
$320 an hour is cheap, continuing ed runs about $350 an hour and that a clock hour and it's required
Here and I always thought that the secret to being happy was to be happy. Seems like the people who are unhappy are just that way for no special reason; usualy they are the one who bitch if they were hung with a new rope.
Remember that Dr's, Nurses and everbody else in healthcare actualy take classes in documenting healthcare delivery, not to mention continuing ed classes in it and even whats fashonable to be sued over. It's not to hard for a professional healthcare provider make the average idiot patient look like an idiot, even if the idiot happens to be correct.
Then add in the insurance companie's and the Dr's lawyers deal in these matters daily unlike the typical contigency lawyer. No witnesses, look arround next time, you'll be suprised in most offices at how much is witnessed.
If things were really fair, doctors would have the right to write internet blogs about their patients, warning other doctors that certain patients caused trouble or whatever. HIPPA realy gets in the way there, yet word gets arround, and after you've been in practice a while you learn to notice the subtile clues that tip you off to problem patients. I'm a dental technician working for a Dentists, and every once in a while something comes into the lab and you just know it's going to be a pain-in-the-ass case for a high-maintenence patient. At first we put the patient on the "H" list (high-maintenance) and they don't get appointments as easily because we only schedule 1 H pt in the morning and one in the afternoon, and they get extra time blocked off the schedule; not because we don't like-em, but they are problem patient with a uncooperative attitude and unreasonably high expectations so they need more time to get the normal quality of care given, and they stress out the staff. Usualy after a few visits, they calm down and love us, if not the relationship goes downhill untill it's not in anyones best interests anymore and we suggest they they might be better served with an other care provider. A good doctor cannot turn away a patient that she is capable of treating sure they can, if it's an emergency or urgent care is needed to prevent further injury it's a differnet story treat to stablize and relieve pain then refer; otherwise you can turn away anyone as long as it's not because of race, religion, creed ect.
Even if the Good Doctor can't, he/she usualy has a good office manager who can turn Mega-Bitch on and off like a light switch. The bottom line is aways if you want $400.00/hr of production, and you've got too many H patients to get there, raise fees, the "good" patients don't have to be billed for every little thing.
Generaly if you don't want something to happen you put governament in charge of it, sometimes they surprize you but not often. I remeber a while back the Hospital corporations were doing the controled MRI thing, set up so there were regonal mri centers, with patients lined up in the waiting rooms to keep the machine busy and costs down. I don't remember costs coming down untill the dr's who do a lot of mri installed some in their offices, no waiting, no appointments at 2AM.
Want to find out how well socialized medicine works, just call your Dr's office and ask "Do you take medicade? Do you know who does?" If you were a Doctor which would you prefer a socialized plan that pays 60% on the dollar and reject 25% of the claims on first submission and prohibits you from getting the 40% from the patient or a comercial plan that cover 80/20 and the patient pay the 20%?
I often noticed durring the '74-'77 years that the closer I got to a communist boarder, the less anti-american the local people were. In some small towns up close to the boarders it was impossible for us to buy a beer, they just wouldn't take our money, the beer just sort of appeered. After a while we discovered if we acted insulted by not being allow to pay for a beer of a meal, they'd break down and take our money
you should read your post, economist says if your 1. currency is deflataing, 2. you've got rampant unemployment 3. borrowing money and spending it should cause enough inflation to fix things in the short-term 4. taxing the inflated money to pay-down the debt will keep things running smooth over the long-term
politians hears borrowing insane amounts of money and spending it like a drunk sailor is good for the economy!
It a law of unintended consequences thing
After I got out of the Army and before I went to college I used to sand-blast paint off bridges for the county. In our setup we wore a hard helmet which was presurized to keep the toxic dust out, heavy metal pigmented paint and silica dust and the helmet were persurized through a demon tube, an other name for the Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube. this kept us pretty cool while working in 90 degree heat wearing heavy gloves and two sweatshirts for padding. The set up used no electricity, but the diesel engined air-compressor probably would have put out 120KW if hooked to a generator instead of a compressor.
If I wanted to make ice in a place like back-woods Hati; I think a solar-collector connected to a couple stirling engines would be the way to go, one engine makes kinetic energy from the solar heat, the second refirgerates form the kinetic input of the first engine; sterling refrigerators are capable of acheiving cryogenic temeratures
I find the fact that New Orleans didn't include school buses in their evacuation plan (did they have one?!) discusting. The school buses were part of the evac plan, ask why they were neatly parked and padlocked untill they were covered with 5 feet of water instead.
Ask what the mayor was waiting for; ask why the governor took so long to declair an official emergency so the feds would have dictatorial power to do the right thing, ask why the state turned away a red cross convoy bringing blankets, food, water and generaters to the superdome
I also don't understand why the mayor of New Orleans didn't allow the 2000+ school busses in the city to be used to evacuate those people without transportation. Because that was the plan, actualy it was the evacuation plan; to use the school busses to evacuate the city in an emergency. So because using the Busses for evacuation was not only the smart thing to do, but the planned thing to do, the mayor ordered them parked and padlocked.
Seems like everything the Governor and Mayor did just insured that maximum amount of grief would be inflicted on the lower classes of New Orleans the people how are predominately renters, perhaps there were ulterior motives involved.
desktop's are for normal users, those people who aren't realy interesting in wringing the last iota of performance out of a machine and typical know enough about one or two applications to get their basic job done even if they are doing things the hardway. Power user's want a Workstation, Desktop users don't fit Linux well, and Workstation users don't fit Windows well.
I'm a LaTex junky, I'm helping the wife with a paper, so I install MiTek on her computer, permissions are screwed up so I just copy a couple files to./ bottaboom battabing LaTeX is working on WinXP SP2, next do some googling and copy some research into the shared folder, next day I can't open thing in the shared folder, so I list the directory, the files I tried to open Have No Owner! I can't even open them logged in as admin. Next after research on MS's knowelge base, I try to fix it by turning off simple file sharing, and turning on network file sharing, I go through it step by step, click by click as per Microsoft and hit a dead-end, the tab I need isn't there! These windows people think I'm somekind of computer genius, but the truth is the thought that people who both think I'm a computer genius, and put up with the silly bullshit inherent in using windows just scares me; I'm much more comfortable to say to my Dad, "Larry and Bobbie are MSCE's, you should ask them" then try to deal with actualy making Windows work like a real OS. I'm more comforatble reding 3 HOWTOs 2 Magazine articles and a website FAQ to get something difficult working in Linux and eventualy sucede, than I am in Windows doing something that is supposed to be easy, but in reality is impossible.
Technicaly the National Guard isn't under a federal branch untill federalized, which requires the Feds to call whole units rather than individuals, since the several states became quite addicted to federal money for the Guards, they effectively call the shots. Idealy a Governor might decide they need 3 battalions of Infantry very usefull for disasters just to have able bodies for misc missions, 1 MUST, Medical unit self contained, transportable, a hospital that can be put anywhere and be operational in a matter of hours. 1 transportation battalion, truckers are extreemly useful 3 military police batalions, 2 of which would be PW camp trained very usefull for setting up and running a relief center real quick through in some helicopters for good measure and you would be able to handle just about anything. The fed however would probably say that it didn't fit their force alignments.
Yes the governor's could have just sent the troops to help, but people troops have to be paid, and provisioned, under state budgets that are just barely ballanced through slight-of-hand accounting. The bottom-line is the mayor of NO and the Governor have to ask for federal assostanc, these same people, turned away a red cross convoy of food, water, blankets and power generators going to the super-dome before the levee broke, not only didn't exicute the evac plan, but ordered the school busses that were supposed to take people to safety parked and pad-locked and didn't declair an emergency untill 3 days later!
Why, the only reason that make any sense to me is the mayor and governor saw the oppertunities for urban renewal without have to pay those pesky emminant domain fees more valuable than the people who died. I sincerely hope that a couple of people see some extensive prison time over this.
keeping military forces from moving around makes it harder to create an open rebellion. That's a big part of it, my old NG unit was infantry in Michigan, other battalions of infantry were in Ohio, our Division HQ was in Illinois, not to mention that our armor and artillery assets were scattered; all this make a National Guard unit pretty in-effective as a combat unit with-out the co-operation of several state and the federal government. For several decades our units have been re-aligned to differnt jobs, trying to fit into the federal governments shifting vision of what the National Guard's role was in the total-force. My unit actualy was re-trained 4 times in 3 years, 2 of which were into jobs that couldn't be on the job trained, requiring the whoile unit to attend formal schooling! You don't have to be a rocket scientists to imagine the degree of political intrigue that system generates.
In the past I've argued against the Idea, but now I've decided I was wrong and think all of the Guards, Army National Guard, and Air National Guard, belong not under the DOD but under Homeland Security with the Coast Guard, for their secondary missions. It's simply leave to big of a gap in our national defense to alow the DOD to continue to use the Guards to fill in their under-manned over-commited forces, and leave the states without the man-power and equipment needed to respond to a security threat of either natural or foriegn origins.
A would consider a t-rex chasing a jeep at 35 miles an hour going pretty fast especialy since it was an actualy chase rather than like a croc's or an alligator putting on a quick short burst to take down prey.
I've often suspected that the dinosaurs, especialy theropods were actualy a lot more colorful the we imagined, most birds are far form dull as are most snakes. Even in present day mammils preditor tend to be more colorfull than expected and their prey less so.
Everything is predictable scientifically. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit how about the exclusion principal, or sensitive denpendence on initial conditions. If everything is predictable, I expect to see some nobel prizes out of you in things like Fluid dynamics, quantum mechanics, economics. how about mathmatics, let's see some nonlinear equations solved.
How are you going to measure all the variables, when just measuring them, changes them? Even if you did, at some scales thing occur in a genuine random manner. Just tell me if it's going to rain tomorrow, don't give me any percent of occurance other than 100%! I've heard weatherman talk about a 30% chance of rain in the middle of a thunderstorm
People will make decisions based on emotion and try to bend the facts to support them. Amen Brother, what I question is given that
1. CO2 absorbs specific wavelength's of light in the infrared and thermal,
2. at some point the atmosphere becomes opaque to those wavelengths, and that point is less than at 100% atmospheric CO2;
isn't it entirely possible the the effect of increasing pCO2 from 100ppm to 300ppm is far greater than the effect of increasing from 300ppm to 1,000ppm? I've seen data and models developed for satelite reconn that suggests that. Those models were paid for by the CIA and were a one-shot deal, so the vendor didn't have an economic incentive to meassage the data to get another reseach grant, or a political agenda to influence conclusions.
The ozone problem is very different. I have trouble with anthropogenic global warming, it has to take place on a vast scale, we basical have to effect 2/3rds of the atmosphere. Believing that we can effect that much atmosphere is at least a bit arrogant. A polar Ozone hole is far differnt because the natural atmophereic circulation tends to pull the offending contaminats and concentrate them in two places, over the poles! Every thing about ozone depletion is easily reproducable, High School science fair grade stuff. Fixing this problem would be relatively easy, 1. completely ban the manufacture of CFC's, 2. send up balloons to scarf the shit up, it's actualy chorine monoxide that does the dirtey deed.
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I do that, not on purpose but its a cool surprise sometimes, this morning I accidently did that after hacking some php code and ended up at some site in thiland, anyways they screwed up and the page ended in .php-org so the server dumped all the code for their search page, you can find the weirdest stuff that way!
SWEET that's what I wanted!
The window manager controls that, hit the X in upper right it closes the application running in the window, then closes the window. just [ctrl + w] tab closes, a simple one hand chord
The plant isn't profitable right now, they built in in the expectation that the FDA would decide that's not OK to feed your natuarly herbovour cattle animal guts; instead they decided it's not OK to feed cows, cows.
I rather suspect that the plants that start to profit when oil hits $70.00 a barrel(alot of different technics break-even right arround there), is the real reason oil isn't $70.00 a barrel. Normaly I'm against big government and taxes, but I think a tax to bring out-of-ground oil up to $70.00 a barrel might prove to be cheaper in the long run.
$320 and hour is cheap, half goes to malpractice insurance (Lawyers),
part goes to staff nurses $20.00/hr, receptionist 15.00/hr billing 17.00/hr,
then there are those pesky student loans to be paid off,
office lease,
capital equipment,
$320 an hour is cheap, continuing ed runs about $350 an hour and that a clock hour and it's required
Here and I always thought that the secret to being happy was to be happy. Seems like the people who are unhappy are just that way for no special reason; usualy they are the one who bitch if they were hung with a new rope.
Remember that Dr's, Nurses and everbody else in healthcare actualy take classes in documenting healthcare delivery, not to mention continuing ed classes in it and even whats fashonable to be sued over. It's not to hard for a professional healthcare provider make the average idiot patient look like an idiot, even if the idiot happens to be correct.
Then add in the insurance companie's and the Dr's lawyers deal in these matters daily unlike the typical contigency lawyer. No witnesses, look arround next time, you'll be suprised in most offices at how much is witnessed.
If things were really fair, doctors would have the right to write internet blogs about their patients, warning other doctors that certain patients caused trouble or whatever.
HIPPA realy gets in the way there, yet word gets arround, and after you've been in practice a while you learn to notice the subtile clues that tip you off to problem patients. I'm a dental technician working for a Dentists, and every once in a while something comes into the lab and you just know it's going to be a pain-in-the-ass case for a high-maintenence patient. At first we put the patient on the "H" list (high-maintenance) and they don't get appointments as easily because we only schedule 1 H pt in the morning and one in the afternoon, and they get extra time blocked off the schedule; not because we don't like-em, but they are problem patient with a uncooperative attitude and unreasonably high expectations so they need more time to get the normal quality of care given, and they stress out the staff. Usualy after a few visits, they calm down and love us, if not the relationship goes downhill untill it's not in anyones best interests anymore and we suggest they they might be better served with an other care provider.
A good doctor cannot turn away a patient that she is capable of treating
sure they can, if it's an emergency or urgent care is needed to prevent further injury it's a differnet story treat to stablize and relieve pain then refer; otherwise you can turn away anyone as long as it's not because of race, religion, creed ect.
Even if the Good Doctor can't, he/she usualy has a good office manager who can turn Mega-Bitch on and off like a light switch. The bottom line is aways if you want $400.00/hr of production, and you've got too many H patients to get there, raise fees, the "good" patients don't have to be billed for every little thing.
Generaly if you don't want something to happen you put governament in charge of it, sometimes they surprize you but not often. I remeber a while back the Hospital corporations were doing the controled MRI thing, set up so there were regonal mri centers, with patients lined up in the waiting rooms to keep the machine busy and costs down. I don't remember costs coming down untill the dr's who do a lot of mri installed some in their offices, no waiting, no appointments at 2AM.
Want to find out how well socialized medicine works, just call your Dr's office and ask "Do you take medicade? Do you know who does?"
If you were a Doctor which would you prefer a socialized plan that pays 60% on the dollar and reject 25% of the claims on first submission and prohibits you from getting the 40% from the patient or a comercial plan that cover 80/20 and the patient pay the 20%?
I often noticed durring the '74-'77 years that the closer I got to a communist boarder, the less anti-american the local people were. In some small towns up close to the boarders it was impossible for us to buy a beer, they just wouldn't take our money, the beer just sort of appeered. After a while we discovered if we acted insulted by not being allow to pay for a beer of a meal, they'd break down and take our money
I think a certain intern keeping him distracted helped alot too, maybe somebody should give the bimbo a medal or something.
you should read your post,
economist says if your
1. currency is deflataing,
2. you've got rampant unemployment
3. borrowing money and spending it should cause enough inflation to fix things in the short-term
4. taxing the inflated money to pay-down the debt will keep things running smooth over the long-term
politians hears
borrowing insane amounts of money and spending it like a drunk sailor is good for the economy!
It a law of unintended consequences thing
The first time he got the machine to touch a powerline as it got hit by lightning, so I assume he did something similar with the steam loco
After I got out of the Army and before I went to college I used to sand-blast paint off bridges for the county. In our setup we wore a hard helmet which was presurized to keep the toxic dust out, heavy metal pigmented paint and silica dust and the helmet were persurized through a demon tube, an other name for the Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube. this kept us pretty cool while working in 90 degree heat wearing heavy gloves and two sweatshirts for padding. The set up used no electricity, but the diesel engined air-compressor probably would have put out 120KW if hooked to a generator instead of a compressor.
If I wanted to make ice in a place like back-woods Hati; I think a solar-collector connected to a couple stirling engines would be the way to go, one engine makes kinetic energy from the solar heat, the second refirgerates form the kinetic input of the first engine; sterling refrigerators are capable of acheiving cryogenic temeratures
I find the fact that New Orleans didn't include school buses in their evacuation plan (did they have one?!) discusting.
The school buses were part of the evac plan, ask why they were neatly parked and padlocked untill they were covered with 5 feet of water instead.
Ask what the mayor was waiting for; ask why the governor took so long to declair an official emergency so the feds would have dictatorial power to do the right thing, ask why the state turned away a red cross convoy bringing blankets, food, water and generaters to the superdome
I also don't understand why the mayor of New Orleans didn't allow the 2000+ school busses in the city to be used to evacuate those people without transportation.
Because that was the plan, actualy it was the evacuation plan; to use the school busses to evacuate the city in an emergency. So because using the Busses for evacuation was not only the smart thing to do, but the planned thing to do, the mayor ordered them parked and padlocked.
Seems like everything the Governor and Mayor did just insured that maximum amount of grief would be inflicted on the lower classes of New Orleans the people how are predominately renters, perhaps there were ulterior motives involved.
desktop's are for normal users, those people who aren't realy interesting in wringing the last iota of performance out of a machine and typical know enough about one or two applications to get their basic job done even if they are doing things the hardway. Power user's want a Workstation, Desktop users don't fit Linux well, and Workstation users don't fit Windows well.
./ bottaboom battabing LaTeX is working on WinXP SP2, next do some googling and copy some research into the shared folder, next day I can't open thing in the shared folder, so I list the directory, the files I tried to open Have No Owner! I can't even open them logged in as admin. Next after research on MS's knowelge base, I try to fix it by turning off simple file sharing, and turning on network file sharing, I go through it step by step, click by click as per Microsoft and hit a dead-end, the tab I need isn't there! These windows people think I'm somekind of computer genius, but the truth is the thought that people who both think I'm a computer genius, and put up with the silly bullshit inherent in using windows just scares me; I'm much more comfortable to say to my Dad, "Larry and Bobbie are MSCE's, you should ask them" then try to deal with actualy making Windows work like a real OS. I'm more comforatble reding 3 HOWTOs 2 Magazine articles and a website FAQ to get something difficult working in Linux and eventualy sucede, than I am in Windows doing something that is supposed to be easy, but in reality is impossible.
I'm a LaTex junky, I'm helping the wife with a paper, so I install MiTek on her computer, permissions are screwed up so I just copy a couple files to
Technicaly the National Guard isn't under a federal branch untill federalized, which requires the Feds to call whole units rather than individuals, since the several states became quite addicted to federal money for the Guards, they effectively call the shots.
Idealy a Governor might decide they need
3 battalions of Infantry very usefull for disasters just to have able bodies for misc missions,
1 MUST, Medical unit self contained, transportable, a hospital that can be put anywhere and be operational in a matter of hours.
1 transportation battalion, truckers are extreemly useful
3 military police batalions, 2 of which would be PW camp trained very usefull for setting up and running a relief center real quick
through in some helicopters for good measure and you would be able to handle just about anything.
The fed however would probably say that it didn't fit their force alignments.
Yes the governor's could have just sent the troops to help, but people troops have to be paid, and provisioned, under state budgets that are just barely ballanced through slight-of-hand accounting. The bottom-line is the mayor of NO and the Governor have to ask for federal assostanc, these same people, turned away a red cross convoy of food, water, blankets and power generators going to the super-dome before the levee broke, not only didn't exicute the evac plan, but ordered the school busses that were supposed to take people to safety parked and pad-locked and didn't declair an emergency untill 3 days later!
Why, the only reason that make any sense to me is the mayor and governor saw the oppertunities for urban renewal without have to pay those pesky emminant domain fees more valuable than the people who died. I sincerely hope that a couple of people see some extensive prison time over this.
If FEMA requires IE6.0 on windows does that my windows liciense is tax deductable?
keeping military forces from moving around makes it harder to create an open rebellion.
That's a big part of it, my old NG unit was infantry in Michigan, other battalions of infantry were in Ohio, our Division HQ was in Illinois, not to mention that our armor and artillery assets were scattered; all this make a National Guard unit pretty in-effective as a combat unit with-out the co-operation of several state and the federal government. For several decades our units have been re-aligned to differnt jobs, trying to fit into the federal governments shifting vision of what the National Guard's role was in the total-force. My unit actualy was re-trained 4 times in 3 years, 2 of which were into jobs that couldn't be on the job trained, requiring the whoile unit to attend formal schooling! You don't have to be a rocket scientists to imagine the degree of political intrigue that system generates.
In the past I've argued against the Idea, but now I've decided I was wrong and think all of the Guards, Army National Guard, and Air National Guard, belong not under the DOD but under Homeland Security with the Coast Guard, for their secondary missions. It's simply leave to big of a gap in our national defense to alow the DOD to continue to use the Guards to fill in their under-manned over-commited forces, and leave the states without the man-power and equipment needed to respond to a security threat of either natural or foriegn origins.
A would consider a t-rex chasing a jeep at 35 miles an hour going pretty fast especialy since it was an actualy chase rather than like a croc's or an alligator putting on a quick short burst to take down prey.
I've often suspected that the dinosaurs, especialy theropods were actualy a lot more colorful the we imagined, most birds are far form dull as are most snakes. Even in present day mammils preditor tend to be more colorfull than expected and their prey less so.
Everything is predictable scientifically. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit how about the exclusion principal, or sensitive denpendence on initial conditions. If everything is predictable, I expect to see some nobel prizes out of you in things like Fluid dynamics, quantum mechanics, economics. how about mathmatics, let's see some nonlinear equations solved.
How are you going to measure all the variables, when just measuring them, changes them? Even if you did, at some scales thing occur in a genuine random manner.
Just tell me if it's going to rain tomorrow, don't give me any percent of occurance other than 100%! I've heard weatherman talk about a 30% chance of rain in the middle of a thunderstorm
People will make decisions based on emotion and try to bend the facts to support them.
Amen Brother, what I question is given that
1. CO2 absorbs specific wavelength's of light in the infrared and thermal,
2. at some point the atmosphere becomes opaque to those wavelengths, and that point is less than at 100% atmospheric CO2;
isn't it entirely possible the the effect of increasing pCO2 from 100ppm to 300ppm is far greater than the effect of increasing from 300ppm to 1,000ppm? I've seen data and models developed for satelite reconn that suggests that. Those models were paid for by the CIA and were a one-shot deal, so the vendor didn't have an economic incentive to meassage the data to get another reseach grant, or a political agenda to influence conclusions.
is the hole worst in the South than the North, and if so do we know why?
The ozone problem is very different. I have trouble with anthropogenic global warming, it has to take place on a vast scale, we basical have to effect 2/3rds of the atmosphere. Believing that we can effect that much atmosphere is at least a bit arrogant.
A polar Ozone hole is far differnt because the natural atmophereic circulation tends to pull the offending contaminats and concentrate them in two places, over the poles! Every thing about ozone depletion is easily reproducable, High School science fair grade stuff.
Fixing this problem would be relatively easy,
1. completely ban the manufacture of CFC's,
2. send up balloons to scarf the shit up, it's actualy chorine monoxide that does the dirtey deed.