Animals adapt to so they can survive. A perfect example is near Chernobyl
Actually there is a region in Iran where the background radiation is very high, and the people who live there have a similar lifespan to people who live in a lower radiation area.
Why do you think 'Engineers' are the only people who are smart
This is "/." where people who don't look or think like us are inferior don't-ya know.
I guess it would be a sign of bigotry when someone can't grasp the notion that people who have religious beliefs, or who work in the construction trades or other non-engineering jobs might actually be smart too.
I second that baloney call... The areas where bees are used, cell phones are very rare (wide open farm land).
Not that farmers don't use cell phones, cell phones are a great boon to farmers. But the number of phones per square mile is really low.
Pesticide use... perhaps, but not nation wide, certainly not world wide. Different regions, different crops... Farmers are cheapskates, and don't typically apply a lot of unnecessary pesticides (contrary to what political activists may say). So I don't think it's pesticides.
It's likely the simple thing, new disease, parasite load.
My pet tin-foil hat theory is magnetic fluctuation due to impending magnetic collapse.
My cure... No matter the cause, provide conditions to promote moths and solitary bees (wild non-colonizing bees), such as bumble bees. That means dead trees or non-treated posts with holes drilled in them. Muddy patches for hydration (full season in arid areas). For ground dwelling bees, fallow land near the fields.
Some people are stuck with company software and company hardware. Even when their job performance might benefit from multiple monitors.
Oh yeah, I love virtual desk tops, I use 3x3. I've been a UNIX user since about 1986. And learned about FVWM in 1995. I've had the same basic FVWM setup going on about ten years. Yes, I've had to migrate from FVWM to FVWM2, and that was painful... And just last year, I cleaned out all the cruft, and started fresh, with no (known) garbage in my ".fvwm2rc".
Bean counters will be bean counters. Use ignorance to battle ignorance.
Put a label on the monitor saying "Do Not Inventory". And sign the note illegibly.
The bean counters will either ignore the monitor, which you want. Or they will count the monitor. If they count the monitor, then put the monitor in an empty cube, and make it look like it is connected to a computer. If there is no name on the empty cube, make a name plate for the cube. The name on the plate must be "M T Box", and explain to your cow-orkers that the cube is being held for the new Chinese intern. If there is no empty cube, get a keyboard, and make it look like there are two people working in your cube. Explain that you have to share your cube with the new Mexican intern named No-Say Yama...
a significant amount of legal expertise is desirable in a body charged with making law
I understand your point. But I'm of the belief that too much legal expertise in a body charged with making law could cause the making of laws that favor those with legal expertise. For example, a friend wanted to buy a home in Virginia, and he was required by law to hire a lawyer. A few year back, a California lawmaker wanted to make lawyer jokes illegal.
Drive by a landfill before sunrise... At sunrise, the air starts to circulate, and you don't get the full effect. On the morning following a still-air night, is when you discover the full effect.
I think the OP means that those who don't learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
To me, the problem here is that we need to let free market evolution select the fuel sources of the future. The current situation in the US is various government funded "intelligent design" ideas each of which will eventually fail. But as long as the government $$s flow, the failures will be masked.
I'm all for new or different technology, but these things have to grow from the ground up, working out the bugs as they grow.
I work at a the worlds largest computer manufacturer. Of course all our design/validation happens in UNIX land. We have about 20K UNIX hosts at my site, and probably 100K worldwide.
At my site, except for about 30 UNIX hosts dedicated to running testers. All of our UNIX is in data centers. We all carry XP laptops for email, office tools, and browser. And of course it really sucks, as you would imagine, there are more admins for XP mail alone, than for all of UNIX land software.
The one upside we have, is that IT keeps a real loose rein on installing software, and lots of us use different browsers, and what ever OSS we want.
To get to UNIX land, you start a VNC server on a UNIX host in the pool set aside for that purpose, and VNC in from the laptop.
Once you get past the sucky slow XP, with weekly upgrade, reboot, bluescreen reboot, slower than shit... and into actual UNIX land, it's actually much better than having a UNIX workstation on the desk. The reason, is that you can pack up your laptop to dreary meetings, and quietly run your tester and get real work done whilst the drones drone on. Also, you can carry your laptop to the tester. What good is that you might ask? From there, you can prop your laptop on a chair, and fiddle with the contactor, and not have to spin around and scoot over to drive the tester from the host's keyboard/monitor that is probably inconveniently far away. Also you can cut/paste from the test program I/O to a email message to send to the designer... Granted if you were in pure UNIX land, you'd send the designer the path to the file. But with our config, the designer can come to the test floor, login to his environment and pull up the schematics to ponder. Plus if you need more horsepower, it's only another (pop xterm + ssh) away.
Having spent 5 years as a UNIX user, 5 more as a UNIX sysadmin, and back to user for the last 2 years, I know all the advantages and the limitations of both UNIX and MS-windows. I think we have the best of both worlds. Although MS windows cause me to expound "COMPUTERS REALLY SUCK" on a weekly basis. But my VNC sessions(s) are always there still running when I get past the MS part.
these are exactly the types of questions that capitalism can't solve by itself
I disagree, I see this as an attempt to install a "prohibition" against the free market. I believe this problem will be solved by the gray market.
Meaning that when you can't go to a local retailer, to buy a new CPU for less than say US$2,000... A Taiwanese company will pop up to sell you one for $300. Next your Mom will want to upgrade, and you'll buy one for her, then your cousins and friends, and the local hands-tied retailer will go under.
Hence, the problem of a restricted free-market will be solved by free-market capitalism itself.
Of course today there is another/. article about controlling the ability to make transactions with just anybody...
I worked in a USAF sim that had halon under the floors, but no chilled air flow under the floors, and the floor tiles had no vents. One day the fire alarm tech accidentally triggered the halon, and the air pressure under the floor tiles lifted the tiles up and off of their frames. And it blew all the under floor dust up into the room. I think it was $10K to replace the two tanks (1988). The programmer in the room at the time said it sounds more like a bomb than a hiss.
This incident occurred the day after we had a power supply convert itself into a "smoke generator", around midnight at shift change. It filled the sim with smoke. We ran in from the maintenance shop (through the sim was the way out too) the boss pulled the halon dump handle, and nothing happened. That's "Oh Shit" night, followed by a "Oh Shit" day. I think the fire alarm guys had a "Holy Fucking Shit" week.
It's not that they won't be able to breath, they'll breath just fine, except that the oxygen in their air has been displaced by HALON, meaning their air has not enough oxygen to sustain human life. Which is all well and fine because USAF flight crew tell us that losing consciousness due to lack of oxygen is very comfortable. If the HALON gas flows across something very hot (glowing metal perhaps). Then the HALON decays into some nasty chemicals akin to mustard gas. Oop's best to get out and stay out. There are people with SCBA that get paid to handle these situations, and it ain't me.
Intel's IT wanted to go "big time", I guess the execs read in some exec mag that it's the cool trend to make IT simple. Of course they pushed a lot of stuff onto windows. The result is that they spend a lot more money, but they get to brag about making progress. Engineering suffers, but that's not really a measurable thing. Of course anyone can drive a mouse around. And they just lately declared my old job "non-skilled", and it was filled by a temp. After all, I was just the tape guy. And I also wrote the project archive program that automagically archived several hundred GB of engineering data (think AMANDA lite in PERL with some added features). And I knew how to find and restore all the older data. I used gTAR exclusively for future compatibility, but before my time, a lot of archives were written in different proprietary formats (DUMP, BACKUP, RBAK, etc). Now when the mouse driver guys get a request to restore an old archive, they don't have a clue as where to begin. Legal falls back on the one guy left, who often calls on me for hints, and if he ever goes, the company is screwed. The execs will have moved on by then, so no re-percussions there.
Kind of like when I test chips... I test at multiple temps, multiple vcc's, multiple bus ratios, multiple core freq.
Then I make a graph for each bus ratio, and show the data setup or hold by temperature, and another set by vcc. Then I might want to resort the data, and have a graph for each vcc, and sort by temperature.
The root of the problem is that there are those who think that observing our environment with science is a grand thing, we can learn a lot about the world around us.
Then there are those who think that environmental science is a great tool to bring political victory over the capitalists. We must attack then with much vim and vigor. We fight the good fight for the children and minorities.
The capitalists step back and say "Whoa, the environmental science is a weapon being used against us". We must defend our selves.
The bystanders say "Oh look, the environmental science is a weapon being used against the capitalists. Is the environment about science or warfare"?
I see these kind of things as neither good nor bad. They just are...
Times change, things evolve, get used to change. It's the only thing that stays the same. I was lucky to have switched from product engineering to IT in 1999. I worked in the last bit of "technically real" IT. Those were the good ol' days, when we actually used the command line (UNIX). The bosses started demanding that everything be automated as a "push button" program that anyone could use.
That was the second to the last bit of fun in IT. When we were programming the scripts to automate: passwd reset, archive data, cleanup/tmp. The actual last bit of fun was using our own automation. When you run your own automation, the programming runs through your head, and there is a grand feeling of satisfaction.
That all dies of course, as you lose touch with the command line, and become a mere button pusher.
When that time came, I started looking for a way back to engineering. It took three years to get back, but my old friends found a spot for me back in product engineering, and it's been heaven ever since. I write my own PERL scripts for driving the tester and statistical analysis, and love what I do.
I don't regret my time as a sys-admin, I learned a lot about UNIX that I would have not learned in engineering, and I'm a better engineer for it.
Lately I've been thinking about technical marketing.
Actually, I used to be a feedlot cowboy with a wife and three kids.
Yes, I'll pay for my own vaccinations, the cost of having an insurance company pay for them is out of reach for just about everybody. If everybody actually paid the actual doctors office the actual amount billed, then everybody could afford the treatments. The current situation in the US, is that the doctor in a single doctor practice has to employ a second receptionist just to keep up with the insurance billing and regulations. If the second receptionist earns US$20 per hour, you can bet it costs $40 to keep her employed. Then the insurance companies pay a percentage, not the whole bill.
When I had cows, I could vaccinate for just about every disease that we can vaccinate against for about US$7 a year. The only diseases I could not vaccinate against myself were Rabies and Bangs. In California, Rabies requires a Vet, and in the entire US, Bangs requires a Vet. Those diseases were about $20 plus a "ranch call".
About the totally free thing... Nothing is free, and it costs much more if you have the government pay for it. Ask the Veterans at Walter-Reed about the quality of their "free" medical care.
Have you seen Buena-Vista Social club? Those men are the elite of the Cuban music industry, living in one room shacks.
The market is in fact holy. My experience with government is really poor. I think it started when I was in high school, and worked as a civilian at an ARMY depot in Sacramento. I saw a broken $4 adjustable wrench cost $75 to replace. Later I worked for a defense contractor. I worked in a shop with seven technicians maintaining a simulator 24x5. We had 97.5% uptime. Our company got docked $$ one week when we did not keep availability over 97.5%. Before we had that contract, civil service (government employees) had it, and the availability was between 50% and 75%, with 24 technicians and three layers of management. In civil service, you can't be fired. In private industry, the boss can hand you your paycheck, point to the door, and say "out!".
I know lots of immigrants, every one of them is damn glad to be in the US, they work hard, and don't expect anybody to carry them.
Cuba can't even feed their population. They drive 50 year old cars. My cows drank cleaner water, and had better health care than the average Cuban does.
Do you think the average government worker in Washington "cares" about the average American citizen either
That's what scares me most about the current political climate. Hillary will be elected, and her goal of government health care will be forced down our throats. Every hospital will be staffed by the same types that administered Walter-Reed. Consider this... Doctors, Nurses, Orderlies, Chaplains, Janitors, Patient Care Technicians, a whole cast of characters work in that hospital every day. And no one reported the problems. The staff were not going to rock the boat, they cared more about their careers than their patients. And the patients were locked in to the Army hospital with no choice.
If on the other hand, a private hospital operated in this fashion, the patients could and would vote with their feet. Doctors would switch hospitals, emergency workers would steer patients away because they could. Staff in private companies are rewarded for streamlining, and improving the system. Managers are held accountable for letting maintenance slip. County Health Inspectors would get one letter, and come in to shut the place down.
Government health care means loss of liberty. The liberty to get the treatment you want where you want, when you want. Our current (US) health care crisis was caused by congress. Congress decided to add every little life-style helper onto the insurance policy. Think birth control or allergy medicine is expensive straight up? Try asking a bureaucratic dinosaur to pay for it, and send you the bill. Just charge it to the credit card, it's free money right?
I don't want insurance to pay for my vaccinations, checkups, etc. I want them to cover the "Holy Shit" items... car accident, cancer...
I'd guess that congress and the National Press are going on a Witch hunt. Lots of corporate files will be subpoenaed in a grand fishing expedition. Lots of political hay will be made, names slandered, lies, innuendo, political posturing. Hillary channeling Joe McCarthy...
I'd flee the coming holocost too.
and if she weighs more than a duck, she must be a witch.
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Animals adapt to so they can survive. A perfect example is near Chernobyl
Actually there is a region in Iran where the background radiation is very high, and the people who live there have a similar lifespan to people who live in a lower radiation area.
Why do you think 'Engineers' are the only people who are smart
This is "/." where people who don't look or think like us are inferior don't-ya know.
I guess it would be a sign of bigotry when someone can't grasp the notion that people who have religious beliefs, or who work in the construction trades or other non-engineering jobs might actually be smart too.
I call baloney on this bee vs. cell phone theory
I second that baloney call... The areas where bees are used, cell phones are very rare (wide open farm land).
Not that farmers don't use cell phones, cell phones are a great boon to farmers. But the number of phones per square mile is really low.
Pesticide use... perhaps, but not nation wide, certainly not world wide. Different regions, different crops... Farmers are cheapskates, and don't typically apply a lot of unnecessary pesticides (contrary to what political activists may say). So I don't think it's pesticides.
It's likely the simple thing, new disease, parasite load.
My pet tin-foil hat theory is magnetic fluctuation due to impending magnetic collapse.
My cure... No matter the cause, provide conditions to promote moths and solitary bees (wild non-colonizing bees), such as bumble bees. That means dead trees or non-treated posts with holes drilled in them. Muddy patches for hydration (full season in arid areas). For ground dwelling bees, fallow land near the fields.
Some people are stuck with company software and company hardware. Even when their job performance might benefit from multiple monitors.
Oh yeah, I love virtual desk tops, I use 3x3. I've been a UNIX user since about 1986. And learned about FVWM in 1995. I've had the same basic FVWM setup going on about ten years. Yes, I've had to migrate from FVWM to FVWM2, and that was painful... And just last year, I cleaned out all the cruft, and started fresh, with no (known) garbage in my ".fvwm2rc".
Bean counters will be bean counters. Use ignorance to battle ignorance.
Put a label on the monitor saying "Do Not Inventory". And sign the note illegibly.
The bean counters will either ignore the monitor, which you want. Or they will count the monitor. If they count the monitor, then put the monitor in an empty cube, and make it look like it is connected to a computer. If there is no name on the empty cube, make a name plate for the cube. The name on the plate must be "M T Box", and explain to your cow-orkers that the cube is being held for the new Chinese intern. If there is no empty cube, get a keyboard, and make it look like there are two people working in your cube. Explain that you have to share your cube with the new Mexican intern named No-Say Yama...
a significant amount of legal expertise is desirable in a body charged with making law
I understand your point. But I'm of the belief that too much legal expertise in a body charged with making law could cause the making of laws that favor those with legal expertise. For example, a friend wanted to buy a home in Virginia, and he was required by law to hire a lawyer. A few year back, a California lawmaker wanted to make lawyer jokes illegal.
They convened for fewer days than any Congress in a hundred years.
You say that like it's a bad thing...
Congress _not_ imposing their personal culture (lawyer culture at that) on folks living 3K miles away is a much better thing.
Drive by a landfill before sunrise... At sunrise, the air starts to circulate, and you don't get the full effect. On the morning following a still-air night, is when you discover the full effect.
Do you know how low-power, unreliable, dirty, dangerous, and expensive those things are? I own one.
I think the OP means that those who don't learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
To me, the problem here is that we need to let free market evolution select the fuel sources of the future. The current situation in the US is various government funded "intelligent design" ideas each of which will eventually fail. But as long as the government $$s flow, the failures will be masked.
I'm all for new or different technology, but these things have to grow from the ground up, working out the bugs as they grow.
I work at a the worlds largest computer manufacturer. Of course all our design/validation happens in UNIX land. We have about 20K UNIX hosts at my site, and probably 100K worldwide.
At my site, except for about 30 UNIX hosts dedicated to running testers. All of our UNIX is in data centers. We all carry XP laptops for email, office tools, and browser. And of course it really sucks, as you would imagine, there are more admins for XP mail alone, than for all of UNIX land software.
The one upside we have, is that IT keeps a real loose rein on installing software, and lots of us use different browsers, and what ever OSS we want.
To get to UNIX land, you start a VNC server on a UNIX host in the pool set aside for that purpose, and VNC in from the laptop.
Once you get past the sucky slow XP, with weekly upgrade, reboot, bluescreen reboot, slower than shit... and into actual UNIX land, it's actually much better than having a UNIX workstation on the desk. The reason, is that you can pack up your laptop to dreary meetings, and quietly run your tester and get real work done whilst the drones drone on. Also, you can carry your laptop to the tester. What good is that you might ask? From there, you can prop your laptop on a chair, and fiddle with the contactor, and not have to spin around and scoot over to drive the tester from the host's keyboard/monitor that is probably inconveniently far away. Also you can cut/paste from the test program I/O to a email message to send to the designer... Granted if you were in pure UNIX land, you'd send the designer the path to the file. But with our config, the designer can come to the test floor, login to his environment and pull up the schematics to ponder. Plus if you need more horsepower, it's only another (pop xterm + ssh) away.
Having spent 5 years as a UNIX user, 5 more as a UNIX sysadmin, and back to user for the last 2 years, I know all the advantages and the limitations of both UNIX and MS-windows. I think we have the best of both worlds. Although MS windows cause me to expound "COMPUTERS REALLY SUCK" on a weekly basis. But my VNC sessions(s) are always there still running when I get past the MS part.
these are exactly the types of questions that capitalism can't solve by itself
I disagree, I see this as an attempt to install a "prohibition" against the free market. I believe this problem will be solved by the gray market.
Meaning that when you can't go to a local retailer, to buy a new CPU for less than say US$2,000... A Taiwanese company will pop up to sell you one for $300. Next your Mom will want to upgrade, and you'll buy one for her, then your cousins and friends, and the local hands-tied retailer will go under.
Hence, the problem of a restricted free-market will be solved by free-market capitalism itself.
Of course today there is another /. article about controlling the ability to make transactions with just anybody...
I worked in a USAF sim that had halon under the floors, but no chilled air flow under the floors, and the floor tiles had no vents. One day the fire alarm tech accidentally triggered the halon, and the air pressure under the floor tiles lifted the tiles up and off of their frames. And it blew all the under floor dust up into the room. I think it was $10K to replace the two tanks (1988). The programmer in the room at the time said it sounds more like a bomb than a hiss.
This incident occurred the day after we had a power supply convert itself into a "smoke generator", around midnight at shift change. It filled the sim with smoke. We ran in from the maintenance shop (through the sim was the way out too) the boss pulled the halon dump handle, and nothing happened. That's "Oh Shit" night, followed by a "Oh Shit" day. I think the fire alarm guys had a "Holy Fucking Shit" week.
It's not that they won't be able to breath, they'll breath just fine, except that the oxygen in their air has been displaced by HALON, meaning their air has not enough oxygen to sustain human life. Which is all well and fine because USAF flight crew tell us that losing consciousness due to lack of oxygen is very comfortable. If the HALON gas flows across something very hot (glowing metal perhaps). Then the HALON decays into some nasty chemicals akin to mustard gas. Oop's best to get out and stay out. There are people with SCBA that get paid to handle these situations, and it ain't me.
Many of us still do and it's wonderful.
Then don't forget to thank him/her.
Intel's IT wanted to go "big time", I guess the execs read in some exec mag that it's the cool trend to make IT simple. Of course they pushed a lot of stuff onto windows. The result is that they spend a lot more money, but they get to brag about making progress. Engineering suffers, but that's not really a measurable thing. Of course anyone can drive a mouse around. And they just lately declared my old job "non-skilled", and it was filled by a temp. After all, I was just the tape guy. And I also wrote the project archive program that automagically archived several hundred GB of engineering data (think AMANDA lite in PERL with some added features). And I knew how to find and restore all the older data. I used gTAR exclusively for future compatibility, but before my time, a lot of archives were written in different proprietary formats (DUMP, BACKUP, RBAK, etc). Now when the mouse driver guys get a request to restore an old archive, they don't have a clue as where to begin. Legal falls back on the one guy left, who often calls on me for hints, and if he ever goes, the company is screwed. The execs will have moved on by then, so no re-percussions there.
Exactly how is this different from a multi dimensional associative array... like a PERL hash or JUDY?
Then I make a graph for each bus ratio, and show the data setup or hold by temperature, and another set by vcc. Then I might want to resort the data, and have a graph for each vcc, and sort by temperature.
Which second rate scientists have been promoting global warming?
Al Gore for one.
If not for global warming, would ol' Al have anything interesting to say?
The root of the problem is that there are those who think that observing our environment with science is a grand thing, we can learn a lot about the world around us.
Then there are those who think that environmental science is a great tool to bring political victory over the capitalists. We must attack then with much vim and vigor. We fight the good fight for the children and minorities.
The capitalists step back and say "Whoa, the environmental science is a weapon being used against us". We must defend our selves.
The bystanders say "Oh look, the environmental science is a weapon being used against the capitalists. Is the environment about science or warfare"?
I see these kind of things as neither good nor bad. They just are...
Times change, things evolve, get used to change. It's the only thing that stays the same. I was lucky to have switched from product engineering to IT in 1999. I worked in the last bit of "technically real" IT. Those were the good ol' days, when we actually used the command line (UNIX). The bosses started demanding that everything be automated as a "push button" program that anyone could use.
That was the second to the last bit of fun in IT. When we were programming the scripts to automate: passwd reset, archive data, cleanup /tmp. The actual last bit of fun was using our own automation. When you run your own automation, the programming runs through your head, and there is a grand feeling of satisfaction.
That all dies of course, as you lose touch with the command line, and become a mere button pusher.
When that time came, I started looking for a way back to engineering. It took three years to get back, but my old friends found a spot for me back in product engineering, and it's been heaven ever since. I write my own PERL scripts for driving the tester and statistical analysis, and love what I do.
I don't regret my time as a sys-admin, I learned a lot about UNIX that I would have not learned in engineering, and I'm a better engineer for it.
Lately I've been thinking about technical marketing.
Actually, I used to be a feedlot cowboy with a wife and three kids.
Yes, I'll pay for my own vaccinations, the cost of having an insurance company pay for them is out of reach for just about everybody. If everybody actually paid the actual doctors office the actual amount billed, then everybody could afford the treatments. The current situation in the US, is that the doctor in a single doctor practice has to employ a second receptionist just to keep up with the insurance billing and regulations. If the second receptionist earns US$20 per hour, you can bet it costs $40 to keep her employed. Then the insurance companies pay a percentage, not the whole bill.
When I had cows, I could vaccinate for just about every disease that we can vaccinate against for about US$7 a year. The only diseases I could not vaccinate against myself were Rabies and Bangs. In California, Rabies requires a Vet, and in the entire US, Bangs requires a Vet. Those diseases were about $20 plus a "ranch call".
About the totally free thing... Nothing is free, and it costs much more if you have the government pay for it. Ask the Veterans at Walter-Reed about the quality of their "free" medical care.
Have you seen Buena-Vista Social club? Those men are the elite of the Cuban music industry, living in one room shacks.
The market is in fact holy. My experience with government is really poor. I think it started when I was in high school, and worked as a civilian at an ARMY depot in Sacramento. I saw a broken $4 adjustable wrench cost $75 to replace. Later I worked for a defense contractor. I worked in a shop with seven technicians maintaining a simulator 24x5. We had 97.5% uptime. Our company got docked $$ one week when we did not keep availability over 97.5%. Before we had that contract, civil service (government employees) had it, and the availability was between 50% and 75%, with 24 technicians and three layers of management. In civil service, you can't be fired. In private industry, the boss can hand you your paycheck, point to the door, and say "out!".
I know lots of immigrants, every one of them is damn glad to be in the US, they work hard, and don't expect anybody to carry them.
Cuba can't even feed their population. They drive 50 year old cars. My cows drank cleaner water, and had better health care than the average Cuban does.
Do you think the average government worker in Washington "cares" about the average American citizen either
That's what scares me most about the current political climate. Hillary will be elected, and her goal of government health care will be forced down our throats. Every hospital will be staffed by the same types that administered Walter-Reed. Consider this... Doctors, Nurses, Orderlies, Chaplains, Janitors, Patient Care Technicians, a whole cast of characters work in that hospital every day. And no one reported the problems. The staff were not going to rock the boat, they cared more about their careers than their patients. And the patients were locked in to the Army hospital with no choice.
If on the other hand, a private hospital operated in this fashion, the patients could and would vote with their feet. Doctors would switch hospitals, emergency workers would steer patients away because they could. Staff in private companies are rewarded for streamlining, and improving the system. Managers are held accountable for letting maintenance slip. County Health Inspectors would get one letter, and come in to shut the place down.
Government health care means loss of liberty. The liberty to get the treatment you want where you want, when you want. Our current (US) health care crisis was caused by congress. Congress decided to add every little life-style helper onto the insurance policy. Think birth control or allergy medicine is expensive straight up? Try asking a bureaucratic dinosaur to pay for it, and send you the bill. Just charge it to the credit card, it's free money right?
I don't want insurance to pay for my vaccinations, checkups, etc. I want them to cover the "Holy Shit" items... car accident, cancer...
For some reason, there was a shift
Probably about the same time the big companies became the punching bags of the Politicians and Lawyers. How often to you lick the boot that kicks you?
I'd guess that congress and the National Press are going on a Witch hunt. Lots of corporate files will be subpoenaed in a grand fishing expedition. Lots of political hay will be made, names slandered, lies, innuendo, political posturing. Hillary channeling Joe McCarthy...
I'd flee the coming holocost too.
and if she weighs more than a duck, she must be a witch.
Everything I've heard about the Middle East, is that technical wages are much higher than in the US or Europe.