Anyhow, time to decommercialise medicine. Yes, I know it sounds pinko commie socialist. Even so.
Not sure that raising the price is bad...
If you remove the money from the equation, the incentive to develop new medicines goes down. While this isn't immediately visible, we might find a disease arise that no one cares to research and cure in the future. So, bad juju in the long run.
If you force an established business to take a medicine that is already developed and remove the money from it, you might see short term benefits and costs go down on that medicine. Also, if the price goes up too far, the costs will put it out of range for people, or raise insurance rates so high that the insurance companies stop paying for it. This will hurt his business and cut into profits. Sounds good today and has a visible result, but what is the cost? Can the law of supply (his lab's production) and demand (price people are willing to pay) make this self-regulating?
When you don't reward success, you are doomed to mediocrity. That is why I'm not sure this is a bad thing. He may, in fact, have a moral obligation to make money because it rewards success.
I was in a similar boat. But after 7 years, many background checks will not show felonies. Some use 10 year background checks. My suggestion is to find a contract company that uses a 7 year check and do contract work. In my case, one of the companies I contracted with recognized my talent and hired me. Despite having fallen off the background check time, I still disclosed my situation. However, the company recognized my talent and already knew me so the decision was easier. Although I didn't have to disclose and they might not have found out, I chose to disclose in case someone with a personal vendetta chose to bring up the matter with HR in the future and have it disclosed in a manner I didn't choose. For me, it worked out and I feel like I work for a company I can retire from.
So, Google Fiber is offering 7 years of free internet service at current cable speeds for the $300 cost of installation (they allow $25 for 12 months, then 6 free years after that). Since they are providing the current provider speeds at significantly reduced rates, wouldn't that narrow the divide more than extend it? If you have a house with no Internet access, and you provide access, isn't that infinitely more enabling than providing gigabit to those with 10 megabit speeds?
I live in KC and Fiber is being installed down the street. We discuss what the speed increase provides, and almost universally agree that the benefits are minor, although power users will find a way to use some of the bandwidth.
There was a live streaming event on YouTube about the release of Google Fiber gigabit Internet service and TV service today here in Kansas City. No other ISP will survive here against it. http://www.google.com/fiber
As a system administrator that manages a VMware Environment for ALL employees workstations (Over 1600) as well as ALL Windows servers (Over 300), I am very happy with the vSphere product that VMware has created. They have embraced the community and provided great tools so that I can use common languages to script VDI deployments (Using Powershell with the PowerCLI addon from VMware) as well as simplify disaster recovery efforts. VMware's View product has allowed around 30% of our employees to move to work at home status without a noticeable difference in performance over being in the office. I firmly believe that VMware remains the top vendor for virtualization.
Note: I do not work for VMware, but rather a large healthcare organization that has recently achieved a 100% VDI environment for all employees.
You know, the one that claims that Sprint gives unlimited data on their network vs every other company, which is currently playing right now on my TV?
I guess this directly conflicts with the commercial, that stresses that when they say Unlimited, they mean it! They do highlight that the other companys cap bandwidth, but Sprint goes on and on without slowing down or anything. At least the other companies aren't saying one thing and doing the opposite.
As a 2nd grader in 1987, I had a class to learn the Logo programming language. This turtle graphics based language was simple enough to present quickly, and was designed to be engaging for youth. My first class involved a game with a circle randomly placed on the screen. There was a turtle also randomly placed on the screen. I had to guess at the angle I needed to turn my turtle (right 45 degrees) and then guess the distance in pixels. The turtle would then move to the location, and I would score if it landed in the circle. Simple game, but then we could look at the code and understand how it worked. That one class engaged me enough to turn me towards IT as a career later in life. It also inspired me to try an understand how things (like games) work.
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But maybe it's what they teach at MBA courses.
Anyhow, time to decommercialise medicine. Yes, I know it sounds pinko commie socialist. Even so.
Not sure that raising the price is bad...
If you remove the money from the equation, the incentive to develop new medicines goes down. While this isn't immediately visible, we might find a disease arise that no one cares to research and cure in the future. So, bad juju in the long run.
If you force an established business to take a medicine that is already developed and remove the money from it, you might see short term benefits and costs go down on that medicine. Also, if the price goes up too far, the costs will put it out of range for people, or raise insurance rates so high that the insurance companies stop paying for it. This will hurt his business and cut into profits. Sounds good today and has a visible result, but what is the cost? Can the law of supply (his lab's production) and demand (price people are willing to pay) make this self-regulating?
When you don't reward success, you are doomed to mediocrity. That is why I'm not sure this is a bad thing. He may, in fact, have a moral obligation to make money because it rewards success.
I have a G600. It is trivial to remap the buttons to perform like you want.
I was in a similar boat. But after 7 years, many background checks will not show felonies. Some use 10 year background checks. My suggestion is to find a contract company that uses a 7 year check and do contract work. In my case, one of the companies I contracted with recognized my talent and hired me. Despite having fallen off the background check time, I still disclosed my situation. However, the company recognized my talent and already knew me so the decision was easier. Although I didn't have to disclose and they might not have found out, I chose to disclose in case someone with a personal vendetta chose to bring up the matter with HR in the future and have it disclosed in a manner I didn't choose. For me, it worked out and I feel like I work for a company I can retire from.
So, Google Fiber is offering 7 years of free internet service at current cable speeds for the $300 cost of installation (they allow $25 for 12 months, then 6 free years after that). Since they are providing the current provider speeds at significantly reduced rates, wouldn't that narrow the divide more than extend it? If you have a house with no Internet access, and you provide access, isn't that infinitely more enabling than providing gigabit to those with 10 megabit speeds?
I live in KC and Fiber is being installed down the street. We discuss what the speed increase provides, and almost universally agree that the benefits are minor, although power users will find a way to use some of the bandwidth.
There was a live streaming event on YouTube about the release of Google Fiber gigabit Internet service and TV service today here in Kansas City. No other ISP will survive here against it. http://www.google.com/fiber
As a system administrator that manages a VMware Environment for ALL employees workstations (Over 1600) as well as ALL Windows servers (Over 300), I am very happy with the vSphere product that VMware has created. They have embraced the community and provided great tools so that I can use common languages to script VDI deployments (Using Powershell with the PowerCLI addon from VMware) as well as simplify disaster recovery efforts. VMware's View product has allowed around 30% of our employees to move to work at home status without a noticeable difference in performance over being in the office. I firmly believe that VMware remains the top vendor for virtualization.
Note: I do not work for VMware, but rather a large healthcare organization that has recently achieved a 100% VDI environment for all employees.
You know, the one that claims that Sprint gives unlimited data on their network vs every other company, which is currently playing right now on my TV?
I guess this directly conflicts with the commercial, that stresses that when they say Unlimited, they mean it! They do highlight that the other companys cap bandwidth, but Sprint goes on and on without slowing down or anything. At least the other companies aren't saying one thing and doing the opposite.
As a 2nd grader in 1987, I had a class to learn the Logo programming language. This turtle graphics based language was simple enough to present quickly, and was designed to be engaging for youth. My first class involved a game with a circle randomly placed on the screen. There was a turtle also randomly placed on the screen. I had to guess at the angle I needed to turn my turtle (right 45 degrees) and then guess the distance in pixels. The turtle would then move to the location, and I would score if it landed in the circle. Simple game, but then we could look at the code and understand how it worked. That one class engaged me enough to turn me towards IT as a career later in life. It also inspired me to try an understand how things (like games) work.