I live in a country where we used to attempt to control prices.
It dont work. Period.
There was an important thinker back in the 70's called Ivan Illich. He wrote an essay called Medical Nemesis.
I strongly suggest anyone to read it.
Illich is yes, a marginal writer. But with what we are seeing today, his ideas look more and more enticing.
He says that the american (occident's way by now) way of doing health is inneficcient: we create a divine personality of The Doctor who can prescribe all this thingies and wingies for things as simple as a birth.
We kind of have that procedure pretty much in the bag, why do we have such a huge cost in birth?
Well, cause we let nurses and doctors and hospitals take over what housewives did.
Bring back a housewive career of no more than two years, train normal women to help women have a child in their own home.
Now think about this: at least here in Mexico, a huge percentage of ALL surgicall interventions are births. This way would be much cheaper on everyone.
Another example: tonsiectomy and non-religious circumpsition as cultural mandates are inefficient.
This guy made a study that very convincingly proved that most tonsillectomies are unneeded procedures, and quite an interesting number of kids die from ythem or suffer complications from them.
And why do we practice them? To save some anguish for the mother every time the kid gets a cold.
Fuck that: father and mother are there precisely to take care of the kid when he/she gets a cold. Technology may help us reduce that stress, but the price is an elevated health care cost for all.
Furthermore, you should know that here in mexico tonsillectomy is also done by your grandmother whenever she feels your mother is so lazy and that she doesnt want to suffer you cold. Its a common practice to use petroleum to cauterize the tonsils.
Whats the outcome? A happy kid, a happy grandmother, no cost to the state or healthcare institutions.
Ah, but we prefer our modern rituals that provide us with a false sense of security, dont we?
Hell, there are many things about the US *I* can be proud of and i am not an american.
I trully admire the country and its history. But truth is truth and no country flies on the face of history as a dominating potence without its share of idiotic/evil rulers (the medicis. the borgia, the spanish borbon...and many others all over the world since forever.)
Thing with the US, is that this happened within our times.
I, for one, am glad that the powers that be found some humane sympathy in their hearts.
Really... one wonders why did the muslim people let the Qran and the words of the prophet to be misleadingly destroyed, chopped over and reintepreted by this fucking bunch of assholes.
Really. I think we do need to start drawing explicit cultural lines:
"I come from a culture, where the basic right is the right for the individual to interpret his/her reality with complete independence of society."
Cultures that do not respect this basic principle (its a cartesian principle, BTW, ya stupid geeks: Descartes brought and/or rescued this idea for us), are SUBPAR.
geek3: 2.8 is clearly a perfect use case for UML and java
geekN: $i=0; 2.8 should be made in $platform[$N] cause $buzwwerd[$i++] $buzwerd[$i++] $buzwerd[$i++] and also, thats what they teach at school nowadays.
I mean, a story about a piece of actively developed software growing in lines of code is like publishing a book about how much shit does humanity make per person born and then sayin: hey, we are shiting so much more than we used to.
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I will never understand americans. Now they want to believe Obama stole THIS election but, on the other hand, Bush's elections where perfectly OK?
Americans: its time to throw the KKK rags to the recycle bin.
Who isnt ready to not say that the bible isnt reffering to what is not a man and a woman, but a large bowl of spaghetti?
I for one, have no idea.
or two "N"s in winner, yes?
Careful! Get your head out of my fridge girl....
You might loose it to the dragons living within!
It may NOT find life there...
Wow, the things that happen in this crazy solar system.
Well fuck me a googol, aunt marie, I think we have a winer.
Theyll sure try.
And we will sure grill them.
And it will go nowhere.
Custmers are running like crazy away from MS. AS very well they should.
I live in a country where we used to attempt to control prices.
It dont work. Period.
There was an important thinker back in the 70's called Ivan Illich. He wrote an essay called Medical Nemesis.
I strongly suggest anyone to read it.
Illich is yes, a marginal writer. But with what we are seeing today, his ideas look more and more enticing.
He says that the american (occident's way by now) way of doing health is inneficcient: we create a divine personality of The Doctor who can prescribe all this thingies and wingies for things as simple as a birth.
We kind of have that procedure pretty much in the bag, why do we have such a huge cost in birth?
Well, cause we let nurses and doctors and hospitals take over what housewives did.
Bring back a housewive career of no more than two years, train normal women to help women have a child in their own home.
Now think about this: at least here in Mexico, a huge percentage of ALL surgicall interventions are births. This way would be much cheaper on everyone.
Another example: tonsiectomy and non-religious circumpsition as cultural mandates are inefficient.
This guy made a study that very convincingly proved that most tonsillectomies are unneeded procedures, and quite an interesting number of kids die from ythem or suffer complications from them.
And why do we practice them? To save some anguish for the mother every time the kid gets a cold.
Fuck that: father and mother are there precisely to take care of the kid when he/she gets a cold. Technology may help us reduce that stress, but the price is an elevated health care cost for all.
Furthermore, you should know that here in mexico tonsillectomy is also done by your grandmother whenever she feels your mother is so lazy and that she doesnt want to suffer you cold. Its a common practice to use petroleum to cauterize the tonsils.
Whats the outcome? A happy kid, a happy grandmother, no cost to the state or healthcare institutions.
Ah, but we prefer our modern rituals that provide us with a false sense of security, dont we?
Yay FP!
No?
Pffft.
Are "friendly dems" the kind that actually took microsoft to court in the 90's only to be saved by baby bush?
"but the substance needs to be there and in the right form for approval"
Franz Kafka tried to sue you for infringement of his humor.
Yep... the bad part is that walstreet bankers are getting "laid off" with a couple of hundred million dollars you are going to pay with your taxes.
Yay.
SOMEBODY should PAY for what THEY DID.
Or write it, for that matter. :)
This from a non-english speaker....
Tsk tsk tsk
Hell, there are many things about the US *I* can be proud of and i am not an american.
I trully admire the country and its history. But truth is truth and no country flies on the face of history as a dominating potence without its share of idiotic/evil rulers (the medicis. the borgia, the spanish borbon...and many others all over the world since forever.)
Thing with the US, is that this happened within our times.
Oh dont be so bitter.
Its the perfect time to beat on bush hard.
This are americans, my friend. They actually think George Bush won his elections.
Go figure.
It begins in Russia.
I cannot believe the samba team is down to ONE full time developer.
Its a HUGE project to undertake.
When I buy my Red Hat, Suse or Ubuntu thingies for money, Im thinking some of that money goes to helping FOSS developers.
Hey, it better be that way guys: put some dough into Samba.... NOW!
I, for one, am glad that the powers that be found some humane sympathy in their hearts.
Really... one wonders why did the muslim people let the Qran and the words of the prophet to be misleadingly destroyed, chopped over and reintepreted by this fucking bunch of assholes.
Really. I think we do need to start drawing explicit cultural lines:
"I come from a culture, where the basic right is the right for the individual to interpret his/her reality with complete independence of society."
Cultures that do not respect this basic principle (its a cartesian principle, BTW, ya stupid geeks: Descartes brought and/or rescued this idea for us), are SUBPAR.
And we should BE WEARY of them.
No,
Youre a dumbass.
No,
Youre a dumbass.
No,
Youre a dumbass.
2.8 in PHP...
Now there is an idea.
Infidel!
geek1: 2.8 shall be made on Ruby On Rails!
geek2: waz? Django is the way to go!
geek3: 2.8 is clearly a perfect use case for UML and java
geekN: $i=0; 2.8 should be made in $platform[$N] cause $buzwwerd[$i++] $buzwerd[$i++] $buzwerd[$i++] and also, thats what they teach at school nowadays.
Ah...
You mean:
4) Get arrested.... 500k dls and 4 years later.
Of course they DO!
Unless....
Mods, get a clue, this is not flamebait.
I mean, a story about a piece of actively developed software growing in lines of code is like publishing a book about how much shit does humanity make per person born and then sayin: hey, we are shiting so much more than we used to.
Well, yeah, duh.