Where talking about a country that just tripled the numbers of nMRI machines and they still don't have enough and are in the wrong places (they are almost all in Sydney)
Medical care in Australia is a joke. Its slightly better than places like Egypt.
The hospitals (even the private ones) have a lack of decent equipment and there are constant personel shortages.
The real problem with medical systems like the US is they can cure lots of things and can extended life for a very long time. That cost money and most of the time it cost lots and lots of money. At this point you can keep someone that the rest of the world would consider dead alive in an nice ICU ward at a cost of about $1000 an hour. That means that end point of most peoples lives can be exteeded at a cost of 8.5 mil a year. Now if that person averaged $28,000 a year in income over their working life of 30 years they only made 1/10 of what it will cost to keep them alive for an extra year. In most of the world, the doctor says "their time has come" and thats it. In the US people assume they have a right to every bit of medical tech to keep them alive even longer.
So far in my two years in Australia I have seen some of the oldest equipment. An Eye doctor with a device made in the late 1800s to measure vision angles. A doc that uses one of thouse old mirrors with a hole in it (what every happened to electric lights?), A device made in the 1950s to lung capacity. Lovely state of the art suff. Of course doctors here don't make a decent wage so maybe they can't afford the good stuff.
Osama Bin Laden is the US's goverments blame child of the decade now that Castro, Qadhafi, etc are not longer a "threat". He is used as an example of why the terrorism needs to be fought and why the budget needs to increase.
For thouse that don't know, Bin Laden stole a great deal of money from the Saudi Goverment and built hospitals all over the Arab world. This has annoyed King Fahd who most lilky would have helped out anyway but this was done behind his back. Keep in mind that stealing large amounts of money in Saudi results in the death penalty. I suspect that Bin Laden was allowed to leave Saudi because of the good work that he has done there.
So why is the US got him listed on the top ten? Its because he feels that scnations aginst a country (Libya) are act of war and should result in people fighting back which he has done. They guy is an engineer and a good planner who feels his people (all Arabs) should be at war with those that have santions aginst any Arabs. He is also for a united Arab country. His work to bring western style hostpitals to the Arab world makes means that in many places in the world he has the type of respect that we would expect to be given to Mother Theresa in Inida.
If the US goverment did want to capture him, all they have to do is go to Ciaro and hang out in the Hilton and wait till he shows up. I know several people have have seen Bin Laden there.
A car very much like the bug is pictured in the Walter Chrysler Museum in Ellis Kansas. There is a picture of an early design that looks like a bug and has the rear air cooled engine from the early 1930s. It never made it to production since it was too small.
Someone did some research for on speeding events. They were something like a trillion ticketable offences in the US per year. Some drivers in the US speed something like 90% of the time or highways and that is baseded on enforced speed limits, not the posted ones.
Some recent reearch shows that 85% of the cars involved in accidents are the slowest 15% of all cars. This will be quite an interesting study once its final resutls are published.
WAAS uses the same reciver as the GPS signals and does full RAIM so you know when stats go bad. WAAS coverage will be over enough of the Atlantic to cover the UK so once again the US tax payers pay for a system the UK uses since they have a pissly little space program.
The problem is that accelerometers are quite expensive. The ones used in model helicopters seem to be the cheapest for this type of application but they cost several times what a GPS reciver will.
There is already a hack for this. They are called GPS simulators. They cost about 20 grand.
One problem with building a system like this is that the S/A drift should it ever get turned back on. How will the unit adjust to the S/A drift which can offten exceed 20km/hr.
Some of the recent bids for radio spectrum has resulted in bids so high that the consumers will be forced to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars that end up going to cover thouse bids. This will make many services over priced and that is unfair use of the spectrum. Is there any way that the FCC can help fix this problem?
Current Situation: Ariel Sharon is about to become the Prime Minister of Israel. Lebanon and Syria have a real problem with Ariel since he lead the invasion of Lebanon which resulted in the deaths of at least 20,000 Palestinians. They think of this guy as one of Himmler's jack booted henchmen.
Now Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt have a defence treaty and Egypt and Saudi have a defence treaty. Recently Saudi convinced most oil producing Arab countries to sing a new mutual defence treaty.
So if Sharon is elected, the violence will most likely escalate till it involves Lebanon or Jordan. Egypt would be involved instantly without pressure from the US to stay out. If they get involved and get attacked by Israel, then Saudi (the only power in the region that is equipped equal to Israel) will get involved and then there will be a technologically fair fight.
What happens in Europe if Saudi gets involved? They have two choices, ignore Israel or side with them. One way they get no oil and the economy takes a nose dive. The other way they get oil. The real problem is what side is the US on if Europe takes sides? A condition of Europe getting oil will require a blockade of the Israel. Then what happens? The US will not stand by and let Israel get wiped off the face of the planet.
Its like a cure for the common cold. Its only worth a few billion dollars to wipe out the cold virus forever. Right now American drug compaines rake in 6 billion dollars a year profit on cold products a year.
This is why we need things like the "Kings Ransom" that lead to decent modern clocks. Have the goverment pay an insane amount of cash to the person who finds a cure. That would make sure that a cure didn't stay hidden for long. I would propse an inital billion dollar prize for a cure for aids, cure for the common cold, and other things like low cost solar cells.
You should read a bit more before you make such interesting claims.
I have two distant relatives that owned slaves. One had a huge plantation in VA and had both black slaves (the kind you hear about) and white salves (endentured). They were both treated the same. The owner felt he had a moral obligation as a master to keep the workers healthy and happy. Most of the black slaves he released (after 10 years or so) ended up working for him as he expaned west. Remember that 200 years ago there was a strict class system and there wasn't any way to change class levels. The concept of ownership in christian homes was offen much like the relationship of a servent. The owners had strict moral obligations that are even listed in the bible.
Of course the other distant relative was the other exterme and there a number of newpaper reports where troublesome slaves ended up dead on or near his property. He was run out of town at least 4 different times for his actions to his slaves.
Black africia has been exporting large numbers of slaves for at least 5000 years. Thats where the Egypteans got the idea, as well as the Greeks. Rome even learned a lot from slave traders in africa. There seems to be some evidence of well organized slave trade going back at least 10,000 years near the gold coat region.
Back on topic....
At the recent AIDS conference (the one that the US had to bribe leaders to even attend) the common way to control AIDS is to ignore it. according to some of the leaders, more deaths from aids mean fewer people to feed and they see that as a solution, not a problem. One other nice twist is that there is that there are stories floating arou nd the northern parts of South Africa that calim the cure for aids is to have unprotected sex with a virgin (either male or female) which is of course is spreading to younger and younger children. You know things are fucked up when parents are having sex with their 5 yr old children to make sure they aren't virgins. Top it up with female circumcision which kills 1/4 of the young girls and you have to wonder how things got so messed up in the first place.
The US seems to have a ZIP code for at least Melbourne. It would be cool to see if someone from the US could mail a letter to your friend with [name], [postcode], [zip+5 barcode for Australia]
What I would like to see is a format that is based on moving source around and not the binary images. Kind of like tar balls with./configure scripts but the way most configure scripts are run, you unpack every thing and then after it churns a long time you find out you need xyz which you don't have. I would like to see standard Makefile target (or some other system) that checks for requirements so 'make requirements' will go out and tell you real quick that you have to go pick up a bunch of new stuff.
If I remember correctly, the AT&T 3b2 used to do this back in the System 5 R 2 days but its packages were based on cpio.
Make sure you contract can be canceled if the exchange rate changes too much. A 10% swing can make a huge difference. If you have bills in your home country, get the company to pay directly into an account at home since it won't cost them much and its just a typical business expense for a international company and moving money internationaly for a person can get expensive.
Also look into cost of bank accounts and internatioal ATM charges. Some US banks only charge $1. One NZ banks seems to be charging NZ$5 plus a 2% transfer fee.
Most smart sysadmins won't put all four dns servers on the same network. Whoever did that deserves to properly get fired at once.
I've been dealing with DNS since about 1985 and other than inital setup, I have yet to have a dns outage. Sure I've spent time cussing getting things running at first, but read the docs from the people who have been there first and see the light. There is a way to properly do it and the idiot at M$ didn't bother finding out what that is. Having to work with people like that makes me sick. They should be out flipping burgers or something, just keep them the hell out of my machine room.
Get a clue. This can't happen to every site. This stupidity can't even happen to my personal site. Some of us do have several dns server and if one gets totaly messed up, there are 2 others. I don't care what happens, if you nuke Kansas City where my main server is, you can still get to the back up because dns will still resolve since I've got 3 dns servers.
A quick whois microsoft.com shows they are running 4 dns servers all on the same/24 network. What kind of "network professional" did this. Most likely the idiot illegally claims to be an engineer as well.
What ever happened to putting your dns servers on separate networks? It used to be a requirement to register a domain. At least hotmail got it almost right... too bad they link to passport.com which didn't.
Many of the skin cancer test cases seem to completely forget taht smoking is a leading cuase of skin cancer and simply blame the sun. Australia has the same problem. Its almost like some of the studies are rigged to show the desired results.
Back to CO2, the US is taking a stupid stance but Europe won't back down either so no on wins. Even with the US consesion of having lots of green areas, they are still going to have to cut CO2.
One way to help stop the rising water is to grow more plants. Many coastal areas near deserts can now sustain life. Egypt has enough water under it to expand the green belt quite a ways into the desert. If the dust bowl showed anything, it should show that if you get more trees in an area, you will be able to get more rain. Keep in mind that Oklahoma was known as the "Great American Desert" before they found out about Arizona. The tree plainging schemses and mand made lakes have increased the rain fall in Okla several thousand precent.
The slowest dns server that I run does about 60 zones and I have never seen bind even show up as active on top. Some domains web sites get about 100,000 hits a month (on the same box). This is on an 11 year old sparc 1 with 24mb of ram.
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Where talking about a country that just tripled the numbers of nMRI machines and they still don't have enough and are in the wrong places (they are almost all in Sydney)
Medical care in Australia is a joke. Its slightly better than places like Egypt.
The hospitals (even the private ones) have a lack of decent equipment and there are constant personel shortages.
The real problem with medical systems like the US is they can cure lots of things and can extended life for a very long time. That cost money and most of the time it cost lots and lots of money. At this point you can keep someone that the rest of the world would consider dead alive in an nice ICU ward at a cost of about $1000 an hour. That means that end point of most peoples lives can be exteeded at a cost of 8.5 mil a year. Now if that person averaged $28,000 a year in income over their working life of 30 years they only made 1/10 of what it will cost to keep them alive for an extra year. In most of the world, the doctor says "their time has come" and thats it. In the US people assume they have a right to every bit of medical tech to keep them alive even longer.
So far in my two years in Australia I have seen some of the oldest equipment. An Eye doctor with a device made in the late 1800s to measure vision angles. A doc that uses one of thouse old mirrors with a hole in it (what every happened to electric lights?), A device made in the 1950s to lung capacity. Lovely state of the art suff. Of course doctors here don't make a decent wage so maybe they can't afford the good stuff.
Osama Bin Laden is the US's goverments blame child of the decade now that Castro, Qadhafi, etc are not longer a "threat". He is used as an example of why the terrorism needs to be fought and why the budget needs to increase.
For thouse that don't know, Bin Laden stole a great deal of money from the Saudi Goverment and built hospitals all over the Arab world. This has annoyed King Fahd who most lilky would have helped out anyway but this was done behind his back. Keep in mind that stealing large amounts of money in Saudi results in the death penalty. I suspect that Bin Laden was allowed to leave Saudi because of the good work that he has done there.
So why is the US got him listed on the top ten? Its because he feels that scnations aginst a country (Libya) are act of war and should result in people fighting back which he has done. They guy is an engineer and a good planner who feels his people (all Arabs) should be at war with those that have santions aginst any Arabs. He is also for a united Arab country. His work to bring western style hostpitals to the Arab world makes means that in many places in the world he has the type of respect that we would expect to be given to Mother Theresa in Inida.
If the US goverment did want to capture him, all they have to do is go to Ciaro and hang out in the Hilton and wait till he shows up. I know several people have have seen Bin Laden there.
A car very much like the bug is pictured in the Walter Chrysler Museum in Ellis Kansas. There is a picture of an early design that looks like a bug and has the rear air cooled engine from the early 1930s. It never made it to production since it was too small.
S/A drift used to typicaly be 2 to 5 mph, not 1-2 kph. S/A was never set to be too agressive or else it could be in the 20kph range.
Someone did some research for on speeding events. They were something like a trillion ticketable offences in the US per year. Some drivers in the US speed something like 90% of the time or highways and that is baseded on enforced speed limits, not the posted ones.
Some recent reearch shows that 85% of the cars involved in accidents are the slowest 15% of all cars. This will be quite an interesting study once its final resutls are published.
WAAS uses the same reciver as the GPS signals and does full RAIM so you know when stats go bad. WAAS coverage will be over enough of the Atlantic to cover the UK so once again the US tax payers pay for a system the UK uses since they have a pissly little space program.
The problem is that accelerometers are quite expensive. The ones used in model helicopters seem to be the cheapest for this type of application but they cost several times what a GPS reciver will.
There is already a hack for this. They are called GPS simulators. They cost about 20 grand.
One problem with building a system like this is that the S/A drift should it ever get turned back on. How will the unit adjust to the S/A drift which can offten exceed 20km/hr.
There are B rated computer system that do not allow you to cut and paste between windows decreasing security levels.
Read the outdated Orange Book for more details.
At higher security levels, the data packates must keep the access control list as well as the data.
I suspect the EPS people are going to love this.
Some of the recent bids for radio spectrum has resulted in bids so high that the consumers will be forced to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars that end up going to cover thouse bids. This will make many services over priced and that is unfair use of the spectrum. Is there any way that the FCC can help fix this problem?
WW III may have already started.
Current Situation: Ariel Sharon is about to become the Prime Minister of Israel. Lebanon and Syria have a real problem with Ariel since he lead the invasion of Lebanon which resulted in the deaths of at least 20,000 Palestinians. They think of this guy as one of Himmler's jack booted henchmen.
Now Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt have a defence treaty and Egypt and Saudi have a defence treaty. Recently Saudi convinced most oil producing Arab countries to sing a new mutual defence treaty.
So if Sharon is elected, the violence will most likely escalate till it involves Lebanon or Jordan. Egypt would be involved instantly without pressure from the US to stay out. If they get involved and get attacked by Israel, then Saudi (the only power in the region that is equipped equal to Israel) will get involved and then there will be a technologically fair fight.
What happens in Europe if Saudi gets involved? They have two choices, ignore Israel or side with them. One way they get no oil and the economy takes a nose dive. The other way they get oil. The real problem is what side is the US on if Europe takes sides? A condition of Europe getting oil will require a blockade of the Israel. Then what happens? The US will not stand by and let Israel get wiped off the face of the planet.
Jackson was also the first president elected using the current electorial system. George was elected by the one in the Constitution.
I'm talking about a US zip code for a city outside of the US. All the US mail I get here in Melboure Australia seems to be bar coded with 00194+0000.
Anyone want to send me a letter? I wonder what would happen if you mailed it to
Tim
86 Nicholson
3065
with the 00194+0000 barcode.
Its like a cure for the common cold. Its only worth a few billion dollars to wipe out the cold virus forever. Right now American drug compaines rake in 6 billion dollars a year profit on cold products a year.
This is why we need things like the "Kings Ransom" that lead to decent modern clocks. Have the goverment pay an insane amount of cash to the person who finds a cure. That would make sure that a cure didn't stay hidden for long. I would propse an inital billion dollar prize for a cure for aids, cure for the common cold, and other things like low cost solar cells.
You should read a bit more before you make such interesting claims.
I have two distant relatives that owned slaves. One had a huge plantation in VA and had both black slaves (the kind you hear about) and white salves (endentured). They were both treated the same. The owner felt he had a moral obligation as a master to keep the workers healthy and happy. Most of the black slaves he released (after 10 years or so) ended up working for him as he expaned west. Remember that 200 years ago there was a strict class system and there wasn't any way to change class levels. The concept of ownership in christian homes was offen much like the relationship of a servent. The owners had strict moral obligations that are even listed in the bible.
Of course the other distant relative was the other exterme and there a number of newpaper reports where troublesome slaves ended up dead on or near his property. He was run out of town at least 4 different times for his actions to his slaves.
Black africia has been exporting large numbers of slaves for at least 5000 years. Thats where the Egypteans got the idea, as well as the Greeks. Rome even learned a lot from slave traders in africa. There seems to be some evidence of well organized slave trade going back at least 10,000 years near the gold coat region.
Back on topic....
At the recent AIDS conference (the one that the US had to bribe leaders to even attend) the common way to control AIDS is to ignore it. according to some of the leaders, more deaths from aids mean fewer people to feed and they see that as a solution, not a problem. One other nice twist is that there is that there are stories floating arou nd the northern parts of South Africa that calim the cure for aids is to have unprotected sex with a virgin (either male or female) which is of course is spreading to younger and younger children. You know things are fucked up when parents are having sex with their 5 yr old children to make sure they aren't virgins. Top it up with female circumcision which kills 1/4 of the young girls and you have to wonder how things got so messed up in the first place.
no they aren't.
They have been smoking geneticlly engineered crap for a long time and they smoke more than americans.
The US seems to have a ZIP code for at least Melbourne. It would be cool to see if someone from the US could mail a letter to your friend with [name], [postcode], [zip+5 barcode for Australia]
What I would like to see is a format that is based on moving source around and not the binary images. Kind of like tar balls with ./configure scripts but the way most configure scripts are run, you unpack every thing and then after it churns a long time you find out you need xyz which you don't have. I would like to see standard Makefile target (or some other system) that checks for requirements so 'make requirements' will go out and tell you real quick that you have to go pick up a bunch of new stuff.
If I remember correctly, the AT&T 3b2 used to do this back in the System 5 R 2 days but its packages were based on cpio.
I can second this point.
Make sure you contract can be canceled if the exchange rate changes too much. A 10% swing can make a huge difference. If you have bills in your home country, get the company to pay directly into an account at home since it won't cost them much and its just a typical business expense for a international company and moving money internationaly for a person can get expensive.
Also look into cost of bank accounts and internatioal ATM charges. Some US banks only charge $1. One NZ banks seems to be charging NZ$5 plus a 2% transfer fee.
Most smart sysadmins won't put all four dns servers on the same network. Whoever did that deserves to properly get fired at once.
I've been dealing with DNS since about 1985 and other than inital setup, I have yet to have a dns outage. Sure I've spent time cussing getting things running at first, but read the docs from the people who have been there first and see the light. There is a way to properly do it and the idiot at M$ didn't bother finding out what that is. Having to work with people like that makes me sick. They should be out flipping burgers or something, just keep them the hell out of my machine room.
Being a sysadmin is not a game.
Get a clue. This can't happen to every site. This stupidity can't even happen to my personal site. Some of us do have several dns server and if one gets totaly messed up, there are 2 others. I don't care what happens, if you nuke Kansas City where my main server is, you can still get to the back up because dns will still resolve since I've got 3 dns servers.
A quick whois microsoft.com shows they are running 4 dns servers all on the same /24 network. What kind of "network professional" did this. Most likely the idiot illegally claims to be an engineer as well.
What ever happened to putting your dns servers on separate networks? It used to be a requirement to register a domain. At least hotmail got it almost right... too bad they link to passport.com which didn't.
Many of the skin cancer test cases seem to completely forget taht smoking is a leading cuase of skin cancer and simply blame the sun. Australia has the same problem. Its almost like some of the studies are rigged to show the desired results.
Back to CO2, the US is taking a stupid stance but Europe won't back down either so no on wins. Even with the US consesion of having lots of green areas, they are still going to have to cut CO2.
One way to help stop the rising water is to grow more plants. Many coastal areas near deserts can now sustain life. Egypt has enough water under it to expand the green belt quite a ways into the desert. If the dust bowl showed anything, it should show that if you get more trees in an area, you will be able to get more rain. Keep in mind that Oklahoma was known as the "Great American Desert" before they found out about Arizona. The tree plainging schemses and mand made lakes have increased the rain fall in Okla several thousand precent.
The slowest dns server that I run does about 60 zones and I have never seen bind even show up as active on top. Some domains web sites get about 100,000 hits a month (on the same box). This is on an 11 year old sparc 1 with 24mb of ram.
If bind does run out of real memory it dies.
What if my clone starts doing crimes?
I should have known I didn't want a clone of my own.