A lot of lawmakers are... lawyers. Too many damn politicians are ex-lawyers. You'd'a thunk that this would have the consequence of having good laws passed. Quite the opposite in practice. Example, the lawyer's solution to a crisis is to pass new laws. You're seen as doing *something*. However, laws cobbled together in haste have far reaching consequences, unseen side-effects. It's like making changes to a large software system, side-effects often happen. It happens a lot in the UK as well; Blair came from a certain law-firm in London, and he hired various members of his law-firms to fill cabinet positions. And bad laws came to pass. The shit will be falling out for years to come. Maybe it's a plot to keep lawyers employed.
Still, the US has practiced torture in the recent past, before the US started outsourcing it's torture to client states via "extraordinary rendition" or kidnapping as it used to called. So much for democracy in the USA, huh?
Iran isn't perfect by no means however they do not deserve to be bombed back into the stone-age. The pipeline cutting is a pre-cursor to war, and I think it's fucking madness. If the USA is involved, then I think it will be bye-bye USA and it's democracy. Personally, I think it's the Israelis stirring the shit.
Judging by the amount of spin they put on it, and the amount of talent they've shoveled in, Microsoft do: that's why they say they need the monopoly. To be innovative. Hell, Microsoft first started using the phrase "innovator".
So, if they buy virtually every thing in, what does that fucking massive research budget go on? Pizzas?
You can't get any freer markets in the US than medicine. The USA is a world-leader in spend on medical provisions, and it leaves out a large part of the population, and it's very inefficient. Beauracracy is everywhere, managers, time-keepers, bean-counters. Apply what happens to your company to a medical operation - endless managerial meetings, all taking troops from the front-line. sucking money out of medicine into monitoring. That's failure.
Medicine is a social problem; it requires a social response.
I never understand this "they can only make it worse." It's an assertion with little basis in reality, then I realise it's an American making the comment and then I realise how America is so alien to me. Soon any discussion is short-cut with reference to the Evil 4. Oh, that's right, socialised medicine == COMMNUNISM and TOTALITARIAN govt. Tell that to the French, or the Brits; none of the health systems there foreshadow the heavy involvement or totalitarianism this thread is so fucking scared of. Oh yes, it's a pity that Cuba is never mentioned in that list - oh, that's right, they have a brilliant health system. Your example of the church - well, they provide because YOUR govt WILL NOT. Your easy wisdom is only there because AMERICAN govt policy WANTS - no DICTATES - that churches (and "faith-based solutions") to pick up the slack, not because they are any better at it. It's social engineering of a different hue, a foretaste of a theocratic state. You are becoming the Taleban. And you're welcome to it.
The US as a whole spend more than anyone else on health, and yet your system is so imbalanced in it's provisioning, so inefficient it's unreal but then, it's the usual company bullshit. Think of the way computer companies work, apply those methods to medicine. It's a wonder anyone gets treated. The market has failed to work here, totally, completely. And for a good reason: health issues are a social concern that cut across class and money. I read American blogs and weblogs a lot, and every so often they go off line because their owners can't afford the medicine. They can't even afford the flu injections to help protect them against flu. If you're above the line, if you're in the comfort zone, then everything is fine. If not, you fall off into the void. It's an unchristian attitude that I cannot understadnd, and will not welcome in my own country.
The US has a couple of "nationalised" industries - the armed forces, fire, postal, coast-guard. They seem to work tolerably well. When the US govt started to implement no-contest contracts (now isn't no-contest a SOCIALIST concept?), and private soldiers, things seem to have got considerably worse.
It is the governments responsibility to fix the health system.
The Nazis maybe didn't like religious organisations it's true, but it wasn't an atheist regime. http://www.nobeliefs.com/Hitler1.htm The German army retained it's motto "Gott im himmel", the SS oath mentions god, and so and so forth.
So, that knocks the bodycount by Hitler out of the equation.
Mao doesn't even count: Chinese history is separate from Western, and atheism doesn't even come into the equation, as much as Christians want it to.
Which leaves us with Stalin. Stalin's atrocities - and I'm not defending the man - wasn't qualitatively the same as Hitlers on the industrial scale. The majority of Stalin's "work" comes from stuffing people in prison and letting them rot - see a Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich as an exampl. True, he did this to a large number of people, and sometimes to nearly whole ethnic groups but the point is, he didn't have gas ovens.
I think you miss my point. There is no "ripper" program for a mac; it's just a plain copy. Or does copy == ripping these days? I assumed that "ripping" had some decompression involved. Or do you think "ripping" is some mystical force? Before this, I had been a windows user for many years.
I buy a CD, put the CD into the player, and copy the tracks onto a very large hard-disk. Macs recognise AIFF format. And that's it. And I spent ages looking for a Mac "ripper" program when "cp -pr" or drag-and-drop would do the trick.
Microsoft has a 30 year history in software, has an amazing profit-line and an incredible amount of talent working for them. I don't understand why they need as long as you say they do to "fix" vista. "nothing is perfect" is a cop-out which really doesn't apply to a Fortune 500 company with this kind of profile.
With a properly planned introduction, I reckon you could get at least as reliable if not more reliable than human counting. But hey, this is just talk. Ponying up the ante in the face of a humoungous legal system would take a helluva lot of cajones.
RFID tags might void the use of counts completely. Take the scenario where everything that goes near the patient is magic-tagged. Once the op is finished, pass the patient through the magic transponder unit. The unit alarms, you've left something inside. If not, you're safe. It works for supermarkets. Simple, safe, no false-positives or negatives. And no need for counting.
Just how is the US Economy these days? Better? Worse? for all Clinton's faults he had a great track record with the US economy unlike wothisface, you know, that fiscally upright republican Bush. And Clinton did try and find bin Ladin. Unlike Bush. Clinton - even during his crisis - always enjoyed reasonable public approval ratings. Yeah, there's a pattern developing here.
C'mon guys, just saying every politico is corrupt and the system is broken is part of the problem *not* the solution.
A problem for the teacher, agreed. But I can't see it being a major problem, per se. Substitute any general reference book for the wikipedia and you'll come up with the same issue. When I did my law module, I used to plagiarise whole sections from... law books... and I was marked down. Well, my bad.
The wikipedia citation meme should really die, as it serves no purpose but to muddy the waters on the wiki. The wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, it says so on the front page, and it should and is generally treated as such.
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A lot of lawmakers are ... lawyers. Too many damn politicians are ex-lawyers. You'd'a thunk that this would have the consequence of having good laws passed. Quite the opposite in practice. Example, the lawyer's solution to a crisis is to pass new laws. You're seen as doing *something*. However, laws cobbled together in haste have far reaching consequences, unseen side-effects. It's like making changes to a large software system, side-effects often happen. It happens a lot in the UK as well; Blair came from a certain law-firm in London, and he hired various members of his law-firms to fill cabinet positions. And bad laws came to pass. The shit will be falling out for years to come. Maybe it's a plot to keep lawyers employed.
Still, the US has practiced torture in the recent past, before the US started outsourcing it's torture to client states via "extraordinary rendition" or kidnapping as it used to called. So much for democracy in the USA, huh?
Iran isn't perfect by no means however they do not deserve to be bombed back into the stone-age. The pipeline cutting is a pre-cursor to war, and I think it's fucking madness. If the USA is involved, then I think it will be bye-bye USA and it's democracy. Personally, I think it's the Israelis stirring the shit.
Also, large machines orbiting his house:
http://www.rense.com/general79/wdx2.htm
The Black Ops boys must have money to burn if they can send a gdam CHINOOK to photograph him
c'mon, you're giving tin-foil wearers and right-wing wing-nuts a bad name here.
Judging by the amount of spin they put on it, and the amount of talent they've shoveled in, Microsoft do: that's why they say they need the monopoly. To be innovative. Hell, Microsoft first started using the phrase "innovator".
So, if they buy virtually every thing in, what does that fucking massive research budget go on? Pizzas?
in before Creationist shitstorm
Wall Street love affair with geeks has lasted from the 80s. You watch them drop those geeks if the derivatives markets comes crashing down.
GOOD. That's the whole point of congestion charges. I am a motorist
Fuckin' A. Managers and salespeople are particularly prone to reply-all, company-wide emails about whatever's current in their tiny, tiny heads.
You can't get any freer markets in the US than medicine. The USA is a world-leader in spend on medical provisions, and it leaves out a large part of the population, and it's very inefficient. Beauracracy is everywhere, managers, time-keepers, bean-counters. Apply what happens to your company to a medical operation - endless managerial meetings, all taking troops from the front-line. sucking money out of medicine into monitoring. That's failure.
Medicine is a social problem; it requires a social response.
I never understand this "they can only make it worse." It's an assertion with little basis in reality, then I realise it's an American making the comment and then I realise how America is so alien to me. Soon any discussion is short-cut with reference to the Evil 4. Oh, that's right, socialised medicine == COMMNUNISM and TOTALITARIAN govt. Tell that to the French, or the Brits; none of the health systems there foreshadow the heavy involvement or totalitarianism this thread is so fucking scared of. Oh yes, it's a pity that Cuba is never mentioned in that list - oh, that's right, they have a brilliant health system. Your example of the church - well, they provide because YOUR govt WILL NOT. Your easy wisdom is only there because AMERICAN govt policy WANTS - no DICTATES - that churches (and "faith-based solutions") to pick up the slack, not because they are any better at it. It's social engineering of a different hue, a foretaste of a theocratic state. You are becoming the Taleban. And you're welcome to it.
The US as a whole spend more than anyone else on health, and yet your system is so imbalanced in it's provisioning, so inefficient it's unreal but then, it's the usual company bullshit. Think of the way computer companies work, apply those methods to medicine. It's a wonder anyone gets treated. The market has failed to work here, totally, completely. And for a good reason: health issues are a social concern that cut across class and money. I read American blogs and weblogs a lot, and every so often they go off line because their owners can't afford the medicine. They can't even afford the flu injections to help protect them against flu. If you're above the line, if you're in the comfort zone, then everything is fine. If not, you fall off into the void. It's an unchristian attitude that I cannot understadnd, and will not welcome in my own country.
The US has a couple of "nationalised" industries - the armed forces, fire, postal, coast-guard. They seem to work tolerably well. When the US govt started to implement no-contest contracts (now isn't no-contest a SOCIALIST concept?), and private soldiers, things seem to have got considerably worse.
It is the governments responsibility to fix the health system.
They will solve the problem.
The Nazis maybe didn't like religious organisations it's true, but it wasn't an atheist regime. http://www.nobeliefs.com/Hitler1.htm The German army retained it's motto "Gott im himmel", the SS oath mentions god, and so and so forth.
The religious types would *like* to portray Hitler as an atheist, but their evidence is shakey. http://www.nobeliefs.com/HitlerSources.htm.
So, that knocks the bodycount by Hitler out of the equation.
Mao doesn't even count: Chinese history is separate from Western, and atheism doesn't even come into the equation, as much as Christians want it to.
Which leaves us with Stalin. Stalin's atrocities - and I'm not defending the man - wasn't qualitatively the same as Hitlers on the industrial scale. The majority of Stalin's "work" comes from stuffing people in prison and letting them rot - see a Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich as an exampl. True, he did this to a large number of people, and sometimes to nearly whole ethnic groups but the point is, he didn't have gas ovens.
I think you miss my point. There is no "ripper" program for a mac; it's just a plain copy. Or does copy == ripping these days? I assumed that "ripping" had some decompression involved. Or do you think "ripping" is some mystical force? Before this, I had been a windows user for many years.
I buy a CD, put the CD into the player, and copy the tracks onto a very large hard-disk. Macs recognise AIFF format. And that's it. And I spent ages looking for a Mac "ripper" program when "cp -pr" or drag-and-drop would do the trick.
the Science basket contains a rather small empty basket with the label God.
Microsoft has a 30 year history in software, has an amazing profit-line and an incredible amount of talent working for them. I don't understand why they need as long as you say they do to "fix" vista. "nothing is perfect" is a cop-out which really doesn't apply to a Fortune 500 company with this kind of profile.
best bit of newspeak I've seen recently
With a properly planned introduction, I reckon you could get at least as reliable if not more reliable than human counting. But hey, this is just talk. Ponying up the ante in the face of a humoungous legal system would take a helluva lot of cajones.
RFID tags might void the use of counts completely. Take the scenario where everything that goes near the patient is magic-tagged. Once the op is finished, pass the patient through the magic transponder unit. The unit alarms, you've left something inside. If not, you're safe. It works for supermarkets. Simple, safe, no false-positives or negatives. And no need for counting.
:-)
Consider this innovation patented
Look on the bright side, at least *someone* likes America. Funny or sad, who knows
well it could be, of there was any evidence for ID. That is, the weaknesses of the Theory of Evolution do not prove ID. ID is not science.
cos southerners're inbred idiots. HTH
Just how is the US Economy these days? Better? Worse? for all Clinton's faults he had a great track record with the US economy unlike wothisface, you know, that fiscally upright republican Bush. And Clinton did try and find bin Ladin. Unlike Bush. Clinton - even during his crisis - always enjoyed reasonable public approval ratings. Yeah, there's a pattern developing here.
C'mon guys, just saying every politico is corrupt and the system is broken is part of the problem *not* the solution.
you are what you eat
A problem for the teacher, agreed. But I can't see it being a major problem, per se. Substitute any general reference book for the wikipedia and you'll come up with the same issue. When I did my law module, I used to plagiarise whole sections from ... law books ... and I was marked down. Well, my bad.
The wikipedia citation meme should really die, as it serves no purpose but to muddy the waters on the wiki. The wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, it says so on the front page, and it should and is generally treated as such.