Im really a strong advocate for socialized medicine - I grew up in Sweden, where the Social Democrats have been in power more or less as long as people can remember (apart from a right wing alliance w/ the moderates, 91-93, 06-present).
I believe firmly in healthcare for all - we pay a symbolic fee of 140kr ~20USD when we come in - whether we cut our finger or got shot in the leg seven times. (from wiki) Financing
The state finances the bulk of health care costs, with the patient paying a nominal fee for examinations and some tests. The state pays for approximately 85 % of medical costs.
When a physician declares a patient to be ill for whatever reason (by signing a certificate of illness/unfitness), the patient is paid a percentage of their normal daily wage from the second day. For the first 14 days, the employer is required to pay this wage, and after that the state pays the wage until the patient is declared fit.
The state also reimburses patients for travel costs to and from the clinic or hospital.
[edit] Examples of patient fees in Stockholm:
Appointment at a clinic - 140 SEK (ca 15) Appointment at a clinic (child) - 0 SEK Appointment with specialist - 260 SEK (ca 27) In-patient care - 80 SEK (ca 8.50)/day
This is all fine. Further down on the wiki, Criticism The main criticism leveled at Swedish health care is that the waiting times are too long.
This is where things go wrong. There is no preventive care - you need care, you get in line. Your statement that socialized healthcare means preventive care is just false, and Sweden has one of the best models in the world.
Yes, and 25gb over a year is 68mb per day. Take into consideration automated software updates, such as windows and antivirus definitions. Streaming audio. Streaming video, like youtube. Do you actually know how much bandwidth youre using in a half an hour on youtube? Casual browsing. Movie previews. I mean, people use the internet for _everything_. SPAM! Whats the average spam message size, 10-40k? How many do _you_ recieve every day? The list is endless.
Im not even going to go into how much of those 161 exabytes is from p2p and torrents. A lot of people either download or stream their favorite tv episodes. I watch the simpsons, family guy, american dad, heroes, prison break and lost religiously. Thats fox on demand, nbc video, etc streaming. They show good quality, even though i doubt the files are 350mb like the torrents are, theyre atleast 200. So just watching my tv shows every day, I musing atleast _three_ times my daily allocated bandwidth.
As many of the comments point out, this is a question mainly of supply and demand.
It seems there are already fibre cables that can be activated at need, and this seems to be the case in Stockholm at the moment. About a year ago, BBB (bredbandsbolaget, literally the broadband company) upgraded all of their customers from 10 to 100mbit.
It was reported in the newspaper the other day that BBB will now be offering 1GBPS, and it suggested that the technology and capability has been around for quite some time, but that they did not feel the market was mature enough for it to be economically viable - no demand - high supply = high price per unit to meet economies of scale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale).
Theyre starting off slow, last week two apartment buildings were connected to try it, and they say it plans to be implemented fully by 2010.
Im _really_ not an expert in the area, but a lot of users point out theoretical scenarios that illustrate that when the demand arrives, more broadband will be rolled out.
This seems to be exactly whats happening in Sweden.
I just moved to a new city - from Stockholm, Sweden to Phoenix, Arizona, so Ive had a lot of free time on my hands and much of that has gone to looking for good, free games. I havent limited this to only flash, obviously. Beggars cant be choosers. But here are some I found that were very addicting!
A game where youre a miner on a mars colony. Deeper you go, the more dangerous, but the more valuable the gems. Upgrades and planning ahead are really important. Actually takes the better part of the day to beat, and it incorporates a save function.
I dont like straying from the subject, but usually we are limited to buggy beta-type games when the pricetag is $0. It may be interesting for a lot of people to know that Rockstar has released Grand Theft Auto (1) to the public, free of charge http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/ (download link). The good people at Virgin Interactive have also released Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn to the public, also free of charge: http://megagames.com/news/html/freegames/commandandconquertiberiandawn.shtml (download link).
These are some great classic titles that are all worth being played again!
Heres some friendly advice on how to deal with these kinds of situations in the future.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~bofh/
Next weeks headlines:
Meta: Slashdot Emails Tangled up in Blue.
Posted by samzenpus on Monday October 29, @12:00PM
from the so-you-want-to-mess-with-slashdot dept.
actually, "good news everyone!" was always used in conjunction with that a new delivery was to be made, often to places like "the forbidden sector" or the "place of no return". "good news everyone!" was always detested by the crew.
So if this thing is only supposed to scurry about and collect twigs and such.. why does part of its name entail "Warrior"? Do rocket launchers unfold when it hits american soil?
I bet this is Osamas newest theme for world terror. New York beware, Stick-Collecting T-1000's should appear on shelves near you.. as soon as the afghan war donkeys learn how to swim and get the merchendise here. Rawr.
Its amazing how dumb reasons people sue for these days. This is an excellent display of "Rednecks With Too Much Time On Their Hands". This is a product of boredom. So it doesnt comply with his specific screen reading program. Ask the neighbour boy to read it for him. Im sure that, had he called the company in question, they would have gladly taken the time out to read anythign he was interested in for him free of charge. I hope he loses.
So, if this app DOES pick up government agency adress hits, theyre either forged (spoofing) or because someone at said agency has a personal interest in your site (in a good way.).
But what do I know? Maybe this is like, the all seeing eye. Or something. Hope this gave some insight into the fact that this application is just a waste of your time. I have a better solution (which is both time and space saving): tcpdump | grep -i.gov >> dotgovhits.txt && tcpdump | grep -i.mil >> dotmilhits.txt
This is an excellent idea. The government controlled [nasa] launch sites want a small fortune ($1mil+) to jetisson a can of coke into space. These private foundations can only cost a fraction of that.. and im sure more of these privately owned sites will spring forth around the globe pretty quickly. And as we all know only with competition can something really be accomplished. Nasa has proven that without due such all they can accomplish is launch dates in the 3000's. A round of applause to the people of Rancho de Stockton.
Props to Gene Lyda for letting them use the land free-of-charge!
May I be the very first to do it:
Happy birthday to you.. Happy birthday to you
happy birthday dear sputnik.. happy birthday to you...and many more...
Anyone care to take it en espanol?
Sounds like fun. I sure wouldnt mind steaking out on a pirate boat off of malaysia burning pr0n, catching a tan between cd's.. And im sure they have their share of rum &..jezabels;)
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, the jedi's are going to feel this one..
If we are on a holodeck anyway, why not rid ourselves of the damn cubicles?
Im really a strong advocate for socialized medicine - I grew up in Sweden, where the Social Democrats have been in power more or less as long as people can remember (apart from a right wing alliance w/ the moderates, 91-93, 06-present).
I believe firmly in healthcare for all - we pay a symbolic fee of 140kr ~20USD when we come in - whether we cut our finger or got shot in the leg seven times.
(from wiki)
Financing
The state finances the bulk of health care costs, with the patient paying a nominal fee for examinations and some tests. The state pays for approximately 85 % of medical costs.
When a physician declares a patient to be ill for whatever reason (by signing a certificate of illness/unfitness), the patient is paid a percentage of their normal daily wage from the second day. For the first 14 days, the employer is required to pay this wage, and after that the state pays the wage until the patient is declared fit.
The state also reimburses patients for travel costs to and from the clinic or hospital.
[edit] Examples of patient fees in Stockholm:
Appointment at a clinic - 140 SEK (ca 15)
Appointment at a clinic (child) - 0 SEK
Appointment with specialist - 260 SEK (ca 27)
In-patient care - 80 SEK (ca 8.50)/day
This is all fine.
Further down on the wiki,
Criticism
The main criticism leveled at Swedish health care is that the waiting times are too long.
This is where things go wrong. There is no preventive care - you need care, you get in line.
Your statement that socialized healthcare means preventive care is just false, and Sweden has one of the best models in the world.
Yes, and 25gb over a year is 68mb per day.
Take into consideration automated software updates, such as windows and antivirus definitions.
Streaming audio.
Streaming video, like youtube. Do you actually know how much bandwidth youre using in a half an hour on youtube?
Casual browsing.
Movie previews.
I mean, people use the internet for _everything_.
SPAM! Whats the average spam message size, 10-40k?
How many do _you_ recieve every day?
The list is endless.
Im not even going to go into how much of those 161 exabytes is from p2p and torrents.
A lot of people either download or stream their favorite tv episodes.
I watch the simpsons, family guy, american dad, heroes, prison break and lost religiously.
Thats fox on demand, nbc video, etc streaming. They show good quality, even though i doubt the files are 350mb like the torrents are, theyre atleast 200. So just watching my tv shows every day, I musing atleast _three_ times my daily allocated bandwidth.
Are you starting to see my point..?
As many of the comments point out, this is a question mainly of supply and demand.
It seems there are already fibre cables that can be activated at need, and this seems to be the case in Stockholm at the moment.
About a year ago, BBB (bredbandsbolaget, literally the broadband company) upgraded all of their customers from 10 to 100mbit.
It was reported in the newspaper the other day that BBB will now be offering 1GBPS, and it suggested that the technology and capability has been around for quite some time, but that they did not feel the market was mature enough for it to be economically viable - no demand - high supply = high price per unit to meet economies of scale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale).
Theyre starting off slow, last week two apartment buildings were connected to try it, and they say it plans to be implemented fully by 2010.
Im _really_ not an expert in the area, but a lot of users point out theoretical scenarios that illustrate that when the demand arrives, more broadband will be rolled out.
This seems to be exactly whats happening in Sweden.
Its called Sol in swedish!
I just moved to a new city - from Stockholm, Sweden to Phoenix, Arizona, so Ive had a lot of free time on my hands and much of that has gone to looking for good, free games. I havent limited this to only flash, obviously. Beggars cant be choosers.
But here are some I found that were very addicting!
(flash)
Motherload
http://www.miniclip.com/games/motherload/en/
A game where youre a miner on a mars colony. Deeper you go, the more dangerous, but the more valuable the gems. Upgrades and planning ahead are really important. Actually takes the better part of the day to beat, and it incorporates a save function.
(flash)
Aqua Energizer
http://www.miniclip.com/games/aqua-energizer/en/
Really addicting puzzle/maze game.
I dont like straying from the subject, but usually we are limited to buggy beta-type games when the pricetag is $0.
It may be interesting for a lot of people to know that Rockstar has released Grand Theft Auto (1) to the public, free of charge
http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/ (download link). The good people at Virgin Interactive have also released Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn to the public, also free of charge: http://megagames.com/news/html/freegames/commandandconquertiberiandawn.shtml (download link).
These are some great classic titles that are all worth being played again!
Heres some friendly advice on how to deal with these kinds of situations in the future. http://members.iinet.net.au/~bofh/ Next weeks headlines: Meta: Slashdot Emails Tangled up in Blue. Posted by samzenpus on Monday October 29, @12:00PM from the so-you-want-to-mess-with-slashdot dept.
Yeah.
In free market, price mechanism is market.
The market sets the price.
Thats like the first rule of supply and demand.
actually, "good news everyone!" was always used in conjunction with that a new delivery was to be made, often to places like "the forbidden sector" or the "place of no return".
"good news everyone!" was always detested by the crew.
So if this thing is only supposed to scurry about and collect twigs and such.. why does part of its name entail "Warrior"? Do rocket launchers unfold when it hits american soil?
I bet this is Osamas newest theme for world terror. New York beware, Stick-Collecting T-1000's should appear on shelves near you.. as soon as the afghan war donkeys learn how to swim and get the merchendise here. Rawr.
Its amazing how dumb reasons people sue for these days. This is an excellent display of "Rednecks With Too Much Time On Their Hands". This is a product of boredom. So it doesnt comply with his specific screen reading program. Ask the neighbour boy to read it for him. Im sure that, had he called the company in question, they would have gladly taken the time out to read anythign he was interested in for him free of charge. I hope he loses.
Slashdot ran a story on this not too long ago (and after a half an hours worth of sifting through archived pages, i finally found it:
So, if this app DOES pick up government agency adress hits, theyre either forged (spoofing) or because someone at said agency has a personal interest in your site (in a good way.).
But what do I know? Maybe this is like, the all seeing eye. Or something. Hope this gave some insight into the fact that this application is just a waste of your time. I have a better solution (which is both time and space saving): tcpdump | grep -i
Thats my two cents. Adios.
This is an excellent idea. The government controlled [nasa] launch sites want a small fortune ($1mil+) to jetisson a can of coke into space. These private foundations can only cost a fraction of that.. and im sure more of these privately owned sites will spring forth around the globe pretty quickly. And as we all know only with competition can something really be accomplished. Nasa has proven that without due such all they can accomplish is launch dates in the 3000's. A round of applause to the people of Rancho de Stockton.
Props to Gene Lyda for letting them use the land free-of-charge!
May I be the very first to do it:
Happy birthday to you.. Happy birthday to you
happy birthday dear sputnik.. happy birthday to you...and many more...
Anyone care to take it en espanol?
Often the case for us male slashdotteers. Oh well. Perhaps if we started... nevermind. All hope is lost.
Sounds like fun. I sure wouldnt mind steaking out on a pirate boat off of malaysia burning pr0n, catching a tan between cd's.. And im sure they have their share of rum & ..jezabels ;)