Cite or get off the pot. Speaking of which, I would suggest this paper and this paper as a good start. There is major concern from Thimerosal toxicity in long term treatments, such as blood plasma programs, due to the introduction of more Thimerosal to the system then ethylmercury, the type of mercury that Thimerosal becomes, can be cleared. However, there seems to be more risk from dental amalgam then a single vaccination. Concern should be for long term series, such as a long term gamma globulin series, which is becoming rare.
Bah! I think my Atari 2600 still works, even though it is in my attic. You kids and your realistic graphics, bah. In my time, we had ET and... well honestly, we hated it. Bah again.
Think about a patient in a rural hospital. If they are lucky, there is an experianced physician on-call, but more likely they have an RN or LPN to deal with. A nurse or technician could record the sound and send it for a "wet read" to a remote physician. This is the model used by tele-radiology currently. Then a local physican could make a "dry read" in the morning. In a place with only a couple of physicians in the local area, such technologies would be invaluable.
I have to agree. Most US ERs have a RN doing triage in any situation besides disasters. (Which is funny to watch the poor internist to route people though a hospital during a drill, they don't know where to send people in a larger facility, 500+ beds, sometimes sending patients to rooms that do not exist.) The RN will take the major symptoms and cat1 the patient if there is any cause is tripped as defined by protocols. However, usually triage isn't as bad as people make it out to be, it is the hellhole after a patient passes the triage desk. Normally, even the issues behind the desk are not the nurses fault. We did a test where we set off several cardiac alarms, which promptly got ignored due to alert fatigue. Alert fatigue is a huge issue within Healthcare, where staff gets desensitized to the myriad of alarms presented to them.
Lets put it this way, how many of us just clicked through a series of dialog boxes to find out we had to start over again or screwed something up? Many nurses and physicians have to deal with a massive series of dialog boxes, blinking lights, colored rows, and auditory alarms. Eventually, it becomes background noise, which is horrible. The people in system design need to do a better job with user interaction to help reduce alert fatigue.
This is a problem within healthcare with any new technology or system. The solution is to ignore the traditionalists and go for the younger doctors. Doctors are very competitive and anything that improves the clinical capabilities will eventually permiate the local community due to peer pressure.
Actually with some thought, a human can count to over 2 million on their hands. Ever considered about rotating your hand by 180 degrees as part of your numbering system? It is commonly done in american sign language to count to 100 on one hand. Using three positions per hand, you can count to over 1.2 times 10 to the 27th power. Of course, trying to remember hand positions in such a system would likely be difficult.
Having worked on computers longer then many of the people here (1982 - yes there are some who been doing it longer, but not the vast majority), I understand why printer cables do not come with the printer. Mainly, it is the customer's fault. Back in the 1980's, a lot of printers came with their ribbon cable. However, many customers would complain because they already had one, it was too short, it was to long, it didn't work with THEIR computer.... blah blah blah. I remember my father ripping a sales associate for this.
In addition, the markup on those things are insane.
I agree that some FOSS implementations are rock solid. All I have to do is point at the differences between a Java on Redhat application that repeatedly slams a supply robot into our elevator doors and the non-free flow pump that I will never see the source for, but been though so much testing before it is allowed to touch a patient with the vendor that glad to send their whole test plan and results. I have fun telling engineers in the nuclear field that six-sigma is not good enough for healthcare.
Actually, I prefer a custom coded OS with a revision testing regimen that would make most developers and system engineers cry and a lack of bells and whistles. But what do I know, I only work in a division that supports life support systems.
First off, the Constitution actually enumerates what the Government cannot due to a US citizen, such as unlawful search. It covers a lot on the treatment of US Citizens.
Second, the charges you mention are actually impossible if the officer or guard is acting in an official capacity, since they have legal authority to hold prisoners via US law. In addition, the expectation test in assault becomes difficult. What is the expectation of treatment of a belligerent non-us citizen captured and held by the US Military? The answer to this fundamental evaluative question, I would assume pretty damd low.
The extraordinary rendition argument might hold against the CIA, but considering the protections the Virginia Farm boys seem to be able to scrounge up, I doubt it will come to light. Consider the fact of the CIA's history. However, let me propose this to you, does the US have an obligation to withhold a non-us citizen from a foreign country that they might be tortured or put to death?
Actually, if they are belligerent civilians, then your premise does hold water, since the Geneva Convention covers that situation. In addition, the Constitution only protects US citizens, unless the Supreme Court interprets it differently. This is especially pertinent due to Amendment 14. Furthermore, US Civilians in a foreign battlefield acting as a belligerent opposing the US Military might fall under the UCMJ, which would pretty much make their life suck. There is a lot of questions on that application of legal theory, but it hasn't been tested in court.
You are technically correct that a member of the United States Military can be held liable for following an illegal order. This is covered in basic training. However, by the laws of war, considering we haven't signed Protocal I, the guard at Guantanamo are unlikely following illegal orders. As long as a guard is not participating in torture, then they cannot be held liable. The commanding officer could be if there is actual torture happening at Guantanamo and it follows the de jure provisions of command responsibility. However, it is unlikely that such actions would happen at Guantanamo due to its awareness. The US's habit, as shown in WWII, is to bring someone to a 'black site' for such action, which would make the commanding officer not liable. Further more, extraordinary rendition makes the resposibility even more complex, since most of the torture would be likely carried out by people outside the US command structure.
With all of that said, I would like to remind people that there is a correllation between the personnal cost to a terrorist and their actions. The higher they believe they will suffer, the lower the incentive to perform a terrorist act. The safest Israel has been from acts of terrorism, is when they made punishment for terrorist acts so draconian. In the 70s, West Germany lowered the incidents of planes being hijacked by meeting each international flight with two tanks. The message is clear, there is a high personnal cost to terrorism. This is what is so troublesome about suicide terrorism. The personnal cost is subsummed within the act.
I have an XBOX360, two Zunes, and a windows mobile device, as do I have a tablet pc (With XP, since I haven't bothered upgrading). What I do not have is the HD-DVD player. My wife and I don't see the point to getting one in the near future. I love the Video Marketplace digital downloads of episodes. I have been getting all of the Numbers episodes and am about to plunk down $50 for an anime series I like. I usually setup two or three episodes to download at a time right before I go to work. The only issue I have is that I cannot buy a movie, I have to rent it, which is why my wife and I do not download movies from Marketplace. If they allowed the purchase of movies, then there would be no way we would ever get any of the HD media disk formats. It is just too much of a pain in the rear to deal with. Other services provide the ability to purchase a movie, such as Unbox, but I don't want to hook up a pc to the tv just to watch movies, especially since my wife would make it another pc and she hated our tivo (Tivo seemed to only replace the broken original with crappier ones).
Protocal I is not ratified by the US. Technically, we are following the Geneva Conventions but not Protocal I. I agree with the major issue, which is people using the mask of being a civilian to attack their enemy, causing accidents where civilians get killed due to soldiers making mistakes. Heck, at least the VC tended to wear black uniforms.
Civilians personnel operating with a military are at least required to have an id card showing the relationship. The spontaneous take of arms must still follow 4.A.2. The statement of convention 3 article 5 is if any doubt exsists. However, who determines the doubt would be detaining power. Unless the detaining power has ratified protocal I, which is an addenda to the GC, then the detaining power can determine whether to apply convention 4 article 5 or article 42. Considering the significant issue that is caused when a beligerent misrepresents themself as a member of the civilian populace, I don't see the issue of withholding GC rights from someone who misrepresents themself as a civilian because it leads to civilians being shot. As for security reasons, all it takes is considering the issues caused by a detainee telling his buddy about the informant that ratted to create a security reason.
I refer you to article 4.A.2.a on the distict uniform requirement. Specifically states 'That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance'.
If we accord them POW status, then they cannot be tried except for laws of the detaining power or international law, yet can be held for the duration of the conflict. However, if not accorded POW status yet acting as a beligerant, they are in legal lembo, as in convention 4 articles 5 and 42. Basicly, they have no rights according to the conventions. If the detaining power invokes article 42, they can be held for the duration of the conflict. If the detaining power invokes article 5, then they are to stand trial. In addition, due to provisions of convention 4, they can be held without any outside communication if determined important for security reasons.
Actually, when someone does not act within the guidelines of the Geneva Conventions, such as not wearing a distinct uniform or mixing within the populace, then all rights are withheld. For example, Klaus Barbie was a German Officer who did two things in Lyon, France. First, he rounded up Jews and sent them to concentration camps. Second, he executed members of the French Resistance. When tried in the 80's in France, he was convicted of crimes against humanity for the deporation of the jews, convicted of life of imprisonment. However, even though he was personnally involved in the brutal torture of Jean Moulin and the deaths of many of the french resistance, he not convicted of any crime against the french resistance. This was due to the fact that the french resistance acted as illegal combatants due to violating several distinguishing components of the Geneva Convention. Many SS and SD officers have been convicted against crimes against civilians, but not for crimes against guerilla fighters.
BMI was never intended to be a measure of an individual's obiesty. It is design to be a measure for a population. As we know from statistics, a population function becomes less accurate as the population lowers. Even the CDC agrees. Look at hip to waist ratio.
I would like this to prevent the large textbook manufactorers from buying the rights to an all holy metric crap-ton of case studies, making it where they are the only source for the study, so if they leave the study out of the international version (on accident) then we can find it.
Of course, because smoking pot is not illegal. Possession, on the other hand, is a sticky issue. If smoking pot was illegal, then a positive blood test would really suck.
Good concept, except people expect bombs in the bushes. We need to realize people think outside the box. There is a frequently used tactic of a small bomb placed on a door or in a trash can to get a response from the first responders, which get hit by the large bomb in the truck parked across the street. This is a common tactic used by terrorists in Israel. In addition, the goals of a bomber might be to have something unusual so that some does mess with it. Having a bomb marked "This is a Bomb" might be a way to target bomb squads, which is why they use robots when they can. Maybe some sicko wants to attract kids using a piece of candy or some money on a playground. How about a book laying on the floor, attached to a trigger via fishing line.
To qoute the PIRA, "Today we were unlucks, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You have to be lucky always." A bomber doesn't have to be smarter then a lab full of biologists, just luckier.
I could see it now... roll opening credits... two spartans standing on a dystopia battlefield... One is Matt Damon... The other is Christian Bale... first words... "Why are we here?"
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Hey, my speciality is healthcare management. You know, screwing patients and physicians alike.
Cite or get off the pot. Speaking of which, I would suggest this paper and this paper as a good start. There is major concern from Thimerosal toxicity in long term treatments, such as blood plasma programs, due to the introduction of more Thimerosal to the system then ethylmercury, the type of mercury that Thimerosal becomes, can be cleared. However, there seems to be more risk from dental amalgam then a single vaccination. Concern should be for long term series, such as a long term gamma globulin series, which is becoming rare.
Bah! I think my Atari 2600 still works, even though it is in my attic. You kids and your realistic graphics, bah. In my time, we had ET and... well honestly, we hated it. Bah again.
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Think about a patient in a rural hospital. If they are lucky, there is an experianced physician on-call, but more likely they have an RN or LPN to deal with. A nurse or technician could record the sound and send it for a "wet read" to a remote physician. This is the model used by tele-radiology currently. Then a local physican could make a "dry read" in the morning. In a place with only a couple of physicians in the local area, such technologies would be invaluable.
I have to agree. Most US ERs have a RN doing triage in any situation besides disasters. (Which is funny to watch the poor internist to route people though a hospital during a drill, they don't know where to send people in a larger facility, 500+ beds, sometimes sending patients to rooms that do not exist.) The RN will take the major symptoms and cat1 the patient if there is any cause is tripped as defined by protocols. However, usually triage isn't as bad as people make it out to be, it is the hellhole after a patient passes the triage desk. Normally, even the issues behind the desk are not the nurses fault. We did a test where we set off several cardiac alarms, which promptly got ignored due to alert fatigue. Alert fatigue is a huge issue within Healthcare, where staff gets desensitized to the myriad of alarms presented to them.
Lets put it this way, how many of us just clicked through a series of dialog boxes to find out we had to start over again or screwed something up? Many nurses and physicians have to deal with a massive series of dialog boxes, blinking lights, colored rows, and auditory alarms. Eventually, it becomes background noise, which is horrible. The people in system design need to do a better job with user interaction to help reduce alert fatigue.
This is a problem within healthcare with any new technology or system. The solution is to ignore the traditionalists and go for the younger doctors. Doctors are very competitive and anything that improves the clinical capabilities will eventually permiate the local community due to peer pressure.
Actually with some thought, a human can count to over 2 million on their hands. Ever considered about rotating your hand by 180 degrees as part of your numbering system? It is commonly done in american sign language to count to 100 on one hand. Using three positions per hand, you can count to over 1.2 times 10 to the 27th power. Of course, trying to remember hand positions in such a system would likely be difficult.
Having worked on computers longer then many of the people here (1982 - yes there are some who been doing it longer, but not the vast majority), I understand why printer cables do not come with the printer. Mainly, it is the customer's fault. Back in the 1980's, a lot of printers came with their ribbon cable. However, many customers would complain because they already had one, it was too short, it was to long, it didn't work with THEIR computer.... blah blah blah. I remember my father ripping a sales associate for this.
In addition, the markup on those things are insane.
I agree that some FOSS implementations are rock solid. All I have to do is point at the differences between a Java on Redhat application that repeatedly slams a supply robot into our elevator doors and the non-free flow pump that I will never see the source for, but been though so much testing before it is allowed to touch a patient with the vendor that glad to send their whole test plan and results. I have fun telling engineers in the nuclear field that six-sigma is not good enough for healthcare.
Actually, I prefer a custom coded OS with a revision testing regimen that would make most developers and system engineers cry and a lack of bells and whistles. But what do I know, I only work in a division that supports life support systems.
First off, the Constitution actually enumerates what the Government cannot due to a US citizen, such as unlawful search. It covers a lot on the treatment of US Citizens.
Second, the charges you mention are actually impossible if the officer or guard is acting in an official capacity, since they have legal authority to hold prisoners via US law. In addition, the expectation test in assault becomes difficult. What is the expectation of treatment of a belligerent non-us citizen captured and held by the US Military? The answer to this fundamental evaluative question, I would assume pretty damd low.
The extraordinary rendition argument might hold against the CIA, but considering the protections the Virginia Farm boys seem to be able to scrounge up, I doubt it will come to light. Consider the fact of the CIA's history. However, let me propose this to you, does the US have an obligation to withhold a non-us citizen from a foreign country that they might be tortured or put to death?
Actually, if they are belligerent civilians, then your premise does hold water, since the Geneva Convention covers that situation. In addition, the Constitution only protects US citizens, unless the Supreme Court interprets it differently. This is especially pertinent due to Amendment 14. Furthermore, US Civilians in a foreign battlefield acting as a belligerent opposing the US Military might fall under the UCMJ, which would pretty much make their life suck. There is a lot of questions on that application of legal theory, but it hasn't been tested in court.
You are technically correct that a member of the United States Military can be held liable for following an illegal order. This is covered in basic training. However, by the laws of war, considering we haven't signed Protocal I, the guard at Guantanamo are unlikely following illegal orders. As long as a guard is not participating in torture, then they cannot be held liable. The commanding officer could be if there is actual torture happening at Guantanamo and it follows the de jure provisions of command responsibility. However, it is unlikely that such actions would happen at Guantanamo due to its awareness. The US's habit, as shown in WWII, is to bring someone to a 'black site' for such action, which would make the commanding officer not liable. Further more, extraordinary rendition makes the resposibility even more complex, since most of the torture would be likely carried out by people outside the US command structure.
With all of that said, I would like to remind people that there is a correllation between the personnal cost to a terrorist and their actions. The higher they believe they will suffer, the lower the incentive to perform a terrorist act. The safest Israel has been from acts of terrorism, is when they made punishment for terrorist acts so draconian. In the 70s, West Germany lowered the incidents of planes being hijacked by meeting each international flight with two tanks. The message is clear, there is a high personnal cost to terrorism. This is what is so troublesome about suicide terrorism. The personnal cost is subsummed within the act.
I have an XBOX360, two Zunes, and a windows mobile device, as do I have a tablet pc (With XP, since I haven't bothered upgrading). What I do not have is the HD-DVD player. My wife and I don't see the point to getting one in the near future. I love the Video Marketplace digital downloads of episodes. I have been getting all of the Numbers episodes and am about to plunk down $50 for an anime series I like. I usually setup two or three episodes to download at a time right before I go to work. The only issue I have is that I cannot buy a movie, I have to rent it, which is why my wife and I do not download movies from Marketplace. If they allowed the purchase of movies, then there would be no way we would ever get any of the HD media disk formats. It is just too much of a pain in the rear to deal with. Other services provide the ability to purchase a movie, such as Unbox, but I don't want to hook up a pc to the tv just to watch movies, especially since my wife would make it another pc and she hated our tivo (Tivo seemed to only replace the broken original with crappier ones).
Protocal I is not ratified by the US. Technically, we are following the Geneva Conventions but not Protocal I. I agree with the major issue, which is people using the mask of being a civilian to attack their enemy, causing accidents where civilians get killed due to soldiers making mistakes. Heck, at least the VC tended to wear black uniforms.
Civilians personnel operating with a military are at least required to have an id card showing the relationship. The spontaneous take of arms must still follow 4.A.2. The statement of convention 3 article 5 is if any doubt exsists. However, who determines the doubt would be detaining power. Unless the detaining power has ratified protocal I, which is an addenda to the GC, then the detaining power can determine whether to apply convention 4 article 5 or article 42. Considering the significant issue that is caused when a beligerent misrepresents themself as a member of the civilian populace, I don't see the issue of withholding GC rights from someone who misrepresents themself as a civilian because it leads to civilians being shot. As for security reasons, all it takes is considering the issues caused by a detainee telling his buddy about the informant that ratted to create a security reason.
I refer you to article 4.A.2.a on the distict uniform requirement. Specifically states 'That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance'.
If we accord them POW status, then they cannot be tried except for laws of the detaining power or international law, yet can be held for the duration of the conflict. However, if not accorded POW status yet acting as a beligerant, they are in legal lembo, as in convention 4 articles 5 and 42. Basicly, they have no rights according to the conventions. If the detaining power invokes article 42, they can be held for the duration of the conflict. If the detaining power invokes article 5, then they are to stand trial. In addition, due to provisions of convention 4, they can be held without any outside communication if determined important for security reasons.
Actually, when someone does not act within the guidelines of the Geneva Conventions, such as not wearing a distinct uniform or mixing within the populace, then all rights are withheld. For example, Klaus Barbie was a German Officer who did two things in Lyon, France. First, he rounded up Jews and sent them to concentration camps. Second, he executed members of the French Resistance. When tried in the 80's in France, he was convicted of crimes against humanity for the deporation of the jews, convicted of life of imprisonment. However, even though he was personnally involved in the brutal torture of Jean Moulin and the deaths of many of the french resistance, he not convicted of any crime against the french resistance. This was due to the fact that the french resistance acted as illegal combatants due to violating several distinguishing components of the Geneva Convention. Many SS and SD officers have been convicted against crimes against civilians, but not for crimes against guerilla fighters.
BMI was never intended to be a measure of an individual's obiesty. It is design to be a measure for a population. As we know from statistics, a population function becomes less accurate as the population lowers. Even the CDC agrees. Look at hip to waist ratio.
I would like this to prevent the large textbook manufactorers from buying the rights to an all holy metric crap-ton of case studies, making it where they are the only source for the study, so if they leave the study out of the international version (on accident) then we can find it.
That's sweet! See my tag line please. In other words, I would like to see proof.
I will gladly claim a vast amount of prior art, called the breath of English literature.
Of course, because smoking pot is not illegal. Possession, on the other hand, is a sticky issue. If smoking pot was illegal, then a positive blood test would really suck.
Good concept, except people expect bombs in the bushes. We need to realize people think outside the box. There is a frequently used tactic of a small bomb placed on a door or in a trash can to get a response from the first responders, which get hit by the large bomb in the truck parked across the street. This is a common tactic used by terrorists in Israel. In addition, the goals of a bomber might be to have something unusual so that some does mess with it. Having a bomb marked "This is a Bomb" might be a way to target bomb squads, which is why they use robots when they can. Maybe some sicko wants to attract kids using a piece of candy or some money on a playground. How about a book laying on the floor, attached to a trigger via fishing line.
To qoute the PIRA, "Today we were unlucks, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You have to be lucky always." A bomber doesn't have to be smarter then a lab full of biologists, just luckier.
I could see it now... roll opening credits... two spartans standing on a dystopia battlefield... One is Matt Damon... The other is Christian Bale... first words... "Why are we here?"