It is a secret runway used by the Royal Airforce to launch unmanned drones equipped with CCTVs. This allows Her Majesty's government to cover the few areas that have not yet had permanent CCTV cameras installed.
The Faslane nuclear submarine facility is used for cover.
Consider someone you know who has social problems variously including anger management issues, alcoholism, drug abuse and/or severe financial mismanagement: in short, someone who repeatedly makes very poor life-choices.
Many "alternative" medical treatments are used because of economic status. To a person on a fixed or low income, the cheaper treatment is often the only one available. Visits to doctors and hospitals are very expensive for USA citizens without health care insurance.
For too many people, the slim chance of an alternative medical treatment actually working, is a forced choice. Hospitalization or visits to a qualified medical professional are beyond their means.
I see a great deal of hypocrisy in those who denounce alternative medicine while nodding affectionately at the medical and pharmacy professions who constantly raise their fees and prices.
When any service becomes too expensive, a market arises for less qualified and less skilled providers, and for less useful medicines.
The "professional" bs is just a way to put you on salary rather than an hourly wage.
While "professional" sounds nice, there are only a few real professions.
A nice law passed a few years back reclassified several technical fields as professional, allowing employers to really screw their employees by changing their pay to salary from hourly.
These posts assume that India and China will continue to exist in their present form.
China and India both have to resist internal pressures to splinter into a collection of smaller states. The break up of the former USSR is an recent example.
It is a seeming improbability that India has not already started to fall apart. Many Indian states are already autonomous, and political reality is that India has has deteriorated into an conglomeration of territories ruled over by "war lord" politicians who owe little loyalty either to the national government or any national political party.
Through out its history, China has osculated between centralization and fragmentation. The current Chinese government has held unified sway for only 60+ years. Conditions there may change quickly or slowly, but they will change.
More normal than you think. Walk through most American cemeteries and you will see many markers/monuments in place for those yet living.
The Cemetery and Funeral businesses call these Pre-need sales and use them to maintain sales numbers.
As you kiddies will find out, when life gets near its end, the idea of selecting the services and memorials you want is very attractive. Pre-need is much less expensive than At Need. The "Death Industry" loves At Need sales. The families are easy marks for higher prices, and expensive, but unneeded services.
For a good book on the subject, try Jessica Mitford's "American Way of Death, revisited" circa 2000.
Many modern medications have severe side effects. Many will cause more trouble than the original problem. There have been a number of recent cases where medications were either deadly to the user or ineffective.
Pharma spends a lot of money to get MDs to prescribe their latest and most profitable, and it works. The patient is on his own when deciding to keep on taking his meds. In this instance, Google is indeed your best friend.
I am not referring to the use of antibiotics, but to the myriad meds for high blood pressure, gastric distress, elevated fat levels in ones blood, etc.
And, there is the constant reformulation of effective meds to get patent protection, just to be able to charge a higher price. Prilosac and Nexium are good examples.
There is no free market in America for medical services. The AMA has spent most of its existence eliminating any possible competition. For example,prior to the establishment of the AMA medical cartel, midwifes handled most births and your pharmacist diagnosed minor illnesses. By a long well funded effort, these services were made illegal throughout the U.S. The continuing battle between Optometrists and Ophthalmologists is an example of this. The main result of this is that you have to pay dearly for the services of a much educated expensive physician to get a stitch or two applied to a cut or to get a cold diagnosed. Requiring a prescription for almost all medicines is another form of physician monopoly. Physicians don't want the poor to diagnose and treat themselves, neither do they want to help them.
Hospitals are little better. Procedures and examinations are no longer performed by salaried staff, but are handled by independent contracting medical firms, each with its own staff, overhead and desire for profit. Go wander around any non government American hospital. You will find a medical condo rather than an institution.
Looking at the way medical business works in the U.S., I often think that the purpose is to eliminate availability to potential customers. By shooting for the big fee, the expensive test (too often un-necessary, even people with health insurance are blocked from using their services.
Medicine, American style, is no longer a profession, but just another way to make huge profits at the consumers expense. As a group, physicians have managed to lower themselves to the level of morticians and used car salesmen.
Perhaps Microsoft could out source their XBox server division to a firm that has long, successful experience in maintaining massive server operations. Google, perhaps.
Religions derived from Mosaic beginnings are based on intolerance and exclusivity.
These are seldom seen in the world of science. Scientists who disagree do not burn each other at the stake, or begin wars of extermination against those who advocate alternate theories.
Licensing removes investigations and results from the hands of experts to government approved license holders and government "experts". The many stories of mishandled testing by the FBI and other agencies labs come to mind.
The real name for a national ID card is "internal passport." It will be used to control movement of individuals from one part of the country to another and to prevent undesirables from entering designated areas. Really handy for controlling voter demographics and keeping protesters away from events.
Papieren Bitte!
Slashdot Mirror
I'm living on the wrong land mass.
SiFi = USMC Geek War Cry
The real secret at Faslane is the "public road."
It is a secret runway used by the Royal Airforce to launch unmanned drones equipped with CCTVs. This allows Her Majesty's government to cover the few areas that have not yet had permanent CCTV cameras installed.
The Faslane nuclear submarine facility is used for cover.
Those "nice" wars destroyed plants and machinery that was to become obsolete.
The winners were soon outproduced by the losers newer, more efficient factories.
The US steel industry is a fine example.
Authority comes from anyone who is able, knowledgeable and willing to coerce and browbeat the incompetents he "reports" to.
You get all the authority you are willing to assume and fight for.
It helps if you enjoy torturing PHBs.
I suspect that this technology will be used more by drivers and teens than the handicapped.
Obama will replace him in a few weeks.
Many "alternative" medical treatments are used because of economic status. To a person on a fixed or low income, the cheaper treatment is often the only one available. Visits to doctors and hospitals are very expensive for USA citizens without health care insurance.
For too many people, the slim chance of an alternative medical treatment actually working, is a forced choice. Hospitalization or visits to a qualified medical professional are beyond their means.
I see a great deal of hypocrisy in those who denounce alternative medicine while nodding affectionately at the medical and pharmacy professions who constantly raise their fees and prices.
When any service becomes too expensive, a market arises for less qualified and less skilled providers, and for less useful medicines.
"Want fries with that?"
Less than two seconds.
Amen
RIAA lawyers are like most vermin, They prefer to work in darkness and anonymity.
Sounds Familiar.
Peter Principle
Only the ones who survive. I've suggested to my employers that we rename a section in one our cemeteries "My Space".
You are a technician, not a professional.
The "professional" bs is just a way to put you on salary rather than an hourly wage.
While "professional" sounds nice, there are only a few real professions.
A nice law passed a few years back reclassified several technical fields as professional, allowing employers to really screw their employees by changing their pay to salary from hourly.
These posts assume that India and China will continue to exist in their present form.
China and India both have to resist internal pressures to splinter into a collection of smaller states. The break up of the former USSR is an recent example.
It is a seeming improbability that India has not already started to fall apart. Many Indian states are already autonomous, and political reality is that India has has deteriorated into an conglomeration of territories ruled over by "war lord" politicians who owe little loyalty either to the national government or any national political party.
Through out its history, China has osculated between centralization and fragmentation. The current Chinese government has held unified sway for only 60+ years. Conditions there may change quickly or slowly, but they will change.
More normal than you think. Walk through most American cemeteries and you will see many markers/monuments in place for those yet living.
The Cemetery and Funeral businesses call these Pre-need sales and use them to maintain sales numbers.
As you kiddies will find out, when life gets near its end, the idea of selecting the services and memorials you want is very attractive. Pre-need is much less expensive than At Need. The "Death Industry" loves At Need sales. The families are easy marks for higher prices, and expensive, but unneeded services.
For a good book on the subject, try Jessica Mitford's "American Way of Death, revisited" circa 2000.
Cooking allowed lentils and beans to feed many. The work of a few farmers allowed others more time to develop tools, arts, philosophy, religion, etc.
Hunting is a time consuming activity, and meat is perishable compared to vegetables.
Civilization arose because of beans!
AdBlock gets rid of the Verizon "search" page.
Clickity, clickity, never see again.
Microsoft
Many modern medications have severe side effects. Many will cause more trouble than the original problem. There have been a number of recent cases where medications were either deadly to the user or ineffective.
Pharma spends a lot of money to get MDs to prescribe their latest and most profitable, and it works. The patient is on his own when deciding to keep on taking his meds. In this instance, Google is indeed your best friend.
I am not referring to the use of antibiotics, but to the myriad meds for high blood pressure, gastric distress, elevated fat levels in ones blood, etc.
And, there is the constant reformulation of effective meds to get patent protection, just to be able to charge a higher price. Prilosac and Nexium are good examples.
There is no free market in America for medical services. The AMA has spent most of its existence eliminating any possible competition. For example,prior to the establishment of the AMA medical cartel, midwifes handled most births and your pharmacist diagnosed minor illnesses. By a long well funded effort, these services were made illegal throughout the U.S. The continuing battle between Optometrists and Ophthalmologists is an example of this. The main result of this is that you have to pay dearly for the services of a much educated expensive physician to get a stitch or two applied to a cut or to get a cold diagnosed. Requiring a prescription for almost all medicines is another form of physician monopoly. Physicians don't want the poor to diagnose and treat themselves, neither do they want to help them.
Hospitals are little better. Procedures and examinations are no longer performed by salaried staff, but are handled by independent contracting medical firms, each with its own staff, overhead and desire for profit. Go wander around any non government American hospital. You will find a medical condo rather than an institution.
Looking at the way medical business works in the U.S., I often think that the purpose is to eliminate availability to potential customers. By shooting for the big fee, the expensive test (too often un-necessary, even people with health insurance are blocked from using their services.
Medicine, American style, is no longer a profession, but just another way to make huge profits at the consumers expense. As a group, physicians have managed to lower themselves to the level of morticians and used car salesmen.
Perhaps Microsoft could out source their XBox server division to a firm that has long, successful experience in maintaining massive server operations. Google, perhaps.
Religions derived from Mosaic beginnings are based on intolerance and exclusivity.
These are seldom seen in the world of science. Scientists who disagree do not burn each other at the stake, or begin wars of extermination against those who advocate alternate theories.
Licensing removes investigations and results from the hands of experts to government approved license holders and government "experts". The many stories of mishandled testing by the FBI and other agencies labs come to mind.
The real name for a national ID card is "internal passport." It will be used to control movement of individuals from one part of the country to another and to prevent undesirables from entering designated areas. Really handy for controlling voter demographics and keeping protesters away from events. Papieren Bitte!