Unless they were made rich by being a part of the corrupt Venezuelan government, then probably yes. The "rich" in Venezuela are seeing everything they have worked for and accumulated eroded by rampant hyperinflation and there are few decent prospects for the future. Living in a cardboard box under a bridge in the States doesn't have to be a permanent state, but by living in a safer environment with a more stable economy they would be able to restart their lives and succeed again.
This doesn't have to be the state of affairs in Venezuela, but the Venezuelans voted for that over and over and over again.
I seem to recall reading that the ashes one receives from the crematorium to put in, say, an urn are only a small fraction of the ashes generated.
Makes sense - the average human adult male is approximately 60% water and the average adult female is approximately 50% so an 80 kg male will become quite a few kilos of ashes (I'm assuming some weight besides water is lost up the chimney).
These headlines were generated using AI. The headlines seem to be no more than words and phrases whose frequency is based upon how often they popped up in the past. This seems no different to plucking words from a bucket. I'm sure there are games based on this scenario. Artificial it may be; intelligent, not so much.
Sometimes the "try to save the life of someone 80 years old at great expense" isn't so cut and dried.
The treatment proposed for the 80-year old will have a range of possible successes for a group in the same circumstances, ranging from "no change" to "success" where "success" could be an extra 6 months of life with questionable quality.
Next time you read of "new expensive miracle drug/surgical technique" take some time to dig out the actual research paper and see what they mean by "miracle". Not always that good...
Urgent surgery (or as we call it here "emergency") = you are at grave risk of dying if it doesn't happen immediately Non-urgent (or as we call it here "elective") = you won't die without it happening immediately Note that "emergency surgery patients" are at higher risk of anaesthetic problems and surgical site infections because they haven't been (and can't be) properly assessed and prepared.
Even surgery for reducing fractures can be delayed if urgent cases come in and bump them.
As for "If I trip and tear some ligaments in my knee, what does smoking have to do with it?", smoking has a known and predictable effect on the success of surgery. Nicotine has an effect on the microvasculature that dramatically decreases wound healing, slowing recovery and increasing the rate of surgical site infection. If you are obese and it's your knee, then your post-surgical rehab may take longer. All of these factors increase risk of mortality and morbidity for the patient, may result in an increased length of stay and will consume more resources.
Animal Farm was great. Concisely written, it was easy to write a high school book report on it. If it wasn't for 1984, we wouldn't have gotten 'Brazil'.
I talked to a group working on a vaccine for dental caries about 15 years ago. When I asked who they were targeting, the reply was head and neck cancer patients. When you get cancer in this area and go in for radiotherapy, the salivary glands are often unintended targets of the radiation and die. This, in turn, leads to massive dental caries problems in the patients, so much so that they are sometimes advised to have their teeth pulled before therapy begins.
With the rise of highly targeted multi-beam radiotherapy, I'm not sure if the problem is still as bad as it was though. Don't smoke.
It really comes down to how much of your concentration each method of communication requires. Also, deciding to dedicate time and concentration to something is your decision, but in real-time communication, you require the other person to do the same. If they aren't willing to, you are wasting everyone's time.
Texting takes a small amount of time, and the recipient can dedicate the small amount of time to read it at a time of their own choosing. Voice takes more concentration but, like radio, you can be doing other things at the same time. Video calls are more like formal meetings and not everyone wants that level of participation with every person that wants to talk to them.
I used to Skype my wife while taking a walk after lunch at work. The video didn't add much to the conversation except she saw much more of my nostrils than she usually does. I voice call her now.
Cadbury has a trademark on their colour purple in Australia. About the time the trademark was being decided upon, I walked into an Aldi and, from a distance, saw some chocolates in purple boxes, exactly the same purple (or close enough to be confusing) and I immediately assumed it was Cadbury's chocolate.
So, yeah, trademarking a Pantone colour - I can see why some organisations do it.
Both sides seem intent on doing this, though each side will say it's for a different reason. Each side also proposes a different sort of 'open border', i.e. who it is open to.
I will defend to the death your right to free speech, unless I don't like you. Then I'll shoot you my own damn self and say good riddance to bad ideas.
"Overall, there is a fine balance between diluting the whisky to taste and diluting the whisky to waste."
I bet it was high-fives all around the room when someone came up with that one. At the very least, it makes a great heading for the conference poster/first PowerPoint slide.
Sometimes the prevention comes with a bit of pain... --- Queensland Health’s electronic medical records system hit by “very serious ransomware attack” Janelle Miles, Kara Vickery, Anthony Templeton, The Courier-Mail May 25, 2017 2:04pm Subscriber only Cameron Dick OP-ED: Technological advances from eHealth strategy MOVES to protect Queensland Health computer systems from an international cybersecurity attack are believed responsible for a failure within the state’s electronic medical records system in five key public hospitals.
The eHealth failure, described in an internal email obtained by The Courier-Mail as a “major incident”, resulted in Cairns Hospital yesterday declaring a Code Yellow, for an “internal emergency”.
Health Minister Cameron Dick said no surgeries had been impacted but 22 outpatient appointments had been delayed.
“For all intents and purposes Queensland hospitals are operating like it is business as usual,” he said.
But ward patients at the five affected hospitals have been put back on to a system of paper records.
eHealth Queensland chief executive Dr Richard Ashby said about 500 doctors and nurses has been unable to log in at the Princess Alexandra Hospital.
“This is a hiccup and it happened because we took extra care to defend against the ransomware attack that occurred around the world on the 13th of May,” he said.
The issues first became apparent on Tuesday around noon.
Mr Dick had earlier said the computer failure was most likely as a result of Queensland Health’s efforts in fending off “a very serious ransomware attack” that impacted government agencies, private businesses and individuals worldwide last week.
The computer failure — that Queensland Health Minister Cameron Dick will tell Parliament of today — is most likely as a result of his department’s efforts in fending off “a very serious ransomware attack”. “Over the course of that weekend as part of protecting our systems from cyber-attack, a series of security patches provided by software owners such as Microsoft, Cerner and Citrix were loaded to further protect Queensland Health systems from attack,” Mr Dick said.
“Yesterday I received advice from the Chief Executive of eHealth Queensland, Dr Richard Ashby, that while those patches have protected the integrity of our systems and data, it appears these protections may be making logging on and off the integrated electronic medical record system difficult for some users.” ----
I'm playing music using Apple's 'Music' app, reading Facebook, looking at a web page using their browser and the music is still playing. I even clicked on a link in the first page to take me to another website to make sure. Music is still playing. iOS 10.3.3, iPhone 6.
Slashdot Mirror
And that means I love you.
Well, that was easy. Next!
Unless they were made rich by being a part of the corrupt Venezuelan government, then probably yes. The "rich" in Venezuela are seeing everything they have worked for and accumulated eroded by rampant hyperinflation and there are few decent prospects for the future. Living in a cardboard box under a bridge in the States doesn't have to be a permanent state, but by living in a safer environment with a more stable economy they would be able to restart their lives and succeed again.
This doesn't have to be the state of affairs in Venezuela, but the Venezuelans voted for that over and over and over again.
It's super cereal unlimited!
I seem to recall reading that the ashes one receives from the crematorium to put in, say, an urn are only a small fraction of the ashes generated.
Makes sense - the average human adult male is approximately 60% water and the average adult female is approximately 50% so an 80 kg male will become quite a few kilos of ashes (I'm assuming some weight besides water is lost up the chimney).
They didn't so much find everyone a job, as design everyone for a job. No more people were made than needed.
These headlines were generated using AI. The headlines seem to be no more than words and phrases whose frequency is based upon how often they popped up in the past. This seems no different to plucking words from a bucket. I'm sure there are games based on this scenario. Artificial it may be; intelligent, not so much.
Might help if he bought a lot of the kids new parents.
Here's a list of categories and explanations within the non-urgent category.
http://www.performance.health....
Sometimes the "try to save the life of someone 80 years old at great expense" isn't so cut and dried.
The treatment proposed for the 80-year old will have a range of possible successes for a group in the same circumstances, ranging from "no change" to "success" where "success" could be an extra 6 months of life with questionable quality.
Next time you read of "new expensive miracle drug/surgical technique" take some time to dig out the actual research paper and see what they mean by "miracle". Not always that good...
Urgent surgery (or as we call it here "emergency") = you are at grave risk of dying if it doesn't happen immediately
Non-urgent (or as we call it here "elective") = you won't die without it happening immediately
Note that "emergency surgery patients" are at higher risk of anaesthetic problems and surgical site infections because they haven't been (and can't be) properly assessed and prepared.
Within the elective category, there's categories.
Even surgery for reducing fractures can be delayed if urgent cases come in and bump them.
As for "If I trip and tear some ligaments in my knee, what does smoking have to do with it?", smoking has a known and predictable effect on the success of surgery. Nicotine has an effect on the microvasculature that dramatically decreases wound healing, slowing recovery and increasing the rate of surgical site infection. If you are obese and it's your knee, then your post-surgical rehab may take longer. All of these factors increase risk of mortality and morbidity for the patient, may result in an increased length of stay and will consume more resources.
Animal Farm was great. Concisely written, it was easy to write a high school book report on it. If it wasn't for 1984, we wouldn't have gotten 'Brazil'.
I talked to a group working on a vaccine for dental caries about 15 years ago. When I asked who they were targeting, the reply was head and neck cancer patients. When you get cancer in this area and go in for radiotherapy, the salivary glands are often unintended targets of the radiation and die. This, in turn, leads to massive dental caries problems in the patients, so much so that they are sometimes advised to have their teeth pulled before therapy begins.
With the rise of highly targeted multi-beam radiotherapy, I'm not sure if the problem is still as bad as it was though. Don't smoke.
How does a back sensor work in conjunction with a phone case?
I always wanted to know what it would be like when poo frowned at me.
Things are looking bad for you if you've managed to give the shits to a shit.
Australia, mate. Each TV station seems to have one 1080i stream and stacks of 576p. It's pitiful.
It really comes down to how much of your concentration each method of communication requires. Also, deciding to dedicate time and concentration to something is your decision, but in real-time communication, you require the other person to do the same. If they aren't willing to, you are wasting everyone's time.
Texting takes a small amount of time, and the recipient can dedicate the small amount of time to read it at a time of their own choosing. Voice takes more concentration but, like radio, you can be doing other things at the same time. Video calls are more like formal meetings and not everyone wants that level of participation with every person that wants to talk to them.
I used to Skype my wife while taking a walk after lunch at work. The video didn't add much to the conversation except she saw much more of my nostrils than she usually does. I voice call her now.
Cadbury has a trademark on their colour purple in Australia. About the time the trademark was being decided upon, I walked into an Aldi and, from a distance, saw some chocolates in purple boxes, exactly the same purple (or close enough to be confusing) and I immediately assumed it was Cadbury's chocolate.
So, yeah, trademarking a Pantone colour - I can see why some organisations do it.
When I read ... "an astounding 300,000,000 meters per second" I checked the source. "Science Mag". Maybe it should be Sciencey Mag.
Both sides seem intent on doing this, though each side will say it's for a different reason. Each side also proposes a different sort of 'open border', i.e. who it is open to.
I will defend to the death your right to free speech, unless I don't like you. Then I'll shoot you my own damn self and say good riddance to bad ideas.
I think I may have found a new sig block...
"Overall, there is a fine balance between diluting the whisky to taste and diluting the whisky to waste."
I bet it was high-fives all around the room when someone came up with that one. At the very least, it makes a great heading for the conference poster/first PowerPoint slide.
Sometimes the prevention comes with a bit of pain...
---
Queensland Health’s electronic medical records system hit by “very serious ransomware attack”
Janelle Miles, Kara Vickery, Anthony Templeton, The Courier-Mail
May 25, 2017 2:04pm
Subscriber only
Cameron Dick OP-ED: Technological advances from eHealth strategy
MOVES to protect Queensland Health computer systems from an international cybersecurity attack are believed responsible for a failure within the state’s electronic medical records system in five key public hospitals.
The eHealth failure, described in an internal email obtained by The Courier-Mail as a “major incident”, resulted in Cairns Hospital yesterday declaring a Code Yellow, for an “internal emergency”.
Health Minister Cameron Dick said no surgeries had been impacted but 22 outpatient appointments had been delayed.
“For all intents and purposes Queensland hospitals are operating like it is business as usual,” he said.
But ward patients at the five affected hospitals have been put back on to a system of paper records.
eHealth Queensland chief executive Dr Richard Ashby said about 500 doctors and nurses has been unable to log in at the Princess Alexandra Hospital.
“This is a hiccup and it happened because we took extra care to defend against the ransomware attack that occurred around the world on the 13th of May,” he said.
The issues first became apparent on Tuesday around noon.
Mr Dick had earlier said the computer failure was most likely as a result of Queensland Health’s efforts in fending off “a very serious ransomware attack” that impacted government agencies, private businesses and individuals worldwide last week.
The computer failure — that Queensland Health Minister Cameron Dick will tell Parliament of today — is most likely as a result of his department’s efforts in fending off “a very serious ransomware attack”.
“Over the course of that weekend as part of protecting our systems from cyber-attack, a series of security patches provided by software owners such as Microsoft, Cerner and Citrix were loaded to further protect Queensland Health systems from attack,” Mr Dick said.
“Yesterday I received advice from the Chief Executive of eHealth Queensland, Dr Richard Ashby, that while those patches have protected the integrity of our systems and data, it appears these protections may be making logging on and off the integrated electronic medical record system difficult for some users.”
----
Patches can be painful :-(
Sounds like they didn't like him either.
I'm playing music using Apple's 'Music' app, reading Facebook, looking at a web page using their browser and the music is still playing. I even clicked on a link in the first page to take me to another website to make sure. Music is still playing. iOS 10.3.3, iPhone 6.
and a network designed to impose reasonable controls on behavior.
Who gets to decide what controls are "reasonable"? What kind of "behavior" is to be controlled, and how?
Networks can't impose controls on behaviour. Only people can do that.