KNOWN LAWS are the boring bits. Stuff like EmDrive may, or may not, violate the KNOWN LAWS, but if it really works, it certainly is an unexpected result, which can completely change the playing field.
I've used trac for about a decade now, and it does document revision control (using svn behind the scenes, I believe) - also hooks into svn or git repositories.
There's a funny thought: lawyers using git for document revision control. It could work quite well, except for the cultural impossibilities.
I'm thinking we want to deliver our astronauts to Mars in slightly better physical and mental condition than c1830s slaves and steerage passengers on ocean voyages to the penal colony.
In 1987 I was "programming Lotus 123" for an engineering office, because the engineers were too busy in meetings and travel to be bothered learning how to do their job with "user friendly" spreadsheet software.
It's a good analogy, but on a boat you at least have open-air - and even if you don't jump overboard and take a swim for a year, you could if you really wanted to.
I think a nuclear submarine is a better analogy, though they (and long boat trips) tend to have much larger crews and more living space.
If we must have a monopoly, we might as well have the people being served, served according to their best interests - not the interests of the monopoly owners. Call it private, call it free market, call it regulation, call it government run, I don't care. What it needs is transparency, oversight, and an early Ben and Jerry's style compensation cap in the system. When ANYONE in the organization starts making more than 5x the national MEDIAN income, it needs a restructuring to increase wages at the lower tiers, and/or lower prices to the consumers.
It's not just Medicare, we have Blue Cross (of Florida, California, Texas and Minnesota - over the years), we get EOBs, the ratios are similar - wildly varying but generally around 10:1. Tourist bartering in souvenir markets usually starts at 2:1, but these jokers have really upped their game. We've also had periods of private pay, and when you're private pay (not shelling out $12K+ per year per person to the insurance industry), then those 10x prices - sure, they're willingly negotiated down for private payers - to 9x. It's worse than mob protection racketeering - and they're using a combination of threats on your health and welfare, and anti-competitive collusion in their business practices to get paid.
Well, libertard (please take that in fun, as it was intended) your real problem in this world isn't actually the FDA, it's the insurance industry. The FDA may be able to shut down businesses which don't comply, but, by and large, they let an awful lot of stuff get through. It's the insurers who are deciding what actually gets used in our medical system - drugs, devices and procedures they are willing to pay for are widely used, those they do not are relegated to a tiny fraction of the market. FDA doesn't actually "approve" anything, they give "permission to market." It's insurers that "approve reimbursement," and insurers who have built up a system so corrupt that when it is studied in history, people will not believe the ratios between private pay price and insured reimbursement. It simply won't make sense that a society that supposedly had a free and open competitive market, with laws against monopolistic behavior, could ever allow billing $15 for a 500mg Tylenol pill, or $15,000 for a device with 30 year old technology inside that costs $500 to make.
The only other time I ever encountered "prices" that were so crazy was in former East Germany, just after the wall fell 1990: Bread: $0.05 per pound, nice 3 bedroom flat in town: $12 per month, bicycle (luxury item) $15,000, color TV $45,000. It turns money into a sick joke. Just like in the USA today, when you get really sick, the money involved is beyond crazy, all you can do is laugh and shake your head, oh, and pay the man if you want a chance to live.
Back when air-travel was a regulated industry, the profit margins were absurdly high - at least compared to today.
Deregulation has not led to an increase in crashes, and if you like to bitch about economy class - you can still purchase business class service for about what economy class used to cost.
Point is, while I usually consider libertarians to be deserving of the label libertard, pharma is one industry that would benefit from some deregulation - open the trade barriers, license the generics more quickly, and maybe make it a little less costly to get new drugs approved. However, as with any status quo - there are plenty of people who would be disadvantaged by a change, so those people fight to keep the status quo. As a democracy, it's time we started standing up for what benefits the voting public, rather than the entrenched special interests.
Of course, the sun emits more than visible light. If you want maximum heating, you'll be taking advantage of at least the infra-red portion as well, possibly more - for more details, spend a couple of seconds on Google researching, it's well documented.
Pacemakers are getting more connectivity options all the time, but I don't think anyone has gone so trendy as to give one bluetooth, yet. (There are some fundamental problems transmitting 2.4GHz from inside living tissue...)
Shortly after posting this, someone informed me of a "nightly contact with the cloud" system that has been out there for a while (uses POTS, so that puts some kind of date range on it). So, if you don't trust the cloud contact, then a whole lot of pacemakers might get shut off at once that way. Not everybody who loses their pacemaker functionality has serious trouble, or any kind of trouble right away, but some will...
Whether humans are hand selecting the topics, or algorithms written and tuned by humans are selecting the topics according to a corporate approved prescription - simple fact is: humans are still selecting the topics. Maybe the algorithmic approach is less subject to individual bias, maybe it's not.
That's the thing for me: if you can already stream Netflix in HD, plus surf the web lag-free on two or three other screens, how much more bandwidth does a home really need? I'm sure there are torrent seeders out there who need all they can get, so let them pay the premium, the rest of us don't see a difference between 100Mbps and 1000Mbps.
When I read "it should be illegal to have knowledge" I hit a full stop, right there... however, using knowledge for "insider trading" is a special case, and I could see this being worse than simple company insiders profiting (as they do all the time, skirting the edges of the regulation - and frequently stepping over because they know enforcement is lax.)
Ultra-libertarians might argue that the profit is reward for ultimately exposing life threatening vulnerabilities, ultra-libertarians are also mostly psychopaths - professedly unable to grasp that pure freedom for all results in single actors taking gross advantage of, and doing harm to large numbers of people who happen to be at a disadvantaged position - resulting in a net-negative situation that benefits a very small percentage of people.
The "programmer wands" in old-school pacemakers only work up to about 6" away... they're special antennas, though you might be able to get some anti-theft door systems to operate the devices - but that would be a truly traceable hack.
Newer systems are getting "more connected" with in-body networking to other devices and slightly longer range RF, but none of them are "constant contact" with the cloud, and the systems I'm aware of do not have any "kill the patient at midnight on December 23rd" program capabilities... if you're going to switch it off, it's going to happen more or less immediately after the communication event.
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Most people don't care what happens in 5-10 years, much less 5-10 generations.
If people don't start caring what happens in 5-10 generations, it's really going to suck for those people who live then.
KNOWN LAWS are the boring bits. Stuff like EmDrive may, or may not, violate the KNOWN LAWS, but if it really works, it certainly is an unexpected result, which can completely change the playing field.
Amazon will have them in 5 days:
https://www.amazon.com/NVIDIA-...
If current trends continue, 7" will be a phone size in the near future.
I've used trac for about a decade now, and it does document revision control (using svn behind the scenes, I believe) - also hooks into svn or git repositories.
There's a funny thought: lawyers using git for document revision control. It could work quite well, except for the cultural impossibilities.
I'm thinking we want to deliver our astronauts to Mars in slightly better physical and mental condition than c1830s slaves and steerage passengers on ocean voyages to the penal colony.
Sharepoint seems to be only slightly less productive than an e-mail folder and a shared drive somewhere on the network.
In 1987 I was "programming Lotus 123" for an engineering office, because the engineers were too busy in meetings and travel to be bothered learning how to do their job with "user friendly" spreadsheet software.
Where's the nuclear sub with a crew of only 6, living space that small, and mission duration of >11 months?
We're all stuck on this planet together, indefinitely, and that goes wrong often enough - things change with scale.
It's a good analogy, but on a boat you at least have open-air - and even if you don't jump overboard and take a swim for a year, you could if you really wanted to.
I think a nuclear submarine is a better analogy, though they (and long boat trips) tend to have much larger crews and more living space.
Also, we expect some level of productivity / social value our of our astronauts.
They didn't care enough to vary the communication delay to match orbital positions?
Tell me about it:
https://thesocietypages.org/so...
If we must have a monopoly, we might as well have the people being served, served according to their best interests - not the interests of the monopoly owners. Call it private, call it free market, call it regulation, call it government run, I don't care. What it needs is transparency, oversight, and an early Ben and Jerry's style compensation cap in the system. When ANYONE in the organization starts making more than 5x the national MEDIAN income, it needs a restructuring to increase wages at the lower tiers, and/or lower prices to the consumers.
If that's Communism, sign me up.
It's not just Medicare, we have Blue Cross (of Florida, California, Texas and Minnesota - over the years), we get EOBs, the ratios are similar - wildly varying but generally around 10:1. Tourist bartering in souvenir markets usually starts at 2:1, but these jokers have really upped their game. We've also had periods of private pay, and when you're private pay (not shelling out $12K+ per year per person to the insurance industry), then those 10x prices - sure, they're willingly negotiated down for private payers - to 9x. It's worse than mob protection racketeering - and they're using a combination of threats on your health and welfare, and anti-competitive collusion in their business practices to get paid.
Well, libertard (please take that in fun, as it was intended) your real problem in this world isn't actually the FDA, it's the insurance industry. The FDA may be able to shut down businesses which don't comply, but, by and large, they let an awful lot of stuff get through. It's the insurers who are deciding what actually gets used in our medical system - drugs, devices and procedures they are willing to pay for are widely used, those they do not are relegated to a tiny fraction of the market. FDA doesn't actually "approve" anything, they give "permission to market." It's insurers that "approve reimbursement," and insurers who have built up a system so corrupt that when it is studied in history, people will not believe the ratios between private pay price and insured reimbursement. It simply won't make sense that a society that supposedly had a free and open competitive market, with laws against monopolistic behavior, could ever allow billing $15 for a 500mg Tylenol pill, or $15,000 for a device with 30 year old technology inside that costs $500 to make.
The only other time I ever encountered "prices" that were so crazy was in former East Germany, just after the wall fell 1990: Bread: $0.05 per pound, nice 3 bedroom flat in town: $12 per month, bicycle (luxury item) $15,000, color TV $45,000. It turns money into a sick joke. Just like in the USA today, when you get really sick, the money involved is beyond crazy, all you can do is laugh and shake your head, oh, and pay the man if you want a chance to live.
Back when air-travel was a regulated industry, the profit margins were absurdly high - at least compared to today.
Deregulation has not led to an increase in crashes, and if you like to bitch about economy class - you can still purchase business class service for about what economy class used to cost.
Point is, while I usually consider libertarians to be deserving of the label libertard, pharma is one industry that would benefit from some deregulation - open the trade barriers, license the generics more quickly, and maybe make it a little less costly to get new drugs approved. However, as with any status quo - there are plenty of people who would be disadvantaged by a change, so those people fight to keep the status quo. As a democracy, it's time we started standing up for what benefits the voting public, rather than the entrenched special interests.
Of course, the sun emits more than visible light. If you want maximum heating, you'll be taking advantage of at least the infra-red portion as well, possibly more - for more details, spend a couple of seconds on Google researching, it's well documented.
Pacemakers are getting more connectivity options all the time, but I don't think anyone has gone so trendy as to give one bluetooth, yet. (There are some fundamental problems transmitting 2.4GHz from inside living tissue...)
Shortly after posting this, someone informed me of a "nightly contact with the cloud" system that has been out there for a while (uses POTS, so that puts some kind of date range on it). So, if you don't trust the cloud contact, then a whole lot of pacemakers might get shut off at once that way. Not everybody who loses their pacemaker functionality has serious trouble, or any kind of trouble right away, but some will...
Whether humans are hand selecting the topics, or algorithms written and tuned by humans are selecting the topics according to a corporate approved prescription - simple fact is: humans are still selecting the topics. Maybe the algorithmic approach is less subject to individual bias, maybe it's not.
That's the thing for me: if you can already stream Netflix in HD, plus surf the web lag-free on two or three other screens, how much more bandwidth does a home really need? I'm sure there are torrent seeders out there who need all they can get, so let them pay the premium, the rest of us don't see a difference between 100Mbps and 1000Mbps.
When I read "it should be illegal to have knowledge" I hit a full stop, right there... however, using knowledge for "insider trading" is a special case, and I could see this being worse than simple company insiders profiting (as they do all the time, skirting the edges of the regulation - and frequently stepping over because they know enforcement is lax.)
Ultra-libertarians might argue that the profit is reward for ultimately exposing life threatening vulnerabilities, ultra-libertarians are also mostly psychopaths - professedly unable to grasp that pure freedom for all results in single actors taking gross advantage of, and doing harm to large numbers of people who happen to be at a disadvantaged position - resulting in a net-negative situation that benefits a very small percentage of people.
The "programmer wands" in old-school pacemakers only work up to about 6" away... they're special antennas, though you might be able to get some anti-theft door systems to operate the devices - but that would be a truly traceable hack.
Newer systems are getting "more connected" with in-body networking to other devices and slightly longer range RF, but none of them are "constant contact" with the cloud, and the systems I'm aware of do not have any "kill the patient at midnight on December 23rd" program capabilities... if you're going to switch it off, it's going to happen more or less immediately after the communication event.
Fiber is a hell of a lot more reliable than wireless, or even metal conductors, during an EMP event.