That depends on how you define healthcare outcomes, if you define it as length of survival after being diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the U.S. comes out much higher.
For some weird reason, most people define "health care" in different terms, such as the ability to receive care *before* the illness becomes life threatening. Or disabling.
Also, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if you tend to get more people diagnosed with life threatening diseases because otherwise they wouldn't receive care - so there's a huge pressure to classify cases as life threatening whereas in countries with socialized healthcare they'd (a) be treated earlier and not get to that stage and (b) only classify as life threatening if they were, without ulterior motives.
In agreement with your post: a few months ago I listened to an analysis by a sector banker of the ABN Amro (a large Dutch bank) about freelancers. He said the biggest reason for the lack of freelancers in the country where you'd expect the most, the USA, was lack of affordable health, professional and disability insurance.
So in The Netherlands (you know, Fox's posterboy for all that's bad with socialized healthcare) more and more people are self-employed because it's doable (and much more so since the government changed the healthcare insurance). Here I insure my entire families' health for 330 euro's a month - and that's with one of the more expensive full-coverage, choose-your-own doctor/hospital/whatever insurers.
Asia has been doing this for years. It's nice to see places in the West starting to do it. (I think last time I went through DTW they did this... but certainly in Beijing, Taipei, and Osaka...)
Which is why most Chinese people I know that fly to China and think they might be sick, swallow a few paracetamol before flying and a few more on the plane.
As long as they don't start taking away basic rights because you have a bit of a high temperature.
Like your right to fly? That's enough reason for most people to try and avoid detection, never mind the casualties. They could have the Black Plague and still care more about catching their flight than dying of it.
They might even be more effective since they fly at a lower airspeed and have more time to acquire targets. Then again, the enemy has more time to outrun them as well.. but still: it could be a pretty good start for an Afghan airforce.
The current Administration is afraid of the Citizens. I Wonder why that is? Could it be out of control spending? Congressional leaders(?) calling concerned people a rabble? Those same Congresscritters doing what they want in spite of the wishes of their districts?
No wonder the far left are the ones who push for gun control, their policies are the ones that will cause armed insurrection.
I hate to interrupt while you're all frothing at the mouth at a nice steady pace there, but why not try reading the article first?
Not sure if this can be done in the USA (cultural stuff etc.) but where I used to work we used plannings and when my manager had a task he'd just ask me where it would fit in with the current tasks. If any of our customers wanted it done faster they'd have to arrange with another (internal) customer for the work to shift around. This shifted responsibility out of our department to the customers themselves. Which is easier for both the workers *and* the boss as well.
I agree - he was much too polite. Texting drivers needs to have their fingers chopped off. Since it will happen anyway, sooner or later, only with more collateral damage, it's not a punishment but simply a matter of prevention.
I'm terribly sorry, but Slashdot wasn't and isn't the onliest website in the world, especially not outside the USA. As for me, I never created an account until one day I actually found something to post and some time to do it in - which would probably be the same for a lot of other folks.
But I remember those flamewars. Loads of fun with Derek Smart, in the games newsgroups. Or the writer of the "worst Usenet fantasy novel ever" who was convinced it was a masterpiece. I'm pretty sure there were others (You can still find my real name listed on a nazi website because I voted in a group they didn't like too much - that was a pretty good flamewar:)). I got even got suspended for a week at the university for participating in one of those:)
I also remember C-beams glittering in the dark at the Tannhauser gate, but that's another story...
Not only that, but World of Warcraft had a similar issue when they started and the creditcard companies actually threatened to take away the ability to pay for the game by creditcard. It took Blizzard a few meetings to explain why they weren't running a racket but were victims instead of perpetrators. That was before most people knew what WoW was, ofcourse.
The one thing wikipedia has been teaching the world, which is in my opinion the most valuable contribution to the world it has made, is that *no* text is reliable just because it says so. The "failures" of wikipedia have taught us more than even its huge success as knowledge repository.
We have a whole generation of people growing up who get taught, in a way that hasn't been done before, that you should always check your references, investigate the statements. They used to be able to say "it's in the encyclopedia brittannica" and get away with it. But nowadays most teachers understand that saying "it's on wikipedia" just isn't good enough, so they get taught to check more references than just one. In effect, wikipedia has been teaching the world to "think critically". That, if nothing else, is a huge contribution to society.
True. That's why you should be using statistics to your advantage (and check the talk-pages!). Well-read, often-quoted topics are viewed by more eyes and less likely to contain unverified nonsense. Not a guarantee, but I've seen some pretty controversial topics (try the scientology pages) that actually give out pretty reliable information, despite numerous edit-wars. On the other side of the spectrum there are the pages that are written by one person in an obscure topic, that nooone can verify. These should be treated with wariness.
By the way: from your statement it looks as if you've never made such a page. Why not go ahead and try it? I've just edited a few pages and got fast and good feedback. I'm pretty sure your page wouldn't last too long.
SSH isn't standard windows so would be a tad difficult for the average user to install and use. A browser point-and-click interface would be much easier to use and abuse.
I've been reading the blog-article and the linked websockets API description. The websockets proposal specifically states the protocol does not give access to the raw network, and does not allow an IRC client without intermediate server. So where's the whole enthusiasm coming from? Even with websockets, it doesn't look all that different from the Opera implementation.
As far as I understand websockets from the description, you still have to point the browser to the right place to connect to. Once connected, you can then accept incoming messages from the other side. Well, color me pink and tie me down, but I'm not sure the rapture has just arrived already because of someone writing up an API.
Websockets shouldn't have much of a problem with firewalls though, since you could use the existing tunnel. I wonder what this would do for security inside the company.
Scenario: I'm pointing my browser at a server I run at home. In my browser I run a small webserver that can access a commandshell. Cool, now I can work from home despite a firewall and lack of software:) Sorry dear sysadmin, your firewall just got a few new holes in it:)
A few years ago that happened at the World Football Championships. Heineken (beer brewery) gave everyone a big hat with their logo, but the competition had bought the right to advertize. Since the hats were very popular with the Dutch fans, some games had tens of thousands of people trying to enter with that hat. They were all impounded.
So the next time someone tried this, it was Bavaria this time, they passed out trousers:)
You think that might have foiled the officials, but no. Not to be stopped by this, they were actually impounded as well and 1000s of fans had to watch the games in their underwear:)
T-mobile's bad coverage and lack of ability to provide service in busy areas (they underdimension their capactity) is notorious. The likeliest reason Apple tied itself to T-Mobile is that if you want just one provider to deal with, all over Europe, you don't have much in the way of options. But it is certainly not the best provider locally, except maybe in Germany and Austria where they provided good coverage.
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That depends on how you define healthcare outcomes, if you define it as length of survival after being diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the U.S. comes out much higher.
For some weird reason, most people define "health care" in different terms, such as the ability to receive care *before* the illness becomes life threatening. Or disabling.
Also, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if you tend to get more people diagnosed with life threatening diseases because otherwise they wouldn't receive care - so there's a huge pressure to classify cases as life threatening whereas in countries with socialized healthcare they'd (a) be treated earlier and not get to that stage and (b) only classify as life threatening if they were, without ulterior motives.
In agreement with your post: a few months ago I listened to an analysis by a sector banker of the ABN Amro (a large Dutch bank) about freelancers. He said the biggest reason for the lack of freelancers in the country where you'd expect the most, the USA, was lack of affordable health, professional and disability insurance.
So in The Netherlands (you know, Fox's posterboy for all that's bad with socialized healthcare) more and more people are self-employed because it's doable (and much more so since the government changed the healthcare insurance). Here I insure my entire families' health for 330 euro's a month - and that's with one of the more expensive full-coverage, choose-your-own doctor/hospital/whatever insurers.
Asia has been doing this for years. It's nice to see places in the West starting to do it. (I think last time I went through DTW they did this... but certainly in Beijing, Taipei, and Osaka...)
Which is why most Chinese people I know that fly to China and think they might be sick, swallow a few paracetamol before flying and a few more on the plane.
As long as they don't start taking away basic rights because you have a bit of a high temperature.
Like your right to fly? That's enough reason for most people to try and avoid detection, never mind the casualties. They could have the Black Plague and still care more about catching their flight than dying of it.
You are free to leave, and walk back 400 kilometers to your home.
Most people opt to sit out the four hours and buy some of their stupid stuff :)
So which category am I in?
I don't know, but while we're determining that, please stop by the Al-Qaeda and Mafia offices. They could really use a lit torch too.
That's how you know he's a real lawyer... :)
That is soooo 2006... :)
They might even be more effective since they fly at a lower airspeed and have more time to acquire targets. Then again, the enemy has more time to outrun them as well.. but still: it could be a pretty good start for an Afghan airforce.
What makes you think you're the first to think of this?
The current Administration is afraid of the Citizens. I Wonder why that is? Could it be out of control spending? Congressional leaders(?) calling concerned people a rabble? Those same Congresscritters doing what they want in spite of the wishes of their districts?
No wonder the far left are the ones who push for gun control, their policies are the ones that will cause armed insurrection.
I hate to interrupt while you're all frothing at the mouth at a nice steady pace there, but why not try reading the article first?
Not sure if this can be done in the USA (cultural stuff etc.) but where I used to work we used plannings and when my manager had a task he'd just ask me where it would fit in with the current tasks. If any of our customers wanted it done faster they'd have to arrange with another (internal) customer for the work to shift around. This shifted responsibility out of our department to the customers themselves. Which is easier for both the workers *and* the boss as well.
I agree - he was much too polite. Texting drivers needs to have their fingers chopped off. Since it will happen anyway, sooner or later, only with more collateral damage, it's not a punishment but simply a matter of prevention.
I'm terribly sorry, but Slashdot wasn't and isn't the onliest website in the world, especially not outside the USA. As for me, I never created an account until one day I actually found something to post and some time to do it in - which would probably be the same for a lot of other folks.
But I remember those flamewars. Loads of fun with Derek Smart, in the games newsgroups. Or the writer of the "worst Usenet fantasy novel ever" who was convinced it was a masterpiece. I'm pretty sure there were others (You can still find my real name listed on a nazi website because I voted in a group they didn't like too much - that was a pretty good flamewar :)). I got even got suspended for a week at the university for participating in one of those :)
I also remember C-beams glittering in the dark at the Tannhauser gate, but that's another story...
Not only that, but World of Warcraft had a similar issue when they started and the creditcard companies actually threatened to take away the ability to pay for the game by creditcard. It took Blizzard a few meetings to explain why they weren't running a racket but were victims instead of perpetrators. That was before most people knew what WoW was, ofcourse.
The one thing wikipedia has been teaching the world, which is in my opinion the most valuable contribution to the world it has made, is that *no* text is reliable just because it says so. The "failures" of wikipedia have taught us more than even its huge success as knowledge repository.
We have a whole generation of people growing up who get taught, in a way that hasn't been done before, that you should always check your references, investigate the statements. They used to be able to say "it's in the encyclopedia brittannica" and get away with it. But nowadays most teachers understand that saying "it's on wikipedia" just isn't good enough, so they get taught to check more references than just one. In effect, wikipedia has been teaching the world to "think critically". That, if nothing else, is a huge contribution to society.
True. That's why you should be using statistics to your advantage (and check the talk-pages!). Well-read, often-quoted topics are viewed by more eyes and less likely to contain unverified nonsense. Not a guarantee, but I've seen some pretty controversial topics (try the scientology pages) that actually give out pretty reliable information, despite numerous edit-wars. On the other side of the spectrum there are the pages that are written by one person in an obscure topic, that nooone can verify. These should be treated with wariness.
By the way: from your statement it looks as if you've never made such a page. Why not go ahead and try it? I've just edited a few pages and got fast and good feedback. I'm pretty sure your page wouldn't last too long.
The number to watch is whatever makes the current administration looks best...
They never inhaled sperm.
I'm pretty sure of that one.
SSH isn't standard windows so would be a tad difficult for the average user to install and use. A browser point-and-click interface would be much easier to use and abuse.
But you're correct ofcourse.
I've been reading the blog-article and the linked websockets API description. The websockets proposal specifically states the protocol does not give access to the raw network, and does not allow an IRC client without intermediate server. So where's the whole enthusiasm coming from? Even with websockets, it doesn't look all that different from the Opera implementation.
As far as I understand websockets from the description, you still have to point the browser to the right place to connect to. Once connected, you can then accept incoming messages from the other side. Well, color me pink and tie me down, but I'm not sure the rapture has just arrived already because of someone writing up an API.
Websockets shouldn't have much of a problem with firewalls though, since you could use the existing tunnel. I wonder what this would do for security inside the company.
Scenario: I'm pointing my browser at a server I run at home. In my browser I run a small webserver that can access a commandshell. Cool, now I can work from home despite a firewall and lack of software :) Sorry dear sysadmin, your firewall just got a few new holes in it :)
Erm... yes. My funny-sense must have been sleeping :)
Damn, I thought you were joking. Then I read TFA and saw that you were right. Dude - you're psychic!
Either that or he read the TFA. Knowing slashdot, I have to agree though: he's psychic.
A few years ago that happened at the World Football Championships. Heineken (beer brewery) gave everyone a big hat with their logo, but the competition had bought the right to advertize. Since the hats were very popular with the Dutch fans, some games had tens of thousands of people trying to enter with that hat. They were all impounded.
So the next time someone tried this, it was Bavaria this time, they passed out trousers :)
You think that might have foiled the officials, but no. Not to be stopped by this, they were actually impounded as well and 1000s of fans had to watch the games in their underwear :)
Some good questions on the topic were raised by http://www.loosewireblog.com/2006/06/guerrilla_marke.html .
T-mobile's bad coverage and lack of ability to provide service in busy areas (they underdimension their capactity) is notorious. The likeliest reason Apple tied itself to T-Mobile is that if you want just one provider to deal with, all over Europe, you don't have much in the way of options. But it is certainly not the best provider locally, except maybe in Germany and Austria where they provided good coverage.
Too clever for me. I think I'll have to cut down on the fat...