I was in my twenties, I think, before I realized there were for-profit hospitals.
Capitalism, to be blunt, has no business model for health care. You want to argue? So, you've never had US medical insurance, and had something denied, even though your doctor said you needed it? Ever had your insurance co-pays and payroll deductions go up, EVERY SINGLE YEAR, because the CEO and "investors" demand increases in ROI?
No? Then you're either 20 years old, or you're a liar.
We need a national healthcare system, like EVERY OTHER industrialized nation. And while we're at it, we need to nationalize big pharma. "Oh, but all their research?" Bull. 60% 80%? of ALL US MEDICAL RESEARCH, in hospitals and colleges, is funded by... grants from the US NIH, yeah, our tax dollars.
The protocol they use was invented to send very short messages to a pager*. What conceivable reason would you use that now?
I suppose it's for people like Trump (here's 140 char, tell me everything that you've ever learned), but all I see is that it encourages people to become illiterate. Maybe it's appropriate for 16 yr olds to tweet "same to you!", but an intelligent conversation? Really?
For example,Biowulf, 100th fastest supercomputer on the planet, at the NIH, mostly runs Linux. And many peopel use R, rather than paying the licensing for Matlab.
Now, whether management wants to support Linux and OSS, or repeats in their sleep "THE WORLD BELONGS TO M$" is another story... but it's heavily used.
Just for fun, slashdotters, look up https://www.spi.dod.mil/lipose... - a lightweight secure distro of Linux, can run from a flash drive.
A journalist and a political scientist... sure seems like the right team to look into this.
It took us what, 200 years to go from around 1B to 7B. Unless we have a nuclear war, or a plague - and even the latter ain't gonna kill 90%, it's not going to happen.
As it is, we know - 1:1 correlation - that the higher the educational level of the woman, the lower the birthrate. HOWEVER, the idea that 80+% of humans will just not want to reproduce is ludicrous. Even if the world is in such bad shape that folks don't want to inflict it on their children, people will still want kids. There is this thing called hardwiring in biology.....
Prove you're not: TURN OFF YOUR PHONE FOR ONE WHOLE DAY.
Hell, don't answer *any* texts for 8 hours.
If you can't do either of those, you're a damn addict. At least regular drug addicts go off in a private place to shoot up, while you walk, drive, eat dinner and "watch" a movie, or, hell, go on a date and you CAN'T GET OFF.
Well, yes. He does have six months to come to Congress, and explain why it should go on longer.
On the other hand, there is NO minimum time... meaning, as the papers have pointed out, he can sign it, and the Speaker of the House can call for a vote then and there to end it.
Unemployment during the Great Depression was 25%-32%. And, of course, all those folks put out of work won't be buying much, so everyone *depending* on them is going under.
Y'know, sort of like what we're seeing right now, with the government shutdown.
Having worked for a Baby Bell back in the mid-nineties, and having heard stories from before that time, how many of *you* slashdotters have heard the infamous phrase "whatever it takes", meaning no sleep, no life, and no, you're never going to be given "comp time"?
But we don't need unions. I have no idea why our grandparents and great grandparents objected to jobs that required 12 and 16 hour days, with no benefits. Back then was the *real* "gig economy".
The US wants to bust an exec from a company for violating US law.
I love that. So, next time there's another incident like where Wells Fargo had people creating millions of fake accounts, and charging fees to the people who had no idea what it was, we can JAIL THE CEOs, right? Or another oil spill, we get to JAIL THE CEOs?
This will go over well, once "real" people (i.e., CEOs) think about the impact....
Back in the day, the FCC *mandated* a limit for the amount of time/hour for commercials. Like, 5 min or was it 7 min PER HOUR.
Then, when cable started coming in in the late seventies and early eighties, what they *advertised* was "pay for cable, and you'll never have to watch commercials again".
Yes, for real. Meanwhile, the last time I watched an hour show on cable, it was 22 min/hour of commercials.
Thanks *so* much, Republican President Nixon, for canceling the rest of the Apollo program, and thanks, also, to St. Ronnie Raygun for lack of support for anything beyond low earth orbit. Then there were the GOP members of Congress in the early/mid-nineties who nearly killed the project to build the ISS.
The GOP has hated civilian space, just like they hate science.
Lessee, we've been broadcasting radio signals for since 1901. Mid-20th century, we had *LOUD* radio stations - 50kw, and I think I heard of 100kw. So, anyone paying attention, or having automated listeners would have heard us.
There are a lot of stars in that radius. If one (at least) had an interstellar probe, they might have diverted it when they heard us, and decided to check us out.
We've no idea if the thing had an engine, though the "odd acceleration" is awfully suggestive.
If we're going to be concerned, then than local range is my bet on where it came from.
The laws of physics do *not* prevent getting close to lightspeed. We've been in space since 1957, when we managed 28kkm/h, and the Parker Solar Probe will be accelerated by the Sun's gravity to 690kkmph, which works out to be.0005 c.
By the way, airplanes can't fly, either, and the question is whether the human body could stand 40mph....
I wonder how the idiots who think this is all wonderful will feel when *they* are automated out of a job. Esp. when their job was "automated" by idiots.[1]
In the late seventies and early eighties, there was a lot of blather about how, although factory jobs were being automated and going away, the "information economy" will provide more and better jobs.
These days, there's no blather about anything, because there are no zillions of jobs, other than low-level healthcare assistants who get paid, and treated, like crap.
Ever notice that if you lay people off, they don't buy anywhere near as much as they did before? Can't imagine why....
But those who think it all ought to be automated should be 110% on board with a basic income paid to everyone.[2]
1. Like the idiot "you can check in on the pad" at my doctor's... which is too stupid to tell me "I don't see you scheduled for today", the way the person did, when someone handled me.
2. You're worried about my BI coming out of your taxes? Why - you're not working either. They'd be coming out of Bill Gates' taxes, and Warren Buffet's taxes, and Sen. Mitch McConnell's taxes, and Apples, and Microsoft's, and....
On the other hand, DO NOT BUY a consumer-grade laptop. Only buy a business grade, such as Dell's Lattitude. It will last a lot longer, and you'll get significantly better service. But you can get this for the price of a Mac.
Also, you might want to pay extra for an extended warranty. It's worth it.
(Btw, I'm a sr. linux sysadmin, working for a US federal contractor - I've seen the difference between laptops we get, and consumer grade.)
No, not a surface, or any of that crap. She'll want a real keyboard. And I dislike laptop keyboards, because I can actually type, and having my hands placed where they *should* be means I keep accidently hitting the touchpad.
All you folks who used to work here? G'day, and don't let the door hit you on the way out. What will you do for a living? Sorry, we don't care about that, that's got nothing to do with ROI for our CEO.
Old reason why voice computing will never come in: the just fired employee is being escorted out of HR, and yells, at the top of their voice, "start!command!runasadministrator!format c-colon-slash!enter"
Now, with radar, gosh, you kids are too young to remember how pranksters used to hold up a couple fingers in a V behind your head when your pics were getting taken. Now, someone on the plane, in the seat behind you, can motion for your phone to download an app to steal everything you have.
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I was in my twenties, I think, before I realized there were for-profit hospitals.
Capitalism, to be blunt, has no business model for health care. You want to argue? So, you've never had US medical insurance, and had something denied, even though your doctor said you needed it? Ever had your insurance co-pays and payroll deductions go up, EVERY SINGLE YEAR, because the CEO and "investors" demand increases in ROI?
No? Then you're either 20 years old, or you're a liar.
We need a national healthcare system, like EVERY OTHER industrialized nation. And while we're at it, we need to nationalize big pharma. "Oh, but all their research?" Bull. 60% 80%? of ALL US MEDICAL RESEARCH, in hospitals and colleges, is funded by... grants from the US NIH, yeah, our tax dollars.
The protocol they use was invented to send very short messages to a pager*. What conceivable reason would you use that now?
I suppose it's for people like Trump (here's 140 char, tell me everything that you've ever learned), but all I see is that it encourages people to become illiterate. Maybe it's appropriate for 16 yr olds to tweet "same to you!", but an intelligent conversation? Really?
Oh, but email is sooooo old....
Wrong. We were figuring Moon bases, and the *world* really accessing space... by 2001.
As the lady said, We Are Not Amused.
For example,Biowulf, 100th fastest supercomputer on the planet, at the NIH, mostly runs Linux. And many peopel use R, rather than paying the licensing for Matlab.
Now, whether management wants to support Linux and OSS, or repeats in their sleep "THE WORLD BELONGS TO M$" is another story... but it's heavily used.
Just for fun, slashdotters, look up https://www.spi.dod.mil/lipose... - a lightweight secure distro of Linux, can run from a flash drive.
Put out by the US Air Force.
A journalist and a political scientist... sure seems like the right team to look into this.
It took us what, 200 years to go from around 1B to 7B. Unless we have a nuclear war, or a plague - and even the latter ain't gonna kill 90%, it's not going to happen.
As it is, we know - 1:1 correlation - that the higher the educational level of the woman, the lower the birthrate. HOWEVER, the idea that 80+% of humans will just not want to reproduce is ludicrous. Even if the world is in such bad shape that folks don't want to inflict it on their children, people will still want kids. There is this thing called hardwiring in biology.....
If we're not talking high dosage, easily enough, the same way that placebos work when they do - expectations of the user.
Next, go look up "contact high".
I mean, who would have thought that it lowered the filter... other than EVERY ONE WHO TOOK IT OR WROTE ABOUT IT in the sixties and seventies.
Prove you're not: TURN OFF YOUR PHONE FOR ONE WHOLE DAY.
Hell, don't answer *any* texts for 8 hours.
If you can't do either of those, you're a damn addict. At least regular drug addicts go off in a private place to shoot up, while you walk, drive, eat dinner and "watch" a movie, or, hell, go on a date and you CAN'T GET OFF.
Well, yes. He does have six months to come to Congress, and explain why it should go on longer.
On the other hand, there is NO minimum time... meaning, as the papers have pointed out, he can sign it, and the Speaker of the House can call for a vote then and there to end it.
Unemployment during the Great Depression was 25%-32%. And, of course, all those folks put out of work won't be buying much, so everyone *depending* on them is going under.
Y'know, sort of like what we're seeing right now, with the government shutdown.
Having worked for a Baby Bell back in the mid-nineties, and having heard stories from before that time, how many of *you* slashdotters have heard the infamous phrase "whatever it takes", meaning no sleep, no life, and no, you're never going to be given "comp time"?
But we don't need unions. I have no idea why our grandparents and great grandparents objected to jobs that required 12 and 16 hour days, with no benefits. Back then was the *real* "gig economy".
Go stick your head in a plastic bag, and tie it tight.
Enjoy the CO2.
The US wants to bust an exec from a company for violating US law.
I love that. So, next time there's another incident like where Wells Fargo had people creating millions of fake accounts, and charging fees to the people who had no idea what it was, we can JAIL THE CEOs, right? Or another oil spill, we get to JAIL THE CEOs?
This will go over well, once "real" people (i.e., CEOs) think about the impact....
Back in the day, the FCC *mandated* a limit for the amount of time/hour for commercials. Like, 5 min or was it 7 min PER HOUR.
Then, when cable started coming in in the late seventies and early eighties, what they *advertised* was "pay for cable, and you'll never have to watch commercials again".
Yes, for real. Meanwhile, the last time I watched an hour show on cable, it was 22 min/hour of commercials.
Thanks *so* much, Republican President Nixon, for canceling the rest of the Apollo program, and thanks, also, to St. Ronnie Raygun for lack of support for anything beyond low earth orbit. Then there were the GOP members of Congress in the early/mid-nineties who nearly killed the project to build the ISS.
The GOP has hated civilian space, just like they hate science.
So, any thieves can and will use it to find people who *aren't* in debt, and mug or burgle them, since they'll have more money.
Lessee, we've been broadcasting radio signals for since 1901. Mid-20th century, we had *LOUD* radio stations - 50kw, and I think I heard of 100kw. So, anyone paying attention, or having automated listeners would have heard us.
There are a lot of stars in that radius. If one (at least) had an interstellar probe, they might have diverted it when they heard us, and decided to check us out.
We've no idea if the thing had an engine, though the "odd acceleration" is awfully suggestive.
If we're going to be concerned, then than local range is my bet on where it came from.
The laws of physics do *not* prevent getting close to lightspeed. We've been in space since 1957, when we managed 28kkm/h, and the Parker Solar Probe will be accelerated by the Sun's gravity to 690kkmph, which works out to be .0005 c.
By the way, airplanes can't fly, either, and the question is whether the human body could stand 40mph....
You mean like anything from Faux, Breitbart, or the Daily Caller?
Sorry, almost no one I know shares that bs (and yes, I'm over 65, as are a good number of friends).
I'll also note that the Malignant Carcinoma *lost* the popular vote by almost 3M votes, and then there was this small election a couple months ago....
Not for a living wage.
I wonder how the idiots who think this is all wonderful will feel when *they* are automated out of a job. Esp. when their job was "automated" by idiots.[1]
In the late seventies and early eighties, there was a lot of blather about how, although factory jobs were being automated and going away, the "information economy" will provide more and better jobs.
These days, there's no blather about anything, because there are no zillions of jobs, other than low-level healthcare assistants who get paid, and treated, like crap.
Ever notice that if you lay people off, they don't buy anywhere near as much as they did before? Can't imagine why....
But those who think it all ought to be automated should be 110% on board with a basic income paid to everyone.[2]
1. Like the idiot "you can check in on the pad" at my doctor's... which is too stupid to tell me "I don't see you scheduled for today", the way the person did, when someone handled me.
2. You're worried about my BI coming out of your taxes? Why - you're not working either. They'd be coming out of Bill Gates' taxes, and Warren Buffet's taxes, and Sen. Mitch McConnell's taxes, and Apples, and Microsoft's, and....
Apple's vastly overpriced.
On the other hand, DO NOT BUY a consumer-grade laptop. Only buy a business grade, such as Dell's Lattitude. It will last a lot longer, and you'll get significantly better service. But you can get this for the price of a Mac.
Also, you might want to pay extra for an extended warranty. It's worth it.
(Btw, I'm a sr. linux sysadmin, working for a US federal contractor - I've seen the difference between laptops we get, and consumer grade.)
No, not a surface, or any of that crap. She'll want a real keyboard. And I dislike laptop keyboards, because I can actually type, and having my hands placed where they *should* be means I keep accidently hitting the touchpad.
Kindly publish their actual physical addresses, so we can use their front yards for dumping trash.
All you folks who used to work here? G'day, and don't let the door hit you on the way out. What will you do for a living? Sorry, we don't care about that, that's got nothing to do with ROI for our CEO.
Actually, I prefer Ellie Dee to Cherry.
Old reason why voice computing will never come in: the just fired employee is being escorted out of HR, and yells, at the top of their voice, "start!command!runasadministrator!format c-colon-slash!enter"
Now, with radar, gosh, you kids are too young to remember how pranksters used to hold up a couple fingers in a V behind your head when your pics were getting taken. Now, someone on the plane, in the seat behind you, can motion for your phone to download an app to steal everything you have.
Just because you can does NOT mean you should.