This blows all the mods I've made, but the shear ignorance here is killing me. People need to get past their misogynist thinking that anorexia just means being lean.
The reason curbing anorexia is a big deal is that it has "the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder" and it's a highly cultural phenomenon, extremely rare in societies before modern advertising. Even with treatment, the prognosis is death most of the time. This is an avoidable danger, like prohibiting the glorification of drugs in kids' shows.
Really... How would regulating this be any different than banning steroids in professional sports?
does anyone actually write or edit much of anything in there, or just use it as a visible text clipboard?
Absolutely not, only as an exercise in masochism. The second you realize there's no multiple undo, you're kicking yourself.
Heck, Notepad can't even properly handle files with *nix newlines.
Yeah... That's a WTF? missing feature that almost makes me quit using it. Come on MS... You've had two decades to fix that.
Among the software Microsoft provides with Windows, you have to jump to wordpad for that, and that's no longer even around, is it?
It's still there in Win7. Not a bad compromise between quick-n-dirty and full-featured apps for some things, but nothing I'd use more than 5 minutes.
For my Windows-using friends that aren't versed in old school editors like vi, I recommend Notepad++. I haven't used it, but I hear good comments about it from the GUI-leaning crowd. It's kinda sad, though, that Windows doesn't come with a decent text editor.
I used VI back in the day and I like Notepad++ and other freeware editors, but the reliable, pre-installed aspect of Notepad/Wordpad is a slam dunk for basic needs. The four keystrokes to open Notepad (nine if you use the "Run..." window in XP) have become reflex when I sit at someone else's PC. For work beyond quick, simple edits, I really want a serious tool like Visual Studio, Eclipse, MS Word, etc.
(BTW: retro console stuff in your sig. looks like fun.)
Yeah, I doubt anyone actually uses notepad for more than a few seconds. It's too painful, and there are too many alternatives that are far, far better.
Oh, I don't know... I use it all the time to temporarily store some code, SQL, text from the web, and other scraps that I might need a few minutes later. Beats the hell out of scribbling it all down on a real notepad. And with it's negligible footprint, it's often my tool of choice to grab a quick look at a file. And since it's there on every Windows OS from the last two decades, it works consistently on everyone's PC I use. Simple is not always bad.
removed one leg from the patient after his heart and vascular system failed to sustain the limb and then the other leg and two arms. "The science council (of the hospital) decided to remove the organs one by one
Wow. From a quick scan of the summary, it sounds like they took out everything but the guy's chassis. Leg, leg, arm, arm, and then the next sentence about removing organs one by one? Can his family visit him in the head museum?
Exactly. The only reason the wife and I can both enjoy BSG and The Walking Dead together (and that's about all we can agree on) is that the sci-fi worlds these series are built around create such a rich ecosystem for real human drama. Good sci-fi creates truly novel, yet believable, situations that plumb the depths of what it means to be human.
This is my court-ordered apology to you for squandering all my free time on Slashdot when I should be spending it with you cuddling and talking about our feelings.
Well... My problem was shortly after the incident that caused the rule, so Terror Alert Level(c) was crap-your-pants brown. Guess they hadn't fine-tuned the policy.
What liquid agent is a terrorist going to use to blow up a plane?
Are you really that uninformed, after years of coverage of binary liquid explosives, demonstrations of their effectiveness when used correctly, and actual use of them by actual terrorists who actually killed people? You can't possibly be. So, what's your real point?
Uninformed? Really? Better that than misinformed by watching too many bad action movies. Getting it all to work is a little harder than they make it look on screen.
It only takes the slightest effort with Google to see how unlikely such a plan is to succeed (unless, of course, success is creating more security theater).
> I fly several times a year between US, South america, Europe and Asia and I have never had any problems bringing anything I need on the plane.
Good for you AC. Though I bet you never travelled with a baby, did you?
I'll never forget flying with our 3-month old and having some TSA goon take the kid's bottle away. Every lucky passenger in coach got to hear our hungry baby scream most of the flight. But I'm sure it was worth it, right? No doubt, many imagined threats were stopped that day.
The focus should be on "why" they want to blow up the plane.
EXACTLY. If the desire is there, there really is no end to the creative means of accomplishing their goals. Every added moronic indignity from the TSA is nothing but a reactionary measure, only applied after some plot makes the news. I'm dreading the day a terrorist is discovered with a bomb up his ass.
Ah... Thanks everyone for all the informative replies. I actually don't own a tablet, so the battery life issue didn't occur to me. I guess if people really can't live without a certain legacy apps, remoting would be a better way to go. Maybe breaking away from the desktop will finally get people to move away from crappy old legacy systems.
Leaving the legacy applications behind means WOA is a new platform. Starting basically from scratch. Competing with already entrenched players (iOS and Android). It starts off with little third party software where iOS and Android already have a huge base of developers.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but why wouldn't MS still allow everyone to run legacy apps in some sort of emulation or virtual the way Win7 does? Would it be slow? Sure, but you would expect the stupid old apps to run about the same speed they did when they were new software (on what is now old hardware). Microsoft's greatest strength/weakness is their commitment to backwards compatibility. I wouldn't expect that to change with WOA.
I am loving the irony. For decades these jerks made us buy vinyl, then 8-tracks, then cassettes, then DAT, then CDs (maybe even fancy gold ones) of the same songs each time a new format became available --and if the player ate my tape, I had to shell out another $8.50. They told us we were purchasing physical objects. Now they claim music is intellectual property and you can't resell it?
Agreed. If you're not testing coders for basic competence, you're just foolishly rolling the dice. When I was helping my company staff up development, I asked applicants to do little 15-minute (or less) methods inspired by FizzBuzz. Despite killing the phone screening and dazzling upper management, many applicants went pale and struggled to produce anything when asked to do simple coding tasks in the de facto IDE (pseudo-code was acceptable too). One dude was great on the phone and socially gifted, but strained to produce a basic looping structure. Management liked him. It took over four months and a few write-ups with HR before he left on his own (he wasn't stupid after all, just couldn't code), without producing anything useful.
and look where it got us. Home prices are continuing to plummet, all of my health care plans at work are more expensive, unemployment way above the 7% figure that Obama "promised" we would never cross, etc.
I've had my disappointments with Obama, but it hardly seems fair to blame him for not fixing problems that were over eight years in the making --and can you honestly say the hostile congress has been much help these problems? All things considered, we could have done much worse and many economic indicators are finally going in the right direction again.
These garbage posts are ruining slashdot anyway. If Romney was so unlikable he wouldn't have been elected as a conservative governor of one of the most liberal states and wouldn't have won Florida by double digits yesterday.
This year's GOP primaries look a lot like 2004, when Democratic voters dispassionately selected John Kerry as the most electable candidate. The nomination is being driven by an anti-incumbent calculus rather than likeability. I expect similar results since sadly, U.S. presidential elections aren't that much different from voting for high school class president. It's mostly a popularity contest decided by poorly-informed, swing voters (if they were competent, it seems very unlikely they wouldn't be locked in to the party most aligned with their personal interests).
If this was true, there would be 100 stories on Slashdot promoting Romney. This is the most liberal site I visit, and the opportunity of having 2 liberal presidential candidates would make this place giddy.
Actually, as an admitted liberal, I'm not too worried about a Romney presidency. I certainly think Obama better represents my core principles (despite his failure to stop the scary police state bullshit started by Bush/Cheney), but I doubt Romney would present a radical change to the executive branch. He really is a moderate, not that far from Obama --and unlike Bush, Jr., he actually seems intelligent, thoughtful, and presidential. And unlike his GOP primary competitors, I believe that most of his radical campaign promises are just pandering to woo the far-right base --promises that will be forgotten before November.
Oh, and as for the claim of/. liberal bias? That's simply because it's reality-based.:)
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Looks like I woke up exactly the kind of deluded victim (with mod points) I spoke of.
After all, isn't the complaints about CEO pay by everyone just a plea for someone to collude to keep people with certain rare skills (Executive Management) from making as much as the market will bear?
You make many good points, but I never argued that CEOs shouldn't be paid whatever the market (and perhaps their own sense of decency) decides they're worth --I argue that a double standard is blatantly unfair. Have you heard of any anti-poaching agreements or union-busting activities affecting CEOs? My rant is about fairness; I'm not advocating socialist ideals.
You may not think much of CEOs, but it's the same thing. The only difference is that you either simply don't like CEOs or you devalue their skill set, and while there are definitely some sociopaths out there in the CEO position, I'd argue that it is a position you need some very stong skills to do successfully.
You're right, it's certainly a skill (and I don't think much of most of them). However, there's an enormous difference between CEOs and their workers. Being at the top of the pyramid means that, other than your buddies on the board (if subject to one), you answer to no one and approve your own raises and benefits. No one above you colludes to limit your pay or hamper your efforts to job shop other premier employers. Again, my issue is fairness.
In any event, people with rare skills are not the general worker population that unions and such would be working for. Unions tend to cut down people who try to use their skills to rise above the norm in terms of pay and benefits, instead, they usually insist on a seniority basis for any sort of increased compensation.
I'm with you there. Many modern unions are malignant shadows of what they once were; and many have become something that does more harm than good. But attacking workers' rights to collectively bargain isn't the answer to fixing them. Reforming unions is a whole different thread.
I'm not saying that I like that CEOs make as much as they do, but I often wonder if it even matters how much they make. Do lottery winners suddenly become threats to society with that money, simply because they have a lot of it? Honestly, this country isn't going to fall apart because some people make more money than others, it's going to fall apart due to our attitudes about what is good to do with that money, and that's something that reaches right down into the "lower" classes as well. We seem to care more about how much someone else makes and pay no attention to what we do with what we do make.
Some people probably do feel that way, but I think the class envy meme is a deliberate mis-framing of the attitude of myself and most of the middle class. We really don't care who makes a billion dollars a year, we're outraged that they find tax dodges, offshore our jobs, and use obviously unfair advantage at every turn. No one can honestly say these abuses of power are good for America. Communism isn't the only system where the hopelessness of getting ahead can crush peoples' ambitions.
Stanlyb is modded Flamebait for pointing out the absurd repugnance of the AC's attitude?
Really... What kind of Stockholm syndrome bullshit causes conservatives to rant about free markets and non-interference, but not when it applies to workers or unions negotiating the price of their services? God knows there isn't any serious discussion of limiting CEO pay. Somehow it seems that colluding to lower the pay of workers with a rare skill is just fine, but the guys at the top, who make the rules, must be exempt. Anything less would be socialist class warfare, right?
Sigh... I don't know if anything from Yahoo is even worthy of/. idle. The site is really a testament to what happens when a company stands still. Frequent users are almost exclusively people who landed there after AOL ceased to be a premiere destination (in popular culture). Just like Yahoo, they didn't upgrade and adapt. And that's why their user base is on the left side of the curve and their user-generated content is terrifyingly ignorant.
Come, stare into the abyss of people just smart enough to use a computer: Exhibit A: http://answers.yahoo.com/
It must be great to be a C-level executive, with a near limitless salary, and not subject to this kind of underhanded collusion because you're making all the rules and approving your own raises.
Dr. Emanuel's thinking seems right on this; there's evidence that "genetics only account for approximately 20 to 30 percent of an individual's chance of surviving to age 85." (see Scientific American) Maybe rather than provide cures, personalized medicine could be used to give people a more accurate estimate of how long they're going to live, based off various lifestyle decisions. Nothing motivates like a deadline.
2) Huge amounts of resources spent (about half of all healthcare spending) on dragging out the process of dying for people who are, one way or another, going to die soon anyway. Most of them are geriatric patients with incurable progressive conditions: metastatic cancer, congestive heart disease, Alzheimer's, etc.
Better lifestyle practices will give us longer, healthier, and for many of us happier lives. They won't make us invulnerable nor immortal. They won't keep our families from bankrupting themseves trying to add one more week of misery in ICU when our time comes.
Precisely. The biggest reason we spend twice as much as other countries on healthcare, yet find ourselves in the company of some third-world countries in outcomes, is that we blow horrible amounts of cash on unnecessary (read CYA for lawsuits) tests and ignorant "futile care" that tortures the dying in order to extend their lives a few months. More here: http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/read/nexus/
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This blows all the mods I've made, but the shear ignorance here is killing me. People need to get past their misogynist thinking that anorexia just means being lean.
The reason curbing anorexia is a big deal is that it has "the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder" and it's a highly cultural phenomenon, extremely rare in societies before modern advertising. Even with treatment, the prognosis is death most of the time. This is an avoidable danger, like prohibiting the glorification of drugs in kids' shows.
Really... How would regulating this be any different than banning steroids in professional sports?
does anyone actually write or edit much of anything in there, or just use it as a visible text clipboard?
Absolutely not, only as an exercise in masochism. The second you realize there's no multiple undo, you're kicking yourself.
Heck, Notepad can't even properly handle files with *nix newlines.
Yeah... That's a WTF? missing feature that almost makes me quit using it. Come on MS... You've had two decades to fix that.
Among the software Microsoft provides with Windows, you have to jump to wordpad for that, and that's no longer even around, is it?
It's still there in Win7. Not a bad compromise between quick-n-dirty and full-featured apps for some things, but nothing I'd use more than 5 minutes.
For my Windows-using friends that aren't versed in old school editors like vi, I recommend Notepad++. I haven't used it, but I hear good comments about it from the GUI-leaning crowd. It's kinda sad, though, that Windows doesn't come with a decent text editor.
I used VI back in the day and I like Notepad++ and other freeware editors, but the reliable, pre-installed aspect of Notepad/Wordpad is a slam dunk for basic needs. The four keystrokes to open Notepad (nine if you use the "Run..." window in XP) have become reflex when I sit at someone else's PC. For work beyond quick, simple edits, I really want a serious tool like Visual Studio, Eclipse, MS Word, etc.
(BTW: retro console stuff in your sig. looks like fun.)
Yeah, I doubt anyone actually uses notepad for more than a few seconds. It's too painful, and there are too many alternatives that are far, far better.
Oh, I don't know... I use it all the time to temporarily store some code, SQL, text from the web, and other scraps that I might need a few minutes later. Beats the hell out of scribbling it all down on a real notepad. And with it's negligible footprint, it's often my tool of choice to grab a quick look at a file. And since it's there on every Windows OS from the last two decades, it works consistently on everyone's PC I use. Simple is not always bad.
removed one leg from the patient after his heart and vascular system failed to sustain the limb and then the other leg and two arms. "The science council (of the hospital) decided to remove the organs one by one
Wow. From a quick scan of the summary, it sounds like they took out everything but the guy's chassis. Leg, leg, arm, arm, and then the next sentence about removing organs one by one? Can his family visit him in the head museum?
Exactly. The only reason the wife and I can both enjoy BSG and The Walking Dead together (and that's about all we can agree on) is that the sci-fi worlds these series are built around create such a rich ecosystem for real human drama. Good sci-fi creates truly novel, yet believable, situations that plumb the depths of what it means to be human.
Dear Wife,
This is my court-ordered apology to you for squandering all my free time on Slashdot when I should be spending it with you cuddling and talking about our feelings.
Sorry!
Just for information, the kid's bottle should have been allowed through. Most places I've been to appear to allow reasonable amounts of formula to be taken through security.
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/children/formula.shtm
Well... My problem was shortly after the incident that caused the rule, so Terror Alert Level(c) was crap-your-pants brown. Guess they hadn't fine-tuned the policy.
When/where was this incident you're talking about? Honestly, other than the foiled plot, I haven't heard anything of the sort. Please share.
What liquid agent is a terrorist going to use to blow up a plane?
Are you really that uninformed, after years of coverage of binary liquid explosives, demonstrations of their effectiveness when used correctly, and actual use of them by actual terrorists who actually killed people? You can't possibly be. So, what's your real point?
Uninformed? Really? Better that than misinformed by watching too many bad action movies. Getting it all to work is a little harder than they make it look on screen.
It only takes the slightest effort with Google to see how unlikely such a plan is to succeed (unless, of course, success is creating more security theater).
> I fly several times a year between US, South america, Europe and Asia and I have never had any problems bringing anything I need on the plane.
Good for you AC. Though I bet you never travelled with a baby, did you?
I'll never forget flying with our 3-month old and having some TSA goon take the kid's bottle away. Every lucky passenger in coach got to hear our hungry baby scream most of the flight. But I'm sure it was worth it, right? No doubt, many imagined threats were stopped that day.
The focus should be on "why" they want to blow up the plane.
EXACTLY. If the desire is there, there really is no end to the creative means of accomplishing their goals. Every added moronic indignity from the TSA is nothing but a reactionary measure, only applied after some plot makes the news. I'm dreading the day a terrorist is discovered with a bomb up his ass.
Ah... Thanks everyone for all the informative replies. I actually don't own a tablet, so the battery life issue didn't occur to me. I guess if people really can't live without a certain legacy apps, remoting would be a better way to go. Maybe breaking away from the desktop will finally get people to move away from crappy old legacy systems.
Leaving the legacy applications behind means WOA is a new platform. Starting basically from scratch. Competing with already entrenched players (iOS and Android). It starts off with little third party software where iOS and Android already have a huge base of developers.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but why wouldn't MS still allow everyone to run legacy apps in some sort of emulation or virtual the way Win7 does? Would it be slow? Sure, but you would expect the stupid old apps to run about the same speed they did when they were new software (on what is now old hardware). Microsoft's greatest strength/weakness is their commitment to backwards compatibility. I wouldn't expect that to change with WOA.
I am loving the irony. For decades these jerks made us buy vinyl, then 8-tracks, then cassettes, then DAT, then CDs (maybe even fancy gold ones) of the same songs each time a new format became available --and if the player ate my tape, I had to shell out another $8.50. They told us we were purchasing physical objects. Now they claim music is intellectual property and you can't resell it?
How long before music comes with a EULA?
Those Strogg mofos are going to be sorry now!
And it looks bad ass too.
Agreed. If you're not testing coders for basic competence, you're just foolishly rolling the dice. When I was helping my company staff up development, I asked applicants to do little 15-minute (or less) methods inspired by FizzBuzz. Despite killing the phone screening and dazzling upper management, many applicants went pale and struggled to produce anything when asked to do simple coding tasks in the de facto IDE (pseudo-code was acceptable too). One dude was great on the phone and socially gifted, but strained to produce a basic looping structure. Management liked him. It took over four months and a few write-ups with HR before he left on his own (he wasn't stupid after all, just couldn't code), without producing anything useful.
and look where it got us. Home prices are continuing to plummet, all of my health care plans at work are more expensive, unemployment way above the 7% figure that Obama "promised" we would never cross, etc.
I've had my disappointments with Obama, but it hardly seems fair to blame him for not fixing problems that were over eight years in the making --and can you honestly say the hostile congress has been much help these problems? All things considered, we could have done much worse and many economic indicators are finally going in the right direction again.
These garbage posts are ruining slashdot anyway. If Romney was so unlikable he wouldn't have been elected as a conservative governor of one of the most liberal states and wouldn't have won Florida by double digits yesterday.
This year's GOP primaries look a lot like 2004, when Democratic voters dispassionately selected John Kerry as the most electable candidate. The nomination is being driven by an anti-incumbent calculus rather than likeability. I expect similar results since sadly, U.S. presidential elections aren't that much different from voting for high school class president. It's mostly a popularity contest decided by poorly-informed, swing voters (if they were competent, it seems very unlikely they wouldn't be locked in to the party most aligned with their personal interests).
If this was true, there would be 100 stories on Slashdot promoting Romney. This is the most liberal site I visit, and the opportunity of having 2 liberal presidential candidates would make this place giddy.
Actually, as an admitted liberal, I'm not too worried about a Romney presidency. I certainly think Obama better represents my core principles (despite his failure to stop the scary police state bullshit started by Bush/Cheney), but I doubt Romney would present a radical change to the executive branch. He really is a moderate, not that far from Obama --and unlike Bush, Jr., he actually seems intelligent, thoughtful, and presidential. And unlike his GOP primary competitors, I believe that most of his radical campaign promises are just pandering to woo the far-right base --promises that will be forgotten before November.
Oh, and as for the claim of /. liberal bias? That's simply because it's reality-based. :)
Looks like I woke up exactly the kind of deluded victim (with mod points) I spoke of.
Speaking of my Flamebait mod --not your post. (Sorry if that wasn't unclear.)
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Looks like I woke up exactly the kind of deluded victim (with mod points) I spoke of.
After all, isn't the complaints about CEO pay by everyone just a plea for someone to collude to keep people with certain rare skills (Executive Management) from making as much as the market will bear?
You make many good points, but I never argued that CEOs shouldn't be paid whatever the market (and perhaps their own sense of decency) decides they're worth --I argue that a double standard is blatantly unfair. Have you heard of any anti-poaching agreements or union-busting activities affecting CEOs? My rant is about fairness; I'm not advocating socialist ideals.
You may not think much of CEOs, but it's the same thing. The only difference is that you either simply don't like CEOs or you devalue their skill set, and while there are definitely some sociopaths out there in the CEO position, I'd argue that it is a position you need some very stong skills to do successfully.
You're right, it's certainly a skill (and I don't think much of most of them). However, there's an enormous difference between CEOs and their workers. Being at the top of the pyramid means that, other than your buddies on the board (if subject to one), you answer to no one and approve your own raises and benefits. No one above you colludes to limit your pay or hamper your efforts to job shop other premier employers. Again, my issue is fairness.
In any event, people with rare skills are not the general worker population that unions and such would be working for. Unions tend to cut down people who try to use their skills to rise above the norm in terms of pay and benefits, instead, they usually insist on a seniority basis for any sort of increased compensation.
I'm with you there. Many modern unions are malignant shadows of what they once were; and many have become something that does more harm than good. But attacking workers' rights to collectively bargain isn't the answer to fixing them. Reforming unions is a whole different thread.
I'm not saying that I like that CEOs make as much as they do, but I often wonder if it even matters how much they make. Do lottery winners suddenly become threats to society with that money, simply because they have a lot of it? Honestly, this country isn't going to fall apart because some people make more money than others, it's going to fall apart due to our attitudes about what is good to do with that money, and that's something that reaches right down into the "lower" classes as well. We seem to care more about how much someone else makes and pay no attention to what we do with what we do make.
Some people probably do feel that way, but I think the class envy meme is a deliberate mis-framing of the attitude of myself and most of the middle class. We really don't care who makes a billion dollars a year, we're outraged that they find tax dodges, offshore our jobs, and use obviously unfair advantage at every turn. No one can honestly say these abuses of power are good for America. Communism isn't the only system where the hopelessness of getting ahead can crush peoples' ambitions.
Stanlyb is modded Flamebait for pointing out the absurd repugnance of the AC's attitude?
Really... What kind of Stockholm syndrome bullshit causes conservatives to rant about free markets and non-interference, but not when it applies to workers or unions negotiating the price of their services? God knows there isn't any serious discussion of limiting CEO pay. Somehow it seems that colluding to lower the pay of workers with a rare skill is just fine, but the guys at the top, who make the rules, must be exempt. Anything less would be socialist class warfare, right?
Sigh... I don't know if anything from Yahoo is even worthy of /. idle. The site is really a testament to what happens when a company stands still. Frequent users are almost exclusively people who landed there after AOL ceased to be a premiere destination (in popular culture). Just like Yahoo, they didn't upgrade and adapt. And that's why their user base is on the left side of the curve and their user-generated content is terrifyingly ignorant.
Come, stare into the abyss of people just smart enough to use a computer: Exhibit A: http://answers.yahoo.com/
It must be great to be a C-level executive, with a near limitless salary, and not subject to this kind of underhanded collusion because you're making all the rules and approving your own raises.
Dr. Emanuel's thinking seems right on this; there's evidence that "genetics only account for approximately 20 to 30 percent of an individual's chance of surviving to age 85." (see Scientific American) Maybe rather than provide cures, personalized medicine could be used to give people a more accurate estimate of how long they're going to live, based off various lifestyle decisions. Nothing motivates like a deadline.
2) Huge amounts of resources spent (about half of all healthcare spending) on dragging out the process of dying for people who are, one way or another, going to die soon anyway. Most of them are geriatric patients with incurable progressive conditions: metastatic cancer, congestive heart disease, Alzheimer's, etc.
Better lifestyle practices will give us longer, healthier, and for many of us happier lives. They won't make us invulnerable nor immortal. They won't keep our families from bankrupting themseves trying to add one more week of misery in ICU when our time comes.
Precisely. The biggest reason we spend twice as much as other countries on healthcare, yet find ourselves in the company of some third-world countries in outcomes, is that we blow horrible amounts of cash on unnecessary (read CYA for lawsuits) tests and ignorant "futile care" that tortures the dying in order to extend their lives a few months. More here: http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/read/nexus/