People that can do math see Obamacare as infeasible given current practice and the number of practicing doctors. Doctors vociferously oppose delegating anything, however.
We're going to have to break the doctor monopoly in the US. The cost has gotten too high to indulge this exclusivity any longer. Automation, nurse practitioners, whatever. It's got to end. If there is anything good about Obamacare it is that this issue will be forced.
I don't wish to see Doctors punished, but the fact is that tens of millions of people are about to arrive in their offices with uncancel-able, no-lifetime-limit, fixed-rate Obamacare and a lifetime of accumulated, untreated damage. At the very least this is going to force a LOT of delegation.
The process worked despite her removal. It wasn't actually necessary for her to abrogate the pretense of impartiality expected of a scientist working on behalf of the public. It isn't actually necessary for public institutions to be populated with rabid activists for the public to be protected.
It is better that the government protect its credibility by spacing abusive and reckless fools like her. Unfortunately that's not what happened. She still works for the US government. She just got pulled from an EPA panel.
I suspect we witness here a case of a political view, and even a politician, that is considered so mainstream that they no longer suffer the "political" qualification.
Just for the record, any "show" that has Bill Clinton as a featured speaker is political.
open source means never having to take responsibility for releasing a shitty product
I guess I have to agree with you. At least this place seems to be inhabited with people that believe open source is an excuse to neglect work. I pointed out a 12 year old bug fixed in the latest Mozilla release and get modded Offtopic. Mozilla developers aren't working for kudos... but damn you if you offer the slightest criticism.
What I have found is that schools will literally send pupils that would not test well home for the day while testing is being done.
In the US we just fake the numbers. Sending students home would burden parents with parenting. No one cares much when fraud is discovered among teachers, but send a bunch of kids home early to the inconvenience of their parents and you will hear about it.
Spaceport America is a government boondoggle that will die in court. The governor of NM is trying and failing to secure private investors, most of whom know better than to sacrifice their capital to this lawsuit magnet.
If and when something like this gets built it will happen in Mexico. Virgin or whomever will pay off the local kleptocrats, put some Blackwater guys on the perimeter and fly their paying customers in with a Sikorsky. The Romper Room States of America will not be involved.
Unless the Air Force picks it up for a song as a maintenance depot, or something, nothing will ever fly out of "Spaceport America."
A suggestion to the developers. Please allow for degenerate cases. I deal with a set of old, specialized, practically irreplaceable displays that cannot produce DPMS data. In the past I've suffered with embedded displays that produce completely inaccurate DPMS data.
Allow the operator a means to manually override whatever display parameters your software obtains (probably via xrandr) from the operating system. The display parameters are often bogus and must be corrected.
I forget more about the computer revolution every time I sneeze than Krugman will ever know. It's just beginning. Live 10 more years and a computer will drive you anywhere in North America and hump you on the way. We're about to wipe out 'higher' education as we've known it for centuries. Piers Morgan may not get voted off the island via Whitehouse petition but the fact that were having a global debate with Internet petitions to our respective governments isn't funny. We're still puttering along with a couple megabits of capacity in most of the Western world. Gibibit+ will enable use cases we haven't even suspected yet. The second or third next atavist-stan we get ourselves mired in will be fought in-part with armed autonomous bipedal robots. Media is being fundamentally changed on a daily basis. The interval between now and when Krugman's paper goes Newsweek and becomes a glorified blog is probably a lot shorter than the remainder of Krugman's career as a columnist.
Krugman needs to stick to his welfare state statism.
Since this should be self evident, I'll keep the explanation simple.
China is run by authoritarians that are hell bent on prosperity. They do not indulge: environmentalists, humans rights, property rights or special interests that aren't immediately aligned with said goal. The rail line goes here and you step aside quietly or spend years of your life making Walmart SKUs in a labor camp.
The US is run by statists and the comfortable electorate they've purchased with bennies. Prosperity is something we have far too much of so we spend our time squabbling in court, creating whole new forms of legal jeapody and liability as we go. This precludes large scale, capital intensive ventures such as continental scale rail systems. The lead times to get through the legislatures, courts, etc. is just too damn long. Capital won't tolerate this and seeks better venues, most of which are in Asia.
There is obviously something wrong occurring in the firefox mozilla groupthink and yet nothing is being done.
That's the feeling I have as well. I don't use 32 bit desktops any longer. Actually haven't consistently used a 32 bit desktop in four years. To somehow not be aware of the behavior of real users is a huge fail.
And lets not indulge anymore '64 bits isn't necessary' tripe. People that don't understand why key software must adopt the native ISA of a system and avoid backward compatibility kludges need to stop talking about this.
Anyhow, I just upgraded my main personal desktop hardware and reinstalled my retail Win 7 OS, in addition to Linux. I installed Firefox out of habit but I haven't bothered to reacquire my usual cohort of extensions... I don't use it anymore. Chrome is superior in every way, with the sole exception that noscript is better than scriptno.
Mozilla is repeating Netscape history. Then as now, leadership is the problem.
Neither of these normalize vendor specific dialects. Both of these require vendor specific drivers to implement vendor protocols. All of this leads to costly subtleties.
The grandparent is correct, both in its assertions about SQL and of you.
As per European Commission order and enforced with massive punitive fines levied over a decade. It had to be beat out of them. Don't think for a moment this is volitional. They just can't tolerate any more shareholder meetings where another billion euro fine is on the agenda.
Is it really so difficult for the USA to implement...?
Yes. Replacing the fleet means fighting interminable battles with activists armed with judges that injunct whatever they're told to. Even when we do grown-up things like create a law and a tax to fund waste disposal it gets wrecked by statists. Capital knows better than to have anything to do with US nuclear; the US electorate are hysterical children, bought a paid for with bennies and led around with FUD.
Nuclear power is out of our league now. We're just not competent to govern such things any longer. Our zombie reactor fleet will subsist until some easily foreseeable disaster creates sufficient hysteria. Our parents in Washington will then act and take them away.
Contemporary cars are very complex because they must be clean and efficient. Specialized tools are necessary for service work. If manufacturers must limit themselves to open, standardized interfaces they will be slower in achieving greater emissions and fuel efficiency.
It's time to accept the fact that the priority must be emissions and efficiency and not owner's liberty. If the cost is higher then so be it. The environment is more important. We can't ruin the planet to mollify shade-tree mechanics. If owning and servicing cars at qualified dealers makes ownership too expensive for working class people then they need to learn to live without cars.
Just saying what you lefties would say if you had the balls.
There is an important difference between "totalled" and "erupt into a 1350 deg. C toxic lithium fire." Traditional gas/diesel cars don't usually do that when flooded, so a new and dramatic failure mode has been revealed. Something to note if you live in New Orleans or parts of Texas that see frequent flash floods and perhaps not the best thing to park in your integral garage.
You didn't really fail to understand this did you? You'd just rather people not discuss concerns that emerge with the things you prefer.
It isn't, even if nothing happens. And I'm no anti-nuke.
The US should be operating about 500 1GW MOX boosted reactors, none more than 40 years old, fed by a real domestic reprocessing fuel cycle. That we are not is a consequence of indulging a comfortable yet ignorant electorate and the politicians that train it.
Safety is a factor. It isn't the only factor. If safety precluded all other factors we would have no cars because automotive fatalities kill more than 0.01% of us every year (10 per 100 000) never mind injuries.
Our energy supply is worth the risk, just as our mobility is worth the risk. Our leaders fail to convey this simple and correct view and instead create fear and foster hate to gain political advantage.
The truth is that it doesn't really matter what we do. The future of energy and the fate of the species does not depend on our choices in the US. China is building dozens of reactors to secure its future energy supply. They are building an energy infrastructure that will endure for hundreds of years after this has-been backwater has declined to irrelevance.
For the executives and senior engineers of Westinghouse the US is the self-absorbed bedroom community where they keep their wives and kids. For now. They're elsewhere doing the grownup work that keeps the lights on.
Network transparency is very useful for administering servers
You're in luck then because Wayland will provide exactly the sort of efficient remote display necessary for this and most other use cases. Here is the man himself, Kristian Høgsberg, demonstrating a prototype of this. Watch and learn and try to make allowance for the fact that this stuff has probably never run beyond any anything other than Kristian's development machine.
Wayland supporters have suggested using VNC for that
The blind leading the blind. Wayland, by its nature, has precise information about what it composites. Kristian explains how this can will be used to make efficient, round-trip-free remote displays work.
Eventually Wayland will provide a better remote desktop experience than X. Please know of what you speak before you condemn it.
You have conflated The Press with the justice system. Presumption of innocence applies to law and the prosecution of citizens. The Press suffers no such inhibitions. About the only limit the Press must observe is slander. The Press is not a court, the press operates no jails, the press seizes no property or serves any warrants.
As for the supposed 'tarnish' suffered; empowering the state to hide evidence from The Press is certain to be abused to protect powerful criminals. This is the greater evil.
The experiment has been done. The result is massive phytoplankton bloom and carbon consumption.
The grandparent is right. This is not fundamentally different than infusing millions of acres of land with nitrates, phosphates, etc. Farming, in other words.
Another related story about people being exposed appeared on Slashdot a few days ago. Fortunately that one had a happy ending (no pun intended): the names were published. The First Amendment survives another brush with the false dignity of the powerful.
In places like Europe, where a good chunk of the electricity comes from renewable sources
Eurostat reports EU electrical generation in 2011 was only 18% renewable, and 72% of that (13% of the total) was legacy hydro which has been on the books for decades. I guess that's a 'good chunk' or something. The other 82% is `conventional thermal', a euphemism for coal, and nuclear. They avoided illustrating the pathetically small contribution of solar by omitting it from the main graph.
But hey, don't let reality intrude on your happy shiny Europe narrative.
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Who could possibly be opposed to cheap, automated healthcare?
Doctors. Obviously.
People that can do math see Obamacare as infeasible given current practice and the number of practicing doctors. Doctors vociferously oppose delegating anything, however.
We're going to have to break the doctor monopoly in the US. The cost has gotten too high to indulge this exclusivity any longer. Automation, nurse practitioners, whatever. It's got to end. If there is anything good about Obamacare it is that this issue will be forced.
I don't wish to see Doctors punished, but the fact is that tens of millions of people are about to arrive in their offices with uncancel-able, no-lifetime-limit, fixed-rate Obamacare and a lifetime of accumulated, untreated damage. At the very least this is going to force a LOT of delegation.
Physics. It's a bitch.
and guess what?
The process worked despite her removal. It wasn't actually necessary for her to abrogate the pretense of impartiality expected of a scientist working on behalf of the public. It isn't actually necessary for public institutions to be populated with rabid activists for the public to be protected.
It is better that the government protect its credibility by spacing abusive and reckless fools like her. Unfortunately that's not what happened. She still works for the US government. She just got pulled from an EPA panel.
CES is not a political show
Wow. Set off my bullshit detector in the first sentence.
Former President Bill Clinton pushes for stricter gun control during Consumer Electronics Show speech
I suspect we witness here a case of a political view, and even a politician, that is considered so mainstream that they no longer suffer the "political" qualification.
Just for the record, any "show" that has Bill Clinton as a featured speaker is political.
open source means never having to take responsibility for releasing a shitty product
I guess I have to agree with you. At least this place seems to be inhabited with people that believe open source is an excuse to neglect work. I pointed out a 12 year old bug fixed in the latest Mozilla release and get modded Offtopic. Mozilla developers aren't working for kudos... but damn you if you offer the slightest criticism.
What I have found is that schools will literally send pupils that would not test well home for the day while testing is being done.
In the US we just fake the numbers. Sending students home would burden parents with parenting. No one cares much when fraud is discovered among teachers, but send a bunch of kids home early to the inconvenience of their parents and you will hear about it.
I can not comprehend of anything worse
That's not much of an imagination. You can embed Javascript in PDF...
It's turtles all the way down.
They've landed the solution to this issue, first submitted in 2000. Clinton was still president.
Newegg has this listed.
So, yeah.
Spaceport America is a government boondoggle that will die in court. The governor of NM is trying and failing to secure private investors, most of whom know better than to sacrifice their capital to this lawsuit magnet.
If and when something like this gets built it will happen in Mexico. Virgin or whomever will pay off the local kleptocrats, put some Blackwater guys on the perimeter and fly their paying customers in with a Sikorsky. The Romper Room States of America will not be involved.
Unless the Air Force picks it up for a song as a maintenance depot, or something, nothing will ever fly out of "Spaceport America."
A suggestion to the developers. Please allow for degenerate cases. I deal with a set of old, specialized, practically irreplaceable displays that cannot produce DPMS data. In the past I've suffered with embedded displays that produce completely inaccurate DPMS data.
Allow the operator a means to manually override whatever display parameters your software obtains (probably via xrandr) from the operating system. The display parameters are often bogus and must be corrected.
I forget more about the computer revolution every time I sneeze than Krugman will ever know. It's just beginning. Live 10 more years and a computer will drive you anywhere in North America and hump you on the way. We're about to wipe out 'higher' education as we've known it for centuries. Piers Morgan may not get voted off the island via Whitehouse petition but the fact that were having a global debate with Internet petitions to our respective governments isn't funny. We're still puttering along with a couple megabits of capacity in most of the Western world. Gibibit+ will enable use cases we haven't even suspected yet. The second or third next atavist-stan we get ourselves mired in will be fought in-part with armed autonomous bipedal robots. Media is being fundamentally changed on a daily basis. The interval between now and when Krugman's paper goes Newsweek and becomes a glorified blog is probably a lot shorter than the remainder of Krugman's career as a columnist.
Krugman needs to stick to his welfare state statism.
I wonder why we don't make these kinds of railway advances in the US
Really? You actually wonder about this?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/17/california-high-speed-rail-lawsuit_n_2150455.html
Since this should be self evident, I'll keep the explanation simple.
China is run by authoritarians that are hell bent on prosperity. They do not indulge: environmentalists, humans rights, property rights or special interests that aren't immediately aligned with said goal. The rail line goes here and you step aside quietly or spend years of your life making Walmart SKUs in a labor camp.
The US is run by statists and the comfortable electorate they've purchased with bennies. Prosperity is something we have far too much of so we spend our time squabbling in court, creating whole new forms of legal jeapody and liability as we go. This precludes large scale, capital intensive ventures such as continental scale rail systems. The lead times to get through the legislatures, courts, etc. is just too damn long. Capital won't tolerate this and seeks better venues, most of which are in Asia.
Enjoy your decline.
There is obviously something wrong occurring in the firefox mozilla groupthink and yet nothing is being done.
That's the feeling I have as well. I don't use 32 bit desktops any longer. Actually haven't consistently used a 32 bit desktop in four years. To somehow not be aware of the behavior of real users is a huge fail.
And lets not indulge anymore '64 bits isn't necessary' tripe. People that don't understand why key software must adopt the native ISA of a system and avoid backward compatibility kludges need to stop talking about this.
Anyhow, I just upgraded my main personal desktop hardware and reinstalled my retail Win 7 OS, in addition to Linux. I installed Firefox out of habit but I haven't bothered to reacquire my usual cohort of extensions... I don't use it anymore. Chrome is superior in every way, with the sole exception that noscript is better than scriptno.
Mozilla is repeating Netscape history. Then as now, leadership is the problem.
ODBC? JDBC?
Neither of these normalize vendor specific dialects. Both of these require vendor specific drivers to implement vendor protocols. All of this leads to costly subtleties.
The grandparent is correct, both in its assertions about SQL and of you.
Microsoft provided them with documentation
As per European Commission order and enforced with massive punitive fines levied over a decade. It had to be beat out of them. Don't think for a moment this is volitional. They just can't tolerate any more shareholder meetings where another billion euro fine is on the agenda.
Is it really so difficult for the USA to implement...?
Yes. Replacing the fleet means fighting interminable battles with activists armed with judges that injunct whatever they're told to. Even when we do grown-up things like create a law and a tax to fund waste disposal it gets wrecked by statists. Capital knows better than to have anything to do with US nuclear; the US electorate are hysterical children, bought a paid for with bennies and led around with FUD.
Nuclear power is out of our league now. We're just not competent to govern such things any longer. Our zombie reactor fleet will subsist until some easily foreseeable disaster creates sufficient hysteria. Our parents in Washington will then act and take them away.
Contemporary cars are very complex because they must be clean and efficient. Specialized tools are necessary for service work. If manufacturers must limit themselves to open, standardized interfaces they will be slower in achieving greater emissions and fuel efficiency.
It's time to accept the fact that the priority must be emissions and efficiency and not owner's liberty. If the cost is higher then so be it. The environment is more important. We can't ruin the planet to mollify shade-tree mechanics. If owning and servicing cars at qualified dealers makes ownership too expensive for working class people then they need to learn to live without cars.
Just saying what you lefties would say if you had the balls.
why does that matter?
There is an important difference between "totalled" and "erupt into a 1350 deg. C toxic lithium fire." Traditional gas/diesel cars don't usually do that when flooded, so a new and dramatic failure mode has been revealed. Something to note if you live in New Orleans or parts of Texas that see frequent flash floods and perhaps not the best thing to park in your integral garage.
You didn't really fail to understand this did you? You'd just rather people not discuss concerns that emerge with the things you prefer.
admit that nuclear power is safe
It isn't, even if nothing happens. And I'm no anti-nuke.
The US should be operating about 500 1GW MOX boosted reactors, none more than 40 years old, fed by a real domestic reprocessing fuel cycle. That we are not is a consequence of indulging a comfortable yet ignorant electorate and the politicians that train it.
Safety is a factor. It isn't the only factor. If safety precluded all other factors we would have no cars because automotive fatalities kill more than 0.01% of us every year (10 per 100 000) never mind injuries.
Our energy supply is worth the risk, just as our mobility is worth the risk. Our leaders fail to convey this simple and correct view and instead create fear and foster hate to gain political advantage.
The truth is that it doesn't really matter what we do. The future of energy and the fate of the species does not depend on our choices in the US. China is building dozens of reactors to secure its future energy supply. They are building an energy infrastructure that will endure for hundreds of years after this has-been backwater has declined to irrelevance.
For the executives and senior engineers of Westinghouse the US is the self-absorbed bedroom community where they keep their wives and kids. For now. They're elsewhere doing the grownup work that keeps the lights on.
Network transparency is very useful for administering servers
You're in luck then because Wayland will provide exactly the sort of efficient remote display necessary for this and most other use cases. Here is the man himself, Kristian Høgsberg, demonstrating a prototype of this. Watch and learn and try to make allowance for the fact that this stuff has probably never run beyond any anything other than Kristian's development machine.
Wayland supporters have suggested using VNC for that
The blind leading the blind. Wayland, by its nature, has precise information about what it composites. Kristian explains how this can will be used to make efficient, round-trip-free remote displays work.
Eventually Wayland will provide a better remote desktop experience than X. Please know of what you speak before you condemn it.
linux and tech, mixed with science and Legos, and a few reviews and sci-fi folded in.
Notice the polite omission of freetard controversy and privacy hysteria?
innocent until proven guilty
You have conflated The Press with the justice system. Presumption of innocence applies to law and the prosecution of citizens. The Press suffers no such inhibitions. About the only limit the Press must observe is slander. The Press is not a court, the press operates no jails, the press seizes no property or serves any warrants.
As for the supposed 'tarnish' suffered; empowering the state to hide evidence from The Press is certain to be abused to protect powerful criminals. This is the greater evil.
The experiment has been done. The result is massive phytoplankton bloom and carbon consumption.
The grandparent is right. This is not fundamentally different than infusing millions of acres of land with nitrates, phosphates, etc. Farming, in other words.
Another related story about people being exposed appeared on Slashdot a few days ago. Fortunately that one had a happy ending (no pun intended): the names were published. The First Amendment survives another brush with the false dignity of the powerful.
I had the same response when I read that claim:
In places like Europe, where a good chunk of the electricity comes from renewable sources
Eurostat reports EU electrical generation in 2011 was only 18% renewable, and 72% of that (13% of the total) was legacy hydro which has been on the books for decades. I guess that's a 'good chunk' or something. The other 82% is `conventional thermal', a euphemism for coal, and nuclear. They avoided illustrating the pathetically small contribution of solar by omitting it from the main graph.
But hey, don't let reality intrude on your happy shiny Europe narrative.