Month: September 2009
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Commercializing Health Care
We’re now treating medicine as if it were an industrial product. Through put. How many units of care can you deliver? The idea that you are going to see a patient on average for between 12 and 15 minutes, no matter what their condition or how many kinds of problems they have or how complicated […]
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Global Bankers Warn Fed Disclosure Would Destroy Everything
The Federal Reserve has to identify the companies to whom it gave the $1.5 trillion dollars and it has to list the assets used as collateral for the so-called “loans.” And since when has the government felt obligated to protect the share prices of certain private businesses over others? Is that role in the Constitution […]
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Uranus Banned
‘I’m sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.’ ‘Oh. What’s it called now?’ ‘Urrectum.’ via Commenter on MetaFilter
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Martian Death Panels
OBAMA’S GONNA SEND YOUR GRANDMA TO DIE ON MARS! via Commenter on MetaFilter
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One-Way Ticket to Mars
There is, however, a way to surmount this problem while reducing the cost and technical requirements, but it demands that we ask this vexing question: Why are we so interested in bringing the Mars astronauts home again? via NYTimes.com.
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IT Diapers
Infantilize workers? No, we’re putting on the diapers you demanded. You wanted to browse anywhere and do whatever; that’s why we have this anti-virus software. You want to say “oops” and reach back in time three months; that’s why we have an enormous SAN. You beg for database access because “I’ve been here twenty years […]