it's a conflict of interest because it means the doctor and nurses are forced to think about more than the patient's health. They also have to think about the bottom line.
Who's bottom line do they have to think about? The hospital's? I'm don't understand why a doctor or nurse needs to give a frak about making sure the hospital is charging enough. Do you think the cashier at the Tesco cares what they're getting for a Snickers bar?
Re: It's what you get when capitalists control a market...
All the good things in your own life that you associate with the term "capitalism" have been hard won by fighting back plutocrats and their inherited privileges
LOL yeah. The peasants stormed Cupertino and forced Steve Jobs to release the iPhone.
Pretty simple: The reason health care services are so expensive is that there's 90 layers of paperwork and bureaucracy between those that provide and charge for the services (doctors, etc) and those who receive and partially/wholly pay for the service (patient).
All those layers make it insanely easy for the providers to jack up the prices to whatever they think they can get away with. And patients take the attitude of "Who the fuck cares what it costs? I've got health insurance!"
In addition to the "insightful" and "funny" tags for comments, can we get one called "frakking moronic" for comments like this one? It'd make a great addition to the Sunday roundup.
1. You provide the computer. You can install all the rootkits, spyware, etc you want on it. Drop it off at my place, activate it, do whatever you need. After you leave, I'll put it on my neighbor's WiFi and stick it in a closet. Then I'll start using my own legally-bought computer to do whatever the hell I want.
2. As your own proposal says:
a program that is installed by or on behalf of a person to prevent, detect, investigate, or terminate activities that the person reasonably believes (i) present a risk or threatens the security, privacy, or unauthorized or fraudulent use, of a computer system, telecommunications facility, or network, or (ii) involves the contravention of any law of Canada, of a province or municipality of Canada or of a foreign state;
You have to hire a real person to make these decisions. No automated filters, no robots, no software of any kind. A real live person. You can pay them $50,000 a year to watch a live feed of the screen of the computer you provided to me, 24/7/365. After all, piracy never sleeps!
Re: How many screw-ups do you get to make and keep such a job?
5 the first 3 just alert you to the allegation of maybe your not being fair or reasonable in your prosecutions , the next 1 will move you into mediation and show you informational aides promoting you on how to improve your performance however if you get the 5th and final warning you resign and take a consulting job on K Street at 3x your previous salary
Another classic PC title that EA has gobbled up and destroyed. I love the SimCity franchise. I bought and played all of them; in fact, due to lost discs and lost cd-keys, I've already bought SimCity 4 Deluxe four times. When they announced this always-online garbage, I dropped any hope of buying it. Of course, I said the same when the Diable III requirement was announced too, but ended up buying that. But any hope of buying SimCity now is gone.
*sigh* Goodbye, SimCity.
PS: I really wish EA would commission Bioware to do an Ultima series reboot. My favorite childhood franchise of all time. But there's always GOG
I would say this is just another excuse for Hollywood-types to get together and slap each other on the backs. However, the logo suggests that actually they'll be getting together and performing fellatio on each other.
Good: an investigation is coming (hopefully). Maybe somebody will actually be held accountable (which would be truly surprising).
Bad: it took the death of a promising young man for those in power to finally admit to the public the DoJ is doing this. It's not like over-prosecution by the DoJ is some new thing, and you can't tell me that nobody on Capitol Hill knew.
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Re:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6661925/Hundreds-of-patients-died-needlessly- at-NHS-hospital-due-to-appalling-care.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9600165/L ack-of-weekend-NHS-consultants-risking-patients-lives.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/heal thnews/9639090/Cystic-Fibrosis-sufferer-denied-chance-of-life-drug-by-NHS.html
http://www.dailyma il.co.uk/health/article-2126379/Sentenced-death-old-The-NHS-denies-life-saving-treatment-elderly-man s-chilling-story-reveals.html?ITO=1490
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Re: Re:
Who's bottom line do they have to think about? The hospital's? I'm don't understand why a doctor or nurse needs to give a frak about making sure the hospital is charging enough. Do you think the cashier at the Tesco cares what they're getting for a Snickers bar?
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Re: It's what you get when capitalists control a market...
LOL yeah. The peasants stormed Cupertino and forced Steve Jobs to release the iPhone.
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I'd like to hear your reasoning for this
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All those layers make it insanely easy for the providers to jack up the prices to whatever they think they can get away with. And patients take the attitude of "Who the fuck cares what it costs? I've got health insurance!"
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The question is: Both India and HBO have this in common.
What is, both want external organizations to block content that they host on their own web sites?
Correct, you get to pick again.
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Terrorist.
yes, it's sarcasm!
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Multinational companies like Sony Music? Universal? Warner Music? EMI?
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Re:
Let's make a little addition and see if your answer changes, shall we?
Nothing about this was over the top and I would not expect anything less from any logical law enforcementeven if it was my house.
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Re:
http://goo.gl/CC0q2
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Re: Raids need to stop
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/
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Re: Stop the gun BS
A mortar is not a weapon?
And Techdirt isn't reporting that the cops had guns, the source article is saying it.
And you dumb attitude only makes thing worse rather than helping.
Pot, meet Kettle
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Re:
In addition to the "insightful" and "funny" tags for comments, can we get one called "frakking moronic" for comments like this one? It'd make a great addition to the Sunday roundup.
Coog
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"cowardly bullet"
"Grigsby's Cowardly Bullet"
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Not really "lots to learn". Really just one thing - how to write a check.
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sure, go ahead
1. You provide the computer. You can install all the rootkits, spyware, etc you want on it. Drop it off at my place, activate it, do whatever you need. After you leave, I'll put it on my neighbor's WiFi and stick it in a closet. Then I'll start using my own legally-bought computer to do whatever the hell I want.
2. As your own proposal says:
a program that is installed by or on behalf of a person to prevent, detect, investigate, or terminate activities that the person reasonably believes (i) present a risk or threatens the security, privacy, or unauthorized or fraudulent use, of a computer system, telecommunications facility, or network, or (ii) involves the contravention of any law of Canada, of a province or municipality of Canada or of a foreign state;
You have to hire a real person to make these decisions. No automated filters, no robots, no software of any kind. A real live person. You can pay them $50,000 a year to watch a live feed of the screen of the computer you provided to me, 24/7/365. After all, piracy never sleeps!
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Re: How many screw-ups do you get to make and keep such a job?
Fixed it for you...
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*sigh* Goodbye, SimCity.
PS: I really wish EA would commission Bioware to do an Ultima series reboot. My favorite childhood franchise of all time. But there's always GOG
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On the post: Rep. Issa Promises Investigation Into Aaron Swartz Case
the good and the bad
Bad: it took the death of a promising young man for those in power to finally admit to the public the DoJ is doing this. It's not like over-prosecution by the DoJ is some new thing, and you can't tell me that nobody on Capitol Hill knew.
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