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Comment 1) buy out local traditional family farms (Score 1) 551

2) transfer livestock to condensed acre-sized feed lots with barely enough room for animals to move
3) pipe sewage to huge waste ponds, then spew it out onto open ground. To hell with the neighbors who complain about the smell
4) feed livestock said antibiotics to increase production.
5) slaughter livestock, grind up by products, then feed to other livestock.
5) profit!

Comment Healthcare IS exportable, and becoming more so (Score 1) 212

There is a huge push for telemedicine right now. Lots of money is going into developing systems where docs can perform consultations via internet.

An objective of all of this is to further reduce healthcare costs by offshoring many routine examinations to Bangkok or other third world physicians. Your tax dollars at work.

Comment Re:Does anyone.... (Score 4, Interesting) 156

On a non-production system I made the mistake of editing the httpd file through Yast2. Yast "helped" "fix" my conf file so that Apache would not longer work. I learned not to edit important configuration files through gui tools.

I haven't looked at SuSE linux in almost 4 years.. SLES 9 was very stable.

Ubuntu is on all of my workstations & laptops now, and RHEL is on the servers.

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