It's working no worse than before for me. Before Obamacare, there was nobody to take my insurance. After Obamacare, same thing. Some people are now having this experience and paying more for the privilege, however.

You mean it's oriented towards crony corporatism. Remember, you have no choice but to secure health care through an approved insurance provider, unless you are rich and then the laws do not apply to you. There is nothing free market about it whatsoever.

There are also very many shitty doctors and nurses in it, and no means for screening them out because we're desperate for health care professionals. But since we actually don't treat them very well, not many people want to go into the line of work even if they're capable. We also require doctors to do certain things which could be done by lesser professionals (thanks to the AMA) which exacerbates the situation. It won't be long before most of these assholes are replaced by expert systems, and they really should have been already but the initial diagnosis still requires a human to input stuff into the machine. When we get to the three probes, they're toast.

I don't mean to imply that they are all bad, or anything. But there's lots of 'em who don't give a flying fuck about you, and just want to get you out of their hair. You can tell by how they treat you. If they do all the typical depersonalization shit they are literally taught in medical school, it's about a paycheck.

It's all high-risk, because you never know what you'll come in contact with in a hospital. For one thing, it's been shown time and again that they are full of filthy things, like doctors' ties, and keyboards. For another, sick people go there. By definition, the scary stuff will be there. Unless, of course, people avoid seeking medical care due to concerns over cost.

Yeah, this happens every day. It's not Ebola every day, but nonetheless. It's not unique to Texas. It just happened to happen there. It could have happened in any state with noticeable population.

I will not be the first, but may I say "duh"? And also "fucking duh"?

But possibly not using it correctly, which has been an issue at that facility in the past.

Right back to people not being willing to consider others. An obvious result of the way we treat health care in this country.

That part is normal, too. But it shouldn't be. It's why hospitals are death boxes.

That's only useful if you have a bunch of applications which force full screen. The solution there is to unfuck those apps, not to goof around with weird screen-splitting ideas. An idea which might be useful and perform the same function, though, would be to give new ways to resize windows. For example, when I resize a window, maybe I could merge its border with a neighboring window by dragging and hovering. Then they'd have a shared border (reflected by drawing them appropriately) and moving the shared border would resize both windows, dragging one window would move the other, etc.

Realistically, that's going to have to come in the video driver, and some of them already do this. It would be nice to have OS-level support for controlling it, however.

Microsoft is running scared. It doesn't look like it because they're so big, but they're seeing their business nibbled away so they're moving as fast as their massive bulk will allow. At this point, they're probably desperate enough to attempt serious measures like listening to their customers.

The area of the ice is irrelevant. It affects albedo, but that is insufficient to cancel out the influence of contaminants like excessive CO2. What we care about is the mass of the ice, and we covered here fairly recently how that has decreased sufficiently to measure gravitationally.

That's not a bad analogy, really. It is established science. But it is not permanent. Thing is, nothing is permanent but change itself. I think I learned that from a prog rock song.

Odds are, it actually still involved elements of common sense. Probably someone figured out that an hourglass-shaped log was easier to maneuver, and accomplishing the same thing with less materials is the obvious next step. Actually making it happen probably required the results of several other inventions. Pegging the axle, for example, could have come from some kind of tool (hammer, mace) made from the same principle.

And it still is. But now it is also acceptable to use she/hers/her in a sentence as well, when the gender is unknown.

Unless something was women's work.

Creativity is the primary problem-solving skill. It's a prerequisite for civilization, not a result of it. The default means of solving problems is to bash it with a rock. Even bash it with a stick required creativity, the first time anyway. After that, good old imitation would do.

What? Everything you create is covered by copyright.

Ten or twenty years ago, when enthusiasts still had this hardware, this would have been very interesting. I remember David Case having a big pile of the stuff he had nothing to do with because software was too hard to come by. Today, virtually all of that stuff has been landfilled or recycled.

Nobody said there were, but you were completely misguided. Piping is a key feature of Unix, and nobody would suggest removing it today. The key principles of Unix are not "to be obeyed" simply because they are rules that you are meant to follow. They are principles that emerged from development (like piping) which became a "way" that people follow because they make sense.

If moving the goalposts is the best that you can accomplish, then surely we cannot progress this conversation past this point. There are many things which can happen to a log file besides truncation.

They don't work without journalctl. And this is relevant because text logging (which does work without journalctl) is a second-class citizen to the binary logging. This is the part of the binary logging which is completely unacceptable. If only one of the logs is going to be accurate, it must be the log which I can read without special tools. Indeed, with a filesystem debugger or even a filesystem editor, if necessary.

False. You only say that because you do not understand the Unix Way, which includes preference for flat and human-readable files. You are praising one particular tree while cutting down the forest.

In the real world, where things sometimes do not go according to plan, it does not make sense to tie myself to proprietary tools. This point has been proven time and again, again, in the real world. Your coulda woulda shoulda nonsense is just that; journald coulda woulda shoulda made text logging as important as binary logging, and then the chief objection to it would not even exist. But arrogance has led its development otherwise. Presumably this will be fixed and eventually, with some snarky bullshit comments about how it's for the fogeys thrown in as a means of avoiding any personal responsibility for the bad decision in the first place.

I find your lack of imagination typical, but disturbing. It is, of course, the mindset which led to systemd, so I am anything but surprised to see it here.

The particular citizens of Waco we're discussing decided not to resist when the FBI rolled in with tanks and flamethrowers. Then the FBI parked a tank on the escape hatch and set the building on fire with a flamethrower. This was mounted on another tank, clearly visible in the only decent footage of the incident, shot at long range because the FBI wouldn't permit the press anywhere near. They knew where the hatch was because they had advance information, and they had the complete plans of the facility. This led to the suffocation death of the people we're talking about. If this is an example of anything, it's an example of a time when armed defense was warranted, and an example of what will happen to you if you concentrate yourself.