A possible solution would be better simulations so that a student can learn by doing. I think it is a very different than working on a cadaver or simulated patient using conventional methods.

You obviously aren't familiar with surgical departments or you wouldn't have missed practice surgeries on live animals.

For instance: a typical cardiac surgeon, shortly before EACH operation on a human patient, does a practice operation of the same procedure on a live dog.

One pediatric cardiac surgeon was much beloved by his patents and their families, because (with parental permission) he would let the kid adopt the practice dog, rather than sending it to be destroyed. The kid would wake up from surgery with the new puppy beside him, with the same bandages, etc. (and a day or so farther along in recovery). The dog having been through the same procedure and having helped save the kid's life even before they met made for very strong owner/pet bonds. (There's always a live, healthy, practice dog. If the dog dies (or is severely damaged) the assumption is that the procedure failed. You DON'T do a procedure on a human if it just killed a dog. You analyze, adjust the procedure, and repeat until success.)

Getting skills up does NOT require, or usually involve, a lot of practice on JUST advanced simulations, cadavers or, live patients. The live patients are just the last step, when the skills are already finely honed, and the animal models provide immediate feedback, real situations, and automatically correct modelling of mammalian life processes.

It's GMO and therefore automatically bad and evil and meant to make a profit for big business and increase income disparity. We kept people from getting enough vitamin A with golden rice and we'll keep them from reducing their carbon footprint with this stuff. LIBERALISM UBER ALLES!!!

You don't say... A friggin' gamma ray laser and scientists aren't jumping on it like maggots on peanut butter ?!?

Been using Linux for 15 years now. I run an instance of XP in a VM because there are exactly 3 pieces of licensed software I need that run only on Windows. And I recently learned that one of them is EOL on XP, so for the next update I'll need Win10. What I already would like to know is how to XP-ify Win10 ? How to remove all the gimmicks and leave only a no-nonsense static user interface ? Some utility that can do that in one install ? Note: I've never used any Windows after XP.

This will end once the boomers die off. Everyone has an embarrassing past. The problem is the Boomers that like to pretend their past was clean since there is no evidence and are quick to judge others. Once you can look up the HR persons trips to Cancun or your Boss's "experimental" stage we will all be on an even playing field.

>If you really want to prove that the benchmark is crap, then by all means make meaningful suggestions to _any_ of the existing machine benchmarks.

That's a bit facetious. If you've been around the benchmarking world as long as you say you have, you'll know that the compiler settings are *always* a cause of controversy.

Nobody is happy when compiler settings are made that don't favor their side (whatever it is).

Why don't publishers put the ads in a section of the page that can allow the rest of the page to load and render before the ad loads and renders?

Because you could stop the loading once the content you wanted was rendered, thus skipping the ad.

So the pages are set up so the ad loads and renders first.

"Edward Snowden is an evil turncoat and general git because he embarrassed us in general and Lord God Obama in particular and so we hate him and intend to try to screw him every way we can, so long as it is consistent with the daily screwing requirement of Trey Goudy."

Living in an irrational society full of people that can't mind their own business is the hard part.

I used to believe this BEFORE i joined Linked-In. After many years of my eternal search for a living wage in America, I decided I might as well bight the bullet and see if there was any value in Linked-IN.

Now I KNOW for a fact that I'm just being shot-gunned by recruiters -- before that it was just a theory.

However, if no recruiters are actually hiring anyone they find on Linked-In, how long before they realize it's just a place for them to blow smoke and dangle promising job opportunities in front of desperate people who go through 600 emails a day?

Isn't it fun to know that a company took your contact data and now considers it THEY have more right to the people you link to than YOU do?

Perhaps Linked-IN considers me a data hoarding parasite, trying to beg for jobs while they do the important work of spamming everybody I will potentially know 20 years in the future.

I've currently got a junk email account I used to register with LinkedIN and I've received job offers to repackage packages from the year 2044.

"the constitution that says any entity must allow you to use their property at the exclusion of others in order to express your speech" -- that is true about THEIR property, but this is the PUBLIC's property, and your use of the term "exclusion" means that other people can't use the park on another day. Every gathering is a temporary exclusion -- so by this logic NOBODY could have any event, of any kind, in a public park. Since this events obviously take place -- your point is moot. They could have a Klan rally -- they wouldn't need to exclude me because this white boy wouldn't want to hang with those dudes.

It's a public park. It's not a private institution - so it is CLEARLY in the realm of public expression. Even for fascist, racist, fans of Ted Nugent who really, really want to shoot bears.

The criminal status of an individual should have no bearing here. Personally, I believe everyone should be REQUIRED to vote, and that a felony conviction should not end the right to vote -- because it would be too easy to arrest everyone of a certain ethnic group to marginalize their vote ... which I think has been done to communities of a certain hue. Especially where we repealed Jim Crowe laws and they immediately started putting up hindrances to voting -- even after they PROMISED that they wouldn't be making barriers to voting.

So the PROMISE that this is about public safety, and that they REALLY CARE about not giving a mic to criminals, means that Oliver North has to give back all of his air time -- well, if he were a rapper I mean.

All civil rights marches that could actually make a difference would be illegal by the standards of today's Supreme Court. We have "Free Speech Zones" today --- meaning; as long as you don't inconvenience anyone, and nobody sees you, you can protest.

If you have a "low tax, pro corporate" message like the Tea Baggers, you get CNN coverage and can even carry around guns to protect some tax cheat rancher (not a hypothetical).

Something tells me if this were a corporation that is resisting charges of human rights violations, they could still get a video through to a large audience.

"The community has a right not to feel threatened" -- please, that would mean that my right to not be offended means I could forever hold hostage ANY large gathering. No one has a right to be "not offended" or even to "feel safe at all times." The police even organize in communities that feel threatened by them. When about 25% of the males in Ferguson have conviction records -- you think that MOST people want them around?

This is about institutional acceptable vs. something the marginalized people want.

" The city of Hammond refused to let promoters hold the event unless they agreed that Chief Keef would not be allowed to perform."
That seems pretty specific. The city of Hammond -- or at least, the white people in power in Hammond, don't like the message of Keef. Maybe they think he's a criminal and shouldn't have the RIGHT to talk to people.

There were many people in the Bush administration who were avoiding the warrants of other countries and even US counties, and yet, they get speaker fees and engagements.

I have no clue what Keef is promoting. He could be a wacko. But to me, this is a clear violation of freedom of assembly and speech and it's the Haves vs. the Have nots. The people with money just show their messages on the TV -- and now they won't even let someone put up a projector in a park.

"Mother earth will take care of herself."

Yeah, and the rocks won't care if we are here or not.

"She has this sense of entitlement that wreaks. "

As compared to rich boys like Mitt or Trump or Bush? Is she LESS political or just less entitled? Which of the 4 of them would make their own coffee -- do you even know the answer or is this an opinion?

I'm not a fan of Hillary or ANY of the Republican candidates, but what has that to do with Climate change? Isn't it hard enough to get one point across without lumping in others?

And why can't we deal with the environment AND trading partners who happen to point weapons at us? There are certainly more than a few jobs in America -- some people even flip burgers while we worry about Russia and fuel efficiency standards.

A lot of the sub-prime loans went to people with the credit to allow them to get LOWER interest loans. People don't remember that the Republicans partially privatized Fannie Mac and Freddie Mae and that made them profit-oriented.

You know what happens to mortgagers who get higher interest? It's harder to pay off the loan.

The "leveraging" -- was mostly from the financial institutions who bundled the sub prime loans with insurance and traded it, sometimes as much as 20x the value of the "deposit" because they could say it was based on a mortgage. Did anyone hold a gun to the financial institutions head and force them to end Glass Stegal (which prevented such investments)?

Of course, the poor was hurt and the wealthy -- not at all.

So "personal responsibility" seems voided when ".inc" comes after the name.