If by spoiled you mean refusing to live in factory housing so they can be rousted at 2am to reconfigure the line and work a 16 hour shift due to a last minute change order, then they are spoiled.

When a production line goes down, it costs an astronomical amount of money every minute it is down. Because you don't want the line to go down, you want responsible adults working the line, not teenagers. Responsible adults need to put a roof over their heads and potentially feed a family. It'd also be nice if maybe there was enough left over so their kids can go to school or get the advanced vocational training their parents never got. So you need to pay a living wage.

I've dropped my iPhone 4 from 5' up and watched it bounce down half a flight of concrete steps to no ill effect. On the other hand, my girlfriend had hers fall 6" from her breast pocket while she was bending over to pick up her car keys and the screen complete shattered. They build these things out of some pretty amazing materials and they do their best to make them hardy, but when it comes down to it you are still rolling the dice when you drop one.

If you cloak totalitarian government in the vestments of communism, you get Stalinist government.

If you mix totalitarianism with a conservative government you get fascism.

Liberal or conservative. Capitalist or socialist. It doesn't matter what the surface ideology is: there are people on either end of the spectrum that desire a government with absolute authority over its people.

One thing that Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, and Stalin have in common is: they would all love the PATRIOT Act.

Bees don't hibernate or anything. During the winter, they expend a huge amount of energy keeping their hive warm. They must maintain a hive temperature between 85 and 95 degrees to survive. They do this by clustering together and rapidly vibrating their wings. That's what honey is for: it's stored energy so they can perform this function when there is no food available during the winter.

So bees kept indoors might actually survive better due to not needing to expend as much energy. The only question I guess would be whether they would be smart enough to stay inside or if they would keep sending foragers out to freeze.

"moody, impulsive, unfriendly (to adults)" describes, like, 90% of teenagers, with the exception of the student council types.

Sun's eGate Integrator platform (a predecessor to JCAPS) used a LISP derived language called Monk as a scripting language. Of course, it's been phased out in recent versions :P

Also some of us live in the city and don't have a garage. Charging with wall current for me would involve a 500' extension cord.

That's where I am, right across from the Prudential Plaza. Definitely felt it here.

What about pharmaceuticals that are excreted in urine or carcinogenic chemicals that are poured down the drain? I imagine that many of those compounds are small enough to pass through an osmotic filter.

There's a lot more to a PACS than "just" a DB of images. For example, a lot of times radiology has their own registration system, so you have two different patient identities you have to correlate, possibly through an MPI. You also want to make sure that relevant medical history or notes are available to the doc reading the film. And then at the end of the day, you may want to package the film and the read up into a clinical document and ship it off to an XDS or some other document system.

If any of that goes wrong, you could potentially file a DX to the wrong patient. So yes, some regulatory oversight is warranted.

Having said that, the FDA exercises oversight of clinical information systems, but does not require approval like it does with actual medical devices. So you're supposed to stick to certain procedures and be able to prove traceability from requirements through design down to code. You can and occasionally will be audited, but you don't have to submit each and every software release for approval like a new drug or something.