A computer is about the most open ended learning station you can get. Give a reasonably intelligent first or second grader a computer and so long as he has no fear of "breaking" it using software, chances are he will be able to use the computer fairly well, perhaps even better than an adult with low computer skills.

Google cache?

At least in Soviet Norway MRSA not kill you! *cough*cold-hearted ultra-capitalst *cough*

About 3 on a scale to 10 with 10 being the worst :-P

Could, perhaps this be the cause of the smell? This seems to be a single incidence, and is not portrayed as the norm for the hospitals. It is clearly used to paint a picture to increase the contrast between clean/lots-of-MRSA and unclean/healty-hospitals. Don't read to much into it...

However, I see your point in this beeing unhygienic.

Well if a good government is a representative government, then aren't you agreeing with me?

Ok, what in the world does the NEA (either National Endowment of the Arts or National Educators Association) have to do with this story, or the thing you just posted?

I have a wife who have worked, and is working, in the these medical fields. According to her, we (Norway) have some of the strictest laws regarding veterinary use of antibiotics. We had some problems with overuse of antibiotics in the fish farming sector some years back. Since then things have gotten even tighter. In many other countries use of antibiotics as a preventative medication in food is the norm. This is not legal in Norway.

The effect of this is not studied, at least to our knowledge, in any scientifically accurate way. However, I believe this is one of the reasons we do not have problems with MRSA in Norway. There are few natural places where you can be infected i nNorway, whereas in USA you can get MRSA from spending time at the beach!! Ref: http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/16/mrsa-on-the-beach/

TFA is painting a picture about Norwegian hospitals that are easy to misinterpret. Yes, floor ar streaked and scratched, there is some dust on cabinets and blood pressure monitors.

Howevery, there it is still not dirty and messy as can be interpreted by the article. Cleaning staff in Norway actually have a 3- year education in cleaning! Translated school information site They learn how to spot the difference between dangerous and non-dangerous dirty surfaces. Think in your own home: The dust on the TV isn't dangerous, but the food spills on the kitchen counter can be. The cleaning staff is simply authorized and empowered to perform the important cleaning first, and leave non-dangerous dirt until they have the time to take care of it.

Good to see, I'm not the only one :-)

2k0 was a good decade to write dates in. This one will be less efficient

No porn today, my love has gone away
The PC stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn
No porn today, it seems a common sight
But people passing by don't know the reason why

How could they know just what this message means
The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
How could they know the palace there had been
Behind the door where my love reigned as queen

No porn today, it wasn't always so
The company was gay, we'd turn night into day

But all that's left is a place dark and lonely
A terraced house in a mean street back of town
Becomes a shrine when I think of you only
Just two up two down

No porn today, it wasn't always so
The company was gay, we'd turn night into day
As music played the faster did we dance
We felt it both at once, the start of our romance

How could they know just what this message means
The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
How could they know a palace there had been
Behind the door where my love reigned as queen

No porn today, my love has gone away
The PC stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn

But all that's left is a place dark and lonely
A terraced house in a mean street back of town
Becomes a shrine when I think of you only
Just two up two down

No porn today, my love has gone away
The PC stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn
No porn today, it seems a common sight
But people passing by don't know the reason why

How could they know just what this message means
The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
How could they know a palace there had been
Behind the door where my love reigned as queen

There's a difference between buying cheap Chinese shit at the dime store and buying high-profile technology from them. Oh, the shame...

You gotta be careful with that line of thinking. If the majority thinks computer nerds should be shot on site do you really want that to be the law?

Laws must always take into count the minority and strike some sort of balance where as many "people" as possible have the most freedoms allowable. There is no perfection to be had and there will always be those fringe cases that unsettle us but WE CAN surely do better not only here in the U.S. but in all countries.

Daddy, is that you!!????!!one!?!

Uhh, high tech??? WTF is high tech about a wind mill? We have been building wind mills for about 3 thousand years, so it is mature tech in extreme. However, you do realize that China is launching space vehicles - *that* is high tech.

Their market is torrents of ANY kind. Whether questionable content or not. There are plenty of legal torrents on TPB. Often torrents will have multiple trackers with TPB trackers included in the list. Redundancy is good.