Comment Re:New and more disgusting DLC abuses... (Score 1) 452
I don't think that word means what you think it means. (Alanis?)
I don't think that word means what you think it means. (Alanis?)
An interesting concern, since the UK's waiting lists are forcing people to pull their own teeth with pliers and vodka. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article105238.ece
Well, the infant mortality is explained elsewhere in the thread (sorry I didn't pull the entire debate into my one post for you), having to do with non-reporting in other nations of infants that die within the first 24 hours, and also their lack of intervention in threatened pregnancies... resulting in miscarrages, which again aren't counted as infant mortality.
So the life expectancy is poor data analysis, and so is the infant mortality. Is the data on maternal death during childbirth any better? I don't know, but I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt after those first two.
we drive more than anyone else, and the WHO includes accidents in "life expectancy."
It's the second funniest. The funniest is Lost Engineer's reply to the post
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1123995&cid=26815281
be sure to read the replies
It was written up as a tech failure (and not a people failure) because newsmen who call their sources stupid lose their sources. As others have pointed out, the answer to your question of why this is news is because of the system failure resulting is death.
A study found people with Rh-neg blood and toxoplasmosis had more accidents. Here's more info:
http://theshermanfoundation.blogspot.com/2009/06/toxoplasma-parasite-may-cause-humans-to.html
Cliffs notes:
Robots take over jobs.
Efficiencies result in higher profits, not lower prices
People are laid off, first with the bad workers, then with everyone else in a bottom-up fashion.
Author does not explain why competition doesn't lower prices
Author does not explain who is buying products with workforce laid off
Rebellion is impossible due to surveillance, and society apparently does not have benefit of 1st or 2nd amendment.
Gov't is corrupted because only the rich can get elected.
The unemployed are imprisoned in huge housing projects.
All the wealth is concentrated to evil CEOs who are wealthy by virtue of owning resources.
Protagonist gets to move to a commune due to his father having bought shares in a new corporation decades before.
The commune is a utopia built by the corporation with dollars invested decades before.
Shareholders are equal beneficiaries of robot labor with corporate resources.
Robotic efficiencies result in almost free consumer goods, paid for with shareholder credits.
Protagonist is once again living the relative rich life, by virtue of the investment his father made, while he neglects the poor (non-shareholders left in america). He does not reflect on this.
Author does not explain how commune is governed that it avoids the corruption that befell america.
Author mentions people in the communes have children, but does not address how the ownership of shares in the corporation, and the benefits they bestow, are passed to future generations.
will need to know how to use the new scheduling system now!
I think I found video of the coin battle mode
http://www.hulu.com/watch/57938/saturday-night-live-wii-guys
... the first MMO will use public surveillance cameras for input when populating their environment with NPCs.
But if you can show where these were all wrong, it'd be worth a Nobel
I don't think the bar for a Nobel is quite that high.
If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law. -- Roy Santoro