People could carry their medical records around their necks or on key chains through technology being encouraged in a bill passed Friday by the Senate. “When they go to the doctor’s office they won’t have to take that little clipboard and figure out whatever it is that they can remember about their health,” said Sen.…
New Orleans Evacuation, originally uploaded by sbove. Ugh. So little movement people got out to sit on the median.
. The first grand democratic experiment in Athens was drivem by a movement of the demos–citizen-peasants–organizing to make the Greek oligarchs who were abusing their power accountable. Democracy is always a movement of an energized public to make elites responsible–it is at its core and most basic foundation the taking back of one’s powers in…
China wants to be a major player in the world. Yet they seem to consistently want to curtail dissension within their borders. Lately China has shut down blogging sites. In the past they have installed technology to sift through emails and web sites for subversive material. Cherish your freedom to say what you wish (as…
A local school has banned teeshirts with “ethnic” messages. Does that mean that sports team jerseys like for the Indians or the Braves are now banned? Probably not.
I push my computer very hard… Average around 500 emails a day. Usually have no less than 10 windows open after an hour of using it. Average probably 20 during most of the day. My average memory usage is 300 MB. I do try to avoid some performance hogs. For instance, I am not running…
I will never understand some laws. Here is one… if a male has an affair with a female of another (more superior) tribe, then members of the afflicted tribe should gang-rape his closest female relative? Apparently it happens in Pakistan. The only reason the victim (the girl) has received any attention is the international outcry. Without…
Internet: M$ is caving on one of their monopolistic behaviors: allowing their Java Virtual Machine to be implemented in Windows XP as something other than a plug-in the user has to locate and isntall. Why is it that features Microsoft wants included cannot be sumamrily ripped from the Windows operating system? Yet features they do not want…