Rants about Linux, technology, data, and science
During a recent dinner with some Canadian acquaintances, our hostess went on a mini-rant about how “terrible” it was for American women to have children because of our “dreadful” healthcare system. (Interestingly, this came on the heels of our complaints about how Canadian healthcare had treated my father-in-law.) According to all of the other cat-ladies Read More …
“I Left England Because of Socialized Medicine. My Life Depended on It.” American expat, James Schmitz, was living in the U.K. In this article, he describes how the wait for treatment and medicine from the NHS caused him to leave school in London to return to the United States in a bid to save his Read More …
I sat in a meeting with a female supervisor a couple of days ago where she lamented that all of the idiocy of the administration that she endures is the result of “misogynistic” males. She then proceeded to go on a rant about who wants to listen to/respect “old white guys” (i.e., Caucasian, middle aged Read More …
In 2017 the province of Ontario passed legislation entitled: “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAID). The ostensible purpose of MAID is to assist terminally ill and suffering patients with euthanasia services. MAID can be administered by a doctor or a nurse practitioner. While it is sensible to enshrine protections into such a law to prevent abuse/misuse, Read More …
I expect this to be the first in series of posts on the nightmare world of Canadian healthcare. Americans – the general public, politicians and media elites alike – generally seem to believe that the Canadian socialized medical system is some sort of mythical Santa Claus where the care is good, the prices are low, Read More …
China stands accused of incarcerating millions of ethnic Uighurs in “reeducation” (concentration) camps. According to those few who have escaped, inmates are subjected to gang rape, grotesque forms of torture, summary execution, and bizarre medical experiments. Meanwhile, globalist money interests in the West continue to wring their hands over trade deals. Others in the Progressive Read More …
We’ve had 2 multi-day blackouts covering large areas of Michigan over the last few months due to power lines being downed during relatively mild storm activity. It begs the question why the power infrastructure is proving so fragile during relatively common weather conditions? Moreover, why are the outages extended over 3-5 days, instead of hours, Read More …
Hundreds of U.S. dentist office systems were simultaneous hit with the REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware. This was only possible because hundreds of dental practices use CLOUD BASED infrastructure to manage their patient records. Successfully attack the cloud infrastructure serving any business community (dental, medical, legal, etc) and the potential payoffs are HUGE – nothing less than Read More …
No medicine, inadequate medicinal bioactivity, poisonous contaminants, you name it. China has wrecked havoc on our nation’s pharmaceutical supplies, and consumers have essentially no protection, and no recourse. “China doesn’t have anything like the consumer protection laws and product liability laws like the United States does,” said Rosemary Gibson, a health care expert at the Read More …
The LA Times is reporting that in a test of a proposed facial recognition system designed to help law enforcement identify criminal suspects, 1-5 California lawmakers were erroneously identified as being part of a criminal photo database set. OK, I can hear the jokes – I mean they ARE lawyers and politicians, so was the Read More …