For complex socio-technical systems (web engineering and operations) there is a myth that deserves to be busted, and that is the assumption that for outages and accidents, there is a single unifying event that triggers a chain of events that led to an outage.
This is actually a fallacy, because for complex systems:
there is no root cause.
College of American Pathologists - Regulators scanning the digital scanners
Keep in mind, this technology is completely fine for use now, and the FDA will regulate the whole workflow intact, killing any healthy vendor ecosystem…
I wish people realized we currently have the worst of both socialized and private healthcare.
While the U.S. has achieved gains in 15-year survival rates decade by decade between 1975 and 2005, the researchers discovered that other countries have experienced even greater gains, leading the U.S. to slip in country ranking, even as per capita health care spending in the U.S. increased at more than twice the rate of the comparison countries./via psyorg I’m sure the tiny changes in the Obama healthcare plan that the right completely freaked out about won’t change this one bit.
One can reasonably argue that entering into secret, backroom deals to please industry interests was a “pragmatic” thing to do, notwithstanding how often Obama railed against exactly such transactions during his campaign (remember the I’ll-put-all-health-care-negotiations-on-C-SPAN pledge?). One can also argue that the public option would never have gotten 60 votes even if Obama and the White House had pushed for it. But one cannot argue that the White House did push for it, or even that they wanted it, since it was part of their deal with industry and its lobbyists from the start that it would not be in the final bill./via Truth about the public option momentarily emerges, quickly scampers back into hiding - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com.
