... by national corporations. Legislation that cuts payments to private physicians and increases the payments to large corporate entities is intended to destroy private practice and to create in its place corporate bureaucracies in which doctors are wage slaves. The physician’s income is diverted to shareholders, CEO bonuses, and Wall Street. Health care is being replaced with health business. As a...
That said, exports of Hollywood motion pictures have always depended in significant ways on strong political support from Washington. Federalbureaucracies have continually pressed foreign governments to open their doors more widely to American films, with beneficial effects not only in terms of export earnings, but also of the direct and indirect developmental impacts on Hollywood itself. Over ...
.... I will have to hope to get back and be able to travel more. Right now all I can focus on is the scramble to get a visa on a few weeks notice, even with the lovely introduction letter to the Indian Consul in New York I just received. Bureaucracies - they scare me. Eventually I shall get excited. Right now, I am just stressed with getting this organized. HALP. Er, how do I say that in Hindi?
... new powerful means, society first attempts to use them for old ends", he writes (p. 782-3), "increasing its possibilities only quantitatively". Lotman's examples of ancient bureaucracies are amusing. His simple observation that the invention of writing made much more advanced architecture and infrastructure administrable is intruiging. In consequence, we can theorize (with Lotman) that the advent...
...there are better things to think about. "Asked the hall about sending some more people up--at the least, for the holds, so you don't have to deal with them, too. But Faranth knows how these bureaucracies are, so." She lifts her shouldersvaguely; the question of deaths is dodged for now with that. "I think they did. I heard they were going to, anyway, earlier today," Gabe says vaguely. That's all...
... approach. Seriously. All the scifi I'd come across in the early part of my life did its best to convince me that aliens have absolutely no sense of humour, that they have painful bureaucracies and meticulous ethical codes and will vaporise you with their advanced SuperBlaster7500 TM if you don't abide by The Law Of Interminable Seriousness. Or maybe just lecture you on your place in the ...
...there are better things to think about. "Asked the hall about sending some more people up--at the least, for the holds, so you don't have to deal with them, too. But Faranth knows how these bureaucracies are, so." She lifts her shouldersvaguely; the question of deaths is dodged for now with that. "I think they did. I heard they were going to, anyway, earlier today," Gabe says vaguely. That's all...
Here I am trying to keep my New Year's resolution of posting more often, even if there ain't much to say. Grrrr with bureaucracies. In "tell-the-court-what's-going-on-with-your-case-everybody court" today, I was all like, "we've got this meeting with the Crown going on about our case next week, so we'll come on back the week after that and catch you up on if we're going to trial, or pleading out,...
I've spent the past week on hold dealing with various bureaucracies. I've decided to apply for disability. More than anything, I need Medicaid. So I've been spending time getting medical records from as far back as 1982. Fun stuff, that is, trying to track down doctors who have retired or are dead. It's fried my freakin brain. I tried to make use of the on-hold time by working on Tension, and ...
...accept your donation. The question is, how do you prevent, as a New Orleanian friend of mine put it, "huge outpourings of cash and material aid donations getting funneled to bureaucracies and warehouses rather than reaching the survivors and the first responders." I personally prefer grassroots organizations to mega-ones. The Haitian Emergency Relief Fund, whose info follows, comes recommended, ...
