December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Springfield Medical Center
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Alia, Thanks for the update on CJ. Please keep us informed. More on CJ's music and how to get it, and help promote it, would be welcomed. It sounds wonderfully rude and vulgar, all right! Below is a 1994 thumbnail description of the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, taken from a long, critical report on prisoner health care with more on the Springfield facility available at: http://jya.com/hehs-94-36.txt (81K) Bureau of Prisons Health Care: Inmates' Access to Health Care Is Limited by Lack of Clinical Staff (Letter Report, 02/10/94, GAO/HEHS-94-36). [Excerpt] SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL REFERRAL CENTER MISSION OF REFERRAL CENTER The U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, is one of the Bureau of Prisons' six referral centers that treat male medical, surgical, and mental health patients. LOCATION AND CONDITION OF FACILITY The Springfield Medical Referral Center is an administrative facility, meaning it is equipped to house inmates of all security levels. It was built about 1933. Inmates live in six connected buildings, each of two or three stories. The medical facilities are concentrated in four of the six buildings. The acute and chronic care medical and surgical patients are housed in units that resemble typical hospital rooms, except that several rooms in each unit have locked doors. These locked cells are used for patients who are (1) dangerous to staff or other inmates, (2) participating in the federal witness protection program, or (3) waiting for their custody status to be determined. The mental health patients are housed in units that resemble typical prison cell blocks with one-man cells. Springfield also has a unit that can contain up to 37 inmates in individual locked cells for disciplinary or protective reasons. NUMBER OF INMATES AND PATIENTS SERVED Springfield serves approximately 1,120 inmates, including 439 patients who require medical or surgical care and 294 who need psychiatric care. The medical and surgical care is provided to about 46 acute care patients, 54 patients receiving renal dialysis, and 393 other chronic or recovering patients. The mental health population includes 177 treatment patients and 117 forensic inmates who are being evaluated for their mental ability to stand trial. NUMBER AND TYPE OF MEDICAL BEDS The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations rates Springfield as a 46-bed acute care and 177-bed mental health hospital. NUMBER AND TYPE OF STAFF POSITIONS AUTHORIZED AND FILLED In July 1993, Springfield had 279 authorized health care positions, including 5 psychiatrists, 15 medical/surgical physicians, an optometrist, 12 physician assistants, 127 nurses, 9 pharmacists, 12 psychologists, 6 quality assurance staff, 10 medical records staff, and 82 other health care staff. At that time, 18 positions were vacant, including 3 medical physicians, a surgeon, a psychiatrist, a physician assistant, 10 nurses, 1 medical records staff, and 1 other health care staff. The following specialists were working at Springfield: 3 general practitioners, 4 psychiatrists, 2 internists, 2 neurologists, 1 physiatrist, 1 anesthesiologist, 1 orthopedic surgeon, and 1 chief of health programs. Physicians and physician assistants are available 24 hours a day. However, physicians generally work from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. During the evening and night shifts and on weekends, one physician, one psychiatrist, and one psychologist are on call. Physician assistants are available in the facility 16 hours a day. Nurses are responsible for medical care between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. Nursing service is provided 24 hours a day. STAFF ORGANIZATION The Associate Warden for Medical Services supervises most of Springfield's health care staff, including nurses and technicians. The Clinical Director is responsible for the internal medicine physicians, psychiatrists, surgeons, dentists, physician assistants, the quality assurance coordinator, utilization manager, and infection-control practitioners. The Associate Warden for Mental Health Services is responsible for the psychologists and social workers who work with the mental health patients.

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by STUFFED NEWS DAILY 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Child-Molesting Forger's Chilling Confession!!!1!
by OSCAR 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by OSCAR 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Citizenship silliness. Re: e$: crypto-expatriatism (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:46:40 -0500 > From: Petro <petro(a)playboy.com> > Subject: Re: Citizenship silliness. Re: e$: crypto-expatriatism (fwd) > >That'll work for gasoline because soap and gasoline are soluble. I doubt it > >would work very well for alcohol but once I get this mess with the tree > >straightened out I'll do a little backyard experiment. > > > >What I had in mind was to pour some alcohol on the concrete drive way and > >light it. Then use a waterbottle with a water/soap mix. Do you think that > >would be a suitable simulation? > > No. Ok, then what would be a suitable test in your view? It seems to me that after reviewing your comments this would be sufficient. We have a small pool of fuel that is on fire, we spray water on it and monitor the behaviour. We then create another similar pool and spary water w/ detergent in it and note any differences. > The point of using the detergent has nothing to do with it's > solubility in gasoline/kerosene (I have much more experience with JP5 than > gas, and JP5 is basically a high grade kerosene/diesel), but rather it is > there to break up the water tension & allow the water to "float" on top of > the gas/oil/whatever. Actualy it's to keep the water from forming 'beads' because of differences in density. The surface tension of water is much higher than most fuels so if you put a little water in a lot of fuel you don't want it to bead. This is analogouse to why you put your injector cleaner in *before* the gas so that the difference in density won't effect the thoroughness of the mixing. You can do the same sort of thing at home with cooking oil, water, and detergent. As to water floating on top of gasoline, it won't for any lentgh of time greater than a fraction of a second, detergent or no detergent. > Actually, by using solar heating/cooling techiques instead of > (ineffecient) conversion to electicity, you can save MUCH more energy. I have several friends who are as fanatical about this technology as you seem to be. I find it interesting that in 20 years of playing with it they are still in the red. The proof is in the pudding. > I don't see how, you just get it up there inside the orbit of the > earth, and let gravity do the rest. If it was ONLY that simple. When you leave the Earth you have the Earths orbital momental (and it is considerable). I'll refer you to: Classical Mechanics (2nd ed) HC Corben, P. Stehle ISBN 0-486-68063-0 (Dover) $10.95 Introduction to Space Dynamics WT Thomson ISBN 0-486-65113-4 (Dover) $8.00 Because I'm way to lazy today to want to delve in to triple-integrals and such. > I don't mind killing a salamander or 100, but I don't want my > electric supply, and it's attendant costs to be dependent on ONE > technology, or source of supply. If there is any alternative that will fulfill the requirements and doesn't require the arbitrary collateral damage then it isn't worth it, period. If for no other reason than the ethical responsibility to pass on the world as undamaged as possible to the next generation. (another oversite in current economic thought that I find makes it unusable) > We already have the have/have not situatiuon. True, but only because the current energy sources are located in specific geographic areas. > I think there is also this issue that NG doesn't "burn" when the > tank cracks, it "explodes", and when it does burn, it is very similar to > alcohol in that it doesn't have much of a flame. Actualy natural gas isn't any more flamable than gasoline or alcohol. What makes it safer is the gas diffuses in the air much faster than either alcohol or gasoline. In fact, in an accident I'd rather have a gas involved than a liquid because of this. I've seen several natural gas fires and they burn a yellow-orange (course they could be putting something in there besides the odorant to cause this). ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Model Airplane Bio-weapon Sniffers [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9809/09/science.weapons.reut/ > "TOY PLANES" COULD SNIFF OUT BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS > LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. defense scientists have developed small > radio-controlled planes capable of "sniffing out" the presence of > biological weapons, a British magazine reported on Wednesday. > > New Scientist said the aircraft, described by one of their developers > as "like little toy planes," are designed to fly low into danger zones > looking for up to four suspected types of bacteria. > > As they patrol, air is forced into an on-board sampling chamber, > creating a vortex in a pool of water, the magazine said. > > Every five minutes, water from this chamber is pumped over a sensor > consisting of four optical fibres, each of which has a probe fixed to > its core. > > Each probe is coated with an antibody to which the spores of a > particular bacterium will bind if present in the water. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: Citizenship silliness. Re: e$: crypto-expatriatism (fwd)]
by Soren 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sorry Jim, slip of the wrist. Hydroelectric turbines generate electric power. Feed this into the power grid; well, maybe until the end of next year. Maybe after 2000 we'll see the un-nationalization of the national power grid. Bay of Fundy is >50 (?) square miles and tidal range is 25feet, one of the largest in the world. There have been discussions in the past to do likewise to the Bering strait also. Sorry about that whales. To: sorens(a)workmail.com (Soren) Subject: Re: Citizenship silliness. Re: e$: crypto-expatriatism (fwd) From: Jim Choate <ravage(a)EINSTEIN.ssz.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:01:39 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <35F7FF53.E57503AE(a)workmail.com> from "Soren" at Sep 10, 98 12:33:23 pm Hi Soren, Let's keep it on the list please... > What about tidal hydro? Bay of Fundy would be appropriate. Figure the volume of the Bay from low tide and the highest tide. Then figure the time needed to fill. From this you can calculate the maximum amount of energy available. If you live near the Bay I suppose it would work, won't help the folks 50 miles away though... The goal is to find a renewable, generaly available source of energy so that geographic proximity is irrelevant. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Renewable Energy Stuff (was citizenship silliness) (fwd)
by Brown, R Ken 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Choate wrote: > Quit sending these responses to my private email. If you want to discuss it > keep it on the list. Any further such private submissions go into /dev/null > unread. This also means you don't need to cc: if you send it to the cpunks > list since I'm subscribed...;) It's because we're using these broken-as-designed mailers that put your name into the reply as well as the the list :-( > Now, back to more intersting discussion... Definitely [...snip Jim Burnes on hemp yields (because you all already read it...] > You're going to seriously claim that 1 gallon of hemp oil is equivalent to 3 > gallons of gasoline? I don't think so. I've seen hemp burn and it don't burn > anywhere near that efficiently. I'm begining to lose track of this thread. Are we talking about: 1) reducing fossil fuel use for conservation? (not something Cypherpunks mention a lot :-) 2) ways of cutting the imported fuel requirement of "western" countries in order to save money and/or teach the Arabs a lesson? (cf the sideline about Israel) 3) how to live with as little interaction as possible with the the existing state or corporate economy? 4) what we do for fuel if the balloon goes up, the lights go out, the crash comes & we are in an "Earth Abides" scenario? i.e everyone has died, or gone away, or stopped working for money and we ahve to survive as best we can? If (1) or (2) then reducing fuel consumption is a damn sight more cost-effective than substituting anything else for motor gas. You know, insulation, designing buildings for the climate, high fuel taxes, subsidised public transport... all the things us lefty Europeans like bit that don't go down well in Houston, Texas. I take Jim's point about solar-powered houses being a money pit - although there does seem to be some medium-term benefit in glass cladding for passive solar heating (known to our ancestors as "conservatories" :-) And if (2) is what you mean then you probably ought to carry on paying the dollars to those Arabs so they carry on spending them on American products - like McDonalds and Disney and MS Windows. Cultural imperialism works wonders. For every Muslim for whom America is the great Satan there is another for whom it is the home of Elvis. Or the Simpsons. Or Charley Pride. Or even Jim Reeves. You wouldn't believe how much Jim Reeves you hear in Africa. For (3) again the easy way is to arrange your lifestyle to consume less. I expect if you are distilling fuel-grade alcohol in your yard the local equivalent of customs and excise will want a word with you. If you are going to burn plant material for fuel don't bother with oil. Either distill the alcohol (if you are in a warmish climate like southern California you can probably get the best yields from cane - but it sucks up water like a herd of hungry camels) or burn wood. In a temperate climate you probably get the best yields from coppiced trees - use whatever grows in your local area and coppices well. Willow grown in wetlands does well. The yield of burnable biomass is far better than most herbaceous crops. Use hazel, birch even oak. Leaves make animal feed, stouter poles are for timber, thinner ones for burning - if you need higher temperature make charcoal out of it. Lots of use for the bark as well. Just like our ancestors used to do before all this industry. Of course you won't be able to run a car on it... for that you need the alcohol. If we did get thrown back to a mediaeval economy those of us who survived probably would be growing hemp (you heard it here first) but not as a fuel crop. Hemp has great yields but it isn't much cop as fuel It was one of the major crops in England a thousand years ago - in some pollen studies it was the major crop. That's not for recreational or medicinal use (you don't need acres of it for that) but as animal feed and for fibre, with fuel as a useful byproduct. Probably not as an an oil crop & if it was it would probably be cooking oil. > I also notice it doesn't mention what it costs to raise that 4 tons/acre... Clearly more than getting oil from out of the ground. That's why my employers are still in business. There were some Welsh hill farmers on the radio the other day asking more more subsidy from the government. Apparently their average income is now only about 10,000 UKP a year (maybe 16,000 USD). They were complaining that their fathers and grandfathers used to be able to get a living from the land, but they can't, and they were blaming the "global market" and urban-dominated governments who didn't understand farming. Of course the truth is that they can live the way their grandfathers lived if they want to. But in the last 100 years *everyone* *else* has got richer and the way of life of a small farmer in the Welsh hills now looks like poverty. And there is nothing (other than the law) to stop someone with 30 acres and a cow from growing their hemp and their willow withies (in Wales) or their cotton and their cane (in California) and riding their own horse and making their own clothes and having almost nothing to do with the rest of the modern economy. But they won't be able to have a car, or a computer and if they get any modern medicine it will be on welfare. We probably ought to know *how* to live like that, just in case things really fall apart. (I remember once having to show someone how to squat over a hole-in-the-ground latrine because he had only ever used bogs with seats) . But don't look forward to it. Ken Brown (usual disclaimers still in force)

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Re: Renewable Energy Stuff (was citizenship silliness) (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:46:02 -0600 (MDT) > From: Jim Burnes <jvb(a)ssds.com> > Subject: Re: Renewable Energy Stuff (was citizenship silliness) (fwd) > I think you misunderstood. They are claiming "gasoline equivalent > gallons/acre" -- not that 1 gallon of hemp oil = 3 gallons of gasoline. > And were not talking about "burning" hemp in that sense. In this > particular case were talking about hemp-based biodiesel. How many gallons of gasoline can you raise on an acre? Actualy the point I was trying to make is that it's comparing apples and oranges. Until it's in a dollars/gallon for each of them format no real worthwhile comparison can be made. > Raising a full acre of hemp in that matter is something I don't have the > data on. However, hemp is widely known as a low-maintenance crop -- that > translates little to no fertilizer. After that we have the price of the > land/month, servicing loans on the farm equipment, labor costs, taxes, > energy, water etc. Typical business overhead. And for that 1000 galgas > eq/acre. Well don't forget crop rotation since the hemp is going to deplete the soil if you simply grow three crops a year (which is possible this far south). There is also the issue of water, hemp is a plant that needs lots of water and is very sensitive to light levels/times, tempearture and pH. Hemp also leeches nitrogen quite heavily. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Renewable Energy Stuff (was citizenship silliness) (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: "Brown, R Ken" <brownrk1(a)texaco.com> > Subject: RE: Renewable Energy Stuff (was citizenship silliness) (fwd) > Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:30:05 -0500 > > Now, back to more intersting discussion... > > Definitely > I'm begining to lose track of this thread. Are we talking about: Well if we really, really must go back there....;) What I was originaly looking to discuss was the impact of the injection of a globaly available, economical, and effective replacement of petroleum products on the international relationships. In particular the impact on places like Isreal, Iran, US, etc. The only real relevance this has to cypherpunks is from the economics side (why I've been trying to stay on topic with the economics comments in parens) and how such a shift of economic and industrial capabilites out of centralized and nationaly controlled geographies might impact these same countries ability to remain stable and the consequences of such. Take Kuwait for example, the impact there would be devistating. And like a domino effect (or want of a nail...) the repurcussions can be imagined to run up the food chain. It is related, though not directly, to an issue that I was engaged in several days ago about Gibson and the relationships of governments, individuals, large companies, technology development, etc. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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