The lawyer's time isn't free any more than yours is. A high value case requires expensive preparation. Beyond anything else, it simply requires the TIME and EFFORT of a highly trained specialist. The entire effort needs to make enough economical sense for someone to bother.
Or you could just stop being a selfish entitled ass and pay a lawyer by the hour and stop making excuses for being a leech.
Either way, the services of people that are more educated than you are not free. Doesn't matter if it's an MD or a plumber.
The amount of organization and discipline that has been exercised by RC aircraft enthusiasts is sorely lacking among the users of cheap drones. This is the simple result of Americans using the amount of consideration and common sense that they are known for.
For significant portions of human history, we didn't have useful roads. They were either crap or completely unprotected or both.
Even the pre-interstate transportation network required either direct government intervention or considerable government encouragement. Our rail network was basically built based on bribing would be Robber Barons.
911 was the product of lax security standards and compliant protocols based on "fighting the last war". It was a one trick pony that could only work once because passengers started immediately fighting back.
The only thing we needed to prevent 911 was El-Al type cabin security.
Everything else that's been done since has been nonsense, government power grabs, and security theater.
> Do you really not see why people would object to their neighbor turning their property into an eyesore? I have to look at that pink shit every day, and it lowers my property value by association.
Utter nonsense.
My last personal domicile had a "neighbor from hell" living next door. He had cars up on blocks filling his driveway. It didn't slow down the sale of that house the slightest bit.
The house was in an excellent location. It and it's yard sold itself. So did it's highly desirable suburban location. We sold it quickly, for above market, during a horrible slump.
The people worried about "property values" are stupid amateurs that are nothing but conspicuous consumers with no real clue.
Living in the right neighborhood with a sufficiently high "buy in" prevents "neighbors from hell". Even with the "wrong kind of people", such neighbors are limited not so much by HOAs but pretty mundane zoning laws.
The old-biddie gestapo is simply unnecessary.
All an HOA does is prevent you from using your own property how you see fit. It makes your property part of the collective and the collective is clueless. Ugly paint still goes up and other measures that could improve curb appeal are banned.
The rules that could be useful aren't ever actually enforced.
The top-tier locations are contributing to the state of the art and able to provide better outcomes. They are BETTER. Just like you would pay for the better car or better PC, it makes sense to pay more for the better doctor.
Even at the lower end, some facilities are clearly doing better and more deserving of anyone's money.
Also, the top facilities aren't always in glamour cities.
If the hospital in Bismark doesn't have it's own lab then you are in a world of hurt if you end up there.
People already make mad money sending out bogus bills. They don't need anything more than address for that. They can thrive now because they are a minor nuissance. If they get much beyond that, law enforcement might start to actually care.
The same goes for legit providers that merely engage in abusive billing. HELL, those jack*sses will send you straight to collections without a late notice. Again, it doesn't rise to a level of serious fraud so they get away with it.
I would settle for competent modern IT practices first. Once medical providers have gotten out of the stone age, then you can get hysterical about data security.
I'm waiting for it to get portable enough for ME first.
> Try compiling three year old scientific software written in academia without either a programmer or a sysadmin (either should fulfill the role of "tinkering" with software).
Why isn't it already compiled? Better yet, why isn't it in some form of package like DEB or RPM?
On the other hand, if you are going to wage war then at least try to be good at it. Try to accomplish your objectives. Otherwise, you are just spreading death and destruction for no reason at all.
The NRA is just a convenient scapegoat. Democrats try to represent it as a corporate lobbyist when it is in fact a genuine grass roots organization. They want to try and kid themselves and everyone else. They don't want to deal with the inconvenient reality that most people don't agree with them.
They are trying to ignore a diversity of opinion that is historical in nature and goes back to before the founding of our republic.
Today it's far too easy to wrap yourself into an echo chamber of your choosing and lose sight of this.
Every time we have a shooting outside of the ghetto, liberals get their panties in a bunch and get a hate-on for long guns which in the broader context are pretty irrelevant. "Assault rifles" are the least used weapons when it comes to gun murders. Hand guns are far far more prevalent.
Ignorant liberals just fixate on the stuff that looks scary. The media is happy to feed the frenzy.
I always thought the registration of cars was bogus. The fact that we have accepted questionable nonsense is not a good excuse to double down on the nonsense.
Where I live, there are still very real threats from wildlife. Some of that carry, only do it to deal with unruly wildlife. Thugs and terrorists aren't even part of the equation.
We haven't quite trashed the environment in America yet.
Before any national measures are passed, I am waiting for at least one Blue state to "get things right". The last shooting in California happened in what should be the blueprint for the nation in terms of gun laws. They even have "gun grabber" squads that will take your guns away if you suddenly become "ineligible" for some reason.
Yet this great bastion of liberalness couldn't manage to put in place a relevant semi-automatic rifle and large magazine ban.
The perps didn't even have to "go out of state" to get their guns.
Until the liberal states can actually complain about that "problem", doubling down on their agenda just doesn't make any sense.
At least try to manage a successful proof-of-concept first before you expect the rest of us to drink the Kool-aid.
California is more than capable to act on it's own. Any state is. Yet any time this nonsense happens, liberals just crassly exploit it as an excuse to whine for national legislation. Let them clean their own houses first. Then and only then do they have any standing to meddle in anyone else's business.
This last shooting is a perfect example of extra gun laws that didn't do shit.
Get your own shit together first. THEN start meddling in other people's shit.
It's not time double down on your pet agenda when your pet agenda just failed.
In case you've never been exposed to any sort of Xianity at all ever, Xians generally disavow most if not all of the Old Testament. That's why they don't keep kosher or otherwise follow the old law.
If you want to commit mass character assassination, try starting with the New Testament.
That no fly list is a farce. No one with even the slightest clue should be advocating that it's used for anything else. It's probably not even useful as a no fly list.
That's at least how it is for civilized countries. For countries that engage in and support terrorism, killing children is the objective. It's not just a mistake that doesn't serve the mission goals.
Although "children" can certainly be combatants. The idea that they can't ever be combatants is just vanity of pampered rich Westerners that can't relate to conditions in the rest of the world.
Would that be actual democracy or more along the lines of "this is the way we seize power" kind of democracy? I'm not sure that anyone in the mid-east (except for the Israelis) has any idea what that term means (democracy).
Bullshit. Time entry and coding is not nearly as important as the f*cking final lab report when it it comes to radiology. Are you competent to read the scan and not KILL someone in the process.
THAT is the liability issue with a radiology department.
Did you miss the cancer that managed to migrate into someone's lymph nodes from their kidneys?
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The lawyer's time isn't free any more than yours is. A high value case requires expensive preparation. Beyond anything else, it simply requires the TIME and EFFORT of a highly trained specialist. The entire effort needs to make enough economical sense for someone to bother.
Or you could just stop being a selfish entitled ass and pay a lawyer by the hour and stop making excuses for being a leech.
Either way, the services of people that are more educated than you are not free. Doesn't matter if it's an MD or a plumber.
The amount of organization and discipline that has been exercised by RC aircraft enthusiasts is sorely lacking among the users of cheap drones. This is the simple result of Americans using the amount of consideration and common sense that they are known for.
The "conservative hell hole" still sounds better than the liberal utopia that started this sub-thread.
For significant portions of human history, we didn't have useful roads. They were either crap or completely unprotected or both.
Even the pre-interstate transportation network required either direct government intervention or considerable government encouragement. Our rail network was basically built based on bribing would be Robber Barons.
911 was the product of lax security standards and compliant protocols based on "fighting the last war". It was a one trick pony that could only work once because passengers started immediately fighting back.
The only thing we needed to prevent 911 was El-Al type cabin security.
Everything else that's been done since has been nonsense, government power grabs, and security theater.
> Do you really not see why people would object to their neighbor turning their property into an eyesore? I have to look at that pink shit every day, and it lowers my property value by association.
Utter nonsense.
My last personal domicile had a "neighbor from hell" living next door. He had cars up on blocks filling his driveway. It didn't slow down the sale of that house the slightest bit.
The house was in an excellent location. It and it's yard sold itself. So did it's highly desirable suburban location. We sold it quickly, for above market, during a horrible slump.
The people worried about "property values" are stupid amateurs that are nothing but conspicuous consumers with no real clue.
Nonsense.
Living in the right neighborhood with a sufficiently high "buy in" prevents "neighbors from hell". Even with the "wrong kind of people", such neighbors are limited not so much by HOAs but pretty mundane zoning laws.
The old-biddie gestapo is simply unnecessary.
All an HOA does is prevent you from using your own property how you see fit. It makes your property part of the collective and the collective is clueless. Ugly paint still goes up and other measures that could improve curb appeal are banned.
The rules that could be useful aren't ever actually enforced.
The top-tier locations are contributing to the state of the art and able to provide better outcomes. They are BETTER. Just like you would pay for the better car or better PC, it makes sense to pay more for the better doctor.
Even at the lower end, some facilities are clearly doing better and more deserving of anyone's money.
Also, the top facilities aren't always in glamour cities.
If the hospital in Bismark doesn't have it's own lab then you are in a world of hurt if you end up there.
People already make mad money sending out bogus bills. They don't need anything more than address for that. They can thrive now because they are a minor nuissance. If they get much beyond that, law enforcement might start to actually care.
The same goes for legit providers that merely engage in abusive billing. HELL, those jack*sses will send you straight to collections without a late notice. Again, it doesn't rise to a level of serious fraud so they get away with it.
I would settle for competent modern IT practices first. Once medical providers have gotten out of the stone age, then you can get hysterical about data security.
I'm waiting for it to get portable enough for ME first.
80%? It's probably more like 20%. Even private insurance reimbursement rates tend to vary by quite a lot.
Anyone that thinks that Medicare pays more is on crack.
> Try compiling three year old scientific software written in academia without either a programmer or a sysadmin (either should fulfill the role of "tinkering" with software).
Why isn't it already compiled? Better yet, why isn't it in some form of package like DEB or RPM?
You know, it's not 1994 anymore.
You can't recruit a corpse.
On the other hand, if you are going to wage war then at least try to be good at it. Try to accomplish your objectives. Otherwise, you are just spreading death and destruction for no reason at all.
Motive and intent does make a difference.
The NRA is just a convenient scapegoat. Democrats try to represent it as a corporate lobbyist when it is in fact a genuine grass roots organization. They want to try and kid themselves and everyone else. They don't want to deal with the inconvenient reality that most people don't agree with them.
They are trying to ignore a diversity of opinion that is historical in nature and goes back to before the founding of our republic.
Today it's far too easy to wrap yourself into an echo chamber of your choosing and lose sight of this.
Every time we have a shooting outside of the ghetto, liberals get their panties in a bunch and get a hate-on for long guns which in the broader context are pretty irrelevant. "Assault rifles" are the least used weapons when it comes to gun murders. Hand guns are far far more prevalent.
Ignorant liberals just fixate on the stuff that looks scary. The media is happy to feed the frenzy.
I always thought the registration of cars was bogus. The fact that we have accepted questionable nonsense is not a good excuse to double down on the nonsense.
Where I live, there are still very real threats from wildlife. Some of that carry, only do it to deal with unruly wildlife. Thugs and terrorists aren't even part of the equation.
We haven't quite trashed the environment in America yet.
Before any national measures are passed, I am waiting for at least one Blue state to "get things right". The last shooting in California happened in what should be the blueprint for the nation in terms of gun laws. They even have "gun grabber" squads that will take your guns away if you suddenly become "ineligible" for some reason.
Yet this great bastion of liberalness couldn't manage to put in place a relevant semi-automatic rifle and large magazine ban.
The perps didn't even have to "go out of state" to get their guns.
Until the liberal states can actually complain about that "problem", doubling down on their agenda just doesn't make any sense.
At least try to manage a successful proof-of-concept first before you expect the rest of us to drink the Kool-aid.
California is more than capable to act on it's own. Any state is. Yet any time this nonsense happens, liberals just crassly exploit it as an excuse to whine for national legislation. Let them clean their own houses first. Then and only then do they have any standing to meddle in anyone else's business.
This last shooting is a perfect example of extra gun laws that didn't do shit.
Get your own shit together first. THEN start meddling in other people's shit.
It's not time double down on your pet agenda when your pet agenda just failed.
> Have you ever read the old testament?
Likely only relevant to Jews.
In case you've never been exposed to any sort of Xianity at all ever, Xians generally disavow most if not all of the Old Testament. That's why they don't keep kosher or otherwise follow the old law.
If you want to commit mass character assassination, try starting with the New Testament.
That no fly list is a farce. No one with even the slightest clue should be advocating that it's used for anything else. It's probably not even useful as a no fly list.
No. Children are collateral damage.
That's at least how it is for civilized countries. For countries that engage in and support terrorism, killing children is the objective. It's not just a mistake that doesn't serve the mission goals.
Although "children" can certainly be combatants. The idea that they can't ever be combatants is just vanity of pampered rich Westerners that can't relate to conditions in the rest of the world.
Would that be actual democracy or more along the lines of "this is the way we seize power" kind of democracy? I'm not sure that anyone in the mid-east (except for the Israelis) has any idea what that term means (democracy).
Bullshit. Time entry and coding is not nearly as important as the f*cking final lab report when it it comes to radiology. Are you competent to read the scan and not KILL someone in the process.
THAT is the liability issue with a radiology department.
Did you miss the cancer that managed to migrate into someone's lymph nodes from their kidneys?
Even Oracle is free if you only need 10G and no support.
It's hard to appreciate how truly trivial that limit is until you actually try to use one of these "free" commercial databases.
MySQL is so bad, it's the kind of database that could make Donald Trump convert to Islam.