Well... um... you see.. when traveling faster than the speed of light, the corridor light just sort of pools to form a slurry that moves to the back end of the ship. Those pipes are used to pump the light slurry to the front of the ship so people can see....
Um... yeah... still needs some work.
Or in my case, I consider insurance a scam. Why would I pay...
Because, you go and get your annual checkup, the doctor tells you have stage 3 metastatic seminoma, and you find yourself with no insurance company willing to pick you up because of a pre-existing condition. Suddenly, you are that burden on society that you are always bitching about.
I did have coverage though, quite a lot of coverage actually. But I still had to supplement my care with medicaid and medicare because my coverage ran out. For instance, one liter of the sysplatinum chemotherapy drug cost $5000.00 at the time. That was just the drug's line item cost, the $5000.00 does not include the cost for care and the other drugs. I soon capped my policy limit ( some may call that rationing ).
Then my insurance company decided they wanted me to see a different Oncologist. Not the local one that I had been seeing, but one 50 miles away. Even for simple blood tests to check LDH levels. So here I am, spending 2 hours on the road so I can spend 5 min for blood to be drawn. You see, The Oncologist my insurance wanted me to see used a different lab then the Oncologist I was seeing and I could get my blood tests done locally, but insurance wouldn't pay for them.
The insurance company decides who you see by qualifying what Doctors can submit claims. Why do you think the doctors have it listed on the paperwork you fill out when you see them? "We accept the following insurance plans...". ( was someone saying something about not being able to choose your doctor on a government health plan? )
PLUS you have the benefit of competition between doctors which drives-down costs.
My, f - ing, ass...
If you're earning over 50,000 (like me)
Quite frankly, I fall very close to the 100k / year range and I will have all my medical bills paid off by 2012. ( I was diagnosed in 1998. In remission since 2003 ).
Why would I pay around $3000/year for insurance when it's cheaper to just give my doctor $200 per year in cash.
Why? Because only an idiot thinks they're bullet proof. That's why. What kind of cognitive dissonance does it take to say "The belief that having government care is 'better' is a false one." in one post and "I consider insurance a scam" is another is beyond me.
Hereditary guilt inflicts harm on the descendants. What harm is being perpetuated if the 1952 decision was overturned? If any argument for the perpetuation of harm is to made, how about to Alan Turing's estate or what's left of it?
Tearing up pavement to repair a leak & heavy vehicles compacting the ground over time and crushing your cooling system. ( Meaning you'll have to tear up the pavement more often. )
Hey, cool, Tolkien just created the Slashdot Ouroboros. What will happen if enough people click on it? Will it implode to form a internet singularity? Warp space and time so our normal Slashdot is replaced with an evil Slashdot ( complete with goatee ) from another universe?
Wasn't there also a story a while back about robots fueled by biomass? This was twisted to mean "human eating" and we all laughed.
Combine that with what you said and we could have a certified evil, lying and flesh eating robot...
And WHY DIDN'T YOU LINK to the ACTUAL LIST? Instead of a PRESS RELEASE of an ARTICLE about an ARTICLE about the List after ragging on someone about NOT LINKING to the ACTUAL LIST and to an ARTICLE about an ARTICLE about the List?
Well, to be honest, the only way to find out if the dude did have a history of violence/instability would be to hold Verizon liable.
Verizon is not going to volunteer that information out of sheer benevolence. I suspect the initial contact the guy will see from Verizon will be something like:
"Verizon takes pride in our commitment to customer service........ Rest assured that any necessary corrective action will be taken after a through investigation........ would like to offer you a free month of service to demonstrate our commitment to customer service."
Exactly. Ideal operation is at 100% capacity for 18 months. I might have created some confusion by adding that "also". What can I say, I'm a math person, not a language person.
I've worked as an Operator at a US Power Reactor ( North Anna Power Station in Virginia ) a long time ago. It is a Westinghouse pressurized water reactor and it's a completely different design than Chernobyl. The containment dome is of sufficient volume to maintain integrity during a complete meltdown. It's one of the biggest expenses. ( A description of the construction can be found in the license application in section 2.4.1 page 2-97 ).
The Unit 1 and Unit 2 Containments are Seismic Class I structures that house the reactor and other Nuclear Steam Supply System (NSSS) components for the respective unit. Each Containment consists of a reinforced concrete cylinder with a hemispherical dome and a flat, 10-foot-thick reinforced concrete mat foundation. A waterproof membrane is located below the Containment's structural mat and extends up the Containment wall to ground level.
In fact, it's such a large expense that this particular design keeps the interior of the containment dome at about 9 psia to allow for the expansion of Reactor Coolant during a meltdown in a smaller volume. Meaning a smaller containment dome. It also has the advantage that if there are any leaks, it leaks in, not out. If an accident did happen, the containment dome would probably been sealed and filled with concrete.
So why have nuclear plants? Why all the expense?
When I worked at that plant. Dominion Power ( Then Virginia Power ) had 4 reactors and about 17 coal fired plants and I think 2 natural gas plants. Those 4 reactors could at times supply about 40% of the power for the company's power grid covering almost all of Virginia and the northern part of North Carolina. This was usually at night when energy consumption dropped.
The coal plants also didn't operate at 100% all the time. They altered their power output increasing output during peak demand during the day and late evening and decreasing output as demand dropped during late night and early morning.
I hope you have noticed like I have that the standard operating procedure of the coal fired plants closely mirror what you would expect to see from a solar & battery power plant.
Also, I know how much coal ash is produced in a single day from a coal fired plant. I also know, for the nuclear plant I worked at, only one third of the fuel rods were replaced every 18 months. So, given the choice of fields covered in tons of low level waste or only a few tons of concentrated nastiness, I'd opt for the later because it is far easier to maintain stricter and safer control of it.
It's a bit dated, but I'm willing to bet more states have jumped on this band wagon and none have left it. I'm also willing to bet the laws have gotten more draconian, not less. But I'm not looking up the laws for all 50 states.
My point from the beginning was that there are laws regarding this and if you are going to turn a blind eye, you should do a little research into what you may be getting yourself into.
From: A duty to inform: delay reporting allegations of child or elder abuse even for internal investigations and you could land in jail - Safety & Security Agenda
HR Magazine, Sept, 2003 by Diane Cadrain
"It's up to state lawmakers to designate who must report, but there is a great deal of uniformity among the states," says Howard Davidson of the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law. Even so, it's important to check the law in your state.
For example, 18 states require any citizen to report suspected child abuse or neglect. Those states are Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.
In these states, HR managers in companies with on-site child care facilities may be required to report alleged abuse, even if an outside contractor runs the facility.
Almost a quarter of the states--Alaska, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Sooth Carolina, South Dakota and Wisconsin--designate substance abuse counselors as mandated reporters.
Several states, on the lookout for child pornography', require reports from commercial film or photo processors. Those states are Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Missouri, Oklahoma and South Carolina.
Two states--Missouri and South Carolina--designate Internet service providers and computer technicians as mandated reporters.
"Is the state gonna pay me for the thousands of hours..."
In short, No. I worked at a small computer repair shop in Virginia and while my job didn't require fixing people's PCs, other employees did and I do recall something about what I mentioned. Sorry if I can't recall more details. My initial search for VA laws that governed this turned up empty ( hence the initial disclaimer ).
Photo processors have been required by law for years to report any child porn that they find in film that they develop. That requires them to look at all your photos regardless of how personal they may be.
Given the above, the fact that computer tech's search through your files should come at no surprise. I seem to remember a Virginia law that required tech to search, also a similar Texas law, but I may be wrong. But have you considered that by not looking, you may be in fact breaking the law for your state?
Regardless of if you agree with the law or not, if one exists, I'd at least look into it if I were you.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe they just couldn't muster the willpower to say "tween".
So, the Good Parts version?
Well... um... you see.. when traveling faster than the speed of light, the corridor light just sort of pools to form a slurry that moves to the back end of the ship. Those pipes are used to pump the light slurry to the front of the ship so people can see.... Um... yeah... still needs some work.
It's been a while so I need to correct myself. "cisplatin" or "cisplatinum" not "sysplatinum"
Or in my case, I consider insurance a scam. Why would I pay...
Because, you go and get your annual checkup, the doctor tells you have stage 3 metastatic seminoma, and you find yourself with no insurance company willing to pick you up because of a pre-existing condition. Suddenly, you are that burden on society that you are always bitching about.
I did have coverage though, quite a lot of coverage actually. But I still had to supplement my care with medicaid and medicare because my coverage ran out. For instance, one liter of the sysplatinum chemotherapy drug cost $5000.00 at the time. That was just the drug's line item cost, the $5000.00 does not include the cost for care and the other drugs. I soon capped my policy limit ( some may call that rationing ).
Then my insurance company decided they wanted me to see a different Oncologist. Not the local one that I had been seeing, but one 50 miles away. Even for simple blood tests to check LDH levels. So here I am, spending 2 hours on the road so I can spend 5 min for blood to be drawn. You see, The Oncologist my insurance wanted me to see used a different lab then the Oncologist I was seeing and I could get my blood tests done locally, but insurance wouldn't pay for them.
The insurance company decides who you see by qualifying what Doctors can submit claims. Why do you think the doctors have it listed on the paperwork you fill out when you see them? "We accept the following insurance plans...". ( was someone saying something about not being able to choose your doctor on a government health plan? )
PLUS you have the benefit of competition between doctors which drives-down costs.
My, f - ing, ass...
If you're earning over 50,000 (like me)
Quite frankly, I fall very close to the 100k / year range and I will have all my medical bills paid off by 2012. ( I was diagnosed in 1998. In remission since 2003 ).
Why would I pay around $3000/year for insurance when it's cheaper to just give my doctor $200 per year in cash.
Why? Because only an idiot thinks they're bullet proof. That's why. What kind of cognitive dissonance does it take to say "The belief that having government care is 'better' is a false one." in one post and "I consider insurance a scam" is another is beyond me.
"We apologise for the inconvenience"
Okay, Is this hereditary guilt though?
Hereditary guilt inflicts harm on the descendants. What harm is being perpetuated if the 1952 decision was overturned? If any argument for the perpetuation of harm is to made, how about to Alan Turing's estate or what's left of it?
The planet had to stand on one foot to push the odds up to one in a million.
Tearing up pavement to repair a leak & heavy vehicles compacting the ground over time and crushing your cooling system. ( Meaning you'll have to tear up the pavement more often. )
I don't know... what do you think?
That B3ttik's next post will be a demand for the Government to not mess with and mess up his medicare?
Just a wild guess... You never can tell on the internet...
I DO TOO....
However, there isn't so I opted for parody.
The Dambusters a la Star Wars
Hey, cool, Tolkien just created the Slashdot Ouroboros. What will happen if enough people click on it? Will it implode to form a internet singularity? Warp space and time so our normal Slashdot is replaced with an evil Slashdot ( complete with goatee ) from another universe?
Wasn't there also a story a while back about robots fueled by biomass? This was twisted to mean "human eating" and we all laughed. Combine that with what you said and we could have a certified evil, lying and flesh eating robot...
with weapons...
And WHY DIDN'T YOU LINK to the ACTUAL LIST? Instead of a PRESS RELEASE of an ARTICLE about an ARTICLE about the List after ragging on someone about NOT LINKING to the ACTUAL LIST and to an ARTICLE about an ARTICLE about the List?
http://netchoice.org/iawful/
My initial thought isn't that the subject of the blog is the one with the issues.
Well, to be honest, the only way to find out if the dude did have a history of violence/instability would be to hold Verizon liable.
Verizon is not going to volunteer that information out of sheer benevolence. I suspect the initial contact the guy will see from Verizon will be something like:
"Verizon takes pride in our commitment to customer service.... .... Rest assured that any necessary corrective action will be taken after a through investigation. ... .... would like to offer you a free month of service to demonstrate our commitment to customer service."
I guess I just don't understand the truck/internet symposium.
How much does it cost to get .85 of a fuck-ton into low earth orbit? How much to get it onto a lunar trajectory?
Simple, a shit-load of money and a whole shit-load of money.
Saying that big trucks must use the left lane is traffic shaping.
Don't you know that the internet isn't a great big truck but a series of tubes?
Exactly. Ideal operation is at 100% capacity for 18 months. I might have created some confusion by adding that "also". What can I say, I'm a math person, not a language person.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_poison
I've worked as an Operator at a US Power Reactor ( North Anna Power Station in Virginia ) a long time ago. It is a Westinghouse pressurized water reactor and it's a completely different design than Chernobyl. The containment dome is of sufficient volume to maintain integrity during a complete meltdown. It's one of the biggest expenses. ( A description of the construction can be found in the license application in section 2.4.1 page 2-97 ).
The Unit 1 and Unit 2 Containments are Seismic Class I structures that house the reactor and other Nuclear Steam Supply System (NSSS) components for the respective unit. Each Containment consists of a reinforced concrete cylinder with a hemispherical dome and a flat, 10-foot-thick reinforced concrete mat foundation. A waterproof membrane is located below the Containment's structural mat and extends up the Containment wall to ground level.
In fact, it's such a large expense that this particular design keeps the interior of the containment dome at about 9 psia to allow for the expansion of Reactor Coolant during a meltdown in a smaller volume. Meaning a smaller containment dome. It also has the advantage that if there are any leaks, it leaks in, not out. If an accident did happen, the containment dome would probably been sealed and filled with concrete.
So why have nuclear plants? Why all the expense?
When I worked at that plant. Dominion Power ( Then Virginia Power ) had 4 reactors and about 17 coal fired plants and I think 2 natural gas plants. Those 4 reactors could at times supply about 40% of the power for the company's power grid covering almost all of Virginia and the northern part of North Carolina. This was usually at night when energy consumption dropped.
The coal plants also didn't operate at 100% all the time. They altered their power output increasing output during peak demand during the day and late evening and decreasing output as demand dropped during late night and early morning.
I hope you have noticed like I have that the standard operating procedure of the coal fired plants closely mirror what you would expect to see from a solar & battery power plant.
Also, I know how much coal ash is produced in a single day from a coal fired plant. I also know, for the nuclear plant I worked at, only one third of the fuel rods were replaced every 18 months. So, given the choice of fields covered in tons of low level waste or only a few tons of concentrated nastiness, I'd opt for the later because it is far easier to maintain stricter and safer control of it.
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It's a bit dated, but I'm willing to bet more states have jumped on this band wagon and none have left it. I'm also willing to bet the laws have gotten more draconian, not less. But I'm not looking up the laws for all 50 states.
My point from the beginning was that there are laws regarding this and if you are going to turn a blind eye, you should do a little research into what you may be getting yourself into.
From: A duty to inform: delay reporting allegations of child or elder abuse even for internal investigations and you could land in jail - Safety & Security Agenda
HR Magazine, Sept, 2003 by Diane Cadrain
Full Article: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3495/is_9_48/ai_108315187/
In short, No. I worked at a small computer repair shop in Virginia and while my job didn't require fixing people's PCs, other employees did and I do recall something about what I mentioned. Sorry if I can't recall more details. My initial search for VA laws that governed this turned up empty ( hence the initial disclaimer ).
Photo processors have been required by law for years to report any child porn that they find in film that they develop. That requires them to look at all your photos regardless of how personal they may be.
Given the above, the fact that computer tech's search through your files should come at no surprise. I seem to remember a Virginia law that required tech to search, also a similar Texas law, but I may be wrong. But have you considered that by not looking, you may be in fact breaking the law for your state?
Regardless of if you agree with the law or not, if one exists, I'd at least look into it if I were you.