In theory there are state hospitals and charity hospitals that will help you. In reality it is not uncommon for people without insurance to die in these situations. I had a roommate once who lost a leg when his insurance company dropped him after he got sick.
That is not what caused the brown-outs in California a few years ago. It was deliberate manipulation of the power market that arose due to a lack of regulation.
No, that is the whole point of non-linear dynamics. One can never know the initial conditions precisely enough to make predictions over arbitrarily long time scales.
Actually, this result is a big deal. First, the authors used powerful new techniques to solve some long-standing problems in these sorts of simulations. This has allowed them to run simulations far further into the future (or the past) than was possible before. Second, they included General Relativity and the affects of planetary satellites in their calculations, which improves the precision of their results. This has not been done before. Third, this work is the first to put a quantitative time scale on instability in the inner Solar System. Up until now we knew that the orbits of the inner planets were unstable, but we had no idea how long it would take for those instabilities to lead to major changes in orbital parameters. Finally, this result has profound implications for the stability of planetary systems in general, which affects the probability of their being Earth-like planets around other stars, and thus the chances of there being animal life out there. This is a major paper and may become the baseline for this entire sub-field. It certainly deserved to be published in Nature. It is too bad that the media chose to glom onto the sensationalist aspects of the story.
No Nostradamus predicted that the world would end in about 3000 AD. He also predicted that a catastrophic global war would start in 1999 and that the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1986 would signal widespread human cannabalism. What you are thinking of is the end of the current cycle of the Mayan long count calendar, which will occur in 2012. However, all that will happen then is that the next cycle will begin.
> In my (professional) estimation Seth McFarlane is the single most important > writer in the English language since the time Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Blake.
Well now we know. Seth MacFarlane is the hypnotoad.
1) Download a file and pay the tax. 2) Make multiple copies of the file. 3) Delete all but one of the copies and claim a capital loss on each of them. 4) Profit
Someone needs to tell that caller about the difference between optical light and infrared light. I wonder if he has ever tried to boil coffee with a flashlight.
This has been true, to varying degrees, for a long time. In general it is very hard to get Canadian police to pursue a common assault case unless if there is overwhelming evidence that the assault happened and was unprovoked, or the victim suffered a life-threatening injury. The problem is that most assault accusations come down to one person's word against another's. It is very easy to claim self-defence if you do attack someone, and the legal system is based on a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. When there is no clear evidence to support an assault charge the police tend to just separate the parties involved and get back to work.
The problem in DC is not the Metro, it is the bus service. The Metro is fairly efficient, unless if you want to use it late at night, or go across town instead of in and out of the downtown area. The bus service however, is almost useless. Where I live there is no evening service and no Sunday service. Getting to the UMD campus (about three miles away) takes a little over an hour and involves a fairly long wait for a transfer. Getting to the nearest Metro stations involve long, windy milk runs. And here is the best part. Metro is planning to eliminate two thirds of the bus routes that run through my community over the next two years.
Given Canada's environmental history and Russia's environmental history I know which country I would prefer to be in control of the Arctic archipelago and the surrounding ocean.
Yet another reason why Canada needs a stronger presence in the Arctic, and the US needs to stop undermining Canadian sovereignty up there. Who would you rather have controlling the high Arctic: Canada, or Russia?
>peaking as a Canadian, you sir know nothing about this system. >Private medical treatments are prohibited by law - so, no, they are >not available.
That is not correct. I used to get private care for various thing when I was living in Canada a few years ago.
>There is a shortage of family doctors
There is a shortage of doctors in some areas, but that is also a problem in some parts of the US. The doctor-patient ratios in the two countries are the same to within about 20%.
I have lived for several years in both the US and in Candada, and my experience has been that Canada's health care system does work better than the US one. There are problems with it, but in general I found that both the quality of care and the administrative details that I had to deal with were both significantly better in Canada than in the US. Your milage may vary.
Slashdot Mirror
Most of these sorts of horror stories turn out to by myths when they are investigated.
In theory there are state hospitals and charity hospitals that will help you. In reality it is not uncommon for people without insurance to die in these situations. I had a roommate once who lost a leg when his insurance company dropped him after he got sick.
That is not what caused the brown-outs in California a few years ago. It was deliberate manipulation of the power market that arose due to a lack of regulation.
This should not have been modded troll. The anonymous coward is quite right about the need for a user-replaceable battery.
No, that is the whole point of non-linear dynamics. One can never know the initial conditions precisely enough to make predictions over arbitrarily long time scales.
Actually, this result is a big deal. First, the authors used powerful new techniques to solve some long-standing problems in these sorts of simulations. This has allowed them to run simulations far further into the future (or the past) than was possible before. Second, they included General Relativity and the affects of planetary satellites in their calculations, which improves the precision of their results. This has not been done before. Third, this work is the first to put a quantitative time scale on instability in the inner Solar System. Up until now we knew that the orbits of the inner planets were unstable, but we had no idea how long it would take for those instabilities to lead to major changes in orbital parameters. Finally, this result has profound implications for the stability of planetary systems in general, which affects the probability of their being Earth-like planets around other stars, and thus the chances of there being animal life out there. This is a major paper and may become the baseline for this entire sub-field. It certainly deserved to be published in Nature. It is too bad that the media chose to glom onto the sensationalist aspects of the story.
No Nostradamus predicted that the world would end in about 3000 AD. He also predicted that a catastrophic global war would start in 1999 and that the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1986 would signal widespread human cannabalism. What you are thinking of is the end of the current cycle of the Mayan long count calendar, which will occur in 2012. However, all that will happen then is that the next cycle will begin.
> In my (professional) estimation Seth McFarlane is the single most important
> writer in the English language since the time Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Blake.
Well now we know. Seth MacFarlane is the hypnotoad.
1) Download a file and pay the tax.
2) Make multiple copies of the file.
3) Delete all but one of the copies and claim a capital loss on each of them.
4) Profit
Someone needs to tell that caller about the difference between optical light and infrared light. I wonder if he has ever tried to boil coffee with a flashlight.
Both lacrosse and hockey are Canada's national sports. We have a split personality.
This has been true, to varying degrees, for a long time. In general it is very hard to get Canadian police to pursue a common assault case unless if there is overwhelming evidence that the assault happened and was unprovoked, or the victim suffered a life-threatening injury. The problem is that most assault accusations come down to one person's word against another's. It is very easy to claim self-defence if you do attack someone, and the legal system is based on a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. When there is no clear evidence to support an assault charge the police tend to just separate the parties involved and get back to work.
What I really want is for a download to speed up when I drag the progress bar.
> And why in the hell would anyone buy a product where the
> company gets to treat you like a five year old?
Because Apple knows best. I am a little surprised that we have not turned over much more control of our lives to Apple. They make such cool hardware.
The problem in DC is not the Metro, it is the bus service. The Metro is fairly efficient, unless if you want to use it late at night, or go across town instead of in and out of the downtown area. The bus service however, is almost useless. Where I live there is no evening service and no Sunday service. Getting to the UMD campus (about three miles away) takes a little over an hour and involves a fairly long wait for a transfer. Getting to the nearest Metro stations involve long, windy milk runs. And here is the best part. Metro is planning to eliminate two thirds of the bus routes that run through my community over the next two years.
The real worry is that a computer virus will make the leap into the human population.
Given Canada's environmental history and Russia's environmental history I know which country I would prefer to be in control of the Arctic archipelago and the surrounding ocean.
Yet another reason why Canada needs a stronger presence in the Arctic, and the US needs to stop undermining Canadian sovereignty up there. Who would you rather have controlling the high Arctic: Canada, or Russia?
The highly-paid part sounds like it could make up for the glorified clerk part to me.
> Your alternative is to spend your life under your bed. But then
> again, where's the difference to being dead already?
I am not going to spend my life under my bed. That's where the monsters live.
And the biggest risk that most of us face, getting hit by a car on the way to work.
>peaking as a Canadian, you sir know nothing about this system.
>Private medical treatments are prohibited by law - so, no, they are
>not available.
That is not correct. I used to get private care for various thing when I was living in Canada a few years ago.
>There is a shortage of family doctors
There is a shortage of doctors in some areas, but that is also a problem in some parts of the US. The doctor-patient ratios in the two countries are the same to within about 20%.
I have lived for several years in both the US and in Candada, and my experience has been that Canada's health care system does work better than the US one. There are problems with it, but in general I found that both the quality of care and the administrative details that I had to deal with were both significantly better in Canada than in the US. Your milage may vary.
Just Don't Fear the Reaper
I think that the period between 2001 and 2008 disproved the idea that the US right is the party of small government.