I've had a few Russian History courses in not a very reputable college.
But it was in Russia;-).
Seriously, I agree. You need to be not a CODER, but a HUMAN. This is to some extent my complaint against geeks who are obsessed with computers/games/TV.
There is much more to life, and I'm glad to have my interests "divercified" as far from computers, as to politics and nature, driving and writing, psychology and spirituality, martial arts and qigong, travel and women;-).
My father teaches there and in the local community college. He tells that the community college is head and shoulders above UoP.
Also lame are ITT and some other similar institutions whose focus is on retraining. As someone who taught there noticed, the only thing they do relatively well is finding jobs to graduates using their contacts in the industry (it was said about 3 years ago).
>And without punitive damages you get situations like Ford's Pinto, where the company knew the car was defective, found that it would take $11 to fix this flaw, but calculated that it was cheaper to just let people die and then pay damages. Without punitive damages companies can do this all the time.
This is what your lawyer friends are telling ya?
This is utter BS (or, more precisely, LS) that the Vultures at Law imprint into the brains of Americans. The reason for that being not more than a BS is that the historical time has changed. You did not have such an importance of PR then, and "defective products" was not a common speak. Any similar disaster now leads to a sales decline (and I don't even mention that sometimes the problem is not with a car, as, f.e., in "Ford-Firestone debacle"; the roblems lies with degenerates who use the products).
As for punitive damages, read this research: http://www.triallawyersinc.com/html/part01.html
The entire industry that squanders $200 bln (conservative estimate) is built on views similar to yours!
If your area becomes less isolated from the world, you'll start exchanging documents with the other Microsoft-infested areas, you'll need common format. If your software can't read theirs, you'll need to make a switch because people will start sending you their documents in MS formats, and you won't be able to just ignore it.
This is how they were forcing others to upgrade their Office instalations to the latest version.
I think that a court can quickly rule to halt a highly controversial practice until the trial is complete.
Also, as I said, Disney is not a monopoly Micro$oft is, and does not have such a clout over the distributors (theatres) in a highly competitive market.
Even these who get appealed. You can't always reduce it even if it makes it to the Supreme Court.
I don't believe in punitive damages altogether. This concept is outdated, and in the modern economy where everything is covered by insurance is just an additional way of the public paying to some sucker and his greedy lawyer.
Population that wants to be healthy needs different healthcare.
This one is just a waste. It is like hiring more Windows 95 admins and wasting tons of money on third party tools instead of upgrading to a better, more stable and reliable OS (where OS is the population).
And the population is not suddenly taken to the psychosomatic illnesses, it was going for ages, but the scale had gone up.
Also, it is rising amount of these who are "prescription addict", i.e. whose survival depends on eating tons of drugs. It can easily be 10-15 hundred each friggin' month (according to what I read in Oregonian describing the existing crisis).
English is very "proper", restrictive language. Guess what - there is probably no other culture that depends on the laws and takes them into account that much. And it happened from the very old times.
German "ordung" also might be a result of a very logical language.
Unlike English speakers, Russians usually care about legality of something much less.
Chinese, as it was said here, care a great deal about social statuses. Thus, they think very differently when it comes to the status of opponent; their language and thinking reflect the hierarchical nature of their culture.
I've read a good example written for Russians trying to master English: "In English you need to know how your sentence will end when you start it".
My experience confirms that; most of my sentenses were too long and too quirky for Americans whether they were typical for the Russian grammar.
Also, English grammar and lexics is much more logical and thus restrictive. Russian is much more flexible.
So, in order to experess myself in English, especially verbally, I need to think differently.
Also, I've read about Chinese that it uses different brain areas because of being much more visual (versus languages with alphabets); it thus balances sides of the brain whether Western languages utilize the left, logical one more than the right one.
... was unpleasant. There were russified versions of Algol early on, but somehow it made me puke looking extremely clumsy.
The reason for that is that Russian lexics are very different from the English ones; the words are highly permutable and have many different forms through suffixes and endings. You need to use the correct form in every circumstances. English is much more simple and logical in this regard and in the others (such as much more restrictive grammar because of the lack of the same endings that Russian has).
On the other hand, my intuitive algorithm creating abilities seem to be much better than pretty much every native English speaker I've worked with. But it might be just me;-).
Wasn't it the name of a studio that was founded relatively recently and became successful? So, Pixar has a name and cash now; they can easily go independent. If anything, they can always release their movies through different studio such as WB, Columbia et al.
IMHO Disney can't harm Pixar in any possible way; trying to exclude Pixar's movies from the theatres chains will be highly illegal on one hand and stupid on the other because Disney is not the only player, it is just one of many studios.
Read it more carefully. I state that this insurance greatly affects YOUR practice as a doctor, but it is change when calculating the health insurance premiums for insured individually and through work.
As for capping the damages, IIRC, capped are not the actual damages, but "pain and suffering" ones. I'd also have eliminated "punitive damages" in this field thus eliminating most outrageous awards (it is especially bad because most awards are just absorbed by insurance that distributes them among all practitioners - good and bad).
And yes, you can't have both ability to sue for unlimited damages and ability have low malpractice insurance. The only way to improve the situation is to make cheaper lawyers. For now it seems to be impossible.
At a time when developed countries pay a lot of money to the underdeveloped ones to store nuclear waste there, they can also pay some money to store radioactive lawyer waste in a reliable containers!;-)
2 problems: 1) Most of the people don't pay for the medical care themselves. Middlemen (insurance companies) do. 2) Thus, lawyers still will be able to sue someone, and the same certificaions will be required for you to be able to work with these insurance companies. 3) The culprit is not the expensive healthcare but sick population (problems strt with mental health, many people subconsciously WANT to be sick: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=96859&cid=8283 832 )
And your +5, Insightful is made possible only by similar stupid leftists.
HMO is a desperate (and failing) attempt to control skyrocketing medical costs. Traditional system includes the insurance company and doctors as separate entities with the doctor making any decisions they want and insurance just footing the bill.
Unfortunately, newer expensive treatments ( http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=96859&cid=8283 832 ) and general health degradation in the US caused insurance to experience losses.
So, they decided to hire their own doctors and put them through the cost-control through the approval of procedures.
Eventually many other non-HMO companies followed suit. They now need to approve certain medical procedures beforehand, otherwise the doctor is not getting reimbursed.
Insurance companies can't be in the red ink, htey will just transfer the costs to their customers. This is why even despite all of this crap, the costs for the customers (i.e., these who pay premiums for the healthcare) continue growing. Major cause: expensive drugs and more people requiring them permanently.
To the contrary to the popular belief, lawsuits are not he culprit of the major cost rise at the medical insurance level, but they greatly affect doctors themselves and their malpractice insurance causing many doctors to drop out of practice in certain litigious areas.
If you want to "protect people", teach them how to be healthy. Otherwise the general population is just a hostage of these who demand expensive treatment when I (who is pretty healthy and spends a lot of time and money to stay healthy for the time being) foot the bill through my insurance premiums that keep going up.
P.S. I used to contract at a small healthplan company, so I know some shit.
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You tell it yourself - it was for geopolitical goals.
And it is a long term investment that will allow USA to survive in 20 to 40 years prospective.
I have an irrational feeling that Kerry will be a bad President.
Unfortunately, I don't see a good Democratic candidate this season.
I've had a few Russian History courses in not a very reputable college.
;-).
;-).
But it was in Russia
Seriously, I agree. You need to be not a CODER, but a HUMAN. This is to some extent my complaint against geeks who are obsessed with computers/games/TV.
There is much more to life, and I'm glad to have my interests "divercified" as far from computers, as to politics and nature, driving and writing, psychology and spirituality, martial arts and qigong, travel and women
My father teaches there and in the local community college. He tells that the community college is head and shoulders above UoP.
Also lame are ITT and some other similar institutions whose focus is on retraining. As someone who taught there noticed, the only thing they do relatively well is finding jobs to graduates using their contacts in the industry (it was said about 3 years ago).
... until some greedy lawyers will start another class-suction based on their conclusions.
I remember seeing several announcements in the news where different experts were telling about cellphones being either harmful or not harmful.
It is pretty resentful to live in the world of so called "science" that first creates something, and then declares it harmful.
There is pretty strong Republican Liberty Caucus ( http://www.rlc.org/ ) in the Republican Party. Democrats and liberty are much less compatible.
Won't whey want to check if you're drunk? ;-)
Become a member of National Motorist Association.
>And without punitive damages you get situations like Ford's Pinto, where the company knew the car was defective, found that it would take $11 to fix this flaw, but calculated that it was cheaper to just let people die and then pay damages. Without punitive damages companies can do this all the time.
This is what your lawyer friends are telling ya?
This is utter BS (or, more precisely, LS) that the Vultures at Law imprint into the brains of Americans. The reason for that being not more than a BS is that the historical time has changed. You did not have such an importance of PR then, and "defective products" was not a common speak. Any similar disaster now leads to a sales decline (and I don't even mention that sometimes the problem is not with a car, as, f.e., in "Ford-Firestone debacle"; the roblems lies with degenerates who use the products).
As for punitive damages, read this research: http://www.triallawyersinc.com/html/part01.html
The entire industry that squanders $200 bln (conservative estimate) is built on views similar to yours!
If your area becomes less isolated from the world, you'll start exchanging documents with the other Microsoft-infested areas, you'll need common format. If your software can't read theirs, you'll need to make a switch because people will start sending you their documents in MS formats, and you won't be able to just ignore it.
This is how they were forcing others to upgrade their Office instalations to the latest version.
I think that a court can quickly rule to halt a highly controversial practice until the trial is complete.
Also, as I said, Disney is not a monopoly Micro$oft is, and does not have such a clout over the distributors (theatres) in a highly competitive market.
Even these who get appealed. You can't always reduce it even if it makes it to the Supreme Court.
I don't believe in punitive damages altogether. This concept is outdated, and in the modern economy where everything is covered by insurance is just an additional way of the public paying to some sucker and his greedy lawyer.
Population that wants to be healthy needs different healthcare.
This one is just a waste. It is like hiring more Windows 95 admins and wasting tons of money on third party tools instead of upgrading to a better, more stable and reliable OS (where OS is the population).
And the population is not suddenly taken to the psychosomatic illnesses, it was going for ages, but the scale had gone up.
Also, it is rising amount of these who are "prescription addict", i.e. whose survival depends on eating tons of drugs. It can easily be 10-15 hundred each friggin' month (according to what I read in Oregonian describing the existing crisis).
It depends on the judge; some are not willing to reduce it TOO much.
So, many multi-million judgements still stand.
Culture depends on language a lot.
English is very "proper", restrictive language. Guess what - there is probably no other culture that depends on the laws and takes them into account that much. And it happened from the very old times.
German "ordung" also might be a result of a very logical language.
Unlike English speakers, Russians usually care about legality of something much less.
Chinese, as it was said here, care a great deal about social statuses. Thus, they think very differently when it comes to the status of opponent; their language and thinking reflect the hierarchical nature of their culture.
I've read a good example written for Russians trying to master English: "In English you need to know how your sentence will end when you start it".
My experience confirms that; most of my sentenses were too long and too quirky for Americans whether they were typical for the Russian grammar.
Also, English grammar and lexics is much more logical and thus restrictive. Russian is much more flexible.
So, in order to experess myself in English, especially verbally, I need to think differently.
Also, I've read about Chinese that it uses different brain areas because of being much more visual (versus languages with alphabets); it thus balances sides of the brain whether Western languages utilize the left, logical one more than the right one.
... was unpleasant. There were russified versions of Algol early on, but somehow it made me puke looking extremely clumsy.
;-).
The reason for that is that Russian lexics are very different from the English ones; the words are highly permutable and have many different forms through suffixes and endings. You need to use the correct form in every circumstances. English is much more simple and logical in this regard and in the others (such as much more restrictive grammar because of the lack of the same endings that Russian has).
On the other hand, my intuitive algorithm creating abilities seem to be much better than pretty much every native English speaker I've worked with. But it might be just me
Wasn't it the name of a studio that was founded relatively recently and became successful? So, Pixar has a name and cash now; they can easily go independent. If anything, they can always release their movies through different studio such as WB, Columbia et al.
IMHO Disney can't harm Pixar in any possible way; trying to exclude Pixar's movies from the theatres chains will be highly illegal on one hand and stupid on the other because Disney is not the only player, it is just one of many studios.
The word "algorithm" encripts the name of the first programmer - Al Gore ;-).
Haven't heard about it; IIRC, the punitive damages against hospitals or nursing homes occasionally happen to reach into dosens of millions.
Read it more carefully. I state that this insurance greatly affects YOUR practice as a doctor, but it is change when calculating the health insurance premiums for insured individually and through work.
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Here are two articles, you can find them here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=96895&cid=8
As for capping the damages, IIRC, capped are not the actual damages, but "pain and suffering" ones. I'd also have eliminated "punitive damages" in this field thus eliminating most outrageous awards (it is especially bad because most awards are just absorbed by insurance that distributes them among all practitioners - good and bad).
And yes, you can't have both ability to sue for unlimited damages and ability have low malpractice insurance. The only way to improve the situation is to make cheaper lawyers. For now it seems to be impossible.
At a time when developed countries pay a lot of money to the underdeveloped ones to store nuclear waste there, they can also pay some money to store radioactive lawyer waste in a reliable containers! ;-)
2 problems:3 832 )
1) Most of the people don't pay for the medical care themselves. Middlemen (insurance companies) do.
2) Thus, lawyers still will be able to sue someone, and the same certificaions will be required for you to be able to work with these insurance companies.
3) The culprit is not the expensive healthcare but sick population (problems strt with mental health, many people subconsciously WANT to be sick: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=96859&cid=828
And your +5, Insightful is made possible only by similar stupid leftists.
3 832 ) and general health degradation in the US caused insurance to experience losses.
HMO is a desperate (and failing) attempt to control skyrocketing medical costs. Traditional system includes the insurance company and doctors as separate entities with the doctor making any decisions they want and insurance just footing the bill.
Unfortunately, newer expensive treatments ( http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=96859&cid=828
So, they decided to hire their own doctors and put them through the cost-control through the approval of procedures.
Eventually many other non-HMO companies followed suit. They now need to approve certain medical procedures beforehand, otherwise the doctor is not getting reimbursed.
Insurance companies can't be in the red ink, htey will just transfer the costs to their customers. This is why even despite all of this crap, the costs for the customers (i.e., these who pay premiums for the healthcare) continue growing. Major cause: expensive drugs and more people requiring them permanently.
To the contrary to the popular belief, lawsuits are not he culprit of the major cost rise at the medical insurance level, but they greatly affect doctors themselves and their malpractice insurance causing many doctors to drop out of practice in certain litigious areas.
If you want to "protect people", teach them how to be healthy. Otherwise the general population is just a hostage of these who demand expensive treatment when I (who is pretty healthy and spends a lot of time and money to stay healthy for the time being) foot the bill through my insurance premiums that keep going up.
P.S. I used to contract at a small healthplan company, so I know some shit.
They live in a different world where high mortality is necessary to offset a very high birth rate.
This is why they perceive death differently, not ike Westerners.