I think you glossed over an important part, pierre. Nerds in the united states typically don't get laid until their 20's, sometimes later, while a typical high school provides your average jock with an atmosphere similar approaching a casting couch for a porno movie. This creates a level of angst that boils over in middle age. Then by the time they're able to score women with their 6-figure IT jobs, the women are what they call 'born again virgins' or have VD.
We're a society that undervalues humanity.
I think any healthcare worker who exposes patients to influenza because they refused the vaccine should be jailed.
Nutjob sneezes near a immune compromised individual and it's over, nutjob doesn't even know, they just know that palin would make a great president.
you are suffering from depression. when you stare at the computer screen aimlessly clicking through the interweb unable to focus on programming problems which should interest you, you're attempting to stimulate parts of your brain that have been permawired to get a little high every time you're dinking with the computer. it's not unlike beig a porn drug or alcohol addict or a rage-a-holic. Now if you'll excuse me, I am going to go drink some rageahol.
About 9 visits later, the doc said they'd put her on a waiting list for an MRI scan. However, they put her on as low priority, which meant a 9 month wait.
in the US, you can get an MRI often within a few hours. Getting it read may take a little longer, and more and more that stuff is off-shored.
Anyway, I feel for you - it's an awful prospect that you have to work to live. That's totally and completely inhumane. It's totally uncivilised. I can't believe there's not more of a revolt against the current system.
well, here's the deal. yes it is inhumane. and yes it is uncivilized. but if you have a good job like i do you frankly don't think about it much. the premiums are subsidized by your employer and any time you get sick you call the doctor and they tell you to come in in an hour or two. if you have strange symptoms like your friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend with the maybe brain tumor they'll start ordering tests. lots of tests. simple tests can be performed the same day in these labs/clinics that dot our landscape now adays (labcorp,quest, etc). the only time you hear about a waiting list is if you need an organ transplant or a flu shot during a shortage. so the reality is your average joe isn't irate about it because he's got a good thing going.
if you're indigent and you go to the doctor, you still get treated. the unfortunately side-effect is that since indigent folks don't have a doctor to go to, they go to the ER for everything. This has caused serious problems with ER wait times across the country. if you're uninsured and... come down with a brain tumor or a heart attack or something, you will get fixed (to the extent that they can) but you'll leave the hospital with crushing debt (if i walk in to the hospital with my insurance and have a procedure done it might cost the insurer $600, same procedure w/o insurance would cost $6000, so if you walk in with no coverage at all, 6-figure debt is not unusual) this debt leads to a lawsuit which leads to bankruptcy typically.
so i'm hardly a socialist and appreciate that there are some terrific attributes of the US health care, but I don't think it's right that it's tied to employment. Most Americans with good health coverage, I think, agree that the system is broken (and perhaps may have their own spin on how it is) but most Americans are concerned about the solution making the system worse than it is; if it is accessible to you it is really the best in the world.
It's hard to compare to 'normal' people, because someone like Steve Jobs would have had an team of the very best surgeons working on him, and generally the best medical care that money could buy..
you are discounting the patient's role in healing. the best surgeons in the world are available to you or me, as they are available to jobs, however they may be more accessible to jobs. but rest assured they followed the same procedure accepted by the medical community that you would for you or me. all the money in the world isn't going to buy you a faster recovery. it takes as long as it takes, which varies by individual.
so what does wealth buy in this case? well, two things which are of concern if they are true --
* - did he move up the list faster than he should have? sure, he gamed the system by getting on the list in tennessee, but this is just part of being well informed/advised.
* - was his old liver destroyed due to metastatic cancer? as a slashdot physician (the best kind) on this topic stated, transplants are contraindicated in that case which implies that rules were broken because he's a superhero. if this is true it's kind of disgusting.
so there may be other reasons everyone has been so tight lipped about Steve's health than Steve just being Steve.
that termite should have invested in ColonCleanse(tm) to dissolve the 20-30 pounds of waste that is believed to bind to our intestine walls like spackle or paste.
but this reminds me of all the women i could have potentially slept with but turned them down because the one had too big of a butt, another one i valued her friendship too much, another one i was worried she had VD, another one i was already seeing someone else, etc. so now i'm old, alone and abstinent. All of my life is a regret. Please, please don't be me.
If you personally stand to make 7 figures off this transaction I would do it and hope you like megalomart. if you don't then you can quit and start another company and relive the dream. or not.
If they're buying you cheap then it might not be worth it. you need to contact their competitor and get a competing bid. if that's not feasible, turn them down and become a commercial success and they'll still be interested in buying you.
if they brought back the McRib. can anyone tell me why it was discontinued? it was a popular item. Seriously, since they've cancelled it my life feels like I'm just going through motions, nothing makes me really happy and nothing makes me really sad.
i used to write TSRs (terminate and stay resident) to do all sorts of obnoxious shite like flash the screen and display a text box staying "WHITE POWER" at the most inopportune time.
i think that perhaps news that the composer was on his deathbed was leaked and this guy put his wiki entry in. then the composer decided to check the interweb before checking out and realized he had final words to utter. and now he's a decomposer.
Slashdot Mirror
hogwash! they're just starting!
my computer sucks at math because it doesn't apply itself. period. end of discussion.
I think you glossed over an important part, pierre. Nerds in the united states typically don't get laid until their 20's, sometimes later, while a typical high school provides your average jock with an atmosphere similar approaching a casting couch for a porno movie. This creates a level of angst that boils over in middle age. Then by the time they're able to score women with their 6-figure IT jobs, the women are what they call 'born again virgins' or have VD. We're a society that undervalues humanity.
WE'RE GETTING BACK TOGETHER!
I think any healthcare worker who exposes patients to influenza because they refused the vaccine should be jailed. Nutjob sneezes near a immune compromised individual and it's over, nutjob doesn't even know, they just know that palin would make a great president.
and it has haunted me to this day. i do not go outside for fear that someone will recognize me.
Ever see a black hat naked before Jimmy?
you are suffering from depression. when you stare at the computer screen aimlessly clicking through the interweb unable to focus on programming problems which should interest you, you're attempting to stimulate parts of your brain that have been permawired to get a little high every time you're dinking with the computer. it's not unlike beig a porn drug or alcohol addict or a rage-a-holic. Now if you'll excuse me, I am going to go drink some rageahol.
About 9 visits later, the doc said they'd put her on a waiting list for an MRI scan. However, they put her on as low priority, which meant a 9 month wait.
in the US, you can get an MRI often within a few hours. Getting it read may take a little longer, and more and more that stuff is off-shored.
Anyway, I feel for you - it's an awful prospect that you have to work to live. That's totally and completely inhumane. It's totally uncivilised. I can't believe there's not more of a revolt against the current system.
well, here's the deal. yes it is inhumane. and yes it is uncivilized. but if you have a good job like i do you frankly don't think about it much. the premiums are subsidized by your employer and any time you get sick you call the doctor and they tell you to come in in an hour or two. if you have strange symptoms like your friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend with the maybe brain tumor they'll start ordering tests. lots of tests. simple tests can be performed the same day in these labs/clinics that dot our landscape now adays (labcorp,quest, etc). the only time you hear about a waiting list is if you need an organ transplant or a flu shot during a shortage. so the reality is your average joe isn't irate about it because he's got a good thing going. if you're indigent and you go to the doctor, you still get treated. the unfortunately side-effect is that since indigent folks don't have a doctor to go to, they go to the ER for everything. This has caused serious problems with ER wait times across the country. if you're uninsured and ... come down with a brain tumor or a heart attack or something, you will get fixed (to the extent that they can) but you'll leave the hospital with crushing debt (if i walk in to the hospital with my insurance and have a procedure done it might cost the insurer $600, same procedure w/o insurance would cost $6000, so if you walk in with no coverage at all, 6-figure debt is not unusual) this debt leads to a lawsuit which leads to bankruptcy typically.
so i'm hardly a socialist and appreciate that there are some terrific attributes of the US health care, but I don't think it's right that it's tied to employment. Most Americans with good health coverage, I think, agree that the system is broken (and perhaps may have their own spin on how it is) but most Americans are concerned about the solution making the system worse than it is; if it is accessible to you it is really the best in the world.
It's hard to compare to 'normal' people, because someone like Steve Jobs would have had an team of the very best surgeons working on him, and generally the best medical care that money could buy..
you are discounting the patient's role in healing. the best surgeons in the world are available to you or me, as they are available to jobs, however they may be more accessible to jobs. but rest assured they followed the same procedure accepted by the medical community that you would for you or me. all the money in the world isn't going to buy you a faster recovery. it takes as long as it takes, which varies by individual.
so what does wealth buy in this case? well, two things which are of concern if they are true --
* - did he move up the list faster than he should have? sure, he gamed the system by getting on the list in tennessee, but this is just part of being well informed/advised.
* - was his old liver destroyed due to metastatic cancer? as a slashdot physician (the best kind) on this topic stated, transplants are contraindicated in that case which implies that rules were broken because he's a superhero. if this is true it's kind of disgusting.
so there may be other reasons everyone has been so tight lipped about Steve's health than Steve just being Steve.
1) Load with pictures of cats
2) Include rootkit
3) ???
4) PROFIT!
that termite should have invested in ColonCleanse(tm) to dissolve the 20-30 pounds of waste that is believed to bind to our intestine walls like spackle or paste.
"tina's here we're getting back together!" "hey, give us a moment!"
POLISE.CX
and then post it to slashdot under false pretenses
???
PROFIT! i didn't mean to yell. sorry.
And what do you do when you no longer want to let them have access?
modify your dns to redirect all of their web requests to goatse
but this reminds me of all the women i could have potentially slept with but turned them down because the one had too big of a butt, another one i valued her friendship too much, another one i was worried she had VD, another one i was already seeing someone else, etc. so now i'm old, alone and abstinent. All of my life is a regret. Please, please don't be me. If you personally stand to make 7 figures off this transaction I would do it and hope you like megalomart. if you don't then you can quit and start another company and relive the dream. or not. If they're buying you cheap then it might not be worth it. you need to contact their competitor and get a competing bid. if that's not feasible, turn them down and become a commercial success and they'll still be interested in buying you.
i just wonder if they're as desperate as the couchdb bozos: http://www.slideshare.net/mattetti/couchdb-perform-like-a-pr0n-star
That's definitely another option: http://www.princeton.edu/main/admission-aid/
i would, but i'm dumb. and lazy.
if they brought back the McRib. can anyone tell me why it was discontinued? it was a popular item. Seriously, since they've cancelled it my life feels like I'm just going through motions, nothing makes me really happy and nothing makes me really sad.
then only outlaws will paint balls.
i used to write TSRs (terminate and stay resident) to do all sorts of obnoxious shite like flash the screen and display a text box staying "WHITE POWER" at the most inopportune time.
the whole species went extinct when they were all asked, simultaneously, "what exit?"
i think that perhaps news that the composer was on his deathbed was leaked and this guy put his wiki entry in. then the composer decided to check the interweb before checking out and realized he had final words to utter. and now he's a decomposer.
now christopher reeve will never walk =(
and use it to figure out how to manufacture a pork samich without a bone in it. i will be rich.