Yeah, but you understand the reason you're not supposed to eat is that you could be risking your own life if you have food in your stomach while you're under general anesthetic. You can puke and choke on it. (Risk may be doubled depending on origin of meal...)
Hahaha of course I understand the reason for fasting before a surgical procedure. The McDonald's likely congealed in the patients stomach and would not have come up without tearing a hole in their esophagus anyway;)
Yes, I suppose if you put your mind and wallet to it, you could access all the paywalled medical journals and learn navigate the system of publications to find what's relevant to your particular medical need. If you took that a step further and gave yourself a "full workup" examination, you, too, would have found your hernia - that's standard practice dating back 50 years or more.
The point is, doctors do this daily, they're practiced, and they have a fair idea about common problems and how to spot them - you should go through the "front line" of diagnosis of common problems, like hernia, before digging deeper into the latest research. But, when you fall into the group of people with medical needs that aren't adequately addressed with common, front line diagnosis and treatments, that's where the new stuff becomes valuable. Things that would have gotten a shrug of the shoulders and Rx for some pain killers last year might actually be treatable today. I remember in 1991, a colleague had ulcers, and his doctor was stuck firmly in 1989, telling him to avoid food and drink that irritate the ulcers and basically hope they'll go away on their own - thing was, in 1990 they published the causal connection between H.pylori and common ulcers, making them curable with a short course of antibiotics, which is common practice today, but his doctor wasn't "up on these things" so he was left to suffer.
And how quickly do you expect that research to be available in an expert system? Or are you imagining that these record systems are automatically indexing these journals as they publish?
the constant battles on the part of doctors to get paid by insurance companies who's single goal is to not pay. In no other part of my life are my goals (getting care) and the service provider's goals (not paying for that care) so diametrically opposed. I've got family members with nasty health complications from easily treatable problems that were let go because the doctor didn't want to order tests in case they came back negative. If a test comes back negative the doctors never get paid.
Come to think of it I see this in one other place. B2B transactions. In so many of them business A won't pay the invoice for business B until A needs B's services again. I read somewhere Don Trump is famous for that, but having worked for small businesses it's so common he could just be going with the flow.
I have this exact problem with multibillion dollar corporations. You literally have to hold their own goals and projects hostage to get paid a $20,000 invoice on some travel expenses THEY required. You ask me to fly across the country last minute (read same day) because you can't schedule something properly and then you want ME to float the $2,000 plane ticket until you need me to save your project again? I don't think so.
No, Democrats thought that electronic records would reduce paperwork, and redundant tests. So, in 2009 & 2010, they passed bills coercing EHR use. So now medical records suck up doctor time. Wise governance?
I don't believe this. For one thing, every doctor now has to ask their patients if they are a drug addict in order to bill medicare. It doesn't matter WHY you're seeing the doctor. You could have a cold and the doctor is still supposed to not only ask whether you smoke pot but if your parents or siblings do. How does that help anyone?
Patients are horrendously unreliable. The classic is hospital surgery. "Have you had anything to eat since last night." "No, just a bacon and egg McMuffin on the way in this morning." *
*actual conversation I heard while waiting for surgery. The person didn't think don't eat meant don't eat.
TO be fair to the patient, I would hardly call that food.
Modern practice of medicine absolutely does make doctors into data entry clerks. Big data is telling them what works, what doesn't, improving diagnosis and treatment, the volume of data and pace of discovery are such that no human being could possibly keep up with it in the traditional med school + residency + practice & annual CE fashion. If your doctor isn't "jacked into the cloud," you're not getting the best out of modern medicine.
This is ABSOLUTELY not to say that the best medical care comes from doctors who attempt to practice cloud connected medicine, effectiveness of practitioners varies tremendously, and the best traditional doctors are far far better than the worst "big data" based doctors - but, if you think you might need a procedure performed, it's probably best to consult with an MD who is "up on the cloud" in your area of need, and simultaneously guaranteed NOT to profit from you going ahead with the decision to have an expensive procedure performed.
I'm not sure that I believe this. For one thing, anything that is "in the cloud" I can look up myself. For another thing, sometimes solving a patient's healthcare problem is more about being a good problem solver than knowing the latest and greatest anything. I once had extreme pain when urinating. All of the symptoms pointed towards one of two things: an STD or a kidney stone. An expert system would have said kidney stone since I (being a basement dwelling Slashdot user) was not exposed to any STDs prior to the onset of the symptoms. Did I have a kidney stone? No. It turned out that I had a hernia that was not causing me any discomfort whatsoever. At least, it hadn't for years until it finally pushed against my urinary tract and caused a very serious kidney infection. Not being in the right risk category for a kidney infection, my doctor decided to do a full physical and that is when he discovered the cause of the problem. The expert system could only indicate where there was a symptomatic problem, the doctor found the asymptomatic cause of the entire mess.
It depends on their tech setup. One heathcare provider has a workstation in every room, and it takes the doctor about 1 minute to review patient records and a couple more minutes to update it after the exam is over. Another heathcare provider takes notes and transfers them all at the end of the day. Yet another still uses paperwork and is very much not organised.
It depends on their tech setup. One heathcare provider has a workstation in every room, and it takes the doctor about 1 minute to review patient records and a couple more minutes to update it after the exam is over. Another heathcare provider takes notes and transfers them all at the end of the day. Yet another still uses paperwork and is very much not organised.
I don't want to use explictives, but they are warranted to the most extreme degree possible.
This 1 minute talk, it takes that long to login..if the system is polite, then to open the chart, then to find the actual note, then to load the CT scan...
There are multiple hard studies that show 33% reduction in efficiency that cannot be recouped.
Patients just love when you stare at a computer instead of talking to them....
This is crazy, I fight with my nurses every day. They tell me I have to input codes, I have to reconcile X, or Y or whatever.
F. That! I talk to my patients. I deal with them, and I deal with that screaming on the back end, but I'm not typical. I fight to talk to people like I would want to be talked to if I was a patient. I am burnt out, I can't fight forever. They will wear us down, your care will suffer. You let this happen, you asked for it through shitty laws that paid doctors 20% more to be part of a hospital system. You will suffer and you asked for it.
Practicing Surgeon MD
I just recently was consulting with a surgeon (who actually recommended I not have surgery but still took care of my injury with multiple follow ups to see how I was doing) who has his staff come in and prep everything. It looks like their system requires a password to switch charts. So the MA comes in, pulls up your chart and imaging and then leaves it up for the doctor. Of course, I could probably attempt to break into the system but feel like that would be impolite. It might be a HIPAA violation, I am not sure, but it certainly keeps him from looking at the computer instead of me.
Isn't on the battlefield a little late to be reading weapons and ammunition guides?
These types are usually trained on foreign service weapons in their area of operation. They may be using scavenged weapons and may need to look up a more complicated task that they have not performed on a regular enough basis to have memorized. Same with ammo.
Now the army spec ops guys just need to get their apps approved through the app store.
The DoD already pays for an enterprise cert for iOS. They have been running their own server w/ app install capabilities for the last ~6 years or so, even when they were just tinkering with iOS deployments.
Bankruptcy doesn't mean what you think it means, It occurs when a person's or Company's cash flow is insufficient to meet it's obligations; a Company can be quite profitable due to the ways capital assets are depreciated, yet have insufficient liquid assets to pay it's bills.
Most truly wealthy people have several bankruptcies; to become that wealthy you have to be much less risk adverse than the average person.
I used to work for a bankruptcy law firm, I am aware that one can be forced into bankruptcy due to a lack of liquid assets. Anyway, we all know that when Trump puts a value on his net worth that he says:
[My networth fluctuates] with markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings
Are AirBnB rentals going into places that already meet occupancy codes or are they going into permitless new construction?
I would imagine there's a percentage of people willing to rent the cheapest room, which may be a newly converted attic space, which if done to poor standards by a homeowner might be some risk, although it would also be a risk to the homeowner, too, which would seem to mitigate some risk as the homeowner doesn't want to die in a fire, either.
If the majority are going into existing dwelling spaces which already generally meet occupancy codes, where's the construction code risk?
I would imagine the high risk spaces with shoddy construction would get downvoted by potential renters anyway, as if the electrical is so poor as to be a major fire risk, then the rest of its likely to be seriously substandard as well.
There may be different occupancy codes for short term or long term rentals. I believe, but am not positive, that some states require short term rentals to have on-site secure storage in the form of either an in-room safe or a safe at the front desk. I could be wrong, however.
You obviously never applied nor got inspected for said licenses. They are just taxes on renovations. I've had 6 permits in the last 2 years, 2 electrical ones, 1 for a repair and 1 for a renovation. The licensing office requires you to have a building permit for the renovation, a building permit for fire sprinkler system, a water permit to connect the backflow preventer for said fire sprinkler system to the pipes, a sewage permit to make sure you don't connect the drain for said fire sprinkler system directly to the sewage, a fire marshal inspection, an electrical permit for the electric. Each permit is ~$120.
The inspections are a joke, I did the work all myself which is permitted as the homeowner, half the inspectors asked me why they were there, They never heard of anyone doing a fire sprinkler system so especially the water and sewage inspector were wondering why they were there, then I had to point it out and they said: well, for residential fire sprinkler we can't test the system, you pass. All inspectors spent 5m looking around and say "looks good" on both rough and finish inspections, didn't even have to show the entire renovation. They do require you to submit plans for ~3 months and then hound each inspector for 3 days to show up and the building inspector I've been calling for 3 weeks now.
You have electrical permits because working with electricity can cause fires and death. You have a sewage permit to make sure that you're not making a change to the line that would cause sewage to spill into the ground. A water permit to make sure that you're not going to cause a water problem for yourself and all your neighbors. A building permit to make sure that you do all of the structural modifications according to code. I've had to get permits to do work before, I know how the process works. When it came time for my inspections the inspectors came by (without being hassled) at the time that I scheduled with them. It took 5 minutes to schedule the inspections. And yes, the inspections only took a few minutes because the first thing the inspectors did was ask me what I did to ensure the work was up to code. Explaining that would take only a couple of minutes. Then the inspector would spend 2 minutes looking to see if I did things exactly the way that I had described. If I had described a situation that sounded dangerous, I have no doubt that the inspector would have been far more thorough. The fact is that the permitting process exists for two reasons: 1) people try to violate the zoning regulations of their community 2) bad contractors and unskilled homeowners do work that is not only dangerous to themselves, but dangerous to future buyers of the property who may not know that shoddy work was done to begin with. If you want the wild wild west that you describe, go back to any time before like 1940 and see just how many people died due to poor workmanship. Especially children in factories.
That's feudalism. In capitalism you have to be smart if you want to keep your money.
Are you suggesting that feudal lords did not have to be smart to get where they were and remain there?
Any company can go bankrupt any day, making your stock worthless. Holding cash will diminish your fortune by inflation. If you are not smart, you lose your money. Lots of aristocrats lost their relevance during industrialisation, because they were not smart. Some invested smartly and kept their riches.
Plenty of aristocrats went bankrupt prior to the industrialization of the west. In fact, the reason that Friday the Thirteenth is unlucky is because a king of France was on the verge of bankruptcy himself.
And look at Donald Trump. That guy is an idiot who has managed to hold on to at least some of his fortune and inheritance despite failed business after failed business. If I failed half as many times as Donald Trump has, I'd be completely destitute.
So, you want every home (remember every home is a potential airbnb place) inspected by the Governments?
Your friends come to spend the weekend. You want the Governments to come and Tax you for "Lost Revenue"?
Your family comes, a foreign exchange student comes, a refugee comes, a co-worker comes, a visitor of any kind comes.
How do you prove that You aren't an airbnb-er.
Do you want to pay Taxes to have a guest?
The Governments just love this idea – inspect every home, tax every home for every visitor, make the home owner, home renter pay, Pay, PAY!
That's the ticket!
Oh please. The government is not trying to inspect every home or tax you for your visitors. How do they know you're not an AirBnBer? Because you don't file a 1099 from AirBnB! That's how. The IRS knows if AirBnB is paying you more than $500 a year. And if you're renting out your place for less than $500 a year, I don't think anyone in the government would want to waste their time bothering with you anyway.
The cities and towns who want to regulate this and Uber and the like are doing so not because there is some sort of crisis or need for regulation. By their own admission, they do not have control over it now and yet there are very few reports of problems, which strongly suggests there aren't many issues.
No, they don't want to solve anything. They're just mad that somebody is doing something without asking permission and paying for licenses and other crap. An awful lot of government is devoted to making people ask for permission to do things and making them pay fees to get that permission.
If people realize they can do things just fine without permits, then all hell will break loose of people doing stuff on their own for free! How can bloated bureaucratic governments survive and justify their own existence if people just DO stuff?
You're right. There's absolutely no need for permits to do things like electrical wiring. And no reason whatsoever to mandate that property owners have smoke alarms and fire extinguishers on their properties. Nothing has ever gone wrong in the past, all of these rules and regulations just came to be out of thin air because some bureaucrat thought it would be a great way to make money.
Speeding endangers lives; airbnb renting does not. Therefore, speeding is much worse. Let them do what they want with their property.
Well that certainly depends. What if the property they are renting on AirBnB is unsafe? Doesn't have all of the safety accommodations that one might expect in a rented lodging? Hell, you could die in a fire because the place doesn't have smoke detectors or a fire extinguisher. AirBnB is just like Uber: they flout the rules that drive up the cost of the service industry they are competing and act as though they are somehow different than those services themselves. They are not. And certainly the people who are renting their property out on AirBnB are cheating their own community. Maybe they make a few dollars but they also deprive their community of the hotel taxes that AirBnB does not collect. Therefore they are a blight on their community.
Oh And PS, studies have found that people driving slow in the left hand lane are more dangerous than those who speed. Even insurance companies are trying to get their customers to drive faster or get out of the way.
Yes, but why bother to patch such an exploit in an OS that you've already killed off yourself? Why not open up the market to let people take advantage of the hardware rather than let it end up in the Landfill?
The answer of course is, "because they're Microsoft, duh?", but what value did this add?
Because exploits are dangerous. I'm not saying that Microsoft should leave the abandoned hardware locked down to the point where it cannot be repurposed. But I am saying that you should not expect them to leave an exploit open for that reason. There should be a safe way to install a new OS without depending on an exploit. Now Surface RT tablets were always marketed as extremely locked down with a secure bootloader. If Microsoft chooses not to provide an unlock mechanism at EOL then that's a dick move. However, no one ever bought an RT device expecting to install Android on it anyway. Or if they did, they should have known better.
Anyone who has worked in the finance industry on the tech side of things has probably seen eye-searing levels of problems like this. It's clusterfucks all the way down. It always surprised me that something that seems like such a natural fit for software was always, without fail, so riddled with glaring bugs that it's almost unfathomable that you are the first person to notice them. At a lot of shops, the bugs are so ingrained in the process that they can't even be fixed. Working in the finance industry certainly doesn't inspire confidence in the finance industry.
I tell you, every time I have to interact with the software people at a new bank I often contemplate becoming a cash only enterprise.
Pacific Northwest. Night. Ursus arctos horribilis. Cooper is fossilized bear droppings. The moldy money was spit out 'cause it taste bad.
Except that, as the article you link states, there are only 10-20 brown bears in the region in present day, after decades of conservation work and the US government reintroducing the species to the area. He'd be more likely to die from failing to see a clear landing spot, breaking his leg and then starving to death.
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That cheap? Surely it isn't a real monster product at that price.
Just like a printer, they get you on the refill cartridges.
Yeah, but you understand the reason you're not supposed to eat is that you could be risking your own life if you have food in your stomach while you're under general anesthetic. You can puke and choke on it. (Risk may be doubled depending on origin of meal...)
Hahaha of course I understand the reason for fasting before a surgical procedure. The McDonald's likely congealed in the patients stomach and would not have come up without tearing a hole in their esophagus anyway ;)
Yes, I suppose if you put your mind and wallet to it, you could access all the paywalled medical journals and learn navigate the system of publications to find what's relevant to your particular medical need. If you took that a step further and gave yourself a "full workup" examination, you, too, would have found your hernia - that's standard practice dating back 50 years or more.
The point is, doctors do this daily, they're practiced, and they have a fair idea about common problems and how to spot them - you should go through the "front line" of diagnosis of common problems, like hernia, before digging deeper into the latest research. But, when you fall into the group of people with medical needs that aren't adequately addressed with common, front line diagnosis and treatments, that's where the new stuff becomes valuable. Things that would have gotten a shrug of the shoulders and Rx for some pain killers last year might actually be treatable today. I remember in 1991, a colleague had ulcers, and his doctor was stuck firmly in 1989, telling him to avoid food and drink that irritate the ulcers and basically hope they'll go away on their own - thing was, in 1990 they published the causal connection between H.pylori and common ulcers, making them curable with a short course of antibiotics, which is common practice today, but his doctor wasn't "up on these things" so he was left to suffer.
And how quickly do you expect that research to be available in an expert system? Or are you imagining that these record systems are automatically indexing these journals as they publish?
the constant battles on the part of doctors to get paid by insurance companies who's single goal is to not pay. In no other part of my life are my goals (getting care) and the service provider's goals (not paying for that care) so diametrically opposed. I've got family members with nasty health complications from easily treatable problems that were let go because the doctor didn't want to order tests in case they came back negative. If a test comes back negative the doctors never get paid. Come to think of it I see this in one other place. B2B transactions. In so many of them business A won't pay the invoice for business B until A needs B's services again. I read somewhere Don Trump is famous for that, but having worked for small businesses it's so common he could just be going with the flow.
I have this exact problem with multibillion dollar corporations. You literally have to hold their own goals and projects hostage to get paid a $20,000 invoice on some travel expenses THEY required. You ask me to fly across the country last minute (read same day) because you can't schedule something properly and then you want ME to float the $2,000 plane ticket until you need me to save your project again? I don't think so.
No, Democrats thought that electronic records would reduce paperwork, and redundant tests. So, in 2009 & 2010, they passed bills coercing EHR use. So now medical records suck up doctor time. Wise governance?
I don't believe this. For one thing, every doctor now has to ask their patients if they are a drug addict in order to bill medicare. It doesn't matter WHY you're seeing the doctor. You could have a cold and the doctor is still supposed to not only ask whether you smoke pot but if your parents or siblings do. How does that help anyone?
Patients are horrendously unreliable. The classic is hospital surgery. "Have you had anything to eat since last night." "No, just a bacon and egg McMuffin on the way in this morning." *
*actual conversation I heard while waiting for surgery. The person didn't think don't eat meant don't eat.
TO be fair to the patient, I would hardly call that food.
Modern practice of medicine absolutely does make doctors into data entry clerks. Big data is telling them what works, what doesn't, improving diagnosis and treatment, the volume of data and pace of discovery are such that no human being could possibly keep up with it in the traditional med school + residency + practice & annual CE fashion. If your doctor isn't "jacked into the cloud," you're not getting the best out of modern medicine.
This is ABSOLUTELY not to say that the best medical care comes from doctors who attempt to practice cloud connected medicine, effectiveness of practitioners varies tremendously, and the best traditional doctors are far far better than the worst "big data" based doctors - but, if you think you might need a procedure performed, it's probably best to consult with an MD who is "up on the cloud" in your area of need, and simultaneously guaranteed NOT to profit from you going ahead with the decision to have an expensive procedure performed.
I'm not sure that I believe this. For one thing, anything that is "in the cloud" I can look up myself. For another thing, sometimes solving a patient's healthcare problem is more about being a good problem solver than knowing the latest and greatest anything. I once had extreme pain when urinating. All of the symptoms pointed towards one of two things: an STD or a kidney stone. An expert system would have said kidney stone since I (being a basement dwelling Slashdot user) was not exposed to any STDs prior to the onset of the symptoms. Did I have a kidney stone? No. It turned out that I had a hernia that was not causing me any discomfort whatsoever. At least, it hadn't for years until it finally pushed against my urinary tract and caused a very serious kidney infection. Not being in the right risk category for a kidney infection, my doctor decided to do a full physical and that is when he discovered the cause of the problem. The expert system could only indicate where there was a symptomatic problem, the doctor found the asymptomatic cause of the entire mess.
It depends on their tech setup. One heathcare provider has a workstation in every room, and it takes the doctor about 1 minute to review patient records and a couple more minutes to update it after the exam is over. Another heathcare provider takes notes and transfers them all at the end of the day. Yet another still uses paperwork and is very much not organised.
It depends on their tech setup. One heathcare provider has a workstation in every room, and it takes the doctor about 1 minute to review patient records and a couple more minutes to update it after the exam is over. Another heathcare provider takes notes and transfers them all at the end of the day. Yet another still uses paperwork and is very much not organised.
I don't want to use explictives, but they are warranted to the most extreme degree possible. This 1 minute talk, it takes that long to login..if the system is polite, then to open the chart, then to find the actual note, then to load the CT scan... There are multiple hard studies that show 33% reduction in efficiency that cannot be recouped.
Patients just love when you stare at a computer instead of talking to them....
This is crazy, I fight with my nurses every day. They tell me I have to input codes, I have to reconcile X, or Y or whatever.
F. That! I talk to my patients. I deal with them, and I deal with that screaming on the back end, but I'm not typical. I fight to talk to people like I would want to be talked to if I was a patient. I am burnt out, I can't fight forever. They will wear us down, your care will suffer. You let this happen, you asked for it through shitty laws that paid doctors 20% more to be part of a hospital system. You will suffer and you asked for it.
Practicing Surgeon MD
I just recently was consulting with a surgeon (who actually recommended I not have surgery but still took care of my injury with multiple follow ups to see how I was doing) who has his staff come in and prep everything. It looks like their system requires a password to switch charts. So the MA comes in, pulls up your chart and imaging and then leaves it up for the doctor. Of course, I could probably attempt to break into the system but feel like that would be impolite. It might be a HIPAA violation, I am not sure, but it certainly keeps him from looking at the computer instead of me.
Isn't on the battlefield a little late to be reading weapons and ammunition guides?
These types are usually trained on foreign service weapons in their area of operation. They may be using scavenged weapons and may need to look up a more complicated task that they have not performed on a regular enough basis to have memorized. Same with ammo.
Now the army spec ops guys just need to get their apps approved through the app store.
The DoD already pays for an enterprise cert for iOS. They have been running their own server w/ app install capabilities for the last ~6 years or so, even when they were just tinkering with iOS deployments.
You have to be identically accurate to land on a 300x170 foot barge and on a 300x170 foot "X" on land.
I don't know... I think it would be kind of cute if they just landed it anywhere and the rocket ended up inside of my house.
Bankruptcy doesn't mean what you think it means, It occurs when a person's or Company's cash flow is insufficient to meet it's obligations; a Company can be quite profitable due to the ways capital assets are depreciated, yet have insufficient liquid assets to pay it's bills.
Most truly wealthy people have several bankruptcies; to become that wealthy you have to be much less risk adverse than the average person.
I used to work for a bankruptcy law firm, I am aware that one can be forced into bankruptcy due to a lack of liquid assets. Anyway, we all know that when Trump puts a value on his net worth that he says:
Feudal lords only had to make one smart choice in their life: who their parents were.
Tell that to Richard III's nephews, who he had killed, so that he could take the throne.
Are AirBnB rentals going into places that already meet occupancy codes or are they going into permitless new construction?
I would imagine there's a percentage of people willing to rent the cheapest room, which may be a newly converted attic space, which if done to poor standards by a homeowner might be some risk, although it would also be a risk to the homeowner, too, which would seem to mitigate some risk as the homeowner doesn't want to die in a fire, either.
If the majority are going into existing dwelling spaces which already generally meet occupancy codes, where's the construction code risk?
I would imagine the high risk spaces with shoddy construction would get downvoted by potential renters anyway, as if the electrical is so poor as to be a major fire risk, then the rest of its likely to be seriously substandard as well.
There may be different occupancy codes for short term or long term rentals. I believe, but am not positive, that some states require short term rentals to have on-site secure storage in the form of either an in-room safe or a safe at the front desk. I could be wrong, however.
You obviously never applied nor got inspected for said licenses. They are just taxes on renovations. I've had 6 permits in the last 2 years, 2 electrical ones, 1 for a repair and 1 for a renovation. The licensing office requires you to have a building permit for the renovation, a building permit for fire sprinkler system, a water permit to connect the backflow preventer for said fire sprinkler system to the pipes, a sewage permit to make sure you don't connect the drain for said fire sprinkler system directly to the sewage, a fire marshal inspection, an electrical permit for the electric. Each permit is ~$120.
The inspections are a joke, I did the work all myself which is permitted as the homeowner, half the inspectors asked me why they were there, They never heard of anyone doing a fire sprinkler system so especially the water and sewage inspector were wondering why they were there, then I had to point it out and they said: well, for residential fire sprinkler we can't test the system, you pass. All inspectors spent 5m looking around and say "looks good" on both rough and finish inspections, didn't even have to show the entire renovation. They do require you to submit plans for ~3 months and then hound each inspector for 3 days to show up and the building inspector I've been calling for 3 weeks now.
You have electrical permits because working with electricity can cause fires and death. You have a sewage permit to make sure that you're not making a change to the line that would cause sewage to spill into the ground. A water permit to make sure that you're not going to cause a water problem for yourself and all your neighbors. A building permit to make sure that you do all of the structural modifications according to code. I've had to get permits to do work before, I know how the process works. When it came time for my inspections the inspectors came by (without being hassled) at the time that I scheduled with them. It took 5 minutes to schedule the inspections. And yes, the inspections only took a few minutes because the first thing the inspectors did was ask me what I did to ensure the work was up to code. Explaining that would take only a couple of minutes. Then the inspector would spend 2 minutes looking to see if I did things exactly the way that I had described. If I had described a situation that sounded dangerous, I have no doubt that the inspector would have been far more thorough. The fact is that the permitting process exists for two reasons: 1) people try to violate the zoning regulations of their community 2) bad contractors and unskilled homeowners do work that is not only dangerous to themselves, but dangerous to future buyers of the property who may not know that shoddy work was done to begin with. If you want the wild wild west that you describe, go back to any time before like 1940 and see just how many people died due to poor workmanship. Especially children in factories.
That's feudalism. In capitalism you have to be smart if you want to keep your money.
Are you suggesting that feudal lords did not have to be smart to get where they were and remain there?
Any company can go bankrupt any day, making your stock worthless. Holding cash will diminish your fortune by inflation. If you are not smart, you lose your money. Lots of aristocrats lost their relevance during industrialisation, because they were not smart. Some invested smartly and kept their riches.
Plenty of aristocrats went bankrupt prior to the industrialization of the west. In fact, the reason that Friday the Thirteenth is unlucky is because a king of France was on the verge of bankruptcy himself.
And look at Donald Trump. That guy is an idiot who has managed to hold on to at least some of his fortune and inheritance despite failed business after failed business. If I failed half as many times as Donald Trump has, I'd be completely destitute.
So, you want every home (remember every home is a potential airbnb place) inspected by the Governments? Your friends come to spend the weekend. You want the Governments to come and Tax you for "Lost Revenue"? Your family comes, a foreign exchange student comes, a refugee comes, a co-worker comes, a visitor of any kind comes. How do you prove that You aren't an airbnb-er. Do you want to pay Taxes to have a guest? The Governments just love this idea – inspect every home, tax every home for every visitor, make the home owner, home renter pay, Pay, PAY! That's the ticket!
Oh please. The government is not trying to inspect every home or tax you for your visitors. How do they know you're not an AirBnBer? Because you don't file a 1099 from AirBnB! That's how. The IRS knows if AirBnB is paying you more than $500 a year. And if you're renting out your place for less than $500 a year, I don't think anyone in the government would want to waste their time bothering with you anyway.
The cities and towns who want to regulate this and Uber and the like are doing so not because there is some sort of crisis or need for regulation. By their own admission, they do not have control over it now and yet there are very few reports of problems, which strongly suggests there aren't many issues.
No, they don't want to solve anything. They're just mad that somebody is doing something without asking permission and paying for licenses and other crap. An awful lot of government is devoted to making people ask for permission to do things and making them pay fees to get that permission.
If people realize they can do things just fine without permits, then all hell will break loose of people doing stuff on their own for free! How can bloated bureaucratic governments survive and justify their own existence if people just DO stuff?
You're right. There's absolutely no need for permits to do things like electrical wiring. And no reason whatsoever to mandate that property owners have smoke alarms and fire extinguishers on their properties. Nothing has ever gone wrong in the past, all of these rules and regulations just came to be out of thin air because some bureaucrat thought it would be a great way to make money.
Speeding endangers lives; airbnb renting does not. Therefore, speeding is much worse. Let them do what they want with their property.
Well that certainly depends. What if the property they are renting on AirBnB is unsafe? Doesn't have all of the safety accommodations that one might expect in a rented lodging? Hell, you could die in a fire because the place doesn't have smoke detectors or a fire extinguisher. AirBnB is just like Uber: they flout the rules that drive up the cost of the service industry they are competing and act as though they are somehow different than those services themselves. They are not. And certainly the people who are renting their property out on AirBnB are cheating their own community. Maybe they make a few dollars but they also deprive their community of the hotel taxes that AirBnB does not collect. Therefore they are a blight on their community.
Oh And PS, studies have found that people driving slow in the left hand lane are more dangerous than those who speed. Even insurance companies are trying to get their customers to drive faster or get out of the way.
Yes, but why bother to patch such an exploit in an OS that you've already killed off yourself? Why not open up the market to let people take advantage of the hardware rather than let it end up in the Landfill? The answer of course is, "because they're Microsoft, duh?", but what value did this add?
Because exploits are dangerous. I'm not saying that Microsoft should leave the abandoned hardware locked down to the point where it cannot be repurposed. But I am saying that you should not expect them to leave an exploit open for that reason. There should be a safe way to install a new OS without depending on an exploit. Now Surface RT tablets were always marketed as extremely locked down with a secure bootloader. If Microsoft chooses not to provide an unlock mechanism at EOL then that's a dick move. However, no one ever bought an RT device expecting to install Android on it anyway. Or if they did, they should have known better.
"Curse you, thermodynamics! I'll get you next time." (jumps into perpetual motion flying machine and plummets to earth)
You would have gotten away with it if not for those meddling physicists? Now where are my scooby snacks?
Is this actually a "middle-out" compression, or is that just a joke? Do we know what the Weissman score is?
Meh. I'm just going to wait for Pied Piper to hit open beta. Their Weissman scores are unbelievable.
Thanks for pointing that out. It's interesting that of the 13 members, four are from Texas.
There are 25 members of the coalition - 13 republican and 12 democrats. That still gives Texas just under 1/6th of the members of the group.
Anyone who has worked in the finance industry on the tech side of things has probably seen eye-searing levels of problems like this. It's clusterfucks all the way down. It always surprised me that something that seems like such a natural fit for software was always, without fail, so riddled with glaring bugs that it's almost unfathomable that you are the first person to notice them. At a lot of shops, the bugs are so ingrained in the process that they can't even be fixed. Working in the finance industry certainly doesn't inspire confidence in the finance industry.
I tell you, every time I have to interact with the software people at a new bank I often contemplate becoming a cash only enterprise.
Pacific Northwest. Night. Ursus arctos horribilis. Cooper is fossilized bear droppings. The moldy money was spit out 'cause it taste bad.
Except that, as the article you link states, there are only 10-20 brown bears in the region in present day, after decades of conservation work and the US government reintroducing the species to the area. He'd be more likely to die from failing to see a clear landing spot, breaking his leg and then starving to death.