That's why there should be a real doctor in the loop. Homeopathic medicine can help in many cases (alleviating the symptoms of the common cold, phantom pains, headaches, allergies, shivers and many more). The real doctor should separate the patients who need real medicine from those who would do better with a placebo. The next step is to include the placebos in the insurance, so the patient doesn't get to see the price. Then you can easily give them cheap sugar or something like that (be careful with diabetics though) and the patient will think he got a real medicine. The patient will (usually) recover and continue to trust the real doctors. The cost to the insurance company will be minimized (the doctors visit is a sunk cost and the pills are cheap). What the doctors should not do is to send the patient to a homeopathic "doctor". I'd hazard a guess that this would cause some of the patient to start going directly to the homeopathic "doctor". If the patient then develops something curable by real medicine he (she) will not go to the real doctor an thus will not receive the real medicine. Add to that the fact that the cost of the "official" homeopathic medicine is far higher.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail was a documentary of the time. You can see the movie is that old because of the grain size. The bones of the siblings to the monster of Aaargh (which survived the animators' heart attack) are nowadays misidentified as dinosaur bones.
No, dropping a screw would mean the screw slowly floats away. After you have waited half an orbit it will have traveled half an orbit +/- about a hundred meters (1/16 th of a mile) in the same direction. If you threw the screw away as hard as you could this would still mean the screw would go about as fast as you. Think about it, the space station travels at 7.71 km/s. If you want to wait a half orbit for it to come back, then I assume you think it would fall the other way around. That's a speed differential of 15.4 km/s (or about 10 miles/s). How would you propose to impart that speed? How would you try to catch the thing? How would the metal of the screw hold while you impart 15 km/s in the range of your arm? I'd imagine the metal would turn liquid at the acceleration force.
I'd love that. Bought a Defy+ because it was waterproof, only (apparently) not so much that you could actually immerse it in water. IP67 my arse. It is sad when the only reason I have to take precautions against getting wet from the rain is because the phone manufacturers couldn't be arsed to seal the phones decently. Just fill the damn things up with epoxy if you claim them to be "Life proof". </rant>
Sincing is inconvenient. Sincing and getting different songs on the phone is even more inconvenient. Just dump the entire mp3/FLAC library on the phone and play from there. When you do that any spare time is available for composing playlists.
I haven't met one yet, but I postulate that a truely sane person is dull. I probably wouldn't like him/her. Why? Because the most fun actions are viewed as insane by most. I view them as insane, but that doesn't always stop me from doing them anyways. By doing them I prove myself to be insane. Not as a goal, the goal is fun, but I prove myself to be insane anyway.
Couldn't they make separate data sets: A 250 GB/mo subscription has 25 GB of higher priority data. Which data this is can be set in the router and thus is under your control. Once the higher priority data is used up the remaining data is lower priority again. Default VOIP and gaming would be higher priority and torrenting would not be of course. This would give the tinkerers a great measure of control while preventing them from setting downloads to max priority (OMG, this movie is awesome. I needs it NAOW!) and taking out the network.
Ah, when one has the future sight it's easy to mistake past for future. Tenses get a bitch if that happens. It can also mess up conversations.
medium: Yes I can.
normal: Is it true you can see into the future?
Plover was probably living in a Firefly-like future and posting in the present time. Remember: there is no future but what we make for ourselves.
Courtesy of Terry Pratchett, Joss Whedon and James Cameron.
The increased average age is mostly due to modern knowledge of how to prevent infant death. We don't get older, just more of us get old.
Statistics: If 40 % of the children die at 1 year old, and all the others get to the age of 80, then the average age is 48.4 years. If the main death cause of the kids is solved, then only 10% of the kids die at 1 year and all the others live to 80. This means the average age becomes 72.1 years.
Up to now we haven't been able to increase the life span significantly, it just seems so because we have solved infant mortality.
I think it would be easy to distinguish: if you ask money for it it should conform to certain security rules (mentioned by others earlier) depending on the intended use (can't ask for a text editor to automatically encrypt each document because some idiot may save a credit card number with it). I do like the Open Source projects however, and this could lay a barrier. If this becomes standard people may choose the payed (often closed) program because it has this security. The Open Source guys could probably remove that barrier with a decent hallmark, which would require the same, or better, security.
Those are most probably polyaromatic hydrocarbons. They are formed when fats (in food) are heated and partly burned. They are formed in normal food processing, but their formation is usually limited. When the food is heavily overcooked or even burned beyond recognition (with the number of BBQ's here in the northern hemisphere that will happen often these days) the percentage of PAH's jumps. Cutting the blackened parts off helps of course. If a meal is prepared gently this is not a problem. However, most of us like our meat baked, which usually means the outside is scorched -> PAH's.
The main problem is that most extreme heat resistant materials contaminate the plasma. The impacts are so high energy that they boil some of the material (even Starlite doesn't promise 100,000 K). That boiled away lining material messes with the plasma. Thus one of the demands of the lining is that contaminations of it should not mess with the reaction. Beside that, if that article is true then that is an awesome material. To bad the stuff hasn't gotten in common use due to massive distrust (on all sides).
For example, I stay way back from the wide white line at intersections, the more traffic or faster the cross traffic is the farther back I stay. There is NO REASON to get up close unless turning right. All that does is set up a situation where an accident in the intersection could push cars into mine. The extra 10 feet doesn't matter for starting up again when the light turns green.
In some cases it also makes the sensors work. Here in the Netherlands most traffic lights detect whether there is a car waiting on the light. Most of these sensors are within 2 meters (6 feet) from the white line. If you keep 3,3 meters (10 feet) of distance then it will not notice you and thus it will not turn green.
but imagine for a moment that everybody just stopped buying insurance, canceled their insurance completely and drove without it.
Within a short time the automated license plate scanners would be connected to an insurance monitoring system and an automated fine-sending system. What, do you think the appropriate hooks aren't there yet?
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That's why there should be a real doctor in the loop.
Homeopathic medicine can help in many cases (alleviating the symptoms of the common cold, phantom pains, headaches, allergies, shivers and many more). The real doctor should separate the patients who need real medicine from those who would do better with a placebo. The next step is to include the placebos in the insurance, so the patient doesn't get to see the price. Then you can easily give them cheap sugar or something like that (be careful with diabetics though) and the patient will think he got a real medicine. The patient will (usually) recover and continue to trust the real doctors. The cost to the insurance company will be minimized (the doctors visit is a sunk cost and the pills are cheap).
What the doctors should not do is to send the patient to a homeopathic "doctor". I'd hazard a guess that this would cause some of the patient to start going directly to the homeopathic "doctor". If the patient then develops something curable by real medicine he (she) will not go to the real doctor an thus will not receive the real medicine. Add to that the fact that the cost of the "official" homeopathic medicine is far higher.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail was a documentary of the time. You can see the movie is that old because of the grain size.
The bones of the siblings to the monster of Aaargh (which survived the animators' heart attack) are nowadays misidentified as dinosaur bones.
The double-blind clause is especially there to eliminate the placebo effect. For a test on placebo's this should be removed.
No, dropping a screw would mean the screw slowly floats away. After you have waited half an orbit it will have traveled half an orbit +/- about a hundred meters (1/16 th of a mile) in the same direction. If you threw the screw away as hard as you could this would still mean the screw would go about as fast as you.
Think about it, the space station travels at 7.71 km/s. If you want to wait a half orbit for it to come back, then I assume you think it would fall the other way around. That's a speed differential of 15.4 km/s (or about 10 miles/s). How would you propose to impart that speed?
How would you try to catch the thing? How would the metal of the screw hold while you impart 15 km/s in the range of your arm? I'd imagine the metal would turn liquid at the acceleration force.
I'd love that.
Bought a Defy+ because it was waterproof, only (apparently) not so much that you could actually immerse it in water. IP67 my arse.
It is sad when the only reason I have to take precautions against getting wet from the rain is because the phone manufacturers couldn't be arsed to seal the phones decently. Just fill the damn things up with epoxy if you claim them to be "Life proof". </rant>
Sincing is inconvenient. Sincing and getting different songs on the phone is even more inconvenient. Just dump the entire mp3/FLAC library on the phone and play from there. When you do that any spare time is available for composing playlists.
I think most transformers that explode are used at 150% of their rated capacity and/or expected lifetime.
I haven't met one yet, but I postulate that a truely sane person is dull. I probably wouldn't like him/her.
Why? Because the most fun actions are viewed as insane by most. I view them as insane, but that doesn't always stop me from doing them anyways. By doing them I prove myself to be insane. Not as a goal, the goal is fun, but I prove myself to be insane anyway.
self-driving firetrucks with fire-detecting robots?
Yes, please. I'd love for them to be programmed to recognize lit cigarettes as fires...
All humans are born (bar measurement errors)
Couldn't they make separate data sets: A 250 GB/mo subscription has 25 GB of higher priority data. Which data this is can be set in the router and thus is under your control. Once the higher priority data is used up the remaining data is lower priority again.
Default VOIP and gaming would be higher priority and torrenting would not be of course.
This would give the tinkerers a great measure of control while preventing them from setting downloads to max priority (OMG, this movie is awesome. I needs it NAOW!) and taking out the network.
Ah, when one has the future sight it's easy to mistake past for future. Tenses get a bitch if that happens. It can also mess up conversations.
medium: Yes I can.
normal: Is it true you can see into the future?
Plover was probably living in a Firefly-like future and posting in the present time.
Remember: there is no future but what we make for ourselves.
Courtesy of Terry Pratchett, Joss Whedon and James Cameron.
Well, neither of them are backup solutions so they have something in common.
Ah, you'll be send to one of the overflow camps
The increased average age is mostly due to modern knowledge of how to prevent infant death. We don't get older, just more of us get old.
Statistics: If 40 % of the children die at 1 year old, and all the others get to the age of 80, then the average age is 48.4 years. If the main death cause of the kids is solved, then only 10% of the kids die at 1 year and all the others live to 80. This means the average age becomes 72.1 years.
Up to now we haven't been able to increase the life span significantly, it just seems so because we have solved infant mortality.
I didn't.
Before anyone assumes this is flamebait: I don't diss Linux. I'm just no professional in this.
Just don't hit it that way.
I think it would be easy to distinguish: if you ask money for it it should conform to certain security rules (mentioned by others earlier) depending on the intended use (can't ask for a text editor to automatically encrypt each document because some idiot may save a credit card number with it).
I do like the Open Source projects however, and this could lay a barrier. If this becomes standard people may choose the payed (often closed) program because it has this security. The Open Source guys could probably remove that barrier with a decent hallmark, which would require the same, or better, security.
Punch that neighbour. Preferably with a punchdagger
Those are most probably polyaromatic hydrocarbons. They are formed when fats (in food) are heated and partly burned. They are formed in normal food processing, but their formation is usually limited. When the food is heavily overcooked or even burned beyond recognition (with the number of BBQ's here in the northern hemisphere that will happen often these days) the percentage of PAH's jumps.
Cutting the blackened parts off helps of course.
If a meal is prepared gently this is not a problem. However, most of us like our meat baked, which usually means the outside is scorched -> PAH's.
The main problem is that most extreme heat resistant materials contaminate the plasma. The impacts are so high energy that they boil some of the material (even Starlite doesn't promise 100,000 K). That boiled away lining material messes with the plasma. Thus one of the demands of the lining is that contaminations of it should not mess with the reaction.
Beside that, if that article is true then that is an awesome material. To bad the stuff hasn't gotten in common use due to massive distrust (on all sides).
For example, I stay way back from the wide white line at intersections, the more traffic or faster the cross traffic is the farther back I stay. There is NO REASON to get up close unless turning right. All that does is set up a situation where an accident in the intersection could push cars into mine. The extra 10 feet doesn't matter for starting up again when the light turns green.
In some cases it also makes the sensors work. Here in the Netherlands most traffic lights detect whether there is a car waiting on the light. Most of these sensors are within 2 meters (6 feet) from the white line. If you keep 3,3 meters (10 feet) of distance then it will not notice you and thus it will not turn green.
That's the point of having extreme ideologies in the first place. Else: why bother?
but imagine for a moment that everybody just stopped buying insurance, canceled their insurance completely and drove without it.
Within a short time the automated license plate scanners would be connected to an insurance monitoring system and an automated fine-sending system.
What, do you think the appropriate hooks aren't there yet?
woosh. Miscorrecting is a sign of low IQ, thus he excludes himself from the killing spree.
Damn, now I may have made myself a target. That was quite stupid of me.
Hey that may save me.
Repeat until insane.