The dirty secret in all medical billing, hospitals, doctors offices, whatnot, is that a patient usually does not know what the costs of their care is going to be upfront. It is one of the rare industries where costs to consumers is completely unknown.
"We've not seen a lot of pressure to standardize medical billing, but there's certainly a need." Really? You think? How about actual advertisement of costs within a medical office before care. Is medical care in this country so blase that consumers do not wish to know or is the industry deliberately hiding actual costs as a cover for insurance downgrades of costs? Walk into any hospital and ask them how much an appendectomy costs? or an angioplasty? an amputation perhaps? You will get deer-eyed stares. No one knows except the billing coders and even then they don't because it automatically gets spit out of a formulaic and archaic billing system. It's a screw job all the way down.
While I decry the pullback of the support for this new telescope, at the same time, I don't disagree with the reasons for why it isn't being supported. However, the OHA isn't the final say so on the matter. People have a right to object based on religious grounds and they should and for you to ask for a dose of separation of church/state only shows that you might not understand what that means. Calling them whackjobs doesn't help your argument either.
Sorry, but we have a lot of resources left to use and reuse. Mind telling me which resources we are running out of after nearly 3 million years of hominid usage? We have 7 billion people and yet, we seem to be producing a lot for them using these resources. Even if population and resources meet equilibrium, then what? I think the whole 'we are running out of resources' screed is alarmist nonsense. True, we don't have infinite resources, but our technology is getting better and better to the point we use less, recycle more, and can reuse. I just want to understand your thinking on how we are running out resources.
If women don't want to do the job of engineering, then why is this a force-able situation? I mean, there is a reason that there aren't many women in engineering and this incessant need to try and equalize the playing field via pay and gender is getting downright stupid. What are you going to do, dumb down engineering courses? Make engineering female centric? What?
The holographic universe theory is nothing more than the evolution of existential reality theory. I personally don't believe in it, but then again, I haven't seen any evidence to remotely suggest that the universe operates like a hologram or is constructed like one. I just take it at face value for what I can see and what is tested, known, accepted, validly peer-reviewed scientific method-based knowledge.
There is still so much we do not know that I have a hard time wrapping my head around the top down perception of what or how the universe is constructed. I come from a bottom-up approach. Find all the fundamentals and build from that upward.
I am waiting to see the pictures of the runaway galaxies on milk cartons and on the back of beer/water trucks with their age progression photos as well.
Toilet to tap has been going on for years in other areas without a problem. San Diego is a unique test bed for changing this paradigm. Filtration systems are so good now that any water source short of radiation contamination can be turned into normal drinking water.
We also know that Sacramento has squandered billions on needless and wasteful spending when told for decades that they need to prepare for this kind of drought situation and never did. Rain water capture, snow pack capture, reservoir development, cistern construction along with desalination plants should have been the norm, not the exception. And now, we have nothing to this date except for Gov. Choo Choo's legacy train.
"You've got to decide, when you do this work, whether it will do more good than harm if someone helps you from another country," former president Bill Clinton said in March. "And I believe we have done a lot more good than harm. And I believe this is a good thing.""
Non-Sequitorial platitudes from Bill Clinton. Shocker. Saying nothing, while evoking emotion is his forte.
I believe there is a point of origin and that point has space moving through it into our universe. I do not subscribe to the notion of there being no center of the universe. There must be and that point or area is allowing more space to infiltrate and push current space outward. Even a sphere has to have an entry point for it to be allowed to expand. In this case our universe has a 'center' and from that more incoming space. However, I don't believe the shape of the universe is spherical in the sense that given that there may be, due to certain gravitational clusters within certain regions would make the universe look sphere-ish but with a lot of bumps and ridges.
Bullshit, liberty must be preeminent. There should never be a trade-off. Find other ways that don't infringe on liberties. Enough with nanny stating the masses. I want to be free because I know that I also can be brave (i hope) in the face of the enemy. I just don't want that enemy to be my own countrymen.
I'm all for subdivided energy grids that either tie into other subdivided grids or are isolated and are powered on their own. The only real way to do this, in my opinion is underground MSR's (molten salt reactors). They are small(ish), cheap, can use already consumed nuclear fuel for power, which would help reduce spent nuclear fuel stockpiles, you can bury them underground, you can employ a few people to monitor them per unit, they can power entire subdivisions of homes and businesses. If they go bad, you won't get a boom, fallout, or any other danger associated with current nuclear power. They can be deployed fairly easily, I think, and a couple of companies like Mitsubishi and Hitachi are or have developed these small reactors for this kind of deployment. They can be grid isolated and from a national security point of view would be easier to maintain and devolves the big energy monopoly hold there is in the US right now.
It's called cost/resource shifting. California has had decades to spend on water infrastructure and they have done nothing. NOTHING!!! Instead over 100 billion for a choo-choo. The state is to large to manage in it's given size and there are way to many competing interests. The state needs to be dissected into more manageable chunks.
I'm beginning to think that the big bang really didn't happen considering you have an observable universe and an unobservable universe and that somewhere space is exuding/expanding at FTL from the 'center' of the universe outward. That location is extruding space outward (not-evenly) and pushing space across gravitation lines at FTL. So the next logical question is, where is this point of origin and what created it and how did it get there.
That is simply an untrue statement. Acts of deliberate, calculated murder and treason have a basis in execution for the sake that 1) Justice is served not only to the victim(s) and their families, but 2) That society at large is served by knowing that those that perpetrate such evil have forfeited their rights to exist when they made the same judgements on those that they killed. I'm not even using the deterrent point of view because executions are not a deterrent and they never have been. I'm coming from the point of view that aggrieved individuals and victims must have a basis for justice and vengeance against those that have been done wrong by them. Modernity is an irrelevancy in this regard.
Seriously, it's better to be a white collar criminal and steal tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions of dollars at this point if you can. Spend it until you get caught.
Well, the whining labor contingent should be to blame for castigating these people out of jobs. NO MORE SLAVE LABOR!!! Fine, here comes the robots. FUCK YOU!!!
This is not good news. Welcome the Fairness Doctrine to the internet and I'll just sit back and watch over time how this manifests itself. This is no good for anyone.
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The dirty secret in all medical billing, hospitals, doctors offices, whatnot, is that a patient usually does not know what the costs of their care is going to be upfront. It is one of the rare industries where costs to consumers is completely unknown. "We've not seen a lot of pressure to standardize medical billing, but there's certainly a need." Really? You think? How about actual advertisement of costs within a medical office before care. Is medical care in this country so blase that consumers do not wish to know or is the industry deliberately hiding actual costs as a cover for insurance downgrades of costs? Walk into any hospital and ask them how much an appendectomy costs? or an angioplasty? an amputation perhaps? You will get deer-eyed stares. No one knows except the billing coders and even then they don't because it automatically gets spit out of a formulaic and archaic billing system. It's a screw job all the way down.
While I decry the pullback of the support for this new telescope, at the same time, I don't disagree with the reasons for why it isn't being supported. However, the OHA isn't the final say so on the matter. People have a right to object based on religious grounds and they should and for you to ask for a dose of separation of church/state only shows that you might not understand what that means. Calling them whackjobs doesn't help your argument either.
deserves the attacks they get. I do not see a reason why anyone should be running XP anymore.
Sorry, but we have a lot of resources left to use and reuse. Mind telling me which resources we are running out of after nearly 3 million years of hominid usage? We have 7 billion people and yet, we seem to be producing a lot for them using these resources. Even if population and resources meet equilibrium, then what? I think the whole 'we are running out of resources' screed is alarmist nonsense. True, we don't have infinite resources, but our technology is getting better and better to the point we use less, recycle more, and can reuse. I just want to understand your thinking on how we are running out resources.
No, one particular ideology has an insane fascination with equalizing everything so that it becomes worth nothing.
If women don't want to do the job of engineering, then why is this a force-able situation? I mean, there is a reason that there aren't many women in engineering and this incessant need to try and equalize the playing field via pay and gender is getting downright stupid. What are you going to do, dumb down engineering courses? Make engineering female centric? What?
The holographic universe theory is nothing more than the evolution of existential reality theory. I personally don't believe in it, but then again, I haven't seen any evidence to remotely suggest that the universe operates like a hologram or is constructed like one. I just take it at face value for what I can see and what is tested, known, accepted, validly peer-reviewed scientific method-based knowledge. There is still so much we do not know that I have a hard time wrapping my head around the top down perception of what or how the universe is constructed. I come from a bottom-up approach. Find all the fundamentals and build from that upward.
The concentrations are so small as to be ineffective to the outcome you predict.
I am waiting to see the pictures of the runaway galaxies on milk cartons and on the back of beer/water trucks with their age progression photos as well.
Toilet to tap has been going on for years in other areas without a problem. San Diego is a unique test bed for changing this paradigm. Filtration systems are so good now that any water source short of radiation contamination can be turned into normal drinking water.
We also know that Sacramento has squandered billions on needless and wasteful spending when told for decades that they need to prepare for this kind of drought situation and never did. Rain water capture, snow pack capture, reservoir development, cistern construction along with desalination plants should have been the norm, not the exception. And now, we have nothing to this date except for Gov. Choo Choo's legacy train.
"You've got to decide, when you do this work, whether it will do more good than harm if someone helps you from another country," former president Bill Clinton said in March. "And I believe we have done a lot more good than harm. And I believe this is a good thing."" Non-Sequitorial platitudes from Bill Clinton. Shocker. Saying nothing, while evoking emotion is his forte.
Black Educators are a pox on the system.
I believe there is a point of origin and that point has space moving through it into our universe. I do not subscribe to the notion of there being no center of the universe. There must be and that point or area is allowing more space to infiltrate and push current space outward. Even a sphere has to have an entry point for it to be allowed to expand. In this case our universe has a 'center' and from that more incoming space. However, I don't believe the shape of the universe is spherical in the sense that given that there may be, due to certain gravitational clusters within certain regions would make the universe look sphere-ish but with a lot of bumps and ridges.
Bullshit, liberty must be preeminent. There should never be a trade-off. Find other ways that don't infringe on liberties. Enough with nanny stating the masses. I want to be free because I know that I also can be brave (i hope) in the face of the enemy. I just don't want that enemy to be my own countrymen.
I'm all for subdivided energy grids that either tie into other subdivided grids or are isolated and are powered on their own. The only real way to do this, in my opinion is underground MSR's (molten salt reactors). They are small(ish), cheap, can use already consumed nuclear fuel for power, which would help reduce spent nuclear fuel stockpiles, you can bury them underground, you can employ a few people to monitor them per unit, they can power entire subdivisions of homes and businesses. If they go bad, you won't get a boom, fallout, or any other danger associated with current nuclear power. They can be deployed fairly easily, I think, and a couple of companies like Mitsubishi and Hitachi are or have developed these small reactors for this kind of deployment. They can be grid isolated and from a national security point of view would be easier to maintain and devolves the big energy monopoly hold there is in the US right now.
It's called cost/resource shifting. California has had decades to spend on water infrastructure and they have done nothing. NOTHING!!! Instead over 100 billion for a choo-choo. The state is to large to manage in it's given size and there are way to many competing interests. The state needs to be dissected into more manageable chunks.
The pendulum is going to swing the other way and the perpetually aggrieved will not like it.
I'm beginning to think that the big bang really didn't happen considering you have an observable universe and an unobservable universe and that somewhere space is exuding/expanding at FTL from the 'center' of the universe outward. That location is extruding space outward (not-evenly) and pushing space across gravitation lines at FTL. So the next logical question is, where is this point of origin and what created it and how did it get there.
That is simply an untrue statement. Acts of deliberate, calculated murder and treason have a basis in execution for the sake that 1) Justice is served not only to the victim(s) and their families, but 2) That society at large is served by knowing that those that perpetrate such evil have forfeited their rights to exist when they made the same judgements on those that they killed. I'm not even using the deterrent point of view because executions are not a deterrent and they never have been. I'm coming from the point of view that aggrieved individuals and victims must have a basis for justice and vengeance against those that have been done wrong by them. Modernity is an irrelevancy in this regard.
Seriously, it's better to be a white collar criminal and steal tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions of dollars at this point if you can. Spend it until you get caught.
Jersey is already filled with zombies. The whole fucking state.
Well, the whining labor contingent should be to blame for castigating these people out of jobs. NO MORE SLAVE LABOR!!! Fine, here comes the robots. FUCK YOU!!!
So does fucking beautiful women once a day, but the sauna is more available.
This is not good news. Welcome the Fairness Doctrine to the internet and I'll just sit back and watch over time how this manifests itself. This is no good for anyone.