Patient records are riddled with notes intended only for internal use
Well, I don't really give a shit. Those are my records. That's my health history. If it is full of bullshit, lazy, incompetent observations I have the right to challenge those.
What it sounds like you're saying is that the medical industry wants to be able to put a wall of opaque non-accountability between us and the job they do for us.
No. For example of why this is pointless, right after Bing was introduced, I was searching for a Microsoft product. I can't remember if it was a.net download or what.
I binged whatever the product was, and I had to go all the way to the second page of results to get the download.
I googled it. The download was the first link.
Bing is a dead product for a reason. It sucks. Try as they might, Microsoft are just no good at search.
I've always been fond of the reserved parameters of function calls, where you have to put a fucking zero in regardless of the fact that it does nothing and apparently is just a placeholder.
I guess we could all only eat things grown in a 20 mile radius, but that would be pretty limiting.,
Before Mr. Earl Butz, we did only eat things grown locally. Mr. Butz thought a lot of money could be made shipping our food thousands of miles, and voila we have Big Agribusiness the modern American waistline, diabetes, and increasingly, horse meat in our burgers, carp in our crab, and all the other lovely things to hate about the current very frightening state of our food supply.
ut that a republican legislator has acknowledged the CO2 needs to be recognized as a greenhouse gas
Oh, he'll forget all about that when the next Keystone XL pipeline comes up for a vote. He's only using this deluded, apples-to-zepplins comparison to get some cudgels out to use against "the libru'ls" and any logic regarding the amount of greenhouse gas produced will immediately vanish when it's no longer convenient.
We don't tax roads for CO2 use anyway, we tax them for wear and tear.
No, he didn't say that at all, as you would know if you'd RTGodDamnA. He said that your breath while cycling is more harmful to the environment than your breath while driving a car,
Oh, that's still a colossally stupid fucking thing to say, and no amount of hair-splitting bullshit is going to change it.
Cycling increases your respiration rate so produces more CO2 than not cycling.
Oh, yes, this is a valid reason to mock Republicans, and yes it's a god-damn stupid statement, and no, he is not right. At all.
The only one he is actually using to justify his position (that bikes should pay road tax)
If he can find an argument in support of that position that isn't fucking stupid then let him do that. The current one is fucking irretrievably stupid and cannot be polished.
You may have heard of Musk's other company that puts rockets into orbit, and has demo'd the first re-usable bottom stage of a rocket.
He has a reputation of extremely reliable work. Who am I gonna believe? The guy who makes real shit happen, or the hack journalist who clearly has an agenda?
The Top Gear scam, as admitted by Top Gear's producers, was that they had already decided on the result AND written the script before receiving the vehicles.
Well, I know who not to go to for information about my next car. Broder, or these guys.
What is it with "journalists" who feel the need to be the story, instead of report the story?
A 600-mile trip is more than a day's drive for most people unless you never sleep, which is a really, really bad idea.
It takes roughly 18 hours' drive time to make it from Denver, CO, to Louisville KY at reasonable speeds in reasonable weather, with sleep time and bathroom breaks factored in. The trip is 1052 miles, give or take, and a car like this would be outstanding. After driving for the first 300 miles, you'd WANT to get out and stretch your legs for an hour.
Yea that is what I'm trying to figure out. Last I knew, tests of our vaunted missile defense system succeeded only because the target "incoming" missile was eagerly broadcasting its position.
As far as I know, they have not yet successfully shot down one missile with another, without cheating.
Banks got bailed out, while the working class got sold out.
If AIG like the rest of corporate America hadn't done such a shitty job of running their businesses, they wouldn't have needed the bailout.
Maybe next time we should just take all these too big to fail fuckers into receivership, fire the executives, and dissolve the companies. AIG got a sweet ass deal. They need to fuck off and not get noisy about what a bad deal it was, or they're going to be facing the torch-bearing mob at their fucking front door next.
We have ion and NERVA rockets that are designed, have worked, and are much more efficient than chemical fuels.
In fact, the NERVA rocket could have easily taken us to Mars in the 1970's, but was (In a fit of hysterical irony) killed to "save the budget" of the US. In other words, it was feared that we'd spend all our money doing something silly like exploring Mars, rather than our preferred activity of wasting it murdering people in foreign nations for no god-damn reason at all.
I've been playing KSP for over a year now (since 0.8x). The best part about it is that there are NO RAILS in the game. You build your ship, you launch it, it flies. If you screw up, it wrecks. There's no fake scripted shit going on in the game. Though I believe the physics are not 100% accurate (for example, it won't do Lagrange points in orbit) they are close enough for most of the things you'd want to do, and the universe is scaled-down so that missions don't actually take months. You do have time-warp to wait out those year-long coasting phases.
The latest version is so feature-rich that I've been struggling to even try each of the new features. You can dock, you can go EVA, you can fly NERVA rockets and ion engines (though they are far more powerful than the real thing as I learned about reading after the Dawn probe).
Basically, KSP inspired me to go and look up EVERY planetary probe and mission from the last half-century. I have become far more aware of the amazing accomplishments of NASA (and the Soviets too) and I think the only real-world mission you can't do right now with it would be Curiosity, but some modder out there is probably working on it.
It is a FANTASTIC tool for education. After playing it for several months I've come to realize how silly all the Star Wars-type dogfights are, how utterly impossible and impractical they would be in a real world environment, and why it is that we don't just have interstellar travel 'cause we wanna. And I've spent a ton of time honing my math skills just to get a feeble grasp of what happens and why.
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Well, I don't really give a shit. Those are my records. That's my health history. If it is full of bullshit, lazy, incompetent observations I have the right to challenge those.
What it sounds like you're saying is that the medical industry wants to be able to put a wall of opaque non-accountability between us and the job they do for us.
Fuck you guys.
Nope. Wrong again.
It is the problem you get when there is no market incentive to keep costs down. Which is what our for-profit insurance system creates.
No. For example of why this is pointless, right after Bing was introduced, I was searching for a Microsoft product. I can't remember if it was a .net download or what.
I binged whatever the product was, and I had to go all the way to the second page of results to get the download.
I googled it. The download was the first link.
Bing is a dead product for a reason. It sucks. Try as they might, Microsoft are just no good at search.
If I get an Expert's Exchange hit on my search, I just ignore it. Worse than useless.
I've always been fond of the reserved parameters of function calls, where you have to put a fucking zero in regardless of the fact that it does nothing and apparently is just a placeholder.
Before Mr. Earl Butz, we did only eat things grown locally. Mr. Butz thought a lot of money could be made shipping our food thousands of miles, and voila we have Big Agribusiness the modern American waistline, diabetes, and increasingly, horse meat in our burgers, carp in our crab, and all the other lovely things to hate about the current very frightening state of our food supply.
Oh, he'll forget all about that when the next Keystone XL pipeline comes up for a vote. He's only using this deluded, apples-to-zepplins comparison to get some cudgels out to use against "the libru'ls" and any logic regarding the amount of greenhouse gas produced will immediately vanish when it's no longer convenient.
We don't tax roads for CO2 use anyway, we tax them for wear and tear.
Oh, that's still a colossally stupid fucking thing to say, and no amount of hair-splitting bullshit is going to change it.
All I could think of is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmFYHmGkfxw
Oh, yes, this is a valid reason to mock Republicans, and yes it's a god-damn stupid statement, and no, he is not right. At all.
If he can find an argument in support of that position that isn't fucking stupid then let him do that. The current one is fucking irretrievably stupid and cannot be polished.
Jesus.
Except that term limits just turn over Congress to lobbyists . . . and of course, are a direct fuck you to the voters.
If you have a problem with your Representative don't be a dumb, lazy fuck. Get out and vote.
You may have heard of Musk's other company that puts rockets into orbit, and has demo'd the first re-usable bottom stage of a rocket.
He has a reputation of extremely reliable work. Who am I gonna believe? The guy who makes real shit happen, or the hack journalist who clearly has an agenda?
Yes there is. It's just like a receipt, except you get one after purchasing a truckload of bullshit. Like the NYT article.
Except that it didn't, and they lied. And whatever their conclusion was, it is worthless, and can be ignored.
Do you have any other useless conclusions I can ignore?
Well, I know who not to go to for information about my next car. Broder, or these guys.
What is it with "journalists" who feel the need to be the story, instead of report the story?
Wow, you're fucking ignorant. You stupid too? And lazy? Musk has the data, which you could view if you read the fucking article this was posted from.
But, apparently, you have already made up your lazy, ignorant mind, and you've chosen to be stupid.
A 600-mile trip is more than a day's drive for most people unless you never sleep, which is a really, really bad idea.
It takes roughly 18 hours' drive time to make it from Denver, CO, to Louisville KY at reasonable speeds in reasonable weather, with sleep time and bathroom breaks factored in. The trip is 1052 miles, give or take, and a car like this would be outstanding. After driving for the first 300 miles, you'd WANT to get out and stretch your legs for an hour.
David S. Broder, father of fake "bipartisanship" and "centrism?"
In other words, does hack journalism run in the Broder family?
Yea that is what I'm trying to figure out. Last I knew, tests of our vaunted missile defense system succeeded only because the target "incoming" missile was eagerly broadcasting its position.
As far as I know, they have not yet successfully shot down one missile with another, without cheating.
Banks got bailed out, while the working class got sold out.
If AIG like the rest of corporate America hadn't done such a shitty job of running their businesses, they wouldn't have needed the bailout.
Maybe next time we should just take all these too big to fail fuckers into receivership, fire the executives, and dissolve the companies. AIG got a sweet ass deal. They need to fuck off and not get noisy about what a bad deal it was, or they're going to be facing the torch-bearing mob at their fucking front door next.
ASSHOLES.
Martian soil doesn't have humus,
Well, what am I going to dip my pita bread in, then? Fuck Mars!
We have ion and NERVA rockets that are designed, have worked, and are much more efficient than chemical fuels.
In fact, the NERVA rocket could have easily taken us to Mars in the 1970's, but was (In a fit of hysterical irony) killed to "save the budget" of the US. In other words, it was feared that we'd spend all our money doing something silly like exploring Mars, rather than our preferred activity of wasting it murdering people in foreign nations for no god-damn reason at all.
Half the fun of playing Kerbal is watching your hapless Kerbalnauts scream in terror as your shuddering monstrosity climbs through the atmosphere.
All except Jeb. He's got nerves of steel (or brains of mud, one is never sure).
You can never seem to get enough of them!
I've been playing KSP for over a year now (since 0.8x). The best part about it is that there are NO RAILS in the game. You build your ship, you launch it, it flies. If you screw up, it wrecks. There's no fake scripted shit going on in the game. Though I believe the physics are not 100% accurate (for example, it won't do Lagrange points in orbit) they are close enough for most of the things you'd want to do, and the universe is scaled-down so that missions don't actually take months. You do have time-warp to wait out those year-long coasting phases.
The latest version is so feature-rich that I've been struggling to even try each of the new features. You can dock, you can go EVA, you can fly NERVA rockets and ion engines (though they are far more powerful than the real thing as I learned about reading after the Dawn probe).
Basically, KSP inspired me to go and look up EVERY planetary probe and mission from the last half-century. I have become far more aware of the amazing accomplishments of NASA (and the Soviets too) and I think the only real-world mission you can't do right now with it would be Curiosity, but some modder out there is probably working on it.
It is a FANTASTIC tool for education. After playing it for several months I've come to realize how silly all the Star Wars-type dogfights are, how utterly impossible and impractical they would be in a real world environment, and why it is that we don't just have interstellar travel 'cause we wanna. And I've spent a ton of time honing my math skills just to get a feeble grasp of what happens and why.