Oh don't get me started on medical equipment, [read: I'm going to get started on medical equipment]
Being disabled (SMA type 2, A type of MD, Donate to MDA!) I deal with medical equipment a lot, less then some in more critical situations, but more then your average user. It's outrageous the markup medical tag gives to an item, one of the most outlandish of them that I saw was a flag, a metal mounting bracket, fyberglass rod, and cheap neon flag. You know the kind, sold in the walmart bike department for a measly 3$
Do you know how much they wanted at a medical store? No you dont.... 18$ So the price of "medical" is 15$ on top of 3$ It's insane.
You can buy an Ok car for the price of an electric wheelchair. And that's just for what's on the low end.
How exactly are people who can't walk suppossed to affoard this shit? Sure it's possible, and often times picked up by the government (thank god) And if you're not covered, forget footing this bill your self, unless you've got cash to burn. And it's not like the freedom of mobility is important or any thing. Just one of life's liberties some people take for granted.
"I wish I could sit all day"
Fuck you buddy
Grrr, can you tell I'm bitter?
And then theres red tape. I've been using this same wheelchair for several years now, it needs replaced. But fighting for them is a nightmare. So much paper work.
I quite honestly plan to spend Valintines day at a LAN Party. And as I'm sure many of you are curious, I do have a girlfriend. Yup, I'm that special. I of course will be dedicating some other day, the following weekend, to her--but she loves me enough to know that I enjoy lanning. If this was any average lan I would pass it up for her in a moments notice. But this one is an annual event for me.
(plug) http://www.nwgo.org/register/
4th Annual Presidents day Meltdown. Hosted in Wenatchee, Washington. February 14th - 16th (/plug)
I live in Washington state, in a small rural town called Omak. Years ago there was a huge hype on bringing Fiber into Okanogan county. Thousands where spent to lay this fiber, Miles upon miles of fiber. It's been in place for some time now, and is being used by the one local ISP who pushed for the fiber. Though as in the subject of this article, a majority of the fiber is dark. We have OC-192 capacity, of which at least 2 Megabits is being used. Perhaps more, but not much.
Now, the people who pushed so hard for this fiber are fighting it, trying to lay fault for the expense and misuse of at the feet of various parties involved. All of this blaming in the midst of a community lagging behind in the digital age.
I'm torn as to wether or not I want to participate in this, or Folding@Home. I ran the RC5-64 Project for a long time. I like it, In my year(s?) or participating I developed a habit of definding it, explaining it, and had grown to care for it. But when the end of RC5-64 came along I was left idle. I believe that some good can come of these distributed projects, but I've never made the effort to install F@H on my assorted boxen, my own little garden. I'm well versed in the cow though, and could be back on RC5 quickly...
You know, I should really go to sleep. I saw the title and thought, "Speilberg's getting married?"...
And earlier this morning, watching the rerun of Tech TV's Screen Savers I was cought off guard by there "Bitch chat" with George Clooney. It was moments later I realized the height difference in Bit and Chat...
I have to agree with you. And the article was particularly vague in how these "designs" are chosen. I don't think I'd trust my body to something like this.
I'm reminded of joking with my friend while sitting in a tattoo parlour while his girlfriend was getting more work done on her tattoo. We joked about subjecting our selves as ginuea pigs for him to practice on, he's a really good artist so I'm sure it wouldn't be that bad. I mentioned getting "Doc's Dootle Pads" written down our fore arms in that styling you see in a lot of hispanic tattoo's
--
If I knew this thing was efficiant and good, I *might* trust it to tattoo me, though not without seeing it in action first.
Is it me or is the title of the article a little out there?
"MS accused of banning mod chip Xbox from Live service"
They later go on to say,
"...we're already seeing how unique hardware IDs could be used in anger by certain companies."
Well goddamn. I know microsoft is evil, but come on. Just because you don't want to follow the rules, doesn't mean they'll let you play with there toys. And I'm sure Xbox Live is burried in enough EULA's and of course backed with enough laweyrs to prove it. I would have no problem if this article was rewritten as a non-attack on microsoft, and more as an informative article. Who's accusing them? I'm fairly damn certain,
"MS Found guilty of locking out modding bitchez from Xbox Live, Snoochie Boochies!"
All your fault. You cracked the case. You installed the chip, or had it installed.
--
I'm not anti-mod here either before the flames roll in. I'll be waiting for something worthwhile to mod my Xbox. As an added benefit of waiting for something worthwhile, if I do mod my Xbox modchips will be several years more mature.
"one of the most famous and anticipated products..of all time"
Ok, so maybe I'm being a little rash, No it's not. But that's only because I have no interest on something to stand on.
I am how ever interested in Kamen's iBot, the Standing, all dancing, crap of the world. Wait wrong thread. Any way, from my PPV (Personal Point of View) the iBot is a much neater geek toy then the Segway. Sure, it's neat in it's balancing abilities, but have you ever heard of this indangered species called humans? They have this wonderful sense of balance, and it's built in. Grab a skate board, hop on a scooter, if you're going for distance try a bike.
Now, back to the geekiness that is more the iBot then IT. This chair, can balance on two wheels. Some humans have trouble with that--and consiquently would probably wind up going in circles on the IT. That's the product I'd like to see.
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Yes, this was all of course biased in that I can't walk and require a wheelchair. Don't worry, I'm comfortable with my disability and don't need to attack any one. I don't know any other life then being disabled, the only thing I attack is human stupidity.
Are you sure he's not a pretend-audiophile? In a true audiophile world 200$ will get you a down payment on the reciever/amp. If he isn't really an audiophile, I have to agree with the suggestion of the Logitech's. They're pretty decent speakers for what they're worth. Perhaps if he is an audiophile and he doesn't have one yet, you could consider a player for the new DVD format based audio discs. I wouldn't be surprised if you could aquire that in the price limit, then again I wouldn't be surprised if you couldn't.
Hey look man, I'm sorry. I'll try to not be supportive of these ideas. Because you are right, I do spend to much time infront of my computer.
Then again I can't walk, or drive a car, I've been sitting on my ass literally since I was 8 years old. I guess I should find the "ability" in my "disability" like those happy happy ads keep telling me about.
shit, I should stop being so lazy and get out of my wheelchair and go buy some groceries on my own two feet.
--
My apologies to no one in particular for the flame bait.
Seems like they got a new prototype cd burner from the big ant-piracy giants to test out. Problem is though, it would work easily enough during reads, but as soon as you'd try and burn is when the problems began. They apperently used a new high speed motor, which simply caused todays standard CD-R's to shatter. Thus explaining why the new CD-R drive from the Anti-Piracy giant came in a cast iron container with a removable capture bin. One of the tech's had an idea to just epoxy the hell out of the cd's and this is a result.
God I hope not. Cruising down the highway at 65Mph. You kill the guy in the beat up shitty truck 3 lanes over and a few feet back. He finally snaps, hangs up his phone, and procedes to side swipe you while yelling, "YOU FUCKING HACKER" out his window...
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Oh don't get me started on medical equipment, [read: I'm going to get started on medical equipment]
Being disabled (SMA type 2, A type of MD, Donate to MDA!) I deal with medical equipment a lot, less then some in more critical situations, but more then your average user.
It's outrageous the markup medical tag gives to an item, one of the most outlandish of them that I saw was a flag, a metal mounting bracket, fyberglass rod, and cheap neon flag. You know the kind, sold in the walmart bike department for a measly 3$
Do you know how much they wanted at a medical store? No you dont.... 18$
So the price of "medical" is 15$ on top of 3$ It's insane.
You can buy an Ok car for the price of an electric wheelchair. And that's just for what's on the low end.
How exactly are people who can't walk suppossed to affoard this shit? Sure it's possible, and often times picked up by the government (thank god)
And if you're not covered, forget footing this bill your self, unless you've got cash to burn. And it's not like the freedom of mobility is important or any thing. Just one of life's liberties some people take for granted.
"I wish I could sit all day"
Fuck you buddy
Grrr, can you tell I'm bitter?
And then theres red tape. I've been using this same wheelchair for several years now, it needs replaced. But fighting for them is a nightmare. So much paper work.
I have to agree with you, this is horrible running code on my machines.
...
How dare they uninstall my Fizzer!
I would've gone further and created an autoinstallng Free virus checker. If you're going to go for it, might as well go all out.
Does MPA Happen to stand for,
My Pussy Aches?
Just seems that way, "Waaagh"
Sorry, this joke *is* in bad taste.
Read there forums, page two, get it while it's hot.
If any one with a nice big connection wants to host some porn for me, send me an email.
I PROMISE I DONT HAVE THIS COMIC FOR YOU TO MIRROR
That is all.
I'd like to mention 9/11 at this point.
CNN went to a single static page then, while Slashdot had continuing article posting w/ full commentary.
On and off Slashdot would fall to a static page, where as CNN was at a constant static around that time.
Slashdot got hammered just as much as CNN did during that time, but they survived the blows better then CNN did IMO, and I'm sure others would agree.
Because I can't stand up ;)
I quite honestly plan to spend Valintines day at a LAN Party. And as I'm sure many of you are curious, I do have a girlfriend. Yup, I'm that special.
I of course will be dedicating some other day, the following weekend, to her--but she loves me enough to know that I enjoy lanning.
If this was any average lan I would pass it up for her in a moments notice. But this one is an annual event for me.
(plug)
http://www.nwgo.org/register/
4th Annual Presidents day Meltdown.
Hosted in Wenatchee, Washington.
February 14th - 16th
(/plug)
I live in Washington state, in a small rural town called Omak. Years ago there was a huge hype on bringing Fiber into Okanogan county.
Thousands where spent to lay this fiber, Miles upon miles of fiber. It's been in place for some time now, and is being used by the one local ISP who pushed for the fiber.
Though as in the subject of this article, a majority of the fiber is dark. We have OC-192 capacity, of which at least 2 Megabits is being used. Perhaps more, but not much.
Now, the people who pushed so hard for this fiber are fighting it, trying to lay fault for the expense and misuse of at the feet of various parties involved. All of this blaming in the midst of a community lagging behind in the digital age.
I'm torn as to wether or not I want to participate in this, or Folding@Home.
I ran the RC5-64 Project for a long time. I like it, In my year(s?) or participating I developed a habit of definding it, explaining it, and had grown to care for it.
But when the end of RC5-64 came along I was left idle. I believe that some good can come of these distributed projects, but I've never made the effort to install F@H on my assorted boxen, my own little garden.
I'm well versed in the cow though, and could be back on RC5 quickly...
argh, choices, choices.
Do you find your self a bit befuddled by this article appearing here? Go visit his webpage, you'll be quite confused then.
...
He was an extra in a movie, and had 30+ roommates!
Someone hold me, I'm scared.
WOAH THERE BUDDY! SLOW DOWN!
That's like, putting a window's machine, next to a g4 tower, and then putting a linux machine in the room!
Way to much excitement for me.
I'm often left rolling my eyes and mumbling "just shut up and let it be" to people who post threads like, "Why?" and, "Why for?" and the like.
....
But for a chance, It's my turn.
Why is this here? Trains are neat yes... but I don't find it particularly geeky one mans tail of Duct tape and product placement.
Now if it ran linux, or could have Beowulf implications then perhaps I'd see justification, for the bad posts alone.. but? Why?
You know, I should really go to sleep. I saw the title and thought, "Speilberg's getting married?" ...
And earlier this morning, watching the rerun of Tech TV's Screen Savers I was cought off guard by there "Bitch chat" with George Clooney.
It was moments later I realized the height difference in Bit and Chat...
I have to agree with you. And the article was particularly vague in how these "designs" are chosen. I don't think I'd trust my body to something like this.
I'm reminded of joking with my friend while sitting in a tattoo parlour while his girlfriend was getting more work done on her tattoo.
We joked about subjecting our selves as ginuea pigs for him to practice on, he's a really good artist so I'm sure it wouldn't be that bad. I mentioned getting "Doc's Dootle Pads" written down our fore arms in that styling you see in a lot of hispanic tattoo's
--
If I knew this thing was efficiant and good, I *might* trust it to tattoo me, though not without seeing it in action first.
He's a self admited Penis?
Why would he admit that?
Is it me or is the title of the article a little out there?
"MS accused of banning mod chip Xbox from Live service"
They later go on to say,
"...we're already seeing how unique hardware IDs could be used in anger by certain companies."
Well goddamn. I know microsoft is evil, but come on. Just because you don't want to follow the rules, doesn't mean they'll let you play with there toys. And I'm sure Xbox Live is burried in enough EULA's and of course backed with enough laweyrs to prove it.
I would have no problem if this article was rewritten as a non-attack on microsoft, and more as an informative article. Who's accusing them? I'm fairly damn certain,
"MS Found guilty of locking out modding bitchez from Xbox Live, Snoochie Boochies!"
All your fault. You cracked the case. You installed the chip, or had it installed.
--
I'm not anti-mod here either before the flames roll in. I'll be waiting for something worthwhile to mod my Xbox. As an added benefit of waiting for something worthwhile, if I do mod my Xbox modchips will be several years more mature.
"one of the most famous and anticipated products..of all time"
Ok, so maybe I'm being a little rash, No it's not. But that's only because I have no interest on something to stand on.
I am how ever interested in Kamen's iBot, the Standing, all dancing, crap of the world. Wait wrong thread. Any way, from my PPV (Personal Point of View) the iBot is a much neater geek toy then the Segway. Sure, it's neat in it's balancing abilities, but have you ever heard of this indangered species called humans? They have this wonderful sense of balance, and it's built in. Grab a skate board, hop on a scooter, if you're going for distance try a bike.
Now, back to the geekiness that is more the iBot then IT. This chair, can balance on two wheels. Some humans have trouble with that--and consiquently would probably wind up going in circles on the IT. That's the product I'd like to see.
--
Yes, this was all of course biased in that I can't walk and require a wheelchair. Don't worry, I'm comfortable with my disability and don't need to attack any one. I don't know any other life then being disabled, the only thing I attack is human stupidity.
Most people are lucky if they can handle a flaccid 10. 17 hard? hardcore!
Are you sure he's not a pretend-audiophile? In a true audiophile world 200$ will get you a down payment on the reciever/amp.
If he isn't really an audiophile, I have to agree with the suggestion of the Logitech's. They're pretty decent speakers for what they're worth.
Perhaps if he is an audiophile and he doesn't have one yet, you could consider a player for the new DVD format based audio discs. I wouldn't be surprised if you could aquire that in the price limit, then again I wouldn't be surprised if you couldn't.
Step 1, Buy half Billion RFID Tags
Step 2, Develop RFID Injector Razor
Step 3, ???
Step 4, PROFIT!!!
Hey look man, I'm sorry. I'll try to not be supportive of these ideas. Because you are right, I do spend to much time infront of my computer.
Then again I can't walk, or drive a car, I've been sitting on my ass literally since I was 8 years old. I guess I should find the "ability" in my "disability" like those happy happy ads keep telling me about.
shit, I should stop being so lazy and get out of my wheelchair and go buy some groceries on my own two feet.
--
My apologies to no one in particular for the flame bait.
Seems like they got a new prototype cd burner from the big ant-piracy giants to test out.
Problem is though, it would work easily enough during reads, but as soon as you'd try and burn is when the problems began. They apperently used a new high speed motor, which simply caused todays standard CD-R's to shatter. Thus explaining why the new CD-R drive from the Anti-Piracy giant came in a cast iron container with a removable capture bin.
One of the tech's had an idea to just epoxy the hell out of the cd's and this is a result.
God I hope not.
Cruising down the highway at 65Mph. You kill the guy in the beat up shitty truck 3 lanes over and a few feet back.
He finally snaps, hangs up his phone, and procedes to side swipe you while yelling, "YOU FUCKING HACKER" out his window...
Hell, even your sig is funny...
Now people can kill people while driving while using their phones... ...
Wait a minute..