What could possibly be in my medical records that they don't want me to know about?
20 years ago my 35 year old friend died from stomach cancer. 8 years prior a radioligist failed to do his/her job correctly by not noticing a tiny white dot, so for 8 years the cancer grew until any swallowed food was blocked from continuing on into his body. Coincidentally, my friend's wife happened to work in the records room of his HMO (it's name rhymes with 'gyp'), and snuck his medical records out. The widow received a large wrongful death settlement only because of her having physical possession of his records, else no one would have known the true cause of his provider's negligence.
That's one reason why you would want full access to your own records.
As rubycodez says, "drinking" isn't the primary recreational drug involved, but yeah. 'S a shame.
But counter to stereotypes of the aging ex-starlet, she does seem to be a truly nice person, and is taking/has taken the let-down a lot better than I would ever have.
And she has survived her drinking/drug days, and has grown into a better person, that's more than you can say about a lot of celebrities. I give her props just for that. Not a quitter, Princess Leia is.
Whatever creature arises from this bacteria will either die off in a few days after exposure to modern germs, or we will just freeze it to death with the nearest fire extinguisher.
This find keeps hope alive for finding life in lakes on the outer planets. Very cool! This is why I like Slashdot, news like this.
Isn't it consideres s.o.p. for a small country to make a big noise bt dwclaring war on the U.S., then reaping $$$ to not follow through on their threat?
Doh! Yes, having just actually read it 'after' posting the above, that is exactly the story. The blurring of memory made me think it had to be much longer than what it really was. I ass-u-med that, and quickly made an 'ass' of 'me'.:-)
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The story you linked to is a fine one, though not what I was referring to. The book (short story) I read had God trying to find a way to let us know he was real and not a myth, since humankind seemed to have lost direction in their lives. He finally decides on creating two huge stone obelisks with writing in all languages on them, basically saying 'I am here', and other things helpful to the human race.
Because of the distance between people on the planet, He simultaneously places one somewhere into the ground in Russia, and the other off the coast of Florida. And it works, people study the obelisks for insight, new inventions are created, and there's a new sense pride in us, since now we know that God is real and cares for us. That's when 'snafu' comes into play...
Something happens that causes both giant obelisks to fall at the same time. In Russia it causes huge earthquakes that wipe out many in the population. The obelisk that's in the ocean falls and creates a massive tidal wave that kills many on all the continents of North/South America/Africa, etc. God just did not plant the obelisks deep enough, it seems. Billions die as a result, and the human race vows revenge on God.
In order to find God to exact revenge, space exploration begins. Over the next many millions of years, we go out through the universe, colonizing planets, exploring deeper, all in the quest to finally find where God is hiding, and God is constantly having to find a new place to hide. The story ends with God placing Himself as far out in the void as possible, knowing that He won't be able to hide from his vengeful children forever, since once the universe finally contracts, we will all eventually 'come together' again.
I read this story as a teenager, and it always stuck with me over the decades. While I've read and forgotten many books (Don't do drugs, kids!), some of them were so good (like 'A Wrinkle In Time' read by me as an 8 year old) that they always seem to reverberate. If anyone recognizes the story, I'd appreciate knowing who wrote it...
God created the rules, and sin is the breaking of those rules, therefore God created sin.
God created humans flawed and incapable of following the rules, therefore God created us TO sin.
God created the cause-and-effect relationship that makes death and decay result from sin, therefore God created death and decay.
It is *all God's fault* no matter how many arbitrary layers of separation you attempt to interject.
I once read a book.(A Mote in God's Eye, maybe) where God enrages the human race so much that He has to hide from us in a remote edge of the universe while we search for him in order to get our revenge. Sad ending since God knows eventually He will be found due to a contracting universe, it's just a matter of time...
(P.S.: The human body is just a temporary thing. Our spirit is what matters, it will by far outlive our bodies.)
Those 'waits' get longer on 'Real Racing3', huh? I've done about 20 races so far. A wait of five minutes I'm okay with, I'll make a cup of coffee or something, but an hour? Once it starts that up, the novelty will be over for me. Thanks for the heads up on this, nothing's really free in life (except advice, people love to give away advice.):-)
There is one 'free' EA game I just found, (android) version of ea's "Real Racing 3". It's a large download, just over a gb, and you cannot play it without an internet connection. It is a good racing game, worth the price, which is free. If it ever demands money from me to continue playing, that's when it will get uninstalled.
There's no way I will ever pay for any 'in-game/app' purchases. I paid enough for games in my time, from the Atari2600 on up to Playstation2. I won't hook up my credit card to any online store, other than an occasional Amazon type purchase, and then my card access gets deactivated once the transaction's done.
There is one other android game that I enjoy playing, "Hill Climb Racing", where you either earn coins to get upgrades or buy them outright. Actually buying the coins online would cost easily over $200 to max out all the vehicles and purchase all of it's tracks. For a 'free' game? Nuh-uh. Unless you have the money to throw away for a game you'll lose interest in over time it just isn't worth it, at least to me.
Looks like Apple is going downhill fast. Sucks for me because I like their products.
Well in that case I hope you aren't camping out in front of the apple store, hoping to be the first to get your iWatch. I read it won't be available for another three years.
...it was a great idea to start building homes on swamp land?
They have to build them someplace. Where would you suggest?
You can build in wetlands IF you drive LOTS of friction pilings for each structure deeply enough. You might need to replace soil, even put in a raft foundation to evenly distribute the home's weight.
"Raft foundation is a thick concrete slab reinforced with steel which covers the entire contact area of the structure like a thick floor. Sometimes area covered by raft may be greater than the contact area depending on the bearing capacity of the soil underneath. The reinforcing bars runs normal to each other in both top and bottom layers of steel reinforcement. Sometimes inverted main beams and secondary beams are used to carry column loads that require thicker foundation slab considering economy of the structure. Both beams cast monolithically with raft slab."
When the law is fundamentally flawed, not to mention harmful to otherwise law-abiding citizens, and asinine, then the 'law' is an ass, and needs to be changed / amended. If the law is wrong but allowed to continue, the people naturally will quickly learn to disrespect the governing body in general. Now you'll have the populace openly rebelling against idiotic laws, beginning to ramp up their rebellion. They'll begin riots, civil disobedience taken to the next level. And that's when it'll get real bad, a modern day repeat of the sixties, when peace-loving hippies were getting beaten and killed for the simple act of protesting a war that they felt was unjust. And like then, the people in power will think they can control things by force, by using the media to paint the protesters as the 'bad guys'. And it might be your son or daughter that gets hurt protesting.
And if it's your kid breaking what she thinks is a terrible 'law', you won't assist her in any way, huh? Let him/her rot in jail, after all, he/she broke copyright laws. And if your kid suicides because he/she couldn't live being threatened by your government with the best years of their young life, you would be ok with that. Just asking...
Until this country creates and enforces better anti-bullying laws that do not exempt government officials, no one will be held accountable. It's very, very sad that this young man took his life away over this (Never ever give up! Ever!). No matter how you view this case, the bottom line is a human life is gone because of frickin' copy protection statutes!! Very sad, there needs to be change. Enough lives have been damaged already. $600,000 fines for trading a few songs on a file sharing site? A13 year old girl is fined thousands of dollars because she liked and wanted to dance to a song she liked and "illegally" downloaded?? A young man without proper coping skills facing 30+ years in jail because he thought charging 10 cents a page for documents paid for by tax dollars should be free??!!! While murdererers and rapists are given minimal sentences for their true crimes. On the face of it, it is all quite insane.
Life isn't that bad, it's all in your perspective, you gotta look for the good in life, keep up a good attitude. It's not easy, lot of bad in the world gets reported, because bad news sells papers. You need to develop a better outlook on life son. If you only look for thae bad, that is all you will see, get me? I hope you will have a better day now.:-)
Ajd, to rebut those negative lyrics, I gift to you and all here, Monty Python. Sounds to me like you need this...
______
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough...
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet head of state and dedicated communist who conducted the final stages of the Cold War against the U.S. and other NATO countries, received the prize in 1990.
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War, you mean? Do the words "perestroika" or "glasnost" ring any bells?
Yes, he was a leftie, but he genuinely sought out peace.
I remember it quite well, and I do admire Mr. Gorbachev for his good work for his people. He saw and knew change was necessary, and at great personal risk made it happen. Both he and Obama are politicians who knew/know that to effect change, the politcal game needs to be played, in order to be effective leaders.
P.S. That was a straight copy/paste by me of the wiki-answers page, and not me personally writing it. It does have a bit of someone's personal bias in it. Didn't mean to go off-topic by posting it, just rebutting the view of the other poster. I just felt someone should answer back to the anti-Obama slant he has. And, my poor posting is modded down by some President Obama haters, how sad for them...
Ye art quite welcome, sir. I can personally vouch for thr InvisibleShields brand, the U.S. Army developed that plastic to protect their helicopter blades from the elements. I got one for $20 at BestBuy over a year ago when I bought an android phone. Any scratches wipe right off, clean it once in a while with hand sanitizer. No special case, I just pocket it without having to worry about the screen.
Tip: When applying it, make sure the any cutouts are aligned perfectly before the adhesive quick-dries.
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What could possibly be in my medical records that they don't want me to know about?
20 years ago my 35 year old friend died from stomach cancer. 8 years prior a radioligist failed to do his/her job correctly by not noticing a tiny white dot, so for 8 years the cancer grew until any swallowed food was blocked from continuing on into his body. Coincidentally, my friend's wife happened to work in the records room of his HMO (it's name rhymes with 'gyp'), and snuck his medical records out. The widow received a large wrongful death settlement only because of her having physical possession of his records, else no one would have known the true cause of his provider's negligence.
That's one reason why you would want full access to your own records.
If Mars had life and is now a 'dead dustball' then maybe something went wrong that would be useful for us neighbours to know about?
The lesson is to never lose your protective magnetic field. That would be..., 'bad'.
As rubycodez says, "drinking" isn't the primary recreational drug involved, but yeah. 'S a shame.
But counter to stereotypes of the aging ex-starlet, she does seem to be a truly nice person, and is taking/has taken the let-down a lot better than I would ever have.
And she has survived her drinking/drug days, and has grown into a better person, that's more than you can say about a lot of celebrities. I give her props just for that. Not a quitter, Princess Leia is.
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"Do or do not, there is no try." - Yoda
This find keeps hope alive for finding life in lakes on the outer planets. Very cool! This is why I like Slashdot, news like this.
Troll alert! Bobnet is reusing words from a link posted about an article by 'The Onion'. Reading Proust in his spare time was the giveaway.
Isn't it consideres s.o.p. for a small country to make a big noise bt dwclaring war on the U.S., then reaping $$$ to not follow through on their threat?
Many thanks to you, Deimtee, 5+ Informative internets are awarded to you! (No actual cash value)
Because of the distance between people on the planet, He simultaneously places one somewhere into the ground in Russia, and the other off the coast of Florida. And it works, people study the obelisks for insight, new inventions are created, and there's a new sense pride in us, since now we know that God is real and cares for us. That's when 'snafu' comes into play...
Something happens that causes both giant obelisks to fall at the same time. In Russia it causes huge earthquakes that wipe out many in the population. The obelisk that's in the ocean falls and creates a massive tidal wave that kills many on all the continents of North/South America/Africa, etc. God just did not plant the obelisks deep enough, it seems. Billions die as a result, and the human race vows revenge on God.
In order to find God to exact revenge, space exploration begins. Over the next many millions of years, we go out through the universe, colonizing planets, exploring deeper, all in the quest to finally find where God is hiding, and God is constantly having to find a new place to hide. The story ends with God placing Himself as far out in the void as possible, knowing that He won't be able to hide from his vengeful children forever, since once the universe finally contracts, we will all eventually 'come together' again.
I read this story as a teenager, and it always stuck with me over the decades. While I've read and forgotten many books (Don't do drugs, kids!), some of them were so good (like 'A Wrinkle In Time' read by me as an 8 year old) that they always seem to reverberate. If anyone recognizes the story, I'd appreciate knowing who wrote it...
God created the rules, and sin is the breaking of those rules, therefore God created sin. God created humans flawed and incapable of following the rules, therefore God created us TO sin. God created the cause-and-effect relationship that makes death and decay result from sin, therefore God created death and decay.
It is *all God's fault* no matter how many arbitrary layers of separation you attempt to interject.
I once read a book.(A Mote in God's Eye, maybe) where God enrages the human race so much that He has to hide from us in a remote edge of the universe while we search for him in order to get our revenge. Sad ending since God knows eventually He will be found due to a contracting universe, it's just a matter of time...
(P.S.: The human body is just a temporary thing. Our spirit is what matters, it will by far outlive our bodies.)
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Downmod to oblivion in 3... 2... 1....
Better drink Brawndo It's got electrolytes.
I prefer Bright-o. Bright-o makes ol' bodies new...
It's a floor wax... And a dessert topping!
"Delicious, and just look at that shine!"
(Apologies to Dan Ackroyd & Gilda Radner)
http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1280390
Those 'waits' get longer on 'Real Racing3', huh? I've done about 20 races so far. A wait of five minutes I'm okay with, I'll make a cup of coffee or something, but an hour? Once it starts that up, the novelty will be over for me. Thanks for the heads up on this, nothing's really free in life (except advice, people love to give away advice.) :-)
There's no way I will ever pay for any 'in-game/app' purchases. I paid enough for games in my time, from the Atari2600 on up to Playstation2. I won't hook up my credit card to any online store, other than an occasional Amazon type purchase, and then my card access gets deactivated once the transaction's done.
There is one other android game that I enjoy playing, "Hill Climb Racing", where you either earn coins to get upgrades or buy them outright. Actually buying the coins online would cost easily over $200 to max out all the vehicles and purchase all of it's tracks. For a 'free' game? Nuh-uh. Unless you have the money to throw away for a game you'll lose interest in over time it just isn't worth it, at least to me.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130303154859.htm
In reading the comments section of the linked article I gleaned that the material is not superconductive at temps above 25 kelvin.
Looks like Apple is going downhill fast. Sucks for me because I like their products.
Well in that case I hope you aren't camping out in front of the apple store, hoping to be the first to get your iWatch. I read it won't be available for another three years.
...it was a great idea to start building homes on swamp land?
They have to build them someplace. Where would you suggest?
You can build in wetlands IF you drive LOTS of friction pilings for each structure deeply enough. You might need to replace soil, even put in a raft foundation to evenly distribute the home's weight.
"Raft foundation is a thick concrete slab reinforced with steel which covers the entire contact area of the structure like a thick floor. Sometimes area covered by raft may be greater than the contact area depending on the bearing capacity of the soil underneath. The reinforcing bars runs normal to each other in both top and bottom layers of steel reinforcement. Sometimes inverted main beams and secondary beams are used to carry column loads that require thicker foundation slab considering economy of the structure. Both beams cast monolithically with raft slab."
http://civil-engg-world.blogspot.com/2012/06/what-is-raft-foundation-difference.html?m=1
http://menbuy.net/home-improvement-2/preparations-for-building-in-a-swamp/
http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-57567014-85/what-it-really-takes-to-make-a-flexible-phone-smartphones-unlocked/
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-02/rubbery-battery-stretches-300-percent
And if it's your kid breaking what she thinks is a terrible 'law', you won't assist her in any way, huh? Let him/her rot in jail, after all, he/she broke copyright laws. And if your kid suicides because he/she couldn't live being threatened by your government with the best years of their young life, you would be ok with that. Just asking...
Mod Up! +5 (Very True)
Until this country creates and enforces better anti-bullying laws that do not exempt government officials, no one will be held accountable. It's very, very sad that this young man took his life away over this (Never ever give up! Ever!). No matter how you view this case, the bottom line is a human life is gone because of frickin' copy protection statutes!! Very sad, there needs to be change. Enough lives have been damaged already. $600,000 fines for trading a few songs on a file sharing site? A13 year old girl is fined thousands of dollars because she liked and wanted to dance to a song she liked and "illegally" downloaded?? A young man without proper coping skills facing 30+ years in jail because he thought charging 10 cents a page for documents paid for by tax dollars should be free??!!! While murdererers and rapists are given minimal sentences for their true crimes. On the face of it, it is all quite insane.
Ajd, to rebut those negative lyrics, I gift to you and all here, Monty Python. Sounds to me like you need this...
______
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough...
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvD4N70V5mE
When you build a better safe, there will always be a better safecracker. Same applies to encryption.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet head of state and dedicated communist who conducted the final stages of the Cold War against the U.S. and other NATO countries, received the prize in 1990.
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War, you mean? Do the words "perestroika" or "glasnost" ring any bells?
Yes, he was a leftie, but he genuinely sought out peace.
I remember it quite well, and I do admire Mr. Gorbachev for his good work for his people. He saw and knew change was necessary, and at great personal risk made it happen. Both he and Obama are politicians who knew/know that to effect change, the politcal game needs to be played, in order to be effective leaders.
P.S. That was a straight copy/paste by me of the wiki-answers page, and not me personally writing it. It does have a bit of someone's personal bias in it. Didn't mean to go off-topic by posting it, just rebutting the view of the other poster. I just felt someone should answer back to the anti-Obama slant he has. And, my poor posting is modded down by some President Obama haters, how sad for them...
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