Your making some assumptions that may not be valid; if the universe is a black hole, it's event horizon has a radius and we can deduce the radius by dividing hubble's constant of 70Km/s/Mps by c which gives 4.281.8Mpc or 1.3209 *10^15 Km, at that large a radius any effect by tidal forces on a person would be insignificant. In fact it seems to me that a person could pass through an event horizon that big and not realise it until inside it if ever. Black holes (non-rotating ones anyways) are only points when observed from the outside, the inside is undefined. Maybe our "big bang" was two half universe sized blackholes colliding, imagine being inside one of those suckers with the other one in close orbit!
the tinyERP looks interesting. I'm a one man dental lab/IT dept and wrote my own, needing mainly job scheduleing, invoicing and statements in php/MySQL and have it doing what it does very well. Now I have to worry about FDA 501K requirements which means a real invetory of supplies including lot number and expirations dates on everything used/ ordered, methods used, being able to track quality variences, do product recalls, 30 year data retention on a proctuct with a 5 years expected lifetime, OMG. tinyERP being python based should be extensable, and give me an oppertunity to get away from the web-browser interface.
The bloody thieves at bluesecurity.com stole my webpage!;) seems the splash page is redirecting to localhost; at least their not letting a blog site get hammered anymore.
Most customers, while greedy and ignorant, aren't hardened criminals, and will be fairly easy to "scare straight". I don't believe that Expenses incured in criminal endevors are tax deductable, so maybe an IRS Audit would scare up some money to pay down the debt and scare a few others put of the business. It's been a while since I got a spam that I actually saw that didn't seem illegal in some ways like illegal drug distribution or mis-represented produces or even outright fraud.
it's a bit hard too understand but the insurence companies are like broadcasters, their product is a patient flow in a way and the Dr.s can and do negotiate fees with them, in return for accepting the plan, the product isn't patient care but patients, it's more like broadcasting where the product is advertising slots not the content. If the insurance charges the patient too much, they go else where and eliminat the product, if the insurance pays too little, the Dr.s go elsewhere and the insurance can't attract enough patients. The Dr.s and the patients develope a relationship where they play both ends against the middle just like childern do when they play the lienient parent against the disiplinarian parent. The rates are going up because everything about health is expansive, we hald a dental light made by Healthco, the replacement bulb for the unit cost $24.95, I noticed that the bulb was marked H2, and kept my eyes open thinking it might be an industry standard buld, eventualy I found the same bulb in Kmart as a halogen foglight bulb for 4.95 retail; the only difference is the foglight bulb had a tab punched out but not bent like the dental unit bulb had; I can bend a tab and save more. I'm not the one who made tutuion at med school obscenely expensive and I'm not the one who made all of the capital equipment needed and sits idle most of the time obscenely expensive, and I'm not the one whose frivolous malpractice suits makes the Dr. pay a third of his fees to the insurrance company and makes the lawyers rich.
Hopefully dead in the water, means that their number one priority is getting the windows codebase refactored to modern professional standards so that they can impliment a sane security enviroment and can have bug fixes applied that don't break something else
Your wacked, our first automated system was SCO Xenix on an IBM PS2 which had a 25MHz 386 processor, it used wyse 60 serial terminals (anybody need them?) which I connected via cat5E cable install though-out the office. This system replaced a manual peg-and-post system and hand feeding a coping machine 500 account ledger cards a month to generate "statements". That cat5 cable really came in handy as most of the office was pre-wired for the ethernet needed by our new system, I tried to talk the boss into letting me run fiber beside the new cat 6 cable in the few places that didn't have cat5 in them. We are not automaticaly electronically billing because it's a better deal for us to submit them electronically through webMD than automaticaly through Kodac, and the more hands-on approach gives us less 'slips through the cracks".
As far as cash is concerned look into CareCredit, they'll give almost anyone a $1500.00 line at reasonable interest rates and much more to most. Care credit is good at the Md's, the Dentists, the pharmacy and even the Vet's office! Let somebody else worry about collections. Nobody really want their office manager to play mega-bitch bill collector one minute and presenting treatment plan finacials to your favorite patient the next. Anybody that doesn't like the idea of electronic charts has never gone through 30 banker's boxes of charts looking for a patient's 10 year old dental records to identify a body, only to be told by the FBI she got married and changed her name two weeks later. I know data longevity might be a problem here, but a 30 year data retention requirement make paper records kind of iffy here as well.
Really it seems the opposite to me, our food is spoiling much quicker, than when I was a kid due to I assume the lack of preservatives. Grade A Milk is supposed to last for 48 hrs at room temp and should curdle like cottage cheese before spoiling as in rotting. It's a matter of pasturization and the bacteria seeded back into the produce, live cultures are a good thing(tm). I always figured that whats preserving my food would probably preserve me as well and any toxicity for the approved preservatives would be pretty small compared to the mycotoxins coming from the unseen mold growing in my bread. We got a way from that stuff because red dye # 2 and preservatives was causing hyperactive kids, now with out all of that bad stuff there are no more hyperactive kids, just ADS kids! I suppose we might get bannas a bit quicker here than you might across the big pond, but things like apples, pears, strawberries and much its must be storeage techniques as there should be little differences between us getting some early season fruits from mexico or you guys getting them from spain or italy.
What actually happens is the insurance companies will take an average of what the healthcare provider's are charging in a given area and their skill level and derive what is called a "usual and customary fee" by taking the average and multiply it by about 80% for most private plans and 60% for medicade. If the office "accepts", the office takes or "accepts" the usual and customary fee and writes-off the difference. The result is the offices normally charges more than they'll expect to get, if they want $100.00 in payment, they charge $125.00. If your not a cash patient, you'll never know what discounts and courtesies are extended to them without asking. If you show up for your appointments on time, cooperate with treatment, call cancellations far enough in advance that they can fill the opening, don't put the staff through hell, and pay your bill regularly you would be surprised at the discounts, courtesies and alterneate fee schedules that can be found.
Our office had a write-off of about 30%, by changing and dropping insurance plans, fee presentations and scheduling high wtite-off patients into non-primetime appointments we've dropped write-offs down to 10.5% with minimal impact on our net production. This did reduce our new patient inflow so we are undoing some of it and are shooting for 14-16% write-offs.
If your a cash patient (that can and will pay), you're highly desired, there is no insurance company to tell the Dr. what they can and can't do treatment wise, there is no insurance company bullied them about fees, there is no insurance company kicking back claims for the least little thing, there is no insurance company kicking back 10% of the claims in the hopes some will get lost, and there is no insurance company to protect you from the few preditory heathcare providers out there.
$1500.00 for a rct, Root Cannal Therapy, and crown seems pretty normal, maybee a bit highish on an anterior tooth with one root, a bit lowish on a molar with three or for root, if the molar roots are calcified and takes 5 hours and breaks half a dozen files, it's a damned good deal. Don't wait until it abcesses so bad that no amount of novocaine will get you numb, or the inflamation causes a blood clot and heart attack and or stroke, or you get bacterial endocarditis; in short don't become one of the horror stories that you hear about sooner is usually better than later here.
the doctor is going to figure that he needs $450.00/hr to break even, that's Malpractice insurance (probably a third of the fee), his salary, staff's salary, depreciation on capital assets, and building and utilities; so 125.00 * 80% ( what your insurance calls "usual and customary fee")= $100.00/450/hr =.22 hr * 60 min = 13 minute office call. In my last office call, the Dr. charged 125.00 + 37.50 , I paid a $25.00 copay, the insurance paid $37.50 + 15.00 and Dr wrote-off $85.00; then AFLAK send me a check for $25.00 because I got preventative treatment, a flu shot!
Wasn't WinME the one that made everyone want to jump on WinXP without even thinking? Maybe Vista is the scapegoat that will get everyone primed for a even more heavily DRMed version of Windows in the future.
My problem is downloading as admin just creeps me out so I download as a user and store it scan it and logout; then I can't find it as admin, and even if I can find it, I can't open it!. I've set up a shared folder, saved things in there and then can't open then as anybody, some file I've saved are stored without a owner and even admin can't get them open. In frustration, I unistalled simple networking and installed real networking as implied by the microsoft knowlegebase but even that hasn't fixed the problem. Since I've been using Linux since before the release of Win95, I've found this WindowsXP SP2 behaviour very counter-intuitive, and very user unfriendly, any ideas? No bullshit I'm really serious, this is really happening to me, I'd be greatfull for any help.
the real difference in philosphy is in Linux, the system files are sacred and only touchable by root which increases system security dramaticaly; in Windows each time you install software it easy but you might be changing the operating in quite dramatic ways which kills security. Think about it, if you can install software easily, then you can also install sony rootKits, viruses and spyware easily. If you can install software easily, then software can install software easily, who's computer is it?
There are four main systems, the tarball like slackware uses, the rpm that SuSE and the redhats variants use and the deb that debian uses and the gentoo system. For example, when I was using SuSE I'd sometimes install a redhat RPM to get some exotic software working, or yahoo messenger would only be available for redhat so I'd install the redhat RPM, then have to sym-link a SuSE Library or two to the redhat name for the library to fool the system into working; we had a SCO openSERVER system and it was sym-link spegetti!
A distro is able to take a rpm, a deb or a tarball package a part, and rebuild it into the prefered system without any real difficulty there will be a few tweeks because name schemes are slightly different but that's about it; the LSB, Linux Standards Base is really starting to get traction now so the differences between distros is shrinking. Most user system have rpm and apt-get so you can install a deb from debian onto a rpm based machine, but if you venture to far into the wilderness this way, keeping the machine updated can get pretty arcane.
The real problem for hardware manufacuters is the openness of Linux and their closedness due to competition, even a binary can be picked a part in a debuger and alot can be infered from the system calls, in windows nobody really knows all of the system calls because of the layers apon layers of drivers, translation layers, and cruft left over for "backward compatability".
The dvd ROM in my Linux box came from the boss's windowsXP machine where it was "broken", replaced under warentee. and abandon on site by the vendor. Works like a champ in Linux, but dead in the water in WindowsXP; the replacement worked out of the box.
Never suggest that anyone that uses windows should ever use LaTeX in that enviroment; it's just wrong. I tried to help my wife by typeseting her college research paper with LaTeX in windows via MiTeX and it felt like having sex with a ninty year-old woman, just an unnatural, abomination! In Linux the Emacs^Vim -> LaTeX/bibtex -> dvips pipeline flows with a natural and easy elegance, in windows it's just a fight to get things working. I've done a lot using MySQL -> Perl -> LaTex -> dvips in Linux, in windows it would be infuriating.
He's also forgetting that complexity often brings simplicity; frequently in FOSS, updating one library can fix a security vulnerability that effect numerous applications. One problem of the proprietary world is everything is closed and hidden so many libraries are staticaly linked, when a sec vuln in a comercial library is found it frequently means the user has no idea how many applications have the vulnerability linked in or even hard-coded. The vendors may pretened that a vulernability doesn't effect their software or even forgotten the code in one of the applications dustier corners.
People who use FOSS are more likely to see wisdom in trading a more demanding initial install and configuration for a longer lifetime of it just works; non-FOSSers just want it to work at first and worry about hitting the wall later.
never underestimate the power of long-haired, bearded, smelly, tee shirted, sandelled, tin-foil hatted socialy inept condecending assholes in large groups! The truth is now that I'm 40, all of the high-school cheer leaders that were too good to talk to me in highschool have droopy breasts and four kids and a divorce and are playing white-trash in the trailer park while whining about their deadbeat ex's not paying child support. All the football jocks that gave me wedgies, have beerbellies, four kids that are near juvenile delinquents like their parents were and spend more time in the principal's office than they did when they were in school. The ones that managed to stay married spend their evenings dreading the day when the batteries for the TV remote go dead and they actualy have to get their fat asses off the couch to change the TV from pro-wrestling and NASCAR once in a while; so you'll have to forgive us when we gloat about their computer's taking 90 minutes to boot up all of the spyware and viruses so they can send a chain-Email of paris hilton upskirt to their buddies on AOL. Post something on the forums that have been asked on every page for the last 3 months, and sometimes you get a RTFM.
Are you smoking crack? There is no way thaty I'd believe that a record company would ever sign a contract with an artist that didn't have a clause make legal expenses incured in the production, distibution and marketing of a record anything other than the artists responsibility. Most likely these guys will have to win the case just so the can pay Sony's legal fee's and break even. Lay with dogs and wake up with fleas, lay with a record company and wake up with a soul-sucking vampires
What I'm failing to see is why Walmart should get any wikipedia page, or even a sitting politician celebrity ect. Perhaps an article referencing the economic implications of a Major national chain store moving into an economy dominated by local businesses that make reference to Walmarts would be reasonable; but an article about Walmart can't be expected be any reasonable person to be anything but a flame-fest between astroturfers, fanboy and their opponents.
Blender is on of those program that for some people just seems to click with them, if it doesn't you're probably better off elsewhere. Blender's UI is very good if your a short-cut key thinker, if you're a point and click thinker forget it.
you have to read between the lines, what FTA really said is converting from unix to linux is not as hard as conveting from WinXP to WinXP SP2; well not as hard if you sacrifice security and have everbody running admin privilages.
US Military, 3 years in Germany, also 20 years in the Mi National Guard. We once hosted a group of British soldiers, after a bit of drinking in town, one left and got himself run over by a car and killed; the more European default thinking that a car will stop and yeild the right of way doesn't work over here.
the real bitch is when it's a bit slushy, a semi rolls through then it freezes, you can end up trapped in the ice trench until a city bus cuts you off and flips you ovet the curb.
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Your making some assumptions that may not be valid;
if the universe is a black hole, it's event horizon has a radius and we can deduce the radius by dividing hubble's constant of 70Km/s/Mps by c which gives 4.281.8Mpc or 1.3209 *10^15 Km, at that large a radius any effect by tidal forces on a person would be insignificant. In fact it seems to me that a person could pass through an event horizon that big and not realise it until inside it if ever. Black holes (non-rotating ones anyways) are only points when observed from the outside, the inside is undefined. Maybe our "big bang" was two half universe sized blackholes colliding, imagine being inside one of those suckers with the other one in close orbit!
the tinyERP looks interesting. I'm a one man dental lab/IT dept and wrote my own, needing mainly job scheduleing, invoicing and statements in php/MySQL and have it doing what it does very well. Now I have to worry about FDA 501K requirements which means a real invetory of supplies including lot number and expirations dates on everything used/ ordered, methods used, being able to track quality variences, do product recalls, 30 year data retention on a proctuct with a 5 years expected lifetime, OMG. tinyERP being python based should be extensable, and give me an oppertunity to get away from the web-browser interface.
The bloody thieves at bluesecurity.com stole my webpage! ;) seems the splash page is redirecting to localhost; at least their not letting a blog site get hammered anymore.
PigHogger has been on my foes list for years now, and he still hasn't gotten a clue.
Most customers, while greedy and ignorant, aren't hardened criminals, and will be fairly easy to "scare straight".
I don't believe that Expenses incured in criminal endevors are tax deductable, so maybe an IRS Audit would scare up some money to pay down the debt and scare a few others put of the business. It's been a while since I got a spam that I actually saw that didn't seem illegal in some ways like illegal drug distribution or mis-represented produces or even outright fraud.
it's a bit hard too understand but the insurence companies are like broadcasters, their product is a patient flow in a way and the Dr.s can and do negotiate fees with them, in return for accepting the plan, the product isn't patient care but patients, it's more like broadcasting where the product is advertising slots not the content. If the insurance charges the patient too much, they go else where and eliminat the product, if the insurance pays too little, the Dr.s go elsewhere and the insurance can't attract enough patients. The Dr.s and the patients develope a relationship where they play both ends against the middle just like childern do when they play the lienient parent against the disiplinarian parent.
The rates are going up because everything about health is expansive, we hald a dental light made by Healthco, the replacement bulb for the unit cost $24.95, I noticed that the bulb was marked H2, and kept my eyes open thinking it might be an industry standard buld, eventualy I found the same bulb in Kmart as a halogen foglight bulb for 4.95 retail; the only difference is the foglight bulb had a tab punched out but not bent like the dental unit bulb had; I can bend a tab and save more.
I'm not the one who made tutuion at med school obscenely expensive and I'm not the one who made all of the capital equipment needed and sits idle most of the time obscenely expensive, and I'm not the one whose frivolous malpractice suits makes the Dr. pay a third of his fees to the insurrance company and makes the lawyers rich.
Hopefully dead in the water, means that their number one priority is getting the windows codebase refactored to modern professional standards so that they can impliment a sane security enviroment and can have bug fixes applied that don't break something else
Your wacked, our first automated system was SCO Xenix on an IBM PS2 which had a 25MHz 386 processor, it used wyse 60 serial terminals (anybody need them?) which I connected via cat5E cable install though-out the office. This system replaced a manual peg-and-post system and hand feeding a coping machine 500 account ledger cards a month to generate "statements". That cat5 cable really came in handy as most of the office was pre-wired for the ethernet needed by our new system, I tried to talk the boss into letting me run fiber beside the new cat 6 cable in the few places that didn't have cat5 in them. We are not automaticaly electronically billing because it's a better deal for us to submit them electronically through webMD than automaticaly through Kodac, and the more hands-on approach gives us less 'slips through the cracks".
As far as cash is concerned look into CareCredit, they'll give almost anyone a $1500.00 line at reasonable interest rates and much more to most. Care credit is good at the Md's, the Dentists, the pharmacy and even the Vet's office! Let somebody else worry about collections. Nobody really want their office manager to play mega-bitch bill collector one minute and presenting treatment plan finacials to your favorite patient the next.
Anybody that doesn't like the idea of electronic charts has never gone through 30 banker's boxes of charts looking for a patient's 10 year old dental records to identify a body, only to be told by the FBI she got married and changed her name two weeks later. I know data longevity might be a problem here, but a 30 year data retention requirement make paper records kind of iffy here as well.
Really it seems the opposite to me, our food is spoiling much quicker, than when I was a kid due to I assume the lack of preservatives. Grade A Milk is supposed to last for 48 hrs at room temp and should curdle like cottage cheese before spoiling as in rotting. It's a matter of pasturization and the bacteria seeded back into the produce, live cultures are a good thing(tm). I always figured that whats preserving my food would probably preserve me as well and any toxicity for the approved preservatives would be pretty small compared to the mycotoxins coming from the unseen mold growing in my bread. We got a way from that stuff because red dye # 2 and preservatives was causing hyperactive kids, now with out all of that bad stuff there are no more hyperactive kids, just ADS kids! I suppose we might get bannas a bit quicker here than you might across the big pond, but things like apples, pears, strawberries and much its must be storeage techniques as there should be little differences between us getting some early season fruits from mexico or you guys getting them from spain or italy.
What actually happens is the insurance companies will take an average of what the healthcare provider's are charging in a given area and their skill level and derive what is called a "usual and customary fee" by taking the average and multiply it by about 80% for most private plans and 60% for medicade. If the office "accepts", the office takes or "accepts" the usual and customary fee and writes-off the difference. The result is the offices normally charges more than they'll expect to get, if they want $100.00 in payment, they charge $125.00. If your not a cash patient, you'll never know what discounts and courtesies are extended to them without asking. If you show up for your appointments on time, cooperate with treatment, call cancellations far enough in advance that they can fill the opening, don't put the staff through hell, and pay your bill regularly you would be surprised at the discounts, courtesies and alterneate fee schedules that can be found.
Our office had a write-off of about 30%, by changing and dropping insurance plans, fee presentations and scheduling high wtite-off patients into non-primetime appointments we've dropped write-offs down to 10.5% with minimal impact on our net production. This did reduce our new patient inflow so we are undoing some of it and are shooting for 14-16% write-offs.
If your a cash patient (that can and will pay), you're highly desired, there is no insurance company to tell the Dr. what they can and can't do treatment wise, there is no insurance company bullied them about fees, there is no insurance company kicking back claims for the least little thing, there is no insurance company kicking back 10% of the claims in the hopes some will get lost, and there is no insurance company to protect you from the few preditory heathcare providers out there.
$1500.00 for a rct, Root Cannal Therapy, and crown seems pretty normal, maybee a bit highish on an anterior tooth with one root, a bit lowish on a molar with three or for root, if the molar roots are calcified and takes 5 hours and breaks half a dozen files, it's a damned good deal. Don't wait until it abcesses so bad that no amount of novocaine will get you numb, or the inflamation causes a blood clot and heart attack and or stroke, or you get bacterial endocarditis; in short don't become one of the horror stories that you hear about sooner is usually better than later here.
the doctor is going to figure that he needs $450.00/hr to break even, that's Malpractice insurance (probably a third of the fee), his salary, staff's salary, depreciation on capital assets, and building and utilities; /450/hr = .22 hr * 60 min = 13 minute office call. In my last office call, the Dr. charged 125.00 + 37.50 , I paid a $25.00 copay, the insurance paid $37.50 + 15.00 and Dr wrote-off $85.00; then AFLAK send me a check for $25.00 because I got preventative treatment, a flu shot!
so 125.00 * 80% ( what your insurance calls "usual and customary fee")= $100.00
Wasn't WinME the one that made everyone want to jump on WinXP without even thinking? Maybe Vista is the scapegoat that will get everyone primed for a even more heavily DRMed version of Windows in the future.
My problem is downloading as admin just creeps me out so I download as a user and store it scan it and logout; then I can't find it as admin, and even if I can find it, I can't open it!. I've set up a shared folder, saved things in there and then can't open then as anybody, some file I've saved are stored without a owner and even admin can't get them open. In frustration, I unistalled simple networking and installed real networking as implied by the microsoft knowlegebase but even that hasn't fixed the problem. Since I've been using Linux since before the release of Win95, I've found this WindowsXP SP2 behaviour very counter-intuitive, and very user unfriendly, any ideas?
No bullshit I'm really serious, this is really happening to me, I'd be greatfull for any help.
the real difference in philosphy is in Linux, the system files are sacred and only touchable by root which increases system security dramaticaly; in Windows each time you install software it easy but you might be changing the operating in quite dramatic ways which kills security. Think about it, if you can install software easily, then you can also install sony rootKits, viruses and spyware easily. If you can install software easily, then software can install software easily, who's computer is it?
There are four main systems, the tarball like slackware uses, the rpm that SuSE and the redhats variants use and the deb that debian uses and the gentoo system. For example, when I was using SuSE I'd sometimes install a redhat RPM to get some exotic software working, or yahoo messenger would only be available for redhat so I'd install the redhat RPM, then have to sym-link a SuSE Library or two to the redhat name for the library to fool the system into working; we had a SCO openSERVER system and it was sym-link spegetti!
A distro is able to take a rpm, a deb or a tarball package a part, and rebuild it into the prefered system without any real difficulty there will be a few tweeks because name schemes are slightly different but that's about it; the LSB, Linux Standards Base is really starting to get traction now so the differences between distros is shrinking. Most user system have rpm and apt-get so you can install a deb from debian onto a rpm based machine, but if you venture to far into the wilderness this way, keeping the machine updated can get pretty arcane.
The real problem for hardware manufacuters is the openness of Linux and their closedness due to competition, even a binary can be picked a part in a debuger and alot can be infered from the system calls, in windows nobody really knows all of the system calls because of the layers apon layers of drivers, translation layers, and cruft left over for "backward compatability".
The dvd ROM in my Linux box came from the boss's windowsXP machine where it was "broken", replaced under warentee. and abandon on site by the vendor. Works like a champ in Linux, but dead in the water in WindowsXP; the replacement worked out of the box.
Never suggest that anyone that uses windows should ever use LaTeX in that enviroment; it's just wrong. I tried to help my wife by typeseting her college research paper with LaTeX in windows via MiTeX and it felt like having sex with a ninty year-old woman, just an unnatural, abomination! In Linux the Emacs^Vim -> LaTeX/bibtex -> dvips pipeline flows with a natural and easy elegance, in windows it's just a fight to get things working. I've done a lot using MySQL -> Perl -> LaTex -> dvips in Linux, in windows it would be infuriating.
He's also forgetting that complexity often brings simplicity; frequently in FOSS, updating one library can fix a security vulnerability that effect numerous applications. One problem of the proprietary world is everything is closed and hidden so many libraries are staticaly linked, when a sec vuln in a comercial library is found it frequently means the user has no idea how many applications have the vulnerability linked in or even hard-coded. The vendors may pretened that a vulernability doesn't effect their software or even forgotten the code in one of the applications dustier corners.
People who use FOSS are more likely to see wisdom in trading a more demanding initial install and configuration for a longer lifetime of it just works; non-FOSSers just want it to work at first and worry about hitting the wall later.
never underestimate the power of long-haired, bearded, smelly, tee shirted, sandelled, tin-foil hatted socialy inept condecending assholes in large groups! The truth is now that I'm 40, all of the high-school cheer leaders that were too good to talk to me in highschool have droopy breasts and four kids and a divorce and are playing white-trash in the trailer park while whining about their deadbeat ex's not paying child support. All the football jocks that gave me wedgies, have beerbellies, four kids that are near juvenile delinquents like their parents were and spend more time in the principal's office than they did when they were in school. The ones that managed to stay married spend their evenings dreading the day when the batteries for the TV remote go dead and they actualy have to get their fat asses off the couch to change the TV from pro-wrestling and NASCAR once in a while; so you'll have to forgive us when we gloat about their computer's taking 90 minutes to boot up all of the spyware and viruses so they can send a chain-Email of paris hilton upskirt to their buddies on AOL.
Post something on the forums that have been asked on every page for the last 3 months, and sometimes you get a RTFM.
Are you smoking crack? There is no way thaty I'd believe that a record company would ever sign a contract with an artist that didn't have a clause make legal expenses incured in the production, distibution and marketing of a record anything other than the artists responsibility. Most likely these guys will have to win the case just so the can pay Sony's legal fee's and break even. Lay with dogs and wake up with fleas, lay with a record company and wake up with a soul-sucking vampires
What I'm failing to see is why Walmart should get any wikipedia page, or even a sitting politician celebrity ect. Perhaps an article referencing the economic implications of a Major national chain store moving into an economy dominated by local businesses that make reference to Walmarts would be reasonable; but an article about Walmart can't be expected be any reasonable person to be anything but a flame-fest between astroturfers, fanboy and their opponents.
Blender is on of those program that for some people just seems to click with them, if it doesn't you're probably better off elsewhere. Blender's UI is very good if your a short-cut key thinker, if you're a point and click thinker forget it.
you have to read between the lines, what FTA really said is converting from unix to linux is not as hard as conveting from WinXP to WinXP SP2; well not as hard if you sacrifice security and have everbody running admin privilages.
US Military, 3 years in Germany, also 20 years in the Mi National Guard. We once hosted a group of British soldiers, after a bit of drinking in town, one left and got himself run over by a car and killed; the more European default thinking that a car will stop and yeild the right of way doesn't work over here.
the real bitch is when it's a bit slushy, a semi rolls through then it freezes, you can end up trapped in the ice trench until a city bus cuts you off and flips you ovet the curb.