I agree with MMC Monster. Health care will continue to grow. That's my industry. For example, If you take a course to learn how to configure FACETS, a claims system made by Trizetto, now owned by Cognizant, you can get $80/hr to start, and that's not even in the primary markets.
I think it was the (plane) crash that killed the Concorde as much as anything. It worked pretty well for a while. We will continue to see technology like it, and some will succeed, some will fail. The first space elevator will probably also be a hell of a ride, as well as a way to get cargo into orbit.
My comment was that the Concorde was cool, and I really liked riding it. As a race, we still need to spend some resources on things that are just plain fun.
You just keep digging. These people were not infectious, and were monitoring their conditions.
Funny, you remove all doubt about your ignorance when you add a dollop of the AIDS paranoia. That is so vintage 80's. Why don't you move to Cuba, where they round up people with AIDS and put them in camps? That seems about your speed.
Yeah well, all three of those people will just have to suck it up and wait like the rest of us. We already had Concorde and that died.
I flew once on the Concorde. It was awesome. We should do more of that. Suborbital, 1 hour from NY to Tokyo? Bring it. I'd do it once just for the fun of it.
...They also say that wild animals get Ebola and infect humans. So that fantasy is actually real life in other parts of the world.
Yep, that makes a lot of sense, actually. Take something that's technically true, twist the actual facts to fit that a fantasy to use the factoid, and voila! One more drop of hysteria added to the mix.
Why is it when people in the U.S. have a difficult situation to face, some percentage of the population pusses out and advocates for jettisoning constitutional rights. If we don't do what's right in these cases, we have little claim on our republic.
If, instead of concocting and posting this fantasy, you had used the time for a short, brisk walk, you would have done immeasurably more good for your continuing health, than if you took precautions to avoid the non-infectious bike lady's animal-distributed Ebola blood.
Hmm, I like that. I'm going to get a bumper sticker; "Look out for the bike lady's animal-distributed Ebola blood!"
Running, for one. Not having to carry a phone is useful. Yes, there are hundreds of fitness trackers. Why not a multi-purpose tracker that also lets me reply to the wife?
You still have to have the phone on you. The watch talks to the phone.
That's right. So I got an arm strap for my phone. Don't need yet another gadget. $20 vs. whatever Apple is gouging the rubes for this time.
I believe that all the words you used do, in fact, exist, and you used them in an order that implies meaning, but I don't think you wrote anything meaningful at all, because it doesn't appear you know anything substantive about the research. You might as well be leaning on the water cooler, saying, "Them fancy scientists! Pshaw!"
Since you put it in your sig, you must be looking for comments. What does that mean, that we "deliberately forgot" creation? Are you talking about racial memories? Do you believe racial memories are real? I don't imagine you are referring to historical records. In any event, why would we deliberately forget the origins of the race?
Who's sending these emails? EVERYONE! People in general, and people who work in HR especially, are morons who will put the most damning discussions in email. If these people *weren't* so stupid, they wouldn't be firing people just because they are (a woman/pregnant/minority) in the first place.
Ha, ha - yes - the way I heard it was that 'hire at will' protects both the employer and the employee! As if to reassure the working stiffs that they are neither slaves nor indentured servants and can work for whom ever they please. Job security my arse!
Even that is bullshit. Most companies I've worked for required non-compete agreements, so I couldn't work for another company that does anything remotely like they do, for up to two years. At senior manager level, these companies will go after employees who dare to move to another company in the same industry. I have had to pass on candidates we wanted to hire because they'd have to remain uninvolved in the majority of our business for a year or more to avoid running afoul of one of these agreements.
It is amusing that someone pointing the "sociopath" finger immediately switches to sociopath mode to condemn
Um, this is exactly false. I was *not* displaying the type of sociopathic thinking you continue to show. As I said, and I'll say it again, I *don't* think you should kill yourself.
And you're still not getting it. The doctor intruded his personal view into a doctor-patient relationship. It's absolutely ethical, even obligatory for a fertility doctor to inform his patients about the cost, difficulty, and low probability of success of the services he can provide, he can also mention that adoption is another option, but the way the original poster quoted him, "It may be that life is giving you a hint." You don't seem to understand how that crosses the line.
And far from "people like me being what's wrong with medicine these days" insisting that doctors be walking prescription pads (which I am not, and never even implied), it's people like you who don't understand the difference between what a doctor must do, and what he must *not* do, who contribute to the awful state of medicine in the U.S. because you don't understand your own obligations as a patient. I probably have more knowledge about this aspect of medicine than you do - I've been married to a doctor for 28 years.
The original poster can be as pleased as he likes that the doctor did that, but that doesn't make it right.
These folks had it better than 90% of the World, and when they made a boo boo they killed themselves.
Weak...
The problem is that you fundamentally misunderstand the human condition, and write off people who killed themselves for reasons you think are weak.
I suppose you think it's best that Alan Turing removed himself from the world, since he couldn't bear up under the persecution for being gay. If that occurred before he did his codebreaking work during World War II, we'd be living in a very different world. We'll never know what he *could* have done if he had been saved from committing suicide.
Also Anne Sexton, Vincent Van Gogh, gee, the list goes on of people who contributed much more than *you* ever will, whom you believe the world could have done without.
There's a difference between providing information about adoption and saying, in effect, "Hey, life is telling you not to attempt to reproduce." That is offensive.
Gotcha. There's something missing in you. I consider it a defect that has a small negative impact on human society, but I wouldn't encourage you to remove yourself from the world, because, you know, I don't have that particular defect.:-)
1 - "population with disabilities that require care is growing exponentially" This is pure bullshit. Either you know nothing about the trend of incidence of disabilities in children, or you don't know what "exponentially" means. Citation, please. Oh, and be careful if you post a reference that it not show a higher incidence only because the rate of reporting is increasing. That's bullshit too.
2 - You didn't say what you believe "shouldn't be having children" means. Does it mean you express that opinion whenever it comes up in conversation, but do nothing about it? Does it mean you vote for politicians whose policies would deny any sort of public funding to individuals with at high risk for disabled offspring? Does it mean that you go around snipping the vas deferens of people who look "disability-like" to you? Sure, we can discuss your opinion, but first you have to state something with a shred of meaning.
3 - (bonus problem) The comment about sperm is a pure straw man argument.
I'm glad your story turned out well, but if your physician really told you, "It may be that life is giving you a hint." then he was overstepping the bounds of ethical treatment. It's none of his fucking business what you choose, his business is to listen to what you *want*, and tell you what he can *do* for you.
The Dr. Phil homespun bullshit should be grounds for censure from the medical board.
This, with artificial implantation and genetic engineering, brings us one step closer to asexual reproduction. It won't be long before science is able to pair DNA from two women to create a new offspring. Artificial wombs will follow. Soon women won't need men any more. Then the male geeks will go from having had a limited chance, to having zero hope of ever meeting a woman and having sex.
Oh, you think women only put up with sex with males because they get babies out of it? Dude, there are sexist, racist, white bread men from the 1950's looking at you saying, "oh no he dint!"
Maybe you are rationalizing why you never get any?:-)
In this day and age... it was the first thing that popped in my mind when you get a cluster like this.
But in the end, so many people seem to opt for suicide for reasons stemming from Facebook harassment to a failed business which tells me they are weak minded, weak willed, and frankly we are better off without them.
Ah, okay, you have stated it more plainly than in your post, above.
You reveal you are without empathy for your fellow humans. Sociopath, perhaps? You might make a good CEO.
All of those are reasons for suicide. Oh, you mean you don't believe they are *sufficient* reasons for suicide, for you, at this time? Then don't kill yourself. Today.
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I agree with MMC Monster. Health care will continue to grow. That's my industry. For example, If you take a course to learn how to configure FACETS, a claims system made by Trizetto, now owned by Cognizant, you can get $80/hr to start, and that's not even in the primary markets.
I think it was the (plane) crash that killed the Concorde as much as anything. It worked pretty well for a while. We will continue to see technology like it, and some will succeed, some will fail. The first space elevator will probably also be a hell of a ride, as well as a way to get cargo into orbit.
My comment was that the Concorde was cool, and I really liked riding it. As a race, we still need to spend some resources on things that are just plain fun.
You just keep digging. These people were not infectious, and were monitoring their conditions.
Funny, you remove all doubt about your ignorance when you add a dollop of the AIDS paranoia. That is so vintage 80's. Why don't you move to Cuba, where they round up people with AIDS and put them in camps? That seems about your speed.
Who is "we"? Did Branson sit his geriatric ass in there? Funny how the risks are always taken by the plebes, the rewards taken by the already rich.
Yeah, the nerve of that old guy, letting the younger engineers and test pilots engineer and then test his spacecraft.
Why, I'm sure he never took any risks with his own life, that chickenshit...
http://www.virgin.com/news/richard-bransons-ballooning-adventures
Yeah well, all three of those people will just have to suck it up and wait like the rest of us. We already had Concorde and that died.
I flew once on the Concorde. It was awesome. We should do more of that. Suborbital, 1 hour from NY to Tokyo? Bring it. I'd do it once just for the fun of it.
...They also say that wild animals get Ebola and infect humans. So that fantasy is actually real life in other parts of the world.
Yep, that makes a lot of sense, actually. Take something that's technically true, twist the actual facts to fit that a fantasy to use the factoid, and voila! One more drop of hysteria added to the mix.
Why is it when people in the U.S. have a difficult situation to face, some percentage of the population pusses out and advocates for jettisoning constitutional rights. If we don't do what's right in these cases, we have little claim on our republic.
If, instead of concocting and posting this fantasy, you had used the time for a short, brisk walk, you would have done immeasurably more good for your continuing health, than if you took precautions to avoid the non-infectious bike lady's animal-distributed Ebola blood.
Hmm, I like that. I'm going to get a bumper sticker; "Look out for the bike lady's animal-distributed Ebola blood!"
Not sure you got my point. My smart phone (Galaxy S3) on my arm means I don't need another device. Which I want. When I go running.
Running, for one. Not having to carry a phone is useful. Yes, there are hundreds of fitness trackers. Why not a multi-purpose tracker that also lets me reply to the wife?
You still have to have the phone on you. The watch talks to the phone.
That's right. So I got an arm strap for my phone. Don't need yet another gadget. $20 vs. whatever Apple is gouging the rubes for this time.
I believe that all the words you used do, in fact, exist, and you used them in an order that implies meaning, but I don't think you wrote anything meaningful at all, because it doesn't appear you know anything substantive about the research. You might as well be leaning on the water cooler, saying, "Them fancy scientists! Pshaw!"
Since you put it in your sig, you must be looking for comments. What does that mean, that we "deliberately forgot" creation? Are you talking about racial memories? Do you believe racial memories are real? I don't imagine you are referring to historical records. In any event, why would we deliberately forget the origins of the race?
Who's sending these emails? EVERYONE! People in general, and people who work in HR especially, are morons who will put the most damning discussions in email. If these people *weren't* so stupid, they wouldn't be firing people just because they are (a woman/pregnant/minority) in the first place.
Ha, ha - yes - the way I heard it was that 'hire at will' protects both the employer and the employee! As if to reassure the working stiffs that they are neither slaves nor indentured servants and can work for whom ever they please. Job security my arse!
Even that is bullshit. Most companies I've worked for required non-compete agreements, so I couldn't work for another company that does anything remotely like they do, for up to two years. At senior manager level, these companies will go after employees who dare to move to another company in the same industry. I have had to pass on candidates we wanted to hire because they'd have to remain uninvolved in the majority of our business for a year or more to avoid running afoul of one of these agreements.
Can you name any pros for consumers? Do you believe what Comcast says about needing to get larger because their margins are too small?
Is it a good thing that the merger would raise the barrier to entry of any part of the larger market that Comcast would control?
Please, I'd like to know what you think is a good reason for this merger to go forward.
It is amusing that someone pointing the "sociopath" finger immediately switches to sociopath mode to condemn
Um, this is exactly false. I was *not* displaying the type of sociopathic thinking you continue to show. As I said, and I'll say it again, I *don't* think you should kill yourself.
:-)
Really, don't do it.
Wow, what a valuable contribution to the conversation. And self-righteous to boot.
2) You still didn't say anything about what "shouldn't be having children" means.
And you're still not getting it. The doctor intruded his personal view into a doctor-patient relationship. It's absolutely ethical, even obligatory for a fertility doctor to inform his patients about the cost, difficulty, and low probability of success of the services he can provide, he can also mention that adoption is another option, but the way the original poster quoted him, "It may be that life is giving you a hint." You don't seem to understand how that crosses the line.
And far from "people like me being what's wrong with medicine these days" insisting that doctors be walking prescription pads (which I am not, and never even implied), it's people like you who don't understand the difference between what a doctor must do, and what he must *not* do, who contribute to the awful state of medicine in the U.S. because you don't understand your own obligations as a patient. I probably have more knowledge about this aspect of medicine than you do - I've been married to a doctor for 28 years.
The original poster can be as pleased as he likes that the doctor did that, but that doesn't make it right.
These folks had it better than 90% of the World, and when they made a boo boo they killed themselves.
Weak...
The problem is that you fundamentally misunderstand the human condition, and write off people who killed themselves for reasons you think are weak.
I suppose you think it's best that Alan Turing removed himself from the world, since he couldn't bear up under the persecution for being gay. If that occurred before he did his codebreaking work during World War II, we'd be living in a very different world. We'll never know what he *could* have done if he had been saved from committing suicide.
Also Anne Sexton, Vincent Van Gogh, gee, the list goes on of people who contributed much more than *you* ever will, whom you believe the world could have done without.
There's a difference between providing information about adoption and saying, in effect, "Hey, life is telling you not to attempt to reproduce." That is offensive.
Gotcha. There's something missing in you. I consider it a defect that has a small negative impact on human society, but I wouldn't encourage you to remove yourself from the world, because, you know, I don't have that particular defect. :-)
Two problems with your thinking:
1 - "population with disabilities that require care is growing exponentially" This is pure bullshit. Either you know nothing about the trend of incidence of disabilities in children, or you don't know what "exponentially" means. Citation, please. Oh, and be careful if you post a reference that it not show a higher incidence only because the rate of reporting is increasing. That's bullshit too.
2 - You didn't say what you believe "shouldn't be having children" means. Does it mean you express that opinion whenever it comes up in conversation, but do nothing about it? Does it mean you vote for politicians whose policies would deny any sort of public funding to individuals with at high risk for disabled offspring? Does it mean that you go around snipping the vas deferens of people who look "disability-like" to you? Sure, we can discuss your opinion, but first you have to state something with a shred of meaning.
3 - (bonus problem) The comment about sperm is a pure straw man argument.
I'm glad your story turned out well, but if your physician really told you, "It may be that life is giving you a hint." then he was overstepping the bounds of ethical treatment. It's none of his fucking business what you choose, his business is to listen to what you *want*, and tell you what he can *do* for you.
The Dr. Phil homespun bullshit should be grounds for censure from the medical board.
This, with artificial implantation and genetic engineering, brings us one step closer to asexual reproduction. It won't be long before science is able to pair DNA from two women to create a new offspring. Artificial wombs will follow. Soon women won't need men any more. Then the male geeks will go from having had a limited chance, to having zero hope of ever meeting a woman and having sex.
Oh, you think women only put up with sex with males because they get babies out of it? Dude, there are sexist, racist, white bread men from the 1950's looking at you saying, "oh no he dint!"
:-)
Maybe you are rationalizing why you never get any?
In this day and age... it was the first thing that popped in my mind when you get a cluster like this.
But in the end, so many people seem to opt for suicide for reasons stemming from Facebook harassment to a failed business which tells me they are weak minded, weak willed, and frankly we are better off without them.
Ah, okay, you have stated it more plainly than in your post, above.
You reveal you are without empathy for your fellow humans. Sociopath, perhaps? You might make a good CEO.
All of those are reasons for suicide. Oh, you mean you don't believe they are *sufficient* reasons for suicide, for you, at this time? Then don't kill yourself. Today.
Your life can change in the blink of an eye.