We had a similar experience (sort of) in the UK earlier this year. We had a 4 day stopover, and my daughter was sick with a fever and throwing up after getting off the plane. My wife took her to the emergency room, where she received top-knotch care from sympathetic and helpful medical staff. She received prescription antibiotics, and the entire process cost us a total of £0. Healthcare in the UK is free for children, whether they are citizens, residents, or visitors. We were really impressed and appreciative. Thanks, UK taxpayers!
I imagine that there's some limit, like maybe only emergency room visits are covered for visitors or something like that. Still, the process was simple, the staff were helpful, and my daughter got what she needed and she was fine as soon as the antibiotics kicked in.
That's an interesting post, but did you notice that the article is talking about the NHS? Regarding advertising, in the UK, http://www.mhra.gov.uk/Howweregulate/Medicines/Advertisingofmedicines/ states that "The Regulations prohibit the issue of any advertisement to the general public which is likely to lead to the use of a prescription only medicine (POM)."
Since you're talking about the US, that's an idea you Americans could take and run with. Once you've done that, we can all start dealing with the pharmaceutical industry's marketing towards doctors.
I've wondered for a long time why airline seats are so (seemingly) heavy. It seemed like a no-brainer that they'd be spending money on lighter weight seats. So, I was really surprised upon reading the article that the guy from Recaro said that 5 years ago, their seats weight about 29 lbs. That's surprisingly light for a seat that size and apparent heft when you look at them. Even more incredible is they've managed to save a further 9 lbs off that with their lightest current seat.
At 6'4 I'm pretty protective over my legroom. In my opinion they should improve coach by just not allowing reclining seats. I know that will never "fly", but it really pisses me off when some 5'1 person in front of me reclines their seat all the way back into me once the plane takes off. I just pretend the seat is back in its upright position, and if that means they get bumped every two minutes, they can just move their seatback forward. I guess it's only going to get worse. Or, I have to get a lot richer and start flying in a more expensive class.
If this is the case, why is it that most of these articles use phrases like "many of them belonging to Americans"? If it doesn't matter, why is the point made? The answer, of course, is that it does matter. That is, it matters to American law. For reference, see https://www.aclu.org/nsa-surveillance-procedures and highlight the word "Americans".
Speaking as a non-American, I think it shouldn't matter whether I'm American, Austrian, or Azerbaijani. We're all human and we all have the same rights. I find it offensive when I read these articles and there's always the "including Americans" tagged onto the article headline, like somehow it's OK if it's done to non-Americans. I realize it wouldn't be much different if any other country had been caught with their pants down. It's just that in this case it's the US (again).
This one could be considered the opposite of the rant in the tarticle. Why in Canada with Bell on my land line am I NOT ALLOWED to dial 1 before a local number, yet I HAVE to dial 1 before a long distance number? I DON'T CARE if it's local or long distance! I can afford the $0.04 per minute or whatever. Just let me make the call without having to hang up and dial again with or without the magic prepended 1.
At least my mobile phone just tells me it's local/long distance and puts the call through anyway. It's an improvement.
I switched from Bell to TekSavvy for my home phone a few years ago. I thought TekSavvy might make this problem go away then but it didn't.
No they can't really. The article is really about the reinsurance companies. These are the companies from which the insurance companies buy their insurance. Insurance company X maybe doesn't have $10B in the bank to underwrite all their policies. They may be bringing in $100M per year in policies, and pay $75M per year to underwrite their policies from reinsurance company Y. Note that I'm not in the business and I'm pulling these numbers out of a hat.
An established company is probably running similar risk numbers to everyone else and reaching similar conclusions. An upstart insurance company betting against global warming and offering lower policies is unlikely to have the cashflow to purchase their more expensive reinsurance. They're also the ones most likely to need reinsurance as they don't possess any significant assets to underwrite their policies themselves.
I live in the region, and right now I'm glad I work for a startup based in another country. There's going to be increasingly fierce competition for those open positions around here over the next few years. Of course, I'm good enough that it wouldn't matter to me personally;-)
We'll see what, if anything, it does to the real estate market.
That's been the problem with GM for as long as I can remember. They make cars that (they think) people want to buy.
The problem is, that people in general aren't thinking of the future. Most of us aren't very bright, and we want something big and shiny that we thought was pretty cool a few years ago when we first saw it. We also don't consider the true cost of our purchases, only thinking of the up-front costs. Most people when it come down to it also hate cars and hate driving, and don't really care directly about safety or fuel economy. So, GM ends up with vehicles like the H2 and the Escalade EST which are essentially automotive dinosaurs from a company that hadn't yet realized they were extinct.
GM needs to be (slightly) in front of the market if they truly want to be successful. Sadly, that just isn't their way.
Why are you telling me to "stop buying shit laptops"? I'm not sure why I'm bothering to respond to this, but in the last decade I have bought six Mac laptops for my family and zero non-Mac laptops. I was just trying to point out a piece of information to the GGP.
If only that was true. I'm mysified how it's legal (in Canada) for people to dump piles advertising printed on dead trees on my driveway several times a week. Why is there no opt-out of that, or better yet, opt-in?
It seems like you and your poster children have missed the "swab the door handle" comment. The police are allowed to knock on your door and politely ask you for something. IANAL, but I'm sure they're also allowed to swab your door handle as it's on the OUTSIDE of your house. If they find the DNA on the door handle, it would be easy to get a warrant based on that evidence.
Could we please stop linking to ibitimes.com? Am I the only person here to be so annoyed by their automatic audio on the site that I never want to go there again?
I subscribe to Overland Journal. I'm not sure if it's up your alley, but you might be interested. It's the only magazine, oh sorry, journal, to which I subscribe.
THANK YOU Timothy for pointing out the link to ibitimes.com. I can't stand that site and leave every time I end up there without realizing it. Videos with sound on a business-related site? What a horrendous idea.
The sickest thing about this whole thing is mentioned in this quote:
[The judge] sentenced Anaya to 292 months in federal prison—more than 24 years—with no possibility of parole. Curtis Crow and Cesar Bonilla Montiel, the men at the top of the organization, received sentences half that length.
This guy refused to work with the police, so he got over 24 years in jail with no parole. The actual drug dealers got less than half that. How is that remotely just? Maybe the guy has some culpability, but 24 years in jail with no parole? Come on. I hope he's able somehow to appeal with a better lawyer.
MAY bypass? This is the case already, and has been for quite some time. I just got back from a month in Zambia, and it's completely commonplace to see a mud hut with a thatched roof, with a solar panel on top or set up outside. People are often off-grid, but the mobile phone is almost ubquitous. It's quite common even to see a satellite dish for the flat-screen TV. I'm talking about people in the bush, not in towns and cities.
So do I, but you do understand that it's not an either/or choice, right? Maybe you have a smaller family than me who all live in the same town. I have family all over the world, so I don't get to see them all as often as I'd like to.
I'm in the process of uploading lots of old scanned family pictures to Facebook. The reason is that almost all my immediate and extended family is on Facebook. This way my cousin can provide a comment on whether that was actually at her parent's farm or the one down the road or some other incredibly important tidbit of information, and my sister can read this and comment on it. If someone tags my nephew in a photo, he gets notified that there's a baby photo of him up. It's social aspects like this that make Facebook much better (in many ways) than Dropbox. Of course, there are downsides too. For those who don't want to have anything to do with Facebook, I'm happy to upload the photos to Dropbox and send them the link.
I completely agree. I own three domains based on mine or my wife's name, plus one more that I started for a business that went nowhere. Just between those, my small family would be paying $50/year for at least 11 accounts, probably more if I took a closer look. This means that instead of paying $0 which I do now, I'd be paying at least $550 per year. That's a LOT for what's essentially personal convenience and some testing accounts for work, not to mention the other family members who would have to start paying as well. There's one account in there I use professionally, and for that I'd be willing to pay $50 per year.
There needs to be a limited version of this for somewhere closer to $1/month + advertising, or $2/month without, per user. Maybe this will give a boost to smaller and lesser-known competitors.
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We had a similar experience (sort of) in the UK earlier this year. We had a 4 day stopover, and my daughter was sick with a fever and throwing up after getting off the plane. My wife took her to the emergency room, where she received top-knotch care from sympathetic and helpful medical staff. She received prescription antibiotics, and the entire process cost us a total of £0. Healthcare in the UK is free for children, whether they are citizens, residents, or visitors. We were really impressed and appreciative. Thanks, UK taxpayers!
I imagine that there's some limit, like maybe only emergency room visits are covered for visitors or something like that. Still, the process was simple, the staff were helpful, and my daughter got what she needed and she was fine as soon as the antibiotics kicked in.
That's an interesting post, but did you notice that the article is talking about the NHS? Regarding advertising, in the UK, http://www.mhra.gov.uk/Howweregulate/Medicines/Advertisingofmedicines/ states that "The Regulations prohibit the issue of any advertisement to the general public which is likely to lead to the use of a prescription only medicine (POM)."
Since you're talking about the US, that's an idea you Americans could take and run with. Once you've done that, we can all start dealing with the pharmaceutical industry's marketing towards doctors.
I've wondered for a long time why airline seats are so (seemingly) heavy. It seemed like a no-brainer that they'd be spending money on lighter weight seats. So, I was really surprised upon reading the article that the guy from Recaro said that 5 years ago, their seats weight about 29 lbs. That's surprisingly light for a seat that size and apparent heft when you look at them. Even more incredible is they've managed to save a further 9 lbs off that with their lightest current seat.
At 6'4 I'm pretty protective over my legroom. In my opinion they should improve coach by just not allowing reclining seats. I know that will never "fly", but it really pisses me off when some 5'1 person in front of me reclines their seat all the way back into me once the plane takes off. I just pretend the seat is back in its upright position, and if that means they get bumped every two minutes, they can just move their seatback forward. I guess it's only going to get worse. Or, I have to get a lot richer and start flying in a more expensive class.
That's because you're Canadian (I assume). Try to think like an American, because they don't use Interac.
If this is the case, why is it that most of these articles use phrases like "many of them belonging to Americans"? If it doesn't matter, why is the point made? The answer, of course, is that it does matter. That is, it matters to American law. For reference, see https://www.aclu.org/nsa-surveillance-procedures and highlight the word "Americans".
Speaking as a non-American, I think it shouldn't matter whether I'm American, Austrian, or Azerbaijani. We're all human and we all have the same rights. I find it offensive when I read these articles and there's always the "including Americans" tagged onto the article headline, like somehow it's OK if it's done to non-Americans. I realize it wouldn't be much different if any other country had been caught with their pants down. It's just that in this case it's the US (again).
This one could be considered the opposite of the rant in the tarticle. Why in Canada with Bell on my land line am I NOT ALLOWED to dial 1 before a local number, yet I HAVE to dial 1 before a long distance number? I DON'T CARE if it's local or long distance! I can afford the $0.04 per minute or whatever. Just let me make the call without having to hang up and dial again with or without the magic prepended 1.
At least my mobile phone just tells me it's local/long distance and puts the call through anyway. It's an improvement.
I switched from Bell to TekSavvy for my home phone a few years ago. I thought TekSavvy might make this problem go away then but it didn't.
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No they can't really. The article is really about the reinsurance companies. These are the companies from which the insurance companies buy their insurance. Insurance company X maybe doesn't have $10B in the bank to underwrite all their policies. They may be bringing in $100M per year in policies, and pay $75M per year to underwrite their policies from reinsurance company Y. Note that I'm not in the business and I'm pulling these numbers out of a hat.
An established company is probably running similar risk numbers to everyone else and reaching similar conclusions. An upstart insurance company betting against global warming and offering lower policies is unlikely to have the cashflow to purchase their more expensive reinsurance. They're also the ones most likely to need reinsurance as they don't possess any significant assets to underwrite their policies themselves.
I live in the region, and right now I'm glad I work for a startup based in another country. There's going to be increasingly fierce competition for those open positions around here over the next few years. Of course, I'm good enough that it wouldn't matter to me personally ;-)
We'll see what, if anything, it does to the real estate market.
That's been the problem with GM for as long as I can remember. They make cars that (they think) people want to buy.
The problem is, that people in general aren't thinking of the future. Most of us aren't very bright, and we want something big and shiny that we thought was pretty cool a few years ago when we first saw it. We also don't consider the true cost of our purchases, only thinking of the up-front costs. Most people when it come down to it also hate cars and hate driving, and don't really care directly about safety or fuel economy. So, GM ends up with vehicles like the H2 and the Escalade EST which are essentially automotive dinosaurs from a company that hadn't yet realized they were extinct.
GM needs to be (slightly) in front of the market if they truly want to be successful. Sadly, that just isn't their way.
Why are you telling me to "stop buying shit laptops"? I'm not sure why I'm bothering to respond to this, but in the last decade I have bought six Mac laptops for my family and zero non-Mac laptops. I was just trying to point out a piece of information to the GGP.
PROTIP: MacBook Air batteries aren't removable (in that sense).
Can we please stop linking to IBITimes articles until they remove auto-playing video/audio ads? Together, we can make it happen.
Don't forget the crap they just throw onto your driveway that has nothing to do with Canada Post.
If only that was true. I'm mysified how it's legal (in Canada) for people to dump piles advertising printed on dead trees on my driveway several times a week. Why is there no opt-out of that, or better yet, opt-in?
Will Quebecois programmers have to use .pfk as an extension?
It seems like you and your poster children have missed the "swab the door handle" comment. The police are allowed to knock on your door and politely ask you for something. IANAL, but I'm sure they're also allowed to swab your door handle as it's on the OUTSIDE of your house. If they find the DNA on the door handle, it would be easy to get a warrant based on that evidence.
Please stop linking to IBITimes until they remove video advertising.
Could we please stop linking to ibitimes.com? Am I the only person here to be so annoyed by their automatic audio on the site that I never want to go there again?
I subscribe to Overland Journal. I'm not sure if it's up your alley, but you might be interested. It's the only magazine, oh sorry, journal, to which I subscribe.
THANK YOU Timothy for pointing out the link to ibitimes.com. I can't stand that site and leave every time I end up there without realizing it. Videos with sound on a business-related site? What a horrendous idea.
[The judge] sentenced Anaya to 292 months in federal prison—more than 24 years—with no possibility of parole. Curtis Crow and Cesar Bonilla Montiel, the men at the top of the organization, received sentences half that length.
This guy refused to work with the police, so he got over 24 years in jail with no parole. The actual drug dealers got less than half that. How is that remotely just? Maybe the guy has some culpability, but 24 years in jail with no parole? Come on. I hope he's able somehow to appeal with a better lawyer.
MAY bypass? This is the case already, and has been for quite some time. I just got back from a month in Zambia, and it's completely commonplace to see a mud hut with a thatched roof, with a solar panel on top or set up outside. People are often off-grid, but the mobile phone is almost ubquitous. It's quite common even to see a satellite dish for the flat-screen TV. I'm talking about people in the bush, not in towns and cities.
So do I, but you do understand that it's not an either/or choice, right? Maybe you have a smaller family than me who all live in the same town. I have family all over the world, so I don't get to see them all as often as I'd like to.
I'm in the process of uploading lots of old scanned family pictures to Facebook. The reason is that almost all my immediate and extended family is on Facebook. This way my cousin can provide a comment on whether that was actually at her parent's farm or the one down the road or some other incredibly important tidbit of information, and my sister can read this and comment on it. If someone tags my nephew in a photo, he gets notified that there's a baby photo of him up. It's social aspects like this that make Facebook much better (in many ways) than Dropbox. Of course, there are downsides too. For those who don't want to have anything to do with Facebook, I'm happy to upload the photos to Dropbox and send them the link.
I completely agree. I own three domains based on mine or my wife's name, plus one more that I started for a business that went nowhere. Just between those, my small family would be paying $50/year for at least 11 accounts, probably more if I took a closer look. This means that instead of paying $0 which I do now, I'd be paying at least $550 per year. That's a LOT for what's essentially personal convenience and some testing accounts for work, not to mention the other family members who would have to start paying as well. There's one account in there I use professionally, and for that I'd be willing to pay $50 per year.
There needs to be a limited version of this for somewhere closer to $1/month + advertising, or $2/month without, per user. Maybe this will give a boost to smaller and lesser-known competitors.