My 13 year old daughter asked what she should be when she grows up. I'm wondering whether or not I should even recommend that she goes to college. Maybe the thing to do would be to take half a dozen university classes, then drop out and start a business, maybe open a restaurant. A friend of mine has a son entering college now. He's going for engineering. My friend pleaded with him not to go into engineering, but he wouldn't listen. One one hand, I feel like we should be telling them to do what they enjoy. On the other hand, I feel like telling them to do something that has to be done here. Car repair? Plumbing? Open a restaurant?
It doesn't matter. IIRC, it's a serial ata drive. You can easily get replacement cases for the old xbox, I'm sure someone will make a new larger enclosure for a 3.5" drive that plugs in place of the old one. Just transplant any electronics and put in the new drive. Or, you could just get a generic external enclosure and make an external usb drive or even better, network share.
That could be fixed by adding more doctors. It's a solvable problem.
Yeah, pay them more and more people will become doctors. I was shocked to hear what a doctor in the UK makes.
In the US, insurance costs are through the roof (you could probably rival Bill Gates on wealth just by not getting sick), medicare is rife with fraud by hospitals and not all insurance is even accepted at all hospitals, so you can get turfed out even in life-or-death situations.
I have eight kids (not a typo). I'm an independant contractor. I do this little dance where I take a real job, either salaried or w2 just to get health insurance for a few months, then I switch back to independant and continue on cobra for 18 months. (for the non-americans, the federal government requires that employers offer the same insurance to former employees for 18 months after they leave.) For this, I'm currently paying $1200 a month. Believe it or not, it's sort of a good deal because we go to the doctor often. I'm also taking a new autoimmune drug called enbrel that costs about $2400 a month.:-) So I'm coming out way ahead.
so you can get turfed out even in life-or-death situations
Hostpitals are required by law to "stabilize" you if you show up, regardless of whether or not you can pay. That said, I've heard horror stories about hospitals placing workers outside the emergency room doors to interrogate people about their health insurance before allowing them in, even if they're bleeding to death.
Another issue is that hostpitals charge very different amounts based on your insurance situation. Insurance companies negotiate special rates with hospitals and doctors which is why your insurance may not work at some hospitals. An MRI may cost $500 if billed to an insurance company. But if you're self-pay, then they'll charge you $1000 or more for the same MRI.
Years ago, I passed out in the shower and hit my head. My wife thought I was having a siezure so she called 911. The ambulance showed up, but I came to before they loaded me up, and she drove me over to the hospital. It was 1 week before our insurance was supposed to start so we didn't want the expense of the ambulance ride. When we walked in, we said the S-word (siezure). That made them classify me as a "level 4 trauma victim" which required a special level of observation by the emergency room staff. Literally every resident doctor in the hospital stopped by to get their fee. I was fine, but stuck there for over eight hours. I had an MRI just to be sure, it came back fine. The bill was $3500, and that was without being admitted to the hospital. This was about 10 years ago, I'm sure it would be closer to $6000 now. It nearly sunk us.
The insurance companies make money because they negotiate special rates from the health care providers while charging you and your employer an arm and a leg. They also look for every little technicality possible to not cover a claim. I've heard many stories about people who've had to sue insurance companies to get them to cover transplants or cancer care for example after their denied coverage, and this is when it was obvious that it should be covered. Another thing people often overlook is that most health insurance here has a maximum lifetime benefit amount that's usually around $1,000,000 or $2,000,000. All you have to do to hit that is have kidney failure, cancer, or get aids.
You'd have to get OSX illegally. You'd have to either get a hacked version from uncle jed or you'd have to download something weird from a strange site, or worse, IRC, to mix with OSX to get it to work. People like us could pull this off, or teenage hacker wannabes with a lot of free time. But most people want to buy the computer with the OS already installed, then never think about it again. I'm sure we'll see a hacked any-hardware version of OSX in the wild, and I'm sure they'll sue. But I doubt it will matter much to apple. They can control this quite well with access to drivers I think. Open source people will probably address some of this, but I bet most of those people will continue to work on linux.
What this really opens the door to is a wine-like product to run apple applications on linux.:-)
Right now they are being doomed to a life of pop culture, consumerism, and thoughtless dribble.
My 13 year old daughter was caught as the only student in class who knew the answer to the teacher's question on so many occasions, that it started to have a negative effect on her social situation. She was always the only one raising her hand. She told us that she's decided to act dumber at school so that she can fit in better.
Her social studies teacher referred to Arlington National Cemetary as "that cemetary in DC" because she couldn't remember the name, and said so. My daughter chose not to correct her.
At last, we can make her invisible jet! All we need is the magic lasso and a milf in red white and blue spandex and we can all live happily ever after.
IF (and in all honesty I don't believe it) what you are saying is true, then this "silent majority" of Christians had better start speaking up for what they believe in. The guys getting all the airtime and press are busy furiously digging a trench back to the fourteenth century, and yelling at full volume about how great the view is from said trench.
This isn't really any different from, say, peta or greenpeace. You're only hearing from the most radical with an agenda.
For the record, I am very opposed to teaching intelegent design in science class. Instead, I would rather see something of a compromise. Often times, evolution is taught as though it is absolute fact, leaving out the "theory" in the theory of evolution, as if science has all the answers. Later, some other discovery is made changing some of the facts. To most christians, and to me as well, the science that theory of evolution is based upon feels very shaky. A bone here, a tooth there, and all of a sudden, there's a complete artist's rendition of a mystery animal, and it's fact that it existed. Now clearly, it's hard to argue with other facts such as complete dinosaur skeletons. So there's obviously more to the story than we can devine (ha!) from the bible or science.
One of the things that I hear christians complaining about is how christianity is now the target of discrimination in public schools. I've experienced this for myself. I think what's really going on is that in some parts of the country the ultra-left is winning and in others, the ultra-right is winning. And of course, we all hear our side's horror stories about what happened in some school district somewhere. I'd like to see a highschool comparative religion class that talks about all of the major religions including christianity. This is where intellegent design belongs.
The type of christians I meet is probably a function of the people I associate with. That would be mostly science/computer people, and people who have participated in international adoption. I think upbringing, education, and intellegence has just as much of an effect on christians as it does everyone else.
At the core, religion teaches you to venerate the unknown, and treat it as unknowable, while science teaches you to investigate it.
As a christian and a scientist (not to be confused with christian science), I can tell you that this isn't completely accurate. Christianity and science are no opposites that are somehow diametrically opposed. I think that christianity teaches that some things are unknowable. But there's nothing that says that fire or natural disasters or the phases of the moon for example, are unknowable mysteries and the study of them is heresy. This view is somewhat medieval. I don't know any christians who think this way.
The entire point to christianity is faith. And you can't have faith in something that you can scientifically prove. Otherwise, what's the point?
I think that today, the vast majority of christians believe that nature and christianity fit together in some elegant, unknowable fashion. Many don't believe that humans first appeared 6000 years ago, or that the universe was created in exactly six days. These are most likely metaphores, as is much of the bible. While other parts of the bible are clearly intended to be taken as fact.
I think a lot of my views would surprise you. You may not want to paint christians with such a broad brush.
On the plus side , RFID does not involve Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise walks by an advert in the mall...
Good afternoon Mr Cruise. Feeling not-so-clear? It's been three weeks since your last auditing session! Just stop by the org for a quick session! E-meter low on power? We can recharge your e-meter for a small one-time fee of $3000!
Slashdot Mirror
That equates roughly to a resolution of 2418x951 give or take a few
Since it's in times square, does that make it a new year's resolution?
You think that's disturbing? I first read the title as "Oprah". I'd really rather not see a 54 square meter Oprah.
So I guess it will be someone's O-face? Oh! Oh!
Personally, I'm anti perl debugging.
My 13 year old daughter asked what she should be when she grows up. I'm wondering whether or not I should even recommend that she goes to college. Maybe the thing to do would be to take half a dozen university classes, then drop out and start a business, maybe open a restaurant. A friend of mine has a son entering college now. He's going for engineering. My friend pleaded with him not to go into engineering, but he wouldn't listen. One one hand, I feel like we should be telling them to do what they enjoy. On the other hand, I feel like telling them to do something that has to be done here. Car repair? Plumbing? Open a restaurant?
Yeah but have you ever seen a japanese-run minimart?
Just a little higher up, they're talking about quantum porn. When that gets here, you can be sure that an awful lot of kittens will be dying.
What is this "World" that you speak of?
You've seen it before. You know, the World Series?
And hence it's natural that their Intelligent Design also led them to having Windows
But we all learned from Jeff Goldblum that the aliens are using OSX, since he was able to use his mac to upload a virus.
Yeah, he's the go-to-guy for code optimization.
It doesn't matter. IIRC, it's a serial ata drive. You can easily get replacement cases for the old xbox, I'm sure someone will make a new larger enclosure for a 3.5" drive that plugs in place of the old one. Just transplant any electronics and put in the new drive. Or, you could just get a generic external enclosure and make an external usb drive or even better, network share.
That could be fixed by adding more doctors. It's a solvable problem.
:-) So I'm coming out way ahead.
Yeah, pay them more and more people will become doctors. I was shocked to hear what a doctor in the UK makes.
In the US, insurance costs are through the roof (you could probably rival Bill Gates on wealth just by not getting sick), medicare is rife with fraud by hospitals and not all insurance is even accepted at all hospitals, so you can get turfed out even in life-or-death situations.
I have eight kids (not a typo). I'm an independant contractor. I do this little dance where I take a real job, either salaried or w2 just to get health insurance for a few months, then I switch back to independant and continue on cobra for 18 months. (for the non-americans, the federal government requires that employers offer the same insurance to former employees for 18 months after they leave.) For this, I'm currently paying $1200 a month. Believe it or not, it's sort of a good deal because we go to the doctor often. I'm also taking a new autoimmune drug called enbrel that costs about $2400 a month.
so you can get turfed out even in life-or-death situations
Hostpitals are required by law to "stabilize" you if you show up, regardless of whether or not you can pay. That said, I've heard horror stories about hospitals placing workers outside the emergency room doors to interrogate people about their health insurance before allowing them in, even if they're bleeding to death.
Another issue is that hostpitals charge very different amounts based on your insurance situation. Insurance companies negotiate special rates with hospitals and doctors which is why your insurance may not work at some hospitals. An MRI may cost $500 if billed to an insurance company. But if you're self-pay, then they'll charge you $1000 or more for the same MRI.
Years ago, I passed out in the shower and hit my head. My wife thought I was having a siezure so she called 911. The ambulance showed up, but I came to before they loaded me up, and she drove me over to the hospital. It was 1 week before our insurance was supposed to start so we didn't want the expense of the ambulance ride. When we walked in, we said the S-word (siezure). That made them classify me as a "level 4 trauma victim" which required a special level of observation by the emergency room staff. Literally every resident doctor in the hospital stopped by to get their fee. I was fine, but stuck there for over eight hours. I had an MRI just to be sure, it came back fine. The bill was $3500, and that was without being admitted to the hospital. This was about 10 years ago, I'm sure it would be closer to $6000 now. It nearly sunk us.
The insurance companies make money because they negotiate special rates from the health care providers while charging you and your employer an arm and a leg. They also look for every little technicality possible to not cover a claim. I've heard many stories about people who've had to sue insurance companies to get them to cover transplants or cancer care for example after their denied coverage, and this is when it was obvious that it should be covered. Another thing people often overlook is that most health insurance here has a maximum lifetime benefit amount that's usually around $1,000,000 or $2,000,000. All you have to do to hit that is have kidney failure, cancer, or get aids.
Not to mention the interchangeable faceplates! They make everything look faster...
Personally, I'm holding out for the Type-R faceplate.
And can you imagine the blade hitting that monolith?! You thought sprinkler heads were bad!
You'd have to get OSX illegally. You'd have to either get a hacked version from uncle jed or you'd have to download something weird from a strange site, or worse, IRC, to mix with OSX to get it to work. People like us could pull this off, or teenage hacker wannabes with a lot of free time. But most people want to buy the computer with the OS already installed, then never think about it again. I'm sure we'll see a hacked any-hardware version of OSX in the wild, and I'm sure they'll sue. But I doubt it will matter much to apple. They can control this quite well with access to drivers I think. Open source people will probably address some of this, but I bet most of those people will continue to work on linux.
:-)
What this really opens the door to is a wine-like product to run apple applications on linux.
Personally, I like when they pop up like that.
And with firefox, you get to touch a mouse, but with a woman, you get to touch a cat. (meow)
www.missilebases.com
Some actually are completed houses now.
Right now they are being doomed to a life of pop culture, consumerism, and thoughtless dribble.
My 13 year old daughter was caught as the only student in class who knew the answer to the teacher's question on so many occasions, that it started to have a negative effect on her social situation. She was always the only one raising her hand. She told us that she's decided to act dumber at school so that she can fit in better.
Her social studies teacher referred to Arlington National Cemetary as "that cemetary in DC" because she couldn't remember the name, and said so. My daughter chose not to correct her.
Don't you get it? They deleted the internet!!
Good thing I downloaded it last night.
Homogenizing the world just makes it a more boring place.
:-P
How else am I going to eat ahc Chili's when I'm on my business trip to Riyadh?
At last, we can make her invisible jet! All we need is the magic lasso and a milf in red white and blue spandex and we can all live happily ever after.
IF (and in all honesty I don't believe it) what you are saying is true, then this "silent majority" of Christians had better start speaking up for what they believe in. The guys getting all the airtime and press are busy furiously digging a trench back to the fourteenth century, and yelling at full volume about how great the view is from said trench.
This isn't really any different from, say, peta or greenpeace. You're only hearing from the most radical with an agenda.
For the record, I am very opposed to teaching intelegent design in science class. Instead, I would rather see something of a compromise. Often times, evolution is taught as though it is absolute fact, leaving out the "theory" in the theory of evolution, as if science has all the answers. Later, some other discovery is made changing some of the facts. To most christians, and to me as well, the science that theory of evolution is based upon feels very shaky. A bone here, a tooth there, and all of a sudden, there's a complete artist's rendition of a mystery animal, and it's fact that it existed. Now clearly, it's hard to argue with other facts such as complete dinosaur skeletons. So there's obviously more to the story than we can devine (ha!) from the bible or science.
One of the things that I hear christians complaining about is how christianity is now the target of discrimination in public schools. I've experienced this for myself. I think what's really going on is that in some parts of the country the ultra-left is winning and in others, the ultra-right is winning. And of course, we all hear our side's horror stories about what happened in some school district somewhere. I'd like to see a highschool comparative religion class that talks about all of the major religions including christianity. This is where intellegent design belongs.
The type of christians I meet is probably a function of the people I associate with. That would be mostly science/computer people, and people who have participated in international adoption. I think upbringing, education, and intellegence has just as much of an effect on christians as it does everyone else.
At the core, religion teaches you to venerate the unknown, and treat it as unknowable, while science teaches you to investigate it.
As a christian and a scientist (not to be confused with christian science), I can tell you that this isn't completely accurate. Christianity and science are no opposites that are somehow diametrically opposed. I think that christianity teaches that some things are unknowable. But there's nothing that says that fire or natural disasters or the phases of the moon for example, are unknowable mysteries and the study of them is heresy. This view is somewhat medieval. I don't know any christians who think this way.
The entire point to christianity is faith. And you can't have faith in something that you can scientifically prove. Otherwise, what's the point?
I think that today, the vast majority of christians believe that nature and christianity fit together in some elegant, unknowable fashion. Many don't believe that humans first appeared 6000 years ago, or that the universe was created in exactly six days. These are most likely metaphores, as is much of the bible. While other parts of the bible are clearly intended to be taken as fact.
I think a lot of my views would surprise you. You may not want to paint christians with such a broad brush.
On the plus side , RFID does not involve Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise walks by an advert in the mall...
Good afternoon Mr Cruise. Feeling not-so-clear? It's been three weeks since your last auditing session! Just stop by the org for a quick session! E-meter low on power? We can recharge your e-meter for a small one-time fee of $3000!
Duh, just wait until after your done with it ;)
Know how to recycle a condom so you can use it again? Just flip it inside out and shake the fuck out of it.