When my wife was pregnant with our first kid, there were some complications. We ended up getting a dozen ultrasounds over the course of the pregnancy. It cost us a total of $10 for the printouts, and those were optional. The first us was at 10 weeks when she looked like a little gummy bear. (She'll be 8 in 4 weeks.) The second kid had the same set of concerns so we get another dozen ultrasounds. (He'll be 6 in a few months.) Both times the complication was pre-eclampsia, excess fluid, and they were both too big so we got C-sections. (4.5kg, 38cm head circumference) For the first, the doctors used prostaglandin and oxytocin to induce labour, but it wouldn't work so we moved to an emergency c-section. The boy was late, so VBAC was canceled and we got another c-section.
Total cost, including hospital stay: $0.
I get my iron levels checked routinely, I've got my annual physical coming up (I call to make the appointment on my birthday) and it's 100% covered including any bloodwork. My wife gets several hormone levels and her iron levels checked on a regular basis too.
Now, it's not all free. We pay $120 a month for our family coverage. It covers basic services but not ambulance rides. (Some people were using them for taxis, so they put in a $65 fee for ambulance pickup. They bill you later, you don't have to whip out the traveller's cheques to get in like the time we my brother got hurt in the US.)
One time the kids got hit by a car and we were about 300m from the ambulance dispatch station. There was another family there, and I think the dispatcher said "send everybody...everybody" and everybody came. Five ambulances, less than a minute. The stroller was destroyed, the kids were rushed to the hospital, scanned and examined, and released that night. They even brought them stuffies to play with and keep them happy. (To this day we celebrate the stuffies' birthday.)
At the end of the day I guess it's just like at the cinema, Avatar was phenomenal in 3D but little else has been, likewise, it appears games are suited to 3D too.
Pop quiz, hotshot: 1. Who was Luke's mentor in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi? 2. Who was the character in The Lord of the Rings that chased "his precious"? 3. Name the blue girl in Avatar.
3D doesn't make for good, memorable characters. It makes for gimmicky crap. Avatar was a terrible movie with a 3D effect, 2D characters, and a 1D plot.
Online courses. The materials are delivered by (in her case) D2L, but others (like Moodle) exist to give course material to students in an academic setting.
Uh, that's a good price for just about any decent-quality instrument, used or not. The seller probably could have got a lot more for it if they had done their homework.
I play the euphonium -- if I found a B&H Imperial or a Besson Sovereign for that price, I'd use Buy it Now.
Well then, you haven't programmed anything complicated, have you? Nothing that you've had to look at five years later?
At a previous job, I wrote a decoder that took about 20 lines to implement. I added somewhere around 100 lines of comments to explain why it was doing what it was doing. What is was doing was obvious, at least to me when I programmed it, and for the first few months thereafter. Why it was copying arrays into backstep[i][j] if the error accumulator went over the threshold?
The comments were a complete story. If you didn't even know what the hell the decoder WAS, you'd be able to code one by the time you went through that code.
No, the actual damages are the amount lost. In this case, $4200.
You could also get interest on that amount, let's say one year of 2% compound, round up. That'll be about $200.
Add in the legal fees... wait, you guys don't do that.
Any additional amount, designed to punish, is the punitive part. There should be some kind of punishment, otherwise what's the risk? Download for free, get caught and pay just the cost that you'd pay at the store (assume even a 90% chance of being caught) and you'd be foolish to buy any kind of electronic media ever.
No, I can't outrun Death, but he's got to put on a pair of shoes and fucking work for it. Fifteen years ago I weighed 250#, ate too much of bad quality food. I started biking to work, and the first day I got about 200 yards before I had to take a rest. It was that bad. I kept it up, and eventually I got all the way to college without having to take a rest. I still bike; I biked to work today. I now weigh 165# and volunteer at the Y teaching spin classes. I've changed my entire outlook and physiology. I've been stable at this weight for years,
If I had kept going I'd likely have had my first heart attack by now. Somewhere in the town I live there's a cardiologist with an unexplained empty spot in their schedule because I never made that appointment.
There is only One God, and his name is Death. There is only one thing we say to Death: "Not today!"
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Hell man, I'm an atheist (nothing but organ donation / apple tree fertilizer / medical room decoration in my "after-life") and I wouldn't want to live like that.
You've killed the "bad" germs by cooking. (Salmonella, E. Coli, etc). The spoilage germs can't live in your stomach (too acidic). You can eat spoiled food no problem.
Same here, it's the cost of the plans that's kept me cell-phone-free this whole time. It's only a mere $50 + connection fees + ass raping fee + fake government fee + access fee + taxes + CEO wants a jet fee, how can I fuckin' lose?
When "...common side effects may include: itching, rash, diarrhea, constipation, shortness of breath, nausea, inability to urinate, hair falling out, unusual hair growth, erections lasting longer than four hours, seizure, coma, or death..."
Let me tell you about the flashing LED, because it's stupid. Obviously, Hollywood put the blinking on because it makes good TV.
I used to work for a company that made GPS tracking collars for animals. The GPS would be recorded and sent out via VHF to a receiver up to about 20km away. (12 miles)
The VHF transmitter on those collars used a voltage regulator to make sure that the signal is the right strength. Those regulators were $1.60 each. By staggering coincidence, a red LED provided the same voltage regulation for $0.22. It also had the side benefit of letting us know when the VHF section was transmitting because it would light up.
We went with the "let's save $1.38 p.u. + get a troubleshooting light" option, so there are in fact real-life tracking transmitters that have a blinking light.
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It's a little over 20% including sales taxes.
That's not entirely fair as I also have a heavily subsidized Bachelor's degree in Engineering. (I had $0 in student loans when I graduated.)
What is your total tax rate?
Meanwhile in Canada:
When my wife was pregnant with our first kid, there were some complications. We ended up getting a dozen ultrasounds over the course of the pregnancy. It cost us a total of $10 for the printouts, and those were optional. The first us was at 10 weeks when she looked like a little gummy bear. (She'll be 8 in 4 weeks.) The second kid had the same set of concerns so we get another dozen ultrasounds. (He'll be 6 in a few months.) Both times the complication was pre-eclampsia, excess fluid, and they were both too big so we got C-sections. (4.5kg, 38cm head circumference) For the first, the doctors used prostaglandin and oxytocin to induce labour, but it wouldn't work so we moved to an emergency c-section. The boy was late, so VBAC was canceled and we got another c-section.
Total cost, including hospital stay: $0.
I get my iron levels checked routinely, I've got my annual physical coming up (I call to make the appointment on my birthday) and it's 100% covered including any bloodwork. My wife gets several hormone levels and her iron levels checked on a regular basis too.
Now, it's not all free. We pay $120 a month for our family coverage. It covers basic services but not ambulance rides. (Some people were using them for taxis, so they put in a $65 fee for ambulance pickup. They bill you later, you don't have to whip out the traveller's cheques to get in like the time we my brother got hurt in the US.)
One time the kids got hit by a car and we were about 300m from the ambulance dispatch station. There was another family there, and I think the dispatcher said "send everybody...everybody" and everybody came. Five ambulances, less than a minute. The stroller was destroyed, the kids were rushed to the hospital, scanned and examined, and released that night. They even brought them stuffies to play with and keep them happy. (To this day we celebrate the stuffies' birthday.)
Total cost: $65 for the ambulance ride.
For fuck's sake, James Cameron, get an account already.
At the end of the day I guess it's just like at the cinema, Avatar was phenomenal in 3D but little else has been, likewise, it appears games are suited to 3D too.
Pop quiz, hotshot:
1. Who was Luke's mentor in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi?
2. Who was the character in The Lord of the Rings that chased "his precious"?
3. Name the blue girl in Avatar.
3D doesn't make for good, memorable characters. It makes for gimmicky crap. Avatar was a terrible movie with a 3D effect, 2D characters, and a 1D plot.
Online courses. The materials are delivered by (in her case) D2L, but others (like Moodle) exist to give course material to students in an academic setting.
My wife is the sys admin for the distance education department of a local college, so I'm getting a kick out of your replies.
Uh, that's a good price for just about any decent-quality instrument, used or not. The seller probably could have got a lot more for it if they had done their homework.
I play the euphonium -- if I found a B&H Imperial or a Besson Sovereign for that price, I'd use Buy it Now.
Corporate XP here too. I finally got IE8 in December, I was on IE6 for years.
Ubuntu at home though.
Well then, you haven't programmed anything complicated, have you? Nothing that you've had to look at five years later?
At a previous job, I wrote a decoder that took about 20 lines to implement. I added somewhere around 100 lines of comments to explain why it was doing what it was doing. What is was doing was obvious, at least to me when I programmed it, and for the first few months thereafter. Why it was copying arrays into backstep[i][j] if the error accumulator went over the threshold?
The comments were a complete story. If you didn't even know what the hell the decoder WAS, you'd be able to code one by the time you went through that code.
David Brin's Kiln People was an excellent entry into the "copying people" genre.
I'll watch that once I get home.
No, the actual damages are the amount lost. In this case, $4200.
You could also get interest on that amount, let's say one year of 2% compound, round up. That'll be about $200.
Add in the legal fees... wait, you guys don't do that.
Any additional amount, designed to punish, is the punitive part. There should be some kind of punishment, otherwise what's the risk? Download for free, get caught and pay just the cost that you'd pay at the store (assume even a 90% chance of being caught) and you'd be foolish to buy any kind of electronic media ever.
No, I can't outrun Death, but he's got to put on a pair of shoes and fucking work for it. Fifteen years ago I weighed 250#, ate too much of bad quality food. I started biking to work, and the first day I got about 200 yards before I had to take a rest. It was that bad. I kept it up, and eventually I got all the way to college without having to take a rest. I still bike; I biked to work today. I now weigh 165# and volunteer at the Y teaching spin classes. I've changed my entire outlook and physiology. I've been stable at this weight for years,
If I had kept going I'd likely have had my first heart attack by now. Somewhere in the town I live there's a cardiologist with an unexplained empty spot in their schedule because I never made that appointment.
There is only One God, and his name is Death. There is only one thing we say to Death: "Not today!"
Hell man, I'm an atheist (nothing but organ donation / apple tree fertilizer / medical room decoration in my "after-life") and I wouldn't want to live like that.
I'm reading An Apple a Day right now, so I'm getting a kick out of your reply.
You've killed the "bad" germs by cooking. (Salmonella, E. Coli, etc). The spoilage germs can't live in your stomach (too acidic). You can eat spoiled food no problem.
250# fifteen years ago.
165# now.
I cut out a lot of junk food and started biking to work.
I know I didn't get D / P / T. It was just my immune system loading the firmware update. ;)
I'm not a wimp, I just have sick days and I take them when I'm sick.
My philosophy is that if you have an important problem you will call.
My philosophy is that if you have an important problem you will call 911.
I'll just put this, ahem, bookmark here for later.
Same here, it's the cost of the plans that's kept me cell-phone-free this whole time. It's only a mere $50 + connection fees + ass raping fee + fake government fee + access fee + taxes + CEO wants a jet fee, how can I fuckin' lose?
I had to take a day of work after my DPT boosters.
When "...common side effects may include: itching, rash, diarrhea, constipation, shortness of breath, nausea, inability to urinate, hair falling out, unusual hair growth, erections lasting longer than four hours, seizure, coma, or death..."
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GET IN LINE.
Did you read the part about saving more than $1 per unit?
Or maybe you just don't know much about production.
Let me tell you about the flashing LED, because it's stupid. Obviously, Hollywood put the blinking on because it makes good TV.
I used to work for a company that made GPS tracking collars for animals. The GPS would be recorded and sent out via VHF to a receiver up to about 20km away. (12 miles)
The VHF transmitter on those collars used a voltage regulator to make sure that the signal is the right strength. Those regulators were $1.60 each. By staggering coincidence, a red LED provided the same voltage regulation for $0.22. It also had the side benefit of letting us know when the VHF section was transmitting because it would light up.
We went with the "let's save $1.38 p.u. + get a troubleshooting light" option, so there are in fact real-life tracking transmitters that have a blinking light.