Forget the class action. Instead, sue Microsoft, Lenovo, and the vendor (in this case Best Buy) in small claims court. It would cost them more to send someone to argue the case (or even to argue that you are bound by some bogus arbitration clause you never even implicitly agreed to because you didn't run Windows) than to just give you back your money.
Be fun to see what happens when you walk in with a bailiff and start seizing stuff. The bailiff only gives them one chance to pay before they grab stuff, and if they're not happy about it, off to court again.
You're free to unlock your phone once you've paid off your plan (you don't own it until then). Or just buy a phone without a plan - there's plenty of unlocked phones out there.
It also prevents Windows from being installed. Funny...
Bonus! But imagine the uproar if a vendor sold new computers with a BIOS that didn't allow the installation of Windows. People would be having fits about it.
I've seen people force ram with incompatible notches and contacts into the wrong slot. Then they wondered "what's that smell?" Anything that's impossible just takes a bit longer for an idiot.
They simply don't want people to wipe the machine down and install another OS - including previous versions of Windows. So unlike the OEM version which was tied to the sale of the hardware, even though the retail version allowed you to move the OS from one machine to another, good luck with that.
The product ("Microsoft Signature Edition") is in and of itself against antitrust law, and the computer violates the magnuson-moss act. Under the act, a manufacturer cannot require you to use a specific product (in this case Windows) when others offer replacement products (other OSes) to consumers that do substantially the same job. Same as manufacturers couldn't tell you that you have to use their brand of motor oil in your car. when others offer similar motor oils, or wheel rims, etc.
1) Syringes aren't as accurate.
2) Used syringes get diverted to illegal drug use
3) You have to get the right amount in the syringe before you can use it, which would be hard for someone who needs it to do it, so they'd be dependent on someone else doing it.
4) Pre-filled syringes allow oxygen to mix with the adrenaline, greatly reducing the shelf life. This is why it would be better if manufacturers offered pre-filled injection cartridges. The act of injecting air into the vial before withdrawing an equivalent amount of product contaminates the whole vial, whereas the insulin cartridges don't have this problem.
5) Sometimes more than 1 injection is needed. Easy to do with an insulin pen, harder to prepare and do in situ, carrying more risk.
6) WRT expired epipens, experiments showed that expired epipens still have 90% of their dose at 2-3 years past expiry date, and 70% of their dose at 5 years past expiry date. Given that the maximum effective dose depends on the patient's weight and other medications, and that the dose can't be adjusted, but rather use a 1-dose-fits-all strategy, being out by 10% won't have a significant effect on the outcome even if it's a couple of years out of date.
They can't afford the losses from uncollected bills. Any payment not collected isn't just foregone money - it cost fuel and wear and tear to make that money. And 30 day net - ha! They will get stiffed so many times because people know that the cost of collecting is higher than the amount collected. Heck, nobody is going to spend $6.47 plus envelope plus time lost to send a registered letter to collect $7.
Plus there's the additional problems of identifying the users accurately. What are you going to do - demand that you be allowed to take a picture of various IDs? People would rather pay immediately than hand over their personal info to a stranger, plus there's the lost time - you've just turned a convenience into an inconvenience.
Your argument that not paying tax doesn't affect the bottom line is so silly. EVERY expense affects the bottom line. Shareholder equity only increases or decreases after taxes are taken into account. If a company has $1 billion in profits, but has to pay $1.2 billion in taxes, shareholders have lost money even though the company made a profit. If the company hasn't got enough retained earnings to pay that tax bill, they will either have to take out a loan or tap the shareholders for more money. Failing to do either, they are insolvent, even though they had a pre-tax profit.
A company that has to take on an additional loan to pay taxes on profits is at an economic disadvantage (because of interest costs) than one that doesn't. They are less able to attract additional investment, loans will be at higher rates, their credit rating will be lower, some suppliers won't give them extended terms or lease equipment to them, and they won't be able to pay employees as well as their competitors. So, logically, taxes on those profits can and do affect competitiveness.
I guess I'm not a "protected class" with special privileges.
Are you also going to say that transsexual women shouldn't use the women's washroom because that's a "special privilege"? That would also require transsexual mentlike theseto usethe same bathroomas women and girls. Do you really want to go up to any of these guys and say they're just women who had their boobs cut off? Or that they have to pee in the women's bathroom?
Some of them still have vaginas, which just goes to show that sex is more than what's between the legs.
It's not even a question of "protected class." Go up to any woman and keep addressing her as a man, using male names and pronouns. Or vice versa for any man. Everyone has the right not to be subject to your brand of harassment, whether they're transsexual or not.
you have a gut revulsion to all transsexuals
True enough, as I'm sure most men do when they're not being politically correct. What percentage of men do you think would date or marry a transsexual?
Many men would, many men do. They aren't acting out of political correctness. Plus, you can't always tell that someone's a transsexual. As in the movie "transamerica" where one character said "We walk among you." It's a real hoot to watch men make fools of themselves dissing Caitlyn Jenner to someone they always knew as a woman and didn't know she used to be a man.
There's also the phenomenon of "trans-fans" -,en who chase after women because they are transsexuals, and that makes them exotic. Plus, no worry about getting her pregnant.
you have a gut revulsion to all transsexuals
True enough, as I'm sure most men do when they're not being politically correct. What percentage of men do you think would date or marry a transsexual?
You also have a fear of castration (many men do, you're not that special), and transsexuals are a problem for you.
Castration is especially repulsive, yes, but guys dressing up as women is also repulsive
You would have been a riot in Shakespearean times, where all roles, including female, were played by male actors. People didn't find it repulsive then, and it was only when the moral majority started their attacks that things changed.
Despite what you want to believe, nobody gets a free pass interfering with another's fundamental constitutional rights.
Like my constitutional rights to free speech? Thanks, I'm glad you're so concerned.
Ah yes, the last refuge of the freetard libertarians. Your right to free speech isn't absolute. Many forms of speech are illegal. For example, start making death threats, even to a third party. Start sexually harassing someone with lewd comments. Start passing child pornography around. False advertising. Try sending threats through the mail. Saying you have a bomb and are going to blow yourself up. Even copyright infringerment isn't protected, though people sure tried.
Now, lets get down to you. If you treat a transsexual at work the same way you have said you would treat Manning, even if it's only limited to not using their legal name, you can be fired for cause. There's plenty of speech that isn't protected by the second amendment, which is one reason why you would be well advised NOT
You made it clear several times that my explanations relating to m2f transsexuals must be invalid because they don't explain f2m transsexuals, even though I made it clear that my remarks were only applicable to m2f transsexuals. Quit trying to imply things I never said, and using that to discredit what I actually said.
BTW - There had been complaints about Zucker's methods in treating children for 2 decades, and he was unable to produce any studies that he didn't have a connection to that backed him up. Zucker is now toxic - nobody is going to hire him after years of documented child abuse.
Okay, lets cut to the chase. This has nothing to do with Chelsea Manning passing along files that exposed wrongdoing. Nor does it have to do with what society wants or doesn't want, even though you have fantasies of power (shouldn't have used the term "realm", not in this context) and try to prove yourself as being better than others, so you feel justified in rebelling against social conventions.
What really burns your ass is transsexuals, all transsexuals, simple as that. All this is just you "acting out" because you have a gut revulsion to all transsexuals, not just Manning. You also have a fear of castration (many men do, you're not that special), and transsexuals are a problem for you.
When you say others are delusional, you're projecting big-time. "Most of the world is wrong, it's only a special minority like me that see the truth."
And no, it's not "fucked up authoritarian bullshit" - it's enforcing people's right to live free of harassment, sexual or otherwise from people like you. Despite what you want to believe, nobody gets a free pass interfering with another's fundamental constitutional rights. You're not special enough to get a free pass. Better be careful - the law in the US is catching up. Eventually it might make it into the 1990s.
I've never been known as any other name on Slashdot, so there is no other name to call me. I didn't change my handle, identify as a unicorn, and then expect everybody else to abide by my wishes when addressing me.
Doesn't make a difference, since that's just a handle, not your name. You're a hypocrite to demand that Chelsea Manning be identified by her first and last birth names, but you don't apply the same rule to yourself.
Bradley Manning, on the other hand, achieved national recognition as a male under the name Bradley.
So what? She is known, nationally and internationally, by her legal name, not a nym.
If you want to go along with the delusion that Bradley is now a female and call him Chelsea, that's fine for you, but I'm not going to go along with it.
That her name is Chelsea is not a delusion, it's a documented fact. To continue to call her Bradley is refusing to acknowledge reality, in other words, you're operating under a delusion, which is what you accuse the majority of the world of doing.
It's fine for you not to acknowledge it in private. It's not fine to label her, or anyone else who goes along with the findings of experts (transsexual) and the order of a judge (name change).delusional. It's also not fine to use her old name in public, if for no other reason that it's not her legal name. What is so crazy about wanting to be known by your legal name? BTW, here you would find yourself before judge for refusing to use a transsexual's new name, for sexual discrimination and possibly also sexual harassment; discrimination because you are harassing someone based on their birth sex, for the same reason.
Way back in 1951, the public and the media did not refer to Christine Jorgensen by her birth name. Your attitude is 65 years out of date, and has no scientific basis.
He's delusional by his own standards, posting without using his legal first and last names on his birth certificate, wanting to be known just as "Raenex". And according to that same standard, that also makes almost everyone else except me and a few other posters such as yourself delusional as well. He really does tar with a broad brush.
He'd rather do that rather than acknowledge that Chelsea Manning is her legal name. He's delusional by his own standards, as well as delusional by most peoples standards. Oh well:-)
That changes nothing about what I wrote - the vehicle still has to be where the customer is, not in some remote city in another country. And when starting out, Uber needed the drivers and their cars - it would have been too big a drain on capital to buy a massive fleet of cars and hire drivers, who would then be, without question, employees entitled to all the benefits and protections that being an employee brings..
Echolocation is a natural practice for any youngster with a visual impairment. Children will often walk into a new space or new room and stomp their feet or yell, seemingly out of the blue. What they are really doing is perceiving a change in the "soundscape" or the echoes that the room produces. Young children, without being trained, can easily tell if they are indoors, outdoors, in a large empty room or a small furnished room, etc. simply by listening to the echoes or "reverberations" of that particular space.
The "skill" of echolocation has not generally been taught in regimented training. It is instead used subconsciously to gain a small amount of information about one's environment. However, with more research and more people willing to try, echolocation is becoming far more accepted and understood by practitioners and trainers. It can give the user information about distant objects, materials, shapes, and movement of objects without having to physically interact with them via a cane. It allows the blind to "sight-see" and enjoy trees, statues, architecture and more.
It's no big deal, really. Even sighted people can tell without looking, just by making a click with their tongue, whether they're in a small room, a hall, or outside.
People doing Uber can't afford to give 30 day net terms. Also, good luck collecting from someone you never met before and will probably never meet again, and where the cost of going to small claims court is more than the loss of being unpaid. Besides, people are used to paying taxis with cash. For those that don't want to pay cash, we recently made it mandatory to also accept credit and debit cards for all taxis, all trips.
I prefer a country with a proper public health care system, thanks. Plus, why would I want to go to a country where more than 60% of the population lacks their own toilet?
No - you haven't got a clue, as you have so often demonstrated in the past on this very same subject. This last attempt to put words in my mouth that I never said were pitiful. Maybe you should own up to it.
The dose via intramuscular injection would be the same as using a syringe. Just get the longer tips (they're available in different lengths) and you'll be able to hit a muscle. Heck, if you're not careful you can even hit a muscle with shorter tips - and that really burns when you inject.
1) Experimental trial already done - The cartridge is easily completely cleaned out. I tried it before posting, because this whole thing is stupid greed gone stupidly far. Replacing the insulin with a normal saline solution and injecting it doesn't affect insulin levels. The only area that requires a bit of care is the rubber stopper. It takes longer to clean, unlike the glass. You'll be able to tell when you're good because it won't smell of insulin any more (yes, insulin has a particular odor).
2) Manufacturers response to demand - If enough people demand this, the companies that make the insulin cartridges will also make pre-filled epinephrine cartridges. The market is there, and they could get away with charging the same price as insulin cartridges, even though the content is cheaper.
3) I already addressed the dosage question elsewhere. There's no reason that the dose can't be limited to a sub-range in a modified pen, but it's not needed. We don't see problems of administering the right dose with diabetics - the problem there is determining the right dose in the first place. So it's no harder than saying "move the dial to "x" number of units."
The insulin pen delivers a more accurate dose than a human using a vial and a syringe.
4) People are already ditching the epipen, (including some municipal first responders) to save money, and one side effect was that it also made epinephrine shots more readily available - use doubled, along with a $150,000 saving.
SEATTLE, Wash. — When a 14-year-old Bellevue boy bit into a pastry last July, accidentally triggering a sudden and severe peanut allergy, a crew from the local fire department was there within minutes.
But as the boy erupted in hives covering his neck, chest, stomach and back, the emergency medical technicians didn’t reach for an EpiPen, the standard weapon against dangerous allergic reactions.
Instead, they broke out a syringe and 1-milligram vial of epinephrine, components of a new protocol now standard in most of King County, a change emergency officials say saves money — and updates area 911 response practices to ensure better use of the potentially lifesaving drug.
“Basically, we put together this kit that was cost-effective,” said James Duren, the professional-standards manager for King County Emergency Medical Services. “We made Epi Kits instead of EpiPens.”
The program is called “Check and Inject,” and since it was rolled out last year in 31 fire departments, Duren figures it has saved about $150,000 and more than doubled use of epinephrine by area EMTs.
“We went from 40 EpiPens a year and now we’re at 85 uses of the kit since April,” he said. “Appropriate usage went up from 40 percent to 98 percent.”
Previously, EMTs were hesitant to use the EpiPens if the cases didn’t meet the definition of the most severe cases of anaphylactic shock — an urgently life-threatening condition, Duren said.
... and...
By contrast, the epinephrine kits put together by King County cost about $10 each. When the small vials of drug expire after a year, they’re replaced for about $2.50 apiece, Duren said.
So only need to be replaced after a year instead of the 6-month shelf life of an epipen (and people have reported getting epipens that were almost expired). My solution solves the problem of carrying around a vial and measuring the dose accurately, as well as people's instinctive fear of syringes. Also, used pen-tips, unlike used syringes, can't be scavenged by drug abusers to inject themselves.
5) Insulin pens are already approved to inject drugs, same as syringes.
Blind people use the visual cortex for things like echo-location, etc., as well as to "visualize" the layout of their surroundings, which makes sense - the visual cortex is for spatial relationships. Changing the input source shouldn't make much of a difference - it's not like the brain isn't somewhat plastic.
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Forget the class action. Instead, sue Microsoft, Lenovo, and the vendor (in this case Best Buy) in small claims court. It would cost them more to send someone to argue the case (or even to argue that you are bound by some bogus arbitration clause you never even implicitly agreed to because you didn't run Windows) than to just give you back your money.
Be fun to see what happens when you walk in with a bailiff and start seizing stuff. The bailiff only gives them one chance to pay before they grab stuff, and if they're not happy about it, off to court again.
You're free to unlock your phone once you've paid off your plan (you don't own it until then). Or just buy a phone without a plan - there's plenty of unlocked phones out there.
It also prevents Windows from being installed. Funny...
Bonus! But imagine the uproar if a vendor sold new computers with a BIOS that didn't allow the installation of Windows. People would be having fits about it.
I've seen people force ram with incompatible notches and contacts into the wrong slot. Then they wondered "what's that smell?" Anything that's impossible just takes a bit longer for an idiot.
They simply don't want people to wipe the machine down and install another OS - including previous versions of Windows. So unlike the OEM version which was tied to the sale of the hardware, even though the retail version allowed you to move the OS from one machine to another, good luck with that.
The product ("Microsoft Signature Edition") is in and of itself against antitrust law, and the computer violates the magnuson-moss act. Under the act, a manufacturer cannot require you to use a specific product (in this case Windows) when others offer replacement products (other OSes) to consumers that do substantially the same job. Same as manufacturers couldn't tell you that you have to use their brand of motor oil in your car. when others offer similar motor oils, or wheel rims, etc.
Easy:
1) Syringes aren't as accurate.
2) Used syringes get diverted to illegal drug use
3) You have to get the right amount in the syringe before you can use it, which would be hard for someone who needs it to do it, so they'd be dependent on someone else doing it.
4) Pre-filled syringes allow oxygen to mix with the adrenaline, greatly reducing the shelf life. This is why it would be better if manufacturers offered pre-filled injection cartridges. The act of injecting air into the vial before withdrawing an equivalent amount of product contaminates the whole vial, whereas the insulin cartridges don't have this problem.
5) Sometimes more than 1 injection is needed. Easy to do with an insulin pen, harder to prepare and do in situ, carrying more risk.
6) WRT expired epipens, experiments showed that expired epipens still have 90% of their dose at 2-3 years past expiry date, and 70% of their dose at 5 years past expiry date. Given that the maximum effective dose depends on the patient's weight and other medications, and that the dose can't be adjusted, but rather use a 1-dose-fits-all strategy, being out by 10% won't have a significant effect on the outcome even if it's a couple of years out of date.
They can't afford the losses from uncollected bills. Any payment not collected isn't just foregone money - it cost fuel and wear and tear to make that money. And 30 day net - ha! They will get stiffed so many times because people know that the cost of collecting is higher than the amount collected. Heck, nobody is going to spend $6.47 plus envelope plus time lost to send a registered letter to collect $7.
Plus there's the additional problems of identifying the users accurately. What are you going to do - demand that you be allowed to take a picture of various IDs? People would rather pay immediately than hand over their personal info to a stranger, plus there's the lost time - you've just turned a convenience into an inconvenience.
Your argument that not paying tax doesn't affect the bottom line is so silly. EVERY expense affects the bottom line. Shareholder equity only increases or decreases after taxes are taken into account. If a company has $1 billion in profits, but has to pay $1.2 billion in taxes, shareholders have lost money even though the company made a profit. If the company hasn't got enough retained earnings to pay that tax bill, they will either have to take out a loan or tap the shareholders for more money. Failing to do either, they are insolvent, even though they had a pre-tax profit.
A company that has to take on an additional loan to pay taxes on profits is at an economic disadvantage (because of interest costs) than one that doesn't. They are less able to attract additional investment, loans will be at higher rates, their credit rating will be lower, some suppliers won't give them extended terms or lease equipment to them, and they won't be able to pay employees as well as their competitors. So, logically, taxes on those profits can and do affect competitiveness.
You're not special enough to get a free pass.
I guess I'm not a "protected class" with special privileges.
Are you also going to say that transsexual women shouldn't use the women's washroom because that's a "special privilege"? That would also require transsexual mentlike these to use the same bathroom as women and girls. Do you really want to go up to any of these guys and say they're just women who had their boobs cut off? Or that they have to pee in the women's bathroom?
Some of them still have vaginas, which just goes to show that sex is more than what's between the legs.
It's not even a question of "protected class." Go up to any woman and keep addressing her as a man, using male names and pronouns. Or vice versa for any man. Everyone has the right not to be subject to your brand of harassment, whether they're transsexual or not.
you have a gut revulsion to all transsexuals
True enough, as I'm sure most men do when they're not being politically correct. What percentage of men do you think would date or marry a transsexual?
Many men would, many men do. They aren't acting out of political correctness. Plus, you can't always tell that someone's a transsexual. As in the movie "transamerica" where one character said "We walk among you." It's a real hoot to watch men make fools of themselves dissing Caitlyn Jenner to someone they always knew as a woman and didn't know she used to be a man.
There's also the phenomenon of "trans-fans" - ,en who chase after women because they are transsexuals, and that makes them exotic. Plus, no worry about getting her pregnant.
you have a gut revulsion to all transsexuals
True enough, as I'm sure most men do when they're not being politically correct. What percentage of men do you think would date or marry a transsexual?
You also have a fear of castration (many men do, you're not that special), and transsexuals are a problem for you.
Castration is especially repulsive, yes, but guys dressing up as women is also repulsive
You would have been a riot in Shakespearean times, where all roles, including female, were played by male actors. People didn't find it repulsive then, and it was only when the moral majority started their attacks that things changed.
Despite what you want to believe, nobody gets a free pass interfering with another's fundamental constitutional rights.
Like my constitutional rights to free speech? Thanks, I'm glad you're so concerned.
Ah yes, the last refuge of the freetard libertarians. Your right to free speech isn't absolute. Many forms of speech are illegal. For example, start making death threats, even to a third party. Start sexually harassing someone with lewd comments. Start passing child pornography around. False advertising. Try sending threats through the mail. Saying you have a bomb and are going to blow yourself up. Even copyright infringerment isn't protected, though people sure tried.
Now, lets get down to you. If you treat a transsexual at work the same way you have said you would treat Manning, even if it's only limited to not using their legal name, you can be fired for cause. There's plenty of speech that isn't protected by the second amendment, which is one reason why you would be well advised NOT
BTW - There had been complaints about Zucker's methods in treating children for 2 decades, and he was unable to produce any studies that he didn't have a connection to that backed him up. Zucker is now toxic - nobody is going to hire him after years of documented child abuse.
Okay, lets cut to the chase. This has nothing to do with Chelsea Manning passing along files that exposed wrongdoing. Nor does it have to do with what society wants or doesn't want, even though you have fantasies of power (shouldn't have used the term "realm", not in this context) and try to prove yourself as being better than others, so you feel justified in rebelling against social conventions.
What really burns your ass is transsexuals, all transsexuals, simple as that. All this is just you "acting out" because you have a gut revulsion to all transsexuals, not just Manning. You also have a fear of castration (many men do, you're not that special), and transsexuals are a problem for you.
When you say others are delusional, you're projecting big-time. "Most of the world is wrong, it's only a special minority like me that see the truth."
And no, it's not "fucked up authoritarian bullshit" - it's enforcing people's right to live free of harassment, sexual or otherwise from people like you. Despite what you want to believe, nobody gets a free pass interfering with another's fundamental constitutional rights. You're not special enough to get a free pass. Better be careful - the law in the US is catching up. Eventually it might make it into the 1990s.
I've never been known as any other name on Slashdot, so there is no other name to call me. I didn't change my handle, identify as a unicorn, and then expect everybody else to abide by my wishes when addressing me.
Doesn't make a difference, since that's just a handle, not your name. You're a hypocrite to demand that Chelsea Manning be identified by her first and last birth names, but you don't apply the same rule to yourself.
Bradley Manning, on the other hand, achieved national recognition as a male under the name Bradley.
So what? She is known, nationally and internationally, by her legal name, not a nym.
If you want to go along with the delusion that Bradley is now a female and call him Chelsea, that's fine for you, but I'm not going to go along with it.
That her name is Chelsea is not a delusion, it's a documented fact. To continue to call her Bradley is refusing to acknowledge reality, in other words, you're operating under a delusion, which is what you accuse the majority of the world of doing.
It's fine for you not to acknowledge it in private. It's not fine to label her, or anyone else who goes along with the findings of experts (transsexual) and the order of a judge (name change).delusional. It's also not fine to use her old name in public, if for no other reason that it's not her legal name. What is so crazy about wanting to be known by your legal name? BTW, here you would find yourself before judge for refusing to use a transsexual's new name, for sexual discrimination and possibly also sexual harassment; discrimination because you are harassing someone based on their birth sex, for the same reason.
Way back in 1951, the public and the media did not refer to Christine Jorgensen by her birth name. Your attitude is 65 years out of date, and has no scientific basis.
How much do you get paid to lie like this?
Do you get more if there are news reports of deaths from your scam?
Nothing, same as I didn't get paid anything to test whether it's feasible to re-purpose a replaceable-cartridge-type insulin pen (Novolin Pen 4) and properly cleaning out and re-using the cartridge (Novolin Toronto 300ml) before posting. Details in the link, item 1). I'm still alive, so much for you trying to make it look like it's dangerous to do. How much do you get paid to shill for big pharma?
Or do you frown upon people who actually run experiments under their real name rather than make anonymous BS claims like yours?
He's delusional by his own standards, posting without using his legal first and last names on his birth certificate, wanting to be known just as "Raenex". And according to that same standard, that also makes almost everyone else except me and a few other posters such as yourself delusional as well. He really does tar with a broad brush.
He'd rather do that rather than acknowledge that Chelsea Manning is her legal name. He's delusional by his own standards, as well as delusional by most peoples standards. Oh well :-)
That changes nothing about what I wrote - the vehicle still has to be where the customer is, not in some remote city in another country. And when starting out, Uber needed the drivers and their cars - it would have been too big a drain on capital to buy a massive fleet of cars and hire drivers, who would then be, without question, employees entitled to all the benefits and protections that being an employee brings..
Echolocation is a natural practice for any youngster with a visual impairment. Children will often walk into a new space or new room and stomp their feet or yell, seemingly out of the blue. What they are really doing is perceiving a change in the "soundscape" or the echoes that the room produces. Young children, without being trained, can easily tell if they are indoors, outdoors, in a large empty room or a small furnished room, etc. simply by listening to the echoes or "reverberations" of that particular space.
The "skill" of echolocation has not generally been taught in regimented training. It is instead used subconsciously to gain a small amount of information about one's environment. However, with more research and more people willing to try, echolocation is becoming far more accepted and understood by practitioners and trainers. It can give the user information about distant objects, materials, shapes, and movement of objects without having to physically interact with them via a cane. It allows the blind to "sight-see" and enjoy trees, statues, architecture and more.
It's no big deal, really. Even sighted people can tell without looking, just by making a click with their tongue, whether they're in a small room, a hall, or outside.
People doing Uber can't afford to give 30 day net terms. Also, good luck collecting from someone you never met before and will probably never meet again, and where the cost of going to small claims court is more than the loss of being unpaid. Besides, people are used to paying taxis with cash. For those that don't want to pay cash, we recently made it mandatory to also accept credit and debit cards for all taxis, all trips.
I prefer a country with a proper public health care system, thanks. Plus, why would I want to go to a country where more than 60% of the population lacks their own toilet?
No - you haven't got a clue, as you have so often demonstrated in the past on this very same subject. This last attempt to put words in my mouth that I never said were pitiful. Maybe you should own up to it.
You can't replace a driver and their car working locally with one working in Bangalore.
The car still needs to be where the customer is. Can't change that. Some things need to be local.
Independent taxi drivers formed co-ops to take care of dispatching long before Uber came along, so who's the moron now?
The dose via intramuscular injection would be the same as using a syringe. Just get the longer tips (they're available in different lengths) and you'll be able to hit a muscle. Heck, if you're not careful you can even hit a muscle with shorter tips - and that really burns when you inject.
1) Experimental trial already done - The cartridge is easily completely cleaned out. I tried it before posting, because this whole thing is stupid greed gone stupidly far. Replacing the insulin with a normal saline solution and injecting it doesn't affect insulin levels. The only area that requires a bit of care is the rubber stopper. It takes longer to clean, unlike the glass. You'll be able to tell when you're good because it won't smell of insulin any more (yes, insulin has a particular odor).
2) Manufacturers response to demand - If enough people demand this, the companies that make the insulin cartridges will also make pre-filled epinephrine cartridges. The market is there, and they could get away with charging the same price as insulin cartridges, even though the content is cheaper.
3) I already addressed the dosage question elsewhere. There's no reason that the dose can't be limited to a sub-range in a modified pen, but it's not needed. We don't see problems of administering the right dose with diabetics - the problem there is determining the right dose in the first place. So it's no harder than saying "move the dial to "x" number of units."
The insulin pen delivers a more accurate dose than a human using a vial and a syringe.
4) People are already ditching the epipen, (including some municipal first responders) to save money, and one side effect was that it also made epinephrine shots more readily available - use doubled, along with a $150,000 saving.
SEATTLE, Wash. — When a 14-year-old Bellevue boy bit into a pastry last July, accidentally triggering a sudden and severe peanut allergy, a crew from the local fire department was there within minutes.
But as the boy erupted in hives covering his neck, chest, stomach and back, the emergency medical technicians didn’t reach for an EpiPen, the standard weapon against dangerous allergic reactions.
Instead, they broke out a syringe and 1-milligram vial of epinephrine, components of a new protocol now standard in most of King County, a change emergency officials say saves money — and updates area 911 response practices to ensure better use of the potentially lifesaving drug.
“Basically, we put together this kit that was cost-effective,” said James Duren, the professional-standards manager for King County Emergency Medical Services. “We made Epi Kits instead of EpiPens.”
The program is called “Check and Inject,” and since it was rolled out last year in 31 fire departments, Duren figures it has saved about $150,000 and more than doubled use of epinephrine by area EMTs.
“We went from 40 EpiPens a year and now we’re at 85 uses of the kit since April,” he said. “Appropriate usage went up from 40 percent to 98 percent.”
Previously, EMTs were hesitant to use the EpiPens if the cases didn’t meet the definition of the most severe cases of anaphylactic shock — an urgently life-threatening condition, Duren said.
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By contrast, the epinephrine kits put together by King County cost about $10 each. When the small vials of drug expire after a year, they’re replaced for about $2.50 apiece, Duren said.
So only need to be replaced after a year instead of the 6-month shelf life of an epipen (and people have reported getting epipens that were almost expired). My solution solves the problem of carrying around a vial and measuring the dose accurately, as well as people's instinctive fear of syringes. Also, used pen-tips, unlike used syringes, can't be scavenged by drug abusers to inject themselves.
5) Insulin pens are already approved to inject drugs, same as syringes.
Blind people use the visual cortex for things like echo-location, etc., as well as to "visualize" the layout of their surroundings, which makes sense - the visual cortex is for spatial relationships. Changing the input source shouldn't make much of a difference - it's not like the brain isn't somewhat plastic.