Being cool means kids don't feel stigmatized if they enter a field. The study comes later after choosing a career. Lawyers and doctors are often portrayed as smart, powerful, as well as highly paid in movies and TV. Compare that to the lead scientist in Independence Day. He couldn't even afford decent pants.
There is a continuous supply of new, young, healthy premium payers. Once you get sick with more than the flu, you are an 'offender' that will be purged at the first opportunity. In some cases there are laws that will delay this until they find an out, such as the one described in the article. In the case of individual private health insurance in the US, they can just drop you. Then you become uninsurable at any price. I learned this from personal experience. Even for group private insurance in the US, there is the scam of rescission, where they look for some unrelated typo in the multitude of paper work they require in order to deny benefits and drop coverage once you make a substantial claim.
As the original poster said: they don't care about you living or dieing. They only care about collecting premiums and avoiding claims.
Hopefully U.S. anti-marijuana laws will be declared unconstitutional...
The constitution is only a piece of paper. I hear a lot of rhetoric about rule of law and not of men, but it always boils down to a group of powerful people allowing just enough freedom to others to do as they tell you. That currently means beating and imprisoning you to protect you from that naturally growing plant. So, for the sake of your well being, light up a government sanctioned cigarette and down a bottle of tax revenue providing bourbon.
The wealthy need to harvest organs from somewhere. It's all legal, of course, just check the applicable laws. Won't somebody please think of the rich and privileged?
I know of a support call where the customer tried to install a Microchannel card without a screwdriver or even removing the PS/2 cover. They tried to shove it in through the back where the bracket blank was. I guess they somehow thought it was like a Cardbus device. That took a while to resolve because initially the customer simply said "your card does not fit".
...the motorized luggage holder comes along and dutifully throws itself off the cliff as well
I actually saw a non automated version of this event happen. Going down a steep hill in Austin Texas, a trailer pulled by an SUV came off the hitch but was still trailing the SUV at high speed. The driver floored it to try and stay ahead.
What I saw out my office windows was the SUV fly by at warp speed, followed by the now cart wheeling trailer. Somehow the whole thing came to a halt at the bottom with no injuries. The driver got out, looked at the smashed up trailer and said "good thing nobody was standing there".
To make this ramble on topic, I would say that no matter how fail safe a setup is, there is a human stupid enough to fuck it up.
...if all they're showing are Gilligan's Island reruns
I'm hoping for a Gilligan's Island "reboot". Something darker and edgy. Too bad Chris Farley is dead, he would have made an awesome, cocaine addicted Skipper. I would still download torrents of it instead of paying for cable, because I believe great art should be a labor of love, unsullied by commercial interests:-D
The picture of the Data General equipment looks like the MV Series, maybe the 3000. The terminals also look like the ones in the MV/2500 picture. The processing units in the traffic control pictures have name tags: Darlene and Candy. I guess that is the redundancy they are talking about.
I'm still skeptical about these algorithms for music recommendation.
You should be skeptical, but not dismissive. In its current state, this type of service is more like directed browsing than a true recommendation. But it still yields the an occasional gem, and with continued participation and increased competition it will get better. Skepticism makes it a useful tool, if you can live with having to wade through some misses along with the hits. Blind acceptance will, of course, be mercilessly exploited and the unwashed masses will still end up listening to the likes of [insert music you despise].
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many hunter/gatherers twenty thousand years ago may have lived longer and better than some people say they did
From a dietary and exercise standpoint, I would believe that. Throw in a thagomizer (or hominid contemporary equivalent), and not so much.
All real churches involve pasta and pirates.
Might want to start with simulating a dog brain to save power. That's what, maybe 5 neurons, 1000 synapses, and half a dog biscuit?
Being cool means kids don't feel stigmatized if they enter a field. The study comes later after choosing a career. Lawyers and doctors are often portrayed as smart, powerful, as well as highly paid in movies and TV. Compare that to the lead scientist in Independence Day. He couldn't even afford decent pants.
We're just shoved into boxes with sex and drugs...
Wait... what? I was with you until this part.
Either that or it was Taco Bell.
"Runs" from the border?
Doesn't matter to the insurance companies.
There is a continuous supply of new, young, healthy premium payers. Once you get sick with more than the flu, you are an 'offender' that will be purged at the first opportunity. In some cases there are laws that will delay this until they find an out, such as the one described in the article. In the case of individual private health insurance in the US, they can just drop you. Then you become uninsurable at any price. I learned this from personal experience. Even for group private insurance in the US, there is the scam of rescission, where they look for some unrelated typo in the multitude of paper work they require in order to deny benefits and drop coverage once you make a substantial claim.
As the original poster said: they don't care about you living or dieing. They only care about collecting premiums and avoiding claims.
+1 Grim Truth
This tells you everything you need to know about health insurance.
Hopefully U.S. anti-marijuana laws will be declared unconstitutional...
The constitution is only a piece of paper. I hear a lot of rhetoric about rule of law and not of men, but it always boils down to a group of powerful people allowing just enough freedom to others to do as they tell you. That currently means beating and imprisoning you to protect you from that naturally growing plant. So, for the sake of your well being, light up a government sanctioned cigarette and down a bottle of tax revenue providing bourbon.
All they're going to do is put lead in it...
There is a nationalist cry for us to rally around:
"Let's get the lead out in our quest for space!"
I'm too busy playing Modern Warfare 2. *pew* *pew* *pew*
And don't call me fucker.
Not a fan of Gerry Anderson's UFO? SkyDiver!
Sounds like pauper's prison to me.
The wealthy need to harvest organs from somewhere. It's all legal, of course, just check the applicable laws. Won't somebody please think of the rich and privileged?
"Og", so easy a caveman can use it.
...or through coups or wars in oil producing countries.
I know of a support call where the customer tried to install a Microchannel card without a screwdriver or even removing the PS/2 cover. They tried to shove it in through the back where the bracket blank was. I guess they somehow thought it was like a Cardbus device. That took a while to resolve because initially the customer simply said "your card does not fit".
I actually saw a non automated version of this event happen. Going down a steep hill in Austin Texas, a trailer pulled by an SUV came off the hitch but was still trailing the SUV at high speed. The driver floored it to try and stay ahead.
What I saw out my office windows was the SUV fly by at warp speed, followed by the now cart wheeling trailer. Somehow the whole thing came to a halt at the bottom with no injuries. The driver got out, looked at the smashed up trailer and said "good thing nobody was standing there".
To make this ramble on topic, I would say that no matter how fail safe a setup is, there is a human stupid enough to fuck it up.
The only winning move is not to play.
Ahhh... War Games, as relevant as it ever was.
This is a highly deregulated industry...
Which allows collusion, continued high prices and lackluster service.
When did they start giving kids fast cars?
If the parents can afford to buy the tracking equipment and fight the ticket in court, they have plenty of money and time to lavish on junior.
The Ford Escort I had at 18...
Still cooler than taking the yellow bus to school.
I'm hoping for a Gilligan's Island "reboot". Something darker and edgy. Too bad Chris Farley is dead, he would have made an awesome, cocaine addicted Skipper. I would still download torrents of it instead of paying for cable, because I believe great art should be a labor of love, unsullied by commercial interests :-D
The picture of the Data General equipment looks like the MV Series, maybe the 3000. The terminals also look like the ones in the MV/2500 picture. The processing units in the traffic control pictures have name tags: Darlene and Candy. I guess that is the redundancy they are talking about.
I'm still skeptical about these algorithms for music recommendation.
You should be skeptical, but not dismissive. In its current state, this type of service is more like directed browsing than a true recommendation. But it still yields the an occasional gem, and with continued participation and increased competition it will get better. Skepticism makes it a useful tool, if you can live with having to wade through some misses along with the hits. Blind acceptance will, of course, be mercilessly exploited and the unwashed masses will still end up listening to the likes of [insert music you despise].
Future Leader: Let's use science to process people into Soylent Green!
According to this it was a Data General main frame from the 1980s and not from the 1970s. Anyone know what model?