Producing content is an expensive and painful business.
Really? Then stop hiring Charlie Sheen and look for cheaper talent. Movies continue to be made for peanuts, you just don't know where to look or refuse to watch something that isn't overproduced and chock full of special effects.
to the same people who create content to push through those pipes.
Ahh good, so the rest of us who really aren't interested in said manufactured "content" have nothing to worry about. Poor you - they are going to make you pay through the nose for that Madonna/Pink/Britney/Lady Gaga/Rebecca Black/whoever the flavor of the month is. Oh and remember, version 12 of that old comic book franchise Hollywood has completely destroyed is coming out soon - gotta watch that!
paid for by sharing location information with corporations and advertisers so there is no tax burden to the American people.
Yeah because those corporations just invent the money to pay for ads, right? It's not like the American people are paying for the ads when they buy products from those companies.../sarcasm
Too bad for you when you run into a judge who has never heard about your "rule" and decides to throw you in jail for tampering/destroying government property, interfering with an investigation, or whatever else they feel will stick. See your rules don't matter. The only rules that matter are the ones enforced by the government (or the mob).
No, they are always accountable to the people. Except it takes something like Egypt or Libya to get rid of them once they gain so much power. But eventually the people always wake up and shake off the yoke when it bothers them too much. It's a repeated lesson throughout human history
The scientific method in general terms consists of observation, then hypothesis, then designing an experiment to prove the hypothesis.
You are arguing "shouldn't it" and closing your mind to the understanding of the observed results - it doesn't matter what it "should" and "shouldn't" do under current models - what is important is what it actually did. Which means that either a) there were conditions that we don't know about that enabled the reaction or b) there are additional underlying scientific principles that we don't fully understand yet. My money would be on the former. However that the data do not agree with what you expected does not necessarily mean the data are wrong. It means you are wrong. Especially in a situation like this where I am sure that the data have been double and triple-checked.
If you stop trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, this will help you understand the universe better.
Spiders are extremely social. For a given definition of social. Not their fault if eating your neighbor is considered bad manners where you come from. For spiders it's just a friendly hello.
Agreed, which is why I said it was a contributing factor - but by no means did I want to imply it was the only factor.
I've also read the argument about Stalin being a terrible general and that Soviet troops were used in an incompetent manner, however I'm not convinced that this was the cause of the deep penetration. After all, this was the army that had pushed both French and British heavy tanks back in Fall Gelb - and at least the British, if not the French, had leadership far more competent than Stalin. I think it was a combination of tactical surprise (even the Germans were amazed at how much daily progress their own spearheads were making), incredibly superior German morale, the far superior Luftwaffe (despite being decimated in Sept 1940 it was better than what was currently available in the USSR) and the Soviet's inability to fight a maneuver war.
When the T-34 became available in significant numbers and the Soviets were able to fight a mobile war with better firepower, it became a matter of numbers and time.
Hi node 3. While I understand that you need to support the people who pay your salary, it's obvious when you defend the indefensible that you are nothing but a Sony shill. The fact that Sony cares so little about security that they neglect to use firewalls, much less anything like encryption to protect the information that belongs to their customers (and not to Sony), demonstrates that they cannot tell their proverbial arses from their elbows.
You can blow the Sony trumpet all you want, but anyone who has ever set up a web-server is well aware of their incompetence.
You must live in a country that actually polices it's own members
Not really. I think pretty much the only thing that can get my medical license suspended here in Costa Rica is not paying my dues to the college for more than 6 months:)
Seriously though there are cases of malpractice - there's one in the news here right now, parents of the deceased patient are suing. Their daughter had an appendicectomy done for pelvic inflammatory disease. While sometimes the diagnosis can be a bit confusing (both of them cause extreme pain the lower abdomen) and it's hard to prove negligence for taking someone's appendix out under these conditions because it's a defensible argument, you should never ever be sending a patient home when she is still in pain and running a high fever after an operation. The patient is supposed to feel better, not go home and die the next day from septic shock.
Medicine is really about common sense. But fortunately we don't have the famous medical predators here - people actively going out to try and trap physicians into making a mistake so that they can sue. I am given to understand that in the US, however, the Jackpot Justice system has created this whole class of undesirables.
The fact that the old Soviet trains ran on a non-standard gauge was a contributing factor to the survival of the Soviet Union from the German blitzkrieg. Germany was not able to immediately use the Soviet rail system to reinforce and supply its troops, and was faced with having to use a few captured locomotives while re-engineering the Soviet rail system to accommodate German trains. Because of this most of the supplies needed by the army had to be shipped by road, except there are a few months out of the year when Russian roads turned into rivers of mud...
Don't think so. I happen to be married to one. Her biggest complaint is all the travel she has to do, but 3am calls are NOT on the list for her. Oh and by the way, she earns more than I do, plus company stock and options.
Er, a resident is not a "student". Just like a Journeyman carpenter is not a "student" simply because he's not a Master carpenter. A resident is a graduated physician who is learning a specialty. In the US medical schools don't include an intern year so the first year resident is not allowed to "fly on his own". Overseas, however, a GP is a fully licensed qualified physician even if he has not specialized, because he's had his first year built in.
For example, Diabetes is defined as fasting glucose above 126.
OK - 45 y/o obese female comes in with fasting glucose 127, normal Hb A1C, normal physical exam apart from obesity (BMI 31). You get her started on the insulin right away, doc?
OB/GYN is possibly the worst for lawsuits as well. They certainly have the highest premiums. Why? Because every time the baby farts, it's the OB/GYN's fault. Six fingers? Blame the OB/GYN. Baby with Down's syndrome? Got to be that OB/GYN, she must have dropped the baby. Etc...
Anyway just a bit of sympathy from someone who has been there:)
I remember reading somewhere that 85% of all illnesses cure themselves spontaneously. This is why snake oil salesmen, acupuncture, homeopathy, and whatever else you care to name has such a tremendous "success" rate. People swear by it. Why? Because it's true - it "works". 85% of the time, anyway.
We doctors are there for the other 15%, which will lead to loss of life or limb if left untreated. Now because I believe in freedom, I think you are perfectly free to decide for yourself which of the above categories your illness lies in: the 85 or the 15. However it will take you about 10,000 hours of study to be able to tell the difference with any degree of certainty. Or you could pay a doctor $50 or whatever it is he charges, and have an answer in 10 minutes. It's called "specialization", the key to any civilized society.
I used to think that medicine was just about learning lists. Lists of symptoms, and matching those with lists of diseases, and then picking medications from a list of medication to treat that disease. That's not how it works at all. The untutored person is incapable of making a correct diagnosis because 1) he doesn't know what to look for and 2) he has not seen enough sick people. Medicine is not learned from a textbook. It's learned at the patient's bedside. And I have seen thousands upon thousands of patients, from perfectly healthy people who think they are sick, to the dying, and even the dead being brought back to life. That's what lets me tell, usually within 10 seconds of someone walking into my office, exactly what is wrong with them. All my questions and all my tests are just there to confirm my diagnosis. The best an algorithm will be able to do is give you a list of possible causes. Then you would be stuck with floundering around ordering tests to pick something from that list. That may be how it works in TV shows, but that's not how it works in real life. Those tests cost money and time, and sometimes the patient has neither.
Try more like 30. The better the hospital, the less they pay (because they know there's no shortage of applicants). Now I invite you to do a residency in the 3rd world where I did. I crashed my car 3 times in the first year due to working about 120 hours a week. I'm not complaining because I learned a great deal - much more than in some modern western hospital where the resident is not allowed near the patient for fear of litigation. But if you have the notion that residency is like going to school, think again. It's like being dropped in the deep end of the pool, plus remember to squeeze in some time to actually study and prepare those presentations.
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Producing content is an expensive and painful business.
Really? Then stop hiring Charlie Sheen and look for cheaper talent. Movies continue to be made for peanuts, you just don't know where to look or refuse to watch something that isn't overproduced and chock full of special effects.
Good luck with that, especially since now the Supreme Court has ruled that you can be forced to accept arbitration...
to the same people who create content to push through those pipes.
Ahh good, so the rest of us who really aren't interested in said manufactured "content" have nothing to worry about. Poor you - they are going to make you pay through the nose for that Madonna/Pink/Britney/Lady Gaga/Rebecca Black/whoever the flavor of the month is. Oh and remember, version 12 of that old comic book franchise Hollywood has completely destroyed is coming out soon - gotta watch that!
No less foolish than trusting your "congresscritter".
paid for by sharing location information with corporations and advertisers so there is no tax burden to the American people.
Yeah because those corporations just invent the money to pay for ads, right? It's not like the American people are paying for the ads when they buy products from those companies... /sarcasm
Too bad for you when you run into a judge who has never heard about your "rule" and decides to throw you in jail for tampering/destroying government property, interfering with an investigation, or whatever else they feel will stick. See your rules don't matter. The only rules that matter are the ones enforced by the government (or the mob).
It's limitless and they're accountable to nobody.
No, they are always accountable to the people. Except it takes something like Egypt or Libya to get rid of them once they gain so much power. But eventually the people always wake up and shake off the yoke when it bothers them too much. It's a repeated lesson throughout human history
No, but I can see how this can be confusing for you.
Then by your definition, explain why we have already "missed" several times, and the "game" is far from over?
The scientific method in general terms consists of observation, then hypothesis, then designing an experiment to prove the hypothesis.
You are arguing "shouldn't it" and closing your mind to the understanding of the observed results - it doesn't matter what it "should" and "shouldn't" do under current models - what is important is what it actually did. Which means that either a) there were conditions that we don't know about that enabled the reaction or b) there are additional underlying scientific principles that we don't fully understand yet. My money would be on the former. However that the data do not agree with what you expected does not necessarily mean the data are wrong. It means you are wrong. Especially in a situation like this where I am sure that the data have been double and triple-checked.
If you stop trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, this will help you understand the universe better.
Here is a video that explains Anonymous, its structure, and its political goals.
Anonymous never claimed to be a force of law and justice. Think more along the lines of "chaos" and "revenge".
Spiders are extremely social. For a given definition of social. Not their fault if eating your neighbor is considered bad manners where you come from. For spiders it's just a friendly hello.
Agreed, which is why I said it was a contributing factor - but by no means did I want to imply it was the only factor.
I've also read the argument about Stalin being a terrible general and that Soviet troops were used in an incompetent manner, however I'm not convinced that this was the cause of the deep penetration. After all, this was the army that had pushed both French and British heavy tanks back in Fall Gelb - and at least the British, if not the French, had leadership far more competent than Stalin. I think it was a combination of tactical surprise (even the Germans were amazed at how much daily progress their own spearheads were making), incredibly superior German morale, the far superior Luftwaffe (despite being decimated in Sept 1940 it was better than what was currently available in the USSR) and the Soviet's inability to fight a maneuver war.
When the T-34 became available in significant numbers and the Soviets were able to fight a mobile war with better firepower, it became a matter of numbers and time.
Nah, they'll turn 360 degrees and walk away...
Hi node 3. While I understand that you need to support the people who pay your salary, it's obvious when you defend the indefensible that you are nothing but a Sony shill. The fact that Sony cares so little about security that they neglect to use firewalls, much less anything like encryption to protect the information that belongs to their customers (and not to Sony), demonstrates that they cannot tell their proverbial arses from their elbows.
You can blow the Sony trumpet all you want, but anyone who has ever set up a web-server is well aware of their incompetence.
You must live in a country that actually polices it's own members
Not really. I think pretty much the only thing that can get my medical license suspended here in Costa Rica is not paying my dues to the college for more than 6 months :)
Seriously though there are cases of malpractice - there's one in the news here right now, parents of the deceased patient are suing. Their daughter had an appendicectomy done for pelvic inflammatory disease. While sometimes the diagnosis can be a bit confusing (both of them cause extreme pain the lower abdomen) and it's hard to prove negligence for taking someone's appendix out under these conditions because it's a defensible argument, you should never ever be sending a patient home when she is still in pain and running a high fever after an operation. The patient is supposed to feel better, not go home and die the next day from septic shock.
Medicine is really about common sense. But fortunately we don't have the famous medical predators here - people actively going out to try and trap physicians into making a mistake so that they can sue. I am given to understand that in the US, however, the Jackpot Justice system has created this whole class of undesirables.
The fact that the old Soviet trains ran on a non-standard gauge was a contributing factor to the survival of the Soviet Union from the German blitzkrieg. Germany was not able to immediately use the Soviet rail system to reinforce and supply its troops, and was faced with having to use a few captured locomotives while re-engineering the Soviet rail system to accommodate German trains. Because of this most of the supplies needed by the army had to be shipped by road, except there are a few months out of the year when Russian roads turned into rivers of mud...
and you will receive free pubic hairs from the man himself, but only with the first 100 copies.
Don't think so. I happen to be married to one. Her biggest complaint is all the travel she has to do, but 3am calls are NOT on the list for her. Oh and by the way, she earns more than I do, plus company stock and options.
Er, a resident is not a "student". Just like a Journeyman carpenter is not a "student" simply because he's not a Master carpenter. A resident is a graduated physician who is learning a specialty. In the US medical schools don't include an intern year so the first year resident is not allowed to "fly on his own". Overseas, however, a GP is a fully licensed qualified physician even if he has not specialized, because he's had his first year built in.
For example, Diabetes is defined as fasting glucose above 126.
OK - 45 y/o obese female comes in with fasting glucose 127, normal Hb A1C, normal physical exam apart from obesity (BMI 31). You get her started on the insulin right away, doc?
OB/GYN is possibly the worst for lawsuits as well. They certainly have the highest premiums. Why? Because every time the baby farts, it's the OB/GYN's fault. Six fingers? Blame the OB/GYN. Baby with Down's syndrome? Got to be that OB/GYN, she must have dropped the baby. Etc...
Anyway just a bit of sympathy from someone who has been there :)
I remember reading somewhere that 85% of all illnesses cure themselves spontaneously. This is why snake oil salesmen, acupuncture, homeopathy, and whatever else you care to name has such a tremendous "success" rate. People swear by it. Why? Because it's true - it "works". 85% of the time, anyway.
We doctors are there for the other 15%, which will lead to loss of life or limb if left untreated. Now because I believe in freedom, I think you are perfectly free to decide for yourself which of the above categories your illness lies in: the 85 or the 15. However it will take you about 10,000 hours of study to be able to tell the difference with any degree of certainty. Or you could pay a doctor $50 or whatever it is he charges, and have an answer in 10 minutes. It's called "specialization", the key to any civilized society.
I used to think that medicine was just about learning lists. Lists of symptoms, and matching those with lists of diseases, and then picking medications from a list of medication to treat that disease. That's not how it works at all. The untutored person is incapable of making a correct diagnosis because 1) he doesn't know what to look for and 2) he has not seen enough sick people. Medicine is not learned from a textbook. It's learned at the patient's bedside. And I have seen thousands upon thousands of patients, from perfectly healthy people who think they are sick, to the dying, and even the dead being brought back to life. That's what lets me tell, usually within 10 seconds of someone walking into my office, exactly what is wrong with them. All my questions and all my tests are just there to confirm my diagnosis. The best an algorithm will be able to do is give you a list of possible causes. Then you would be stuck with floundering around ordering tests to pick something from that list. That may be how it works in TV shows, but that's not how it works in real life. Those tests cost money and time, and sometimes the patient has neither.
Try more like 30. The better the hospital, the less they pay (because they know there's no shortage of applicants). Now I invite you to do a residency in the 3rd world where I did. I crashed my car 3 times in the first year due to working about 120 hours a week. I'm not complaining because I learned a great deal - much more than in some modern western hospital where the resident is not allowed near the patient for fear of litigation. But if you have the notion that residency is like going to school, think again. It's like being dropped in the deep end of the pool, plus remember to squeeze in some time to actually study and prepare those presentations.