Who waits for an MRI for that long? My co-worker had his MRI done within 2 hrs.
I have had MRIs scheduled within 2 days.
A fractured arm isn't an Emergency situation, people can go days without it being treated and be fine. If the Triage at the ER receives people that are going to -die- without treatment, they will be bumped ahead of you. just like in the US.
Your doctor decides what is needed, and what is a priority. Co-worker went in to the Clinic for neck pain. They took an MRI. Within 30min, they had him at an ER Surgical room, going in for emergency spinal surgery.
It would mean that the argument that cryptocurrency is a commodity will no longer be blindly valid, as the only arguments currently remaining against declaring it a currency equivalent, is that cryptocurrency is not recogninzed by any state as a currency, is not issued by any central bank, nor is in common use as a currency in any locale. This will break those remaining arguments.
And then, I can see people in the US suing the IRS to reclassify cryptocurrencies as a currency, and not as property.
They make sense if you practise mindfullness. They are basic questions taugh when starting out as a newcomer to mindfulness practise.
Sense my body whether eating, cooking, cleaning, or talking.
- Do you have the kinestetic sense of the body's orientation, the weight bearing on the muscles, the force of gravity
- While performing these other actions, do you maintain the awareness of the body -- most people completely disconnect from their body and have no awareness of it all.
- To have awareness of the body is to be consciously aware of it. To be unconscious of the body is to be unaware of it.
Pay attention to what's behind my actions
- Why did I react in such a manner
- What is the motivation behind the action
- Why did I feel that way towards an other
- Why do I think that a given action will lead to another
Am I friendly to myself when things go wrong.
- When complications arise, do you self-deprecate.
- Do you place blame on yourself, do you treat yourself as a failure, or otherwise put yourself down?
- (follow up question is why do you do these actions)
Am I impatient with myself and with others
- This is a very straight forward question, even outside of mindfullness - Are you patient with others?
- Do you get frustrated when you cannot achieve a goal.
- Do you get frustrated at others when they cannot seem to grasp a concept you explain to them.
The only way for studies on mindfulness to increase in quality is to put out more studies on it. Each successive ones improving on the previous studies, and addressing the faults. One cannot expect a perfectly devised experiment when all the variables are not even quantified, or even what their range of values are.
There is likely a labour shortage for the physical labour required. Standing on feet all day, working with or around toxic materials. (Solder, lead, plastic-dust, etc) Limited to no moderation in work-load, just work full speed until a mandated 15min break.
There is already a labour shortage in the farm-picking industries. Many of the workers being illegal, or seasonal workers. In California, there was a news report in the LA times last year about one farmer trying to hire Americans by paying $20/hr. Most quit within a week because the work was too difficult.
So, while there is not a labour shortage across the board, in specific industries there very well could be.
I think we are all horribly overpaid. There is no reason for a developer to be making more than 60k a year. 10% over national average for a household is more than enough. Why do people in the US have to be so damned greedy?
When working in other countries, I make a sensible wage. When working in the US, they pay a stupid amount that would be better spent improving the local communities, with better infrastructure, better recreation facilities (which can also make money and jobs for the company that builds them), better training systems, or just more time off for a better work-life balance.
That logic tends to fail for RTL languages where Right side is more important. And ambiguous (Vertical), for which I do not know of any research about which direction gets meaning priority. As writing is vertical RTL; but horizontal LTR Chinese/Japanese.
> Staying in permanent "summer time" just means you are in another timezone than you claim. So that is plain stupid. Now you don't only have to know which time zone a country is in, you also have to know if they decided to be in permanent summer time or use the normal time associated with the time zone Using the term "to remain in summer time" is easier for normal people to understand than "to recommend each country set their timezone to the offset used in Summer Time."
> So, ditch the DST and let the countries decide what time zone they want to be in. NO SUMMER TIME ALLOWED! The effect is the same but it will be a heck lot easier for travelers or people communicating across time zones. This is what they are proposing.
The Hospital ER cannot turn you away for not having health insurance, and having no means to pay. A non-trivial amount of operational costs for a hospital is covering ER visits for people with colds, flus, and non-insured; who all default on payment, with no means of covering their visit. Many of the complications could have been dealt with for pennies on the dollar should the individual have had insurance, and simply seen the doctor before the illness progressed.
One cannot opt out of the health system. One should not be able to opt out of paying for it.
Expensive? Vitamin D 1,25-Hydroxy - $90 Vitamin D 25-Hydroxy - $65
Those are costs without insurance; paid out-of-pocket by a private lab testing. Plenty of online lab companies that let you buy whatever labs you want, and just go to LabCorp to have them tested, and results sent to you.
What you describe would be illegal under US copyright law as well. The act of creating a copy, is the illegal portion, it doesn't matter whether the source is cited or not. It is also violating the republishing right, by including it in her report; Fair use would not apply as she was not directly commenting about or satirizing the image.
The school also violated distribution rights, by transmitting the image; and the right of public display.
Yes. And if she relinquishes her stake, it doesn't really matter much unless she lives 5 yrs+. Otherwise it will be taken as trying to evade debt. And legal or not, they will go after relatives, family members, and any connections with lawsuits to try to recoup costs.
I've seen it twice now, and it makes me sick that this is "good healthcare" in this country.
I went to ye ol' search engine and type in "earth fl" and got "earth flat or round" as a suggestion.
That suggestion told me that this was a thing. Clicking around a few links and reading a bit told me that while I may be outnumbered, I'm not wrong. Most people seem to categorize the earth as round, but there are still plenty of us sane people who categorize it as flat.
Because the Internet exists no-where, one can easily argue that it exists everywhere.
And this is how countries start applying national laws to international companies who have an Internet Presence in their country. And that presence is the consumer viewing or interacting with the website primarily, a company office secondarily.
So, with all the countries (rightfully) applying basic national laws to anyone providing a service to their residences leads to the next step: These companies have a presence in, and should be following all the laws for sub-national political entities.
The US has started this by having internet companies follow broad laws at the state level. Which is usually fairly homogeneous. However, even smaller localities have a legitimate claim to apply their laws to services being offered to their residents, since the point of interaction is physically at the consumers terminal.
The rhetoric from a decade ago "How can you follow all the laws for all the countries who can view your content?", turned out to be: You simply provide a different experience to each geographic region. And follow the laws required.
This will get exponentially more difficult once all the localities start to realise that they need to apply their laws to all entities, or start doing the TV thing and black-out regions.
"Cancer..., now there we have a branding problem. You don't want that, cancer is expensive. I got it! 'Closure'! Congratulations! You've got Closure! Now you can freely spend your savings, and enjoy your days of Closure to the fullest!
AVS Zip Valdiation works by concatenating numbers, and padding with 0. UK: LS8 22AJ => Enter 82200 CA: T2C4L5 => 24500 NL: 5800 => 58000
Depending on the interface, I have seen code that implements the check (pre-verification) as 00001-99999, 00000-99999, 01001-99950, which is out of spec. Some client implementations, will simply require a "don't care" value, like 00000 or 99999 for no AVS, and if that is entered in the machine, it will work for the "No Zip Available" case.
AVS Address Validation works the same way. 123 FakeStreet = PO BOX 123 = 12 Fake St APT 3 .
That said, AVS is -only implemeted by US, CA, and some UK card issuers. Other countries the check will return "no AVS" The gateway provider usually, will allow customers to enable AVS Address, AVS Zip, separately, and clearly warn, that any international cards will not undergo any AVS checks at all. And then give a separate option to require AVS success with the warning that all International issued cards, even with US billing address, will be declined.
And thus you get the story of the tower of babel, where scientists starting using their own symbols and jargon (new chinese characters, new compound words; the babel concept predates the bible) to describe them, that they completely lost touch with the commoner. What resulted, was that when the educated class was executed, those remained had texts, and some knew words, but the original information was effectively lost; with little chance of resurrection.
To take that further, as people invent their own words, and not use current vocabulary properly, and without documenting it, or sharing this information around, you end up building your own isolate and the net result is that the communities can't understand each other, and at somepoint, what was once individual style becomes current-jargon, which becomes commuity dialect, which if left untended to, becomes a new mutually-incomprehensibel language.
In the global market, there is no reason to prefer higher paid Americans. We are addressing the low-income persons in the world before the lower income persons in the US.
Now, new companies are being set up to train developers in PH, and ID, and TH in order to develop the questioning skills needed, in order to make the skill set comparable to new grads in the US.
But, because the cost of living is so much cheaper, companies can pay slightly more than the going rate for a coder-farm, but get coders who are equivalent to an Westerner with a Bachelors and 2-3 years exp. The rate for the local is still stupidly good for the area, and thus makes for a win-win situation for the workers and the foreign company.
A former co-worker of mine took his USD 200k salary, lives in Thailand, (flys to california when needed), and locally in TH, helps to train the foreign workers in Thailand. Bringing up the value for the local (thai) economy. Decreasing cost for company, and increasing the value per person.
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In Phoenix, we had to wait 4 weeks to get an MRI scheduled (Wrist)
Vs 2 Days in California (Neck)
Vs 3 Days in Calgary, Canada (Neck/Upper Back)
Given personal experience, US can be much much worse.
Who waits for an MRI for that long?
My co-worker had his MRI done within 2 hrs.
I have had MRIs scheduled within 2 days.
A fractured arm isn't an Emergency situation, people can go days without it being treated and be fine.
If the Triage at the ER receives people that are going to -die- without treatment, they will be bumped ahead of you. just like in the US.
Your doctor decides what is needed, and what is a priority.
Co-worker went in to the Clinic for neck pain.
They took an MRI.
Within 30min, they had him at an ER Surgical room, going in for emergency spinal surgery.
It would mean that the argument that cryptocurrency is a commodity will no longer be blindly valid, as the only arguments currently remaining against declaring it a currency equivalent, is that cryptocurrency is not recogninzed by any state as a currency, is not issued by any central bank, nor is in common use as a currency in any locale. This will break those remaining arguments.
And then, I can see people in the US suing the IRS to reclassify cryptocurrencies as a currency, and not as property.
They make sense if you practise mindfullness.
They are basic questions taugh when starting out as a newcomer to mindfulness practise.
Sense my body whether eating, cooking, cleaning, or talking.
- Do you have the kinestetic sense of the body's orientation, the weight bearing on the muscles, the force of gravity
- While performing these other actions, do you maintain the awareness of the body -- most people completely disconnect from their body and have no awareness of it all.
- To have awareness of the body is to be consciously aware of it. To be unconscious of the body is to be unaware of it.
Pay attention to what's behind my actions
- Why did I react in such a manner
- What is the motivation behind the action
- Why did I feel that way towards an other
- Why do I think that a given action will lead to another
Am I friendly to myself when things go wrong.
- When complications arise, do you self-deprecate.
- Do you place blame on yourself, do you treat yourself as a failure, or otherwise put yourself down?
- (follow up question is why do you do these actions)
Am I impatient with myself and with others
- This is a very straight forward question, even outside of mindfullness - Are you patient with others?
- Do you get frustrated when you cannot achieve a goal.
- Do you get frustrated at others when they cannot seem to grasp a concept you explain to them.
The only way for studies on mindfulness to increase in quality is to put out more studies on it.
Each successive ones improving on the previous studies, and addressing the faults.
One cannot expect a perfectly devised experiment when all the variables are not even quantified, or even what their range of values are.
There is likely a labour shortage for the physical labour required.
Standing on feet all day, working with or around toxic materials. (Solder, lead, plastic-dust, etc)
Limited to no moderation in work-load, just work full speed until a mandated 15min break.
There is already a labour shortage in the farm-picking industries.
Many of the workers being illegal, or seasonal workers.
In California, there was a news report in the LA times last year about one farmer trying to hire Americans by paying $20/hr. Most quit within a week because the work was too difficult.
So, while there is not a labour shortage across the board, in specific industries there very well could be.
I think we are all horribly overpaid. There is no reason for a developer to be making more than 60k a year. 10% over national average for a household is more than enough. Why do people in the US have to be so damned greedy?
When working in other countries, I make a sensible wage.
When working in the US, they pay a stupid amount that would be better spent improving the local communities, with better infrastructure, better recreation facilities (which can also make money and jobs for the company that builds them), better training systems, or just more time off for a better work-life balance.
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That logic tends to fail for RTL languages where Right side is more important.
And ambiguous (Vertical), for which I do not know of any research about which direction gets meaning priority. As writing is vertical RTL; but horizontal LTR Chinese/Japanese.
> Staying in permanent "summer time" just means you are in another timezone than you claim. So that is plain stupid. Now you don't only have to know which time zone a country is in, you also have to know if they decided to be in permanent summer time or use the normal time associated with the time zone
Using the term "to remain in summer time" is easier for normal people to understand than "to recommend each country set their timezone to the offset used in Summer Time."
> So, ditch the DST and let the countries decide what time zone they want to be in. NO SUMMER TIME ALLOWED! The effect is the same but it will be a heck lot easier for travelers or people communicating across time zones.
This is what they are proposing.
The Hospital ER cannot turn you away for not having health insurance, and having no means to pay.
A non-trivial amount of operational costs for a hospital is covering ER visits for people with colds, flus, and non-insured; who all default on payment, with no means of covering their visit.
Many of the complications could have been dealt with for pennies on the dollar should the individual have had insurance, and simply seen the doctor before the illness progressed.
One cannot opt out of the health system.
One should not be able to opt out of paying for it.
Expensive?
Vitamin D 1,25-Hydroxy - $90
Vitamin D 25-Hydroxy - $65
Those are costs without insurance; paid out-of-pocket by a private lab testing.
Plenty of online lab companies that let you buy whatever labs you want, and just go to LabCorp to have them tested, and results sent to you.
And simply copying the image off the Internet to her report is not fair use. Not in the EU. Not in the US.
What you describe would be illegal under US copyright law as well.
The act of creating a copy, is the illegal portion, it doesn't matter whether the source is cited or not.
It is also violating the republishing right, by including it in her report; Fair use would not apply as she was not directly commenting about or satirizing the image.
The school also violated distribution rights, by transmitting the image; and the right of public display.
It is called Heisei 31 until May 29, then it's Unknown Era 1 May 30 (Or whatever the changeover date is)
Yes.
And if she relinquishes her stake, it doesn't really matter much unless she lives 5 yrs+.
Otherwise it will be taken as trying to evade debt.
And legal or not, they will go after relatives, family members, and any connections with lawsuits to try to recoup costs.
I've seen it twice now, and it makes me sick that this is "good healthcare" in this country.
In Califronia, I've seen ambulance bills for $3000-5000.
Insurance will usually cover $500 of it. (via employer insurance, Aetna, and IBX)
The rest is on the patient.
I'll take Uber or a Taxi over 7 months rent.
After insurance, my ambulance ride ended up being $2600 out of pocket.
The next time I needed an ambulance (kidney stone), I took an uber.
Not making that mistake again.
I went to ye ol' search engine and type in "earth fl" and got "earth flat or round" as a suggestion.
That suggestion told me that this was a thing.
Clicking around a few links and reading a bit told me that while I may be outnumbered, I'm not wrong.
Most people seem to categorize the earth as round, but there are still plenty of us sane people who categorize it as flat.
Because the Internet exists no-where, one can easily argue that it exists everywhere.
And this is how countries start applying national laws to international companies who have an Internet Presence in their country.
And that presence is the consumer viewing or interacting with the website primarily, a company office secondarily.
So, with all the countries (rightfully) applying basic national laws to anyone providing a service to their residences leads to the next step:
These companies have a presence in, and should be following all the laws for sub-national political entities.
The US has started this by having internet companies follow broad laws at the state level. Which is usually fairly homogeneous.
However, even smaller localities have a legitimate claim to apply their laws to services being offered to their residents, since the point of interaction is physically at the consumers terminal.
The rhetoric from a decade ago "How can you follow all the laws for all the countries who can view your content?", turned out to be: You simply provide a different experience to each geographic region. And follow the laws required.
This will get exponentially more difficult once all the localities start to realise that they need to apply their laws to all entities, or start doing the TV thing and black-out regions.
So, they invented the Single-home HOA?
"Cancer..., now there we have a branding problem. You don't want that, cancer is expensive.
I got it! 'Closure'!
Congratulations! You've got Closure! Now you can freely spend your savings, and enjoy your days of Closure to the fullest!
I couldn't buy any train tickets with my US card because they only took chip-and-pin credit cards. No means for Signatures or mag-stripes.
AVS Zip Valdiation works by concatenating numbers, and padding with 0.
UK: LS8 22AJ => Enter 82200
CA: T2C4L5 => 24500
NL: 5800 => 58000
Depending on the interface, I have seen code that implements the check (pre-verification) as 00001-99999, 00000-99999, 01001-99950, which is out of spec.
Some client implementations, will simply require a "don't care" value, like 00000 or 99999 for no AVS, and if that is entered in the machine, it will work for the "No Zip Available" case.
AVS Address Validation works the same way.
123 FakeStreet = PO BOX 123 = 12 Fake St APT 3 .
That said, AVS is -only implemeted by US, CA, and some UK card issuers. Other countries the check will return "no AVS"
The gateway provider usually, will allow customers to enable AVS Address, AVS Zip, separately, and clearly warn, that any international cards will not undergo any AVS checks at all. And then give a separate option to require AVS success with the warning that all International issued cards, even with US billing address, will be declined.
And thus you get the story of the tower of babel, where scientists starting using their own symbols and jargon (new chinese characters, new compound words; the babel concept predates the bible) to describe them, that they completely lost touch with the commoner. What resulted, was that when the educated class was executed, those remained had texts, and some knew words, but the original information was effectively lost; with little chance of resurrection.
To take that further, as people invent their own words, and not use current vocabulary properly, and without documenting it, or sharing this information around, you end up building your own isolate and the net result is that the communities can't understand each other, and at somepoint, what was once individual style becomes current-jargon, which becomes commuity dialect, which if left untended to, becomes a new mutually-incomprehensibel language.
In the global market, there is no reason to prefer higher paid Americans.
We are addressing the low-income persons in the world before the lower income persons in the US.
Now, new companies are being set up to train developers in PH, and ID, and TH in order to develop the questioning skills needed, in order to make the skill set comparable to new grads in the US.
But, because the cost of living is so much cheaper, companies can pay slightly more than the going rate for a coder-farm, but get coders who are equivalent to an Westerner with a Bachelors and 2-3 years exp. The rate for the local is still stupidly good for the area, and thus makes for a win-win situation for the workers and the foreign company.
A former co-worker of mine took his USD 200k salary, lives in Thailand, (flys to california when needed), and locally in TH, helps to train the foreign workers in Thailand. Bringing up the value for the local (thai) economy. Decreasing cost for company, and increasing the value per person.