Cancer treatment chemotherapy is designed to kill cancer cells but these are not much different than normal cells so they make you sick as a dog. Antibiotics and other drugs are less toxic but have side effects..
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The problem is that you will not get painless "bionic body parts". You will be strapped to a bed with tubes in every orifice (plus a few new ones) giving you a toxic mixture of chemicals carefully designed to bring you just to the point of death but not beyond. This is a recipe for maximum pain. You will live out your last days as a medical experiment at maximum cost, maximum pain and no freedom. Believe me. I have seen this and had patients and friends go through this... you do not want this to happen to you. (Yes, I am a doctor.)
You can get cheap plans from ATT and TMobile and others as well as a few resellers for $40 or $50 per month for unlimited talk, text and data. You can save $40 a month x 24 months so your "free" phone actually costs $960. Most people have contract plans that cost more than $80 a month so are paying even more. Most people don't seem to be able to do this simple math.
Very true. In spite of all of the heated discussion here, most people don't know or care about software upgrades. They bought a phone, it works, when it gets all beat up they'll buy another (and fall for the "free phone" scam again).
We've had "applications" for many years... "apps" is just Apple marketing speak for the fanbois. (I'm surprised they didn't call them iApps.) Apple didn't invent the computer or applications but they do a very good job of marketing.
It does appear that China is trying to corner the market for rare earth metals. However, this is different from making things below cost to drive out the competition. It appears that they are buying up all of the mines and producers and restricting supply and raising prices without going through the "make things cheap and run the competition out of business" part.
Actually it is Simple Mobile which resells TMobile service so coverage is the same as TMobile. For $50 month you can get the same thing directly from ATT Or TMobile. I see no reason to spend 2x just to get a "free" phone. I'm not that stupid.
The way insurance companies work is to carefully write lots of fine print which limits their exposure. For instance, my home insurance policy comes with 22 pages of fine print which is can only be parsed by a lawyer after the fact. This gives them lots of outs to avoid paying a claim. I imagine that these insurance policies will also come with lots of fine print to guarantee that they won't have to pay anything significant. These policies will be a boon for the insurance companies but the insured will be SOL if they are actually stupid enough to have a loss.
The only thing congresscritters need to know is who is sending them money and what laws the money will buy. The corporations write the laws and it is the job of Congress to pass them once the required payments have been made. Everything else is just bullshit to entertain the folks back home.
I can't believe people are getting their shorts all twisted about the location of the power button. I have a Fire and I've never turned it off by accident. However, if you find this a problem, you can always just hold it with the power button on top. The screen automatically switches and since all of the controls are on the screen, everything is the same. As for a camera, I've seen people taking pictures with their iPads and it is ridiculous. They have to hold the thing out with two hands and there's no extra hand to shade the screen so you can see what you're taking a picture of... they look stupid. I have cameras and a phone with a better camera than the iPad so why would I want another awkward camera?
The US Military uses depleted uranium in weapons. They make tank projectiles from it and shoot it at 'terrorists'. When these projectiles hit something, they vaporize into thousands (millions?) of radioactive particles. There are high rates of cancer for years after in the (terrorist) towns where they have been used. It would be good to stop using it as a munition since it does kill a lot of innocent people.
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You forgot the $250 cost of Win 7 Ultimate.
Cancer treatment chemotherapy is designed to kill cancer cells but these are not much different than normal cells so they make you sick as a dog.
Antibiotics and other drugs are less toxic but have side effects..
The problem is that you will not get painless "bionic body parts". You will be strapped to a bed with tubes in every orifice (plus a few new ones) giving you a toxic mixture of chemicals carefully designed to bring you just to the point of death but not beyond. This is a recipe for maximum pain. You will live out your last days as a medical experiment at maximum cost, maximum pain and no freedom.
Believe me. I have seen this and had patients and friends go through this... you do not want this to happen to you. (Yes, I am a doctor.)
You can get cheap plans from ATT and TMobile and others as well as a few resellers for $40 or $50 per month for unlimited talk, text and data. You can save $40 a month x 24 months so your "free" phone actually costs $960. Most people have contract plans that cost more than $80 a month so are paying even more.
Most people don't seem to be able to do this simple math.
Very true.
In spite of all of the heated discussion here, most people don't know or care about software upgrades. They bought a phone, it works, when it gets all beat up they'll buy another (and fall for the "free phone" scam again).
We've had "applications" for many years... "apps" is just Apple marketing speak for the fanbois. (I'm surprised they didn't call them iApps.)
Apple didn't invent the computer or applications but they do a very good job of marketing.
Microsoft has never been successful at anything which wasn't tied to their Windows monopoly.
Gmail uses https which is hard to sniff...
It does appear that China is trying to corner the market for rare earth metals. However, this is different from making things below cost to drive out the competition. It appears that they are buying up all of the mines and producers and restricting supply and raising prices without going through the "make things cheap and run the competition out of business" part.
Same as TMobile.
Actually it is Simple Mobile which resells TMobile service so coverage is the same as TMobile.
For $50 month you can get the same thing directly from ATT Or TMobile.
I see no reason to spend 2x just to get a "free" phone. I'm not that stupid.
I get unlimited talk text and data for $40 month in the US. I can't believe people are suckered into $100 month contracts by a free phone.
I see lots of the cheap part but don't see much of the "raise prices " part. What prices have been raised?
So you only believe reporting is biased when it doesn't agree with your ideology?
The way insurance companies work is to carefully write lots of fine print which limits their exposure. For instance, my home insurance policy comes with 22 pages of fine print which is can only be parsed by a lawyer after the fact. This gives them lots of outs to avoid paying a claim. I imagine that these insurance policies will also come with lots of fine print to guarantee that they won't have to pay anything significant. These policies will be a boon for the insurance companies but the insured will be SOL if they are actually stupid enough to have a loss.
Both Krugman and Nocera had good pieces on this subject this week.
I don't know if there is a solution... (perhaps "trust but verify"?)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/opinion/krugman-the-post-truth-campaign.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/24/opinion/nocera-the-big-lie.html
The only thing congresscritters need to know is who is sending them money and what laws the money will buy. The corporations write the laws and it is the job of Congress to pass them once the required payments have been made.
Everything else is just bullshit to entertain the folks back home.
This would be a great open source project. Just publish the code and the hardware. I'm sure we could all figure it out pretty quickly.
I guess some people use video Skype but my lappy has a camera and I've never used it. How do you hold an ipad for video Skype?
I can't believe people are getting their shorts all twisted about the location of the power button. I have a Fire and I've never turned it off by accident. However, if you find this a problem, you can always just hold it with the power button on top. The screen automatically switches and since all of the controls are on the screen, everything is the same.
As for a camera, I've seen people taking pictures with their iPads and it is ridiculous. They have to hold the thing out with two hands and there's no extra hand to shade the screen so you can see what you're taking a picture of... they look stupid. I have cameras and a phone with a better camera than the iPad so why would I want another awkward camera?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/pictures/110624-cocaine-subs-submarines-first-submersible-science-colombia-drug-smuggling/
Thanks for this great explanation.
I believe TFA is all about using depleted uranium to generate power, no?
Good point about chemical toxicity. There must be enough radiation to fuel a reactor.
The US Military uses depleted uranium in weapons. They make tank projectiles from it and shoot it at 'terrorists'. When these projectiles hit something, they vaporize into thousands (millions?) of radioactive particles. There are high rates of cancer for years after in the (terrorist) towns where they have been used. It would be good to stop using it as a munition since it does kill a lot of innocent people.