Try the ING Direct site - best over the web security ever. You need your account number, some ever changing specific fraction of your social security #, zip code, or other identifier, and a set of letters that corresponds to a pin that are entered by clicking a icture of a number pad with a mouse. If "s" is assigned to "3" this time, it won't be the next time you're on.
It's a minor pain in the butt to get to your account, but definitely more secure.
I think you saw a different cut than I did. I'd never seen a Firefly episode and the movie had plenty of character development.
Why should you care for River? Well, I'm not sure you really should until later in the film. That uncertainty about whether she's a sympathetic person or an impersonal weapon carries the tension for the first part of the movie. The Reivers I thought were a great "force of nature" villain - impersonal, mysterious, and scary as hell.
I think most sci-fi fans will enjoy this movie. I loved it.
Never saw the show. LOVED the movie. It was character driven, had a plot, character development, a couple of great villans, tension and humor among the heroes, and a good zing at the end.
There were moments that I thought "Huh. I bet that's really a big deal if you're a fan of the series," but they didn't slow the movie down. You sympathized with characters in the movie because of their actions in the movie, not because of the series (which I haven't seen).
I will admit I walked out and put Firefly on my Netflix Queue as soon as I got home.
BIG difference, though. There were tens of millions of regular Star Trek viewers thanks to the reruns. Firefly has been almost impossible to find for most of its existence.
If you want to make money, you cater to your audience who mostly didn't know much. I loved the movie and have never seen a Firefly episode in its entirety. My guess is it does OK but not great at the box office but sells DVD's like nobody's business.
And then put a big sign on it that says, "HAAAAA! You pussies don't have the smarts or the guts to regrow me a new body and bring me back! Hahahahahahah!"
I almost bought this neat CD from some French singer I heard on the listening stand at Virgin this weekend, but then I noticed it was copy protected and put it back.
Copy protection may not stop me from picking up my absolute favorite artists, but it will stop me from buying something out of the ordinary.
Heck, if it's simple, I can go to a pharmacist and get something for a headcold. I want a doctor who'll catch that cancer one visit earlier or run that extra test to rule out a possibly fatal disease, or know that there's a better drug for me than the one he used to prescribe.
The best possible option is to get a middle-late career doctor who also teaches and works at a good medical school/research hospital. They have to keep up with the latest and greatest and have the experience to evaluate the material.
any "study" published in a medical journal tooting the horn of, well, *medical professionals*, done by those same medical professionals, deserves a healthy amount of skepticism.
This study doesn't "toot the horn" of medical professionals. It compares two groups of medical professionals. If anything, the bias of the Annals would be in favor of older doctors.
In other words, older doctors are less likely to rigidly follow practices exhorted in medical school, and instead do what they think is best.
Science advances. Mortality and morbidity rates drop because we learn things about treatments. Not keeping up with what is the current recommended procedures is the best way to guarantee your patients a worse outcome than other doctors who are current with the latest science.
The "study" which is being referred to was thoroughly debunked as soon as it hit the journals.
Oh no, you don't. Link the refutations. You asked me to find a link and I'll demand the same of you.
I'm sure there are GOOD doctors out there, but if I find a bad one, why isn't it my right to speak out to the world about it?
No reason I can see. Just make sure the complaints are accurate and I'm all for consumer info websites on doctors. However, I would suggest that if you publicly complain about a specific treatment program that you should allow the doctor a response and a limited HIPAA waver to release enough information about the specific incident to mount a reasonable defense in the court of public opnion.
If you could get the perfectly compassionate and polite physician who teaches whippersnappers at a med school that would be perfect, but given a choice betwee putting up with a rude overworked young 'un from a top program and an older doctor who graduated many years prior from the same program but is no longer affiliated with a university, you're probably better off with the whipersnapper, even if they piss you off.
But there are indeed many variables. My wife is of course the perfect doctor and is infinitely compassionate and knowledgeable:)
My wife's a pediatrician and all the talk recently was about a spate of recent studies that prove statistically that newly minted doctors give better care than doctors out of residency for ten years plus (especially those not in a university affiliated setting).
I have a great doctor who has been retired for probably 15 years. He's old school and treats me and my family with respect and friendliness. He's available 24/7 by phone (home, office, cell, pager) and he's called me back at bizarre times when I've had problems. All my friends are blown away by the stories I have of his service.
Guess what - your doctor is probably behind the times and you'd get better outcomes if you were being treated by a whippersnapper from a good medical residency program with a couple years of practical experience.
I have a friend who has a load of documents to scan and he wants to be able to feed them into a scanner and have them just go.
I'd also like the ability to link an image of a bill to a line in Quicken or Money so I don' thave to store the original paper forever. Any ideas there?
Flamebait? What the hell? Look, go down to the purchasing department, get a blank P.O., look up the part number in the Office Depot catalog and requisition yourself a goddamn sense of humor.
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"Hi, this is Joe Lieberman, and I'll be your Senator today. What can I do for you? Oh? Let me transfer you to my supervisor, Senator Biden"
Try the ING Direct site - best over the web security ever. You need your account number, some ever changing specific fraction of your social security #, zip code, or other identifier, and a set of letters that corresponds to a pin that are entered by clicking a icture of a number pad with a mouse. If "s" is assigned to "3" this time, it won't be the next time you're on.
It's a minor pain in the butt to get to your account, but definitely more secure.
Railroads were started in England. Let's surrender control of our railroads to Britain.
I think you saw a different cut than I did. I'd never seen a Firefly episode and the movie had plenty of character development.
Why should you care for River? Well, I'm not sure you really should until later in the film. That uncertainty about whether she's a sympathetic person or an impersonal weapon carries the tension for the first part of the movie. The Reivers I thought were a great "force of nature" villain - impersonal, mysterious, and scary as hell.
I think most sci-fi fans will enjoy this movie. I loved it.
Never saw the show. LOVED the movie. It was character driven, had a plot, character development, a couple of great villans, tension and humor among the heroes, and a good zing at the end.
There were moments that I thought "Huh. I bet that's really a big deal if you're a fan of the series," but they didn't slow the movie down. You sympathized with characters in the movie because of their actions in the movie, not because of the series (which I haven't seen).
I will admit I walked out and put Firefly on my Netflix Queue as soon as I got home.
BIG difference, though. There were tens of millions of regular Star Trek viewers thanks to the reruns. Firefly has been almost impossible to find for most of its existence.
If you want to make money, you cater to your audience who mostly didn't know much. I loved the movie and have never seen a Firefly episode in its entirety. My guess is it does OK but not great at the box office but sells DVD's like nobody's business.
And then put a big sign on it that says, "HAAAAA! You pussies don't have the smarts or the guts to regrow me a new body and bring me back! Hahahahahahah!"
It would be really really hard to get a good bagel.
But this is the weakest story I've ever seen on Slashdot.
That's the definition of Holy Crap.
Ohhhhh. JBOSS? My bad.
Benjamin Franklin - "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
I almost bought this neat CD from some French singer I heard on the listening stand at Virgin this weekend, but then I noticed it was copy protected and put it back.
Copy protection may not stop me from picking up my absolute favorite artists, but it will stop me from buying something out of the ordinary.
You know that on the first mission of this thing some nutcase is going to get in and face the back while everyone is facing the front.
And if that kid pushes all the floor buttons all the way up again, I'll strangle the little shit.
Dude - "usage"? That is just SO 1847.
There isn't any. :)
Heck, if it's simple, I can go to a pharmacist and get something for a headcold. I want a doctor who'll catch that cancer one visit earlier or run that extra test to rule out a possibly fatal disease, or know that there's a better drug for me than the one he used to prescribe.
The best possible option is to get a middle-late career doctor who also teaches and works at a good medical school/research hospital. They have to keep up with the latest and greatest and have the experience to evaluate the material.
any "study" published in a medical journal tooting the horn of, well, *medical professionals*, done by those same medical professionals, deserves a healthy amount of skepticism.
This study doesn't "toot the horn" of medical professionals. It compares two groups of medical professionals. If anything, the bias of the Annals would be in favor of older doctors.
In other words, older doctors are less likely to rigidly follow practices exhorted in medical school, and instead do what they think is best.
Science advances. Mortality and morbidity rates drop because we learn things about treatments. Not keeping up with what is the current recommended procedures is the best way to guarantee your patients a worse outcome than other doctors who are current with the latest science.
The "study" which is being referred to was thoroughly debunked as soon as it hit the journals.
Oh no, you don't. Link the refutations. You asked me to find a link and I'll demand the same of you.
I'm sure there are GOOD doctors out there, but if I find a bad one, why isn't it my right to speak out to the world about it?
No reason I can see. Just make sure the complaints are accurate and I'm all for consumer info websites on doctors. However, I would suggest that if you publicly complain about a specific treatment program that you should allow the doctor a response and a limited HIPAA waver to release enough information about the specific incident to mount a reasonable defense in the court of public opnion.
If you could get the perfectly compassionate and polite physician who teaches whippersnappers at a med school that would be perfect, but given a choice betwee putting up with a rude overworked young 'un from a top program and an older doctor who graduated many years prior from the same program but is no longer affiliated with a university, you're probably better off with the whipersnapper, even if they piss you off.
:)
But there are indeed many variables. My wife is of course the perfect doctor and is infinitely compassionate and knowledgeable
How about an article that references The Annals of Internal Medicine?
I'm curious about your criteria, by the way. Who is the peer in "peer-reviewed" who would review a medical journal who isn't also a doctor?
My wife's a pediatrician and all the talk recently was about a spate of recent studies that prove statistically that newly minted doctors give better care than doctors out of residency for ten years plus (especially those not in a university affiliated setting).
I have a great doctor who has been retired for probably 15 years. He's old school and treats me and my family with respect and friendliness. He's available 24/7 by phone (home, office, cell, pager) and he's called me back at bizarre times when I've had problems. All my friends are blown away by the stories I have of his service.
Guess what - your doctor is probably behind the times and you'd get better outcomes if you were being treated by a whippersnapper from a good medical residency program with a couple years of practical experience.
There goes the New York Times.
I have a friend who has a load of documents to scan and he wants to be able to feed them into a scanner and have them just go.
I'd also like the ability to link an image of a bill to a line in Quicken or Money so I don' thave to store the original paper forever. Any ideas there?
Flamebait? What the hell? Look, go down to the purchasing department, get a blank P.O., look up the part number in the Office Depot catalog and requisition yourself a goddamn sense of humor.