The phone will never exist, if they get their $32M I am almost certain the phones they ship will look nothing like their current plans. It will be budget device at a super phone price. This is due to their very low volume.
All of those would be good ideas, none of them limit how much I can recover when a doctor cripples me.
There is no reason for the people to pay for a person on disability when it results from malpractice. If they want that deal then doctors wages need to come way down.
T-mobile and MVNOs in the USA do offer SIM only plans.
They are more like $30-$50, but on contract plans for a smartphone are going to be double that. You $50 a month is comparatively cheap vs the average american smartphone plan.
$800 would be fine, if I believed for a second the final device would be what they claim. I suspect they are aiming to high and at such low volume will not be able to get the parts they want.
They should have made a small run of them to prove it could be done. If they had I would have already bought one.
Or let us make a deposit and pay the rest if the described device actually ships.
Considering how many doctors have tried to kill me, I don't see the risk really changing.
Some education on end of life spending would be nice too. I have seen many doctors spend what had to be tens of thousands to give people a couple more pain filled days of torture.
The pharma companies would not do it otherwise. Try to remember that this lunch comes from an attractive person of the sex you prefer. Who also controls if you get to go to that "educational" meeting in a nice tropical location.
Fixing it is simple, replace the locks or replace the cars. VW sold them and as such has that responsibility. They should not have the option to not fix it.
Breaking windows is not a flaw in the door locks. Nor is towing the car. The flaw here is letting them get in and start the car. It is quite different to be able to drive away rather than tow or have to break a window.
If a high schooler wants your car he uses the brick and screw drive method, not the fancy laptop.
Then Medicare should instead provide the device. Let them buy those in bulk and give them to the dr for this procedure.
Tort reform does not lower cost, it only shifts the risk to the patient. Since with it a doctor can cripple you and payout less than you make in a decade. So we can rule out the lawyers. The insurance companies sure make good money, but they take a percentage so if procedures were cheaper they would make less. Drug companies are a problem, but the solution there is to stop them from advertising and giving free stuff to doctors.
Step 1 should be to require doctors to publish their rates for procedures. Then let my insurance company reward me if I save them money by choosing good value doctors. Step 2 should be to forbid any form of advertising by drug companies. Buying a doctor lunch should be a felony for a drug company rep.
Bullshit. The simple fact is that tort reform does not lower costs, look at Texas to see this. What it does do is mean that you can be crippled by a doctor, forever unable to work and get less than he makes in a year out of it.
If you want to make that kind of money you have to be willing to take some risk. Tort reform is simply the doctors privatizing the profits and socializing the losses when they fuck up. This is because once those meager limited payouts runout we as a society have another person to pay for on disability.
I think you could go 100% electronic and do it correctly. id_rsa.pub and authorized_keys seems to be 100% electronic and works pretty well. SSHing into my car to open the doors would be pretty sweet.
Why in the 21st century is anyone stupid enough not to use proper crypto? In the world of crypto proprietary means so flawed I cannot show you how it works or it stops being crypto.
If you notify they will just sue you instead of fixing it. Which is what VW has now done.
Car locks could be very secure, car companies chose POS methods. $100,000 is not a big deal when you can do the research and sell the results to crime rings.
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The phone will never exist, if they get their $32M I am almost certain the phones they ship will look nothing like their current plans. It will be budget device at a super phone price. This is due to their very low volume.
Or far more likely if they do raise the $32M it will be a budget phone for a super phone price.
If they do that no one gets their money back and instead has a POS phone.
My yugo was cheaper than a mercedes.
You are comparing a carrier branded budget device. Also it was not $200, the contract pricing included the real cost over a longer term.
Which is why they won't be able to do it.
I mean a single one, lets see a single real phone. If anyone thought they could pull this off one of the OEMs would build them a prototype.
All of those would be good ideas, none of them limit how much I can recover when a doctor cripples me.
There is no reason for the people to pay for a person on disability when it results from malpractice. If they want that deal then doctors wages need to come way down.
Which is a totally normal price for a phone bought outright. Otherwise you pay the same amount or more via your contract. There is no free lunch.
Why?
It can run android apps, and you can flash any OS you want onto it. How is the money lost? Because your friends might not know how cool it is?
If I thought they would actually meet their design goals I would have already bought one.
T-mobile and MVNOs in the USA do offer SIM only plans.
They are more like $30-$50, but on contract plans for a smartphone are going to be double that. You $50 a month is comparatively cheap vs the average american smartphone plan.
Then you can't afford a smartphone.
You are paying that one way or another.
I would be more than happy to spend $800 if they would show us real production units.
$800 would be fine, if I believed for a second the final device would be what they claim. I suspect they are aiming to high and at such low volume will not be able to get the parts they want.
They should have made a small run of them to prove it could be done. If they had I would have already bought one.
Or let us make a deposit and pay the rest if the described device actually ships.
If they build them I will buy one.
I will even put down a $50 deposit.
I did not however buy one because I do not believe they will hit their goals. Instead buyers will get an underwhelming device at super phone prices.
Considering how many doctors have tried to kill me, I don't see the risk really changing.
Some education on end of life spending would be nice too. I have seen many doctors spend what had to be tens of thousands to give people a couple more pain filled days of torture.
The pharma companies would not do it otherwise. Try to remember that this lunch comes from an attractive person of the sex you prefer. Who also controls if you get to go to that "educational" meeting in a nice tropical location.
Which is as much about theft as forgetfulness.
How often have people placed a tool at work in their pocket, found it when they got home ,and failed to return it due to fear of firing?
We are talking about movies, not important data.
The standards are obviously different.
Fixing it is simple, replace the locks or replace the cars. VW sold them and as such has that responsibility. They should not have the option to not fix it.
Breaking windows is not a flaw in the door locks. Nor is towing the car. The flaw here is letting them get in and start the car. It is quite different to be able to drive away rather than tow or have to break a window.
If a high schooler wants your car he uses the brick and screw drive method, not the fancy laptop.
Where you punched in when they did this?
That is the only issue here, anytime they require you to spend there they must pay you.
Then Medicare should instead provide the device. Let them buy those in bulk and give them to the dr for this procedure.
Tort reform does not lower cost, it only shifts the risk to the patient. Since with it a doctor can cripple you and payout less than you make in a decade. So we can rule out the lawyers. The insurance companies sure make good money, but they take a percentage so if procedures were cheaper they would make less. Drug companies are a problem, but the solution there is to stop them from advertising and giving free stuff to doctors.
Step 1 should be to require doctors to publish their rates for procedures. Then let my insurance company reward me if I save them money by choosing good value doctors. Step 2 should be to forbid any form of advertising by drug companies. Buying a doctor lunch should be a felony for a drug company rep.
Bullshit. The simple fact is that tort reform does not lower costs, look at Texas to see this. What it does do is mean that you can be crippled by a doctor, forever unable to work and get less than he makes in a year out of it.
If you want to make that kind of money you have to be willing to take some risk. Tort reform is simply the doctors privatizing the profits and socializing the losses when they fuck up. This is because once those meager limited payouts runout we as a society have another person to pay for on disability.
I think you could go 100% electronic and do it correctly. id_rsa.pub and authorized_keys seems to be 100% electronic and works pretty well. SSHing into my car to open the doors would be pretty sweet.
Why in the 21st century is anyone stupid enough not to use proper crypto?
In the world of crypto proprietary means so flawed I cannot show you how it works or it stops being crypto.
If you notify they will just sue you instead of fixing it. Which is what VW has now done.
Car locks could be very secure, car companies chose POS methods. $100,000 is not a big deal when you can do the research and sell the results to crime rings.
Sure, this is why we have one though. Our founding fathers knew not having one was too dangerous.
The cars are vulnerable if he tells the world or not. The only difference is now only the bad actors know about the problem.
He should have disclosed without notifying. That way they could not have stopped him.
So Apple has only one worker in all of China?
If not, then surely it should be "Chinese worker abuse claims".