Doctors perform a LOT of tests and procedures simply as a guard against getting sued. Their malpractice insurance providers insist that the doctors cover their asses.
I know several doctors personally, and one told me that slightly over half his cost of doing business (and medicine IS a business) was malpractice insurance. Next time you walk into a doctor's office, understand that whatever you pay to the doctor goes to rent, salaries, utilities, insurance, supplies, and some $$ to the doctor himself.
It's been suggested many, many times that the solution to the rising cost of healthcare is tort reform or loser pays. Why won't anybody listen?
You're more right than most of the slashdotters here realize. Way back in college, we studied a few poems that nobody in class could understand. If the professor hadn't told us what they meant, we never would have known. I suspect the professor knew only because his professor had told him a couple of decades earlier. I doubt even the author knew what he had written.
No, there are two people guilty of murder - the idiot who made the call AND the police officer who pulled the trigger.
I'm not a "hater" of the police. My late wife was a police officer. I like and respect the police. Never had any problems with them because I treat them like human beings doing a thankless job. But the officer in this case was wrong, wrong, wrong.
The victim was standing in the light and couldn't see the police as clearly as they could see him. Stand in your doorway at night with a bright light shining in your face and tell me what you see. The officer could see him much better than you can in the video. There was no reason to shoot first. Even if the victim had a gun, he could not have seen well enough to actually hit any of the officers. They would have had ample opportunity to shoot back.
I was once in a traffic jam that had traffic backed up for miles. All the cars were equal distance apart, but none of them were moving! Turns out there was no accident ahead, no stalled cars, no reason whatsoever.
What happens is some idiot lightly taps his brakes, may to turn off his cruise control, who knows. Then the driver behind him, not knowing how hard the first one is braking, taps his brakes a bit more. This continues with drivers braking a little harder all the way back, so that cars a hundred yards back come to a complete stop. Of course, then all the traffic behind them comes to a stop. We've all seen it happen.
The answer is to never, ever touch your brakes on an interstate. If everybody paid attention and kept a decent distance apart, you'd never NEED to brake. Exits and on-ramps should be built such that all braking and slowing down would be done on them, not out in the travel lanes.
From what I saw it was spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, and spam.
I signed up shortly after it started. I told no one my Hotmail address and never used the account, even to send an email. I checked it a few months later and the inbox was FULL of spam (hundreds). Haven't been back there since.
I tried just a few minutes ago and YouTube worked fine on Fire TV. There wasn't even the warning screen about it going to quit working. I watched several videos before turning everything off. I'll try again this evening to see if it's still working.
I wasn't very pleased with the browser workaround so I'm going to reinstall the Roku tomorrow. That way I can use either the Roku or Fire TV by switching inputs.
Yes, and it's almost like that ~2.5% fee is the bank "taxing" us for their benefit. And we thought only governments could levy a tax!
I shop at a lot of smaller stores where they won't take a card for purchases of less than five or ten bucks (it varies by store). It makes sense because the store will lose money on small transactions. How do the "cashless" proponents handle situations like that?
I've tried all the major brands and they all taste horrible. Why are they even trying? Nothing can match the real thing.
If you're satisfied by vegetables pretending to be meat, you must be one of those people who think sex robots can replace a real human woman. How pathetic!
Go ahead. Settle for second best, almost good enough, and substitutes. I won't.
I put incoming information into three categories - stuff I need to know, stuff I want to know, and stuff I don't care about at all.
I need to know things like the weather, traffic conditions, family plans, etc.. If a local, national, or international news event will affect me directly, I pay attention and try to find out what exactly is going on. If it's not going to affect me, I ignore it (category #3).
I want to know things like some sports scores, how something works, how to repair something, how to cook with a new recipe - you get the drift. In this category are things I want to know now and some things I can learn about during slack times.
Everything else goes into the "I don't care about it" category. Not surprisingly about 99% of the news goes into this category.
Getting away from the phone can be done with a little willpower. Make it a point to at least put it in airplane mode when you're around friends and family. It's extremely rude to look at your phone when you're talking to somebody - JUST DON'T DO IT. Leave it in the car or in the house when you're going shopping, going to a sporting event, working in the yard, going to the doctor, going to the theater, etc.. What's the worst that could happen? Answer - not much.
Age is not a guarantee of wisdom, but it is a prerequisite.
Wisdom is not just knowledge. It goes far deeper than that. There are a lot of people who know a lot, but they're not necessarily wise. At the very least you have to know yourself and fully understand who you are.
I grew up dirt poor and now I'm old. According to this "study", I should be a very wise man. I'm not, but I do recognize wisdom when I see it. It's sad that I see so very little of it.
Khalil Gibran said something that I've always kept in my mind and tried to live by for most of my life. "Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."
That's what I'm going to do when I get home. Right now I'm 95 miles away and have to work a full day before leaving. It should be interesting. Is this a full-blown FireFox or a stripped-down version?
YouTube on Fire TV originally didn't play ads, but that was changed a long time ago. The app now plays ads before the video starts, and on some longer videos, part way through the video.
Accessing YouTube using Amazon's Silk browser also means seeing ads. I don't know about FireFox yet because I haven't installed it. It probably shows ads, too.
Both are clunky workarounds, and if this continues, I'll just get a cheap Roku and switch between Roku and FireTV. I wouldn't go full-Roku because FireTV is better and faster.
But it wasn't all about the ads. It was mostly about Amazon not selling Google streaming devices.
I've already installed Amazon's Silk browser. It may not be the best browser in the world, but I can watch YouTube with it. I use a Bluetooth keyboard with a built-in trackpad instead of my phone. Kind of a clunky workaround, but that's about all we can do for now.
To begin with, I was planning to retire next year after my 65th birthday and the boss was okay with that. Then he comes back and says that as long as I keep working he will pay for my Medicare supplement insurance. So I agreed to work full time until I'm 66.
After that I can work for the company part time doing some of the easier jobs. It's something to keep me busy and earn some extra money. The boss already gives me all the easy jobs we have available, so it's not really going to be much different except I'll be working about 6 months a year and they'll be months of my choosing.
By March 2019 I will be working part time, living in a house that's paid off, and enjoying much more time at home working in the garden. Social Security + 401K + part time income = something I can enjoy.
Why should I pay for recycling? There is a 90-gallon container marked "Recycle" in front of my house and everything that can be recycled goes in it - paper, cardboard, plastic, etc.. More stuff goes out in the recycle can than in the garbage can.
I live in a small city in Alabama. My garbage bill didn't go up when the company added the recycling can a few years ago. Don't you have recycling in your city?
I rarely go in Walmart, but the last time I did I saw four self-checkouts and only two human cashiers. The rest of the checkouts were unused and the lines were really backed up. I didn't buy anything, just turned around and walked out.
The idea of customers checking out their own items is great in theory, but it just doesn't work that well most of the time.
I'll gladly stand in line to get money, but I'll be damned if I stand in line to give money. Want my business? Then make it convenient for me to shop in your store. That means hiring more (good) people and moving your ass a little faster.
I used to print photos at home years ago, but for the past several years I just upload everything to smugmug.com at FULL resolution and when I want a print I just order whatever size I need from them. The prints are much better quality than you'd find at a local store.
I still have an inkjet printer and I use it sometimes to print things for work, but 99.9% of my printing at home is on an old b/w laser printer.
The trouble is that your definition of innocent is not necessarily the true definition of innocent. If you don't follow lawful orders and act like you're going for a weapon, you're going to get shot. Period.
Police officers are not paid to engage in hand-to-hand combat, so they'll use whatever they have to protect themselves.
I do agree that when it's a clear case of a cop killing somebody for no good reason, that cop should go to prison. There are some bad cops, just not as many as you and your fellow BLM'ers imagine. Walk a mile in their shoes (or at least have some of the training they go through) before you paint them all with such a broad brush.
Google maps was great, and then they forgot what "contrast" means. If they keep going the way they've been going, in another year or two they'll be displaying white on white maps. Already the maps are unprintable, not that I ever print any, but some people do.
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Doctors perform a LOT of tests and procedures simply as a guard against getting sued. Their malpractice insurance providers insist that the doctors cover their asses.
I know several doctors personally, and one told me that slightly over half his cost of doing business (and medicine IS a business) was malpractice insurance. Next time you walk into a doctor's office, understand that whatever you pay to the doctor goes to rent, salaries, utilities, insurance, supplies, and some $$ to the doctor himself.
It's been suggested many, many times that the solution to the rising cost of healthcare is tort reform or loser pays. Why won't anybody listen?
You're more right than most of the slashdotters here realize. Way back in college, we studied a few poems that nobody in class could understand. If the professor hadn't told us what they meant, we never would have known. I suspect the professor knew only because his professor had told him a couple of decades earlier. I doubt even the author knew what he had written.
My favorite was the one that asked, "Do you suffer from premature ejaculation?"
Uh, no. I quite enjoy it, but she's a bit disappointed.
No, there are two people guilty of murder - the idiot who made the call AND the police officer who pulled the trigger.
I'm not a "hater" of the police. My late wife was a police officer. I like and respect the police. Never had any problems with them because I treat them like human beings doing a thankless job. But the officer in this case was wrong, wrong, wrong.
The victim was standing in the light and couldn't see the police as clearly as they could see him. Stand in your doorway at night with a bright light shining in your face and tell me what you see. The officer could see him much better than you can in the video. There was no reason to shoot first. Even if the victim had a gun, he could not have seen well enough to actually hit any of the officers. They would have had ample opportunity to shoot back.
I was once in a traffic jam that had traffic backed up for miles. All the cars were equal distance apart, but none of them were moving! Turns out there was no accident ahead, no stalled cars, no reason whatsoever.
What happens is some idiot lightly taps his brakes, may to turn off his cruise control, who knows. Then the driver behind him, not knowing how hard the first one is braking, taps his brakes a bit more. This continues with drivers braking a little harder all the way back, so that cars a hundred yards back come to a complete stop. Of course, then all the traffic behind them comes to a stop. We've all seen it happen.
The answer is to never, ever touch your brakes on an interstate. If everybody paid attention and kept a decent distance apart, you'd never NEED to brake. Exits and on-ramps should be built such that all braking and slowing down would be done on them, not out in the travel lanes.
From what I saw it was spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, and spam.
I signed up shortly after it started. I told no one my Hotmail address and never used the account, even to send an email. I checked it a few months later and the inbox was FULL of spam (hundreds). Haven't been back there since.
I tried just a few minutes ago and YouTube worked fine on Fire TV. There wasn't even the warning screen about it going to quit working. I watched several videos before turning everything off. I'll try again this evening to see if it's still working.
I wasn't very pleased with the browser workaround so I'm going to reinstall the Roku tomorrow. That way I can use either the Roku or Fire TV by switching inputs.
Yes, and it's almost like that ~2.5% fee is the bank "taxing" us for their benefit. And we thought only governments could levy a tax!
I shop at a lot of smaller stores where they won't take a card for purchases of less than five or ten bucks (it varies by store). It makes sense because the store will lose money on small transactions. How do the "cashless" proponents handle situations like that?
"McCabe is from all accounts an excellent public servant."
That's the most hilarious thing I've read all day! And you said it in all seriousness. Wow! What flavor Kool-Aid are you drinking?
I've tried all the major brands and they all taste horrible. Why are they even trying? Nothing can match the real thing.
If you're satisfied by vegetables pretending to be meat, you must be one of those people who think sex robots can replace a real human woman. How pathetic!
Go ahead. Settle for second best, almost good enough, and substitutes. I won't.
Will that new OS come with spellcheck?
I put incoming information into three categories - stuff I need to know, stuff I want to know, and stuff I don't care about at all.
I need to know things like the weather, traffic conditions, family plans, etc.. If a local, national, or international news event will affect me directly, I pay attention and try to find out what exactly is going on. If it's not going to affect me, I ignore it (category #3).
I want to know things like some sports scores, how something works, how to repair something, how to cook with a new recipe - you get the drift. In this category are things I want to know now and some things I can learn about during slack times.
Everything else goes into the "I don't care about it" category. Not surprisingly about 99% of the news goes into this category.
Getting away from the phone can be done with a little willpower. Make it a point to at least put it in airplane mode when you're around friends and family. It's extremely rude to look at your phone when you're talking to somebody - JUST DON'T DO IT. Leave it in the car or in the house when you're going shopping, going to a sporting event, working in the yard, going to the doctor, going to the theater, etc.. What's the worst that could happen? Answer - not much.
Age is not a guarantee of wisdom, but it is a prerequisite.
Wisdom is not just knowledge. It goes far deeper than that. There are a lot of people who know a lot, but they're not necessarily wise. At the very least you have to know yourself and fully understand who you are.
I grew up dirt poor and now I'm old. According to this "study", I should be a very wise man. I'm not, but I do recognize wisdom when I see it. It's sad that I see so very little of it.
Khalil Gibran said something that I've always kept in my mind and tried to live by for most of my life. "Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."
That's what I'm going to do when I get home. Right now I'm 95 miles away and have to work a full day before leaving.
It should be interesting. Is this a full-blown FireFox or a stripped-down version?
YouTube on Fire TV originally didn't play ads, but that was changed a long time ago. The app now plays ads before the video starts, and on some longer videos, part way through the video.
Accessing YouTube using Amazon's Silk browser also means seeing ads. I don't know about FireFox yet because I haven't installed it. It probably shows ads, too.
Both are clunky workarounds, and if this continues, I'll just get a cheap Roku and switch between Roku and FireTV. I wouldn't go full-Roku because FireTV is better and faster.
But it wasn't all about the ads. It was mostly about Amazon not selling Google streaming devices.
I've already installed Amazon's Silk browser. It may not be the best browser in the world, but I can watch YouTube with it. I use a Bluetooth keyboard with a built-in trackpad instead of my phone. Kind of a clunky workaround, but that's about all we can do for now.
To begin with, I was planning to retire next year after my 65th birthday and the boss was okay with that. Then he comes back and says that as long as I keep working he will pay for my Medicare supplement insurance. So I agreed to work full time until I'm 66.
After that I can work for the company part time doing some of the easier jobs. It's something to keep me busy and earn some extra money. The boss already gives me all the easy jobs we have available, so it's not really going to be much different except I'll be working about 6 months a year and they'll be months of my choosing.
By March 2019 I will be working part time, living in a house that's paid off, and enjoying much more time at home working in the garden. Social Security + 401K + part time income = something I can enjoy.
Why should I pay for recycling? There is a 90-gallon container marked "Recycle" in front of my house and everything that can be recycled goes in it - paper, cardboard, plastic, etc.. More stuff goes out in the recycle can than in the garbage can.
I live in a small city in Alabama. My garbage bill didn't go up when the company added the recycling can a few years ago. Don't you have recycling in your city?
I rarely go in Walmart, but the last time I did I saw four self-checkouts and only two human cashiers. The rest of the checkouts were unused and the lines were really backed up. I didn't buy anything, just turned around and walked out.
The idea of customers checking out their own items is great in theory, but it just doesn't work that well most of the time.
I'll gladly stand in line to get money, but I'll be damned if I stand in line to give money. Want my business? Then make it convenient for me to shop in your store. That means hiring more (good) people and moving your ass a little faster.
Ditto.
I used to print photos at home years ago, but for the past several years I just upload everything to smugmug.com at FULL resolution and when I want a print I just order whatever size I need from them. The prints are much better quality than you'd find at a local store.
I still have an inkjet printer and I use it sometimes to print things for work, but 99.9% of my printing at home is on an old b/w laser printer.
The trouble is that your definition of innocent is not necessarily the true definition of innocent. If you don't follow lawful orders and act like you're going for a weapon, you're going to get shot. Period.
Police officers are not paid to engage in hand-to-hand combat, so they'll use whatever they have to protect themselves.
I do agree that when it's a clear case of a cop killing somebody for no good reason, that cop should go to prison. There are some bad cops, just not as many as you and your fellow BLM'ers imagine. Walk a mile in their shoes (or at least have some of the training they go through) before you paint them all with such a broad brush.
Google maps was great, and then they forgot what "contrast" means. If they keep going the way they've been going, in another year or two they'll be displaying white on white maps. Already the maps are unprintable, not that I ever print any, but some people do.
Some people are just morning people. I wake up by 4 AM and I'm just about shot by noon or 1 PM. I do my best work before most people even wake up.
Friends don't give friends decaf coffee. That stuff is usually pretty nasty.
If it applied to politicians and bureaucrats, I could REALLY support the bill. If they're going to be exempt, then why bother?
My brand new LG shows bars. My last Samsung had bars. What kind of phone do you have?!?