Actually your link doesn't find people affordable colonoscopies. It's basically just a giant ad for a specific group of gastroenterologists, and they have likely low-balled the high end of their estimate because they don't want to scare away customers who can't afford it. And if we consult a different source, the average in-network cost is over $1000, $1626 to be exact. https://amino.com/blog/colonos... They list the highest price as being $2547, but that's averaged out over the entire city of San Diego, and only metro areas were included. A commenter on that page lists a price of over $5000 in NH. And as the page points out, if they find something during the colonoscopy, they snip it out, call the procedure by a different name, and charge more for it.
...and yet when speaking on their behalf you're too chicken to comment other than as Anonymous Coward. By "America spoke with a single unified voice" do you mean "a large minority of the voters in the 2016 presidential election spoke with a single unified voice?"
...rain them in
Are you sure you represent America? Your average redneck would know this is a horse-riding reference and the proper word is 'rein.'
Unions helped lift those out of the poverty that previously plagued all but a tiny hereditary elite since time immemorial until a period just two centuries ago.
Last week, Zuckerberg said, "For most of these folks, they will now receive money for something they never even knew they had. No one will be forced off the land." Does that still apply after accounting for the fees for the lawyers they were forced to hire?
It is still a douchebag, asshat move. If he had actually attempted to determine ownership of the land, and then approached the owners with offers to buy, that would have been the proper opening move.
Malaria is 100% avoidable? Why don't you go tell that to the 600 million people that get infected every year, you useless wanking prick. Maybe they'll stupidly and carelessly drop you into a septic tank where you belong.
My insurance doesn't cover the full cost of anything, you fucking asshole. I don't use this medication but because insurance is a way of cost-sharing, I am paying for other people to use it. How in the absolute fuck did you get modded Insightful? By other people completely fucking clueless about how things work in real life? Shkreli can lube a porcupine with tar and shove it up his ass. Oh, wait, that would be cruel and unusual punishment... for the porcupine.
... just shocked that Trump supporters don't believe in the 1st Amendment right to free speech. I truly thought they had the Bill of Rights tattooed on their thighs.
Kitty litter is not such an odd choice as the article makes it out to be. The mineral variety is typically made out of sodium bentonite. This is well known for its ability to absorb more than its own weight in water, which also causes it to swell and therefore seal cracks, enhanced by its self-sticking capability. Kitty litter has a well-defined grain size and would be fine to use so long as one didn't switch brands. Wikipedia even lists a method for determining whether kitty litter has bentonite or not.
Incidentally, I've read (although I can't remember where, but I'll have to put the effort into finding it sometime) that if you use ice core proxy data for the last 150 years, this spike is completely gone. Meaning, of course, these kind of "unprecedented, rapid" fluctuations could have been happening the entire time, and we'd never know, because we don't have anything other than low resolution proxy data for that time period.
That's a great argument style - blatantly lie and claim you'll look up the source of the lie later. Oh look, a graph with proxy data extending into the most recent 150 years, and showing a spike. https://www.ipcc.ch/publicatio...
No, you won't reduce the weight. The flapping wings will decrease the pressure above them and increase the pressure below them. These pressure differences, when integrated over the surface area of the enclosed air space and averaged over the entire time the pigeon is flying, will exactly equal the weight of the pigeon.
The defense budget is $53 billion dollars a month. That's enough for 1,281,000,000 babies. If you are thinking of trimming the NASA budget instead of the Defense budget, your priorities are completely fucked up.
"And once there, water and soil could be extracted"
Don't confuse what's on the surface of Mars with soil. Soil has a huge organic content that helps it hold on to water and that acts as a pH buffer, amongst other things. The stuff on Mars is just dirt, and toxic dirt at that, contaminated with perchlorates and other salts. Once that stuff is washed out, you are still stuck with dirt. Then again, I suppose you'll have a lot of human poo to mix in, so there's your organic content.
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Actually your link doesn't find people affordable colonoscopies. It's basically just a giant ad for a specific group of gastroenterologists, and they have likely low-balled the high end of their estimate because they don't want to scare away customers who can't afford it. And if we consult a different source, the average in-network cost is over $1000, $1626 to be exact. https://amino.com/blog/colonos... They list the highest price as being $2547, but that's averaged out over the entire city of San Diego, and only metro areas were included. A commenter on that page lists a price of over $5000 in NH. And as the page points out, if they find something during the colonoscopy, they snip it out, call the procedure by a different name, and charge more for it.
I see the problem here. You think Steven Crowder isn't a lying jackass. Hint: Steven Crowder is a lying jackass.
+1 for knowing a bit of chemistry
-10 for being completely ignorant of actual mining history
America spoke with a single unified voice
...and yet when speaking on their behalf you're too chicken to comment other than as Anonymous Coward. By "America spoke with a single unified voice" do you mean "a large minority of the voters in the 2016 presidential election spoke with a single unified voice?"
...rain them in
Are you sure you represent America? Your average redneck would know this is a horse-riding reference and the proper word is 'rein.'
Unions helped lift those out of the poverty that previously plagued all but a tiny hereditary elite since time immemorial until a period just two centuries ago.
Not only is my version correct, it's shorter.
An email sent to hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh@mailinator.com passes the smell test? There must be something wrong with your nose.
Brazil. Its commentary on bureaucracy, censorship, government spying on its own citizens, and the dangers of plastic surgery is still relevant today.
Yet even before Trump took office, he was ... shit .... And when he does something good, no one gives him credit
He hasn't done anything well. You're just delusional.
Liar.
Last week, Zuckerberg said, "For most of these folks, they will now receive money for something they never even knew they had. No one will be forced off the land."
Does that still apply after accounting for the fees for the lawyers they were forced to hire?
It is still a douchebag, asshat move. If he had actually attempted to determine ownership of the land, and then approached the owners with offers to buy, that would have been the proper opening move.
So you're not sure if you are misguided or not?
You apparently didn't even bother to read the summary. You stitched together things that were said. This creates things that weren't said.
... would you shave its butt and teach it to walk backwards?
Malaria is 100% avoidable? Why don't you go tell that to the 600 million people that get infected every year, you useless wanking prick. Maybe they'll stupidly and carelessly drop you into a septic tank where you belong.
My insurance doesn't cover the full cost of anything, you fucking asshole. I don't use this medication but because insurance is a way of cost-sharing, I am paying for other people to use it. How in the absolute fuck did you get modded Insightful? By other people completely fucking clueless about how things work in real life? Shkreli can lube a porcupine with tar and shove it up his ass. Oh, wait, that would be cruel and unusual punishment... for the porcupine.
Have they secretly released your password to hackers too?
This -1 score was brought you today by the letter E... and by paid Russian trolls http://www.businessinsider.com...
... just shocked that Trump supporters don't believe in the 1st Amendment right to free speech. I truly thought they had the Bill of Rights tattooed on their thighs.
Kitty litter is not such an odd choice as the article makes it out to be. The mineral variety is typically made out of sodium bentonite. This is well known for its ability to absorb more than its own weight in water, which also causes it to swell and therefore seal cracks, enhanced by its self-sticking capability. Kitty litter has a well-defined grain size and would be fine to use so long as one didn't switch brands. Wikipedia even lists a method for determining whether kitty litter has bentonite or not.
At least it wasn't equipped with a finger pricker.
Incidentally, I've read (although I can't remember where, but I'll have to put the effort into finding it sometime) that if you use ice core proxy data for the last 150 years, this spike is completely gone. Meaning, of course, these kind of "unprecedented, rapid" fluctuations could have been happening the entire time, and we'd never know, because we don't have anything other than low resolution proxy data for that time period.
That's a great argument style - blatantly lie and claim you'll look up the source of the lie later. Oh look, a graph with proxy data extending into the most recent 150 years, and showing a spike. https://www.ipcc.ch/publicatio...
No, you won't reduce the weight. The flapping wings will decrease the pressure above them and increase the pressure below them. These pressure differences, when integrated over the surface area of the enclosed air space and averaged over the entire time the pigeon is flying, will exactly equal the weight of the pigeon.
My grandmas are dead, you insensitive clod.
The defense budget is $53 billion dollars a month. That's enough for 1,281,000,000 babies. If you are thinking of trimming the NASA budget instead of the Defense budget, your priorities are completely fucked up.
"And once there, water and soil could be extracted"
Don't confuse what's on the surface of Mars with soil. Soil has a huge organic content that helps it hold on to water and that acts as a pH buffer, amongst other things. The stuff on Mars is just dirt, and toxic dirt at that, contaminated with perchlorates and other salts. Once that stuff is washed out, you are still stuck with dirt. Then again, I suppose you'll have a lot of human poo to mix in, so there's your organic content.