You forget about the part about where people with no coverage get no care at all. Even people with average risks need to get a bone set, an infectious ailment treated with antibiotics now and then. If they have no coverage, what are they to do? Go to Mexico? Have you tried to board a plane with an untreated compound fracture lately? That's a no-fly listing for sure.
This is why the game is crooked. They can choose not to cover you and with no coverage you have no hope for care. That makes genetic testing for unknown but potentially expensive conditions bad for averageman.
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He doesn't even take insurance, Medicare, or credit cards. He's also available for house calls.
Lucky you. He's a rare bird indeed. Treat him well. There are not enough of him for the rest of us.
Knowing your "risk" in this situation unfortunately can often only lead to you being denied coverage and subsequently NOT afford the services you need more.
It's worse than that. For most people with no coverage, care is unavailable at any price. If you can't endow a wing of a hospital and you have no coverage, you're not getting a new kidney.
As mentioned, I'm young and in good health, so that premium isn't terribly pricey.
I think the point of TFA is that if insurance companies discover you have some genetic predisposition towards expensive treatments, you'll find coverage unavailable at any price. Then what? You can't get treated for cash in the US for anything except emergency care. Don't believe me? Try. The insurance companies have a monopoly on care.
Liberal, conservative, nationalist, federalist, socialist, communist, Democrat, Republican... For the last decade I've come to wonder if these words ever had any meaning at all. Certainly they don't mean the same things I learned about in social studies when Carter was president.
Did I not get the memo? Was there some global polar reversal I missed somewhere? Ok, I'm off topic so mod me down but somebody go AC and answer please.
So, what's the big deal about Insurance companies making a profit. Immoral yes, but also to be expected.
It's a violation of human rights when they have a monopoly on medical care. We have a right to "life". Even felons are entitled to medical care, but not free people without coverage, and no-one is obligated to cover you, but for most health issues noone will treat you in the US without coverage. Catch-22.
If you don't believe they have a monopoly, perform this experiment: write out a bogus identity on a sheet of paper. Then dial every dentist in your area and try to get an appointment to get an infected tooth extracted sometime in the next six months, but lie and tell them you have no coverage. The result will be instructive. An infected tooth is a life threatening situation you can't get treated in an Emergency room. I know - I've tried.
We need to break the monopoly on coverage for care if we are to have a chance at a humane system.
That's when the game begins because you get to find out that you're gambling against the house and the terms of the wager are usually that if you "win" big they don't have to pay. Nowhere is this more prevalent than health insurance where if you need lifesaving treatment and they deny it, they make a side bet on whether you die before you win the lawsuit. It's a sick, sick game I wish we didn't have to play, but the alternative is to rely on stone-age medicine because the insurance companies have cornered the market on care.
Regardless, Insurance companies use every form of information available to consider their risk and hence the odds (your "premiums" vs your "coverage"). No surprise here; they're not charities. This would obviously include any information about your genetic risks they can get their hands on. I'm confident they're partnered with every genetic lab in the country for "privileged" information sharing, for public health reasons of course. I would be shocked if they didn't require genetic profiling as a minimum standard of care sometime in the next decade.
Get anybody in your family on the wrong list and let your coverage lapse even for a day - and you'll find your entire family in the medical stone age for the rest of your lives. No antibiotics. No X-Rays. No dentistry. Not for you. Not yours.
Did the key thing from multiple machines, with multiple Live accounts. I can confirm duplicate keys. A couple of things inferred: they want to reactivate the Windows Live userbase, probably as a prelude to selling it off. They REALLY want maximum exposure of this Beta, therefore, it's done. The thing will ship at the earliest of the anticipated dates, June or July.
Having a cloud in your own house would be nice, so everyone could share computing power across multiple computers.
Yeah. That would be nice. If you have the hardware all you need is the rightsoftware.
I don't know why more people don't do it -- not just homes, either. All sorts of orgs could use their desktops as a grid for on-demand supercomputing if only they would configure it to do that.
I wrote about this here some years ago. Toshiba wants to sell movies on your chip from kiosks. They think they can put this together with SD, because of the onboard security. Unfortunately that's not going to work unless they can get 64GB SDXC chips under $5. Actually, that last isn't as unlikely as it sounds the way things are going, and then they might as well sell you the chip with the video instead of separately. Best would be for them to figure out a home server that can securely host the movies you bring home on chips, but will still serve the video streams to any of your Toshiba Media Network enabled TVs or set-top boxes.
The processor tech required for HD is getting low power enough to put inside the LCD TV, and this media makes a good format for transportable video. And Sony loses a media format war, again.
On the upside, your SDXC enabled SLR should have the bandwidth to take several hours of 1080p if they can bump the processor speed high enough to handle it. You'll want the backpack style battery though. Think of it as home movies with lens effects.
Very nice, Kubrick. We would expect you to feel that way.
My point isn't about your nemesis, the tiles, or 2001 though. The tiles are just a reference to Toynbee's page 22 article in the Feb 4, 1958 issue of The Atlanta Constitution. It's one of those insane references of a tortured mind that, unraveled, actually does make sense. It's the transubstantiation of the meme.
Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. It was February 1984, a brisk 12 degrees. It was our scheduled obstacle course and we were going to take it and prove we were men. 4:30 we mustered, we were at the course by 5. The sun would not be up for hours. The course was simple: over the logs, climb the wall, under the wire and take the hill. We didn't know yet that that the logs were slick with snow, the wall was crusted with ice, the wire was embedded in frosty slush. It was snowing fiercely, so we could see about 12 feet. If you think Army weather gear is up to these conditions, I have nothing to offer except: try it. You haven't lived until you've low crawled your M16 through 30 yards of Margarita slush, bobbing your head up for breath and ducking shells the whole way. Then they started the artillery simulators, threatened to shoot us, and fired.50 cal machine guns over our heads.
Only two of us died. That was a success I guess.
I've got about a dozen of these and I haven't actually been in a war - so you're not hearing from an actual hero. Embrace life and quit whining, bitch.
For you and me, we're worried about whether about we will be swept in our out with the change but let's step back for a moment and examine the greater forces.
If you are centered on yourself, have skills to offer, and are poised to leap on opportunities, you'll do fine.
If you're a clinical MCSE, in private industry, you're hosed. In government service you should be fine.
If you're making $100k/yr or more, now is the best time to remodel your kitchen, reroof your house or buy the sweet new Washer/Dryer -- you have no idea how sweet these things are until you try them. One does 20 towels at once. A normal dryer does four. You'll find contractors ready and eager to refit your house at far less than the prices they were asking even last year. Seize the day.
I'm sorry you feel intimidated by the presence of breast feeding women
Actually, I'm among those who feel it should be common and accepted practice. In order for it to be so we need for the voices involved to be less shrill. For the women who practice it to not accuse the men who happen to see it of sexual assault for being in the area when it happens would be a good step in that direction. For the most part, a woman who flops out a teat in a public place for her kid to suckle doesn't care, but there are some sick women who do that, and then scan their horizon for perceived insult. Those women insert a wedge of difficulty in what should be a natural and normal thing because of their own repressed sexuality.
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You forget about the part about where people with no coverage get no care at all. Even people with average risks need to get a bone set, an infectious ailment treated with antibiotics now and then. If they have no coverage, what are they to do? Go to Mexico? Have you tried to board a plane with an untreated compound fracture lately? That's a no-fly listing for sure.
This is why the game is crooked. They can choose not to cover you and with no coverage you have no hope for care. That makes genetic testing for unknown but potentially expensive conditions bad for averageman.
He doesn't even take insurance, Medicare, or credit cards. He's also available for house calls.
Lucky you. He's a rare bird indeed. Treat him well. There are not enough of him for the rest of us.
Knowing your "risk" in this situation unfortunately can often only lead to you being denied coverage and subsequently NOT afford the services you need more.
It's worse than that. For most people with no coverage, care is unavailable at any price. If you can't endow a wing of a hospital and you have no coverage, you're not getting a new kidney.
As mentioned, I'm young and in good health, so that premium isn't terribly pricey.
I think the point of TFA is that if insurance companies discover you have some genetic predisposition towards expensive treatments, you'll find coverage unavailable at any price. Then what? You can't get treated for cash in the US for anything except emergency care. Don't believe me? Try. The insurance companies have a monopoly on care.
We should all be very afraid.
Liberal, conservative, nationalist, federalist, socialist, communist, Democrat, Republican... For the last decade I've come to wonder if these words ever had any meaning at all. Certainly they don't mean the same things I learned about in social studies when Carter was president.
Did I not get the memo? Was there some global polar reversal I missed somewhere? Ok, I'm off topic so mod me down but somebody go AC and answer please.
So, what's the big deal about Insurance companies making a profit. Immoral yes, but also to be expected.
It's a violation of human rights when they have a monopoly on medical care. We have a right to "life". Even felons are entitled to medical care, but not free people without coverage, and no-one is obligated to cover you, but for most health issues noone will treat you in the US without coverage. Catch-22.
If you don't believe they have a monopoly, perform this experiment: write out a bogus identity on a sheet of paper. Then dial every dentist in your area and try to get an appointment to get an infected tooth extracted sometime in the next six months, but lie and tell them you have no coverage. The result will be instructive. An infected tooth is a life threatening situation you can't get treated in an Emergency room. I know - I've tried.
We need to break the monopoly on coverage for care if we are to have a chance at a humane system.
Where you have to lose to "win".
That's when the game begins because you get to find out that you're gambling against the house and the terms of the wager are usually that if you "win" big they don't have to pay. Nowhere is this more prevalent than health insurance where if you need lifesaving treatment and they deny it, they make a side bet on whether you die before you win the lawsuit. It's a sick, sick game I wish we didn't have to play, but the alternative is to rely on stone-age medicine because the insurance companies have cornered the market on care.
Regardless, Insurance companies use every form of information available to consider their risk and hence the odds (your "premiums" vs your "coverage"). No surprise here; they're not charities. This would obviously include any information about your genetic risks they can get their hands on. I'm confident they're partnered with every genetic lab in the country for "privileged" information sharing, for public health reasons of course. I would be shocked if they didn't require genetic profiling as a minimum standard of care sometime in the next decade.
Get anybody in your family on the wrong list and let your coverage lapse even for a day - and you'll find your entire family in the medical stone age for the rest of your lives. No antibiotics. No X-Rays. No dentistry. Not for you. Not yours.
If this is true, then USB might finally be usable for copying files and such.
... In Linux, XP or OS-X. On Vista and W7, not so much.
5 Watts is still not enough for most 3.5" HDDs, even before you add the interface overhead.
As another has pointed out here: support for hot swap is optional, not a required part of the SATA specification. Some controllers don't support it.
Even my flash drive probably won't benefit without faster memory.
You better believe this is coming. Oh, my. You have no idea.
Thanks for that. Saved some time.
Did the key thing from multiple machines, with multiple Live accounts. I can confirm duplicate keys. A couple of things inferred: they want to reactivate the Windows Live userbase, probably as a prelude to selling it off. They REALLY want maximum exposure of this Beta, therefore, it's done. The thing will ship at the earliest of the anticipated dates, June or July.
But there comes a time when the common usage outweighs the derivation of a term. Like now.
Having a cloud in your own house would be nice, so everyone could share computing power across multiple computers.
Yeah. That would be nice. If you have the hardware all you need is the right software.
I don't know why more people don't do it -- not just homes, either. All sorts of orgs could use their desktops as a grid for on-demand supercomputing if only they would configure it to do that.
The cable does include directional markings.
Additionally, signal directional markings are provided for optimum signal transfer.
So, you know, the bits don't get confused and take a wrong turn. I hate it when that happens.
There are some hints here.
I wrote about this here some years ago. Toshiba wants to sell movies on your chip from kiosks. They think they can put this together with SD, because of the onboard security. Unfortunately that's not going to work unless they can get 64GB SDXC chips under $5. Actually, that last isn't as unlikely as it sounds the way things are going, and then they might as well sell you the chip with the video instead of separately. Best would be for them to figure out a home server that can securely host the movies you bring home on chips, but will still serve the video streams to any of your Toshiba Media Network enabled TVs or set-top boxes.
The processor tech required for HD is getting low power enough to put inside the LCD TV, and this media makes a good format for transportable video. And Sony loses a media format war, again.
On the upside, your SDXC enabled SLR should have the bandwidth to take several hours of 1080p if they can bump the processor speed high enough to handle it. You'll want the backpack style battery though. Think of it as home movies with lens effects.
Very nice, Kubrick. We would expect you to feel that way.
My point isn't about your nemesis, the tiles, or 2001 though. The tiles are just a reference to Toynbee's page 22 article in the Feb 4, 1958 issue of The Atlanta Constitution. It's one of those insane references of a tortured mind that, unraveled, actually does make sense. It's the transubstantiation of the meme.
The Toynbee tiles are a warning to remind us of the perils of the militarization of space.
Like the abolition of copyright. In self defense.
Not that it matters much as a lot of the people that don't have computers probably don't because their priorities are different
It would be fair to say that Western people don't understand the issues prevalent in Africa.
You have here a chance to teach them. Please do.
That means the potential for lots more profits for Microsoft et al.
Maybe et. al. Not Microsoft, unless they're willing to give their software for free or accept piracy.
In India Microsoft has to choose control with no profit, or nothing. I think they'll choose control with no profit and hope for a less open day.
Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. It was February 1984, a brisk 12 degrees. It was our scheduled obstacle course and we were going to take it and prove we were men. 4:30 we mustered, we were at the course by 5. The sun would not be up for hours. The course was simple: over the logs, climb the wall, under the wire and take the hill. We didn't know yet that that the logs were slick with snow, the wall was crusted with ice, the wire was embedded in frosty slush. It was snowing fiercely, so we could see about 12 feet. If you think Army weather gear is up to these conditions, I have nothing to offer except: try it. You haven't lived until you've low crawled your M16 through 30 yards of Margarita slush, bobbing your head up for breath and ducking shells the whole way. Then they started the artillery simulators, threatened to shoot us, and fired .50 cal machine guns over our heads.
Only two of us died. That was a success I guess.
I've got about a dozen of these and I haven't actually been in a war - so you're not hearing from an actual hero. Embrace life and quit whining, bitch.
For you and me, we're worried about whether about we will be swept in our out with the change but let's step back for a moment and examine the greater forces.
If you are centered on yourself, have skills to offer, and are poised to leap on opportunities, you'll do fine.
If you're a clinical MCSE, in private industry, you're hosed. In government service you should be fine.
If you're making $100k/yr or more, now is the best time to remodel your kitchen, reroof your house or buy the sweet new Washer/Dryer -- you have no idea how sweet these things are until you try them. One does 20 towels at once. A normal dryer does four. You'll find contractors ready and eager to refit your house at far less than the prices they were asking even last year. Seize the day.
We only need another 4 companies in that sample to get a 50% market share increase!
So we're being trite, are we? Well it would be as fair to say that Microsoft partners are going out of business.
But that would be redundant. Microsoft eats their young, your young, and you if you don't move fast enough.
For credit, name one company that successfully engaged in a partnership with Microsoft, disengaged, and survived. One.
I'm sorry you feel intimidated by the presence of breast feeding women
Actually, I'm among those who feel it should be common and accepted practice. In order for it to be so we need for the voices involved to be less shrill. For the women who practice it to not accuse the men who happen to see it of sexual assault for being in the area when it happens would be a good step in that direction. For the most part, a woman who flops out a teat in a public place for her kid to suckle doesn't care, but there are some sick women who do that, and then scan their horizon for perceived insult. Those women insert a wedge of difficulty in what should be a natural and normal thing because of their own repressed sexuality.
Or was I not clear?