If people weren't so fat, maybe our life expectancy would start increasing again and our instances of diabetes, heart attack, stroke, etc., would drop. That is (for the most part) controllable
Ya know, i'd agree with a lot of your post, but to say the higher death rates are due to guns and lack of health care, that's idiotic. What about our obesity problem, which is causes by diet and lack of exercise (in most cases)? If people took care of their body then they wouldn't need to see the doctor's all the damn time. Would universal health care be nice, sure. But how about we take some personal responsibility and take care of ourselves (oh wait, progressives like placing the blame somewhere else). We don't do that, health care costs will keep increasing due to heart attack, diabetes, etc.
Ya know, that was my biggest problems with Sicko. Moore is throwing out all the numbers about spending per capita, highest incidences of diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, etc., and blames it on the health care system but misses an obvious cause of all of this; obesity. Obesity causes more health problems, and as a result more spending. But of course, Moore wouldn't say that, because now instead of blaming the big, bad corporations and government, he would be asking his viewers to take some personal responsibility (which seems to be a progressive idea). Our country isn't sick because of health care, it's sick because we're fat.
Doesn't this go back to the telco's being granted common carrier status, by their claim that they don't know what's going over their lines, therefore they aren't responsible for things like people using the telephone to commit crimes, or other things like child porn, etc? Kind of like how the gun makers provide a means of harm being done, but are free from the actions the individual takes? So, if they are shaping traffic, they obviously know something about what's on their lines, therefore they should not allowed to have common carrier status anymore, right? I'm sure if the FCC threatened to revoke their common carrier status, Comcast et al would pipe down quicker than you could blink an eye.
No it wouldn't give me the slightest moral twinge. I don't feel guilty. Sorry, but I don't. It's not in my blood. I can't be made to feel guilty for anything. Guilt is a very poor persuasive tool. You can try to make someone feel bad, but if you can't, what then? I believe everyone is equal, but when you try to put a guilt trip on someone, you are trying to say you are better than them in some fashion. Well, that's only in your eyes, and I'm sure someone could (try to) make you feel guilty for something as well. It's very easy when you have nothing to try to say what someone else should do with what they have. It's very easy to "spend someone else's money", yet in no way, shape, or form, should you have any say in the matter. If you earn it, you get to do with it what you want. No one should be "made" to do anything with it.
You're exactly right. You can only run in a deficit for so long before you have to make that money back. How about instead of increasing taxes, you cut spending? Same net effect, except I get to keep more of what I earn
I think a good way of explaining affiliates is this way... Think of a Wal-mart. In many Walmarts, there is a fast-food joint, usually some type of salon, an eye doctor of some kind. These are all companies operating inside a Walmart (and walmart sells their own goods of course). Walmart is not in the business of collecting taxes for these shops inside its own store. That's the responsibility of the individual shops to ensure that they are doing what they are supposed to be doing (collecting taxes).
What you are talking about is sometimes called "Direct Mode". No computers are getting in there and calculating anything. Nothing is preventing you from rolling the plane if you wanted to. It's just you, the stick, and the surfaces. All electric signals. Granted, there is still a "computer", but all it is doing is passing your inputs to the system. They have this in the big jets, and have had it for years. Heck, the pilots even have a switch that allows them to turn off the computers and switch into direct mode.
How high? High enough at times where it has happened that trans-atlantic flights catching the high winds have exceeded Mach 1 of ground speed, while retaining a perfectly safe airspeed. Assume you are flying at 500 MPH, and you are looking at 200+MPH tailwind.
HMOs in the USA make exactly the same sort of judgements on the same sort of evidence.
Yes they do. But there are more than just HMO programs here in the USA. There are PPO programs which give you more choices and freedom in your health care. In addition, if I want to have a bake sale and pony up the dough for treatment that no one will insure, then I can. Nothing says I can't. If you don't have that kind of cash, then yeah, I guess you won't get that procedure, but you wouldn't have received it under a socialized program, nor under an HMO program, so you're screwed either way. But just because you can't get the procedure, doesn't mean that others shouldn't if they have the means.
It isn't like you can pick the experience level of your doctor anyway, or that there is some miracle cure that you ONLY get if you spend a certain amount of money.
Actually, here in the US, you CAN pick the experience level of your doctor. With the kind of money steve can throw around, he could probably pay for the entire procedure out of pocket, allowing him to pick exactly which doctor he wanted to perform the operation. And, if there is a *miracle* cure, but your insurance won't cover it because it's not proven (or whatever hogwash the insurer comes up with), then I'm sure that the people providing the cure will not say "Oh sorry, i know insurance doesn't cover it, and though you are willing to pay for it entirely, we still won't take your money in exchange for the cure". Money can most certainly get you better care. Do I have a problem with this? Not in the least. If you have the cash and that's what you want to spend it on, go for it. That's your prerogative. Just like I don't begrudge someone for wanting to buy a car, or throw their money out of an airplane in suitcases. I think that some sort of government subsidized care here in the US could be a very good thing, just as long as you don't disallow someone from paying for something better (like Canada, until recently IIRC)
Yeah, it would force the average family into bankruptcy.....if they don't have insurance. This is EXACTLY why you have insurance. You don't have insurance to cover going to the doctor for a physical. You don't have insurance for going to the dentist to have your teeth cleaned. You have insurance for those "just in case" scenarios, just like what happened here. Insurance has unfortunately morphed into something where the routine medical procedures (cleanings/checkups) are covered instead of just the major things that happen to us every so often.
I think the writer of the article took some liberties there. These are the "same" slides, in the way that they are slides of her GI tract, not that they were the actual exact same physical slides.
Though it is good to be read up on different things, I'd say that sometimes reading the medical information without the proper education can lead to some problems. The big problem is when an untrained person does a self-diagnosis, goes to the doctor, the doctor tells them what they have and it is different from the self-diagnosis, and they believe their own diagnosis over the doctor's. Are there times where the doctor is wrong and the patient correct? Sure, but I'd be willing to bet that the opposite happens quite a bit more. As long as you go into your appointment with an open mind and not fixated on what you think you might have, then that's fine.
Here's what I'm thinking probably happened. She probably was taken to a doctor a few times when it first happened years ago, and it was attributed to something she ate, stress, etc. So the doctor(s) probably didn't order any kind of tests done. Then, after a while, she just stopped going until it was really bad, because her parents figured it was the same thing as before, so why bother paying a doctor. I would think that any doctor that saw her more than a few times would send her to a specialist to get a colonoscopy and some labs. Maybe her parents figured it was too expensive, and since this might have happened every 6-18 months, they just passed it off and figured they could deal with it at home. I'm suspecting there is some more to this story that isn't being told and I have a really hard time believing that the medical community would miss something like this for so long if the patient and the parents were doing their part. Or maybe I'm giving doctor's too much credit. I think it's probably a combination of both, coupled with CNN wanting to paint the picture of the "little guy" doing something that the "big guy" was unable to do. People love stories like that.....
Uh, pilot's can and do make mistakes. If it is pilot "culture" it's pilot error. Take the example of the two hotrodders trying to make 50k AGL and ended up dying. That's pilot error, plain and simpe.
Actually they can usually make a citizen's arrest if they see you physically take the property and commit the crime. They can't detain you for suspicion of doing so, but can detain you if they actually have seen you do it.
Then you must not have been part of many mechanical engineering projects. Solidworks is used by little guys who don't have the cash to pony up for the real deal. The big engineering firms in the aerospace and automotive sectors (along with pretty much any Fortune 500 engineering firm) use complete engineering packages provided by CATIA, UGS/IDEAS or Pro-E.
It has military applications, therefore it is an arms export. The US government has extremely strict rules regarding arms exports, and some items that are covered seem rather mundane. The guy who wrote PGP almost got thrown in jail for releasing it, because it was viewed as being an arms export. Boeing got sued for tens of millions of dollars because some 737s were sold to China that had a gyro in them which had been derived from a gyro in military use. GPS probably at one point was also considered to be something to fall under arms exports. I've had to take some training for this stuff, and it's pretty crazy.
nor where most Nikon and Canon lenses created for digital 24×36mm sensors. Ðey have trouble enough wið APS-C sensors.
What in God's name are you going on about? 24x36 is a full frame of digital. Canon & Nikon have been making lens for DECADES (basically since the creation of either one of those companies) that support that size, as have Zeiss, Leica, etc. And APS-C is actually a much more difficult thing to design for than full frame. A 15MP on APS-C is equivalent to about 35MP on an FF camera. In other words, a FF lens is MUCH easier to design for.
So let me get this straight. You are complaining that their conversion tool only runs on Win/Mac and not Linux. Then you say that it won't convert to Adobe DNG. Both are admirable points on their own, but the fact of the matter is that it really doesn't matter because nothing is out there that lets you open Adobe DNG in Linux. Therefore, even if it converted into DNG, you couldn't open in in Linux, nor if it worked in Linux, would it convert to a format that you would be happy with. I think you need to step away from the keyboard and get out a little.
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That very well may be, but i fail to see how that's a "health care" issue.
If people weren't so fat, maybe our life expectancy would start increasing again and our instances of diabetes, heart attack, stroke, etc., would drop. That is (for the most part) controllable
Ya know, i'd agree with a lot of your post, but to say the higher death rates are due to guns and lack of health care, that's idiotic. What about our obesity problem, which is causes by diet and lack of exercise (in most cases)? If people took care of their body then they wouldn't need to see the doctor's all the damn time. Would universal health care be nice, sure. But how about we take some personal responsibility and take care of ourselves (oh wait, progressives like placing the blame somewhere else). We don't do that, health care costs will keep increasing due to heart attack, diabetes, etc.
Ya know, that was my biggest problems with Sicko. Moore is throwing out all the numbers about spending per capita, highest incidences of diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, etc., and blames it on the health care system but misses an obvious cause of all of this; obesity. Obesity causes more health problems, and as a result more spending. But of course, Moore wouldn't say that, because now instead of blaming the big, bad corporations and government, he would be asking his viewers to take some personal responsibility (which seems to be a progressive idea). Our country isn't sick because of health care, it's sick because we're fat.
Doesn't this go back to the telco's being granted common carrier status, by their claim that they don't know what's going over their lines, therefore they aren't responsible for things like people using the telephone to commit crimes, or other things like child porn, etc? Kind of like how the gun makers provide a means of harm being done, but are free from the actions the individual takes? So, if they are shaping traffic, they obviously know something about what's on their lines, therefore they should not allowed to have common carrier status anymore, right? I'm sure if the FCC threatened to revoke their common carrier status, Comcast et al would pipe down quicker than you could blink an eye.
No it wouldn't give me the slightest moral twinge. I don't feel guilty. Sorry, but I don't. It's not in my blood. I can't be made to feel guilty for anything. Guilt is a very poor persuasive tool. You can try to make someone feel bad, but if you can't, what then? I believe everyone is equal, but when you try to put a guilt trip on someone, you are trying to say you are better than them in some fashion. Well, that's only in your eyes, and I'm sure someone could (try to) make you feel guilty for something as well. It's very easy when you have nothing to try to say what someone else should do with what they have. It's very easy to "spend someone else's money", yet in no way, shape, or form, should you have any say in the matter. If you earn it, you get to do with it what you want. No one should be "made" to do anything with it.
You're exactly right. You can only run in a deficit for so long before you have to make that money back. How about instead of increasing taxes, you cut spending? Same net effect, except I get to keep more of what I earn
I think a good way of explaining affiliates is this way... Think of a Wal-mart. In many Walmarts, there is a fast-food joint, usually some type of salon, an eye doctor of some kind. These are all companies operating inside a Walmart (and walmart sells their own goods of course). Walmart is not in the business of collecting taxes for these shops inside its own store. That's the responsibility of the individual shops to ensure that they are doing what they are supposed to be doing (collecting taxes).
What you are talking about is sometimes called "Direct Mode". No computers are getting in there and calculating anything. Nothing is preventing you from rolling the plane if you wanted to. It's just you, the stick, and the surfaces. All electric signals. Granted, there is still a "computer", but all it is doing is passing your inputs to the system. They have this in the big jets, and have had it for years. Heck, the pilots even have a switch that allows them to turn off the computers and switch into direct mode.
How high? High enough at times where it has happened that trans-atlantic flights catching the high winds have exceeded Mach 1 of ground speed, while retaining a perfectly safe airspeed. Assume you are flying at 500 MPH, and you are looking at 200+MPH tailwind.
HMOs in the USA make exactly the same sort of judgements on the same sort of evidence.
Yes they do. But there are more than just HMO programs here in the USA. There are PPO programs which give you more choices and freedom in your health care. In addition, if I want to have a bake sale and pony up the dough for treatment that no one will insure, then I can. Nothing says I can't. If you don't have that kind of cash, then yeah, I guess you won't get that procedure, but you wouldn't have received it under a socialized program, nor under an HMO program, so you're screwed either way. But just because you can't get the procedure, doesn't mean that others shouldn't if they have the means.
It isn't like you can pick the experience level of your doctor anyway, or that there is some miracle cure that you ONLY get if you spend a certain amount of money.
Actually, here in the US, you CAN pick the experience level of your doctor. With the kind of money steve can throw around, he could probably pay for the entire procedure out of pocket, allowing him to pick exactly which doctor he wanted to perform the operation. And, if there is a *miracle* cure, but your insurance won't cover it because it's not proven (or whatever hogwash the insurer comes up with), then I'm sure that the people providing the cure will not say "Oh sorry, i know insurance doesn't cover it, and though you are willing to pay for it entirely, we still won't take your money in exchange for the cure". Money can most certainly get you better care. Do I have a problem with this? Not in the least. If you have the cash and that's what you want to spend it on, go for it. That's your prerogative. Just like I don't begrudge someone for wanting to buy a car, or throw their money out of an airplane in suitcases. I think that some sort of government subsidized care here in the US could be a very good thing, just as long as you don't disallow someone from paying for something better (like Canada, until recently IIRC)
Yeah, it would force the average family into bankruptcy.....if they don't have insurance. This is EXACTLY why you have insurance. You don't have insurance to cover going to the doctor for a physical. You don't have insurance for going to the dentist to have your teeth cleaned. You have insurance for those "just in case" scenarios, just like what happened here. Insurance has unfortunately morphed into something where the routine medical procedures (cleanings/checkups) are covered instead of just the major things that happen to us every so often.
I think the writer of the article took some liberties there. These are the "same" slides, in the way that they are slides of her GI tract, not that they were the actual exact same physical slides.
Dislexia.....or from the sounds of it, you're German ;-)
Though it is good to be read up on different things, I'd say that sometimes reading the medical information without the proper education can lead to some problems. The big problem is when an untrained person does a self-diagnosis, goes to the doctor, the doctor tells them what they have and it is different from the self-diagnosis, and they believe their own diagnosis over the doctor's. Are there times where the doctor is wrong and the patient correct? Sure, but I'd be willing to bet that the opposite happens quite a bit more. As long as you go into your appointment with an open mind and not fixated on what you think you might have, then that's fine.
Here's what I'm thinking probably happened. She probably was taken to a doctor a few times when it first happened years ago, and it was attributed to something she ate, stress, etc. So the doctor(s) probably didn't order any kind of tests done. Then, after a while, she just stopped going until it was really bad, because her parents figured it was the same thing as before, so why bother paying a doctor. I would think that any doctor that saw her more than a few times would send her to a specialist to get a colonoscopy and some labs. Maybe her parents figured it was too expensive, and since this might have happened every 6-18 months, they just passed it off and figured they could deal with it at home. I'm suspecting there is some more to this story that isn't being told and I have a really hard time believing that the medical community would miss something like this for so long if the patient and the parents were doing their part. Or maybe I'm giving doctor's too much credit. I think it's probably a combination of both, coupled with CNN wanting to paint the picture of the "little guy" doing something that the "big guy" was unable to do. People love stories like that.....
Uh, pilot's can and do make mistakes. If it is pilot "culture" it's pilot error. Take the example of the two hotrodders trying to make 50k AGL and ended up dying. That's pilot error, plain and simpe.
Actually they can usually make a citizen's arrest if they see you physically take the property and commit the crime. They can't detain you for suspicion of doing so, but can detain you if they actually have seen you do it.
Actually, the "pound" can be both http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound-force A "lb" is typically a unit of force. A "slug" is the imperial mass unit, but pound-mass works too (though they differ in magnitude). There is a also a poundle, but I can't find any info on it right now.
Then you must not have been part of many mechanical engineering projects. Solidworks is used by little guys who don't have the cash to pony up for the real deal. The big engineering firms in the aerospace and automotive sectors (along with pretty much any Fortune 500 engineering firm) use complete engineering packages provided by CATIA, UGS/IDEAS or Pro-E.
It has military applications, therefore it is an arms export. The US government has extremely strict rules regarding arms exports, and some items that are covered seem rather mundane. The guy who wrote PGP almost got thrown in jail for releasing it, because it was viewed as being an arms export. Boeing got sued for tens of millions of dollars because some 737s were sold to China that had a gyro in them which had been derived from a gyro in military use. GPS probably at one point was also considered to be something to fall under arms exports. I've had to take some training for this stuff, and it's pretty crazy.
What in God's name are you going on about? 24x36 is a full frame of digital. Canon & Nikon have been making lens for DECADES (basically since the creation of either one of those companies) that support that size, as have Zeiss, Leica, etc. And APS-C is actually a much more difficult thing to design for than full frame. A 15MP on APS-C is equivalent to about 35MP on an FF camera. In other words, a FF lens is MUCH easier to design for.
The older camera was intended as a video camera, that's why dpreview doesn't have anything on it.
So let me get this straight. You are complaining that their conversion tool only runs on Win/Mac and not Linux. Then you say that it won't convert to Adobe DNG. Both are admirable points on their own, but the fact of the matter is that it really doesn't matter because nothing is out there that lets you open Adobe DNG in Linux. Therefore, even if it converted into DNG, you couldn't open in in Linux, nor if it worked in Linux, would it convert to a format that you would be happy with. I think you need to step away from the keyboard and get out a little.