Yes, because the problems stem from not enough greed. It's not like all 40+ private contractors thought to themselves "If I make my part so complex and convoluted that no one else understands it they'll never be able to drop my contract and I'll have a perment income stream. Sure it'll cause a bit of slowdown and glitchyness, but the other contractors would never think to do what I am so the rest of the build will be perfect and my errors unnoticable. It's perfect!"
You getting a family member to do the procedure for free and cutting costs by forgoing one of the two major consumables of the operation is hardly "typical".
No, fillings aren't 100% guaranteed to be painful. But the vast majority of experiences are very much situated in the "dear lord the drill has gone through the tooth and is making its way to my brain" range of the pain spectrum when modern anesthetics aren't applied.
Wait, there was a fad of dentistry without anesthesia a few years back? Because this was 20 years ago, quite a bit longer than "a few". Unless you're trying to look old and wise by referring to the 1800s as "a few years back".
13 year old + sensitive teeth + water temperature in the upper 30s = railroad spike of ice through the brain. I don't know about you but to me that pain ranked up there with my kidney stones 6 years later.
Insurance wouldn't cover gas and the dentist refused to go with pills. Probably fearful me being 13 would send me down a road of drug abuse. Kinda amusing that the guy was caught a decade later selling prescriptions to junkies.
I've had 3 cavities filled and a quarter a toenail removed (infected ingrown, big toe, right quarter of right toenail) all without anesthesia because I couldn't stand getting the shot. Even refused the painkiller drip the ER offered when I was passing a kidney stone (4mm, painful but passable). The cavities weren't that bad, just railroad spikes of ice through the brain. But the toenail is every bit a torture as you can imagine. I snapped the bed railing when he started digging under the nail with the surgical equivalents of needlenose pliars and wire snips. I don't regret turning the shots down one bit.
For some of us the shot really is worse than the consequence of not getting it. Though I have started getting flu shots now that I have kids. I just have to suck it up and be a dad because the alternative is scarier than any number of shots.
Disney pours quite a lot of money into R&D, always has. They're always looking to increase the immersion factor of the park attractions with things like interactive displays. Helps the guests believe it really is magic that runs the Magic Kingdom.
When has that ever stopped them? Remember, a couple of the most fervent anti-gay advocates have been caught with their pants down with another man before.
Bah, these are the risk takers that think beyond your puny limitations. The ones who will get in on the next trillion dollar idea because they dared to dream. The ones who live on daddy's dime and if in any lower economic class would be sitting in a 3rd rate casino somewhere plunking nickles in a slot machine all day...
4 camels a year, a top bunk in the cave barracks, and a an account at Hassan's House of Hummus. No health/vision/dental, but the life policy has the standard 72 virgin payout.
Brings forth the mental image of Ballmer looking critically while interns strain to hold up a couch, saying "Two inches to the left. Hrm, ok, now two inches to the right. Now another two inches to the left..." for an hour before having them set the couch back down exactly where it was.
But without corners in the cardinal directions, how will they properly control the Feng Shui of the place? They need a life sized iron statue of a previous emperor in eastern corner with a 1m wide deep red carpeted pathway surrounded by broad leaf potted plants with an exit out a SW door to direct the flow of "Get blown up by meteors" energy out of the building.
A cylinder would leak Strength energies all over the place, making the obviously superior Chinese concrete as weak and brittle as worthless non-Chinese concrete and dooming it to fail like any other non-Chinese product. Just ask any government official.
That's the idea of this patent. The system will let you know if what you wrote in an email about shady dealings will be incriminating, so you can re-word it. It's a lawyer in a box helping you facilitate shady actions with minimal discoverable evidence.
So crabs have an ideal meat to shell ratio they must conform to?
Sounds to me like they're thickening their armor plating. Same meat + thicker shell = larger crab with less incentive for predators to try to munch on. Adaptation in motion.
You will be legally required to register a facebook account and post your personal details to it. What's the point of a "let people with money and their appointed agents spy on the sheep" bill without anything to spy on?
Middle of the US: $50/month for 5meg cable, $60/month for 3meg DSL (clightly better coverage so they can force the people just past city limits to pay extra), or $20/month for 56k dialup (hasn't changed price or capabilities in over 15 years).
I wish I could say this small town atmosphere trades technological opportunity for safety, I really do. But we've had two incidents of crazies shooting at the cops and 3 murders within spitting distance of my house so far this year...
Oye, really? Anyone who can read will understand 7 week preemie means 7 weeks early not 7 weeks old. I'm sorry if I got your terms mixed up, but yeesh only an idiot would think a first trimester fetus was viable in any way. I also have been informed of the viability range merely from being in the NBICU at that hospital. My girl's neighbors included a 31 week, a 29 week, and 2 25 week cuties. As scary as our situation was it really opened our eyes to how incredibly lucky we were to make it to that point.
That $17,000 bill is what the hospital sent us as a pre-insurance notification. We didn't have to pay a penny of it due to already meeting the $4000/year out of pocket max for my plan from two previous hospital visits at home. And yes, it covers ALL related bills from the hospital and it's staff about my wife's stay, unlike the local hospital which sent us the $18,000 bill followed by 2 identical amounts from a doctor and the nursing staff. The total for the local 1.5day stay, all combined, was really in the $50k range pre-insurance. No it does not include the bill for my newborn's stay, which was somewhere in the $25k range pre-insurance. She was stronger than the doctors expected (weened off oxygen in hours instead of days, kept her body temp up without the heat bed after 2 days, had to force the nurses to continue feeding her by mouth when they wanted to keep using the nose tube because "You'll be here for months anyway so it's not worth the effort") and was out of there in just under 10 days herself. We spent almost 2 weeks away from home and I'm really thankful the mcdonald house charities exist.
Our local hospital, along with it's sister hospital 25 miles away, are the only ones for over 100 miles in any direction. They price gouge because they can and anyone who has worked there admits to it.
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Yes, because the problems stem from not enough greed. It's not like all 40+ private contractors thought to themselves "If I make my part so complex and convoluted that no one else understands it they'll never be able to drop my contract and I'll have a perment income stream. Sure it'll cause a bit of slowdown and glitchyness, but the other contractors would never think to do what I am so the rest of the build will be perfect and my errors unnoticable. It's perfect!"
You getting a family member to do the procedure for free and cutting costs by forgoing one of the two major consumables of the operation is hardly "typical".
No, fillings aren't 100% guaranteed to be painful. But the vast majority of experiences are very much situated in the "dear lord the drill has gone through the tooth and is making its way to my brain" range of the pain spectrum when modern anesthetics aren't applied.
Wait, there was a fad of dentistry without anesthesia a few years back?
Because this was 20 years ago, quite a bit longer than "a few".
Unless you're trying to look old and wise by referring to the 1800s as "a few years back".
13 year old + sensitive teeth + water temperature in the upper 30s = railroad spike of ice through the brain.
I don't know about you but to me that pain ranked up there with my kidney stones 6 years later.
Insurance wouldn't cover gas and the dentist refused to go with pills. Probably fearful me being 13 would send me down a road of drug abuse.
Kinda amusing that the guy was caught a decade later selling prescriptions to junkies.
I've had 3 cavities filled and a quarter a toenail removed (infected ingrown, big toe, right quarter of right toenail) all without anesthesia because I couldn't stand getting the shot. Even refused the painkiller drip the ER offered when I was passing a kidney stone (4mm, painful but passable).
The cavities weren't that bad, just railroad spikes of ice through the brain. But the toenail is every bit a torture as you can imagine. I snapped the bed railing when he started digging under the nail with the surgical equivalents of needlenose pliars and wire snips. I don't regret turning the shots down one bit.
For some of us the shot really is worse than the consequence of not getting it.
Though I have started getting flu shots now that I have kids. I just have to suck it up and be a dad because the alternative is scarier than any number of shots.
Disney pours quite a lot of money into R&D, always has.
They're always looking to increase the immersion factor of the park attractions with things like interactive displays. Helps the guests believe it really is magic that runs the Magic Kingdom.
When has that ever stopped them?
Remember, a couple of the most fervent anti-gay advocates have been caught with their pants down with another man before.
Nope. People just mis-pronounce giga.
Look it up, we should be pronouncing gigabyte as "jiggabyte".
http://xkcd.com/1268/
They can keep the water bugs, I'll stick to steak.
Bah, these are the risk takers that think beyond your puny limitations. The ones who will get in on the next trillion dollar idea because they dared to dream.
The ones who live on daddy's dime and if in any lower economic class would be sitting in a 3rd rate casino somewhere plunking nickles in a slot machine all day...
But people love the Power Glove, it's so bad. Hollywood even told me so.
4 camels a year, a top bunk in the cave barracks, and a an account at Hassan's House of Hummus.
No health/vision/dental, but the life policy has the standard 72 virgin payout.
Just make sure no one is searching for cookware while you plan out your Backpack trip to Iraq.
Brings forth the mental image of Ballmer looking critically while interns strain to hold up a couch, saying "Two inches to the left. Hrm, ok, now two inches to the right. Now another two inches to the left..." for an hour before having them set the couch back down exactly where it was.
Sam Vimes.
But without corners in the cardinal directions, how will they properly control the Feng Shui of the place?
They need a life sized iron statue of a previous emperor in eastern corner with a 1m wide deep red carpeted pathway surrounded by broad leaf potted plants with an exit out a SW door to direct the flow of "Get blown up by meteors" energy out of the building.
A cylinder would leak Strength energies all over the place, making the obviously superior Chinese concrete as weak and brittle as worthless non-Chinese concrete and dooming it to fail like any other non-Chinese product. Just ask any government official.
It may be time to execute a change of topic. These puns couldn't slay anyone.
That's the idea of this patent. The system will let you know if what you wrote in an email about shady dealings will be incriminating, so you can re-word it.
It's a lawyer in a box helping you facilitate shady actions with minimal discoverable evidence.
Nah, but they do have routing loop issues from houses having multiple lines.
So crabs have an ideal meat to shell ratio they must conform to?
Sounds to me like they're thickening their armor plating. Same meat + thicker shell = larger crab with less incentive for predators to try to munch on. Adaptation in motion.
Well if the metal is storing the energy, then that makes it an energy storage device doesn't it?
Or are AA alkalines not batteries in your view?
You will be legally required to register a facebook account and post your personal details to it.
What's the point of a "let people with money and their appointed agents spy on the sheep" bill without anything to spy on?
Blasphemy.
Inventing something implies he did not know it already.
The Omnipotent Lord our Jobs willed the internet into existence when humanity was ready to ascend one step closer to true enlightenment.
Middle of the US: $50/month for 5meg cable, $60/month for 3meg DSL (clightly better coverage so they can force the people just past city limits to pay extra), or $20/month for 56k dialup (hasn't changed price or capabilities in over 15 years).
I wish I could say this small town atmosphere trades technological opportunity for safety, I really do. But we've had two incidents of crazies shooting at the cops and 3 murders within spitting distance of my house so far this year...
Oye, really? Anyone who can read will understand 7 week preemie means 7 weeks early not 7 weeks old.
I'm sorry if I got your terms mixed up, but yeesh only an idiot would think a first trimester fetus was viable in any way.
I also have been informed of the viability range merely from being in the NBICU at that hospital. My girl's neighbors included a 31 week, a 29 week, and 2 25 week cuties. As scary as our situation was it really opened our eyes to how incredibly lucky we were to make it to that point.
That $17,000 bill is what the hospital sent us as a pre-insurance notification. We didn't have to pay a penny of it due to already meeting the $4000/year out of pocket max for my plan from two previous hospital visits at home. And yes, it covers ALL related bills from the hospital and it's staff about my wife's stay, unlike the local hospital which sent us the $18,000 bill followed by 2 identical amounts from a doctor and the nursing staff. The total for the local 1.5day stay, all combined, was really in the $50k range pre-insurance.
No it does not include the bill for my newborn's stay, which was somewhere in the $25k range pre-insurance. She was stronger than the doctors expected (weened off oxygen in hours instead of days, kept her body temp up without the heat bed after 2 days, had to force the nurses to continue feeding her by mouth when they wanted to keep using the nose tube because "You'll be here for months anyway so it's not worth the effort") and was out of there in just under 10 days herself. We spent almost 2 weeks away from home and I'm really thankful the mcdonald house charities exist.
Our local hospital, along with it's sister hospital 25 miles away, are the only ones for over 100 miles in any direction. They price gouge because they can and anyone who has worked there admits to it.