Only an idiot goes to a doctor with mild symptoms expecting to be cured. Heck, even with strong symptoms, you don't go the doctor to be cured. You go to the doctor to confirm whether or not you have something that a) really is serious and b) can be treated. You also go to the doctor when you are well, to establish baselines and screen for things that don't develop symptoms until it is too late.
But whether or not you get treatment does not determine whether or not the visit was worthwhile. This is a problem with the health care system, but not the way you think.
My six year old son is autistic. You have no idea what you're saying.
Having a kid with autism does not an expert make. We've done the experiment on a massive scale and the results continually come back (and are even repeated here on slashdot with depressing frequency, as it really shouldn't be news any more.) with high confidence: We don't know what causes autism, but it isn't vaccines.
That's a good example. Please look up the recent study as to how breast cancer exams are costing billions of unnecessary dollars annually. It was determined that the costs for all the exams outweigh the costs of treating the disease in nearly all cases. Look it up.
Yes, please do. It wasn't the money costs they were talking about, but the lifetime cumulative radiological dose. In other words, they were weighing the health risks of the test itself vs. the benefits of having the results of the test, and determined that, as a group, we're doing too many tests.
The problem is that when "number of people who didn't get cancer from a test they didn't take (but would've if they'd taken it)" is larger than "number of people whose cancer wasn't detected as a result of not taking the test soon enough" (even when the ratio is sufficient to be able to determine from statistics that it is the case) only people in the latter group will ever make the news. For some reason the press isn't interested in people to whom nothing bad happened, however extraordinary it's not happening really is.
I would add that I think your organs should be your own. Your heirs don't get to sell 'em unless you signed an appropriate document before you died. That document being, i think, a living will (since a regular will wouldn't get read until too late to harvest the organs.)
Actually, I think your organ donor status should itself be a secret held in escrow until the moment death is declared. I don't trust doctors to hold only one person's well-being in their minds at the same time.
Indeed. If you use the database as a screen to generate suspects, you must not also be allowed to use the same dna comparison results as evidence in the following court case. Somehow, though, I think this fact will not be anywhere near on the minds of a jury of your "peers."
And I've never understood why you can only donate organs.
If you could sell the rights to your organs (and will this right to your heirs), then there'd be a lot more availability. Why should the greedy hospitals and health care companies be the only ones to make money off of your organs?
Google doesn't sell video. It sells eyes, by aggregating all the viewers of the videos it offers for free. To push them out of the market, you'd have to have people selling their eye-time directly to companies who want to advertise to them.
They're an eye and ad aggregator. To supplant them, you'd still need an eye-broker to enable people to sell their eye-time directly to advertisers.
The thing is, Flash as a video format is just a middle-man for H.264 video already, and we all know what market forces eventually do to middle-men when they get the opportunity. When was the last time you rode a Schwinn bicycle, for instance?
Why are you booing Apple for that? Apple's machines support GPU decoding, and Safari's support for HTML5 in fact uses the GPU. If Adobe hasn't written a plugin for Apple machines yet, I fail to see how that's boo on Apple.
He can't afford a $1200 hearing aid because he can't get through an interview because he can't hear because he's had significant hearing loss and can't afford a $1200 hearing aid.
Yeah, probably because you can buy pretty much exactly what you described, except with a built-in radio transceiver, at an office supply store for under a hundred bucks. It just won't come in the ever-unstylish medical-grade pink.
So, the problem is drivers working themselves to death and putting their fellow vehicles at risk, and the solution is perfect enforcement of a "no loafing" policy to work the drivers like dogs...
Dubai is way over-extended, credit wise, and palm jumeira is undersold, let alone the "Dubai World" artificial archipelago. You think there's money for a giant submarine?
In fact, checking the web site, http://www.hydropolis.com/, it looks like they haven't even broken ground on the brochure.
There have been underwater habitats off of key largo for a while now, since the sixties, at least, and from what I've seen (in ads for UW vacations, and a discovery special about a UMD research vessel) they're pretty cramped. Also, they're saturation dives albeit shallow ones.
I wouldn't want to live in anything with a moon pool for the saturation reason alone, leaving out the small space and constant danger. It certainly wouldn't be a good place to raise a family (what would extended saturation dives do for children's developing bones, I wonder.)
Considering the expense and danger, these things will always be just a curiosity. A pretty neat one, though. I wish they'd kept the Abyss set open for dive tourism. That would've been a pretty awesome dive.
Oh, come on. The text already clearly allows them to create a form for you to send in. Placing some standardized positions on that form for people to provide more information about themselves if they want to is not an undue extension.
Now, if we're talking about compelling people to fill out the form, I'm not sure the wording allows them to actually compel people to even answer the first question, "How many?" Let alone any other questions.
Further, since we're using income tax rather than levying the states "equally" it's a vestigial clause. How does enumerating the people for the purpose of burdening the states make any sense when you just tax the people directly? Why can't they just use already existing records which are more up to date (tax records update every year, for instance.)
The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct
It doesn't say they can't as, the other things. In fact, I'm not so sure it says they can require you to answer any of it, including the count, though I'm not sure why you wouldn't, since it determines the number of electors for your state.
Oh I lived near a park like that. They did it because they noticed that trash tended to pile up around trash cans. Also, the maintenance workers were complaining about the heavy bags in the full trash cans.
You're talking about a body of people who think legislation for "daylight savings time" will be a boon for farmers – because it will mean more sunlight for the plants!
No, you can pick up any signal that leaks with an appropriate sized telescope. It's just that due to the wavelength, the telescope required to resolve an LED from four miles away will fit in a van, while the telescope required to resolve your wireless emissions would be pretty conspicuous.
Apparently the National Security Agency, the federal agency responsible for military intelligence and the security of the U.S. government's communications, believes the threat to be low-risk.
Said a spokesman on his way into the building carrying a large box labeled "Etalons, 550nm, Tunable."
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Only an idiot goes to a doctor with mild symptoms expecting to be cured. Heck, even with strong symptoms, you don't go the doctor to be cured. You go to the doctor to confirm whether or not you have something that a) really is serious and b) can be treated. You also go to the doctor when you are well, to establish baselines and screen for things that don't develop symptoms until it is too late.
But whether or not you get treatment does not determine whether or not the visit was worthwhile. This is a problem with the health care system, but not the way you think.
My six year old son is autistic. You have no idea what you're saying.
Having a kid with autism does not an expert make. We've done the experiment on a massive scale and the results continually come back (and are even repeated here on slashdot with depressing frequency, as it really shouldn't be news any more.) with high confidence: We don't know what causes autism, but it isn't vaccines.
That's a good example. Please look up the recent study as to how breast cancer exams are costing billions of unnecessary dollars annually. It was determined that the costs for all the exams outweigh the costs of treating the disease in nearly all cases. Look it up.
Yes, please do. It wasn't the money costs they were talking about, but the lifetime cumulative radiological dose. In other words, they were weighing the health risks of the test itself vs. the benefits of having the results of the test, and determined that, as a group, we're doing too many tests.
The problem is that when "number of people who didn't get cancer from a test they didn't take (but would've if they'd taken it)" is larger than "number of people whose cancer wasn't detected as a result of not taking the test soon enough" (even when the ratio is sufficient to be able to determine from statistics that it is the case) only people in the latter group will ever make the news. For some reason the press isn't interested in people to whom nothing bad happened, however extraordinary it's not happening really is.
Worst that could happen now is the health care bill getting defeated
Oh, I can think of something worse than that. It could pass.
I would add that I think your organs should be your own. Your heirs don't get to sell 'em unless you signed an appropriate document before you died. That document being, i think, a living will (since a regular will wouldn't get read until too late to harvest the organs.)
Actually, I think your organ donor status should itself be a secret held in escrow until the moment death is declared. I don't trust doctors to hold only one person's well-being in their minds at the same time.
He never promised he'd change things for the better!
Indeed. If you use the database as a screen to generate suspects, you must not also be allowed to use the same dna comparison results as evidence in the following court case. Somehow, though, I think this fact will not be anywhere near on the minds of a jury of your "peers."
And I've never understood why you can only donate organs.
If you could sell the rights to your organs (and will this right to your heirs), then there'd be a lot more availability. Why should the greedy hospitals and health care companies be the only ones to make money off of your organs?
Google doesn't sell video. It sells eyes, by aggregating all the viewers of the videos it offers for free. To push them out of the market, you'd have to have people selling their eye-time directly to companies who want to advertise to them.
They're an eye and ad aggregator. To supplant them, you'd still need an eye-broker to enable people to sell their eye-time directly to advertisers.
Fortran is great, if you use the appropriate wrapper. i.e. MATLAB...
Python doesn't have a built-in JIT?? What's with all the Perl hate, then?
Sprint. They're the "Apple" of cell phone providers already. It would've been great fit. Who says it had to be GSM?
The thing is, Flash as a video format is just a middle-man for H.264 video already, and we all know what market forces eventually do to middle-men when they get the opportunity. When was the last time you rode a Schwinn bicycle, for instance?
Why are you booing Apple for that? Apple's machines support GPU decoding, and Safari's support for HTML5 in fact uses the GPU. If Adobe hasn't written a plugin for Apple machines yet, I fail to see how that's boo on Apple.
April 15, in the US, if my pronunciation is correct.
Pi day is irrational, but at least it's real.
He can't afford a $1200 hearing aid because he can't get through an interview because he can't hear because he's had significant hearing loss and can't afford a $1200 hearing aid.
Yeah, probably because you can buy pretty much exactly what you described, except with a built-in radio transceiver, at an office supply store for under a hundred bucks. It just won't come in the ever-unstylish medical-grade pink.
So, the problem is drivers working themselves to death and putting their fellow vehicles at risk, and the solution is perfect enforcement of a "no loafing" policy to work the drivers like dogs...
Yeah, that's gonna get built.
Dubai is way over-extended, credit wise, and palm jumeira is undersold, let alone the "Dubai World" artificial archipelago. You think there's money for a giant submarine?
In fact, checking the web site, http://www.hydropolis.com/, it looks like they haven't even broken ground on the brochure.
There have been underwater habitats off of key largo for a while now, since the sixties, at least, and from what I've seen (in ads for UW vacations, and a discovery special about a UMD research vessel) they're pretty cramped. Also, they're saturation dives albeit shallow ones.
I wouldn't want to live in anything with a moon pool for the saturation reason alone, leaving out the small space and constant danger. It certainly wouldn't be a good place to raise a family (what would extended saturation dives do for children's developing bones, I wonder.)
Considering the expense and danger, these things will always be just a curiosity. A pretty neat one, though. I wish they'd kept the Abyss set open for dive tourism. That would've been a pretty awesome dive.
Oh, come on. The text already clearly allows them to create a form for you to send in. Placing some standardized positions on that form for people to provide more information about themselves if they want to is not an undue extension.
Now, if we're talking about compelling people to fill out the form, I'm not sure the wording allows them to actually compel people to even answer the first question, "How many?" Let alone any other questions.
Further, since we're using income tax rather than levying the states "equally" it's a vestigial clause. How does enumerating the people for the purpose of burdening the states make any sense when you just tax the people directly? Why can't they just use already existing records which are more up to date (tax records update every year, for instance.)
The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct
It doesn't say they can't as, the other things. In fact, I'm not so sure it says they can require you to answer any of it, including the count, though I'm not sure why you wouldn't, since it determines the number of electors for your state.
Oh I lived near a park like that. They did it because they noticed that trash tended to pile up around trash cans. Also, the maintenance workers were complaining about the heavy bags in the full trash cans.
I'm sure the two issues were unrelated....
You're talking about a body of people who think legislation for "daylight savings time" will be a boon for farmers – because it will mean more sunlight for the plants!
No, you can pick up any signal that leaks with an appropriate sized telescope. It's just that due to the wavelength, the telescope required to resolve an LED from four miles away will fit in a van, while the telescope required to resolve your wireless emissions would be pretty conspicuous.
Apparently the National Security Agency, the federal agency responsible for military intelligence and the security of the U.S. government's communications, believes the threat to be low-risk.
Said a spokesman on his way into the building carrying a large box labeled "Etalons, 550nm, Tunable."