The first time, my wife was taking too long to give birth. The doctor ordered a cesarian. The kid was born perfectly well.
The second was delivered the normal way, but the kid was not breathing very well after birth. The doctors insisted he was admitted for observations, for precaution. A whole lot of sophisticated examinations were performed on him. Fortunately, he was perfectly healthy and was released within a week.
Total cost: zero euros, nothing, zilch, nada.
Some people are happy to pay 5.000 euros for a birth in a private hospital. It's all very nice if everything goes smooth. Cesarian is guaranteed, because the private hospitals use other criteria than the medical ones. They have individual nurseries, the public ones are shared. It's like a hotel. But funny thing, if there's any complication, the kid and the mom are immediately dumped in a public hospital to be treated.
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Then create a state-managed health care system, like exists in most civilised countries, and spare the poor insurance companies that terrible burden. I weep every time I see an insurance company being thieved.
I'd love to have this here in Portugal for two reasons:
The first is the abandoned dogs that wander around everywhere raiding the trash cans in search of food spreading trash everywhere, and sometimes attacking people. The owners of such dogs should be given a HUGE fine and then be forced to take the dog back. Every summer, thousands of dogs are abandoned by pricks that can't be bothered to take them on holidays. Many are run over, causing car damage or even car crashes, some are killed by bigger dogs, most create gangs and go around the cities looking for food, spreading diseases and causing trouble.
Dog shit. There's dog shit everywhere. I stepped on dog shit on the sidewalks many, many times. The dog owners are mandated by law to collect the shit their dogs do, but almost nobody gives a fuck. The authorities have created public dog toilets. There are also these plastic bag dispensers everywhere where you can take a plastic bag to collect your dog shit. Nobody uses them and they get vandalised all the time. I wish the police could track the dog down and force the owner to eat the shit he left on the sidewalk.
I have nothing against dogs but if YOUR dog is a problem to others you shouldn't have one.
"NASA ice scientists have found a shrimp-like creature and a possible jellyfish 'frolicking' beneath 180 metres of solid Antarctic ice, where only microbes were expected to live. The odds of finding two complex lifeforms after drilling only a 20 cm-wide hole suggests there may be much more. And if such life is possible beneath Earth's oceans, why not elsewhere, like Europa?"
If you look closely, the colour temperature is written on the box. If you prefer warmer light, choose lower colour temperatures (2700K). I use high temperatures (6400K) in places of work like kitchen and garage and use low temperatures in places of rest and leisure, like bedrooms and the living room.
Or maybe you live in some remote place where low colour temp CFLs are not available...
I can't see any difference between the low colour temp CFLs and incandescent, except on my electricity bill.
Just a small comment, tuna is facing extinction because of overfishing both of the tuna and its preys. Forget that dolphins are cuter than tuna, they are a minor problem, here.
If you're the USA or Israel you can dismiss those letters, no problem. If you're another country, you may find yourself stuck with sanctions and an invasion of blue helmets, specially if the USA or Israel don't like you very much.
Ah, I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning...
This is stupid bullshit. The kindergarten where my kids go has a nice big outdoors playground with grass, slides and swings. It's all surrounded by a tall fence with barbwire on top. There's only one (always locked) entrance/exit with a guy watching.
I'd go nuts if I knew my kids were playing on the street with nothing between them and the road. A small kid can't understand the danger of walking on the road. You can't just expect him to obey just because you tell him "You can't go there!". In my own experience, it may even make it worse;-)
Not only because of cars, but also because of nutties. There was one case of someone going to that kindergarten posing as a kid's mother. Of course, she ended in the local precinct. And my country is one of the safest in the world.
Don't worry, the bunch of corrupt motherfuckers called the European Commission will override the Parliament and do whatever the fuck they wanted to in the beginning. They did so many times in the past, so why not? It's not like the Parliament was democratically elected and not the Commission, is it?
Yeah, but the USA should leave the Cubans alone to design their society the way they want. If it results in poverty, that's their problem. As it is today, the Cubans are poor in direct result of American intervention.
Against my principles, I have to reply an AC. Be a man and use your account!
Dude, it's hard to "industrialise" when you're too busy dying from dysentery, pneumonia, meningitis, tuberculosis, hepatitis, tetanus, cholera, malaria, etc. It's hard to keep a factory working when half your employees have chronic diseases and acute infections kill someone every month or so.
All the diseases listed above are hygiene related. You don't get to see them in your fancy suburb, but in the third world they are commonplace.
Sewage systems cost money to build and maintain and it would be a nightmare to fit them in slums that grow every day in the most chaotic ways.
I read an article in a newspaper about this.
Many alternatives are being tested but there are too many cultural issues to be addressed. It's very hard to talk with public officials about sanitation, it's considered taboo in many places. And it's incredibly hard to educate the people, they consider this subject extremely offensive. For instance, in India many people refuse to shit inside the house, so they shit on river banks.
The same problem with AIDS, since in many cultures talking about sex is taboo (but not doing it big time:-) hence the AIDS problem).
That being said, without gigantic efforts to educate people and an infrastructure to collect them, I believe these bags will become helicopters or be dumped in the river, just like the supermarket plastic ones.
Makes you wonder if it was all a dream...you know...an argument without the usual insults and character attacks. Perhaps just the dream of an autistic boy. Hey, TV Show Idea!
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Both my children were born in a public hospital.
The first time, my wife was taking too long to give birth. The doctor ordered a cesarian. The kid was born perfectly well.
The second was delivered the normal way, but the kid was not breathing very well after birth. The doctors insisted he was admitted for observations, for precaution. A whole lot of sophisticated examinations were performed on him. Fortunately, he was perfectly healthy and was released within a week.
Total cost: zero euros, nothing, zilch, nada.
Some people are happy to pay 5.000 euros for a birth in a private hospital. It's all very nice if everything goes smooth. Cesarian is guaranteed, because the private hospitals use other criteria than the medical ones. They have individual nurseries, the public ones are shared. It's like a hotel. But funny thing, if there's any complication, the kid and the mom are immediately dumped in a public hospital to be treated.
Then create a state-managed health care system, like exists in most civilised countries, and spare the poor insurance companies that terrible burden. I weep every time I see an insurance company being thieved.
I'd love to have this here in Portugal for two reasons:
The first is the abandoned dogs that wander around everywhere raiding the trash cans in search of food spreading trash everywhere, and sometimes attacking people. The owners of such dogs should be given a HUGE fine and then be forced to take the dog back. Every summer, thousands of dogs are abandoned by pricks that can't be bothered to take them on holidays. Many are run over, causing car damage or even car crashes, some are killed by bigger dogs, most create gangs and go around the cities looking for food, spreading diseases and causing trouble.
Dog shit. There's dog shit everywhere. I stepped on dog shit on the sidewalks many, many times. The dog owners are mandated by law to collect the shit their dogs do, but almost nobody gives a fuck. The authorities have created public dog toilets. There are also these plastic bag dispensers everywhere where you can take a plastic bag to collect your dog shit. Nobody uses them and they get vandalised all the time. I wish the police could track the dog down and force the owner to eat the shit he left on the sidewalk.
I have nothing against dogs but if YOUR dog is a problem to others you shouldn't have one.
"NASA ice scientists have found a shrimp-like creature and a possible jellyfish 'frolicking' beneath 180 metres of solid Antarctic ice, where only microbes were expected to live. The odds of finding two complex lifeforms after drilling only a 20 cm-wide hole suggests there may be much more. And if such life is possible beneath Earth's oceans, why not elsewhere, like Europa?"
If you look closely, the colour temperature is written on the box. If you prefer warmer light, choose lower colour temperatures (2700K). I use high temperatures (6400K) in places of work like kitchen and garage and use low temperatures in places of rest and leisure, like bedrooms and the living room.
Or maybe you live in some remote place where low colour temp CFLs are not available...
I can't see any difference between the low colour temp CFLs and incandescent, except on my electricity bill.
Just a small comment, tuna is facing extinction because of overfishing both of the tuna and its preys. Forget that dolphins are cuter than tuna, they are a minor problem, here.
If you're the USA or Israel you can dismiss those letters, no problem. If you're another country, you may find yourself stuck with sanctions and an invasion of blue helmets, specially if the USA or Israel don't like you very much.
Ah, I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning...
What they really mean is that the current land speed record is 1227 Km/h and they're trying to reach 1609 Km/h. Now, that's better.
This is stupid bullshit. The kindergarten where my kids go has a nice big outdoors playground with grass, slides and swings. It's all surrounded by a tall fence with barbwire on top. There's only one (always locked) entrance/exit with a guy watching.
I'd go nuts if I knew my kids were playing on the street with nothing between them and the road. A small kid can't understand the danger of walking on the road. You can't just expect him to obey just because you tell him "You can't go there!". In my own experience, it may even make it worse ;-)
Not only because of cars, but also because of nutties. There was one case of someone going to that kindergarten posing as a kid's mother. Of course, she ended in the local precinct. And my country is one of the safest in the world.
Yes, 25 times less.
I have a very good way to defeat the system. It's called a constitution.
Fortunately this is completely illegal and unconstitutional round here. Have fun.
You have unemployed doctors? In my country (Portugal) it's very hard to get an MD degree, and getting one is like a licence to print money.
But our system costs a huge lot less, and the coverage is universal. Someone is being ripped off.
So, where does all that money go? I guess to the middle man (insurance and healthcare corporations).
Whoooooooosh is the sound of irony going over your head at 381 ells per muhurta.
Oracle box.
Wow, it's those little European idiosyncrasies that make me crazy, like the extremely unusual measurement system. Who on Earth understands that?
Don't worry, the bunch of corrupt motherfuckers called the European Commission will override the Parliament and do whatever the fuck they wanted to in the beginning. They did so many times in the past, so why not? It's not like the Parliament was democratically elected and not the Commission, is it?
Outside of that, they use Kg of straw per Km
And Europe.
Yeah, but the USA should leave the Cubans alone to design their society the way they want. If it results in poverty, that's their problem. As it is today, the Cubans are poor in direct result of American intervention.
Against my principles, I have to reply an AC. Be a man and use your account!
Dude, it's hard to "industrialise" when you're too busy dying from dysentery, pneumonia, meningitis, tuberculosis, hepatitis, tetanus, cholera, malaria, etc. It's hard to keep a factory working when half your employees have chronic diseases and acute infections kill someone every month or so.
All the diseases listed above are hygiene related. You don't get to see them in your fancy suburb, but in the third world they are commonplace.
Sewage systems cost money to build and maintain and it would be a nightmare to fit them in slums that grow every day in the most chaotic ways.
I read an article in a newspaper about this.
Many alternatives are being tested but there are too many cultural issues to be addressed. It's very hard to talk with public officials about sanitation, it's considered taboo in many places. And it's incredibly hard to educate the people, they consider this subject extremely offensive. For instance, in India many people refuse to shit inside the house, so they shit on river banks.
The same problem with AIDS, since in many cultures talking about sex is taboo (but not doing it big time :-) hence the AIDS problem).
That being said, without gigantic efforts to educate people and an infrastructure to collect them, I believe these bags will become helicopters or be dumped in the river, just like the supermarket plastic ones.
No, born in the 70s. But I've never heard about this series.
Makes you wonder if it was all a dream...you know...an argument without the usual insults and character attacks. Perhaps just the dream of an autistic boy. Hey, TV Show Idea!
WTF?
Dude, our views of the world are so far apart that I wonder if we live in the same planet!
Anyway, it was nice having a argument in Slashdot without the usual insults and character attacks.