It gets a bit stickier when said religious organization must deal with people of different beliefs. If you accept Medicare / Medicaid (which the Sisters undoubtedly do) then you have to treat all of those people without respect to your religious belief (assuming that treatment is considered standard of care). If said patient wants / needs contraception then you must make arrangements for the person to get it. You don't have to prescribe the pills yourself, if that compromises your belief, but you may have to send them down to the (secular) doctor down the street who doesn't have an issue.
Clinicians who work for clinics or hospitals associated with religious orders have long worked around these 'issues'. At the Catholic hospital where I worked, we hid the oral contraceptives in a separate closet that we made sure was closed before one of the nuns walked in. And they would not walk in unannounced. Abortions, obviously, were not allowed on campus, but we could refer people to other providers.
The mandate that birth control be provided really is a straw man. Religious orders have been dealing with this for decades. I don't see how this mandate is functionally any different from, for example, a dominant private insurer who offers contraception as part of their insurance packages. All of the hospitals in town realistically have to deal with the insurer and accept their conditions (we're not going to discuss the implications of that right now - it is a very common situation in the US). You do your dance, as above. You get your money. No money, no mission.
Personally, I think the ACA blew it with the requirement that every insurance policy cover contraception (and maternity benefits). The argument for this has been that you need to expand the coverage base in order to keep insurance more affordable. However, the patient base of persons needing or desiring contraception is quite high enough to allow for economies of scale. 30% of the population (approximate number pulled out of my nether region) is big enough to fund a benefit.
Further, the ACA 'isn't' a tax (except it walks like a tax, looks like a tax and squawks like a tax). There is a longstanding precedent for being taxed for something you might not need personally but is considered a societal benefit (think school taxes). Again the construction of the ACA is that of a horribly flawed kludge (that's the nice word) that benefits the status quo in general and the insurance companies in particular. Rationale arguments get buried in the miasma of details that comprise the legislation and give everybody something to hate. Unfortunately, it was probably the best compromise Obama could make. Whether or not it actually improves health care for a majority of Americans is quite unclear.
Which brings up an interesting point about social expectations. In certain parts of the country (think rural Alaska, maybe Texas and similar areas), firearms are ubiquitous and pretty much ignored. You can hitch hike with a rifle an get picked up (by persons other than the SWAT team).
Most places, however, openly carrying a rifle or shotgun will raise hackles. Which is where we are today with respect to ubiquitous recording devices. Forward another decade or two, let people get used to the things and Google Glass rev 5 will be considered normal. Social expectations will be such that nobody cares except us old folks in the nursing home railing about 'privacy'. The younger generation will think that as relevant as a fax machine.
Humans can adapt to pretty much anything that doesn't kill them.
Except that I have a 512 GB SSD on my current MacPro - which is about 3/4 full of programs and support files. The scratch disk is a 128 GB SSD. Everything else is enormous gobs of spinning glass. I'd consider the trash can (after Rev 2 of course, never buy Rev 1 hardware from anyone, much less Apple), but I'd probably spring for the 1 TB SSD since you have to have the option to have a separate scratch disk. And yes, theoretically, if you have enough RAM you don't need a scratch disk, but various Adobe products haven't quite figured that out.
Even more interesting is that the effect measured only applies to paper books. When the same book is read from an e-format, there is no lasting effect.
Citation, please. It may simply be a matter of practice. About a year or so ago, I started reading e-books on my iPad. Initially, I noticed that I could not get 'absorbed' into the novel like with paper - a state of ignoring much of the outside world and concentrating on the book. After a while, I noticed that I could indeed do that and I enjoyed reading on the iPad. Now, I greatly prefer it (other than Amazon's crap method of inserting graphics - a bit of extra resolution won't hurt you guys) to reading on paper. It's easier to hold, easier to control the light and the single page format just seems more absorbing.
I'd be interested in any actual research into that - especially young'uns who have essentially started out on ebooks.
I would expect that there would be a similar situational optimization, but that it would vary by the type of game being played. Puzzle games would improve lateral thinking, long-winded RPGs would have effects most similar to the observed from novels, twitch-shooters would improve insult vocabulary, etc.
However, I need $850,000 funding for this 4 year, small sample research project, so I can get enough information to justify a larger research project.
What else is on that base that the foreigner can get to more easily because of his access to Shiva Star?
Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald's, Mini Wal Marts and other hallmarks of American 'culture'. You want to be careful letting these things out in the world - they can cause amazing damage in the wrong hands.
The last of the hapless crew having survived through cannibalism will die. Thus the un-happy fate of the 'anthropocene' "researchers" will end. A nasty tale on a nastier fallacy of Anthropogenic Global Warming.
You trying to write a screen play or are you just an idiot?
That is likely why, according to TFA, that the Chinese icebreaker - which happens to have a helicopter - is standing by even though it can't ram through the ice.
My 2009 macbook randomly wakes up and processes some data for about 5 seconds and shuts off.
two reinstalls, and I still can't track it down.
Just watching a little TV while you sleep. You have a problem with that? It works hard for you all day and you're hassling it for getting a little R&R?
A second year engineering student could design a walled structure that would improve air flow. Think of a cooling tower. Hell, they could make them look like giant Mac Pros.
We should especially be wary of Congressmen who think that one or two people with rifles constitute "an unprecedented and sophisticated attack on an electric grid substation with military-style weapons" and chairmen of major regulatory bodies who believe someone 'could get 200 yards away with a.22 rifle and take the whole thing out (referring to said substation or similar infrastructure).
We should be especially wary of such 'public servants' who basically want to keep the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt going strong in the American public. Such people tend not to be interested in solving the problem (and it is a problem, just not the End of Civilization) in a rational and effective fashion. Such people are more interested in creating an environment that justifies overarching 'solutions' that expand the bottom line of certain companies and / or institutions that these blowhards are inevitably associated with.
The beta version of slashdot is awful. Is there anyway to avoid it. I'm getting redirected to beta.slashdot.org every time I reload the website.
You have to log in. Slashdot knows that regular users won't put up with this non sense. WE DON'T WANT THE CHEESE MOVED. We're getting a little bit older now, less flexible. For us oldsters, Ajax is a detergent.
RIght guys? Right? You really won't go live with this nonsense.
As someone who appears to trying to indirectly cheer on the ACA, please explain to me how the fact that my premiums have nearly tripled, my deductible has more than quadrupled, two of my local hospitals are now off limits, and that I've lost the services of my doctor is a good thing?
Now you have a really good reason to stay healthy?
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Its not easy to validate when you cannot get your hands on their raw data. You only get summary reports from the "climate scientists"!
You have to ask nicely.
This is the final nail in the coffin of global warming. You fail, scientists! Take your depopulation agenda and shove it!
Right, idjit. That's why it's not called "global warming" except by mindless fools and other politicians. It's called 'Anthropogenic Climate Change'.
It gets a bit stickier when said religious organization must deal with people of different beliefs. If you accept Medicare / Medicaid (which the Sisters undoubtedly do) then you have to treat all of those people without respect to your religious belief (assuming that treatment is considered standard of care). If said patient wants / needs contraception then you must make arrangements for the person to get it. You don't have to prescribe the pills yourself, if that compromises your belief, but you may have to send them down to the (secular) doctor down the street who doesn't have an issue.
Clinicians who work for clinics or hospitals associated with religious orders have long worked around these 'issues'. At the Catholic hospital where I worked, we hid the oral contraceptives in a separate closet that we made sure was closed before one of the nuns walked in. And they would not walk in unannounced. Abortions, obviously, were not allowed on campus, but we could refer people to other providers.
The mandate that birth control be provided really is a straw man. Religious orders have been dealing with this for decades. I don't see how this mandate is functionally any different from, for example, a dominant private insurer who offers contraception as part of their insurance packages. All of the hospitals in town realistically have to deal with the insurer and accept their conditions (we're not going to discuss the implications of that right now - it is a very common situation in the US). You do your dance, as above. You get your money. No money, no mission.
Personally, I think the ACA blew it with the requirement that every insurance policy cover contraception (and maternity benefits). The argument for this has been that you need to expand the coverage base in order to keep insurance more affordable. However, the patient base of persons needing or desiring contraception is quite high enough to allow for economies of scale. 30% of the population (approximate number pulled out of my nether region) is big enough to fund a benefit.
Further, the ACA 'isn't' a tax (except it walks like a tax, looks like a tax and squawks like a tax). There is a longstanding precedent for being taxed for something you might not need personally but is considered a societal benefit (think school taxes). Again the construction of the ACA is that of a horribly flawed kludge (that's the nice word) that benefits the status quo in general and the insurance companies in particular. Rationale arguments get buried in the miasma of details that comprise the legislation and give everybody something to hate. Unfortunately, it was probably the best compromise Obama could make. Whether or not it actually improves health care for a majority of Americans is quite unclear.
I always get directed to beta. How do I stop it?
Log on to Facebook.
Interesting. I ll have to look into that. Tx.
Which brings up an interesting point about social expectations. In certain parts of the country (think rural Alaska, maybe Texas and similar areas), firearms are ubiquitous and pretty much ignored. You can hitch hike with a rifle an get picked up (by persons other than the SWAT team).
Most places, however, openly carrying a rifle or shotgun will raise hackles. Which is where we are today with respect to ubiquitous recording devices. Forward another decade or two, let people get used to the things and Google Glass rev 5 will be considered normal. Social expectations will be such that nobody cares except us old folks in the nursing home railing about 'privacy'. The younger generation will think that as relevant as a fax machine.
Humans can adapt to pretty much anything that doesn't kill them.
Except that I have a 512 GB SSD on my current MacPro - which is about 3/4 full of programs and support files. The scratch disk is a 128 GB SSD. Everything else is enormous gobs of spinning glass. I'd consider the trash can (after Rev 2 of course, never buy Rev 1 hardware from anyone, much less Apple), but I'd probably spring for the 1 TB SSD since you have to have the option to have a separate scratch disk. And yes, theoretically, if you have enough RAM you don't need a scratch disk, but various Adobe products haven't quite figured that out.
Should have put halogenated fluorocarbons in the tank.
The words 'meeting' and 'work' tend not to be used concurrently. I'll bet a significant number of the iPads were running Angry Birds.
Who cares? It's not like we read TFA (or for that matter, TFS) anyway.
They could just post "Boo" and we'd go on about ... something.
Do you think it also applies to reading slashdot threads ? I always feel very smart and often very sad after reading the comments section.
Interesting. I usually feel like I should take another shower. Or at least wash my brain out with Clorox.
Even more interesting is that the effect measured only applies to paper books. When the same book is read from an e-format, there is no lasting effect.
Citation, please. It may simply be a matter of practice. About a year or so ago, I started reading e-books on my iPad. Initially, I noticed that I could not get 'absorbed' into the novel like with paper - a state of ignoring much of the outside world and concentrating on the book. After a while, I noticed that I could indeed do that and I enjoyed reading on the iPad. Now, I greatly prefer it (other than Amazon's crap method of inserting graphics - a bit of extra resolution won't hurt you guys) to reading on paper. It's easier to hold, easier to control the light and the single page format just seems more absorbing.
I'd be interested in any actual research into that - especially young'uns who have essentially started out on ebooks.
I would expect that there would be a similar situational optimization, but that it would vary by the type of game being played. Puzzle games would improve lateral thinking, long-winded RPGs would have effects most similar to the observed from novels, twitch-shooters would improve insult vocabulary, etc.
However, I need $850,000 funding for this 4 year, small sample research project, so I can get enough information to justify a larger research project.
Why do you want a MacPro to do gaming research?
... but comes at the expense of diminished capacity in other areas....
That's what the cocaine and Viagra are for.
What else is on that base that the foreigner can get to more easily because of his access to Shiva Star?
Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald's, Mini Wal Marts and other hallmarks of American 'culture'. You want to be careful letting these things out in the world - they can cause amazing damage in the wrong hands.
That story got 538 replies. Why not try for another heavy hitter? It's a good business strategy.
Help Dice out folks, copy your last comments into this story.
The last of the hapless crew having survived through cannibalism will die. Thus the un-happy fate of the 'anthropocene' "researchers" will end. A nasty tale on a nastier fallacy of Anthropogenic Global Warming.
You trying to write a screen play or are you just an idiot?
That is likely why, according to TFA, that the Chinese icebreaker - which happens to have a helicopter - is standing by even though it can't ram through the ice.
My 2009 macbook randomly wakes up and processes some data for about 5 seconds and shuts off.
two reinstalls, and I still can't track it down.
Just watching a little TV while you sleep. You have a problem with that? It works hard for you all day and you're hassling it for getting a little R&R?
A second year engineering student could design a walled structure that would improve air flow. Think of a cooling tower. Hell, they could make them look like giant Mac Pros.
We should especially be wary of Congressmen who think that one or two people with rifles constitute "an unprecedented and sophisticated attack on an electric grid substation with military-style weapons" and chairmen of major regulatory bodies who believe someone 'could get 200 yards away with a .22 rifle and take the whole thing out (referring to said substation or similar infrastructure).
We should be especially wary of such 'public servants' who basically want to keep the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt going strong in the American public. Such people tend not to be interested in solving the problem (and it is a problem, just not the End of Civilization) in a rational and effective fashion. Such people are more interested in creating an environment that justifies overarching 'solutions' that expand the bottom line of certain companies and / or institutions that these blowhards are inevitably associated with.
Follow the money, follow the fear.
They bricked themselves?
Brine is delicious, you insensitive clod.
You shrimp.
The beta version of slashdot is awful. Is there anyway to avoid it. I'm getting redirected to beta.slashdot.org every time I reload the website.
You have to log in. Slashdot knows that regular users won't put up with this non sense. WE DON'T WANT THE CHEESE MOVED. We're getting a little bit older now, less flexible. For us oldsters, Ajax is a detergent.
RIght guys? Right? You really won't go live with this nonsense.
We're doomed.
As someone who appears to trying to indirectly cheer on the ACA, please explain to me how the fact that my premiums have nearly tripled, my deductible has more than quadrupled, two of my local hospitals are now off limits, and that I've lost the services of my doctor is a good thing?
Now you have a really good reason to stay healthy?