To be completely fair, you can get sick from Flumist. It's supposed to be a mild illness, but it's an attenuated live virus and should not be given to someone with a weakened immune system. Likely not Cheezburger's problem (causal relationships seem to be a bigger issue) but it's possible.
I was once butdialed by a friend. His Blackberry was in a pocket and dialed me (I was the last call). All I got was some random voices and burbles. At one point, I thought I could recognize my friends' voice but most of it was somebody with an Indian / Pakistani accent. Curious, I let the call keep going to see if I could understand anything. Nope. Perhaps with some sophisticated audio filtering but I don't think there was much info to filter. Unless you're totally hung up on chair noises.
Called him back later. He was in a business meeting. Yeah, it might be possible to get some info that way, but if they're trying that hard, their are easier ways of getting that kind of data.
But to all the professional paranoids out there, Shadowmist is right. If you want anonymity, get off the grid. Really off. The aluminum foil isn't nearly as effective as you think it is.
To say that the science beyond 'global cooling' / "new ice age" in the 1970's was anywhere near as robust or accepted by scientists in the field (as opposed to bored journalists and second tier science fiction authors) is simply untrue. A number of papers were written, people thought about it, but it never gained the acceptance that the current climate change scenarios have.
That is what I'm fairly certain is going to happen in Venezuela, and is also what I'm fairly sure going to happen with US health care post ObamaCare.
Huh? What? We 'make' our own healthcare, it's not like we import hosptials much. If the ACA does what it's intended to do (unlikely), then it will fund the healthcare system somewhat better than before. If it doesn't do that, it's pretty much business as usual (slow downhill course in affordability). In neither situation is the availablity of healthcare going to change. Neither situation is likely to result in wholesale hospital closures or doctors shutting down their practices and heading to Belieze.
There can be a trivial difference between A and B even if the difference is statistically significant. People publish it anyway.
This is especially prevalent in medicine (especially drug advertising). If you look at medical journals, they are replete with ads touting that Drug A is 'statistically better' than Drug B. Even looking at the 'best case' data (the pretty graph in the advert) you quickly see that the lines very nearly converge. Statistically significant. Clinically insignificant.
There is a large volume of 'soft' hard drug use in the world. Do you think every kilo of cocaine goes to someone who eventually ends up in jail? The problem is that the highly addictive drugs (like alcohol) get a sizable minority of users falling over into the 'abuse' category (where it demonstrably messes up your life, either by direct physical consequences or social or legal issues).
It is impossible to pin down how many users turn to abusers with cocaine, heroin and meth and the like, but if you use alcohol as a prototypic dangerous drug, it's around 10% - significant but a minority. Now, the question for the student is - does this represent a legal or medical (or just a social) problem?
The person using my software is not my customer. My customer is the patient and the FDA. If making it easier for the nurse compromises the safety of the patient, its BAD software.
While you may think that's the right way to look at things, that attitude is what makes EHR (Electronic Healthcare Record) software just blatantly awful.
You're really quite wrong: Your customers are FDA, the vendor, the insurance companies, CMMS (Center for Medicare and Medcaid Services) and the medical provider using the software. Yep, having all of those 'customers' (stupid concept, BTW) is hard. That's why this stuff costs what it does.
But the attitude that the people using the software aren;t important (your implication) is what makes doctors and nurses really negative about EHRs).
No need. All you have to do is insert some unicode in your post or response. If it renders correctly either 1) Hell just froze over or 2) You've been pawned.
If it lands in the US, it could be considered a lawsuit. If it lands on South Korea, it could be construed as a blow from the Sacred Unicorn of the North. If it lands in Russia, it will end up on You Tube for weeks.
If it lands anywhere else, it will be Obama's fault.
I keep a very clean and organized garage and I'd have trouble storing another lawn mower or installing another water heater/washer/clothesdryer.
I keep a very disorganized garage. You could probably put an entire substation in it and I would never notice (until I needed a big cable or something and went at it with a hack saw).
Yes, wonderfully open. Open to Google who gets to peer into your shorts and your soul.
Unless you root the thing and put Cynogen on your device (if you can) you're merely switching gardens. The number of people interested and capable of doing so are well in the noise floor.
You can cast a tapped hole, it's just much harder to do with the appropriate tolerances. Drilling a hole and running a tap through it is pretty bolt simple. Casting a hole with fine threads is anything but simple. Simple usually wins.
And it just might be even more complicated than both of you think. Yes, the insurance company is a private corporation, but it is following book loads of rules promulgated by the Federal Government. Yes, for all practical purposes, the Government is in charge of your healthcare.
Yes, the ACA made it harder for the insurance companies to do some things, like drop you for pre existing conditions, but the insurance companies recieved lots of carrots for that particular stick. The big failing of the ACA, IMHO, is that it did not come down hard enough on the insurance companies - they are the big winners in all of this.
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To be completely fair, you can get sick from Flumist. It's supposed to be a mild illness, but it's an attenuated live virus and should not be given to someone with a weakened immune system. Likely not Cheezburger's problem (causal relationships seem to be a bigger issue) but it's possible.
So that explains discrepancies of years just how?
Time is not linear during infancy? I thought that was limited to adolescent years. Specifically high school.
Amazing. An AT command set joke that is actually viable in 2013? Who would have imagined it possible?
I was once butdialed by a friend. His Blackberry was in a pocket and dialed me (I was the last call). All I got was some random voices and burbles. At one point, I thought I could recognize my friends' voice but most of it was somebody with an Indian / Pakistani accent. Curious, I let the call keep going to see if I could understand anything. Nope. Perhaps with some sophisticated audio filtering but I don't think there was much info to filter. Unless you're totally hung up on chair noises.
Called him back later. He was in a business meeting. Yeah, it might be possible to get some info that way, but if they're trying that hard, their are easier ways of getting that kind of data.
Oops. Flamebaited. Must have hit a nerve.
But to all the professional paranoids out there, Shadowmist is right. If you want anonymity, get off the grid. Really off. The aluminum foil isn't nearly as effective as you think it is.
That's nice, the rest of us will work through the difficulties of human endevours and still try to piece the truth together.
To say that the science beyond 'global cooling' / "new ice age" in the 1970's was anywhere near as robust or accepted by scientists in the field (as opposed to bored journalists and second tier science fiction authors) is simply untrue. A number of papers were written, people thought about it, but it never gained the acceptance that the current climate change scenarios have.
That is what I'm fairly certain is going to happen in Venezuela, and is also what I'm fairly sure going to happen with US health care post ObamaCare.
Huh? What? We 'make' our own healthcare, it's not like we import hosptials much. If the ACA does what it's intended to do (unlikely), then it will fund the healthcare system somewhat better than before. If it doesn't do that, it's pretty much business as usual (slow downhill course in affordability). In neither situation is the availablity of healthcare going to change. Neither situation is likely to result in wholesale hospital closures or doctors shutting down their practices and heading to Belieze.
There can be a trivial difference between A and B even if the difference is statistically significant. People publish it anyway.
This is especially prevalent in medicine (especially drug advertising). If you look at medical journals, they are replete with ads touting that Drug A is 'statistically better' than Drug B. Even looking at the 'best case' data (the pretty graph in the advert) you quickly see that the lines very nearly converge. Statistically significant. Clinically insignificant.
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
There is a large volume of 'soft' hard drug use in the world. Do you think every kilo of cocaine goes to someone who eventually ends up in jail? The problem is that the highly addictive drugs (like alcohol) get a sizable minority of users falling over into the 'abuse' category (where it demonstrably messes up your life, either by direct physical consequences or social or legal issues).
It is impossible to pin down how many users turn to abusers with cocaine, heroin and meth and the like, but if you use alcohol as a prototypic dangerous drug, it's around 10% - significant but a minority. Now, the question for the student is - does this represent a legal or medical (or just a social) problem?
Quiz next period.
Will you please stop watching Star Trek reruns?
And this folks is proof positive, that aluminum foil is bad for you.
The person using my software is not my customer. My customer is the patient and the FDA. If making it easier for the nurse compromises the safety of the patient, its BAD software.
While you may think that's the right way to look at things, that attitude is what makes EHR (Electronic Healthcare Record) software just blatantly awful.
You're really quite wrong: Your customers are FDA, the vendor, the insurance companies, CMMS (Center for Medicare and Medcaid Services) and the medical provider using the software. Yep, having all of those 'customers' (stupid concept, BTW) is hard. That's why this stuff costs what it does.
But the attitude that the people using the software aren;t important (your implication) is what makes doctors and nurses really negative about EHRs).
No need. All you have to do is insert some unicode in your post or response. If it renders correctly either 1) Hell just froze over or 2) You've been pawned.
Mods, you think realityimpaired's post was off topic?
Well, it wasn't.
This is off topic.
Got it?
Are you being subtly ironic or completely insane?
Bell Bottom Blues ....
Well, it all depends.
If it lands in the US, it could be considered a lawsuit.
If it lands on South Korea, it could be construed as a blow from the Sacred Unicorn of the North.
If it lands in Russia, it will end up on You Tube for weeks.
If it lands anywhere else, it will be Obama's fault.
I keep a very clean and organized garage and I'd have trouble storing another lawn mower or installing another water heater/washer/clothesdryer.
I keep a very disorganized garage. You could probably put an entire substation in it and I would never notice (until I needed a big cable or something and went at it with a hack saw).
Cool story, bro.
Yes, wonderfully open. Open to Google who gets to peer into your shorts and your soul.
Unless you root the thing and put Cynogen on your device (if you can) you're merely switching gardens. The number of people interested and capable of doing so are well in the noise floor.
You can cast a tapped hole, it's just much harder to do with the appropriate tolerances. Drilling a hole and running a tap through it is pretty bolt simple. Casting a hole with fine threads is anything but simple. Simple usually wins.
Interesting,eh? This is when Slashdot moderation gets scary.
And it just might be even more complicated than both of you think. Yes, the insurance company is a private corporation, but it is following book loads of rules promulgated by the Federal Government. Yes, for all practical purposes, the Government is in charge of your healthcare.
Yes, the ACA made it harder for the insurance companies to do some things, like drop you for pre existing conditions, but the insurance companies recieved lots of carrots for that particular stick. The big failing of the ACA, IMHO, is that it did not come down hard enough on the insurance companies - they are the big winners in all of this.