The Sun and other British tabloids have also provoked controversy by featuring girls as young as 16 as topless models. Samantha Fox, Maria Whittaker, Debee Ashby, and many others began their topless modelling careers in The Sun at that age, while the Daily Sport was even known to count down the days until it could feature a teenage girl topless on her 16th birthday, as it did with Linsey Dawn McKenzie in 1994, among others. Although such photographs were legally permissible in the United Kingdom under the Protection of Children Act 1978, critics noted the irony of Murdoch's Sun and News of the World newspapers calling for stricter laws on the sexual abuse of minors, including the public identification of released pedophiles, while publishing topless photographs of girls whom many other jurisdictions would legally classify as underage minors.[8] Controversy over these young models ended when the Sexual Offences Act 2003 raised the minimum age for topless modelling to 18.
I didn't know that and I'm old enough to know that sam fox was in the sun at 16. Seems these days the same pictures seen by most people in the UK might actually be illegal, that's quite shocking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Offences_Act_2003 gives more details
Three is a bit funny about voip apps Skype tends to go to mail for incoming calls and they are very picky about which skype aplication is used. They hammered my call credit while using "free skype" probably confused due to my phone not bein one they sell.
Voip seems to be an issue although they literally say nothing about sip they do appear to block the ports.
(just been playing around with ekiga and some proxy ports will work).
maybe we just look at things with the wrong perspective. for example I have a netbook and a 3g dongle that costs 20 for 15gb of data. I have skype installed and if I want I could have skype out or a sip phone. I can make international calls with skype for a couple of cents a minute with skype-in you can call me from your cell phone or land line. with bluetooth you might not even see that i wasnt using a mobile phone.
actually it would save me a lot of money each month if i was to do this.
Just because I need to go via a gateway doesn't mean I can't largely have the same functionality as a mobile.
has some interesting answers about transplantation of kidneys it seems the ideal kidney is transplanted where the brain is dead but the heart is still beating. Kidneys can be taken after the heart has stopped beating but needs to be extracted pretty rapidly.
I understand that when a coronary artery is blocked (that is a heart attack) after 20 - 30 minutes the heart starts to die. When it can not pump blood then the rest of you goes.
stuff from Ubuntu 7 is likely to work just dandy in Ubuntu 9 or 10
There are some really annoying exceptions to working just dandy. Number one annoyance for me not allowing the synaptics touchpad to be disabled in 9.10 (made this comment take longer than it should have).
followed by number two pulse audio not allowing internal mic to be selected for skype.
Some things get better which is why I upgrade and don't downgrade again, although the touchpad issue is really pushing my patience.
Funny thing I was looking for something similar, ideally a vga input or usb powered screen (with linux drivers please) and ideally a touch screen or discrete buttons around the same size as my netbook screen possibly smaller.
I saw a few products which almost suit. one was a lcd display small enough to fit in a couple of 5.25 drive bays which could be cute in a tower based server. Unfortunately the price was over $200 (and not even a touch screen) at a lower price point it would get interesting.
Ideally i'm looking for something thing that perhaps could clip or sucker to the back of my netbook screen to work as a tablet add on for my netbook. Actually it could work in a few positions as a tablet for input. as a 2nd screen side by side with the internal or clipped on the back for tablet style ebook reader or for film use on the back of the car seats. Or as a fairly minimal screen for that server again.
It should be possible to get a lowish cost product to do this.
I also started looking at digital picture frames and these are getting more and more capable many can play mp3's and video's and some samsung models can work as a second screen connected via usb but only with windows or mac drivers. I'd love to find a reasonably priced frame with better than average connectivity.
Along with my ebook reader screen thoughts, there are some picture frames which support some text output alternatively its a possibility to convert a pdf file to a series of jpg files and load that onto a digital frame. With some of them battery backed it might be possible to make a low cost ebook reader.
One things for sure a small secondary display with touch screen capability could easily become a great add on for laptops and netbooks.
Essentially it appears your getting a couple of free CD's and paying a few dollars for shipping. In reality you get sent a bunch of stuff and billed $289.95 (they have your credit card details from the 4 dollar shipping charge) In theory there is a get out clause return one of the lessons within 10 days then you don't get billed but apparently thats not so easy to do.
Is it a scam? Well if you didn't intend to purchase $289.95 worth of cd's I'd say yes, because there is some text on the front page which says they will bill you $289.95 and its also hidden away in a bunch of small print they say no.
The order summary only mentions $4.56 shipping charges for 3 cd's
They target the gullible, computer novices who don't realize they are giving away access to their credit card.
Probably the only defense against this kind of abuse are one time credit cards but even then your credit score could take a bashing.
In the years before World War I, Norway (1913) and Denmark also gave women the right to vote, and it was extended throughout the remaining Australian states. Near the end of the war, various states gave women the right to vote, including Canada, Soviet Russia, Germany and Poland. British women over 30 had the vote in 1918, Dutch women in 1919, and American women in states that had previously denied them suffrage were allowed the vote in 1920. Women in Turkey were granted voting rights in 1926. In 1928, suffrage was extended to all British women on the same terms as men, that is, for persons 21 years old and older. One of the most recent jurisdictions to grant women full equal voting rights was Bhutan in 2008.
Seems that historically Germany also shared similar practices as in America following a similar series of reforms.
Secondly and perhaps more importantly by becoming American citizens your family accepted the choices made by the American government.
You really shouldn't feel hard done by, especially since you still have the advantage of being white.
There is still a long way to go before humanity ends discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, money.
Sorry to hear your $400 an hour Doctors are not expert in your condition. An expertise you have acquired due to your condition.
You don't say what it is but I would bet it isn't common. You might hope for excellence but unless a Doctor specializes in your condition you are not going to get an expert. Hopefully you will get a Doctor that knows what drugs not to mix (a sensible patient will double check).
The prime definition of stupid is a person of low intelligence. although a thesaurus gives a few alternative words for stupid such as
Not all of which are applicable to Dr's but I thought you might appreciate them anyway.
The entrance requirements to study to become a Doctor are very high ensuring only the best of the best get to study and qualify. By qualifying a Doctor has proved he or she isn't stupid. Being competent , knowledgeably with good communication skills that unfortunately has nothing to do with intelligence.
Really all the undergraduate work does is enable you to seek out relevant information and apply it and hopefully achieve a desired end result and occasionally an insightful breakthrough. It also means that you don't have to be a Doctor to become an expert in the field of a particular condition.
I'm fortunate enough to be using a very new drug that has only become available in ireland for about a year, it does mean however that most medical professionals have no knowledge of this drug and how it should be used. Unfortunately that makes me more of an expert with this drug than they are. I was in hospital a few weeks ago and I had to say when I should be injected with this. I don't consider these medical professionals stupid just because they have no knowledge of this drug.
I can appreciate your frustration, Doctors are very reluctant to listen to patients, after all who has the qualification, who gets sued for malpractice. One positive is that Doctors tend to listen to other Doctors having a specialist decide your treatment tends to mean your GP will write the necessary prescriptions.
Please try to be nice to your Doctors they tend to be more willing to help and get help when you don't call them stupid and question their competence.
And back to our original topic , someone who is being treated for depression hopefully would be responding to treatment and not every day would be a bad day. without knowing the whole picture its unlikely that the insurance company will get away with this unless there is no supporting evidence at all of depression.
Why should the quality go down? The limiting factor is medical school places and presumably funds, not a shortage of people able to fill these places and qualify.
There really isn't such a thing as a stupid doctor.
Lung Cancer is bullshit for most smokers it will never happen.
Heart disease is far more likely and smoking doesn't help. Smoking makes the heart work harder and narrows arteries increasing the chances of a clot blocking an artery and a stroke or heart attack occuring.
Giving up smoking is hard, but I did it finally and it wasn't difficult in the end Niquitin clear patches are a "24 hour patch" and they work but you need to adapt the system to your needs. Rule one a patch works as long as you feel it working. this might be 6 hours or 48 hours put a fresh patch on when you feel you need to. That way when you do get an urge to smoke you can just slap a fresh patch on and feel a reassuring itch as the patch starts to work. by the end of stage one you will probably have some spare patches, you can if you want cut them to size to give you the next lower dosage thats pretty much what the company does anyway. Just carry on using them as required and you will find a patch may last 48 hours or more. by the time you hit stage 3 its painless to have no patch at all. you probably will have some spare patches keep them and slap one on if you feel you need one.
some brands are a 16 hour patch and they are very poor. The problem is when you take the patch off at night you lose nicotine from your system waking up the next day desperate for a hit and you get that everyday hammering at your resolve. which is why I think you should respond to your craving with a fresh patch when you need it.
I sometimes want a cigarette now but I don't need one, unfortunately giving in to that will have me back on 20 a day in short order so I don't.
There is no commercial interest in having you successfully quit smoking, trying to quit is another matter. every success story is a lost customer.
The trouble is for me its a little late, I had a heart attack and now my life expectancy isn't great. 30% of people under 67 die of a first heart attack, then 50% die within 6 to 8 years about half of them in the first year. My heart attack was in July, I had a stent put in, 28th of october I had another stent put in a second artery was 99% blocked. I reckon I nearly had heart attack number 2.
Now obviously I am trying to do the right things but its not looking great, worst thing is generally i'm feeling good and I thought I was making a good recovery but obviously not since the second artery blocked up so fast.
It would have helped a lot if I hadn't had a heart attack and quitting smoking might have delayed it a few more years.
honestly the niquitin patches did make quitting easy a vaccine is not needed.
how come your friend married his sister, isn't that illegal?
If an admin wants to grant a user extra power than thats up to the admin, side stepping the admin by default is retarded.
The big problem is that there are sometimes good reasons not to install the distro version and to install a third party version, (virtualbox springs to mind). There is also the case where a packaged version is broken and a third party version is needed (ubuntu had a situation like that with kompozer).
The iPhone is perhaps the only example outside of this where the distro maintainer gets control of what goes on a system rather than the admin. As the app store is the only place to get approved apps that will run on the iPhone. Partially its a desire for apple to restrict applications that might conflict with apple and the carriers interests but also the assumption that the typical iPhone user is an idiot who would install any random application which could cause problems on the carriers network. Could quite easily create a porn dialer app for the iphone if it could be installed by the user for example.
An Admin wouldn't want that kind of junk on his lan and really the iphone users are pretty much users on another type of lan (wan).
what I was trying to say was that the government will make you jump through hoops until they are satisfied that you have a right to the money. It's still a seizure of money that the government is not entitled too.
The big problem is that for many elderly people the memory gets hazy and they may well have forgotten they hold the account. I've got a couple of old accounts with very little in them but they have never been formally closed if I died no one would have a clue they existed.
http://www.unclaimedfinances.co.uk/facts-dormant-bank-accounts-government-act.html In November 2008 the government passed the Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Act. One of the major principles of the act is to reinvest unclaimed money back into the community. So what exactly does this mean for those who are looking to reclaim their lost money?
Dormant Bank Accounts and Unclaimed Assets In banking terms a bank account is dormant if there has been no customer activity within a set time period; usually between three and 15 years. Most banks will write to customers asking if they wish the account to remain active. However, in a number of cases banks will not be able to reach customers due to reasons such as moving home or name changes. Customers can still reclaim money in dormant bank accounts even if the money has been redistributed under the Dormant Bank Account Act.
There is probably no drug more damaging to society than alcohol and perhaps the biggest killer on the roads is a drunk behind the wheel.
The type of person prepared to drive while stoned is pretty much the same as the type that will drive while drunk.
One thing that is worth thinking about is the violence that occurs every friday and saturday night on the streets of our cities by drunks and the wives battered by drunken husbands and boyfriends.
In contrast people who use too much cannabis fall asleep.
The idea that people who use cannabis can not hold down a job and be successful is laughable, some people will choose to do nothing but get stoned all day but most people have other things to do.
There already exists people who don't give a damn and get stoned all day regardless of cannabis 's legal status. legalization would perhaps increase the numbers who would use it in moderation and at appropriate times. The people who don't give a damn are already smoking.
Perhaps the biggest losers if cannabis was legalized would be the drinks companies, health wise you may well see an improvement cannabis use doesn't involve taking in huge amounts of calories, its not called a beer gut for nothing.
For me smoking is a bad idea so i'd be best to brew tea instead, and my blood sugars would be better controlled and my triglycerides lowered by avoiding alcohol.
Cannabis is noted for its medicinal qualities and certainly reduces stress, its a nice way to unwind. Thats why they call it chilling out.
The trouble with cannabis is its legal status no more and no less and its kind of surreal that you can be convicted for possession by a guy who legally might have drunk a bottle of whiskey the night before.
As adults we are free to make choices about what we put inside our own bodies. I'm not going to stop you from putting a cheeseburger in your mouth no matter how damaging it is to your health or stop you drinking so why the fuss about people doing something which is relatively healthy. Smokes not good granted but in a legal situation i'm sure more people would choose to brew tea.
I expect there are a lot of people that are drinking alcohol rather than using cannabis purely because alcohol use will not damage career prospects like a criminal conviction would.
The graying out and unresponsiveness when something is a bit slow loading.
When Firefox decides to scroll and scroll and scroll and totally ignore any user input.
The inability to switch to another tab while something is loading in the current tab.
The messed up printing.
I wanted a list of laptops from a web page and got 2 pages with a few of the laptops and 19 pages of headers and footers spewing out my laser printer. partly solved by
Don't get me wrong I'd rather use firefox than internet explorer but its still very flawed. I just hope it can at least be responsive sooner rather than later.
well if you are happy with these plans fair enough, but here in Ireland I'm paying 20 a month for 15gb hspda and can use it for what I want. even on a pay as you go no contract deal its 25 for 10gb a month.
regular broadband plans cost about 50 if you take in the line rental.
Admit it the American telco's are ripping you off and stop apologizing for their abusive behaviour
not quite, as a diabetic I take metformin which reduces my bodies ability to take in glucose bad foods (high sugar) will go through me faster than healthier alternatives.
The trouble is that leads to low energy levels, recently I was given byetta and this drug stimulates insulin production which gives me better blood sugar levels and energy and perhaps a tendency to eat less.
My 'diet' currently suffers from far too much starch which is something i need to correct, but if i can get the right kind of food in to my system and maintain good blood sugars my weight should begin to correct itself to something easier to maintain.
that wasn't my title, actually its been completely rewritten by K Dawson, editors do a lot more than people think on here.
The site is still up and offers 160kb streaming of a good quantity of music for free and you can buy tracks at 25 cents each I believe and some remarkably high quality original recordings of some familiar tracks.
osx is surprisingly compatible with a lot of hardware. I have a triple boot hard-drive which has been in a number of systems and osx has ran each time. It's now in a compaq evo N1020v and while internal sound desnt work a usb sata docking station with built in sound card does - plug in a ralink usb wifi card and there is everything needed. Video performance can be a bit variable thou.
I guess if I put Osx on a Sata Drive or sd card I could turn that hub into an instant Mac. (just add any usb booting PC).
It's a nice twist being able to run OSX on most PC's but I haven't found a good reason to other than its possible - linux meets most of my requirements.
Perhaps Apple missed an opportunity not opening up officially to non apple hardware when vista was launched, unfortunately windows 7 appears to be as good as XP if not better.
It's been a successful strategy for microsoft ensuring that if people didn't run windows they ran pirated windows instead, with netbooks it was altered slightly to discounted windows. Could Apple play that game as well?
Steve Jobs appears dead set against supporting OSX on non Apple hardware but that doesn't mean completely disinterested. In order to produce new Apple hardware there has to be drivers developed for new chip sets and apple is unlikely to be able to get exclusive rights on any chipset.
Apple could produce a netbook if they wanted to, and as better atom processors are released they might. One obvious trend is for eco friendly products. Less watts means less CO2 which appeals to Apples customer base. less power means lighter designs can have longer battery life. The biggest problem is marketing at apples price point, Apple doesn't want to be seen producing an over priced netbook although green apples seem an obvious direction for new Apple designs.
The arm cpu is pretty much the rival to the atom and perhaps the iPhone or iTouch the apple netbook alternative.
Thanks its something to think about, my cholesterol has been lowered with statins to 3.7 yet my health seems worse. I just had to be stented for the 2nd time in less than 4 months.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_Three
The Sun and other British tabloids have also provoked controversy by featuring girls as young as 16 as topless models. Samantha Fox, Maria Whittaker, Debee Ashby, and many others began their topless modelling careers in The Sun at that age, while the Daily Sport was even known to count down the days until it could feature a teenage girl topless on her 16th birthday, as it did with Linsey Dawn McKenzie in 1994, among others. Although such photographs were legally permissible in the United Kingdom under the Protection of Children Act 1978, critics noted the irony of Murdoch's Sun and News of the World newspapers calling for stricter laws on the sexual abuse of minors, including the public identification of released pedophiles, while publishing topless photographs of girls whom many other jurisdictions would legally classify as underage minors.[8] Controversy over these young models ended when the Sexual Offences Act 2003 raised the minimum age for topless modelling to 18.
I didn't know that and I'm old enough to know that sam fox was in the sun at 16. Seems these days the same pictures seen by most people in the UK might actually be illegal, that's quite shocking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Offences_Act_2003 gives more details
Three is a bit funny about voip apps
Skype tends to go to mail for incoming calls and they are very picky about which skype aplication is used. They hammered my call credit while using "free skype" probably confused due to my phone not bein one they sell.
Voip seems to be an issue although they literally say nothing about sip they do appear to block the ports.
(just been playing around with ekiga and some proxy ports will work).
maybe we just look at things with the wrong perspective.
for example I have a netbook and a 3g dongle that costs 20 for 15gb of data. I have skype installed and if I want I could have skype out or a sip phone. I can make international calls with skype for a couple of cents a minute with skype-in you can call me from your cell phone or land line. with bluetooth you might not even see that i wasnt using a mobile phone.
actually it would save me a lot of money each month if i was to do this.
Just because I need to go via a gateway doesn't mean I can't largely have the same functionality as a mobile.
http://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/about_transplants/frequently_asked_questions_about_transplants/f_a_qs_about_kidney_transplantation.jsp
has some interesting answers about transplantation of kidneys it seems the ideal kidney is transplanted where the brain is dead but the heart is still beating. Kidneys can be taken after the heart has stopped beating but needs to be extracted pretty rapidly.
I understand that when a coronary artery is blocked (that is a heart attack) after 20 - 30 minutes the heart starts to die. When it can not pump blood then the rest of you goes.
stuff from Ubuntu 7 is likely to work just dandy in Ubuntu 9 or 10
There are some really annoying exceptions to working just dandy. Number one annoyance for me not allowing the synaptics touchpad to be disabled in 9.10 (made this comment take longer than it should have).
followed by number two pulse audio not allowing internal mic to be selected for skype.
Some things get better which is why I upgrade and don't downgrade again, although the touchpad issue is really pushing my patience.
April seems a long way away.
http://jkontherun.com/2009/02/03/mimo-little-displays-add-extra-touchscreen-to-your-netbook/
this looks to be almost what I want.
Funny thing I was looking for something similar, ideally a vga input or usb powered screen (with linux drivers please) and ideally a touch screen or discrete buttons around the same size as my netbook screen possibly smaller.
I saw a few products which almost suit.
one was a lcd display small enough to fit in a couple of 5.25 drive bays which could be cute in a tower based server. Unfortunately the price was over $200 (and not even a touch screen) at a lower price point it would get interesting.
Ideally i'm looking for something thing that perhaps could clip or sucker to the back of my netbook screen to work as a tablet add on for my netbook. Actually it could work in a few positions as a tablet for input. as a 2nd screen side by side with the internal or clipped on the back for tablet style ebook reader or for film use on the back of the car seats. Or as a fairly minimal screen for that server again.
It should be possible to get a lowish cost product to do this.
I also started looking at digital picture frames and these are getting more and more capable many can play mp3's and video's and some samsung models can work as a second screen connected via usb but only with windows or mac drivers. I'd love to find a reasonably priced frame with better than average connectivity.
Along with my ebook reader screen thoughts, there are some picture frames which support some text output alternatively its a possibility to convert a pdf file to a series of jpg files and load that onto a digital frame. With some of them battery backed it might be possible to make a low cost ebook reader.
One things for sure a small secondary display with touch screen capability could easily become a great add on for laptops and netbooks.
well according to this
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/28/video-professor-washington-post-scamville/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)
(link is in the summary)
Essentially it appears your getting a couple of free CD's and paying a few dollars for shipping. In reality you get sent a bunch of stuff and billed $289.95 (they have your credit card details from the 4 dollar shipping charge) In theory there is a get out clause return one of the lessons within 10 days then you don't get billed but apparently thats not so easy to do.
Is it a scam? Well if you didn't intend to purchase $289.95 worth of cd's I'd say yes, because there is some text on the front page which says they will bill you $289.95 and its also hidden away in a bunch of small print they say no.
The order summary only mentions $4.56 shipping charges for 3 cd's
They target the gullible, computer novices who don't realize they are giving away access to their credit card.
Probably the only defense against this kind of abuse are one time credit cards but even then your credit score could take a bashing.
Slavery wasn't just an American problem
from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_slavery_timeline
# 1807 Abolition in Prussia, Germany The Stein-Hardenberg Reforms.
# 1808 United States--importation of slaves into the US prohibited after 1 Jan..
In fact one of the most recent countries to engage in slavery was Germany
1946 Fritz Sauckel, procurer of slave labor for Nazi Germany, convicted at the Nuremberg trials and executed as war criminal.
votes for women
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage
In the years before World War I, Norway (1913) and Denmark also gave women the right to vote, and it was extended throughout the remaining Australian states. Near the end of the war, various states gave women the right to vote, including Canada, Soviet Russia, Germany and Poland. British women over 30 had the vote in 1918, Dutch women in 1919, and American women in states that had previously denied them suffrage were allowed the vote in 1920. Women in Turkey were granted voting rights in 1926. In 1928, suffrage was extended to all British women on the same terms as men, that is, for persons 21 years old and older. One of the most recent jurisdictions to grant women full equal voting rights was Bhutan in 2008.
Seems that historically Germany also shared similar practices as in America following a similar series of reforms.
Secondly and perhaps more importantly by becoming American citizens your family accepted the choices made by the American government.
You really shouldn't feel hard done by, especially since you still have the advantage of being white.
There is still a long way to go before humanity ends discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, money.
Sorry to hear your $400 an hour Doctors are not expert in your condition. An expertise you have acquired due to your condition.
You don't say what it is but I would bet it isn't common. You might hope for excellence but unless a Doctor specializes in your condition you are not going to get an expert. Hopefully you will get a Doctor that knows what drugs not to mix (a sensible patient will double check).
The prime definition of stupid is a person of low intelligence. although a thesaurus gives a few alternative words for stupid such as
Boeotian, absurd, addled, apish, asinine, backward, balmy, barmy, batty, beef-brained, beef-witted, beetleheaded, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blear-eyed, blear-witted, block, blockheaded, blockish, boneheaded, bootless, boring, bovine, brainless, brute, brutish, buffoonish, chuckleheaded, chumpish, clod, cloddish, cockamamie, cockeyed, cowish, crass, crazy, credulous, cretinous, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed, dense, dim, dim-witted, dimwit, dizzy, dolt, doltish, donkey, dope, dopey, doting, dozy, dull, dull-witted, dullard, dullhead, dumb, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, duncical, duncish, empty-headed, fat, fatheaded, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, fond, fool, foolhardy, foolheaded, foolish, frivolous, fuddled, futile, gaga, goofy, goosey, gowk, gross, gulled, half-assed, half-baked, half-witted, ho-hum, humdrum, idiot, idiotic, ignoramus, ill-advised, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, ineducable, inept, infatuated, insane, insipid, irrational, irresponsible, jerky, jobbernowl, klutzy, kooky, lackwit, lamebrain, laughable, lightweight, looby, loon, loony, ludicrous, lumbering, lumpish, mad, maudlin, mindless, monotonous, moron, moronic, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, nonsensical, numskulled, nutty, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinhead, prosaic,m put, retarded, ridiculous, risible, sappy, scatterbrained, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, simple, simpleton, slow, slow-witted, sluggish, sottish, stolid, subnormal, tedious, thick, thick-witted, thickheaded, thickwit, thoughtless, tiresome, torpid, unimaginative, uninspired, unintelligent, uninteresting, unteachable, vacuous, vapid, wacky, weak-minded, wet, witless, witling, wrongheaded
Not all of which are applicable to Dr's but I thought you might appreciate them anyway.
The entrance requirements to study to become a Doctor are very high ensuring only the best of the best get to study and qualify. By qualifying a Doctor has proved he or she isn't stupid.
Being competent , knowledgeably with good communication skills that unfortunately has nothing to do with intelligence.
Really all the undergraduate work does is enable you to seek out relevant information and apply it and hopefully achieve a desired end result and occasionally an insightful breakthrough. It also means that you don't have to be a Doctor to become an expert in the field of a particular condition.
I'm fortunate enough to be using a very new drug that has only become available in ireland for about a year, it does mean however that most medical professionals have no knowledge of this drug and how it should be used. Unfortunately that makes me more of an expert with this drug than they are. I was in hospital a few weeks ago and I had to say when I should be injected with this. I don't consider these medical professionals stupid just because they have no knowledge of this drug.
I can appreciate your frustration, Doctors are very reluctant to listen to patients, after all who has the qualification, who gets sued for malpractice. One positive is that Doctors tend to listen to other Doctors having a specialist decide your treatment tends to mean your GP will write the necessary prescriptions.
Please try to be nice to your Doctors they tend to be more willing to help and get help when you don't call them stupid and question their competence.
And back to our original topic , someone who is being treated for depression hopefully would be responding to treatment and not every day would be a bad day. without knowing the whole picture its unlikely that the insurance company will get away with this unless there is no supporting evidence at all of depression.
Why should the quality go down? The limiting factor is medical school places and presumably funds, not a shortage of people able to fill these places and qualify.
There really isn't such a thing as a stupid doctor.
Actually I'd heard this story before, years ago. It kind of bugs me when things are presented as original when I know they are not.
(from google)
Results 1 - 10 of about 663,000 for cut off end of ham because that's what mother did.
Sometimes i make mistakes in grammar too.
Lung Cancer is bullshit for most smokers it will never happen.
Heart disease is far more likely and smoking doesn't help. Smoking makes the heart work harder and narrows arteries increasing the chances of a clot blocking an artery and a stroke or heart attack occuring.
Giving up smoking is hard, but I did it finally and it wasn't difficult in the end Niquitin clear patches are a "24 hour patch" and they work but you need to adapt the system to your needs. Rule one a patch works as long as you feel it working. this might be 6 hours or 48 hours put a fresh patch on when you feel you need to. That way when you do get an urge to smoke you can just slap a fresh patch on and feel a reassuring itch as the patch starts to work. by the end of stage one you will probably have some spare patches, you can if you want cut them to size to give you the next lower dosage thats pretty much what the company does anyway. Just carry on using them as required and you will find a patch may last 48 hours or more. by the time you hit stage 3 its painless to have no patch at all. you probably will have some spare patches keep them and slap one on if you feel you need one.
some brands are a 16 hour patch and they are very poor. The problem is when you take the patch off at night you lose nicotine from your system waking up the next day desperate for a hit and you get that everyday hammering at your resolve. which is why I think you should respond to your craving with a fresh patch when you need it.
I sometimes want a cigarette now but I don't need one, unfortunately giving in to that will have me back on 20 a day in short order so I don't.
There is no commercial interest in having you successfully quit smoking, trying to quit is another matter.
every success story is a lost customer.
The trouble is for me its a little late, I had a heart attack and now my life expectancy isn't great. 30% of people under 67 die of a first heart attack, then 50% die within 6 to 8 years about half of them in the first year. My heart attack was in July, I had a stent put in, 28th of october I had another stent put in a second artery was 99% blocked. I reckon I nearly had heart attack number 2.
Now obviously I am trying to do the right things but its not looking great, worst thing is generally i'm feeling good and I thought I was making a good recovery but obviously not since the second artery blocked up so fast.
It would have helped a lot if I hadn't had a heart attack and quitting smoking might have delayed it a few more years.
honestly the niquitin patches did make quitting easy a vaccine is not needed.
how come your friend married his sister, isn't that illegal?
If an admin wants to grant a user extra power than thats up to the admin, side stepping the admin by default is retarded.
The big problem is that there are sometimes good reasons not to install the distro version and to install a third party version, (virtualbox springs to mind). There is also the case where a packaged version is broken and a third party version is needed (ubuntu had a situation like that with kompozer).
The iPhone is perhaps the only example outside of this where the distro maintainer gets control of what goes on a system rather than the admin. As the app store is the only place to get approved apps that will run on the iPhone.
Partially its a desire for apple to restrict applications that might conflict with apple and the carriers interests but also the assumption that the typical iPhone user is an idiot who would install any random application which could cause problems on the carriers network. Could quite easily create a porn dialer app for the iphone if it could be installed by the user for example.
An Admin wouldn't want that kind of junk on his lan and really the iphone users are pretty much users on another type of lan (wan).
did I write that?
what I was trying to say was that the government will make you jump through hoops until they are satisfied that you have a right to the money. It's still a seizure of money that the government is not entitled too.
The big problem is that for many elderly people the memory gets hazy and they may well have forgotten they hold the account. I've got a couple of old accounts with very little in them but they have never been formally closed if I died no one would have a clue they existed.
yes they can provided they can supply evidence of entitlement.
That could be harder than you think especially if your an heir.
one slight problem with that
http://www.unclaimedfinances.co.uk/facts-dormant-bank-accounts-government-act.html
In November 2008 the government passed the Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Act. One of the major principles of the act is to reinvest unclaimed money back into the community. So what exactly does this mean for those who are looking to reclaim their lost money?
Dormant Bank Accounts and Unclaimed Assets
In banking terms a bank account is dormant if there has been no customer activity within a set time period; usually between three and 15 years. Most banks will write to customers asking if they wish the account to remain active. However, in a number of cases banks will not be able to reach customers due to reasons such as moving home or name changes. Customers can still reclaim money in dormant bank accounts even if the money has been redistributed under the Dormant Bank Account Act.
There is probably no drug more damaging to society than alcohol and perhaps the biggest killer on the roads is a drunk behind the wheel.
The type of person prepared to drive while stoned is pretty much the same as the type that will drive while drunk.
One thing that is worth thinking about is the violence that occurs every friday and saturday night on the streets of our cities by drunks and the wives battered by drunken husbands and boyfriends.
In contrast people who use too much cannabis fall asleep.
The idea that people who use cannabis can not hold down a job and be successful is laughable, some people will choose to do nothing but get stoned all day but most people have other things to do.
There already exists people who don't give a damn and get stoned all day regardless of cannabis 's legal status.
legalization would perhaps increase the numbers who would use it in moderation and at appropriate times. The people who don't give a damn are already smoking.
Perhaps the biggest losers if cannabis was legalized would be the drinks companies, health wise you may well see an improvement cannabis use doesn't involve taking in huge amounts of calories, its not called a beer gut for nothing.
For me smoking is a bad idea so i'd be best to brew tea instead, and my blood sugars would be better controlled and my triglycerides lowered by avoiding alcohol.
Cannabis is noted for its medicinal qualities and certainly reduces stress, its a nice way to unwind. Thats why they call it chilling out.
The trouble with cannabis is its legal status no more and no less and its kind of surreal that you can be convicted for possession by a guy who legally might have drunk a bottle of whiskey the night before.
As adults we are free to make choices about what we put inside our own bodies. I'm not going to stop you from putting a cheeseburger in your mouth no matter how damaging it is to your health or stop you drinking so why the fuss about people doing something which is relatively healthy. Smokes not good granted but in a legal situation i'm sure more people would choose to brew tea.
I expect there are a lot of people that are drinking alcohol rather than using cannabis purely because alcohol use will not damage career prospects like a criminal conviction would.
I guess you have never used jtag.
It's very easy to create a simple device to reflash firmware via a parallel port.
For example adding the codes to your hardware to a one for all universal remote.
Or recovering from a failed flash of some firmware.
It can be quite difficult to recreate a fully working parallel port via usb.
Another fun thing is to use the data lines for I/o controlling what ever you want.
I don't expect many people to appreciate the uses of the parallel and serial ports but on slashdot ? ...
I use firefox most of the time but I hate
The graying out and unresponsiveness when something is a bit slow loading.
When Firefox decides to scroll and scroll and scroll and totally ignore any user input.
The inability to switch to another tab while something is loading in the current tab.
The messed up printing.
I wanted a list of laptops from a web page and got 2 pages with a few of the laptops and 19 pages of headers and footers spewing out my laser printer.
partly solved by
http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/ is a very useful site to make sites printable.
Don't get me wrong I'd rather use firefox than internet explorer but its still very flawed. I just hope it can at least be responsive sooner rather than later.
well if you are happy with these plans fair enough, but here in Ireland I'm paying 20 a month for 15gb hspda and can use it for what I want. even on a pay as you go no contract deal its 25 for 10gb a month.
regular broadband plans cost about 50 if you take in the line rental.
Admit it the American telco's are ripping you off and stop apologizing for their abusive behaviour
not quite, as a diabetic I take metformin which reduces my bodies ability to take in glucose bad foods (high sugar) will go through me faster than healthier alternatives.
The trouble is that leads to low energy levels, recently I was given byetta and this drug stimulates insulin production which gives me better blood sugar levels and energy and perhaps a tendency to eat less.
My 'diet' currently suffers from far too much starch which is something i need to correct, but if i can get the right kind of food in to my system and maintain good blood sugars my weight should begin to correct itself to something easier to maintain.
that wasn't my title, actually its been completely rewritten by K Dawson, editors do a lot more than people think on here.
The site is still up and offers 160kb streaming of a good quantity of music for free and you can buy tracks at 25 cents each I believe and some remarkably high quality original recordings of some familiar tracks.
http://www.bluebeat.com/
osx is surprisingly compatible with a lot of hardware. I have a triple boot hard-drive which has been in a number of systems and osx has ran each time. It's now in a compaq evo N1020v and while internal sound desnt work a usb sata docking station with built in sound card does - plug in a ralink usb wifi card and there is everything needed. Video performance can be a bit variable thou.
I guess if I put Osx on a Sata Drive or sd card I could turn that hub into an instant Mac. (just add any usb booting PC).
It's a nice twist being able to run OSX on most PC's but I haven't found a good reason to other than its possible - linux meets most of my requirements.
Perhaps Apple missed an opportunity not opening up officially to non apple hardware when vista was launched, unfortunately windows 7 appears to be as good as XP if not better.
It's been a successful strategy for microsoft ensuring that if people didn't run windows they ran pirated windows instead, with netbooks it was altered slightly to discounted windows. Could Apple play that game as well?
Steve Jobs appears dead set against supporting OSX on non Apple hardware but that doesn't mean completely disinterested. In order to produce new Apple hardware there has to be drivers developed for new chip sets and apple is unlikely to be able to get exclusive rights on any chipset.
Apple could produce a netbook if they wanted to, and as better atom processors are released they might.
One obvious trend is for eco friendly products. Less watts means less CO2 which appeals to Apples customer base.
less power means lighter designs can have longer battery life. The biggest problem is marketing at apples price point, Apple doesn't want to be seen producing an over priced netbook although green apples seem an obvious direction for new Apple designs.
The arm cpu is pretty much the rival to the atom and perhaps the iPhone or iTouch the apple netbook alternative.
certainly the itouch is well priced to compete.
Thanks its something to think about, my cholesterol has been lowered with statins to 3.7 yet my health seems worse.
I just had to be stented for the 2nd time in less than 4 months.
I think I need to research more myself.