I have had several eye opening experience with Canadian health care. First was my dad who got a pacemaker - he was in surgery the next morning after being diagnosed and that probably saved his life. Top of the line pacemaker that apparently cost $30 for just the part in the US.
My personal experience was with our first child that was born premature. Amazing care by a team of doctors and specialists for two months in the NICU, and followup monitoring care until he is three. The only thing I had to pay for was parking. If this happened in the US I would probably had to have sold my house to pay the bill as I'm sure it would have run into the hundreds of thousands based on the care he got and the research I did on it online.
The US does have top of the line heath care but only for the two percent that can actually afford it. The rest get substandard care. Here in Canada we get the same exact care the US gets but its for everyone, and the overall costs for supplying this have been proven to be much lower than the US healthcare costs.
Even the Leaf shows it will get between 50mi and 100mi per charge depending on the battery pack you choose. That with the average commute being 25 minutes, allows the majority of commuters to fit within the range of even todays vehicles. If you need something longer then for now you will have to buy something a little more suited to your requirements, but that's no reason to stop electric deployment with the existing capabilities.
Agree completely. What needs to happen is the automobile manufacturers to grow some balls and define a standard, then only buy batteries that conform *exactly* to that standard.
Until electrical vehicles have range they will not be popular, and before you say rapid charging increases the potential range, then you don't understand consumers. Nobody wants to stop at a gas station every 50 miles. Consumers demand the range, pure & simple, the sales show it.
Actually I see electric vehicles as a solution to never having to visit a gas station ever again. Imaging driving to work and back, then having the car fill up while parked overnight on house current for extremely cheap time of use rates (or alternatively, partially recharge while sitting in the parking lot under the sun using solar panels).
Actually it's BluRay and HD-DVD all over again, with the exact same lack of market acceptance and high costs until a dominant standard emerges many years from now.
With smart battery packs you would assume there would be some sort of identification of the battery characteristics to the charger to prevent things like that. This way any battery would be compatible, and backward compatible with any charger with a common plug and agreed to communication standard.
Now if (as the Christians hope) so nasty event happens to the world, and all our science and technologies disappear,
Stop confusing American Fundamentalism with Christianity. They are alike in in the same way that Christianity and Judaism are alike in that they share a common heritage. The vast majority of Christians are sane and do not want the world to end, and see no conflict between science and their religion.
It's the only way to obtain enough heat and pressure to turn the entire body into a diamond. IE: This "planet" is almost certainly the husk of a dead star, orbiting the husk of another dead star.
How many years did it take them to fix the math bugs in the calculator app in Windows 3.1? Just because it is a simple problem doesn't mean they know how to fix it.
The court documents states he "has always denied paternity and has no relationship with the boys".
So no, he was never there playing daddy. No, he never decided to enter any relationship with the children.
He doesn't *currently* have a relationship with the boys, but he did when he was with the mother. That's my point - the Fox news article is written like it was a case of mistaken identity which it is NOT. He DID have a relationship with the woman, contrary to the false assertions of Moryath. The only thing done wrong was her assertion that he fathered the boys which he did not. The article on Fox does not make that clear at all and simply makes it seem like this guy was hounded by the courts unfairly. It is biased.
Don't most carriers supply this? I have a little app from my cell provider on my blackberry that tells me exactly how much I've used and can purchase additional plans if I want
Yea 300M data cap is crazy. I don't download video so I asked for the smallest data cap offered by my provider to save a few bucks and it was 500M. The typical data plan is 4Gig. Can't believe 300M is an upgraded plan.
Yes, but its a belief akin to walking up to a strange forest you've never seen before and saying 'I think there must be an ant in there'. You have no basis for saying so and no scientific proof, but logically you know it must be so.
I'm curious, what do you base your idea that statistically there must be life out there?
Based on sheer numbers. There are hundreds of billions of stars in our own galaxy, and we are fining out that planets around these stars are the norm, not the exception. There are also around 80 billion observable galaxies which makes the number of start around 50*10^23. That's to put it bluntly a shitload of stars with planets. The odds that out of all these only our planet had the perfect combination of ingredients for life, and the perfect type of star the perfect distance away is absurd.
Additionally our own planet has gone through several mass extinctions, and each time life (different life) sprang forth again and again. That suggests even more strongly that life and evolution is common.
How did life appear? Under what conditions?
It's less a matter of knowing how life formed and the conditions it appeared, and more a matter of finding what logically must be out there. This is not unscientific at all, and I would postulate that believing there is NO life until proven otherwise is more unscientific than believing there is.
Why has no one been able to recreate those conditions?
Because there are too many variables. We simply do not yet know enough. For example, take any wild plant and grow it in a greenhouse. After a couple of generations, those plant seeds are no longer viable in the wild - and it doesn't matter how exact we make the controlled environment it just cannot match the diversity of the natural one. The plant will die if we put it in the wild again. We simply do not understand how all the variables interact to make a natural environment and hence the conditions for life.
Most fundies believe the earth was created for man, and other stars and planets just created for a pretty night sky for our benefit (the young earth theory). If shown there was intelligent extraterrestrial life they would not believe it as it would be an affront to their religion. Much like showing adam/eve was a fable and evolution is what really happened is also against their religious beliefs.
I believe there must be intelligent life out there since statistically there must be. The odds we are the only place to grow life based on ideal conditions is just statistically impossible.
Most religious crackpots insist that we are the only life in the universe but this is not supported by the Bible at all. Religion is often a reflection of personal human beliefs, not backed up in any way especially by the religious texts.
That's just ridiculous. The religious Republican nutbars need to get their act together and stop resisting the teaching sex ed in class and provide free birth control in high school to those who want it.
Slashdot Mirror
I have had several eye opening experience with Canadian health care. First was my dad who got a pacemaker - he was in surgery the next morning after being diagnosed and that probably saved his life. Top of the line pacemaker that apparently cost $30 for just the part in the US.
My personal experience was with our first child that was born premature. Amazing care by a team of doctors and specialists for two months in the NICU, and followup monitoring care until he is three. The only thing I had to pay for was parking. If this happened in the US I would probably had to have sold my house to pay the bill as I'm sure it would have run into the hundreds of thousands based on the care he got and the research I did on it online.
The US does have top of the line heath care but only for the two percent that can actually afford it. The rest get substandard care. Here in Canada we get the same exact care the US gets but its for everyone, and the overall costs for supplying this have been proven to be much lower than the US healthcare costs.
That would be 'no child left behind' or alternatively, 'pass 'em even if they're stupid'.
For the insurance companies. What are the odds those savings will be passed on to the patients?
All you have to do is to cut the bloodsucking insurance companies out and go total socialized health care like Canada, and everyone will win.
Even the Leaf shows it will get between 50mi and 100mi per charge depending on the battery pack you choose. That with the average commute being 25 minutes, allows the majority of commuters to fit within the range of even todays vehicles. If you need something longer then for now you will have to buy something a little more suited to your requirements, but that's no reason to stop electric deployment with the existing capabilities.
Agree completely. What needs to happen is the automobile manufacturers to grow some balls and define a standard, then only buy batteries that conform *exactly* to that standard.
Until electrical vehicles have range they will not be popular, and before you say rapid charging increases the potential range, then you don't understand consumers. Nobody wants to stop at a gas station every 50 miles. Consumers demand the range, pure & simple, the sales show it.
Actually I see electric vehicles as a solution to never having to visit a gas station ever again. Imaging driving to work and back, then having the car fill up while parked overnight on house current for extremely cheap time of use rates (or alternatively, partially recharge while sitting in the parking lot under the sun using solar panels).
Actually it's BluRay and HD-DVD all over again, with the exact same lack of market acceptance and high costs until a dominant standard emerges many years from now.
With smart battery packs you would assume there would be some sort of identification of the battery characteristics to the charger to prevent things like that. This way any battery would be compatible, and backward compatible with any charger with a common plug and agreed to communication standard.
Now if (as the Christians hope) so nasty event happens to the world, and all our science and technologies disappear,
Stop confusing American Fundamentalism with Christianity. They are alike in in the same way that Christianity and Judaism are alike in that they share a common heritage. The vast majority of Christians are sane and do not want the world to end, and see no conflict between science and their religion.
It's the only way to obtain enough heat and pressure to turn the entire body into a diamond. IE: This "planet" is almost certainly the husk of a dead star, orbiting the husk of another dead star.
That's exactly what the article said it was..
How many years did it take them to fix the math bugs in the calculator app in Windows 3.1? Just because it is a simple problem doesn't mean they know how to fix it.
Why is Moryath insisting he never knew the mother AT ALL?
The court documents states he "has always denied paternity and has no relationship with the boys". So no, he was never there playing daddy. No, he never decided to enter any relationship with the children.
He doesn't *currently* have a relationship with the boys, but he did when he was with the mother. That's my point - the Fox news article is written like it was a case of mistaken identity which it is NOT. He DID have a relationship with the woman, contrary to the false assertions of Moryath. The only thing done wrong was her assertion that he fathered the boys which he did not. The article on Fox does not make that clear at all and simply makes it seem like this guy was hounded by the courts unfairly. It is biased.
Don't most carriers supply this? I have a little app from my cell provider on my blackberry that tells me exactly how much I've used and can purchase additional plans if I want
Yea 300M data cap is crazy. I don't download video so I asked for the smallest data cap offered by my provider to save a few bucks and it was 500M. The typical data plan is 4Gig. Can't believe 300M is an upgraded plan.
Yes, but its a belief akin to walking up to a strange forest you've never seen before and saying 'I think there must be an ant in there'. You have no basis for saying so and no scientific proof, but logically you know it must be so.
And absolutely NOTHING in there says he never knew the mother, jackass. Stop trying to twist things into your own personal agenda. YOU"RE the liar.
I'm curious, what do you base your idea that statistically there must be life out there?
Based on sheer numbers. There are hundreds of billions of stars in our own galaxy, and we are fining out that planets around these stars are the norm, not the exception. There are also around 80 billion observable galaxies which makes the number of start around 50*10^23. That's to put it bluntly a shitload of stars with planets. The odds that out of all these only our planet had the perfect combination of ingredients for life, and the perfect type of star the perfect distance away is absurd.
Additionally our own planet has gone through several mass extinctions, and each time life (different life) sprang forth again and again. That suggests even more strongly that life and evolution is common.
How did life appear? Under what conditions?
It's less a matter of knowing how life formed and the conditions it appeared, and more a matter of finding what logically must be out there. This is not unscientific at all, and I would postulate that believing there is NO life until proven otherwise is more unscientific than believing there is.
Why has no one been able to recreate those conditions?
Because there are too many variables. We simply do not yet know enough. For example, take any wild plant and grow it in a greenhouse. After a couple of generations, those plant seeds are no longer viable in the wild - and it doesn't matter how exact we make the controlled environment it just cannot match the diversity of the natural one. The plant will die if we put it in the wild again. We simply do not understand how all the variables interact to make a natural environment and hence the conditions for life.
Most fundies believe the earth was created for man, and other stars and planets just created for a pretty night sky for our benefit (the young earth theory). If shown there was intelligent extraterrestrial life they would not believe it as it would be an affront to their religion. Much like showing adam/eve was a fable and evolution is what really happened is also against their religious beliefs.
I believe there must be intelligent life out there since statistically there must be. The odds we are the only place to grow life based on ideal conditions is just statistically impossible.
50% is a massive exaggeration (I didn't state that number) but that doesn't mean teen pregnancy is not a problem
The man named on the birth certificate DID NOT EVEN KNOW THE MOTHER
There is no such claim at all in the article. None whatsoever. Stop making shit up and blaming it on others.
Most religious crackpots insist that we are the only life in the universe but this is not supported by the Bible at all. Religion is often a reflection of personal human beliefs, not backed up in any way especially by the religious texts.
for good control, robots require non-linear control laws
No, because stability is too difficult to prove. You can achieve good control with classical control techniques.
It doesn't rule out extraterrestrial life either, or say that Earth was the only place He created life in the universe.
The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/12504-teen-pregnancy-rates-usa/#ixzz1Vr1hzt00
That's just ridiculous. The religious Republican nutbars need to get their act together and stop resisting the teaching sex ed in class and provide free birth control in high school to those who want it.