My Xoom is nearly indispensable now that I have come to rely on it. I work in the medical industry and to be able to carry 90% of the functionality of a laptop with better battery life and a smaller form factor is just incredibly useful.
You need to move somewhere cheaper...unfortunately your income might suffer as well.
I make $80K and my wife makes about $30K (part time work for a non-profit that she loves), we live in a nice house with great neighbors who aren't too close. Have an in-ground pool and both drive nice cars. We are cheap people, we hardly ever eat out but I love to cook. We never go to the movies, but get a hell of a lot of DVDs through Netflix.
He did say "repeatedly"...so if said associate had been told multiple times about the company policies and still gave out the wrong information, it WOULD reflect on that individual's intellect.
The bug was that it only chose FROM the first 2 days, so the disadvantaged isn't that group but days 3-30...aka 93% of the people who were in the lottery.
As a quick note, misdiagnosis and malpractice are very rarely related. The other two things you list are gross misconduct. The wrong amputation is pretty rare but a devastating event. The wrong medication is much more common, but is rapidly becoming LESS common at least in hospitals with multiple error checks in the system to prevent it. Many modern medication administration records software systems force the administrator to verify identify via barcode scanners etc and then verify the drug using the same method. Orders entered into the system are verified by multiple sets of eyes. It DOES still happen, but isn't nearly as common in most settings. The ER and places like nursing homes are more likely. Even then the most likely situation is a pharmacist incorrectly filling a prescription to be taken home. It can range from life threatening to unnoticed in its effects. Misdiagnosis is very common and related to the difficulty in not only correctly diagnosing ailments but also actually getting correct descriptions of symptoms from patients. Most people do a piss poor job of describing what is wrong with them and many different diseases cause similar symptoms. These two things combine and most doctors start with the most likely explanation first and play a game of elimination from there. Humans are not computers, we can't give exact error codes that can then be immediately identified.
Gross misdiagnosis is another story and is related to incompetence and could be considered malpractice, but it also isn't that common.
I can't speak for most professions, but I'm currently a nurse. If I WANTED to I could probably work 16 out of every 24 hours every day of the week. I choose not to and only occasionally take extra shifts. I have a wife and family and, while I enjoy my job, my family comes first. On the other hand, when I was in college I worked at a nuclear power plant for a summer doing labor during an outage. I worked for 58 days straight 12-14 hours a day. My base pay was only $12.50 an hour but the overtime on those checks was substantial. I also busted my ass, sometimes running a chipping hammer for 12 hours every day for several straight days in the open Southern sun of June, July, and August. Sometimes I laid grout inside of the reactor wearing like 10 layers of clothing in 120 degree heat for half the shift and spent the other half "rehydrating" and trying not to fall asleep.
It was worth it. I'm glad I did it, it allowed me to have substantially more money in my bank account than my friends who were working as health care aides or in restaurants. At the end of that summer I also had a hell of a body and a great tan. I also have some fun stories to tell. But to think that in China people are doing the same thing or worse and barely getting enough money to feed themselves sucks.
Samsung generally doesn't have obvious typos on the front face of its products, eg. "Compiant" instead of compliant , "fie fon" ???, and of course it is hard for an external drive to be USB, SATA, and PATA all at once...especially since it obviously doesn't have SATA or PATA connectors. The last one MIGHT have been excusable since they COULD be referencing the drive itself instead of the device as a whole, but I can't imagine them doing that.
The current population of the state in which I live is about 2.8 million people. There are an estimated 1.2 million deer in the state, we occupy the vast majority of the Mississippi flyway for ducks, there is a large quail population, over half of the state is hardwood infested with squirrel and human edible nuts, and multiple rivers cross the state with large impound lakes filled with white and striped bass to catfish and multiple cold water trout rivers and streams. A large percentage of our farm land is currently cash crops such as cotton, but quick re-tooling will add to the 1.3 million acres already geared towards rice, 230,000 to corn, 3.1 million acres of soybeans, 370,000 to wheat, and 66,000 to sorghum. We have the largest poultry industry in the US, we will do just fine as long as the rest of you fuckers stay out.
Oh, and gun ownership is one of the highest in the US.
I'm very liberal socially, less so fiscally, but still would side on the Democrat lean on most things. That having been said, Mike Huckabee was a pretty good governor in Arkansas. He has either gotten substantially more conservative in the meantime or he is pandering to the Fox News masses on his show. I tend to think it is the later. Also, while he WAS a Southern Baptist minister/preacher/whatever at one point before his political career, that church isn't nearly as crazy as you think...I don't believe in what they preach, I'm atheist...but they don't handle snakes and generally don't do the speaking in tongues thing too often. Also, Mike did a lot to advance the teaching of science in Arkansas, his only anti-science stance is against evolution...but he never advanced any sort of anti-evolution political agenda that I can remember while he was in office.
Not exactly a ringing endorsement, but when spoken by someone who is nearly diametrically opposed to everything he stands for (a socially liberal, non-conforming, atheist molecular biologist) it isn't THAT bad. On the other hand, he IS a believer in the good ole boy network here on Earth, more the crooked kind than the crazy kind like Romney:)
Home heating is supplied in the more traditional "really hot water" method...so electricity isn't needed for that. Still 1KW is NOT much power for a home unless there is a substantial reserve power system and the typical Iceland power user is somewhat miserly in the first place.
From what I remember, having a conversation is equally distracting whether the other end is on a cell phone or in the passenger seat. This is canceled out though if there is a passenger due to the extra set of eyes on the road.
The only problem with your wild rant is that he DIDN'T pay taxes to the fire dept. He doesn't live in the town, where he would be required to pay the fire dept in taxes. Instead, he is in the county and it is a poor enough county that they don't have a fire dept, SO he has to pay a rural service fee for the fire dept to assist him...but he hasn't paid that fee, so he didn't pay for their service. Your scenario of billing him would work, but they will probably do what most people who receive those many thousand dollar bills do when they are broke enough to not pay $75 a year for fire coverage, declare bankruptcy or just not pay it.
Slashdot Mirror
Unfortunately that meaningless cartoon is WHY copyright keeps getting extended...
My Xoom is nearly indispensable now that I have come to rely on it. I work in the medical industry and to be able to carry 90% of the functionality of a laptop with better battery life and a smaller form factor is just incredibly useful.
You need to move somewhere cheaper...unfortunately your income might suffer as well.
I make $80K and my wife makes about $30K (part time work for a non-profit that she loves), we live in a nice house with great neighbors who aren't too close. Have an in-ground pool and both drive nice cars. We are cheap people, we hardly ever eat out but I love to cook. We never go to the movies, but get a hell of a lot of DVDs through Netflix.
Read his others posts in this topic...of course he doesn't see the conflict of interest.
Real bones are almost certainly cheaper in China.
Is very good, yes?
Except in this case if they are supplying current Android phones they are actually doing BETTER than Apple ;)
He did say "repeatedly"...so if said associate had been told multiple times about the company policies and still gave out the wrong information, it WOULD reflect on that individual's intellect.
The bug was that it only chose FROM the first 2 days, so the disadvantaged isn't that group but days 3-30...aka 93% of the people who were in the lottery.
Well that accounts for 30 MB of it...then there is the 200 MB multimedia presentation talking about the printers that no one watches.
As a quick note, misdiagnosis and malpractice are very rarely related. The other two things you list are gross misconduct. The wrong amputation is pretty rare but a devastating event. The wrong medication is much more common, but is rapidly becoming LESS common at least in hospitals with multiple error checks in the system to prevent it. Many modern medication administration records software systems force the administrator to verify identify via barcode scanners etc and then verify the drug using the same method. Orders entered into the system are verified by multiple sets of eyes. It DOES still happen, but isn't nearly as common in most settings. The ER and places like nursing homes are more likely. Even then the most likely situation is a pharmacist incorrectly filling a prescription to be taken home. It can range from life threatening to unnoticed in its effects. Misdiagnosis is very common and related to the difficulty in not only correctly diagnosing ailments but also actually getting correct descriptions of symptoms from patients. Most people do a piss poor job of describing what is wrong with them and many different diseases cause similar symptoms. These two things combine and most doctors start with the most likely explanation first and play a game of elimination from there. Humans are not computers, we can't give exact error codes that can then be immediately identified.
Gross misdiagnosis is another story and is related to incompetence and could be considered malpractice, but it also isn't that common.
Here is an incident where the state policeman was at fault when the local sheriff's deputies on the scene had the situation under control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_police_shooting_of_Joseph_Erin_Hamley
This does NOT back up his anecdotal evidence, I just thought I would illustrate a single data point which goes against the "never" you stated.
I can't speak for most professions, but I'm currently a nurse. If I WANTED to I could probably work 16 out of every 24 hours every day of the week. I choose not to and only occasionally take extra shifts. I have a wife and family and, while I enjoy my job, my family comes first. On the other hand, when I was in college I worked at a nuclear power plant for a summer doing labor during an outage. I worked for 58 days straight 12-14 hours a day. My base pay was only $12.50 an hour but the overtime on those checks was substantial. I also busted my ass, sometimes running a chipping hammer for 12 hours every day for several straight days in the open Southern sun of June, July, and August. Sometimes I laid grout inside of the reactor wearing like 10 layers of clothing in 120 degree heat for half the shift and spent the other half "rehydrating" and trying not to fall asleep.
It was worth it. I'm glad I did it, it allowed me to have substantially more money in my bank account than my friends who were working as health care aides or in restaurants. At the end of that summer I also had a hell of a body and a great tan. I also have some fun stories to tell. But to think that in China people are doing the same thing or worse and barely getting enough money to feed themselves sucks.
Samsung generally doesn't have obvious typos on the front face of its products, eg. "Compiant" instead of compliant , "fie fon" ???, and of course it is hard for an external drive to be USB, SATA, and PATA all at once...especially since it obviously doesn't have SATA or PATA connectors. The last one MIGHT have been excusable since they COULD be referencing the drive itself instead of the device as a whole, but I can't imagine them doing that.
There was looting, rape, and murder out the wazoo in Haiti well before the most recent natural disaster.
The current population of the state in which I live is about 2.8 million people. There are an estimated 1.2 million deer in the state, we occupy the vast majority of the Mississippi flyway for ducks, there is a large quail population, over half of the state is hardwood infested with squirrel and human edible nuts, and multiple rivers cross the state with large impound lakes filled with white and striped bass to catfish and multiple cold water trout rivers and streams. A large percentage of our farm land is currently cash crops such as cotton, but quick re-tooling will add to the 1.3 million acres already geared towards rice, 230,000 to corn, 3.1 million acres of soybeans, 370,000 to wheat, and 66,000 to sorghum. We have the largest poultry industry in the US, we will do just fine as long as the rest of you fuckers stay out.
Oh, and gun ownership is one of the highest in the US.
Now I know a guy with one in his home's garage - he machines custom CAD-designed copper evaporator heads for phase-change computer cooling units.
What you know is a guy who makes evaporator heads for ethanol stills I bet ;)
I'm very liberal socially, less so fiscally, but still would side on the Democrat lean on most things. That having been said, Mike Huckabee was a pretty good governor in Arkansas. He has either gotten substantially more conservative in the meantime or he is pandering to the Fox News masses on his show. I tend to think it is the later. Also, while he WAS a Southern Baptist minister/preacher/whatever at one point before his political career, that church isn't nearly as crazy as you think...I don't believe in what they preach, I'm atheist...but they don't handle snakes and generally don't do the speaking in tongues thing too often. Also, Mike did a lot to advance the teaching of science in Arkansas, his only anti-science stance is against evolution...but he never advanced any sort of anti-evolution political agenda that I can remember while he was in office.
Not exactly a ringing endorsement, but when spoken by someone who is nearly diametrically opposed to everything he stands for (a socially liberal, non-conforming, atheist molecular biologist) it isn't THAT bad. On the other hand, he IS a believer in the good ole boy network here on Earth, more the crooked kind than the crazy kind like Romney :)
Home heating is supplied in the more traditional "really hot water" method...so electricity isn't needed for that. Still 1KW is NOT much power for a home unless there is a substantial reserve power system and the typical Iceland power user is somewhat miserly in the first place.
Or just make patents non-transferable.
I would say that the real flaw there is that we don't exactly use lead projectiles in ship to ship warfare either.
Not to mention that the energy can be generated with far cheaper and incredibly more environmentally sound methods.
From what I remember, having a conversation is equally distracting whether the other end is on a cell phone or in the passenger seat. This is canceled out though if there is a passenger due to the extra set of eyes on the road.
The only problem with your wild rant is that he DIDN'T pay taxes to the fire dept. He doesn't live in the town, where he would be required to pay the fire dept in taxes. Instead, he is in the county and it is a poor enough county that they don't have a fire dept, SO he has to pay a rural service fee for the fire dept to assist him...but he hasn't paid that fee, so he didn't pay for their service. Your scenario of billing him would work, but they will probably do what most people who receive those many thousand dollar bills do when they are broke enough to not pay $75 a year for fire coverage, declare bankruptcy or just not pay it.
Vastly? How about double?