I was far better off before the Affordable Healthcare Act took effect. Before, I could count on Medicare/Medicaid. Now (as a consultant with no company sponsored healthcare), those things are effectively impossible for me to get. I now have a $5,200/person deductable on a 70/30 plan with no catastrophic caps - in effect, I have absolutely no viable access to advanced medical care unless I enrich some insurance company somewhere out of my pocket (but only after I personally pay for the first five g's . ..).
Good luck convincing Bayer - the same wonderful people who brought you buffered aspirin. Neonicitinoids are big business - who cares if a few beekeepers are inconvenienced? There's no money in aspirin anymore, think of all the employees of Bayer.
Didn't have enough pictures. C'mon, we're nerds here - we only clicked on the link to see some "rounded coverage" (or rounded un-coverage).
Sunlight is addictive. So is food. So is water. So is oxygen. Do without any of these things for an extended period of time and you'll see what I mean.
Too much sunlight is bad. Too much food is bad. Too much water is bad. Too much oxygen is bad. Do your own experiments if you need to confirm these things - but don't complain to the rest of the world when you end up sunburnt, obese, suffering water intoxication or respiratory failure.
That machine wasn't merely a decision engine or a huge database - it was a learning system which was given a few months to learn all it could on a broad variety of subjects by crawling the internet. It wasn't programmed with rules to pair an answer with the correct question; it was a system which "learned" how to associate concepts. It was programmed to permit it to weigh its questions against how well they correlated to the answers - to determine a confidence level - but it wasn't specifically programmed to devise questions associated with answers. That's why the next publicly stated idea for the system was in medical diagnostics. It's another area where the ability to relate multiple seemingly disparate items of information with a non-static data store seemed to be of value.
Giving the right programming, it might even hold a conversation better than a 13 year old Ukrainian boy.
No, it's we taxpayers footing the bill. Any deviation from original plans will cost more. It's another opportunity for corporations to participate in the feeding frenzy.
The longer a bacterium or virus has been present on the planet, the more likely it is that animals will have inherited a natural defense mechanism to cope with it. That's not an absolute; our inherited resistance to specified pathogens might be 'forgotten' over the course of centuries or millenia, but those immunities are theorized to be the reason that pathogens also evolve. In effect, pathogens learn to live in us. We learn how to evict them. They learn how to sneak back in. We learn how to catch them and eject them.
Yes, I know it's not a very scientific or thorough explanation. If you accept the principals of the theory of evolution and the concept of genetic drift, it makes sense. In any event, I suspect the modern forms of this bacteria are more virulent than their primitive ancestors.
I'm not familiar with that particular piece of hardware. Since you don't seem to want to use it, I'll consider you sane.
Sorry to hear your PHB isn't.
Commander Data would fail the Turing test.
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Lieutenant Commander Data from the fictional Star Trek universe was defined as a living entity (with questions about its "consciousness" left for the viewer to infer). Data's dialogue often even explicitly included references to its being a machine.
The real question (also left for the viewers to ponder) was 'Can Data think?'. Directly explored in one episode which resulted in the holodeck creating Doctor Moriarty and revisited in another episode where the Doctor Moriarty program attempts to escape from its own inherent nature as a computer program. There were several other episodes which approached this subject (a planet full of silicon-based life that naturally formed a computational matrix, a self-reconfiguring repair tool which ultimately developed either intelligence or an annoying bug just to name two).
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I was unemployed one month ago. Thankfully, I didn't suffer any issues requiring medical assistance.
No, it started seven years ago.
Scientists call it the big rip.
The bartender says "Why the long face?"
A tachyon flies into a bar . . .
That's one citation.
Good luck convincing Bayer - the same wonderful people who brought you buffered aspirin. Neonicitinoids are big business - who cares if a few beekeepers are inconvenienced? There's no money in aspirin anymore, think of all the employees of Bayer.
You sure that brown color is from tanning?
Sunlight is addictive. So is food. So is water. So is oxygen. Do without any of these things for an extended period of time and you'll see what I mean.
Too much sunlight is bad. Too much food is bad. Too much water is bad. Too much oxygen is bad. Do your own experiments if you need to confirm these things - but don't complain to the rest of the world when you end up sunburnt, obese, suffering water intoxication or respiratory failure.
*Sheesh*
Mozilla should go back to doing what they have always done best - annoying the shit out of Microsoft in the browser wars.
It's okay, Charlie. You'll forget it completely before long.
Giving the right programming, it might even hold a conversation better than a 13 year old Ukrainian boy.
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"Offtopic" - gee, I guess I hit a nerve with someone, huh?
and at only $0.25 for three ships, it was a bargain. The ship even had hyperdrive!
Boy - I'll bet you're as jumpy as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.
Pretty lousy, eh chum?
Yes, I know - hackneyed and trite. Still true.
Oh, wait - hell is a Christian invention. Damned crafty of 'em, incidentally.
Which means they aren't money themselves. Good to know.
No, but republic credits will be fine.
It's not that I actually believe your story - but you tell it well.
Yes, I know it's not a very scientific or thorough explanation. If you accept the principals of the theory of evolution and the concept of genetic drift, it makes sense. In any event, I suspect the modern forms of this bacteria are more virulent than their primitive ancestors.
Regardless of the complexity, no cryptographic system yet known or theorized can be made absolutely secure.
Sorry to hear your PHB isn't.
The real question (also left for the viewers to ponder) was 'Can Data think?'. Directly explored in one episode which resulted in the holodeck creating Doctor Moriarty and revisited in another episode where the Doctor Moriarty program attempts to escape from its own inherent nature as a computer program. There were several other episodes which approached this subject (a planet full of silicon-based life that naturally formed a computational matrix, a self-reconfiguring repair tool which ultimately developed either intelligence or an annoying bug just to name two).