There are common eye diseases that don't have visible symptoms until permanent damage has been done. You also can't see heart disease or many cancers until permanent life-threatening damage has accumulated.
I'm prone to sinus infections, too. I don't tolerate antibiotics well; they leave me nauseous and lethargic. I started using nasal irrigation with saline and sodium bicarbonate when the symptoms first present, and have not had a full blown infection in years.
My doctor suggested it grudgingly after I asked about surgery. He said that a lot of patients don't like the idea of putting water in their nose. This was before it became a trendy TV-endorsed thing, maybe it is more mainstream now.
I think reimplementing email as a web service was a big help to me. I don't have to plan ahead and bring a key with me, install ssh on a friend's machine to check my mail when traveling.
You don't decide what religion other people are. If someone says they are Islamic, I believe them no matter how many of the precepts they follow. A big reason I stopped identifying as christian was other christians who had horrible beliefs and did horrible actions. My parents would say that they weren't "real" christians, but that is a cop-out.
Nobody has ever followed any religion perfectly. It makes sense to form opinions about the adherents based on what they say and do regardless of doctrine.
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It is very strange. I had a friend with childhood renal failure who had at least a hundred million dollars spent on him over the course of his life. I have had other friends die prematurely or live with pain or disability due to inability to afford care. It is such an odd imbalance in resource allocation. It seems like it would make more sense to spend all that money on people that are likely to live a normal life, but for the reasons you mention anyone with renal failure is given bottomless health care.
I am personally grateful that he was helped so much, but looking at it objectively it doesn't make sense to me.
I would absolutely love having such a system if it were paid for by me, ostensibly on my side. It could warn me if I was driving badly due to whatever reason, such as mildly buzzed, emotional state, fatigue, distraction. I can see this preventing many close calls and accidents.
If it were the informant of the DMV, my insurance, or the local fuzz and had the ability to disable my vehicle or issue citations then I would be very much against it. Such a system would be very tempting to these agencies and I would have to trust the system completely. I'm thinking it would have to be open source and have a way for me to avoid any incriminating evidence being stored.
Having onboard recovery doesn't provide much advantage over using a thumb drive or optical recovery OS. It is slightly more convenient, but would be less flexible. There is little motivation for a manufacturer to invest in this when it is trivial to burn a disc or configure a usb drive to do the same thing.
I don't know how typical my city is, but there are 10 natural gas fueling stations in the metro area. One of them is a few minutes from my house. I've been keeping my eyes open for a used natural gas vehicle, but they are very expensive around here. I may convert a vehicle eventually.
I wonder if there is a term for that. I tried poking around and didn't find anything quite right. Maybe the concept seemed familiar because of the joke 2+2=5 for very high values of 2.
I've helped 3 people navigate the system and it is very difficult. I encourage everyone I talk to to never allow their insurance to lapse. Just because you are young and healthy doesn't mean you can allow a lapse of coverage. If something happens insurance companies will do anything to rescind your policy, and a lapse in coverage gives them an excuse.
Once you find yourself in a position of having a serious problem and no insurance you are up shit creek. There are some programs, depending on your state, but they are not always able to help. I have a friend right now who I am helping fight her insurance company. She hasn't received a diagnosis yet, her husband's insurance is denying coverage because her undiagnosed problem is pre-existing. The hardship resources can't help her because her family income is too high. It is most likely cancer, and nobody will run tests on her. She can go to the doctor (and has about a hundred times over the past 3 years) but each time is a $30 copay and they have not helped yet. The cancer charities can't help her until she gets a diagnosis. She is probably dying and it breaks my heart to see. I am so angry at the health care industry and insurance industry.
Things have changed. Please don't assume you'll be OK if you don't have insurance because it is not true! Even if you have coverage it is no guarantee. There are numerous cases of insurance companies rescinding your coverage once you are diagnosed with an expensive disease.
I have personally spent dozens of hours calling trying desperately to get a cat scan or MRI for someone without insurance, and there is no place within 500 miles that will do it.
You are very wrong about this. If you are uninsured many doors are closed to you. No surgery center will talk to you, most doctor offices will demand cash up front, and as far as cancer goes you will just die with no treatment. The only care you will get is ER stabilization. For example, if you have a heart attack they will get you stable in the ER and toss you on the street as soon as your vitals are steady. You'll probably have another heart attack, most likely a fatal one. They will not give you a triple bypass, or even a stash of statins to take. As far as cancer goes, you will get nothing. You won't even get diagnosed because no imaging center will take uninsured patients, no oncology lab is going to run your tests.
I don't know where you got your opinion about this, but it couldn't be wronger.
It depends on your assets. All insurance has limits on liability, a common injury minimum in the US is $15k/$30k. That's US$15k per person, US$30k per incident limits. Common property damage minimum is $15k, which won't cover many of the cars on the roads.
If you have a lot of assets (money, house, etc.) you should consider higher limits. Someone with a lot of assets would probably carry a $150k/$300k injury $300k property policy, possibly with an umbrella policy on their house to cover any ridiculous expenses.
When I was a kid, the trappings of fascism included: "papers, please" to move around the country, informants turning in their neighbors, mass jailing of citizens, surveillance/spy network arrayed against citizens, laws passed over the objections of citizens, etc.
The US has all that now. We imprison more of our citizens than any other country, including any police state you care to name. You can reassure yourself that all the surveillance makes you safer, and only bad people are in jail, but that's what the normal people tell themselves in all police states.
If you aren't concerned about the level of law enforcement and dismiss out-of-hand any criticism you are being willfully ignorant. I always wondered how people let Nazi Germany happen, or Communist Russia, and now I'm seeing first hand.
I'm a cynical realist so I tend to assume most people have similar outlooks, but that assumption is wrong. There are a number of people who think that true love fixes everything. They don't even see the absurdity of having absolute faith in marriage #2 or #3. I'm a bit envious of such optimistic enthusiasm, but I don't think it is objective.
I would caution you against hubris. A number of relationships founder on hazards you are approaching: middle age and the kids moving out.
Losing your partner without much single adult life can be difficult. It's harder when people remind you of your smug pronouncements and overconfidence.
Most of the time it is expressed as the median. Mean is higher due to outliers at the high end. In the US, median is about $45k and mean is about $60k.
Some lenders are coming after some lendees for losses after foreclosure/short sale, depending on your state. There are 14 "recourse" states where lenders can hold you liable for losses.
It seemed to me to be less a game of skill than a game of burning money. People who were willing to buy thousands of cards or pay top dollar for rare cards bragged about their unbeatable decks.
I strongly disagree. We could try other approaches such as drug legalization, investment in education, addiction treatment, improved healthcare. We don't have to throw people with mental or substance problems in jail. Our prison population has exploded over the last 40 years and has not made our society any better.
When I grew up people were afraid of the USSR because they were not free and wanted to enslave us. We were afraid they'd institute their vast network of informants and prisons. Well we have it now and I don't like it.
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There are common eye diseases that don't have visible symptoms until permanent damage has been done. You also can't see heart disease or many cancers until permanent life-threatening damage has accumulated.
I'm prone to sinus infections, too. I don't tolerate antibiotics well; they leave me nauseous and lethargic. I started using nasal irrigation with saline and sodium bicarbonate when the symptoms first present, and have not had a full blown infection in years.
My doctor suggested it grudgingly after I asked about surgery. He said that a lot of patients don't like the idea of putting water in their nose. This was before it became a trendy TV-endorsed thing, maybe it is more mainstream now.
I think reimplementing email as a web service was a big help to me. I don't have to plan ahead and bring a key with me, install ssh on a friend's machine to check my mail when traveling.
He died the year after that article was written, at 31 years post-transplant. His heart was still healthy, he died from cancer
You don't decide what religion other people are. If someone says they are Islamic, I believe them no matter how many of the precepts they follow. A big reason I stopped identifying as christian was other christians who had horrible beliefs and did horrible actions. My parents would say that they weren't "real" christians, but that is a cop-out.
Nobody has ever followed any religion perfectly. It makes sense to form opinions about the adherents based on what they say and do regardless of doctrine.
It is very strange. I had a friend with childhood renal failure who had at least a hundred million dollars spent on him over the course of his life. I have had other friends die prematurely or live with pain or disability due to inability to afford care. It is such an odd imbalance in resource allocation. It seems like it would make more sense to spend all that money on people that are likely to live a normal life, but for the reasons you mention anyone with renal failure is given bottomless health care.
I am personally grateful that he was helped so much, but looking at it objectively it doesn't make sense to me.
Norton is malware in my opinion. I wish all the antivirus software would block it.
I would absolutely love having such a system if it were paid for by me, ostensibly on my side. It could warn me if I was driving badly due to whatever reason, such as mildly buzzed, emotional state, fatigue, distraction. I can see this preventing many close calls and accidents.
If it were the informant of the DMV, my insurance, or the local fuzz and had the ability to disable my vehicle or issue citations then I would be very much against it. Such a system would be very tempting to these agencies and I would have to trust the system completely. I'm thinking it would have to be open source and have a way for me to avoid any incriminating evidence being stored.
Having onboard recovery doesn't provide much advantage over using a thumb drive or optical recovery OS. It is slightly more convenient, but would be less flexible. There is little motivation for a manufacturer to invest in this when it is trivial to burn a disc or configure a usb drive to do the same thing.
I don't know how typical my city is, but there are 10 natural gas fueling stations in the metro area. One of them is a few minutes from my house. I've been keeping my eyes open for a used natural gas vehicle, but they are very expensive around here. I may convert a vehicle eventually.
The space elevator is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of carbon nanotubes.
I wonder if there is a term for that. I tried poking around and didn't find anything quite right. Maybe the concept seemed familiar because of the joke 2+2=5 for very high values of 2.
Are you sure it is an anachronism? Can you explain how? You may have meant catachresis.
I've been to Oklahoma and am calling shenanigans on your claims.
I've helped 3 people navigate the system and it is very difficult. I encourage everyone I talk to to never allow their insurance to lapse. Just because you are young and healthy doesn't mean you can allow a lapse of coverage. If something happens insurance companies will do anything to rescind your policy, and a lapse in coverage gives them an excuse.
Once you find yourself in a position of having a serious problem and no insurance you are up shit creek. There are some programs, depending on your state, but they are not always able to help. I have a friend right now who I am helping fight her insurance company. She hasn't received a diagnosis yet, her husband's insurance is denying coverage because her undiagnosed problem is pre-existing. The hardship resources can't help her because her family income is too high. It is most likely cancer, and nobody will run tests on her. She can go to the doctor (and has about a hundred times over the past 3 years) but each time is a $30 copay and they have not helped yet. The cancer charities can't help her until she gets a diagnosis. She is probably dying and it breaks my heart to see. I am so angry at the health care industry and insurance industry.
Things have changed. Please don't assume you'll be OK if you don't have insurance because it is not true! Even if you have coverage it is no guarantee. There are numerous cases of insurance companies rescinding your coverage once you are diagnosed with an expensive disease.
I have personally spent dozens of hours calling trying desperately to get a cat scan or MRI for someone without insurance, and there is no place within 500 miles that will do it.
You are very wrong about this. If you are uninsured many doors are closed to you. No surgery center will talk to you, most doctor offices will demand cash up front, and as far as cancer goes you will just die with no treatment. The only care you will get is ER stabilization. For example, if you have a heart attack they will get you stable in the ER and toss you on the street as soon as your vitals are steady. You'll probably have another heart attack, most likely a fatal one. They will not give you a triple bypass, or even a stash of statins to take. As far as cancer goes, you will get nothing. You won't even get diagnosed because no imaging center will take uninsured patients, no oncology lab is going to run your tests.
I don't know where you got your opinion about this, but it couldn't be wronger.
It depends on your assets. All insurance has limits on liability, a common injury minimum in the US is $15k/$30k. That's US$15k per person, US$30k per incident limits. Common property damage minimum is $15k, which won't cover many of the cars on the roads.
If you have a lot of assets (money, house, etc.) you should consider higher limits. Someone with a lot of assets would probably carry a $150k/$300k injury $300k property policy, possibly with an umbrella policy on their house to cover any ridiculous expenses.
How do you define a police state?
When I was a kid, the trappings of fascism included: "papers, please" to move around the country, informants turning in their neighbors, mass jailing of citizens, surveillance/spy network arrayed against citizens, laws passed over the objections of citizens, etc.
The US has all that now. We imprison more of our citizens than any other country, including any police state you care to name. You can reassure yourself that all the surveillance makes you safer, and only bad people are in jail, but that's what the normal people tell themselves in all police states.
If you aren't concerned about the level of law enforcement and dismiss out-of-hand any criticism you are being willfully ignorant. I always wondered how people let Nazi Germany happen, or Communist Russia, and now I'm seeing first hand.
I'm a cynical realist so I tend to assume most people have similar outlooks, but that assumption is wrong. There are a number of people who think that true love fixes everything. They don't even see the absurdity of having absolute faith in marriage #2 or #3. I'm a bit envious of such optimistic enthusiasm, but I don't think it is objective.
I would caution you against hubris. A number of relationships founder on hazards you are approaching: middle age and the kids moving out.
Losing your partner without much single adult life can be difficult. It's harder when people remind you of your smug pronouncements and overconfidence.
Most of the time it is expressed as the median. Mean is higher due to outliers at the high end. In the US, median is about $45k and mean is about $60k.
Some lenders are coming after some lendees for losses after foreclosure/short sale, depending on your state. There are 14 "recourse" states where lenders can hold you liable for losses.
Rochester...thriving? Brain...exploding!
It seemed to me to be less a game of skill than a game of burning money. People who were willing to buy thousands of cards or pay top dollar for rare cards bragged about their unbeatable decks.
I strongly disagree. We could try other approaches such as drug legalization, investment in education, addiction treatment, improved healthcare. We don't have to throw people with mental or substance problems in jail. Our prison population has exploded over the last 40 years and has not made our society any better.
When I grew up people were afraid of the USSR because they were not free and wanted to enslave us. We were afraid they'd institute their vast network of informants and prisons. Well we have it now and I don't like it.