I'd love to do a double-blind study of this. I suspect it is psychological. Microwave ovens release similar frequencies and it is difficult to find anywhere in a civilized part of the world that doesn't have multiple access points visible.
The problem with this is that we have universal coverage already. Anyone can walk into the ER and get their problem dealt with. Most of them can't afford to pay, so those with coverage have to pay a lot more. The higher premiums get, the more people opt out, and this drives premiums up yet further.
In the end, we'll have only sick/old people with insurance, costing $10k/month, and everyone else with no coverage and an unpayable $1m hospital bill if they fall down the stairs.
That seems pretty dysfunctional to me. I don't think our healthcare system should be based on bankruptcy and weird cost-shifting.
It's sort of like auto insurance. It works a lot better if everyone has it. If you let people who are safe drivers opt out it drives up premiums, forcing others to opt out, driving up premiums, etc. You'll end up with insurance costing thousands per month and most accidents between 2 uninsured people.
Incidentally, you sound like you'd like a high-deductible HSA insurance plan. I'm on one, and it is perfect for those of us who don't go to the doctor all the time. I sock away money tax free in investment accounts and it grows year after year, there for me for any medical expense. I like paying for things like glasses and dentist visits with tax-free money. Hopefully I'll have tens of thousands saved up in the account by the time I need chronic care, and I've got 100% coverage over my deductible in case I get cancer.
I saved a dozen Televideo terminals from the dumpster in the early 90s when my company upgraded. I used them to dial in to my shell account. When I moved into a smaller house in 99 or 00 and had to sell them I was shocked to find many eager buyers. I could get a hundred dollars easy.
SQL Server express is a good, and free product. It has some throttling for very high transaction rates, but other than that is just as good as SQL Server. It is a top-shelf database server, and I say that as someone who hates Microsoft.
You mentioned laws on who can marry - when close relatives breed it does affect other people: we have to put up with the crap their retarded offspring write here.
And yet there aren't laws against people reproducing who are likely to have Down's Syndrome kids. Nobody would accept mandatory testing of fetuses for disease.
You've clearly never been stranded in wet freezing windy weather with nothing but wet sticks and a mean scoutmaster. Fucker gave me one match and said "good luck."
That's why now I never go camping without at least a liter of kerosene, plenty of lighters, wax-coated explosive matches, and some bottle-rockets.
They're filming these on a studio lot. There are tons of idle cowboy, nazi, ancient greek, etc. costumes and sets available. It's an obvious cost-saving move. Not to mention it taxes the writer's brain a lot less to rip off these plotlines.
That's part of why I loved Star Trek. Where else could you see all the different genre prope in the same series?
First, I'd lose the attitude. Sure, I learned c and unix in college. Every job I've had since than has had varying degrees of Windows required. I used to turn up my nose at it and say things like Microshit, but I found myself to be more employable after dropping the act. I figure we live in a world with lots of Windows boxes. Why go through life with one hand tied behind my back?
Lots of businesses have custom-built or customized software that needs bugfixes and enhancements. If you can get short-term work doing a low-risk job and they like it, you've got a nice reference. Maybe even a permanent job. You're not going to close many deals by dissing their existing software framework or acting like an OS/language/platform fanatic.
I've been meaning to re-read Heinlein for a while now that I'm older. This looks like the cynical depressing stuff that drew me to Heinlein when I was a kid.
When I did support I had numerous customers who had lightening damage, flood damage, serious physical damage, beverage accidents, insect infestations, burning equipment, and so forth.
Most of them never said a peep. I dutifully went through the troubleshooting, wasting everybody's time, when things would have been a lot simpler if they said "My house flooded and my soggy device doesn't work."
I don't know if your company is covered by Sarbanes-Oxley, but ours is.
Section 802 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires auditors to retain auditing information for a period of 7 years. The information refers to all records relevant to the audit or review; this includes workpapers, memoranda, correspondence, communications, and electronic records (including email). In fact, Section 802 makes it a crime, punishable by up to 10 years in jail, if auditors of public companies fail to maintain such correspondence.
Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires the CEO and CFO of a public company to personally certify and attest to the accuracy of their company's financial statements contained in periodic reports. Section 404 requires auditors to certify the underlying controls and processes that companies use to reach financial results. Both sections require proof that a company's reported financial information can be relied on - and require companies to invest in procedures that ensure information is recorded and managed in a trustworthy manner, including email. As an organization's dependence on electronic mail continues to grow, the mismanagement of email provides a growing target for litigators and regulators. Companies must ensure that records in digital form are managed with the same care and attention as records in paper form.
Business records must be protected at all times from unauthorized tampering and deletion, more so when a company is involved in audits, investigations, litigation or other formal proceedings. It is therefore of primary importance to copy and archive data before a user has a chance to manipulate it or delete it. Companies must ensure that directors, management and accounting personnel in particular, are informed of their obligation to preserve business records.
Therefore, you are legally required to ensure that you archive a copy of all your email communications (particularly those of departments dealing with accounting, auditing, orders and so on), including both internal and external mail for a period of up to 7 years.
You can do this with vinyl records. Just take a pressed record and stamp it again with a new master. I have a record made with this method and the b-side is still the original recording.
The thing that bothers me is usually volume. When people talk to each other they generally use a normal speaking voice. Cellphone users often raise their voice unconsciously in order to hear themselves through the earpiece. I'd be more bothered by 2 people yelling at each other, but 1 person yelling is bad too.
Another problem I have is irritating tinny ringtones at high volume. When my concentration is broken by an loud low-fi rendition of "who let the dogs out" I am primed to be irritated at whatever the person does next. Which is usually yelling into their phone.
I've never seen an mp3 with DRM. Do you know of anywhere I could get a look at one?
The last I heard about it was in 2004 when Fraunhofer was trying to sell this loony incompatible mp3-like format confusingly also called mp3. They had another idea about embedding a signature watermark in each file to identify who leaked the file.
As far as I know, none of these ideas went anywhere at all. Do you have any links? I tried goobling.
I don't see how efficiency matters. If we could make asphalt that was 0.01% efficient converting solar energy to electricity and cost the same as regular asphalt our energy crisis would be solved.
If you have a cheap enough cell it is pretty easy to find somewhere to put it.
I thought the moon is ours forever, until the sun goes crazy. According to this at that point the moon and earth will be locked facing each other. The moon will be much further away from the earth, and earth's day will be 47 current days long.
Was there some development I missed? I tried goobling for it.
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I'd love to do a double-blind study of this. I suspect it is psychological. Microwave ovens release similar frequencies and it is difficult to find anywhere in a civilized part of the world that doesn't have multiple access points visible.
The problem with this is that we have universal coverage already. Anyone can walk into the ER and get their problem dealt with. Most of them can't afford to pay, so those with coverage have to pay a lot more. The higher premiums get, the more people opt out, and this drives premiums up yet further.
In the end, we'll have only sick/old people with insurance, costing $10k/month, and everyone else with no coverage and an unpayable $1m hospital bill if they fall down the stairs.
That seems pretty dysfunctional to me. I don't think our healthcare system should be based on bankruptcy and weird cost-shifting.
It's sort of like auto insurance. It works a lot better if everyone has it. If you let people who are safe drivers opt out it drives up premiums, forcing others to opt out, driving up premiums, etc. You'll end up with insurance costing thousands per month and most accidents between 2 uninsured people.
Incidentally, you sound like you'd like a high-deductible HSA insurance plan. I'm on one, and it is perfect for those of us who don't go to the doctor all the time. I sock away money tax free in investment accounts and it grows year after year, there for me for any medical expense. I like paying for things like glasses and dentist visits with tax-free money. Hopefully I'll have tens of thousands saved up in the account by the time I need chronic care, and I've got 100% coverage over my deductible in case I get cancer.
I saved a dozen Televideo terminals from the dumpster in the early 90s when my company upgraded. I used them to dial in to my shell account. When I moved into a smaller house in 99 or 00 and had to sell them I was shocked to find many eager buyers. I could get a hundred dollars easy.
Laptops? Maybe OLPC?
You could charge your battery with a generator or solar cell or at a friend's house that has electricity.
SQL Server express is a good, and free product. It has some throttling for very high transaction rates, but other than that is just as good as SQL Server. It is a top-shelf database server, and I say that as someone who hates Microsoft.
That's why now I never go camping without at least a liter of kerosene, plenty of lighters, wax-coated explosive matches, and some bottle-rockets.
They're filming these on a studio lot. There are tons of idle cowboy, nazi, ancient greek, etc. costumes and sets available. It's an obvious cost-saving move. Not to mention it taxes the writer's brain a lot less to rip off these plotlines.
That's part of why I loved Star Trek. Where else could you see all the different genre prope in the same series?
First, I'd lose the attitude. Sure, I learned c and unix in college. Every job I've had since than has had varying degrees of Windows required. I used to turn up my nose at it and say things like Microshit, but I found myself to be more employable after dropping the act. I figure we live in a world with lots of Windows boxes. Why go through life with one hand tied behind my back?
Lots of businesses have custom-built or customized software that needs bugfixes and enhancements. If you can get short-term work doing a low-risk job and they like it, you've got a nice reference. Maybe even a permanent job. You're not going to close many deals by dissing their existing software framework or acting like an OS/language/platform fanatic.
Real Real Geeks recognize Pi.
I remembered it being Heinlein, too. You're right
I've been meaning to re-read Heinlein for a while now that I'm older. This looks like the cynical depressing stuff that drew me to Heinlein when I was a kid.
My favorite part of the bottle is the lemon-juice-and-soap-as-birth-control part.
When I did support I had numerous customers who had lightening damage, flood damage, serious physical damage, beverage accidents, insect infestations, burning equipment, and so forth.
Most of them never said a peep. I dutifully went through the troubleshooting, wasting everybody's time, when things would have been a lot simpler if they said "My house flooded and my soggy device doesn't work."
My employer is required to retain ALL emails for 7 years. We get audited. I believe that any public US company has similar requirements.
If your business is involved in a lawsuit, your lack of an email retention policy will be seen as criminal negligence.
You can do this with vinyl records. Just take a pressed record and stamp it again with a new master. I have a record made with this method and the b-side is still the original recording.
The thing that bothers me is usually volume. When people talk to each other they generally use a normal speaking voice. Cellphone users often raise their voice unconsciously in order to hear themselves through the earpiece. I'd be more bothered by 2 people yelling at each other, but 1 person yelling is bad too.
Another problem I have is irritating tinny ringtones at high volume. When my concentration is broken by an loud low-fi rendition of "who let the dogs out" I am primed to be irritated at whatever the person does next. Which is usually yelling into their phone.
Your joke has an element of sadness. Xianity is the fastest growing religion in China.
Wow, looks like you're wrong again and now solar works again. That'll teach you to use sensible units! :)
I've never seen an mp3 with DRM. Do you know of anywhere I could get a look at one?
The last I heard about it was in 2004 when Fraunhofer was trying to sell this loony incompatible mp3-like format confusingly also called mp3. They had another idea about embedding a signature watermark in each file to identify who leaked the file.
As far as I know, none of these ideas went anywhere at all. Do you have any links? I tried goobling.
I don't see how efficiency matters. If we could make asphalt that was 0.01% efficient converting solar energy to electricity and cost the same as regular asphalt our energy crisis would be solved.
If you have a cheap enough cell it is pretty easy to find somewhere to put it.
I thought the moon is ours forever, until the sun goes crazy. According to this at that point the moon and earth will be locked facing each other. The moon will be much further away from the earth, and earth's day will be 47 current days long.
Was there some development I missed? I tried goobling for it.