What's amazing is that all the platforms use the same code base.... There's no other platform in the world that can boast this level of flexibility -- not even close.
Guy creates functionality I've been using in Java for 8 years; film at 11.
Most users want to use suggestions only for their searches, not URLs they enter.
You're mistaken. I don't want that shit for searches either. I even set a proxy rule to ensure the Google browser cookie for it is set to off so I don't have to worry about it should I clear my cookies.
Simply mount large, sharp spikes to the center of the steering wheel in place of the airbag pointed directly at the driver's chest. I'm sure speeds will come down quite a bit...
Based on the (unverified) resume for GWB posted in another follow-up (some of which I have read elsewhere), I'd probably believe otherwise. However, his rise to greatness, despite massive, repeated failures, was apparently due to the support of friends, family and those around him, like Cheney.
I don't know about that. This link, The Resume of George W. Bush (the early years), from another follow-up post, would seem to indicate otherwise. I can't authenticate its accuracy, but have seen some of the items listed in other articles.
NASA's next Mars shot, which promises to out-gun all previous efforts. The Mini Cooper-sized Mars Science Laboratory...
Sigh, not again. Points for the car analogy, but the Cooper is a European car, thus a metric analogy. Please pick a more suitable English equivalent for NASA, lest we see a repeat of the Mars Climate Orbiter...
Wouldn't one think that someone going to Harvard with a high GPA and SAT score be smart enough to weigh the risks?
Smart enough? Possibly, but remember that this guy went to both Yale (BA) and Harvard (MBA). Don't know about his GPA or SAT scores though... or whether that says more/less about him or the schools.
If there was ever a more appropriate time for the Bill Gates as Borg graphic, I don't know when that would be. If a nuclear-powered Bill Gates is ever developed, then resistance will be fissile! (sorry, resisting that joke was futile)
I already have it now, at this moment in time. What happens in the future if it costs so much or I get so little benefit that I no longer think it is worth it and I want to opt out? Oops, Big Brother says I still have to buy it because they know best. Too bad for me.
True, but there are limits to how much insurance can cost, in relation to your income, before you're eligible for subsidies. If you simply don't want to pay, what happens when you're injured and need a doctor/ER visit? Should *I* have to pay for your short-sightedness? Should your family be forced to pay the uninsured rate for things?
Case in point. My wife died of a brain tumor 4 years ago. The list-price for a one month supply of her chemotherapy medicine (Temodar) was $11,000. Thankfully she had insurance - both on mine and her own, so we could choose. My BCBS wanted a 10% co-pay and her Optima a $40 co-pay. That's right eleven grand down to forty dollars.
Even if you *then* decided to get insurance - since you now can't be denied for a pre-existing condition - any expenses already paid while you're getting insurance won't be covered.
The insurance companies agreed to go along with many of the new terms of the health care as a condition because of the personal mandate to avoid people cherry-picking when they get their insurance, because - don't fool yourself - you're going to need it sooner or later.
Of course, if you don't like the new health care mandates, you're free to move to another industrialized country. Oops I forgot, they all have universal health care too.
1. Who said I didn't have health insurance already? My complaint is that I am now mandated by law to get it.
I was making a general statement not specifically about your insurance status. But given that, you're complaining about being forced to buy something you already have - and, presumably believe it's a good idea to have (otherwise you'd opt-out)? You must be a LOT of fun.:-)
2. ERs can still try to collect money from those without insurance that they treat. It's not an automatic free ride.
True, but many of those people are poor and/or the fees go uncollected.
3. Notice all those overcrowded ERs (at least those that haven't closed) with people that have non-emergency problems?
Yes, but many (most?) of those people don't have insurance and no PCP, so the ER is their only choice.
That won't really accomplish much. Even the quickest search reveals that the cost of medical malpractice is less than 2% - a rounding error compared to total costs.:
Q. But critics of the current system say that 10 to 15 percent of medical costs are due to medical malpractice.
A. That's wildly exaggerated. According to the actuarial consulting firm Towers Perrin, medical malpractice tort costs were $30.4 billion in 2007, the last year for which data are available. We have a more than a $2 trillion health care system. That puts litigation costs and malpractice insurance at 1 to 1.5 percent of total medical costs. That's a rounding error. Liability isn't even the tail on the cost dog. It's the hair on the end of the tail.
(Tort Reform) "It's really just a distraction," said Tom Baker, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and author of "The Medical Malpractice Myth." "If you were to eliminate medical malpractice liability, even forgetting the negative consequences that would have for safety, accountability, and responsiveness, maybe we'd be talking about 1.5 percent of health care costs. So we're not talking about real money. It's small relative to the out-of-control cost of health care."
Annual jury awards and legal settlements involving doctors amounts to "a drop in the bucket" in a country that spends $2.3 trillion annually on health care, Amitabh Chandra, another Harvard University economist, recently told Bloomberg News. Chandra estimated the cost of jury awards at about $12 per person in the U.S., or about $3.6 billion. Insurer WellPoint Inc. has also said that liability awards are not what's driving premiums.
The real problem I have with this 'you must buy health insurance or else' clause, is the fact that I now have to pay money for the right to be a citizen of this country.
Of course, hospitals ERs are required to treat everyone without regard to their insurance status. The cost of treating those w/o health insurance gets passed along to those of us that have insurance. So, if you (and everyone else w/o insurance) agree to not seek any health care if you don't have any insurance and/or can't otherwise pay for the service yourself, we'll all be fine. Sometimes, the cost of being a responsible citizen isn't zero.
You realize that the object is only 1 micrometer, and the cloak only 300nm,
but here you go (photo) --> [ ]
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If you really want to fix health care, do tort reform first.
That won't really accomplish much. Even the quickest search reveals that the cost of medical malpractice is less than 2% - a rounding error compared to total costs.:
Q. But critics of the current system say that 10 to 15 percent of medical costs are due to medical malpractice.
A. That's wildly exaggerated. According to the actuarial consulting firm Towers Perrin, medical malpractice tort costs were $30.4 billion in 2007, the last year for which data are available. We have a more than a $2 trillion health care system. That puts litigation costs and malpractice insurance at 1 to 1.5 percent of total medical costs. That's a rounding error. Liability isn't even the tail on the cost dog. It's the hair on the end of the tail.
(Tort Reform) "It's really just a distraction," said Tom Baker, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and author of "The Medical Malpractice Myth." "If you were to eliminate medical malpractice liability, even forgetting the negative consequences that would have for safety, accountability, and responsiveness, maybe we'd be talking about 1.5 percent of health care costs. So we're not talking about real money. It's small relative to the out-of-control cost of health care."
Annual jury awards and legal settlements involving doctors amounts to "a drop in the bucket" in a country that spends $2.3 trillion annually on health care, Amitabh Chandra, another Harvard University economist, recently told Bloomberg News. Chandra estimated the cost of jury awards at about $12 per person in the U.S., or about $3.6 billion. Insurer WellPoint Inc. has also said that liability awards are not what's driving premiums.
So, please stop listening to Republicans and/or watching Fox News and learn some real facts.
In a conference call, you're not effectively in two places at once at all. You're effectively communicating with people at multiple disparate locations while remaining in one location.
So, I'm "actually" communicating with people at multiple disparate location, while remaining in one location, making me "effectively" in two places at once. My virtual presence can have an actual effect on those actually present, making me effectively present too.
Such states, in which an object is effectively in two places at once...
Pffft. Lots of things can be "effectively" in two places at once. Ever heard of a "conference call". Get back to me when this object is "actually" in two places at once.
Yeah, Avatar was made made in 3D and it shows, it was very watchable even with the glasses...
While I agree, I saw it again in 2D and liked it better. The picture was brighter and much clearer - all around. In the end, I think 3D imparted an unnecessary distraction to viewing the movie and didn't add all that to the environment.
Perhaps my brain is simply used to filling the depth itself and the 3D effect was slightly "unnatural". In any case, I recommend Avatar in 3D for the novelty and excellent use of the technology, but recommend 2D for viewing enjoyment.
From one of TFA (time to re-think and expand the search):
It would make much more sense for them to wait for our first signals. They might as well just monitor us passively and then start beaming messages.
I think it much more likely that, after monitoring signals from Earth, they'll specifically decide to leave us alone to our own destruction. Yes, we have some very good qualities, but seriously, we're a short-sighted, narrow-minded, self-absorbed, fucked-up primitive species.
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"almost always"? Did I miss a news-cycle somewhere? :-)
Guy creates functionality I've been using in Java for 8 years; film at 11.
Furthermore, the disk in "evidence" is stolen property.
Dear So-and-so,
The results of your AIDS/STD tests are in.
Please contact us for a follow-up appointment ASAP.
Sincerely,
Your Doctor.
You're mistaken. I don't want that shit for searches either. I even set a proxy rule to ensure the Google browser cookie for it is set to off so I don't have to worry about it should I clear my cookies.
Simply mount large, sharp spikes to the center of the steering wheel in place of the airbag pointed directly at the driver's chest. I'm sure speeds will come down quite a bit...
Based on the (unverified) resume for GWB posted in another follow-up (some of which I have read elsewhere), I'd probably believe otherwise. However, his rise to greatness, despite massive, repeated failures, was apparently due to the support of friends, family and those around him, like Cheney.
I don't know about that. This link, The Resume of George W. Bush (the early years), from another follow-up post, would seem to indicate otherwise. I can't authenticate its accuracy, but have seen some of the items listed in other articles.
Sigh, not again. Points for the car analogy, but the Cooper is a European car, thus a metric analogy. Please pick a more suitable English equivalent for NASA, lest we see a repeat of the Mars Climate Orbiter...
Smart enough? Possibly, but remember that this guy went to both Yale (BA) and Harvard (MBA). Don't know about his GPA or SAT scores though... or whether that says more/less about him or the schools.
It probably means Potassium. :-)
He did not actually tweet as POTUS, but just wanted to show he could break into the account.
Unrealized Tweet: Yes I can.
If there was ever a more appropriate time for the Bill Gates as Borg graphic, I don't know when that would be. If a nuclear-powered Bill Gates is ever developed, then resistance will be fissile! (sorry, resisting that joke was futile)
True, but there are limits to how much insurance can cost, in relation to your income, before you're eligible for subsidies. If you simply don't want to pay, what happens when you're injured and need a doctor/ER visit? Should *I* have to pay for your short-sightedness? Should your family be forced to pay the uninsured rate for things?
Case in point. My wife died of a brain tumor 4 years ago. The list-price for a one month supply of her chemotherapy medicine (Temodar) was $11,000. Thankfully she had insurance - both on mine and her own, so we could choose. My BCBS wanted a 10% co-pay and her Optima a $40 co-pay. That's right eleven grand down to forty dollars.
Even if you *then* decided to get insurance - since you now can't be denied for a pre-existing condition - any expenses already paid while you're getting insurance won't be covered.
The insurance companies agreed to go along with many of the new terms of the health care as a condition because of the personal mandate to avoid people cherry-picking when they get their insurance, because - don't fool yourself - you're going to need it sooner or later.
Of course, if you don't like the new health care mandates, you're free to move to another industrialized country. Oops I forgot, they all have universal health care too.
I was making a general statement not specifically about your insurance status. But given that, you're complaining about being forced to buy something you already have - and, presumably believe it's a good idea to have (otherwise you'd opt-out)? You must be a LOT of fun. :-)
True, but many of those people are poor and/or the fees go uncollected.
Yes, but many (most?) of those people don't have insurance and no PCP, so the ER is their only choice.
That won't really accomplish much. Even the quickest search reveals that the cost of medical malpractice is less than 2% - a rounding error compared to total costs.:
Of course, hospitals ERs are required to treat everyone without regard to their insurance status. The cost of treating those w/o health insurance gets passed along to those of us that have insurance. So, if you (and everyone else w/o insurance) agree to not seek any health care if you don't have any insurance and/or can't otherwise pay for the service yourself, we'll all be fine. Sometimes, the cost of being a responsible citizen isn't zero.
You realize that the object is only 1 micrometer, and the cloak only 300nm,
but here you go (photo) --> [ ]
That won't really accomplish much. Even the quickest search reveals that the cost of medical malpractice is less than 2% - a rounding error compared to total costs.:
So, please stop listening to Republicans and/or watching Fox News and learn some real facts.
Sounds like the Republican Party. :-)
Actually, you are. From Effectively:
So, I'm "actually" communicating with people at multiple disparate location, while remaining in one location, making me "effectively" in two places at once. My virtual presence can have an actual effect on those actually present, making me effectively present too.
Pffft. Lots of things can be "effectively" in two places at once. Ever heard of a "conference call". Get back to me when this object is "actually" in two places at once.
While I agree, I saw it again in 2D and liked it better. The picture was brighter and much clearer - all around. In the end, I think 3D imparted an unnecessary distraction to viewing the movie and didn't add all that to the environment.
Perhaps my brain is simply used to filling the depth itself and the 3D effect was slightly "unnatural". In any case, I recommend Avatar in 3D for the novelty and excellent use of the technology, but recommend 2D for viewing enjoyment.
I think it much more likely that, after monitoring signals from Earth, they'll specifically decide to leave us alone to our own destruction. Yes, we have some very good qualities, but seriously, we're a short-sighted, narrow-minded, self-absorbed, fucked-up primitive species.