Does the Bible actually say you will be always be rewarded (increased player health) for killing all sinners (NPC prostitutes)?
I suppose it might be somewhere in the Old Testament, but half of the Old Testament is contradicted in the New Testament, so it's a wash. I know it's a game, but try to understand that it is a pervasive part of the game that they are actually complaining about, not "the whole criminal thing". Perhaps if killing male NPCs and prostitutes for health was another game mechanic, the complaints would be the same, but at least things would be more "balanced".
AAANND, if they said nothing, and some thing horrible happens, some untrained commenter/reporter/radio host would say "the CDC doesn't know anything, they did not warn us this might happen".
Pick what you want, a medical community that tells you what CAN happen, or that tells you what you want to hear. The doctors I deal with (numerous specialties, pediatric and adult, in America), are in the "list everything that CAN happen" mindset. They try to add the probabilities of an outcome, and point out what the most likely outcome is. They have to, or some ambulance chaser lawyer will "help" a patient sue them for "not warning them" of a potential outcome. If you talk with the doctor, and they are candid, they readily admit it can be hard to predict medical outcomes, because human beings and medical facilities have so many variables it is amazing we survive at all.
My wife hates that, because she is a pessimist, and dwells on the low probability "worst case".
Did you read the entire article at consortiumnews.com? It rather effectively calls out the extreme left AND the extreme right for distorting the Constitution, and says that it should be looked at as a whole, not cherry-picked. . Did you just look at the headline as click-bait from some right-wing web site?
direct quote:
"The best path to firmer ground would seem to be, twofold: a serious effort to reclaim the real history of the Constitution from the charlatans on the Right and a recognition that the Constitution, as amended, creates an imperfect but still workable framework for democratic change, a rebuff to some on the Left."
When did you "try" a Chromebook at BestBuy? Was it in the last 3 months? Because the number of models available has changed in the last 3 months.
Did it occur to you that the Chromebook sitting in BestBuy for a year or more might be beaten to death by the typical BestBuy knuckle-draggers? Did you notice that BestBuy doesn't routinely changeout their floor display models?
Also, BestBuy doesn't sell every model ChromeBook. Give specific models and date ranges to fully qualify your "crap hardware" review. Seriously tired of generalizations based on 2 minutes of playing with something in the store instead of actually logging in and using something.
Nigeria managed to contain it.
Admittedly they have seen Ebola before, but they seem to have a more modernized health care "infrastructure" (facilities) than the regions where Ebola is out of control. I would be willing to bet that the US has a much higher density of health care facilities with supplies and personnel.
Considering obamacare is the law of the land (all fifty states) and hospitals can't refuse service on the bases of insurance stop trolling.
Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA)
"In 1986, Congress enacted the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA) to ensure public access to emergency services regardless of ability to pay. Section 1867 of the Social Security Act imposes specific obligations on Medicare-participating hospitals that offer emergency services to provide a medical screening examination (MSE) when a request is made for examination or treatment for an emergency medical condition (EMC), including active labor, regardless of an individual's ability to pay. Hospitals are then required to provide STABILIZING [emphasis added] treatment for patients with EMCs. If a hospital is unable to stabilize a patient within its capability, or if the patient requests, an appropriate transfer should be implemented."
Hospitals CAN and DO provide minimal treatment for "non-emergent" cases. Hence, the "take two of these and come back if it gets worse" treatment. Yes, logical forward-thinking people might conclude that "this person came from Africa, could be Ebola". However, this isn't TV, and a plucky nurse isn't going to get her hospital to take a person for an expensive admission "just in case it isn't a bad cold".
MAYBE after the hysteria, that scenario might happen, especially in that city. Maybe not.
Yes, that is always the reply from the "majority", the often heard "If you don't like it you just can leave" response.
These people ARE considering leaving. They are asking the company to change BEFORE they leave.
If they thought it was a right, they would have involved the government.
WHY do some dumb people seem to equate asking for a change or voicing dissent to a private company as asking for "special" rights?
And because you don't use FB you can't imagine why anyone else would want to. Shocker - other people want do different things than you do.
Odd how people who aren't in the affected group always call it "political correctness", and the people who are in the affected group call it "politeness" or "considerate".
How exactly does this change in policy hurt your tender feelings?
In the perfect world where you only use systems you understand, the provider of the system is completely forthcoming with telling you how it works, including the limitations and things it can't do. (I suppose Richard Stallman would be the king in that world)
In the real world, sales and PR departments will shriek like banshees on a moonless night if you use the word "limitation" when describing your system.
By the way, do you understand how your city water and sewer systems work? I mean, REALLY understand it?
Not every state is like that. Must be nice.
Maryland is one example of a state where the police run tags at a whim. They used to call it in to dispatch, then they got portable terminals in their cars. On officer I know boasted of how well he could touch type a license plate number into his terminal. Then he got a laptop, and had to relearn how to type.
Many states have plate scanners so the officer doesn't have to take their hands off the wheel.
BINGO - private companies can store things for any "business purpose".
They should just go commercial and sell a list of people who regularly drive around Wal-Mart to the Target marketing department for "directed marketing coupons".
BTW, see the comment below this one about the guy from Florida being "flagged" by the Maryland State Police because he had a CCW permit in another state. No warrants, no record.
Ugh, not sure what happened with that comment. Last paragraph should be:
The TBO article says nothing about the driver being questioned about drugs. It seemed like there was a very narrow focus by the police on the location of "the gun". No drug detection dogs. Nothing about drug suspicions.
They don't have enough patrol cars to pull over all the cars on the highway with that combination. They obviously ran his plate, looked at his record, which is probably clean, since he got a CCW permit. After that, would any logic suggest he was a drug mule? The police officers I know say the condition of the car and how the driver acts is more significant than if the driver is a Latino. How they are dressed factors in, too.
The article say nothing about the driver are also usually an being questioned about drugs. It seemed like there was a very narrow focus by the police on the location of "the gun". No drug detection dogs. Nothing about drug suspicions.
They aren't replicating the DMV records. They are storing data and can map where your car has been driving. BIG difference.
When they start giving out tickets because you "obviously" had to exceed the speed limit to be seen at intersection X and then 3 minutes later at intersection Y.
Then they will question everyone the scanners saw within 1/4 mile of a murder. They might start pulling over people seen entering gun store parking lots. (Actually, they probably do that already)
Can you read? Slow down and actually look at the letters on the screen instead of using your apparent anti-gun stance to assume he was "waving the gun in the air driving down the highway".
It also gives no incentive to be a driver if you don't need to be a passenger. You know, since you already have a car?
I am sure there are a fraction of the existing ride-share drivers who do it to stick it to the man. They are probably the same people who fly to another city and use that ride-sharing setup as a passenger. But then there are the probably a majority of the drivers using it as an income source. So if they have a way to exchange their accumulated and unwanted miles to cash, you are squarely in the service for a fee zone.
Sorry, but outside of hipsters, this would only work if you had some sort of "karma bank" for multiple services and goods. Then the drivers could exchange the karma miles for massages and escorts.
And yet others in the Slashdot crowd chant "use the bug tracking system". Seems like asking for a schedule to fix is part of that system.
I imagine there are more than a few Linux users who know what open-source is, but still don't know every nuance of bug tracking, They just want their stuff to keep working.
Is there any distribution that offers paid-for-support aimed at individual users?
The pilot is sectioned away from the ALL of the people on the plane. Because if each passenger lined up and asked one question, there would be a continual distraction for a long time. Not to mention the simple fact that knowing you are being watched by an audience tends to increase stress.
I wonder if the lawsuit is really driven by the second part of the summary.
I can picture the Wal-Mart lawyers saying, "Hey Visa, if you helped underwrite and expedite the Chip & PIN card hardware and software transition, this big nasty lawsuit would go away."
They may have already said the same to MasterCard in a less public way. Or maybe they asked both Visa and MasterCard to help on the transition, and MasterCard said yes.
The movie "The 13th Warrior" was the movie adaptation of Michael Crichton"s 1976 book "The Eaters of the Dead". When the Banderas movie came out, the book publisher started putting "The 13th Warrior" on the cover in big print.
I guess the movie studio decided people would expect to see zombies or something, and picked the simpler, more straightforward title. Personally, "Eaters of the Dead" (and a momentary binge in Crichton books) is what got me to read it.
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Does the Bible actually say you will be always be rewarded (increased player health) for killing all sinners (NPC prostitutes)?
I suppose it might be somewhere in the Old Testament, but half of the Old Testament is contradicted in the New Testament, so it's a wash. I know it's a game, but try to understand that it is a pervasive part of the game that they are actually complaining about, not "the whole criminal thing". Perhaps if killing male NPCs and prostitutes for health was another game mechanic, the complaints would be the same, but at least things would be more "balanced".
Another point - have you ever READ the original reports and release from the CDC? Pretty dry stuff.
It is THE PRESS that adds the hyperbole.
AAANND, if they said nothing, and some thing horrible happens, some untrained commenter/reporter/radio host would say "the CDC doesn't know anything, they did not warn us this might happen".
Pick what you want, a medical community that tells you what CAN happen, or that tells you what you want to hear. The doctors I deal with (numerous specialties, pediatric and adult, in America), are in the "list everything that CAN happen" mindset. They try to add the probabilities of an outcome, and point out what the most likely outcome is. They have to, or some ambulance chaser lawyer will "help" a patient sue them for "not warning them" of a potential outcome. If you talk with the doctor, and they are candid, they readily admit it can be hard to predict medical outcomes, because human beings and medical facilities have so many variables it is amazing we survive at all.
My wife hates that, because she is a pessimist, and dwells on the low probability "worst case".
direct quote:
"The best path to firmer ground would seem to be, twofold: a serious effort to reclaim the real history of the Constitution from the charlatans on the Right and a recognition that the Constitution, as amended, creates an imperfect but still workable framework for democratic change, a rebuff to some on the Left."
When did you "try" a Chromebook at BestBuy? Was it in the last 3 months? Because the number of models available has changed in the last 3 months. Did it occur to you that the Chromebook sitting in BestBuy for a year or more might be beaten to death by the typical BestBuy knuckle-draggers? Did you notice that BestBuy doesn't routinely changeout their floor display models? Also, BestBuy doesn't sell every model ChromeBook. Give specific models and date ranges to fully qualify your "crap hardware" review. Seriously tired of generalizations based on 2 minutes of playing with something in the store instead of actually logging in and using something.
Nigeria managed to contain it.
Admittedly they have seen Ebola before, but they seem to have a more modernized health care "infrastructure" (facilities) than the regions where Ebola is out of control. I would be willing to bet that the US has a much higher density of health care facilities with supplies and personnel.
Considering obamacare is the law of the land (all fifty states) and hospitals can't refuse service on the bases of insurance stop trolling.
Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA)
"In 1986, Congress enacted the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA) to ensure public access to emergency services regardless of ability to pay. Section 1867 of the Social Security Act imposes specific obligations on Medicare-participating hospitals that offer emergency services to provide a medical screening examination (MSE) when a request is made for examination or treatment for an emergency medical condition (EMC), including active labor, regardless of an individual's ability to pay. Hospitals are then required to provide STABILIZING [emphasis added] treatment for patients with EMCs. If a hospital is unable to stabilize a patient within its capability, or if the patient requests, an appropriate transfer should be implemented."
Hospitals CAN and DO provide minimal treatment for "non-emergent" cases. Hence, the "take two of these and come back if it gets worse" treatment. Yes, logical forward-thinking people might conclude that "this person came from Africa, could be Ebola". However, this isn't TV, and a plucky nurse isn't going to get her hospital to take a person for an expensive admission "just in case it isn't a bad cold".
MAYBE after the hysteria, that scenario might happen, especially in that city. Maybe not.
Yes, that is always the reply from the "majority", the often heard "If you don't like it you just can leave" response.
These people ARE considering leaving. They are asking the company to change BEFORE they leave.
If they thought it was a right, they would have involved the government.
WHY do some dumb people seem to equate asking for a change or voicing dissent to a private company as asking for "special" rights?
And because you don't use FB you can't imagine why anyone else would want to. Shocker - other people want do different things than you do.
Odd how people who aren't in the affected group always call it "political correctness", and the people who are in the affected group call it "politeness" or "considerate".
How exactly does this change in policy hurt your tender feelings?
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Things that were true when they first came out have changed. Wow, that NEVER happens with software and hardware. Try keeping up with things.
In the perfect world where you only use systems you understand, the provider of the system is completely forthcoming with telling you how it works, including the limitations and things it can't do. (I suppose Richard Stallman would be the king in that world)
In the real world, sales and PR departments will shriek like banshees on a moonless night if you use the word "limitation" when describing your system.
By the way, do you understand how your city water and sewer systems work? I mean, REALLY understand it?
Not every state is like that. Must be nice.
Maryland is one example of a state where the police run tags at a whim. They used to call it in to dispatch, then they got portable terminals in their cars. On officer I know boasted of how well he could touch type a license plate number into his terminal. Then he got a laptop, and had to relearn how to type.
Many states have plate scanners so the officer doesn't have to take their hands off the wheel.
BINGO - private companies can store things for any "business purpose". They should just go commercial and sell a list of people who regularly drive around Wal-Mart to the Target marketing department for "directed marketing coupons". BTW, see the comment below this one about the guy from Florida being "flagged" by the Maryland State Police because he had a CCW permit in another state. No warrants, no record.
What the hell does license plate tracking have to do with suspected terrorists in Gitmo?
Ugh, not sure what happened with that comment. Last paragraph should be:
The TBO article says nothing about the driver being questioned about drugs. It seemed like there was a very narrow focus by the police on the location of "the gun". No drug detection dogs. Nothing about drug suspicions.
They don't have enough patrol cars to pull over all the cars on the highway with that combination. They obviously ran his plate, looked at his record, which is probably clean, since he got a CCW permit. After that, would any logic suggest he was a drug mule? The police officers I know say the condition of the car and how the driver acts is more significant than if the driver is a Latino. How they are dressed factors in, too.
The article say nothing about the driver are also usually an being questioned about drugs. It seemed like there was a very narrow focus by the police on the location of "the gun". No drug detection dogs. Nothing about drug suspicions.
They aren't replicating the DMV records. They are storing data and can map where your car has been driving. BIG difference. When they start giving out tickets because you "obviously" had to exceed the speed limit to be seen at intersection X and then 3 minutes later at intersection Y. Then they will question everyone the scanners saw within 1/4 mile of a murder. They might start pulling over people seen entering gun store parking lots. (Actually, they probably do that already)
Can you read? Slow down and actually look at the letters on the screen instead of using your apparent anti-gun stance to assume he was "waving the gun in the air driving down the highway".
Cause midget is an unacceptable term. My son has dwarfism, and shit like that pisses me off.
It also gives no incentive to be a driver if you don't need to be a passenger. You know, since you already have a car?
I am sure there are a fraction of the existing ride-share drivers who do it to stick it to the man. They are probably the same people who fly to another city and use that ride-sharing setup as a passenger. But then there are the probably a majority of the drivers using it as an income source. So if they have a way to exchange their accumulated and unwanted miles to cash, you are squarely in the service for a fee zone.
Sorry, but outside of hipsters, this would only work if you had some sort of "karma bank" for multiple services and goods. Then the drivers could exchange the karma miles for massages and escorts.
And yet others in the Slashdot crowd chant "use the bug tracking system". Seems like asking for a schedule to fix is part of that system.
I imagine there are more than a few Linux users who know what open-source is, but still don't know every nuance of bug tracking, They just want their stuff to keep working.
Is there any distribution that offers paid-for-support aimed at individual users?
The pilot is sectioned away from the ALL of the people on the plane. Because if each passenger lined up and asked one question, there would be a continual distraction for a long time. Not to mention the simple fact that knowing you are being watched by an audience tends to increase stress.
I wonder if the lawsuit is really driven by the second part of the summary.
I can picture the Wal-Mart lawyers saying, "Hey Visa, if you helped underwrite and expedite the Chip & PIN card hardware and software transition, this big nasty lawsuit would go away." They may have already said the same to MasterCard in a less public way. Or maybe they asked both Visa and MasterCard to help on the transition, and MasterCard said yes.
The movie "The 13th Warrior" was the movie adaptation of Michael Crichton"s 1976 book "The Eaters of the Dead". When the Banderas movie came out, the book publisher started putting "The 13th Warrior" on the cover in big print. I guess the movie studio decided people would expect to see zombies or something, and picked the simpler, more straightforward title. Personally, "Eaters of the Dead" (and a momentary binge in Crichton books) is what got me to read it.