I have no idea on the Medicare regulations, etc, etc, only that in this case power was out, the O2 concentrator was unable to provide oxygen. Our interest was in patient care, not the equipment approval process. But good to know, too.
Of course. But unless you wire your house for oxygen (which is something of a fire risk), you're usually stuck with a D or E bottle being toted around or kept near you. D has a capacity of 425L, E of 680L. On a nasal cannula, consumption can be anything from 1LPM to 6LPM, though usually in the 2-4 range, which means an E bottle (which weighs around 8lb) is around 2 hours of oxygen.
In the situation I described, power was not restored for 12 hours in some of those areas - but the immediate concern was the fact that we had already responded to at least half a dozen trees across roads, and this particularly family was at the very end of a road in a heavily wooded area. We got in fine, with winds blowing. She had 8-10 hours of oxygen (we arrived at around 1am)... all good, even with continuing power outages... what if a tree had blown down during the night? Suddenly things get a lot more tenuous, and you're looking at a whole host of ugly solutions, from people hiking an hour to give her O2 bottles, through to an airlift out... we - and she - opted to go spend the night in the ER... not in a bed, just in the waiting area, where she could be assured a steady supply of oxygen til power was restored, and the generator issue resolved.
As an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician / Ambulance Officer) with the Fire Department, I can tell you the number of times I have gone into the house of someone who relies on home O2 for survival (usually COPD, etc) and yet doesn't have at the least a UPS, if not a generator, hooked up to said device is... zero. (That being said, during a big wind storm lately we did take someone to hospital as the power had gone out, the woman's son was not home, and her daughter-in-law had no idea how to start the generator, and we couldn't/wouldn't as it was wired up 'badly'.
Disconnect is one thing... power fails for other reasons... and for extended periods...
Because often times these dealers are selling to people with poor credit or a history of repossession, defaults, etc, and the kill switch is made a condition for a sale that otherwise would not have gone through, finance-wise...
Really? What do you think the No Fly List is? Is it a list of "People who are adjudged to be a threat to the safety of these United States and her people", or is it a list of "people who may or may not have characteristics in common or other traits that resemble people who are adjudged to be a threat to the safety of these United States and her people"?
See how many people face issues every time they attempt to get on a plane because while in principle the No Fly List is meant to be the former, in reality it resembles the latter to a huge degree, and practice the art of extrapolation, and then take a moment to remember the consequences when the result of that list goes from being "be denied passage, be detained against will without cause, suffer financial harm and damage, and beyond" to "be the target of lethal weaponry from a military vehicle".
I know people who have been out of work more than two years now- who have already cut their prior lifestyle by 1/4th (since that's what unemployment insurance pays) and STILL can't find a job.
Still can't find a job, or still can't find a job that allows them to live "their prior lifestyle" (to use your words) in a manner they feel accustomed, if not entitled to?
I'm in the process of changing careers, to a career that will pay, at maximum, 2/3 of what I earn now. I'm adjusting lifestyle choices, not waiting for a blue moon where I might find some magical position that would put me at parity with my pay now (for the record, moving from IT Development / Management, to Paramedic).
but believe me anyone who is targeted knows why they are being targeted
You owe me a new monitor, I just sprayed coffee on mine laughing at this statement.
Really? I guess all the people on no fly lists, up to and including at times US congressmen, they all know why they are (wrongly) on the no fly list (which makes them active targets), right?
One of the organizations (and I use that term loosely) that had a problem understanding this was Microsoft. They simply would not take my word for it that nobody at my.com domain was a registered Microsoft marketing parter that wanted their incessant communications. And yet, every one of them contained the boilerplate about the email being intended for the intended recipient and if I wasn't it I should report it immediately. So, apparently as long ago as 1990 Microsoft, for one, was fully aware that "private" email wasn't necessarily private.
Nice troll. I like how you slammed an organization of 50,000 people due to what was in all likelihood the flawed understanding of domain names from a marketing graduate twenty years ago, when the top of the line desktop PC was a 486 DX-50...
Yes. There is an amazing amount of ignorance displayed by the average American who seems to believe that "insurance" is a magical money fairy that is somehow able to take a couple of hundred dollars a month from a person, and in return provide many thousands of dollars of healthcare.
As an insured you pay for your own healthcare. You just get a negotiated discount, and the ability to amortize your costs, month to month.
There's an easy solution to that which involves neither GPS tracking nor micromanagement.
Pay the drivers on a per-delivery basis, allowing for things like distance driven and amount or weight of cargo to be variables that determine this rate. Then the drivers can decide how they wish to use that 20 minutes. If a driver can make 11 deliveries in X time, then he gets paid about 28% more than a driver who makes 8 deliveries in X time. Now they have an incentive to be more productive that doesn't require tagging them like cattle and any expenses associated with that. The recipients of the deliveries have no incentive to help the drivers cheat this system, since that would mean failing to receive their items.
Not so easy. You think your solution hasn't been tried before / exist now? All it leads to is drivers taking uppers to stay awake and drive hours past when they should be taking a break, as well as encouraging them to speed.
(Thus ends the legally-allowed questions - the rest of these violate the Bill of Rights (9 and 10).)
A second reply... "And what in the name of blue fuck does asking your age, sex, income, etc, on the census have to do with either the Ninth or Tenth Amendment?"
Nine: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Interpretation by the Court has generally been regarded by the courts as negating any expansion of governmental power on account of the enumeration of rights in the Constitution, but the Amendment has not been regarded as further limiting governmental power. The U.S. Supreme Court explained this, in U.S. Public Workers v. Mitchell 330 U.S. 75 (1947): "If granted power is found, necessarily the objection of invasion of those rights, reserved by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, must fail."
Ten: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
According to the Tenth Amendment, the government of the United States has the power to regulate only matters delegated to it by the Constitution. Other powers are reserved to the states, or to the people (and even the states cannot alienate some of these). In modern times, the Commerce Clause has become one of the most frequently-used sources of Congress's power, and thus its interpretation is very important in determining the allowable scope of federal government.
Seriously, you might ostensibly reside in these United States, but what planet are you on?
Insured? No and it's BY MY OWN CHOICE so STOP RAMMING IT DOWN MY THROAT.
Awesome.
I suppose in amongst your
Too small
income you keep and/or have money set aside so if one of your
more than 0 but less than 100
cars causes injury or damage to others, you can provide adequate compensation and restitution, right? Likewise with your home, other property, and indeed yourself? Because you'd never accidentally or negligently do something that may cause such a thing, of course. All privilege, no responsibility, right?
What the Linux community need to do is begin thinking about how they can invest in a few themselves...
Installation of say about 10,000 - 20,0000 of these
From Cisco's web site, the CRS-3 has a base price of USD90,000.
90,000 * 10,000 = $900M
90,2000 * 20,0000 = $1.8B
LMAO. Yeah, the Linux community should set up a Paypal account, maybe, so they can ask for the rough billion or so dollars* to implement your "plan"...
That'll be a sterling success I'm sure.
* Said billion or so dollars doesn't actually include facilities for said devices, electricity, nor the small matter of the fiber optic mesh around the country to connect them...
Sorry, I'm still laughing...
This would put tremendous pressure on cable operators everywhere by giving the public an alternative mechanism for receiving their programming, internet, phone, etc.
I'm sure it would. Tell you what, I'll email Comcast, Verizon, TimeWarner's CEOs. They'll be pissing their pants and crying like little girls, definitely.
allow you to get upgrades to firmware or the propitiatory Cisco VPN client (no x64 Windows 7 client yet - if ever!!!)
I suspect that you are NEVER going to see 64 bit clients from Cisco (well, maybe in 5 years). On the other hand, we use Shrew Soft's VPN client to talk to our ASA and PIXs without any problem...
LOL. What's impractical about it? Changing our mindset from an archaic one to something a little more modern?
Wire transfers only make sense here when the amount being transferred is $1000+.
Because this certainly isn't the stumbling block. Hint: ACH transfers are commonplace, and all the mechanisms are in place, other than adding the ability in online banking for the user to specify a Routing and Account number to deposit into, not just withdraw from.
The banks are happy to have you believe that it's impractical when most countries in the first world have offered it for a decade from online banking, for free, between any bank and/or credit union.
Please. You expect way too much sense from an Apple hater.
Please. He hates Apple so much he was willing to spend several hundred dollars on one of their products.
A tip to the GP: Displaying your ignorance and stupidity to the world does not actually reflect poorly on Apple.
A tip to the parent: If you are the one responsible for that gallery of hipster wannabes circle jerking and in some cases cutting Apple logos into their flesh, displaying your stupidity to the world not only reflects poorly on you, but also on Apple.
As someone who works for the Fire Department, when Onstar "detects an accident", contrary to their advertising, it doesn't come over the radio in the fire station - "This is Onstar. A vehicle has crashed at speed on blah blah blah.", whereupon the firefighters all immediately jump into the rig... OnStar has to contact 911, just like everybody else...
I know, it's advertising. But it bugs the shit out of me...
Ye gods. I think, of all the threats to its business model that Microsoft has... "Needing to DDoS CPAN to stifle competition" ranks somewhere about... oooh, 5,542nd?
Shit happens. People misconfigure things. Even professionals. Someone noticed, complained, and someone else said they'd investigate and get resolved. Wow. Yawn.
Instead we have Slashtroglodytes screaming about conspiracies by MSFT.
with a computer display, the light is generated behind the text, so you don't need the sheer volume of light a white background gives you. This was even more true of old CRT displays, but even an LCD backlight produces way to much light to read comfortably.
Perhaps because most displays are sold pre-set to 100% brightness, 100% contrast, because that's what looks shiniest and most vibrant on display, driving sales.
A while back, I experimented, with the assistance of a color calibrator I use for photography (i1 Display 2, and turned the brightness on my LCD to 40%, contrast to 70%.
The result? "Wow, that's so dim. I don't think I could read that..."... for about an hour. Now it's fantastic. My eyes hurt less, especially when the room is dark, and seem more sensitive (in a good way). Reading online all day, coding... so much more pleasant. Definitely a worthwhile experiment.
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So you bought it when you were 4-5? Okay... How many 4-5 year olds knew what a PS/2 was, let alone how to differentiate a clone?
Really, you remember? Windows 3.1 came out in March 1992. You were 3 years old. You weren't buying Windows 3.1.
Your skills of extrapolation are broken. Of the lay people I've met, who number 90%+ of the population, very few claimed to hate.
This guy says that of those who claimed to hate, 1 or 2 had a real reason to do so.
20% of users would be of ALL users.
I have no idea on the Medicare regulations, etc, etc, only that in this case power was out, the O2 concentrator was unable to provide oxygen. Our interest was in patient care, not the equipment approval process. But good to know, too.
In the situation I described, power was not restored for 12 hours in some of those areas - but the immediate concern was the fact that we had already responded to at least half a dozen trees across roads, and this particularly family was at the very end of a road in a heavily wooded area. We got in fine, with winds blowing. She had 8-10 hours of oxygen (we arrived at around 1am)... all good, even with continuing power outages... what if a tree had blown down during the night? Suddenly things get a lot more tenuous, and you're looking at a whole host of ugly solutions, from people hiking an hour to give her O2 bottles, through to an airlift out... we - and she - opted to go spend the night in the ER... not in a bed, just in the waiting area, where she could be assured a steady supply of oxygen til power was restored, and the generator issue resolved.
Disconnect is one thing... power fails for other reasons... and for extended periods...
Still entirely tacky...
See how many people face issues every time they attempt to get on a plane because while in principle the No Fly List is meant to be the former, in reality it resembles the latter to a huge degree, and practice the art of extrapolation, and then take a moment to remember the consequences when the result of that list goes from being "be denied passage, be detained against will without cause, suffer financial harm and damage, and beyond" to "be the target of lethal weaponry from a military vehicle".
Still can't find a job, or still can't find a job that allows them to live "their prior lifestyle" (to use your words) in a manner they feel accustomed, if not entitled to?
I'm in the process of changing careers, to a career that will pay, at maximum, 2/3 of what I earn now. I'm adjusting lifestyle choices, not waiting for a blue moon where I might find some magical position that would put me at parity with my pay now (for the record, moving from IT Development / Management, to Paramedic).
You owe me a new monitor, I just sprayed coffee on mine laughing at this statement.
Really? I guess all the people on no fly lists, up to and including at times US congressmen, they all know why they are (wrongly) on the no fly list (which makes them active targets), right?
Ye gods.
Nice troll. I like how you slammed an organization of 50,000 people due to what was in all likelihood the flawed understanding of domain names from a marketing graduate twenty years ago, when the top of the line desktop PC was a 486 DX-50...
As an insured you pay for your own healthcare. You just get a negotiated discount, and the ability to amortize your costs, month to month.
Not so easy. You think your solution hasn't been tried before / exist now? All it leads to is drivers taking uppers to stay awake and drive hours past when they should be taking a break, as well as encouraging them to speed.
A second reply... "And what in the name of blue fuck does asking your age, sex, income, etc, on the census have to do with either the Ninth or Tenth Amendment?"
Nine: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Interpretation by the Court has generally been regarded by the courts as negating any expansion of governmental power on account of the enumeration of rights in the Constitution, but the Amendment has not been regarded as further limiting governmental power. The U.S. Supreme Court explained this, in U.S. Public Workers v. Mitchell 330 U.S. 75 (1947): "If granted power is found, necessarily the objection of invasion of those rights, reserved by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, must fail."
Ten: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
According to the Tenth Amendment, the government of the United States has the power to regulate only matters delegated to it by the Constitution. Other powers are reserved to the states, or to the people (and even the states cannot alienate some of these). In modern times, the Commerce Clause has become one of the most frequently-used sources of Congress's power, and thus its interpretation is very important in determining the allowable scope of federal government.
Seriously, you might ostensibly reside in these United States, but what planet are you on?
Awesome.
I suppose in amongst your
income you keep and/or have money set aside so if one of your
cars causes injury or damage to others, you can provide adequate compensation and restitution, right? Likewise with your home, other property, and indeed yourself? Because you'd never accidentally or negligently do something that may cause such a thing, of course. All privilege, no responsibility, right?
From Cisco's web site, the CRS-3 has a base price of USD90,000.
90,000 * 10,000 = $900M
90,2000 * 20,0000 = $1.8B
LMAO. Yeah, the Linux community should set up a Paypal account, maybe, so they can ask for the rough billion or so dollars* to implement your "plan"...
That'll be a sterling success I'm sure.
* Said billion or so dollars doesn't actually include facilities for said devices, electricity, nor the small matter of the fiber optic mesh around the country to connect them...
Sorry, I'm still laughing...
I'm sure it would. Tell you what, I'll email Comcast, Verizon, TimeWarner's CEOs. They'll be pissing their pants and crying like little girls, definitely.
What make and model? I'm looking to do exactly this, to deal with a need for high bandwidth networking (and a hot/loud office) in a rental.
MD5/SHA1 checksum... but sure, this can be extrapolated out...
I suspect that you are NEVER going to see 64 bit clients from Cisco (well, maybe in 5 years). On the other hand, we use Shrew Soft's VPN client to talk to our ASA and PIXs without any problem...
LOL. What's impractical about it? Changing our mindset from an archaic one to something a little more modern?
Because this certainly isn't the stumbling block. Hint: ACH transfers are commonplace, and all the mechanisms are in place, other than adding the ability in online banking for the user to specify a Routing and Account number to deposit into, not just withdraw from.
The banks are happy to have you believe that it's impractical when most countries in the first world have offered it for a decade from online banking, for free, between any bank and/or credit union.
Both. Intra- appearing immediately, and inter- within 24 hours. Free.
Please. He hates Apple so much he was willing to spend several hundred dollars on one of their products.
A tip to the parent: If you are the one responsible for that gallery of hipster wannabes circle jerking and in some cases cutting Apple logos into their flesh, displaying your stupidity to the world not only reflects poorly on you, but also on Apple.
Offtopic random pet peeve...
As someone who works for the Fire Department, when Onstar "detects an accident", contrary to their advertising, it doesn't come over the radio in the fire station - "This is Onstar. A vehicle has crashed at speed on blah blah blah.", whereupon the firefighters all immediately jump into the rig... OnStar has to contact 911, just like everybody else...
I know, it's advertising. But it bugs the shit out of me...
Shit happens. People misconfigure things. Even professionals. Someone noticed, complained, and someone else said they'd investigate and get resolved. Wow. Yawn.
Instead we have Slashtroglodytes screaming about conspiracies by MSFT.
Perhaps because most displays are sold pre-set to 100% brightness, 100% contrast, because that's what looks shiniest and most vibrant on display, driving sales.
A while back, I experimented, with the assistance of a color calibrator I use for photography (i1 Display 2, and turned the brightness on my LCD to 40%, contrast to 70%.
The result? "Wow, that's so dim. I don't think I could read that..." ... for about an hour. Now it's fantastic. My eyes hurt less, especially when the room is dark, and seem more sensitive (in a good way). Reading online all day, coding... so much more pleasant. Definitely a worthwhile experiment.