And perhaps this time we'll have the good sense to let them leave. Seriously, what has the South done for us in the last hundred years that was worth fighting and winning a civil war over?
I noticed his predictions were pretty ridiculous. Probably the most obvious one was his 10/10 for fusion in a hundred years. Given the rate of progress, or lack thereof, I don't see it as being certain. Given that it hasn't yet been established as possible, and that it's been 50 years away for at least 50 years, I think it's rather optimistic to consider it a certainty.
I personally believe that we'll eventually get fusion worked out, but right now I don't see any way in which it can be considered certain. Especially with the backlash against fission lately.
Pssh, I was hating FB way before that became cool.
Also, it's obviously not working, despite the numerous warnings about FB people still maintain their accounts and we have yet to see the government really step in and tell them to stop spying on random internet users.
Around here it's getting tough to get a prescription for those sorts of medications. For one thing doctors have access to pharmacy records from the entire state and for another thing the requirements from the state have gotten a lot tougher than in the past. It's getting to the point where it's more likely for a patient to be prescribed medical marijuana than prescription pain killers. Personally, I'm fine with that, I don't support drug use, but the reality is that I've never heard of anybody dieing from marijuana use alone, and plenty of people die from ODing on painkillers. Methadone being the worst of the bunch.
My health insurer has an electronic system that does that for me. I just have to make sure that they're kept abreast of anything that happens outside of their care and double check that nobody else is using my insurance. When I go to the hospital, the doctor there has access to my records and that's really handy when one is unable to speak and hasn't had the foresight to carry their medical records around in case they're hit by a truck.
My doctors have been doing that for years, or at least as long as I can remember which is at least a decade. In fact I can even go online and look those summaries up going back a couple years. The system works well and makes it a lot easier to remember what I'm supposed to be complying with.
That's why you get a doctor you trust and ask lots of questions. I happen to have Gilbert Syndrome and there's really no reason why I even need to know about that, at least not unless I come into the doctor worried about jaundice.
I would venture to guess that most people have at least one or two of those sorts of conditions that are only really relevant when interpreting medical tests. You do need to listen to your body and advocate for yourself, but it's asking a lot to expect a lay person to come through a medical record and get anything useful out of it. The information you can actually make use of is only a small fraction of the total medical record. You know things like weight, blood pressure etc.
Get a better insurer. My insurance company shares all that information with relevant doctors electronically. When I went to the hospital unable to speak last year, they were able to get my records quickly using my health care card and find out what medications I was likely taking and who my GP was.
It does get tougher if you don't have an all in one provider, but with electronic records on their way, I think we'll be there at some point.
The doctors I see all give me an after visit summary as I leave the appointment. It leaves out most of the things that aren't relevant to the appointment and mostly just contains information necessary to follow doctor's orders. Then there will usually be information about what to watch for and when to make a follow up appointment.
But, taking home the entire record or subset of it seems like a bad idea.
Seriously, if patients take the records home with them, then what. I don't personally have any knowledge that would allow me to understand the records. Most folks probably don't know how to secure them properly.
Sure people do have the right to see those records, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they should be encouraged to take them home with them. Of course make it clear that they can look or take copies if they like, but encouraging it seems like a poor idea.
Honestly, just use something like open-mesh, it has all the software available to do just that without too much hassle. Additionally they're more easily spaced throughout the building with less interference than you would normally get.
That's a nice story except it's not true. If that were the case then how do you explain the fact that crime is still dropping despite cutting back on stiff sentences and releasing criminals for budgetary reasons?
Define unreasonable? If I lost the ability to call 911 because of copper thieves, I'd be pretty pissed myself. I'm personally surprised that it's taken this long to become a priority. Guess the FBI finally got tired of looking at kiddie porn.
My parents have that shit in their house and quite frankly, it's not something you want unless you don't have other viable choices. It's unfortunate that so many people are in a position where they think stealing live wire is a good idea.
Perhaps at some point we could start funding the educational system, welfare and crime prevention programs again. Throwing people in prison for longer and longer periods of time just doesn't seem to be working.
I don't think anybody bothers, not since that period where they made people remoderate things rather than giving a general up or down vote on the moderation. I think they've redone it since then, but at this point, I don't think anybody really bothers and I have better things to do than to notify them every time I see an egregious abuse of mod points.
There's a reason why the X-ray technicians usually leave the room when X-rays are being taken. Just being in the same room ensures that you'll get at least some exposure. The new digital equipment is better than the older ones were, but you're still talking about additional radiation.
You do realize that your average trailer, the kind that semis pull around, has barely any metal in it, right? I've seen in the back of hundreds of them over the years and they're actually mostly wood with a thing metal covering to protect against the rain. It's probably not any thinker than the metal in a soda can.
Because it's not productive and lacking in class. Those who aren't able to defend themselves are also not in a position to benefit from the criticism and society at large isn't going to benefit from one sided criticism any more than it does from one sided, ignore all the bad, praise.
The AC account serves an important function. Mostly it's to ensure that we all remember to get our prostates examined regularly, but sometimes comments need to be made which are likely to piss off the folks with mod points. Or post things which might get one in trouble if pieced together with other things one has posted.
All in all if you really feel that way, just cruise at +1 and you'll probably never see another AC troll again.
It's better not to insult people who aren't able to defend themselves, regardless of cause. However, I do have to agree that some people are generally horrible people in life and dieing doesn't change that. In this case, I doubt she deserves to be pilloried in the town square, but some perspective is definitely in order.
Hero? Seriously, I'm not trying to be an asshole here, but what precisely in all of this is heroic? I get that society has watered down both heroic and tragedy to make them mostly worthless, but what in all of this was heroic?
Somebody died and that's sad, but let's try to keep at least some perspective on this before we get to beatification.
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And perhaps this time we'll have the good sense to let them leave. Seriously, what has the South done for us in the last hundred years that was worth fighting and winning a civil war over?
I noticed his predictions were pretty ridiculous. Probably the most obvious one was his 10/10 for fusion in a hundred years. Given the rate of progress, or lack thereof, I don't see it as being certain. Given that it hasn't yet been established as possible, and that it's been 50 years away for at least 50 years, I think it's rather optimistic to consider it a certainty.
I personally believe that we'll eventually get fusion worked out, but right now I don't see any way in which it can be considered certain. Especially with the backlash against fission lately.
Pssh, I was hating FB way before that became cool.
Also, it's obviously not working, despite the numerous warnings about FB people still maintain their accounts and we have yet to see the government really step in and tell them to stop spying on random internet users.
Around here it's getting tough to get a prescription for those sorts of medications. For one thing doctors have access to pharmacy records from the entire state and for another thing the requirements from the state have gotten a lot tougher than in the past. It's getting to the point where it's more likely for a patient to be prescribed medical marijuana than prescription pain killers. Personally, I'm fine with that, I don't support drug use, but the reality is that I've never heard of anybody dieing from marijuana use alone, and plenty of people die from ODing on painkillers. Methadone being the worst of the bunch.
My health insurer has an electronic system that does that for me. I just have to make sure that they're kept abreast of anything that happens outside of their care and double check that nobody else is using my insurance. When I go to the hospital, the doctor there has access to my records and that's really handy when one is unable to speak and hasn't had the foresight to carry their medical records around in case they're hit by a truck.
That's an enforcement issue. HIPAA exists, issue fines for facilities that aren't living up to their duties and perform audits to ensure compliance.
My doctors have been doing that for years, or at least as long as I can remember which is at least a decade. In fact I can even go online and look those summaries up going back a couple years. The system works well and makes it a lot easier to remember what I'm supposed to be complying with.
That's why you get a doctor you trust and ask lots of questions. I happen to have Gilbert Syndrome and there's really no reason why I even need to know about that, at least not unless I come into the doctor worried about jaundice.
I would venture to guess that most people have at least one or two of those sorts of conditions that are only really relevant when interpreting medical tests. You do need to listen to your body and advocate for yourself, but it's asking a lot to expect a lay person to come through a medical record and get anything useful out of it. The information you can actually make use of is only a small fraction of the total medical record. You know things like weight, blood pressure etc.
Get a better insurer. My insurance company shares all that information with relevant doctors electronically. When I went to the hospital unable to speak last year, they were able to get my records quickly using my health care card and find out what medications I was likely taking and who my GP was.
It does get tougher if you don't have an all in one provider, but with electronic records on their way, I think we'll be there at some point.
The doctors I see all give me an after visit summary as I leave the appointment. It leaves out most of the things that aren't relevant to the appointment and mostly just contains information necessary to follow doctor's orders. Then there will usually be information about what to watch for and when to make a follow up appointment.
But, taking home the entire record or subset of it seems like a bad idea.
Seriously, if patients take the records home with them, then what. I don't personally have any knowledge that would allow me to understand the records. Most folks probably don't know how to secure them properly.
Sure people do have the right to see those records, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they should be encouraged to take them home with them. Of course make it clear that they can look or take copies if they like, but encouraging it seems like a poor idea.
Honestly, just use something like open-mesh, it has all the software available to do just that without too much hassle. Additionally they're more easily spaced throughout the building with less interference than you would normally get.
Personally, I always like my hash peppered, but that's just me. Perhaps with a bit of egg on the side.
I thought the problem was that they realized that hacking the Gibson just required a ping of death.
That's a nice story except it's not true. If that were the case then how do you explain the fact that crime is still dropping despite cutting back on stiff sentences and releasing criminals for budgetary reasons?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/01/07/us-usa-crime-idUSTRE60613K20100107
Define unreasonable? If I lost the ability to call 911 because of copper thieves, I'd be pretty pissed myself. I'm personally surprised that it's taken this long to become a priority. Guess the FBI finally got tired of looking at kiddie porn.
My parents have that shit in their house and quite frankly, it's not something you want unless you don't have other viable choices. It's unfortunate that so many people are in a position where they think stealing live wire is a good idea.
Perhaps at some point we could start funding the educational system, welfare and crime prevention programs again. Throwing people in prison for longer and longer periods of time just doesn't seem to be working.
I don't think anybody bothers, not since that period where they made people remoderate things rather than giving a general up or down vote on the moderation. I think they've redone it since then, but at this point, I don't think anybody really bothers and I have better things to do than to notify them every time I see an egregious abuse of mod points.
There's a reason why the X-ray technicians usually leave the room when X-rays are being taken. Just being in the same room ensures that you'll get at least some exposure. The new digital equipment is better than the older ones were, but you're still talking about additional radiation.
You do realize that your average trailer, the kind that semis pull around, has barely any metal in it, right? I've seen in the back of hundreds of them over the years and they're actually mostly wood with a thing metal covering to protect against the rain. It's probably not any thinker than the metal in a soda can.
Because it's not productive and lacking in class. Those who aren't able to defend themselves are also not in a position to benefit from the criticism and society at large isn't going to benefit from one sided criticism any more than it does from one sided, ignore all the bad, praise.
Just ignore them and cruise at 0 or +1, chances are you're not going to see those sorts of posts or get annoyed by them.
The AC account serves an important function. Mostly it's to ensure that we all remember to get our prostates examined regularly, but sometimes comments need to be made which are likely to piss off the folks with mod points. Or post things which might get one in trouble if pieced together with other things one has posted.
All in all if you really feel that way, just cruise at +1 and you'll probably never see another AC troll again.
It's better not to insult people who aren't able to defend themselves, regardless of cause. However, I do have to agree that some people are generally horrible people in life and dieing doesn't change that. In this case, I doubt she deserves to be pilloried in the town square, but some perspective is definitely in order.
Hero? Seriously, I'm not trying to be an asshole here, but what precisely in all of this is heroic? I get that society has watered down both heroic and tragedy to make them mostly worthless, but what in all of this was heroic?
Somebody died and that's sad, but let's try to keep at least some perspective on this before we get to beatification.