legally they cant take patients in if they cant do an adequate job treating them. i wouldnt be surprised if some of their regular staff was busy fixing the medical records. therefore they were probably short on workers and also unable to keep adequate medical records for patients. this is a big no-no in the health care industry.
bottom line is that a hospital may send patients elsewhere if they cannot adequately treat them (ie. overcrowded, don't specialize in the needed area, etc.). They must, however, be sure not to send patients away simply based on that patient's ability to pay - so long as the hospital is eligible for federal funding of any sort (ie. medicaid, medicare). I don't see this as a situation where they are "dumping" patients. Therefore, it's both legal and smart. Failure to correctly treat patients could lead to huge malpractice suits. no one wants that.
thats temporary. every industry is laying off people right now. and for that matter, i see far more lawyers in other specialty fields being laid off than those working in IP. typically IP firms are boutiques anyway and their clients are rather large and consistent with the amount of work they require.
Go to law school. I'm telling you, you will make bank. IP law is lucrative. I recommend law school to any science undergrad. There are tons of IP jobs out there and the field is growing fast. There are so few individuals who are science-minded that choose to go to law school and the IP jobs require this science background. I was a programmer and a web designer for many years but chose to get my BS in Economics because I was worried the CS field was dying out (this was right around the time all the jobs began being outsourced). Once I got to law school and found out that taking the PatentBar requires an undergrad degree in the sciences field, I wanted to kick myself... hard. IP lawyers are doing interesting work and making big dollars. My recommendation is goto law school and focus on becoming an IP lawyer for a computer company.
sounds more like an invasion of privacy tort to me than libel. plaintiffs counsel is (i think) referencing the 'public figure' exception that allows slightly more leeway in what may be said about one who holds oneself out to be a public figure. malice is an added element the plaintiff must show when the plaintiff is a public figure. the media can use this element as a shield from liability.
1) a confidence level of 95% w/ interval of 10% isn't very good. you show me just one business operating on that level and i'll show you a bankruptcy filing.
2) the fact that the survey was 2/3 women seriously skews the results. at least 50/50 would be acceptable, but to derive more useful results it would be best to fit your population to demographic studies (ie. gamers that play violent games)
having said that, i still agree that, yes, you can still draw something useful from the study. just not something very relevant.
looks like you have a heck of a lot of responses. just thought i would add my own. i think the best to teach kids would be some simple C or work with visual basic. i always enjoyed object oriented programming when i was younger. it was easier to grasp.
agreed, and this has nothing to do with the glider bot which is at issue in the case.. rule 42 would work the same way, had he brought this suit separately and then attempted to join with the mdy/blizzard case. the standard is the same though, and it wouldn't have worked thru either avenue. im wondering what happens to this suit though. does it get dismissed w/out prejudice so he can file again separately?
I have a feeling they won't be able to locate "Elson John", "Area 69", or the "Kyoto Protocol", the first because it's spelled wrong, the second because its the wrong number, and the third because it's a treaty and you can't sue a treaty. i wonder whether this list has any rhyme or reason to it, or whether it's just nonsense he randomly thought of. HAHA "verne the mini me" that one just makes it for me.
so usually its a good idea to wait until your technology works before you market it, but they must have just skipped that phase. typical searches yield about half the results of google. im sure all of the extra pages in their index are spam/phish/malware related.
I was curious and checked out the wikipedia article about suicide. The author states that, "Wikipedia was one of the most prevalent sources of information, particularly on suicide methods."
First of all, wikipedia is one of the most prevalent sources of information on any topic. That's the whole point.
Secondly, I would find it very surprising if you didn't know that you could kill yourself by: shooting yourself, asphyxiation, toxification, smacking yourself in the head with a bat (or a train), slitting your wrists, drowning yourself, starving yourself, etc. I'm pretty sure every person in the world is well aware that all of these activities will lead to death, it's not some big secret that you have to go to the "suicide methods" portion of the "suicide" page on wikipedia to figure out.
so what's he going to do when he documents everything up until the point he started documenting. will he document the fact that he spent all his time documenting his life? its kinda like when you turn the webcam towards the screen and watch the live video feed - its like going into a tunnel to nowhere!
Good point, but just because the majority of SERVERS out there run linux doesn't mean it's great for the average user. A server serves but one purpose, to run autonomously and send and receive data. That is clearly a much different role than the home PC. Plus, servers are typically operated by computer savvy individuals, while the home computer is often operated by someone with limited computing abilities. There are big differences that make your comparison less than useful.
In support of the earlier post, regardless of what colors the model T was available in Henry Ford is still famous for saying "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black" (although it is disputed whether he actually ever said this).
Can you give me a reference to the info about the model T being available in other colors? I couldn't find anything out there in support of that statement.
I agree, I think this stuff could be rather useful. No one said soldiers have to use the map WHILE they are in the middle of a fight. What about before and after? What about during a fight when no one is currently shooting at you but you are trying to figure out where the rest of your men are located? This whole line of argument about the problems of using the equipment "while you are being shot at" just doesn't fly with me. Soldiers are out there being shot at about 0.1% of the time. Don't get me wrong, 0.1% of a 2 year tour is a heck of a lot of shooting - but it still isn't enough to make this technology useless.
I agree they should be allowed to run the lights in emergencies and not be allowed otherwise. The problem is, who has the burden of proof in showing this was an emergency or not an emergency? Are we going to force police officers to prove, in court, that they were on an emergency call and had to run the red light? Think about how many red lights police officers run on a regular basis, I would imagine it's quite a few. This would entail higher court costs (which our gov. won't like), it will leave police officers fighting tickets in court all the time (which our gov. won't like) and therefore it would leave less officers on the street (which citizens won't like)... So I wonder if there really is a peaceful medium in this situation.
I doubt that police officers keep detailed logs of their daily activities. It's possible they keep track of the substantive activities that take place during the day, but I doubt they have a log of exactly what hour/minute/second they began and finished their drive to whatever police related activity they were headed to. It makes sense to hold police officers to the same laws as citizens, unless they have a compelling reason (emergency) not to be held to these laws, but how will we prove there was no compelling reason and who has the burden of proof? The idea of guilty until proven innocent that another poster referred to earlier will surely come into play in this aspect as well if cops are made to defend each ticket they get.
yeah i fail to see how these OLED tv's are going to compete. they are worse in every way, and will be ridiculously overpriced. what is the point in developing these sets? what are their advantages?
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they wont be bringing suit in that court again...
legally they cant take patients in if they cant do an adequate job treating them. i wouldnt be surprised if some of their regular staff was busy fixing the medical records. therefore they were probably short on workers and also unable to keep adequate medical records for patients. this is a big no-no in the health care industry. bottom line is that a hospital may send patients elsewhere if they cannot adequately treat them (ie. overcrowded, don't specialize in the needed area, etc.). They must, however, be sure not to send patients away simply based on that patient's ability to pay - so long as the hospital is eligible for federal funding of any sort (ie. medicaid, medicare). I don't see this as a situation where they are "dumping" patients. Therefore, it's both legal and smart. Failure to correctly treat patients could lead to huge malpractice suits. no one wants that.
the closer you got to central america, the smaller the "border" would be.. you've got the idea!
thats temporary. every industry is laying off people right now. and for that matter, i see far more lawyers in other specialty fields being laid off than those working in IP. typically IP firms are boutiques anyway and their clients are rather large and consistent with the amount of work they require.
Go to law school. I'm telling you, you will make bank. IP law is lucrative. I recommend law school to any science undergrad. There are tons of IP jobs out there and the field is growing fast. There are so few individuals who are science-minded that choose to go to law school and the IP jobs require this science background. I was a programmer and a web designer for many years but chose to get my BS in Economics because I was worried the CS field was dying out (this was right around the time all the jobs began being outsourced). Once I got to law school and found out that taking the PatentBar requires an undergrad degree in the sciences field, I wanted to kick myself... hard. IP lawyers are doing interesting work and making big dollars. My recommendation is goto law school and focus on becoming an IP lawyer for a computer company.
sounds more like an invasion of privacy tort to me than libel. plaintiffs counsel is (i think) referencing the 'public figure' exception that allows slightly more leeway in what may be said about one who holds oneself out to be a public figure. malice is an added element the plaintiff must show when the plaintiff is a public figure. the media can use this element as a shield from liability.
less is more, my friend. i'd toss the resume in a second if it came with an affidavit attesting to anything longer than 2 sentences.
1) a confidence level of 95% w/ interval of 10% isn't very good. you show me just one business operating on that level and i'll show you a bankruptcy filing. 2) the fact that the survey was 2/3 women seriously skews the results. at least 50/50 would be acceptable, but to derive more useful results it would be best to fit your population to demographic studies (ie. gamers that play violent games) having said that, i still agree that, yes, you can still draw something useful from the study. just not something very relevant.
looks like you have a heck of a lot of responses. just thought i would add my own. i think the best to teach kids would be some simple C or work with visual basic. i always enjoyed object oriented programming when i was younger. it was easier to grasp.
this would operate under 20(a)(1) as well, no?
agreed, and this has nothing to do with the glider bot which is at issue in the case.. rule 42 would work the same way, had he brought this suit separately and then attempted to join with the mdy/blizzard case. the standard is the same though, and it wouldn't have worked thru either avenue. im wondering what happens to this suit though. does it get dismissed w/out prejudice so he can file again separately?
well thats scientific proof right there, lets get on top of this, fellas!
I have a feeling they won't be able to locate "Elson John", "Area 69", or the "Kyoto Protocol", the first because it's spelled wrong, the second because its the wrong number, and the third because it's a treaty and you can't sue a treaty. i wonder whether this list has any rhyme or reason to it, or whether it's just nonsense he randomly thought of. HAHA "verne the mini me" that one just makes it for me.
im suspicious of anything that has 'space-age materials' ....
i have a feeling this is the real reason. great thinking outside the box.
so usually its a good idea to wait until your technology works before you market it, but they must have just skipped that phase. typical searches yield about half the results of google. im sure all of the extra pages in their index are spam/phish/malware related.
The first two cases cited are from 2006, hardly recent.. Also not relevant.
I was curious and checked out the wikipedia article about suicide. The author states that, "Wikipedia was one of the most prevalent sources of information, particularly on suicide methods."
First of all, wikipedia is one of the most prevalent sources of information on any topic. That's the whole point.
Secondly, I would find it very surprising if you didn't know that you could kill yourself by: shooting yourself, asphyxiation, toxification, smacking yourself in the head with a bat (or a train), slitting your wrists, drowning yourself, starving yourself, etc. I'm pretty sure every person in the world is well aware that all of these activities will lead to death, it's not some big secret that you have to go to the "suicide methods" portion of the "suicide" page on wikipedia to figure out.
two days old is fine with me. we've had stories on here that were two years old and posted for the fifth time. im happy with a two day old first post.
so what's he going to do when he documents everything up until the point he started documenting. will he document the fact that he spent all his time documenting his life? its kinda like when you turn the webcam towards the screen and watch the live video feed - its like going into a tunnel to nowhere!
Good point, but just because the majority of SERVERS out there run linux doesn't mean it's great for the average user. A server serves but one purpose, to run autonomously and send and receive data. That is clearly a much different role than the home PC. Plus, servers are typically operated by computer savvy individuals, while the home computer is often operated by someone with limited computing abilities. There are big differences that make your comparison less than useful.
In support of the earlier post, regardless of what colors the model T was available in Henry Ford is still famous for saying "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black" (although it is disputed whether he actually ever said this).
Can you give me a reference to the info about the model T being available in other colors? I couldn't find anything out there in support of that statement.
I agree, I think this stuff could be rather useful. No one said soldiers have to use the map WHILE they are in the middle of a fight. What about before and after? What about during a fight when no one is currently shooting at you but you are trying to figure out where the rest of your men are located? This whole line of argument about the problems of using the equipment "while you are being shot at" just doesn't fly with me. Soldiers are out there being shot at about 0.1% of the time. Don't get me wrong, 0.1% of a 2 year tour is a heck of a lot of shooting - but it still isn't enough to make this technology useless.
I agree they should be allowed to run the lights in emergencies and not be allowed otherwise. The problem is, who has the burden of proof in showing this was an emergency or not an emergency? Are we going to force police officers to prove, in court, that they were on an emergency call and had to run the red light? Think about how many red lights police officers run on a regular basis, I would imagine it's quite a few. This would entail higher court costs (which our gov. won't like), it will leave police officers fighting tickets in court all the time (which our gov. won't like) and therefore it would leave less officers on the street (which citizens won't like)... So I wonder if there really is a peaceful medium in this situation.
I doubt that police officers keep detailed logs of their daily activities. It's possible they keep track of the substantive activities that take place during the day, but I doubt they have a log of exactly what hour/minute/second they began and finished their drive to whatever police related activity they were headed to. It makes sense to hold police officers to the same laws as citizens, unless they have a compelling reason (emergency) not to be held to these laws, but how will we prove there was no compelling reason and who has the burden of proof? The idea of guilty until proven innocent that another poster referred to earlier will surely come into play in this aspect as well if cops are made to defend each ticket they get.
Anyway, this is all too 1984ish for me.
yeah i fail to see how these OLED tv's are going to compete. they are worse in every way, and will be ridiculously overpriced. what is the point in developing these sets? what are their advantages?
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