Sign me up as another voice that watched it, but would never spend money on it. My DL of it would never translate into a sale.

Not because I don't spend money on porn. More because if I am going to put my cash into a porn film, which I have many times, it has to be more female friendly in the sex scenes. Don't get me wrong, the Batman XXX film is great in all the costuming, and details, they put in to mirror the old series. I was a happy at all details put in.

However, being female, I really try to put my cash towards porn that acknowledges females get off, and are not just props that fake orgasms for the male actors in the film. That means, I would have never paid for this film. The movies that do achieve that get my cash. Even if I don't think they will be watched more than once because I want to support an industry that does things that way.

This means my download would not have been a sale. This also means I would never have paid for it at all, unless I got to see another owners copy for free. It's far easier to assume a porn film will not fit my standards than to put money towards endeavors that don't.

So much this! I hate boss battles. I hate getting locked into some dungeon scenario when I am working on something else. I'm nearing 40. I don't care about the boss battle. I have only a couple hours to play before life calls, and yanks me back. I never think it's fun to do boss fights several times in a row.

I am not sure liability is the sole issue, though.

That is a problem, but it seems that the word "medical" causes the cost to raise to ridiculous levels. I would routinely buy velcro for keeping wheelchair cushions from sliding from a wholesale craft site. The exact same product cost 5x as much from the medical catalogs at the facility where I was the head nurse. We managed to velcro everyone's wheelchair cushions (facility of about 43, most in wheelchairs) for the same cost as one.

I agree liability is an issue, but that only goes so far when the same wingnuts and bolts cost ridiculous amounts more just because they are "medical".

Have they addressed how accessible they plan these elegs to be? After a decade of fighting for basic prosthetics for patients, as a nurse, I have this horrible cynical vision. I worry that the insurance companies will call it all experimental, like the higher end prosthetics, and refuse to cover it at all, and slapping the word "medical" on the device will raise the price out of reach, even when the technology is more mass produced, and cheaper. Leading to it being totally out of reach financially for a lot of folks that would need it.

I've had that argument about wheelchairs, walkers, you name it. Hell, I even had to argue that dialysis was NOT an elective treatment to the phone zombie. Although, to the insurance companies credit, despite cutting off coverage for dialysis, I had it fixed in an hour+ when I finally clawed my way to a supervisor.

I'm talking about US healthcare practices. I don't have any experience with anywhere else.

I got one this week for my college classes. I am not short on money, but I do have a near 2 mile walk from the inter-city bus stop to campus. That means I'd prefer to buy an expensive toy and load my textbooks, which all require online access now anyways, on the tiny device, than carry my biz law, and accounting books.

So far, I use pen and paper to take notes, but have had no problems using the device to look up pages in my textbooks, or even take online quizzes. It also entertains me in my downtime between classes. For me, it works well.

I just finished up changing my name last week in court. My estranged family have a stalking problem, which combined with the fact that I can't erase who I am on the internet created a situation where it was impossible to get away from an emotionally abusive situation. It was just far easier to just change my name so that they could not accidentally google me up.

It wasn't that I was leaving my name on the internet, but my school had an instructor that used a forum that was required for a class, with our real names. An employer had some photos online with employee names. As head nurse, I was named. I had acquaintances that called me by name on things like Livejournal.

It was just far easier to change my name to something they don't know. That way even if other things in my life use my name, a casual google search won't show anything useful. Luckily for me, my stalkers only know how to use "the google" and not anything more useful. It's the perfect time, too. I changed schools recently, moved to another state, and have so few ties to the old town I lived in, that I feel reasonably safe now. The internet just doesn't forget, so it's easier to just change your name.

You're not the only one. I got banned for a conversation in which a separate poster discussed the fact that I am female and have boobs. I go to bannination.com now. It's a cesspit of crazy, but at least the guy running it listens to folks, and actually cares that we go there.

I was just over at the consumerist article about Diaspora. A significant proportion of the commenters thought the name was a) made up, b) some weird open source acronym, or c) hard to pronounce. I don't think they are associating the word diaspora with anything.

I don't normally reply on this site, but I just had to say I love you for your series of posts here. Very well thought out, and well said. It's nice to see some of these ridiculous ill informed opinions put down.

I have to second this. I just bought that book from the Maker Shed, and it is more comprehensible to someone with absolutely no helpful electronic background. I've been doing the experiments, and it's been great.

I worked as a nurse for ten years in the geri-psych field. Even my patients with insurance could not always afford the cost of their hearing aids. When the hunting version came out, we bought a couple dozen of them, as a facility, and gave them out as stop gap measures to our patients. It worked. They could hear, and communicate. It's not perfect. I'm a big supporter of it.

Every time one of these fad supplements come out with these claims, I would see half the Alzheimers patients on my med pass get them. This sucks for a few reasons.

Firstly, there's never any real double blind studies when these things hit the med cart. Family are just hoping upon hope that the claims will work, and their family will be better. These companies prey upon that hope.

Secondly, it means I, as the nurse, have to find a way to shovel an obviously pointless (and usually HUGE) pill into a dementia patient. Often times these patients are confused and don't want to take a pile of legitimate medications, such as psych meds, heart meds, diabetic meds, and adding another big foul tasting pill on top of that starts pushing it.

Lastly, there are side effects, even if it's just an upset stomach. Piling on a bunch of useless supplements just increases the chances that there are going to be issues.

I cringe when each new wave comes around. I've seen it with glucosamine, ginko biloba, fish oil, and vitamin D. I have nothing against things that will help, but so much of it is just marketing.

I'm not surprised a desk jockey at an insurance company decided to make a medical decision on this. Insurance desk monkeys don't usually have any medical training, and become a hindrance.

I once had a patient come into the office. He was in near tears. I took him to the exam room, and found out that his insurance company (Molina in the US) had canceled his coverage for dialysis. He was a critically ill patient, and was panicking. I called the insurance to find out what was going on. I was told by the desk monkey that they did not cover 'elective' procedures. At this point I was incredulous. I tried a couple times to tell him dialysis was not a choice, and certainly not elective. No dice.

I had to argue for close to an hour to get a supervisor. This flunky was going to cut all coverage to this man's dialysis. No if's, and's, or but's. The supervisor reversed the decision on the spot, but damn. Most nurses don't have the kind of day they can devote an hour of arguing with an insurance company. The patient isn't medically trained, and certainly wasn't in a state to do it, what with being critically ill, and coming to grips that he was not going to ever get off of dialysis.

That's the worst of my experiences, but I can't say it was isolated. After ten years of nursing the episodes of crackpot crazy insurance company behavior just keeps happening more and more. It's not that uncommon.