Comment Re:Anti-bacterial soap will kill you all. (Score 4, Funny) 333
Well, they're not so bad after a run through the autoclave.
Well, they're not so bad after a run through the autoclave.
Sony did a good job with a "justaphone" they recently released, the Naite.
I bought one a few months ago for around $120. No contracts, basic phone, no sliding, good screen, some free games that are good, bluetooth, a decent camera, small form factor, and really good battery life. It even accepts standard microSD cards, if you need it.
The free Sony management software is really pretty good, too. It offers phone backups, you can send/receive text messages through your machine while it's plugged in, and it didn't come with a lot of BS carrier lock-in stuff.
Check it out, it's been perfect for me.
I don't know about the GP, but I also only applied to one school. I put in my application in September or October, had a reply before Christmas, and had a very relaxed Spring semester.
Had I not been accepted, I still had plenty of time to think about "fall back" schools or other options.
Or that they have a good sense of humor.
Like that one school I saw a flyer for:
"Attend Harvey Mudd! Then you tell people where you went to school can say it quickly and make people think you were saying, 'Harvard Med!'"
What exactly was distorted by saying that the plan called for panels of beauracrats who would decide who got treatment and who would not (and therefore die)?
Well, for starters, it was a provision to provide Medicare payments once every 5 years for an optional consultation with a person's doctor to go over end of life issues such as Hospice care, living wills, and other related topics.
Here's a quote from Wikipedia because this is Slashdot and not a formal debate:
Palin's death panel remarks were based on the ideas of Betsy McCaughey. During 2009, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin wrote against alleged rationing, referring to what by her interpretation was a "downright evil" "death panel" in current reform legislation known as H.R. 3200 Section 1233. However, Palin supported similar end of life discussion and advance directives for patients in 2008. Defenders of the plan indicated that the proposed legislation H.R. 3200 would allow Medicare for the first time to cover patient-doctor consultations about end-of-life planning, including discussions about drawing up a living will or planning hospice treatment. Patients could seek out such advice on their own, but would not be required to. The provision would limit Medicare coverage to one consultation every five years. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., who sponsored the H.R. 3200 end of life counseling provision, said the measure would block funds for counseling that presents suicide or assisted suicide as an option, and called references to death panels or euthanasia "mind-numbing". Republican Senator Johnny Isakson, who co-sponsored a 2007 end-of-life counseling provision, called the euthanasia claim "nuts". Analysts who examined the end-of-life provision Palin cited agree that Palin's claim is incorrect. According to TIME and ABC, Palin and Betsy McCaughey made false euthanasia claims.
I removed some citation stuff and bolded that one sentence. Palin was intentionally and in my opinion maliciously misrepresenting a vital service that everyone should be informed about. The worst time to learn about the intricacies of funeral homes, hospice care, living wills, powers of attorney and all of the other things that can crop up when someone's dying is when it's actually happening!
There is an entire industry on informing expectant parents on their upcoming child.
There is very little when it comes to options for caring for a family member who is getting older.
Nope, my family went through a rough patch a while back when my grandmother passed away suddenly. My mom had been trying to get her to talk about this kind of stuff, but she never got anywhere.
Don't forget that the right wing mouthpieces had their part in affecting the debates. The whole "death panel" debacle was completely distorted rhetoric on something very sensible and important: end of life planning and counseling. Which was proposed by a Republican and accepted until it became too much of an albatross to carry.
Grocery stores and gas stations both have products that are easy to steal and difficult to catch without video proof.
What is there to steal at a movie theater? The seats? More than your share of the large soda and popcorn?
Sure, there is some risk of someone capturing a "screener" of the movie, but IMO that's not worth the loss of customer goodwill that is already strained with sub-par feature films, expensive ticket prices, even more expensive refreshments, and spotty disciplining of bad behaviour.
I can only hope I remember to remind my kids of this newest loss of privacy when they start dating in a few years.
You didn't even need Fireball. Just hunt around until you get an Apocalypse staff and run around nuking people behind walls. Recharge the staff when you're done.
I was able to kill everyone except for Diablo in D1 without dropping the walls, and even the big guy himself only took a few pops to drop.
What I hated the most about D1 was the fact that if you died in multiplayer, some joker could rush over, gank all your gear, and you're left with nothing.
But he's also considered a villian HERE, because of his actions as shown in the documentaries.
And since it happened long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I think it's not totally inaccurate.
If I'm doing a full backup/data dump of gigs at a time, it's a bit faster to just plug in and go than wait for everything to make it over wifi.
Those kinds of tricks are fine for Google, where there's a ton of folks who don't care or won't notice (gmail UI changes and the left panel on the search results in particular), but I think it's kind of funny that they're trying it here, in a place that's known for users with strong DIY tendancies, grumpy users, and useless frippery-type changes.
It took me about a minute to get it back the way it should be, but I really wish they'd announce the changes and let us decide to check it out.
But it does work after you give up and resort to reading documentation.
Heresy!
I'll give it another look. Thanks for the head's up.
This doesn't always work the way you would expect it to.
I have an older, but perfectly functioning Canon USB scanner that I primarily use to deposit checks into my bank account.
When I upgraded to Windows 7 I thought I could get the scanner running with XP Mode. Nope. If Windows 7 doesn't see it, XP Mode can't see it, so even though my scanner works fine in XP, it won't in XP Mode.
I used to work for a State government, and I hadn't seen a bona fide raise since around 2003. The only pay bumps I got were when I changes jobs, the last of which was in 2006. My pay was actually negative because the money I might have gotten as a raise went instead to health insurance. If it weren't for my outside consulting gigs, I would be in some serious financial trouble.
I finally jumped ship into the private sector a few months back, so we'll see how it goes.
"Just think, with VLSI we can have 100 ENIACS on a chip!" -- Alan Perlis
