Comment Re:One thing to consider... (Score 1) 82
Alaska law requires it. Presumably Washington state requires it (at least some clerk told me that, I did not bother to look through the statue books).
Alaska law requires it. Presumably Washington state requires it (at least some clerk told me that, I did not bother to look through the statue books).
No, they aren't the same but it points out that you have to give a health care facility quite a bit of information before they let you in the door. Sometimes you can get away without giving them your SSN (as if that would help), other times no.
Some states do put the SSN on the driver's license. One stop shopping!
Oh, and why is it always a 'sophisticated Cyberattack'? That wording is exactly the same as in the letter I recently received outlining the Primera BC/BS data breech" which happened over a year ago. Must be the same nasty cyber criminals. Or maybe the same unpatched SQL injection bug from 2005.
Don't work. In a number of states you HAVE to give the registration desk at the hospital your SSN. Otherwise you are in violation of some idiot state law. Sure, you can get emergency care by forgetting your name and SSN, but try to get some normal health care and yet another obstacle will be tossed in your face.
Federal law now states you have to give the desk a 'government issued ID' for ANY care.
May I see your passport, please?
Plus, if this were to be implemented, how would they handle out-of-state visitors and tourists?
Given that this is Oregon, it would be perfectly in character to have border stations where you have to sit and watch a two hour indoctrination video about the People's Republic of Oregon, get tattooed and chipped and have a transponder attached to your car.
For a small fee, of course.
No, you don't do that. Because if you do, you end if with an endless argument of 'wants' and 'needs'. We don't 'need' florists, so we can tax their truck. We 'need' McDonalds, so we won't tax theirs.
One of the many roads to hell is paved with value judgements.
That is marketing. Very, very good marketing in fact.
It's just an 'armless little bunny.
Why does everything have to do with weed? It could be a pipe, a cigarette, but no it has to resemble a joint. -- Is Slashdot a bunch of potheads?
When you're stoned, you go with the flow. Joints are much easier to model using Blender (or similar programs) than complex structures like pipes and needles. The mockup in TFA is rather eerie - 80 foot high joints balanced over a moody desert scene. You half expect Johnnie Depp to come running on to the stage shooting randomly at non existent bats.
Maybe that will be in the trailer.
"If this is an emergency, hang up and dial 911".
Oh. Wait.
Nah, TL;DR.
It's going to be about sex.
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Yes, they can get back on man rated Soyez. No booster required. But then the can't bring another crew up until the rescue capsule is replaced by - wait for it - another Russian booster.
Yo nerd! I heard you like passwords on your passwords.
The NSA.
Make sure your code does nothing gracefully.
