I fail to see how this wouldn't be likely to happen under private insurance. A lot of Doctors tell people to go home to clear out their waiting rooms. Running tests may indeed be billable, but take time and require documentation.

So you're saying "hey, wear the arm band, everyone else is". I'm not having any of it and am getting the fuck out while I can. Fortunately, there are countries will to let people legally immigrate without having to get married and once you have obtained citizenship, you can go to any US Embassy and formally renounce it. Seeing that the Gov't can have a drone shove a hellfire missile up your ass regardless of your citizenship, there's really no upside to having an American passport. In fact, it might just make you safer being a citizen of an Allied Country and NOT an American, since at least most US allies take a strong exception to US thuggishness when it comes to their Citizens. In the US, they just waive their hands and bandy about terms like "national security", "collateral damage" and "guilt by proximity"

What really scares the shit out of me is that no one even seems to bat an eye at the unconstitutionality of these NSA letters that let the Government threaten, intimidate and interfere with the lives and business of law abiding Citizens. As an American, I am franticly working on fleeing this country that is rapidly becoming every bit of a Fascist Police State as Nazi Germany or the East Bloc. Secret Warrants, Secret Imprisonment, Secret Courts, Secret Lettre de Cachet from Gov't Organizations that will allow them to put you into the Secret Justice System and detain you indefinitely if you do not obey their directives. Why even bother voting? We no longer live in a free society. And the majority, even on slashdot don't give a fuck.

Not providing for your own OFFLINE BACKUPS is a reckless oversight of such magnitude that I am entirely incapable of having sympathy for these asshats. We need a few examples such as these to serve as cautionary tales for those who think the Cloud is the answer to everything.

Militarize NASA and make the liberation of the Solar System from the enemies of FREEDOM priorities of National Security. At that point Congress will be tripping over themselves put the US an additional 15 Trillion in debt in order to invade Mars and install a puppet dictatorship that is friendly to US and Israeli interests.

Damned exoskeletal robot suit's powerful robotic pincers crushed the donuts again. When will I learn?

My point was that arrogant and abusive assholes are the real problem. If you find you actually have a bonafide MORON who is lacking in overall intelligence, then why were they hired to begin with?

From the summary, it seems anyone who was at the wrong end of a bell curve should be the target of derision and abuse.
So, a perfectly capable person who comes up short in any category is now an "idiot" and should be treated as trash.

Frankly, that's a load of shit and any organization that employs people who see that as acceptable and fosters such an attitude deserves to die.

Any team members that views themselves as somehow intellectually superior and views others as idiots should be shown the door.

I don't care about Mini Months or Year Bases as much as the ability to have Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, TrialSized Dove Bar or Perdue Wonderchicken. I want opportunistic branding to penetrate every orifice of my life.

Someone's got to Hire and Manage the Engineering Team from the Pleiades.
What? You think mankind possesses the technology to build a pyramid?

He wasn't a CEO as much as he was a co-founder of one of the biggest Tech Goldmines ever.
So yeah, for him spending 2 Billion on a sports team is like you and I going out and buying a new Porsche.

2011 all over again! If we're lucky we'll get this new version of IE before 2016.
MS: Where did you want to go a couple years ago?

And why shouldn't have a moratorium and review ESPECIALLY in regards to what has come to light about how fucked the internet is in just the last year?

Why proceed blindly with a protocol that comes from Google, who gladly works hand in hand with the NSA and is a Corporation whose core focus to track and monitor every single person and thing online?

What? Just proceed with something that addresses NONE of the present mass surveillance issues, and possibly could make us less secure than we are now just because we don't have a fall back lined up?

Or how about we take this time to step back and reevaluate what HTTP2.0 needs to be -- such as changing to a focus on security and privacy.

From Websters:
suspended animation noun: a state in which the processes of the body (such as blood circulation) stop or become very slow for a period of time while a person or animal is unconscious

Websters et al create definition of words and phrases based upon what the common consensus of their meaning is. The Scientists are just making an arrogant attempt to pre-empt the inevitable media hype that will happen regardless of how they try to spin it.

Arrogant? Yes, because it shows a condescending and cynical attitude towards laymen. But doesn't matter -- we aren't all fucking morons as these Scientists think and we will call it Suspended Animation, because that is actually what it is.

I mean, nothing beats violently wasting on the digital avatars of my fellow players AND MAKING THEM DIE VIOLENTLY in order to relieve some stress after a frustrating day.

Healthy release or psychopathic tendencies? The media driven Psychoanalytic Jury is still out, but our sources say that they are leaning to full blown psychosis, more at 11.