It's not that we don't like seeing sick old people, it's just that sometimes sick, old people, are tired of being sick, old people. They are in chronic pain, they are incontinent, they have skin break down that doesn't heal. They frequently fall and break bones, sometimes time after time after time. Why should someone who is in chronic pain, constantly shitting themselves who doesn't have the physical strength to turn themselves in bed or possibly finish a meal because they are too tired, be forced to go on simply because their body doesn't know it's time to quit? If a person decides they've had enough, why is that not good enough for you to accept? The summary and accompanying articles states very plainly that the law says it has to be initiated by the person involved and that they have to make that statement 3 times. What part of that are you not getting?

4 days after release the Chinese will be selling the things on ebay for 4 bucks a pop anyhow, as long as you can wait 2 weeks for it to ship from Honk Kong.

Me thinks if Putin and his thugs aren't a bit more careful, they could start the 2nd coming of democracy in the former Soviet Union.

The thing is HIPAA laws only allow that they have a system in place through which you can get those results. They do, it's through your doctor.

Here's what's even MORE dumb. I'm a nurse, and if I went into my hospital due to a medical issue or sickness, I'm not even allowed to look up my own results. Hows *that* for stupid. I'd have to go through a medical records request at discharge like anyone else. I'd be fired if I didn't and someone found out.

Any entity that collects medical data on you MUST provide a way to get you copies of that information. If he really wants the data that badly, I'd contact a lawyer and pursue it from the HIPAA angle. Chances are very good there's probably not a hell of a lot of information in it. If he's really worried about it, he should contact his cardiologist and have them order an interrogation the pacer. Pretty simple stuff really and that way its covered under insurance..(probably unless there's no medical reason to do so). They probably aren't going to come out and interrogate it in the home, because they fiddle with the settings to make sure its working right and for that reason it needs to be done only in a setting where he's on telemetry and has medical staff standing by.

Make a EULA that states you can charge for responding to errant take down notices.
Respond to every take down notice with a bill for hourly services rendered.
Profit??

Ugh Why is it I never have Karma when I WANT karma? Alan Dean Foster is my favorite author bar none. I LOVED the Spellsinger series as a teenager. So many others: Flinx and his minidragon Pip, Dinotopia, The Man who Used the Universe. Foster is awesome. If you've never given in to reading any of his books, do yourself a favor and treat yourself to an afternoon reading one of his novels!

Im not sure if I should laugh at this or what? You start your sycophantic rant with "Asperger little faggot" and then end it with "Homosexuals are being legally harassed.....some people have a conscience..." Did I really just read this?

I just wasn't impressed. I liked the voice acting, the 'universe' was alright. I just found the character development to be a bit lacking, the 'cities' to be stretched out solely for the sake of being stretched out and the architecture to be..well...boring. Cityscapes were boxes upon boxes upon boxes. Would I play it again for free with limited access...mebbe. Would I pay for it again if I got access to everything? Sure..for 5 bucks a month.

The problem with all of these subscription based MMOs is that everyone wants you to fork over 50-60 bucks and then pay 15 bucks a month for a subscription. That's just greed. Just because it worked for WoW does not mean that it needs to be the price point for every MMO ever made. If it had only been 5 bucks a month, I'd probably still be playing it, despite some of its flaws. I might have even gotten farther into it...*shrugs*. At 5 bucks a month, I'd probably still play WoW too. 15 bucks a month isn't really a lot of money, until you consider you might want to play 3 of them, with a family of 3 or 4.

Actually, No, the main use of 3D nowadays is to produce content that uses depth. With the exception of kids movies and horror flicks, hardly any of the new 3D movies has any of those atrocious 'coming out of the screen at you' gimmickry. Personally, I like seeing the depth in a film, Glad I was an early adopter.

I think I'll wait to see what kind of sales are driven by the release of Titanic, the Pixar back catalog and a non exclusive release of avatar before I'd start going on about the death of 3D.

I do believe someone missed the joke :P I promise to make it more obvious next time ;-)

On a side note, can anyone tell me why all of the ads I see are for AT&T?

ATI has pure shit for 3D support and so does Nvidia. With Nvidia, its like 40 bucks for a downloadable driver fix that you can install 3 times for your 40 bucks. ATIs native solution depends on developer implementation and so far the only game that *should* work natively with my new HD 7870 card (Deus Ex), doesn't even give me the option to turn stereoscopic ON.

With 40+ inch passive TV screens now in the 500 dollar range, they'd be wise to start pulling their heads out of their collective asses and start providing some real support before the latest generation of consoles hits.

I live in Arizona, You can go 40 miles at a stretch here without turning the wheel (seriously..) on I-10. Speed limit here is 75, Cops don't care as long as you're under 85, (or look illegal, but that's another topic). Set the cruise control at some where between 83-84 range and slip into the fast lane, getting right as people roll up on you. It's really not that hard to do. I'm surprised most people don't use cruise more seeing as it's usually pretty standard in any car of the last 20-30 years. The ones that really drive me crazy are the ones that speed up when no one's around them, then slow down to a crawl when passing a truck or other cars... ...argh....

Ok, so now you know someone is gay. Big deal. How does that *really* affect you? I'm totally curious to know how many brain cycles you actually waste thinking about this sort of crap and how it affects you on any personal basis.