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Comment Re:three words, one hyphen: (Score 1) 549

$900,000 in compliance costs for what ? Certainly not a standard hearing aid. I worked at a X-Ray device refurbisher for a dozen years, X-Ray devices are Class II. We had to furnish the FDA with a written description of our "Good Manufacturing Practices" (Copy of our ISO procedures) and submit yearly leakage reports (X-Rays that are not contained by the inner lead shielding). They sent a guy out once, he stayed and observed for two days and said thanks, good job, see ya........ Standard (Air Conduction) Hearing Aids are Class I and are nowhere nearly as regulated as anything that emits X-Rays. When you into implants, it gets complicated.

Comment Re:Will you ever lose your job and need health car (Score 1) 706

It is expensive because it is essentially guaranteed coverage. The company I worked for (50 employees) from 1998 to 2010 tried to set a cap at $10,000 per employee per year. At first, it was no problem even with a low deductible policy, by 2007, they had to go to a $5000 deductible and by 2010 they raised the cap to $12,000 per year and kept the 5000/10000 deductible. My wife is on guaranteed coverage now because she has Mild Gastritis, treatable with OTC medicines and a slightly painful shoulder, possibly from a lousy Rotator Cuff repair, that needs cortisone shots 3 or 4 times a year at approximately $200 per visit. "Normal" ins for her is around $400/mo. and guaranteed coverage is almost $900. Except for the year of the surgery, she has never met the deductible but still, is deemed unsuitable for "normal" coverage.

Comment Can you create something yourself (Score 1) 440

I don't know why people are recommending you use "find', "awk", "grep" etc when you clearly stated that this is a Windows 7 environment. In any case a quick VB Net program I just created processed 43,800 files in 10 seconds. It would be faster but you must catch "Access Denied" errors for Folders like "System Volume Information" - extrapolating tells me 4 million files at 4000/sec means 15+ minutes to create a file with "Path" [TAB] "Name" [TAB] "Size". Adding a hash would add significantly to the processing time but it could be done easily. Question is if you have the tool(s) and ability to create something. Once the file is crreated you still have to parse it, sort it and flag the dupes.

Comment Huh? (Score 1) 184

Where are these temperatures of 100,000 C ? - Tungsten BOILS at 5660 C and Beryllium at 2970 C - Of course, that's at 1 atmosphere pressure. Something doesn't seem right to me unless the 100K is a good ways away from the walls or the pressure inside is incredibly high (doubtful).

Comment New CEO (Score 1) 503

As you may know, Brian Dunn has resigned as CEO of Best Buy. What you may not know is that I am the new CEO and have come up with a new profit-enhancing concept. Effective May 1, 2012, all products sold by Best Buy are sold as-is, there will be no refunds or exchanges for any reason. Thanks for your continued support.

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