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Comment Re:New meaning to blue screen of death? (Score 1) 214

Only 3.5 hour wait for an emergency room visit? That's freaking awesome. I had to take my wife to Parkland county hospital in Dallas, TX once because of no health insurance. We waited 13 hours to get seen by a doctor just because her blood sugar had spiked to over 600. And the old lady next to us had to wait just as long to get seen for a broken hip.
The best thing?
Parkland is one of the better county hospitals in the nation.

Comment Re:Some appointments are forever! (Score 1) 366

Part of the reasoning behind the McDonalds damage awards was that McDonalds did an estimate on how many people would suffer sever burns as a result of them raising the temperature of their coffee to levels that were clearly unsafe and also studied the cost of settling lawsuits to see if the increase in revenue from selling coffee at increased temperatures was worth it. IANAL but my brother is and this is how he explained it to me. The punitive damages awarded by the jury were equal to the one day's worth of increased profit McDonalds made by raising the temperature of their coffee to unsafe levels and knowingly disregarding the safety of their consumers.

Comment Why so angry? (Score 1) 841

I'm not sure why everyone is so upset with the NRA. After all, they only started doing this after we clamored for them to. We had people in the streets calling other Americans traitors for opposing the "Patriot Act" We DEMANDED that they spy on us, and now we are mad at them for doing so. Perhaps that is part of the reason why their morale is low.
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Ask Slashdot: Easy Wi-Fi-Enabled Tablet For My Dad? 370

An anonymous reader writes "I'm looking to pick up a tablet for my father. He is in his 70s and the internet is a bit of a mystery to him, but he asked me about a way to send/receive email and watch online videos. He is not interested in getting a smartphone or changing his cheap phone plan that doesn't include data. But he is interested in getting a tablet and using the free Wi-Fi that is available in his building. Here is my question: can you recommend a tablet equivalent to those phones with the big numbers that they sell to older people? Does there exist a tablet with an interface that would be simple and easy to use for someone who has very little experience with computer GUIs?"

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