I've heard the story about cast members of the same "species" grouping together. At first I'm tempted to merely believe it's apocryphal or at best a random observation repeated until it became a truth. Usually it's used to illustrate some truism or other about race.

But now I think there's a logical explanation. The members of any film who have significant speaking roles is at best maybe 10 actors, often much smaller. The remaining cast members are extras, used to fill out scenes where more bodies are needed to tell a story.

PotA is basically a costume drama and even the extras spend a lot of time in costume and make up as well as being grouped together for filming. It would stand to reason that the actors who are a specific species would spend a lot of time together, especially on-set. Standing around waiting to shoot their scenes, in costume/makeup, possibly even being given direction by the director or AD as a group since they were expected to act in a group or a special way as a member of their species.

So it would stand to reason that the people who spent the most time together would get to know each other well and would also choose to spend time together. I'm sure the gaffers congregated together, the camera people and so on, like you'd find at any job site where the IT people sit together in the cafeteria or the marketing people, etc.

And not allowed to roam and kill songbirds.

deal with it

jellomizer is jeiiomizer and is crapflooding this topic for some reason.

My working assumption is that, at least in the US, you're limited to the telemedicine providers your insurance company provides, so you'd be calling the same one who would have access to your medical history.

Usually telemedicine is bogus, for hypochondriacs, helicopter parents and women with bladder infections.

Prescriptions are limited to antibiotics for those with compelling easy diagnosis like the aforementioned women with bladder infection histories.

The ones I've seen advertised on HR bulletin boards at companies I've visited always say they won't prescribe any narcotics or other "controlled substances" (gee, aren't all prescription drugs controlled substances if you need a prescription?).

While this makes sense it also doesn't, since there are plenty of conditions that are extremely painful but neither life threatening nor worth a trip to an emergency room on a weekend. A 2-3 day supply of Percocet to ameliorate the pain of a back injury until you can see your regular clinician won't create or enable anyone's addiction.

Until telemedicine gets over its paranoia about drugs its just not worth the effort.

Well, there's obviously a calculus to this. If you don't have sufficient cell data, signal or high speed data then wifi would make a better choice.

If I'm traveling for work I will at least try the hotel system even if it costs money. If it works reasonably well (speed, signal quality, reliability) and doesn't require constant reconnection I will end up using it. If it ends up being slow or unreliable I will switch to tethering.

For personal travel, I might fool around with it if it's free but I often just default to tethering. I for sure won't pay extra for it on personal travel and free wifi in tourist type areas usually sucks anyway because you end up with a ton of kids and teenagers trying to stream media making it only marginally useful.

I kind of thought this is what everyone did anymore -- tether to LTE phone and just skip whatever stupidity the hotel supplies. It's more than adequate for email, web browsing, and remote access. Any multi-gig downloads needed would happen on a remote server anyway.

If I'm on business, I'll usually try the hotel connectivity to see how it is. Unfortunately the annoyance is often more than just weak wifi, it's periodically losing connectivity and having to "sign on" again through some kind of portal page, passwords that don't work, etc.

I've never even bothered with Netflix streaming in a hotel. I just assume it would never work, either due to deliberate filtering or because it's just overloaded.

While this makes sense in simple, easy to type in Excel, dollars and cents numbers, how is it good for productivity?

Nearly every place I've ever worked where the company appears more interested in exploitation the quality of work suffers. The really talented people leave. The decent people do a lot less and the crappy people even manage to be even crappier.

The quality of the work product sucks.

I think the major sports leagues are already more sophisticated than you think.

I read someplace that major league baseball has some kind of video database where you can call up any player and see them hit, field, etc. They're so obsessive about coding the video that they enter fan signs the cameras focus on.

Or taken a lot longer to sort it out and then move on to FreeBSD.

Joe seems very intuitive to me and has just enough power as a text editor to give you free range of config files and basic scripting or even a couple hundred lines of Perl. I've always found vi impossible; the command/editing modes never made sense yet Joe seemed to work "like normal."

I made an honest effort to master emacs, but it always seemed like effort and I always went back to Joe when I needed to get something done.

I actually went trolling recently for a win32 text mode version of joe (which I swear I used to have) but couldn't find one.

What exactly is this automating? The whole point of cruise control is to not require your feet on the pedals.

My Volvo has distance sensing cruise control. It won't hold the lane for me but it doesn't turn off cruise when I take my hands off the wheel, either.

It sure sounds familiar. I think it often starts with the military/epidemiologists doing something that SHOULD work, but somehow goes wrong...

Is Microsoft Ireland an independent company with its own ownership, or is it a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft?

If you had the money/resources, you could create these things by the thousand and bulk-mail these to major companies. It would stand to reason that somebody would end up plugging them into their office computer, enabling a back door.

You could go even further and create hacked 5 port switches or access points and ship them off to big company branch offices, where users may be more likely to ignore standards or be short on resources and use those kinds of things anyway. You could put a return label on it for the office supply company or even the HQ office so that users thought it was something they had gotten by accident.

I'd bet in a lot of cases people would just say "sweet" and go ahead and use them in the office, giving you a back door. A switch or access point would have enough space inside that custom hardware could be inserted giving a lot better back door, like having your own computer on their network.