My wife has MS and is taking Rebif. The last time that I checked, our insurance was covering almost $5k/month for the cost of Rebif. That would equate out to almost $300k over 5 years which is 3 times that cost of the treatment. After having to deal with insuracnce companies for the 8+ years that my wife has been living with this, I feel confident that they would rather pay the $5k/month than the one payment of $100k.

This would be good in the trucking industry, delivery services, emergency services, etc. Basically anything where your employees are out driving around all day.

They can neither confirrm nor deny if they are telling you the truth or lying to you.

I assume that would be if you got your coffee from a coffee shop. But in that case, I think that the $4 for 3 cups would be a little low.

I think that everyone is looking at the problem wrong. It is not any issue with Linux that it is keeping it off the desktop. It is the average user. Given the choice, the average user will pick windows over linux, not because it is better but because of name recognition. So unless you drastically discount the cost of a PC with linux compared to the exact same computer with windows, the average person will choose the windows computer becasue that is what they know and what everyone else has.

That is how it starts.
Step 1) get everyone used to the device for recording basic info. But no worries, the data is all yours (Unless we decide that we "NEED" it)
Step 2) Oh, we are just going to add GPS data. But no worries, the data is all yours (Unless we decide that we "NEED" it)
Step 3) We are going to add networking so that when you get into an accident the police/fire/medics can be automatically notified with the exact location. But no worries, we promise not to store or use the data for any other purpose.
Step 4) Start automatically sending tickets based off of data collected from black box.

Nope, I can't think of any negative outcome of this bill.

It is amazing what people can get used to. for example, just 10 years ago we would have been bitching about gas prices above $1.50. Today you are happy if you see gas prices around $3.20. In just 10 years they have more than doubled the acceptable price. Or look at how quickly people stop complaining about new TSA policies.It only took a few months for people to stop complaining about the full body scanners and accept them as part of modern travel.

As long as CBS paid him for the work, then he should not be able to retain the right to the work. If he wanted to maintain the full rights to the work, he should have not taken the money from CBS or he should have put it in his contract that he retains the rights to all the works that he wrote.

What's wrong with being an anti-social nut? I thought that was a prereq of being a good systems administrator.

Does this mean that if you get devorced or stop having a mortage, you get to go back to 27 or 28 yrs old?

For postage paid return envelopes, I have a a nice shredder that has a real nice cross cut. I take everything that we sent including the original envelope and shred it. I then put the shred into the prepaid envelope and send it on its merry way.

I did the same thing to a phone sales rep. I had him on the phone for almost an hour asking questions and never once agreeing to anything. The whole time that i was one the phone i was also playing games on the computer. He got pissed off when in the end I told him that I was not interested and he demanded to know why I kept him on the phone for an hour if I knew that I was not going to buy anything. I tried to explain to the dipshit that he was the one that called me not the other way around. He proceeded to yell and scream at me over the phone while I laughed at him before he finally hung up or someone disconnected him.

The other fun thing to do is to answer the phone and then when they start talking just start doing something like giggling, laughing, screaming or breathing heavy and see how long they will stay on the line.

I was not in a charitable mood. There were no warnings to the lay-offs. They actually called me on my day off and told me over the phone that I was laid off and that I needed to report to HR in the morning. My account was disabled before they called me. During the outprocessing the lady from HR actually had the nerve to ask me how I had liked working for the company and she was actaully shocked when I would not say anything nice. As for being sued, it never even crossed my mind. I know that I did not do anything to the system to cause the problem. Actually, thinking back on it, I wish that they would have tried to sue me. They would have definitely lost and I could have then counter sued for defamation of character.

Back in 2001, I worked for a company where I build a system that outputted a report that went to all the management up to the VP of the company. I was the only one that had access to the server and I had all the passwords. A couple weeks after they laid me off, the VP stopped getting his report and no I did not cause it to break :). When he asked my old manager about not getting his report, my manager had to explain to him that they only person who knew anything about the system and had all the password was laid off. They actually had the nerve to call me and ask if I would give them the passwords and help them fix it. I laughed and told them I would for $1000/hr. They never got the system working again.

And yes, I already know that I can not spell.. hydorgen=hydrogen and helinm=helium

It has been a while since I took astronomy so I am sure that I will get some corrections, but I will give it a shot.

Right after the big bang, the universe was mostly made of of just hydorgen and helinm. Most of the rest of the elements are produced by stars. During its life and depending on how big the star is, the fusion process in the star can produce elements up to iron (I think). When the larger stars (I think it is about 10 times the size of our sun and greater) die, they go supernova. This explosive process produces the heavier elements and also dstributes them back out into the universe and in time they become the stars and planets in other solar systems like ours. So we are made from the remnents of dead stars.

Let the corrections begin :)