You don't need a scanner that costs "5 figures". You need something between a ScanSnap ($500) and an fi-6140 ($1,500). You can also look for used/refurb...

I can tell you for sure that a severe electrical shock boosts my spatial memory! As in, every time I even get near that cabinet, all sphincters clench.

Sigh, "M-16 variant", not "M-1 variant". I hate this laptop keyboard.

Hell, the US Army is seriously considering removing full-auto from the standard weapons provided to infantry--something about panic and burning through ammo-and going to a new M-1 variant that only offers single- and burst- fire.

Well, before all the /. pansies come out of the woodwork with 10 million bogus reasons why in some kind of hypothetical break down between government an civilians the civilians could never ever prevail over the military, let me just say a few words: Egypt, Libya, Syria. (Romania, Poland, Afghanistan in the 80s...)

First off, starting with its parent Next, OS X has always been designed to portable. We know they had x86 support years before the changing world of CPU price/performance meant they actually needed to ship it. We know that most of OS X's foundations already runs on ARM anyway--you know iPhone & iPad. I'd be shocked if they don't have internal versions still running on PowerPC. I wouldn't be surprised if they have internal versions running on SPARC, nor if there were an Itanic version floating around somewhere.

Now, put on your thinking cap and ask yourself this question: what does it mean that they tasked an intern with updating ARM support??? HELLOOO... It means that keeping the current version running on ARM is an extremely low priority.

FYI, I work in medical IT, so I know how it all works... The insurance company rep stated that the provider would not allow them to disclose fees for a hypothetical procedure, and I immediately assumed that this was a lie---though for what purpose I cannot figure out, because although I'm on a high-deductible HSA and they wouldn't pay anything directly, blowing nearly all of my deductible for the year on a simple office visit leaves them at risk for having to pay for medical care later, and thus is very much against their interests.

The erroneous code was input by the dr I believe--it's actually very similar to what was done (draining a subungual hematoma via cautery needle vs via incision), but I still wondered if it would make a difference. Dr. agreed to waive the charge anyway, but it's been months, and the facility has not managed to produce an updated bill, and the physician's practice corp has not yet managed to send me a single bill, ever, for a visit last June. (The first go-round they somehow reverted to sending bills to an address from 4 years ago. That was supposedly corrected months ago, but still no bill.)

It boggles my mind how incompetent some billing depts are. Bear in mind, I work with people in medical billing. The ones I work with are competent. I just don't know how some of these other fucking idiots get and keep jobs.

As far as ICD-10, yeah, Ernst & Young wants to know if my software will be ready. Are you kidding me? 7 digits vs 5 in the software is so NOT the issue ;-)

The really awful problem with iCD-10 is with Medicaid not being ready for the conversion, but Medicare and other insures not budging on the deadline, so practices are going to have to support both for an indeterminate amount of time. What a gagglefuck.

Yeah, United Healthcare billed me for months, and threatened to send the account to collections, after I cancelled my policy. Nothing like having the letters side by side, one acknowledging the effective cancellation date, one billing for the next month, and one threatening to send the account to collections ;-)

And yet, when I was billed an outrageous amount for a minor thing, and noticed that the wrong CPT code had been billed, and called my insurance company to ask what the charge would be for the correct code, the miserable fuckers told me that their contract with the doctors would not allow them to disclose that information to me.

I was talking about the deep south, where I lived for well over 20 years. No one is afraid to admit to being Catholic, but you damn sure don't go around telling people you're atheist. The level of "danger" from the two is not even remotely comparable. Southern baptists may debate whether or not they consider Catholics to actually be Christians (seriously, they do), but... Hell, why am I even arguing??? Anybody who thinks the issues with being Catholic are anywhere near the issues of being atheist is delusional, and the definition of delusion is a belief that is held regardless of contradictory evidence. I quit.

Nope, sorry. Dogs have short attention spans--even the most highly trained ones. You can use them to spot-check a specific area or persons, but you cannot have them screening all day long, nor even for an hour. So this would require a huge quantity of expensive, rare, dogs--because it takes years to train them, you can't just ramp up "production" of bomb-sniffing dogs.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??? In many areas of the country you don't dare even breathe a word that you might be an atheist except to your closest few friends, and then only when you've known them for a few years. In those places the majority of people automatically equate "atheist" with immoral, unethical, and bordering on evil. Now, you tell me, in which state you would be afraid to admit to people at your work place, your clients, or your new friends, that you are a Catholic priest?