The only intermix ratio is 1:1.

A dead patient is no longer a source of revenue.

Big Health has no interest in curing you but also doesn't benefit from killing you.

Their ideal strategy is to drip-feed you the most expensive and ineffective medicine while keeping you in a vegetative state on life support.

Mostly UK taxpayers.

Perhaps. But the government needs to burn up those tax pounds on something, and this is better than bombs.

"I'm here live . I'm not a parrot." ;)

They're intelligent social animals. Even just a change in eye contact from me alters my Amazon's behavior. He's incredibly attuned to my posture, tone of voice, mannerisms, etc, to clue in whether he's going to e.g. be getting a treat or scolded for misbehavior or whatnot. I can't imagine that a video without that back-and-forth would stimulate him.

I don't watch TV anymore, but he used to just tune it out. Rather, he'd tune into *me*. He'd laugh at the funny parts of shows and the like, not because he understood the humour, but because he was paying attention to me, and I was laughing, so he wanted to join in. And then I'd react amusedly to his taking part, he'd get attention, and getting attention was in turn a reward to him. They like getting reactions to the things they do. A video won't do that.

And yeah, he understands what screens are - same as mirrors. Some smaller psittacines are known to strongly interact with mirrors as if they're other birds, but in my experience, the larger ones don't do that; they quickly learn it's their reflection and stop caring. As a side note, I actually tried the mirror test with my Amazon twice, but each time I got a null result. You're supposed to put an unusual mark or lightweight object on their head where they can't see it, put them in front of a mirror, and if they interact with the mirror like it's another animal, they don't recognize it's their reflection; while if they use it to try to preen the hidden mark/object, it's a sign of recognition. But my Amazon didn't give a rat's arse. I might as well have put him in front of a wall for all it mattered; he gave the mark zero attention. Didn't care about the reflection of a bird. Didn't care about the mark on his head. Just sat there waiting for me to put him back on his cage :P I couldn't get him to interact with the reflection at all. Nor does he react to birds on TV. By contrast, he'll VERY MUCH interact with a real bird (he hates them all... he's very antisocial with nonhumans).

Fixed that for you. ;)

Also, on a more serious note, I know it runs counter to modern day TV, but I would argue the very last thing Trek needs to be is a franchise. TNG was novel because it was all that was on the air at the time. By the time they got to ENT the franchise was burned out and ratings reflected it. I have a lot of issues with NuTrek, but I do really enjoy SNW, can find redeeming things about DSC, but if they try to make it into the Trek version of the Marvel Universe or copy what Disney has done with Star Wars they're going to burn it the fuck out.

Greenshot can be launched via PrtScn too....

AI isn't really appropriate for the way the police would likely use it, and that's a potential liability for MS if they don't forbid it.

The last thing they need is for the AI to 'creatively' add in some details resulting in an innocent person's unreasonable ordeal at the hands of the police. People who suffer that tend to want to sue, for understandable reasons. If the police claim immunity and a judge/patsy buys that, that leaves the software vendor as a fat target.

First... Over the many years I've said at least my share of bad things about Apple and Adobe as corporations. Maybe more than my share.

30 years ago I started a series of cartoons for a fairy tale/fantasy for my children. The deal was I would do the drawings, they would write the story. I was, as I had always been, a pencil, ink, and erase guy. About a year ago while cleaning out file drawers I came across the originals. I've picked the story back up, this time for three granddaughters.

Paper was a miserable experience. I couldn't see as well and ended up with a big lighted magnifier. My hand wasn't nearly as steady as it used to be. My technical drafting pens had disappeared during some move or another, so I had to go through the process of finding pens that were comfortable to use. My son, who does graphic design professionally, nagged at me to get with the times and draw on the computer.

I dug out the iPad and Apple Pencil that used to be my wife's and downloaded the free version of Adobe Fresco. They do an excellent imitation of paper, pencil, and ink (and can do lots of other stuff that I haven't played with). Turning on a bit of smoothing in the Fresco pen tool takes care of my hand not being as steady. Two fingers on the capacitive touch screen to do slide, rotate, expand, reduce is intuitive. A half-glove and changing enough settings to "only draw with the Pencil" lets me lay my hand on the screen while I draw. An undo button is addictive. The 10.9 inch screen is a reasonable compromise between big enough to see what you're doing and small enough to just pick it up and take it with you. Using the vector pen tool gives an "ink" layer that can be exported and uploaded to the print center at business supply stores to access their big laser printers.

I've been thinking about auditing a couple of advanced math classes at the local university. If I do, there's no question but what I'll take notes on the iPad/Pencil combination.

Of course there was the Enron exec who committed suicide by running off the road, shooting himself in the back of the head twice and then dropping the gun 10 feet away.

MRSA is nasty, and not often encountered outside of healthcare facilities. Once the infection has taken hold it's really difficult to get rid of. If someone has figured out a way to weaponize it that is NOT a good development.

That would have to be addressed on an application-specific basis. Debating the issue "in general" doesn't make much sense.

Definitely humans provide care in a way an algorithm cannot. On the other hand, when the summary does get around to mentioning what Kaiser is actually doing, it's monitoring sensors. Computers are pretty damn good at maintaining vigilance in sensor monitoring, in a way people are not. That's why we have fire alarms even though humans can also feel heat and smell smoke.

Out of less than a dozen Boeing whistleblowers two have died within a couple of months. Too many suspects though to be worth following without some definitive link between the two.

"Coincidence is the rarest beast, and its tracks look like so much else." - Illisidi in the 'Foreigner' series

Maybe among the content creators and customer support, but think of all the new open positions for root kit developers! So many paying customers without a root kit installed, yet!

So you have a unique situation where a product doesn't apply to you. Why does that make you angry? For the most households the entire household does not work from home, and smart thermostats have objectively helped people save gas and money.

Nope, no one is installing *these*. They haven't been manufactured for over a decade now, and the ones depreciated had no external control functionality for the power company.