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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: cb951303 on Tue, 26 January 2010, 06:17:47
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http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/50-greatest-computer-workstation-pcmac-setups/
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most of those were pretty bland
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most of those were pretty bland
I attribute it to the excessive Macness except in one.
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I find nothing great about those "workstations." I'd rather work somewhere that, while organized, isn't so sterile. Also, lulz at the collection of craptastic mac keyboards :)
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The Macness had nothing to do with it, except that it may indicate that a lot of Mac owner may be more concerned with appearance more than function and I seem to remember that there is some data to support that. None of them were truly "great" workstation setups. They mostly fell in the category of expensive workstation setups, but a lot of them weren't very functional.
Whether you are working on a Mac, a PC, or even both, the way your workstation is setup tells more or less about your attitude and style of working. The workstation could also be your source of inspiration, therefore you might want to put in more thoughts on the place that you’ll spend most of your time at.
Here's what those workstation tell me about the cool kats who work behind them. They're all suffering from neck pain, eye strain, and are losing productivity due to an assortment of chronic orthopedic injuries.
There's one huge thing missing in almost all of the setups: the chair. That's one of the most important pieces of the workstation. Total fail.
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I find nothing great about those "workstations." I'd rather work somewhere that, while organized, isn't so sterile. Also, lulz at the collection of craptastic mac keyboards :)
Oh yeah... chairs and how could I forget keyboards? LOL. Utter total fail.
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Conclusion #1: Function doesn't matter if the form is right.
Conclusion #2: Burning as much power as you possibly can makes you cool.
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I like "bland" setups. Getting rid of the clutter is good for productivity, IMO. I hate "messy" setups.
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Great workstation photos. Not necessarily great computing setups. Big difference.
But fair dues to people who plan for neatness. And the one with three vertical displays deserves recognition for actually doing something different.
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I think my 'before and after' (http://geekhack.org/showpost.php?p=141894&postcount=1007) was fairly dramatic.
Let it be known that it's now much, much worse.
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That looks nice n' warm... a bit more cluttered that I like, but to each his own!
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"A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind."
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Me too.
Where's Waldo?
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"A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind."
So that's why people always tell me I'm a "sick bastard."
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So that's why people always tell me I'm a "sick bastard."
Lol. There are exceptions but you either stack and polish the tools all the time or you use them. At least from my point of view, I have never had nicer desk than in times when I could not find enough contracts.
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Now assuming that ADHD is a real condition... would you assume that I have a clean or messy desk, based on the theory that the organization of your mind is mirrored on your desk?
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My mind is too focused on what Im doing to really care about the mess around me. Takes a while to convince myself to clean stuff up.
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The greatest thing about this thread is the blonde on ripster's desktop.
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I think I took a panoramic picture of the workspace just before I lastly cleaned it. T'was all piled up -- junk over junk. :s
But although I mostly work in a rather messy environment, I always like to keep a big empty space between me, my keyboard, mouse and monitor.
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OH WOW are they being sarcastic or what?!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steveembleton/2424235236/ -> this is like a common gay art student's setup.
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/05/31/now-thats-a-mac-mini-pvr/ -> and yeah this is the ideal way to get some REAL work done. :hail:
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Haha following some of those links...
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Hehe, nerdcore. :lol:
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Was the "Before" pic before you were into mechanical keyboards, Ripster? I notice you're using an asstastic Dell in that first pic and I don't see any other keyboards laying around.
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Nothing to brag about, by any means, but it's where the development happens. And occasionally, some gaming. Ignoring the camera flash, which has borked the image somewhat... I normally have soft lighting coming from a single lamp off to the left.
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b81/_Sirocco/reps/battlestation.jpg)
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Nice copy of Zelda!
What's your favorite programming language?
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The greatest thing about this thread is the blonde on ripster's desktop.
I personally want to see the rest of the poster on the wall above the desk.
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Nothing to brag about, by any means, but it's where the development happens. And occasionally, some gaming. Ignoring the camera flash, which has borked the image somewhat... I normally have soft lighting coming from a single lamp off to the left.
Jeebus! Do you have a third arm coming out of your chest? How do you type and use a mouse like that? Having an "Easy" button from Staples Office Supply can't help this challenging situation that much.
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What's your favorite programming language?
If I had to say favorite... I guess that would be C. But I could be confusing familiarity with favoritism ;) ASM is fun because you can write stuff that ~95% of programmers won't be able to decipher, but it's not exactly fun to write.
Jeebus! Do you have a third arm coming out of your chest? How do you type and use a mouse like that?
It's a lot easier than it looks. When I'm writing code I can go for a very long stretch without ever using the mouse. I also do a ton of gaming, so as someone who is left handed I've got the mouse to the left and the arrow keys on the right. If I'm just trolling for pr0n, that's largely a mouse-only activity, so again... no problem. For a right hander this setup would be intolerable.
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I personally want to see the rest of the poster on the wall above the desk.
Seconded.
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You guys talking about me?
That's art, it's only for Webwit (http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=2393&stc=1&d=1241631580) because it's ART, not porn.
Yeah, last time webwit dispalyed "art," I was at jury duty. I couldn't navigate away fast enough.
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You should have shown it to the judge and asked for an opinion of Porn vs Art. A wise Latina would know.
This is Texas. Do you really think there are any Latino judges here? I would have been put in jail for that pic.
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I live in CT, where Sotamayor made a controversial ruling where New Haven firefighters, who scored the highest on their promotion exams, were denied promotion because there weren't enough black firefighters scoring high on the exam.
And then, old Barack Obama put her in as a Supreme Court justice! Look where our nation's gone...
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And then, old Barack Obama put her in as a Supreme Court justice! Look where our nation's gone...
It is amazing how the world suddenly took a nosedive on January 20th 2009.
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All Obama has done is put Sotamayor in as a Supreme Court justice, advocated the quick passage of crooked health-care legislation, passed a budget with a deficit about as large as the deficits in all 8 of Bush's budgets, capaigned for losing candidates for N. J. governer and Massachussets senate, and won the Nobel Peace prize for basically being the first black president and a liberal.
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It is amazing how the world suddenly took a nosedive on January 20th 2009.
Yeah, it's not like there was any national debt, banking problems, or any of us was unemployed before the pres took office.
I made a ton of money in the stock market last year.
Wall street always wins when a democrat is in office. Linky (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/10/14/opinion/20081014_OPCHART.html)
As of (October 2008), a $10,000 investment in the S.& P. stock market index* would have grown to $11,733 if invested under Republican presidents only, although that would be $51,211 if we exclude Herbert Hoover’s presidency during the Great Depression. Invested under Democratic presidents only, $10,000 would have grown to $300,671 at a compound rate of 8.9 percent over nearly 40 years
Edit: why isn't the [sarcasm] tag working? Goddam right wing BBS software.
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Yeah, all our problems as a nation sit on the shoulders of Barack Obama. We were a wonderful country with great foreign policy before he took over.
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Well everyone has to put food on their families.
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Things could have been worse. You could have voted in McCain... You'd have spent a month listening to him rant about "them gooks" before he turned senile, died, and you all ended up with President Soccer Mom.
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Hey! You don't live here in the US so butt out of our politics.
McCain would have been a much better president than Obama. He's old and cranky, but he's more honest than Obama and was against the stimulus packages, which put our country over [1,000,000,000,000] more into the red. In addition, he wouldn't have alleged 9/11 conspirators tried on U. S. soil, nor would he have advocated a shady health-care bill that would increase health-insurance costs for the middle class and hurt the best health-care system in the world.
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Hey! You don't live here in the US so butt out of our politics.
Well, ever since your country decided to rule the world, it's everyone's problem really.
hurt the best health-care system in the world.
How exactly has Obama damaged the Swedish health system?
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MW, totally out of line, I'm sorry but you are.
The government of the US is everyone's concern. Much like IE6, the very existence of some aspects of the US endangers everything else in the world in one way or another.
One benefit of your up-and-coming much better healthcare system: Americans will stop marrying Canadians to get our tax-funded healthcare.
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over $1,000,000,000,000,000
a thousand trillion?
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Ok, I'm not going to debate politics with a 16 year old, but there's one thing I've got to set straight because it drives me nuts everytime I hear someone beat their chest and proclaim that THE UNITED STATES HAS THE BEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD! It sounds nice, but there's a problem with it.
It's misleading. It's easy to believe that we do because people from around the world travel to get medical care in the USA. That must mean we have the best system, right? Not necessarily because while we arguably have the best healthcare technology in the world, the system for delivering it to the people leaves much to be desired. It's possible that the USA has the best healthcare industry in the world, but it's hard to objectively say that it's the best system for keeping its citizens healthy at a reasonable cost.
You see, people from around the world actually did and still do come to the USA to get treated, but they do that because they have the money to afford the kind of extensive care that most Americans can't actually enjoy themselves. These people pay through the nose to try out super cool high tech gizmos and get operated on by neurosurgeons who make more money in one year than you'll probably ever see in your lifetime. Thank goodness for medical tourism too because if it weren't for super rich non-Americans, a lot of our hospitals would have to close down because they wouldn't be able to survive financially.
After I left my career as a Physical Therapist, I accepted a job that allowed me to tour and document some of the most innovative medical centers in the USA and I got a lot of opportunity to interview the brains behind those operations. almost all of them had healthy foreign marketing campaigns to lure international business to come over so they could subsidize their bottom line and stay afloat. The foreign "business" was critical to their survival. They couldn't afford to only treat Americans.
The healthcare system in the US is fantastic... if you're very rich. For everyone else it's a mixed bag... it's not a ****ty system by any means and anyone who tells you that our healthcare is awful is also not telling the whole story, but it's increasingly hard to get really good care unless you have plenty of money.
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Well, ever since your country decided to rule the world, it's everyone's problem really.
How exactly has Obama damaged the Swedish health system?
The USA has one of the world's best health-care systems. Here in the US, for over 90% of the population, doctors who perform complex operations and procedures are much more readily available than they are in nations such as Canada with socialized medicine. In the US, we don't have to wait months for surgery. People come here to the US from all around the world to receive the best quality care. Now, that doesn't mean it's perfect as it does have its flaws. Now, I don't know too much about the Swedish health-care system, but I'll do some research and touch bases with you all on that.
About foreigners talking about US politics-I've heard many people who don't live here talking all about how our country should be run based on little information. In other countries, people simply don't receive the same amount of information about what goes on here in the U. S. government as us Americans do. Now there are exceptions where people do extensive research on events in the U. S. political system.
The USA also does not "rule the world". Our military helps out other countries, and we provide by far more charity and aid than any other country on the planet. Who overthrew Saddam Hussein, a ruthless dictator who committed genocide against the Kurds and gave millions a new chance at life in a new, democratized Iraq? Who's in Haiti right now providing more life-saving rations of food to earthquake victims fighting to survive than any other country? It's America.
Now, our military has intervened in some situations which I do not agree with, but we have also helped far more than any other nation.
a thousand trillion?
Sorry. I need to touch up on my place value. Thanks for letting me know about that though!
Now, as we all can see, this thread has clearly derailed. To help get it back on topic, I posted a link to my setup on that page the first post linked to. I bet it's the only one with a good keyboard.
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Edit for clarity: recall I am CANADIAN please.
...Here in the US, for over 90% of the population, doctors who perform complex operations and procedures are much more readily available than they are in nations such as Canada with socialized medicine. In the US, we don't have to wait months for surgery...
Only part of this I'll digify with a response, since the truth needs to be known and your biased media refuse to reveal reality.
"WRONG"
There, truth said. From someone who has used the system and knows people who've used every level of it.
But sure, believe what your media tell you...our system sucks, there's nothing good about it, people wait in line for four hours to see a doctor in a walk-in clinic.
That's why I can leave home (on a city bus no less) to a clinic at 1PM and get home at 2PM after having an ingrown toenail cut out (that includes the trip to the pharmacy and obtaining prescriptions).
It's only experience talking here, not like that counts for anything...
This is about as OT as anything has ever gotten around here, so I'll do my part and stop replying on the topic of healthcare.
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Well, if you save all your money for your medical bills and stick with the same computers for 20 years then sure, I'm sure you will get seen right away.
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Edit for clarity: recall I am CANADIAN please.
Oh, so that's why you're such a bastard!
I'm just kidding. I'm a huge hockey fan and my wife used to live in Victoria.
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the reason why so many doctors are readily available in the US is because nobody can afford the operations lol. Anybody who thinks what we have now is better than other options is delusional and should be admitted to a mental facility but oh wait they wouldn't be able to afford it haha.
also having to pay out of pocket ( "copay" ) for stuff when you have insurance is just stupid, why the hell have insurance at all.
to stay on topic
(http://project777.darktech.org:8080/wakaba/thumb/1261504308104s.jpg)
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And to think this all started with one lame Wise Latina crack.
Yeah, damn that itln- "all things being yellow" -stln
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Who overthrew Saddam Hussein, a ruthless dictator who committed genocide against the Kurds and gave millions a new chance at life in a new, democratized Iraq?
(http://blog.reidreport.com/uploaded_images/abu-ghraib-leash-715453.jpg)
Who's in Haiti right now providing more life-saving rations of food to earthquake victims fighting to survive than any other country? It's America.
Well, if any news report I've read is to believed, it's more like "Who's sitting around in heavily guarded bases with lots of aid, but doing very little?"
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Yeah, the US has the best health care in the world. For the majority of the population, anyway. UNFORTUNATELY it's all because of **** like actuarial risk taking, retrospective reimbursement, and other money-making schemes on the part of insurance companies.
We have the best health care because we have the best equipment and doctors. We have that stuff because we can afford it. We can afford it because we screw people out of their hard-earned money just to keep them alive. Never mind preventative care... that's not a good way to make money either. It's better to let people destroy their bodies, then charge them to fix it.
Oh, and for expenses... only 1% of total US health care cost is attributed to malpractice insurance. Defensive medicine accounts for another 4%. The biggest contributor to rising costs is the effect of "rate spiraling", in which declining coverage leads to higher costs, and vice-versa.
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This. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8474611.stm)
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zOMFG webwit changed his avie.
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Prepare to spend a long time browsing. Those are exquisite photography.
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Just (http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html) after Costa Rica and just before Elbonia.
The World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems was last produced in 2000, and the WHO no longer produces such a ranking table, because of the complexity of the task.
Which implies that the list ment **** even when it was made.
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Just (http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html) after Costa Rica and just before Elbonia.
It must be noted that the WHO rankings are largely based on the % of citizens given health care- not the quality or modernity of treatment. This isn't a criticism of the WHO system, but it should be kept in mind.
My personal health insurance plan is hugely ineffective. I have a pre-existing condition, and with every doctor's visit I am subject to a $60 co-pay, along with a percentage of any costs that come from testing and such. All of my medications are available generic and cheap, which is fortunate. New drugs would cost me a bundle.
IMHO the US would benefit from a health care system based off of the Swiss model. This isn't likely to happen, but it's a remote possibility considering that reform must come from the top-down.
If the US could start from scratch (which they cannot), Singapore's system would be ideal. It's possibly the most efficient system on earth, combining the best elements from Bismark-style systems, single-payer systems, and the "pay-as-you-go" American model.
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Health facilities in the US are very modern, the have the nicest workstations i've ever seen (keeping this on-topic)- new computers, the most expensive equipment, comfy beds and excellent service.
I used to head up to Canada every 6 months for prescriptions. They have the nicest doctors in the world there- not even kidding. They are really dedicated to their work, from my experience, and you can tell that they became doctors to help people, not get rich. Their equipment leaves something to be desired, though. Clinics that I've visited in Canada seem really cheap- Rickety old chairs and walls that haven't been painted in years. They're understaffed, and you'll see computers that look straight out of the early 90's. Comparable to your average "Free clinic" in the States. It's refreshing to walk into a Canadian drug store though. They actually sell medicine there. Wow. American drug stores seem to be good for buying greeting cards, junk food, plastic toys, batteries, etc... like mini wal marts. It's disgusting.
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Link's busted, Mr. Wit
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Just (http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html) after Costa Rica and just before Elbonia.
Any list that considers the UK and Irish health system in it's top 20 is obviously horrendously mistaken.
Health facilities in the US are very modern, the have the nicest workstations i've ever seen (keeping this on-topic)- new computers, the most expensive equipment, comfy beds and excellent service.
DOCTOR: I'm sorry, but you have cancer.
PATIENT: Is there anything you do?
DOCTOR: No, but check out my pimpin' SLI rig!
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Any list that considers the UK and Irish health system in it's top 20 is obviously horrendously mistaken.
But your doctors drive Audis and live in million dollars homes (according to Moore).
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I broke my arm and hand back in november, and I'm out $70 or thereabouts for the treatment. That's pretty okay by my standards. Included three x-ray sessions, one of them being a CT scan.
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How long did it take for you go get treated? I'm interested.
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Datapoint: US Healthcare.
This week my 4-year old saw an emergency room doc within 30 mins when she broke her thumb. He didn't actually touch her for another hour because he had just treated a contagious person, but by the time he was back to us we had xrays and a splint on the thumb.
This was FAR faster than my nurse-trained wife thought we'd get her seen. We were not displeased.
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ricercar, do you have medical insurance?
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Money perhaps being a delicate subject here, but you'd get the same thing here minus any expense save for the splint.
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It just occurred to me...should probably mention each province has a different system, so when I say "you'd get the same thing here", that means in the province of Ontario with an OHIP card (issued to all Canadian citizens living in ON as I understand it)
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Certainly no laughing matter - one of my great aunts met her end when she came down in the middle of the night for her cough bottle, but took some horse medicine instead...
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One problem with the emergency room system is whenever there's an automobile accident, people get sent to the hospital over a bruise or a small cut, and are put at a higher priority than people who really need urgent care.
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I blame Obama.
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How long did it take for you go get treated? I'm interested.
Seeing as I went to the emergency reception, it took perhaps 5-6 hours in total over 3 visits.
Why?
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One problem with the emergency room system is whenever there's an automobile accident, people get sent to the hospital over a bruise or a small cut, and are put at a higher priority than people who really need urgent care.
There is no way to automatically know that it is just bruises and small cuts, and not also internal injuries.
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Oh, I see what's going on here...
Hey Kode, how much did you have to pay to get your arm fixed?
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I blame Obama.
Millions of people in the US without healthcare and all he is trying to do is to help and the people are rejecting his solutions. What a strange bunch of people.
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ricercar, do you have medical insurance?
My girl does: public dole Medicaid (MediCAL? I can't remember the name). We chose the hospital on that basis.
whenever there's an automobile accident, people get sent to the hospital over a bruise or a small cut, and are put at a higher priority than people who really need urgent care.
Not so. Every competently-run emergency room has a Triage Nurse evaluating patients who enter.
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Oh, I see what's going on here...
Hey Kode, how much did you have to pay to get your arm fixed?
like I said earlier, about $70 in total.
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Which implies that the list ment **** even when it was made.
Yet it bears an uncanny correlation to the list of life expectancy by country. The U.S. is around 37/38 depending which list you look at. Not impressive for a country that believes it has the best healthcare in the world.
Possibly more down to diet than healthcare, but still relevant.
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Yet it bears an uncanny correlation to the list of life expectancy by country. The U.S. is around 37/38 depending which list you look at. Not impressive for a country that believes it has the best healthcare in the world.
Possibly more down to diet than healthcare, but still relevant.
JSYK The averages for life expectancy are very controversial when used as a talking point in overall health care quality.
Correlation != Causation. There are dozens of causal links in a nation's average life expectancy, from domestic politics and environmental factors- to race, ethnicity, religious practice, and cultural norms. Then again, I'm a stupid pig American. Nothing I say is relevant, so I'll just end this with we have the bomb.
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The real question, spolia, is who set up you the bomb?
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JSYK The averages for life expectancy are very controversial ...
Correlation != Causation. There are dozens of causal links in a nation's average life expectancy...
Hey Spolia, smart insights... BTW, what's your background in?
Yeah, there are so many ways to read the life expectancy numbers but one thing that you can't conclude from it is that the US Healthcare system is so elite that it's able to overcome possible deficits in lifestyle and diet.
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Lol, my only background is a few sociology courses in community college, Thanks for the compliment though :)
I pay pretty close attention to the health care debate... mostly because of its personal effects on my family. There's really no two sides to this debate. Opponents of universal health are wrong. Usually, they're either brainwashed talk-radio listeners or union slobs scared of having to share an emergency room with 'poor people'. Health and education should be free and available to anyone who requests it. No questions asked.
My mom had to spend over $60,000 out of pocket because she had breast cancer. **** the insurance industry. **** them in their stupid asses.
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The real question, spolia, is who set up you the bomb?
these guys
(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=7643&stc=1&d=1264981117)
they're pretty cool guys. they am become death and doesn't afraid of anything.
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Millions of people in the US without healthcare and all he is trying to do is to help and the people are rejecting his solutions. What a strange bunch of people.
There's more to it than that. Maybe you should read the bill.
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these guys
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they're pretty cool guys. they am become death and doesn't afraid of anything.
I lol'd...
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There's more to it than that. Maybe you should read the bill.
We've got time. Surprise me. Tell me what some of us are overlooking.
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All I know for sure is that everyone wants healthcare to be available, and have to pay for it one way or another(insurance, tax or direct payment), so it makes sense to make the service available in the most cost efficient and fair way possible. This is one area where private enterprise simply does not shine.
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The French are number one on that list, and also have the bomb.
touché
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There's more to it than that. Maybe you should read the bill.
you are so awesome.:lol:
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Lol, my only background is a few sociology courses in community college, Thanks for the compliment though :)
I pay pretty close attention to the health care debate... mostly because of its personal effects on my family. There's really no two sides to this debate. Opponents of universal health are wrong. Usually, they're either brainwashed talk-radio listeners or union slobs scared of having to share an emergency room with 'poor people'. Health and education should be free and available to anyone who requests it. No questions asked.
My mom had to spend over $60,000 out of pocket because she had breast cancer. **** the insurance industry. **** them in their stupid asses.
Well, kudos... it looks like you were paying attention in that sociology class.
While I'd like to see more people have access to healthcare and education, my personal belief could be summarized by a quote I read somewhere that said something like this:
Evolution takes a lot more time than a revolution, but a lot fewer people have to die.
Any complex system that changes too fast risks collapsing the infrastructure needed for those changes to succeed. I have no love for private insurers... even non-profit ones, but they are needed for the foreseeable future in the American healthcare system and I say this as someone who's self employed and pays $700/month in premiums to cover just myself and still pay $100 per doctor's visit because my $700/month plan does not let me see the doctor I've had for many years before I enrolled in my current plan. Needless to say, something is very wrong with this equation, but there are things that are wrong with the American healthcare system all across the board. Waxing off private insurers will satisfy a lot of righteous anger, but probably won't really solve enough of the many deeply ingrained problems to make such a risky proposition worthwhile.
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Back to the topic!
(http://www.shrani.si/f/3O/TJ/1qiPbZsN/1/3.jpg)
Girl included.
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I went on that site and posted my set up at the end. It's the only one with a good keyboard.
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I looked at all those setups, they are all Macs, they are no good.
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Depends on how you quantify 'good'. If you mean that they aren't beige, then yeah, sure.
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ASM is fun because you can write stuff that ~95% of programmers won't be able to decipher, but it's not exactly fun to write.
It's not the same assembler, but I work on code every day nobody can decipher.
I think Perl and APL lead the pack in opaque code. I don't know if it's true of Perl, but you can write APL that even you can't figure out a week after you wrote it.
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Well, ever since your country decided to rule the world, it's everyone's problem really.
Sticky!
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Well, if any news report I've read is to believed, it's more like "Who's sitting around in heavily guarded bases with lots of aid, but doing very little?"
Ah well, it depends on whether you catch me on a good day or not ;)
Minus the aid of course, even on a good day.
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It's not the same assembler, but I work on code every day nobody can decipher.
I think Perl and APL lead the pack in opaque code. I don't know if it's true of Perl, but you can write APL that even you can't figure out a week after you wrote it.
you mean obscure not opaque? Perl is pretty straightforward since it is rather new but APL is definitely not reader friendly.
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Depends on how you quantify 'good'. If you mean that they aren't beige, then yeah, sure.
Just because the computers are good doesn't mean the set-ups are. Take a look at the keyboards on them for instance.
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Back to the topic!
Girl included.
nice illustration. do you know the painter?
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Not really. Found that in the random pictures folder.
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Soda cans give it away; she must be Sandra Bullock in that old hacker film. I always wondered how she maintained her figure eating the pizza and fast-food **** she's portrayed eating.
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Soda cans give it away; she must be Sandra Bullock in that old hacker film. I always wondered how she maintained her figure eating the pizza and fast-food **** she's portrayed eating.
Bulimia.
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you mean obscure not opaque? Perl is pretty straightforward since it is rather new but APL is definitely not reader friendly.
I don't know, I've seen some Perl obfuscations that look pretty opaque to me. Never coded it myself, so I'm sure that doesn't help but man! It seems to lend itself to being used by guys who pride themselves on job security or terseness or both.
I coded APL in the old days and it's something you really have to stay on top of. It's easy to lose track in your own code, something I don't think I've ever done in any other language. Come back to even good code you wrote a while ago, forget it!
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I have written some very long queries in SQL before that have nearly gotten me lost, but careful commenting (who the hell does that, anyway?) and structure keeps things sane. Really, though, I could write more simple queries using volitile tables, but where's the fun in that?
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The worst SQL you can ever write will be more readable than the average Perl script ;)
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Agreed. I have a Perl script scheduled in CRON to change a filename when it finds its target file. Even that looks pretty unreadable for how simple it is. I am no programmer, to be sure, but when I was first told to start building web-based reports/apps, I had a choice to use C# or VB.NET (yes, I had to use MS stuff). I, ultimately, went with VB even though it is more verbose since it was easier to read and follow for a non-programmer.