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Don Edwards
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Medical care is never free. Cannot be free. Who pays for it, though, varies - with varying results. The sort of system that has produced great results in MANY fields is to have the costs, the benefits, and a large chunk of decision-making authority all land on the same person. Naturally, hardly any government in the world permits that sort of system to be the norm in regard to medical care. The resulting horror stories vary, in part based on the form and extent of government meddling, but every country has them. At least in the US we don't get "this condition will kill you in six months unless we do some surgery... oh, we can schedule that surgery for eight months from now." Which sort of thing, I've heard, is not that unusual in Britain. Instead we get insurance companies denying coverage for treatment that would alter a condition from debilitating to a nuisance. (And a few years ago I was on a medicine that my insurance covered, with a $15 copay for a month's supply... and was also available without prescription, for $6 for a month's supply.)
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Rudyard Kipling and Leslie Fish offer a possible explanation...
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The assassin has a deadline?
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required) (Content TV-MA)
Don Edwards replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
I'd say it's virtually certain that the $0 insurance payment is for one of two reasons: 1) The hospital hasn't actually sent the claim to insurance (yet - verify that they got your insurance info?). It's been no more, and probably less, than a week. 2) The insurer hasn't finished processing it. They've had even less time, and may not even begin until the 1st of the month. -
A complete meal, I believe, is supposed to be 3-6 servings of various things.
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"You can play against me. No prizes. The practice will make you better prepared to play against others, where you might win prizes."
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Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)
Don Edwards replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Martha Stewart went to prison for failing to figure out that her stockbroker was illegally using insider information on her behalf, without her knowledge or consent. The broker turned state's evidence and got his wrist slapped. -
If I recall correctly, 3 short pieces of an alto clarinet are what go into a clarinet case. Along with some spare reeds and a little container of cork grease. And a small rag attached to one end of a stick which is a bit longer than the longest piece of the clarinet.
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Everyone is weird. Details vary.
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There's the option of an external fan... for testing, any cheap household fan and a place to set it & the drive so the fan is blowing on the drive. Then if that works but is overly inconvenient, you can explore other possible arrangements. I've had to do that a couple times, with an SSD dangling off the edge of the table by its cord (which helpfully means there's air on all sides of it) and the fan on a chair. SSDs slow down when overheated, writing to them heats them, and when you're writing multiple gigabytes...
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I've found an odd thing about my favorite cookies. Two of them, is enough. Three of them, is not enough.
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I'm skeptical.
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"Rain shower" normally implies one or more short periods of rain, each one probably only over a small area. The alternative is when it rains continuously for hours over a large area. (Or, in the US's Pacific Northwest in winter and spring, continuously for a few days and totaling half an inch.)
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Heh. I did this in '22 on another forum... ♩♩♫♩♬♪♫ Don’t take your warmth away from me Don’t you leave my arms all shivery ‘Cause I wish the night’s not through And waking up is hard to do. Remember when you held me tight Warm blankets wrapped all through the night So sound asleep the whole night through And waking up is hard to do. They say that waking up is hard to do Now I know, I know that it’s true Don’t say that this is the end Instead of waking up I wish that I could fall asleep again I beg of you, don’t make me glower Can’t we stretch the night just one more hour? Come on bed, I’ll stay with you ‘Cause waking up is hard to do. (original gets repetitive after that)
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Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)
Don Edwards replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Well, when someone discovers a hole in safety rules, they draft a new rule and expect everyone else - not just the dummy who found the hole - to comply with it. Not hard to expect that the same would apply to security rules. And the people drafting the rules are not paragons of virtue and wisdom. They're people, just like the dummy who demonstrated the hole. -
My speculation is that the spellbook entry for a spell that a Wizard learns by observation is... nonexistent. And Jay is observing spells she hadn't seen before, at a far higher rate than we've seen any of the marked folks acquire spells. So presumably a substantial majority of her spells are learned rather than acquired.
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"I said, "Mr. Purple People Eater, what's your line?" He said, "It's eatin' purple people and it sure is fine" Hard to interpret that as NOT saying that the Purple People Eater eats purple people. Given that, there's nothing in the song that definitively says the creature is, or isn't, purple.
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Hope isn't going to cast a "modern knowledge" spell, or anything similar, unless and until she perceives a need to do so. Granted, that need might come in the form of "okay, just to shut you up" - cast - "oh shit you're right."
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Di Ku is credited with inventing several musical instruments and writing lyrics to many songs, with the music for them composed by his assistant Xianhei
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Note that the song is NOT specifying what color the creature is. Explicitly, it's a creature that eats purple people.
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Nonviolent tornadoes are pretty rare...
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I've heard it described as "feels like I'm being fucked up the nose by a tree."
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Discussion of Military, real or fictional
Don Edwards replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
I wouldn't say the Libertarian Party actually supports Russia. However, I would say they are excessively isolationist. -
Care to try to prove that we all aren't figments of some author's imagination?
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Post-mortem dumps (explosive devices)