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Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 6:16 pm
by AlabamAlum
So, if you don't go and you get money back, should you pay extra if you go too much?

Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 7:07 pm
by Bklyn
Saint wrote: I can't say that I'm going to be upset if they overturn Obamacare, to be honest. However, I doubt very seriously that whatever replaces is going to be much better unless we get a serious grip on medical/pharm costs.
Hahahahahahaha, he said replacing it.

Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 7:26 pm
by hedge
AlabamAlum wrote:So, if you don't go and you get money back, should you pay extra if you go too much?
Yes, if you're constantly going for minor shit. But the other side of the coin is that for the doctors, you're a customer. They're going to try and squeeze as much out of you as they can as long as they've got you there...

Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 9:50 pm
by eCat
Saint wrote:I think that if you pay insurance every month but then never go to the doctor, you should get something back at the end of the year.

Also, if you do go to the doctor, why can't you just sign up for a level of care. If you're one of these namby-pambys that has to have a bunch of tests done for a little blood in your urine, then you should pay for it. But if you're like me and just want to get some quick script meds and go home, why should I have to go through a bunch of costly tests?

This whole thing is a yuge racket.

I can't say that I'm going to be upset if they overturn Obamacare, to be honest. However, I doubt very seriously that whatever replaces is going to be much better unless we get a serious grip on medical/pharm costs.

blood in my urine cost me about $12K and aged me quickly

Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 12:41 am
by Bklyn
Barbara and Jenna followed up on a letter written 8 years before...

http://time.com/4632036/bush-sisters-obama-sisters/

Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 1:17 am
by Saint
AlabamAlum wrote:So, if you don't go and you get money back, should you pay extra if you go too much?
Absolutely. We've got one Chicken Little here at work who goes to the doctor at least once a month or makes one of her grown kids or husband go. She even argues with the doctors, she proudly told me once, because they don't know as much as she does about her own body. But of course that doesn't stop her from going repeatedly and making our group rate climb ever so steadily.

Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 1:17 am
by Saint
Bklyn wrote:Barbara and Jenna followed up on a letter written 8 years before...

http://time.com/4632036/bush-sisters-obama-sisters/
That was really cool. I'd love to hear what the Obama girls are going to tell that autistic Trump kid.

Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 1:53 am
by Bklyn
The Bush girls are good people. Barbara, particularly, is just a good person.

Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 7:28 pm
by sardis
These Davos type meetings of self-righteous elite globalists just irks the populace even more.

https://www.ft.com/content/646cf682-d9b ... eb37a6aa8e

Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 12:03 am
by Saint
That link you posted took me to some elitist financial site that informed me I had to subscribe to read it.

Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 9:08 am
by hedge
Evidently sardis is an elitist subscriber...

Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 9:39 am
by Toemeesleather

Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 12:32 pm
by sardis
Saint wrote:That link you posted took me to some elitist financial site that informed me I had to subscribe to read it.
No, I'm not an elitist subscriber, but google, "A warning for the losers of the liberal elite" you can get in to read the article.

Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 12:44 pm
by hedge
The amazing thing to me is how quickly the republicans became the ostensibly populist party, and that they chose a former democrat New York billionaire to lead them in this endeavor...

Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 1:20 pm
by Bklyn
They are not...and they did not.

Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 1:47 pm
by eCat
holy shit - this is big (I think)..still why does everything take a decade?



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Electrodes implanted in the brain and spine have helped paralyzed monkeys walk. The neurologists behind the study reported that the implants restored function in the primates’ legs almost instantaneously. The findings are detailed in Nature.

The spinal cord of the subject monkey was partially cut, so the legs had no way of communicating with the brain. To mend the brain-spine interface, electrodes were placed on key parts of the monkey’s body. Implants were placed inside the monkey’s brain at the part that controls leg movement, together with a wireless transmitter sitting outside the skull. Electrodes were also placed along the spinal cord, below the injury.

A computer program decoded brain signals indicative of leg movement and transmitted the signals to the electrodes in the spine. Within just a few seconds, the monkey was moving its leg. In a few days, it was walking on a treadmill.

https://futurism.com/paralyzed-monkeys- ... -are-next/

Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 2:20 pm
by Saint
hedge wrote:The amazing thing to me is how quickly the republicans became the ostensibly populist party, and that they chose a former democrat New York billionaire to lead them in this endeavor...
The GOP started out as such and probably has fit that description, in different intervals, as much as it has been the pompous party of fat cats and assholes. Of course, now "populism" means telling poor, ignorant people what they want to hear and then doing the opposite.

Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 2:30 pm
by hedge
Same as it ever was...

Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 3:48 pm
by aTm
eCat wrote:holy shit - this is big (I think)..still why does everything take a decade?



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Electrodes implanted in the brain and spine have helped paralyzed monkeys walk. The neurologists behind the study reported that the implants restored function in the primates’ legs almost instantaneously. The findings are detailed in Nature.

The spinal cord of the subject monkey was partially cut, so the legs had no way of communicating with the brain. To mend the brain-spine interface, electrodes were placed on key parts of the monkey’s body. Implants were placed inside the monkey’s brain at the part that controls leg movement, together with a wireless transmitter sitting outside the skull. Electrodes were also placed along the spinal cord, below the injury.

A computer program decoded brain signals indicative of leg movement and transmitted the signals to the electrodes in the spine. Within just a few seconds, the monkey was moving its leg. In a few days, it was walking on a treadmill.

https://futurism.com/paralyzed-monkeys- ... -are-next/
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Re: Florida State Seminoles

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 4:01 pm
by Jungle Rat
Monkeys make me laugh