Re: digital people in Iran

2009-06-21 Thread Judah McAuley
Iran?!? It is obviously a ploy by Microsoft to get me to try install the Windows Media plugin on my Ubuntu laptop. Death to the facist evangelical technology overlords! On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Michael Dinowitz < mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > > This is a great piece of propaganda

digital people in Iran

2009-06-21 Thread Michael Dinowitz
This is a great piece of propaganda on the part of the Iranian government, but that's not the point of this post. The point is the use of computer generated 'people' to represent the heads of the 'conspiracy' against Iran. Not 100% lifelike or even close to us, but think about how it will look to

Re: Friday nonsense thread

2009-06-21 Thread Vivec
You're what f***king what what?? 2009/6/21 Dana > > awesome ;) > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Scott Raley wrote: > > > > Well I'm back from my 3 hour wait to spend 10 mins with the doc to let me > > know that my quarterly brain tumor mri looks wonderful. I've been stable > for > > over 18

Re: PSA: So Much Misinformation

2009-06-21 Thread Gruss Gott
> Dana wrote: > > you can't have pay for performance in medicine though. Best outcomes for the lowest cost. How do you think your "protocols" are created in the first place? If you want to lower costs it seems like your big buckets would be: (1.) Lifestyle. Keep people healthy in the first pl

Re: PSA: So Much Misinformation

2009-06-21 Thread Gruss Gott
> Scott wrote: > > But, the guy with the healthy lifestyle, if genetically ore-disposed, may > actually be more likely to get cancer.  Should he then pay the higher > premium? > No ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with

Re: Shutter Island

2009-06-21 Thread Gruss Gott
> Scott wrote: > > Do you have to read the drink before the island? > Nope, they're totally different books. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists

Re: PSA: So Much Misinformation

2009-06-21 Thread Scott Stroz
But, the guy with the healthy lifestyle, if genetically ore-disposed, may actually be more likely to get cancer. Should he then pay the higher premium? On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: > > > Scott wrote: > > > > What about people who may be 'genetically pre-disposed' for cert

Re: Friday nonsense thread

2009-06-21 Thread Dana
awesome ;) On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Scott Raley wrote: > > Well I'm back from my 3 hour wait to spend 10 mins with the doc to let me > know that my quarterly brain tumor mri looks wonderful. I've been stable for > over 18 months now. > > -Original Message- > From: Erika L. Rich [m

Re: PSA: So Much Misinformation

2009-06-21 Thread Dana
you can't have pay for performance in medicine though. What's your criterion? Correct diagnosis the first time? Fast cure? For all of the conditions you list most doctors would want to see if the infection clears up on its own. If it does not they will try amoxicillin and then and only then someth

Re: PSA: So Much Misinformation

2009-06-21 Thread Dana
You know -- I don't like the Canadian and British systems because I don't think the government needs to know about my GYN visits, but "penalties" from an insurance company sounds worse somehow. > penalties for bad choices (and incentives for good ones) is going to > VERY expensive. > Are tests o

Re: PSA: So Much Misinformation

2009-06-21 Thread Dana
you're so full of shit. I don't get something that tells me what I already know, and I'm responsible for the health care crisis. Eyeroll. I know you work for a health care organizaion, and it's pc to bemoan a lack of preventative care, but please realize that you have drunk the koolaid. I am not i

Re: Happy Fathers Day

2009-06-21 Thread Paul Ihrig
i prematurely treated my self to 6-12 page instructions on how to waist a day of my life.. http://paulihrig.com/Images/FathersDay/DSC_0015.jpg http://paulihrig.com/Images/FathersDay/DSC_0014.jpg* * ~| Want to reach the ColdFus

RE: Shutter Island

2009-06-21 Thread Scott Raley
Do you have to read the drink before the island? -Original Message- From: Gruss Gott [mailto:grussg...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 9:49 PM To: cf-community Subject: Shutter Island Two weekends ago on a whim I read Shutter Island by Dennis Lahane as I'd read his A Drink Bef

Father's Day Georgia Style!

2009-06-21 Thread Gruss Gott
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/7154/fathersdayingeorgia2447.jpg ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/gr

Re: PSA: So Much Misinformation

2009-06-21 Thread Gruss Gott
> Scott wrote: > > What about people who may be 'genetically pre-disposed' for certain > diseases, such as cancer.  Should they be penalized because of their genetic > makeup? > That's why I said relative. For example, if you have two 34 year old men, same height, etc * one gets 60 minutes of c

Re: Happy Fathers Day

2009-06-21 Thread denstar
Right back attcha, essse! -- If there is sin against life, it consists... in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Bruce Sorge wrote: > > Happy Fathers Day to all of you/us dads and soon to be dads. Hope you >

Re: PSA: So Much Misinformation

2009-06-21 Thread Scott Stroz
What about people who may be 'genetically pre-disposed' for certain diseases, such as cancer. Should they be penalized because of their genetic makeup? On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: > > > Dana wrote: > > fair enough. But based on my experience (perhaps skewed by it) they >

Re: PSA: So Much Misinformation

2009-06-21 Thread Gruss Gott
> Dana wrote: > fair enough. But based on my experience (perhaps skewed by it) they > start with a protocol and then if they see a lot of patients with a > given condition, may satrt to consider how to improve it. But the > protocol and the consensus are important. > That's not true. Consider th

Happy Summer Solstice Everybody!

2009-06-21 Thread Paul Ihrig
well a little late. a couldnt stay up past 11 last night. but hope you all have a GREAT summer.. try to stress less, and enjoy little things. and i don't mean iphones.. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something t

Happy Fathers Day

2009-06-21 Thread Bruce Sorge
Happy Fathers Day to all of you/us dads and soon to be dads. Hope you have a great one. Bruce ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: htt