not if we agree to bail them out and bar our own companies from pwning too hard

ummm what the hell kind of preventative medical care do you have that counters harmful lifestyle choices in a statistically significant manner? Jean Claude Van Damme dragging folks out of Burger King?  Did you translate Time for Timer into other languages? "il faut que je demander pour un morceau de fromage"

no I'm still a crank

my point is that when I complain that your compression model is too complicated to understand, of limited utility, and would require reorganization to implement on a widespread basis...I am no longer complaining abut YOU, you've just adopted MOST software developer's business model, and I'm really complaining about the most recession proof industry on earth

and that just means you are in step with reality and I'm ranting

smelled the blanket, circled it and sat on it

I figured it would not be a happy book. Sheesh.

and now across America parents are having this conversation

DAD: Hey, Mark Twain's autobiography is coming out!
KID: Who's Mark Twain?
DAD: Who's Mark Twain?? How can you not know who Mark Twain is?
KID: So, who was he?
DAD: He wrote Tom Sawyer!
KID: So?
DAD: How can you not know Tom Sawyer? That book was awesome!
KID: So? What happened?
DAD: Well he had all kinds of adventures! He and his friends loved to beat up wimps for no reason, and they hid out in caves pretending to be pirates, and their folks thought they were dead, and...Never mind it sucked.  Go watch TV.

"Although most countries require that all live births be reported, limits on birth registration requirements for some countries do have the potential to affect infant mortality comparisons, especially if very small infants who die soon after birth are excluded from infant mortality computations (7,8). There is also concern that birth registration may be incomplete near the lower limit of the reporting requirement, as the exact gestational age may not always be known.

Differences in national birth registration notwithstanding, there can also be individual differences between physicians or hospitals in the reporting of births for very small infants who die soon after birth.

For this reason, births and infant deaths at less than 22 weeks of gestation are excluded from the subsequent analysis in this report. "

that supposes that the bulk of variation lies within 22 weeks of gestation.  If there's a consistent trend to refuse to count the severely deformed at all stages of pregnancy, that won't be cancelled out by knocking premies out.

will be spooked to know I didn't read petrolstone's post until after I started eating my hot dogs o.O

is wrong because I went and got hotdogs

/me runs for the tin foil

Too late!1!

#.# what is thy bidding my master

> Khaz Modan wrote:

> "Right, a country where you can be denied surgery on a broken arm because you smoke."

That has never happened in this country.....ever.

Seriously....ever!

Some lefties were suggesting that as smokers drain the NHS they should be made to go private but it was very quickly shouted down.<<<

For the 2nd Time:

Dont click the link if you're eating
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A plumber whose arm was left twisted grotesquely out of shape in an accident ten months ago has had an operation to correct it 'cancelled four times'.
Torron Eeles, 50, has been left unable to work since falling down the stairs and now fears he may lose his home after being denied incapacity benefit.

The father-of-three today hit out at the NHS for the 'unacceptable delays', but East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust said Mr Eeles had his operation cancelled on 'only' two occasions on clinical safety grounds.

His left arm has hung limply by his side since he fractured the humerus bone in December 2008.

Mr Eeles, from Welham Green, Hertfordshire, applied for employment and support allowance but a doctor ruled he is ineligible for both because he can turn on a tap.

He said: 'This whole situation is absolutely disgusting. I have never heard of anyone else having a broken arm for ten months.
'It's been so long the bones have knitted back together. Sleeping is really uncomfortable because whenever I roll over my arm gets in the way.

'I'm a kitchen fitter and plumber by trade but I can't even slice a loaf of bread let alone work.

'This has been going on and on and it's a complete nightmare.'
Mr Eeles fractured his arm on December 3 and was rushed straight to casualty where doctors put his arm in plaster.

But within a few weeks a specialist said the bones were too far apart and that surgeons would have to insert a metal plate because there was too much movement in the arm.

Mr Eeles claims his first two operations at the Queen Elizabeth II hospital in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, were cancelled due to a lack of beds and operating time respectively.

His third operation in February was postponed after he was found to have high blood pressure, while the fourth, scheduled for May, was abandoned because of concerns about his smoking.
The plaster was removed from Mr Eeles' arm after three months and he was given a wrist sling, which he branded 'totally useless'.

He said: 'My arm just flops about but the sling wasn't doing anything. The plaster didn't make a blind bit of difference after a couple of weeks either.

'How the Jobcentre can say I'm fit I don't know. I was on incapacity benefit until a few weeks ago when I went to be assessed by a doctor in Luton.

'He said because I can turn on a tap and I can lift my arm I don't qualify for help.

'Now I'm worried about losing my house. I've got a mortgage on it and there are credit cards debts I'm struggling to pay because I can't work.'

Nick Carver, the chief executive of the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, insisted computer records showed the trust had only cancelled two operations and that proceeding with the operations could have put Mr Eeles's life at risk.

Mr Carver said: 'Mr Eeles' operation was cancelled only twice - and then both on clinical safety grounds.

'The first time was back in February when his blood pressure was found to be high.

'As his surgery was not an emergency, our surgeons took the right action in referring Mr Eeles to his GP so his blood pressure could be brought under control.

'His second operation in May 2009 was also cancelled, this time because he had failed to act on our surgeon's advice that Mr Eeles that he should give up smoking.

'In cancelling Mr Eeles' two operation dates, our surgeons were acting on clinical grounds only.

'If they are guilty of anything, then it is of having the best clinical interests of their patients at heart.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1218927/Plumber-shattered-arm-left-horrifically-bent-shape-operation-cancelled-times.html#ixzz0oyAZjXKk
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"His second operation in May 2009 was also cancelled, this time because he had failed to act on our surgeon's advice that Mr Eeles that he should give up smoking."

made me want some pizza

ahhhh I wondered what brought Garrison Keillor to Denmark

um wtf good is any compression system that can't render

11734.2342

in fewer characters and extract every digit flawlessly?

USER ORIENTATION

the USER is the purpose of your software, not an inconsequential side issue that may or may not be resolved by the program

If you can't fulfill the needs of the USER then you have failed, however intellectually titillating the intricacies of your system

you missed the point like that Jewish engineer in Schindler's List

/me shoots Einstein