Apparently somebody believes that this insurance policy promises to pay any doctor whatever his invoiced amount is for any procedure. There's not much coverage like that available anymore, and it's *not* cheap. Kos doesn't actually say a lot about what kind of coverage he actually bought.

You need to make sure wherever possible that your providers are "participating" with whomever you have coverage with; this usually means that in return for being considered "preferred", they agree to accept what the insurer *offers* for each procedure, rather than why they present as the invoice amount.

It's like the difference between the going wholesale price for a pallet of whatever, and what the whatever manufacturer discounts it to Wal-Mart for when they send fifty pallets of it to the Wal-Mart distribution center.

The kids out there that have never had to deal with serious health care treatments (many of them have been healthy enough to slide by without *any* insurance) will start learning about how these things work as they get older...even thought they seem quite willing to tell everybody how health care *should* work already.

Sounds to me like Kos is using his insurance for the first time for something more complex than an office visit co-pay now that he's a daddy.

Sorry about starting the punishment...I was just forking around. You can saddle me with the blame, but I'm just not the same caliper as some of the punsters here; they're just pannier than I am.

I guess an earlier typo must have been corrected, but on the RSS feed, this article is titled

"Donovan to open medication-based college"

Somehow that seems just as plausible.

Obviously the guy is bikesexual.

Translating a manga written in Japanese to English, there are some problems of flow that can't be solved without preserving the right-to-left orientation of flow.

But producing a written-in-English manga in that form isn't "preserving an esthetic". It's just pretentious.

I didn't know pencils had "Scheer numbers". Are they related to the hardness of the lead?

erm...certainly *not* a System/360.

That is, I believe, a CDC 6600 or similar.

Not exactly a new idea:

http://coalcreekarmory.blogspot.com/2005/11/kalashnikitty-t-shirts-now-available.html

It's not a wooden spoon, nor is it in his pocket. It's the holster for his revolver, and it's hanging from his belt.

re: execution: "The camera is set in action by a slight pressure on the revolver trigger, independent of the firing of the weapon."

If that's an uncocked typical issue .38 special police revolver, there's probably a substantial trigger pull margin between "take a picture" and "blow perp away".

But geez, that's insanely bad firearms safety.

Today, of course, you could have a wrap-around video buffer, no need to tell the camera when to record. Didn't we just see BB coverage of UK cops with helmet-mounted video?

Two words: immigration law

Hmmph. More obvious phrenology :-)

#7, #22:

OK, you think polygraphs are junk science. And I think there'd be widespread support for putting phrenology on the junkier side of polygraphy. But I notice nobody's slammed functional neuroimaging as junk yet...I was deliberately proposing a slippery slope, and pointing out what a smear "phrenology" is in this context.

It's just wrong to label this as "junk science" or "unscientific" *before* there's been any chance for any science to be done. It's at the proposing research stage; saying "that could never work" is every bit as unscientific.

Gastrovac: $3,800

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FoodSaver 3-Piece Canister Set $22.55

Does a decent job vaccum marinating. It's hard to believe the Fooderackicycle--I mean, the "Gastrovac"--does a job that's so much better it's worth north of $3,500 more.

Alton Brown frowns on kitchen single-taskers, and rightly so...

SQL is a query language.

QSL is the telegraphic code for "message acknowleged".

And this says it's a "eyeball card"; the slang "eyeball QSO"; "QSO" being the code for a contact...an "eyeball" for short. Today we'd say "a GTG IRL".

These cards were exchanged when folks be off-the-air like a calling card. It's possible these folks callsigns were on the other side. It's also possible they were unlicenced and had no callsigns at all.

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So, this is "phrenology reinvented"?

Would you use the same words to describe a polygraphic test? How about functional neuroimaging?

How about putting scare quotes around the words "scientists" in those cases?

As I read the article, the investigators have received an NSF grant to *try* combine biometric tech with behavioral science. They don't claim to have actually done it yet. This kind of thing is called "research".

The formal name of the project is "Deceit Indication through Person Specific Behavioral Dynamics". Slamming it as "snake oil" and "phrenology" and questioning their standing as scientists seems a bit premature, considering they haven't actually *done* the research yet. That's what the grant is for. If they were finished and their final report was unscientific, that would be different.

The other projects on the CUBS website don't look much like "phrenology" to me either.

Your favorite low-cost keyboard +

A Scrabble set or two +

Some epoxy or some such...

while I admit to being an inveterate fan of the Time/Life Science library, which enriched my childhood quite a lot, I think I'm rising above that bias when I agree with aeiou11235.

It takes more than simply questioning some evidence for a theory to make it a "myth...busted". Even if there are more representational works when seen in time sequence, it's well-known that the progression of schizophrenia is far from monotonic.