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New comment by accounted in "Hospitals lift curtain on prices, reveals giant swings for hips, knees and more"

accounted — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 23:17:39 +0000

In many countries, the concept of the hospital is also different from what it is in the US.

Where in the US there are clinics, ERs, urgent cares, and specialty practices, elsewhere there's just hospitals and you can go for any kind of treatment big or small.

New comment by accounted in "Israel’s lucrative and secretive cybersurveillance industry"

accounted — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 20:23:12 +0000

Isreal bombards Gaza with missiles and chemical weapons, and continuously fires at Syria taking advantage of the "moderate rebels" it and its allies sponsor. Meanwhile, they continue to evict 60 year old men from their homes and arrest children. Not to mention Isreal has nuclear weapons but refuses to comply with any international treaties.

"In the fighting, 2,251 Palestinians, including 1,462 civilians, were killed while on the Israeli side 67 soldiers and six civilians were killed." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56249927

"It is among just four countries that have never joined the Non-Proliferation Treaty, a landmark international accord meant to stop the spread of nuclear arms." https://apnews.com/article/secret-israel-nuclear-constructio...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/1/15/israel-evicting-pal...

New comment by accounted in "Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty?"

accounted — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:22:31 +0000

Many anime studios in recent years have thrown in the towel despite having high levels of skill at their profession. It is repeatedly mentioned here that the reason animators are paid low is due to their abundance versus the demand, and that is certainly one reason of many. But another big reason is that it is strenuous work for which there really isn't that much pay out.

The NYTimes article flaunts a $24 billion market figure, but this figure would be the few big names (Naruto, One Piece, DBZ) and those series are making money off of physical product sales and licensing deals. The anime, at the end of the day, is not the product - it's just a commercial for the product. Every so often, studios experiment with original anime, sometimes sponsored by various other companies, but these rarely turn out to be financially fruitful and primarily end up again as advertisements or a test of some new technique or technology.

New comment by accounted in "My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies"

accounted — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 23:24:55 +0000

It really is. Like "haha, we just took over your country, destroyed your homes, killed your families, and called your land ours, gee those politics are ridiculous!"

New comment by accounted in "Total Cookie Protection"

accounted — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:50:19 +0000

I would like this as well, please share once you do.

New comment by accounted in "Microbial ecosystems in the mouth and gut are linked to many ills"

accounted — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 21:49:55 +0000

A similar, and perhaps better option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miswak

New comment by accounted in "Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters"

accounted — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 18:12:26 +0000

Goes to show why the cop wouldnt like to be recorded. Ridiculous people who would freak out if a police officer bothered them for listening to music are now their own worst enemies.

New comment by accounted in "Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters"

accounted — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:40:27 +0000

But you dont have a right to everyone else's business. Police frequently deal with people in their worst, and yet some feel so entitled to seeing these situations they have nothing to do with as though it were just a drama on Netflix.

Example: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=28147...

The mother of the affected was telling people to go away, but they were so desperate to push their own agenda they ignored it. The BWC videos are on YouTube.

New comment by accounted in "Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked"

accounted — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:44:51 +0000

Going against popular sentiment, I dont know how people can't get in touch with a human at Google.

Whenever I have needed something that required human support, such as resolving a false DMCA claim against my content or help with my G Suite account, I had no trouble getting email and phone support. I'm not a big company or influence of any kind either.

New comment by accounted in "Gabe Newell on brain-computer interface technology"

accounted — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:56:20 +0000

There's a better version of that in Ghost in the Shell SAC. You could have a cyber brain and connect to networks which could include websites, devices, other people, and even have a direct wired connection too.

New comment by accounted in "Drunken Sailor – Public Domain Sea Shanty"

accounted — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 03:43:29 +0000

The original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl-HPIu5kcs&t=29s

New comment by accounted in "hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet"

accounted — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 20:50:11 +0000

I would say it's not just as annoying, it's worse. It has all the same annoyances, except now I get the worst outcome every time.

New comment by accounted in "hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet"

accounted — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 20:32:24 +0000

I don't understand why anyone likes hCaptcha. With reCaptcha, I rarely got more than the checkbox. Now I get a series of puzzles every time I want to look at a web page. When that happens, I'm just closing out, and going to a better website.

New comment by accounted in "Upgrade your jail cell for a price"

accounted — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 20:39:16 +0000

>If some guy on the street is calling me ugly, fat, or stupid and I walk to him and clock him in the jaw, it's still assault and I would still be charged. The same should apply to jail guards.

I agree that if a jail guard just walked up to somebody who spoke ill of them on the street and punched them, they should be charged.

But I don't think that things should be simplified that much in the correctional environment because there is a big difference. If inmates were loudly talking down to guards and acting belligerent, that would present a disruption to the orderly running of the institution. It would also set a standard for other inmates to act in that manner. Does that mean I'm saying corrections personnel should feel free to beat inmates at any opportunity? No. But the jail and prison environment has more complex factors at play when inmates act up than just somebody is making fun of me.