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14 BAR RIFF posted:My dad has randomly taken to calling me aqualung ...because you're strange and beautiful? https://youtu.be/9AN9ag5xhvY
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Adiabatic posted:Thanks, and congrats yourself! I really wanna keep going. There was a year or two period where I wasn't in school between this and the bachelors. I just like the structure and the concrete goals too much. A masters is my final goal, nobody that wants to be taken seriously gets a PhD in business. All it means is that you couldn't handle the real world so you have to crawl back to the warm womb of academia where fantasies come true.
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Somewhat Heroic posted:New CARS 3 teaser - trailer from PIXAR is up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4K7JgPJ8-s It is a good time to be a dad with a kid obsessed Lightning McQueen! All I can think of is Million Dollar Baby. Looks like this month I will make more at my part time translating job than I will at my stupid regular job. The question is which beat up car do I buy myself for Christmas? 
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Nov 21, 2016 23:10
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BCBS doesn't cover infertility. God damned health insurance.
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who is the local camry guru what is wrong with the 2gr-fze, why shouldnt i put one in an sw20?
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Adiabatic posted:Thanks, and congrats yourself! I really wanna keep going. There was a year or two period where I wasn't in school between this and the bachelors. I just like the structure and the concrete goals too much. Not yet. Working on my Ed.D now and will be done in a couple of years.
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SquirrelGrip posted:who is the local camry guru Too rare and costly for little upgrade over the much cheaper and easier to find 2gr-fe. A 2gr-fe will have your little MR2 sideways all the time. Do it.
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West SAAB Story posted:I bought one of these, got ready to set it up, got distracted by squirrels, and it's sat in the office since. GPSWox looks promising, but I have no experience with them. A halfway tolerable middle ground is to just get a super cheap VPS. You can find them at lowendbox.com - and there are guaranteed to be specials on Friday/Saturday this week. Cheers, I'll try gpswox out. I thought that there would be loads of them around but there don't seem to be many The manufacturer site (http://www.gpstrackerxy.com/) is frustrating - feels like something a Chinese student might have written as an unfinished college project. Had considered vps ing it (or I could host it on a vm at home), but computer janitoring my own stuff makes me like that stuff less (I've got my own security and home automation setup and am currently having to write scripts to trigger security lights from pirs and it makes me hate it) Quite impressed by the features on the device I bought and it seems to work so far (just really fiddly to set up and the documentation is poo poo). Be interesting to see how good it is when I get it fully wired up to door switches and other extra bits along with a siren!
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Nov 22, 2016 02:05
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keykey posted:A masters is my final goal, nobody that wants to be taken seriously gets a PhD in business. All it means is that you couldn't handle the real world so you have to crawl back to the warm womb of academia where fantasies come true. Come to think of it, I've never heard of a business PhD. I do unsurprisingly see a decent amount of them in economics, however.
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Seminal Flu posted:Too rare and costly for little upgrade over the much cheaper and easier to find 2gr-fe. 2gr-fe is the proper answer to what engine should I put in my mr2. Doesn't matter the year, shove a 2gr into it.
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Somewhat Heroic posted:New CARS 3 teaser - trailer from PIXAR is up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4K7JgPJ8-s It is a good time to be a dad with a kid obsessed Lightning McQueen! I REALLLLLLY hope this one is as gritty and dark as the trailer suggests. Bring in the modern-era hyper cars with KERS putting Flash in a deep depressive state realising that he just can't compete anymore against these new opponents. Enter a spiral of addiction and depression, losing all those around him that he considered to be his friends. As he hits rock-bottom, he contemplates ending it all by driving off a cliff; only to be saved at the last moment by his one true love who convinces him to clean up and become the total underdog hero.
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Seminal Flu posted:Too rare and costly for little upgrade over the much cheaper and easier to find 2gr-fe. so im hearing get a 2gr-fe and add my own charger
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Devyl posted:I REALLLLLLY hope this one is as gritty and dark as the trailer suggests. Bring in the modern-era hyper cars with KERS putting Flash in a deep depressive state realising that he just can't compete anymore against these new opponents. Enter a spiral of addiction and depression, losing all those around him that he considered to be his friends. As he hits rock-bottom, he contemplates ending it all by driving off a cliff; only to be saved at the last moment by his one true love who convinces him to clean up and become the total underdog hero. While fixing a dumptruck in Nebraska.
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so pending hearing back from the two remaining classes i'm in, i might not have to take finals at all to get As in them. this could be a sudden zoom climb end to this mad helldive of a semester. 'course first i gotta do this fuckin presentation tomorrow at 7 loving 30 in the morning.  gently caress heat transfer though, hopefully the rumors of the professor i'm retaking it in spring with are true and she's an actual good, fair teacher (ie a goddamn unicorn in this department). not looking forward to taking it alongside vibrations tho, but gently caress it, gotta do what i gotta do.
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Good luck dude. Glad to hear the progress.
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Sooooo... Drivetribe starts in a few days, anybody else up for an AI drivetribe?
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keykey posted:Sooooo... Drivetribe starts in a few days, anybody else up for an AI drivetribe? I starter a Classic Audi one. Looks good so far, but very minimal.
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CommieGIR posted:I starter a Classic Audi one. Looks good so far, but very minimal. I wasn't lucky enough to get an invite code in advance. But I'm thinking AI as a whole encompasses the ideals and not just a single niche of the project.
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That sounds super neat. I'd definitely be in.
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https://drivetribe.com/t/NfLfWgSBRXeZ473Vo-pXhg/E_-oR_5nRw-IGtQyMM8RFA
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CommieGIR posted:BCBS doesn't cover infertility. I think most insurance will only cover it as far as "you have X condition that could have infertility as a side effect". Once you're at the stage of hormone treatments and the like, you and your HSA are poo poo out of luck. Sucks.
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So I went down to the leasing office today to ask why they had closed my work order for the dead GFCI in my kitchen without fixing it. They said they had contracted it out to an electrician and it should be fixed Wednesday, but they would see if they could get on-site maint to get to it. They also said that the person who closed it was supposed to put notes in stating as much. But nope, notes just said "Fixed". Got home tonight. There's a "new" GFCI that looks like it's from the 70s. It supplies power, but it's warm to the touch, and when I pressed the test button... not only did it not trip, it started smoking.  Roommate said it was someone from the apartment complex, not a contractor. Roommate also said the guy said "I verified it has 110 volts" (I've never seen under 122 volts here, going by both UPS and DMM; currently see 126). I'm gonna guess he didn't bother with touching the test button.Going to be raising some hell tomorrow. Obviously it doesn't have the shutters that are required on new outlets, and since they've upgraded much of the electrical in the apartment (switches, outlets, done work in the breaker panel, new light fixtures, etc), pretty sure anything they touch is required to have them now. At least I have a fire extinguisher mounted to the wall a few feet away from the outlet.. and no way in hell am I using it. The breaker would be off if it didn't also power my computer. Darchangel posted:You guys should probably learn to adjust the clutch pedal and free-play thereof? Bingo. I haven't ever had to adjust a hydraulic clutch, only cable. I've also put almost 100k on the car myself (it had 60k when I got it). I'll have to figure out how to do it, I haven't ever been able to find a  FSM. I'm sure it'd be obvious once I stick my head up under the dash. And frankly, these cars are notorious for the clutch master making GBS threads themselves (cracking). I haven't seen any fluid loss though.CommieGIR posted:BCBS doesn't cover infertility. I have Molina.  I had BCBS before, and had 5 complaints to the state department of insurance over them. BCBS of TX has more complaints to the Texas Department of Insurance than every other insurance company, of all insurance types, combined. They finally dropped me while in the grace period when I ran behind on payments... then mailed back my last couple of payments.Apparently I can't get a flu shot (paid for by my current insurance anyway) unless I go to my PCP. The PCP they assigned me wants $100 up front to see me, even to do just a flu shot. My copay for office visits is $0, my deductible is $0. His office staff said they got tired of waiting for insurance to pay out, so for first time patients, they charge everyone $100, then mail a check "in a month, or a year, or however long it takes for your insurance to pay us". I switched insurance a month and a half ago and had yet to go to a doctor, I chose this guy based on reviews on various health/medical rating websites (shoulda checked yelp... tons of 1 star reviews). When I protested, they said "sorry, it's the doctor's policy" and hung up on me. No thanks, rear end in a top hat. I asked my insurance to move me elsewhere, but I couldn't get them to backdate it even after telling them what he did. I wound up having to go to an urgent care clinic ($15 copay) in the next goddamned county to get an emergency refill on my diabetes and blood pressure meds. The only other urgent care clinic within 20 miles of me that takes my insurance (aside from the one in the next county) that takes my insurance only serves children.. and the one in the next county was only 7 miles away anyway. I talked to the new place they assigned me to - I did have a choice in where they sent me, but I was more concerned with distance, and looked up the clinic on Yelp while on the phone with my insurance. Reviews were decent, and they even do home visits if you're really hosed up. They don't pull that "pay us and we'll refund you" poo poo, they just won't let me make an appointment until the change happens on the first. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Nov 22, 2016 |
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What's this? Their homepage just has a link to sign in with Facebook. Also, it says quote:Drifters
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BCBS is just terrible. I Each time I've gone to the same surgeon for the same procedure, with the same medical referral from my PCP, which is the same doctor I've had for 9 years, they reject the payment 3 or 4 times before they even look at my file, so I get handed a +$8k medical bill that I don't know if I have to pay or not until weeks later. Plus, they won't let me be on almost anything that takes more than 2 doses a day. I was supposed to switch to be on 20mg Amphetamine 3x a day, instead of 2x daily. But thanks to my insurance being asses about it, I got 30mg 2x daily and a pill cutter instead. You know, since there are only 8 hours in a day, right? No one needs to think clearly or focus on tasks for more than 8 hours anyway, there's no such thing as a 12 hour shift. And it wasn't even as if they were going to cover less of the cost or raise my prescription copay or something. No, I got to the pharmacy and learned that I was going to have to buy 90 Adderall out of my own pocket, and thanks to the DEA, I could only find this out the day that I was going to run out of pills. Hooray for mental health care... I tried to get on Vyvanse and Adderall SR, but I'm also not allowed to have non-generic medicine, apparently. I'm well aware that there is a generic for the Adderall SR, but my psych doesn't like some generic manufacturers' quality control, so if I cannot choose which company makes them, it's probably better off to be on more, smaller doses throughout the day. According to him, who is basically the only ADHD specialist in my PCP's referral network that will take my insurance E: the price of the surgeries changed each time because of the amount of tooth and bone he was pulling out of my head was different each time. It ended up being 11 wisdom teeth total, 7 extras, all on the top. Some had supernumerary roots and there was an odd number, implying that there was once possibly more teeth that had had to fuse together due to the lack of space in my jaw for more than 39 loving teeth The Door Frame fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Nov 22, 2016 |
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e: HOW THE gently caress DID I DOUBLE POST THAT BADLYThe Door Frame posted:BCBS is just terrible. A lot of you guys know I've been in and out of the hospital over the past few years over my drinking. Generally for detox. My preferred hospital was a hospital that would handle that kind of stuff internally, without shipping you off to a mental place (it's also a level 1 trauma center, which probably helps). BCBS would always play hot potato with the claims, bouncing it back and forth between the company they subcontracted for mental health and BCBS itself. The detoxes never happened in a mental setting, they happened in an acute care hospital, and were coded as such. It got to where I got letters from the hospital asking me to intervene. It got bad enough that the state fined BCBS many times the amount of the actual claims over failure to pay in a timely manner... more than once. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Nov 22, 2016 |
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Nov 22, 2016 08:49
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Ever wonder what a V12 LSx engine would be like? WONDER NO MORE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsQjS6WIaEY
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Can you be a member of more than 1 group within the site?
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Things I learn in solidworks class from afrotc guys: c130 propellers are made of nickel steel because they have to withstand the heat of the engine.
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Here's something hosed up: my dad got a bill for $1.3mil for my mothers 6 week stint in ICU and the three surgeries she had They forgot to bill it to insurance but still how the gently caress can they justify that number
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funny Star Wars parody posted:Here's something hosed up: my dad got a bill for $1.3mil for my mothers 6 week stint in ICU and the three surgeries she had Because ICU also stands for Immense Cash Usage.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:Here's something hosed up: my dad got a bill for $1.3mil for my mothers 6 week stint in ICU and the three surgeries she had First - sorry about your mom - having had a family member in a similar boat, I know its such a mixed feeling. Sad that they are gone, but happy that the suffering is over. Secondly - what the gently caress 1.3 million? That's the last thing anyone needs after a family member dies. Hope insurance gets that taken care of man.
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Siochain posted:First - sorry about your mom - having had a family member in a similar boat, I know its such a mixed feeling. Sad that they are gone, but happy that the suffering is over. Thanks. Last i heard the bill went to like $2,000, and our church gave us around that much and a family member gave us $1000 because apparently my mum had given her around that much when they needed it and refused to be repayed 
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keykey posted:Can you be a member of more than 1 group within the site? Yes.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:Here's something hosed up: my dad got a bill for $1.3mil for my mothers 6 week stint in ICU and the three surgeries she had Medical insurance people wear top hats and twirl long moustaches.
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$1.3 mil into 6 weeks is $216k a week, $30k a day. I dunno how they figure it out but the numbers are impressively scary
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Doesn't compare with the other BCBS horror stories, but my wife just had a cyst removed. Went through the surgeon, got a quote and paid him directly. Said hospital would bill for surgery suite, quoted at $600. Yesterday got a bill for $6300. Itemized list shows where they billed for the surgeon 3 TIMES when we've already paid him.
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Nov 22, 2016 15:41
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Where we hosed up as a species is deciding that in order to stay alive you need money.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:$1.3 mil into 6 weeks is $216k a week, $30k a day. I work in health insurance in Canada and can never figure out why the gently caress Obamacare costs so much but then remember hospitals it the states charge gently caress off numbers.
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