Not in this context, not among the middle class. It's a fringe-y lifestyle choice a little bit more sane than those Scientologist loons and a little less sane than mainstream medicine. Why else would someone make a movie about it?

The only question is how they are tallied. It would really help if the lunatics here could simply know WTF they're prattling on about. Occasionally.

And I had to memorize a-angle tables for one part of the actuarial exam. Point is, these derivatives were constructed with fluid dynamics in mind. Trying to reverse engineer them is a tad complex. Generally they fall near the realm of what you would call 'hard problems analysis' I mean yeah, it's not QCD but the number of data points alone make them frightfully hard to run.

I don't. Unless it's a Medco mandated review of medication I see a PA or a Nurse. MD? Not unless it's a specialist. Gotta keep those costs down to third world witch doctor baselines.

Getting information on sanctions, lawsuits, hearings and whatnot leveled against the doctor are lot harder to collect. Apparently, who knew, they don't want you to know if they're being sued for killing someone, or being drunk or are up for a licensing hearing or they're a hack or whatnot.

There's the intel I want.

that is all.

It's about the complexity of the instrument at hand. No more, no less. Risk rating is, surprisingly enough, about understanding the underlying complexity of the specific tool you're looking at. The problem is that these instruments, which are derivatives, are inherently too stupifyingly complicated to accurately track. No one really knows how they behave in the wild. If an actuary needs 2nd order mixed partial differential equations to predict something mundane like the lifespans of individuals in a group, then the mechanics that lead to understanding how instruments which are significantly more complex and feature rich are not well understood at all. We simply don't have the tools to tease out the behavior of risk.

If all Xbox is under a single P&L in Microsoft then Xbox lost about 6 billion dollars since its inception. Only a company that's Paris Hilton Rich and Cruhhhaaaazeeee like Microsoft could get away with that.

Take one to the parking lot and beat them to death with golf clubs.

Can you just greet me at the door with a bourbon and a smile? thanks.

Rats and cockroaches are everywhere too.

We're about 30 months I think from commercial interruptions IN movies IN the movie theater. Oh they'll be clever about it and pitch it as some kind of empowerment or like that. But where I live the movie houses are all going digital which allows them all kinds of flexibility like running a real time banner on the screen, tweaking the edits, etc. Also we don't see many previews any more. Mostly it's ads. And 5 'reminders' to turn off your cell phone.

At least 10 times. This gives it 2^10 alternating layers of harder and softer steel bonded by a thin layer of carbon between each. What you get is a hard steel sheet like a tempered spring. Extremely hard on the surface but flexible with memory without any of the softness. Which means you can grind the edge to a razor's edge and, the sword being flexible won't crack. In addition the 1000+ layers with carbon physically placed interstitially means that the steel is somewhat less susceptible to corrosion. Which if you don't know, steel is a LOT more sensitive to rust than iron. Iron is soft and rusts but then the rust coats the outer layer and blocks further corrosion. Steel will rust straight through from one side of a sheet or plate to the other.

You would probably find as well that Damascus steel contains alloys of other materials commonly used today to harden steel like Chromium, Vanadium and Manganese. If they found any Tungsten or Nickel they probably discarded it since they couldn't forge it at high enough temperatures.

My cable bill isn't metered neither is my BlockBuster subscription. One rate, use it as much or as little as you please. If I watch 8 movies a month I'm ahead of the game. If I never turn on the TV then that's $50 down the drain to Time Warner for nothing.

Metering is just another form of screwing you over. Sorry but flat rate pricing is the way to go.