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Laid Back Lounge / Re: The Art and things we've m...
Last post by hermes2015 - Today at 03:39:30 PMYes, being concrete, he is immune to punctures.
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Laid Back Lounge / Re: The Art and things we've m...
Last post by Dark Lightning - Today at 02:31:24 PMCool! Bibendum would be a good name, especially if you used a can of nails to make some of the support structure. 
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Laid Back Lounge / Re: What's on your mind today?
Last post by billy rubin - Today at 02:30:56 PMas you enter the front the serial number plate is inside the door jam on tbe upper right. it has the date of construction on it.
so you can read exactly when your 727 was built.
so you can read exactly when your 727 was built.
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Miscellaneous / Re: The Shellfish Scene
Last post by zorkan - Today at 12:31:56 PMSpending Christmas with Richard Dawkins always sounds a bit grim.
Not much jollity to be had.
But here's what he said in 2020 on twitter.
"Merry Christmas! Oh SORRY, Merry Holidays! Children, hang up Holiday Stockings on Holiday Eve for Father Holidays to fill. Sing Holiday Carols round the Holiday Tree after Holiday Dinner. I'm dreaming of a White Holiday.
Well, here's one atheist wishing you a Merry Christmas."
(Grudgingly, I suspect).
Oh come on Richard. Just once a year maybe.
The Romans celebrated Sol Invictus.
The mighty sun has beaten off the dark again.
And yes It was the 25th December.
'Birthday of the Invincible Sun') on 25 December, the date of the winter solstice in the Roman calendar.
In Rome, this yearly festival was celebrated with thirty chariot races'.
Not much jollity to be had.
But here's what he said in 2020 on twitter.
"Merry Christmas! Oh SORRY, Merry Holidays! Children, hang up Holiday Stockings on Holiday Eve for Father Holidays to fill. Sing Holiday Carols round the Holiday Tree after Holiday Dinner. I'm dreaming of a White Holiday.
Well, here's one atheist wishing you a Merry Christmas."
(Grudgingly, I suspect).
Oh come on Richard. Just once a year maybe.
The Romans celebrated Sol Invictus.
The mighty sun has beaten off the dark again.
And yes It was the 25th December.
'Birthday of the Invincible Sun') on 25 December, the date of the winter solstice in the Roman calendar.
In Rome, this yearly festival was celebrated with thirty chariot races'.
#5
Laid Back Lounge / Re: The Art and things we've m...
Last post by hermes2015 - Today at 12:18:34 PMHa ha, no I haven't thought of a name, but Blobby would work, or even Bibendum.
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Laid Back Lounge / Re: The Art and things we've m...
Last post by The Magic Pudding.. - Today at 11:46:39 AMQuote from: hermes2015 on Today at 04:14:50 AMOne of my recent concrete sculptures is called The Dancer and is inspired by Jean Arp and Constantin Brancusi.
The sculpture is an exploration of merging objects fluidly in my 3D software. Here is a fluid merging of two spheres of different sizes.
I blended five spheres to give a final abstract figure of a dancer.
Rapid set concrete on a stained concrete base, height 460mm.
Does he have a name?
Looks like a Bob to me, or Bobby, maybe.
He seems quite jubilant.
Is he a heavy metal guy?
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Current Events / Re: They have caught the insur...
Last post by Tank - Today at 08:59:52 AMAs a Brit I do find the American health care system terrifying.
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Laid Back Lounge / Re: The Art and things we've m...
Last post by hermes2015 - Today at 04:14:50 AMOne of my recent concrete sculptures is called The Dancer and is inspired by Jean Arp and Constantin Brancusi.
The sculpture is an exploration of merging objects fluidly in my 3D software. Here is a fluid merging of two spheres of different sizes.
I blended five spheres to give a final abstract figure of a dancer.
Rapid set concrete on a stained concrete base, height 460mm.
The sculpture is an exploration of merging objects fluidly in my 3D software. Here is a fluid merging of two spheres of different sizes.
I blended five spheres to give a final abstract figure of a dancer.
Rapid set concrete on a stained concrete base, height 460mm.
#9
Laid Back Lounge / Re: What's on your mind today?
Last post by Dark Lightning - Today at 04:02:27 AMWhile I know the statistics favor air travel, I'd still rather travel on the ground. Safe travels, Icarus!
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Current Events / Re: They have caught the insur...
Last post by Icarus - Today at 03:40:07 AMWe have a less than ideal medical care system. Sure enough we have all the bells and whistles of the most advanced medical science and practice. Problem is that so few of us can afford the price. Our medical insurance cost is pretty steep. It is not unusual for a young married couple to have to pay 10, 15, 20% of their income for health insurance premiums.
It is not unusual to have the big time insurance providers to DENY coverage for whatever the medical case may be. The Billing for treatment of a Broken leg, for example, might very well extend into the tens of thousands of dollars. The medical care providers are either forced into issuing exhorbitant billing or they issue that kind of billing because they are as greedy as the are insurance providers.
Here is an example........i managed to tear open a 5cm skin injury in one of my arms. I was bleeding but not in any danger of dying or even getting excited about all that blood. That was the day after a wicked hurricane that had hit this Florida Area. The usual Urgent care facilities that, I would have ordinarily used, were closed while the staff was recovering from the damages to their homes or properties. I went to the only open emergency care outfit that was open for business on this side of my city. A surly nurse, not a doctor, looked at my wounded arm. She sloppily put some "Steri- Strips (adhesive tapes strips) on the arm to close the wounds. The eventual billing was 3,300 dollars. I paid 100 $ co pay and the insurance company negotiated the remainder of the bill down to the 800$ that they paid. My ordinary urgent care clinic would have billed their standard 190 dollars for the same treatment and my co pay would have been $10. So you see the system is really fucked up.
The insurance carriers are certainly not innocent. They do sometimes deny payment, or in many cases deny the patient the ability to be treated at all for problems that may even be life threatening.
In my case I am doing well, much better than my younger neighbors. I am old enough to qualify for a type of federal health care benefits that take a lot of the load off the insurance companies. I pay a small monthly sum for the combined coverage of Medicare and Humana insurance. I have no axe to grind but I do have some compassion for those younger people who may be dying of, one malady or another, that they cannot afford to have treated by the medical community.
It is not unusual to have the big time insurance providers to DENY coverage for whatever the medical case may be. The Billing for treatment of a Broken leg, for example, might very well extend into the tens of thousands of dollars. The medical care providers are either forced into issuing exhorbitant billing or they issue that kind of billing because they are as greedy as the are insurance providers.
Here is an example........i managed to tear open a 5cm skin injury in one of my arms. I was bleeding but not in any danger of dying or even getting excited about all that blood. That was the day after a wicked hurricane that had hit this Florida Area. The usual Urgent care facilities that, I would have ordinarily used, were closed while the staff was recovering from the damages to their homes or properties. I went to the only open emergency care outfit that was open for business on this side of my city. A surly nurse, not a doctor, looked at my wounded arm. She sloppily put some "Steri- Strips (adhesive tapes strips) on the arm to close the wounds. The eventual billing was 3,300 dollars. I paid 100 $ co pay and the insurance company negotiated the remainder of the bill down to the 800$ that they paid. My ordinary urgent care clinic would have billed their standard 190 dollars for the same treatment and my co pay would have been $10. So you see the system is really fucked up.
The insurance carriers are certainly not innocent. They do sometimes deny payment, or in many cases deny the patient the ability to be treated at all for problems that may even be life threatening.
In my case I am doing well, much better than my younger neighbors. I am old enough to qualify for a type of federal health care benefits that take a lot of the load off the insurance companies. I pay a small monthly sum for the combined coverage of Medicare and Humana insurance. I have no axe to grind but I do have some compassion for those younger people who may be dying of, one malady or another, that they cannot afford to have treated by the medical community.