[QUOTE=markr;433485]From the comments: "It might be safer if we stopped using arabic numerals."[/QUOTE]

"Weapons of Math Instruction" no doubt

[QUOTE=only_human;436458][URL="https://www.laprogressive.com/statue-of-liberty-wears-chains-and-shackles/"]Statue of Liberty Wears Chains and Shackles Honoring Freed Slaves[/URL]

[URL="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/statue-liberty-arrived-350-pieces-180955920/"]The Statue of Liberty Arrived in New York in 350 Pieces[/URL][/QUOTE]
Also, the statue's name is now Libertas, but was originally named Isis.

So, in a sense, Isis is fighting Isis.

And, I'm sure Brian E will love reading about Isis's idea of the definition of freedom. The god I mean, not the terror group. Totally separate things.

Edit: Been thinking about the chains and their visibility. Maybe put a bigass mirror next to them so people can look up at their reflection? Or maybe a tall thin building with a floor to ceiling view that points at the chains. Third choice is to literally let people walk around her feet.

[url]http://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-man-helps-save-trapped-family-gets-143-bill/[/url]

[QUOTE=ewmayer;436833][URL]http://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-man-helps-save-trapped-family-gets-143-bill/[/URL][/QUOTE]
What a reward!

[QUOTE=kladner;436870]What a reward![/QUOTE]
One time I collapsed in a mall while pushing my sweetheart around in a wheelchair. I accepted emergency services starting a very expensive and time consuming process.

Rather than leaving Linda abandoned in her wheelchair at the mall, I had them bring Linda along with me.

Near midnight, several hours later, the only thing holding up my Emergency Room release was waiting for any nurse to follow through on the doctor ordered saline for me...
I complained to a nurse that Linda was a diabetic and we hadn't brought along her glucose test kit or insulin so could they please get me the saline and release me so that I get her home and attend to her.

The nurse didn't believe my "story," offered to test her glucose level yada yada yada. We were smart enough to refuse that. But when when we got home her blood sugar was over 400. Very Dangerous. We'd dodged ER charges on her but if we had tested her there, they would have processed her in and kept her for several hours too. And they would have been right to act that way. All they had to do was follow the damn doctors saline + release orders for me and we would have both been home getting better care hours earlier.

[QUOTE=only_human;436878]One time I collapsed in a mall while pushing my sweetheart around in a wheelchair. I accepted emergency services starting a very expensive and time consuming process.[/QUOTE]

If I may reflect...

I once fell off a landing at our house. It was about two meters above ground, and a cat got startled; said cat used me as inertia to bounce down the steps... I fell backwards towards the ground. Newton's first and second laws of motion, anyone?

Long story short... The Barbados Emergency Services were great!

They picked me up, carried me to the Ambulance, and then carried me to QEH.

Many xrays, examinations and injections of painkillers later, guess what my bill was?

$0.

[QUOTE=chalsall;436897]$0.[/QUOTE]
You are lucky it didn't happen like in the story with the australian and [URL="https://www.yourlifechoices.com.au/the_meeting_place/post/the-gas-bill-a-true-story"]the $0 check[/URL]... :smile:(which I, as a programmer, believe it is a total hoax, not a bit of truth in it, just some good written internet fantasy, but well... imagine it is real... )

This is where we really have it great in the UK with the NHS. We would never pay anything(apart from prescriptions of ~£8 an item). You could chop your hand off and they would sew it back on for free.

[QUOTE=henryzz;437189]This is where we really have it great in the UK with the NHS. We would never pay anything(apart from prescriptions of ~£8 an item). You could chop your hand off and they would sew it back on for free.[/QUOTE]
Things have improved here in the US for general primary care physician care. I saw my primary care physician on Monday. He ordered a bunch of blood tests and scheduled a phone call follow-up that will be in two weeks. I didn't even need to step on a scale. The chair I was seated in in the doctor's room also weighed me. A phlebotomist came directly to me; I didn't have to walk to a lab room. The results were available online - some that day and some the next. The doctor emailed me on Tuesday about the results and discussed the out of range readings. My total costs were $5. I didn't need any prescriptions refilled or new prescriptions at that time. In the recent past the lab work would have been at least an extra $50.

[QUOTE=henryzz;437189]This is where we really have it great in the UK with the NHS. We would never pay anything(apart from prescriptions of ~£8 an item). You could chop your hand off and they would sew it back on for free.[/QUOTE]Funny, that. I had NHS dental treatment two days ago. Cost me rather more than £8. Perhaps I could get a refund?

[QUOTE=xilman;437192]Funny, that. I had NHS dental treatment two days ago. Cost me rather more than £8. Perhaps I could get a refund?[/QUOTE]

Dentist and opticians are exceptions. You still wouldn't pay for serious in hospital treatment I think though. They are still a lot cheaper than private although they do give you mercury fillings.