I find it curious that people want to make gun ownership a liberal vs. conservative issue.
"People" in this case being almost exclusively liberals. Not all of them of course, and you are an example of that. Nevertheless, the vast majority of people who want to get rid of guns vote Democrat.
It isn't the "other side's" fault, because if that particular set of Democrats would stop trying to take them away, nobody else would have cause to oppose them on the issue.
I know of very few -- very few indeed -- "conservatives" who want to get rid of guns.
Prey solves a slightly different problem. The purpose of device protection isn't to help you recover your device, it's to prevent thieves from benefiting from stealing your device. As such, it will only work if broadly deployed, because we need to build a "herd immunity" effect. There may be some devices that can be stolen usefully, but if most can't thieves will stop targeting Android devices. This is why it's not an app but part of the base operating system.
Um... no.
Prey does THE SAME THING as the Google utility. The only significant difference is that it doesn't survive a factory reset. Obviously, Google is in a unique position to supply that feature.
But as for the rest, Prey actually does a better job. Selfie pictures of the thief, real-time tracking of its whereabouts, screenshots, etc.
So if you want "herd immunity", then why haven't you been using Prey for years like I have?
In comparison, you're asking me "why aren't you using this new vaccine" when I've been using the older and still better vaccine for years. There's your herd immunity. Using the same analogy, you seem to think the solution to a virus is to kill the affected children. I don't quite agree with you on that.
If you had bothered to actually *read* the New-PCIP-WA Brochure on the "About PCIP-WA" site you linked to, you would have seen this:
I did read it, and as I said, the law changed in 2014. (I think I wrote "late" which was wrong, but permit me that one error.)
Just as I said... we WERE both right. Just not the way you first said.
Jesus, yourself. Learn to read comments. If I didn't know what it said, I wouldn't have linked you to it. Oh... wait... those aren't the pages I linked you to. But the ones I did said pretty much the same thing.
Washington State DID have a plan that called for 6-month waiting period for pre-existing conditions. It did not follow the Federal plan. But it WAS phased out in 2013... except... read the pages again... people on the PCIP-WA were eligible for the FEDERAL PCIP plan, not one from Washington State.
So quit oversimplifying. We were both right, to a certain degree, but you were nowhere near AS right as you claimed.
You can't really just "include Linux" because future computers might not support x86/x64/whatever architecture you included.
I don't think you read carefully. I also mentioned including a present-day computer. And that assuming M-Disc is the persistent media it claims to be, including a bootable M-Disc would solve the problem of persistent operating system.
But I think I'd include an SSD and a hard drive. Just in case. They're both cheap enough today.
That's relying entirely on that one single technology still having support for 100 years though. If it doesn't you end up back at square one -- no way to read the media -- even if the media itself is still in tact.
No... I'd include both the OS and the viewing software (probably VLC) on the hard drive and SSD (both bootable), and on the OS M-Disc (also bootable). That's 3 types of media.
And I'd be sure to include shitloads of pictures, too. Viewers are in all the major OSes.
The only power required for a smaller PC today is 12V DC. I am sure they won't have any trouble with that, even if grid voltage and current change drastically.
So I'm sick of Americans trying to use Australia as an example, good or bad, of gun control.
I don't particularly blame you. But I hope you understand that pretty much the only reason anyone in the U.S. uses Australia as a "bad" example of gun control, is that they are often subjected to -- usually highly distorted -- propaganda about it being "good" gun control. Otherwise they wouldn't care. They only care because it's being falsely used against themselves.
Some people -- particularly Leftists -- also like to paint gun control in Britain as some model to follow. But even the Brits deny their own government's statistics, which show that after the last big gun grab in '98 their firearms crime rate doubled... and stayed way up for almost 10 years. Of course said Leftists never mention that, or try to play it down, and often even flatly deny it, but those are the official government statistics.
So... we here in the U.S. are pretty damned sick of distorted tales of other people's experiences being used as an excuse to try to take our rights away. But it's definitely not your fault. You can blame the lying U.S. Left.
By the way, I meant to make this point in my last comment:
In at least some cases, it will take more than your usual simple recall to handle this problem. There are some very very serious design problems in the electronics of many of today's cars.
If I owned a car that was susceptible to this sort of problem I would much rather the lawsuit compel the automaker to fix the problem rather than give me money. Pay the lawyers, but just fix the damn problem as a recall.
I warned several times over the last couple of years that this would happen. Nobody in their right minds (today, that is) runs the critical systems and navigation system on the same CPU. Much less the entertainment system or communications!
The data collection without permission issue has been around for a while, too.
I'm glad to see people getting after this finally.
It looks like we-re *both* correct. (Though I'm more so.)
You're only quoting HealthCare.gov. Why didn't you look into the actual exception I TOLD YOU existed? My guess is because you simply thought I was lying, and couldn't be bothered to check.
We ARE both right, in a way, but not in the way you seem to think. States DID have the ability to choose to go with the temporary Federal pre-existing plan, or do its own. Washington did its own (as I mentioned originally). And IT DID NOT work the same as the Federal plan.
The Washington plan isn't what most people would consider pre-existing condition coverage. It included a 6-month waiting period. Lots of people could die while waiting those 6 months.
HOWEVER, having said that: (A) there was a separate high-risk pool for people who had grave conditions, and (B) the law WAS supposed to have been amended late last year, though I have not found any documentation of such change.
I should have made my point clearer. I know it's available. I meant that none of the stories I've seen in the news and on the net that squawk about it the loudest actually linked to it.
Encoded representations (especially digital but even analog encodings like a vinyl record) require a working decoder. If your decoder is broken and you don't know how its encoded in order to build a new one, you're screwed. There's absolutely nothing you can recover in that case.
I find these arguments to be specious.
If you really want to do this, I'd use M.Disc, which is designed for extreme logevity (and almost certainly would last in a "time capsule" that is temperature- and light-insulated).
The idea to include an actual computer is also good. I'd throw in another M.Disc that is bootable and contains the operating system, too, in case the magnetic domains on the hard drive or electric domains on SSD break down. SSD seems tempting because of no moving parts but I'm not sure I'd trust it over that many years. Any 64-bit version of Linux should suffice.
As for problems reading back the digital bits and decoding, I don't buy it. Include a copy of VLC and several copies of the M.Disc with the data. You'll be fine.
As for encoding standards, I don't think there would be a problem 50 or 100 years from now decoding something that conformed to one of the clear standards of the day.
FBI crime statistics would disagree with you on the "killing of other people". Knives are number 2 for all weapons types (handguns #1) used in murder.
But knives are only #2 because they are less commonly used. Today, roughly 90% of civilians who are shot survive. As many as 90% of victims of knife attacks bleed out before they get to the hospital.
There was no "firearm" ban, but a restriction and buyback of rapid-fire weapons. Of course many people used the money to buy new legal weapons.
Semantics. Many people, perhaps most, would consider "restrictions" on "rapid-fire weapons" a ban.
A ban only on specific types, to be sure, but a ban nevertheless. In fact many have described it as a "confiscation".
In the United States a large part of the population, perhaps even a majority, would rather shoot the police who came to take their guns than give them up.
And I, personally, have no problem at all with that.
No you aren't, you're simply trying to appear tough by spouting sociopathic garbage. Such emotionally motivated behaviour is the very antithesis of "clinical", and not the least bit impressive. Please grow up.
Grow up yourself. You might consider GP's ideas "sociopathic" but others might think the same of your opinions. You don't have an exclusive license to morality.
You are flatly incorrect. The ACA is a Federal Law and the only thing the states can opt-opt of is the Medicaid expansion - as per the Supreme Court ruling.
Sorry, dude. Go try to get insurance in Washington State with a pre-existing condition. Good luck with that. You can get your insurance easily enough (via an ACA state exchange), but they won't pay for your pre-existing condition.
Perhaps you're thinking of the Pre Existing Condition Insurance Plan which was a *temporary* measure (that states could choose to participate in) that expired in 2014:
No. That's exactly the opposite of what I'm talking about.
I have a relative who has worked in a doctor's office there for many years. She handles all the insurance claims. She damned well knows what she's talking about. I was frankly skeptical when I heard about this, thinking it was against the ACA rules. But nope. That's the way it works in Washington.
I did not RTFA but I'm curious as to whether both the dog and biopsy tend to fail on the same samples, or if we could approach near perfect accuracy by using both?
The problem with scent dogs -- as we have found to our dismay with drug-sniffing dogs -- is that while they CAN distinguish and react to the odors they are trained to detect, instead, in independent tests, they did not. Instead they reacted to subtle cues from their handlers, in preference to the odors they were trained to detect.
The cues were so subtle that the handlers themselves often did not realize they were sending signals.
Having a tool that CAN distinguish these things easily is not the same as having one that WILL.
If you're in the US, you can no longer can be denied medical insurance based on pre-existing conditions nor can your premiums be different because of those conditions - unless, of course, the Republicans succeed in abolishing the ACA.
That is simply not true. It is a State matter, and it does differ among the 13 States that created ACA exchanges.
I know of at least one state that adopted the ACA except the pre-existing condition inclusion.
He actually made a rather compelling argument that suppressing that speech may be more harmful than refuting it. After all, if willingness to challenge fundamental axioms of knowledge isn't allowed in a college setting, then where would it be?
Agreed. As a corollary to that point, why are we not allowed to WATCH the video and judge for ourselves? Why should we have to take someone else's word for it that it was offensive? I for one don't make such assumptions. I want to see for myself.
We the people are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"--the 1st amendment is not required for the right of free speech to exist.
Yes, exactly. The Bill of Rights was an enumeration of rights that were presumed to already exist. The government did not grant them to us.
No one really makes long-term investments in their employees anymore, since anything they learn they'll use to jump ship for higher pay elsewhere.
And who is to blame for this? The companies themselves, which a few decades back stopped treating their employees like people, more often now like temporary "resources". The offshoring practices have been just an extension of the same thing.
That won't reverse until the companies do. It has to be them, because nobody is going to say "I'm going to be loyal and hardworking and let them treat me like dirt, until the day they come around and realize I'm worth more than that, and start treating me better."
Nonsense. Even one small graphic can easily be 5 x the size of a whole big page of text. Further, they are often coming from a different server and add latency to the page load.
Just because capitalism is better than totalitarianism doesn't mean that capitalism is good, and it certainly doesn't mean that capitalism is the high point of human evolution.
History does tell us it's certainly the best system found so far. Socialism and pretended attempts at Communism certainly didn't work very well. Anywhere.
Even Sweden is getting tired of its failed experiment with socialism. When they started it, Sweden was one of the few top productive per-capita producing nations in the world. Now, it's... just average.
China's economy has been doing FAR better since it allowed some capitalism in. The U.S. and Europe, on the other hand, have been doing WORSE economically, the more socialist they have leaned.
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I find it curious that people want to make gun ownership a liberal vs. conservative issue.
"People" in this case being almost exclusively liberals. Not all of them of course, and you are an example of that. Nevertheless, the vast majority of people who want to get rid of guns vote Democrat.
It isn't the "other side's" fault, because if that particular set of Democrats would stop trying to take them away, nobody else would have cause to oppose them on the issue.
I know of very few -- very few indeed -- "conservatives" who want to get rid of guns.
It is legal to sell, but there are hoops to jump through.
I think the better way to say that is that it is NOT legal to sell, UNLESS you jump through a lot of Federal hoops.
I understand the paperwork isn't bad. But then there's the fee and waiting to get approved. Someone told me it took a long time to get the approval.
If you don't know where to start, try something like Kali.
Yes, exactly. Kali Linux has a huge load of tools. You might have to find information about how to use some of them elsewhere, but the tools are good.
Prey solves a slightly different problem. The purpose of device protection isn't to help you recover your device, it's to prevent thieves from benefiting from stealing your device. As such, it will only work if broadly deployed, because we need to build a "herd immunity" effect. There may be some devices that can be stolen usefully, but if most can't thieves will stop targeting Android devices. This is why it's not an app but part of the base operating system.
Um... no.
Prey does THE SAME THING as the Google utility. The only significant difference is that it doesn't survive a factory reset. Obviously, Google is in a unique position to supply that feature.
But as for the rest, Prey actually does a better job. Selfie pictures of the thief, real-time tracking of its whereabouts, screenshots, etc.
So if you want "herd immunity", then why haven't you been using Prey for years like I have?
In comparison, you're asking me "why aren't you using this new vaccine" when I've been using the older and still better vaccine for years. There's your herd immunity. Using the same analogy, you seem to think the solution to a virus is to kill the affected children. I don't quite agree with you on that.
If you had bothered to actually *read* the New-PCIP-WA Brochure on the "About PCIP-WA" site you linked to, you would have seen this:
I did read it, and as I said, the law changed in 2014. (I think I wrote "late" which was wrong, but permit me that one error.)
Just as I said... we WERE both right. Just not the way you first said.
Jesus, yourself. Learn to read comments. If I didn't know what it said, I wouldn't have linked you to it. Oh... wait... those aren't the pages I linked you to. But the ones I did said pretty much the same thing.
Washington State DID have a plan that called for 6-month waiting period for pre-existing conditions. It did not follow the Federal plan. But it WAS phased out in 2013... except... read the pages again... people on the PCIP-WA were eligible for the FEDERAL PCIP plan, not one from Washington State.
So quit oversimplifying. We were both right, to a certain degree, but you were nowhere near AS right as you claimed.
You can't really just "include Linux" because future computers might not support x86/x64/whatever architecture you included.
I don't think you read carefully. I also mentioned including a present-day computer. And that assuming M-Disc is the persistent media it claims to be, including a bootable M-Disc would solve the problem of persistent operating system.
But I think I'd include an SSD and a hard drive. Just in case. They're both cheap enough today.
That's relying entirely on that one single technology still having support for 100 years though. If it doesn't you end up back at square one -- no way to read the media -- even if the media itself is still in tact.
No... I'd include both the OS and the viewing software (probably VLC) on the hard drive and SSD (both bootable), and on the OS M-Disc (also bootable). That's 3 types of media.
And I'd be sure to include shitloads of pictures, too. Viewers are in all the major OSes.
The only power required for a smaller PC today is 12V DC. I am sure they won't have any trouble with that, even if grid voltage and current change drastically.
So I'm sick of Americans trying to use Australia as an example, good or bad, of gun control.
I don't particularly blame you. But I hope you understand that pretty much the only reason anyone in the U.S. uses Australia as a "bad" example of gun control, is that they are often subjected to -- usually highly distorted -- propaganda about it being "good" gun control. Otherwise they wouldn't care. They only care because it's being falsely used against themselves.
Some people -- particularly Leftists -- also like to paint gun control in Britain as some model to follow. But even the Brits deny their own government's statistics, which show that after the last big gun grab in '98 their firearms crime rate doubled... and stayed way up for almost 10 years. Of course said Leftists never mention that, or try to play it down, and often even flatly deny it, but those are the official government statistics.
So... we here in the U.S. are pretty damned sick of distorted tales of other people's experiences being used as an excuse to try to take our rights away. But it's definitely not your fault. You can blame the lying U.S. Left.
By the way, I meant to make this point in my last comment:
In at least some cases, it will take more than your usual simple recall to handle this problem. There are some very very serious design problems in the electronics of many of today's cars.
If I owned a car that was susceptible to this sort of problem I would much rather the lawsuit compel the automaker to fix the problem rather than give me money. Pay the lawyers, but just fix the damn problem as a recall.
I warned several times over the last couple of years that this would happen. Nobody in their right minds (today, that is) runs the critical systems and navigation system on the same CPU. Much less the entertainment system or communications!
The data collection without permission issue has been around for a while, too.
I'm glad to see people getting after this finally.
It looks like we-re *both* correct. (Though I'm more so.)
You're only quoting HealthCare.gov. Why didn't you look into the actual exception I TOLD YOU existed? My guess is because you simply thought I was lying, and couldn't be bothered to check.
We ARE both right, in a way, but not in the way you seem to think. States DID have the ability to choose to go with the temporary Federal pre-existing plan, or do its own. Washington did its own (as I mentioned originally). And IT DID NOT work the same as the Federal plan.
The Washington plan isn't what most people would consider pre-existing condition coverage. It included a 6-month waiting period. Lots of people could die while waiting those 6 months.
HOWEVER, having said that: (A) there was a separate high-risk pool for people who had grave conditions, and (B) the law WAS supposed to have been amended late last year, though I have not found any documentation of such change.
Who's stopping you? It's here.
I should have made my point clearer. I know it's available. I meant that none of the stories I've seen in the news and on the net that squawk about it the loudest actually linked to it.
Encoded representations (especially digital but even analog encodings like a vinyl record) require a working decoder. If your decoder is broken and you don't know how its encoded in order to build a new one, you're screwed. There's absolutely nothing you can recover in that case.
I find these arguments to be specious.
If you really want to do this, I'd use M.Disc, which is designed for extreme logevity (and almost certainly would last in a "time capsule" that is temperature- and light-insulated).
The idea to include an actual computer is also good. I'd throw in another M.Disc that is bootable and contains the operating system, too, in case the magnetic domains on the hard drive or electric domains on SSD break down. SSD seems tempting because of no moving parts but I'm not sure I'd trust it over that many years. Any 64-bit version of Linux should suffice.
As for problems reading back the digital bits and decoding, I don't buy it. Include a copy of VLC and several copies of the M.Disc with the data. You'll be fine.
As for encoding standards, I don't think there would be a problem 50 or 100 years from now decoding something that conformed to one of the clear standards of the day.
FBI crime statistics would disagree with you on the "killing of other people". Knives are number 2 for all weapons types (handguns #1) used in murder.
But knives are only #2 because they are less commonly used. Today, roughly 90% of civilians who are shot survive. As many as 90% of victims of knife attacks bleed out before they get to the hospital.
Firearm accidents barely made it onto the chart I was looking at with 22 unintentional firearm deaths for the 10-14 year old category.
Just to put that in perspective, more people in the U.S. die from lightning strikes in an average year.
It's usally "all about the children". It makes the argument sound legit, even when it's mostly BS.
There was no "firearm" ban, but a restriction and buyback of rapid-fire weapons. Of course many people used the money to buy new legal weapons.
Semantics. Many people, perhaps most, would consider "restrictions" on "rapid-fire weapons" a ban.
A ban only on specific types, to be sure, but a ban nevertheless. In fact many have described it as a "confiscation".
In the United States a large part of the population, perhaps even a majority, would rather shoot the police who came to take their guns than give them up.
And I, personally, have no problem at all with that.
No you aren't, you're simply trying to appear tough by spouting sociopathic garbage. Such emotionally motivated behaviour is the very antithesis of "clinical", and not the least bit impressive. Please grow up.
Grow up yourself. You might consider GP's ideas "sociopathic" but others might think the same of your opinions. You don't have an exclusive license to morality.
History doesn't tell us that pure capitalism is the best system found so far.
I don't know what you mean by "pure" capitalism. Anything can be taken to extremes or abused.
There has never been a "pure" communism or "pure" socialism either.
You are flatly incorrect. The ACA is a Federal Law and the only thing the states can opt-opt of is the Medicaid expansion - as per the Supreme Court ruling.
Sorry, dude. Go try to get insurance in Washington State with a pre-existing condition. Good luck with that. You can get your insurance easily enough (via an ACA state exchange), but they won't pay for your pre-existing condition.
Perhaps you're thinking of the Pre Existing Condition Insurance Plan which was a *temporary* measure (that states could choose to participate in) that expired in 2014:
No. That's exactly the opposite of what I'm talking about.
I have a relative who has worked in a doctor's office there for many years. She handles all the insurance claims. She damned well knows what she's talking about. I was frankly skeptical when I heard about this, thinking it was against the ACA rules. But nope. That's the way it works in Washington.
AFAIK, you can turn off the Device Administrator function, and that functionality will be removed.
I have used Prey for years. It is a known quantity, it works well, and doesn't come with the inherent problems of a Google app.
Would it work after a factory reset? No. But that difference isn't enough to get me to switch.
I did not RTFA but I'm curious as to whether both the dog and biopsy tend to fail on the same samples, or if we could approach near perfect accuracy by using both?
The problem with scent dogs -- as we have found to our dismay with drug-sniffing dogs -- is that while they CAN distinguish and react to the odors they are trained to detect, instead, in independent tests, they did not. Instead they reacted to subtle cues from their handlers, in preference to the odors they were trained to detect.
The cues were so subtle that the handlers themselves often did not realize they were sending signals.
Having a tool that CAN distinguish these things easily is not the same as having one that WILL.
If you're in the US, you can no longer can be denied medical insurance based on pre-existing conditions nor can your premiums be different because of those conditions - unless, of course, the Republicans succeed in abolishing the ACA.
That is simply not true. It is a State matter, and it does differ among the 13 States that created ACA exchanges.
I know of at least one state that adopted the ACA except the pre-existing condition inclusion.
He actually made a rather compelling argument that suppressing that speech may be more harmful than refuting it. After all, if willingness to challenge fundamental axioms of knowledge isn't allowed in a college setting, then where would it be?
Agreed. As a corollary to that point, why are we not allowed to WATCH the video and judge for ourselves? Why should we have to take someone else's word for it that it was offensive? I for one don't make such assumptions. I want to see for myself.
We the people are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"--the 1st amendment is not required for the right of free speech to exist.
Yes, exactly. The Bill of Rights was an enumeration of rights that were presumed to already exist. The government did not grant them to us.
No one really makes long-term investments in their employees anymore, since anything they learn they'll use to jump ship for higher pay elsewhere.
And who is to blame for this? The companies themselves, which a few decades back stopped treating their employees like people, more often now like temporary "resources". The offshoring practices have been just an extension of the same thing.
That won't reverse until the companies do. It has to be them, because nobody is going to say "I'm going to be loyal and hardworking and let them treat me like dirt, until the day they come around and realize I'm worth more than that, and start treating me better."
Nonsense. Even one small graphic can easily be 5 x the size of a whole big page of text. Further, they are often coming from a different server and add latency to the page load.
Just because capitalism is better than totalitarianism doesn't mean that capitalism is good, and it certainly doesn't mean that capitalism is the high point of human evolution.
History does tell us it's certainly the best system found so far. Socialism and pretended attempts at Communism certainly didn't work very well. Anywhere.
Even Sweden is getting tired of its failed experiment with socialism. When they started it, Sweden was one of the few top productive per-capita producing nations in the world. Now, it's... just average.
China's economy has been doing FAR better since it allowed some capitalism in. The U.S. and Europe, on the other hand, have been doing WORSE economically, the more socialist they have leaned.