is one of the reasons that socialized medicine is a failure wherever it's tried.
Care to elaborate? In what way "a failure wherever it's tried"? In what countries?
There's a reason that the US has by far the best health care in the world,
Well, if you have money it sure does. But what if you're poor? You deserve to get sick and die? I'd say health care is better in eg. Scandinavian countries, as it's very much free (as in beer:-) for everyone: for example, dental care. Of course you can go to a private doctor, nobody's stopping you. But you will be treated even if you have no money and happen to get sick or have an accident.
anyone who comes up with an innovation will have it deemed in "society's best interest" and be pressured to put in the public domain.
Of course not with every innovation. But why should everything have a price? Especially those innovations which are good for everyone. Imagine asking royalties for mathematics or a spoken language. Money is irrelevant after you're dead.
and by far the best medical research in the world.
I agree with this one, it is true, although a bit overgeneralized...
Genetic research will probably offer discoveries which can benefit everyone. So why should a few people who don't think farther than their own asses expect that they're more important than 100 million other people?
"Well, we umm, like, named this amino acid sequence, and so that gives us the moral and legal rights to tell you to give your money to us, because we umm, we 0wn j00 genes.".
Such bogus. Luckily not all people are like that. It's nice some sanity for a change!
I mean, nobody owns the genes that are in me. Maybe me. But nobody else. How can anyone even think otherwise?
I hope the next time we'll hear some glitters of sanity from US patent office. They don't offer patents for perpetuum mobiles anymore, so I guess it's a good sign.
I'd guess that universities and such have a lot of people in the USA. So, why not Napsterize MP3s locally, ie. inside the campus LAN, only to and from machines connected to it?
It wouldn't hog bandwidth of outside connections, Napster needn't be banned, RIAA would get screwed and everyone would get music. Positive in every aspect.
Or is there some intrinsic need to fetch MP3's via the net from the geographically farthest place one can think of?
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Thanks dude! I had no idea what they were called but I searched for information about Night Terrors.
Well, it turned out that it wasn't a Night Terror. In fact, I found the real thing from a site about Night Terrors: it's a parasomnia called "auditory sleep start".
Here's more info. Now I'll have to dig up stuff about sleep starts.
Sometimes I feel that the dream actually comes after something has happened.
Eg. you hit your head to the wall while rolling around asleep - BAM! - then your brain interprets this signal, but it's messed up in sleep (the hit generated the same responses as if you'd hit your head somewhere), and so eventually you see a very fast and short dream about getting a huge rock on your head or something before you actually regain consciousness. Not very scientific, but that's my theory...
I have too jumped off high places while asleep just to see what happens. I didn't die, but woke up. Then a couple of nights after that I was in the same place again. This time I decided that I wouldn't wake up, and jumped off. I hit the ground, but didn't wake up. It was fun, the free fall was like in a roller coaster.
But has anyone here experienced this:
You're lying in bed, just about to fall asleep. Your thoughts are going soft. Then all of a sudden you hear this sound like someone screamed at your ear via a distortion effect VERY loudly. The sound is very short, maybe a little bit over half a second or so.
Then you sort of "snap out of it", your heart is pounding madly and you feel sometimes terrified. Sometimes it's just a similar feeling to being awaken abruptly while in sleep, except that your heart is racing wildly.
I've experienced these things many times. Has anyone else? Does anyone know what they are?
If we go further... a night light for nerds. Soft, gentle light for those sore eyeballs. Maybe make it some sort of a creeping vine with enhanced growth rate. Plant some seeds now, get a glowing, organic spaghetti all around the walls tomorrow! That would be cool.
As a bonus you could cut off a long straight piece of that glowing plant and play Darth Vader with the lightsaber you just created. "Psss-pahhh your feeble skills are no match to the powahhh of the dark side".
I wonder if they make extra heavy duty bright versions for people who suffer from seasonal affected disorders during dark winters.
-"What the hell is that?!" -"That's ambassador Kosh without his encounter suit." -"Oh, I thought it was just another Christmas tree."
Concerning the application part, here are some interesting links. I'm not saying that these are a good representation of anything, but just to show you that you CAN do other things with Java than dopey applets. These are some I came across at Jars which I think were interesting and/or useful.
JSetiTracker, and add-on Java application to the Seti@Home command line client.
I wonder if it will be Kestrel (aka JDK 1.3, see JDC's Early Access section. It might require a free registration.) which is AFAIK scheduled for delivery around January-February 2000. Well, the article did say "the latest".
I also wonder who is the first to devise the most insidious and twisted conspiracy theory full of world-eating evil out of that piece of news.:p
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is one of the reasons that socialized medicine is a failure wherever it's tried.
:-) for everyone: for example, dental care. Of course you can go to a private doctor, nobody's stopping you. But you will be treated even if you have no money and happen to get sick or have an accident.
Care to elaborate? In what way "a failure wherever it's tried"? In what countries?
There's a reason that the US has by far the best health care in the world,
Well, if you have money it sure does. But what if you're poor? You deserve to get sick and die? I'd say health care is better in eg. Scandinavian countries, as it's very much free (as in beer
anyone who comes up with an innovation will have it deemed in "society's best interest" and be pressured to put in the public domain.
Of course not with every innovation. But why should everything have a price? Especially those innovations which are good for everyone. Imagine asking royalties for mathematics or a spoken language. Money is irrelevant after you're dead.
and by far the best medical research in the world.
I agree with this one, it is true, although a bit overgeneralized...
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Genetic research will probably offer discoveries which can benefit everyone. So why should a few people who don't think farther than their own asses expect that they're more important than 100 million other people?
"Well, we umm, like, named this amino acid sequence, and so that gives us the moral and legal rights to tell you to give your money to us, because we umm, we 0wn j00 genes.".
Such bogus. Luckily not all people are like that. It's nice some sanity for a change!
I mean, nobody owns the genes that are in me. Maybe me. But nobody else. How can anyone even think otherwise?
I hope the next time we'll hear some glitters of sanity from US patent office. They don't offer patents for perpetuum mobiles anymore, so I guess it's a good sign.
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I'd guess that universities and such have a lot of people in the USA. So, why not Napsterize MP3s locally, ie. inside the campus LAN, only to and from machines connected to it?
It wouldn't hog bandwidth of outside connections, Napster needn't be banned, RIAA would get screwed and everyone would get music. Positive in every aspect.
Or is there some intrinsic need to fetch MP3's via the net from the geographically farthest place one can think of?
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Umm.. how about implementing other encryption algorithms. Perhaps of non-US origin? Try GOST from Russia for example.
Here are links to GOST and others.
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Thanks dude! I had no idea what they were called but I searched for information about Night Terrors.
Well, it turned out that it wasn't a Night Terror. In fact, I found the real thing from a site about Night Terrors: it's a parasomnia called "auditory sleep start".
Here's more info. Now I'll have to dig up stuff about sleep starts.
--
Sometimes I feel that the dream actually comes after something has happened.
Eg. you hit your head to the wall while rolling around asleep - BAM! - then your brain interprets this signal, but it's messed up in sleep (the hit generated the same responses as if you'd hit your head somewhere), and so eventually you see a very fast and short dream about getting a huge rock on your head or something before you actually regain consciousness. Not very scientific, but that's my theory...
--
I have too jumped off high places while asleep just to see what happens. I didn't die, but woke up. Then a couple of nights after that I was in the same place again. This time I decided that I wouldn't wake up, and jumped off. I hit the ground, but didn't wake up. It was fun, the free fall was like in a roller coaster.
But has anyone here experienced this:
You're lying in bed, just about to fall asleep. Your thoughts are going soft. Then all of a sudden you hear this sound like someone screamed at your ear via a distortion effect VERY loudly. The sound is very short, maybe a little bit over half a second or so.
Then you sort of "snap out of it", your heart is pounding madly and you feel sometimes terrified. Sometimes it's just a similar feeling to being awaken abruptly while in sleep, except that your heart is racing wildly.
I've experienced these things many times. Has anyone else? Does anyone know what they are?
--
That's just to prevent people from naming their kids eg. "Dweezil".
Peace to all the Dweezils out there, no offence.
If we go further...
a night light for nerds. Soft, gentle light for those sore eyeballs. Maybe make it some sort of a creeping vine with enhanced growth rate. Plant some seeds now, get a glowing, organic spaghetti all around the walls tomorrow! That would be cool.
As a bonus you could cut off a long straight piece of that glowing plant and play Darth Vader with the lightsaber you just created. "Psss-pahhh your feeble skills are no match to the powahhh of the dark side".
I wonder if they make extra heavy duty bright versions for people who suffer from seasonal affected disorders during dark winters.
-"What the hell is that?!"
-"That's ambassador Kosh without his encounter suit."
-"Oh, I thought it was just another Christmas tree."
I wonder if it will be Kestrel (aka JDK 1.3, see JDC's Early Access section. It might require a free registration.) which is AFAIK scheduled for delivery around January-February 2000. Well, the article did say "the latest".
:p
I also wonder who is the first to devise the most insidious and twisted conspiracy theory full of world-eating evil out of that piece of news.