Back when I was trying out Red Hat (and also Fedora C1 and C2), I was forced to use Partition Magic under Windows not just to shrink the FAT32 partitions, but also to create the EXT ones because whenever I told the RH installer to create an EXT partition on the free space it would also modify the FAT32 one to the point of making it unreadable. That's why I decided not to use the linux embedded partitioner again when creating a double boot system.
Now I'm on a double boot XP and Ubuntu 7.04. Each time there's a kernel update, the Updater re-creates the GRUB to uptate the kernel list and erases XP from the list. Now it forces me to sudo and etc, but what happens to people that now almost nothing about command line and relies on XP while still testing Ubuntu? If there's such a fuss over the fact that installing Windows makes it take over the boot, what could I say about it happening each time Ubuntu updates itself?
Well. After many lost emails, I don't trust Hotmail to pass messages from Gmail. But Yahoo does block Gmail very often also. On the other hand: Hotmail is the only one that keeps destroying attachments and delivering them as plain text: About 20% of them.
I'm a doctor in Spain, a country with a socialized medical system perhaps second only to Cuba. There's a big chance of abuse just where it can do the biggest harm: AT THE ER.
Every night I get at least 20% of PERFECTLY SANE PEOPLE, distracting my time away from those in real risk of dying. And they show up at the minor heartburn or muscle cramp because they are "paying taxes and deserve treatment". Of course, being sane they can do the noisiest racket in order to be treated first.
There's also lots of people arriving to the ER with their grandparents just before Xmas or New Year's Eve and saying with a menacing grimace: "I think he should stay... don't you think? God forbid something happened to him after you sent him home".
And perhaps the biggest problem with socialized medicine are the queues. Waiting lists of a year and a half for surgery on people that cannot afford private medicine because a big chunk of their salary goes to Social Security whether they like it or not. And, yes, the Ministry of Health sued Burger King over a Whopper commercial. When the state wants to cut the spending on people they just reach out to other facets of our lives. And that tends to spiral.
Have you thought that perhaps the only way to do that would be to wipe out the syndicates and exploit the workers JUST LIKE CHINA DOES?
Outsourcing and "made in China" exist solely because of less demanding workers and laws back there. Any enterprise from the first world can go there and offer local workers a pay and conditions that are far better than the usual stuff in the country, while still being very harsh from a western worker's point of view.
On the other hand, good paid non-qualified workers back in the first world are the ones that buy the cheap stuff from the third world. Were they the same as a century ago (or as a 3rd world worker, for the case), the commerce of cheap stuff would cease.
Yep. Political support of the most unfree regimens (Cuba, Venezuela, Iran... which go back to the dear USSR) in the name of freedom shows exactly what those people want: to impose THEIR idea of freedom upon everyone; a freedom in which all of us are equal but THEY (our self assumed saviors) are the most equal of all.
Back in time, the intelligent ones were more able to survive and raise their children to breed, whilst the less intelligent perished or killed their children because of their own stupidity. Nowadays, however, too many of the more intelligent and able dedicate most of their efforts to help the less intelligent ones to survive instead of breeding themselves. Intelligence has become a handicap in building a society that's intended to live off the intelligent and able. As we get higher on Maslow's Pyramid, our efforts become less egoistical.
There will be the inflection point, however, where the less intelligent outbreed by far and even destroy the most intelligent out of plain envy (seen in cases such as Pol Pot's Cambodia). Then the lack of intelligence will again play against the group and roll the changes back to the point where the intelligent (and egoistical) will prevail again.
I use thunderbird and gmail, download the messages and keep a copy online. That's been extremely useful because I had to work at a location that had no broadband nor wireless and a phone connection was seldom available. And I had to use data sent over the mail.
A local copy of the messages can always be useful.
Refusing to testify and withholding evidence is illegal in most judicial systems around the world. By publishing the video he made public the fact the evidence exists and he's got it. If a judge requests it as evidence of a crime, he's got to give it to the court.
On the other hand, it's funny to see how the media/journalists/periodists/self-called-whatever shriek when any of their "targets" does not disclose information; but they themselves are so adept at withholding whatever they want.
And fractured a cop's skull. As far as I remember, cops share the same rights as protesters. I wonder if he'd have been reluctant to hand over the video if it had been the other way around (protester's skull fractured).
Still, If they put a photo of a crippled "Vista Capable" PC on their catalog with a photoshopped screen of AERO at work without a sign that says the image on the monitor is not an actual one, they may be liable.
And it's very common to find such screens. How many times have you spotted Mac OS desktops on a catalog's Dell or Compaq?
Still excess sugar leads to obesity which, in genetically susceptible people, can trigger glucose intolerance (glucose remains high on the blood for a long time after eating) or Type II Diabetes.
I'm sure most of our sexual taboos come from the fact human children, unlike any other species, need to be taken care of for at least 5 years since birth. Marriage, family values, monogamy, etc. may arise from this.
The corporate sector will bribe and lobby the government as long as the government has the power to enact laws that distort the reality. The best way to get rid of competence is to declare it illegal, and when we call for more power to the government we just give it a bigger power that can be bought off by a big enough business.
Not exactly. Darwinian selection happens all the time: when disease strikes, when a girl turns you down, when society drifts towards a culture that changes the reasons a girl should turn a guy down for, when someone leads a whole country to erradicate the jews because they seem successful (and as a result only the most enduring or intelligent survive), even if we try to "fix" it.
Evolution is only a matter of odds, and the odds are seldom 0 or 1. The chances of surviving and passing on to the next generation are relative to the particular moment and a very small amount can make a difference.
Still, I say it again, darwininan evolution is not good nor bad. And it happens whether we go "for" or "against" it.
Many blood diseases are related to this malaria resistance, being sickle cell anemia and thalassemia the most important.
There's no "good" or "bad" gene. Evolution is just a process with no morals whatsoever. The only thing that matters is the gene being passed on and, even so, it's not a goal: just a thing that happens.
Any of these anemia genes just sprouted up in a newborn thousands of years ago because of an ADN replication error. Perhaps cosmic rays, perhaps lack of vitamins such as folic acid, who knows. The gene was nonlethal, even though the anemia PERHAPS rendered its bearer less able to fight or hunt. BUT the carriers of that gene were more able to survive malaria, which is endemic in tropical lands. So, more people with the gene than ppl without it survived... until they moved to malaria ridden zones or a cure was found.
We all regard intelligence, and agree on it having a good genetic backbone. Intelligence may have been a good reproduction factor a few millenia ago, but not anymore. Nowadays intelligent people tend to have no more than 2 kids while the less intelligent usually have many more. And if intelligence once had a role in determining the children's survival now it doesn't because the intelligent people of the society are taking the decisions and spreading their thinking power to all the rest in a fairly equal manner. Still, if intelligence IS related to a population's well-being, there will be a limit in the proportion of non-intelligent people after which the population will start to shrink and among the remaining, the most intelligent ones will begin outbreeding the rest... again.
The basic idea of religion is to find an explanation to things that go beyond our knowledge and reason. And we humans look for signs of sentient intelligence (such as ours) in natural things such as lightning or even a rock sculped by the rain into a shape we can recognize.
The story we elaborate by knotting together random pieces of "facts" can lead to any kind of thinking: from "love your neighbor" to "kill all infidels".
In fact, both religions and political ideologies become experts in manipulating an individual's psyche and making a fanatic out of him, which will spread the word and fight fanatics of the other view. I'm sure the neural circuits that allow for this are built-in genetically in everyone of us.
The only difference I can find between religion and political ideologies is that in religion the "supreme being" is a ghost or something out of our plane of existance. In a political ideology, the "supreme being" is something huge and material such as "the people" or "the earth". Still, these "supreme beings" are attributed a sentient intelligence, wisdom far beyond ours and orders issued to "illiminati" which, of course, all of mankind must follow or face certain doom.
Religion MAY disappear with knowledge or perhaps it will prove its point. Still even though we know the causes of most diseases most people blame them to their god.
I agree. Diseases can be a devastating burden which impede financial-social-laboral recovery (which, in turn, impede health recovery thus closing the circle). On the other hand, we're the only animal species that care about each other's health instead of leaving him to die. A socialized system would treat the nation's health expense as a whole and act accordingly.
Still, a socialized system has big defects:
-The health policy can get heavily burdened by poltical affairs - Here in Spain the leftist government is going specifically after McDonald's and Burger King citing health, but not failing to mention ther fact they're iconic enterprises from the USA. In the case of a nazi-type government (there goes Godwin's Law) they could even force eugenics in a way that clashes with ethics.
-If it turns to "all free" like here, the hospitals get full of healthy people with a cold, or ppl looking for a random day leave. The important cases get swarmed and the doctors get burnout. The solution would be to pay a very small sum (perhaps a dollar) just to be seen by the doc, but then again it would be "putting away the poor and miserable".
-"Medical tourism" consists of people coming from all over Europe to have their expensive ailments (heart surgery, etc) taken care of here. Also it becomes a calling for illegal migrants who will be far better off not working and undocumented here than working in their countries.
Cuba is more than socialized medicine: it's FORCED medicine. I've been there as a doctor. The lifespan and infant mortality come from the point that no one is able to escape the doctor the same way nobody's able to escape the government. The doctor is given a house in a given neighborhood and he must visit the neighbours regardless of them calling him or not. In Europe or the US (not mentioning countries where people still live in huts) the people are free not to go to the doctor or to take alternative medicine and stuff. It's been calculated that in the western world the average diabetic has had high glucose levels for at least 8 years before seeking assistance, and the average hypertense has been like that for ten years before going to the doctor. In Cuba that just can't happen because the "compañero doctor" will find out... the same way they find out if you don't agree with Castro.
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Because if the government wasn't able to intervene the market in such ways, there would be no use for lobbysts and/or corruption in the first place.
Were they born bigger than everyone else?
Back when I was trying out Red Hat (and also Fedora C1 and C2), I was forced to use Partition Magic under Windows not just to shrink the FAT32 partitions, but also to create the EXT ones because whenever I told the RH installer to create an EXT partition on the free space it would also modify the FAT32 one to the point of making it unreadable. That's why I decided not to use the linux embedded partitioner again when creating a double boot system.
Now I'm on a double boot XP and Ubuntu 7.04. Each time there's a kernel update, the Updater re-creates the GRUB to uptate the kernel list and erases XP from the list. Now it forces me to sudo and etc, but what happens to people that now almost nothing about command line and relies on XP while still testing Ubuntu? If there's such a fuss over the fact that installing Windows makes it take over the boot, what could I say about it happening each time Ubuntu updates itself?
How long till advertisements appear on ebay, offering to unlock iPods for half the price and no questions asked?
Well. After many lost emails, I don't trust Hotmail to pass messages from Gmail. But Yahoo does block Gmail very often also.
On the other hand: Hotmail is the only one that keeps destroying attachments and delivering them as plain text: About 20% of them.
I'm a doctor in Spain, a country with a socialized medical system perhaps second only to Cuba. There's a big chance of abuse just where it can do the biggest harm: AT THE ER.
... don't you think? God forbid something happened to him after you sent him home".
Every night I get at least 20% of PERFECTLY SANE PEOPLE, distracting my time away from those in real risk of dying. And they show up at the minor heartburn or muscle cramp because they are "paying taxes and deserve treatment". Of course, being sane they can do the noisiest racket in order to be treated first.
There's also lots of people arriving to the ER with their grandparents just before Xmas or New Year's Eve and saying with a menacing grimace: "I think he should stay
And perhaps the biggest problem with socialized medicine are the queues. Waiting lists of a year and a half for surgery on people that cannot afford private medicine because a big chunk of their salary goes to Social Security whether they like it or not. And, yes, the Ministry of Health sued Burger King over a Whopper commercial. When the state wants to cut the spending on people they just reach out to other facets of our lives. And that tends to spiral.
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Ecuador's Correa is another puppet for Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, just as Bolivia's Morales is and Peru's Humala was meant to be.
Have you thought that perhaps the only way to do that would be to wipe out the syndicates and exploit the workers JUST LIKE CHINA DOES?
Outsourcing and "made in China" exist solely because of less demanding workers and laws back there. Any enterprise from the first world can go there and offer local workers a pay and conditions that are far better than the usual stuff in the country, while still being very harsh from a western worker's point of view.
On the other hand, good paid non-qualified workers back in the first world are the ones that buy the cheap stuff from the third world. Were they the same as a century ago (or as a 3rd world worker, for the case), the commerce of cheap stuff would cease.
RMS = Three-legged PMS
Yep. Political support of the most unfree regimens (Cuba, Venezuela, Iran ... which go back to the dear USSR) in the name of freedom shows exactly what those people want: to impose THEIR idea of freedom upon everyone; a freedom in which all of us are equal but THEY (our self assumed saviors) are the most equal of all.
Back in time, the intelligent ones were more able to survive and raise their children to breed, whilst the less intelligent perished or killed their children because of their own stupidity. Nowadays, however, too many of the more intelligent and able dedicate most of their efforts to help the less intelligent ones to survive instead of breeding themselves. Intelligence has become a handicap in building a society that's intended to live off the intelligent and able. As we get higher on Maslow's Pyramid, our efforts become less egoistical.
There will be the inflection point, however, where the less intelligent outbreed by far and even destroy the most intelligent out of plain envy (seen in cases such as Pol Pot's Cambodia). Then the lack of intelligence will again play against the group and roll the changes back to the point where the intelligent (and egoistical) will prevail again.
I use thunderbird and gmail, download the messages and keep a copy online. That's been extremely useful because I had to work at a location that had no broadband nor wireless and a phone connection was seldom available. And I had to use data sent over the mail.
A local copy of the messages can always be useful.
Refusing to testify and withholding evidence is illegal in most judicial systems around the world. By publishing the video he made public the fact the evidence exists and he's got it. If a judge requests it as evidence of a crime, he's got to give it to the court.
On the other hand, it's funny to see how the media/journalists/periodists/self-called-whatever shriek when any of their "targets" does not disclose information; but they themselves are so adept at withholding whatever they want.
And fractured a cop's skull. As far as I remember, cops share the same rights as protesters. I wonder if he'd have been reluctant to hand over the video if it had been the other way around (protester's skull fractured).
The text seemed like the prequel to The Animatrix.
Still, If they put a photo of a crippled "Vista Capable" PC on their catalog with a photoshopped screen of AERO at work without a sign that says the image on the monitor is not an actual one, they may be liable.
And it's very common to find such screens. How many times have you spotted Mac OS desktops on a catalog's Dell or Compaq?
"Go for Linux, it runs on a 386 w/4mb RAM" ... and they show you Gnome or KDE running OpenOffice.
Still excess sugar leads to obesity which, in genetically susceptible people, can trigger glucose intolerance (glucose remains high on the blood for a long time after eating) or Type II Diabetes.
I'm sure most of our sexual taboos come from the fact human children, unlike any other species, need to be taken care of for at least 5 years since birth. Marriage, family values, monogamy, etc. may arise from this.
The corporate sector will bribe and lobby the government as long as the government has the power to enact laws that distort the reality. The best way to get rid of competence is to declare it illegal, and when we call for more power to the government we just give it a bigger power that can be bought off by a big enough business.
Not exactly. Darwinian selection happens all the time: when disease strikes, when a girl turns you down, when society drifts towards a culture that changes the reasons a girl should turn a guy down for, when someone leads a whole country to erradicate the jews because they seem successful (and as a result only the most enduring or intelligent survive), even if we try to "fix" it.
Evolution is only a matter of odds, and the odds are seldom 0 or 1. The chances of surviving and passing on to the next generation are relative to the particular moment and a very small amount can make a difference.
Still, I say it again, darwininan evolution is not good nor bad. And it happens whether we go "for" or "against" it.
Many blood diseases are related to this malaria resistance, being sickle cell anemia and thalassemia the most important.
... until they moved to malaria ridden zones or a cure was found.
... again.
There's no "good" or "bad" gene. Evolution is just a process with no morals whatsoever. The only thing that matters is the gene being passed on and, even so, it's not a goal: just a thing that happens.
Any of these anemia genes just sprouted up in a newborn thousands of years ago because of an ADN replication error. Perhaps cosmic rays, perhaps lack of vitamins such as folic acid, who knows. The gene was nonlethal, even though the anemia PERHAPS rendered its bearer less able to fight or hunt. BUT the carriers of that gene were more able to survive malaria, which is endemic in tropical lands. So, more people with the gene than ppl without it survived
We all regard intelligence, and agree on it having a good genetic backbone. Intelligence may have been a good reproduction factor a few millenia ago, but not anymore. Nowadays intelligent people tend to have no more than 2 kids while the less intelligent usually have many more. And if intelligence once had a role in determining the children's survival now it doesn't because the intelligent people of the society are taking the decisions and spreading their thinking power to all the rest in a fairly equal manner. Still, if intelligence IS related to a population's well-being, there will be a limit in the proportion of non-intelligent people after which the population will start to shrink and among the remaining, the most intelligent ones will begin outbreeding the rest
The basic idea of religion is to find an explanation to things that go beyond our knowledge and reason. And we humans look for signs of sentient intelligence (such as ours) in natural things such as lightning or even a rock sculped by the rain into a shape we can recognize.
The story we elaborate by knotting together random pieces of "facts" can lead to any kind of thinking: from "love your neighbor" to "kill all infidels".
In fact, both religions and political ideologies become experts in manipulating an individual's psyche and making a fanatic out of him, which will spread the word and fight fanatics of the other view. I'm sure the neural circuits that allow for this are built-in genetically in everyone of us.
The only difference I can find between religion and political ideologies is that in religion the "supreme being" is a ghost or something out of our plane of existance. In a political ideology, the "supreme being" is something huge and material such as "the people" or "the earth". Still, these "supreme beings" are attributed a sentient intelligence, wisdom far beyond ours and orders issued to "illiminati" which, of course, all of mankind must follow or face certain doom.
Religion MAY disappear with knowledge or perhaps it will prove its point. Still even though we know the causes of most diseases most people blame them to their god.
I agree. Diseases can be a devastating burden which impede financial-social-laboral recovery (which, in turn, impede health recovery thus closing the circle). On the other hand, we're the only animal species that care about each other's health instead of leaving him to die. A socialized system would treat the nation's health expense as a whole and act accordingly.
... the same way they find out if you don't agree with Castro.
Still, a socialized system has big defects:
-The health policy can get heavily burdened by poltical affairs - Here in Spain the leftist government is going specifically after McDonald's and Burger King citing health, but not failing to mention ther fact they're iconic enterprises from the USA. In the case of a nazi-type government (there goes Godwin's Law) they could even force eugenics in a way that clashes with ethics.
-If it turns to "all free" like here, the hospitals get full of healthy people with a cold, or ppl looking for a random day leave. The important cases get swarmed and the doctors get burnout. The solution would be to pay a very small sum (perhaps a dollar) just to be seen by the doc, but then again it would be "putting away the poor and miserable".
-"Medical tourism" consists of people coming from all over Europe to have their expensive ailments (heart surgery, etc) taken care of here. Also it becomes a calling for illegal migrants who will be far better off not working and undocumented here than working in their countries.
Cuba is more than socialized medicine: it's FORCED medicine. I've been there as a doctor. The lifespan and infant mortality come from the point that no one is able to escape the doctor the same way nobody's able to escape the government. The doctor is given a house in a given neighborhood and he must visit the neighbours regardless of them calling him or not. In Europe or the US (not mentioning countries where people still live in huts) the people are free not to go to the doctor or to take alternative medicine and stuff. It's been calculated that in the western world the average diabetic has had high glucose levels for at least 8 years before seeking assistance, and the average hypertense has been like that for ten years before going to the doctor. In Cuba that just can't happen because the "compañero doctor" will find out