Too bad you're wrong. India and Singapore are the hot medical destinations. Mexico is popular for Americans who need expensive dental work. There ARE people who travel to the U.S. for medical care, but more people travel FROM the U.S. to get medical care.
I have no idea where you got the idea that all of the drug development happens in the U.S.
I find you dying in the desert so I drive up in my water tanker (filled to capacity) and sell you just enough water to keep you alive in return for everything you own and a promissory note for the rest. Seem fair?
No, you died because you couldn't afford it. Or you were left unnecessarily bankrupt and died years early because THAT kept you from getting decent healthcare.
There's profit and then there's obscene profiteering.
What Kirk objected to was a lack of liberty. His objection to Vaal and Landru was that they imposed themselves upon the people. The same for the plant spores. For that matter, that was his objection to the Klingons. I don't think he would object all that much to a society that voluntarily forswore technology and exploration (since apparently, the people were free to leave if they wanted) even if he might not understand it or want it for himself.
They weren't anywhere near the reef until humans spread them there in bilge water. So but for us the reef wouldn't be threatened at all. In that sense, any population above zero is unnatural. The booms are caused by agricultural runoff.
At this point, the closest we can get to non-intervention will be to remove every last one of them from the reef.
Please read again VERY carefully, they are cash POSITIVE. That is, no further taxes are going to operations. Their debt is the existing loans from the government to do their build-out.
Too many drivers here apparently believe yield means ride the bumper of the car ahead so nobody can sneak in. The side streets might not be able to move until the lead car sacrifices itself to a collision or midnight. Meanwhile, the drivers on the side street believe that stopping once when they were 8 cars back was enough so they will tailgate a car that is yielded to so they can also go. For whatever reason, drivers take the stop sign (a little) more seriously so they use those.
You can just imagine the carnage a roundabout might cause given how "well" drivers here handle yielding.
There is a school zone near my neighborhood where you cannot see if the lights are flashing or not if you enter it from a side road. You will still be ticketed if the light you had no chance to see was flashing. And yes, sometimes they fail to disable the light for school holidays. In other cases they deliberately leave them enabled to accommodate extracurricular activities. So unless or until the county starts officially publishing when the zones will be active, automated cars and people using that side street are out of luck.
Attrition. As cars got cheaper and horses more expensive and less practical, the transition happened. Other than interstates, horses are still perfectly legal on the roads most everywhere. It even still happens in Pennsylvania.
The tax money is/was a loan to get the operation bootstrapped. It's a sunk cost. Tax money is not paying any operational costs at all, so the municipal broadband is on a level playing field with Comcast that got a monopoly for many years to bootstrap it and AT&t which got billions in federal funding (and years of monopoly status) to bootstrap it's broadband offerings.
So no, it REALLY, REALLY (i'm for real about this) is a price vs. performance decision. If the others want to compete, they might want to correct the things that routinely get them at the top of the most hated companies in America list.
I never claimed the states have a functional democracy. Then there's that whole constitutional thing that limits what sorts of laws can exist.
They also offer 50Mbps symmetric to residential customers. They are currently cash positive, just not yet paying down the principal. So for the resident, it comes down to price vs. performance like any other consumer decision.
Significantly, Comcast and AT&T seem to believe municipal broadband is a real threat since they are willing to spend bucketloads of money trying to kill it.
I believe in a functioning constitutional democracy. Where such exists, I support it. The U.S. federal version seems to be dysfunctional ATM. The tail tends to wag the dog.
What's the problem? The people there voted for it. Do you not believe in democracy? They also have the choice to use Comcast or AT&T, do you not believe the market can decide?
As long as people in general tend to not realize the implications of not changing the default password, it is not an invitation to the puiblic. Not setting a password at all or telling everyone the password on the login screen or in the SSIS is an invitation to the public.
People SHOULD change the default password but often don't realize it. Just like people SHOULD respect private property but don't always.
Don't be obtuse. Authorization comes from the owner of the device or someone acting on the owner's behalf. Do you really think the locksmith is authorized to grant you access to his customer's homes?
You may know your coworker puts his car keys in his desk drawer. Does that knowledge or the fact that it's common to do so constitute his permission to take his car for a spin?
Beneath the animations meant to depict hacking and the totally unnecessary 3d displays and such, they have the fundamental truth right. Hackers really can get in to that stuff that easily and they really could cause big problems.
Exactly. The existence of a password more or less translates as "authorized personnel only". Being able to pick the lock doesn't equate to permission to enter.
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Too bad you're wrong. India and Singapore are the hot medical destinations. Mexico is popular for Americans who need expensive dental work. There ARE people who travel to the U.S. for medical care, but more people travel FROM the U.S. to get medical care.
I have no idea where you got the idea that all of the drug development happens in the U.S.
I find you dying in the desert so I drive up in my water tanker (filled to capacity) and sell you just enough water to keep you alive in return for everything you own and a promissory note for the rest. Seem fair?
No, you died because you couldn't afford it. Or you were left unnecessarily bankrupt and died years early because THAT kept you from getting decent healthcare.
There's profit and then there's obscene profiteering.
What Kirk objected to was a lack of liberty. His objection to Vaal and Landru was that they imposed themselves upon the people. The same for the plant spores. For that matter, that was his objection to the Klingons. I don't think he would object all that much to a society that voluntarily forswore technology and exploration (since apparently, the people were free to leave if they wanted) even if he might not understand it or want it for himself.
So two people live together but don't get married?
What's the rate if 4 people live together? How about if one is disabled?
The reality is that gets complicated fast and soon enforcement starts costing more than just not bothering with all that and paying a flat rate.
They weren't anywhere near the reef until humans spread them there in bilge water. So but for us the reef wouldn't be threatened at all. In that sense, any population above zero is unnatural. The booms are caused by agricultural runoff.
At this point, the closest we can get to non-intervention will be to remove every last one of them from the reef.
That's like asking where is the law that keeps preschoolers from beating up heavyweight boxers.
The same can be said (especially in the U.S.) for fundamentalist Christian extremists.
Also agnostic crazies with an agenda.
Please read again VERY carefully, they are cash POSITIVE. That is, no further taxes are going to operations. Their debt is the existing loans from the government to do their build-out.
Too many drivers here apparently believe yield means ride the bumper of the car ahead so nobody can sneak in. The side streets might not be able to move until the lead car sacrifices itself to a collision or midnight. Meanwhile, the drivers on the side street believe that stopping once when they were 8 cars back was enough so they will tailgate a car that is yielded to so they can also go. For whatever reason, drivers take the stop sign (a little) more seriously so they use those.
You can just imagine the carnage a roundabout might cause given how "well" drivers here handle yielding.
There is a school zone near my neighborhood where you cannot see if the lights are flashing or not if you enter it from a side road. You will still be ticketed if the light you had no chance to see was flashing. And yes, sometimes they fail to disable the light for school holidays. In other cases they deliberately leave them enabled to accommodate extracurricular activities. So unless or until the county starts officially publishing when the zones will be active, automated cars and people using that side street are out of luck.
Attrition. As cars got cheaper and horses more expensive and less practical, the transition happened. Other than interstates, horses are still perfectly legal on the roads most everywhere. It even still happens in Pennsylvania.
The interest is being paid from revenue currently. The intent with expansion (ongoing, paid from revenue) is to pay the whole thing off from revenue.
The tax money is/was a loan to get the operation bootstrapped. It's a sunk cost. Tax money is not paying any operational costs at all, so the municipal broadband is on a level playing field with Comcast that got a monopoly for many years to bootstrap it and AT&t which got billions in federal funding (and years of monopoly status) to bootstrap it's broadband offerings.
So no, it REALLY, REALLY (i'm for real about this) is a price vs. performance decision. If the others want to compete, they might want to correct the things that routinely get them at the top of the most hated companies in America list.
I never claimed the states have a functional democracy. Then there's that whole constitutional thing that limits what sorts of laws can exist.
ATM = At The Moment.
They also offer 50Mbps symmetric to residential customers. They are currently cash positive, just not yet paying down the principal. So for the resident, it comes down to price vs. performance like any other consumer decision.
Significantly, Comcast and AT&T seem to believe municipal broadband is a real threat since they are willing to spend bucketloads of money trying to kill it.
I believe in a functioning constitutional democracy. Where such exists, I support it. The U.S. federal version seems to be dysfunctional ATM. The tail tends to wag the dog.
Single gmail account for contact (no phone), dns is wordpress.com, all bylines read either AP or RFP staff, etc etc. Looks more like an avid blogger.
A new business borrows money and operates at a loss for a few years? You don't say!
What's the problem? The people there voted for it. Do you not believe in democracy? They also have the choice to use Comcast or AT&T, do you not believe the market can decide?
As long as people in general tend to not realize the implications of not changing the default password, it is not an invitation to the puiblic. Not setting a password at all or telling everyone the password on the login screen or in the SSIS is an invitation to the public.
People SHOULD change the default password but often don't realize it. Just like people SHOULD respect private property but don't always.
I guess you must find yourself disturbed much of the time then.
That would be you, the owner of the device explicitly granting access to anyone who sees the SSID. No p[assword is you implicitly granting access.
Don't be obtuse. Authorization comes from the owner of the device or someone acting on the owner's behalf. Do you really think the locksmith is authorized to grant you access to his customer's homes?
You may know your coworker puts his car keys in his desk drawer. Does that knowledge or the fact that it's common to do so constitute his permission to take his car for a spin?
Perception is king. The facts don't matter much.
Agreed, that PARTICULAR story line isn't going to happen. However, the starting fact that baby monitors have practically no security is true.
Yes, it is. Ratings were good.
Beneath the animations meant to depict hacking and the totally unnecessary 3d displays and such, they have the fundamental truth right. Hackers really can get in to that stuff that easily and they really could cause big problems.
Exactly. The existence of a password more or less translates as "authorized personnel only". Being able to pick the lock doesn't equate to permission to enter.