With any luck the next President will be from the sensible party and officially postpone implementation of Obamacare indefinitely.
The sequestration act was intentionally lousy in the hopes that when faced with no choice but to allow it to go into effect, the politicians would take action and write a better bill. Similarly, the health insurance bailout act is total garbage that doesn't solve the terrible problems that exist in our terrible system. Hopefully now that it is coming close to being enacted people will actually sit down and write a law that fixes the system. For decades we have continued with doing nothing while the system has only fucked over more people. It is time that someone actually do something to fix this broken system. The rest of the industrialized world has a better system than ours, it is time we take into consideration that this is simply the wrong thing to do when dealing with life and death.
I know this will not be a popular opinion here - and I will likely be moderated into oblivion for even daring to suggest it on this right-leaning site - but seriously a single-payer healthcare system could do a lot to resolve this problem. There are a large number of people in this country who seek out full-time work not because they want to work 40 hours or because they even want to live the lifestyle of a full-timer, but because it is the only way to get health care (and don't try to claim that the health insurance bailout act called "obamacare" changes this in a meaningful way, because it really doesn't). There are plenty of people who would take a 25% pay cut to work 30 hours if they could still get health care, but the vast majority of employers in this country won't allow it. There are others who would work fewer hours and then take the time difference to pursue an education or vocational training (and are hence instead stuck in a dead end position because they have lost that flexibility). There are even some who would take two part-time jobs to accommodate their scheduling needs, but again can't do it because of health care.
These people won't be served by the current system, or any system that has been proposed in the past two decades. These people would also make jobs available by leaving full time positions, which would help those who seek full-time employment currently.
But instead our "main stream media" has told us such things are "un-American" and "communist". Why will we never get single-payer health care in the US? The same reason we'll never get solar power or a manned mission to Mars; people make more money on the current system than changing it to anything else.
I've already put on my fucking asbestos. Flame away.
Boston University is much more than a four-year school. BU has a graduate school, a medical school, and a law school as well. Just because it isn't Harvard or MIT doesn't mean it doesn't matter.
Obama is the most conservative president the US has had in the past 30 years, and possibly in all of time. This is exactly in line with everything else he has done to produce more money for the wealthiest Americans while under the conservative guise of "it's good for everyone else too". He has consistently chosen the kinds of fiscally conservative actions that Bush Jr, Bush Sr, Reagan, and Nixon all could only dream about.
"I'm not convinced there is any realistic reason this information needs to be private, although I might feel differently if i lived somewhere else in the world where angry armed mods drag you from your home for expressing a view point." ( icebike)
However you do not need to have your own domain name to express your viewpoint. There are plenty of free blog services where you can do that, as well as various discussion forums and other such services. For that matter, many of the free blog services attract far more attention than what one could reasonably expect to see quickly on their own domain name.
The obvious solution is for the electronic contact information to be provided, verified and published, but the personal information on individuals to be concealable
The problem here lies in where you draw the line for what can be considered personal enough to be concealed.
This is all about setting up a system to charge for access to 'whois' information. Phrases like "authorizing 'requestors'" is code for charging users.
Have you tried searching for a WHOIS record lately? Well over 90% of the records I have searched for in the past 2-3 years have been intentionally obfuscated by various systems as it is. This only accelerates their profits. This is, of course, the only thing the guys at ICANN have been interested in for some time (remember the auctions for gTLDs?).
This action is not with your best interests in heart. This proposal comes with the intent of ICANN maximizing their own profits. They will blow smoke about privacy and other such utter bullshit to try to get people to support this but make no mistake, this will make the internet a less pleasant experience for users and a better hiding place for spammers.
How so, you might ask? Right now the current WHOIS gives vague lipservice to requiring domain registrations (and only under a very specific list of TLDs at that) to be registered with valid information. As it is, a not-insignificant portion of all new registrations at any given time are completed with missing or completely bogus information. And yet when this happens ICANN - who is tasked with making WHOIS data legible - almost always does nothing.
Now, they are just looking to openly embrace obfuscated, missing, and utterly bogus data in WHOIS records. The only people who benefit form this are the registrars that sell domains that benefit from that kind of lax registration requirement - spammers, scammers, and the like. If you don't think this matters to you, just wait until someone you know has their identity stolen after they mistype the web page for their bank, click on a fake ebay email, or do anything of that nature. The scum that will make money off of this will get to someone close to you, and this action will make it even less likely that those types will ever see any kind of punishment for their actions.
In other words, fuck you ICANN. I hope you profiteering fucks get fucked in the ass. And then when someone tries to fuck me because of your fucking stupid actions I will do everything I can to direct them to fuck you instead, you stupid fucking fucks.
They brag about the display but it is only 1920x1080. We did better than that with CRTs in that size range over a decade ago. I know I'm not the only person who has been waiting for the resolutions to finally start taking off.
... costs a lot less than $280k. It barely costs 1/5th of that, and schools tend to treat PhD students as if they have all the time in the world. This company needs a better pitch line than telling us that it saves a grad student two years of work.
It looks like the median target of $34 which is much higher than the current price of $23.32, so you might want to consider picking some up.
The analysts have been perpetually wrong on their targets for facebook. They originally forecast that it would double in value on the day of the IPO; instead as I and many others expected it lost nearly half of its value on that day. If anything one should be placing bets on the stock to lose more value as they don't have a good path to profitability and their "smart" phone (along with several other big announcements) was a massive bucket of fail.
The delays caused the investors to lose less money than they would have lost otherwise. Had things been happening at maximum speed people would have come to realize even sooner that facebook was wildly overvalued and the market correction would have driven the price even lower. Instead it only lost around half of its value on opening day.
My first exposure to programming - as well as to how to pause a program - came on the C64. I had a class in middle school that taught us "how to type" on a C64, which bored me to tears. I eventually learned that I could escape out of the typing program and go back to the C64 BASIC environment - I could go back in to the typing program but seldom had the chance to do so.
Our class was a half-hour of typing, followed by a half-hour of lunch, then another half-hour of typing. I would finish so far ahead of the typing drills on any given day that I would have extra time on my hands before lunch, so I would usually go write a trivial loop before leaving for lunch. Almost invariably I would get back after lunch to find that the teacher had reset my computer. This wasn't all bad, though, as it gave me something to do in the second half.
They said how to say "computer" in Navajo, but not how to say "droid". They only explained that R2D2 would be a concept along the lines of "metal thing on wheels that is alive".
Or they could have just called it R2D2. One doesn't generally translate names into a description, but into a translated name, or if none is available, then the closest phonetic match.
Sure, but our brilliant slashdot-mangled summary told us
Listen to this article and how 'computer' and 'droid' would translate.
So if someone were to click on the article and listen to it hoping to hear a Navajo expression of "droid" they would be sadly disappointed. The audio clip does give the Navajo expression for "computer" but not for "droid".
They said how to say "computer" in Navajo, but not how to say "droid". They only explained that R2D2 would be a concept along the lines of "metal thing on wheels that is alive".
I'm not sure why we should be so worried about lack of Wi-Fi when most of us don't have access to high speed rail, period. The only current high-speed line on the Amtrak system is on the east coast, which connects the biggest east coast cities but does nothing for anyone else. We can't really start comparing Amtrak to actual high speed rail until we start connecting more cities at speeds greater than what the average Hyundai can achieve. There is plenty of demand from passengers tired of requisite anal probes at the airports, it is time to produce a real plan and go forward. NYC->Chicago would be a great start for one.
While the new Blacberry is outside my current price range, I would really like to see RIM survive as a company. I do believe they can add something of value to the smartphone market if they can find a way to right their ship.
Actually, a lot fewer sales. DNF actually sold because people were interested in it. People won't be interested in this as they don't want to wear themselves out in 7 hour sessions of Halo 12. This will likely go down as the least successful gaming controller of all time - and I'm saying that as someone who bought a power glove for the NES.
Most reasonably sharp thieves will quickly wipe your HD and install a "fresh" OS on your laptop after they take it from you. Your monitoring software will be gone quickly; though fortunately your data will go with it.
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With any luck the next President will be from the sensible party and officially postpone implementation of Obamacare indefinitely.
The sequestration act was intentionally lousy in the hopes that when faced with no choice but to allow it to go into effect, the politicians would take action and write a better bill. Similarly, the health insurance bailout act is total garbage that doesn't solve the terrible problems that exist in our terrible system. Hopefully now that it is coming close to being enacted people will actually sit down and write a law that fixes the system. For decades we have continued with doing nothing while the system has only fucked over more people. It is time that someone actually do something to fix this broken system. The rest of the industrialized world has a better system than ours, it is time we take into consideration that this is simply the wrong thing to do when dealing with life and death.
I know this will not be a popular opinion here - and I will likely be moderated into oblivion for even daring to suggest it on this right-leaning site - but seriously a single-payer healthcare system could do a lot to resolve this problem. There are a large number of people in this country who seek out full-time work not because they want to work 40 hours or because they even want to live the lifestyle of a full-timer, but because it is the only way to get health care (and don't try to claim that the health insurance bailout act called "obamacare" changes this in a meaningful way, because it really doesn't). There are plenty of people who would take a 25% pay cut to work 30 hours if they could still get health care, but the vast majority of employers in this country won't allow it. There are others who would work fewer hours and then take the time difference to pursue an education or vocational training (and are hence instead stuck in a dead end position because they have lost that flexibility). There are even some who would take two part-time jobs to accommodate their scheduling needs, but again can't do it because of health care.
These people won't be served by the current system, or any system that has been proposed in the past two decades. These people would also make jobs available by leaving full time positions, which would help those who seek full-time employment currently.
But instead our "main stream media" has told us such things are "un-American" and "communist". Why will we never get single-payer health care in the US? The same reason we'll never get solar power or a manned mission to Mars; people make more money on the current system than changing it to anything else.
I've already put on my fucking asbestos. Flame away.
Boston University is much more than a four-year school. BU has a graduate school, a medical school, and a law school as well. Just because it isn't Harvard or MIT doesn't mean it doesn't matter.
Obama is the most conservative president the US has had in the past 30 years, and possibly in all of time. This is exactly in line with everything else he has done to produce more money for the wealthiest Americans while under the conservative guise of "it's good for everyone else too". He has consistently chosen the kinds of fiscally conservative actions that Bush Jr, Bush Sr, Reagan, and Nixon all could only dream about.
"I'm not convinced there is any realistic reason this information needs to be private, although I might feel differently if i lived somewhere else in the world where angry armed mods drag you from your home for expressing a view point." ( icebike)
However you do not need to have your own domain name to express your viewpoint. There are plenty of free blog services where you can do that, as well as various discussion forums and other such services. For that matter, many of the free blog services attract far more attention than what one could reasonably expect to see quickly on their own domain name.
The obvious solution is for the electronic contact information to be provided, verified and published, but the personal information on individuals to be concealable
The problem here lies in where you draw the line for what can be considered personal enough to be concealed.
This is all about setting up a system to charge for access to 'whois' information. Phrases like "authorizing 'requestors'" is code for charging users.
Have you tried searching for a WHOIS record lately? Well over 90% of the records I have searched for in the past 2-3 years have been intentionally obfuscated by various systems as it is. This only accelerates their profits. This is, of course, the only thing the guys at ICANN have been interested in for some time (remember the auctions for gTLDs?).
This action is not with your best interests in heart. This proposal comes with the intent of ICANN maximizing their own profits. They will blow smoke about privacy and other such utter bullshit to try to get people to support this but make no mistake, this will make the internet a less pleasant experience for users and a better hiding place for spammers.
How so, you might ask? Right now the current WHOIS gives vague lipservice to requiring domain registrations (and only under a very specific list of TLDs at that) to be registered with valid information. As it is, a not-insignificant portion of all new registrations at any given time are completed with missing or completely bogus information. And yet when this happens ICANN - who is tasked with making WHOIS data legible - almost always does nothing.
Now, they are just looking to openly embrace obfuscated, missing, and utterly bogus data in WHOIS records. The only people who benefit form this are the registrars that sell domains that benefit from that kind of lax registration requirement - spammers, scammers, and the like. If you don't think this matters to you, just wait until someone you know has their identity stolen after they mistype the web page for their bank, click on a fake ebay email, or do anything of that nature. The scum that will make money off of this will get to someone close to you, and this action will make it even less likely that those types will ever see any kind of punishment for their actions.
In other words, fuck you ICANN. I hope you profiteering fucks get fucked in the ass. And then when someone tries to fuck me because of your fucking stupid actions I will do everything I can to direct them to fuck you instead, you stupid fucking fucks.
Obviously genomics is the study of gnome genealogies
Yes, I'm quite sure that is what ... oh, what was that pesky search engine called ... told me. Damnit infoseek!
Someone has manged to tag this "wtfisgenomics". Really, people? I didn't know there were that many slashdot readers who were still stuck in 1994.
They brag about the display but it is only 1920x1080. We did better than that with CRTs in that size range over a decade ago. I know I'm not the only person who has been waiting for the resolutions to finally start taking off.
Not everyone is physically capable of doing that, which could eliminate some potential thieves right away.
... costs a lot less than $280k. It barely costs 1/5th of that, and schools tend to treat PhD students as if they have all the time in the world. This company needs a better pitch line than telling us that it saves a grad student two years of work.
It looks like the median target of $34 which is much higher than the current price of $23.32, so you might want to consider picking some up.
The analysts have been perpetually wrong on their targets for facebook. They originally forecast that it would double in value on the day of the IPO; instead as I and many others expected it lost nearly half of its value on that day. If anything one should be placing bets on the stock to lose more value as they don't have a good path to profitability and their "smart" phone (along with several other big announcements) was a massive bucket of fail.
The delays caused the investors to lose less money than they would have lost otherwise. Had things been happening at maximum speed people would have come to realize even sooner that facebook was wildly overvalued and the market correction would have driven the price even lower. Instead it only lost around half of its value on opening day.
My first exposure to programming - as well as to how to pause a program - came on the C64. I had a class in middle school that taught us "how to type" on a C64, which bored me to tears. I eventually learned that I could escape out of the typing program and go back to the C64 BASIC environment - I could go back in to the typing program but seldom had the chance to do so.
Our class was a half-hour of typing, followed by a half-hour of lunch, then another half-hour of typing. I would finish so far ahead of the typing drills on any given day that I would have extra time on my hands before lunch, so I would usually go write a trivial loop before leaving for lunch. Almost invariably I would get back after lunch to find that the teacher had reset my computer. This wasn't all bad, though, as it gave me something to do in the second half.
They said how to say "computer" in Navajo, but not how to say "droid". They only explained that R2D2 would be a concept along the lines of "metal thing on wheels that is alive".
Or they could have just called it R2D2. One doesn't generally translate names into a description, but into a translated name, or if none is available, then the closest phonetic match.
Sure, but our brilliant slashdot-mangled summary told us
Listen to this article and how 'computer' and 'droid' would translate.
So if someone were to click on the article and listen to it hoping to hear a Navajo expression of "droid" they would be sadly disappointed. The audio clip does give the Navajo expression for "computer" but not for "droid".
They said how to say "computer" in Navajo, but not how to say "droid". They only explained that R2D2 would be a concept along the lines of "metal thing on wheels that is alive".
I'm not sure why we should be so worried about lack of Wi-Fi when most of us don't have access to high speed rail, period. The only current high-speed line on the Amtrak system is on the east coast, which connects the biggest east coast cities but does nothing for anyone else. We can't really start comparing Amtrak to actual high speed rail until we start connecting more cities at speeds greater than what the average Hyundai can achieve. There is plenty of demand from passengers tired of requisite anal probes at the airports, it is time to produce a real plan and go forward. NYC->Chicago would be a great start for one.
It's the 21st century!! Where is my flying car?
It's stuck in a tree, in British Columbia.
While the new Blacberry is outside my current price range, I would really like to see RIM survive as a company. I do believe they can add something of value to the smartphone market if they can find a way to right their ship.
Not many wet sites can handle 140,000+ people trying to log in at the same time.
Well that is your problem right there, your servers are drunk. Next time give the beer to your webmaster, rather than your webserver, instead.
So the question is, are they going to auction off all the monkeys?
That is almost universally prohibited under NIH funding regulations.
Because that would be freakin awesome!
I'm not sure what would be awesome about owning a monkey with AIDS.
Debt collectors in the US are terrible people who act without conscience or consequence. Perhaps it was a trans-ocean philosophy exchange?
Actually, a lot fewer sales. DNF actually sold because people were interested in it. People won't be interested in this as they don't want to wear themselves out in 7 hour sessions of Halo 12. This will likely go down as the least successful gaming controller of all time - and I'm saying that as someone who bought a power glove for the NES.
Most reasonably sharp thieves will quickly wipe your HD and install a "fresh" OS on your laptop after they take it from you. Your monitoring software will be gone quickly; though fortunately your data will go with it.