In the USA, our cities which have the strictest gun control laws, are the cities which have the highest homicide rates. Furthermore, our homicides which involve firearms, seldom involve firearms which are legally possessed.
Do strict gun control laws lead to high homicide rates, or are strict gun control laws passed in reaction to high homicide rates?
HP's ePrint printers, some of which will become available next month, are connected to the user's home router, which means they will have an IP address.
Good luck getting your users to correctly configure their routers to make this work.
(d) Every alien in the United States who has been registered and fingerprinted under the provisions of the Alien Registration Act, 1940, or under the provisions of this Act shall be issued a certificate of alien registration or an alien registration receipt card in such form and manner and at such time as shall be prescribed under regulations issued by the Attorney General.
(e) Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d).
If we are not going to enforce the laws, take them off the books.
Yes, they are enforcing the law, but the problem is they are taking it one step further. Now in Arizona, everyone needs to carry proof of citizenship with them, even U.S. citizens. I am a citizen, but what if an officer has a reasonable suspicion that I'm not. If I'm not carrying any ID, oops, I guess I'm going to jail until I can prove I'm a citizen. That is not right.
The real problem I have with this 'you must buy health insurance or else' clause, is the fact that I now have to pay money for the right to be a citizen of this country.
This has never existed before. All previous taxes/fees/mandated insurance were based on you doing/earning something first:
Income taxes: Only if you earn money
Auto insurance: Only if you drive a car
Property taxes: Only if you own property
Health Insurance: Only if you earn money
There, fixed that for you. The health insurance mandate does not apply to people with low income. You will only have to pay money if your income is high enough.
In university my friend and I worked together on the same assignment. We were in different tutor groups so we believed it wouldn't be detectable. Indeed it wasn't but he got 80/100 and I got 40/100!
Actually, it sounds to me like you were caught. Giving different grades to people who "worked together" is a way for the teacher to punish people for cheating, if he or she doesn't want to go through all the bureaucracy involved with making a formal accusation.
I was getting this message while using Linux. It would show me the pop up and then send me to a web page that looked just like Windows Explorer. I was surprised to see it on a site like the New York Times.
Health care in America is a huge problem, and since the insurance companies are profitable
I hate to break it to you but insurance companies are not the only or even the biggest problem that our health care system faces. The insurance companies aren't the ones who set up the "pay for service" model that encourages health care inflation. The insurance companies aren't the reason that we have a shortage of GPs. The insurance companies aren't the reason why malpractice insurance rates are so high. I know it's popular for the Democrats to paint this as a "big insurance vs. everybody else" battle but there's really a lot more to it than that.
You cut off my quote in mid-sentence, and I think you missed my point. It sounds like we agree that the health care system is a problem. However, since the health care companies are profitable, they have no incentive to try and fix the system. This means the government has no choice but to step in and do something.
It's technically also true that you need to do business with the food companies to stay alive. Maybe the Government should take over the agriculture industry as well?
Oh wait, through corporate welfare and lobbying interests (tax breaks, money into boondoggles like ethanol, a need to appease Iowa to win Presidential primaries, etc, etc) it already has. Hmm, I wonder what the result is? Surely a balanced and well managed system that's working for the greater good, right? I bet if you had left it up to the free market we could have wound up with something that runs on fast food and high fructose corn syrup and which has resulted in 30% of Americans being obese.
Farm subsidies are just a way to manage the country's resources, I do not think it would be good for America if all the farmers were going out of business and selling their farms to housing developers. Besides, the American agriculture industry is one of the best in the world, whereas the health care system in America is almost completely private and one of the least efficient in the world.
You'll forgive my skepticism that the Government is going to improve the health care system.
Health care in America is a huge problem, and since the insurance companies are profitable, they are not going to do anything to change the system. The government is obligated to protect its citizens, so it has to do something to change the system.
Yes, they will. Ever heard the expression 'caveat emptor'? The difference between your friendly mega-corp and the government is that nobody is forcing you to do business with the mega-corp. The mega-corp can't come and take your money at gunpoint. You have to decide to do business with them.
Technically this is true, however, since the alternative to not doing business with health care companies is a likely early death. You are in a way forced to do business with them, if you want to stay alive.
It is not "just as good." I attempted to switch my company from MS Office to Open Office. We came across one spreadsheet it butchered to hell when it opened. It opened all the rest just fine but that one. In a business environment 99.9999% compatible isn't good enough. If a program can't open one file then there is no reason to switch.
I would say Open Office is "just as good", the only complaint I have ever heard about it is just what you said. It does not open Word files correctly 100% of the time. This fact really has nothing to do with its quality as a word processor.
It may work just fine for individual use, but in an enterprise environment when you constantly transfer documents between hundreds of other companies Open Office is completely useless.
This is only true if your business relies on storing its data in a proprietary format. If businesses stored all of their documents as ODF files, you would probably have the same complaint about Microsoft Word.
So their actually at 10% efficiency, which while unlikely at least has the merit of not being theoretically impossible.
Does anyone know how this compares with solar energy? If you covered one acre with solar panels instead of algae, would you be able to produce more energy?
How on earth do you equate Microsoft following the rules of the GPL as something bad?
If you were to read TFA, you would know that Microsoft was not following the rules of the GPL. They only released the code because they were caught violating the GPL. So, while they are currently in compliance with the GPL, it was never really their intention to be. This is why people are so upset.
I was able to watch the games online last year using the mediaplayerconnectivity plugin for firefox and vlc. I tried this year, but they block all non-IE browsers from accessing the video streams. I was able to get past this check by using the UserAgentSwitcher plugin, but now it won't let me get to the streams because I don't have windows media player.
I think the news media doesn't really understand what fair coverage means. In the presidential election, anytime either candidate did something dumb, the news media was afraid to cover it because people would say Oh, there is another bad story about candidate X, that channel must be biased. So instead, the news networks would just put one automaton from each party on the air and have them recite their lines and call it fair coverage. I think the news media tried too hard to make coverage "fair," and never did any real analysis of the stories.
I decided to revitilize my grandparent's old Celeron 500 w/ 128MB of RAM with Xubuntu. I couldn't install it with the live CD, but I got it on there. And it ran like crap. Very, very slow and sluggish...I was kind of suprised So I was about to throw it out, and figured, what the hell, and put XP on it. I turned off the Fisher Price UI, and it ran a HELL of a lot better than Xubuntu. Enough that it turned from unusuable to usable. I was stunned.
That's funny, I had the exact opposite experience. My parents had an old 500mhz Pentium III laptop with 128MB RAM. With XP on it, it took about 10 minutes to boot and was completely unusable. I installed Xubuntu on it, and it ran much better. I eventually decided to install gentoo on it, and now it runs incredibly well. So, unless you recompiled XP and optimized it for your machine, I am skeptical of your story.
They keep on bringing up the price and specs on these laptops. When they initially announced the EEE, they said it was going to be a $200 laptop. I still have yet to see one for $200, and with the way they keep on upping the specs, I don't think they will ever get to the $200 price point.
The 2GB 7" model is $275 at BJ's today (last day of the sale). They sent coupons for them in the mail.
If the dollar hadn't fallen so precipitously in the past few years that could easily have been $200.
Here in Taiwan I saw a place selling a 4GB 7" model for 7500 NT, which is about $250 American. Anyone ever seen one for less?
While I am sure these kids probably were drinking, I can't believe that photos on the internet are considered proof of guilt. All it takes is a photo and some editing software, and you can post a picture of anyone doing anything. When I was in school, we weren't allowed to reference internet sources in our papers, and now school officials are using internet sources to punish kids. That doesn't seem right to me.
I know "US Government Caught Manipulating Wikipedia" is a cool title, but seriously, does anyone think the US government, the CIA or the Vatican would be stupid enough to get caught if they actually wanted to influence a wikipedia article?
Well, the US Government was stupid enough to invade Iraq.
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In the USA, our cities which have the strictest gun control laws, are the cities which have the highest homicide rates. Furthermore, our homicides which involve firearms, seldom involve firearms which are legally possessed.
Do strict gun control laws lead to high homicide rates, or are strict gun control laws passed in reaction to high homicide rates?
HP's ePrint printers, some of which will become available next month, are connected to the user's home router, which means they will have an IP address.
Good luck getting your users to correctly configure their routers to make this work.
Arizona is just enforcing fed law:
(d) Every alien in the United States who has been registered and fingerprinted under the provisions of the Alien Registration Act, 1940, or under the provisions of this Act shall be issued a certificate of alien registration or an alien registration receipt card in such form and manner and at such time as shall be prescribed under regulations issued by the Attorney General.
(e) Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d).
http://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-29/0-0-0-8289.html
If we are not going to enforce the laws, take them off the books.
Yes, they are enforcing the law, but the problem is they are taking it one step further. Now in Arizona, everyone needs to carry proof of citizenship with them, even U.S. citizens. I am a citizen, but what if an officer has a reasonable suspicion that I'm not. If I'm not carrying any ID, oops, I guess I'm going to jail until I can prove I'm a citizen. That is not right.
The real problem I have with this 'you must buy health insurance or else' clause, is the fact that I now have to pay money for the right to be a citizen of this country.
This has never existed before. All previous taxes/fees/mandated insurance were based on you doing/earning something first:
Income taxes: Only if you earn money
Auto insurance: Only if you drive a car
Property taxes: Only if you own property
Health Insurance: Only if you earn money
There, fixed that for you. The health insurance mandate does not apply to people with low income. You will only have to pay money if your income is high enough.
In university my friend and I worked together on the same assignment. We were in different tutor groups so we believed it wouldn't be detectable. Indeed it wasn't but he got 80/100 and I got 40/100!
Actually, it sounds to me like you were caught. Giving different grades to people who "worked together" is a way for the teacher to punish people for cheating, if he or she doesn't want to go through all the bureaucracy involved with making a formal accusation.
I was getting this message while using Linux. It would show me the pop up and then send me to a web page that looked just like Windows Explorer. I was surprised to see it on a site like the New York Times.
Health care in America is a huge problem, and since the insurance companies are profitable
I hate to break it to you but insurance companies are not the only or even the biggest problem that our health care system faces. The insurance companies aren't the ones who set up the "pay for service" model that encourages health care inflation. The insurance companies aren't the reason that we have a shortage of GPs. The insurance companies aren't the reason why malpractice insurance rates are so high. I know it's popular for the Democrats to paint this as a "big insurance vs. everybody else" battle but there's really a lot more to it than that.
You cut off my quote in mid-sentence, and I think you missed my point. It sounds like we agree that the health care system is a problem. However, since the health care companies are profitable, they have no incentive to try and fix the system. This means the government has no choice but to step in and do something.
It's technically also true that you need to do business with the food companies to stay alive. Maybe the Government should take over the agriculture industry as well?
Oh wait, through corporate welfare and lobbying interests (tax breaks, money into boondoggles like ethanol, a need to appease Iowa to win Presidential primaries, etc, etc) it already has. Hmm, I wonder what the result is? Surely a balanced and well managed system that's working for the greater good, right? I bet if you had left it up to the free market we could have wound up with something that runs on fast food and high fructose corn syrup and which has resulted in 30% of Americans being obese.
Farm subsidies are just a way to manage the country's resources, I do not think it would be good for America if all the farmers were going out of business and selling their farms to housing developers. Besides, the American agriculture industry is one of the best in the world, whereas the health care system in America is almost completely private and one of the least efficient in the world.
You'll forgive my skepticism that the Government is going to improve the health care system.
Health care in America is a huge problem, and since the insurance companies are profitable, they are not going to do anything to change the system. The government is obligated to protect its citizens, so it has to do something to change the system.
Yes, they will. Ever heard the expression 'caveat emptor'? The difference between your friendly mega-corp and the government is that nobody is forcing you to do business with the mega-corp. The mega-corp can't come and take your money at gunpoint. You have to decide to do business with them.
Technically this is true, however, since the alternative to not doing business with health care companies is a likely early death. You are in a way forced to do business with them, if you want to stay alive.
It is not "just as good." I attempted to switch my company from MS Office to Open Office. We came across one spreadsheet it butchered to hell when it opened. It opened all the rest just fine but that one. In a business environment 99.9999% compatible isn't good enough. If a program can't open one file then there is no reason to switch.
I would say Open Office is "just as good", the only complaint I have ever heard about it is just what you said. It does not open Word files correctly 100% of the time. This fact really has nothing to do with its quality as a word processor.
It may work just fine for individual use, but in an enterprise environment when you constantly transfer documents between hundreds of other companies Open Office is completely useless.
This is only true if your business relies on storing its data in a proprietary format. If businesses stored all of their documents as ODF files, you would probably have the same complaint about Microsoft Word.
Here is a link to the start of thread that has not been slashdotted ... yet.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124870096801094&w=2
So their actually at 10% efficiency, which while unlikely at least has the merit of not being theoretically impossible.
Does anyone know how this compares with solar energy? If you covered one acre with solar panels instead of algae, would you be able to produce more energy?
How on earth do you equate Microsoft following the rules of the GPL as something bad?
If you were to read TFA, you would know that Microsoft was not following the rules of the GPL. They only released the code because they were caught violating the GPL. So, while they are currently in compliance with the GPL, it was never really their intention to be. This is why people are so upset.
1. Create a company around a popular open source database.
2. Sell company for $1 billion.
3. Profit
4. Fork it
5. ???
6. Profit again
I was able to watch the games online last year using the mediaplayerconnectivity plugin for firefox and vlc. I tried this year, but they block all non-IE browsers from accessing the video streams. I was able to get past this check by using the UserAgentSwitcher plugin, but now it won't let me get to the streams because I don't have windows media player.
I think the news media doesn't really understand what fair coverage means. In the presidential election, anytime either candidate did something dumb, the news media was afraid to cover it because people would say Oh, there is another bad story about candidate X, that channel must be biased. So instead, the news networks would just put one automaton from each party on the air and have them recite their lines and call it fair coverage. I think the news media tried too hard to make coverage "fair," and never did any real analysis of the stories.
Small, light and efficient, eh?
I decided to revitilize my grandparent's old Celeron 500 w/ 128MB of RAM with Xubuntu. I couldn't install it with the live CD, but I got it on there. And it ran like crap. Very, very slow and sluggish...I was kind of suprised So I was about to throw it out, and figured, what the hell, and put XP on it. I turned off the Fisher Price UI, and it ran a HELL of a lot better than Xubuntu. Enough that it turned from unusuable to usable. I was stunned.
That's funny, I had the exact opposite experience. My parents had an old 500mhz Pentium III laptop with 128MB RAM. With XP on it, it took about 10 minutes to boot and was completely unusable. I installed Xubuntu on it, and it ran much better. I eventually decided to install gentoo on it, and now it runs incredibly well. So, unless you recompiled XP and optimized it for your machine, I am skeptical of your story.
They keep on bringing up the price and specs on these laptops. When they initially announced the EEE, they said it was going to be a $200 laptop. I still have yet to see one for $200, and with the way they keep on upping the specs, I don't think they will ever get to the $200 price point.
The 2GB 7" model is $275 at BJ's today (last day of the sale). They sent coupons for them in the mail.
If the dollar hadn't fallen so precipitously in the past few years that could easily have been $200.
Here in Taiwan I saw a place selling a 4GB 7" model for 7500 NT, which is about $250 American. Anyone ever seen one for less?
There is no way the NES Power Pad should be on this list. Any device that allows you to run the 100m dash in 6.3 seconds has to be declared a success.
If Microsoft ends up buying Yahoo, does that mean I will be a subscriber of AT&T-Microsoft DSL?
While I am sure these kids probably were drinking, I can't believe that photos on the internet are considered proof of guilt. All it takes is a photo and some editing software, and you can post a picture of anyone doing anything. When I was in school, we weren't allowed to reference internet sources in our papers, and now school officials are using internet sources to punish kids. That doesn't seem right to me.
Well, the US Government was stupid enough to invade Iraq.