I have several solid reasons for objecting to government run healthcare in general and the instant legislation in particular. The problem is that true believers in government run healthcare are deaf to them, succumbing to the same malady as you and others here lament regarding opponents who may or may not be opposed on solid merits, namely only subscribing to media outlets that tell you what you want to hear.
1. I'm a fan of civil liberties, so any system that gives the people with the guns and cages (government) more information to use against me (or you). Or Eliot Spitzer who in fact was hoisted by legislation he championed as being necessary to combat terror. Problem is... scope creep. It was such a "useful tool" that its use was expanded to fraud investigations when it was previously promised to us civil liberties "nuts" that such would "nevar happen". So, yes you could still make universal government-funded healthcare that collects no information about the consumers, but no one would ever do it on grounds of thwarting fraud and hypochondriacs. And in order to make the calls about whether a given citizen is worthy of continued medical care. Oh, and because our new J. Edgars want more complete dossiers on everyone so they can use the fact that you (potentially a legislator) have AIDS and your family doesn't know it to keep you from voting against certain expenditures, or to ensure you confirm certain nominees. Not that any of this could evar happen here in the land of the free. Oh, wait. Hoover would drool over the current "toolbox" much less what he'd have with the current and politically possible plans for government funded healthcare.
2. efficiency and % of GDP. proponents direct us to look at other socialized systems that consume less % of GDP, and this is good, but do you really think congress are going to pass anything that increases efficiency in the "booming healthcare industry"? That would necessarily mean decreasing the number of jobs in that industry, and healthcare is the only industry that has consistently grown through the current depression. Thus, anything that congress is politically able to do will impoverish us with people doing make work, like medical data entry and such, one of the chief drivers of unnecessary expense in the current system which makes it unaffordable for average people now.
3. all that really needs to be done is to remove industry protectionist measures like state restrictions on competition from out of state insurers and barriers to market entry for new insurance companies. shortly, as mentioned above, too many people are eating off the healthcare industry in a parasitic manner. Maybe trying something like this guy has for non-emergency care should be on the table... http://jayparkinsonmd.com/
also, photocopying a book is established to be a violation of copyright when the book is still protected by copyright and the copying does not meet the conditions of fair use (in the US).
you're an idiot ideologue. He clearly meant that he hoped the book lender got his book back after lending it, which is after all a risk of lending something rather than copying it and giving the copy to someone. Your inability to grasp what he was talking about makes you look like a raving bloody lunatic in your statement.
it takes two different cases to get two circuits finding the opposite of one another. When that happens, the Supreme Court *MUST* hear the case(s) to resolve the discrepancy. It is one of only a few things that can force the Supreme Court to hear a case. Other cases are heard at the court's discretion from among those appealed after decision at the circuit level. Thus do constitutional lawyers decide who makes a good test case. The goal is to find a client with circumstances that will get the circuit to rule differently than another circuit, even if it's on a tangential aspect of the case. It's like hacking a bit.
or it could have been that the highway administration wanted to use traffic lights that would work in all expected weather conditions (incandescent or heated LED) but were forced to use LED lights in order to get federal highway trust money for the project. The other choice being to do 75% fewer road improvement projects because you're not getting the federal money. There is never federal money that comes without strings attached.
(and I probably should've added a disclaimer earlier -- I work for the STEREO Science Center)
I'm sorry, this is/. Primary sources are not allowed to be involved in the conjectural, ad hominem disputes that pose for debate on this forum. You are welcome to contribute to some other topic, provided that you know nothing about it. Have a nice day.
that's a different argument than "lol ofc everyone who would do this is a pirate". I was addressing the latter. your argument does nothing to refute mine. If they can detect any modifications i may or may not have made to my hardware, then they are within their rights according to the tos for their network service. i remain legally and ethically ok to reverse and mod my hardware for many purposes, including playing backup discs and running seti at home or TOR.
i'd imagine you'd find more than a few people who've modded their xboxes and haven't pirated a thing here on/. I know most of us are just kids trying to get free stuff and cheat honest companies out of their just profits, but some of us are *engineers* who like to *understand* how stuff works, *change* or *fix* their hardware, or just modify hardware on *principle*. I know I fit several categories of the latter, especially the "modding hardware because I can" part. Just because you're a product marketing manager troll doesn't mean you get to spread fud on this forum unchecked. Have a nice day.
if speed is the goal, then it needs to be a power of two number of cores so that you don't have to implement logic checking for a valid core address. That logic would eat performance from every action performed by the machine. So, until you develop affordable decimal logic hardware implementations that can scale in size the way the binary logic does, we're gonna keep making computers that work fast the way we do now and it's gonna involve powers of 2. And get off my lawn.
Texas licenses software engineers. usually for safety critical applications. I wish it'd spread. Maybe then fewer Airbuses and Boeings would have software problems.
there are other considerations for society as explicitly discussed in the case law and other sources. however, i'm not necessarily even that put out by lifetime copyright, even though the original term of copyright was 10 years (and authors could lose copyright protection before their books were even well known due to the means of travel and communication of the time (horse and sailing ship)).
The problem with infinite copyright is that it stifles innovation the same as no copyright does. People are restrained by copyright from riffing off prior work. This can have negative societal consequences as political, social, and philosophical works frequently need to reference the current art. It's very onerous to tell people to buy 100 books because they're all still under copyright when excerpts would be more appropriate.
In addition, my biggest beef is the continual extension of copyright beyond the lifetime of the author solely to preserve Disney's profits because they're too lazy to invent new content or use trademark protection for mickey's damned ears.
Walt Disney's dead. Unless he's a follower of ancient Egyptian religion, he can't take it with him. His kids need to figure out how to make money themselves.
don't let the metamod solicit moderation for articles and other ubiquitous parts of speech. also, surely those words would be in the story, which would eliminate any negative impact of meta moderation anyways, even if those words *had* been metamoded.
sure, google bombing is still a concern i suppose, but is the current metamoderation any less susceptible? now everyone can do a page a day. just get a ton of meta mod farm accounts and feed them the text of posts you want buried. if they run across them when metamoderating then they mod them down.
on another note, i'm definitely opposed to being able to mod in a topic you post in even under your system for the reason brought up by others: people modding themselves up.
i'm actually not convinced that your idea would have the intended consequences.
here's another one, though: have a metamoderation that gleans words or phrases from posts at random and have users moderate those. then when users post comments that have those words and phrases in them, perform an initial moderation automagically based on the metamoderation of the phrases in it. so, if the majority of metamoderators say "goatse" is offtopic, then if the story itself isn't related to goatse, the post will get premoderated downwards as offtopic. The degree of downwards moderation would depend on the number of metamoderations of the term as offtopic normalized against the metamoderating population. i.e. if nearly everyone says goatse is offtopic, then premoderation might be -3. If it's an even balance or a small meta pool, it might only get -1 or even 0 moderation. just a thought. i'm sure it's imperfect and could also be exploited, but if there's the kernel of something worthwhile in this thought, maybe other/.ers can help refine it to something worthwhile.
but that will take away the righteousness I feel when down-modding things i don't agree with^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H err... when down-modding useless goatse.cx comments. that's it. yeah.
maybe remembering all the crap you did to other rats (or people) to survive (steal their resources) causes depression and reduces liklihood of reproduction.
We as a society certainly have a selective memory and blinkered recognition of history and current events.
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I have several solid reasons for objecting to government run healthcare in general and the instant legislation in particular. The problem is that true believers in government run healthcare are deaf to them, succumbing to the same malady as you and others here lament regarding opponents who may or may not be opposed on solid merits, namely only subscribing to media outlets that tell you what you want to hear.
1. I'm a fan of civil liberties, so any system that gives the people with the guns and cages (government) more information to use against me (or you). Or Eliot Spitzer who in fact was hoisted by legislation he championed as being necessary to combat terror. Problem is... scope creep. It was such a "useful tool" that its use was expanded to fraud investigations when it was previously promised to us civil liberties "nuts" that such would "nevar happen". So, yes you could still make universal government-funded healthcare that collects no information about the consumers, but no one would ever do it on grounds of thwarting fraud and hypochondriacs. And in order to make the calls about whether a given citizen is worthy of continued medical care. Oh, and because our new J. Edgars want more complete dossiers on everyone so they can use the fact that you (potentially a legislator) have AIDS and your family doesn't know it to keep you from voting against certain expenditures, or to ensure you confirm certain nominees. Not that any of this could evar happen here in the land of the free. Oh, wait. Hoover would drool over the current "toolbox" much less what he'd have with the current and politically possible plans for government funded healthcare.
2. efficiency and % of GDP. proponents direct us to look at other socialized systems that consume less % of GDP, and this is good, but do you really think congress are going to pass anything that increases efficiency in the "booming healthcare industry"? That would necessarily mean decreasing the number of jobs in that industry, and healthcare is the only industry that has consistently grown through the current depression. Thus, anything that congress is politically able to do will impoverish us with people doing make work, like medical data entry and such, one of the chief drivers of unnecessary expense in the current system which makes it unaffordable for average people now.
3. all that really needs to be done is to remove industry protectionist measures like state restrictions on competition from out of state insurers and barriers to market entry for new insurance companies. shortly, as mentioned above, too many people are eating off the healthcare industry in a parasitic manner. Maybe trying something like this guy has for non-emergency care should be on the table...
http://jayparkinsonmd.com/
also, photocopying a book is established to be a violation of copyright when the book is still protected by copyright and the copying does not meet the conditions of fair use (in the US).
e.g.
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter7/7-d.html
http://www.kasunic.com/article1.htm
even some "educational" uses are not fair use, as was found in the more recent Kinko's case discussed in the second link.
you're an idiot ideologue. He clearly meant that he hoped the book lender got his book back after lending it, which is after all a risk of lending something rather than copying it and giving the copy to someone. Your inability to grasp what he was talking about makes you look like a raving bloody lunatic in your statement.
because your say-so will keep such a popular election process apolitical... i think not.
it takes two different cases to get two circuits finding the opposite of one another. When that happens, the Supreme Court *MUST* hear the case(s) to resolve the discrepancy. It is one of only a few things that can force the Supreme Court to hear a case. Other cases are heard at the court's discretion from among those appealed after decision at the circuit level. Thus do constitutional lawyers decide who makes a good test case. The goal is to find a client with circumstances that will get the circuit to rule differently than another circuit, even if it's on a tangential aspect of the case. It's like hacking a bit.
or it could have been that the highway administration wanted to use traffic lights that would work in all expected weather conditions (incandescent or heated LED) but were forced to use LED lights in order to get federal highway trust money for the project. The other choice being to do 75% fewer road improvement projects because you're not getting the federal money. There is never federal money that comes without strings attached.
we're already there.
because scientists never market their theories? apparently the last conference I was at was a hallucination.
it was damned honest of the GP to provide that context. I laud him/her for it.
I'm sorry, this is /. Primary sources are not allowed to be involved in the conjectural, ad hominem disputes that pose for debate on this forum. You are welcome to contribute to some other topic, provided that you know nothing about it. Have a nice day.
nice language AC. get that anger out? good. glad to be a catharsis for you. now don't go murdering anyone please.
to address your rant, it may be a shitty PC, but it is a shitty PC with an interesting system of anti-tamper measures. Some of us *engineers* are academically and otherwise interested in how large companies have chosen to solve problems like these. for example: http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=1gi&q=hacking%20the%20xbox360&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=1gi&q=hacking+the+xbox360&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv&qvid=hacking+the+xbox360&vid=-7192592055317825437
Dolt.
that's a different argument than "lol ofc everyone who would do this is a pirate". I was addressing the latter. your argument does nothing to refute mine. If they can detect any modifications i may or may not have made to my hardware, then they are within their rights according to the tos for their network service. i remain legally and ethically ok to reverse and mod my hardware for many purposes, including playing backup discs and running seti at home or TOR.
i'd imagine you'd find more than a few people who've modded their xboxes and haven't pirated a thing here on /. I know most of us are just kids trying to get free stuff and cheat honest companies out of their just profits, but some of us are *engineers* who like to *understand* how stuff works, *change* or *fix* their hardware, or just modify hardware on *principle*. I know I fit several categories of the latter, especially the "modding hardware because I can" part. Just because you're a product marketing manager troll doesn't mean you get to spread fud on this forum unchecked. Have a nice day.
if speed is the goal, then it needs to be a power of two number of cores so that you don't have to implement logic checking for a valid core address. That logic would eat performance from every action performed by the machine. So, until you develop affordable decimal logic hardware implementations that can scale in size the way the binary logic does, we're gonna keep making computers that work fast the way we do now and it's gonna involve powers of 2. And get off my lawn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_professionalism
Texas licenses software engineers. usually for safety critical applications. I wish it'd spread. Maybe then fewer Airbuses and Boeings would have software problems.
and when one of us dies, we throw him on the fire, and it's more meat for the meat eaters.
i do agree with you though.
but really, more meat.
well played, sir/madam.
there are other considerations for society as explicitly discussed in the case law and other sources. however, i'm not necessarily even that put out by lifetime copyright, even though the original term of copyright was 10 years (and authors could lose copyright protection before their books were even well known due to the means of travel and communication of the time (horse and sailing ship)).
The problem with infinite copyright is that it stifles innovation the same as no copyright does. People are restrained by copyright from riffing off prior work. This can have negative societal consequences as political, social, and philosophical works frequently need to reference the current art. It's very onerous to tell people to buy 100 books because they're all still under copyright when excerpts would be more appropriate.
In addition, my biggest beef is the continual extension of copyright beyond the lifetime of the author solely to preserve Disney's profits because they're too lazy to invent new content or use trademark protection for mickey's damned ears.
Walt Disney's dead. Unless he's a follower of ancient Egyptian religion, he can't take it with him. His kids need to figure out how to make money themselves.
sane copyright laws will have a chance to come when people no longer buy kitsch with round black ears (M-i-c k-e-y you get the idea)
don't let the metamod solicit moderation for articles and other ubiquitous parts of speech. also, surely those words would be in the story, which would eliminate any negative impact of meta moderation anyways, even if those words *had* been metamoded.
sure, google bombing is still a concern i suppose, but is the current metamoderation any less susceptible? now everyone can do a page a day. just get a ton of meta mod farm accounts and feed them the text of posts you want buried. if they run across them when metamoderating then they mod them down.
on another note, i'm definitely opposed to being able to mod in a topic you post in even under your system for the reason brought up by others: people modding themselves up.
i'm actually not convinced that your idea would have the intended consequences.
here's another one, though: have a metamoderation that gleans words or phrases from posts at random and have users moderate those. then when users post comments that have those words and phrases in them, perform an initial moderation automagically based on the metamoderation of the phrases in it. so, if the majority of metamoderators say "goatse" is offtopic, then if the story itself isn't related to goatse, the post will get premoderated downwards as offtopic. The degree of downwards moderation would depend on the number of metamoderations of the term as offtopic normalized against the metamoderating population. i.e. if nearly everyone says goatse is offtopic, then premoderation might be -3. If it's an even balance or a small meta pool, it might only get -1 or even 0 moderation. just a thought. i'm sure it's imperfect and could also be exploited, but if there's the kernel of something worthwhile in this thought, maybe other /.ers can help refine it to something worthwhile.
after all, TFA *did* say "other prey." A clear euphemism for "people." Therefore, sharks are in SF to eat people. Don't go surfing or you'll die!!!
*Imagine several pages of sensationalist hyperbole continuing here, please.*
but that will take away the righteousness I feel when down-modding things i don't agree with^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H err... when down-modding useless goatse.cx comments. that's it. yeah.
Would you like this sandwich toasted?
on second thought, forget the campaign contributions... and the blackjack.
maybe remembering all the crap you did to other rats (or people) to survive (steal their resources) causes depression and reduces liklihood of reproduction.
We as a society certainly have a selective memory and blinkered recognition of history and current events.