I have a pretty good health plan, but it still does not cover everything.
Here in the USA I can "choose" how much coverage I want and pay accordingly. I use the term loosely because there are few practical choices for many people.
You may not be aware that there is inexpensive private insurance available in Britain and many people get it as a company benefit.
It is so inexpensive because it really only has to top up the government scheme to cover the "other eye".
My point is, that the line is drawn on what is covered and what is not in every scheme I can think of, including government-run schemes, someone does have to figure out the benefit vs the cost of offering different treatments. Did you imagine that no-one does that at an HMO ?
And if you want to find a government-run medical scheme to have a go at, then pick on France's. Or is that one too good to make your point ?
I gather that if you have a BGP peering relationship, you may be able to signal to your ISP that they should "black hole" traffic from certain IP address ranges before it reaches you.
Perhaps it would help if this were something that could be adopted across the whole internet. For example use a digitally signed source quench message to clobber traffic to the IP address range you own (based on your digital signature) right where it enters the internet (or at least where it enters the first compliant node)
Plus it is in at least one way, a trap question. I think many more people would have said that the earth revolves around the sun in a year if they has thought about their answer more.
It's not that they did not know it, or could not work it out, it is that they snapped back an answer of "24 hours" because they thought that the question was something that it wasn't.
of what I believe OLPC is all about. Beiong an effective tool for delivery of education to children.
The success of this hardware in meeting this need rests on every component from the memory to the computing power, the battery technology and the display.
I believe ARM is a smart choice and improves the focus of this device on what the children need and not on what some idiot believes about training everyone to be able to use powerpoint.
wouldn't the government then do better to define a "Lingua Franca" for all medical records.
ie, one central standard to which all insurance companies' individual crap should be translatable by, say 2011.
And mandate that the insurance companies must handle the translation themselves.
when the next "law and order" story will center on the yellow dots that laser printers leave or, now, this paper fingerprinting.
The "bug" will love it.
so much as the windowing environment.
Surely kde or gnome could come up with a particular recipe that hit most of the major requirements.
Maybe even have a stab at working with an AD server to download its own group policy.
I'm sure what you say is true, but I'm sure they also realize that 1000s of subscribers streaming Mbit/s will pretty soon eat their network (for everyone, not just the streamers). They see the need for control as well as the need for money grabbing.
Streaming will soon crap out if the network gets bogged down enough to drop packets, and that means to work well, streaming needs to be prioritized and that means bye-bye net neutrality.
What would you do if this were your private company's network and you wanted IPTV?... that's right, control the total amount of IPTV, work to get the network to support the limited IPTV you allow and prioritize IPTV over other applications.
But some things (based on the TV shows I watch instead of going to law school !) seem to be even more protected.
For example, if the encypted files contained not just a treasured collection of photos of naked children, but also someone's medical records, or transcripts of attorney-client conversations, then the defendent could presumably not disclose the key.
Now this case may well be different, because the guy offered the evidence and then withdrew it. But in general, I would have though that if you sent a letter to a lawyer (any one you find in the yellow pages) and put a copy of it in the encrypted archive then you could claim at any interrogation that the archive contains correspondence with your lawyer and refuse to open it. It would presumably give most judges pause for thought at least before they compelled you to hand over the key.
Indian citizens should dress up as americans and wear makeup and body padding to look like us too.
That way they could do short clips of themselves grinning inanely while they describe whatever horrific shooting of a loved one they have just witnessed because they are overcome by the novelty of being on TV. CNN can then dispense with covering actual events and truly outsource the "bollywood-news".
All actual current events could then safely shut down in the USA and we can stop shooting each other.
I think this is one reason why gayness should be mentioned in a profile. The more people that identify themselves as gay, the more the general population see it as being...
a) commonplace
b) applicable to people with which they have something else in common
The more tolerant the masses will become. Indeed the only reason this is an issue at all is because of mainstream ignorance/bigotry
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I have a pretty good health plan, but it still does not cover everything. Here in the USA I can "choose" how much coverage I want and pay accordingly. I use the term loosely because there are few practical choices for many people.
You may not be aware that there is inexpensive private insurance available in Britain and many people get it as a company benefit. It is so inexpensive because it really only has to top up the government scheme to cover the "other eye".
My point is, that the line is drawn on what is covered and what is not in every scheme I can think of, including government-run schemes, someone does have to figure out the benefit vs the cost of offering different treatments. Did you imagine that no-one does that at an HMO ?
And if you want to find a government-run medical scheme to have a go at, then pick on France's. Or is that one too good to make your point ?
I would have said that you had that the wrong way round, but then I saw the stock market.
I gather that if you have a BGP peering relationship, you may be able to signal to your ISP that they should "black hole" traffic from certain IP address ranges before it reaches you.
Perhaps it would help if this were something that could be adopted across the whole internet. For example use a digitally signed source quench message to clobber traffic to the IP address range you own (based on your digital signature) right where it enters the internet (or at least where it enters the first compliant node)
It's not that they did not know it, or could not work it out, it is that they snapped back an answer of "24 hours" because they thought that the question was something that it wasn't.
of what I believe OLPC is all about. Beiong an effective tool for delivery of education to children.
The success of this hardware in meeting this need rests on every component from the memory to the computing power, the battery technology and the display.
I believe ARM is a smart choice and improves the focus of this device on what the children need and not on what some idiot believes about training everyone to be able to use powerpoint.
did not look that bad to me. It seemed to stick to the facts. They are supposed to make money
Mississippi stays at the bottom of the heap
is apple doing even offering a $200 gift card. It seems to me to be an open invitation to fraud.
wouldn't the government then do better to define a "Lingua Franca" for all medical records. ie, one central standard to which all insurance companies' individual crap should be translatable by, say 2011. And mandate that the insurance companies must handle the translation themselves.
Unemployment would quadruple overnight if 90% of the "Medical" staff at a hospital were no longer needed to do paperwork for the insurance companies.
Hell no, make more paperwork not less, the country needs jobs.
when the next "law and order" story will center on the yellow dots that laser printers leave or, now, this paper fingerprinting. The "bug" will love it.
so much as the windowing environment. Surely kde or gnome could come up with a particular recipe that hit most of the major requirements. Maybe even have a stab at working with an AD server to download its own group policy.
I get my "last minute must have" cables from radio shack. They seem to have reasonable options most of the time.
ah ooo, radio starararara
Streaming will soon crap out if the network gets bogged down enough to drop packets, and that means to work well, streaming needs to be prioritized and that means bye-bye net neutrality.
What would you do if this were your private company's network and you wanted IPTV?... that's right, control the total amount of IPTV, work to get the network to support the limited IPTV you allow and prioritize IPTV over other applications.
otherwise everything will fail from overload
I though the most wonderful thing about Tiggers was that there was only one of them
more effective that the antivirus I use today
one government database being up-to date and containing accurate information.
Now imagine a dozen of them with conflicting information.
They'll wind up knowing less than they did in the beginning.
I'll wind up with a dozen aliases that even I did not know I had.
For example, if the encypted files contained not just a treasured collection of photos of naked children, but also someone's medical records, or transcripts of attorney-client conversations, then the defendent could presumably not disclose the key.
Now this case may well be different, because the guy offered the evidence and then withdrew it. But in general, I would have though that if you sent a letter to a lawyer (any one you find in the yellow pages) and put a copy of it in the encrypted archive then you could claim at any interrogation that the archive contains correspondence with your lawyer and refuse to open it. It would presumably give most judges pause for thought at least before they compelled you to hand over the key.
I always thought you could be locked up forever for contempt of court.
Isn't that called spoliation ?
you misread it because it was written using a red laser. If it had been written using a blue laser you would have read it just fine.
Indian citizens should dress up as americans and wear makeup and body padding to look like us too. That way they could do short clips of themselves grinning inanely while they describe whatever horrific shooting of a loved one they have just witnessed because they are overcome by the novelty of being on TV. CNN can then dispense with covering actual events and truly outsource the "bollywood-news". All actual current events could then safely shut down in the USA and we can stop shooting each other.
should make the case, so you can read them in the john and not spread germs
I think this is one reason why gayness should be mentioned in a profile. The more people that identify themselves as gay, the more the general population see it as being...
a) commonplace
b) applicable to people with which they have something else in common
The more tolerant the masses will become. Indeed the only reason this is an issue at all is because of mainstream ignorance/bigotry
so say it loud...