Actually there's one additional difference... and it pisses off to no end.
Illegal immigrants generally can ignore the bills the hospital sends (they can't refuse treatment but they sure CAN bill you). It's nearly impossible to track them down and get any legal recourse no matter what they owe. OTOH, a lower-middle class person that's *trying* to do the right thing gets stuck with a $20k hospital bill. They get paid on the books and pay taxes...next thing you know there's a judgment against them and their wages are garnished to pay for their bills.
Essentially you're better off cheating the system and essentially stealing from the country than trying to be an honest self-supporting person.
Also...just to point out that the US already pays about TWICE as much per-person what most modern countries do today. And the level of care here is significantly LOWER than those paying half as much.
It would seem parent poster doesn't squander money on trivial shit and live massively in debt. Sure, $900 is expensive but so is the LV purse and gucci boots the 16 year old child simply *had* to have. The $55k tank-like SUV probably wasn't exactly necessary either.
I know way too many examples of bounced reality checks. Instead of paying $20/month for years and years...you pay $900 once . In addition, with actual reform, those prices should go down significantly. Overpriced and over-regulated healthcare is what's causing the need for health insurance.
When he gets cancer and can't afford treatment one of two things happen
1) he dies
B) he gets his own personal bail-out...either from family/friends or one of the no-limitation policies that they're forcing insurance companies to choke down
IMHO, number 1 is perfectly justified. You know the risk, you take it, you deal with the consequences. You're right, $20/week isn't much. But the underlying problem here is it's no longer a free choice. Why should I have to not only pay for my own coverage but mail out some idiot who's getting media attention over the repercussions of his own stupid choices.
Not to say gp is stupid nor to say that he would claim entitlement to a bail-out. Many people would though and that's a much bigger problem. Much of our country feels entitled to knowingly make bad life choices and then blame the government for not stopping them AND expect someone else to save their sorry ass.
Don't pay for my healthcare from taxes of others...fix healthcare so the cost is reasonable and affordable.
Actually there are plate covers that work... certain ones for certain situations and camera types.
Some are fabricated to enhance glare similar to the silvered reflective stripes on safety gear (take a picture biking safety jacket with and without flash, the difference is incredibly obvious) . A camera that uses a flash will over-expose and be unable to read the plate.
Another type is seemingly identical to the privacy guards on monitors. If you're too far off from directly in front of the plate (sides, or above) it blurs out your view. From straight on (i.e. behind the vehicle at road level) it appears to be nothing more than a clear plastic cover.
So the technology exists and DOES work...against certain cameras in certain situations. However afaik they're all illegal in NY (and probably most states)
"We made nuclear waste as well. It doesn't mean we can ignore it and it'll go away."
Actually exactly that will most certainly work. You just have to wait it out and not go stick your nose in it every 5 minutes and then complain about radiation poisoning.
I DARE you to walk up to a marine and tell him he's not vicious. I'm sure he'll be the crap out of you just to prove you wrong...once you explain what vicious means of course.
Sure, and one idiot with a gun can hold as many people hostage as he lines until the hostages realize they outnumber the bullets and they get tired of sitting around as "helpless victims".
Seems these days EVERYONE is a helpless victim. Heck, I heard the drunk driver that killed some guy was a helpless victim of the bartender "forcing" him to have so much alcohol he got drunk.
I'd go a step further. It's not the consumer that's wrong, it's not the business model that's wrong per se (maybe outdated though), it's the obscene laws we have in place that exist solely to support out-dated business models from a time when instant worldwide communication wasn't.
Actually piracy can have a net positive impact on a business.
Not in the short term obviously...but let some 'pirate' post your software and millions download it. Oh, and here's version 2 that has xyz useful feature that we're now charging for and you can't get around.
Look at WoW...they have, essentially, a zero piracy rate. Sure, you can run a rogue server, sure you can hack the game...but really you pay for the MMO part of the experience. You can basically get as many free 10-day trial CDs as you want...but to go further...you pay.
A smart company views piracy as advertising and embraces it. People will use what's popular and good, but free is a big selling point for gathering a fan base.
Really? Because TPB just lists the torrent hashes and peers? There's NO description of what's in any given torrent.
Bit Torrent as a P2P client, however, is content-neutral. Calling TPB content neutral is being rather generous though. They know very well that the majority of their torrents point to things being illegally distributed.
And hashes, by design, are not actually unique (otherwise they'd be as long as the file). Collisions might be rare but recently researches have been able to force MD5 collisions I believe.
Therefore, it can't even be claimed that the hash is a unique derivative that identifies only that copyrighted work. For all we know it could also identify a text file that says "Hello world."
While it'd be insane to try and claim ownership rights to a hash of data you own, let them try to prove no other data set can have the same hash. That ought to keep 'em busy for a while.
...a close flyby? If you're going to go almost all the way to another star, why not complete the trip?!
The majority of the distance is between the solar systems...and you still have to turn around and come back home.
You'd do better with a one-way trip, re-fuel, and come back. Unless you found a solar system devoid of mass...in which case you're SOL. Or...even better a true one-way trip and send information back.
The problem with going so far is technology is evolving at such a rate that any probe we send out would probably arrive after the second generation probe.
Yeah, you can't beat that price for an actual car that comfortably seats 4 adults. I'm not sure I'd buy a car without AC but...if times got that tight i'd sure take a $10k brand new, high MPG car with a factory warranty than a used one from some shady dealer for the same.
BTW, to save money you lose out on power brakes, power steering...stuffs like that. Which also means there's less to go wrong. No super-fancy engine management, just simple efficiency. Bet this car out-lasts a few others that cost twice as much.
They've already given telco companies billions... when they pass a bill with this right you can be sure it will include an additional tax on that will wind up costing you about 10x more than the service is worth.
That said, the US is much more regionally diverse (read 'f'ing big and spread out) compared to EU countries so it's much more challenging.
What I'd suggest is focusing on making life survivable WITHOUT government intervention and social care programs. Instead of taxing a business into oblivion to support those programs...let them have the money to hire people are a fair wage.
Oh wait...but the lovely stock market prevents companies from doing what's best for their employees. Said companies must do what's best for the stock price (and thus executive compensation).
That's just it: They're issuing updates to explicitly BREAK interoperability. On two markets they have a 'monopoly' similar to MS with windows - portable MP3 players and online music downloads. That stinks of unfair or anti-competitive business practices and plenty of other random legal terms.
What if MS decided that all windows programs needed to be signed and licensed and sold through an app store they controlled?
I'm sure this will wind up in court with lots of bickering, motions, friend-of-the-court nonsense, appeals and so on. In reality we'd do better to just let the kids duke it out on the playground and see what happens. Would be even funnier if Apple implemented a hash check and palm found a collision to match it without 'stealing' code:)
Apparently a 'driving-while-texting' is a forever thing. "...prohibited from getting a job as a school buss driver if they have been convicted..."
Now, I understand it's not safe. And I fully agree that buss drivers, train conductors, etc. should not intentionally distract themselves for something trivial while working as it could endanger others. But why do we keep passing laws that perpetuate someone's status as a criminal? After the 'punishment', be it financial or penal, hasn't someone paid their 'debt to society' and been rehabilitated? Isn't the (claimed) point of laws and punishments to deter people from committing the crimes? I disagree with the perpetual sex-offender registration, but at least they're the result of a crime with an actual, identifiable victim. Of course, when offenders are forced to live in a tent city because they can't legally live anywhere else it's rather hard to imagine what motivation they have to follow the law.
What's next, you get branded for speeding in a work zone? Non-removable tracking bracelet for being late to too many meetings? At the rate we're going *everyone* will be a criminal in perpetual rehabilitation before too long.
Ok, i was totally with you until the nude photography.
It's nothing more than an over-glorified x-ray scanner which displays an image and moves on without saving anything. Sure, you can play conspiracy theory and say someone, somewhere, somehow is saving the pictures. There might also be a peeping tom outside your bedroom window.
What's funny is most countries don't do anything even remotely near what the US does yet they get by just fine.
Ah, i was waiting for someone else to to mention centrify...we're in a POC at the moment too and the two tools purchased were centrify and Jamf.
Centrify seems to work well but falls short in a few places if you don't dig into customization. Overall good tool though. Costs $$ but...peanuts in large scale enterprise. Freeware without support means SME's to support it which means it's not freeware:)
For deployment Jamf is pretty handy. Not only imaging but packaged applications, updates, printers, and so on. Many of the examples here don't talk about enterprise level support where systems must be fully managed and controlled. Too many people i've spoken to have the 'don't worry, be happy' ideology for Macs which would never fly on PCs.
Assuming that a user does things right seems to be common on Macs and it's not an acceptable security model for enterprise level orgs. That needs to change if Apple wants to be accepted on-par with MS.
Currently i'm digging into get some granularity on permissions. All or nothing admin (parental control is useless) is a bad mix when trying to balance security vs. usability.
Based on your anecdotal example...bla bla bla. Buy you readily say you're buying sub-par equipment. So i'm not sure how you can compare "good" equipment. If i bought a $300 clearance PC and compared it to a $800 enterprise-class PC i'm sure i'd see more failures in the cheapy one.
Moving on...to the smaller end of 'large' business - 2500 users and ~4000 computers in my enterprise. Similarly configured Macs cost us about twice what a PC does. Apple doesn't give on hardware unless you're buying them by the truck load and even then it's not nearly as much as other large suppliers.
Go negotiate pricing with 7-figure yearly spending and Dell, HP, etc. will give a LOT more than Apple. Yes, Macs are pretty but we're talking about enterprise. Pretty takes a back seat.
Actually the rest is a mix of gasoline and coal (well, electricity derived from it).
Show me some actual numbers of the (usable) energy density of this 5% alge and we can talk. Until then this is a car being driven as an electric-primary vehicle with diluted gas as a secondary source.
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Actually there's one additional difference... and it pisses off to no end.
Illegal immigrants generally can ignore the bills the hospital sends (they can't refuse treatment but they sure CAN bill you). It's nearly impossible to track them down and get any legal recourse no matter what they owe. OTOH, a lower-middle class person that's *trying* to do the right thing gets stuck with a $20k hospital bill. They get paid on the books and pay taxes...next thing you know there's a judgment against them and their wages are garnished to pay for their bills.
Essentially you're better off cheating the system and essentially stealing from the country than trying to be an honest self-supporting person.
Also...just to point out that the US already pays about TWICE as much per-person what most modern countries do today. And the level of care here is significantly LOWER than those paying half as much.
It would seem parent poster doesn't squander money on trivial shit and live massively in debt. Sure, $900 is expensive but so is the LV purse and gucci boots the 16 year old child simply *had* to have. The $55k tank-like SUV probably wasn't exactly necessary either.
I know way too many examples of bounced reality checks. Instead of paying $20/month for years and years...you pay $900 once . In addition, with actual reform, those prices should go down significantly. Overpriced and over-regulated healthcare is what's causing the need for health insurance.
When he gets cancer and can't afford treatment one of two things happen
1) he dies
B) he gets his own personal bail-out...either from family/friends or one of the no-limitation policies that they're forcing insurance companies to choke down
IMHO, number 1 is perfectly justified. You know the risk, you take it, you deal with the consequences. You're right, $20/week isn't much. But the underlying problem here is it's no longer a free choice. Why should I have to not only pay for my own coverage but mail out some idiot who's getting media attention over the repercussions of his own stupid choices.
Not to say gp is stupid nor to say that he would claim entitlement to a bail-out. Many people would though and that's a much bigger problem. Much of our country feels entitled to knowingly make bad life choices and then blame the government for not stopping them AND expect someone else to save their sorry ass.
Don't pay for my healthcare from taxes of others...fix healthcare so the cost is reasonable and affordable.
Actually there are plate covers that work ... certain ones for certain situations and camera types.
Some are fabricated to enhance glare similar to the silvered reflective stripes on safety gear (take a picture biking safety jacket with and without flash, the difference is incredibly obvious) . A camera that uses a flash will over-expose and be unable to read the plate.
Another type is seemingly identical to the privacy guards on monitors. If you're too far off from directly in front of the plate (sides, or above) it blurs out your view. From straight on (i.e. behind the vehicle at road level) it appears to be nothing more than a clear plastic cover.
So the technology exists and DOES work...against certain cameras in certain situations. However afaik they're all illegal in NY (and probably most states)
I'm fairly certain a judge can throw out a case irrespective of the jury's opinion. A judge just can't CONVICT against a jury's not-guilty finding.
Speak softly but carry a big stick. We've failed at both honestly.
I don't think we don't need wishy washy laws for border control and body-cavity searches before boarding planes.
"We made nuclear waste as well. It doesn't mean we can ignore it and it'll go away."
Actually exactly that will most certainly work. You just have to wait it out and not go stick your nose in it every 5 minutes and then complain about radiation poisoning.
I DARE you to walk up to a marine and tell him he's not vicious. I'm sure he'll be the crap out of you just to prove you wrong...once you explain what vicious means of course.
Sure, and one idiot with a gun can hold as many people hostage as he lines until the hostages realize they outnumber the bullets and they get tired of sitting around as "helpless victims".
Seems these days EVERYONE is a helpless victim. Heck, I heard the drunk driver that killed some guy was a helpless victim of the bartender "forcing" him to have so much alcohol he got drunk.
Not surprising really. The secret formula for CokeCola is probably hidden in there too.
I wonder how many 'libraries of congress' could fit in the space occupied by unused but deployed windows code.
I'd go a step further. It's not the consumer that's wrong, it's not the business model that's wrong per se (maybe outdated though), it's the obscene laws we have in place that exist solely to support out-dated business models from a time when instant worldwide communication wasn't.
Actually piracy can have a net positive impact on a business.
Not in the short term obviously...but let some 'pirate' post your software and millions download it. Oh, and here's version 2 that has xyz useful feature that we're now charging for and you can't get around.
Look at WoW...they have, essentially, a zero piracy rate. Sure, you can run a rogue server, sure you can hack the game...but really you pay for the MMO part of the experience. You can basically get as many free 10-day trial CDs as you want...but to go further...you pay.
A smart company views piracy as advertising and embraces it. People will use what's popular and good, but free is a big selling point for gathering a fan base.
Really? Because TPB just lists the torrent hashes and peers? There's NO description of what's in any given torrent.
Bit Torrent as a P2P client, however, is content-neutral. Calling TPB content neutral is being rather generous though. They know very well that the majority of their torrents point to things being illegally distributed.
And hashes, by design, are not actually unique (otherwise they'd be as long as the file). Collisions might be rare but recently researches have been able to force MD5 collisions I believe.
Therefore, it can't even be claimed that the hash is a unique derivative that identifies only that copyrighted work. For all we know it could also identify a text file that says "Hello world."
While it'd be insane to try and claim ownership rights to a hash of data you own, let them try to prove no other data set can have the same hash. That ought to keep 'em busy for a while.
...a close flyby? If you're going to go almost all the way to another star, why not complete the trip?!
The majority of the distance is between the solar systems...and you still have to turn around and come back home.
You'd do better with a one-way trip, re-fuel, and come back. Unless you found a solar system devoid of mass...in which case you're SOL. Or...even better a true one-way trip and send information back.
The problem with going so far is technology is evolving at such a rate that any probe we send out would probably arrive after the second generation probe.
Yeah, you can't beat that price for an actual car that comfortably seats 4 adults. I'm not sure I'd buy a car without AC but...if times got that tight i'd sure take a $10k brand new, high MPG car with a factory warranty than a used one from some shady dealer for the same.
BTW, to save money you lose out on power brakes, power steering...stuffs like that. Which also means there's less to go wrong. No super-fancy engine management, just simple efficiency. Bet this car out-lasts a few others that cost twice as much.
They've already given telco companies billions... when they pass a bill with this right you can be sure it will include an additional tax on that will wind up costing you about 10x more than the service is worth.
That said, the US is much more regionally diverse (read 'f'ing big and spread out) compared to EU countries so it's much more challenging.
What I'd suggest is focusing on making life survivable WITHOUT government intervention and social care programs. Instead of taxing a business into oblivion to support those programs...let them have the money to hire people are a fair wage.
Oh wait...but the lovely stock market prevents companies from doing what's best for their employees. Said companies must do what's best for the stock price (and thus executive compensation).
That's just it: They're issuing updates to explicitly BREAK interoperability. On two markets they have a 'monopoly' similar to MS with windows - portable MP3 players and online music downloads. That stinks of unfair or anti-competitive business practices and plenty of other random legal terms.
What if MS decided that all windows programs needed to be signed and licensed and sold through an app store they controlled?
I'm sure this will wind up in court with lots of bickering, motions, friend-of-the-court nonsense, appeals and so on. In reality we'd do better to just let the kids duke it out on the playground and see what happens. Would be even funnier if Apple implemented a hash check and palm found a collision to match it without 'stealing' code :)
Apparently a 'driving-while-texting' is a forever thing. "...prohibited from getting a job as a school buss driver if they have been convicted..."
Now, I understand it's not safe. And I fully agree that buss drivers, train conductors, etc. should not intentionally distract themselves for something trivial while working as it could endanger others. But why do we keep passing laws that perpetuate someone's status as a criminal? After the 'punishment', be it financial or penal, hasn't someone paid their 'debt to society' and been rehabilitated? Isn't the (claimed) point of laws and punishments to deter people from committing the crimes? I disagree with the perpetual sex-offender registration, but at least they're the result of a crime with an actual, identifiable victim. Of course, when offenders are forced to live in a tent city because they can't legally live anywhere else it's rather hard to imagine what motivation they have to follow the law.
What's next, you get branded for speeding in a work zone? Non-removable tracking bracelet for being late to too many meetings? At the rate we're going *everyone* will be a criminal in perpetual rehabilitation before too long.
Ok, i was totally with you until the nude photography.
It's nothing more than an over-glorified x-ray scanner which displays an image and moves on without saving anything. Sure, you can play conspiracy theory and say someone, somewhere, somehow is saving the pictures. There might also be a peeping tom outside your bedroom window.
What's funny is most countries don't do anything even remotely near what the US does yet they get by just fine.
Ah, i was waiting for someone else to to mention centrify...we're in a POC at the moment too and the two tools purchased were centrify and Jamf.
Centrify seems to work well but falls short in a few places if you don't dig into customization. Overall good tool though. Costs $$ but...peanuts in large scale enterprise. Freeware without support means SME's to support it which means it's not freeware :)
For deployment Jamf is pretty handy. Not only imaging but packaged applications, updates, printers, and so on. Many of the examples here don't talk about enterprise level support where systems must be fully managed and controlled. Too many people i've spoken to have the 'don't worry, be happy' ideology for Macs which would never fly on PCs.
Assuming that a user does things right seems to be common on Macs and it's not an acceptable security model for enterprise level orgs. That needs to change if Apple wants to be accepted on-par with MS.
Currently i'm digging into get some granularity on permissions. All or nothing admin (parental control is useless) is a bad mix when trying to balance security vs. usability.
Sorry but no.
Based on your anecdotal example...bla bla bla. Buy you readily say you're buying sub-par equipment. So i'm not sure how you can compare "good" equipment. If i bought a $300 clearance PC and compared it to a $800 enterprise-class PC i'm sure i'd see more failures in the cheapy one.
Moving on...to the smaller end of 'large' business - 2500 users and ~4000 computers in my enterprise. Similarly configured Macs cost us about twice what a PC does. Apple doesn't give on hardware unless you're buying them by the truck load and even then it's not nearly as much as other large suppliers.
Go negotiate pricing with 7-figure yearly spending and Dell, HP, etc. will give a LOT more than Apple. Yes, Macs are pretty but we're talking about enterprise. Pretty takes a back seat.
Actually the rest is a mix of gasoline and coal (well, electricity derived from it).
Show me some actual numbers of the (usable) energy density of this 5% alge and we can talk. Until then this is a car being driven as an electric-primary vehicle with diluted gas as a secondary source.