That leaves 2/3 of the budget for entitlements. Grandma doesn't really need her SS, she can come and live with you. By the way, her meds are expensive, you'll be wanting to pay for those as well. That's part of Medicare. In fact, the Blue Haired are now the Me Generation and they will demand you pay your fair share to support their Depends and other needs. Not a chance of cutting that back. Oh, we could privatize it. Sheesh, we can trust Wall Street to administer those funds without making off with the loot like they did in the last bubble.
Get rid of Social Security. (In reality -- phase it out.) POSSIBLY mandate a 401(k)-type system instead.
You don't need Wall Street to "administer" it to a huge degree. Let me invest it in an index fund or a Fidelity fund of my choosing (Fidelity has much lower fees).
Get rid of welfare, or at least turn it into workfare. (Cleaning streets, etc.)
Build your nirvana; your ideal state. If it works as you, of course, know it will then people will flock to your state; and other states will adopt your platform. Then we can have fools like me live in their foolish way in their states and you and everyone who knows better will live in a wonderful state where everything works just fine.
It's not QUITE that extreme, but last Wednesday's episode of the "Freakanomics" podcast, entitled "Ten Signs You Might Be a Libertarian", describes that. Attempts to get people to move to New Hampshire for libertarian ideals.
The thing is, there is no "fair market pricing" for a lot of health care. If you are in a car accident, you don't have the benefit of shopping around to different emergency rooms to find the best deal.
Yes, so then regulate ONLY actual emergency care, and charge a VERY VERY VERY high rate to those who bring their kids to the er because he has a cold.
I don't know many people who like fruitcakes, but amongst my Chinese friends there is certainly a lot of disappointment if they can't get "moon cakes" around the appropriate time of year.
Though that doesn't actually mean that they LIKE it (for the taste, that is)... Maybe they're nostalgic for it.
There are very few universally understood words or gestures in humans
I know you said "very few", but one I remembered hearing in an episode of the "60 second science" podcast is that "huh?" is apparently in every known spoken language.
From my point of view, it's a poor implementation. Essentially most people will now have to carry two items around with them - a phone and a dongle - rather than just the one, or else not be able to hook the phone up to a standard audio system.
[citation needed]
I admittedly don't have a citation EITHER, but I would strongly suspect that "most people" use the headphones that CAME WITH the device.. in this case, Lightning cable headphones. (I'm personally using $20 Bluetooth headphones..)
For spacex, it makes no sense to be insured: there are maybe two or three companies in the world that offer the services spacex offers, and the accidents aren't as rare for spacex either.
If they fail 1/5 of the time, but the insurance costs 1/6 of the cost of a launch, wouldn't the insurance be worth it? (..and yes, the insurance rate would thus likely adjust, but also, the failure rate would hopefully lessen too...)
BTW, I usually argue against insurance (and have vaguely thought about posting a bond instead of getting car insurance, which you can do.. but haven't run the #s to see if it was cheaper.. yes, I'm "gambling" that any accident wouldn't be my fault.. and I already only have the minimum insurance)... but it seems like it can make sense in some cases. One other case was treadmill repair. Even if you ignored the (seemingly inflated) funny money #s they put on the receipts, even one repair "paid for itself", by the people using their treadmills as clothes racks subsidizing me.
I'm not sure I agree.. though it would be good if it were up to the employee how to do it (with input from the manager to make sure their whole team was staffed enough at any time). Though I'd probably toggle between the two sporadically. I already often take a day off in the middle of the week instead of making it a 3 day weekend. It seems more of an actual vacation day to me somehow.
Don't they have an "upstream" network plug, and (usually) 4 "downstream" connections. So isn't that routing? (..and giving the downstream items addresses from its DHCP server?)
I don't want console options or gimmicks. I want good games, at a reasonable price.
You say this, then you rant about the stuff that's on the PS4 store.
I'm VERY MUCH more a "physical media" person than a digital download person, largely because it is the "backup", in that I can put it in another console too...
But games are often cheap enough on PSN that even I have been sucked into the digital download thing. I have even re-bought a few games that got CHEAP ENOUGH (literally a few dollars at most) to make it more convenient that way.
I agree with you mostly, but it seems to me that Sony has done it (based on the leaked info IIRC) as well as can be done -- no "high end version only" games, only ADDED features (e.g. VR).
Also, hasn't Nintendo had multiple different versions of GameBoys out at the same time very often? GBA, GBA SP, the various 3D ones, etc? I know not all of those were at the same time, but I thought they had multiple ones, that didn't always play all of the games, out at the same time... and the Wii U seemed to be the only one that confused the heck out of people.
Why would a tech site such as slashdot ever, EVER, bother with metrics such as "number of photos" or "number of movies". We know how big a Terabyte is. We don't need it spelled out in such mundane, and ambigous terms such as "number of photos".
Because my only use for such massive storage is for storage of shows, either directly in my Tivo, or offloaded... So a rough estimate in hours of HD storage (since obviously it does vary depending on bitrate) is a useful comparison... otherwise I'm doing to be doing the estimate myself anyway.
I wasn't referring to the movie trailer issue, just the car ad issue.
(Though I'm amazed people haven't known for a VERY long time that the trailer and actual movie differ.. I always like watching the trailer AFTER watching the movie, to see how different they are.)
Other ads sometimes show me a new product I didn't know about.
Funny thing is, I think I hate ads _almost_ as much as you do (I quickly tell the person controlling the remote to start FFing or 30 second skipping quicker, and I use SkipMode on the shows I record that have it)... But commercials still do sometimes show me something new.. including movie trailers, which ARE just ads.. (Though I'd rather watch them at my choosing, AFTER watching the main feature on a DVD or BluRay... So I do as much as possible to skip ones that play upon inserting the disc.)
the carl jr's-owned chain, hardee's, does that. hardees.com isn't on any packaging, any advertisements, not visible on anything by customers, anywhere.. but
hardees.com
is infinitely better than
facebook.com/hardees with a blue square 'f' next to it.
But why is it "infinitely better"? I'm UNLIKELY to go to the main home page of a fast food place often (unless they send out coupons, and I do indeed subscribe to marketing emails for the ones that do send out coupons routinely -- for the ones that don't, I unsubscribe quickly)... But I have liked/followed some corporate entities (including celebrities, which really are just advertising themselves/their comedy), and those can end up in my facebook feed. I prefer those to completely irrelevant ads.
(I also tell it to hide the annoying "good afternoon" banner thing it puts up.. I hope it learns to stop doing that.)
But if they show me that the car has airbags in the commercial, they'd better damn well come with the car.
Kind of ironic, since similar things are exactly what they do. The fine print usually says "deluxe model shown" or something like that, and says that models vary.
Slashdot Mirror
Does someone in anaphylactic shock have 5 minutes for you to read the directions?
Get rid of Social Security. (In reality -- phase it out.) POSSIBLY mandate a 401(k)-type system instead.
You don't need Wall Street to "administer" it to a huge degree. Let me invest it in an index fund or a Fidelity fund of my choosing (Fidelity has much lower fees).
Get rid of welfare, or at least turn it into workfare. (Cleaning streets, etc.)
It's not QUITE that extreme, but last Wednesday's episode of the "Freakanomics" podcast, entitled "Ten Signs You Might Be a Libertarian", describes that. Attempts to get people to move to New Hampshire for libertarian ideals.
But what about the diseases/conditions that "matter"?
Yes, so then regulate ONLY actual emergency care, and charge a VERY VERY VERY high rate to those who bring their kids to the er because he has a cold.
Yeah, I want to trust my life to some random hack found on the net, without safety/effectiveness testing. (I mean for the "pen" part.)
It's idiots all the way down.
Though that doesn't actually mean that they LIKE it (for the taste, that is)... Maybe they're nostalgic for it.
Uhh, that term comes from gambling.. It's a well known term.
I know you said "very few", but one I remembered hearing in an episode of the "60 second science" podcast is that "huh?" is apparently in every known spoken language.
[citation needed]
I admittedly don't have a citation EITHER, but I would strongly suspect that "most people" use the headphones that CAME WITH the device.. in this case, Lightning cable headphones. (I'm personally using $20 Bluetooth headphones..)
So it's just the Clever Hans effect?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If they fail 1/5 of the time, but the insurance costs 1/6 of the cost of a launch, wouldn't the insurance be worth it? (..and yes, the insurance rate would thus likely adjust, but also, the failure rate would hopefully lessen too...)
BTW, I usually argue against insurance (and have vaguely thought about posting a bond instead of getting car insurance, which you can do.. but haven't run the #s to see if it was cheaper.. yes, I'm "gambling" that any accident wouldn't be my fault.. and I already only have the minimum insurance)... but it seems like it can make sense in some cases. One other case was treadmill repair. Even if you ignored the (seemingly inflated) funny money #s they put on the receipts, even one repair "paid for itself", by the people using their treadmills as clothes racks subsidizing me.
I hope you like it when you create something and others make money off of it, and you don't.
(Yes, even if all they did was post pictures of their cat, they "created" something that was popular, and other companies paid for rights to use it.)
How is this different from a human celebrity's likeness being their own (for commercial purposes, not for newsworthy purposes)?
I'm not sure I agree.. though it would be good if it were up to the employee how to do it (with input from the manager to make sure their whole team was staffed enough at any time). Though I'd probably toggle between the two sporadically. I already often take a day off in the middle of the week instead of making it a 3 day weekend. It seems more of an actual vacation day to me somehow.
Don't they have an "upstream" network plug, and (usually) 4 "downstream" connections. So isn't that routing? (..and giving the downstream items addresses from its DHCP server?)
You say this, then you rant about the stuff that's on the PS4 store.
I'm VERY MUCH more a "physical media" person than a digital download person, largely because it is the "backup", in that I can put it in another console too...
But games are often cheap enough on PSN that even I have been sucked into the digital download thing. I have even re-bought a few games that got CHEAP ENOUGH (literally a few dollars at most) to make it more convenient that way.
I agree with you mostly, but it seems to me that Sony has done it (based on the leaked info IIRC) as well as can be done -- no "high end version only" games, only ADDED features (e.g. VR).
Also, hasn't Nintendo had multiple different versions of GameBoys out at the same time very often? GBA, GBA SP, the various 3D ones, etc? I know not all of those were at the same time, but I thought they had multiple ones, that didn't always play all of the games, out at the same time... and the Wii U seemed to be the only one that confused the heck out of people.
You apparently don't read. THE SUMMARY says that he bought online ads.
Because my only use for such massive storage is for storage of shows, either directly in my Tivo, or offloaded... So a rough estimate in hours of HD storage (since obviously it does vary depending on bitrate) is a useful comparison... otherwise I'm doing to be doing the estimate myself anyway.
I wasn't referring to the movie trailer issue, just the car ad issue.
(Though I'm amazed people haven't known for a VERY long time that the trailer and actual movie differ.. I always like watching the trailer AFTER watching the movie, to see how different they are.)
Destroyed Vegas? Don't they make way more money than they ever did in your rose-colored view?
New Jack in the Box ads are funny... once..
Other ads sometimes show me a new product I didn't know about.
Funny thing is, I think I hate ads _almost_ as much as you do (I quickly tell the person controlling the remote to start FFing or 30 second skipping quicker, and I use SkipMode on the shows I record that have it)... But commercials still do sometimes show me something new.. including movie trailers, which ARE just ads.. (Though I'd rather watch them at my choosing, AFTER watching the main feature on a DVD or BluRay... So I do as much as possible to skip ones that play upon inserting the disc.)
But why is it "infinitely better"? I'm UNLIKELY to go to the main home page of a fast food place often (unless they send out coupons, and I do indeed subscribe to marketing emails for the ones that do send out coupons routinely -- for the ones that don't, I unsubscribe quickly)... But I have liked/followed some corporate entities (including celebrities, which really are just advertising themselves/their comedy), and those can end up in my facebook feed. I prefer those to completely irrelevant ads.
(I also tell it to hide the annoying "good afternoon" banner thing it puts up.. I hope it learns to stop doing that.)
Kind of ironic, since similar things are exactly what they do. The fine print usually says "deluxe model shown" or something like that, and says that models vary.