You can't separate health care from the economy because the proposed changes are going to destroy the economy. Look at the Medicare system for an example of what government run health care will be like. Medicare is a gigantic Ponzi scheme that is scheduled to explode around 2018.
If you truly want to make health care more affordable, you have got to get rid insurance company lobbyists *and* trial lawyer lobbyists. We need comprehensive tort reform, and we need to promote price competition between health care providers. Consider this, Lasik eye surgery is not covered by most insurances, so most people have to pay for it themselves. Yet price competition has driven the cost down *drastically* in the past decade.
With enough competition, prices drop to the point where you don't need insurance for anything but catastrophic care. This whole concept of using insurance for routine care is part of the problem.
Actually if you compare similar trim levels (an EX instead of an LX) to the hybrid, the cost difference is around $3000, which works out to be around 15% more, not 50% more. When I purchased mine, there was a $2100 federal tax credit which trimmed the premium to $900. I'm currently averaging 48 mpg. According to EPA, the hybrid gets 42 MPG combined. So I'm roughly 14% above EPA. A regular civic gets 29 MPG combined, assuming a driver would get 14% more than that gives a figure of 33MPG for the regular civic.
48/33 = 1.45, so the hybrid is getting 45% better gas mileage.
Granted, most people interpret the second amendment to mean that Americans have a right to own a gun, and that that's a civil right. But read the actual text:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The thing you're overlooking, is that in the context of that paragraph, the "militia" *IS* the government. The right of the people to keep and bar arms is what keeps the militia (government) regulated and in check.
Thanks for the informative reply. I've always wondered about that section, and was sure that there must be something I was missing, however nobody had ever taken the time to explain it to me.
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.
IANAL, but the bolded section would seem to imply downloads are ok as long as no money changes hands.
Hell, it took me the longest time to find out that auto_ptr's aren't meant to go in container objects, when at first glance it looks like that's what they were exactly designed for.
Read Scott Myer's books, Effective C++, More Effective C++ and Effective STL. It will point out a lot of things like not using containers of auto_ptr, that aren't always obvious.
"Now if you want to see the all-important last episode you *MUST* watch it live and you *CAN'T* time-shift it or save it."
What a crock of shit. You obviously don't have a Tivo or you would know that your personal settings would override the recording of special content if there was a conflict.
You can use it without paying the monthly fee. You just have to manually set the recording times for your shows, and you lose the on-screen guide information.
You could also pay the lifetime subscription fee, and not have to pay a monthly fee for the lifetime of the unit.
"And ethanol combustion still produces some greenhouse gas emissions, if you believe in that sort of thing."
The carbon in the ehtanol was pulled out of the air by the corn to begin with, so the net result is that there is no increase in the overall level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Fossil fuels on the other hand, represent carbon that has been lock away from the atmosphere for millenia, thus burning *them* does indeed add to greenhouse emissions.
No you twit. He means Steganography. Go look it up.
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>I disagree.
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>If you are pregnant...and you realise that you
>will not make a good parent, if your heart is not
>COMPLETELY in it. If you are not willing to make
>the sacrifices that are needed - then having an
>aboirtion IS a responsibility.
I disagree. If you are pregnant...and you realize that you will not make a good parent, if your heart is not COMPLETELY in it. If you are not willing to make the sacrifices that are needed - then having an abortion is still wrong. There are thousands of couples that cannot have children of their own that would jump at the chance to adopt a child.
This type of thinking is the reason why IT support costs keep rising. Unless you do root cause analysis, and implement a true fix, you will see the error again. Good IT support organizations require root cause analysis of every trouble ticket.
Once the analysis is complete, you implement a corrective action that fixes the root cause, and you never see the problem again. If the root cause is a bug in a vendor-supplied product, you call the vendor and lean on them until they fix it.
The only time it is acceptable to use the "reboot" tactic is for Id10t errors.:)
You are leaving out two very important aspects: intent and knowledge. Was it the author's *intent* that the tool be used for a particular purpose? Did the author *know* that the tool could be used for a particular purpose?
Applying these to your examples:
Let's take this a stage further. Are you prepared to defend the proposition that if I invent a gas chamber, and knowingly sell it to a totalitarian ruler, that I'm not in any way responsible for what he then does?
You state in your example the the person "knowingly" sells it to a totalitarian ruler. This implies that the seller has knowledge that it can be used to commit murder, and that under a totalitarian government, such a use is probable. Thus the seller is culpable for participation in the murders.
How about if I hand over a bunch of nerve gas ingredients to Saddam Hussein?
This question cannot be answered without more information. When you handed the ingredients over, did you know they were nerve gas ingredients? Did you know it was Saddam Hussein who was receiving them?
Or if I design a special genetic toxin that gives cancer to black people and hand it over to the South Africans in the 1980s? No
Did you know what the toxin's effects were when you sold it? If so, then you would be guilty of whatever crimes were committed with its use.
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I believe that refers to 3rd-party ISAPI modules, not mod-isapi itself. Presumeably, Apache *is* responsible for maintaining mod-isapi.
Whoosh!
Alternatively, start paving roads with concrete engineered to last 100 years or more. Then you won't need nearly as much annual maintenance.
You can't separate health care from the economy because the proposed changes are going to destroy the economy. Look at the Medicare system for an example of what government run health care will be like. Medicare is a gigantic Ponzi scheme that is scheduled to explode around 2018.
If you truly want to make health care more affordable, you have got to get rid insurance company lobbyists *and* trial lawyer lobbyists. We need comprehensive tort reform, and we need to promote price competition between health care providers. Consider this, Lasik eye surgery is not covered by most insurances, so most people have to pay for it themselves. Yet price competition has driven the cost down *drastically* in the past decade.
With enough competition, prices drop to the point where you don't need insurance for anything but catastrophic care. This whole concept of using insurance for routine care is part of the problem.
The Japanese economy is even more fucked than the US economy. I don't think holding them up as an example is going to win you many converts.
http://collab.netbeans.org/files/documents/186/522/NB-Collab-Code-Review-for-JavaOne-v2.swf
This is a flash video of the collaboration stuff in Netbeans. It sounds like this might be what you're looking for.
Actually, it *does* run natively on the Mac. That said, it's still a bit pricey.
Actually if you compare similar trim levels (an EX instead of an LX) to the hybrid, the cost difference is around $3000, which works out to be around 15% more, not 50% more. When I purchased mine, there was a $2100 federal tax credit which trimmed the premium to $900. I'm currently averaging 48 mpg. According to EPA, the hybrid gets 42 MPG combined. So I'm roughly 14% above EPA. A regular civic gets 29 MPG combined, assuming a driver would get 14% more than that gives a figure of 33MPG for the regular civic.
48/33 = 1.45, so the hybrid is getting 45% better gas mileage.
The thing you're overlooking, is that in the context of that paragraph, the "militia" *IS* the government. The right of the people to keep and bar arms is what keeps the militia (government) regulated and in check.
Thanks for the informative reply. I've always wondered about that section, and was sure that there must be something I was missing, however nobody had ever taken the time to explain it to me.
1008. Prohibition on certain infringement actions
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings. IANAL, but the bolded section would seem to imply downloads are ok as long as no money changes hands.
Hell, it took me the longest time to find out that auto_ptr's aren't meant to go in container objects, when at first glance it looks like that's what they were exactly designed for.
Read Scott Myer's books, Effective C++, More Effective C++ and Effective STL. It will point out a lot of things like not using containers of auto_ptr, that aren't always obvious.
You all have such a PUNishing sense of humor. :)
You can run WC3 as an OpenGL app. Just add the -opengl switch to the shortcut.
Dave
"Now if you want to see the all-important last episode you *MUST* watch it live and you *CAN'T* time-shift it or save it."
What a crock of shit. You obviously don't have a Tivo or you would know that your personal settings would override the recording of special content if there was a conflict.
Dave
You can use it without paying the monthly fee. You just have to manually set the recording times for your shows, and you lose the on-screen guide information.
You could also pay the lifetime subscription fee, and not have to pay a monthly fee for the lifetime of the unit.
Dave
"And ethanol combustion still produces some greenhouse gas emissions, if you believe in that sort of thing."
The carbon in the ehtanol was pulled out of the air by the corn to begin with, so the net result is that there is no increase in the overall level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Fossil fuels on the other hand, represent carbon that has been lock away from the atmosphere for millenia, thus burning *them* does indeed add to greenhouse emissions.
No you twit. He means Steganography. Go look it up.
>I disagree.
>
>If you are pregnant...and you realise that you
>will not make a good parent, if your heart is not
>COMPLETELY in it. If you are not willing to make
>the sacrifices that are needed - then having an
>aboirtion IS a responsibility.
I disagree. If you are pregnant...and you realize that you will not make a good parent, if your heart is not COMPLETELY in it. If you are not willing to make the sacrifices that are needed - then having an abortion is still wrong. There are thousands of couples that cannot have children of their own that would jump at the chance to adopt a child.
This type of thinking is the reason why IT support costs keep rising. Unless you do root cause analysis, and implement a true fix, you will see the error again. Good IT support organizations require root cause analysis of every trouble ticket.
Once the analysis is complete, you implement a corrective action that fixes the root cause, and you never see the problem again. If the root cause is a bug in a vendor-supplied product, you call the vendor and lean on them until they fix it.
The only time it is acceptable to use the "reboot" tactic is for Id10t errors. :)
As has been stated before, DeCSS does nothing to prevent copying. Hence it is not a copy control mechanism.
You are leaving out two very important aspects: intent and knowledge. Was it the author's *intent* that the tool be used for a particular purpose? Did the author *know* that the tool could be used for a particular purpose?
Applying these to your examples:
You state in your example the the person "knowingly" sells it to a totalitarian ruler. This implies that the seller has knowledge that it can be used to commit murder, and that under a totalitarian government, such a use is probable. Thus the seller is culpable for participation in the murders.
This question cannot be answered without more information. When you handed the ingredients over, did you know they were nerve gas ingredients? Did you know it was Saddam Hussein who was receiving them?
Did you know what the toxin's effects were when you sold it? If so, then you would be guilty of whatever crimes were committed with its use.