I personally know a number of people that have had 6 and 7 figure treatments. I am not quite sure where people get the idea that we have things like death panels over here. If it's a matter of life or death, treatment isn't even an issue.
Although HMOs are certainly something that should make you more skeptical of government run healthcare.
Standardization doesn't require fascism. Standardization is simply a result of industrialization and producers realizing it is to their advantage to have interchangeable and reusable parts. It's a necessary pre-requisite for creating large scale capitalist enterprises. It doesn't need a nanny in order to be created.
Necessity is the mother of invention, not avarice, and not beaurocrats.
> I never understood this line of thought that but it's just for personal use so that makes it ok.
Then you don't understand the law either. This distinction is actually part of the law. It's not just something made up by pirates to justify themselves.
This distinction may have been diluted by corporate corruption of the law, but it's not merely an invention of pirates.
>> If you torrent a film, shouldn't be a big deal. If you mass produce copied DVDs though...
> They're the same thing.
No they aren't. One is a commercial enterprise displacing actual sales. The other involves no transactions that can be in any way related to lost revenue by anyone.
> There' nothing dangerous about 6'1" 140 lbs. I was 5'8" 110 lbs for many years, was perfectly healthy.
You probably looked like a death camp survivor.
That's about what it takes for 150 at 6'1" (never mind 140) and that's for someone with a slender build. For someone who's more average, it's just going to be worse. Never mind someone that's not naturally scrawny.
> It hands it out on the basis of how much harm was done....and there was none done here.
On the other hand, there have been a lot of limits placed on civil judgments lately. A lot of hapless tort reform astroturfers have caused a large number of tort reforms to be enacted in various places.
Chances are that if YOU personally are injured that you will never see anything close to an equitable judgement.
These absurd COPYRIGHT verdicts are due to statutory damages laws that have no relation whatsoever to any actual real damages. They are in fact a blatant short cut around proving actual damages. They have little in common with some prole being crippled. A crippled prole has to show real damages.
Crime and punishment for the poor, tort reform for the rich.
If someone runs you down, whatever lowlife ambulance chaser you manage to find will settle for the policy limits of the driver. Your fantasies about an Office Space style payday don't have any relation to reality.
Why? Because the users in question aren't trying to pretend that they are graphic artists that work for some Hollywood movie studio. The requirements for these people are rather limited and quite well understood.
That is why they are using XP to begin with.
> moving from one OS to another is always going to be more of a shock than going from one version of the OS line to another.
Vista and Win8 both contradict this assertion quite definitively.
> With all respect, much of that still comes down to common sense of the user.
If you are still depending on the "common sense of the user" in 2013 then you are an idiot. This is an approach that has been proven wrong time and time again. It's a fundementally broken approach to system design. This is not news. This isn't even old news.
> Is there a middle road where tinkerers and "normals" can coexist on one OS?
That's trivially easy. Apple even has something like this but they don't like to acknowledge it any more.
It's pretty simple really: have a nicely done interface for the rubes but don't weld it together in such a way that your system is hostile to experts and enthusiasts.
This is computing devices we are talking about. You can have more than one interface at a time.
Isn't this just some random communist kook anyways? The "anti-choice" guy? Some people will just go to any lengths to try and justify their consumerist fixation while ignoring the actual state of the market (many markets actually) in the process.
> just I know dev teams and most of them wont support Android
Then you've just declared an interesting paradox.
Android is the most widespread platform despite this persistent FUD that you are trying to spread here. It's certainly an obvious contradiction and somewhat of a puzzle.
Given the state of Blackberry, I can't imagine any developer being eager to develop for it.
Oracle sells some of the most expensive software on the planet. It's not hard to come out ahead of Oracle. You don't even need to employ Free Software to do this. You can just employ much cheaper payware.
You can buy quite a bit of in-house expertise and 3rd party consulting for what Oracle wants you to pay them.
> Oh come on!!! China adopted the metric system in the 1900's. And the US?
The US has been using metric for decades now. Individuals employ it as needed to deal with intolerant trading partners. No fascist style national mandate is required.
Once you have high precision measuring devices, one arbitrarily defined unit of measure is much like another.
You might as well fixate over blue versus green for all that it really matters.
They also don't validate data until the end of the process forcing you to enter data multiple times. It almost seems like it is specifically designed to harvest data rather than be a functioning registration process.
Before you're even registered, you should be able to get some idea of what products are available, what they cost, and what kind of subsidy you can expect. It should be easy to see what your likely options and not require (or appear to require) that you send private identifying data to some 3rd party data aggregator.
If the media and fundies weren't distracted with the shutdown, the whole "number of the beast" aspect of this thing would be much more widely perceived.
In that respect, the timing of this launch could not have been better. Senator Cruz is the perfect distraction here.
The regulations surrounding insurance products are dealt with by the relevant insurance providers just like any other industry. Amazon doesn't have to bother with insurance regulations any more than they have to deal with the FCC regulations on your phone or computer.
The problem of privacy is not even interesting. It's purely a matter of policy and whether or not you are willing to enforce a certain set of rules.
There is nothing special about health insurance.
YOUR attitude is precisely the problem here. Idiots like you are making this situation far more complicated than it needs to be.
> Agree to delay the individual mandate, in exchange for a repeal of the debt-ceiling laws.
The Republicans were the ones to add the personal mandate. Offering to remove or delay this will be of no value to them. It's their bad idea to begin with.
It's essentially an e-commerce site with a government subsidy element added to it. There are any number of similar sites that already existed. They were created to fill the same basic market need by people interested in making a buck.
Since this whole thing was a gift to the insurance industry, perhaps the feds should have considered that the industry may have made a useful partner. Let all of the insurance sales men out there be honorary do-gooders helping themselves while helping Obama's agenda.
The political rhetoric is irrelevant. The point is that states implemented their own systems and none of them have been declared a disaster. You don't hear about any of them because they are working as intended. All of these other systems are just too boring to make the news.
Each of them stands as an example of why the problem is not an insurmountable one and perhaps not even a terribly difficult one.
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I personally know a number of people that have had 6 and 7 figure treatments. I am not quite sure where people get the idea that we have things like death panels over here. If it's a matter of life or death, treatment isn't even an issue.
Although HMOs are certainly something that should make you more skeptical of government run healthcare.
Standardization doesn't require fascism. Standardization is simply a result of industrialization and producers realizing it is to their advantage to have interchangeable and reusable parts. It's a necessary pre-requisite for creating large scale capitalist enterprises. It doesn't need a nanny in order to be created.
Necessity is the mother of invention, not avarice, and not beaurocrats.
> The intent of copyright, as far as I am aware, is for an inventor to have a fair chance of getting money out
No. That is not the intent of copyright.
Save your pro-corporate propaganda for a less informed audience.
> I never understood this line of thought that but it's just for personal use so that makes it ok.
Then you don't understand the law either. This distinction is actually part of the law. It's not just something made up by pirates to justify themselves.
This distinction may have been diluted by corporate corruption of the law, but it's not merely an invention of pirates.
>> If you torrent a film, shouldn't be a big deal. If you mass produce copied DVDs though...
> They're the same thing.
No they aren't. One is a commercial enterprise displacing actual sales. The other involves no transactions that can be in any way related to lost revenue by anyone.
> There' nothing dangerous about 6'1" 140 lbs. I was 5'8" 110 lbs for many years, was perfectly healthy.
You probably looked like a death camp survivor.
That's about what it takes for 150 at 6'1" (never mind 140) and that's for someone with a slender build. For someone who's more average, it's just going to be worse. Never mind someone that's not naturally scrawny.
> Denying the person in front some sleep just so you are more comfortable is wrong.
No it isn't. They are trying to take more than their fair share. The fact that the airline essentially defrauded them is not really my problem.
> It hands it out on the basis of how much harm was done. ...and there was none done here.
On the other hand, there have been a lot of limits placed on civil judgments lately. A lot of hapless tort reform astroturfers have caused a large number of tort reforms to be enacted in various places.
Chances are that if YOU personally are injured that you will never see anything close to an equitable judgement.
These absurd COPYRIGHT verdicts are due to statutory damages laws that have no relation whatsoever to any actual real damages. They are in fact a blatant short cut around proving actual damages. They have little in common with some prole being crippled. A crippled prole has to show real damages.
Crime and punishment for the poor, tort reform for the rich.
You need to stop watching so much Fox News.
If someone runs you down, whatever lowlife ambulance chaser you manage to find will settle for the policy limits of the driver. Your fantasies about an Office Space style payday don't have any relation to reality.
So stay out of traffic.
> How did this bullshit get modded Insightful?
Why? Because the users in question aren't trying to pretend that they are graphic artists that work for some Hollywood movie studio. The requirements for these people are rather limited and quite well understood.
That is why they are using XP to begin with.
> moving from one OS to another is always going to be more of a shock than going from one version of the OS line to another.
Vista and Win8 both contradict this assertion quite definitively.
> With all respect, much of that still comes down to common sense of the user.
If you are still depending on the "common sense of the user" in 2013 then you are an idiot. This is an approach that has been proven wrong time and time again. It's a fundementally broken approach to system design. This is not news. This isn't even old news.
It borders on computer archeology.
> Is there a middle road where tinkerers and "normals" can coexist on one OS?
That's trivially easy. Apple even has something like this but they don't like to acknowledge it any more.
It's pretty simple really: have a nicely done interface for the rubes but don't weld it together in such a way that your system is hostile to experts and enthusiasts.
This is computing devices we are talking about. You can have more than one interface at a time.
Isn't this just some random communist kook anyways? The "anti-choice" guy? Some people will just go to any lengths to try and justify their consumerist fixation while ignoring the actual state of the market (many markets actually) in the process.
> just I know dev teams and most of them wont support Android
Then you've just declared an interesting paradox.
Android is the most widespread platform despite this persistent FUD that you are trying to spread here. It's certainly an obvious contradiction and somewhat of a puzzle.
Given the state of Blackberry, I can't imagine any developer being eager to develop for it.
Oracle sells some of the most expensive software on the planet. It's not hard to come out ahead of Oracle. You don't even need to employ Free Software to do this. You can just employ much cheaper payware.
You can buy quite a bit of in-house expertise and 3rd party consulting for what Oracle wants you to pay them.
> Oh come on!!! China adopted the metric system in the 1900's. And the US?
The US has been using metric for decades now. Individuals employ it as needed to deal with intolerant trading partners. No fascist style national mandate is required.
Once you have high precision measuring devices, one arbitrarily defined unit of measure is much like another.
You might as well fixate over blue versus green for all that it really matters.
They also don't validate data until the end of the process forcing you to enter data multiple times. It almost seems like it is specifically designed to harvest data rather than be a functioning registration process.
Before you're even registered, you should be able to get some idea of what products are available, what they cost, and what kind of subsidy you can expect. It should be easy to see what your likely options and not require (or appear to require) that you send private identifying data to some 3rd party data aggregator.
If the media and fundies weren't distracted with the shutdown, the whole "number of the beast" aspect of this thing would be much more widely perceived.
In that respect, the timing of this launch could not have been better. Senator Cruz is the perfect distraction here.
The regulations surrounding insurance products are dealt with by the relevant insurance providers just like any other industry. Amazon doesn't have to bother with insurance regulations any more than they have to deal with the FCC regulations on your phone or computer.
The problem of privacy is not even interesting. It's purely a matter of policy and whether or not you are willing to enforce a certain set of rules.
There is nothing special about health insurance.
YOUR attitude is precisely the problem here. Idiots like you are making this situation far more complicated than it needs to be.
> Agree to delay the individual mandate, in exchange for a repeal of the debt-ceiling laws.
The Republicans were the ones to add the personal mandate. Offering to remove or delay this will be of no value to them. It's their bad idea to begin with.
Not a good bargaining chip.
It's essentially an e-commerce site with a government subsidy element added to it. There are any number of similar sites that already existed. They were created to fill the same basic market need by people interested in making a buck.
Since this whole thing was a gift to the insurance industry, perhaps the feds should have considered that the industry may have made a useful partner. Let all of the insurance sales men out there be honorary do-gooders helping themselves while helping Obama's agenda.
The political rhetoric is irrelevant. The point is that states implemented their own systems and none of them have been declared a disaster. You don't hear about any of them because they are working as intended. All of these other systems are just too boring to make the news.
Each of them stands as an example of why the problem is not an insurmountable one and perhaps not even a terribly difficult one.
Each one of them shames the federal government.
> Netflix, join the dark side, we have snookies.
I dunno. Lack of snookies might be the reason to join the dark side here.
> Copying something that is explicitly prohibited by or without specific consent of the copyright holder is called stealing.
Only by shameless liars with no sense of morality.
> So they're DRM free and play on Linux? Oh, wait, no, they're not.
PPV streaming video does play on Linux actually.
PC decoders are crap and don't reliably take advantage of fancy GPU hardware on ANY platform, but that content is available to be played on Linux.
I just wouldn't use an HTPC for it (regardless of OS).
What you say is only true for a ONE SHOW and perhaps true for ONLY ONE COUNTRY.
That leaves everything else and the rest of the planet.