Ok... if you want to use the google definition of censorship then maybe the GP was incorrect. What he meant was inappropriate or unacceptable censorship is when it is coming from the government.
Google is a private company. When people start pissing and moaning about how "MY FREEDOMS ARE BEING TRAMPLED, OOOOH NOOOOOOOES!!!" because a private company is doing something they don't like it is the height of hypocrisy. Google has the right to censor whatever they damn well please. You and the OP should be fighting FOR Google's right to host whatever they choose.
I understand the liability issues involved in stocking guns on a non-military ship (especially a commercial ship), but some of these options sound just as riddled with problems as a simple gun safe that the captain alone has the combo to.
Imagine that slippery foam stuff accidentally being unleashed all over the deck.
Imagine some crew members thinking it would be fun to wake up a crew mate with that LRAD and accidentally causing permanent deafness.
That spray gun sounds pretty awesome (I'd buy two of 'em, and split the crew into two teams on a weekend and let them have at it) but it too has liability issues.
All the lengths these shipping companies go to to keep from stocking "real guns" on board seem like more of an "appearance to others" issue. Since when do shipping companies worry about their PR?
I'm not in the business nor do I know anyone in the business so I'm sure there is more to it than I can see from here, but these problems seem simpler than they are being treated.
You're not kidding. The FSM in all is noodley wisdom is cracking down on global warming. We keep seeing Pirate stories and we keep seeing stories showing how Global Warming isn't happening like this story yesterday. ALL HAIL FSM!
This happens in every industry. Every industry picks a low baseline to measure their product by and then shows how high their product scores over that. I really never assume that things like "battery life, sound clarity, brightness, etc" will be THAT accurate because the bottom line is the manufacturer wants to sell this to me and the better he makes his product sound the more likely I am to buy it. I don't hold any ill will towards people who do this. It's called marketing and it happens all the time.
Not that I don't believe you (I'd like to) but can you give me a reference for:
The most efficiently run medical payment service in this country right now is medicare with over 95% efficiency in terms of money going to treatment vs. overhead.
I've found this report that specifically talks about how INEFFICIENT Medicare is and makes recommendations to change that.
This USA Today article complains that Medicare funds the vast majority of residency training in the USA. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it is a substantial amount of money that is not going to treatment as you said.
This report says fraud is costing in the billions.
And this article says that fraud is a growing problem in Medicare costing $60 billion per year and says that fewer than 5%... that's 5% of claims are audited.
According to this Congressional Research Service report Medicare's budget is $420 billion for 2009. If $60 billion is just fraud, that means nearly 15% of Medicare's budget is NOT going to treatment not including all the rest of Medicare's expenses (funding residency, other misc overhead).
Sorry, but to say that Medicare is efficient is just plain wrong.
HAHA. What are you talkin about man? Everything you said is just tryin to look for a reason to be pissed at Bush. The summary quotes the cnn article and you are just wrong. ROFLCOPTER.
The tests could begin by summer, said Dr. Thomas Okarma, president and CEO of the Geron Corporation. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the trials, which will use human stem cells authorized for research by then-President George W. Bush in 2001
So the stem cells that will be used were definitely approved by Bush.
Okarma didn't use federal funding for his research but the quote you have from the/. summary is... get this... STRAIGHT FROM TFA! Read it yourself. 1st sentence 10th paragraph.
I am not a huge fan of Bush either but snipping bits and pieces from the article and then blatantly lying about it to make Bush look worse than he is is why neo-cons can demonize people like you.
The summary just quotes TFA so I can't fault the editors TOO much, but further down TFA actually has a refreshing bit of information.
The court's orders include a $171.9 million suspended judgment against defendants FTN Promotions; Guardian Marketing Services; Strategia Marketing; Co-Compliance; Bay Pines Travel; Suntasia Properties; Bryon Wolf; and Roy Eliasson, provided the other restitution money is paid out. Suspended judgments also were entered against JPW Consultants, and JeffreyWolf for $60 million, and against Alfred H. Wolf for $115 million.
So it looks like, once it is shown the $50M is paid, the companies still have a $346.9M bill to pay.
Man... why didn't anyone from these companies call me? Looks like you get twice the amount of money back that you got scammed out of!
1. Get a call from someone offering nifty free thingiojiggas
2. Say 'FREE??? AWESOME! HERE'S MY DEBIT CARD NUMBER!!!
3. Wait for lawsuits and a judge to order the companies involved to pay it all back.
4. ????
5. PROFIT!!!
As another poster has said the 'negative option' deal is very similar to pretty much any 'free trail' out there.
A company calls you, tells you they have a bunch of free stuff for you and if you don't want to keep getting it in three months then just don't renew! It's pretty simple! Just fill out this quick form with me over the phone and your free stuff is on the way! They just don't tell you that in three months if you don't:
1. fill out a virtually impossible to find form
2. fill it out PERFECTLY (up to the discretion of the company)
3. send it to a virtually impossible to find address
4. allow for two months 'processing' the form
5. ?????
6. LOSE MONEY!
TFA actually talks about, when these companies were investigated, the FTC found THOUSANDS of letters and consumer attempts to opt out of this scheme that were apparently just ignored by these companies. So the 'negative option' turned into a 'no option, we just ignore you when you opt out'.
A lot of time it depends on where the road(s) are that we are designing.
In a residential area the Department of Transport (DOT) tend to roll the design speed down about 10-20 mph.
Out on the highway though it can get kind of funny. For a long straight 4 lane highway the design speed may be 80 mph. However, once you curve the road the design speed is affected quite a bit.
Occasionally (not often though) we have to curve a highway and our design speed is lower than the actual posted speed limit. Those areas tend to have higher accident rates (which the designer inevitably ends up being blamed for even though we recommended a lower speed limit). The city/county/state doesn't like to change the speed limit on the same road (understandably so) so that is why they may leave the speed limit above the design speed for that section of roadway.
If you live in a rural area design speed may not have been a consideration when the roads near you were built. Many older, rural roads simply used to be a dirt track that ended up getting paved and NO ONE designed the actual road. In that case the city/county/state just posted a speed limit consistent with other speed limits in the area.
To answer your question though, usually the DOT does take our recommendation or they are close to or below it.
I work for a civil engineering firm and we design roadways (often many miles long) and in doing so I often see accident reports spanning many years. The majority of highway accidents (especially at high speeds and especially fatal ones) could not have been prevented by one or both (or more depending on how many cars are involved) of the cars braking as soon as ANYONE or anything could tell an accident was imminent.
Usually someone didnâ(TM)t look in their rearview mirror and changed lanes right into a car or someone fell asleep at the wheel and drifted across traffic and because of a split second lapse of attention someone is dead.
Itâ(TM)s not a OH NOOOES THAT PERSON HAS BEEN STOPPED IN FRONT OF ME FOR 2 MINUTES BUT I DIDNâ(TM)T NOTICE AND NOW ITâ(TM)S TOO LATE TO BRAKE!!!
A car comes over a hill in the highway going 30 over the speed limit (we design those speed limits on purpose and itâ(TM)s because of things like this) and thereâ(TM)s a disabled car with a blowout or engine problem in the road ahead of you and braking simply slows you down. You still hit the car and the lady standing in front of it looking helplessly at her engine still dies because you wanted to cut 5 minutes out of your drive time.
There is also the question of allowing your car to decide when you should brake and ALL the potential hassles/problems/safety issues involved in that.
Anyway, back to the point, if Volvo thinks that by installing some sensor in the bumper that will trigger the brakes if thereâ(TM)s something in front of you will keep people from dying in their cars they are pouring a lot of money down the garbage.
This technology will solve 1 problem for all 50 it creates in a drivers experience.
Read carefully, neither am I. There is nothing non-physical about information processing in the human brain, it is entirely physical. Yet, some human organisms are not capable of sophisticated enough processing to be called a person.
Ok, I've been following this discussion for a bit and I know I've come in a day late but I just wanted to jump in right there.
When you say "some human organisms are not capable of sophisticated "enough" processing to be called a person" you step out onto VERY shaky ground. I don't know how you would define "enough" (and it may be a very conservative definition, again, I don't know) but if many people subscribed to that then it wouldn't take long for someone to decide that the legally retarded aren't capable "enough" of processing to be called people and can therefore be terminated without qualm. That could escalate very quickly. In fact that's the reason for this whole story on slashdot. When the definition of a person is as subjective as yours appears to be it becomes a very dangerous definition for those who are very different from what people are used to.
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Ok... if you want to use the google definition of censorship then maybe the GP was incorrect. What he meant was inappropriate or unacceptable censorship is when it is coming from the government.
Google is a private company. When people start pissing and moaning about how "MY FREEDOMS ARE BEING TRAMPLED, OOOOH NOOOOOOOES!!!" because a private company is doing something they don't like it is the height of hypocrisy. Google has the right to censor whatever they damn well please. You and the OP should be fighting FOR Google's right to host whatever they choose.
No... I'm pretty sure they still use visual basic
Someone should create a GUI interface using Visual-Basic to track an IP!
I understand the liability issues involved in stocking guns on a non-military ship (especially a commercial ship), but some of these options sound just as riddled with problems as a simple gun safe that the captain alone has the combo to.
Imagine that slippery foam stuff accidentally being unleashed all over the deck.
Imagine some crew members thinking it would be fun to wake up a crew mate with that LRAD and accidentally causing permanent deafness.
That spray gun sounds pretty awesome (I'd buy two of 'em, and split the crew into two teams on a weekend and let them have at it) but it too has liability issues.
All the lengths these shipping companies go to to keep from stocking "real guns" on board seem like more of an "appearance to others" issue.
Since when do shipping companies worry about their PR?
I'm not in the business nor do I know anyone in the business so I'm sure there is more to it than I can see from here, but these problems seem simpler than they are being treated.
Maybe she can create a GUI interface using visual-basic and track an IP address and find whoever is responsible! TV fake-geeks FTW!!!
You're not kidding. The FSM in all is noodley wisdom is cracking down on global warming. We keep seeing Pirate stories and we keep seeing stories showing how Global Warming isn't happening like this story yesterday.
ALL HAIL FSM!
~Touched by His noodley appendage~
No seriously... x_IamSpartacus_x !!!!!
This happens in every industry. Every industry picks a low baseline to measure their product by and then shows how high their product scores over that. I really never assume that things like "battery life, sound clarity, brightness, etc" will be THAT accurate because the bottom line is the manufacturer wants to sell this to me and the better he makes his product sound the more likely I am to buy it. I don't hold any ill will towards people who do this. It's called marketing and it happens all the time.
The most efficiently run medical payment service in this country right now is medicare with over 95% efficiency in terms of money going to treatment vs. overhead.
I've found this report that specifically talks about how INEFFICIENT Medicare is and makes recommendations to change that.
This USA Today article complains that Medicare funds the vast majority of residency training in the USA. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it is a substantial amount of money that is not going to treatment as you said.
This report says fraud is costing in the billions. And this article says that fraud is a growing problem in Medicare costing $60 billion per year and says that fewer than 5%... that's 5% of claims are audited.
According to this Congressional Research Service report Medicare's budget is $420 billion for 2009. If $60 billion is just fraud, that means nearly 15% of Medicare's budget is NOT going to treatment not including all the rest of Medicare's expenses (funding residency, other misc overhead).
Sorry, but to say that Medicare is efficient is just plain wrong.
You are an idiot
The tests could begin by summer, said Dr. Thomas Okarma, president and CEO of the Geron Corporation. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the trials, which will use human stem cells authorized for research by then-President George W. Bush in 2001
So the stem cells that will be used were definitely approved by Bush.
Okarma didn't use federal funding for his research but the quote you have from the /. summary is... get this... STRAIGHT FROM TFA! Read it yourself. 1st sentence 10th paragraph.
I am not a huge fan of Bush either but snipping bits and pieces from the article and then blatantly lying about it to make Bush look worse than he is is why neo-cons can demonize people like you.
The court's orders include a $171.9 million suspended judgment against defendants FTN Promotions; Guardian Marketing Services; Strategia Marketing; Co-Compliance; Bay Pines Travel; Suntasia Properties; Bryon Wolf; and Roy Eliasson, provided the other restitution money is paid out. Suspended judgments also were entered against JPW Consultants, and JeffreyWolf for $60 million, and against Alfred H. Wolf for $115 million.
So it looks like, once it is shown the $50M is paid, the companies still have a $346.9M bill to pay.
Man... why didn't anyone from these companies call me? Looks like you get twice the amount of money back that you got scammed out of!
1. Get a call from someone offering nifty free thingiojiggas
2. Say 'FREE??? AWESOME! HERE'S MY DEBIT CARD NUMBER!!!
3. Wait for lawsuits and a judge to order the companies involved to pay it all back.
4. ????
5. PROFIT!!!
As another poster has said the 'negative option' deal is very similar to pretty much any 'free trail' out there.
A company calls you, tells you they have a bunch of free stuff for you and if you don't want to keep getting it in three months then just don't renew! It's pretty simple! Just fill out this quick form with me over the phone and your free stuff is on the way! They just don't tell you that in three months if you don't:
1. fill out a virtually impossible to find form
2. fill it out PERFECTLY (up to the discretion of the company)
3. send it to a virtually impossible to find address
4. allow for two months 'processing' the form
5. ?????
6. LOSE MONEY!
TFA actually talks about, when these companies were investigated, the FTC found THOUSANDS of letters and consumer attempts to opt out of this scheme that were apparently just ignored by these companies. So the 'negative option' turned into a 'no option, we just ignore you when you opt out'.
A lot of time it depends on where the road(s) are that we are designing.
In a residential area the Department of Transport (DOT) tend to roll the design speed down about 10-20 mph.
Out on the highway though it can get kind of funny. For a long straight 4 lane highway the design speed may be 80 mph. However, once you curve the road the design speed is affected quite a bit.
Occasionally (not often though) we have to curve a highway and our design speed is lower than the actual posted speed limit. Those areas tend to have higher accident rates (which the designer inevitably ends up being blamed for even though we recommended a lower speed limit). The city/county/state doesn't like to change the speed limit on the same road (understandably so) so that is why they may leave the speed limit above the design speed for that section of roadway.
If you live in a rural area design speed may not have been a consideration when the roads near you were built. Many older, rural roads simply used to be a dirt track that ended up getting paved and NO ONE designed the actual road. In that case the city/county/state just posted a speed limit consistent with other speed limits in the area.
To answer your question though, usually the DOT does take our recommendation or they are close to or below it.
I work for a civil engineering firm and we design roadways (often many miles long) and in doing so I often see accident reports spanning many years. The majority of highway accidents (especially at high speeds and especially fatal ones) could not have been prevented by one or both (or more depending on how many cars are involved) of the cars braking as soon as ANYONE or anything could tell an accident was imminent.
Usually someone didnâ(TM)t look in their rearview mirror and changed lanes right into a car or someone fell asleep at the wheel and drifted across traffic and because of a split second lapse of attention someone is dead.
Itâ(TM)s not a OH NOOOES THAT PERSON HAS BEEN STOPPED IN FRONT OF ME FOR 2 MINUTES BUT I DIDNâ(TM)T NOTICE AND NOW ITâ(TM)S TOO LATE TO BRAKE!!!
A car comes over a hill in the highway going 30 over the speed limit (we design those speed limits on purpose and itâ(TM)s because of things like this) and thereâ(TM)s a disabled car with a blowout or engine problem in the road ahead of you and braking simply slows you down. You still hit the car and the lady standing in front of it looking helplessly at her engine still dies because you wanted to cut 5 minutes out of your drive time.
There is also the question of allowing your car to decide when you should brake and ALL the potential hassles/problems/safety issues involved in that.
Anyway, back to the point, if Volvo thinks that by installing some sensor in the bumper that will trigger the brakes if thereâ(TM)s something in front of you will keep people from dying in their cars they are pouring a lot of money down the garbage.
This technology will solve 1 problem for all 50 it creates in a drivers experience.
Read carefully, neither am I. There is nothing non-physical about information processing in the human brain, it is entirely physical. Yet, some human organisms are not capable of sophisticated enough processing to be called a person.
Ok, I've been following this discussion for a bit and I know I've come in a day late but I just wanted to jump in right there. When you say "some human organisms are not capable of sophisticated "enough" processing to be called a person" you step out onto VERY shaky ground. I don't know how you would define "enough" (and it may be a very conservative definition, again, I don't know) but if many people subscribed to that then it wouldn't take long for someone to decide that the legally retarded aren't capable "enough" of processing to be called people and can therefore be terminated without qualm. That could escalate very quickly. In fact that's the reason for this whole story on slashdot. When the definition of a person is as subjective as yours appears to be it becomes a very dangerous definition for those who are very different from what people are used to.