Given the addiction factor, this might actually be the next step in the gun-control lobby's efforts to ban all arms, from nuclear warheads to nerf guns and pointy things.
Think about it, all of those aimless, wandering, zomboid Petville addicts, wandering around with access to the real world, including guns, pointy things, and schools. It's almost as if they WANT another pointy-thing attack to occur in a school! It's the fuckin' Cloward–Piven strategy, man!
Don't they have a huge prison population? Why can't they just have some of their more troublesome prisoners volunteer theirs? You know, the ones in trouble for spilling state "secrets", even if they're beyond obvious to everyone and his dog.
Carry the media? That's a load of crap. IT'll just get confiscated at the border. Pay someone to put the data somewhere within whatever country you're in now on a VPN and you just copy it over once you get to your destination.
Yep. No market pressures to lower the price. Sucks if you don't have or can't get insurance.
Am I the only one that read this as two completely contradicting statements?
No, he's saying that the insurance companies pay either a set price or don't negotiate a lower price than the maker asks. So, since people don't balk and walk away from the higher price (because insurance gets it for them), there is no incentive to lower the prices. Kind of like how the US Gov't is forbidden from negotiating down medicine prices, and consequently us Americans have to pay an arm and leg for meds.
Essentially, Insurance companies decouple the supply-demand relationship by hiding the true cost to consumers.
Herpy Derpy had a cell-phone,
Whose cell-phone was theft prone.
All of the chief's canines,
and all of the chief's policemen
couldn't find the cell-phone even with tracking software on it again.
Exactly. If I lived in the middle of the nearest city I'd have 100Mbps cable broadband. I'd also be paying twice as much to live there, have no garden, nowhere to park and lots of noise.
I live out in the sticks where I get 5Mbps broadband
Wow. Maybe England would like to run the broadband to the rural areas of the US. I can barely get 1.5Mbps. And I only live two miles from town along a main road.
My local library has paper forms, but good luck to someone that isn't smart enough to earn $25 a month to pay for the internet on figuring out those instructions. I consider myself pretty intelligent, but I still need a computer to help me through filling out those crazy forms and checking for errors.
That's why you get on the internet at the library and do your taxes there. Duh.
Actually, the hearsay rule only stops the defendant from using it. The feds are allowed to use all the hearsay they want in prosecution, according to my understanding of the federal rules of evidence.
I can only hope they can get Calc up to the responsiveness of 2007 Excel, especially in the area of charts and graphs.
I'm a big fan of Libre, but when it comes down to interoperability between Word Processor and Spreadsheet, Word and Excel win hands down. Add to that the fact that Excel seems to do a better job with charts and visual representation of data, and that's why I prefer (for now) to do my scientific data processing with Excel.
If they ran the water through the system, and then to the customers, wouldn't they have to keep it separate from the secret parts of the facility, to prevent leaks?
The parts about "strong economies" and "low unemployment rates, especially in the US" should have been a very quick tip-off...
Don't forget how America's strong, robust housing market can also be attributed to not hamstringing finance companies with oppressive regulation.
I don't know if any of you have noticed this, but those low unemployment rates don't seem to have been made better by the wonderful policies like "debt monetization" (aka printing money) instead of trickle-down economics.
In the U.S., we don't get health care from the government. We don't even get health insurance from the government, unless you fall under Medicare or Medicaid.
No, you won't get health care from the government, or insurance. Nope. Thanks to the law, you'll have to buy it for yourself, even if you don't want/need it. Of course, it was just so gov't actuaries could claim that most/all of the populace is insured and it looks good on paper. Thanks Barry.
...how long it takes before Big Brother decides he can use this to track all of the "troublemakers" in large crowds (everyone is a troublemaker, according to the Gov't).
Apparently the Flamebait mod is now given to people who disagree with the Party...
ah ha ha....or maybe just to those comments consisting of knowingly over-simplified-to-falsehood, generalizing, argument-inducing statements that don't contribute to the conversation and are about off-topic subjects, particularly "government"?
It's an extremely valid concern. If I disagree with the Gov't's actions, I can't exactly take my business elsewhere, can I? Sure, I can go find another one, but I can't go without one, or start my own (with the idea of doing it right). A private company can't fine me, put me in jail, nor can it execute me. The government can. That's why I usually direct concerns at governance about really great technology (it is really cool). But I don't want it turned against me. And if the government turns it against me, it's far more likely to be successful.
...how long it takes before Big Brother decides he can use this to track all of the "troublemakers" in large crowds (everyone is a troublemaker, according to the Gov't).
Apparently the Flamebait mod is now given to people who disagree with the Party...
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Given the addiction factor, this might actually be the next step in the gun-control lobby's efforts to ban all arms, from nuclear warheads to nerf guns and pointy things. Think about it, all of those aimless, wandering, zomboid Petville addicts, wandering around with access to the real world, including guns, pointy things, and schools. It's almost as if they WANT another pointy-thing attack to occur in a school! It's the fuckin' Cloward–Piven strategy, man!
Sell somebody else's!
Don't they have a huge prison population? Why can't they just have some of their more troublesome prisoners volunteer theirs? You know, the ones in trouble for spilling state "secrets", even if they're beyond obvious to everyone and his dog.
Now with 30% more sprinkles.
to nominate Microsoft Windows for this award?
Carry the media? That's a load of crap. IT'll just get confiscated at the border. Pay someone to put the data somewhere within whatever country you're in now on a VPN and you just copy it over once you get to your destination.
Yep. No market pressures to lower the price. Sucks if you don't have or can't get insurance.
Am I the only one that read this as two completely contradicting statements?
No, he's saying that the insurance companies pay either a set price or don't negotiate a lower price than the maker asks. So, since people don't balk and walk away from the higher price (because insurance gets it for them), there is no incentive to lower the prices. Kind of like how the US Gov't is forbidden from negotiating down medicine prices, and consequently us Americans have to pay an arm and leg for meds. Essentially, Insurance companies decouple the supply-demand relationship by hiding the true cost to consumers.
Herpy Derpy had a cell-phone,
Whose cell-phone was theft prone.
All of the chief's canines,
and all of the chief's policemen
couldn't find the cell-phone even with tracking software on it again.
Exactly. If I lived in the middle of the nearest city I'd have 100Mbps cable broadband. I'd also be paying twice as much to live there, have no garden, nowhere to park and lots of noise. I live out in the sticks where I get 5Mbps broadband
Wow. Maybe England would like to run the broadband to the rural areas of the US. I can barely get 1.5Mbps. And I only live two miles from town along a main road.
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My local library has paper forms, but good luck to someone that isn't smart enough to earn $25 a month to pay for the internet on figuring out those instructions. I consider myself pretty intelligent, but I still need a computer to help me through filling out those crazy forms and checking for errors.
That's why you get on the internet at the library and do your taxes there. Duh.
Actually, the hearsay rule only stops the defendant from using it. The feds are allowed to use all the hearsay they want in prosecution, according to my understanding of the federal rules of evidence.
Maybe I'm stupid, but since Android is already open-source, wouldn't someone just fork off the last open version?
If NASA wants their rocket fuel to be green, all they have to do is add a whole lot of green food dye to the tanks before filling them!
I can only hope they can get Calc up to the responsiveness of 2007 Excel, especially in the area of charts and graphs. I'm a big fan of Libre, but when it comes down to interoperability between Word Processor and Spreadsheet, Word and Excel win hands down. Add to that the fact that Excel seems to do a better job with charts and visual representation of data, and that's why I prefer (for now) to do my scientific data processing with Excel.
Therefore, we should not repeal Prohibition.
Why did it take a constitutional amendment to enact prohibition, but drugs are illegal without a special amendment? I never did understand that.
Ender's Game?
More like the movie "Toys" In fact, that was the first time I'd ever seen this idea...
The rest of us, the majority... we live in perpetual Twilight.
Could be worse...could be living in the Twilight Realm...
If they ran the water through the system, and then to the customers, wouldn't they have to keep it separate from the secret parts of the facility, to prevent leaks?
The parts about "strong economies" and "low unemployment rates, especially in the US" should have been a very quick tip-off...
Don't forget how America's strong, robust housing market can also be attributed to not hamstringing finance companies with oppressive regulation.
I don't know if any of you have noticed this, but those low unemployment rates don't seem to have been made better by the wonderful policies like "debt monetization" (aka printing money) instead of trickle-down economics.
Like Hitler, I DO pay attention to Poles. C'mere, Poland, let me give you a big friendly hug.
I'm calling Godwin on this one.
60s-70s surly? or maybe Vietnam.
More bloody likely in 1933.
In the U.S., we don't get health care from the government. We don't even get health insurance from the government, unless you fall under Medicare or Medicaid.
No, you won't get health care from the government, or insurance. Nope. Thanks to the law, you'll have to buy it for yourself, even if you don't want/need it. Of course, it was just so gov't actuaries could claim that most/all of the populace is insured and it looks good on paper. Thanks Barry.
Where do I submit for my flogging?
Into BDSM much? Slashdot BDSM is probably far more extreme than normal BDSM.
ah ha ha. ...or maybe just to those comments consisting of knowingly over-simplified-to-falsehood, generalizing, argument-inducing statements that don't contribute to the conversation and are about off-topic subjects, particularly "government"?
It's an extremely valid concern. If I disagree with the Gov't's actions, I can't exactly take my business elsewhere, can I? Sure, I can go find another one, but I can't go without one, or start my own (with the idea of doing it right). A private company can't fine me, put me in jail, nor can it execute me. The government can. That's why I usually direct concerns at governance about really great technology (it is really cool). But I don't want it turned against me. And if the government turns it against me, it's far more likely to be successful.
...how long it takes before Big Brother decides he can use this to track all of the "troublemakers" in large crowds (everyone is a troublemaker, according to the Gov't).
Apparently the Flamebait mod is now given to people who disagree with the Party...