The Federal Board of Education would demand trillions of dollars in one lump sum...
...if that strategy wasn't wholly inferior to the annual installment plan that they currently have, which reached a high of $138 billion/year in 2009...
This idea that there is no evidence of charter schools being a success is laughable. The few studies which claim that charter schools are no better are focused on the performance of the entire public school system as a whole, rather than on the specific public schools which are so bad that they foster the creation of an alternative, charter, schools.
Charter schools must work to maintain their charter status, which equates directly to performance. A charter school that is worse than the local alternatives loses their charter, which means that they don't exist in perpetuity to fail multiple generations of children... and they do it with less money.
Company A having influence on who Company B chooses to do business with is not often a good thing.
Company B is choosing that influence. FaceBook's compelling nature here is that it offers a beneficial opportunity to company B. It isn't blackmailing B, or in any way at all forcing B to participate. Company B actually wants information about prospective employees and is seeking to get it.
You also lost me when you equated creating a FaceBook account with selling your soul. You do realize that you can create a FaceBook account and then never post personal information, right? The data FaceBook will have is your name, your IP address, and the fact that you havent ever posted anything, friended anybody, or played any of those games, or logged in since account creation...
Heat was pretty much exclusively fire ( or rubbing one bare bodkin again' another).
Indeed, but there is no reason that I am aware of to believe that there was a significant change in the # of people burning logs.
The new world meant lumber (the primary export for so many years) used to build homes and navies in and for the old world, rather than to heat things. I'm not sure how the summary gets off with saying that reduced deforestation was happening because of the new world discovery.. the English and French, later America, were all about deforesting the new world with abandon.
Voting with your wallet and whatnot by agreeing not to do business with them is all well and good...
I agree.
...Until someone ELSE refuses to do business with YOU if you don't.
Wait.. what?
Are you suggesting that its OK for you to pick and choose who you do business with, but its not OK for those that you might do business with to be afforded the very same consideration and choose not to do business with you?
..and to think, I agreed with a fucking hypocrite.
You want 2 or 4 sticks if its a dual-channel motherboard and CPU, 3 or 6 sticks if its a triple-channel motherboard and CPU, and 4 or 8 sticks if its a quad-channel motherboard and CPU.
The idea is that memory is interleaved between the memory chips, so that the memory chips work in parallel to load and unload data from the CPU's caches. That 64-bit bus effectively becomes 128-bit, 192-bit, or 256-bit.
It is this reason that the old i7's (triple-channel memory) beat up the newer sandy bridge chips (double-channel memory) in some scenarios, but not others.
You will only see servers supporting quad-channel memory, and thats nearly universal there.
If you want bang-for-buck and you are reaching for a Phenom II x6 then you aren't paying attention..
The AMD A-series APU's are by far the best value around. The AMD A6-3650 ($120) and the AMD A8-3850 ($135) are on par in performance with the Phenom II 1055T ($150) and the Phenom II 1075T ($160) respectively. If you need the (very) marginal performance boost of the Phenom II 1090T ($170) or the Phenom II 1100T ($190) then you should probably be buying the Intel i5-2400 ($188)
They perform as well as the x6's, cost significantly less, have a competent GPU which itself may save you even more, and they even use less power. Nothing on the market comes close.
With a budget of ~$500B covering ~50 million people, thats an average of ~$10K per recipient per year, and only $2K of which needs to be fraudulent on average to get to ~$100B/year in fraud. With medical costs the way they are, $2K could be a fraction of a single unnecessary (perhaps not even performed) test procedure, and a single day in the hospital also costs more.
Remember that its pretty much impossible to police the incredible number of claims made per year, and claims originate from so many different medical practitioners so its not really possible to audit even a single claim per practitioner per year.
I would say that the chance of significant fraud is quite high.
I love how you liberals denegrate everyone that don't think like you
People normally don't do it when they can back up their beliefs with fact-supported reasoning. Unfortunately, most people arent informed enough to actually be able to back up their beliefs, instead simply parroting the group-think of their peers. The group may be right, but the typical individual is still ignorant so must resort to name calling. This is true on both sides of the liberal-conservative fence, but liberals seem to do it as an opening-move much more frequently than conservatives and I'm not sure why..
Ah yes.. each one of those takes Ron's position about reforming one government department or another and declares him "Anti-________".. for instance, Ron wants the federal department of education gutted completely and replaced because the current department is far too ineffectual and corrupt.. thats anti-education, right?
It doesn't really seem to be that they are For or Against anything in particular. They just sorta-kinda share a common underlying dislike for folk with a lot of money, for varying different reasons.
If they were all there protesting corporate lobbying or something similar, I would be behind them 100%. However I do not dislike folk based on the grounds that they are the owners of piles of money. I do not dislike folk based on the grounds that they pay more or less taxes than I do. I do not dislike folk based on the ground that they have nicer things than I do.
The problems with corporations and rich folks are not how big the piles of money are. The problem is that government not only lets, but even encourages, the piles of money to hold influence over governance and further to let wield that influence to the detriment of myself and my peers. Crimes against society are not the same as treason, but they are just as serious.
Connecticut, for instance, had a long-standing tax exemption for clothing under $50. They lifted that exemption on July 1st of this year, passing the bill which lifted it only days earlier.
I'm not asking you to subsidize me so much as a dime. I'm asking that AT&T be compelled to take the money out of my hand and provide the service I require because they are a de facto internet monopoly in our area.
You already said that the cable company was also willing to provide service, for the cost of running the lines, which means that AT&T does not have a "de facto monopoly" in your area.
Furthermore, the only reason that AT&T is even there seems to be because tax dollars were spent to run the lines out. Now the FCC is saying that they want to use the same tax mechanic to run broadband.
So you are both exaggerating the situation and well as willfully ignoring the point that the FCC is in fact trying to use my money to provide broadband to people who decided all-on-their-own to live in the middle of fucking nowhere.
You need to buck up and accept the fact that there are consequences to decisions, that there are trade-offs when you choose to take the benefits of living in remote places.
The "mile off the road" part precludes cable because the cable company wants $15,000 to run line.
Its only $600 per household if there are 25 houses out there, which isnt that unreasonable.
If they moved into the middle of nowhere where few people live, then I say fuck 'em. Seriously.
Yes I have. Now you are being willfully ignorant.. just as I predicted you would be.
..and no, fuck you and all the other ignorant fucks that talk about shit when they don't even have the most basic of understandings of what they are talking about.
Dude... five minutes and an executable downloaded from rockbox.org is "tinkering"?
No iPod made during or after 2007 seems to be supported by Rockbox. Furthermore, less than 70 million iPods were sold prior to 2007, while 245 million were sold after 2006.
So Rockbox only supports 22% of all the iPods ever sold, and it actually only supports the iPods most likely to be non-functional today.
In other words, likely 9 out of 10 iPod owners who would consider Rockbox will find it to be a complete and utter waste of time to download an executable from rockbox.org as you are suggesting.
Seems to me that the GP's tinkering observation is very salient here, while your rockbox.org retort is misinformation to say the least.
As for your RS-232 (yes, thats a "serial modem connection") vs USB comment.. you young kids have no idea.. and dont even seem to know the correct terminology. Get off MY lawn.
You don't need to maintain a balance to have a bank account. Maybe at shitty banks like BofA you do, but any credit union will happily give you a savings account
Ever see a credit union in poor sections of an inner city? Credit unions spring up where money is, not where it isn't.
So then why don't you educate me about why check-cashing is so huge in those places, smartass?
You are one of those people that hates to be wrong even when you know you are ill-informed, so will deny the existence of anything that contradicts your original ill-informed opinions.
In answer to your question.. I did, moron. Try reading what you reply to.
It's not like I hang around dirt-poor people all the time.
You don't need to hang around poor people to be informed. The reason that you arent informed is because you don't actually give a shit about being right about the things that you are so willing to spout your opinion about. Hand-waving obviously gives you enough satisfaction without that pesky step of making sure that you know anything at all about what you are talking about.
Seriously dude. You dont know anything about what you are talking about. You are simply assigning your lifestyle to everyone else and basing your opinion on the idea that everyone else is just like you. You know this to be true too, which is the saddest part, so just stop now so things wont be so sad.
OK, unless you're an illegal alien or a homeless person, why wouldn't you have a bank account?
Many people are poor and cannot maintain a balance, and as such must pay a monthly fee to have a bank account.. which they cannot afford to do, so they don't have bank accounts.
Yes, these are probably mostly illegals; they can't get bank accounts because they don't have valid SS numbers.
There is a reason that the check cashing business is so huge in inner cities, and its not because of all the Mexicans and Cubans in places like Boston, New Haven, and New York.
You are ignorant and lacking of even a small amount of common sense.
I too had a Fleet account that transformed into BoA.
Let me tell you a little story. I was moving about an hour from where I lived (closer to work), with a plan to close my BoA accounts (checking and savings) and then see what banks were convenient in my new area. Well, I stopped at the U-Haul to pick up the rental truck and headed across the street to the BoA branch I had never been in before.
They let me drain and close my savings account without me ever showing a shred of identification. Not an ATM card. Not a drivers license. Not even a piece of paper with my name written on it. I just rattled off my account number and thats all it took, in a branch I had never set foot in before.
They asked me why I was closing my savings account and all that shit... "I'm moving"..
A month later I walked into yet another BoA branch I had never been in before (new city) to close my checking account. This time they asked for identification, but it was too late. They asked me why I was closing my checking account and all that shit.. "Because I somehow managed to close my savings account without showing any ID".. I got a puzzled look, but I wasn't there to make the point clear.. I was there to rescue my money from danger.
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The Federal Board of Education would demand trillions of dollars in one lump sum...
...if that strategy wasn't wholly inferior to the annual installment plan that they currently have, which reached a high of $138 billion/year in 2009...
This idea that there is no evidence of charter schools being a success is laughable. The few studies which claim that charter schools are no better are focused on the performance of the entire public school system as a whole, rather than on the specific public schools which are so bad that they foster the creation of an alternative, charter, schools.
Charter schools must work to maintain their charter status, which equates directly to performance. A charter school that is worse than the local alternatives loses their charter, which means that they don't exist in perpetuity to fail multiple generations of children... and they do it with less money.
Company A having influence on who Company B chooses to do business with is not often a good thing.
Company B is choosing that influence. FaceBook's compelling nature here is that it offers a beneficial opportunity to company B. It isn't blackmailing B, or in any way at all forcing B to participate. Company B actually wants information about prospective employees and is seeking to get it.
You also lost me when you equated creating a FaceBook account with selling your soul. You do realize that you can create a FaceBook account and then never post personal information, right? The data FaceBook will have is your name, your IP address, and the fact that you havent ever posted anything, friended anybody, or played any of those games, or logged in since account creation...
Heat was pretty much exclusively fire ( or rubbing one bare bodkin again' another).
Indeed, but there is no reason that I am aware of to believe that there was a significant change in the # of people burning logs.
The new world meant lumber (the primary export for so many years) used to build homes and navies in and for the old world, rather than to heat things. I'm not sure how the summary gets off with saying that reduced deforestation was happening because of the new world discovery.. the English and French, later America, were all about deforesting the new world with abandon.
Voting with your wallet and whatnot by agreeing not to do business with them is all well and good...
I agree.
...Until someone ELSE refuses to do business with YOU if you don't.
Wait.. what?
..and to think, I agreed with a fucking hypocrite.
Are you suggesting that its OK for you to pick and choose who you do business with, but its not OK for those that you might do business with to be afforded the very same consideration and choose not to do business with you?
Did I just read that the government is not bound by the statute of limitations?
..and here I thought the statute of limitations was specifically there to bind the government.
Are you suggesting that slashdot is a akin to a left-wing blog?
This is the place I go.
You want 2 or 4 sticks if its a dual-channel motherboard and CPU, 3 or 6 sticks if its a triple-channel motherboard and CPU, and 4 or 8 sticks if its a quad-channel motherboard and CPU.
The idea is that memory is interleaved between the memory chips, so that the memory chips work in parallel to load and unload data from the CPU's caches. That 64-bit bus effectively becomes 128-bit, 192-bit, or 256-bit.
It is this reason that the old i7's (triple-channel memory) beat up the newer sandy bridge chips (double-channel memory) in some scenarios, but not others.
You will only see servers supporting quad-channel memory, and thats nearly universal there.
"There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying." -- Josh Billings
If you want bang-for-buck and you are reaching for a Phenom II x6 then you aren't paying attention..
The AMD A-series APU's are by far the best value around. The AMD A6-3650 ($120) and the AMD A8-3850 ($135) are on par in performance with the Phenom II 1055T ($150) and the Phenom II 1075T ($160) respectively. If you need the (very) marginal performance boost of the Phenom II 1090T ($170) or the Phenom II 1100T ($190) then you should probably be buying the Intel i5-2400 ($188)
They perform as well as the x6's, cost significantly less, have a competent GPU which itself may save you even more, and they even use less power. Nothing on the market comes close.
With a budget of ~$500B covering ~50 million people, thats an average of ~$10K per recipient per year, and only $2K of which needs to be fraudulent on average to get to ~$100B/year in fraud. With medical costs the way they are, $2K could be a fraction of a single unnecessary (perhaps not even performed) test procedure, and a single day in the hospital also costs more.
Remember that its pretty much impossible to police the incredible number of claims made per year, and claims originate from so many different medical practitioners so its not really possible to audit even a single claim per practitioner per year.
I would say that the chance of significant fraud is quite high.
I love how you liberals denegrate everyone that don't think like you
People normally don't do it when they can back up their beliefs with fact-supported reasoning. Unfortunately, most people arent informed enough to actually be able to back up their beliefs, instead simply parroting the group-think of their peers. The group may be right, but the typical individual is still ignorant so must resort to name calling. This is true on both sides of the liberal-conservative fence, but liberals seem to do it as an opening-move much more frequently than conservatives and I'm not sure why..
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Ah yes.. each one of those takes Ron's position about reforming one government department or another and declares him "Anti-________" .. for instance, Ron wants the federal department of education gutted completely and replaced because the current department is far too ineffectual and corrupt.. thats anti-education, right?
Stop being a parrot.
It doesn't really seem to be that they are For or Against anything in particular. They just sorta-kinda share a common underlying dislike for folk with a lot of money, for varying different reasons.
If they were all there protesting corporate lobbying or something similar, I would be behind them 100%. However I do not dislike folk based on the grounds that they are the owners of piles of money. I do not dislike folk based on the grounds that they pay more or less taxes than I do. I do not dislike folk based on the ground that they have nicer things than I do.
The problems with corporations and rich folks are not how big the piles of money are. The problem is that government not only lets, but even encourages, the piles of money to hold influence over governance and further to let wield that influence to the detriment of myself and my peers. Crimes against society are not the same as treason, but they are just as serious.
Oblig. Four more years of douche-bag!
..or changes what is taxable and what isn't.
Connecticut, for instance, had a long-standing tax exemption for clothing under $50. They lifted that exemption on July 1st of this year, passing the bill which lifted it only days earlier.
I'm not asking you to subsidize me so much as a dime. I'm asking that AT&T be compelled to take the money out of my hand and provide the service I require because they are a de facto internet monopoly in our area.
You already said that the cable company was also willing to provide service, for the cost of running the lines, which means that AT&T does not have a "de facto monopoly" in your area.
Furthermore, the only reason that AT&T is even there seems to be because tax dollars were spent to run the lines out. Now the FCC is saying that they want to use the same tax mechanic to run broadband.
So you are both exaggerating the situation and well as willfully ignoring the point that the FCC is in fact trying to use my money to provide broadband to people who decided all-on-their-own to live in the middle of fucking nowhere.
You need to buck up and accept the fact that there are consequences to decisions, that there are trade-offs when you choose to take the benefits of living in remote places.
The "mile off the road" part precludes cable because the cable company wants $15,000 to run line.
Its only $600 per household if there are 25 houses out there, which isnt that unreasonable.
If they moved into the middle of nowhere where few people live, then I say fuck 'em. Seriously.
Dude you're an asshole.
You finally got something right.
You haven't explained why I'm wrong
Yes I have. Now you are being willfully ignorant.. just as I predicted you would be.
..and no, fuck you and all the other ignorant fucks that talk about shit when they don't even have the most basic of understandings of what they are talking about.
Dude... five minutes and an executable downloaded from rockbox.org is "tinkering"?
No iPod made during or after 2007 seems to be supported by Rockbox. Furthermore, less than 70 million iPods were sold prior to 2007, while 245 million were sold after 2006.
So Rockbox only supports 22% of all the iPods ever sold, and it actually only supports the iPods most likely to be non-functional today.
In other words, likely 9 out of 10 iPod owners who would consider Rockbox will find it to be a complete and utter waste of time to download an executable from rockbox.org as you are suggesting.
Seems to me that the GP's tinkering observation is very salient here, while your rockbox.org retort is misinformation to say the least.
As for your RS-232 (yes, thats a "serial modem connection") vs USB comment.. you young kids have no idea.. and dont even seem to know the correct terminology. Get off MY lawn.
You don't need to maintain a balance to have a bank account. Maybe at shitty banks like BofA you do, but any credit union will happily give you a savings account
Ever see a credit union in poor sections of an inner city? Credit unions spring up where money is, not where it isn't.
So then why don't you educate me about why check-cashing is so huge in those places, smartass?
You are one of those people that hates to be wrong even when you know you are ill-informed, so will deny the existence of anything that contradicts your original ill-informed opinions.
In answer to your question.. I did, moron. Try reading what you reply to.
It's not like I hang around dirt-poor people all the time.
You don't need to hang around poor people to be informed. The reason that you arent informed is because you don't actually give a shit about being right about the things that you are so willing to spout your opinion about. Hand-waving obviously gives you enough satisfaction without that pesky step of making sure that you know anything at all about what you are talking about.
Seriously dude. You dont know anything about what you are talking about. You are simply assigning your lifestyle to everyone else and basing your opinion on the idea that everyone else is just like you. You know this to be true too, which is the saddest part, so just stop now so things wont be so sad.
You did write what I posted about DNS servers and such, right?
No, I didnt write what you posted about DNS servers. I'm going to take a guess tho, and presume that you wrote it.
Can your local ISP run a proxy on port 53 and redirect half the internet at will?
There is more than one local ISP where I am.
OK, unless you're an illegal alien or a homeless person, why wouldn't you have a bank account?
Many people are poor and cannot maintain a balance, and as such must pay a monthly fee to have a bank account.. which they cannot afford to do, so they don't have bank accounts.
Yes, these are probably mostly illegals; they can't get bank accounts because they don't have valid SS numbers.
There is a reason that the check cashing business is so huge in inner cities, and its not because of all the Mexicans and Cubans in places like Boston, New Haven, and New York.
You are ignorant and lacking of even a small amount of common sense.
I too had a Fleet account that transformed into BoA.
.. I got a puzzled look, but I wasn't there to make the point clear.. I was there to rescue my money from danger.
Let me tell you a little story. I was moving about an hour from where I lived (closer to work), with a plan to close my BoA accounts (checking and savings) and then see what banks were convenient in my new area. Well, I stopped at the U-Haul to pick up the rental truck and headed across the street to the BoA branch I had never been in before.
They let me drain and close my savings account without me ever showing a shred of identification. Not an ATM card. Not a drivers license. Not even a piece of paper with my name written on it. I just rattled off my account number and thats all it took, in a branch I had never set foot in before.
They asked me why I was closing my savings account and all that shit... "I'm moving"..
A month later I walked into yet another BoA branch I had never been in before (new city) to close my checking account. This time they asked for identification, but it was too late. They asked me why I was closing my checking account and all that shit.. "Because I somehow managed to close my savings account without showing any ID"