Amazon is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) shops on the internet. They need to stand up while taking a hammering every Xmas. If anyone is going to have a superior infrastructure it will be Amazon.
I agree but they are no less valuable than the young and the old. In fact a country full of old people and children wouldn't get very far and logically someone who had a lifetime to save should have more money for healthcare than someone straight out of college.
I would like to see everyone get some sort of healthcare. It's the fair thing. If we can't afford to give it to everyone then I think no one should get it. Maybe then people would think twice about the absurd amount spent on the military and realise that maybe that taking some of that money and spending it on the country's citizens would make more sense.
Hell if privatisation is so awesome then why no privatise the roads and take the road money and put it towards healthcare? We're already taking tobacco tax which should go towards health and spending it on things like roads.
And I'll almost certainly be blacklisted for ever getting insurance again.
For me the biggest issue with healthcare in the US isn't that it's private but that if you actually have to use it then quite often you'll never get it again or pay through the nose and you're effectively black listed.
I would agree there isn't enough money to go around. We could cut loads of money from the military budget. The fact we're spending so much more than anyone else and still can't beat a few guys living in the mountains in Afganistan, in my mind, means we're not spending our money that well within the military.
I also think what Obama got pushed through is nonsense. Passing anything through just to say you did it is silly but I do resent the fact people are expected to cover the costs of healthcare for some and not others.
Aside from it not being very equal it also annoys me that so many old people fight against it where as you could argue they had their whole life to save up for that point. If they can't afford medical care then maybe they don't deserve it if I don't.
Imagine what sort of uproar there would be if we said only some people could have an education or use the roads and neither of those things are any more of a right than healthcare is.
So in my opinion it's fine if America wants to reassess its priorities and decide healthcare isn't do-able but then that should be the case for everyone.
And what if I get cancer before I'm old? Oh yes that's right I should be punished for even thinking of inconveniencing anyone by having cancer before retirement.
It's still bullshit because someone brought this up ages ago when there was a topic on Sweden (might have been Norway) improving their broadband and actually their density and population were lower.
Sweden - 9,302,123
New York - 19,541,453
There the whole of the US isn't Kansas. There are densely populated areas and they're broadband is still generally shit. So we should drop the Japan argument, while it may be true, there are European countries providing better broadband and they're not necessarily more densely populated, have high populations, etc, etc.
Americans can keep telling them whatever they want to make themselves feel better about their lack of broadband but the only reason it is the way it is will be because the companies do better by fucking you up the butt rather than providing good service. That is also why your mobile phone market is too expensive and rubbish.
Unfortunately I think some people enjoy this because they can then feel special because they have something (broadband) that most people don't have and therefore opt not to push for their nation's infrastructure to improve.
There are a lot of things that cost money and the government has opted to force people to pay for them. If I didn't have to pay for every other kid's education maybe I could provide any kids I have with the education I want them to have. I certainly don't want to the war in Iraq yet no choice again. I don't want to provide the elderly with medicare and instead I rather put that money towards my healthcare.
I could buy these arguments about costs and forcing people to pay for others if it weren't for the fact this is already happening and we should either treat everyone equally or everyone fends for themselves. None of this half-assed crap that only benefits some people.
Given the growing elderly population it's asking a lot to have even fewer people supporting even more old people so end medicare and tell gramps to get a job a wal-mart if he can't afford his diapers.
You already are in the form of medicare/medicaid. That is my whole problem. We don't treat citizens equally and the only people getting healthcare funnily enough are the key voting groups the old (ie gullible and fearful people who buy into any stupid idea) and the poor (who just care about having cigarettes and a big TV paid by someone's labor).
If can't provide healthcare universally then let everyone fend for themselves.
Then why force people to foot the bill for elderly and poor people's healthcare? This is what pisses me off. It's that yet again the worker and his family get bent over while the senile and lazy get freebies. Fuck 'em, we have too many old people anyway.
It's going to cost when IP4 addresses run out. It cost money having to fix Y2K at the last moment. It's just laziness and stupidity to leave things to the last moment.
They may eventually do it but where is the incentive? People expext to pay little to nothing for their games and you're not going to produce a Dragons quest or zelda game for $0.99 a title.
I think gaming on the N-gage was fine (minus the use of carts on a phone) but that tanked. I think they something more than touch screen controls but do so in a way without making it useless as a phone or ugly.
I think they need to work out something for the software too. At least with the DS you get a physical cart they can't take away. I believe that's why people won't pay much for phone games. There is real guarantee you'll have it for long.
If those two things get sort then I'd be happy to give them my money and I'm sure developers would put forth more effort and be able to charge more. Until then everything about mobile gaming feels throw-away and I'm not paying money for that.
The DS does a lot more and will also be a host to superior games of all genres because not only does it have a touch screen but it has a D-pad and buttons. I'd much rather use my phone for other apps and surfing the net and my DS for games.
I own an Android phone and I love it but I'm not sure I could be bothered to develop for it. You can't guarantee what the user will have and you can't even rely on the store to show your product in the best light.
For instance, there was some fuss being made over Angry Birds. I decide to check it out. It shows up in my app market, there are no limits listed so I download it. It fails. No error message than it's not gonna happen. Was it a bad net connection or was my phone not up to it? Fuck if I know.
Google maps was updated and crashing constantly (like upon boot up) and as long as it went on I suspect it was only happening to older versions like mine (1.6). Another app bricked my Android and considering I mainly only use Google made apps and connect bot it's not like I'm downloading shit.
The hardware guys aren't willing to update my software and Google isn't doing enough to guarantee I only see apps I can run. That's shit and something like Rage would cause such a hassle for ID, imo, so I wouldn't bother if I were them.
But I can write code for the "Wii OS" and know it will work across all Wiis.Coding for Android and you either need to limit your market or cater to the lowest common denominator because you can't guarantee what controls hardware they'll have.
They give away their software and copies of their database so anyone an do the same thing. Amazon should throw some cash their way but they don't have to.
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Amazon is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) shops on the internet. They need to stand up while taking a hammering every Xmas. If anyone is going to have a superior infrastructure it will be Amazon.
I agree but they are no less valuable than the young and the old. In fact a country full of old people and children wouldn't get very far and logically someone who had a lifetime to save should have more money for healthcare than someone straight out of college.
I would like to see everyone get some sort of healthcare. It's the fair thing. If we can't afford to give it to everyone then I think no one should get it. Maybe then people would think twice about the absurd amount spent on the military and realise that maybe that taking some of that money and spending it on the country's citizens would make more sense.
Hell if privatisation is so awesome then why no privatise the roads and take the road money and put it towards healthcare? We're already taking tobacco tax which should go towards health and spending it on things like roads.
And I'll almost certainly be blacklisted for ever getting insurance again.
For me the biggest issue with healthcare in the US isn't that it's private but that if you actually have to use it then quite often you'll never get it again or pay through the nose and you're effectively black listed.
I would agree there isn't enough money to go around. We could cut loads of money from the military budget. The fact we're spending so much more than anyone else and still can't beat a few guys living in the mountains in Afganistan, in my mind, means we're not spending our money that well within the military.
I also think what Obama got pushed through is nonsense. Passing anything through just to say you did it is silly but I do resent the fact people are expected to cover the costs of healthcare for some and not others.
Aside from it not being very equal it also annoys me that so many old people fight against it where as you could argue they had their whole life to save up for that point. If they can't afford medical care then maybe they don't deserve it if I don't.
Imagine what sort of uproar there would be if we said only some people could have an education or use the roads and neither of those things are any more of a right than healthcare is.
So in my opinion it's fine if America wants to reassess its priorities and decide healthcare isn't do-able but then that should be the case for everyone.
And what if I get cancer before I'm old? Oh yes that's right I should be punished for even thinking of inconveniencing anyone by having cancer before retirement.
No, but they wish they did so they could be kick it with Santa Claus.
It's still bullshit because someone brought this up ages ago when there was a topic on Sweden (might have been Norway) improving their broadband and actually their density and population were lower.
Sweden - 9,302,123
New York - 19,541,453
There the whole of the US isn't Kansas. There are densely populated areas and they're broadband is still generally shit. So we should drop the Japan argument, while it may be true, there are European countries providing better broadband and they're not necessarily more densely populated, have high populations, etc, etc.
Americans can keep telling them whatever they want to make themselves feel better about their lack of broadband but the only reason it is the way it is will be because the companies do better by fucking you up the butt rather than providing good service. That is also why your mobile phone market is too expensive and rubbish.
Unfortunately I think some people enjoy this because they can then feel special because they have something (broadband) that most people don't have and therefore opt not to push for their nation's infrastructure to improve.
Anyone who thinks 256k is broadband is living in a dream world.
There are a lot of things that cost money and the government has opted to force people to pay for them. If I didn't have to pay for every other kid's education maybe I could provide any kids I have with the education I want them to have. I certainly don't want to the war in Iraq yet no choice again. I don't want to provide the elderly with medicare and instead I rather put that money towards my healthcare.
I could buy these arguments about costs and forcing people to pay for others if it weren't for the fact this is already happening and we should either treat everyone equally or everyone fends for themselves. None of this half-assed crap that only benefits some people.
Given the growing elderly population it's asking a lot to have even fewer people supporting even more old people so end medicare and tell gramps to get a job a wal-mart if he can't afford his diapers.
You already are in the form of medicare/medicaid. That is my whole problem. We don't treat citizens equally and the only people getting healthcare funnily enough are the key voting groups the old (ie gullible and fearful people who buy into any stupid idea) and the poor (who just care about having cigarettes and a big TV paid by someone's labor).
If can't provide healthcare universally then let everyone fend for themselves.
Then why force people to foot the bill for elderly and poor people's healthcare? This is what pisses me off. It's that yet again the worker and his family get bent over while the senile and lazy get freebies. Fuck 'em, we have too many old people anyway.
It's going to cost when IP4 addresses run out. It cost money having to fix Y2K at the last moment. It's just laziness and stupidity to leave things to the last moment.
They may eventually do it but where is the incentive? People expext to pay little to nothing for their games and you're not going to produce a Dragons quest or zelda game for $0.99 a title.
I think gaming on the N-gage was fine (minus the use of carts on a phone) but that tanked. I think they something more than touch screen controls but do so in a way without making it useless as a phone or ugly.
I think they need to work out something for the software too. At least with the DS you get a physical cart they can't take away. I believe that's why people won't pay much for phone games. There is real guarantee you'll have it for long. If those two things get sort then I'd be happy to give them my money and I'm sure developers would put forth more effort and be able to charge more. Until then everything about mobile gaming feels throw-away and I'm not paying money for that.
The DS does a lot more and will also be a host to superior games of all genres because not only does it have a touch screen but it has a D-pad and buttons. I'd much rather use my phone for other apps and surfing the net and my DS for games.
The games are more expensive because they do more and look like real games like games on phones that cater to ADD monkeys.
I own an Android phone and I love it but I'm not sure I could be bothered to develop for it. You can't guarantee what the user will have and you can't even rely on the store to show your product in the best light.
For instance, there was some fuss being made over Angry Birds. I decide to check it out. It shows up in my app market, there are no limits listed so I download it. It fails. No error message than it's not gonna happen. Was it a bad net connection or was my phone not up to it? Fuck if I know.
Google maps was updated and crashing constantly (like upon boot up) and as long as it went on I suspect it was only happening to older versions like mine (1.6). Another app bricked my Android and considering I mainly only use Google made apps and connect bot it's not like I'm downloading shit.
The hardware guys aren't willing to update my software and Google isn't doing enough to guarantee I only see apps I can run. That's shit and something like Rage would cause such a hassle for ID, imo, so I wouldn't bother if I were them.
But I can write code for the "Wii OS" and know it will work across all Wiis.Coding for Android and you either need to limit your market or cater to the lowest common denominator because you can't guarantee what controls hardware they'll have.
lol USB, how quaint.
30 seconds seems a bit long compared to my macbook pro with its SSD.
If he starts judging what to release he'll be accused of censorship and if most of it is harmless gossip then who cares?
They give away their software and copies of their database so anyone an do the same thing. Amazon should throw some cash their way but they don't have to.
Does anyone honestly trust IE these days?
I bow down to your junk yard children.
They need to slow it down a bit even if seems to mainly be saying asterisk, slash and sync for my file (mm/msync.c).
So you think it's acceptable to be spied on by the government and corporations for any reason at all?