"Random" is accurate. "Thoughts" less so. People are not in an outrage over "doctors" pay - they are in an outrage over the parasitic insurance companies' profiteering. Tort reform is not the "biggest money issue". You trumpet "negative public opinion", but then when you express *your* opinions they don't make any sense.
What's even sadder than the fact that you are obviously of above average intelligence and education, yet still a dolt, is that this bill does fuck all to actually improve the quality of life in the US for "the people." The reason it does fuck all to improve the quality of life is precisely because of hordes of nearly mindless parrots such as yourself. You completely fail to perform any sort of rational analysis of the real issues of health care. You and your ilk are the blight, not "lawyers".
I will give you this much: the one and only change I would make to the legal profession is simply this: no one who ever takes and passes a bar exam, should ever be permitted to serve as an elected member of any legislative body.
Cellular senescence also happens in the brain. If we can end senescence as well as cure cancer, we stand a chance of ending up as emotionally mature people with good bodies *and* good minds. Sounds like utopia to me. www.sierrasciences.com
No, it sounds like a direct way of saying that it might be profitable to mine if you weren't required to "clean up" a bunch of stuff that was already there. I think the truth is somewhere in the middle: mining to extract valuable minerals from ore that also contains toxic stuff will necessarily produce concentrated toxins as well as concentrated value. So the rational answer is to engineer a way to cheaply return the toxins to the (already toxic, hello?) ground in such a way that they will only increase the toxicity of a limited area - then put a fence around that area along with signs that say, "Keep Out!" Then curious dumbfucks will go in there and die. Win-Win!!
Putting aside the question of the legitimacy of targeting US citizens, we all understand why the members of the Taliban are legitmate targets, right? I mean look, they nearly eradicated the heroin trade in Afganistan. NOBODY FUCKS WITH THE BUSINESS! Bada bing!
No, it's not a bit like saying anything like what you said about murder. Your "thinking" is bizarre. The "problem" of Mexican drugs is only a "problem" because of the United States' immoral laws prohibiting the sales and use of certain psycho-active substances. Please attempt to shed your programming, and start to think for yourself! Are you a slave or a free human being? What's that? A free human being, you say? How can I tell?
That is why my system uses ULTRA HUGE weights. On cables. On pulleys. You know, like those weights that power clocks grandfather clocks. Only MUCH BIGGER.
So how is that dangerous? I mean, sure, you don't want to be standing underneath it when a cable gives way, smoosh, but other than that, what's the catastrophe issue with BIG WEIGHTS? Hell, if the tower and its foundation that are the infrastructure for the Big Weight Energy Storage System are built right, even if a cable gives way, the slider catches will catch the BIG WEIGHT and no harm done even if you are underneath. AND I bet the BIG WEIGHT system is over 95% efficient, without cheating and pumping in extra heat as they do in Albama with those giant pipe bombs.
You are close to my best invention ever, but you missed the bus. (har har). The point is this: why were trains invented? Because they are more efficient. Why? Because the first car in the train breaks the wind for all the others. (don't say it!)
So, the point is this: when you operate carriages in a vacuum or near vacuum, THERE IS NO WIND TO BREAK! You don't need "trains". All you need are individual carriages. This one point is the tipper: A traveler would be able to go to a station, order up a carriage of the right size for the number of people and amount of luggage in his party, specify the destination, and then leave forthwith! No schedules. Just go. Just like driving only at 10 times or more the rate of travel. We should so be doing this!!!!!
No, No, No, we need to spend billions on democracy building in Iraq. My bad.
Uh, no. A person on dial up does not need windows updates. (For that matter neither does anyone else as long at they are behind one layer of NAT.) Run XP SP 2 along with your generously provided AV updates, and they will be fine. On XP32, all the updates after SP2 are there to slow the computer down so Vista/7 doesn't look so pokey.
>>The major disadvantage of the server approach is bandwidth
So what you are saying is that the game companies should all be busy buying every last politician and instructing them to have the taxpayers pay for nationwide fiber to the door.
Only deeper pockets don't want that. Too bad for the game cos. To bad for us, as I think it would be a good investment of taxpayer money. Put those god-damned, vampire zombie cell phone companies out of business for one thing.
How's that? Well, as long as you, the taxpayers, are running fiber to every door, you might as well put an unlocked wifi portal at the end of every fiber. And every hundred feet or so along the way.
The sad part is that Microsoft does have the best desktop and local server tecnology *right now*. (Sorry Linux fans, but it's true, even with the still borne disater of Vista and the retarded little brother, 7.) But their culture is so stagnent that anyone inside that sees this and attempts to build on that strength is suppressed. "He would make *me* look bad..."
So now in desparation to show some kind, any kind of productive movement, they are going to go play in Google's yard. They are going to bump into the wasp nest, trample the garden, get splashed when the sprinklers come on, and then fall down the old well hole.
Pity when all they had to do was fix all the broken stuff on the really cool tree fort in their own back yard.
Don't worry, we're working on it -> sierra sciences dot com
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Yes, very well reasoned except that last part about the "abusive relationship for the end user". Youngster, before we had the web, we drove a hundred miles to get the new *Company* catalog, and we liked it! I'm not being funny - I mean it, we really liked it, because without the catalog we were bored shitless. Now, and pay close attention here, even after we had the catalog, we were still screwed. Why? Because after we bought something from the catalog, oh, usually about 6 months or so, we would stumble over some new, (to us), piece of information and realize that we had paid way more than we needed to for the same or, functionally the same, stuff. Of course the functionally of stuff was always in question too, so it was down to the library for an afternoon to try to learn the answer to one question. Christ what a fucking nightmare life was before the web. Why do you think people used to go to church? Even that nasty shit was better than nothing to do at all.
I am not saying that the "end user" is treated like a king, but I sure feel more kingly, comparing the prices for an item from 40 vendors in 30 seconds, after taking 10 minutes or so to scan the reviews and determine the best functioning of 5 or 6 comparable items, than I ever did back in the good old days. (In this area of life - the current fascist prison planet situation is something else - a really nasty scary something else, but that's a gab for another day.)
Double Bullshit. The police have only themselves to blame for how hard their jobs are to do. They are the one special interest group who could swing a big hammer at the legislature over all the ridiculous laws, but they haven't and they won't. They are mostly the bullies who are just sane enough to see how to get away with it. The TV show about the serial murderer cop was much truer than you realize.
What is a BA? I guess it must be a [something] Analyst, yes? Well, to amplify rdavidson's comment, the one time I worked for a software company as a QA, there were no specs, to speak of, and there were no BAs or any other sort of As at all! Not one person in that multi-national software firm had the title of Analyst. I'm serious. So, it was a little hard to complain to the developers about their crappy dialogs without a meaningful spec. I would do so anyway, and sometimes they got better. Often they didn't. Not one of the other QAs made a peep. So, when I finally got my promotion, it was to the Testing Automation Team - the first unit to get axed when there's a downturn. You know the rest of the story.
If I was publishing a game, I would give the fucker away: a free download. Play away! BUT, if you want to participate in the really cool group activities and higher end graphics and physics, in game features like saves, well, you gotta sign up for access to the online servers. That is charged by the hour. Not a lot per hour. Just enough. Has anyone tried this model?
All a catalyst does in take your Mercedes' relatively clean exhaust and make it much cleaner. Modern catalysts do not restrict flow, so, why not use one? What's wrong with cleaner exhaust?
Correct me if I am wrong, but your attitude seems to be based upon the outdated notion that the catalyst will restrict flow.
>>Modern management systems are constantly adjusting a plethora of control subsystems...
Yes, and, (other than throttle opening), what's wrong with that? None of the engines you mention achieve anything like the performance of, say, the Honda S2000 engine or the Ferrari V8. And, obviously, it is because those engines combine fine design with intelligently managed systems. If you want to bitch about new cars, leave the engines out of it - instead bitch about their readings on the scales! The only company who makes a modern car that weighs in at a reasonable number is Lotus. And even the new Evora, nice as it is, is a little on the heavy side.
If your Mercedes didn't have a catalyst it was spewing crap in the air for no good reason at all. Put a car in a garage with the door open and run the engine for a while. With a catalyst it's no big deal. Without, you'll last about ten minutes before you shut her down or run screaming from the garage.
Besides WTF are you talking about - "Most engines are 'managed' because the engineers who designed them were idiots?" Your Mercedes has EFI - that's management and emissions controls. Modern management systems are just more sophisticated versions of the same thing. Since it's cars we're talking about, let me use a disk drive analogy instead. Your Mercedes' gen 1 EFI is like an old IBM disk drive: it read and wrote to the media, but if there were any defects your data was toast, AND it only held 10 megabytes or thereabouts. Modern disks are constantly doing error correction, they hold tons of data and are faster than hell. All because of "management." Hello? Stick to code ace - you're pretty fuzzy on cars!
Bullshit. Modern catalysts do not add any back pressure, and therefore reduce nothing except really nasty pollutants.
Not saying that the corporate sleezeduggary didn't happen, just saying that a good quality catalyst on a well managed engine is a wonderful thing. Not having one on your (electronically fuel injected) car is like walking around taking a shit whereever you happend to be standing instead of finding a toilet - rude as hell.
I agree. Let's all secede. I meant it! Let's all fucking secede. The United States Federal Government is a cancer on the body politic. We, the people of the 50 states and assorted territories, need to take some chemo, kill the tumor, and move on.
I am not kidding. If some of the smaller states want to form their own unions, that would be OK, I suppose, but the big union has got to go!
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"Random" is accurate. "Thoughts" less so. People are not in an outrage over "doctors" pay - they are in an outrage over the parasitic insurance companies' profiteering. Tort reform is not the "biggest money issue". You trumpet "negative public opinion", but then when you express *your* opinions they don't make any sense.
What's even sadder than the fact that you are obviously of above average intelligence and education, yet still a dolt, is that this bill does fuck all to actually improve the quality of life in the US for "the people." The reason it does fuck all to improve the quality of life is precisely because of hordes of nearly mindless parrots such as yourself. You completely fail to perform any sort of rational analysis of the real issues of health care. You and your ilk are the blight, not "lawyers".
I will give you this much: the one and only change I would make to the legal profession is simply this: no one who ever takes and passes a bar exam, should ever be permitted to serve as an elected member of any legislative body.
Cellular senescence also happens in the brain. If we can end senescence as well as cure cancer, we stand a chance of ending up as emotionally mature people with good bodies *and* good minds. Sounds like utopia to me. www.sierrasciences.com
My friend, please read my sig. There is something much, much better than Libertarianism and the "two" party system.
No, it sounds like a direct way of saying that it might be profitable to mine if you weren't required to "clean up" a bunch of stuff that was already there. I think the truth is somewhere in the middle: mining to extract valuable minerals from ore that also contains toxic stuff will necessarily produce concentrated toxins as well as concentrated value. So the rational answer is to engineer a way to cheaply return the toxins to the (already toxic, hello?) ground in such a way that they will only increase the toxicity of a limited area - then put a fence around that area along with signs that say, "Keep Out!" Then curious dumbfucks will go in there and die. Win-Win!!
Don't forget to take a picture right after you get the front panel off. Really helps later when you're trying to remember which wire goes where.
Putting aside the question of the legitimacy of targeting US citizens, we all understand why the members of the Taliban are legitmate targets, right? I mean look, they nearly eradicated the heroin trade in Afganistan. NOBODY FUCKS WITH THE BUSINESS! Bada bing!
No, it's not a bit like saying anything like what you said about murder. Your "thinking" is bizarre. The "problem" of Mexican drugs is only a "problem" because of the United States' immoral laws prohibiting the sales and use of certain psycho-active substances. Please attempt to shed your programming, and start to think for yourself! Are you a slave or a free human being? What's that? A free human being, you say? How can I tell?
That is why my system uses ULTRA HUGE weights. On cables. On pulleys. You know, like those weights that power clocks grandfather clocks. Only MUCH BIGGER.
So how is that dangerous? I mean, sure, you don't want to be standing underneath it when a cable gives way, smoosh, but other than that, what's the catastrophe issue with BIG WEIGHTS? Hell, if the tower and its foundation that are the infrastructure for the Big Weight Energy Storage System are built right, even if a cable gives way, the slider catches will catch the BIG WEIGHT and no harm done even if you are underneath. AND I bet the BIG WEIGHT system is over 95% efficient, without cheating and pumping in extra heat as they do in Albama with those giant pipe bombs.
You are close to my best invention ever, but you missed the bus. (har har). The point is this: why were trains invented? Because they are more efficient. Why? Because the first car in the train breaks the wind for all the others. (don't say it!)
So, the point is this: when you operate carriages in a vacuum or near vacuum, THERE IS NO WIND TO BREAK! You don't need "trains". All you need are individual carriages. This one point is the tipper: A traveler would be able to go to a station, order up a carriage of the right size for the number of people and amount of luggage in his party, specify the destination, and then leave forthwith! No schedules. Just go. Just like driving only at 10 times or more the rate of travel. We should so be doing this!!!!!
No, No, No, we need to spend billions on democracy building in Iraq. My bad.
Remember: Randy Fucking Lee said it first!!
Uh, no. A person on dial up does not need windows updates. (For that matter neither does anyone else as long at they are behind one layer of NAT.) Run XP SP 2 along with your generously provided AV updates, and they will be fine. On XP32, all the updates after SP2 are there to slow the computer down so Vista/7 doesn't look so pokey.
You are very much on the right track. Please read my sig...
>>The major disadvantage of the server approach is bandwidth
So what you are saying is that the game companies should all be busy buying every last politician and instructing them to have the taxpayers pay for nationwide fiber to the door.
Only deeper pockets don't want that. Too bad for the game cos. To bad for us, as I think it would be a good investment of taxpayer money. Put those god-damned, vampire zombie cell phone companies out of business for one thing.
How's that? Well, as long as you, the taxpayers, are running fiber to every door, you might as well put an unlocked wifi portal at the end of every fiber. And every hundred feet or so along the way.
The sad part is that Microsoft does have the best desktop and local server tecnology *right now*. (Sorry Linux fans, but it's true, even with the still borne disater of Vista and the retarded little brother, 7.) But their culture is so stagnent that anyone inside that sees this and attempts to build on that strength is suppressed. "He would make *me* look bad..."
So now in desparation to show some kind, any kind of productive movement, they are going to go play in Google's yard. They are going to bump into the wasp nest, trample the garden, get splashed when the sprinklers come on, and then fall down the old well hole.
Pity when all they had to do was fix all the broken stuff on the really cool tree fort in their own back yard.
Don't worry, we're working on it -> sierra sciences dot com
Yes, very well reasoned except that last part about the "abusive relationship for the end user". Youngster, before we had the web, we drove a hundred miles to get the new *Company* catalog, and we liked it! I'm not being funny - I mean it, we really liked it, because without the catalog we were bored shitless. Now, and pay close attention here, even after we had the catalog, we were still screwed. Why? Because after we bought something from the catalog, oh, usually about 6 months or so, we would stumble over some new, (to us), piece of information and realize that we had paid way more than we needed to for the same or, functionally the same, stuff. Of course the functionally of stuff was always in question too, so it was down to the library for an afternoon to try to learn the answer to one question. Christ what a fucking nightmare life was before the web. Why do you think people used to go to church? Even that nasty shit was better than nothing to do at all.
I am not saying that the "end user" is treated like a king, but I sure feel more kingly, comparing the prices for an item from 40 vendors in 30 seconds, after taking 10 minutes or so to scan the reviews and determine the best functioning of 5 or 6 comparable items, than I ever did back in the good old days. (In this area of life - the current fascist prison planet situation is something else - a really nasty scary something else, but that's a gab for another day.)
Double Bullshit. The police have only themselves to blame for how hard their jobs are to do. They are the one special interest group who could swing a big hammer at the legislature over all the ridiculous laws, but they haven't and they won't. They are mostly the bullies who are just sane enough to see how to get away with it. The TV show about the serial murderer cop was much truer than you realize.
What is a BA? I guess it must be a [something] Analyst, yes? Well, to amplify rdavidson's comment, the one time I worked for a software company as a QA, there were no specs, to speak of, and there were no BAs or any other sort of As at all! Not one person in that multi-national software firm had the title of Analyst. I'm serious. So, it was a little hard to complain to the developers about their crappy dialogs without a meaningful spec. I would do so anyway, and sometimes they got better. Often they didn't. Not one of the other QAs made a peep. So, when I finally got my promotion, it was to the Testing Automation Team - the first unit to get axed when there's a downturn. You know the rest of the story.
It says >> Abstain from alcoholic beverages, tobacco, tea, coffee, and *substance abuse*
So you can't have a cup of coffee, (evah!), but as long as you only hit the crack pipe every once in a while, that's not abuse, so it's OK.
If I was publishing a game, I would give the fucker away: a free download. Play away! BUT, if you want to participate in the really cool group activities and higher end graphics and physics, in game features like saves, well, you gotta sign up for access to the online servers. That is charged by the hour. Not a lot per hour. Just enough. Has anyone tried this model?
>> No, they are very high compresssion...
All a catalyst does in take your Mercedes' relatively clean exhaust and make it much cleaner. Modern catalysts do not restrict flow, so, why not use one? What's wrong with cleaner exhaust?
Correct me if I am wrong, but your attitude seems to be based upon the outdated notion that the catalyst will restrict flow.
>>Modern management systems are constantly adjusting a plethora of control subsystems...
Yes, and, (other than throttle opening), what's wrong with that? None of the engines you mention achieve anything like the performance of, say, the Honda S2000 engine or the Ferrari V8. And, obviously, it is because those engines combine fine design with intelligently managed systems. If you want to bitch about new cars, leave the engines out of it - instead bitch about their readings on the scales! The only company who makes a modern car that weighs in at a reasonable number is Lotus. And even the new Evora, nice as it is, is a little on the heavy side.
I hear stories of people removing the bezels from their monitors, but I have not found a site with instructions and pictures. Has anyone found one?
If your Mercedes didn't have a catalyst it was spewing crap in the air for no good reason at all. Put a car in a garage with the door open and run the engine for a while. With a catalyst it's no big deal. Without, you'll last about ten minutes before you shut her down or run screaming from the garage.
Besides WTF are you talking about - "Most engines are 'managed' because the engineers who designed them were idiots?" Your Mercedes has EFI - that's management and emissions controls. Modern management systems are just more sophisticated versions of the same thing. Since it's cars we're talking about, let me use a disk drive analogy instead. Your Mercedes' gen 1 EFI is like an old IBM disk drive: it read and wrote to the media, but if there were any defects your data was toast, AND it only held 10 megabytes or thereabouts. Modern disks are constantly doing error correction, they hold tons of data and are faster than hell. All because of "management." Hello? Stick to code ace - you're pretty fuzzy on cars!
Bullshit. Modern catalysts do not add any back pressure, and therefore reduce nothing except really nasty pollutants.
Not saying that the corporate sleezeduggary didn't happen, just saying that a good quality catalyst on a well managed engine is a wonderful thing. Not having one on your (electronically fuel injected) car is like walking around taking a shit whereever you happend to be standing instead of finding a toilet - rude as hell.
There is in fact a third alternative. Please read my sig.
I agree. Let's all secede. I meant it! Let's all fucking secede. The United States Federal Government is a cancer on the body politic. We, the people of the 50 states and assorted territories, need to take some chemo, kill the tumor, and move on.
I am not kidding. If some of the smaller states want to form their own unions, that would be OK, I suppose, but the big union has got to go!