1. vitriolic hatred is pretty much all of the tea party consists of,
Incorrect. It's frustration, not hatred. Frustration is the fruits of tolerance being pushed past its limits. Hatred is the fruit of intolerance. Democrats show hatred toward the tea party. The tea party shows frustration toward the Republicans and the Democrats. Republicans just haven't caught on to that yet.
2. sound fiscal responsibility is finally what this health reform delivers,
Trying to equate what they passed off as "health reform" with fiscal responsibility is like dividing by zero. It's not possible with even the most brainwashed imagination. Look at the current deficit and tell me congress knows what fiscal responsibility is even supposed to mean. Fiscal responsibility is not the responsibility to tax away problems, or force citizens to purchase healthcare.
and free market principles do not answer every question in life (as the 2008 meltdown demonstrates: you need strong government regulation to keep the markets healthy)
You need MINIMAL government regulation to keep the markets healthy, not STRONG government regulation. "Business-like practices" should be enforced, but it is rarely in the government's interest to regulate their biggest contributors. It is always in their interest to pick on their non-contributors and rivals to their contributors, however.
Please accept my apologies for impugning the memory of the racist thugs who stole an entire continent from its rightful owners.
According to the traditions of human beings (especially the traditions of Native Americans): If you conquer it, you ARE the rightful owner. Take a history course NOT taught by a rabid "Your country sucks and I'm the only one to teach that!" evangelist, for once. Until 100 years ago, wars were fought for keepsies. Educate yourself on history to the point where you can exhibit a shred of empathy, rather than this 1-dimensional, self-righteous indignation. Then, perhaps, you can comment on the state and affairs of things that happened before you were born, and be taken seriously.
But to spite copyright holders, you ignore 200 years of the term's legal history. Read the article Here which contains interesting tidbits such as:
The practice of piracy originally had a positive (even proud) reputation. During the 10th and 9th centuries B.C. in Greece, small groups routinely engaged in the organized use of force; this was an activity seen merely as part of citizens' struggle for survival rather than anything immoral or illegal. Those who engaged in piracy seized essential goods, but the practice was not limited to necessities, since pirates also seized goods merely for gain. Whether for need or sport, piracy served as a wholly legitimate alternative to Greece's main gift-exchange economic transfer system. In this way, piracy was an original underground economy.
Then later moves on to the more IP-related piracy claims, such as:
Henry Campbell Black wrote in 1898, the term "piracy" "is also applied to the illicit reprinting or reproduction of a copyrighted book or print or to unlawful plagiarism from it." This definition is consistent with the 1798 case Beckford v. Hood, one of American law's first case citations that invoked "piracy" as a proxy for unauthorized copying. In Beckford, the court characterized the case's primary issue (an unauthorized commercial republication of a book) as "an action upon the case for piracy of copyright."
Refusing to use the term in a proper context is not the answer. Re-establishing the weight of the context will be a much more successful approach.
That talks about the cost of malpractice INSURANCE. The cost of AVOIDING malpractice is the problem.
To avoid being sued, doctors view patients with two sets of eyes. One set is the caring, compassionate, medical professional. The other set is a defensive strategist, looking at an individual who tomorrow may call a lawyer to sue. And, to be fair, sometimes doctors make avoidable, even negligent mistakes and injured patients are entitled to be compensated for their losses, and perhaps for some pain and suffering.
The defensive strategist dominates medical practice today. Doctors use excessive tests and other procedures to avoid lawsuits, and stay out of certain areas of medicine--most notably obstetrics. The net result is higher costs for medical care.
-Diana Furchtgott-Roth, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor
If you could be sued for 5 times your annual salary for every program you send out that had a bug, or COULD HAVE BEEN DONE BETTER code-wise, and you are expected to write 4-8 programs a day (each taking 30 minutes to 3 hours to write) would you start charging more for your services? Would you write simpler programs that you know are guaranteed to work and can arguably satisfy the customer instead of tailoring each program to be exactly what the user wants or needs? Your quality of life would deteriorate, your quality of work would deteriorate, and the cost of being one of your customers would rise -- because they're not just getting what they asked for, they're getting what they MIGHT have asked for, just so you don't end up getting sued because it COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER.
Because it would only save a few billion dollars, and when someone is working with a multi-trillion dollar issue, it doesn't really matter?
Yes. Considering what I have to give up to send the government those billions of dollars they simply want run over with a lawnmower, because they find it convenient.
muddying up the waters with malpractice reform would harm the goal of getting every American insured.
No it certainly wouldn't. It would practically solve it. Malpractice is one enormous CAUSE of the high price of healthcare in the US. The other is patented medical technology. (A hospital can't use a ROCK as a paperweight unless it pays the guy $6,000 who thought of using a COMMON, SMOOTH RIVER ROCK in a hospital.) Both are litigation-based and have expanded 2000% past their usefulness.
Obama can't fix that, because he's a lawyer, and doing so would be treason to the bar.
Saw Stop claims to have sold 20,000 units with their proprietary brake technology, and to have saved 700 fingers. That is an insane injury rate, and if correct, shows how inherently dangerous table saws really are.
Yeah, but 680 of those fingers were probably pinkies... which are like the lizard's tail of the human body.
They see it FIRST HAND but that doesn't mean they need to see OTHER PEOPLE doing it on television. Your comment is the absurd one, because you seem to think that society needs to abolish decency. You'd prefer if people crapped in the streets, pissed on the carpets, screwed on the lunchtables. You want us to revert back to animals -- no shame, no mystique, no secrets. It's because you are either morally depraved or playing the devil's advocate to the same civilization that produced your current, comfortable way of life.
Your argument is a sexually-frustrated one. It's ignorant, masturbatory, and psychologically delusional. You need to put down the porn and go outside for a while. Skanks are NOT good rolemodels. Sluts are NOT ideal women. Whores are NOT respected where you live.
Every person above the age of child has very valid experience on "what kids are like and what their needs are".
Ignorance is bad, but universal. Arrogant ignorance is inexcusable. Simply because you lived through childhood does not mean you understand what it's like to RAISE a child. It's equivalent to saying you are qualified to be a surgeon because you had your tonsils taken out by a surgeon.
Meanwhile, at Google, several workers are standing around the search logs from Viacom's business IP address, giggling:
IP laywers in Hollwyood
youtube viacom
youtube cartoon network
youtube comedy central
youtube venture brothers
youtube venture brothers porn
venture brother porn
venture brothers dean naked
what state do judges hate youtube most
penis enlargers
are there any judges who hate youtube
judge who worked at viacom
youtube venutre brothers
Violence and gore are also natural. So is pissing and shitting. Should we show THAT on Sesame Street? I have a better idea: let's not have the morally-deprived dictate what is good to the rest of society.
To me, that link looks like he was simply defending himself and his views from a broad, unbased, insulting generalization, and then being marked -1 Troll for it -- which lends enormous irony to the rest of your +4 flamebait post.
Letting kids make their own decisions about things that don't matter is important. Letting them make their own decisions about sex, drugs, violence, and education is an idiotic philosophy. It is the parent's job to indoctrinate them on such topics, because letting them "go with the flow" on these things will lead to a wasted life. It's the "hands-off, yet instructive" parenting that leads to entire societies of single moms -- which (despite what the sexually-frustrated nihilists of slashdot believe) is problematic for everyone. When your kid is old enough to make important decisions, you let them make decisions that matter, but until then, you tell them how they will be making their decisions. In some cases, you let them make the decision, they make the wrong one, and then you quickly revoke their decision-making allowance in the face that they are still not mature enough to decide important things for themselves -- even though it's usually so much easier to say "yes" than "no"
You need to be stupid as a teenager to be wise as an adult and learn from things.
That is a widespread, incorrect assumption. You will learn more by NOT doing dumb things. The only positive you get from being stupid is the ability to sympathize with others who are in the middle of doing stupid things.
You presume that you will always make better choices than your children will? Interesting...
You are NOT a parent, I see. Well, keep telling other people how to raise theirs! You seem to know what kids are like and what their needs are better than the people who spend 24 hours a day around them! Don't let practice get in the way of your theoretical revolution.
that article even says that the combination of Earth's mass and magnetosphere keep particles from flying away -- except at the poles where they can get knocked away by solar winds. Atmospheric escape is a problem for celestial bodies that aren't Earth.
That sounds like a round about way of saying that it would be profitable to mine if you were allowed to leave your tailings, and the waste from the refining processes in big piles on the ground.
One man's trash is another man's treasure. The government has to chase people off with shotguns to keep them away from beryllium mines' tailings. The fact that GP brings up that all this stuff is classified as "Toxic waste" means that it is unprofitable to use the entire buffalo on a corporate level. If you want to mine rare earth metals, there WILL be companies who will purchase your tailings from you for what cheaper metals they can tear out of them, but then what do they do with it? They can't sell it back to the mine they purchased it from. They can't store it anywhere, because it's "toxic waste" when it could just be chalk matrix that could safely be dumped next to the nearest mountain -- except it might squish a scorpion or two. So this secondary market becomes unprofitable/overregulated and therefore nonexistent.
Crikey! We found a live bull atheist in the wild! You can tell it's still mating season for this big bloke because of the sheer amount of frustration in his post! He's likely not found a female atheist in heat yet, so he blames religion for all of the world's problems! Little does he know that religion is the foundation of the very values he cherishes, like the sanctity of life!
When he moves his paws on a keyboard like that, it means he wants to take away peoples' rights to religion by excessive force! Atheists are famous for doing that in the wild... but none of them even admit it in captivity! Fascinating. Well, we'll let this little bugger be, because if his buddies catch our scent, they turn into trolls, and that will really muck things up not only for us, but for the environment.
I think even the most coldhearted persons must admit that your genetic makeup is something you cannot influence and which a caring society should insure you from. I don't see much of a problem there, especially since you can point at everyone and ask them with a sharp eye: "Are you sure you don't carry some expensive genetic screwup which can only be fixed by a $250,000 individual cure?"
Tell that to someone with Turner's syndrome when they're trying to get insurance.
If you're having trouble finding an IT position that pays less than $120/hr, then I need to move to wherever the hell you're living. I thought wages in CA were high, but apparently you live in a place where IT smokes cigars made out of rolled hundred dollar bills!
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1. vitriolic hatred is pretty much all of the tea party consists of,
Incorrect. It's frustration, not hatred. Frustration is the fruits of tolerance being pushed past its limits. Hatred is the fruit of intolerance. Democrats show hatred toward the tea party. The tea party shows frustration toward the Republicans and the Democrats. Republicans just haven't caught on to that yet.
2. sound fiscal responsibility is finally what this health reform delivers,
Trying to equate what they passed off as "health reform" with fiscal responsibility is like dividing by zero. It's not possible with even the most brainwashed imagination. Look at the current deficit and tell me congress knows what fiscal responsibility is even supposed to mean. Fiscal responsibility is not the responsibility to tax away problems, or force citizens to purchase healthcare.
and free market principles do not answer every question in life (as the 2008 meltdown demonstrates: you need strong government regulation to keep the markets healthy)
You need MINIMAL government regulation to keep the markets healthy, not STRONG government regulation. "Business-like practices" should be enforced, but it is rarely in the government's interest to regulate their biggest contributors. It is always in their interest to pick on their non-contributors and rivals to their contributors, however.
Please accept my apologies for impugning the memory of the racist thugs who stole an entire continent from its rightful owners.
According to the traditions of human beings (especially the traditions of Native Americans): If you conquer it, you ARE the rightful owner. Take a history course NOT taught by a rabid "Your country sucks and I'm the only one to teach that!" evangelist, for once. Until 100 years ago, wars were fought for keepsies. Educate yourself on history to the point where you can exhibit a shred of empathy, rather than this 1-dimensional, self-righteous indignation. Then, perhaps, you can comment on the state and affairs of things that happened before you were born, and be taken seriously.
According to most Web2.0 internet users, ANYTHING that requires thought for input would be considered "useless, slow, and impractial" :)
The practice of piracy originally had a positive (even proud) reputation. During the 10th and 9th centuries B.C. in Greece, small groups routinely engaged in the organized use of force; this was an activity seen merely as part of citizens' struggle for survival rather than anything immoral or illegal. Those who engaged in piracy seized essential goods, but the practice was not limited to necessities, since pirates also seized goods merely for gain. Whether for need or sport, piracy served as a wholly legitimate alternative to Greece's main gift-exchange economic transfer system. In this way, piracy was an original underground economy.
Then later moves on to the more IP-related piracy claims, such as:
Henry Campbell Black wrote in 1898, the term "piracy" "is also applied to the illicit reprinting or reproduction of a copyrighted book or print or to unlawful plagiarism from it." This definition is consistent with the 1798 case Beckford v. Hood, one of American law's first case citations that invoked "piracy" as a proxy for unauthorized copying. In Beckford, the court characterized the case's primary issue (an unauthorized commercial republication of a book) as "an action upon the case for piracy of copyright."
Refusing to use the term in a proper context is not the answer. Re-establishing the weight of the context will be a much more successful approach.
To avoid being sued, doctors view patients with two sets of eyes. One set is the caring, compassionate, medical professional. The other set is a defensive strategist, looking at an individual who tomorrow may call a lawyer to sue. And, to be fair, sometimes doctors make avoidable, even negligent mistakes and injured patients are entitled to be compensated for their losses, and perhaps for some pain and suffering.
The defensive strategist dominates medical practice today. Doctors use excessive tests and other procedures to avoid lawsuits, and stay out of certain areas of medicine--most notably obstetrics. The net result is higher costs for medical care.
-Diana Furchtgott-Roth, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor
If you could be sued for 5 times your annual salary for every program you send out that had a bug, or COULD HAVE BEEN DONE BETTER code-wise, and you are expected to write 4-8 programs a day (each taking 30 minutes to 3 hours to write) would you start charging more for your services? Would you write simpler programs that you know are guaranteed to work and can arguably satisfy the customer instead of tailoring each program to be exactly what the user wants or needs? Your quality of life would deteriorate, your quality of work would deteriorate, and the cost of being one of your customers would rise -- because they're not just getting what they asked for, they're getting what they MIGHT have asked for, just so you don't end up getting sued because it COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER.
Nowadays, words have more than one meaning. If you think that's bad, you should probably avoid the topic of "Abbreviations" altogether.
Because it would only save a few billion dollars, and when someone is working with a multi-trillion dollar issue, it doesn't really matter?
Yes. Considering what I have to give up to send the government those billions of dollars they simply want run over with a lawnmower, because they find it convenient.
muddying up the waters with malpractice reform would harm the goal of getting every American insured.
No it certainly wouldn't. It would practically solve it. Malpractice is one enormous CAUSE of the high price of healthcare in the US. The other is patented medical technology. (A hospital can't use a ROCK as a paperweight unless it pays the guy $6,000 who thought of using a COMMON, SMOOTH RIVER ROCK in a hospital.) Both are litigation-based and have expanded 2000% past their usefulness.
Obama can't fix that, because he's a lawyer, and doing so would be treason to the bar.
Saw Stop claims to have sold 20,000 units with their proprietary brake technology, and to have saved 700 fingers. That is an insane injury rate, and if correct, shows how inherently dangerous table saws really are.
Yeah, but 680 of those fingers were probably pinkies... which are like the lizard's tail of the human body.
They see it FIRST HAND but that doesn't mean they need to see OTHER PEOPLE doing it on television. Your comment is the absurd one, because you seem to think that society needs to abolish decency. You'd prefer if people crapped in the streets, pissed on the carpets, screwed on the lunchtables. You want us to revert back to animals -- no shame, no mystique, no secrets. It's because you are either morally depraved or playing the devil's advocate to the same civilization that produced your current, comfortable way of life.
Your argument is a sexually-frustrated one. It's ignorant, masturbatory, and psychologically delusional. You need to put down the porn and go outside for a while. Skanks are NOT good rolemodels. Sluts are NOT ideal women. Whores are NOT respected where you live.
Every person above the age of child has very valid experience on "what kids are like and what their needs are".
Ignorance is bad, but universal. Arrogant ignorance is inexcusable. Simply because you lived through childhood does not mean you understand what it's like to RAISE a child. It's equivalent to saying you are qualified to be a surgeon because you had your tonsils taken out by a surgeon.
Meanwhile, at Google, several workers are standing around the search logs from Viacom's business IP address, giggling:
IP laywers in Hollwyood
youtube viacom
youtube cartoon network
youtube comedy central
youtube venture brothers
youtube venture brothers porn
venture brother porn
venture brothers dean naked
what state do judges hate youtube most
penis enlargers
are there any judges who hate youtube
judge who worked at viacom
youtube venutre brothers
Violence and gore are also natural. So is pissing and shitting. Should we show THAT on Sesame Street? I have a better idea: let's not have the morally-deprived dictate what is good to the rest of society.
Why do you hate atheists, pudge?
To me, that link looks like he was simply defending himself and his views from a broad, unbased, insulting generalization, and then being marked -1 Troll for it -- which lends enormous irony to the rest of your +4 flamebait post.
Letting kids make their own decisions about things that don't matter is important. Letting them make their own decisions about sex, drugs, violence, and education is an idiotic philosophy. It is the parent's job to indoctrinate them on such topics, because letting them "go with the flow" on these things will lead to a wasted life. It's the "hands-off, yet instructive" parenting that leads to entire societies of single moms -- which (despite what the sexually-frustrated nihilists of slashdot believe) is problematic for everyone. When your kid is old enough to make important decisions, you let them make decisions that matter, but until then, you tell them how they will be making their decisions. In some cases, you let them make the decision, they make the wrong one, and then you quickly revoke their decision-making allowance in the face that they are still not mature enough to decide important things for themselves -- even though it's usually so much easier to say "yes" than "no"
You need to be stupid as a teenager to be wise as an adult and learn from things.
That is a widespread, incorrect assumption. You will learn more by NOT doing dumb things. The only positive you get from being stupid is the ability to sympathize with others who are in the middle of doing stupid things.
You presume that you will always make better choices than your children will? Interesting...
You are NOT a parent, I see. Well, keep telling other people how to raise theirs! You seem to know what kids are like and what their needs are better than the people who spend 24 hours a day around them! Don't let practice get in the way of your theoretical revolution.
I hear there will be no songs, but there is a very long ticklefight between Thorim and Bilbo that wasn't in the book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_escape
that article even says that the combination of Earth's mass and magnetosphere keep particles from flying away -- except at the poles where they can get knocked away by solar winds. Atmospheric escape is a problem for celestial bodies that aren't Earth.
the hydrogen will simply fly off into space, too light to be held by the Earth's gravity
That's not how gravity works...
After all, if you are a purist, and we go the way of the dinosuar, that it is as it should be
Evolutiontologists believe that dinosaurs did not die. They all grew wings and became birds when they saw the meteor coming.
Humans are, by the standards of mostly bipedal hunter/gatherer savannah dwelling apes
I think you should speak for yourself!
That sounds like a round about way of saying that it would be profitable to mine if you were allowed to leave your tailings, and the waste from the refining processes in big piles on the ground.
One man's trash is another man's treasure. The government has to chase people off with shotguns to keep them away from beryllium mines' tailings. The fact that GP brings up that all this stuff is classified as "Toxic waste" means that it is unprofitable to use the entire buffalo on a corporate level. If you want to mine rare earth metals, there WILL be companies who will purchase your tailings from you for what cheaper metals they can tear out of them, but then what do they do with it? They can't sell it back to the mine they purchased it from. They can't store it anywhere, because it's "toxic waste" when it could just be chalk matrix that could safely be dumped next to the nearest mountain -- except it might squish a scorpion or two. So this secondary market becomes unprofitable/overregulated and therefore nonexistent.
Crikey! We found a live bull atheist in the wild! You can tell it's still mating season for this big bloke because of the sheer amount of frustration in his post! He's likely not found a female atheist in heat yet, so he blames religion for all of the world's problems! Little does he know that religion is the foundation of the very values he cherishes, like the sanctity of life!
When he moves his paws on a keyboard like that, it means he wants to take away peoples' rights to religion by excessive force! Atheists are famous for doing that in the wild... but none of them even admit it in captivity! Fascinating. Well, we'll let this little bugger be, because if his buddies catch our scent, they turn into trolls, and that will really muck things up not only for us, but for the environment.
I think even the most coldhearted persons must admit that your genetic makeup is something you cannot influence and which a caring society should insure you from. I don't see much of a problem there, especially since you can point at everyone and ask them with a sharp eye: "Are you sure you don't carry some expensive genetic screwup which can only be fixed by a $250,000 individual cure?"
Tell that to someone with Turner's syndrome when they're trying to get insurance.
If you're having trouble finding an IT position that pays less than $120/hr, then I need to move to wherever the hell you're living. I thought wages in CA were high, but apparently you live in a place where IT smokes cigars made out of rolled hundred dollar bills!