You draw one conclusion where I seem to draw a nearly opposite one. Perhaps desensitization to it will make it less likely to cause violent outbursts due to the fact that if you are in a situation that someone not desensitized would lose control and possible have a minor stent of temporary insanity. Where as someone who has been desensitized to it wont care and things would be less likely to escalate.
You're barking at the wrong person with this issue. I was in a motorcycle accident that made me drop out of college. I chose not to have insurance at the time. I was lucky in that the person who hit me had just enough money to cover the expense of the two initial surgeries.
I could have spent that time watching TV and on pain pills but I took the time to read computer books and learn what I could on the computer I had.
6 months after the second surgery I developed an infection that required more surgery. I did everything I could, with an open sour that drained infection and had to have bandages replaced every 12 hours to get a good job where I could get insurance, 5 years of that before I was able to get real insurance again.
It was my choice to have to go through that. I was offered help through the state, both AZ ACCESS program and the VA but turned them down. I don't think of this as a failure of the medical system, it was my choice to roll the dice. I lost and had to pay dearly for it.
What did I get out of it? A job paying almost double what my college degree was promising me right about the same time I was going to graduate anyway, and couple of pretty heft scars.
When I was unemployed I got health insurance at $123 a month. Not the best coverage but it would take care of most any emergency situation costing over $1900. If you're unemployed for 6 moths and can't afford that then get off your ass and flip burgers, deliver pizzas or get a freaking paper route. it is your choice not to have insurance. Can't afford it is the same as saying I'd rather have cable TV and Internet than health insurance (my bill of which is $130 a month.)
I don't understand why it ok if a poor person needs an expensive medical procedure they take the money from a rich person at gun point and threat of kidnapping and detainment (ie taxes, military, arrest and jail)
Nope a bunch of scientists will find a way to siphon money out of the government by created a "Theory of Global Cooling." Although over the 100 years of data it has only dropped by an average of.6 degrees.
...the thing is cost isn't the deciding factor before treatment is given, the patient doesn't see the bill so they aren't going to have to chose between their house and their health.
That's funny, neither do USians that chose to buy health insurance. If you choose not to buy health insurance that is "your" choice. I believe in freedom of choice unlike most of the people that use that tag line.
I think it is more incremental due to the quick release cycle of Firefox.
To construct my own strawman: If you do a small change every day for a year it wont be very disruptive, but if you release 365 changes on Dec. 31st that will be rather disruptive.
Mr. John Doe, Our scans reveal you have a mutant ability similar to what you might read about in comic books. You can burst into FLAME!!! Only problem seems to be that your organic flesh will then be consumed by that flame and you will die. We here at DNA Scan(TM) suggest you don't try to use this power.
I guess in the US you could add the cost of the procedure, but in the rest of the developed world that isn't an issue.
Yea cause in the rest of the world Doctors and hospitals and all the workers involved work pro bono on everything. Damn those US Health care personal demanding they get paid.
Or did you mean that places out side the US don't give you a choice and take your health care money from you by threat of jail time or worse and provide nice waiting lines and poor care.
This is something I used to joke about when google was first emerging as the best browser. I would say "Google is so good if you wanted to buy a new Chevrolet you could type car into the search and it would give you a list of Chevrolets. If you wanted to buy a new Ford you could type car into the search and it would give you a list of Fords." This may very well produce that level of "knowning you" (hah i love scare quotes)
And on this specific issue, I think he is correct. For example, if your ISP is spying on you, and you don't want that, you would be able to take appropriate action: change ISP's, use encryption, use Tor, etc.
Yea, or if you take a certain street home and get dry anally gang raped then you have the power to go down another street.
The idea of making it illegal for them to spy on you is to insure that there are consequences other than just losing a customer or two that both find out and care.
Democrats: Unconstrained spending growth, reduced revenues, and borrow from the kids and the foreigners. Republicans: Unconstrained spending growth, reduced revenues, and borrow from the kids and the foreigners.
History has time and again shown us this to be true. Look at all the government projects that projected a price and came in under budget due to advances in technology. A quick Google search for "Government projects under budget" produces over 22 million hits.
you seem to be saying you and your as if you were talking about me. As someone that runs 5-10 miles a week and is still about 60-70lbs over weight I have to say that what you're saying about me is completely wrong.
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Wouldn't they get baned for running a bot if it played any games?
Well perhaps in a decade or so they'll invent a 3 legged robot that can recover it's balance when kicked.
it's called progress. duh.
no no you got it wrong.
If watching violent content makes you a violent person,
does watching spiders make you a spider person?
I for one welcome our new eight legged Beowulf Portman goatse first post
You draw one conclusion where I seem to draw a nearly opposite one. Perhaps desensitization to it will make it less likely to cause violent outbursts due to the fact that if you are in a situation that someone not desensitized would lose control and possible have a minor stent of temporary insanity. Where as someone who has been desensitized to it wont care and things would be less likely to escalate.
...with only $200 to spend on a laptop with solid state storage.
I take offense to that, I am not a Warlock.
Nope, it's where you bust out your pile of books and bag of dice.
You're barking at the wrong person with this issue. I was in a motorcycle accident that made me drop out of college. I chose not to have insurance at the time. I was lucky in that the person who hit me had just enough money to cover the expense of the two initial surgeries.
I could have spent that time watching TV and on pain pills but I took the time to read computer books and learn what I could on the computer I had.
6 months after the second surgery I developed an infection that required more surgery. I did everything I could, with an open sour that drained infection and had to have bandages replaced every 12 hours to get a good job where I could get insurance, 5 years of that before I was able to get real insurance again.
It was my choice to have to go through that. I was offered help through the state, both AZ ACCESS program and the VA but turned them down. I don't think of this as a failure of the medical system, it was my choice to roll the dice. I lost and had to pay dearly for it.
What did I get out of it? A job paying almost double what my college degree was promising me right about the same time I was going to graduate anyway, and couple of pretty heft scars.
do they have Typewriters? Would a chimp be a monkey upgrade? Big Iron Shakespeare?
When I was unemployed I got health insurance at $123 a month. Not the best coverage but it would take care of most any emergency situation costing over $1900. If you're unemployed for 6 moths and can't afford that then get off your ass and flip burgers, deliver pizzas or get a freaking paper route. it is your choice not to have insurance. Can't afford it is the same as saying I'd rather have cable TV and Internet than health insurance (my bill of which is $130 a month.)
I don't understand why it ok if a poor person needs an expensive medical procedure they take the money from a rich person at gun point and threat of kidnapping and detainment (ie taxes, military, arrest and jail)
Nope a bunch of scientists will find a way to siphon money out of the government by created a "Theory of Global Cooling." Although over the 100 years of data it has only dropped by an average of .6 degrees.
...the thing is cost isn't the deciding factor before treatment is given, the patient doesn't see the bill so they aren't going to have to chose between their house and their health.
That's funny, neither do USians that chose to buy health insurance. If you choose not to buy health insurance that is "your" choice. I believe in freedom of choice unlike most of the people that use that tag line.
I think it is more incremental due to the quick release cycle of Firefox.
To construct my own strawman: If you do a small change every day for a year it wont be very disruptive, but if you release 365 changes on Dec. 31st that will be rather disruptive.
Mr. John Doe, Our scans reveal you have a mutant ability similar to what you might read about in comic books. You can burst into FLAME!!! Only problem seems to be that your organic flesh will then be consumed by that flame and you will die. We here at DNA Scan(TM) suggest you don't try to use this power.
I guess in the US you could add the cost of the procedure, but in the rest of the developed world that isn't an issue.
Yea cause in the rest of the world Doctors and hospitals and all the workers involved work pro bono on everything. Damn those US Health care personal demanding they get paid.
Or did you mean that places out side the US don't give you a choice and take your health care money from you by threat of jail time or worse and provide nice waiting lines and poor care.
This is something I used to joke about when google was first emerging as the best browser. I would say "Google is so good if you wanted to buy a new Chevrolet you could type car into the search and it would give you a list of Chevrolets. If you wanted to buy a new Ford you could type car into the search and it would give you a list of Fords." This may very well produce that level of "knowning you" (hah i love scare quotes)
And on this specific issue, I think he is correct. For example, if your ISP is spying on you, and you don't want that, you would be able to take appropriate action: change ISP's, use encryption, use Tor, etc.
Yea, or if you take a certain street home and get dry anally gang raped then you have the power to go down another street.
The idea of making it illegal for them to spy on you is to insure that there are consequences other than just losing a customer or two that both find out and care.
How about the disillusionment of limited liability and hold decision makers and share holders responsible for their actions and direct investments.
You had a typo in there:
Democrats: Unconstrained spending growth, reduced revenues, and borrow from the kids and the foreigners.
Republicans: Unconstrained spending growth, reduced revenues, and borrow from the kids and the foreigners.
There, fixed it for you.
History has time and again shown us this to be true. Look at all the government projects that projected a price and came in under budget due to advances in technology. A quick Google search for "Government projects under budget" produces over 22 million hits.
you seem to be saying you and your as if you were talking about me. As someone that runs 5-10 miles a week and is still about 60-70lbs over weight I have to say that what you're saying about me is completely wrong.
Become a pimp?
--points at president of US--
And they very well could.