That's been the case for automobiles for ages - manufacturers have to maintain parts for 15 years. It's not a bad thing, honestly; it reduces waste. But manufacturers whine bc repair cuts into current sales.....
...plus electronics hacking is a reasonably entertaining way to spend one's time. I fix things where possible - it isn't always - but it's nice to avoid sending kit to the landfill.
a panther is just like a leopard except that it hasn't been peppered. if ever you see a panther crouch prepare to say ouch. if ever you are called by a panther don't anther
And, to some extent, male-female population ratios. Where there are a lot more men than women (e.g., when the ratio gets out of whack, as in some parts of the world), violence and extremism sometimes result.
I've lived in NYC (upper west side) and suburbs, and both have their merits.
In NYC, when I was there, the transportation system was far from perfect but absolutely the fastest way to travel. Taxis couldn't compete, for the most part. It represents a cash savings offset by taxation and living costs.
In the suburbs, there (more or less) isn't any public transportation, making individual motor vehicles necessary, and that's made possible by slightly lower taxation and (usually) subsidies provided by more urbanized areas. Roads do cost money....
Both are necessary.
I don't like to see either transportation system derided. Individual vehicles are necessary for the suburbs; that's the basis for the whole suburban paradigm. And I don't like to see public transit derided, either, because honestly, well-funded transit systems - like New York's used to be, or SF Muni, or the DC Metro, or the like - can make travel within an urban center a tenable proposition and (perhaps more importantly) can facilitate travel from suburbs to urban centers for commuters, thus helping to spread the higher salaries and such of urban centers across larger geographic areas....spreading prosperity, as it were.
This sets a bad precedent. If we accept a precedent that states a person's employability is contingent upon their willingness to give up bodily autonomy - e.g., bodily autonomy becomes contractable - then a whole host of other regulatory behaviors become permissible.
Drug testing any time? Check Contraception/abortion regs (either mandating or denying the right to): Check Location checks (e.g., RFID GPS tracking)? Check
I'll wear an RFID badge and use basic biometrics (fingerprint scan or retinal scan) coupled with a passcode, because I can put the badge down. But it seems excessive to be unable to let a person have time away from monitoring....private time and family time, you know?
It is already happening. There are language-aware models which can parse human speech in multiple languages, which are notoriously variable in terms of syntax etc. Once that's a fait accompli, it'll be easier to handle AI-driven development with more regularized syntactic rules. And that's not that far over the horizon now....
Much modern beer - or at any rate, most modern mass-produced beer - has a very high corn content. Hopefully corn can move north too. And hopefully the soils will be adequately fertile and the growing season adequately free of damaging temperature swings. BC if the weather keeps being weird, we'll need more acres under cultivation just to break even...
(and I'm not even a particularly avid beer-drinker).
At issue is the right of an individual to be secure in their own privacy. Doesn't matter whether they're innocent as a lamb or dangerous as a lion. The guarantee should hold.
People who ask "what do you have to hide" generally ignore the fact that quite innocent data may easily be manipulated to provide the appearance of impropriety or criminality - and that is why privacy is important. It's not because we want to protect the guilty, but because we want to protect the innocent from abuses at the hands of law enforcement or corporate entities.
The US' system may not be qualitatively better or worse, but it definitely is more expensive per unit of healthcare services than other systems. Learned that when in Sweden a few years ago - public healthcare is not inexpensive, but it is far less expensive than free-market systems.
The market may temporarily correct it, but greed always wins out in the absence of effective regulatory infrastructure.
Remember, for the record, that Adam Smith was *not* in favor of unbridled capitalism, the 'laissez-faire' that is so often touted in his name. In fact, if you read either The Wealth of Nations or The Theory of Moral Sentiments, you'll find that he laments the various bad acts done in the name of pure profit, and enjoins his readers to act well and to take such measures as may be necessary to rein in bad actors.
Read the books that you think you understand - the two Adam Smith books are a worthwhile endeavor - and you may find a broader perspective than market fundamentalism.
Exactly. As with the Internet, basic pharmacological research generally takes place at universities - often elite ones, but still universities - many of which are public. Once something looks promising in a lab, depending on the institution's patent and IP structure, the researcher(s) may be able to take the idea and indications to VCs and get funding - but that happens *after* the initial development in an environment funded by the commons.
The only way that market wrongs can be redressed is after the fact, which is often too late in healthcare situations - if a patient is in an emergent situation, working up the best deal or best pricing is simply not going to happen.
And for those people who claim that lifestyle choices should be taken into account, go to an ICU ward sometime and look at the percentage of patients who are (when well) nominally thin, healthy, working-out adults. Go ahead - I'll wait.
Since you didn't go look the answer is "most of them." If we treat medical care as a business the cost of which must be evaluated and selected by the patient, we'll have a lot more dead people, and less good care, and certainly less quality of life.
This is why regulation (e.g., prior restraint) on medicine represents a public good - by not placing individual patients in situations where they must make life-or-death decisions while under health duress, the overall quality of life across the population is improved. In the US, this is addressed - or was, with PPACA - with insurance that guaranteed certain sorts of coverage. In civilized western countries, it's addressed via national healthcare systems which focus on treatment rather than cost.
That is, alas, one of those mathematical errors which fee off the fallacy of large numbers, which was also the underlying mimetic behind the old 'Dilution is the solution to pollution' memes in the 1960s. We're not so small and insignificant as your comment implies - humanity has had an enormous effect on the planet.
According to the Weather Channel, the last cat 4 to hit the Carolinas was 1954, so it's been a bit. Damned if I care what caused it* - the main thing is that the flooding and such will hurt a lot of people. Let's get ready to help them; they're going to need it.
* I am emphatically NOT a climate skeptic, but that isn't germane when people are at risk bc of severe weather. Help the people and then work on the problem.
They did ban the catastrophic care plans which basically didn't provide actual care, but HSAs did continue to exist....I certainly have made use of them during the period that PPACA has been in operation.
Anatole France famously noted that “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
Failure to have a safety net or bottom to fall to makes the world more like India and less like a civilized society. In India, if you fall through the cracks, you're done.
In civilized Western countries - most of them European - the social safety net is a chance to recover from adversity and become productive once again.
In the US, our safety net's been shredded along with worker protections, so low-skill workers whose jobs have been offshore are not retraining and recovering, for the most part - they're so freaked out by the loss of their former hegemony that they turn to drugs and belief in political movements that promise to return their economic hegemony.
We're headed for being India, not Western Europe. That's a HUGE waste - it treats people as disposable and discards them, when they could, if trained, be working or entrepreneurial. I'd rather see enough of a safety net to enable workers to succeed - and by that I mean solid critical-thinking-based education through uni level (not the religious twaddle peddled by the evangelical Right), some economic support for displaced workers, some serious attempts at retraining, and a medical system that isn't more about corporate profit than individual health.
I do not care whether these things are provided by public or private entities as long as the focus is on benefiting the great mass of the working public more than the interests of the rentier few. I'd prefer public, as the US and the rest of the world have proven that these systems can run effectively run by public entities, but the key ingredient is laser-like focus on worker well-being.
Because when people are secure in their jobs bc they're qualified and stable and healthy, they're better workers....and they're massively entrepreneurial, too, because they have both the leisure time, the knowledge, and the economic confidence to take risks that otherwise would land 'em in the gutter.
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That's been the case for automobiles for ages - manufacturers have to maintain parts for 15 years.
It's not a bad thing, honestly; it reduces waste. But manufacturers whine bc repair cuts into current sales.....
...plus electronics hacking is a reasonably entertaining way to spend one's time. I fix things where possible - it isn't always - but it's nice to avoid sending kit to the landfill.
a panther is just like a leopard
except that it hasn't been peppered.
if ever you see a panther crouch
prepare to say ouch.
if ever you are called by a panther
don't anther
--e e cummings
And, to some extent, male-female population ratios. Where there are a lot more men than women (e.g., when the ratio gets out of whack, as in some parts of the world), violence and extremism sometimes result.
I've lived in NYC (upper west side) and suburbs, and both have their merits.
In NYC, when I was there, the transportation system was far from perfect but absolutely the fastest way to travel. Taxis couldn't compete, for the most part. It represents a cash savings offset by taxation and living costs.
In the suburbs, there (more or less) isn't any public transportation, making individual motor vehicles necessary, and that's made possible by slightly lower taxation and (usually) subsidies provided by more urbanized areas. Roads do cost money....
Both are necessary.
I don't like to see either transportation system derided. Individual vehicles are necessary for the suburbs; that's the basis for the whole suburban paradigm. And I don't like to see public transit derided, either, because honestly, well-funded transit systems - like New York's used to be, or SF Muni, or the DC Metro, or the like - can make travel within an urban center a tenable proposition and (perhaps more importantly) can facilitate travel from suburbs to urban centers for commuters, thus helping to spread the higher salaries and such of urban centers across larger geographic areas....spreading prosperity, as it were.
This sets a bad precedent.
If we accept a precedent that states a person's employability is contingent upon their willingness to give up bodily autonomy - e.g., bodily autonomy becomes contractable - then a whole host of other regulatory behaviors become permissible.
Drug testing any time? Check
Contraception/abortion regs (either mandating or denying the right to): Check
Location checks (e.g., RFID GPS tracking)? Check
I'll wear an RFID badge and use basic biometrics (fingerprint scan or retinal scan) coupled with a passcode, because I can put the badge down.
But it seems excessive to be unable to let a person have time away from monitoring....private time and family time, you know?
Toppings may be unexpected....
Fuel reduction in about 80% of the burnt areas is a federal responsibility.
Oh for mod points...
Yeah, it doesn't make sense at all. ;)
It is already happening. There are language-aware models which can parse human speech in multiple languages, which are notoriously variable in terms of syntax etc. Once that's a fait accompli, it'll be easier to handle AI-driven development with more regularized syntactic rules. And that's not that far over the horizon now....
Umm, Linux must need this because there's a complete dearth of tools for performing diagnostics on Linux and *NIX platforms.
It's heartbreaking how Linux SAs just don't have any choices of tools. Poor things.....they will welcome this new gift from our Corporate Masters! ;)
Much modern beer - or at any rate, most modern mass-produced beer - has a very high corn content. Hopefully corn can move north too. And hopefully the soils will be adequately fertile and the growing season adequately free of damaging temperature swings. BC if the weather keeps being weird, we'll need more acres under cultivation just to break even...
(and I'm not even a particularly avid beer-drinker).
That's casuistry, and sidesteps the basic issue.
At issue is the right of an individual to be secure in their own privacy. Doesn't matter whether they're innocent as a lamb or dangerous as a lion. The guarantee should hold.
People who ask "what do you have to hide" generally ignore the fact that quite innocent data may easily be manipulated to provide the appearance of impropriety or criminality - and that is why privacy is important. It's not because we want to protect the guilty, but because we want to protect the innocent from abuses at the hands of law enforcement or corporate entities.
Really, all it'll do is making IDing primes easier which makes the front end of prime factoring just a tiny hair faster.
+1.
The US' system may not be qualitatively better or worse, but it definitely is more expensive per unit of healthcare services than other systems. Learned that when in Sweden a few years ago - public healthcare is not inexpensive, but it is far less expensive than free-market systems.
The academic institutions which currently do the seed work for most Pharma startups.
The market may temporarily correct it, but greed always wins out in the absence of effective regulatory infrastructure.
Remember, for the record, that Adam Smith was *not* in favor of unbridled capitalism, the 'laissez-faire' that is so often touted in his name. In fact, if you read either The Wealth of Nations or The Theory of Moral Sentiments, you'll find that he laments the various bad acts done in the name of pure profit, and enjoins his readers to act well and to take such measures as may be necessary to rein in bad actors.
Read the books that you think you understand - the two Adam Smith books are a worthwhile endeavor - and you may find a broader perspective than market fundamentalism.
Exactly. As with the Internet, basic pharmacological research generally takes place at universities - often elite ones, but still universities - many of which are public. Once something looks promising in a lab, depending on the institution's patent and IP structure, the researcher(s) may be able to take the idea and indications to VCs and get funding - but that happens *after* the initial development in an environment funded by the commons.
It was even higher then depending on how you calculate it - and yes, it led to the most prosperous era in US History.
30% base seems a very reasonable percentage for corporate tax rates - and ensure that no amount of write-offs are allowed to cut off below that point.
+1.
The only way that market wrongs can be redressed is after the fact, which is often too late in healthcare situations - if a patient is in an emergent situation, working up the best deal or best pricing is simply not going to happen.
And for those people who claim that lifestyle choices should be taken into account, go to an ICU ward sometime and look at the percentage of patients who are (when well) nominally thin, healthy, working-out adults. Go ahead - I'll wait.
Since you didn't go look the answer is "most of them." If we treat medical care as a business the cost of which must be evaluated and selected by the patient, we'll have a lot more dead people, and less good care, and certainly less quality of life.
This is why regulation (e.g., prior restraint) on medicine represents a public good - by not placing individual patients in situations where they must make life-or-death decisions while under health duress, the overall quality of life across the population is improved. In the US, this is addressed - or was, with PPACA - with insurance that guaranteed certain sorts of coverage. In civilized western countries, it's addressed via national healthcare systems which focus on treatment rather than cost.
That is, alas, one of those mathematical errors which fee off the fallacy of large numbers, which was also the underlying mimetic behind the old 'Dilution is the solution to pollution' memes in the 1960s. We're not so small and insignificant as your comment implies - humanity has had an enormous effect on the planet.
According to the Weather Channel, the last cat 4 to hit the Carolinas was 1954, so it's been a bit.
Damned if I care what caused it* - the main thing is that the flooding and such will hurt a lot of people.
Let's get ready to help them; they're going to need it.
* I am emphatically NOT a climate skeptic, but that isn't germane when people are at risk bc of severe weather. Help the people and then work on the problem.
They did ban the catastrophic care plans which basically didn't provide actual care, but HSAs did continue to exist....I certainly have made use of them during the period that PPACA has been in operation.
Anatole France famously noted that “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
Failure to have a safety net or bottom to fall to makes the world more like India and less like a civilized society. In India, if you fall through the cracks, you're done.
In civilized Western countries - most of them European - the social safety net is a chance to recover from adversity and become productive once again.
In the US, our safety net's been shredded along with worker protections, so low-skill workers whose jobs have been offshore are not retraining and recovering, for the most part - they're so freaked out by the loss of their former hegemony that they turn to drugs and belief in political movements that promise to return their economic hegemony.
We're headed for being India, not Western Europe. That's a HUGE waste - it treats people as disposable and discards them, when they could, if trained, be working or entrepreneurial. I'd rather see enough of a safety net to enable workers to succeed - and by that I mean solid critical-thinking-based education through uni level (not the religious twaddle peddled by the evangelical Right), some economic support for displaced workers, some serious attempts at retraining, and a medical system that isn't more about corporate profit than individual health.
I do not care whether these things are provided by public or private entities as long as the focus is on benefiting the great mass of the working public more than the interests of the rentier few. I'd prefer public, as the US and the rest of the world have proven that these systems can run effectively run by public entities, but the key ingredient is laser-like focus on worker well-being.
Because when people are secure in their jobs bc they're qualified and stable and healthy, they're better workers....and they're massively entrepreneurial, too, because they have both the leisure time, the knowledge, and the economic confidence to take risks that otherwise would land 'em in the gutter.