No because our fool politicians granted Comcast a monopoly.
That monopoly needs to be revoked so competitors like Cox, Time-Warner, AppleTV, Charter Cable, and so on can move in. When Comcast screws the customer, the customer can abandon ship to another provider..... precisely the way cellphones operate.
>>>when the Cable Modem Termination System you're hooked-up to - along with up to 15,000 other Comcast subscribers - gets congested, and your traffic is somehow identified as being responsible. >>>
What if it's prime-time and all 15000 people decided to watch Heroes at the same time. Why should I be targeted just because I decided to watch both Heroes and CSI on two separate windows? This is a case of everybody being at fault, not just one person.
>>>That'll be 15 amps at 110v: to get the same power out of a British socket would only require 7.5 amps which would be (relatively speaking) safer, surely?
No actually 110 volt would be safer because that's typically not enough "push" to overcome skin resistance, and therefore little harm will be done.
Also in the U.S. we do have 220 volt plugs for high-energy devices that need more energy - things like stoves or hot water tanks. They are bulky three-prong affairs.
- Runs our childhood (school) - Run our retirement (social security) - Soon will run our very bodies (sick care and preventative care)
It also directly runs or strictly-regulates the electric company, phone company, cable/internet company. A socialist like you should be jumping up-and-down with glee, since there's very little the government doesn't already control. "Heil! Ooops... sorry. Bad habit." - Doc Strangelove
I don't buy it. For Goldman Sachs to have "engineered" the collapse, they would have had to be an omniscient god. They may have taken advantage of it, using political connection to DC, but they certainly didn't plan events to happen. I'm sure they would have preferred the bubble keep going up.
I know one guy who drives without a license. It wasn't revoked; he voluntarily turned it in. He claims that in his state (Arizona) liberated citizens don't need permission to drive, because the right to travel is a God-given right.
I say, "Let the kid scream." He can probably live without his pacifier. He can't live without a head after your car got trapped under a semi. Also: It will teach him patience. Too damn many kids today expect instant service.
>>>You don't need a cell signal to drive distracted. Ever seen someone applying makeup while driving? Eating while driving? Facing the back seat (presumably trying to control children) while driving? >>>
Yeah. I lay on my horn and scare the ____ out of them. I should probably mention my horn is one of those old truck horns, not today's wimpy "eee eee" horns.
At times like this I wish I had a flashing light I could stick on top of my car (like those old 70s movie), and scare the crap out of red-light drivers. I'd tell her, "Okay madam I won't ticket you, but I'm confiscating your phone," as if she were a schoolgirl again.
>>>If I could honestly just kick back with my laptop while my car drove me to work
I enjoy driving long-distance trips alone I-90 or I-70 or I-5 or I-85. It's fun to sit back and enjoy the scenery, and a lot less monotonous than in the wagon days when it took 6 months to cross the continent. Even the daily drive time doesn't have to be a "waste" of time. Here's what I do:
- listen to the music on the radio. - listen to talk radio - listen to news radio - listen to books on tape (or ipod) - listen to Teaching Company lectures
My daily drive is never dull. A couple times my boss tried to convince me to ride the train with him, but I don't see any reason to switch. Besides it takes him 1.5 hours and my car commute is only 45 minutes..... I'd rather choose the shorter route and get home earlier.
By this reasoning, since most accidents happen in the home, it's the job of the government to regulate your house and reduce medicare/health costs. This means wearing gloves while cooking, or else you'll be fined. Ditto if you climb a ladder - that will be banned. Hire a professional to do repairs or change a bulb in your house. Or yeah, and no more knives allowed that have points on them.
This will of course all be monitored by camera, to ensure compliance with the law. We will, at last, know an accident-free society in our time! Thank you. I'll be running for the presidency in 2012 as the National Socialist Party (democrat for short).
>>>I want to live in an educated society that promotes personal responsibility
Bullshit. Now get back to work! You have to support me and make sure my welfare, food stamps, and free housing doesn't run out. Get to work slave and earn some dollars! (No that wasn't sarcasm - some people actually think like that.)
If it were up to me, everyone would still be required to pay public education/school taxes but with thw two following exceptions:
- If your kid attends a private school and said school can provide a receipt to the State government, then you don't pay the public tax
- If you are 40 and have never had kids, the you no longer have to support other people's children. (But if you did have kids later, then you'd have to pay all the previous taxes.)
I don't believe in (1) forcing people to pay double tuition for both public and private schools, or (2) supporting someone else's kids when you have never had any. Option (1) also promotes competition which breeds innovation (like how MS copied Apple and Commodore).
>>>The motorcycle helmet law does protect me from someone else's medical costs coming out of my taxes.
Simple solution:
People who did not wear a helmet or seatbelt receives ZERO assistance from the same. That's your right to not ride/drive safely, but that freedom has a cost. I'm tired of having money sucked from my wallet to pay for others' stupidity (like that Ballon Boy debacle, or nonstop smokers wanting new lungs).
I don't believe you. Please cite which case this was ruled.
"Right to travel" makes sense, but that simply means you can hop on a horse and go down the road. It doesn't mean you have the right to operate a 10,000 pound machine.
Unless you're over age 80, then the organization called "NICE" will turn nasty and deny certain procedures.
Even if you're young they'll often say no..... like the British college girl who appeared on CNN. She wanted a PAP smear to detect cervical cancer early in life, and was over-ruled three years in a row by NICE. Then at age 24 she developed pain down below and sure-enough, she had cancer, but at this point it's already too late.
Did you not read the link? Oh right this is slashdot...... "IQ scores were estimated for all 42 chief executives from George Washington to G. W. Bush. The scores were obtained by applying missing-values estimation methods (expectation-maximization) to published assessments of (a) IQ (Cox, 1926; n=8), (b) Intellectual Brilliance (Simonton, 1986c; n=39), and (c) Openness to Experience (Rubenzer & Faschingbauer, 2004; n=32)"
And some of us DON'T know how to solve problems, but we have really good memories so we can recall having read in some book in college of a previous solution - and then just go look it up.
The human brain is very flexible. I recall one time in college we were given some kind of word quiz, and the hint said "white blood cells". I of course had no idea but then remembered watching Isaac Asimov's Fantastic Voyage as a child, and they used the word "corpuscle" so I wrote it down. My 2 girlfriends asked how I knew that. I just said I remembered.
I did much the same through all my engineering classes - once I see a solution I rarely forget it. In fact I get annoyed with people who tell me to "figure it out". If you already know the answer just tell me so I can apply the solution and move-on to the next task.
>>>the word "mensa" is spanish slang for "stupid female".
That's really niggardly of you. In 1946 the slang "mensa" didn't yet exist and even if it had, it does not mean two words can't have completely opposite meanings. In this case mensa comes from Latin and means table. It can also mean refectory as in dining hall for a college - where intelligent people sit and discuss ideas.
In Spanish the word mensa devolved over time to become "mesa".
If it wasn't for obsessive compulsive people, we'd still be living in the Dark Ages. Take Newton for example. He spent almost 20 years plotting, calculating, and theorizing until he arrived at his Gravitational Laws. It's these kinds of people who find discoveries and enrich human knowledge.
Summary: 1. John Quincy Adams, IQ 175 2. Thomas Jefferson, 160 ----- my favorite 3. John F. Kennedy, 159.8 4. Bill Clinton, 159 5. Jimmy Carter, 156.8 6. Woodrow Wilson, 155.2 7. Theodore Roosevelt, 153 8. Chester A. Arthur, 152.3 9. Abraham Lincoln, 150 ------ I thought he'd rank higher, but he is just a "dumb" Republican after all (just joking)
And here's the bottom of the barrel:
Harry S. Truman, 140 George W. Bush, 138.5 Ulysses S. Grant, 130 average college graduate, 109
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No because our fool politicians granted Comcast a monopoly.
That monopoly needs to be revoked so competitors like Cox, Time-Warner, AppleTV, Charter Cable, and so on can move in. When Comcast screws the customer, the customer can abandon ship to another provider..... precisely the way cellphones operate.
>>>when the Cable Modem Termination System you're hooked-up to - along with up to 15,000 other Comcast subscribers - gets congested, and your traffic is somehow identified as being responsible.
>>>
What if it's prime-time and all 15000 people decided to watch Heroes at the same time. Why should I be targeted just because I decided to watch both Heroes and CSI on two separate windows? This is a case of everybody being at fault, not just one person.
>>>That'll be 15 amps at 110v: to get the same power out of a British socket would only require 7.5 amps which would be (relatively speaking) safer, surely?
No actually 110 volt would be safer because that's typically not enough "push" to overcome skin resistance, and therefore little harm will be done.
Also in the U.S. we do have 220 volt plugs for high-energy devices that need more energy - things like stoves or hot water tanks. They are bulky three-prong affairs.
What's left? Government:
- Runs our childhood (school)
- Run our retirement (social security)
- Soon will run our very bodies (sick care and preventative care)
It also directly runs or strictly-regulates the electric company, phone company, cable/internet company. A socialist like you should be jumping up-and-down with glee, since there's very little the government doesn't already control. "Heil! Ooops... sorry. Bad habit." - Doc Strangelove
I don't buy it. For Goldman Sachs to have "engineered" the collapse, they would have had to be an omniscient god. They may have taken advantage of it, using political connection to DC, but they certainly didn't plan events to happen. I'm sure they would have preferred the bubble keep going up.
I know one guy who drives without a license. It wasn't revoked; he voluntarily turned it in. He claims that in his state (Arizona) liberated citizens don't need permission to drive, because the right to travel is a God-given right.
(1) Get 9 hours of sleep prior to driving so you don't fall asleep
(2) Turn on radio, or listen to book-on-tape, or teaching company lecture, to stimulate brain.
I say, "Let the kid scream." He can probably live without his pacifier. He can't live without a head after your car got trapped under a semi. Also: It will teach him patience. Too damn many kids today expect instant service.
>>>You don't need a cell signal to drive distracted. Ever seen someone applying makeup while driving? Eating while driving? Facing the back seat (presumably trying to control children) while driving?
>>>
Yeah. I lay on my horn and scare the ____ out of them. I should probably mention my horn is one of those old truck horns, not today's wimpy "eee eee" horns.
But radios don't do anything except sit there and make noise. It's not the same as typing on a keyboard while driving because....
argh!
At times like this I wish I had a flashing light I could stick on top of my car (like those old 70s movie), and scare the crap out of red-light drivers. I'd tell her, "Okay madam I won't ticket you, but I'm confiscating your phone," as if she were a schoolgirl again.
>>>If I could honestly just kick back with my laptop while my car drove me to work
I enjoy driving long-distance trips alone I-90 or I-70 or I-5 or I-85. It's fun to sit back and enjoy the scenery, and a lot less monotonous than in the wagon days when it took 6 months to cross the continent. Even the daily drive time doesn't have to be a "waste" of time. Here's what I do:
- listen to the music on the radio.
- listen to talk radio
- listen to news radio
- listen to books on tape (or ipod)
- listen to Teaching Company lectures
My daily drive is never dull. A couple times my boss tried to convince me to ride the train with him, but I don't see any reason to switch. Besides it takes him 1.5 hours and my car commute is only 45 minutes..... I'd rather choose the shorter route and get home earlier.
By this reasoning, since most accidents happen in the home, it's the job of the government to regulate your house and reduce medicare/health costs. This means wearing gloves while cooking, or else you'll be fined. Ditto if you climb a ladder - that will be banned. Hire a professional to do repairs or change a bulb in your house. Or yeah, and no more knives allowed that have points on them.
This will of course all be monitored by camera, to ensure compliance with the law. We will, at last, know an accident-free society in our time! Thank you. I'll be running for the presidency in 2012 as the National Socialist Party (democrat for short).
>>>I want to live in an educated society that promotes personal responsibility
Bullshit. Now get back to work! You have to support me and make sure my welfare, food stamps, and free housing doesn't run out. Get to work slave and earn some dollars! (No that wasn't sarcasm - some people actually think like that.)
If it were up to me, everyone would still be required to pay public education/school taxes but with thw two following exceptions:
- If your kid attends a private school and said school can provide a receipt to the State government, then you don't pay the public tax
- If you are 40 and have never had kids, the you no longer have to support other people's children. (But if you did have kids later, then you'd have to pay all the previous taxes.)
I don't believe in (1) forcing people to pay double tuition for both public and private schools, or (2) supporting someone else's kids when you have never had any. Option (1) also promotes competition which breeds innovation (like how MS copied Apple and Commodore).
>>>The motorcycle helmet law does protect me from someone else's medical costs coming out of my taxes.
Simple solution:
People who did not wear a helmet or seatbelt receives ZERO assistance from the same. That's your right to not ride/drive safely, but that freedom has a cost. I'm tired of having money sucked from my wallet to pay for others' stupidity (like that Ballon Boy debacle, or nonstop smokers wanting new lungs).
My car was only 500 dollars you insensitive clod!
I don't believe you. Please cite which case this was ruled.
"Right to travel" makes sense, but that simply means you can hop on a horse and go down the road. It doesn't mean you have the right to operate a 10,000 pound machine.
Unless you're over age 80, then the organization called "NICE" will turn nasty and deny certain procedures.
Even if you're young they'll often say no..... like the British college girl who appeared on CNN. She wanted a PAP smear to detect cervical cancer early in life, and was over-ruled three years in a row by NICE. Then at age 24 she developed pain down below and sure-enough, she had cancer, but at this point it's already too late.
Article summary (score out of 10):
10- UK
9 - Denmark
8 - Italy
2 - Australia
1 - USA (no surprise)
1 - Japan (surprise)
0 - EU
I suspect bias. I also suspect this article was meant to be humourous. BTW an American plug can handle 15 amps easily; it's how I run my spare heater.
Did you not read the link? Oh right this is slashdot...... "IQ scores were estimated for all 42 chief executives from George Washington to G. W. Bush. The scores were obtained by applying missing-values estimation methods (expectation-maximization) to published assessments of (a) IQ (Cox, 1926; n=8), (b) Intellectual Brilliance (Simonton, 1986c; n=39), and (c) Openness to Experience (Rubenzer & Faschingbauer, 2004; n=32)"
And some of us DON'T know how to solve problems, but we have really good memories so we can recall having read in some book in college of a previous solution - and then just go look it up.
The human brain is very flexible. I recall one time in college we were given some kind of word quiz, and the hint said "white blood cells". I of course had no idea but then remembered watching Isaac Asimov's Fantastic Voyage as a child, and they used the word "corpuscle" so I wrote it down. My 2 girlfriends asked how I knew that. I just said I remembered.
I did much the same through all my engineering classes - once I see a solution I rarely forget it. In fact I get annoyed with people who tell me to "figure it out". If you already know the answer just tell me so I can apply the solution and move-on to the next task.
>>>the word "mensa" is spanish slang for "stupid female".
That's really niggardly of you. In 1946 the slang "mensa" didn't yet exist and even if it had, it does not mean two words can't have completely opposite meanings. In this case mensa comes from Latin and means table. It can also mean refectory as in dining hall for a college - where intelligent people sit and discuss ideas.
In Spanish the word mensa devolved over time to become "mesa".
If it wasn't for obsessive compulsive people, we'd still be living in the Dark Ages. Take Newton for example. He spent almost 20 years plotting, calculating, and theorizing until he arrived at his Gravitational Laws. It's these kinds of people who find discoveries and enrich human knowledge.
All of our presidents have had high IQ: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/pops/2006/00000027/00000004/art00001;jsessionid=1i07kdv5wgn5p.alexandra?format=print
Summary:
1. John Quincy Adams, IQ 175
2. Thomas Jefferson, 160 ----- my favorite
3. John F. Kennedy, 159.8
4. Bill Clinton, 159
5. Jimmy Carter, 156.8
6. Woodrow Wilson, 155.2
7. Theodore Roosevelt, 153
8. Chester A. Arthur, 152.3
9. Abraham Lincoln, 150 ------ I thought he'd rank higher, but he is just a "dumb" Republican after all (just joking)
And here's the bottom of the barrel:
Harry S. Truman, 140
George W. Bush, 138.5
Ulysses S. Grant, 130
average college graduate, 109