The problem is you have it backwards. If a procedure costs $50 to do, they want to charge the uninsured person $75 and insurance company X $400. But the insurance company cartels have successfully lobbied to make different pricing illegal. So now, everyone pays $400.
My experience is mostly in pharmacy, and in that business, your example is sorta true. Using your price example, a drug costs a pharmacy $50. The pharmacy wants to charge the uninsured person $75. If you are on welfare, the pharmacy only gets $15. So in an attempt to make some sort of profit despite the massive losses from all the people on welfare, the pharmacy charges insurance companies $400.
Again, the insurance cartels have made different pricing illegal at the federal level. So, for that same $50 medication, the pharmacy has to charge the uninsured person $400, and the insurance companies $400, and they only get $15 from welfare.
Here is where the corruption comes in. That same $50 medication only costs $5 to manufacture. In order for the $50 medication to be placed on Insurance Company X's formulary, the company making the medication has to give them rebates. After the rebates, how much of the $400 is Insurance Company X really out? $15. But wait, isn't that your copay? Funny how that works out.
It's just wrong on so many levels and it is also a somewhat unfair means of doing so as it often unfairly targets specific demographics while at the same time providing a means for "certain individuals" to get released from their burdens if they have the right connections or position in society.
So a vehicle that scored 32MPG in the 1970s might only be able to score 20-25 MPG on the new EPA tests.
Also that same 32MPG car from the 1970s is probably only making 70 - 80 horsepower. Today, it would be making 120 - 150 horsepower. Or, if Ford's commercial for the new 6 cylinder mustang is to be believed, 300 horsepower.
When left to my own devices, 6am is also when my body seems to want to go to sleep. Though, because of when I need to get up for work, 3am is when I usually go to sleep. My favorite gem from the article:
"In contrast, people with DSPS are unable to fall asleep before their usual sleep time, even if they are sleep-deprived. Research has shown that sleep deprivation does not reset the circadian clock of DSPS patients, as it does with normal people."
This really struck a chord with me. I have tried this technique multiple times and each has failed magnificently. I will stay awake through Saturday and be tired enough to nap up until about 8pm which is when I seem to get a second wind and I am fairly wide awake after this point. I will attempt techniques like dull reading or watching something uninteresting on tv which will eventually put me to sleep by 11pm. Without fail I will spontaneously awake at 3am, even without sleep deprivation, and won't be capable of sleep again until 6am.
Ubisoft has a fairly long track record of patching out the DRM after awhile. I wait it out and buy one of their titles I was lusting after when they finally do it. Unfortunately for them, thats when their games are near their cheapest. I was nervous this new scheme was going to be the end of that, but thankfully not, they left that option open. Gamers ended up not being hurt by their DRM, but it has hurt them a lot. Maybe they figured there is no such thing as bad publicity.
This can happen with trademarks, and it does. For instance Johnson & Johnson has a trademark on "Band Aid." You can't make an adhesive bandage and run around labeling it a "Band Aid" without a license or J&J will sick their lawyers on you. Now imagine 3M or someone else makes an adhesive bandage and called it "Band Aid" without getting permission, and J & J didn't sue. Then someone else does the same thing, then another, then another, then another and J & J does nothing. Then your corner pharmacy brings in some private label "Band Aids" and they call them "Band Aids" as well, except J&J doesn't like it and sues them. The judge is going to tell J&J to shove off because they are no longer "Adhesive Bandages", they are band aids. They would lose the trademark through inaction.
Here are some real world examples: Aspirin, Lanolin, Milk of Magnesia, Celluloid, Kerosene, Shredded Wheat, Linoleum, Cellophane, and Elevator.
That would be great, except the other three will be doing the same thing very shortly. Same with text message fees. It was David Pogue's number one gripe.
Cellular phone service in the United States is not a free market.
(Also, the numbers Americans throw around for their cell phone contracts scare me - $100 a month or more? Do they deliver your data to you in gold-plated USB sticks or something?)
Now I don't get the OSX and Win7 comparison, they don't look that much alike.
Thats because Windows is so far behind and, though its is a blatant copy, its not a very well done copy.
What you do unlock the windows taskbar and move it to the left side of the screen. Now, open your default mail-app and have a file mana, err exporer window open. Maybe run xp in a virtual machine. Then check out this screenshot of an old version of OSX and tell me there are no similarities.
Your speak of the Boston Tea Party intrigues me. Perhaps it needs to be repeated in a more modern version.
I think most people when the issues are explained to them would feel the same way.
Most people also think Bush is stupid. I agree with this, which is why I don't believed Bush lied about Iraq. Bush told us what he believed, Congress given the same information also believed it. Someone else is pulling the strings, Who knows, it could be internal or external.
We are in the head long in a never ending undeclared war. No one blessed with the backing of either political party is going to stop it. Congress wants telecom immunity just as "Bush" does for the illegal wiretaps - on both sides of the aisle. "First they came for this group of people, and I did nothing. Then they came for the next group, and I did nothing, etc. Then they came for me, but there was no one left to protect me." The telecoms were the first line of defense and they buckled, and they need to be punished for it thoroughly and unconditionally to the fullest extent of the law.
The old quote speaking of the holocaust and you mentioning the Boston Tea Party has given me an idea. The groups of people who's jobs are getting moved offshore are not protected by a union. Perhaps those are should step in before its too late. I propose those unions who protect the jobs of those who work at our sea ports go on strike. If that doesn't work, then the air ports -> no international flights out, no international flights in. Every thing domestic is a go. Next rail.
For God's sake, we are Americans. Why are we allowing our government and the corporations it has blessed with rights into fleecing us?
WP6 for Windows? Steaming pile of crap. They completely did not get the user interface shift that was happening and the new possibilities that a GUI provided until it was much, much too late.
I respectfully disagree that they didn't understand what GUI was capable of. In this video of NeXTstep 3, Jobs does a short demo of WordPerfect at about 6:15. The comments of the video date it around 1993. However, according to Wikipedia there was only 1 version of WordPerfect for NeXT; that was released in 1991. Thats 2 years before WP6 for Windows was released.
As an earlier poster had said quoting from the book Almost Perfect, the actual problem was that they didn't get Windows. At the time both IBM and Microsoft was telling everyone that OS/2 was the future, not Windows. They didn't want to waste time making a proper port to a system that was, as Microsoft was telling them, destined to be dead. The success of the Windows 3 series surprised everyone, including Microsoft. By the time the WordPerfect developers figured that out, their name was dirt to Windows users.
But that would make you a copyright infringer. They would be paying you for someone else's content. Its one thing to charge them to get on to the internet. Its also one thing to throw links to torrent files on your non-revenue generating site. But to single out and charge specifically for torrent traffic, I believe, puts you at odds with copyright law.
As I recall, this happened around the same time IE was built solid into Windows 98 and Microsoft's "embrace / extend / extinguish" strategy pumped full blast with "IE Active Channels." Microsoft started MSN as an internet service provider and AOL was a little nervous about Microsoft making Windows rely on MSN. So AOL bought Netscape and kept the browser alive as a bargaining chip. At the time AOL was the #1 internet provider and if AOL made everyone use Netscape, Microsoft's internet strategy would be dead in the water. This threat kept the AOL icon on the desktop of default installs of Windows.
I also have an ancient yahoo mail account that I still use a bit because before, during,and after the.com burst their business has always been stable, and I have always felt that my mail was safe there. It was also a great way for old friends I might have lost touch with to contact me.
The mass Exodus (Migration) of all of my Yahoo Email is already underway in preparation for the great FUBARing to come once Microsoft obtains Yahoo and incorporates it into their collective.
I use Gmail 99% of the time now.
I think that is exactly what every one who still actively uses their yahoo accounts are doing right now as well. I think most people who use their yahoo accounts are of an earlier web generation who kinda sorta stuck with them because they have always been there, even though they aren't the hot new tech or buzzword. Its been said that the newer generation doesn't even use email, they rely on SMS and myspace.
With that said, if Microsoft FUBARs yahoo - or worse dissolves it - Microsoft will have thrown their 45+ billion dollars into the wind because the market share they want will have, as you said, made an exodus to "them", to Google.
So, if Microsoft is smart, they will realize they have a vested interest in keeping yahoo relatively untouched. That is the only way they will keep their share and gain Yahoos. If not, they will have spent all that money for them to keep the share they have, with the rest becoming a nicely wrapped present for Google.
I don't think you get what he is saying. Unless you were already with AT&T, you won't be putting your SIM card in there. You are going to be putting an AT&T SIM card in there. Thats where the "activation" comes in, where the SIM card gets tied to your AT&T account. Just because you don't consider that to be the definition of activation, doesn't make that any less true.
Let's just make a short count of the number of times I've been forced to activate my SIM card since I started using it: once. Let's make another count: How many phones I've had the SIM card inserted into since then: about 7.
You see? When you 1st got your SIM card you activated it. Thats what's this thread is talking about, activating a new SIM card. Instead of having the cellphone guys go through the process, you get to buy a phone from Apple or AT&T and activate your new SIM account yourself on iTunes. They aren't talking about inserting your previous SIM card from port to port, you dirty sailor.
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The problem is you have it backwards. If a procedure costs $50 to do, they want to charge the uninsured person $75 and insurance company X $400. But the insurance company cartels have successfully lobbied to make different pricing illegal. So now, everyone pays $400.
My experience is mostly in pharmacy, and in that business, your example is sorta true. Using your price example, a drug costs a pharmacy $50. The pharmacy wants to charge the uninsured person $75. If you are on welfare, the pharmacy only gets $15. So in an attempt to make some sort of profit despite the massive losses from all the people on welfare, the pharmacy charges insurance companies $400.
Again, the insurance cartels have made different pricing illegal at the federal level. So, for that same $50 medication, the pharmacy has to charge the uninsured person $400, and the insurance companies $400, and they only get $15 from welfare.
Here is where the corruption comes in. That same $50 medication only costs $5 to manufacture. In order for the $50 medication to be placed on Insurance Company X's formulary, the company making the medication has to give them rebates. After the rebates, how much of the $400 is Insurance Company X really out? $15. But wait, isn't that your copay? Funny how that works out.
I don't know where you live, but I still live in a democracy.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
It's just wrong on so many levels and it is also a somewhat unfair means of doing so as it often unfairly targets specific demographics while at the same time providing a means for "certain individuals" to get released from their burdens if they have the right connections or position in society.
And this is different from taxes how?
Thats pretty much how mac hardware works.
So a vehicle that scored 32MPG in the 1970s might only be able to score 20-25 MPG on the new EPA tests.
Also that same 32MPG car from the 1970s is probably only making 70 - 80 horsepower. Today, it would be making 120 - 150 horsepower. Or, if Ford's commercial for the new 6 cylinder mustang is to be believed, 300 horsepower.
If I had mod points, I would have modded you funny.
Obama could have made that happen a month ago.
That can mean only one thing: Barack Obama hates black people.
Or come November, we won't be capable of manned space flight.
Or an 18 year old having consensual sex with his or her 17 year, 11 month old partner.
You must be too young to remember Loki Games.
Which turn based strategy to you speak of? We would like to play.
When left to my own devices, 6am is also when my body seems to want to go to sleep. Though, because of when I need to get up for work, 3am is when I usually go to sleep. My favorite gem from the article:
"In contrast, people with DSPS are unable to fall asleep before their usual sleep time, even if they are sleep-deprived. Research has shown that sleep deprivation does not reset the circadian clock of DSPS patients, as it does with normal people."
This really struck a chord with me. I have tried this technique multiple times and each has failed magnificently. I will stay awake through Saturday and be tired enough to nap up until about 8pm which is when I seem to get a second wind and I am fairly wide awake after this point. I will attempt techniques like dull reading or watching something uninteresting on tv which will eventually put me to sleep by 11pm. Without fail I will spontaneously awake at 3am, even without sleep deprivation, and won't be capable of sleep again until 6am.
Ubisoft has a fairly long track record of patching out the DRM after awhile. I wait it out and buy one of their titles I was lusting after when they finally do it. Unfortunately for them, thats when their games are near their cheapest. I was nervous this new scheme was going to be the end of that, but thankfully not, they left that option open. Gamers ended up not being hurt by their DRM, but it has hurt them a lot. Maybe they figured there is no such thing as bad publicity.
I agree with you completely. Some how I responded to the wrong comment :(
This can happen with trademarks, and it does. For instance Johnson & Johnson has a trademark on "Band Aid." You can't make an adhesive bandage and run around labeling it a "Band Aid" without a license or J&J will sick their lawyers on you. Now imagine 3M or someone else makes an adhesive bandage and called it "Band Aid" without getting permission, and J & J didn't sue. Then someone else does the same thing, then another, then another, then another and J & J does nothing. Then your corner pharmacy brings in some private label "Band Aids" and they call them "Band Aids" as well, except J&J doesn't like it and sues them. The judge is going to tell J&J to shove off because they are no longer "Adhesive Bandages", they are band aids. They would lose the trademark through inaction.
Here are some real world examples: Aspirin, Lanolin, Milk of Magnesia, Celluloid, Kerosene, Shredded Wheat, Linoleum, Cellophane, and Elevator.
That would be great, except the other three will be doing the same thing very shortly. Same with text message fees. It was David Pogue's number one gripe.
Cellular phone service in the United States is not a free market.
(Also, the numbers Americans throw around for their cell phone contracts scare me - $100 a month or more? Do they deliver your data to you in gold-plated USB sticks or something?)
But Verizon told me they are cheaper than Europe.
Now I don't get the OSX and Win7 comparison, they don't look that much alike.
Thats because Windows is so far behind and, though its is a blatant copy, its not a very well done copy.
What you do unlock the windows taskbar and move it to the left side of the screen.
Now, open your default mail-app and have a file mana, err exporer window open. Maybe run xp in a virtual machine. Then check out this screenshot of an old version of OSX and tell me there are no similarities.
12 years later and still behind.
Your speak of the Boston Tea Party intrigues me. Perhaps it needs to be repeated in a more modern version.
I think most people when the issues are explained to them would feel the same way.
Most people also think Bush is stupid. I agree with this, which is why I don't believed Bush lied about Iraq. Bush told us what he believed, Congress given the same information also believed it. Someone else is pulling the strings, Who knows, it could be internal or external.
We are in the head long in a never ending undeclared war. No one blessed with the backing of either political party is going to stop it. Congress wants telecom immunity just as "Bush" does for the illegal wiretaps - on both sides of the aisle. "First they came for this group of people, and I did nothing. Then they came for the next group, and I did nothing, etc. Then they came for me, but there was no one left to protect me." The telecoms were the first line of defense and they buckled, and they need to be punished for it thoroughly and unconditionally to the fullest extent of the law.
The old quote speaking of the holocaust and you mentioning the Boston Tea Party has given me an idea. The groups of people who's jobs are getting moved offshore are not protected by a union. Perhaps those are should step in before its too late. I propose those unions who protect the jobs of those who work at our sea ports go on strike. If that doesn't work, then the air ports -> no international flights out, no international flights in. Every thing domestic is a go. Next rail.
For God's sake, we are Americans. Why are we allowing our government and the corporations it has blessed with rights into fleecing us?
I respectfully disagree that they didn't understand what GUI was capable of.
In this video of NeXTstep 3, Jobs does a short demo of WordPerfect at about 6:15. The comments of the video date it around 1993. However, according to Wikipedia there was only 1 version of WordPerfect for NeXT; that was released in 1991. Thats 2 years before WP6 for Windows was released.
As an earlier poster had said quoting from the book Almost Perfect, the actual problem was that they didn't get Windows. At the time both IBM and Microsoft was telling everyone that OS/2 was the future, not Windows. They didn't want to waste time making a proper port to a system that was, as Microsoft was telling them, destined to be dead. The success of the Windows 3 series surprised everyone, including Microsoft. By the time the WordPerfect developers figured that out, their name was dirt to Windows users.
But that would make you a copyright infringer. They would be paying you for someone else's content. Its one thing to charge them to get on to the internet. Its also one thing to throw links to torrent files on your non-revenue generating site. But to single out and charge specifically for torrent traffic, I believe, puts you at odds with copyright law.
As I recall, this happened around the same time IE was built solid into Windows 98 and Microsoft's "embrace / extend / extinguish" strategy pumped full blast with "IE Active Channels." Microsoft started MSN as an internet service provider and AOL was a little nervous about Microsoft making Windows rely on MSN. So AOL bought Netscape and kept the browser alive as a bargaining chip. At the time AOL was the #1 internet provider and if AOL made everyone use Netscape, Microsoft's internet strategy would be dead in the water. This threat kept the AOL icon on the desktop of default installs of Windows.
I think that is exactly what every one who still actively uses their yahoo accounts are doing right now as well. I think most people who use their yahoo accounts are of an earlier web generation who kinda sorta stuck with them because they have always been there, even though they aren't the hot new tech or buzzword. Its been said that the newer generation doesn't even use email, they rely on SMS and myspace.
With that said, if Microsoft FUBARs yahoo - or worse dissolves it - Microsoft will have thrown their 45+ billion dollars into the wind because the market share they want will have, as you said, made an exodus to "them", to Google.
So, if Microsoft is smart, they will realize they have a vested interest in keeping yahoo relatively untouched. That is the only way they will keep their share and gain Yahoos. If not, they will have spent all that money for them to keep the share they have, with the rest becoming a nicely wrapped present for Google.
You see? When you 1st got your SIM card you activated it. Thats what's this thread is talking about, activating a new SIM card. Instead of having the cellphone guys go through the process, you get to buy a phone from Apple or AT&T and activate your new SIM account yourself on iTunes. They aren't talking about inserting your previous SIM card from port to port, you dirty sailor.
Mac OS X. If you want more free than that, GNUstep/Etoile