You're upset that the CEO makes so much money. OK, I can see that. Executive compensation does need to be reined in at a lot of companies. But the suggestion that a compensation of $24.3 million out of income of $30.95 billion makes a significant difference in the profit margin is flat wrong. Only 0.079% of the company's income goes to him. You can argue that it's excessive, and it may well be, but suggesting that it makes a major difference in the profit margin just doesn't hold up.
Hospitals have enough to do without becoming experts on immigration law. There are enough mistakes and arguments within the agencies who are experts on immigration law. I also don't want my care to be impacted because I don't have ID on me, and they're hesitating to perform some action because there's no way to prove that I'm a legal resident.
Fining and/or imprisoning employers who hire illegal aliens? I support that. Workplace raids to arrest and deport the immigrants themselves? I support them. Providing local police limited immigration powers? I support that. Limiting the citizenship status to those born of mothers who are here legally? I support that.
Making school and hospital officials have to spend even more time administering a bureaucracy that has nothing to do with their jobs? I just don't think that's a good idea.
Because there's a cap on how long you can be on welfare. I know that it's there, because I have a couple of friends who have hit the caps and been dropped. And while children are often exempted, the welfare benefits that are paid out for children are absolutely not enough to live on, even in Section 8 housing.
So how would you define "If you choose not to buy my product you will still pay for it, or else the IRS will throw you in jail"?
The way the bill has it is that if you don't buy insurance, you pay a tax to make up for the cost of it. Refusing to pay that tax leads to fines, levies, and possible prison time -- just like any other tax evasion.
The bill doesn't alter language in other bills. It alters language in sections of law. An amendment to a bill may alter the language of a bill, but two bills do not modify each other's text, because then it wouldn't make sense if only one of them passed.
The bill that passed was HR.3962. Millenial is taking the print preview in Firefox from the THOMAS site, not the GPO publication, which is what is used to determine the more-or-less official page count for bills. That format is 1990 pages in length.
There's an initiative collecting signatures in California that would do just that, and I was thinking that it would probably be a good amendment to the US Constitution. Here's the legislative analyst's take on it:
Prohibits legislators from voting in support of legislation unless they certify under penalty of perjury that they have read and understood the legislation and execute a statement regarding their duties to the People. Prohibits legislators from voting on legislation unless they certify under penalty of perjury that they have not received a bribe or engaged in illegal vote swapping.
You're probably looking at the print-friendly version from the THOMAS site, which is about 584 pages for me. Pasting the text into Word and stripping out the double paragraph breaks puts it at 859 pages and more than 315,000 words.
But I also have the PDF file from the Government Printing Office loaded right now, and Adobe Reader's paging function says that I'm on page 1 of 1990. Given that the GPO's printing guidelines are very consistent, referring to the 1990 pages of this bill provides a useful comparison to other bills, including past health care reform bills.
The purpose of the stimulus package was to create jobs and get lending moving again. Neither has really happened, as banks have reduced lending of all sorts (credit cards included) in the aftermath, and the number of jobs created is in the tens of thousands as the total number of jobs lost has continued to increase.
The US has plenty of doctors. What the country needs is fewer specialists and more primary care physicians. More than half of all medical students now plan to be specialists, in large part because it pays better. That's one of the reasons that doctor's offices are so packed and slow to move, even while they're seeing another patient every seven minutes.
I thought it was interesting that Associated Press published an article recently on the profits of the health insurance industry, something railed against persistently by various politicians. They found that the usual average profit margin for health insurance companies was 6%, and last year it was only 2%. From 2003 to 2008, the growth in their costs exceeded the growth in their profits.
But then, as the article itself notes, no one seems interested in the actual facts of the debate.
The worry is that the presence of universal coverage without regard for immigration status will draw even more people to cross the border illegally. I am one of those who does not believe that hospitals (or schools, for that matter) should be checking for legal status, and was fiercely against California's Prop 187.
So, yes, we do pay for the health care of illegal immigrants that are here, one way or another. We just don't want to draw even more across the porous border.
But given the mess that has grown up around MW2, it should be pretty clear that the attempt to leave dedicated servers behind is not being taken well. The mechanism in use there seems destined to cause problems for users, and the fluidity available from dedicated servers can't be easily replaced by any system that has users hosting servers. It may be that hordes of virtual servers are the future of dedicated servers, but that's still a far better option than things like a five-second pause while the players' systems figure out who is taking over next.
If there's anyone that I trust to come up with a workable technical solution, it's John Carmack, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's a good idea.
Continents are not composed of one piece. We in California are reminded of that periodically as the ground beneath us is moving NNW at 35mm per year. Asia is composed of at least the main Asian landmass plus the Indian subcontinent, which is moving northward, developing the Himalayas.
TFA says that they get a portion of the bandwidth of a Ku-band satellite. If the TDRSS functions at 48Mbps, their 10Mbps is a reasonable fraction of it.
Does it give any extra reaction time or space for avoiding animals trying to dart across the road? I'm not sure it would matter all that much, but sometimes a fraction of a second can make a difference.
I appreciate the change, but I'm also making my decision based on recent non-Fedora performance. Three upgrades at work over the last month, all meticulously planned, have had something unexpected -- and in one case completely undocumented -- go wrong on them.
Even the past Fedora preview releases have occasionally had some bad bugs. I did help out on the 9-10 and 10-11 upgrades. I'm probably going to sit this one out for my own sanity.:)
Fedora is a bleeding-edge distro. It's not something I will recommend to casual or new Linux users, because there are a great many things in it that can cut one deeply. In the past, I've spent weeks waiting for some irritating bug to be fixed or feature to work as promised, trying various things that have on occasion broken my system state so badly that a reinstall was the only sane way to get back to something usable.
That said, I've been running Fedora as my primary non-server Linux OS since about FC3. I've learned a great deal about the internals of Linux by working through all of those problems. I am pondering whether to upgrade my notebook to F12 Beta; on the one hand, the last couple of upgrades from 9 to 10 and from 10 to 11 went well; OTOH, it's pretty much working where I want it to, and moving to a beta right now seems like it's possible to open some major distractions.
Mount the CD Navigate to the RPMs directory (not sure where it is off the top of my head, but it's not buried too deeply) Run "rpm -Uvh [nameoffile.rpm]"
If it comes up with dependencies, add them to the line. It's not that hard to do, and easily found in most search engines.
Snort was not sold off. Marty Roesch, creator of Snort, formed Sourcefire for the express purpose of commercializing it. Even with that, Snort is still open source under the GPL, and Marty has indicated that there are no plans to ever change that.
Federal law does not outweigh state law in all cases. For example, if you commit first-degree murder in a state without the death penalty, you cannot be charged with murder and have the death penalty applied under federal law if you did not commit the crime in certain very narrowly-defined locations or conditions.
While the Supreme Court found that federal law applies even in cases where the marijuana was grown, harvested, packaged, sold, kept, and consumed entirely with the state, it's notable that in the 6-3 decision, two of the dissenting justices were Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Thomas, two of the most conservative justices then on the Court and both well-known for having little tolerance for law-breakers. The dissenting opinions noted that one of the points of federalism was for a state government to be able to experiment with new laws without the federal government having to allow it; by applying interstate commerce in such a way, it effectively shut down a large portion of this where an existing federal law opposed the new law.
The White House announced this morning a change in the policy surrounding pursuit of medical marijuana users. It will not be prosecuted in states that have medical marijuana laws. It will be interesting to see how it is handled should California take the next step beyond its current decriminalized status (simple possession just gets a citation and a fine) and actually legalize it, a concept which is under active discussion and may be put to the voters in the next year or two.
I wasn't addressing that. I was addressing the claim that volcanoes put out more CO2 than do humans, which is factually incorrect. No matter what side of the debate you're on, you have to work with accurate facts.
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You're upset that the CEO makes so much money. OK, I can see that. Executive compensation does need to be reined in at a lot of companies. But the suggestion that a compensation of $24.3 million out of income of $30.95 billion makes a significant difference in the profit margin is flat wrong. Only 0.079% of the company's income goes to him. You can argue that it's excessive, and it may well be, but suggesting that it makes a major difference in the profit margin just doesn't hold up.
Hospitals have enough to do without becoming experts on immigration law. There are enough mistakes and arguments within the agencies who are experts on immigration law. I also don't want my care to be impacted because I don't have ID on me, and they're hesitating to perform some action because there's no way to prove that I'm a legal resident.
Fining and/or imprisoning employers who hire illegal aliens? I support that.
Workplace raids to arrest and deport the immigrants themselves? I support them.
Providing local police limited immigration powers? I support that.
Limiting the citizenship status to those born of mothers who are here legally? I support that.
Making school and hospital officials have to spend even more time administering a bureaucracy that has nothing to do with their jobs? I just don't think that's a good idea.
Because there's a cap on how long you can be on welfare. I know that it's there, because I have a couple of friends who have hit the caps and been dropped. And while children are often exempted, the welfare benefits that are paid out for children are absolutely not enough to live on, even in Section 8 housing.
The way the bill has it is that if you don't buy insurance, you pay a tax to make up for the cost of it. Refusing to pay that tax leads to fines, levies, and possible prison time -- just like any other tax evasion.
The bill doesn't alter language in other bills. It alters language in sections of law. An amendment to a bill may alter the language of a bill, but two bills do not modify each other's text, because then it wouldn't make sense if only one of them passed.
The bill that passed was HR.3962. Millenial is taking the print preview in Firefox from the THOMAS site, not the GPO publication, which is what is used to determine the more-or-less official page count for bills. That format is 1990 pages in length.
There's an initiative collecting signatures in California that would do just that, and I was thinking that it would probably be a good amendment to the US Constitution. Here's the legislative analyst's take on it:
You're probably looking at the print-friendly version from the THOMAS site, which is about 584 pages for me. Pasting the text into Word and stripping out the double paragraph breaks puts it at 859 pages and more than 315,000 words.
But I also have the PDF file from the Government Printing Office loaded right now, and Adobe Reader's paging function says that I'm on page 1 of 1990. Given that the GPO's printing guidelines are very consistent, referring to the 1990 pages of this bill provides a useful comparison to other bills, including past health care reform bills.
The purpose of the stimulus package was to create jobs and get lending moving again. Neither has really happened, as banks have reduced lending of all sorts (credit cards included) in the aftermath, and the number of jobs created is in the tens of thousands as the total number of jobs lost has continued to increase.
The US has plenty of doctors. What the country needs is fewer specialists and more primary care physicians. More than half of all medical students now plan to be specialists, in large part because it pays better. That's one of the reasons that doctor's offices are so packed and slow to move, even while they're seeing another patient every seven minutes.
If your employer is large enough, the public option is not available, as the employer will be required to provide health insurance.
In any case, if your income is high enough, you still pay premiums, public or private.
I thought it was interesting that Associated Press published an article recently on the profits of the health insurance industry, something railed against persistently by various politicians. They found that the usual average profit margin for health insurance companies was 6%, and last year it was only 2%. From 2003 to 2008, the growth in their costs exceeded the growth in their profits.
But then, as the article itself notes, no one seems interested in the actual facts of the debate.
The worry is that the presence of universal coverage without regard for immigration status will draw even more people to cross the border illegally. I am one of those who does not believe that hospitals (or schools, for that matter) should be checking for legal status, and was fiercely against California's Prop 187.
So, yes, we do pay for the health care of illegal immigrants that are here, one way or another. We just don't want to draw even more across the porous border.
But given the mess that has grown up around MW2, it should be pretty clear that the attempt to leave dedicated servers behind is not being taken well. The mechanism in use there seems destined to cause problems for users, and the fluidity available from dedicated servers can't be easily replaced by any system that has users hosting servers. It may be that hordes of virtual servers are the future of dedicated servers, but that's still a far better option than things like a five-second pause while the players' systems figure out who is taking over next.
If there's anyone that I trust to come up with a workable technical solution, it's John Carmack, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's a good idea.
Continents are not composed of one piece. We in California are reminded of that periodically as the ground beneath us is moving NNW at 35mm per year. Asia is composed of at least the main Asian landmass plus the Indian subcontinent, which is moving northward, developing the Himalayas.
TFA says that they get a portion of the bandwidth of a Ku-band satellite. If the TDRSS functions at 48Mbps, their 10Mbps is a reasonable fraction of it.
For the mass of a NAS, you can have an entire notebook. More functionality out of the latter, so that would be preferred.
Does it give any extra reaction time or space for avoiding animals trying to dart across the road? I'm not sure it would matter all that much, but sometimes a fraction of a second can make a difference.
I appreciate the change, but I'm also making my decision based on recent non-Fedora performance. Three upgrades at work over the last month, all meticulously planned, have had something unexpected -- and in one case completely undocumented -- go wrong on them.
Even the past Fedora preview releases have occasionally had some bad bugs. I did help out on the 9-10 and 10-11 upgrades. I'm probably going to sit this one out for my own sanity. :)
Fedora is a bleeding-edge distro. It's not something I will recommend to casual or new Linux users, because there are a great many things in it that can cut one deeply. In the past, I've spent weeks waiting for some irritating bug to be fixed or feature to work as promised, trying various things that have on occasion broken my system state so badly that a reinstall was the only sane way to get back to something usable.
That said, I've been running Fedora as my primary non-server Linux OS since about FC3. I've learned a great deal about the internals of Linux by working through all of those problems. I am pondering whether to upgrade my notebook to F12 Beta; on the one hand, the last couple of upgrades from 9 to 10 and from 10 to 11 went well; OTOH, it's pretty much working where I want it to, and moving to a beta right now seems like it's possible to open some major distractions.
At a risk of feeding the trolls...
Mount the CD
Navigate to the RPMs directory (not sure where it is off the top of my head, but it's not buried too deeply)
Run "rpm -Uvh [nameoffile.rpm]"
If it comes up with dependencies, add them to the line. It's not that hard to do, and easily found in most search engines.
Snort was not sold off. Marty Roesch, creator of Snort, formed Sourcefire for the express purpose of commercializing it. Even with that, Snort is still open source under the GPL, and Marty has indicated that there are no plans to ever change that.
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort."
How would you propose to twist this definition to fit your idea?
Federal law does not outweigh state law in all cases. For example, if you commit first-degree murder in a state without the death penalty, you cannot be charged with murder and have the death penalty applied under federal law if you did not commit the crime in certain very narrowly-defined locations or conditions.
While the Supreme Court found that federal law applies even in cases where the marijuana was grown, harvested, packaged, sold, kept, and consumed entirely with the state, it's notable that in the 6-3 decision, two of the dissenting justices were Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Thomas, two of the most conservative justices then on the Court and both well-known for having little tolerance for law-breakers. The dissenting opinions noted that one of the points of federalism was for a state government to be able to experiment with new laws without the federal government having to allow it; by applying interstate commerce in such a way, it effectively shut down a large portion of this where an existing federal law opposed the new law.
The White House announced this morning a change in the policy surrounding pursuit of medical marijuana users. It will not be prosecuted in states that have medical marijuana laws. It will be interesting to see how it is handled should California take the next step beyond its current decriminalized status (simple possession just gets a citation and a fine) and actually legalize it, a concept which is under active discussion and may be put to the voters in the next year or two.
I wasn't addressing that. I was addressing the claim that volcanoes put out more CO2 than do humans, which is factually incorrect. No matter what side of the debate you're on, you have to work with accurate facts.