I am honestly unsure if this is a serious question, so I will answer it seriously.
The county hospital knows you can't pay. They expect you not to pay. But they do bill you, and when surprise, your minimum wage ass can't pay the bill, take a wild guess what happens to that 30 or 40 thousand dollar tab.
Even more fun is when you get into a serious accident and are rushed to the nearest emergency room. There you are stabilized, be it after a couple of days in the ICU, then you can be transported to the county hospital.
You are poor, so you have no insurance. Or, your employer has completely inadequate coverage. As a result, you are fucked. It doesn't matter if the taxpayer is footing the bill, you still get hammered by it.
In response to your question about so-called "fishy speech", I recomment you look over any number of your own speeches as reference material. Or, you can review any of the many lies the republican leadership is knowingly spreading about the proposed health-care plan.
The very popular youtube video of the republican mob overwhelming what was supposed to be a civilized discourse on the proposed health care plan seems to be somewhat fishy.
As to what we plan to do with all the lies you and your party have been spreading, I would think that must be obvious. We plan to counter the bullshit assertions your bitches on FOX news have been making in an attempt to give Americans real information about the proposed health care plan. I realize you wouldn't have a chance in hell of recognizing truth and integrity if it bit you on the ass, but you can't assume we are all republicans, especially after the ass kicking the republicans got during the last election.
For instance, turning what was meant to be a bi-partisan offering to help those on medicaid have a full and unfettered discussion with their doctors, including the option of not treating terninal illnesses into the republican's current crap argument of, healthcare will kill all the old people.
So, Senator Cornyn, why don't you come by the White House and we can talk honestly about health care. But, I am warning you, you will first have to stop sucking on the dicks of the insurance industry to do so.
Sincerely,
BARACK OBAMA
President of the United States of America
OH yeah, I am all over that school. My first semester will be:
Necromancy 2201 : Basics of Re-animation and summoning
PhysEd 1536 : Fencing
Political Science 2148 : Politics and Governance for Evil Overlords
Animal Science 3104 : Hybrid Monster Care and Feeding
Engineering 4206 : Advanced Death Trap Construction
Patents do not encourage innovation. What they do is give a company exclusive rights to market and sell their invention. The idea behind patents was to encourage innovation, but they do not do so. Instead, they create incredibly expensive and difficult barriers for people trying to bring a product to the marketplace. The overwhelming amount of bullshit being thrown at the Patent Office, and the resulting mountains of patented crap coming out of the office is proof that the system is inherently broken.
As to the computer I am typing on? Of course I would still by typing on a computer. You seem to believe that patents are responsible for how fast the computer is. The real question is, how much faster would it be if there were unfettered competition in the computer hardware industry, or the software industry.
Hah I'm happy with Interweb Explorer it does everything I want and more. Why just this morning it installed an antivirus program on my computer that told me I had 590 trojan thingies, and those are bad, right? Its great software and it only charged me 39.00 using a check over the internet to clean up all them trojan thingies.
Aw, darnit, my bank account's empty for some reason.
Its the Governments business because they monitor and regulate the marketplace. Sure, they don't monitor and regulate it as thoroughly as they should, otherwise the whole default credit swap/global financial crisis wouldn't have developed in the first place.
Anti-competitive behavior is one of those things that attracts government attention. You don't have to be a Microsoft to come under their microscope as Google themselves can attest. AT&T and Apple both have a proclivity for shutting out competition, and when it involves the phone system, the FCC is going to be interested.
This is because the FCC deals with everything involving the phone system. It deals with cellphone makers (Apple) and it deals with common carriers (AT&T).
I for one welcome the occasional ass kicking from the FCC as it helps to keep the various companies on their toes.
Well, your pseudonym is Phillip K Dickhead, so we kind of assumed you would have a penetrating wit that tends to rub things the wrong way. And testy's a thing that goes along with that territory.
One more cold hard fact. Tomas NorstrÃm, the judge in question, was not merely a member of several recording industry groups, he in fact sat on the board of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property.
So, he wasn't just a party interested in keeping involved with industry law, he was in charge of an advocacy group. I think that would put him solidly in the prejudiced and/or biased category.
Let's look at it another way. The head of the MPAA happens to be a judge, and he is the overseeing YOUR trial on illegal file sharing, or whatever. After the trial is over, and you are given a year of jail time, it is revealed that not only does he belong to the MPAA the BSA, and the RIAA, he is in fact one of the controlling parties of the MPAA.
And the group of judges who were to decide whether or not he was biased also belonged to the MPAA and the RIAA.
Oh. And it should also be noted that Anders Eka, the guy with the final decision that is not appealable, heads in an immaterial rights organisation as Peter Drowsky and Monique Wasted, the MPAA and Ifpi-lawyers. However, he does not feel that working together with the lawyers that enjoys this decision the most has an impact on his decision or that he might be biased himself...
Sure, but that is Pirate Bay, and whatever they say is suspect. Well, to quote from this site:
People love to shout "conspiracy theory" as a way to discredit something. And that can be true. However, there have been some conspiracy theories that turned out to be absolutely true.
I don't buy that argument. While height is to some extent determined by nutrition, it is genetic as well. I would also guess that beauty, while genetic, is also determined by better nutrition, and probably better prenatal nutrition. However, height, weight, and muscle mass have always been important in melee combat. Hence the weight classes in boxing and wrestling. For a historical perspective, set the dial in the Wayback machine to England in the year 1066.
At the Battle of Stamford Bridge, a single Norse berserker held off King Harold's army. The entire army. By himself. Archers weren't able to take him down, nor did anyone else until some Saxon soldiers got under the bridge and stabbed upward with spears, piercing several vital areas. I am assuming he lost the will to live.
Weakened, he was finally taken down. His action at the bridge allowed the Norse giants under Harald Hardrade to recover from the surprise of King Harold's army showing up unannounced.
The Norse were outnumbered and were beaten, and Harald Hardrade took an arrow in the battle and died.
Two things. Despite outnumbering the Vikings, this was a great victory for the Saxon army because the Vikings were bad ass motherfuckers. Big, bad ass guys that were on average about 5'10" tall. About average for a man now. But compared to the average European little man, they were hulking brutes.
Of course, the Saxon army was exhausted by the fight against Hardrade and got its ass thoroughly kicked at the battle of Hastings, courtesy of William the Conquerer and his merry band of Norman killers.
You know, I really enjoy history, its so interesting. Back to the point.
The Vikings were considered huge, and their size and strength made them fearsome enemies.
It is racist. The racism is in the implication that the cats mistake the little black kids for pieces of shit. You are then implying that the little black kids are shit. By comparing black people to shit, you are being derogatory based solely on their ethnic heritage or color.
A lot of jokes play on this racism. For example, a joke might be something like:
Irish Whiskey. Isn't that kind of redundant?
or perhaps:
Cheap Scotch: Isn't that kind of redundant?
By claiming that whiskey and Irish is a redundancy, I am implying that all Irish are drunks, which certainly isn't true. It puts down anyone of Irish descent by association and thus, is an example of racism. Similarly, the cheap Scotch joke is a shot against stereotypical behavior that has been associated with the Scottish. I am putting down both groups of people in order to feel better about myself. That would be racist. And yes, I know the term racism has mutated into a vague and hard to pin down concept. But the black children are shit joke is definitely racist.
Of course they get it. They get that with virtualization you don't need to update the drivers for windows xp, you could run it forever on a linux box, and only worry about updating the drivers in linux to match your hardware. thus people could have the latest hardware and run xp virtualized.
of course, the host operating system has to stay current, and with Micro$oft already pressuring vendors to stop making XP drivers, its the host operating system that becomes important.
Read toby's comment and follow the link:
Not everyone was fooled. Apenwarrwrote about it, for one.
This is still Microsoft, folks. It's always a trap.
--------------
Yeah, so don't buy anything off the the icecream truck that Microsoft is driving past us. Every treat has a razor blade and every snack is poisoned.
Woe, I sound really bitter, and I consider myself fairly apathetic where Windows is concerned.
Yeah, see, I don't think it matters HOW he collected the stolen information. I could go buy a iphone for 50 bucks. Sure its a stolen iphone and I know it. But I didn't steal it.
I've still broken the law. Its called possession of stolen property. And if I come into possession of property i know or "should have known" was stolen, i can go straight to jail.
This guy knows its stolen, yet he wants to charge you to see if your information is stolen.
Because contempt of court doesn't work the same way as criminal charges for assault or rape or any other crime. A contempt of court charge is the Judge's ultimate method of enforcing order in the courtroom.
Was this an abuse of the power to hold people in contempt of court? Absolutely.
The power of a judge to keep his court orderly, however, is of utmost importance to the continued functioning of our legal system. Furthermore, the man obviously was telling the court to fuck off. I am sure he could have proved he didn't have the money. I can't imagine him losing 5 million dollars and not being able to show just how he pissed it away. And I don't see a lawyer not keeping legal paperwork to cover his ass in this instance.
Thus, I conclude that he was telling his ex-wife, via the court system, to fuck off. I don't admire him for treating our court system with contempt, but I have to say the man has balls of steel if he is willing to go to prison for 14 years all for the sake of spite. Maybe not wise, but definitely very ballsy. I can even see the conversation in prison.
"What are you in here for." "I got a couple of million stashed in offshore holdings and was willing to go to prison rather than let my bitch of an ex-wife have a penny of it."
"Well, shit, I don't blame you. My ex-wife was a bitch too. That's why I stabbed her with an ice-pick."
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I am honestly unsure if this is a serious question, so I will answer it seriously.
The county hospital knows you can't pay. They expect you not to pay. But they do bill you, and when surprise, your minimum wage ass can't pay the bill, take a wild guess what happens to that 30 or 40 thousand dollar tab.
Even more fun is when you get into a serious accident and are rushed to the nearest emergency room. There you are stabilized, be it after a couple of days in the ICU, then you can be transported to the county hospital.
You are poor, so you have no insurance. Or, your employer has completely inadequate coverage. As a result, you are fucked. It doesn't matter if the taxpayer is footing the bill, you still get hammered by it.
hmmm....dongle.
that is a really funny word.
dongle
dongle
dongle
dongle
Sorry, going a couple days without sleep makes you kind of screwy. but still...
Dongle.
Dear Senator Cornyn,
In response to your question about so-called "fishy speech", I recomment you look over any number of your own speeches as reference material. Or, you can review any of the many lies the republican leadership is knowingly spreading about the proposed health-care plan.
The very popular youtube video of the republican mob overwhelming what was supposed to be a civilized discourse on the proposed health care plan seems to be somewhat fishy.
As to what we plan to do with all the lies you and your party have been spreading, I would think that must be obvious. We plan to counter the bullshit assertions your bitches on FOX news have been making in an attempt to give Americans real information about the proposed health care plan. I realize you wouldn't have a chance in hell of recognizing truth and integrity if it bit you on the ass, but you can't assume we are all republicans, especially after the ass kicking the republicans got during the last election.
For instance, turning what was meant to be a bi-partisan offering to help those on medicaid have a full and unfettered discussion with their doctors, including the option of not treating terninal illnesses into the republican's current crap argument of, healthcare will kill all the old people.
So, Senator Cornyn, why don't you come by the White House and we can talk honestly about health care. But, I am warning you, you will first have to stop sucking on the dicks of the insurance industry to do so.
Sincerely,
BARACK OBAMA
President of the United States of America
on second thought, I'd better take different courses. After all, I am not pre-law.
OH yeah, I am all over that school. My first semester will be:
Necromancy 2201 : Basics of Re-animation and summoning
PhysEd 1536 : Fencing
Political Science 2148 : Politics and Governance for Evil Overlords
Animal Science 3104 : Hybrid Monster Care and Feeding
Engineering 4206 : Advanced Death Trap Construction
WTF, someone please mod this down to comment hell.
Patents do not encourage innovation. What they do is give a company exclusive rights to market and sell their invention. The idea behind patents was to encourage innovation, but they do not do so. Instead, they create incredibly expensive and difficult barriers for people trying to bring a product to the marketplace. The overwhelming amount of bullshit being thrown at the Patent Office, and the resulting mountains of patented crap coming out of the office is proof that the system is inherently broken.
As to the computer I am typing on? Of course I would still by typing on a computer. You seem to believe that patents are responsible for how fast the computer is. The real question is, how much faster would it be if there were unfettered competition in the computer hardware industry, or the software industry.
Hah I'm happy with Interweb Explorer it does everything I want and more. Why just this morning it installed an antivirus program on my computer that told me I had 590 trojan thingies, and those are bad, right? Its great software and it only charged me 39.00 using a check over the internet to clean up all them trojan thingies.
Aw, darnit, my bank account's empty for some reason.
Hey watch it, that's Germany you are talking about. In Germany, it is forbidden to talk about Nazi's, even when they are censoring the internet.
Its the Governments business because they monitor and regulate the marketplace. Sure, they don't monitor and regulate it as thoroughly as they should, otherwise the whole default credit swap/global financial crisis wouldn't have developed in the first place.
Anti-competitive behavior is one of those things that attracts government attention. You don't have to be a Microsoft to come under their microscope as Google themselves can attest. AT&T and Apple both have a proclivity for shutting out competition, and when it involves the phone system, the FCC is going to be interested.
This is because the FCC deals with everything involving the phone system. It deals with cellphone makers (Apple) and it deals with common carriers (AT&T).
I for one welcome the occasional ass kicking from the FCC as it helps to keep the various companies on their toes.
ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT !!!
JESUS CHRIST, can we get back to discussing the FUCKING RIAA ARTICLE?
Well, your pseudonym is Phillip K Dickhead, so we kind of assumed you would have a penetrating wit that tends to rub things the wrong way. And testy's a thing that goes along with that territory.
This universe
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/27/2219257/Music-Industry-Thriving-In-an-Era-of-File-Sharing
Sure. Boston became a part of Europe at the same time Europe's laws started being applied to a case in an American courtroom.
One more cold hard fact. Tomas NorstrÃm, the judge in question, was not merely a member of several recording industry groups, he in fact sat on the board of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property.
So, he wasn't just a party interested in keeping involved with industry law, he was in charge of an advocacy group. I think that would put him solidly in the prejudiced and/or biased category.
Let's look at it another way. The head of the MPAA happens to be a judge, and he is the overseeing YOUR trial on illegal file sharing, or whatever. After the trial is over, and you are given a year of jail time, it is revealed that not only does he belong to the MPAA the BSA, and the RIAA, he is in fact one of the controlling parties of the MPAA.
And the group of judges who were to decide whether or not he was biased also belonged to the MPAA and the RIAA.
Does it sound like a conspiracy theory?
The pirate bay blog says this:
Oh. And it should also be noted that Anders Eka, the guy with the final decision that is not appealable, heads in an immaterial rights organisation as Peter Drowsky and Monique Wasted, the MPAA and Ifpi-lawyers. However, he does not feel that working together with the lawyers that enjoys this decision the most has an impact on his decision or that he might be biased himself...
Sure, but that is Pirate Bay, and whatever they say is suspect. Well, to quote from this site:
Monique Wasted, Peter Danowsky, Jan Rosén (assistant to Monique in the TPB-case and also the chairman for the swedish organisation for copyright), Daniel Westman (another one involved in the same sphere of Jan Rosén and Monique Wasted) - and of course, Anders Eka.
People love to shout "conspiracy theory" as a way to discredit something. And that can be true. However, there have been some conspiracy theories that turned out to be absolutely true.
http://www.cracked.com/article_15974_7-insane-conspiracies-that-actually-happened.html
I don't buy that argument. While height is to some extent determined by nutrition, it is genetic as well. I would also guess that beauty, while genetic, is also determined by better nutrition, and probably better prenatal nutrition. However, height, weight, and muscle mass have always been important in melee combat. Hence the weight classes in boxing and wrestling. For a historical perspective, set the dial in the Wayback machine to England in the year 1066.
At the Battle of Stamford Bridge, a single Norse berserker held off King Harold's army. The entire army. By himself. Archers weren't able to take him down, nor did anyone else until some Saxon soldiers got under the bridge and stabbed upward with spears, piercing several vital areas. I am assuming he lost the will to live.
Weakened, he was finally taken down. His action at the bridge allowed the Norse giants under Harald Hardrade to recover from the surprise of King Harold's army showing up unannounced.
The Norse were outnumbered and were beaten, and Harald Hardrade took an arrow in the battle and died.
Two things. Despite outnumbering the Vikings, this was a great victory for the Saxon army because the Vikings were bad ass motherfuckers. Big, bad ass guys that were on average about 5'10" tall. About average for a man now. But compared to the average European little man, they were hulking brutes.
Of course, the Saxon army was exhausted by the fight against Hardrade and got its ass thoroughly kicked at the battle of Hastings, courtesy of William the Conquerer and his merry band of Norman killers.
You know, I really enjoy history, its so interesting. Back to the point.
The Vikings were considered huge, and their size and strength made them fearsome enemies.
That's fine, but I am not interested in looking at her face.
It is racist. The racism is in the implication that the cats mistake the little black kids for pieces of shit. You are then implying that the little black kids are shit. By comparing black people to shit, you are being derogatory based solely on their ethnic heritage or color.
A lot of jokes play on this racism. For example, a joke might be something like:
Irish Whiskey. Isn't that kind of redundant?
or perhaps:
Cheap Scotch: Isn't that kind of redundant?
By claiming that whiskey and Irish is a redundancy, I am implying that all Irish are drunks, which certainly isn't true. It puts down anyone of Irish descent by association and thus, is an example of racism. Similarly, the cheap Scotch joke is a shot against stereotypical behavior that has been associated with the Scottish. I am putting down both groups of people in order to feel better about myself. That would be racist. And yes, I know the term racism has mutated into a vague and hard to pin down concept. But the black children are shit joke is definitely racist.
My body can feel X-rays... Oh God No ... they burn, they burn....
Oh, wait, never mind, that was the stove.
Dude, that rash, it's not an allergy.
Yeah.
"Microsoft-Hatred is the Disease, and I'm the Cure"
Linus "Cobra" Torvalds
Well, if you shoot the 600,009 you have in custody, you are guaranteed 9 terrorist deaths.
and that is 600,009 people less likely to cause traffic jams.
I'm surprisingly okay with that.
Of course they get it. They get that with virtualization you don't need to update the drivers for windows xp, you could run it forever on a linux box, and only worry about updating the drivers in linux to match your hardware. thus people could have the latest hardware and run xp virtualized.
of course, the host operating system has to stay current, and with Micro$oft already pressuring vendors to stop making XP drivers, its the host operating system that becomes important.
Read toby's comment and follow the link:
Not everyone was fooled. Apenwarrwrote about it, for one.
This is still Microsoft, folks. It's always a trap.
--------------
Yeah, so don't buy anything off the the icecream truck that Microsoft is driving past us. Every treat has a razor blade and every snack is poisoned.
Woe, I sound really bitter, and I consider myself fairly apathetic where Windows is concerned.
Yeah, see, I don't think it matters HOW he collected the stolen information. I could go buy a iphone for 50 bucks. Sure its a stolen iphone and I know it. But I didn't steal it.
I've still broken the law. Its called possession of stolen property. And if I come into possession of property i know or "should have known" was stolen, i can go straight to jail.
This guy knows its stolen, yet he wants to charge you to see if your information is stolen.
Because contempt of court doesn't work the same way as criminal charges for assault or rape or any other crime. A contempt of court charge is the Judge's ultimate method of enforcing order in the courtroom.
Was this an abuse of the power to hold people in contempt of court? Absolutely.
The power of a judge to keep his court orderly, however, is of utmost importance to the continued functioning of our legal system. Furthermore, the man obviously was telling the court to fuck off. I am sure he could have proved he didn't have the money. I can't imagine him losing 5 million dollars and not being able to show just how he pissed it away. And I don't see a lawyer not keeping legal paperwork to cover his ass in this instance.
Thus, I conclude that he was telling his ex-wife, via the court system, to fuck off. I don't admire him for treating our court system with contempt, but I have to say the man has balls of steel if he is willing to go to prison for 14 years all for the sake of spite. Maybe not wise, but definitely very ballsy. I can even see the conversation in prison.
"What are you in here for."
"I got a couple of million stashed in offshore holdings and was willing to go to prison rather than let my bitch of an ex-wife have a penny of it."
"Well, shit, I don't blame you. My ex-wife was a bitch too. That's why I stabbed her with an ice-pick."