Kristof is full of shit on other subjects, sometimes even when he rants about human trafficking.
I socialised plenty with various dancers etc in Korea, many of them totally open about voluntarily coming there to make fat bank and try to snag G.I. husbands (whose income could feed their sponging families back in the Philippines). They were a cheerful lot, as they lived quite well by PI standards and pretty much partied just like the soldiers they had as sugar daddies.
There's an easy way to sort and preserve exclusivity for American citizens.
National biometric identification also linked to medical records. I essentially have this with my military retiree ID card linked to the DEERS system.
I agree on national health care. I also advocate the US use its resources for Americans. No foreign aid, no recreational wars, and a harshly isolationist foreign policy instead of bleeding taxpayers to death enforcing corporate globalism.
"Every doctor I've ever had is extremely dismissive of any condition and very impatient to get the appointment over with. My experience with doctors has primarily been that they are roadblocks to efficient medical care. I can't count the number of times I have had to educate a doctor about my wife's Type I diabetes and insulin, or the number of times that I have received diagnoses that were completely out of line with symptoms."
You and a considerable army of other people. My wife knows more about managing her diabetes (she fended it off for decades through diet) than the docs who treat her.
Food for thought: Your car mechanic spends FAR more time fixing your car than a physician spends interacting with you.
"you will need to have a centralized system that handles all patients' drug information as you have now removed the role of various trained medical professionals."
Beats not being able to afford care. I'll take the trade.
Fuck 'em. The vast majority of minor problems and many major ones could be addressed by a "checklist/flowchart" system.
Physicians only have a few minutes to go through their PERSONAL checklist/flowchart, and they often know less about the problem than the patient.
My wife had Lyme and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, courtesy of the tick invasion of the South that so many LOCAL physicians don't even think to consider. She had to download and present info to (multiple) docs until they sent her for testing which verified HER self-diagnosis.
What we need are more ways to use computers to do repetitive tasks that TASK-SATURATED physicians don't need to do. Sitting in an office for four hours to get a couple of minutes of interaction is bullshit, and it's also NORMAL.
"If you want to mess with your UI on Windows, there's all kinds of stuff to do it."
There are not, however, lots of different UIs!
If I want to switch ___between___ UIs and tweak one to my liking while using the other for work, I can log out then log in to do it.
BB4Win is a cool effort, as are the various BartPE and WinPE-ish live "distros". (FalconFour 4.5 is a great multi-boot live CD and usually has plenty of seeders.)
Conservatives are targeted because they are almost all religious and superstition and science conflict as they have down the centuries.
"Why is there no backlash from conservatives themselves?"
BECAUSE THEY ARE BIBLE THUMPERS, AND THE TINY FEW WHO DON'T CONFORM to that rule make no difference but relentlessly insist they matter.
Religion is naught but lies, however appealing, and any search for truth threatens the SOCIAL CONTROL exercised by superstitionists. Superstitionists, ALL of them, form a mutually-enabling network of anti-truth doctrines which consider the are OBLIGATED to rule you.
That's why I hate religion and despise religionists. They have so stacked the deck that their ridiculous ideas are treated with respect.
I defy any of them reading this to PROVE their Deity exists, whereupon I shall recant and abase myself before he/she/it. Otherwise, fuck off.
We have NUKES. China doesn't have any scenario where they could do sufficient power projection against our conventional force, but all you need to exterminate a marine opponent of size is a few warheads.
"Having an aircraft designed, tested, and an assembly line in place, these very small aircraft can be built in great numbers very fast as soon as cost become not a constraint."
You would need MORE parallel lines, not a speedup.
That also doesn't solve component lead times, crew training times, maintainer training times, maintenance infrastructure buildout times, and the other things which make spewing out modern aircraft a bit different than knocking up a WWII piston-engined fighter.
"I used to drive a 1969 Dodge Dart with great gaping rust holes, a spider-web cracked windshield, and Bullwinkle the Moose painted on the hood in house paint."
I use the truck and accessories, as I said, for their intended purposes, and noted that the accessories also have a useful side effect.
Some people actually haul things (welders, metal, compressed gas cylinders, auto parts, construction materials, and household waste to the recycling center in my case) and have ample use for their trucks. I drove them long before it was fashionable.
Lift gates make loading and unloading large, heavy things much safer and easier. They are a wise purchase new or used and much cheaper than back surgery!
As far as "coercion", I'm polite, but I expect and demand not to be fucked with and understand that humans react usefully to some stimuli. They are what they are.
I can be driving a same-sized vehicle that's pristine and be cut off blithely by various fuckwads while I'm given wide birth in my other trucks. Working at a used car lot gave me plenty of varied driving experience...
My OTHER truck is a C-30 crew cab wrecker whose front bumper is an eight-inch steel I-beam with a horizontal section of railroad rail welded across it as a counterweight to the wheel-lift wrecker apparatus in back. I don't do repos myself (though I've helped buds who used their wreckers) but heads do turn if anything looking like a repo truck goes by. People get out of your way quite smartly.
I don't cut off others. I'm also a motorcyclist and very aware of the rules of the road.
"If I see one more spate of unintelligible posts about Gamemaker from multiple accounts (at least 4) owned by the same jackass, I'm gonna slit my wrists."
Slashdot Mirror
Jocks need to make a living too. A few casualties is nothing compared to the billions of dollars in pay.
If they minded getting punch-drunk, they would have found another career. It's an acceptable risk.
Encouraging fat fucks is deadly too. The medical consequences are debilitating and often fatal.
What BMI range will be acceptable for models?
Kristof is full of shit on other subjects, sometimes even when he rants about human trafficking.
I socialised plenty with various dancers etc in Korea, many of them totally open about voluntarily coming there to make fat bank and try to snag G.I. husbands (whose income could feed their sponging families back in the Philippines). They were a cheerful lot, as they lived quite well by PI standards and pretty much partied just like the soldiers they had as sugar daddies.
"Goodbye tin foil hat; hello stylish wallpaper hat."
Hello band-pass filter wallpaper hat!
Now I can SORT the voices in my head.
Good thing no animals die in the wild or as livestock.
....anything about tech.
There's an easy way to sort and preserve exclusivity for American citizens.
National biometric identification also linked to medical records. I essentially have this with my military retiree ID card linked to the DEERS system.
I agree on national health care. I also advocate the US use its resources for Americans. No foreign aid, no recreational wars, and a harshly isolationist foreign policy instead of bleeding taxpayers to death enforcing corporate globalism.
As the sign on the British bus said:
"Science flys you to the moon.
Religion flies you into buildings."
CBs are cheap, and while HF won't punch underground on its own, enterprising activists could certainly build portable repeaters and try them out.
I lack local subways or I'd have at it.
Experiment with various "civilian" handheld radios and see what you get.
"Every doctor I've ever had is extremely dismissive of any condition and very impatient to get the appointment over with. My experience with doctors has primarily been that they are roadblocks to efficient medical care. I can't count the number of times I have had to educate a doctor about my wife's Type I diabetes and insulin, or the number of times that I have received diagnoses that were completely out of line with symptoms."
You and a considerable army of other people. My wife knows more about managing her diabetes (she fended it off for decades through diet) than the docs who treat her.
Food for thought:
Your car mechanic spends FAR more time fixing your car than a physician spends interacting with you.
"you will need to have a centralized system that handles all patients' drug information as you have now removed the role of various trained medical professionals."
Beats not being able to afford care. I'll take the trade.
Try being diabetic. What a dick-dance to get basic survival supplies which are RATIONED to maintain a REVENUE stream...
Fuck 'em. The vast majority of minor problems and many major ones could be addressed by a "checklist/flowchart" system.
Physicians only have a few minutes to go through their PERSONAL checklist/flowchart, and they often know less about the problem than the patient.
My wife had Lyme and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, courtesy of the tick invasion of the South that so many LOCAL physicians don't even think to consider. She had to download and present info to (multiple) docs until they sent her for testing which verified HER self-diagnosis.
What we need are more ways to use computers to do repetitive tasks that TASK-SATURATED physicians don't need to do. Sitting in an office for four hours to get a couple of minutes of interaction is bullshit, and it's also NORMAL.
"If you want to mess with your UI on Windows, there's all kinds of stuff to do it."
There are not, however, lots of different UIs!
If I want to switch ___between___ UIs and tweak one to my liking while using the other for work, I can log out then log in to do it.
BB4Win is a cool effort, as are the various BartPE and WinPE-ish live "distros". (FalconFour 4.5 is a great multi-boot live CD and usually has plenty of seeders.)
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6238607
I like Blackbox on Linux, but see no great point in making proprietary Windows do what Linux already does more conveniently.
Conservatives are targeted because they are almost all religious and superstition and science conflict as they have down the centuries.
"Why is there no backlash from conservatives themselves?"
BECAUSE THEY ARE BIBLE THUMPERS, AND THE TINY FEW WHO DON'T CONFORM to that rule make no difference but relentlessly insist they matter.
Religion is naught but lies, however appealing, and any search for truth threatens the SOCIAL CONTROL exercised by superstitionists.
Superstitionists, ALL of them, form a mutually-enabling network of anti-truth doctrines which consider the are OBLIGATED to rule you.
That's why I hate religion and despise religionists. They have so stacked the deck that their ridiculous ideas are treated with respect.
I defy any of them reading this to PROVE their Deity exists, whereupon I shall recant and abase myself before he/she/it. Otherwise, fuck off.
Ubuntu has been doing all it can....to make Mint a popular alternative...
I don't recommend Linux to anyone but geeks.
I don't need to get blamed for user disappointment. Many people just accept Windows problems because at least they are familiar...
You can, and many of us do, run a variety of UIs on the same machine and load whatever we like.
Try that with Windows and let us know how it works out.
We have NUKES. China doesn't have any scenario where they could do sufficient power projection against our conventional force, but all you need to exterminate a marine opponent of size is a few warheads.
We TESTED this, it bears reminding:
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Baker8big.jpg
We even proved we can use nukes ON LAND in CONUS, because we DID:
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/
"Having an aircraft designed, tested, and an assembly line in place, these very small aircraft can be built in great numbers very fast as soon as cost become not a constraint."
You would need MORE parallel lines, not a speedup.
That also doesn't solve component lead times, crew training times, maintainer training times, maintenance infrastructure buildout times, and the other things which make spewing out modern aircraft a bit different than knocking up a WWII piston-engined fighter.
"I used to drive a 1969 Dodge Dart with great gaping rust holes, a spider-web cracked windshield, and Bullwinkle the Moose painted on the hood in house paint."
Excellent!
I use the truck and accessories, as I said, for their intended purposes, and noted that the accessories also have a useful side effect.
Some people actually haul things (welders, metal, compressed gas cylinders, auto parts, construction materials, and household waste to the recycling center in my case) and have ample use for their trucks. I drove them long before it was fashionable.
Lift gates make loading and unloading large, heavy things much safer and easier. They are a wise purchase new or used and much cheaper than back surgery!
http://www.tommygate.com/
As far as "coercion", I'm polite, but I expect and demand not to be fucked with and understand that humans react usefully to some stimuli. They are what they are.
I can be driving a same-sized vehicle that's pristine and be cut off blithely by various fuckwads while I'm given wide birth in my other trucks. Working at a used car lot gave me plenty of varied driving experience...
My OTHER truck is a C-30 crew cab wrecker whose front bumper is an eight-inch steel I-beam with a horizontal section of railroad rail welded across it as a counterweight to the wheel-lift wrecker apparatus in back. I don't do repos myself (though I've helped buds who used their wreckers) but heads do turn if anything looking like a repo truck goes by. People get out of your way quite smartly.
I don't cut off others. I'm also a motorcyclist and very aware of the rules of the road.
"The more poorer a country more corruption it has."
In rich countries, we call corruption "government" and it's less visible due to being in cahoots with the people who also own the media.
"If I see one more spate of unintelligible posts about Gamemaker from multiple accounts (at least 4) owned by the same jackass, I'm gonna slit my wrists."
Useless. Find HIM and slit HIS wrists instead.
"and I want my Alyson Hannigan sexbot for $50 and a pack of Lucky Strikes and now we're both disappointed"
Too greedy. I'd be willing to forego the cigarettes.
Distracted morons are one reason why I drive full-size trucks with ugly accessories such as liftgates and tow-truck bumpers.
Besides using them for their intended purpose, such add-ons get driver attention. Flat black Rustoleum FTW!
I also keep my triball Reese hitch installed as a standoff. Anyone who rear-ends me deserves to lose a radiator, not just a bumper cover.