Actually, it implies that people who work in law offices probably use multiple word processors out of need, regardless of enjoyment. I mean really, who in their right mind 'enjoys' using just one word processor?
Bullshit, the 'litigation' that is supposedly driving up insurance premiums on the doctors side, and as a result increasing individual health care premiums, is a red herring from the health care companies so you focus on that and not their mismanagement of funds.
I thought maybe it was sarcasm but I realize you are serious after checking your profile.
Please, get the fuck off the internet.
If you are not a pro-business lobbyist, you really need to approach some of the fronting 'institutes' and 'think tanks' and start getting paid for this bullshit.
The United States Government is an extension of the citizens, created for the sake of the public welfare. The public welfare relies on ENERGY. The energy system is already privatized, yet it gets unbelievable amounts of GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY. Aka, Welfare. Business welfare is the real problem with this country, not individual/family welfare. We throw billions down the tube in the form of business subsidy and get jack shit for return, the private companies (and its not just the energy sector) happily take this money and use it to further their own profit margins. Verizon, Bellsouth, SBC/AT&T, etc etc, all take huge sums from the government for the purpose of maintaining the 'utility' of phone and communications over copper wire, Verizon is funnelling its own 'share' of maintenance money (the part Verizon is required to put up for being allowed to profit on the public rights of way) and running fiber optics which are not considered part of the existing infrastructure, therefore they have more freedom to determine prices. Its absolutely insane that you pay a private corporation money for research, maintenance, and bailouts (when needed) for public services that could be run by public servants at cost instead of for profit. When energy becomes part of the expected government services paid for by taxes, the economy, especially private business economics, becomes much stronger by focusing efforts on other things than maintenance and power generation.
Until power plants and power lines are run and maintained by the government, they can go fuck themselves and get sued. Nobody is going to profit while polluting in my backyard.
Good healthcare right now is a fucking ripoff, someone needs to punish the healthcare system and kick its ass back in line, no more Glaxxosmithkline making billions off fake drugs that cause more problems than they fix at the expense of health care premiums. No more health care premiums. Doctors don't get to buy quite as many Porche and Mercedes cars and suvs from the returns they got on investments in companies whose drugs they recommend to patients (INSANITY. Breach of ethics. Violation of Hippocratic oath. The whole nine yards on that one.)
700B is more than enough to create a functional healthcare system with reliable service.
A hospital is a public support structure and should be treated as such, not as a private corporation that has the top most motivating factor as profit for its shareholders.
You are correct, I just copied and pasted that from the original post, meant to remove the 'nuclear weapons' or at least clarify that that part is defense spending. The money in the energy budget is for tidal generators and implementing solar panels country wide on homes, businesses, and electric poles.
But if you're not a part of the press -- and you can't just declare yourself a reporter -- then you can't simply publish a photograph of anyone you see on the street.
Actually, it appears you really are not from this country. The Constitution does not define the press or reporters to such an extent. Anyone can take a picture and publish that picture while acting as a member of the press. Its a falsehood that you must have "press credentials" to be covered by fair use and by the Constitution.
Please note that I would only cut the budget on Nasa for the first 2 years, then I would ramp it up past 100B, if we don't get our asses in space and start strip mining other planetoids and asteroids, we're ALL in bigger trouble than deficit spending. In reality, a good chunk of the defense budget would go to NASA as well.
Social Security: 600B (Mandatory) Defense: 250B Universal Health Care as part of Health and Human Services : 700B (Mandatory) Other Mandatory: 350B (a whole bunch of tiny, popular things. A few punching bags are in this category, such as TANF/Food stamps, but they're only ~7B and ~12B, respectively, so not much left to cut there.) Interest on debt: 239B (Mandatory) Medicaid/SCHIP: 0B (Mandatory) (see Universal Health Care) "Global War on Terror": 0B (emergency supplemental) Education: 100B Housing and Urban Development: 30B Veterans Affairs: 30B Homeland Security: 0B (this is bullshit, covered under Defense spending) State and other Intl. Programs: 15B Energy: 100B (includes nuclear weapons) Agriculture: 20B Justice: 20B NASA: 15B (primary budget is covered under Defense for first 2 years) Labor: 10B Treasury: 5B Transportation: 15B Interior: 10B Social Security Adminstration: 5B EPA: 5B Other Agencies: 5B Commerce: 5B National Science Foundation: 5B Judicial Branch: 5B Corps of Engineers: 5B Legislative Branch: 2B Border Security and Other Suppl.: 0B (once again, bullshit, covered under defense spending) Small Business Administration: 0.4B Executive Office: 0.1B Hurricane response: 0B (emergency supplemental, covered under Health and Human Services)
Sounds like somebody is drinking too much of the kool-aid.
Fiat currency IS based on debt growth, debt that is set against the society of people, by the government of said people.
Adam Smith didn't solve shit, he came up with a fly-by-night idea and piled on it loads of seemingly sound philosophy (that was probably also a bunch of bullshit too). China has the government structure and the sheer number of people available to hit us hard with debt they own. Fiat currency seems more valuable if you spend it, but this is China, the land of 'conquering your ass' sometimes its just a valuable as a tool to be used to destroy the opponent. Sun Tzu was around long before Adam Smith.
Fiat currency has worked remarkably well because the US held all of the cards until now and noone but the US could game the system.
The fact is, fiat currency is pretend currency, and it only works as long as someone with a lot more guns than someone else has and keeps control of it.
Well of course, if one has so much money, the markup of items is negligible. That said, anyone posting to slashdot that spends $40 on an hdmi cable is just f'ing lazy:)
I must say yours is absolutely a case of 'you get what you pay for' and going with the lowest end choices for LCD HDTVs was the first problem. Stop buying tvs from Walmart and Target (or Tiger Direct's cheapest crap) and chances are you will get something that was built with enough quality control involved to often avoid damaged hardware and inconsistent hdmi compliance.
Ok so you were among the handful of people fooled into wasting money on a PS3 (j/k) and now have a bluray player, you are in the minority of people, and you are probably among the more open to the new formats as a result. your opinion is skewed by already having a player for one of the new disks. I cant play anything br or hddvd yet, and I'm DEFINITELY more inclined towards teh HDDVD players that are cheaper than the BR counterparts, if I HAVE to move to a new format. Don't forget, this is the Walmart generation of consumers, people only care about the lowest price, not the best technology (which explains why iPod outdid Archos so well).
Point taken, but I think we only have about 5,000 years worth of fairly documented killing.
Thinking about it, I doubt most of the killing was done due to the religion itself, it was due to the fear and greed of individuals that happened to be associated with a religion at a particular time.
I myself am perfect willing to talk about it. The problem with religion and politics in public discourse is everyone gets into a shitflinging troll fest over it. Its taking a (seemingly but no really) logical approach to the groups of religions all over the world, its so pervasive that maybe someone is right and there is some schitzophrenic psycopathic holy loving magical man up in the sky that runs the servers we exist in, so 'just in case' we gotta pay respects to him in the event he decides to cut the power to our corner of the cluster and we have no failover.
The reason we keep electing Presidents that seem to have such a connection to religion is 1.) nobody does their homework and figures out that all these assholes pay lip service to everything and only believe in themselves and 2.) nobody fucking votes. If enough people got off their ass and voted, this country could be a lot different.
We need to come up with some way to just 'appoint' a random person who meets a minimum set of qualifications for president. To many ways to game such a system means it will never be feasible until we have computer overlords with no soul, no 'bugs', and definied values (opinions) on politics and religions. In that case, the concept of a 'President' is moot anyway. Plus we all know (or should) where that leads... the ultimate truth from AI even with Asimovs laws, humans are too much of a danger to themselves to exist.
No, arrogance is what keeps the people ignorant, uncritical, and divided. Faith in and of itself can keep an individual sane. I guess its along the lines of an individual being smart, but that same individual in a large group can be very dumb. Its got nothing to do with faith in and of itself, its the outside influences and self inspired arrogance that brings those things about.
Proclaiming that its a tool shows you either haven't really considered what faith is, have had negative experiences with someone who was using their faith as a justification for an argument, or just don't give a shit what faith at its core is and what its can be. I will agree that arrogant faith can be worse that arrogant 'unfaith'. But don't blanket the idea of faith as a negative, its disrespectful. Do unto others and all that jazz.
If a) is only 100x the cost, lets do it, establish a moon base, setup a telescope on the dark side to really take a look at space, and bring a giant vacumn to clean up all the dust and maybe start a little terraforming. We need a space presence, and we need to really examine what it takes to terraform a planet. Sooner or later this old rock is going to give out. We need to get into space to insure the survival or our species (or at least give possible warning to other races through technological advances and where we may have missed or gone wrong). And I'm not saying this as someone who has read entirely too much space scifi (which i have), I'm saying it as a reasonable and prudent human being taking an 'eye on the prize' approach to our future existance.
I think you are wrong in terms of the initial uptake of the new formats, it has everything to do with the DRM and technological issues with the formats, simply b/c the early adopters tend to be the rich that want the newest and most expensive, and the geeks that want bragging rights despite living in their parents basement. Sadly (or perhaps not) its the geeks without all the money that will influence the formats.
DVD is certainly 'good enough' and it will actually be the reason that HD DVD and BluRay ultimately don't matter and can't seem to take a winning position in the 'movie' department. Its the geeks that will determine which format survives. And really, with BluRay being Sony, and with Sony's dismal failures over the years (BETAMAX PEOPLE. BETAMAX.) for content storage and playback (b-s licensing terms for hardware tech), and their history of a desire to control the formats entirely, I'd give HD DVD the win. I'm not so quick to forget. Sony memory stick anyone? Minidisc?
But let's look at even MORE reality... I have 2 terabytes of drive space at home now, on the CHEAP, and 10mbps internet. I just don't care who wins, and the only thing I would use br or hddvd for is a cheap backup solution. The only thing that could make either format matter is the utter decimation of the internet and the whole Net Neutrality nightmare scenarios.
I'm inclined to say that faith has been effective in keeping peace, its the organized and centralized power structure in a religion that has done well disturbing that peace...
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Actually, it implies that people who work in law offices probably use multiple word processors out of need, regardless of enjoyment. I mean really, who in their right mind 'enjoys' using just one word processor?
Cheers.
You've never worked in a law office that used word perfect...
Bullshit, the 'litigation' that is supposedly driving up insurance premiums on the doctors side, and as a result increasing individual health care premiums, is a red herring from the health care companies so you focus on that and not their mismanagement of funds.
Be wary of the bullshit the republican party, insurance companies, and their doctors, feed you through the news cycle and various organizations. Theres more to it.
Cheers.
I thought maybe it was sarcasm but I realize you are serious after checking your profile.
Please, get the fuck off the internet.
If you are not a pro-business lobbyist, you really need to approach some of the fronting 'institutes' and 'think tanks' and start getting paid for this bullshit.
The United States Government is an extension of the citizens, created for the sake of the public welfare. The public welfare relies on ENERGY. The energy system is already privatized, yet it gets unbelievable amounts of GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY. Aka, Welfare. Business welfare is the real problem with this country, not individual/family welfare. We throw billions down the tube in the form of business subsidy and get jack shit for return, the private companies (and its not just the energy sector) happily take this money and use it to further their own profit margins. Verizon, Bellsouth, SBC/AT&T, etc etc, all take huge sums from the government for the purpose of maintaining the 'utility' of phone and communications over copper wire, Verizon is funnelling its own 'share' of maintenance money (the part Verizon is required to put up for being allowed to profit on the public rights of way) and running fiber optics which are not considered part of the existing infrastructure, therefore they have more freedom to determine prices. Its absolutely insane that you pay a private corporation money for research, maintenance, and bailouts (when needed) for public services that could be run by public servants at cost instead of for profit. When energy becomes part of the expected government services paid for by taxes, the economy, especially private business economics, becomes much stronger by focusing efforts on other things than maintenance and power generation.
Until power plants and power lines are run and maintained by the government, they can go fuck themselves and get sued. Nobody is going to profit while polluting in my backyard.
Cheers.
Good healthcare right now is a fucking ripoff, someone needs to punish the healthcare system and kick its ass back in line, no more Glaxxosmithkline making billions off fake drugs that cause more problems than they fix at the expense of health care premiums. No more health care premiums. Doctors don't get to buy quite as many Porche and Mercedes cars and suvs from the returns they got on investments in companies whose drugs they recommend to patients (INSANITY. Breach of ethics. Violation of Hippocratic oath. The whole nine yards on that one.)
700B is more than enough to create a functional healthcare system with reliable service.
A hospital is a public support structure and should be treated as such, not as a private corporation that has the top most motivating factor as profit for its shareholders.
Cheers.
You are correct, I just copied and pasted that from the original post, meant to remove the 'nuclear weapons' or at least clarify that that part is defense spending. The money in the energy budget is for tidal generators and implementing solar panels country wide on homes, businesses, and electric poles.
cheers.
But if you're not a part of the press -- and you can't just declare yourself a reporter -- then you can't simply publish a photograph of anyone you see on the street.
Actually, it appears you really are not from this country. The Constitution does not define the press or reporters to such an extent. Anyone can take a picture and publish that picture while acting as a member of the press. Its a falsehood that you must have "press credentials" to be covered by fair use and by the Constitution.
Cheers.
Please note that I would only cut the budget on Nasa for the first 2 years, then I would ramp it up past 100B, if we don't get our asses in space and start strip mining other planetoids and asteroids, we're ALL in bigger trouble than deficit spending. In reality, a good chunk of the defense budget would go to NASA as well.
Social Security: 600B (Mandatory)
Defense: 250B
Universal Health Care as part of Health and Human Services : 700B (Mandatory)
Other Mandatory: 350B (a whole bunch of tiny, popular things. A few punching bags are in this category, such as TANF/Food stamps, but they're only ~7B and ~12B, respectively, so not much left to cut there.)
Interest on debt: 239B (Mandatory)
Medicaid/SCHIP: 0B (Mandatory) (see Universal Health Care)
"Global War on Terror": 0B (emergency supplemental)
Education: 100B
Housing and Urban Development: 30B
Veterans Affairs: 30B
Homeland Security: 0B (this is bullshit, covered under Defense spending)
State and other Intl. Programs: 15B
Energy: 100B (includes nuclear weapons)
Agriculture: 20B
Justice: 20B
NASA: 15B (primary budget is covered under Defense for first 2 years)
Labor: 10B
Treasury: 5B
Transportation: 15B
Interior: 10B
Social Security Adminstration: 5B
EPA: 5B
Other Agencies: 5B
Commerce: 5B
National Science Foundation: 5B
Judicial Branch: 5B
Corps of Engineers: 5B
Legislative Branch: 2B
Border Security and Other Suppl.: 0B (once again, bullshit, covered under defense spending)
Small Business Administration: 0.4B
Executive Office: 0.1B
Hurricane response: 0B (emergency supplemental, covered under Health and Human Services)
That sumbitch bettar stay outta our Amer'ca or we'll kick his r'mainin good teeth owt!
I bet he's a terrist too!
Sounds like somebody is drinking too much of the kool-aid.
Fiat currency IS based on debt growth, debt that is set against the society of people, by the government of said people.
Adam Smith didn't solve shit, he came up with a fly-by-night idea and piled on it loads of seemingly sound philosophy (that was probably also a bunch of bullshit too). China has the government structure and the sheer number of people available to hit us hard with debt they own. Fiat currency seems more valuable if you spend it, but this is China, the land of 'conquering your ass' sometimes its just a valuable as a tool to be used to destroy the opponent. Sun Tzu was around long before Adam Smith.
Fiat currency has worked remarkably well because the US held all of the cards until now and noone but the US could game the system.
The fact is, fiat currency is pretend currency, and it only works as long as someone with a lot more guns than someone else has and keeps control of it.
Cheers.
Almost every shared hosting and VPS out there does that... just not with MS SQL quite so often
I see where you are coming from, but the First Amendment doesn't discriminate between expression at a polling station and expression from your couch.
Cheers.
How is the government supposed to watch US from our tvs if they dont have 2 way communications, ala 1984?
cheers.
Not voting can be done as a form of expression, which is protected by the First Amendment. Theres no point even thinking about such a law.
Well of course, if one has so much money, the markup of items is negligible. That said, anyone posting to slashdot that spends $40 on an hdmi cable is just f'ing lazy :)
I must say yours is absolutely a case of 'you get what you pay for' and going with the lowest end choices for LCD HDTVs was the first problem. Stop buying tvs from Walmart and Target (or Tiger Direct's cheapest crap) and chances are you will get something that was built with enough quality control involved to often avoid damaged hardware and inconsistent hdmi compliance.
Anyone paying $40 for a fun of the mill HDMI cable is nuts. http://www.microbarn.com/details.aspx?rid=102015
Cheers.
Ok so you were among the handful of people fooled into wasting money on a PS3 (j/k) and now have a bluray player, you are in the minority of people, and you are probably among the more open to the new formats as a result. your opinion is skewed by already having a player for one of the new disks. I cant play anything br or hddvd yet, and I'm DEFINITELY more inclined towards teh HDDVD players that are cheaper than the BR counterparts, if I HAVE to move to a new format. Don't forget, this is the Walmart generation of consumers, people only care about the lowest price, not the best technology (which explains why iPod outdid Archos so well).
Cheers.
I hope they are proved wrong AND kicked in the balls at the next election. That would be a helluva platform to run on.
Point taken, but I think we only have about 5,000 years worth of fairly documented killing.
Thinking about it, I doubt most of the killing was done due to the religion itself, it was due to the fear and greed of individuals that happened to be associated with a religion at a particular time.
Cheers.
I myself am perfect willing to talk about it. The problem with religion and politics in public discourse is everyone gets into a shitflinging troll fest over it. Its taking a (seemingly but no really) logical approach to the groups of religions all over the world, its so pervasive that maybe someone is right and there is some schitzophrenic psycopathic holy loving magical man up in the sky that runs the servers we exist in, so 'just in case' we gotta pay respects to him in the event he decides to cut the power to our corner of the cluster and we have no failover.
The reason we keep electing Presidents that seem to have such a connection to religion is 1.) nobody does their homework and figures out that all these assholes pay lip service to everything and only believe in themselves and 2.) nobody fucking votes. If enough people got off their ass and voted, this country could be a lot different.
We need to come up with some way to just 'appoint' a random person who meets a minimum set of qualifications for president. To many ways to game such a system means it will never be feasible until we have computer overlords with no soul, no 'bugs', and definied values (opinions) on politics and religions. In that case, the concept of a 'President' is moot anyway. Plus we all know (or should) where that leads... the ultimate truth from AI even with Asimovs laws, humans are too much of a danger to themselves to exist.
Cheers.
No, arrogance is what keeps the people ignorant, uncritical, and divided. Faith in and of itself can keep an individual sane. I guess its along the lines of an individual being smart, but that same individual in a large group can be very dumb. Its got nothing to do with faith in and of itself, its the outside influences and self inspired arrogance that brings those things about.
Proclaiming that its a tool shows you either haven't really considered what faith is, have had negative experiences with someone who was using their faith as a justification for an argument, or just don't give a shit what faith at its core is and what its can be. I will agree that arrogant faith can be worse that arrogant 'unfaith'. But don't blanket the idea of faith as a negative, its disrespectful. Do unto others and all that jazz.
Cheers.
If a) is only 100x the cost, lets do it, establish a moon base, setup a telescope on the dark side to really take a look at space, and bring a giant vacumn to clean up all the dust and maybe start a little terraforming. We need a space presence, and we need to really examine what it takes to terraform a planet. Sooner or later this old rock is going to give out. We need to get into space to insure the survival or our species (or at least give possible warning to other races through technological advances and where we may have missed or gone wrong). And I'm not saying this as someone who has read entirely too much space scifi (which i have), I'm saying it as a reasonable and prudent human being taking an 'eye on the prize' approach to our future existance.
Cheers.
I think you are wrong in terms of the initial uptake of the new formats, it has everything to do with the DRM and technological issues with the formats, simply b/c the early adopters tend to be the rich that want the newest and most expensive, and the geeks that want bragging rights despite living in their parents basement. Sadly (or perhaps not) its the geeks without all the money that will influence the formats.
DVD is certainly 'good enough' and it will actually be the reason that HD DVD and BluRay ultimately don't matter and can't seem to take a winning position in the 'movie' department. Its the geeks that will determine which format survives. And really, with BluRay being Sony, and with Sony's dismal failures over the years (BETAMAX PEOPLE. BETAMAX.) for content storage and playback (b-s licensing terms for hardware tech), and their history of a desire to control the formats entirely, I'd give HD DVD the win. I'm not so quick to forget. Sony memory stick anyone? Minidisc?
But let's look at even MORE reality... I have 2 terabytes of drive space at home now, on the CHEAP, and 10mbps internet. I just don't care who wins, and the only thing I would use br or hddvd for is a cheap backup solution. The only thing that could make either format matter is the utter decimation of the internet and the whole Net Neutrality nightmare scenarios.
Cheers.
I'm inclined to say that faith has been effective in keeping peace, its the organized and centralized power structure in a religion that has done well disturbing that peace...
To tell you the truth, even the Agnostics and many 'practicing' Christians have figured this out, we just don't want to talk about it.
LALALAL IM NOT LISTENING LALALALALA.
Cheers.