Oh yeah, UK healthcare definitely "knocks the spots" off US healthcare, what with the very speedy (9 months or more in some cases) timeframe to treat illness, the vast quantity of choices available (to the private healthcare participants... public healthcare = you take what we give you or you take nothing), and of course, all those elective surgeries which are covered (if you've got the $$$ to bribe the doctor).
And of course, that wonderful, non-fluorinated water, which must do SUCH a superb job of preventing cavities in people's dentals. Not that scientific studies showing that fluoride prevents tooth decay should have any bearing on one's opinion of proper dental care.
And... the customer is always right. Unless you happen to be shopping at Best Buy, CompUSA, Circuit City, Fry's, Future World, Radio Shack, Microcenter, yada yada yada...
What about "outsourcing doesn't work", at least when it comes to software development projects.
I've been a developer for close to 10 years now, am an expert in my field (not afraid to admit it), and of course, always have more to learn. I have never, in those 10 years, been involved in a project that was clearly specified enough, such that one could turn that project over to a team situated halfway around the world, and without much interaction on the part of management, expect a final product that even closely resembles the expectations of said managers.
Anybody out there ever been involved in a successful software project, much less outsourced one, where everybody was happy at the end of the day? By happy I mean the project was done, delivered, closed up, move on to the next big thing.
Uhm, they _had_ ID, and it _was_ checked. The ID checking requirement went into effect after TWA 800 went down in 1996, 5 years before 9-11.
And as is plainly evident given 9-11, ID checking does absolutely NO good whatsoever. Facial recognition, on the other hand, or some other biometric way of postively identifying someone (maybe a DNA scanner in the not too distant future?) could perhaps be a vaild deterrant, but the system we have now punishes nobody but the innocent.
You know, it's about time somebody figured out a way to use PGP with all these P2P networks. The idea I have is simple: Use a one-way hash to encrypt every search keyword, and include the hash key in the search packet. Each client would then have to encrypt each keyword in their filename table with the hash key to be able to compare with the hashed keywords. This means that all of these "spy" companies would have to encrypt trillions upon trilliions of keyword / hash pairs in order to hit upon just one search... not a feasible task for these low-budget companies.
Does this just sound like fantasy land, or should I get cracking on the code? I'm really sick of all this legal bs... let's put the RIAA and these f'ing lawyers out to pasture once and for all, eh?
I think Metallica is going to get their ass slammed... They claim that over 335,000 Napster users pirated their songs. I just logged in to Napster. There aren't even 4,000 people logged in! Despite what they may claim, there couldn't possibly be that many people logged in at once, and I would seriously doubt over a single weekend (that's when they monitored Napster).
Even if they found all those songs, how are they going to prove in court that each and every individual file is actually a copy of one of their songs? What are they going to do, listen to them all? Attempt to download them all? Hehehehehe... they're in waaaaaay over their heads on this one.
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Oh yeah, UK healthcare definitely "knocks the spots" off US healthcare, what with the very speedy (9 months or more in some cases) timeframe to treat illness, the vast quantity of choices available (to the private healthcare participants... public healthcare = you take what we give you or you take nothing), and of course, all those elective surgeries which are covered (if you've got the $$$ to bribe the doctor).
And of course, that wonderful, non-fluorinated water, which must do SUCH a superb job of preventing cavities in people's dentals. Not that scientific studies showing that fluoride prevents tooth decay should have any bearing on one's opinion of proper dental care.
And... the customer is always right. Unless you happen to be shopping at Best Buy, CompUSA, Circuit City, Fry's, Future World, Radio Shack, Microcenter, yada yada yada...
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NewEgg ROCKS tho!
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What about "outsourcing doesn't work", at least when it comes to software development projects.
I've been a developer for close to 10 years now, am an expert in my field (not afraid to admit it), and of course, always have more to learn. I have never, in those 10 years, been involved in a project that was clearly specified enough, such that one could turn that project over to a team situated halfway around the world, and without much interaction on the part of management, expect a final product that even closely resembles the expectations of said managers.
Anybody out there ever been involved in a successful software project, much less outsourced one, where everybody was happy at the end of the day? By happy I mean the project was done, delivered, closed up, move on to the next big thing.
Uhm, they _had_ ID, and it _was_ checked. The ID checking requirement went into effect after TWA 800 went down in 1996, 5 years before 9-11.
And as is plainly evident given 9-11, ID checking does absolutely NO good whatsoever. Facial recognition, on the other hand, or some other biometric way of postively identifying someone (maybe a DNA scanner in the not too distant future?) could perhaps be a vaild deterrant, but the system we have now punishes nobody but the innocent.
Jeez... what do you lame /.'ers do all day long, read WIRED.COM and post their stories over here?? This is the second one today! Get a life!
You know, it's about time somebody figured out a way to use PGP with all these P2P networks. The idea I have is simple: Use a one-way hash to encrypt every search keyword, and include the hash key in the search packet. Each client would then have to encrypt each keyword in their filename table with the hash key to be able to compare with the hashed keywords. This means that all of these "spy" companies would have to encrypt trillions upon trilliions of keyword / hash pairs in order to hit upon just one search... not a feasible task for these low-budget companies.
Does this just sound like fantasy land, or should I get cracking on the code? I'm really sick of all this legal bs... let's put the RIAA and these f'ing lawyers out to pasture once and for all, eh?
I think Metallica is going to get their ass slammed... They claim that over 335,000 Napster users pirated their songs. I just logged in to Napster. There aren't even 4,000 people logged in! Despite what they may claim, there couldn't possibly be that many people logged in at once, and I would seriously doubt over a single weekend (that's when they monitored Napster).
Even if they found all those songs, how are they going to prove in court that each and every individual file is actually a copy of one of their songs? What are they going to do, listen to them all? Attempt to download them all? Hehehehehe... they're in waaaaaay over their heads on this one.