Post-war? You mean when the majority of the worlds industrial base had been wiped out and the US was the only nation left with any reasonable manufacturing base?
If he had managed to fuck that up Truman wouldn’t have not have just been a war criminal but also a retard.
You missed out the part before that where the Clinton administration passed legislation requiring the banks to make those loans and in a number of cases actively challenged the banks in court to ensure their compliance.
One more point I missed is the Billy Bob example is also wrong. The most expensive condition to treat is old age. While the smokers & diabetics might cost more per visit then the average person they die sooner and so don’t need supportive care for a few decades.
As the elderly receive massive amounts of entitlement people who die of smoking related (or anything else) diseases before they reach their 60’s actually cost far less than those who maintain a healthy lifestyle and live in to their 90’s.
The idea you need insurance for more than catastrophic coverage is a fallacy. A majority of people would be better off paying for the occasional doctors visits and prescriptions out of pocket (Doctors who don’t accept insurance patients are also cheaper as they are not being raped by the insurance companies, they often also offer heavy discounts for cash patients who pay as they receive rather than have to be invoiced and chased) while saving insurance for what it supposed to be used for, emergencies.
This is one of the reason the demographics of the oft quoted 50 million number show that more than half could afford insurance but chose not to take it up, people are starting to realize they are wasting money. Or rather rediscovering as the product of total coverage policies only came in to existence 25-30 years ago.
As for prescriptions Billy Bob would be fine without assistance if he could buy his drugs from China or Canada. The problem is these nasty people called the DEA & FDA like to tell Billy Bob who he is allowed to do business with and would rather jail him then let him have pills he can afford.
As for hospitals I think you overestimate how much subsidy they get and how much they eat (or rather how much they jack up paying customer cost), states do gives various benefits to ERs but often these amount to little more than tax incentives to their parent organizations.
On the issue of tax I do agree the healthcare cost is an issue but unlike government spending we don’t have any control over at all (such us defense) there is a much more granular level of control over entitlement, most of them are voluntary at a state level. In the cases of the big two (medicare & medicaid) a state (either legislature or governor depending on the state) can refuse both which would exempt their citizens from having to pay for them. The only reason no one has is that right now it would be political suicide, you would immediately loose support of the elderly and the poor. A dedicated team of people could fairly easily turn that around in a state though, educating people they would be better off without having to pay for and receive government assistance and setting up charities to deal with the problem cases.
In the case of Obamacare the current massive unfunded liability on the state side which OC creates can be removed by declining medicare. Poor citizens would still be covered by other parts of federal entitlement but the state would have no additional liabilities under OC, and indeed could replace Medicare with their own system if they wanted to.
No arrest warrant has been issued from the US and there almost certainly would not be one.
The only thing he could be charged with would possibly be espionage under 18 USC 794 but it would be dismissed pretty quickly, case law on this issue is that the act of publishing alone doesn’t violate this statute due to protections offered by the first amendment. In addition they would have to prove that he constructively sought out the documents in question (which they can’t) and that he released them with the intention of “injury of the United States” or “advantage of a foreign nation”.
While they could tie him up in the courts for several years they wont because there is absolutely nothing to be gained from doing so, it wont slow down the release of information and wont undermine him as an individual.
Where he will be raped, deservedly so, is going to be in civil court. As soon as the first death that can be in any way connected to any of the releases is reported both him and the foundation will find themselves with an extremely large lawsuit to deal with. As they have absolutely no defense they will be found guilty.
If he had any interest in the sites long term survival, rather than short term media exposure and the sex that goes with that, he would have waited the extra month or two it would have taken to remove identifying information.
Sudbury schools http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school have been doing this for quite some time. Unsurprisingly alumni studies have shown them to outperform the alternatives in almost all measures.
You would be mistaken. USLOC doesn’t digitize everything that it holds because it doesn’t have the budget to do so. If you want to start a fund to digitize their entire catalog feel free but don’t expect the rest of us to pay for it.
Also digitizing a work wouldn’t violate copyright (the government isn’t subject to the DMCA so wouldn’t fall foul of provisions under the DMCA that may be problematic), making it available to the public would. Also the government only has liability for copyright infringement if they assert they can be challenged over it, I can’t be bothered to delve in to the statutes but I doubt they have taken on such liability. Even if they did USLOC enjoys various forms of protection under 2 USC Ch. 5 that include copyright exemptions.
As a final point who would you propose pays for processing the many enquires and applications that your copyright removal would entail? This is the major issue with arguments such as yours, you not only want to override the legitimate property rights of other people in regard to copyright but also expect everyone else to foot the bill to provide you with access to that property.
So not only do you want to steal my car but you want me to gas it up and drive it to your house for you too?
When did the phone book start ranking businesses and suggesting the method of ranking should provide a degree of confidence in results that appear up top?
Google already harvest review data from a significant number of sites (have a look at local sometime) and integrating this in to pagerank should be a no brainer, not only does it improve the quality of the results but it builds consumer confidence in the results themselves.
This is the fundamental problem with the democratic ranking mechanism google use, it’s extremely open to gaming and lacks the semantics to express the intention behind a link.
Comparison is like to like positions (as in comparing a single role in the private sector with that in the public sector) not an aggregate on all positions in both.
"Of course it is, says Manjoo. Amazon has physical operations in 17 states in which the company and its employees enjoy the fruits of local taxes — police and fire protection, roads, hospitals, and other infrastructure that make its operations possible. Yet Amazon skirts tax collection in most of these places through clever legal tricks."
You mean the services that are supposed to be funded by income & property taxes?
Perhaps if the states dealt with their own fiscal issues (you know unfirable state employees who get paid significantly more than private sector equivalents, retire early and have vast pensions) they wouldn’t need to go around constantly whining about Amazon exploiting their own tax codes.
Clearly you are laboring under the misapprehension that wikileaks is not an opinion site trying to make itself a facts based site.
http://www.collateralmurder.com/ is a prime example of this in practice, even the name is opinion rather than fact. The framing of the video itself also poses some issues, they have taken great pains to emphasize the portions where people are getting killed but pay no attention to what the pilot was saying after ground troops arrived. This changes the entire thing from a guy making a pretty bad mistake and clearly regretting afterwards to a guy who knowingly murdered a bunch of people on a street because he felt like it.
Facts can be framed to make them opinion, this is what wikileaks does. If they were the disinterested NGO you claim then not only would the argument for releasing the material be stronger (transparency is a great thing) but there would be far fewer grounds to object to it.
Release the data and let people make up their own minds, don’t frame it in a way to try and make people make a specific conclusion.
You seem to be missing the point. A low number of employees but extremely high cash flow is extremely desirable from a tax perspective, it means you are providing government services for a tiny number of people and yet receiving the corporate tax income of a company many thousands of times the size.
Microsoft employs ~1100 people in Ireland and yet push the majority of their EU revenue through Ireland which means Ireland gets to tax on ~$4b PTP generated in all of Europe rather than the ~$0.3b PTP that actually originated in Ireland.
You might choose a RDBMS in that scenario precisely because you don’t know the future.
Solution architecture is about fighting fires that haven’t started, designing a system that doesn’t just fit the problem at hand but anticipates how that problem might mutate in the future or how other problems might come in to play.
If you are pretty damn sure the data will never have relationships that need to be expressed and enforced and that the schema will remain that simple then a NoSql solution will probably be the best bet. IMHO its fairly rare when this is the case.
I know people like quoting it like this but actually that’s not the objection, the objection is that they don’t have the authority to sign an agreement that includes that (or rather they do but it would be struck down by the courts, I guess they think the political fallout from not signing it is less then what it would be from signing it and having it rejected later). SCOTUS has repeatedly held that who to execute and when is a matter for the states and their, and the federal governments, authority ends at interpreting how that interacts with individual protections afforded by the constitution.
I use http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE for cross browser testing and IE6 runs fine on Win7. Also you can install IE6 for XP mode with a couple of hacks.
Most organisations don't pay that. The most popular cal currently is the CoreCal which does the usual windows / office / SharePoint / exchange combo for about $110 without SA, the agreement is two years so is about $9 user/month. Based on the fact with the hosted office you still need a windows licence and the online version doesn't include all the features of the offline version it is still cheaper to keep it locally but not by much.
The system is basically the same as Office Webapps (the enterprise self-hosted version of office online) which works the same between IE, FF & Chrome. It does use silverlight for one or two things (for good reason) but offers JS alternatives if the support isn't there. The experience is seamless to users, if the browser has silverlight it makes use of it otherwise it just ignores it. The only area where I have seen issues is with DRMed office documents, in order to protect copying/printing/saving it makes use of an IE specific plugin for credential & certificate exchange with the OS, hopefully the other vendors (or indeed MS themselves) will expand support beyond IE.
The one thing it lacks is format diversity. As they have gone to all the trouble of writing a format agnostic rendering engine in the browser it would have been nice to see support for other formats (PDF for instance) and writeable access to old office documents (office docs prior to 2007 are only supported in read only mode currently). As it stands in an enterprise setting the product has to be combined with another such as Oracle AutoVue to provide sufficient format support for near global browser based visualisation.
As an aside the political control the IE masters have over other MS product teams has been slipping substantially in the last few years. Previous versions of their products (SharePoint for instance) were specifically designed for IE and in many cases simply didn't work correctly in other browsers, that is no longer the case.
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Post-war? You mean when the majority of the worlds industrial base had been wiped out and the US was the only nation left with any reasonable manufacturing base? If he had managed to fuck that up Truman wouldn’t have not have just been a war criminal but also a retard.
You missed out the part before that where the Clinton administration passed legislation requiring the banks to make those loans and in a number of cases actively challenged the banks in court to ensure their compliance.
It fits in to 160 chars
One more point I missed is the Billy Bob example is also wrong. The most expensive condition to treat is old age. While the smokers & diabetics might cost more per visit then the average person they die sooner and so don’t need supportive care for a few decades.
As the elderly receive massive amounts of entitlement people who die of smoking related (or anything else) diseases before they reach their 60’s actually cost far less than those who maintain a healthy lifestyle and live in to their 90’s.
The idea you need insurance for more than catastrophic coverage is a fallacy. A majority of people would be better off paying for the occasional doctors visits and prescriptions out of pocket (Doctors who don’t accept insurance patients are also cheaper as they are not being raped by the insurance companies, they often also offer heavy discounts for cash patients who pay as they receive rather than have to be invoiced and chased) while saving insurance for what it supposed to be used for, emergencies.
This is one of the reason the demographics of the oft quoted 50 million number show that more than half could afford insurance but chose not to take it up, people are starting to realize they are wasting money. Or rather rediscovering as the product of total coverage policies only came in to existence 25-30 years ago.
As for prescriptions Billy Bob would be fine without assistance if he could buy his drugs from China or Canada. The problem is these nasty people called the DEA & FDA like to tell Billy Bob who he is allowed to do business with and would rather jail him then let him have pills he can afford.
As for hospitals I think you overestimate how much subsidy they get and how much they eat (or rather how much they jack up paying customer cost), states do gives various benefits to ERs but often these amount to little more than tax incentives to their parent organizations.
On the issue of tax I do agree the healthcare cost is an issue but unlike government spending we don’t have any control over at all (such us defense) there is a much more granular level of control over entitlement, most of them are voluntary at a state level. In the cases of the big two (medicare & medicaid) a state (either legislature or governor depending on the state) can refuse both which would exempt their citizens from having to pay for them. The only reason no one has is that right now it would be political suicide, you would immediately loose support of the elderly and the poor. A dedicated team of people could fairly easily turn that around in a state though, educating people they would be better off without having to pay for and receive government assistance and setting up charities to deal with the problem cases.
In the case of Obamacare the current massive unfunded liability on the state side which OC creates can be removed by declining medicare. Poor citizens would still be covered by other parts of federal entitlement but the state would have no additional liabilities under OC, and indeed could replace Medicare with their own system if they wanted to.
No arrest warrant has been issued from the US and there almost certainly would not be one.
The only thing he could be charged with would possibly be espionage under 18 USC 794 but it would be dismissed pretty quickly, case law on this issue is that the act of publishing alone doesn’t violate this statute due to protections offered by the first amendment. In addition they would have to prove that he constructively sought out the documents in question (which they can’t) and that he released them with the intention of “injury of the United States” or “advantage of a foreign nation”.
While they could tie him up in the courts for several years they wont because there is absolutely nothing to be gained from doing so, it wont slow down the release of information and wont undermine him as an individual.
Where he will be raped, deservedly so, is going to be in civil court. As soon as the first death that can be in any way connected to any of the releases is reported both him and the foundation will find themselves with an extremely large lawsuit to deal with. As they have absolutely no defense they will be found guilty.
If he had any interest in the sites long term survival, rather than short term media exposure and the sex that goes with that, he would have waited the extra month or two it would have taken to remove identifying information.
Sudbury schools http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school have been doing this for quite some time. Unsurprisingly alumni studies have shown them to outperform the alternatives in almost all measures.
RTFM. Underpants gnomes aside EveryDNS is free.
You would be mistaken. USLOC doesn’t digitize everything that it holds because it doesn’t have the budget to do so. If you want to start a fund to digitize their entire catalog feel free but don’t expect the rest of us to pay for it.
Also digitizing a work wouldn’t violate copyright (the government isn’t subject to the DMCA so wouldn’t fall foul of provisions under the DMCA that may be problematic), making it available to the public would. Also the government only has liability for copyright infringement if they assert they can be challenged over it, I can’t be bothered to delve in to the statutes but I doubt they have taken on such liability. Even if they did USLOC enjoys various forms of protection under 2 USC Ch. 5 that include copyright exemptions.
As a final point who would you propose pays for processing the many enquires and applications that your copyright removal would entail? This is the major issue with arguments such as yours, you not only want to override the legitimate property rights of other people in regard to copyright but also expect everyone else to foot the bill to provide you with access to that property.
So not only do you want to steal my car but you want me to gas it up and drive it to your house for you too?
When did the phone book start ranking businesses and suggesting the method of ranking should provide a degree of confidence in results that appear up top?
Google already harvest review data from a significant number of sites (have a look at local sometime) and integrating this in to pagerank should be a no brainer, not only does it improve the quality of the results but it builds consumer confidence in the results themselves.
This is the fundamental problem with the democratic ranking mechanism google use, it’s extremely open to gaming and lacks the semantics to express the intention behind a link.
Comparison is like to like positions (as in comparing a single role in the private sector with that in the public sector) not an aggregate on all positions in both.
"Of course it is, says Manjoo. Amazon has physical operations in 17 states in which the company and its employees enjoy the fruits of local taxes — police and fire protection, roads, hospitals, and other infrastructure that make its operations possible. Yet Amazon skirts tax collection in most of these places through clever legal tricks." You mean the services that are supposed to be funded by income & property taxes? Perhaps if the states dealt with their own fiscal issues (you know unfirable state employees who get paid significantly more than private sector equivalents, retire early and have vast pensions) they wouldn’t need to go around constantly whining about Amazon exploiting their own tax codes.
Clearly you are laboring under the misapprehension that wikileaks is not an opinion site trying to make itself a facts based site.
http://www.collateralmurder.com/ is a prime example of this in practice, even the name is opinion rather than fact. The framing of the video itself also poses some issues, they have taken great pains to emphasize the portions where people are getting killed but pay no attention to what the pilot was saying after ground troops arrived. This changes the entire thing from a guy making a pretty bad mistake and clearly regretting afterwards to a guy who knowingly murdered a bunch of people on a street because he felt like it.
Facts can be framed to make them opinion, this is what wikileaks does. If they were the disinterested NGO you claim then not only would the argument for releasing the material be stronger (transparency is a great thing) but there would be far fewer grounds to object to it.
Release the data and let people make up their own minds, don’t frame it in a way to try and make people make a specific conclusion.
You seem to be missing the point. A low number of employees but extremely high cash flow is extremely desirable from a tax perspective, it means you are providing government services for a tiny number of people and yet receiving the corporate tax income of a company many thousands of times the size. Microsoft employs ~1100 people in Ireland and yet push the majority of their EU revenue through Ireland which means Ireland gets to tax on ~$4b PTP generated in all of Europe rather than the ~$0.3b PTP that actually originated in Ireland.
You might choose a RDBMS in that scenario precisely because you don’t know the future. Solution architecture is about fighting fires that haven’t started, designing a system that doesn’t just fit the problem at hand but anticipates how that problem might mutate in the future or how other problems might come in to play. If you are pretty damn sure the data will never have relationships that need to be expressed and enforced and that the schema will remain that simple then a NoSql solution will probably be the best bet. IMHO its fairly rare when this is the case.
Shhhh, if you are not careful the google rape vans will overhear you.
I know people like quoting it like this but actually that’s not the objection, the objection is that they don’t have the authority to sign an agreement that includes that (or rather they do but it would be struck down by the courts, I guess they think the political fallout from not signing it is less then what it would be from signing it and having it rejected later). SCOTUS has repeatedly held that who to execute and when is a matter for the states and their, and the federal governments, authority ends at interpreting how that interacts with individual protections afforded by the constitution.
I use http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE for cross browser testing and IE6 runs fine on Win7. Also you can install IE6 for XP mode with a couple of hacks.
http://monodevelop.com/ http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/ http://csharp-studio.sourceforge.net/ http://xacc.wordpress.com/ That would be four other c# IDE's three of which are multi-platform.
Most organisations don't pay that. The most popular cal currently is the CoreCal which does the usual windows / office / SharePoint / exchange combo for about $110 without SA, the agreement is two years so is about $9 user/month. Based on the fact with the hosted office you still need a windows licence and the online version doesn't include all the features of the offline version it is still cheaper to keep it locally but not by much.
The system is basically the same as Office Webapps (the enterprise self-hosted version of office online) which works the same between IE, FF & Chrome. It does use silverlight for one or two things (for good reason) but offers JS alternatives if the support isn't there. The experience is seamless to users, if the browser has silverlight it makes use of it otherwise it just ignores it. The only area where I have seen issues is with DRMed office documents, in order to protect copying/printing/saving it makes use of an IE specific plugin for credential & certificate exchange with the OS, hopefully the other vendors (or indeed MS themselves) will expand support beyond IE. The one thing it lacks is format diversity. As they have gone to all the trouble of writing a format agnostic rendering engine in the browser it would have been nice to see support for other formats (PDF for instance) and writeable access to old office documents (office docs prior to 2007 are only supported in read only mode currently). As it stands in an enterprise setting the product has to be combined with another such as Oracle AutoVue to provide sufficient format support for near global browser based visualisation. As an aside the political control the IE masters have over other MS product teams has been slipping substantially in the last few years. Previous versions of their products (SharePoint for instance) were specifically designed for IE and in many cases simply didn't work correctly in other browsers, that is no longer the case.