Well, I am, if you can prove that you're just not some antisocial jerk who thinks that Web2.0 is a mistake because it involves interaction with other people.
I know privacy is a huge concern with Web2.0, but, let's face it, complete privacy is a joke, period. Unless you're a hermit.
great, while you're cutting off your nose to spite your face, we'll be busy hooking up with people via those social networking sites and having sex with other people.
So you're another idiot who thinks that since the US is better off financially than all other "1st world nations", we should copy the countries that are worse than us.
We're not better off financially than other first world nations. We're probably worse, thanks to relaxed regulations and regulation enforcement.
"Universal healthcare" is universal theft.
So is inflating prices so you can pay for a staff to handle gross inefficiencies in the medical billing system, so is inflating prices for drugs for the motive of profit.
To "fix healthcare", it is necessary to remove all incentives which make it more expensive than it should be.
* End laws which make employee health insurance an untaxed expense.
* Make possible the purchase of medical insurance across state lines.
* End the absurdly high lawsuit rewards that make insurance for doctors so expensive.
* End the FDA control over medicine approval
* End licensing of healthcare professionals.
1) This would make healthcare more expensive and could cause my employer to reduce coverage through our group plan or drop it all together 2) This would cause a flight of insurance companies to flee to states like Texas where there are very relaxed regulations resulting in lower quality of care 3) Except this has been done in Texas, Nebraska and other states and insurance costs *didn't* go down for malpractice insurance, it kept going up. 4-5) So I can have a quack doctor prescribe something that is either ineffective or *worse* than science based medicine?
There are many more, and the amount that these would reduce expenses is surprising. Did you know that insurance companies always negotiate payments, and usually end up paying about half the billed amount? Just the five above would cut medical expenses by roughly 75%. That brings medical care into the price range that any moderately careful person could afford without insurance, excepting only catastrophic events requiring intensive longterm care. For this last case one might buy catastrophic medical insurance, at prices much lower than the absurd rates we see today.
The problems wouldn't go away. There'd be no price controls at all, your insurance would be horrible and it'd make life much worse for those who aren't absurdly wealthy independently.
You'd have quacks performing the Gonzalez Treatment and billing out the ass for it(or more than it's worth, which is nothing, considering it's likely it's worse than doing nothing) too. This is atrocious.
If OSX 10.6 stopped letting me install my own apps and disabled X Code and locked out Terminal.app or kept me from tinkering with the kernel(trufax, Atom support for OSX got rebuilt into it through kernel hacks from Darwin source) to the point where I can run OSX on top of unsupported hardware...
I'll buy that fucking theory. If any hardware vendor shipped a linux distro on board that's as slick as OSX, i'd probably switch. No such distro exists, no such hardware vendor exists.
One keeps me from freely distributing Mickey Mouse cartoons that are 100 years old, the other could break me(But wouldn't if I were in any other civilized 1st world nation).
That's because if I'm going to spend endless hours tweaking registry settings, and modifying INI files i might as well get my MCSE and get paid for it and do something productive with my day.
If I want to throw down in some Street Fighter IV, I can either pop in my disc into my PS3 or futz and hope my PC isn't having issues.
I think the game is great, especially multiplayer with its leveling, perks and the amount of customization you can do to your characters game style. Even those who complain about things are still playing it full force.
Leveling *SUCKS*. It's almost not fun. Perks are broken. Completely. Spawn deaths from aircraft fire suck. Particularly when you're no where close to the Javelin or the Stinger in levels and your only choice to knock one of those things out of the sky is a missile that seems to lose against aircraft counter measures. Which brings me to weapon unlocks...
Skill progression is great, don't get me wrong. But I'm really disgusted by an FPS game that demands I baby it so I can get the best weapons and gear. If I show up late, I'm taking a *lot* of rounds from higher level players before I can really make progress in the game.
MW2 is a fucking mess. Bugs everywhere, game balance is horrible and it's just not worth playing. Not only that the character customizations *suck*. I came from playing Metal Gear Online pretty hardcore, and I'm taken back by just how stupid and generic the player characters are. If I'm going to grind levels can I atleast have a character that's my own? Is that too much to ask from a billion dollar megahit?
I think it was Blanche Lincoln who made a similar observation about Nebraska. They brought in Tort Reform, and nothing changed for the price of medical.
Quite frankly, i don't think that this is where entrepreneurs should be trying to find profits. If it's illegal for the Mob to extort you for "protection" money, because you know, this is a good lookin' house you got here and it'd be a same if anything happened to it, it should be illegal for the medical system to do the exact same thing. Except I trust the mobsters not to shiv me in the ribs if I play nice and make payments, Aetna? not so much.
I think if the nature of Apple's controlled leaks gets to be put up for grabs here, then what defense does Apple have?
Quite frankly I just want Apple to shit or get off the pot. It's been nearly a decade and a half that the supposed tablet's been rumored. Let's either get it out or say once adn for all, "NO."
Forza is to Gran Turismo as Road and Track is to Top Gear.
Forza is about cars. Gran Turismo is about driving. Until i see crazy shit like the Model T, crazy 60's racers, and the DeLorean in Forza, no sale. Gran Turismo is a love letter to the car. Forza's a book report.
I think another weakness of this article is the fact that reporting is *much* better now than it was in the 30's. Like how the autism rates are shooting up. More and better reporting, not more afflicted people.
In response to your sig, what if you were coding some sort of personal finance system and you had several PINs to keep track of? Wouldn't the index of those PINs be a PIN Number? Or a device that manfactured ATMs be an ATM machine?
The whole economics of today seems like it's paying only for exorbitant CEO profits and studio whoring.
It's almost like movies and music are a business.
The "new freedoms" comment though, that's a big Orwellian WTF until you read the article. They want to be able to make DRMed content portable. Which is admirable, but, ultimately probably flawed.
seeing as how I went to school as a kid and got a public education, as opposed to working in a cannery for 15 hours a day, very well thank you.
The Govenrment isn't a fraud laden pile of conflicts of interest(Funny enough one of the Democrats who's been pushing hardest FOR health care reform, for instance, is taking a shitload of money from the health care sector, not to mention the great story of Harry Reid taking huge amounts in free tickets to boxing events from the Nevada Boxing Commission, a body he used to chair, and then regularly and repeatedly voting against their interests; Democrats aren't corrupt, they're rude).
That's not to say that it as an institution is trust worthy. Anyone who grabs for power should be held with a skeptical eye.
Free markets have everything to do with the private sector. It IS the private sector. People who aren't the Government doing work.
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What, your college didn't have photoshop classes(or airbrush, if you're old school)?
Well, I am, if you can prove that you're just not some antisocial jerk who thinks that Web2.0 is a mistake because it involves interaction with other people.
I know privacy is a huge concern with Web2.0, but, let's face it, complete privacy is a joke, period. Unless you're a hermit.
great, while you're cutting off your nose to spite your face, we'll be busy hooking up with people via those social networking sites and having sex with other people.
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Like anyone's ever going to admit to using *that* as a password.
So you're another idiot who thinks that since the US is better off financially than all other "1st world nations", we should copy the countries that are worse than us.
We're not better off financially than other first world nations. We're probably worse, thanks to relaxed regulations and regulation enforcement.
"Universal healthcare" is universal theft.
So is inflating prices so you can pay for a staff to handle gross inefficiencies in the medical billing system, so is inflating prices for drugs for the motive of profit.
To "fix healthcare", it is necessary to remove all incentives which make it more expensive than it should be.
* End laws which make employee health insurance an untaxed expense.
* Make possible the purchase of medical insurance across state lines.
* End the absurdly high lawsuit rewards that make insurance for doctors so expensive.
* End the FDA control over medicine approval
* End licensing of healthcare professionals.
1) This would make healthcare more expensive and could cause my employer to reduce coverage through our group plan or drop it all together
2) This would cause a flight of insurance companies to flee to states like Texas where there are very relaxed regulations resulting in lower quality of care
3) Except this has been done in Texas, Nebraska and other states and insurance costs *didn't* go down for malpractice insurance, it kept going up.
4-5) So I can have a quack doctor prescribe something that is either ineffective or *worse* than science based medicine?
There are many more, and the amount that these would reduce expenses is surprising. Did you know that insurance companies always negotiate payments, and usually end up paying about half the billed amount? Just the five above would cut medical expenses by roughly 75%. That brings medical care into the price range that any moderately careful person could afford without insurance, excepting only catastrophic events requiring intensive longterm care. For this last case one might buy catastrophic medical insurance, at prices much lower than the absurd rates we see today.
The problems wouldn't go away. There'd be no price controls at all, your insurance would be horrible and it'd make life much worse for those who aren't absurdly wealthy independently.
You'd have quacks performing the Gonzalez Treatment and billing out the ass for it(or more than it's worth, which is nothing, considering it's likely it's worse than doing nothing) too. This is atrocious.
Windows 7 can still be targeted by a IE bug that's been in place since IE6. Safari doesn't have zero day bugs *that* old
If OSX 10.6 stopped letting me install my own apps and disabled X Code and locked out Terminal.app or kept me from tinkering with the kernel(trufax, Atom support for OSX got rebuilt into it through kernel hacks from Darwin source) to the point where I can run OSX on top of unsupported hardware...
I'll buy that fucking theory. If any hardware vendor shipped a linux distro on board that's as slick as OSX, i'd probably switch. No such distro exists, no such hardware vendor exists.
I'd rather fix healthcare than fix copyright.
One keeps me from freely distributing Mickey Mouse cartoons that are 100 years old, the other could break me(But wouldn't if I were in any other civilized 1st world nation).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca_Hours
That's because if I'm going to spend endless hours tweaking registry settings, and modifying INI files i might as well get my MCSE and get paid for it and do something productive with my day.
If I want to throw down in some Street Fighter IV, I can either pop in my disc into my PS3 or futz and hope my PC isn't having issues.
Model 1887: Bling using Akimbo and FMJ combination now has same range and damage as non-Bling Model 1887s
Then what's the point? You're blowing a perk on nothing. IW should just admit they were wrong about not having an open beta for this shit.
I think the game is great, especially multiplayer with its leveling, perks and the amount of customization you can do to your characters game style. Even those who complain about things are still playing it full force.
Leveling *SUCKS*. It's almost not fun. Perks are broken. Completely. Spawn deaths from aircraft fire suck. Particularly when you're no where close to the Javelin or the Stinger in levels and your only choice to knock one of those things out of the sky is a missile that seems to lose against aircraft counter measures. Which brings me to weapon unlocks...
Skill progression is great, don't get me wrong. But I'm really disgusted by an FPS game that demands I baby it so I can get the best weapons and gear. If I show up late, I'm taking a *lot* of rounds from higher level players before I can really make progress in the game.
MW2 is a fucking mess. Bugs everywhere, game balance is horrible and it's just not worth playing. Not only that the character customizations *suck*. I came from playing Metal Gear Online pretty hardcore, and I'm taken back by just how stupid and generic the player characters are. If I'm going to grind levels can I atleast have a character that's my own? Is that too much to ask from a billion dollar megahit?
The attack wasn't patched in IE7 or 8, and is even vulnerable in IE8 on Windows 7.
how about also regulating the price of malpractice insurance in addition to regulating the price of payouts in a malpractice case?
I had this same thought but I think the overall point was that the DivX codec in the AVI container is a piece of shit. MKV and MP4 are the future.
I think it was Blanche Lincoln who made a similar observation about Nebraska. They brought in Tort Reform, and nothing changed for the price of medical.
Quite frankly, i don't think that this is where entrepreneurs should be trying to find profits. If it's illegal for the Mob to extort you for "protection" money, because you know, this is a good lookin' house you got here and it'd be a same if anything happened to it, it should be illegal for the medical system to do the exact same thing. Except I trust the mobsters not to shiv me in the ribs if I play nice and make payments, Aetna? not so much.
I think if the nature of Apple's controlled leaks gets to be put up for grabs here, then what defense does Apple have?
Quite frankly I just want Apple to shit or get off the pot. It's been nearly a decade and a half that the supposed tablet's been rumored. Let's either get it out or say once adn for all, "NO."
Forza is to Gran Turismo as Road and Track is to Top Gear.
Forza is about cars. Gran Turismo is about driving. Until i see crazy shit like the Model T, crazy 60's racers, and the DeLorean in Forza, no sale. Gran Turismo is a love letter to the car. Forza's a book report.
You're thinking of Christian Bale again.
"Am I gonna walk around and rip your fuckin' lights down..."
That's more Hulk than Batman.
I think another weakness of this article is the fact that reporting is *much* better now than it was in the 30's. Like how the autism rates are shooting up. More and better reporting, not more afflicted people.
Life isn't very mentally healthy, in general.
Actually Heroes would be a reboot of The Tomorrow People.
except with blood, and violence and a time traveling otaku.
In response to your sig, what if you were coding some sort of personal finance system and you had several PINs to keep track of? Wouldn't the index of those PINs be a PIN Number? Or a device that manfactured ATMs be an ATM machine?
On that note, in both English and Thai, "15 over par" is still a Tiger Woods.
The whole economics of today seems like it's paying only for exorbitant CEO profits and studio whoring.
It's almost like movies and music are a business.
The "new freedoms" comment though, that's a big Orwellian WTF until you read the article. They want to be able to make DRMed content portable. Which is admirable, but, ultimately probably flawed.
seeing as how I went to school as a kid and got a public education, as opposed to working in a cannery for 15 hours a day, very well thank you.
The Govenrment isn't a fraud laden pile of conflicts of interest(Funny enough one of the Democrats who's been pushing hardest FOR health care reform, for instance, is taking a shitload of money from the health care sector, not to mention the great story of Harry Reid taking huge amounts in free tickets to boxing events from the Nevada Boxing Commission, a body he used to chair, and then regularly and repeatedly voting against their interests; Democrats aren't corrupt, they're rude).
That's not to say that it as an institution is trust worthy. Anyone who grabs for power should be held with a skeptical eye.
Free markets have everything to do with the private sector. It IS the private sector. People who aren't the Government doing work.