Preventative maintenance is always more costly. I could spend a $2000 every year replacing all the shocks & struts and other wearable parts on my car. That's $20,000 over ten years! Or I could just wait for something to go wrong (wheel breaks), and then fix it for $2000 flat. Cheaper. And besides:
To quote my Chinese coworker: "Why should I pay for someone else's inability to eat less food and stay thin? THEY created the problem, so let them pay the diet plan cost. Not me." ----- Of course he grew-up with 100% socialism so he knows how bad it truly is, and it should be avoided.
The Supreme Court is not the final answer. Remember they've made mistakes before, like when they said segregation is just fine-and-dandy under the Constitution. What had been just a local law of two states then became national policy.:-|
"They are as honest as other men, and not more so. To presume they should decide all constitutional questions is to place us under the depotism of an oligarchy [rule by a few]. Their power is all the more dangerous as they are not subject to the elective control of the people." - Thomas Jefferson 1820s
>>>The electrical savings of switching from incandescent to CFL is non-trivial.
I've trimmed 1 penny/month off my bill. That's pretty trivial. And I've actually spent MORE on CFLs, because the darn things keep burning-out at the same rate as normal bulbs (they're Philips not no-name brands). PLUS there is the additional environmental cost of shipping the things 25,000 miles from China, and then back to China (using filthy diesel ships w/o exhaust filters). Plus there's the mercury that inevitably gets dumped into Chinese rivers or factory grounds instead of recycled.
In every practical way, I consider the incandescent bulb to be a superior technology to CFL. It uses less energy from factory-to-landfill, and therefore is more environmentally friendly.
>>>gasoline is already taxed (eventhough this tax doesn't cover the full society cost of gasoline): so isn't that tax an unfair imposition on your freedom in the same way that this health care tax is?
You don't have to pay gasoline or diesel tax if you don't want to. You can walk. Ride a bus..... or bike. Maybe buy a horse-and-carriage from the Amish neighbor. Or buy offroad fuel with no tax, and just drive around your own estate/farm/ranch, as some Americans do.
>>>cable tv is an unnecessary luxury >>>healthcare is absolute necessity
No it isn't. In a truly free country, people may choose the option of saying, "I've lived long enough," and dying. Perhaps you think it's 'absolutely necessary' to fight every disease in an attempt to live past 100..... I do not. I will pay cash directly as I pay cash for everything else (supplemented by catastrophic insurance for major bills like cancer). Too bad Obamacare outlaws the latter. He and his corporate backers took-away my preferred method.
The taskbar previews are pretty handy. Certainly better than flipping through a ton of screens like AmigaOS. I can minimize VLC Media Player to the taskbar and yet still pause/resume playback through the preview window.
Pinning means creating a program "shortcut" but instead of putting the shortcut on your desktop, you drag it to your taskbar on the bottom. I'm not sure why the MS employee said it's "new" to Seven? I thought that function has existed since XP.
>>>do you have health insurance? >>>if no, then you are a freeloader
The conclusion is not logical. It is equivalent to saying, "If you don't have cable tv, then you're a freeloader." Or "If you don't have to satellite radio, then you're a freeloader." In all three cases I buy things with medicine/videos/songs with cash.
Last year's income: $130,000. Last year's paid taxes: $41,000. Really? Freeloader?
BTW under Obamacare a new panel is asking doctors to produce lists of obese people (BMI>30). Why? Because these people will be signed to counseling and diet programs, generously paid by either the government or the insurance company. In other words, rates are going UP not down.
Insightful comment from the FA. They are surveying the novice users not power users, hence they produced a Win8 interface for novices, not us:
Flawed, like most surveys "Weâ(TM)d seen the trend in Windows 7," referring to the telemetry gathered by the Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program." ----- Well there we have it, all but the most basic users opt out of the intrusive MCEIP - so they are surveying people who don't even know what the Start Button is for - I kid you not. As a computer tech I see it all the time.
Kinda like the Mac's dock I suppose. Only problem is I have 200+ programs. I can't pin them all to the taskbar; the start menu is still needed. (Also do PEOPLE pin their apps, or was it the annoying install programs doing it automatically? It seems every one of them does it, not me.)
QUOTE: "Sareen also claims that people are taking advantage of keyboard shortcuts to open applications, instead of resorting to the Start menu." ----- That would be fine if my keyboard was not laying on the floor, because I wasn't using it. We still need a mouse-based method to open our programs.
I use the start button about once every 5 minutes. Since my desktop is completely-clean of any icons, the start button is the only method I have to open new programs. Microsoft is probably lying through their teeth about "people don't use it".
Of course those of us who call our ISPs and say "Give me unfiltered internet," will be placed on a separate list, which the government will be able to view on demand & then label us "potential child molesters, rapists, sex offenders". Not immediately of course... some bright politician will pass this "anticrime" measure 2-3 years down the road. (In the U.S. it's already in the works; it's called CISPA.)
>>>Do you really not understand that stealing and copyright infringement are different? I think you do. Why do you keep trying to equate them?
Why do YOU not read my original post where I VERY clearly stated copyright law needs to be changed? Funny how you skipped over that. At the same time I want people like Gene Roddenberry and J.Michale Straczynski to be rewarded for their works, not left penniless because Star Trek & Babylon5 are handed-away for free via piratebay.
It was recently discovered that Texas had executed an innocent man (the real person was found wandering the streets). I don't necessarily approve, but I would expect that the majority of those covicted truely were murders, and if a few innocent people are on deathrow... oh well./end sarcasm
>>> Game of Thrones I just assumed that they were going to add a pair of tits.
This is the second day in a row I read Thrones and tits in the same sentence. Yesterday someone said it's LOTR with tits. I may have to take a second look at this program because the only ones I recall are the blonde princess near the beginning, and the dwarf with his prostitutes. Oh and also the baby breastfeeding scene..... no wait that was Rome. (Another show I need to rewatch.)
Seeing as how [Clinton] ran the U.S. in to a ditch and left [Bush] a thankless, nearly impossible job running a country in ruins, thanks to the Dot-com stock market crash and blowback from Clinton's attacks on Iraq and Bin Laden, (et cetera). Funny how Democrats forget how bad things were in 2000 & 2001.
Same reason Disney edited out the topless lady in the Rescuers and the penis in the Mermaid poster. They don't want to offend anyone (or lose money because of it).
If they REALLY wanted to fix this, they would have left Bush's head there and digitally-added Obama's head right next to it. BOTH of these men deserve the ultimate punishment for the ~2 million humans they have either killed or maimed during their careers as president. I hope the International Criminal Court presses charges.
I know it's fun to get stuff for free (I do it myself), but authors still deserve to be paid. Some of ye appear to say they do not (which is why you oppose copyright). I guess ye have no objections if I lay you off, and send the job to poor people in China/India. After all it is for the "good of society" that jobs go to those who need them the most. Those citizens need the jobs more than us rich Americans.
Like the authors, you can go earn your money some other way. (Enjoy!) BTW I notice almost none of ye suggested an alternate method for authors to get paid for their books, songs, movies. MY proposal is that we treat them the same way we do other creative types: Programmers, engineers. Give the authors an hourly wage upfront.
>>>Individual interests *must* take a back seat to the good of society. Period.
So you have no objections if I lay you off, and send the job to China and India. After all they are MUCH poorer than we are, and it is for the "good of society" that jobs go to those who need them the most. China/India citizens clearly need the jobs more than us rich Americans. Like the authors, you can go earn your money some other way. (Enjoy!)
BTW I notice you didn't suggest an alternate method for authors to get paid for their books, songs, movies. MY proposal is that we treat them the same way we do other creative types: Programmers, engineers. Give the authors an hourly wage upfront.
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Preventative maintenance is always more costly. I could spend a $2000 every year replacing all the shocks & struts and other wearable parts on my car. That's $20,000 over ten years! Or I could just wait for something to go wrong (wheel breaks), and then fix it for $2000 flat. Cheaper. And besides:
To quote my Chinese coworker: "Why should I pay for someone else's inability to eat less food and stay thin? THEY created the problem, so let them pay the diet plan cost. Not me." ----- Of course he grew-up with 100% socialism so he knows how bad it truly is, and it should be avoided.
The Supreme Court is not the final answer. Remember they've made mistakes before, like when they said segregation is just fine-and-dandy under the Constitution. What had been just a local law of two states then became national policy. :-|
"They are as honest as other men, and not more so. To presume they should decide all constitutional questions is to place us under the depotism of an oligarchy [rule by a few]. Their power is all the more dangerous as they are not subject to the elective control of the people." - Thomas Jefferson 1820s
>>>The electrical savings of switching from incandescent to CFL is non-trivial.
I've trimmed 1 penny/month off my bill. That's pretty trivial. And I've actually spent MORE on CFLs, because the darn things keep burning-out at the same rate as normal bulbs (they're Philips not no-name brands). PLUS there is the additional environmental cost of shipping the things 25,000 miles from China, and then back to China (using filthy diesel ships w/o exhaust filters). Plus there's the mercury that inevitably gets dumped into Chinese rivers or factory grounds instead of recycled.
In every practical way, I consider the incandescent bulb to be a superior technology to CFL. It uses less energy from factory-to-landfill, and therefore is more environmentally friendly.
>>>gasoline is already taxed (eventhough this tax doesn't cover the full society cost of gasoline): so isn't that tax an unfair imposition on your freedom in the same way that this health care tax is?
You don't have to pay gasoline or diesel tax if you don't want to. You can walk. Ride a bus..... or bike. Maybe buy a horse-and-carriage from the Amish neighbor. Or buy offroad fuel with no tax, and just drive around your own estate/farm/ranch, as some Americans do.
>>>cable tv is an unnecessary luxury
>>>healthcare is absolute necessity
No it isn't. In a truly free country, people may choose the option of saying, "I've lived long enough," and dying. Perhaps you think it's 'absolutely necessary' to fight every disease in an attempt to live past 100..... I do not. I will pay cash directly as I pay cash for everything else (supplemented by catastrophic insurance for major bills like cancer). Too bad Obamacare outlaws the latter. He and his corporate backers took-away my preferred method.
The taskbar previews are pretty handy. Certainly better than flipping through a ton of screens like AmigaOS. I can minimize VLC Media Player to the taskbar and yet still pause/resume playback through the preview window.
Pinning means creating a program "shortcut" but instead of putting the shortcut on your desktop, you drag it to your taskbar on the bottom. I'm not sure why the MS employee said it's "new" to Seven? I thought that function has existed since XP.
>>>do you have health insurance?
>>>if no, then you are a freeloader
The conclusion is not logical. It is equivalent to saying, "If you don't have cable tv, then you're a freeloader." Or "If you don't have to satellite radio, then you're a freeloader." In all three cases I buy things with medicine/videos/songs with cash.
>>>there was absolutely nothing in them that could compete with the Minitel services.
Really? Minitel looked better than this? Doubtful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjgH27p-FAM
PICS in case youtube doesn't work: http://orrtech.us/qlink/index.html
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>>>you're a freeloader
Last year's income: $130,000.
Last year's paid taxes: $41,000.
Really?
Freeloader?
BTW under Obamacare a new panel is asking doctors to produce lists of obese people (BMI>30). Why? Because these people will be signed to counseling and diet programs, generously paid by either the government or the insurance company. In other words, rates are going UP not down.
Liberty.
Self-rule.
Pro-choice.
A Freman not a Serf to be ordered about by the Congressional lords' random wishes.
Insightful comment from the FA. They are surveying the novice users not power users, hence they produced a Win8 interface for novices, not us:
Flawed, like most surveys
"Weâ(TM)d seen the trend in Windows 7," referring to the telemetry gathered by the Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program." ----- Well there we have it, all but the most basic users opt out of the intrusive MCEIP - so they are surveying people who don't even know what the Start Button is for - I kid you not. As a computer tech I see it all the time.
Kinda like the Mac's dock I suppose. Only problem is I have 200+ programs. I can't pin them all to the taskbar; the start menu is still needed. (Also do PEOPLE pin their apps, or was it the annoying install programs doing it automatically? It seems every one of them does it, not me.)
QUOTE: "Sareen also claims that people are taking advantage of keyboard shortcuts to open applications, instead of resorting to the Start menu." ----- That would be fine if my keyboard was not laying on the floor, because I wasn't using it. We still need a mouse-based method to open our programs.
I use the start button about once every 5 minutes. Since my desktop is completely-clean of any icons, the start button is the only method I have to open new programs. Microsoft is probably lying through their teeth about "people don't use it".
Of course those of us who call our ISPs and say "Give me unfiltered internet," will be placed on a separate list, which the government will be able to view on demand & then label us "potential child molesters, rapists, sex offenders". Not immediately of course... some bright politician will pass this "anticrime" measure 2-3 years down the road. (In the U.S. it's already in the works; it's called CISPA.)
>>>Do you really not understand that stealing and copyright infringement are different? I think you do. Why do you keep trying to equate them?
Why do YOU not read my original post where I VERY clearly stated copyright law needs to be changed? Funny how you skipped over that. At the same time I want people like Gene Roddenberry and J.Michale Straczynski to be rewarded for their works, not left penniless because Star Trek & Babylon5 are handed-away for free via piratebay.
It was recently discovered that Texas had executed an innocent man (the real person was found wandering the streets). I don't necessarily approve, but I would expect that the majority of those covicted truely were murders, and if a few innocent people are on deathrow... oh well. /end sarcasm
>>> Game of Thrones I just assumed that they were going to add a pair of tits.
This is the second day in a row I read Thrones and tits in the same sentence. Yesterday someone said it's LOTR with tits. I may have to take a second look at this program because the only ones I recall are the blonde princess near the beginning, and the dwarf with his prostitutes. Oh and also the baby breastfeeding scene..... no wait that was Rome. (Another show I need to rewatch.)
>>>I bet you also hope for unicorns, a Ron Paul presidency and Pandora to be a real planet...
No, no, and yes (or any earthlike planet). BTW I find it sad you think the lives of 2 million innocent men, women, and children don't matter.
>>> I really wanted to like President Bush but his policies just made it too hard and I gave up trying.
President Obama has the same policies.
Seeing as how [Clinton] ran the U.S. in to a ditch and left [Bush] a thankless, nearly impossible job running a country in ruins, thanks to the Dot-com stock market crash and blowback from Clinton's attacks on Iraq and Bin Laden, (et cetera). Funny how Democrats forget how bad things were in 2000 & 2001.
Same reason Disney edited out the topless lady in the Rescuers and the penis in the Mermaid poster. They don't want to offend anyone (or lose money because of it).
If they REALLY wanted to fix this, they would have left Bush's head there and digitally-added Obama's head right next to it. BOTH of these men deserve the ultimate punishment for the ~2 million humans they have either killed or maimed during their careers as president. I hope the International Criminal Court presses charges.
I know it's fun to get stuff for free (I do it myself), but authors still deserve to be paid. Some of ye appear to say they do not (which is why you oppose copyright). I guess ye have no objections if I lay you off, and send the job to poor people in China/India. After all it is for the "good of society" that jobs go to those who need them the most. Those citizens need the jobs more than us rich Americans.
Like the authors, you can go earn your money some other way. (Enjoy!) BTW I notice almost none of ye suggested an alternate method for authors to get paid for their books, songs, movies. MY proposal is that we treat them the same way we do other creative types: Programmers, engineers. Give the authors an hourly wage upfront.
>>>Individual interests *must* take a back seat to the good of society. Period.
So you have no objections if I lay you off, and send the job to China and India. After all they are MUCH poorer than we are, and it is for the "good of society" that jobs go to those who need them the most. China/India citizens clearly need the jobs more than us rich Americans. Like the authors, you can go earn your money some other way. (Enjoy!)
BTW I notice you didn't suggest an alternate method for authors to get paid for their books, songs, movies. MY proposal is that we treat them the same way we do other creative types: Programmers, engineers. Give the authors an hourly wage upfront.