The fact is the article you chose to submit a story on is a pack of lies.
> A charitable reading suggests that ObamaCare's net enrollment stands at about negative four million.
This is bullshit too. I know from personal experience. My son's health care policy was cancelled effective its renewal date sometime in May. That however DOES NOT mean he is going to be uninsured or needs to enroll in anything. What happens in this case is when his current policy runs out his insurer automatically puts him in the corresponding policy created for the PPACA. So fuck all the NET ENROLLMENT CHANGE FOR THESE PEOPLE IS ZERO.
The story you submitted, and your posting defending it are factually devoid of any correct, valid information. Since the actual facts are a matter of public record, you are lying.
1. Washington Examiner is one of the MOST extreme right wing political rags in the country.
2. Oregon's web site has not even been online most of the time. It is a total fiasco. Any conclusions on the PPACA based on Oregon are completely ridiculous.
3. The situation is NOT representative of what is going on in the rest of the country where signups are increasing at a brisk pace after the improvements on Healthcare.gov.
On a global frame the current US Democrat party has positions that would be considered slightly to the conservative side of center.
The mainstream Republicans would be considered hard right wingers, and the Tea Party types would be extremist right wingers lumped in with neo-fascists etc.
For example, compare the Tea Party with the British National Party.
No, it is not farfetched to think there might be problems with any particular artifact of technology. Everything you do in life has positives and negatives.
However it is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE to just go and place blame on something for a problem without having any real evidence, and in fact in the presence of evidence to the contrary.
This is exactly what happened during the Salem witch trials. It's what happened to vaccines and why we are now getting measles outbreaks in he US when measles used to be considered eradicated.
There is a process to finding a right answer. We know what that process is. But NOoooOOOoo. Just because we have some preconceived idea that GMO is bad we go and blame it for any and all perceived ills WITHOUT having evidence that it is indeed the source of the problem.
This sort of crap is what leads to the scientific frauds perpetrated by people like Seralini and Wakefield.
Sorry, but you can't run a technological civilization like that.
If you are going to behave like that you might as well ban fire and go back to living in dark unheated caves and eating your food raw.
1 Rich People in my country. 2 Corporations (based anywhere) 3 Rich People in other countries 4 People in my country who pay taxes 5 Cute animals 6 Monkeys that aren't so cute 7 non-cute things that can't harm me 8 scary things 9 Poor people in my country 10 Poor people in other countries 11 Poor people in other countries who want to be free.
The main reason as I understand it is that if corporations weren't people then they would have no legal status. For example, you could not sue them. They could not form contracts and be held accountable for these contracts.
This legal doctrine goes back to a Supreme Court in the first 30 years of the Republic. Since at least Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward â" 17 U.S. 518 (1819), the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized corporations as having the same rights as natural persons to contract and to enforce contracts. (Wikipedia).
The basis for the idea is that corporations are associations of people, and as such have most of the rights of the people that make up these associations. One of the most important aspects of this is that since people have the right to equal protection under the law, so do the corporations they form.
There are exceptions to these rights, of course. For example in the United States corporations are not given the right to vote.
It is this division, that is where do the rights of a corporation fall short of the rights of an individual. That I think is an area that needs work.
Problem is CCD happens on organic farms and in countries where neonicotinoids are banned. In Australia, and large parts of Canada where these insecticides are widely used they DON'T have CCD.
The fact of the matter is that this is a witch hunt, and lots of innocents are being burnt on no reliable evidence.
But what the heck. Science be damned we KNOW it's the fault of some greedy company somewhere.
Interesting. In the US the post office is more economical than UPS. In fact a lot of the time UPS drops off packages at the post office for last mile handling. I'm starting to get Sunday delivery of packages from Amazon now, routed through the post office.
Applying for a patent is a negotiation process in which you throw out a bunch of claims looking to get the best deal you can. You start with Claim 1 being a claim on the sidereal universe and all it contains and work your way down to more specific stuff. Depending on the skill of those writing the patent you will get more or less of the invention you actually wanted.
As you can see in the application they have already dropped the first 154 claims in the original application.
Looking at the application it seems to me what is most interesting is the last claim.
That is:
A computer-implemented method of providing an anonymous payment from a mobile device to a payee device to enable an electronic payment between a payer and a payee without provision of an account number or name from the payer
So its a mobile anonymous untraceable payment, something that BTC doesn't address but something a lot of smartphone users would probably like.
Micropayments are discussed in the specification but aren't mentioned in the claims so are just some bullshit to make the examiner think this is cool new stuff or something.
Not really what the story is talking about, but that's not surprising since Slashdot is pretty weak on anything to do with patents.
That's true even in the short term. Asset prices are quite high right now, and growth fairly low. All this points to likely lower than historical averages on returns over the next decade.
Obviously this means that lowering taxes on the wealthy or on corporations will do nothing. What needs to be done is raise taxes on the wealthy to fund things like infrastructure projects and increase the flow of money to lower and middle class people. This should result in an increased standard of living for all citizens.
In the CIty of London (pop 11,000) the Police probably don't actually have a lot to do.
It's a small area in the center of London with it's own semi-autonomous government dating back to at least before William the Conqueror. It started out as a Roman trading post.
It has it's own Mayor elected by a bunch of guilds.
The defense industry and it's supply chain regularly benefits from government bailouts disguised as contracts for un-needed weapons and services. Farm aid regularly bails out large agricultural operations.
Really bailouts are the American way and have been for decades.
Unlikely, since the workers involved are getting far more than $50K each out of this. Either they have long term jobs, lifetime pensions or long term unemployment benefits.
Depends where the metal detector is. Not all of them are in airports.
I imagine the upshot of this is there will be some court or school shooting with a plastic gun, and then current metal detectors everywhere will be replaced with something more expensive that will detect plastic guns.
Slashdot Mirror
> Did that change the number of people that signed up?
They got the number of people signed up wrong. They also left out the salient detail that the site is not even online.
The only conclusion that is reasonable is they are liars.
> especially when it costs $300,000,000 for a state?
That is another lie. The actual cost was $43 million.
http://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-blamed-for-oregon-obamacare-site-2013-11
The fact is the article you chose to submit a story on is a pack of lies.
> A charitable reading suggests that ObamaCare's net enrollment stands at about negative four million.
This is bullshit too. I know from personal experience. My son's health care policy was cancelled effective its renewal date sometime in May. That however DOES NOT mean he is going to be uninsured or needs to enroll in anything. What happens in this case is when his current policy runs out his insurer automatically puts him in the corresponding policy created for the PPACA. So fuck all the NET ENROLLMENT CHANGE FOR THESE PEOPLE IS ZERO.
The story you submitted, and your posting defending it are factually devoid of any correct, valid information. Since the actual facts are a matter of public record, you are lying.
1. Washington Examiner is one of the MOST extreme right wing political rags in the country.
2. Oregon's web site has not even been online most of the time. It is a total fiasco. Any conclusions on the PPACA based on Oregon are completely ridiculous.
http://news.yahoo.com/oregon-healthcare-exchange-website-never-worked-no-subscribers-130601969--sector.html
3. The situation is NOT representative of what is going on in the rest of the country where signups are increasing at a brisk pace after the improvements on Healthcare.gov.
Mod story -1 stupid.
On a global frame the current US Democrat party has positions that would be considered slightly to the conservative side of center.
The mainstream Republicans would be considered hard right wingers, and the Tea Party types would be extremist right wingers lumped in with neo-fascists etc.
For example, compare the Tea Party with the British National Party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Party
How do you think honey bees got the US in the first place?
THEY ARE NOT NATIVE.
The Pilgrims brought them. They have been shipped globally for FIVE HUNDRED YEARS.
No native American plants require bees for pollination.
Crikey how about some basic knowledge people.
No, it is not farfetched to think there might be problems with any particular artifact of technology. Everything you do in life has positives and negatives.
However it is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE to just go and place blame on something for a problem without having any real evidence, and in fact in the presence of evidence to the contrary.
This is exactly what happened during the Salem witch trials. It's what happened to vaccines and why we are now getting measles outbreaks in he US when measles used to be considered eradicated.
There is a process to finding a right answer. We know what that process is. But NOoooOOOoo. Just because we have some preconceived idea that GMO is bad we go and blame it for any and all perceived ills WITHOUT having evidence that it is indeed the source of the problem.
This sort of crap is what leads to the scientific frauds perpetrated by people like Seralini and Wakefield.
Sorry, but you can't run a technological civilization like that.
If you are going to behave like that you might as well ban fire and go back to living in dark unheated caves and eating your food raw.
1 Rich People in my country.
2 Corporations (based anywhere)
3 Rich People in other countries
4 People in my country who pay taxes
5 Cute animals
6 Monkeys that aren't so cute
7 non-cute things that can't harm me
8 scary things
9 Poor people in my country
10 Poor people in other countries
11 Poor people in other countries who want to be free.
The main reason as I understand it is that if corporations weren't people then they would have no legal status. For example, you could not sue them. They could not form contracts and be held accountable for these contracts.
This legal doctrine goes back to a Supreme Court in the first 30 years of the Republic. Since at least Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward â" 17 U.S. 518 (1819), the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized corporations as having the same rights as natural persons to contract and to enforce contracts. (Wikipedia).
The basis for the idea is that corporations are associations of people, and as such have most of the rights of the people that make up these associations. One of the most important aspects of this is that since people have the right to equal protection under the law, so do the corporations they form.
There are exceptions to these rights, of course. For example in the United States corporations are not given the right to vote.
It is this division, that is where do the rights of a corporation fall short of the rights of an individual. That I think is an area that needs work.
Problem is CCD happens on organic farms and in countries where neonicotinoids are banned. In Australia, and large parts of Canada where these insecticides are widely used they DON'T have CCD.
The fact of the matter is that this is a witch hunt, and lots of innocents are being burnt on no reliable evidence.
But what the heck. Science be damned we KNOW it's the fault of some greedy company somewhere.
> If you are a small business paper checks still make better financial sense because they cost less than a payroll services company.
That argument would work except for one thing. HE USES A PAYROLL SERVICES COMPANY to prepare the checks!!
So that's where my anal polyps came from! NSA!!
Interesting. In the US the post office is more economical than UPS. In fact a lot of the time UPS drops off packages at the post office for last mile handling. I'm starting to get Sunday delivery of packages from Amazon now, routed through the post office.
TELL MY EMPLOYER.
He still MAILS a paper check to all of his employees twice a month. AND it's a software company. HOLY DISSONANCE BATMAN.
Applying for a patent is a negotiation process in which you throw out a bunch of claims looking to get the best deal you can. You start with Claim 1 being a claim on the sidereal universe and all it contains and work your way down to more specific stuff. Depending on the skill of those writing the patent you will get more or less of the invention you actually wanted.
As you can see in the application they have already dropped the first 154 claims in the original application.
Looking at the application it seems to me what is most interesting is the last claim.
That is:
A computer-implemented method of providing an anonymous payment from a mobile device to a payee device to enable an electronic payment between a payer and a payee without provision of an account number or name from the payer
So its a mobile anonymous untraceable payment, something that BTC doesn't address but something a lot of smartphone users would probably like.
Micropayments are discussed in the specification but aren't mentioned in the claims so are just some bullshit to make the examiner think this is cool new stuff or something.
Not really what the story is talking about, but that's not surprising since Slashdot is pretty weak on anything to do with patents.
That's true even in the short term. Asset prices are quite high right now, and growth fairly low. All this points to likely lower than historical averages on returns over the next decade.
Obviously this means that lowering taxes on the wealthy or on corporations will do nothing. What needs to be done is raise taxes on the wealthy to fund things like infrastructure projects and increase the flow of money to lower and middle class people. This should result in an increased standard of living for all citizens.
No, first to file doesn't affect the issue of publicly disclosed prior art.
First to file only sets the priority of the application.
In the CIty of London (pop 11,000) the Police probably don't actually have a lot to do.
It's a small area in the center of London with it's own semi-autonomous government dating back to at least before William the Conqueror. It started out as a Roman trading post.
It has it's own Mayor elected by a bunch of guilds.
I shit you not.
Well, I'm not going to worry until it's capable of scavenging the raw materials to build copies of itself.
That could get a bit dicey.
cf "The Mechanical Mice" by Eric Frank Russell
There was no systemic risk from letting Enron fail.
Lehman Brothers though had massive consequences. Letting that go down really did a lot of damage.
The defense industry and it's supply chain regularly benefits from government bailouts disguised as contracts for un-needed weapons and services. Farm aid regularly bails out large agricultural operations.
Really bailouts are the American way and have been for decades.
Unlikely, since the workers involved are getting far more than $50K each out of this. Either they have long term jobs, lifetime pensions or long term unemployment benefits.
The unemployment in the Detroit metro area is 9.0%.
Not double digits. Sorry.
This article explains why QE isn't printing money.
Maybe you should read it.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100760150
"'There's not that much known about Canadian intelligence.'"
Clearly they also don't know that Canada became the 51st state during the Cold War. Kept secret so they could do stuff that we can't get away with.
It's known in the intelligence community as the Maple Leaf State.
Depends where the metal detector is. Not all of them are in airports.
I imagine the upshot of this is there will be some court or school shooting with a plastic gun, and then current metal detectors everywhere will be replaced with something more expensive that will detect plastic guns.
The FSM was invented to show what a farce the concept Intelligent Design is.
It's not a troll. It is intended to be a logical argument against ID.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1498162/In-the-beginning-there-was-the-Flying-Spaghetti-Monster.html