Well, we'd still have to document everything pretty much the same -- you can (and do) still have payment/service disputes with self-pays, too.
Mind you, I do agree that Health Care would be better suited if it were allowed to be a (cash) business like any other, but as long as you have lousy, mooching, wealth-bashing ingrates who think that health care is something to which they're entitled (they're not.), such as the rest of those replying to this sub-thread, that will never happen.
Were the Health Care market (more) free (as in speech, not as in beer), you wouldn't have the problem with Health Care that you now do -- that is, that Health Care has effectively priced most of its consumers (customers) out of the market. Health Care has no incentive to innovate and develop low-cost products and services.
Lawyers, patient safety, and actually getting paid. Vast amounts of documentation must be provided to Medicare/Medicaid and Insurance companies in order to get paid for services. Event the smallest amount of missing or inaccurate documentation can be the difference between getting paid $5 and $5000, the difference between getting paid and getting fined and losing your ability to bill Medicare, etc...
Home-school your kids instead. Seriously. Not only will the school district not lose your kids, they can't turn their heads to mush with go-green (environmentalist) or go-red (socialist) or go-blank (subjectivist) drek, either.
Altruists who go looking for reward, recognition and contributions aren't very good altruists. If you expect rewards and recognition -- sell your product. If you expect contributions, pay for them.
"But what has happened online is that if it is 'beyond store hours' and the shop is closed, a lot of people just smash the window and steal what they want."
Let me state emphatically that pirates are thieves. But why are they stealing? Maybe it's because they're pricks, maybe it's because they're cheapasses, and maybe it's because it's the only way to get what they're looking for.
It's not a matter of the shop being closed, it's a matter that products that meet the needs, wants and preferences of the (potential) customers have not been _developed_, much less _marketed_.
The potential that are swiping it because it's the only way to get what they want when they want it? They're a potential -- and more importantly, untapped -- market!!
Let's use his example of the unfinished version of the movie Wolverine. What does the rampant piracy of this tell you?
1. People want to see a movie. (make the movie available!) 2. People want to see a movie NOW. (simul-release film to theatres and DVD.) 3. The internet lets them see a movie NOW. (stream movies from the internet on day 1) 4. They don't necessarily want to go to a theater to do it. (see 2,3 above.) 5. Top Quality isn't always a concern. (see 3, above) 6. Hell, the movie even being *complete* isn't always a concern. (market previews, in-production work-in-progress "insider" subscriptions and bonus materials instead of the current woefully impotent movie promo web sites.) 7. Unfinished films have a market, too. (see 6, above) 8. Some portion of these 4 million downloaders won't ever pay to see it. (some pirates really are just theives.) 9. But you need to find out who among them *will*, and *how much* and *why*. (product-effing-development, people!)
Given all of the above, there's any number of product development possibilities. Entertainment companies, start ramming them through Stage-Gate and see what comes out the other end that might make you some money.
Riiiiight. And cops have _never_ exploited a suspect's ignorance before. Sorry, I don't trust em. If they're at your door and you didn't call them, they aren't there to help you.
Maybe you have a legitimate quasi-Second Amendment need for stockpiling ammunition, saltine crackers, bottled fertilizer and diesel fuel in the garage along with your collection of not-so-classic box trucks and panel vans. Maybe you don't. Maybe you're just a survivalist waiting for the apocolypse to come. Maybe you're not. Maybe your a terrorist. Maybe your not. But maybe the Feds think you're a terrorist, and there's not enough information for the feds to get a warrant legitimately. What are they going to do? Easy. They're going to call the FCC and ask them to kindly inspect your wireless router, and oh, by the way, they'd like to come along for the ride.
So Mr. FCC gets to come in and his friends insist on coming along, without a warrant, and get to poke around just like the law says they shouldn't.
My guess is you'd ask everyone for ID, a copy of the complaint that led them to your door in the first place and ask them precisely what piece of equipment they want to see -- wait here please, and you'll bring it to them. My guess is that you'll be tackled to the ground in under 12 seconds while your house is then ransacked because you "refused" them entry and they interpret that as "probable cause" for an impromptu search, sans warrant. Because, like, that never happens.
"I can no longer sit back and allow Capitalist infiltration, Capitalist indoctrination, Capitalist subversion and the international Capitalist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious computer software."
- Richard "And Yet Somehow Not A Commie" Stallman.
"I can no longer sit back and allow Capitalist infiltration, Capitalist indoctrination, Capitalist subversion and the international Communist Capitalist to sap and impurify all of our precious computer software."
- Richard "And Yet Somehow Not A Commie" Stallman.
Yes, it sends credentials through to Nokia, but it does _not_ use an un-encrypted HTTP connection to do it. It uses SSL/HTTPS. It's also _not_ done in HTTP Header messages, it's going through in the GET request.
Because lungs don't expand and contract on their own, they rely in a change in pressue in the chest cavity to drawn in or expell air, if I remember my high school biologo correctly. You would either need to force air into and out of them directly, or create/dispel a vacuum around them to create a more "natural" operation. My money's on the vacuum, because it's got to be easier on the tissues. Also, I would suspect a vacuum because it's got to be cleaner than leaving the organ exposed to the open air -- imagine someone sneezing on your lungs ---- ew!!!! In a transplant situation, you'd want to keep the organ as sterile as is possible.
Odd. Video looks kind of fake, especially given that the first cut has was I'm presuming to be a vacuum cover _off_ of the device. Plus the lungs are way too perfect looking -- nothing like the more ragged looking ones in the photo. *shrug* Not doubting it works, just don't think the video's authentic, more an "artist's representation" of what the system does.
The asian sweatshop -- putting kids to work making shoes (not putting day care employees to work, as you've quite deliberately misinterpretted) -- is about as far a cry from day care as calling what The Huffington Post engages in, "journalism."
Damn skippy I'm biased -- I'm biased against smearmiesters masquerading as journalists.
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Ten Vaginas!
The ShowWX weighs in at 10 lumens. 10!
That's barely bright enough to find your way to the bathroom in the middle of the night, let alone get any work done.
I think there's an emperor penguin colony in my underpants!
And somehow, we're the ones blamed for polluting the planet.
"Somebody please tell RMS to StFU."
Well, we'd still have to document everything pretty much the same -- you can (and do) still have payment/service disputes with self-pays, too.
Mind you, I do agree that Health Care would be better suited if it were allowed to be a (cash) business like any other, but as long as you have lousy, mooching, wealth-bashing ingrates who think that health care is something to which they're entitled (they're not.), such as the rest of those replying to this sub-thread, that will never happen.
Were the Health Care market (more) free (as in speech, not as in beer), you wouldn't have the problem with Health Care that you now do -- that is, that Health Care has effectively priced most of its consumers (customers) out of the market. Health Care has no incentive to innovate and develop low-cost products and services.
Lawyers, patient safety, and actually getting paid. Vast amounts of documentation must be provided to Medicare/Medicaid and Insurance companies in order to get paid for services. Event the smallest amount of missing or inaccurate documentation can be the difference between getting paid $5 and $5000, the difference between getting paid and getting fined and losing your ability to bill Medicare, etc...
Just tell them, "no." You are under no obligation to let them use/misuse/destroy your property.
Home-school your kids instead. Seriously. Not only will the school district not lose your kids, they can't turn their heads to mush with go-green (environmentalist) or go-red (socialist) or go-blank (subjectivist) drek, either.
Altruists who go looking for reward, recognition and contributions aren't very good altruists. If you expect rewards and recognition -- sell your product. If you expect contributions, pay for them.
Mr. Lynton needs a bit of a paradigm shift.
"But what has happened online is that if it is 'beyond store hours' and the shop is closed, a lot of people just smash the window and steal what they want."
Let me state emphatically that pirates are thieves. But why are they stealing? Maybe it's because they're pricks, maybe it's because they're cheapasses, and maybe it's because it's the only way to get what they're looking for.
It's not a matter of the shop being closed, it's a matter that products that meet the needs, wants and preferences of the (potential) customers have not been _developed_, much less _marketed_.
The potential that are swiping it because it's the only way to get what they want when they want it? They're a potential -- and more importantly, untapped -- market!!
Let's use his example of the unfinished version of the movie Wolverine. What does the rampant piracy of this tell you?
1. People want to see a movie. (make the movie available!)
2. People want to see a movie NOW. (simul-release film to theatres and DVD.)
3. The internet lets them see a movie NOW. (stream movies from the internet on day 1)
4. They don't necessarily want to go to a theater to do it. (see 2,3 above.)
5. Top Quality isn't always a concern. (see 3, above)
6. Hell, the movie even being *complete* isn't always a concern. (market previews, in-production work-in-progress "insider" subscriptions and bonus materials instead of the current woefully impotent movie promo web sites.)
7. Unfinished films have a market, too. (see 6, above)
8. Some portion of these 4 million downloaders won't ever pay to see it. (some pirates really are just theives.)
9. But you need to find out who among them *will*, and *how much* and *why*. (product-effing-development, people!)
Given all of the above, there's any number of product development possibilities. Entertainment companies, start ramming them through Stage-Gate and see what comes out the other end that might make you some money.
Riiiiight. And cops have _never_ exploited a suspect's ignorance before. Sorry, I don't trust em. If they're at your door and you didn't call them, they aren't there to help you.
Right. But here's the problem.
Maybe you have a legitimate quasi-Second Amendment need for stockpiling ammunition, saltine crackers, bottled fertilizer and diesel fuel in the garage along with your collection of not-so-classic box trucks and panel vans. Maybe you don't. Maybe you're just a survivalist waiting for the apocolypse to come. Maybe you're not. Maybe your a terrorist. Maybe your not. But maybe the Feds think you're a terrorist, and there's not enough information for the feds to get a warrant legitimately. What are they going to do? Easy. They're going to call the FCC and ask them to kindly inspect your wireless router, and oh, by the way, they'd like to come along for the ride.
So Mr. FCC gets to come in and his friends insist on coming along, without a warrant, and get to poke around just like the law says they shouldn't.
My guess is you'd ask everyone for ID, a copy of the complaint that led them to your door in the first place and ask them precisely what piece of equipment they want to see -- wait here please, and you'll bring it to them. My guess is that you'll be tackled to the ground in under 12 seconds while your house is then ransacked because you "refused" them entry and they interpret that as "probable cause" for an impromptu search, sans warrant. Because, like, that never happens.
One of this would _vastly_ improve the workday!
[oopsie. misposted.]
"I can no longer sit back and allow Capitalist infiltration, Capitalist indoctrination, Capitalist subversion and the international Capitalist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious computer software."
- Richard "And Yet Somehow Not A Commie" Stallman.
[Don't worry, Richard, this is fair-use satire.]
"I can no longer sit back and allow Capitalist infiltration, Capitalist indoctrination, Capitalist subversion and the international Communist Capitalist to sap and impurify all of our precious computer software."
- Richard "And Yet Somehow Not A Commie" Stallman.
[Don't worry, Richard, this is fair-use satire.]
They should have simply called the FSF, "Fucking Communists" and that would have sufficed.
This isn't really an issue, is it?
Yes, it sends credentials through to Nokia, but it does _not_ use an un-encrypted HTTP connection to do it. It uses SSL/HTTPS. It's also _not_ done in HTTP Header messages, it's going through in the GET request.
*shrug*
Because lungs don't expand and contract on their own, they rely in a change in pressue in the chest cavity to drawn in or expell air, if I remember my high school biologo correctly. You would either need to force air into and out of them directly, or create/dispel a vacuum around them to create a more "natural" operation. My money's on the vacuum, because it's got to be easier on the tissues. Also, I would suspect a vacuum because it's got to be cleaner than leaving the organ exposed to the open air -- imagine someone sneezing on your lungs ---- ew!!!! In a transplant situation, you'd want to keep the organ as sterile as is possible.
Odd. Video looks kind of fake, especially given that the first cut has was I'm presuming to be a vacuum cover _off_ of the device. Plus the lungs are way too perfect looking -- nothing like the more ragged looking ones in the photo. *shrug* Not doubting it works, just don't think the video's authentic, more an "artist's representation" of what the system does.
... please call your office.
... because what the Internet needs, above all, is more religion.
Idiots.
Yeah, no. Maybe I better explain.
The asian sweatshop -- putting kids to work making shoes (not putting day care employees to work, as you've quite deliberately misinterpretted) -- is about as far a cry from day care as calling what The Huffington Post engages in, "journalism."
Damn skippy I'm biased -- I'm biased against smearmiesters masquerading as journalists.
Are you a Huff Post reader?
The Huffington Post is to journalism what an Asian Nike sweatshop is to day care.
... then, yes, this is a scientific test indeed.