Um, yeah, I have used a mac within the past six years--I'm posting on one right now. A spotlight search of my system for "SoundApp" returns one Java program that's included in the Developer kit and nothing more.
I've never understood the (frequently American) mindset that when things are obviously broken it's socially unacceptable to fix it if someone is making money out of the status quo.
So why ignore the obvious? If American healthcare is so broken, why are cancer survival rates almost uniformly higher (and usually by a good %) than in Europe? Look it up, the data is there.
For those that don't want to read--much higher survival rates in the US for most cancers (gastric cancer being a difference). No, it's not US and UK, so not directly comparable, but an interesting study nonetheless, especially for the countless posters coming out of the woodworks declaring the infinite superiority of socialized healthcare (though I still fail to see how socialized healthcare systems in and of themselves prevent cancer and diabetes..)
My point in posting this ISN'T to cast doubt on the article's study, or to deny that Americans are pretty damn unhealthy (we too often are). It's merely to respond to the people who seem to to place a great deal of their mental energy on the existence of government institutions, and when these institutions are absent blame all ills on their absence.
I've never understood the (frequently European) mindset that when there is a possibility of making money, people instantly turn completely evil and ruthless. Do imagine hospital CEO's sitting around thinking how they can make people sick to get more money out of them? I honestly think that's one of the most ridiculous things that I've ever heard. If you had ANY experience with the healthcare system in the US or knew anyone who worked in healthcare, you would realize how ridiculous these ideas sound.
Your point about dealing with "complications and symptoms" versus curing doesn't seem to make much sense either. Sometimes diet can cure diabetes--it can at least control it once you have it, but I guess that would be dealing with symptoms. Same for cancer, I don't know why you think that it's the fat capitalist pig doctors fault that they can't always cure cancer..
An interesting supplement to this study would be cancer survival rates.
So let me get this straight...diabetes is caused by the fact that we don't have socialized healthcare? Cancer is CAUSED by the fact that we don't put control of our medical fates in a vast and unwieldy bureacracy? I had no idea that there were such causal relationships......
To people claiming that this is due to socialized healthcare versus not--how does that affect cancer rates and diabetes rates? It's possible I suppose that such conditions are caught more frequently in the US, I don't know. I would think diabetes is clearly a lifestyle issue, while cancer--who knows.
A second point--The US has the lowest incidence rate of stomach cancer in the world. The two countries with the highest rates? Japan and Korea. Interesting, given that the Japanese are generally considered to live one of the healtheir lifestyles in the world as born out by life expectancy.
Someone else made another good point in this discussion--to everyone sneering at American work hours, well, the Japanese work as much, and probably under more rigid frameworks and high stress more often than not. Everyone's heard stories about the Japanese suicide rate. Yet they still live a long time...
I'll tell you what I am getting tired of--the state of VOTING!
Crappy machines on the one hand, and identity fraud on the other. It's ridiculous. One party or the other opposes any and all kinds of reform.
So let's get a paper trail (no more e-voting, thank you!)
And let's get id checks to vote.
I would have thought these would have been completely non-controversial...but apparently they are.
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In conclusion, any kind of national ID, free to those who need it freely, that proves citizenship and can be used by states to verify voter ID, (and that can also be used by the fed govt for benefits) is about the only reason I would want a national ID.
Yes, and posting on topics that you clearly absolutely no clue about doesn't get you more "geek cred" and make you a better person.
If "what an ignorant post" is all it takes to make you stop reading and start calling people "assholes" and "dicks" I think you seriously need to work a little more on your intellectual maturity. But hey, I understand that you just use that as an excuse to not reply to a single point I made, while resorting to name calling.
Yeah, because like, social studies hasn't changed at all in the past fifty years--I mean, we can still learn about Rhodesia, the Soviet Union, and French West Africa, right? Expand that to history.
Likewise with literature--all the important literature is fifty years old, no new poetry, novels, or anything since then--damn hippies.
Let's see math--ok, I think I'm with you on math..
Biology, you yourself said it.
Chemistry--I think you're not correct in how much chemistry has changed in the past 50 years. IF the periodic table update were all it took, that would be one thing..
I also think you don't really have any understanding of what textbooks LOOK like. If you look at any middle school (eg) science text book, there are going to be references to current events, the space station, often closeups on famous scientists in that particular state, etc. The reason why your ideal opensource or whatever text book (though noting that you're apparently confused that students today only learn biology and chemistry and nothing else) doesn't work is because teachers and students at this age have particular needs.
I just don't think elementary and middleschool education (the prime users of textbooks) is where one really should be waging this anti-corporate, wiki-, open-source, whatever battle.
I can see a much greater argument for opensource textbooks at a college level.
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I hesitated to note this but since you did this consistently I just wanted to put out that "chemestry" is actually spelled as "chemistry." Don't mean to be a grammar troll or whatever, I just thought I'd point it out if you were a non-native speaker.
Wow, what an absolutely ignorant post. As someone who has worked with schools adopting textbooks, let me set somethings straight.
1) Schools do not buy new books every year. They are generally multiyear cycles--5 in my states case. 2) New books are bought to replace the old ones falling apart, and to match curriculums, which change as well. That has nothing to do with publishers/anything, it's got to do with politics and changing educational standards. 3) You want elementary school kids reading textbooks online? This alone makes you seem someone who's clearly never worked with that age kids and has no idea about how many kids in many communities don't have computers or internet at home.
You really think cheap lowpower ebook readers that will no doubt break, that will no doubt be more expensive than books, that will be a nightmare for recycling, getting stolen, and, with current technology (and I don't see it in the immediate future either) be anywhere as effective as books are the good?
Look, you MAY have some points eventually--maybe 15-20 years from now we'll have cheap durable ebook readers. However right now, and for the immediate future, you're putting way to much of your politics in educating kids. This is about what's best for the kids, not what technology you think is the coolest.
In addition, huge amounts of paper today are recycled. What happens to these ebook readers when THEY get thrown away? All that metal and battery gunk in the environment? Doesn't sound good to me. Your argument doesn't make sense. Honestly, which is worse if they're just thrown straight away--a biodegradable book (which many are completely biodegradable today) or a computer. If we're talking recycling, which needs more energy to recycle? This isn't a close call. Might I recommend reading some Bastiat? You're hyperventilating on that which is scene, and skipping entirely past that which is not seen.
I'm not the one that used the term, but if EVER conspiracy freak was applicable it was with you! Let's see...USA is going to meltdown at any moment thanks to revolting militias (that you have secret esoteric knowledge of but can't say--*shhh* secret!). McVeigh was a government pawn. Blah blah blah--conspiracy freak. I missed the part that the illuminati and the jews play, care to enlighten me?
I honestly have a hard time believing any rational adult could possibly believe such things. Then again most of the worlds population believe in a virgin birth of God's son, a desert dweller receiving personal revelations from God, a burning bush being God's manifestation of power, etc. I actually wonder if being a conspiracy theoriest fulfills the same need that religion fills, eh shaitand?
Prior to that I knew of a major US state where most of the national guard had prepared to defect to the militia and plans were in place to secure their armories for when they did.
You might want to check out the documentary "Waco: The Rules of Engagement." It's really chilling.
In addition, I think you PROVED the point--the US government can do terrible things, but the truth is out there, and readily available. No fear of government erasure of non-official events (or erasure of people).
Offtopic, but I just wanted to say that your sig is awesome--I've sent it around to a number of people already.
Creepy...
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It's not pgAdmin is it? It has an OSX port, and I actually use it quite frequently. It's gotten to the point where it's pretty much as good on mac as on pc. Early versions were unstable and I actually ended up just using VNC / RDP to use pgAdmin on a windows box most of the time.
I can't comment in any technically meaningful way on this topic, but...
I have downloaded episodes of "The Office" from the iTunes music store--the video ipod format. They ARE surprisingly high quality when watched fullscreen on my 15" laptop screen. However there is definitely blur when they are that big, and there is artifacting at times.
In comparison, other episodes of The Office that I have downloaded from other sources (that are TV rips and encoded divx/some other codec) are much much better, lacking the blurriness and blockiness of artifacting.
Actually, in your post you didn't "quote" (note the quotation marks) anything that I said, which makes me wonder if you understand what that means. I also wonder if you know what fascist means.
Where did I defend Bush, straw-man or toss out a fallacious argument?
I'm sorry about your indigestion, but honestly, I'm happy, and I don't spend a hundred percent of my time worrying about things external to my self, outside of my control, and that aren't really problems. You might give it a shot.
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Um, yeah, I have used a mac within the past six years--I'm posting on one right now. A spotlight search of my system for "SoundApp" returns one Java program that's included in the Developer kit and nothing more.
Thanks
I've never understood the (frequently American) mindset that when things are obviously broken it's socially unacceptable to fix it if someone is making money out of the status quo.
So why ignore the obvious? If American healthcare is so broken, why are cancer survival rates almost uniformly higher (and usually by a good %) than in Europe? Look it up, the data is there.
Ah, I missed that. I did see the website, saw articles and the like and jumped to conclusions. Definitely my bad.
What about survival rates?
x _Study_Compares_U_S__and_European_Survival_Rates.a sp
w ww.ntrac.org.uk/About/QA.aspx&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk& cd=11 (claiming that UK survival is on the average less than America or European)
A quick google turned up a study on cancer survival rates in America and Europe: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1
Here's an article on cancer survival in the UK: (google cache): http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:VZmy8v8wLdMJ:
BBC article on survival rates http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/546846.stm
For those that don't want to read--much higher survival rates in the US for most cancers (gastric cancer being a difference). No, it's not US and UK, so not directly comparable, but an interesting study nonetheless, especially for the countless posters coming out of the woodworks declaring the infinite superiority of socialized healthcare (though I still fail to see how socialized healthcare systems in and of themselves prevent cancer and diabetes..)
My point in posting this ISN'T to cast doubt on the article's study, or to deny that Americans are pretty damn unhealthy (we too often are). It's merely to respond to the people who seem to to place a great deal of their mental energy on the existence of government institutions, and when these institutions are absent blame all ills on their absence.
I've never understood the (frequently European) mindset that when there is a possibility of making money, people instantly turn completely evil and ruthless. Do imagine hospital CEO's sitting around thinking how they can make people sick to get more money out of them? I honestly think that's one of the most ridiculous things that I've ever heard. If you had ANY experience with the healthcare system in the US or knew anyone who worked in healthcare, you would realize how ridiculous these ideas sound.
Your point about dealing with "complications and symptoms" versus curing doesn't seem to make much sense either. Sometimes diet can cure diabetes--it can at least control it once you have it, but I guess that would be dealing with symptoms. Same for cancer, I don't know why you think that it's the fat capitalist pig doctors fault that they can't always cure cancer..
An interesting supplement to this study would be cancer survival rates.
Actually I "rly" don't have $80 to spend for a toy. I got my laptop before the garageband days. Nice try though.
incidentally, can garageband record sound?? I don't remember that ability when I played around with it.
No sound app, that was my point :-p I ganked one off versiontracker.
Someone from China is calling the US the premier polluter and complaining about the drinking water of all things? Have you been to Beijing??
So let me get this straight...diabetes is caused by the fact that we don't have socialized healthcare? Cancer is CAUSED by the fact that we don't put control of our medical fates in a vast and unwieldy bureacracy? I had no idea that there were such causal relationships......
To people claiming that this is due to socialized healthcare versus not--how does that affect cancer rates and diabetes rates? It's possible I suppose that such conditions are caught more frequently in the US, I don't know. I would think diabetes is clearly a lifestyle issue, while cancer--who knows.
A second point--The US has the lowest incidence rate of stomach cancer in the world. The two countries with the highest rates? Japan and Korea. Interesting, given that the Japanese are generally considered to live one of the healtheir lifestyles in the world as born out by life expectancy.
Someone else made another good point in this discussion--to everyone sneering at American work hours, well, the Japanese work as much, and probably under more rigid frameworks and high stress more often than not. Everyone's heard stories about the Japanese suicide rate. Yet they still live a long time...
Well, Sound Recorder is better than OSX's sound app, and ditto for paintbrush.
I'll tell you what I am getting tired of--the state of VOTING!
Crappy machines on the one hand, and identity fraud on the other. It's ridiculous. One party or the other opposes any and all kinds of reform.
So let's get a paper trail (no more e-voting, thank you!)
And let's get id checks to vote.
I would have thought these would have been completely non-controversial...but apparently they are.
--
In conclusion, any kind of national ID, free to those who need it freely, that proves citizenship and can be used by states to verify voter ID, (and that can also be used by the fed govt for benefits) is about the only reason I would want a national ID.
Yes, and posting on topics that you clearly absolutely no clue about doesn't get you more "geek cred" and make you a better person.
If "what an ignorant post" is all it takes to make you stop reading and start calling people "assholes" and "dicks" I think you seriously need to work a little more on your intellectual maturity. But hey, I understand that you just use that as an excuse to not reply to a single point I made, while resorting to name calling.
thanks
Yeah, because like, social studies hasn't changed at all in the past fifty years--I mean, we can still learn about Rhodesia, the Soviet Union, and French West Africa, right? Expand that to history.
Likewise with literature--all the important literature is fifty years old, no new poetry, novels, or anything since then--damn hippies.
Let's see math--ok, I think I'm with you on math..
Biology, you yourself said it.
Chemistry--I think you're not correct in how much chemistry has changed in the past 50 years. IF the periodic table update were all it took, that would be one thing..
I also think you don't really have any understanding of what textbooks LOOK like. If you look at any middle school (eg) science text book, there are going to be references to current events, the space station, often closeups on famous scientists in that particular state, etc. The reason why your ideal opensource or whatever text book (though noting that you're apparently confused that students today only learn biology and chemistry and nothing else) doesn't work is because teachers and students at this age have particular needs.
I just don't think elementary and middleschool education (the prime users of textbooks) is where one really should be waging this anti-corporate, wiki-, open-source, whatever battle.
I can see a much greater argument for opensource textbooks at a college level.
**
I hesitated to note this but since you did this consistently I just wanted to put out that "chemestry" is actually spelled as "chemistry." Don't mean to be a grammar troll or whatever, I just thought I'd point it out if you were a non-native speaker.
Wow, what an absolutely ignorant post. As someone who has worked with schools adopting textbooks, let me set somethings straight.
1) Schools do not buy new books every year. They are generally multiyear cycles--5 in my states case.
2) New books are bought to replace the old ones falling apart, and to match curriculums, which change as well. That has nothing to do with publishers/anything, it's got to do with politics and changing educational standards.
3) You want elementary school kids reading textbooks online? This alone makes you seem someone who's clearly never worked with that age kids and has no idea about how many kids in many communities don't have computers or internet at home.
You really think cheap lowpower ebook readers that will no doubt break, that will no doubt be more expensive than books, that will be a nightmare for recycling, getting stolen, and, with current technology (and I don't see it in the immediate future either) be anywhere as effective as books are the good?
Look, you MAY have some points eventually--maybe 15-20 years from now we'll have cheap durable ebook readers. However right now, and for the immediate future, you're putting way to much of your politics in educating kids. This is about what's best for the kids, not what technology you think is the coolest.
In addition, huge amounts of paper today are recycled. What happens to these ebook readers when THEY get thrown away? All that metal and battery gunk in the environment? Doesn't sound good to me. Your argument doesn't make sense. Honestly, which is worse if they're just thrown straight away--a biodegradable book (which many are completely biodegradable today) or a computer. If we're talking recycling, which needs more energy to recycle? This isn't a close call. Might I recommend reading some Bastiat? You're hyperventilating on that which is scene, and skipping entirely past that which is not seen.
*I* laughed!! hilarious
I'm not the one that used the term, but if EVER conspiracy freak was applicable it was with you! Let's see...USA is going to meltdown at any moment thanks to revolting militias (that you have secret esoteric knowledge of but can't say--*shhh* secret!). McVeigh was a government pawn. Blah blah blah--conspiracy freak. I missed the part that the illuminati and the jews play, care to enlighten me?
I honestly have a hard time believing any rational adult could possibly believe such things. Then again most of the worlds population believe in a virgin birth of God's son, a desert dweller receiving personal revelations from God, a burning bush being God's manifestation of power, etc. I actually wonder if being a conspiracy theoriest fulfills the same need that religion fills, eh shaitand?
Prior to that I knew of a major US state where most of the national guard had prepared to defect to the militia and plans were in place to secure their armories for when they did.
snooooooooooore.
You might want to check out the documentary "Waco: The Rules of Engagement." It's really chilling.
In addition, I think you PROVED the point--the US government can do terrible things, but the truth is out there, and readily available. No fear of government erasure of non-official events (or erasure of people).
Offtopic, but I just wanted to say that your sig is awesome--I've sent it around to a number of people already.
Creepy...
It's not pgAdmin is it? It has an OSX port, and I actually use it quite frequently. It's gotten to the point where it's pretty much as good on mac as on pc. Early versions were unstable and I actually ended up just using VNC / RDP to use pgAdmin on a windows box most of the time.
http://www.pgadmin.org/
I don't know exactly what you're looking for, but I use pgAdmin on windows, freebsd, and osx, and I think it's a pretty nice piece of software.
http://www.pgadmin.org/
I can't comment in any technically meaningful way on this topic, but...
I have downloaded episodes of "The Office" from the iTunes music store--the video ipod format. They ARE surprisingly high quality when watched fullscreen on my 15" laptop screen. However there is definitely blur when they are that big, and there is artifacting at times.
In comparison, other episodes of The Office that I have downloaded from other sources (that are TV rips and encoded divx/some other codec) are much much better, lacking the blurriness and blockiness of artifacting.
I'm not sure how either would compare to a VHS.
My Albook power connector caught on fire...
Actually, in your post you didn't "quote" (note the quotation marks) anything that I said, which makes me wonder if you understand what that means. I also wonder if you know what fascist means.
Where did I defend Bush, straw-man or toss out a fallacious argument?
I'm sorry about your indigestion, but honestly, I'm happy, and I don't spend a hundred percent of my time worrying about things external to my self, outside of my control, and that aren't really problems. You might give it a shot.