Actually the person two levels up who said no one in the US understands how it works still got some things wrong... For one, a medical deductible applies for an entire year, not on a per-procedure basis. For two, things are not as unaffordable in the US as people would like you to believe. The average person with average medical needs will still pay a significantly smaller percentage of their income for medical expenses than the average individual in the UK will pay in taxes to pay for NHS. Also, you generally have a pretty decent turn-around time on seeing doctors on non-life-threatening procedures (whereas I've known people to wait 30+ days for "blinding eye pain" in the UK or over a year to see someone for a spinal injury in the Canadian system); I've never had to wait longer than three days to see someone and even three days was an extreme case--normally I can get into an office the same day or the next morning when I'm ill.
In the case of childrens problems (like the earlier mentioned epilepsy surgery), there are dozens of hospitals all over the country that specialize in doing free work to treat children. Often these places are also some of the best (if not THE best) facilities to deal with whatever problem they're treating (Shriners for burns, St. Jude's for cancer, etc.) and they specifically look for cases where the family can't afford the treatment.
And then there's the fact that people who take very good care of themselves or are just born with good genes and never get sick aren't forced at gunpoint to pay for everyone else. (Well, they are to an extent, we all pay for the Medicare system, which wasn't gutted and has actually expanded significantly in the past eight years, unfortunately...)
That's my definition of "legislating from the bench". "Legislating from the bench" is by definition not "constitutionally right", as if you could find it in the Constitution you wouldn't have to make it up by "legislating from the bench" in the first place. "Legislating from the bench" gives us "slaves as property", "seperate but equal", and "tax revenue == public good" (ala Kelo).
Where do you live? Gnome, Alaska? Heat and humidity are bad for chi and also muck up the nice things some of us like to keep in our houses (like the PC I'm writing this on right now...)
They very well might after the weather patterns change because instead of warming the sand with sunlight you're absorbing it and shipping it off somewhere else...
the bigger companies are simply extremely inefficient in a number of areas
And small businesses are even more extremely inefficient in even more areas, especially in their supply chain. Businesses consolidate to increase efficiency. The reason they're able to put money into "passive storage" is due to increased profits thanks to increased efficiency. And I can't think of a better way to put money into a local economy than by paying employees--something that larger businesses are very adept at doing.
Also, this "silly free market mantra" is what allows small businesses to eventually come up in the world and dethrone those currently in power. Governments invariably just try to preserve the status quo, as the status quo is who is currently paying their salaries.
Because much smarter men than you discussed and argued about this for a long long time about two hundred years ago, and they saw the wisdom of this approach. If you want to know why, do your civic duty and study your American history, don't ask us to explain it to you.
There is a very real chance that without some shadyness that nobody can prove (thanks to the lack of a paper trail from Diebold e-voting machines, whose executives are fervent Bush supporters) Bush would not have won Ohio and John Kerry would be our president now. The situation was similar in Florida in 2000.
Had you stayed away from that comment, someone may have taken you seriously. Now you just look like a six year old pouting because his team lost the Tee ball game.
Going w/ a purely popular vote system would make your vote count even less than it currently does. In that case, New York and California by themselves could pick the President regardless of what the rest of the country wants.
That's how the system is supposed to work. You get one electoral vote per representative and one per senator. Funnily enough, every state has a minimum of two senators and one representative. This was done for a very good reason when our country was founded. It was part of the Great Compromise, and without it our country would never have been able to patch itself together. If we went with your suggestion, it would defeat the entire purpose of the electoral college in the first place.
I think it's just you. I've got two jobs (three if you count my Assistantship/Teaching position that restarts in the Fall), I'm working on my Masters in Comp Sci, and I live with my fiance. All this while I play WoW (and before which I played EverQuest). Granted it helps to get your significant other to play these things with you, but I digress...
WoW (and EverQuest before it) is a shared experience like playing a sport or even tabletop roleplaying... The stories me and my friends share due to it are just as memorable and meaningful to us than anything else we do together. In fact, compared to those late Thursday nights at Buffalo Wild Wings, probably significantly more memorable...
To say that a WoW avatar "doesn't exist" is the same as saying a character you played onstage did not exist. It's *technically* true, but does that mean the experience wasn't worth it?
Because I played the same sort of games on my Aunt's cheap USB logitech webcam about six years ago. Not much innovative about that... And then there was also the gameboy camera...:P
What you're talking about it the LITE center (formerly known as the ATIC Center). I'm a graduate assistant at ULL, so I get to play with it when it opens next year...:)
In short, he has been given a job for life to do research almost nobody expects anything from anymore.
Really, that sums up the LSU computer science department. It's just a show pony to say "Look how cool we are!" because they're in the same city as the Legislature... Nevermind their supercomputer (SuperMike) hasn't even been successfully turned on yet. Nevermind the ULL Computer Science department is significantly older and respected the world over... Let's give the money and the press to LSU...:P
It's also the reason why every single file and registry key counts as one threat as opposed to grouping everything together.
Actually that's not the case w/ latest versions of Ad-Aware. The summary screen by default groups problem files/keys together instead of registering them as as seperate threats. It also lists tracking cookies as negligible objects, not critical ones. What, exactly, has you so jaded? You work for Claria or something?:P
Even SpyBot and Ad-Aware offer to delete tracking cookies for you for advertisers like Doubleclick. That's kinda nice, in my opinion. And that's probably what's causing this phenomenon. People are sick of spyware, so when they run Ad-Aware they just tell it blindly to delete everything it finds.
Besides, who appointed the USA to be the supreme ruler of space?
No one APPOINTS you to such a position. You claim it. Regardless, we've been perfectly happy to share space with everyone (it was the Russians who lobbied so heavily against commercialization of it) as long as they play nice for decades now. I think your "OMG US IS TEH DEVIL" rant is a bit misplaced.
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Actually the person two levels up who said no one in the US understands how it works still got some things wrong... For one, a medical deductible applies for an entire year, not on a per-procedure basis. For two, things are not as unaffordable in the US as people would like you to believe. The average person with average medical needs will still pay a significantly smaller percentage of their income for medical expenses than the average individual in the UK will pay in taxes to pay for NHS. Also, you generally have a pretty decent turn-around time on seeing doctors on non-life-threatening procedures (whereas I've known people to wait 30+ days for "blinding eye pain" in the UK or over a year to see someone for a spinal injury in the Canadian system); I've never had to wait longer than three days to see someone and even three days was an extreme case--normally I can get into an office the same day or the next morning when I'm ill.
In the case of childrens problems (like the earlier mentioned epilepsy surgery), there are dozens of hospitals all over the country that specialize in doing free work to treat children. Often these places are also some of the best (if not THE best) facilities to deal with whatever problem they're treating (Shriners for burns, St. Jude's for cancer, etc.) and they specifically look for cases where the family can't afford the treatment.
And then there's the fact that people who take very good care of themselves or are just born with good genes and never get sick aren't forced at gunpoint to pay for everyone else. (Well, they are to an extent, we all pay for the Medicare system, which wasn't gutted and has actually expanded significantly in the past eight years, unfortunately...)
The Judicial branch is freed from that nuisance and can focus on doing what the Constitution mandates, not what the people consider fashionable.
Or they can do whatever they feel like because, really, who's going to stop them?
Keep in mind that without the Judicial branch, we'd still have segregated schools.
Keep in mind that without the Judicial Branch we wouldn't have had a Federal rubber stamp on the practice of segregated schools for about 80 years.
Things like "legislating from the bench" are exactly what allow the Constitutionally "right" thing to overrule the popular thing.
Dredd Scott
Plessy vs. Ferguson
That's my definition of "legislating from the bench". "Legislating from the bench" is by definition not "constitutionally right", as if you could find it in the Constitution you wouldn't have to make it up by "legislating from the bench" in the first place. "Legislating from the bench" gives us "slaves as property", "seperate but equal", and "tax revenue == public good" (ala Kelo).
I think you need to check yourself on this.
Where do you live? Gnome, Alaska? Heat and humidity are bad for chi and also muck up the nice things some of us like to keep in our houses (like the PC I'm writing this on right now...)
They very well might after the weather patterns change because instead of warming the sand with sunlight you're absorbing it and shipping it off somewhere else...
And small businesses are even more extremely inefficient in even more areas, especially in their supply chain. Businesses consolidate to increase efficiency. The reason they're able to put money into "passive storage" is due to increased profits thanks to increased efficiency. And I can't think of a better way to put money into a local economy than by paying employees--something that larger businesses are very adept at doing.
Also, this "silly free market mantra" is what allows small businesses to eventually come up in the world and dethrone those currently in power. Governments invariably just try to preserve the status quo, as the status quo is who is currently paying their salaries.
As I told someone else, much smarter men than you already discussed this hundreds of years ago and those who held your exact opinion lost.
That's not why the electoral college was created...
See The Great Compromise then notice that you get one elector per representative and one elector per Senator... Coincidence? Not likely.
Because much smarter men than you discussed and argued about this for a long long time about two hundred years ago, and they saw the wisdom of this approach. If you want to know why, do your civic duty and study your American history, don't ask us to explain it to you.
Had you stayed away from that comment, someone may have taken you seriously. Now you just look like a six year old pouting because his team lost the Tee ball game.
Going w/ a purely popular vote system would make your vote count even less than it currently does. In that case, New York and California by themselves could pick the President regardless of what the rest of the country wants.
That's how the system is supposed to work. You get one electoral vote per representative and one per senator. Funnily enough, every state has a minimum of two senators and one representative. This was done for a very good reason when our country was founded. It was part of the Great Compromise, and without it our country would never have been able to patch itself together. If we went with your suggestion, it would defeat the entire purpose of the electoral college in the first place.
I think it's just you. I've got two jobs (three if you count my Assistantship/Teaching position that restarts in the Fall), I'm working on my Masters in Comp Sci, and I live with my fiance. All this while I play WoW (and before which I played EverQuest). Granted it helps to get your significant other to play these things with you, but I digress...
WoW (and EverQuest before it) is a shared experience like playing a sport or even tabletop roleplaying... The stories me and my friends share due to it are just as memorable and meaningful to us than anything else we do together. In fact, compared to those late Thursday nights at Buffalo Wild Wings, probably significantly more memorable...
To say that a WoW avatar "doesn't exist" is the same as saying a character you played onstage did not exist. It's *technically* true, but does that mean the experience wasn't worth it?
We are talking about the same EA, right? The guys that got their business model from the aliens in ID4?
Sounds like you should be playing Planetside. =)
His point was that EA will never do that. You'd just as likely see Microsoft embrace Open Source...
Klingons are a staple at many Southern Ren Faires, like the Texas Renaissance Festival...
I didn't find them as funny as when I ran into Ash, however, complete with chain-saw hand and "boomstick" strapped to his back...
Because I played the same sort of games on my Aunt's cheap USB logitech webcam about six years ago. Not much innovative about that... And then there was also the gameboy camera... :P
Article on the new iGadget being a failure? Check.
Apple g33k pr0n? Check.
Wow, this guy really DOES have Apple pegged... I mean, at first it was funny, but now it's just creepy...
People are buying the PSP so they can hack emulators on it, not play UMD games and movies. :P
What you're talking about it the LITE center (formerly known as the ATIC Center). I'm a graduate assistant at ULL, so I get to play with it when it opens next year... :)
In short, he has been given a job for life to do research almost nobody expects anything from anymore.
:P
Really, that sums up the LSU computer science department. It's just a show pony to say "Look how cool we are!" because they're in the same city as the Legislature... Nevermind their supercomputer (SuperMike) hasn't even been successfully turned on yet. Nevermind the ULL Computer Science department is significantly older and respected the world over... Let's give the money and the press to LSU...
Not that I'm bitter or anything...
Actually Baton Rouge is about an hour northwest of New Orleans... Not in any danger of storm surge there.
if wahabism must be destroyed, which is an honorable thing to do, why not also go after the people who created it?
I wouldn't have a problem w/ it...
It's also the reason why every single file and registry key counts as one threat as opposed to grouping everything together.
:P
Actually that's not the case w/ latest versions of Ad-Aware. The summary screen by default groups problem files/keys together instead of registering them as as seperate threats. It also lists tracking cookies as negligible objects, not critical ones. What, exactly, has you so jaded? You work for Claria or something?
Even SpyBot and Ad-Aware offer to delete tracking cookies for you for advertisers like Doubleclick. That's kinda nice, in my opinion. And that's probably what's causing this phenomenon. People are sick of spyware, so when they run Ad-Aware they just tell it blindly to delete everything it finds.
Besides, who appointed the USA to be the supreme ruler of space?
No one APPOINTS you to such a position. You claim it. Regardless, we've been perfectly happy to share space with everyone (it was the Russians who lobbied so heavily against commercialization of it) as long as they play nice for decades now. I think your "OMG US IS TEH DEVIL" rant is a bit misplaced.