You can get washing machines like that from some European vendors too. I suppose it would make sense if you had very limited space and didn't mind washing a small load of clothes every day. I on the other hand, like doing them all at once on the weekend and the ability to have one batch being washed while another is being dried. If you are concerned about your clothes getting abused, get a front loading washer. They have been available for quite a long time.
It beats the iPod in the category that I care about: being able to record to wav. Given that the SoundProfessionals website is starting to carry recording bundles, it looks like this might be the toy of choice for tapers. I would be interested in a comparison in audio quality between it and the now discontinued Nomad Jukebox 3.
That's not to say that they are the only reason, just a major one. I don't know whether or not they helped popularize insurance packages that took care of everything from regular doctor visits to intensive care. That is another culprit along with malpractice lawsuits. Like Medicare/Medicaid, it imposes another layer of bureaucracy on top of the system and the providers spend a significant portion of their time & energy filling out paperwork instead of helping people. I think/. has had a story or two about doctors rejecting that entire mess for regular upfront payments (like what was very common to pre-mid 60s). They can spend more time with patients and can make as much money seeing fewer people. It also gives people an in-your-face financial reason to stay healthy. My sister is starting her residency and she has said that it's crazy what little piddly things people run to the emergency room for. It drives up the hospitals costs and slows down access for people that really need it. It's almost as if you wanted your auto insurance to pay for someone to check the air in your tires.
HAHAHAHA! All the Federal programs you mention are SUCH standard bearers for providing quality and inexpensive care. NOT! The only reason I've ever heard of anyone to ever go to a VA hospital was that it was 'free', not because they receive quality care. When the Feds passed Medicare/Medicaid in 1964, they essentially gave the healthcare industry a blank check with little oversight or controls. In my own family's experience, it wasn't uncommon for a hospital to bill the Feds for procedures that weren't done (even after the patient was dead!) and even after it was reported there was an error, they still paid the erroneous amount. Take a look at http://www.academyhealth.org/2003/presentations/do cteur.pdf and look at the GDP chart. Take a ruler and draw a line using the US's spending from 1965 (right after M/M was passed) to 1970 and extend it out. It pretty much tracks the rate of spending until 1995. Do the same with the segment from 1960 to 1965. It results in a line that is at a rate of change that is similar to Canada's, the UK's, etc. Any surprise that this change is after the Feds decide to take over payment for a significant portion of the population? No. Have working conditions or pollution gotten significantly worse since 1965? No. If anything, they have gotten better. Who limits what companies can sell pharmacuticals in the US? The Feds. Who would also limit the supply of docs? Again, the Feds. But there is a good reason for both of those*.
Also, the last I checked, Promote does not equal Provide, which is what you want it to do. *Requiring that companies only sell safe products and that the physicians aren't quacks helps contribute to having (or promote) a good health care system for all.
Probably. It seemed like it was going to be a reason to justify govt paying for healthcare. I guess I've read too many whiney Slashdot posts about the topic.
Life doesn't come with any sort of guarantees other than someday you will die. It never has and it never will. Get used to it and plan to take care of yourself.
If you are going to liken the government to a child, who in their right mind gives a child more responsibility when it's clearly shown that it can't handle the chores that it has already been given? The Federal Govt does so many things poorly it's been lampooned about it for decades. But knowning that, you want it to start handling something like healthcare? The healtcare cost increases are due to the Fed Govt meddling with it since 1964. Having it get involved for everyone will only make it worse and cost more for everyone. It needs to get out of the business entirely. If you read the US Constitution, you will see that it's not their duty do any it anyway - all of these programs are bribes for votes.
Kerry could run on his record of 19 years in the US Senate and as Lt Gov for Mass prior to that. However, that would probably turn a lot of people off, so he's running on the 4 measly months in VietNam to try to get people to think he would be an effective leader and tough on terrorists. I would have to agree with Bob Dole in that it's hard to believe that anyone could rack up that many purple hearts w/o having to spend a day in a field hospital.
I wouldn't say that compasion is fueled by interaction. The more I interact with people in urban areas, the more I want the next urban renewal project to start off with a large thermonuclear detonation.
A lot of this would be unneeded if they just went back to using statistics to weed out those that need to be searched like this. Of course, then someone will get pissed saying it's racist or some other -ist and sue until it gets changed.
We can't use common sense anymore. We have to be politically correct now.
I can't remember the last time I actually watched any of the Olympics. There's too damn much commentary and fluff pieces by the network broadcasting them, probably more than the actual events.
No. Usury is the practice of giving people money and expecting that amount plus a fee for letting them use that money after a given length of time. It's what banks and loansharks both do. The Bible says that it's bad because it makes the borrower slave to the lender. What you described is not usury - it's also not very likely. My selling of stock should not interfere with the company's day to day business or it's bottom line, unless it was trying to use it's stock as some sort of currency that it could crank out of a copy machine to help pay off employees or other companies. THAT is probably the source of more scandal than anything. I also think you need to re-read the parable of the talents.
On a side note, the prohibition of usury is one of the many reasons economists give for the stagnant economies of the Middle East. It makes it hard for people with good ideas but no capital to start a new business. In your example, the $100K was the seed that enabled a creation of a $2B company that employs many people and allows them to feed their families. That is better than just keeping the $100K or giving it away.
The rich already support the poor by paying nearly all the taxes
which are then used to fund programs to 'help' the poor. And for those who think it's mostly spent on defense, check this out.
What would be wrong with returning people to their homeland?
(I'd bet no non-European can ever imagine the annoying and tremendously dense 24/7 truck traffic here)
You're joking right? Come to any US city with at least one interstate highway and you'll find lots of 24/7 truck traffic. Since your autobahns inspired Eisenhower to propose the creation of our interstate highways, I guess the similarity wouldn't be a surprise, but I would have thought more of your stuff would be on rail. Or is that just a misconception due to other/.ers from Europe bragging about how great all the trains are on the Continent?
probably about 1/2 of all of them. They need the extra guys because they are all slacking.
Is it any wonder why work is being offshored or contracted out to firms employing illegal aliens? I walk by houses under construction on my way to the office. The crews with Americans are on site when I go by, but are sitting around drinking coffee and are gone when I come home from work. The crews with Mexicans are _working_ any time I walk by and do so until the sun goes down. Guess which houses are still only 1/2 built and which ones are finished? I did some construction related work in the summer while in college. Like these guys, I could only work when the weather was nice, so we worked all day as long as there was sufficient light to see. Whether you are paid by the job or paid by the hour, for these type of seasonal jobs, why not put in as many hours as you can while you can? Then you have lots of cash for the parts of the year when work is scarce.
Funny. Investors are the ones with the capital which is used to get the company started. When the company starts to make a profit, they can take that capital and either put it back into the company to fund new projects or whatever the investor wants to do with it. This creates jobs that's what makes capitalism go round.
Why not toughen emissions standards? The people that bitch and whine about that it would kill small business & farmers can just STFU. Those vehicles would still be available, one would just require them to be owned and tagged as commercial vehicles. Big deal. Farmer Brown doesn't own the machinery costing well in excess of $100K that he uses to operate his farm now. The little corporation that he set up does. The same goes for most small busineses. People that legitimately need them would still have them and the soccer moms can go back to their mini-vans or station wagons. The problem is that car companies are using an exemption that is supposed to be for commercial vehicles to sell lots of high margin vehicles (aka macho station wagons) for use as passenger vehicles even though they do not meet the safety standards.
I would imagine that once a company builds a full-sized hybrid, then you might see some cab companies try them out. I guess it depends on your corner of the world, but I've never seen a taxi that was a small or mid-sized car.
The battery will recharge from the regenerative braking and excess energy available from going down the previous mountain and/or will be fully charged while going down the flat interstate, so the battery will be able to help. I rented a Prius a few months ago and averaged 45mpg (ave speed 75+mph) on a 1400 mile trip. I would say that it's comparable in power with the TDI VWs that I've driven.
A big advantage a Jetta TDI has is range. One model year had an 18 gallon tank, so one could drive about 800 miles before having to fill up. Bring along some of the wide neck MtDew bottles for those trips.
Recording to wav is better if you want to listen to something w/o any compression artifacts. I would be willing to buy something with the capabilities of a Nomad Jukebox 3, but just in a smaller form factor. I've had one for about 1.5 years and it's great for recording concerts.
In this case, the "bad practices" has more to due with nightclub security being jerks, confiscating, and 'conveniently' dropping cameras before giving them back.
I've had a friend that's lost a bunch of pictures on CF cards. I have a few SmartMedia cards and I've never had any problems with them.
The only real "problems" that I've had with Smartmedia cards has been availability of them. Most stores that I go to have a ton of CF, MemoryStick, or SD cards. If they happen to carry Smartmedia, they are usually sold out. Did this format ever go beyond 128M and what is the reason for its demise?
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You can get washing machines like that from some European vendors too. I suppose it would make sense if you had very limited space and didn't mind washing a small load of clothes every day. I on the other hand, like doing them all at once on the weekend and the ability to have one batch being washed while another is being dried. If you are concerned about your clothes getting abused, get a front loading washer. They have been available for quite a long time.
It beats the iPod in the category that I care about: being able to record to wav. Given that the SoundProfessionals website is starting to carry recording bundles, it looks like this might be the toy of choice for tapers. I would be interested in a comparison in audio quality between it and the now discontinued Nomad Jukebox 3.
That's not to say that they are the only reason, just a major one. I don't know whether or not they helped popularize insurance packages that took care of everything from regular doctor visits to intensive care. That is another culprit along with malpractice lawsuits. Like Medicare/Medicaid, it imposes another layer of bureaucracy on top of the system and the providers spend a significant portion of their time & energy filling out paperwork instead of helping people. I think /. has had a story or two about doctors rejecting that entire mess for regular upfront payments (like what was very common to pre-mid 60s). They can spend more time with patients and can make as much money seeing fewer people. It also gives people an in-your-face financial reason to stay healthy. My sister is starting her residency and she has said that it's crazy what little piddly things people run to the emergency room for. It drives up the hospitals costs and slows down access for people that really need it. It's almost as if you wanted your auto insurance to pay for someone to check the air in your tires.
HAHAHAHA! All the Federal programs you mention are SUCH standard bearers for providing quality and inexpensive care. NOT! The only reason I've ever heard of anyone to ever go to a VA hospital was that it was 'free', not because they receive quality care. When the Feds passed Medicare/Medicaid in 1964, they essentially gave the healthcare industry a blank check with little oversight or controls. In my own family's experience, it wasn't uncommon for a hospital to bill the Feds for procedures that weren't done (even after the patient was dead!) and even after it was reported there was an error, they still paid the erroneous amount. Take a look at http://www.academyhealth.org/2003/presentations/do cteur.pdf and look at the GDP chart. Take a ruler and draw a line using the US's spending from 1965 (right after M/M was passed) to 1970 and extend it out. It pretty much tracks the rate of spending until 1995. Do the same with the segment from 1960 to 1965. It results in a line that is at a rate of change that is similar to Canada's, the UK's, etc. Any surprise that this change is after the Feds decide to take over payment for a significant portion of the population? No. Have working conditions or pollution gotten significantly worse since 1965? No. If anything, they have gotten better. Who limits what companies can sell pharmacuticals in the US? The Feds. Who would also limit the supply of docs? Again, the Feds. But there is a good reason for both of those*.
Also, the last I checked, Promote does not equal Provide, which is what you want it to do. *Requiring that companies only sell safe products and that the physicians aren't quacks helps contribute to having (or promote) a good health care system for all.
Probably. It seemed like it was going to be a reason to justify govt paying for healthcare. I guess I've read too many whiney Slashdot posts about the topic.
Life doesn't come with any sort of guarantees other than someday you will die. It never has and it never will. Get used to it and plan to take care of yourself.
If you are going to liken the government to a child, who in their right mind gives a child more responsibility when it's clearly shown that it can't handle the chores that it has already been given? The Federal Govt does so many things poorly it's been lampooned about it for decades. But knowning that, you want it to start handling something like healthcare? The healtcare cost increases are due to the Fed Govt meddling with it since 1964. Having it get involved for everyone will only make it worse and cost more for everyone. It needs to get out of the business entirely. If you read the US Constitution, you will see that it's not their duty do any it anyway - all of these programs are bribes for votes.
Kerry could run on his record of 19 years in the US Senate and as Lt Gov for Mass prior to that. However, that would probably turn a lot of people off, so he's running on the 4 measly months in VietNam to try to get people to think he would be an effective leader and tough on terrorists. I would have to agree with Bob Dole in that it's hard to believe that anyone could rack up that many purple hearts w/o having to spend a day in a field hospital.
I wouldn't say that compasion is fueled by interaction. The more I interact with people in urban areas, the more I want the next urban renewal project to start off with a large thermonuclear detonation.
A lot of this would be unneeded if they just went back to using statistics to weed out those that need to be searched like this. Of course, then someone will get pissed saying it's racist or some other -ist and sue until it gets changed.
We can't use common sense anymore. We have to be politically correct now.
I can't remember the last time I actually watched any of the Olympics. There's too damn much commentary and fluff pieces by the network broadcasting them, probably more than the actual events.
Here is the benchmark set that the guy was referring to. I think it has a cluster or two on the results page along with some Crays.
I'm sure we're all safer that Teddy isn't driving, especially his passengers.
However, I'm surprised that he doesn't have his own plane.
No. Usury is the practice of giving people money and expecting that amount plus a fee for letting them use that money after a given length of time. It's what banks and loansharks both do. The Bible says that it's bad because it makes the borrower slave to the lender. What you described is not usury - it's also not very likely. My selling of stock should not interfere with the company's day to day business or it's bottom line, unless it was trying to use it's stock as some sort of currency that it could crank out of a copy machine to help pay off employees or other companies. THAT is probably the source of more scandal than anything. I also think you need to re-read the parable of the talents.
On a side note, the prohibition of usury is one of the many reasons economists give for the stagnant economies of the Middle East. It makes it hard for people with good ideas but no capital to start a new business. In your example, the $100K was the seed that enabled a creation of a $2B company that employs many people and allows them to feed their families. That is better than just keeping the $100K or giving it away.
The rich already support the poor by paying nearly all the taxes which are then used to fund programs to 'help' the poor. And for those who think it's mostly spent on defense, check this out.
What would be wrong with returning people to their homeland?
(I'd bet no non-European can ever imagine the annoying and tremendously dense 24/7 truck traffic here)
You're joking right? Come to any US city with at least one interstate highway and you'll find lots of 24/7 truck traffic. Since your autobahns inspired Eisenhower to propose the creation of our interstate highways, I guess the similarity wouldn't be a surprise, but I would have thought more of your stuff would be on rail. Or is that just a misconception due to other /.ers from Europe bragging about how great all the trains are on the Continent?
probably about 1/2 of all of them. They need the extra guys because they are all slacking.
Is it any wonder why work is being offshored or contracted out to firms employing illegal aliens? I walk by houses under construction on my way to the office. The crews with Americans are on site when I go by, but are sitting around drinking coffee and are gone when I come home from work. The crews with Mexicans are _working_ any time I walk by and do so until the sun goes down. Guess which houses are still only 1/2 built and which ones are finished? I did some construction related work in the summer while in college. Like these guys, I could only work when the weather was nice, so we worked all day as long as there was sufficient light to see. Whether you are paid by the job or paid by the hour, for these type of seasonal jobs, why not put in as many hours as you can while you can? Then you have lots of cash for the parts of the year when work is scarce.
Funny. Investors are the ones with the capital which is used to get the company started. When the company starts to make a profit, they can take that capital and either put it back into the company to fund new projects or whatever the investor wants to do with it. This creates jobs that's what makes capitalism go round.
Thanks for the laugh.
No publishers have ever taken much interest in writing specific books for it.
You mean like this one, this one, this one, even this one or any of these?
Sure, probably lots of those are re-treads from other Unix books and somewhat dated, but many books about other versions of Unix are like that too.
Why not toughen emissions standards? The people that bitch and whine about that it would kill small business & farmers can just STFU. Those vehicles would still be available, one would just require them to be owned and tagged as commercial vehicles. Big deal. Farmer Brown doesn't own the machinery costing well in excess of $100K that he uses to operate his farm now. The little corporation that he set up does. The same goes for most small busineses. People that legitimately need them would still have them and the soccer moms can go back to their mini-vans or station wagons. The problem is that car companies are using an exemption that is supposed to be for commercial vehicles to sell lots of high margin vehicles (aka macho station wagons) for use as passenger vehicles even though they do not meet the safety standards.
I would imagine that once a company builds a full-sized hybrid, then you might see some cab companies try them out. I guess it depends on your corner of the world, but I've never seen a taxi that was a small or mid-sized car.
The battery will recharge from the regenerative braking and excess energy available from going down the previous mountain and/or will be fully charged while going down the flat interstate, so the battery will be able to help. I rented a Prius a few months ago and averaged 45mpg (ave speed 75+mph) on a 1400 mile trip. I would say that it's comparable in power with the TDI VWs that I've driven.
A big advantage a Jetta TDI has is range. One model year had an 18 gallon tank, so one could drive about 800 miles before having to fill up. Bring along some of the wide neck MtDew bottles for those trips.
Recording to wav is better if you want to listen to something w/o any compression artifacts. I would be willing to buy something with the capabilities of a Nomad Jukebox 3, but just in a smaller form factor. I've had one for about 1.5 years and it's great for recording concerts.
In this case, the "bad practices" has more to due with nightclub security being jerks, confiscating, and 'conveniently' dropping cameras before giving them back.
Ok, that certainly explains the FujiFilm xD/Smartmedia PC-Card adapter that I use to transfer pictures from my camera.
I've had a friend that's lost a bunch of pictures on CF cards. I have a few SmartMedia cards and I've never had any problems with them.
The only real "problems" that I've had with Smartmedia cards has been availability of them. Most stores that I go to have a ton of CF, MemoryStick, or SD cards. If they happen to carry Smartmedia, they are usually sold out. Did this format ever go beyond 128M and what is the reason for its demise?