Thanks, sounds as if I could use that for flac123, too (and I probably could write the script so I tell it what command to execute after the list is created so I could use either one, thanks for the idea!)
XMMS 1.x is no longer supported and I hate the client/server model used in 2.x Amarok won't install without KDE and Rhythmbox is nearly unusable for my needs. Granted I am running FreeBSD. VLC is ok for most of my needs but I've been using Grooveshark lately to bolster up my music collection.
True, but with more and more of this sort of entrepreneurship going on in Africa, sooner or later African companies will start to rise up to take the lead in funding African businesses. I firmly believe this is just the tip of the iceberg. It may not happen overnight (and that's a good, 90% possibility) but it will happen.
The US is no longer the only place that is a land flowing with opportunity and people willing to take a risk to make something new. This is very good news and probably would not have happened without the advent of the Internet in those countries (or anywhere else that such collaboration takes place). I wish the developers the best of luck (I have no plans on buying an iPhone or purchasing anything from Apple, sorry guys).
I'm sorry you feel that 30 million fellow citizens and counting without health insurance suddenly being able to get insurance is such a burden for you when you probably already have health insurance and so the only way it will affect you is by lowering your premiums, oh the corruption!
I don't have insurance and resent the fact that I have to choose between having it or jail time (I won't pay the fines for not getting it). I resent the fact that the government thinks it knows better than me what I do or don't need. I resent the fact that the government thinks that there are companies that are "too big to fail" so they are willing to give them a pass no matter what crimes they commit.
If they lose, jack it up. If they win, leave the rate alone unless the doctor is being habitually sued. Either he has a lot of disgruntled patients or he really is doing something wrong and is just slick enough to get away with it.
Seriously? I'm not saying that France's health care isn't good. The fact that it goes over budget EVERY year is something, though.
We spend more on health care because we have more regulations, we have unrestricted tort suits (and this goes for all areas, not just malpractice, tort reform is desperately needed and would do more to bring down health care costs then ObamaCare), and too many middlemen involved in determining who can and cannot have a procedure (should be left to the doctor but is now left to the government (as well as how often you can go)). Non-major care shouldn't be covered insurance (doctor's visits, without insurance costs at most $50 in my area and I'm very rural; vaccines are available for as little as $18 and you can get those at freakin' WalGreens for crying out loud; basically anything non-emergency or that doesn't require surgery should be paid out of pocket, with the doctors office and patient setting up payment plans), and chiropractic care, unless for a diagnosed illness (herniated disks, spinal injury from a car wreck, etc.) should not be covered under insurance. My chiropractor was $40/visit or $120/week, yeah that's a bit expensive but if I'm willing to pay and it's not to correct anything life-threatening (e.g. I could live comfortably without it, like now), why should the insurance company be forced to pay for it?
Get tort reform across the boards (instant lawsuit millionaires should be the exception, not the rule), get rid of some of this stupid regulations (such as the massively expensive to implement and upkeep e-records, I personally would rather risk my records getting destroyed in a fire (not so likely) then to be hacked (very likely)), and if a doctor freakin' wins a malpractice suit, quit raising his rates (that's about the only bit of regulation I would be for, keep malpractice insurers from jacking up the rates of doctors, even if they win, unless they are habitually being sued).
That's the kind of health care reform this country needs. Not more un (or under) funded mandates, not more regulations.
The only reason I stopped running it is because I wanted to upgrade to the next version (which I couldn't, wound up getting a better computer and getting a "better" version of Windows, then ran back into the waiting arms of Linux).
You insensitive clod, I ran a WinME installation that/was/ rock solid (I only had to reboot about once a month and never had to reinstall in the two years I ran it).
It is socialist. You obviously have no comprehension of the word "socialist".
And Canada's system is not any better than what we have (oh wait, what's that, you mean you don't know about the thousands of Canadians that come to the US each year for services that they would have to wait months, even years, to receive in Canada, say it ain't so!)
Completely agreed, and in this case unnecessary as current regulations are what is driving up the cost of health care. Sure e-records might be easier for a doctor to access, but it's also easier for anyone else to access too. Now you're dumping thousands/hundreds of thousands/millions into added IT infrastructure and having to take that money away from patient care. That's just one of many cost-increasing regulations that have shown no benefit at all.
Don't even get me started on the FDA and their long, extremely expensive, regulatory process for medications (and I do think there should be some regulatory process for medications, I just think the FDA model is extremely flawed).
I won't diverge into other bodies that you mentioned (nuclear, utility). I'll just say that I agree that some degree of regulation needs to exist, but not at the current levels (with the possible exception of nuclear regulatory controls due to it's never-ceasing physical danger to the public).
Regulatory controls should exist but their shouldn't be so many as to continuously drive up the cost of the service being provided. When that starts happening, you have too much regulation (such as in health care).
For just one example of how ObamaCare is going to hurt the public, according to a March 19, 2010 article at Chicago Breaking News, Caterpillar has already come out and said that in the first year of ObamaCare alone, it will cost the company over $100,000,000 to be in compliance. That's in the first year along. I imagine (without having more information from Caterpillar that's all I can do) that proceeding years only will be more expensive to keep in compliance. This is going to kill the economy.
ObamaCare is going to cost the government at least $950,000,000,000 to implement. How is this good? How is it good to force people to buy a minimum plan that they might not be able to afford or face IRS imposed fines (and I don't even know why they are involved and I don't want to know why)? No, this isn't universal health care. This is socialized medicine. This is a government mandate to keep the poor poor and the rich rich (and don't give me any gaff about those making over $250k being taxed more to pay for all this, that's plain old forced wealth redistribution, something that cannot be maintained as eventually the rich will either move over seas and renounce their citizenship to avoid paying the tax or we all become equally poor).
No, this is a bad plan all around. I don't see anything good coming out of this.
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Can't be any worse than my experiences with VLC.
Neither had I until recently. First it stopped being able to find them, then it stopped even loading them at all. Very odd.
Thanks!
I love *Nix (:
Thanks, sounds as if I could use that for flac123, too (and I probably could write the script so I tell it what command to execute after the list is created so I could use either one, thanks for the idea!)
Never heard of GMPC. Until the last three months, I've been completely out of the OSS loop. I just got tired of XP and went with FreeBSD (:
Nothing wrong at all until I couldn't load files anymore.
Don't know what happened. One day it was working, literally the very next day it stopped.
XMMS 1.x is no longer supported and I hate the client/server model used in 2.x Amarok won't install without KDE and Rhythmbox is nearly unusable for my needs. Granted I am running FreeBSD. VLC is ok for most of my needs but I've been using Grooveshark lately to bolster up my music collection.
I'll have to read those citations later on today. Thanks for the links. (:
True, but with more and more of this sort of entrepreneurship going on in Africa, sooner or later African companies will start to rise up to take the lead in funding African businesses. I firmly believe this is just the tip of the iceberg. It may not happen overnight (and that's a good, 90% possibility) but it will happen.
The US is no longer the only place that is a land flowing with opportunity and people willing to take a risk to make something new. This is very good news and probably would not have happened without the advent of the Internet in those countries (or anywhere else that such collaboration takes place). I wish the developers the best of luck (I have no plans on buying an iPhone or purchasing anything from Apple, sorry guys).
I don't have insurance and resent the fact that I have to choose between having it or jail time (I won't pay the fines for not getting it). I resent the fact that the government thinks it knows better than me what I do or don't need. I resent the fact that the government thinks that there are companies that are "too big to fail" so they are willing to give them a pass no matter what crimes they commit.
At least it wasn't built by Cirrus Cybernetic Corp. Any being that knows where its towel is is not something to be messed with.
In an era where privacy is slowly being eroded online, it's good to see a judge take a stand and at least draw the line somewhere.
See, now there is a sane tort law. Not everything Canadian is bad.
Let me rephrase my last bit about malpractice.
If they lose, jack it up.
If they win, leave the rate alone unless the doctor is being habitually sued. Either he has a lot of disgruntled patients or he really is doing something wrong and is just slick enough to get away with it.
Seriously? I'm not saying that France's health care isn't good. The fact that it goes over budget EVERY year is something, though.
We spend more on health care because we have more regulations, we have unrestricted tort suits (and this goes for all areas, not just malpractice, tort reform is desperately needed and would do more to bring down health care costs then ObamaCare), and too many middlemen involved in determining who can and cannot have a procedure (should be left to the doctor but is now left to the government (as well as how often you can go)). Non-major care shouldn't be covered insurance (doctor's visits, without insurance costs at most $50 in my area and I'm very rural; vaccines are available for as little as $18 and you can get those at freakin' WalGreens for crying out loud; basically anything non-emergency or that doesn't require surgery should be paid out of pocket, with the doctors office and patient setting up payment plans), and chiropractic care, unless for a diagnosed illness (herniated disks, spinal injury from a car wreck, etc.) should not be covered under insurance. My chiropractor was $40/visit or $120/week, yeah that's a bit expensive but if I'm willing to pay and it's not to correct anything life-threatening (e.g. I could live comfortably without it, like now), why should the insurance company be forced to pay for it?
Get tort reform across the boards (instant lawsuit millionaires should be the exception, not the rule), get rid of some of this stupid regulations (such as the massively expensive to implement and upkeep e-records, I personally would rather risk my records getting destroyed in a fire (not so likely) then to be hacked (very likely)), and if a doctor freakin' wins a malpractice suit, quit raising his rates (that's about the only bit of regulation I would be for, keep malpractice insurers from jacking up the rates of doctors, even if they win, unless they are habitually being sued).
That's the kind of health care reform this country needs. Not more un (or under) funded mandates, not more regulations.
Coolness (:
The only reason I stopped running it is because I wanted to upgrade to the next version (which I couldn't, wound up getting a better computer and getting a "better" version of Windows, then ran back into the waiting arms of Linux).
You sir (or ma'am) need to be modded +5 funny (:
You insensitive clod, I ran a WinME installation that /was/ rock solid (I only had to reboot about once a month and never had to reinstall in the two years I ran it).
Actually, France's health care system runs over 2,000,000,000 into the red EVERY YEAR.
It is socialist. You obviously have no comprehension of the word "socialist".
And Canada's system is not any better than what we have (oh wait, what's that, you mean you don't know about the thousands of Canadians that come to the US each year for services that they would have to wait months, even years, to receive in Canada, say it ain't so!)
Really, that would have been awesome. (:
Is he any relation to Baghdad Bob?
Baghdad Bob: "No, there are no allied tanks rolling through Baghdad."
*background shows tanks rolling through Baghdad*
Now to respond to your other points.
Regulation should be a last resort.
Completely agreed, and in this case unnecessary as current regulations are what is driving up the cost of health care. Sure e-records might be easier for a doctor to access, but it's also easier for anyone else to access too. Now you're dumping thousands/hundreds of thousands/millions into added IT infrastructure and having to take that money away from patient care. That's just one of many cost-increasing regulations that have shown no benefit at all.
Don't even get me started on the FDA and their long, extremely expensive, regulatory process for medications (and I do think there should be some regulatory process for medications, I just think the FDA model is extremely flawed).
I won't diverge into other bodies that you mentioned (nuclear, utility). I'll just say that I agree that some degree of regulation needs to exist, but not at the current levels (with the possible exception of nuclear regulatory controls due to it's never-ceasing physical danger to the public).
Regulatory controls should exist but their shouldn't be so many as to continuously drive up the cost of the service being provided. When that starts happening, you have too much regulation (such as in health care).
For just one example of how ObamaCare is going to hurt the public, according to a March 19, 2010 article at Chicago Breaking News, Caterpillar has already come out and said that in the first year of ObamaCare alone, it will cost the company over $100,000,000 to be in compliance. That's in the first year along. I imagine (without having more information from Caterpillar that's all I can do) that proceeding years only will be more expensive to keep in compliance. This is going to kill the economy.
ObamaCare is going to cost the government at least $950,000,000,000 to implement. How is this good? How is it good to force people to buy a minimum plan that they might not be able to afford or face IRS imposed fines (and I don't even know why they are involved and I don't want to know why)? No, this isn't universal health care. This is socialized medicine. This is a government mandate to keep the poor poor and the rich rich (and don't give me any gaff about those making over $250k being taxed more to pay for all this, that's plain old forced wealth redistribution, something that cannot be maintained as eventually the rich will either move over seas and renounce their citizenship to avoid paying the tax or we all become equally poor).
No, this is a bad plan all around. I don't see anything good coming out of this.