Well, I live in the UK, am British, and owe my life to the lifesaving care of the "medical system I can afford" where I was "lucky to get care".
Fuck price controls - go universal/private hybrid.
Works for me.
Ah, one of the lucky ones. Praising the NHS with its looming shortage of physicians, use of less effective and lower quality therapies and drugs because they are cheaper, and terminal queues for things that are quick and routine in a free market; where your unregulated dog can get an MRI sooner than government regulated you. Have fun when they do you like Mrs Fenton and put you on the Liverpool care pathway plan - aka, "Go away and die, we will not care for you" and you have no alternatives but to submit to the government and die quietly.
Oh they can do that. But price controls create shortages, and drop quality. You will not like what's left of the medical system that you can afford, and you'll be lucky to get any care at all.
Its not just taxes in CA, its the cost of compliance with all the regulations the state government has imposed on top of the Fed's stuff (SarbOx). Forget to dot one i or cross one t, or not be "green" enough, even though you attempt to comply with all of them, the regulators will take your money and put you out of business.
The only people making money consistently and routinely in CA are the public union bosses, the lawyers and the politicians.
it's not AIDS, or even cancer, that's gonna do the world in, it's gonna be Canadian Bacon!
No. You have to find something that's limited to Canada. Something widely consumed, deadly to your health, and something that doesn't exist outside of Canada: Poutine.
Look dimwit, not disputing Stevens was crooked, most politicians are, and if they're a politician from Alaska, they're crooked - you can make good money betting on it. Its where the bridge to nowhere was born.
And all you need to do to is look at the timing for the verdict, charges etc. They were all politically motivated - until those came up and were paraded around, Stevens was still winning his race. Anyone in Alaska knows that too (they kept voting for the coot).
But the dispute was that you are wrong about "behind bars". Figures you didn't even admit that nor correct yourself.
Like I said before, get your facts straight.
One other thing you may want to look at in terms of federal funding - how much of the land in Alaska is set aside, preserved, and prevented from being explored for petroleum production? They could fix that "balance of payments" in a hurry if they really wanted to get the excise taxes for the oil thats extractable up there with little adverse impact on the wildlife. ANWR is a case in point. Another issue is the large amount of land versus the very low population density - so of course per-capita spending is going to look worse than dense states like Rhode Island or NY, or even CA (back to the original topic). Basic initial civilized infrastructure costs the same whether 100 or 1000000 people are using it, and the climate in Alaska insures that much of it is more costly due to maintenance.
I could go on and on, but either you get the point already (and you realize you were wrong), or you're too dense to waste any more electrons on.
Either way, I'm done with this and off you go to -5 land.
Actually, unjust peace begets war - look to Wiemar Germany and its aftermath. And peace just for the sake of peace is an idiot's argument: take for example the "peace" of Pol Pot's Cambodia.
Properly fought, wars tend to end wars - c.f. Germany and Japan in WW2 and behavior afterward, US Civil War, etc.
War never stopped anything except fascism, communism, slavery...
You might want to update your knowledgebase from something other than the propaganda factory of one of the major parties. United States Attorney General Eric Holder, citing serious prosecutorial misconduct during the trial, decided to drop all charges against Stevensâ"an action that vacated Senator "Tubes" convictions.
There are pending investigations into possible criminal misconduct by the prosecutors. Looks like the whole thing was designed to get Stevens ousted and a Dem into the Senate for that 60 seat majority the party wanted.
You're in error: don't confuse "the right" with the Republican Party. The latter is just as big a bunch of big-government fat cats as are many of the Democrats -- they proved it by setting up the deficits with massive overspending during the Bush presidency. The Republican party as it exists now is "right" only when it suits them and can get them money. Pretty much about the same as anyone else in side DC - they are after money and power for its own sake, and could give a crap less about rights, responsibilities, etc.
They are not talking about some dumbmass SSgt E-5 cook that, as you say "get above 40% on a nearly open-book history test and time served". He is referring to the civilian scientists and engineering officers in the test, development and design as well as range safety officers. It seems YOU are the idiot.
Where did I say "Republican" and "conservative" as positives in my post? Hmm? Try reading it instead of projecting your blinkered political rage onto it.
If you actually bothered to read it, you'd see my post was about the left (liberals. Obama) being as bad as the right (Bush, conservatives) at demonizing their opponent and being unthinkingly negative instead of trying to look at facts (And there are, as I pointed out, plenty of factual and reasonable ways to criticize Bush, which many here seem to ignore in favor of emotionally charged name calling -- like yours)
Sadly, your response shows more about you and your lack of reading comprehension than it does my libertarian political words. If fact, it was an almost picture perfect example of a "knee jerk" lefty/righty response, attempting to fill in the blanks in your mind with whatever it is you hate the most.
Stop blindly responding in a knee jerk fashion with namecalling, stop hating, start using your brain and comprehending, and start thinking about liberty. Otherwise you're just a convenient tool for one side or the other.
We do need more coverage of Iran, especially from a technical standpoint. First of all, it will help us know how to best help those putting their lives on the line for liberty against a totalitarian force. Secondly, it will give those of use interested in the tech side ("news for Nerds", remember?) insight into how these can best be used to avoid censorship and repression, no matter what the source. Its a good enough rationale to provide extensive coverage here daily -- after all, how many times do you get to see a live, full scale example of censors versus leakers?
As for why the tag nomoreiran Its pretty simple./. used to be very "techno-libertarian" in slant, way back when. It is not such a place anymore.
Rob ("Taco") and cronies (e.g. kdawson, whom I view as being irredeemably as slanted as Rush Limbaugh, just in opposite directions) have become more collectivist and pointedly anti-conservative at the expense of libertarianism (mainly by being unthinkingly knee-jerk anti-Bush, instead of well reasoned critics). Thus any political action that does not actively help their flavor of collectivism/statism or something that casts a negative light on their political favorites (i.e. Obama, liberals, socialists, etc) will receive less attention, editorially speaking. Its their own personal bias, as reflected in editorial choices of what to cover and what to try to ignore. I cannot blame them much -- the slashdot userbase has become filled with unreasoning collectivist (non-technical) poseurs, so Taco and company are just following their audience (and the money). Sadly, this means that the epithet SlashKosisn't all that far from the mark anymore.
Its not a troll or flamebait to say so (take a moment to read the actual definitions before you politically mod this post). Its just my observation. One needs a heavy set of "bogus-ness/BS" filters to get any real data out of most articles here anymore, and in general I tend to avoid most "YRO" category articles because they are simply editorials with no pretense of actually presenting any logic examination (and a proper debunking) of opposing views. I do value the book reviews and some of the limited Tech news that manages to make it past the slant here. And some of the humor here is still pretty good.
Still, it would be nice to see more information/articles on Slashdot about how tech is being used to fight what is probably one of the most evil regimes on the planet - and the religious and state mechanisms it uses to maintain its tyranny. Those "resistance" methods might come in hand in other places as well, like China, Britain and the USA, sooner than we think.
Overhyping? No. I've used the gear. I've seen the tests personally in Sweden and the US (My wife works for Ericsson Plano - R&D related work there). Chipsets are going into fab now - they were publicly demonstrated 6 months ago in Tokyo. Handset makers have already set die and fab orders for late this year. And LTE is already deployed to 2 US cities with Verizon, rolling out to 2 others before year end.
Yes its a huge forklift upgrade from CDMA to GSM/LTE for Verizon - but it is already well under way.
A CDMA-GSM transcode chipset that would allow backward compataility, plus carriage of LTE on the 700MHz that Verizon bought, makes it possible
AT&T doesn't have the management side of things set, nor is their backbone good enough (yet), nor is their coverage. They simply were blind to the fact that they were going to be leapfrogged, and did not have plans, testing and such in place to deploy LTE before 2012-2013. HSPA will force them to delay further. Verizon and TMobile will have a 2 year head start, which is deadly in the mobile market.
So update your knowledge base -- it ain't hype if its real. And there is no hype about the data speed and latency.
HSPA is a dead-ed technology. LTE is deploying already and will go 60Mbit initially and then up to 150Mbit. Mobile. With latencies 15ms (typically 10ms). And it has already been shown 60mb with NTT DoCOMO, 170mBit mobile at TMobile, and went commerically operational in Stockholm this week.
I put all this in a post further down the page with links, but got pulled into a meeting, then posted late. So consider this: *there.
Before you ask: 150Mbits is the top end down, 50Mbits is the highest up. Even with a saturated tower, you should exceed 10Mbit. These are nice numbers, although I'm sure you'll see lower caps in place commercially.
Latencies are 15ms, typically around 10ms.
So yes, this is a REAL "broadband" connection that really mobile.
AT&T is smoked if Apple allows Verizon or any other LTE carrier to get their hands on the iPhone ahead of AT&T's network rebuild 3 years down the road. AT&T is doing this because Verizon is supposedly getting ready to get iPhones as part of their changeover from CDMA to GSM in 2010 (and thus gain LTE capability) - plus Verizon is *already* testing LTE in a couple of markets.
AT&T's foot dragging with coverage problems, their denial that they need better endpoint bandwidth, etc - its now coming back to bite them in the ass.
AT&T is about a year and a half behind Version in LTE testing for deployment (they are projecting 2011-2012 for LTE at AT&T). So they are stuck with 7.2Mbit HSPA.
Verizon will skip HSPA and go straight to the higher speed LTE in 2010, long before AT&T can get there. And that upgrade comes at about the same time Apple's exclusivity with AT&T dies, what a coincidence. hmmmm.
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Well, I live in the UK, am British, and owe my life to the lifesaving care of the "medical system I can afford" where I was "lucky to get care".
Fuck price controls - go universal/private hybrid.
Works for me.
Ah, one of the lucky ones. Praising the NHS with its looming shortage of physicians, use of less effective and lower quality therapies and drugs because they are cheaper, and terminal queues for things that are quick and routine in a free market; where your unregulated dog can get an MRI sooner than government regulated you. Have fun when they do you like Mrs Fenton and put you on the Liverpool care pathway plan - aka, "Go away and die, we will not care for you" and you have no alternatives but to submit to the government and die quietly.
Anything except make healthcare affordable.
Oh they can do that. But price controls create shortages, and drop quality. You will not like what's left of the medical system that you can afford, and you'll be lucky to get any care at all.
Its not just taxes in CA, its the cost of compliance with all the regulations the state government has imposed on top of the Fed's stuff (SarbOx). Forget to dot one i or cross one t, or not be "green" enough, even though you attempt to comply with all of them, the regulators will take your money and put you out of business. The only people making money consistently and routinely in CA are the public union bosses, the lawyers and the politicians.
it's not AIDS, or even cancer, that's gonna do the world in, it's gonna be Canadian Bacon!
No. You have to find something that's limited to Canada. Something widely consumed, deadly to your health, and something that doesn't exist outside of Canada: Poutine.
Have you actually read the article? ...
Jeremy Howard
You must be new here.
Look dimwit, not disputing Stevens was crooked, most politicians are, and if they're a politician from Alaska, they're crooked - you can make good money betting on it. Its where the bridge to nowhere was born. And all you need to do to is look at the timing for the verdict, charges etc. They were all politically motivated - until those came up and were paraded around, Stevens was still winning his race. Anyone in Alaska knows that too (they kept voting for the coot). But the dispute was that you are wrong about "behind bars". Figures you didn't even admit that nor correct yourself. Like I said before, get your facts straight. One other thing you may want to look at in terms of federal funding - how much of the land in Alaska is set aside, preserved, and prevented from being explored for petroleum production? They could fix that "balance of payments" in a hurry if they really wanted to get the excise taxes for the oil thats extractable up there with little adverse impact on the wildlife. ANWR is a case in point. Another issue is the large amount of land versus the very low population density - so of course per-capita spending is going to look worse than dense states like Rhode Island or NY, or even CA (back to the original topic). Basic initial civilized infrastructure costs the same whether 100 or 1000000 people are using it, and the climate in Alaska insures that much of it is more costly due to maintenance. I could go on and on, but either you get the point already (and you realize you were wrong), or you're too dense to waste any more electrons on. Either way, I'm done with this and off you go to -5 land.
Actually, unjust peace begets war - look to Wiemar Germany and its aftermath. And peace just for the sake of peace is an idiot's argument: take for example the "peace" of Pol Pot's Cambodia. Properly fought, wars tend to end wars - c.f. Germany and Japan in WW2 and behavior afterward, US Civil War, etc. War never stopped anything except fascism, communism, slavery...
You might want to update your knowledgebase from something other than the propaganda factory of one of the major parties. United States Attorney General Eric Holder, citing serious prosecutorial misconduct during the trial, decided to drop all charges against Stevensâ"an action that vacated Senator "Tubes" convictions. There are pending investigations into possible criminal misconduct by the prosecutors. Looks like the whole thing was designed to get Stevens ousted and a Dem into the Senate for that 60 seat majority the party wanted.
You're in error: don't confuse "the right" with the Republican Party. The latter is just as big a bunch of big-government fat cats as are many of the Democrats -- they proved it by setting up the deficits with massive overspending during the Bush presidency. The Republican party as it exists now is "right" only when it suits them and can get them money. Pretty much about the same as anyone else in side DC - they are after money and power for its own sake, and could give a crap less about rights, responsibilities, etc.
They are not talking about some dumbmass SSgt E-5 cook that, as you say "get above 40% on a nearly open-book history test and time served". He is referring to the civilian scientists and engineering officers in the test, development and design as well as range safety officers. It seems YOU are the idiot.
BMI is a bogus and misleading measure. Try percent body fat instead.
Where did I say "Republican" and "conservative" as positives in my post? Hmm? Try reading it instead of projecting your blinkered political rage onto it.
If you actually bothered to read it, you'd see my post was about the left (liberals. Obama) being as bad as the right (Bush, conservatives) at demonizing their opponent and being unthinkingly negative instead of trying to look at facts (And there are, as I pointed out, plenty of factual and reasonable ways to criticize Bush, which many here seem to ignore in favor of emotionally charged name calling -- like yours)
Sadly, your response shows more about you and your lack of reading comprehension than it does my libertarian political words. If fact, it was an almost picture perfect example of a "knee jerk" lefty/righty response, attempting to fill in the blanks in your mind with whatever it is you hate the most.
Stop blindly responding in a knee jerk fashion with namecalling, stop hating, start using your brain and comprehending, and start thinking about liberty. Otherwise you're just a convenient tool for one side or the other.
Shoot the messenger instead of taking on the message. What a tool you are - people like you are exactly the problem.
We do need more coverage of Iran, especially from a technical standpoint. First of all, it will help us know how to best help those putting their lives on the line for liberty against a totalitarian force. Secondly, it will give those of use interested in the tech side ("news for Nerds", remember?) insight into how these can best be used to avoid censorship and repression, no matter what the source. Its a good enough rationale to provide extensive coverage here daily -- after all, how many times do you get to see a live, full scale example of censors versus leakers?
/. used to be very "techno-libertarian" in slant, way back when. It is not such a place anymore.
As for why the tag nomoreiran Its pretty simple.
Rob ("Taco") and cronies (e.g. kdawson, whom I view as being irredeemably as slanted as Rush Limbaugh, just in opposite directions) have become more collectivist and pointedly anti-conservative at the expense of libertarianism (mainly by being unthinkingly knee-jerk anti-Bush, instead of well reasoned critics). Thus any political action that does not actively help their flavor of collectivism/statism or something that casts a negative light on their political favorites (i.e. Obama, liberals, socialists, etc) will receive less attention, editorially speaking. Its their own personal bias, as reflected in editorial choices of what to cover and what to try to ignore. I cannot blame them much -- the slashdot userbase has become filled with unreasoning collectivist (non-technical) poseurs, so Taco and company are just following their audience (and the money). Sadly, this means that the epithet SlashKosisn't all that far from the mark anymore.
Its not a troll or flamebait to say so (take a moment to read the actual definitions before you politically mod this post). Its just my observation. One needs a heavy set of "bogus-ness/BS" filters to get any real data out of most articles here anymore, and in general I tend to avoid most "YRO" category articles because they are simply editorials with no pretense of actually presenting any logic examination (and a proper debunking) of opposing views. I do value the book reviews and some of the limited Tech news that manages to make it past the slant here. And some of the humor here is still pretty good.
Still, it would be nice to see more information/articles on Slashdot about how tech is being used to fight what is probably one of the most evil regimes on the planet - and the religious and state mechanisms it uses to maintain its tyranny. Those "resistance" methods might come in hand in other places as well, like China, Britain and the USA, sooner than we think.
"It's because they are all power hungry sociopaths that are charismatic & good at extracting money from us."
You just described most politicians, including the US Congress and President.
"[O]rganizations managing hundreds of thousands of documents since the Roman Era,"
You mean The Vatican? I doubt that "small aerospace company" could afford to staff up on monks and monasteries.
Overhyping? No. I've used the gear. I've seen the tests personally in Sweden and the US (My wife works for Ericsson Plano - R&D related work there). Chipsets are going into fab now - they were publicly demonstrated 6 months ago in Tokyo. Handset makers have already set die and fab orders for late this year. And LTE is already deployed to 2 US cities with Verizon, rolling out to 2 others before year end.
Yes its a huge forklift upgrade from CDMA to GSM/LTE for Verizon - but it is already well under way.
A CDMA-GSM transcode chipset that would allow backward compataility, plus carriage of LTE on the 700MHz that Verizon bought, makes it possible
AT&T doesn't have the management side of things set, nor is their backbone good enough (yet), nor is their coverage. They simply were blind to the fact that they were going to be leapfrogged, and did not have plans, testing and such in place to deploy LTE before 2012-2013. HSPA will force them to delay further. Verizon and TMobile will have a 2 year head start, which is deadly in the mobile market.
So update your knowledge base -- it ain't hype if its real. And there is no hype about the data speed and latency.
No, its providing live service now to paying customers. Hint: my wife works for Ericsson.
HSPA is a dead-ed technology. LTE is deploying already and will go 60Mbit initially and then up to 150Mbit. Mobile. With latencies 15ms (typically 10ms). And it has already been shown 60mb with NTT DoCOMO, 170mBit mobile at TMobile, and went commerically operational in Stockholm this week.
I put all this in a post further down the page with links, but got pulled into a meeting, then posted late. So consider this: *there.
Actually it is up commercially. See here:
Ericsson and TeliaSonera reveals world's first commercial LTE site in Stockholm
It was actually earlier than that, just not available "commercially" :-)
Before you ask: 150Mbits is the top end down, 50Mbits is the highest up. Even with a saturated tower, you should exceed 10Mbit. These are nice numbers, although I'm sure you'll see lower caps in place commercially.
Latencies are 15ms, typically around 10ms.
So yes, this is a REAL "broadband" connection that really mobile.
AT&T loses.
AT&T is smoked if Apple allows Verizon or any other LTE carrier to get their hands on the iPhone ahead of AT&T's network rebuild 3 years down the road. AT&T is doing this because Verizon is supposedly getting ready to get iPhones as part of their changeover from CDMA to GSM in 2010 (and thus gain LTE capability) - plus Verizon is *already* testing LTE in a couple of markets.
AT&T's foot dragging with coverage problems, their denial that they need better endpoint bandwidth, etc - its now coming back to bite them in the ass.
AT&T is about a year and a half behind Version in LTE testing for deployment (they are projecting 2011-2012 for LTE at AT&T). So they are stuck with 7.2Mbit HSPA.
Verizon will skip HSPA and go straight to the higher speed LTE in 2010, long before AT&T can get there. And that upgrade comes at about the same time Apple's exclusivity with AT&T dies, what a coincidence. hmmmm.
WHats LTE mean for data rates? Here: 60mbits at less than 100 mW demonstrated December by LG at NTT DOCOMO.
Ericsson already has an operational LTE net in Stockholm that runs 50Mb/s supposedly.
And look at this: 170mbits -- in a moving car!
DO WANT!
You sure you want to use the character "Dr Cox" when talking about pedophiles?
all to prevent all but the most zealous users to modify the source to cheat themselves to a higher highscore.
Wrong wrong wrong wrongity WRONG!
It was run a script "compressor" that removes unneeded punctuation, shortens variable names, and collapses the code.
The reason for that was to reduce the load size!