The main reasoning they have for this is to have a clone for a major producer under their own control (hint: Cloning a horse is rather expensive, really...quarter of a million) or if one were to die due to old age or accident to have a "backup" of something like Rocking Rodder or King so they can continue showing and breeding a prize stallion.
Honestly, I'd love to have a "backup" of my $500 gem (She took the first-ever Arabian Horse Association Youth Nationals in the Half-Arabian division and is 2012's Reserve National Champion- I bought her as a minimum bid at one of the big Arabian Horse auctions... Oh, little did they know about her...:-D )- but I can't see where it's a monopoly to exclude them like the Judge and the Jury saw it. The registry's purpose is to verify and certify parentage (A clone has but one "parent"- the animal being cloned) and to manage things like competitions. The rules state a purebred foal/horse is one of two purebred parents, a dam and a sire, a mare and a stallion. A clone doesn't HAVE that. Genetically, it's a purebred, so long as you're not genesplicing it as well- and how do you prove that one out?
There's a mess there and it's not something where the decision is a good one. Worse, the suit was brought by a group of individuals that are really solely doing it for financial gains- they're involved with one of the main companies doing the horse cloning. It wasn't a case of someone wanting to clone a Rocking Rodder...it was a case of the bunch doing the cloning to open the floodgates for their business.
It's bureaucrats determining what is medically necessary and when they do how much they're willing to pay for it so that they can cover their own *sses and make their budgets look "good" so they can get more from Congress.
Supplying the device? I don't think so. It'd probably injure you. Honest.
It's not just insurance companies, lawyers, and big pharma to blame. You fingered a solid part of the cause and then you go and blame insurance companies (which are part of the problem, but not the root cause...they typically only pay 30% over what Medicare pays- and typically, they'd have paid only $25, not $35- that's more the private insurance payout in most cases...)- go for one of the root causes. Big pharma just simply comes out of your pockets in most cases and not out of the doctor's hide. Not so sure about the malpractice story. Some of this is legitimate. Much of it isn't. Thing is...could you tell? Could anyone else? In the end, what you're seeing is government regulation causing a LOT of these woes.
Try a little different line there and you'd have it.
Private insurance typically pays out 30% of what Medicare pays out.
Medicare pays out 25-30% maximum in most cases with a few exceptions like powered wheelchairs for the disabled. They don't do dental. They don't do vision.
Tell me again that it's JUST the for-profit industry...
And you'd regulate the heck out of it. The more regulation you have the more costs you have. Pure and simple. Got to be a happy medium- and YOU aren't asking for that.
Is that Medicare pays approximately 25% of those so-called rack-rates. Private insurance typically pays 30% over the Medicare pay rates.
Overcharged? Perhaps. It's all this BS, though, that we're discussing right now (and Congress is mandating) that's causing it.
Want to actually make affordable healthcare? FIX THAT FIRST. (Hint: It doesn't get fixed by bureaucracies like this and it doesn't get fixed by doing socialized medicine.)
Here's a hint...you've got the same functionality (Just not the PL/SQL language) with Postgresql. In fact, you can do it in something resembling PL/SQL(PL/pgSQL), Tcl, Perl, or Python in Postgresql. Take your pick.
Sorry, just not buying the line you're selling there- it's not a net positive over Postgresql like you're making it out to be.
Middle? How about some executive sandblasting... The middle management only gets to screw up as long as the executives LET them. If you contemplate long and hard, all the issues there stem not from the people executing things- but from the people supposedly there to provide direction and vision to all of it.
Can you manage to have an intelligent conversation without deviating from the subject with an ad-hominem?
In actuality, the one we have in hand (we have it for differing reasons than this BS...) works PRECISELY like a regular ATM/Debit card- and has a checking account with ABA/Account number associated with the account and is accessable by the bank in question. It depends on the issuing bank, etc. as to what all of what you're talking to is in effect. We know this because it's been used for a debit transaction booking a hotel, booking a rental vehicle, paying for fuel, getting money orders, etc. Again, it REALLY depends on which bank is actually backing the card (and there IS one there...).
Please inform yourself about all of it much better than you did here before you post...
I'd contend that the bulk of it are inbred pissing contests ran by the Personality Disordered. Given that this is the case, the bulk of the subject, AS TAUGHT, is worthless as an avenue of any study by anyone sane.
Now...if you're talking about an honest rational thinking discourse and study...bit different. The problem lies in actually FINDING one.
Ah, but you missed the point of the parent poster.
Ever thought that maybe Evolution is the ground rules for things and with Creation, you've got little (or big shoves) in changes a' la animal/plant husbandry or genetic engineering?
There's nothing in Creationism that precludes the other, save that the Creationists tend to ignore the parts of Evolution that we can actually prove. The converse of that last statement is also a pretty accurate summation of things.
Neither theory is correct (seriously) or even remotely close to "complete" because there's gaps, peices which don't "work" within the framework of the theory- or "and a miracle happens" like the cartoon where the proof has that in it. But, sadly, neither side is willing to own that the theory's wrong and try to find the other answer. There's no more rational thought there than those following a given religion blindly- in fact, I'd contend that it was little more than a religion with the trappings of science wrapped around it.
They're already offering a printer in the class shown in the "Dreambox" promo video for $1200.
Go to select Staples and buy it. If your Staples isn't one of the select ones, you can have it ordered site-to-store with no shipping from their web site.
I see it being something "useful" for students and people that can't afford that printer- but it's not such the big deal as people are making of it here.
You missed the "I got an Android phone, so I've got a G+ account now..." people in this list- which are liable to comprise most of that 390 Million 'subscribers' they're claiming.
The biggest problem's more that you'd have to make X86 versions and flag for them in the Play store- which is beyond a pain in the *ss.
There might be some other solutions there, but what you're talking to...that's pretty much a non-starter right at the moment. NDK support's one of the reasons Intel's had "issues" getting Atom into the space over ARM based solutions.
Heh...they also run WAAAAAY hotter than any ARM SOCs. That "much more powerful" comes at a price right at the moment. And the gaps shrinking rapidly. Intel can't make it lower power faster than ARM can pick up speed and keep the power low.
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The main reasoning they have for this is to have a clone for a major producer under their own control (hint: Cloning a horse is rather expensive, really...quarter of a million) or if one were to die due to old age or accident to have a "backup" of something like Rocking Rodder or King so they can continue showing and breeding a prize stallion.
Honestly, I'd love to have a "backup" of my $500 gem (She took the first-ever Arabian Horse Association Youth Nationals in the Half-Arabian division and is 2012's Reserve National Champion- I bought her as a minimum bid at one of the big Arabian Horse auctions... Oh, little did they know about her... :-D )- but I can't see where it's a monopoly to exclude them like the Judge and the Jury saw it. The registry's purpose is to verify and certify parentage (A clone has but one "parent"- the animal being cloned) and to manage things like competitions. The rules state a purebred foal/horse is one of two purebred parents, a dam and a sire, a mare and a stallion. A clone doesn't HAVE that. Genetically, it's a purebred, so long as you're not genesplicing it as well- and how do you prove that one out?
There's a mess there and it's not something where the decision is a good one. Worse, the suit was brought by a group of individuals that are really solely doing it for financial gains- they're involved with one of the main companies doing the horse cloning. It wasn't a case of someone wanting to clone a Rocking Rodder...it was a case of the bunch doing the cloning to open the floodgates for their business.
Actually, Medicare's out of touch with reality.
It's bureaucrats determining what is medically necessary and when they do how much they're willing to pay for it so that they can cover their own *sses and make their budgets look "good" so they can get more from Congress.
Supplying the device? I don't think so. It'd probably injure you. Honest.
It's not just insurance companies, lawyers, and big pharma to blame. You fingered a solid part of the cause and then you go and blame insurance companies (which are part of the problem, but not the root cause...they typically only pay 30% over what Medicare pays- and typically, they'd have paid only $25, not $35- that's more the private insurance payout in most cases...)- go for one of the root causes. Big pharma just simply comes out of your pockets in most cases and not out of the doctor's hide. Not so sure about the malpractice story. Some of this is legitimate. Much of it isn't. Thing is...could you tell? Could anyone else? In the end, what you're seeing is government regulation causing a LOT of these woes.
Try a little different line there and you'd have it.
Private insurance typically pays out 30% of what Medicare pays out.
Medicare pays out 25-30% maximum in most cases with a few exceptions like powered wheelchairs for the disabled. They don't do dental. They don't do vision.
Tell me again that it's JUST the for-profit industry...
And you'd regulate the heck out of it. The more regulation you have the more costs you have. Pure and simple. Got to be a happy medium- and YOU aren't asking for that.
Is that Medicare pays approximately 25% of those so-called rack-rates. Private insurance typically pays 30% over the Medicare pay rates.
Overcharged? Perhaps. It's all this BS, though, that we're discussing right now (and Congress is mandating) that's causing it.
Want to actually make affordable healthcare? FIX THAT FIRST.
(Hint: It doesn't get fixed by bureaucracies like this and it doesn't get fixed by doing socialized medicine.)
...and a wooden stick shift...
Here's a hint...you've got the same functionality (Just not the PL/SQL language) with Postgresql. In fact, you can do it in something resembling PL/SQL(PL/pgSQL), Tcl, Perl, or Python in Postgresql. Take your pick.
Sorry, just not buying the line you're selling there- it's not a net positive over Postgresql like you're making it out to be.
Doesn't mean much. This is peices of their idiot MotoBlur software. Google only probably half realizes it's still running, etc.
Middle? How about some executive sandblasting... The middle management only gets to screw up as long as the executives LET them. If you contemplate long and hard, all the issues there stem not from the people executing things- but from the people supposedly there to provide direction and vision to all of it.
Can you manage to have an intelligent conversation without deviating from the subject with an ad-hominem?
In actuality, the one we have in hand (we have it for differing reasons than this BS...) works PRECISELY like a regular ATM/Debit card- and has a checking account with ABA/Account number associated with the account and is accessable by the bank in question. It depends on the issuing bank, etc. as to what all of what you're talking to is in effect. We know this because it's been used for a debit transaction booking a hotel, booking a rental vehicle, paying for fuel, getting money orders, etc. Again, it REALLY depends on which bank is actually backing the card (and there IS one there...).
Please inform yourself about all of it much better than you did here before you post...
Based on some of the commentary, I'd have to sadly concur on that score.
I'd contend that the bulk of it are inbred pissing contests ran by the Personality Disordered. Given that this is the case, the bulk of the subject, AS TAUGHT, is worthless as an avenue of any study by anyone sane.
Now...if you're talking about an honest rational thinking discourse and study...bit different. The problem lies in actually FINDING one.
It's not that there's no intelligent design there- it's that you can't comprehend where it might be.
Some of it is brilliant. Some of it, I think they need to quit leaving the hits of Acid next to their drafting workstation.
Ah, but you missed the point of the parent poster.
Ever thought that maybe Evolution is the ground rules for things and with Creation, you've got little (or big shoves) in changes a' la animal/plant husbandry or genetic engineering?
There's nothing in Creationism that precludes the other, save that the Creationists tend to ignore the parts of Evolution that we can actually prove. The converse of that last statement is also a pretty accurate summation of things.
Neither theory is correct (seriously) or even remotely close to "complete" because there's gaps, peices which don't "work" within the framework of the theory- or "and a miracle happens" like the cartoon where the proof has that in it. But, sadly, neither side is willing to own that the theory's wrong and try to find the other answer. There's no more rational thought there than those following a given religion blindly- in fact, I'd contend that it was little more than a religion with the trappings of science wrapped around it.
I would say not. Sony and people defending how they did this might want to try to paint people that way- but it'd be, heh, yet another lie.
They're already offering a printer in the class shown in the "Dreambox" promo video for $1200.
Go to select Staples and buy it. If your Staples isn't one of the select ones, you can have it ordered site-to-store with no shipping from their web site.
I see it being something "useful" for students and people that can't afford that printer- but it's not such the big deal as people are making of it here.
In the cases of most of the lawsuits that Monsanto's filed it's been one of genuine contamination as well- but they sued anyway.
The stuff's nowhere near as "controlled" as they'd like for you to believe.
Sinclair ZX-80 basic and Z-80 assembly on one of the first overseas kits from Sinclair.
You missed the "I got an Android phone, so I've got a G+ account now..." people in this list- which are liable to comprise most of that 390 Million 'subscribers' they're claiming.
Here's a hint: If it's a Chrome extension, you're still running it when you "leave" it and Hangout's still up.
Either that or sign up on jabber.org and use the core protocol like a boss...
The biggest problem's more that you'd have to make X86 versions and flag for them in the Play store- which is beyond a pain in the *ss.
There might be some other solutions there, but what you're talking to...that's pretty much a non-starter right at the moment. NDK support's one of the reasons Intel's had "issues" getting Atom into the space over ARM based solutions.
Heh... If that were solely the case, you wouldn't have "gapps" for CyanogenMod and the other custom ROMs for Android devices...
Google Play's in the gapps pack. ;-D
Heh...they also run WAAAAAY hotter than any ARM SOCs. That "much more powerful" comes at a price right at the moment. And the gaps shrinking rapidly. Intel can't make it lower power faster than ARM can pick up speed and keep the power low.