No it doesn't. That is why we are in the FUBARed situation we are in. The Founding Fathers forgot to say that they meant the rights to be absolute. Unfortunately, the anti-Federalists were right and should be revered for their wisdom.
You do understand do you not that there should BE NO PERMIT PROCESS WHATSOEVER RIGHT? That it is LUDICrous in the extreme to demand a license/permit to photograph the Earth under ANY set of conditions right? That all of this is nothing but a control sham so that Uncle Sam's dirty secret laundry won't be revealed to the populance?
Those are radically different books. Unification of the thoughts across all 4 books gives a great view of human nature.
Don't criticize Rand too harshly tho. It was the first time that any writer truly set about showing the conditions that were both universal AND essential to having the Prime Movers in society that enhance our well-being.
No. Caveat emptor should rule along with free-market dynamics, which would include free-market-based certification. Not the absurd.gov mandated stuff that actually doesn't guarantee much of anything.
NO. That's just not history. It was a manufactured smokescreen. There was NO PROBLEM. At the time of its formation, medical knowledge was in its infancy, and the so-called doctor in practice was hardly more effective than the snake oil salesman. In fact, the FDA was passed with explicit statements from Senators that it would not limit anyone's choices. Instead, you see the absurd mess we are in.
The so-called "real medical association" was set up to specifically co-opt the law to prevent others from engaging in the practice of medicine, most notably midwives, chiropractors, etc.
Exactly. Good call. It's the LNeilSmith test and he blew it. I hope I got it right below:
If a person isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you
Again, that's justification. Not reality. The reality, ignored at all levels and the cause of most healthcare system problems, is the total violation of the right to contract between two individuals.
You have the God-given, natural right and human right -- to get or decline healthcare from ANY provider you choose at a price the two of you negotiate. If we simply followed this principle, we'd be on the verge of wiping out all diseases.
In real life, there was never a significant problem with snake oil salesman. As the field matured, licensing was seen by all exactly for what it was, a glorified union to keep other parties at bay. See docs vs midwives, see docs vs chiropractors, etc etc etc
My experience with CompUSA has been universally negative.
Refusal to take back product that did not work without extreme hassle, prices out of whack relative to online marketers, staff that was clueless and too young, insistence on pushing whatever sale of the week. They had a great little Netgear switch that I wanted and the teen-of-the-day working there kept pushing some nameless brand DSL/Router/Switch on me. Jesus-F'ing-Christi -- can't you order an item the customer wants or maybe actually keep in stock popular items?
After 4 poor experiences I refused to ever buy from them again. I'm glad that the market, in its collective wisdom, annihilated CompUSA.
You know what doesn't happen?
He doesn't get summarily executed.
His wife doesn't get raped at gunpoint.
His child doesn't get burned in an oven.
Slippery slope. Right now that doesn't happen. What about in 5 years? What happened ISfascist. It's the first step in all-out fascism. Those who refuse to learn from history...
Go back to school. The hierarchy in science, in order of increasing evidence, is speculation, conjecture, hypothesis, theory.
The word "theory" in common parlance is an unsubstantiated guess. In science, the word "theory" means hypothesis supported by a large body of evidence, where the truth value of the theory is considered very high. Evolution is a theory that has so much evidence in its favor that the IDers are essentially nutcases who can't read or reason properly. It is the IDers that try to equivocate the position by using the common parlance flavor of the word "theory" when discussing science.
It's called the right to travel. It moves with the common, majority travel means of each age from when it was recognized.
So first it was horses. Then railways. However, due to the myopia of the.court system, it didn't get extended properly to cars, mass transit and airplanes. Which is part of the reason we are in the pickle we are in.
You are arrogantly in error and actually part of the problem. You, like so many others, don't understand that in a country based on freedom, having a Bill of Rights that encodes the Ninth and Tenth and now 14th amendments, that virtually all your activities are mostly rights and are violated by.gov on a daily basis.
The sooner we return to a more absolutist view of individual rights the sooner we will get out from under this fascism-lite that is being foisted on us.
You sir, are precisely the problem, and am appalled that you are someone who develops federal security solutions. I would throw you out of the office the moment you started talking about people's identity as opposed to the threats.
So long as you focus on "who" you miss "what". It is utterly irrelevant, security-wise, to worry about who is there. It's pointless to worry about "who" because 99% of the time you won't know the background of the people or even worse, the false positives of the innocent criminal will bite you in the ass. Real-ID won't change that unless you want Gestapo-detail files on every human that travels. (Talk about rights violations!) I don't give a damn about the violent drug dealer who just happens to be flying to Jamaica for his vacation. The only question is "what actions are possible" and how can they be prevented. The government doesn't need to fucking know I'm traveling to see my parents or that I'm traveling at all. Limited, constrained behavior, is perfectly compatible with freedom if it is extremely limited provided it is applied to everyone and for salient security purposes. And it better damn well end the moment I get off the airplane and goto zero the moment I pass customs!
If we had worried about "what" instead of "who" there would have been no 9/11. Cockpit doors would be titanium with reinforcement capable of withstanding multiple-ton dead weight level impacts. EVERY flight would have proper security, which means armed personel with frangible munition. EVERY person would be properly screened -- which means they get x-rayed and metal detector and explosive-sniff screen as they walk along a properly constructed tunnel towards the airplane. Same goes for luggage and carry-on. We STILL don't have explosive-proof storage bins in planes, even though they were demonstrated by Dupont almost, what, 20 years ago? Every pilot should have a side-arm -- and we saw how well that went over with our socialist/fascist FAA/Homeland security overlords. Oh my, the cost people say. Yeah, $500 billion 9/11 event and we were squeamish over the $250 million retrofits to airplanes and of the cost of keeping a mere 8,000 sky marshals on the payroll... Fuck you! your "Papers please" Gestapo mentality and your statist brethren.
The only reason US airlines ever got away without doing this, is that fact that regulations always establish a point which becomes a static universal minimum. Every cockpit had an FAA-approved door instead of a door that common-sense, business acumen and hijack concerns demand. Thank you FAA and your asinine regs.
God damn you "federal security experts" all to hell. You couldn't protect a corner grocery store let alone air travel.
re: parent -- What arrogance and bred from ignorance no less!
Subtractive technology of targeted molecules from the blood has been around for a couple years now. And it works.
Removal of soluble TNF receptors crushes solid cancers.
Total viral load correlates directly to severity of disease. Removal of the viral load ameliorates the disease. This was seen in the original liver dialysis experiments in hepatitis patients. It is probably true also for HIV and very likely for avain flu.
This method creats a system that doesn't shed foreign protein back into the body and has different impact on the coagulation pathways. Very important regulatory-wise and we'll see how useful clinically when we get data.
This is another welcome development for those of us in this field.
I guess you missed all of Turing's research when he came up with Turing Machines and finite-state machines and all that other stuff that we are taught in computability to actually provide a mathematical model and basis for algorithms.
Borrowing from the ever useful Wikipedia entry:
"The concept of an algorithm originated as a means of recording procedures for solving mathematical problems such as finding the common divisor of two numbers or multiplying two numbers. The concept was formalized in 1936 through Alan Turing's Turing machines and Alonzo Church's lambda calculus, which in turn formed the foundation of computer science."
So yes, all you *&^%$#@! out there, software IS math.
You have no understanding how local gov works. You have no understanding of human factors engineering. You have no understanding of minima functions and loss functions. What's worse, you're a statist because you think pen-pushers should have the authority to release draconian systems like this on the public. Maybe you should learn a little about the freedom your military service was defending?
Let me clue you in.
On how local gov works: the red light cameras ARE revenue generators. As with all revenue generators, the are set to maximize revenue and this includes tweaking the lights to cause violations. Please see related scandals in San Diego, LA and other major metropolitan areas where the caution light was shortened to let the cameras trip more frequently and raise revenue. Don't believe me -- here are the vultures fighting over the money in public:
[Begin Quote]
# New Mexico state Sen. William Payne, who calls Albuquerque's 15 cameras a "money-generating trap," introduced a bill this month that would require communities using the devices to install warning signs and beacons on streets leading to intersections where they are positioned.
He says Albuquerque has issued 80,000 $100 citations in the past 18 months. Those fines went directly to the city as civil fees rather than to the state as motor vehicle violations, he says.[End Quote]
On human factors: The existence of a speed camera impairs the function of the caution light by raising the penalty arbitrarily - an extra loss function has been introduced. Humans avoid loss functions, imaginary or real, with a passion. So people now rush the orange or stop short. In high traffic situations both of these choices result in increased accidents, mostly rear-end stop-short collisions.
On minima: The frequency of red light running is a direct function of traffic engineering and caution yellow times and is a minimum which is almost a constant across the whole United States and can be driven down by proper light timing, including an increase in all-red time. When you perturb the system with arbitrary untested ideas (speed camera) you move away from the minima and simply trade one flavor of accident for another. The jury is still out whether deadly side-impact collisions go up or down. What certainly happens is that rear-end stop-short or rear-end speed-into collisions go up.
Please don't quote me studies now. I'm a scientist, and the only reputable study to date is an Australian one, which throws doubt on every premise behind speed cameras. Everything else I'm saying is old hat in my profession.
The reality is that the two flavors of red light running -- speeding with inability to stop in time and impaired driver are non-engineering problems. E.g. you can't solve either by installing a speed camera. Having said that we have had a surprisingly effective technique since folks started driving to Vegas in the night. Rumble strips. Both flavors of driver will start pressing on the brakes when they hit rumble strips.
Now that you have a clue, I suggest again -- learn about how freedom works, learn about non-punitive, non-legal ways, and drop the statist attitude that the lord and masters of City Hall know best. They don't.
No. I reject your post in its entirety. I do not support jack-boot thugs regardless of their uniform. My people's delegation of authority to the police to use force is horribly misused here.
It is not ok just because he "wasn't hitting the dude with his mag-light.". He shouldn't have been hitting him in the face at all.
It is not ok because he was resisting arrest. You can hear the panic in his voice that he was being suffocated. That's why he was still struggling, rightfully so.
It is not ok because cops are specifically not allowed to put a knee to the kneck like that. If that windpipe collapsed, the coroner would have to rule "Suspected homicide secondary to blunt force trauma or compressive force."
It is not ok because you can see one cop trying to restrain the other and prevent further hits.
The punching cop should be immediately suspended without pay pending an immediate hearing for his permanent removal from the force. It should then be followed by a punitive civil suit to both the cop and the department.
We are rapidly approaching a country in which I do not care to live. I would rather live in a socialist nation with lower levels of violence from people and institutions (eg New Zealand, far Northern Europe) than here. I will have defacto more freedom.
It doesn't f'ing matter that you may deserve it. Otherwise we might just as well start water-boarding kidnapper suspects and murder suspects because it could save lives. And I "pity the fool" of a cop who thinks he's right about this attitude when the civil suit of an innocently-accused man lands on his doorstep.... and god-forbid, wrongful death suit...
To not use a worse expression. Do these morons realize we are between ice ages? That global warming is a good thing? Do they realize that the human contribution to global warming is f'ing negligible? Are they even aware that oscillations of the Earth's orbit due to the other planets explain every Major Ice Age going back 1 million years with a period of about 100K years between ice ages? Are they even aware that the Minor Ice Ages can be explained as forced by precession and nutation of the Earth's axis due to perturbation by the Sun and Moon? [Pg. 512 New Foundations for Classical Mechanics] (For the dense, global warming is the inverse of the Ice Ages and has the same cause!)
Geezus... just what we need in a world still dominated by tribal warfare (enhanced by nuclear weaponry) -- a super-regulatory authority to add more regs to an over-regulated crippled world industry? (Hint: What is the maximal speed an economy can develop at? Some number orders of magnitude greather than our anemic 3%. Are we anywhere near that? No. )
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No it doesn't. That is why we are in the FUBARed situation we are in. The Founding Fathers forgot to say that they meant the rights to be absolute. Unfortunately, the anti-Federalists were right and should be revered for their wisdom.
You do understand do you not that there should BE NO PERMIT PROCESS WHATSOEVER RIGHT? That it is LUDICrous in the extreme to demand a license/permit to photograph the Earth under ANY set of conditions right? That all of this is nothing but a control sham so that Uncle Sam's dirty secret laundry won't be revealed to the populance?
Those are radically different books. Unification of the thoughts across all 4 books gives a great view of human nature.
Don't criticize Rand too harshly tho. It was the first time that any writer truly set about showing the conditions that were both universal AND essential to having the Prime Movers in society that enhance our well-being.
You can't possibly be that stupid can you?
You actually believe fascist bullshit like what you wrote?
The profits from a cure are orders of magnitude greater than long-term treatment.
No. We have licenses to prevent competition in those fields. The rest is smokescreen justification to sell it to the people.
You have it backwards. It would be a free-market explosively eliminating disease after disease if it wasn't licensed and regulated to death.
On the grounds that the damn license should bear some relationship to the matter being licensed and the field of endevoar the person is practicing in.
No. Caveat emptor should rule along with free-market dynamics, which would include free-market-based certification. Not the absurd .gov mandated stuff that actually doesn't guarantee much of anything.
NO. That's just not history. It was a manufactured smokescreen. There was NO PROBLEM. At the time of its formation, medical knowledge was in its infancy, and the so-called doctor in practice was hardly more effective than the snake oil salesman. In fact, the FDA was passed with explicit statements from Senators that it would not limit anyone's choices. Instead, you see the absurd mess we are in.
The so-called "real medical association" was set up to specifically co-opt the law to prevent others from engaging in the practice of medicine, most notably midwives, chiropractors, etc.
Exactly. Good call. It's the LNeilSmith test and he blew it. I hope I got it right below:
If a person isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you
Again, that's justification. Not reality. The reality, ignored at all levels and the cause of most healthcare system problems, is the total violation of the right to contract between two individuals.
You have the God-given, natural right and human right -- to get or decline healthcare from ANY provider you choose at a price the two of you negotiate. If we simply followed this principle, we'd be on the verge of wiping out all diseases.
So OPEN CARRY all the time.
Open Carry!
NO. That was the justification.
In real life, there was never a significant problem with snake oil salesman. As the field matured, licensing was seen by all exactly for what it was, a glorified union to keep other parties at bay. See docs vs midwives, see docs vs chiropractors, etc etc etc
And yes -- I AM A DOCTOR.
Yes ... but I think any judge worth his salt might rule that the standards ought to bear some relationship to the field being licensed?
There's no relationship whatsoever between being PI licensed and PC repair. The domains don't overlap. Period.
My experience with CompUSA has been universally negative.
Refusal to take back product that did not work without extreme hassle, prices out of whack relative to online marketers, staff that was clueless and too young, insistence on pushing whatever sale of the week. They had a great little Netgear switch that I wanted and the teen-of-the-day working there kept pushing some nameless brand DSL/Router/Switch on me. Jesus-F'ing-Christi -- can't you order an item the customer wants or maybe actually keep in stock popular items?
After 4 poor experiences I refused to ever buy from them again. I'm glad that the market, in its collective wisdom, annihilated CompUSA.
Uh no.
Go back to school. The hierarchy in science, in order of increasing evidence, is speculation, conjecture, hypothesis, theory.
The word "theory" in common parlance is an unsubstantiated guess. In science, the word "theory" means hypothesis supported by a large body of evidence, where the truth value of the theory is considered very high. Evolution is a theory that has so much evidence in its favor that the IDers are essentially nutcases who can't read or reason properly. It is the IDers that try to equivocate the position by using the common parlance flavor of the word "theory" when discussing science.
It's called the right to travel. It moves with the common, majority travel means of each age from when it was recognized.
.court system, it didn't get extended properly to cars, mass transit and airplanes. Which is part of the reason we are in the pickle we are in.
.gov on a daily basis.
So first it was horses. Then railways. However, due to the myopia of the
You are arrogantly in error and actually part of the problem. You, like so many others, don't understand that in a country based on freedom, having a Bill of Rights that encodes the Ninth and Tenth and now 14th amendments, that virtually all your activities are mostly rights and are violated by
The sooner we return to a more absolutist view of individual rights the sooner we will get out from under this fascism-lite that is being foisted on us.
You sir, are precisely the problem, and am appalled that you are someone who develops federal security solutions. I would throw you out of the office the moment you started talking about people's identity as opposed to the threats.
So long as you focus on "who" you miss "what". It is utterly irrelevant, security-wise, to worry about who is there. It's pointless to worry about "who" because 99% of the time you won't know the background of the people or even worse, the false positives of the innocent criminal will bite you in the ass. Real-ID won't change that unless you want Gestapo-detail files on every human that travels. (Talk about rights violations!) I don't give a damn about the violent drug dealer who just happens to be flying to Jamaica for his vacation. The only question is "what actions are possible" and how can they be prevented. The government doesn't need to fucking know I'm traveling to see my parents or that I'm traveling at all. Limited, constrained behavior, is perfectly compatible with freedom if it is extremely limited provided it is applied to everyone and for salient security purposes. And it better damn well end the moment I get off the airplane and goto zero the moment I pass customs!
If we had worried about "what" instead of "who" there would have been no 9/11. Cockpit doors would be titanium with reinforcement capable of withstanding multiple-ton dead weight level impacts. EVERY flight would have proper security, which means armed personel with frangible munition. EVERY person would be properly screened -- which means they get x-rayed and metal detector and explosive-sniff screen as they walk along a properly constructed tunnel towards the airplane. Same goes for luggage and carry-on. We STILL don't have explosive-proof storage bins in planes, even though they were demonstrated by Dupont almost, what, 20 years ago? Every pilot should have a side-arm -- and we saw how well that went over with our socialist/fascist FAA/Homeland security overlords. Oh my, the cost people say. Yeah, $500 billion 9/11 event and we were squeamish over the $250 million retrofits to airplanes and of the cost of keeping a mere 8,000 sky marshals on the payroll... Fuck you! your "Papers please" Gestapo mentality and your statist brethren.
The only reason US airlines ever got away without doing this, is that fact that regulations always establish a point which becomes a static universal minimum. Every cockpit had an FAA-approved door instead of a door that common-sense, business acumen and hijack concerns demand. Thank you FAA and your asinine regs.
God damn you "federal security experts" all to hell. You couldn't protect a corner grocery store let alone air travel.
re: parent -- What arrogance and bred from ignorance no less!
Subtractive technology of targeted molecules from the blood has been around for a couple years now. And it works.
Removal of soluble TNF receptors crushes solid cancers.
Total viral load correlates directly to severity of disease. Removal of the viral load ameliorates the disease. This was seen in the original liver dialysis experiments in hepatitis patients. It is probably true also for HIV and very likely for avain flu.
This method creats a system that doesn't shed foreign protein back into the body and has different impact on the coagulation pathways. Very important regulatory-wise and we'll see how useful clinically when we get data.
This is another welcome development for those of us in this field.
I guess you missed all of Turing's research when he came up with Turing Machines and finite-state machines and all that other stuff that we are taught in computability to actually provide a mathematical model and basis for algorithms.
Borrowing from the ever useful Wikipedia entry:
"The concept of an algorithm originated as a means of recording procedures for solving mathematical problems such as finding the common divisor of two numbers or multiplying two numbers. The concept was formalized in 1936 through Alan Turing's Turing machines and Alonzo Church's lambda calculus, which in turn formed the foundation of computer science."
So yes, all you *&^%$#@! out there, software IS math.
No -- you don't have a clue.
You have no understanding how local gov works. You have no understanding of human factors engineering. You have no understanding of minima functions and loss functions. What's worse, you're a statist because you think pen-pushers should have the authority to release draconian systems like this on the public. Maybe you should learn a little about the freedom your military service was defending?
Let me clue you in.
On how local gov works: the red light cameras ARE revenue generators. As with all revenue generators, the are set to maximize revenue and this includes tweaking the lights to cause violations. Please see related scandals in San Diego, LA and other major metropolitan areas where the caution light was shortened to let the cameras trip more frequently and raise revenue. Don't believe me -- here are the vultures fighting over the money in public:
[Begin Quote] # New Mexico state Sen. William Payne, who calls Albuquerque's 15 cameras a "money-generating trap," introduced a bill this month that would require communities using the devices to install warning signs and beacons on streets leading to intersections where they are positioned.
He says Albuquerque has issued 80,000 $100 citations in the past 18 months. Those fines went directly to the city as civil fees rather than to the state as motor vehicle violations, he says. [End Quote]
On human factors: The existence of a speed camera impairs the function of the caution light by raising the penalty arbitrarily - an extra loss function has been introduced. Humans avoid loss functions, imaginary or real, with a passion. So people now rush the orange or stop short. In high traffic situations both of these choices result in increased accidents, mostly rear-end stop-short collisions.
On minima: The frequency of red light running is a direct function of traffic engineering and caution yellow times and is a minimum which is almost a constant across the whole United States and can be driven down by proper light timing, including an increase in all-red time. When you perturb the system with arbitrary untested ideas (speed camera) you move away from the minima and simply trade one flavor of accident for another. The jury is still out whether deadly side-impact collisions go up or down. What certainly happens is that rear-end stop-short or rear-end speed-into collisions go up.
Please don't quote me studies now. I'm a scientist, and the only reputable study to date is an Australian one, which throws doubt on every premise behind speed cameras. Everything else I'm saying is old hat in my profession.
The reality is that the two flavors of red light running -- speeding with inability to stop in time and impaired driver are non-engineering problems. E.g. you can't solve either by installing a speed camera. Having said that we have had a surprisingly effective technique since folks started driving to Vegas in the night. Rumble strips. Both flavors of driver will start pressing on the brakes when they hit rumble strips.
Now that you have a clue, I suggest again -- learn about how freedom works, learn about non-punitive, non-legal ways, and drop the statist attitude that the lord and masters of City Hall know best. They don't.
No. I reject your post in its entirety. I do not support jack-boot thugs regardless of their uniform. My people's delegation of authority to the police to use force is horribly misused here.
It is not ok just because he "wasn't hitting the dude with his mag-light.". He shouldn't have been hitting him in the face at all.
It is not ok because he was resisting arrest. You can hear the panic in his voice that he was being suffocated. That's why he was still struggling, rightfully so.
It is not ok because cops are specifically not allowed to put a knee to the kneck like that. If that windpipe collapsed, the coroner would have to rule "Suspected homicide secondary to blunt force trauma or compressive force."
It is not ok because you can see one cop trying to restrain the other and prevent further hits.
The punching cop should be immediately suspended without pay pending an immediate hearing for his permanent removal from the force. It should then be followed by a punitive civil suit to both the cop and the department.
We are rapidly approaching a country in which I do not care to live. I would rather live in a socialist nation with lower levels of violence from people and institutions (eg New Zealand, far Northern Europe) than here. I will have defacto more freedom.
It doesn't f'ing matter that you may deserve it. Otherwise we might just as well start water-boarding kidnapper suspects and murder suspects because it could save lives. And I "pity the fool" of a cop who thinks he's right about this attitude when the civil suit of an innocently-accused man lands on his doorstep.... and god-forbid, wrongful death suit...
To not use a worse expression. Do these morons realize we are between ice ages? That global warming is a good thing? Do they realize that the human contribution to global warming is f'ing negligible? Are they even aware that oscillations of the Earth's orbit due to the other planets explain every Major Ice Age going back 1 million years with a period of about 100K years between ice ages? Are they even aware that the Minor Ice Ages can be explained as forced by precession and nutation of the Earth's axis due to perturbation by the Sun and Moon? [Pg. 512 New Foundations for Classical Mechanics] (For the dense, global warming is the inverse of the Ice Ages and has the same cause!)
Geezus... just what we need in a world still dominated by tribal warfare (enhanced by nuclear weaponry) -- a super-regulatory authority to add more regs to an over-regulated crippled world industry? (Hint: What is the maximal speed an economy can develop at? Some number orders of magnitude greather than our anemic 3%. Are we anywhere near that? No. )