Finally some business demonstrating some balls. If the tax is being considered, then the locality has an environment hostile to Amazon's business. It doesn't matter if it goes through.
It's also a good deterrent against other states trying the same BS. They know that Amazon isn't afraid to follow through.
i would say that this girl, uh, young woman, has an incredibly rare, unique mutation: insensitivity to human growth hormone. it would explain all of her symptoms
Was it Wilson's story about his tennis elbow that jarred you to that conclusion?
Here in the US, public schools are typically surrounded by barbed wire, and not a small number have metal detectors at the doors.
Correction: there, where you are in the US. My kids' public school is surrounded by a few acres of grassy playground, that being surrounded by trees. When I need to bring them something at school, I walk through the unlocked front doors, wave at the secretary, and meander on back to their classrooms.
Of course, I'm one of the crazy people who doesn't see living in dense urban settings as inherently better than living in a small community.
You received a credible tip from multiple sources that a girl has... I don't know... cyanide or something stuffed in her panties. So, you place this girl under "observation" to make sure she doesn't ditch anything while you call her parents and the police. The police say they will be there as soon as they can, but it may be two hours or longer.
Now rewind and come up with a scenario that is equally dire that won't have a SWAT team there in 4 minutes.
Back to the original: there are no circumstances in which a school official should be strip-searching a child. If someone did that to my daughter, the same police would have to arrest me to keep me from killing the principal.
But isn't a bigger problem the cost of malpractice insurance?
Yes, but not directly. The root problem is that even allegations of malpractice are so career-ending that almost all directs practice defensive medicine. If there is a 1:10,000,000 chance of the patient having some condition, then just about every doctor will write for the $2,000 test to detect it because they're screwed if they don't.
That's pointing out that fanatical rants against anything government run ignore the military because it would disprove their argument.
The military employs a lot of dedicated and good people in a system that's almost hopelessly inefficient. I've never, not even once, heard a vet talk about how well-run their command was.
I imagine her biggest single expense is malpractice. Well, let's compromise: let's do away with private and non-regulated malpractice insurance in exchange for caps on lawsuits to an arbitrarily high number, like 20 million dollars.
Now, I recognize that it will be hard to make some of these changes if doctors feel like they are constantly looking over their shoulder for fear of lawsuits. Some doctors may feel the need to order more tests and treatments to avoid being legally vulnerable. That's a real issue. And while I'm not advocating caps on malpractice awards which I believe can be unfair to people who've been wrongfully harmed, I do think we need to explore a range of ideas about how to put patient safety first, let doctors focus on practicing medicine, and encourage broader use of evidence-based guidelines. That's how we can scale back the excessive defensive medicine reinforcing our current system of more treatment rather than better care.
Let's require private health insurance companies and hospitals to have limits on how much they can mark up toilet paper.
Sure, but can hospitals then be allowed to turn away patients that can't pay since they'd no longer be able to subsidize them via paying patients?
Or we can pretend that everything is fine.
It's clearly not, but I don't think that saturating the market with low-cost doctors is the answer.
Most physicians ought to try working in any other profession besides the guaranteed-high-salary-MD-world before commenting on who it is that lives in a parallel universe.
Oh, that's cute! Did you catch the part about his '94 Corolla? From personal experience, I see very few rich doctors under the age of 50 or so. Seriously, that myth died when Medicare and HMOs took over. Young doctors are considered successful if they can manage to pay student loans while living in a house that keeps the rainwater out and driving a car that starts most days of the year.
Sure, you can trot out a few cardiologists or plastic surgeons as counterexamples, for but each of those I can present 100 family practitioners.
I think the simple solution is that we need more doctors who will work for less money.
Good idea! When can we expect our $UNGODLY med school student loans to be socialized?
Anyone claiming that you won't get the best qualified people unless you pay them obscenely must have very little respect for our military service members.
First, drop the appeal to emotion crap. Second, my wife (the doctor) and I are both vets. Third, our house wasn't that expensive and we're both driving used cars to scrape by. Fourth, becoming and continue to be a doctor is obscenely expensive. Figure out a way to make it cheaper to become a doctor before you complain about their salaries.
What's even more ironic is that those very same people probably have no qualms violating the copyright of Apple, MSFT, members of the RIAA or the MPAA. That is hypocrisy at its finest.
It's almost as though that subset of people views the right to share as more important than someone's right to keep them from sharing. They'll make copies of MP3s for their friends because that's what people have always done for friends. They'll give away software they've written themselves with the sole constraint that recipients have to reciprocate. It's only hypocritical when looked at from the antisocial position of "sharing is bad".
julesh slightly mis-spoke: you can compile it yourself, but you can't sign the resulting binaries and the hardware won't run them. The Free Software Foundation's interpretation of the GPL is that Atari would have to release the signing key so that you can run your own modified binaries.
But for everyday life, imperial or American units turn out to have a lot of utility that most people aren't aware of, because most of us of the younger generation have just relied on calculators doing decimal calculations for us most of the time.
In summary, then, the advantages are purely theoretical because your generation would just use a calculator anyway.
If you're dividing yards into feet and inches, or pounds into ounces, etc. you have thirds, 16ths, 12ths, and all kinds of other useful fractions to use to think about the divisions.
If you're dividing meters into centimeters and millimeters, you have halves, fourths, eights, fifths, tenths, and all kinds of other useful fractions to use to think about the divisions.
Same with volume and weight; if you do a lot of cooking and modifying quantities in recipes you can get good at those conversions.
Metric cooking is so difficult that French people no longer eat.
If they paid their engineers $150,000/year, they could hire almost 2500 engineers for a year-long project.
Or, pay 10 engineers to make sure that the adapter between the (imperial) boosters and (metric) Ares is properly sized and be done with it. If you're pulling a boat behind a truck, you don't care if the truck engine's bolts are metric and the boat's are imperial because they don't have anything to do with each other. As long as the hitch pieces are compatible, you're golden.
Other astounding inventions from tree-dwelling tailhangers in the first half of the 20th century: nuclear power, transistors, purified penicillin, and television.
The sticking point is that Ares is a shuttle-derived design â" it uses solid rocket boosters whose dimensions and technology are based on those currently strapped to either side of the shuttle's giant liquid fuel tank. And the shuttle's 30-year-old specifications, design drawings and software are rooted in pounds and feet rather than newtons and meters.
And in 20 years, that'll be the same excuse given for building Ares's replacement with imperial units.
Cannot afford to buy a house in the same community I where work.
So move. Seriously. There are a million good reasons why you might want to live where you are, but they don't matter if you can't afford to live there. And you can't.
Had my first child at a decade older than my father.
?
Have no real, viable retirement plan. No, a 401k is not a retirement plan; it is a retirement gamble. Some people win, some don't (like my mother, who was forced into retirement after her 401 lost half its value.)
What's a "real, viable retirement plan"? A Big Three pension? I'll trust my future to my 401k over a board of directors any day of the week.
You claim to be a conservative while wishing that the government would validate your lifestyle choices. I don't quite get that.
As usual in the discussion on blocklisting, Slashdot is being overrun by, ehm, 'legitimate biznizmen' and their supporters, and people who know jack shit about blocklisting and its history, but believe those who shout the loudest.
I got paid to write an article on how to block spam, partially by using DNSBLs. Am I qualifed to say that SORBS sucks, or am I still in your "amateur" or "'legitimate biznizmen" categories?
AFAIK this is common to all RBLs - if they told you why and you were an evil spammer you could just work around whatever put you on the list and go on with your evil spamming.
And now you know otherwise. If you put in your IP, it'll tell you exactly why you're blocked (if you are). My ISP registered my whole netblock as dynamic, forgetting about my static allocation. I filled out the form to remove myself and was off the list in about half an hour. Spamhaus runs their RBL the way they were meant to be run and I have nothing but good to say about them.
For some of us, that was never the case. There are three viable ISPs in my city: Qwest, cable, and the local mom-and-pop. I went with the latter to host my little home server because I knew the admins and the company had a good reputation. Now, suppose SORBS blocks [1] their upstream. What am I supposed to do, exactly? Switch to one of the mega-ISPs that will actively try to prevent me from running a server?
No, the whole idea of collateral damage only looks good to sociopaths or people who've never had limited options.
[1] Their take on it: "We don't block! We blacklist!" My take on it: the hell you don't. That's like CYBERsitter claiming that they don't block; they only provide recommendations.
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Finally some business demonstrating some balls. If the tax is being considered, then the locality has an environment hostile to Amazon's business. It doesn't matter if it goes through.
It's also a good deterrent against other states trying the same BS. They know that Amazon isn't afraid to follow through.
i would say that this girl, uh, young woman, has an incredibly rare, unique mutation: insensitivity to human growth hormone. it would explain all of her symptoms
Was it Wilson's story about his tennis elbow that jarred you to that conclusion?
Here in the US, public schools are typically surrounded by barbed wire, and not a small number have metal detectors at the doors.
Correction: there, where you are in the US. My kids' public school is surrounded by a few acres of grassy playground, that being surrounded by trees. When I need to bring them something at school, I walk through the unlocked front doors, wave at the secretary, and meander on back to their classrooms.
Of course, I'm one of the crazy people who doesn't see living in dense urban settings as inherently better than living in a small community.
you could have hundreds or thousands of robots circling it, drilling it, terraforming it and beaming back terrabytes of data every second.
I bet terabytes of Mars data would be exciting:
"Cold! Cold! Cold! Still cold! Red! Cold! Dust! Cold! Cold! Still red!"
Perhaps even more, to make up for all the child-thinking he's no longer doing.
You received a credible tip from multiple sources that a girl has... I don't know... cyanide or something stuffed in her panties. So, you place this girl under "observation" to make sure she doesn't ditch anything while you call her parents and the police. The police say they will be there as soon as they can, but it may be two hours or longer.
Now rewind and come up with a scenario that is equally dire that won't have a SWAT team there in 4 minutes.
Back to the original: there are no circumstances in which a school official should be strip-searching a child. If someone did that to my daughter, the same police would have to arrest me to keep me from killing the principal.
But isn't a bigger problem the cost of malpractice insurance?
Yes, but not directly. The root problem is that even allegations of malpractice are so career-ending that almost all directs practice defensive medicine. If there is a 1:10,000,000 chance of the patient having some condition, then just about every doctor will write for the $2,000 test to detect it because they're screwed if they don't.
That's pointing out that fanatical rants against anything government run ignore the military because it would disprove their argument.
The military employs a lot of dedicated and good people in a system that's almost hopelessly inefficient. I've never, not even once, heard a vet talk about how well-run their command was.
I imagine her biggest single expense is malpractice. Well, let's compromise: let's do away with private and non-regulated malpractice insurance in exchange for caps on lawsuits to an arbitrarily high number, like 20 million dollars.
You and I agree, but Obama doesn't:
Let's require private health insurance companies and hospitals to have limits on how much they can mark up toilet paper.
Sure, but can hospitals then be allowed to turn away patients that can't pay since they'd no longer be able to subsidize them via paying patients?
Or we can pretend that everything is fine.
It's clearly not, but I don't think that saturating the market with low-cost doctors is the answer.
Most physicians ought to try working in any other profession besides the guaranteed-high-salary-MD-world before commenting on who it is that lives in a parallel universe.
Oh, that's cute! Did you catch the part about his '94 Corolla? From personal experience, I see very few rich doctors under the age of 50 or so. Seriously, that myth died when Medicare and HMOs took over. Young doctors are considered successful if they can manage to pay student loans while living in a house that keeps the rainwater out and driving a car that starts most days of the year.
Sure, you can trot out a few cardiologists or plastic surgeons as counterexamples, for but each of those I can present 100 family practitioners.
I think the simple solution is that we need more doctors who will work for less money.
Good idea! When can we expect our $UNGODLY med school student loans to be socialized?
Anyone claiming that you won't get the best qualified people unless you pay them obscenely must have very little respect for our military service members.
First, drop the appeal to emotion crap. Second, my wife (the doctor) and I are both vets. Third, our house wasn't that expensive and we're both driving used cars to scrape by. Fourth, becoming and continue to be a doctor is obscenely expensive. Figure out a way to make it cheaper to become a doctor before you complain about their salaries.
What's even more ironic is that those very same people probably have no qualms violating the copyright of Apple, MSFT, members of the RIAA or the MPAA. That is hypocrisy at its finest.
It's almost as though that subset of people views the right to share as more important than someone's right to keep them from sharing. They'll make copies of MP3s for their friends because that's what people have always done for friends. They'll give away software they've written themselves with the sole constraint that recipients have to reciprocate. It's only hypocritical when looked at from the antisocial position of "sharing is bad".
julesh slightly mis-spoke: you can compile it yourself, but you can't sign the resulting binaries and the hardware won't run them. The Free Software Foundation's interpretation of the GPL is that Atari would have to release the signing key so that you can run your own modified binaries.
As of this instant, apt-cache search '' | wc -l returns 28,308 packages. It may be infeasible for them to compile that many packages multiple times.
But for everyday life, imperial or American units turn out to have a lot of utility that most people aren't aware of, because most of us of the younger generation have just relied on calculators doing decimal calculations for us most of the time.
In summary, then, the advantages are purely theoretical because your generation would just use a calculator anyway.
If you're dividing yards into feet and inches, or pounds into ounces, etc. you have thirds, 16ths, 12ths, and all kinds of other useful fractions to use to think about the divisions.
If you're dividing meters into centimeters and millimeters, you have halves, fourths, eights, fifths, tenths, and all kinds of other useful fractions to use to think about the divisions.
Same with volume and weight; if you do a lot of cooking and modifying quantities in recipes you can get good at those conversions.
Metric cooking is so difficult that French people no longer eat.
We're just talking about units of measure.
NASA has reason to care.
If they paid their engineers $150,000/year, they could hire almost 2500 engineers for a year-long project.
Or, pay 10 engineers to make sure that the adapter between the (imperial) boosters and (metric) Ares is properly sized and be done with it. If you're pulling a boat behind a truck, you don't care if the truck engine's bolts are metric and the boat's are imperial because they don't have anything to do with each other. As long as the hitch pieces are compatible, you're golden.
Fine. Since you're so convinced it's worth it, we'll have them send the bill to you, okay?
Sounds good! Here's my $3.00 for my share of it.
Yes, because people were generally stupid then.
Other astounding inventions from tree-dwelling tailhangers in the first half of the 20th century: nuclear power, transistors, purified penicillin, and television.
He wanted the Soviet Union as well, when there was no possibility he would have won that war due to the sheer size of the USSR.
So, don't get involved in a land war in Asia. Got it.
The sticking point is that Ares is a shuttle-derived design â" it uses solid rocket boosters whose dimensions and technology are based on those currently strapped to either side of the shuttle's giant liquid fuel tank. And the shuttle's 30-year-old specifications, design drawings and software are rooted in pounds and feet rather than newtons and meters.
And in 20 years, that'll be the same excuse given for building Ares's replacement with imperial units.
I was unaware that Jobs had been moved ahead of equally-compatible recipients.
Cannot afford to buy a house in the same community I where work.
So move. Seriously. There are a million good reasons why you might want to live where you are, but they don't matter if you can't afford to live there. And you can't.
Had my first child at a decade older than my father.
?
Have no real, viable retirement plan. No, a 401k is not a retirement plan; it is a retirement gamble. Some people win, some don't (like my mother, who was forced into retirement after her 401 lost half its value.)
What's a "real, viable retirement plan"? A Big Three pension? I'll trust my future to my 401k over a board of directors any day of the week.
You claim to be a conservative while wishing that the government would validate your lifestyle choices. I don't quite get that.
As usual in the discussion on blocklisting, Slashdot is being overrun by, ehm, 'legitimate biznizmen' and their supporters, and people who know jack shit about blocklisting and its history, but believe those who shout the loudest.
I got paid to write an article on how to block spam, partially by using DNSBLs. Am I qualifed to say that SORBS sucks, or am I still in your "amateur" or "'legitimate biznizmen" categories?
AFAIK this is common to all RBLs - if they told you why and you were an evil spammer you could just work around whatever put you on the list and go on with your evil spamming.
And now you know otherwise. If you put in your IP, it'll tell you exactly why you're blocked (if you are). My ISP registered my whole netblock as dynamic, forgetting about my static allocation. I filled out the form to remove myself and was off the list in about half an hour. Spamhaus runs their RBL the way they were meant to be run and I have nothing but good to say about them.
When 'collateral damage' was useful,
For some of us, that was never the case. There are three viable ISPs in my city: Qwest, cable, and the local mom-and-pop. I went with the latter to host my little home server because I knew the admins and the company had a good reputation. Now, suppose SORBS blocks [1] their upstream. What am I supposed to do, exactly? Switch to one of the mega-ISPs that will actively try to prevent me from running a server?
No, the whole idea of collateral damage only looks good to sociopaths or people who've never had limited options.
[1] Their take on it: "We don't block! We blacklist!" My take on it: the hell you don't. That's like CYBERsitter claiming that they don't block; they only provide recommendations.
The most interesting question is: who should pay?
The chain of command at Boingo who approved this, by being dragged out, beaten senseless, and having "I RUIN AMERICA" tattooed on their faces.
Fives years ago, I would have meant that as a joke.