If they were more efficient it would be difficult to collect $20K per family.
That IS the point, on spending money on unnecessary IT, consultants, malpractice, lawyers, school loans. Put it another way, inefficiency is a systemic way for a significant part of the economy to make a living.
I am paying for everything out of pocket (high deductible plan). Recently at the doctor's office person in white coat told me: your child has strep, clearly visible. We will still swab you, to make the test (test alone cost me $100).
I am sure somewhere there is an internal office policy to "consider" doing the test, even all the symptoms are obvious.
Mandatory insurance (thx Obama), makes it easier for people to justify parting with the money, which becomes OPM, which then becomes medical industry revenue. There is an old saying: the fool and they money do not stick together for long. I hate to be made a fool and have no say in it.
There is a good chance,your tax accountant spent more than 22 minutes for you. In addition to compiling your tax return, what you do not see is scheduling, archiving work.
Also, you need your tax prepare only once a year, while doctors get a steady stream of patients. In reality you pay to the healthcare industry probably approximately $20,000 in the form of your family insurance premiums and copays.
Tax accountant can only get from you your $300 per year.
You are right and Yes, your tax accountant is more efficient. You also forget to compare $20,000 your family's healthcare premiums versus $300 tax preparer's fee. He has to be efficient since average solo practictioner cannot afford secretary, billers, office managers and entire lobying industry that would force you to pay tax preparation insurance fees.
Because of the Trump. With all his flaws and imperfections, I am sure he will opine and will call out this newly invented health hazard as bullshit. Keep in mind Starbucks and McDonalds, as officially nonpolitical they are, are clearly favoring democractic/so called liberal values.
I would love mrs Clinton to opine on the subject:
Bill: "Hillary, is porn a health hazard or no"? Hillary:"Once I am in the White House, you will be under house arrest. Porn will be the only thing that you will have. Now shut up, switch your hands from your d**k to the phone, and make 25 more calls today to our donors".
Your legal interpretation is, without any doubt, correct. That being said, Russia is well known for breaking international treaties when it is strategically or opportunistically convenient for them. And we are not trying to single out Russia by the way, there is plenty of other, "nations, that are too large or too powerful to be punished", that are doing the same or worse.
There are two purposes:
first one is to replay "Star Wars" military program in reverse. Russians would salivate on the idea of causing economic cardiac arrest to the US economy because of unbearable military spending. Even now, US debt ratios are far worse than Greek. If a reader is not a math challenged person, it is not difficult to predict the future when debt is poorly managed.
second purpose is actually to build that orbital bomber. It will not be carrying nukes though. In reality it will be called scientific weather satellite orbiting carrier carrying "weather probes". In the case of actual war all those treaties are no longer considered binding.
There is no proof yet, and probably it will never surface.
However undermining one of the largest NATO country is Putin's wet dream.
The theory will be confirmed, if after the coup the Kurds will announce their independence. If they will... it will confirm Russia's recent promises to partition the Turkey.
Just a theory: Putin stirred certain people and certain places and the coup happened.
Russians are spending truly monstrous amount of money to their intelligence service and to their agents. Since Erdogan, with all his flaws and corruption, was one of the leaders who said ***k you, Putin. Erdogan had it coming.
Why this theory has some credibility? The truth is that those who are observant could see that Putin's regime (just like Soviet's regime before him) is trying to have a voice and an influence, through either extreme right or extreme left movements in most of the key countries of the world. Erdogan did not play ball, thus he was a fair game in Russian's geopolitical games.
Piracy of intellectual property existed before the internet.
They forgot to mention that not only tor and bitcoin, but also internet hinders anti-piracy efforts.
Well... even if there is no TOR and Bitcoin, there is always a roster of shadowy less know payment services that will still accept and process the payments.
There are many problems that cannot be solved with the app. Not the terrorism.
This app was a scam by design: there are little benefits of knowing of attack 15 minutes after it took place.
Reality is that the app was just another project to skim money from government, like they have skimmed thousands of times before that. Remember the $2 million app that randomizes whether to go to left or to the right? Reality is that once money have been consumed, those who made profit moved on and they no longer care. Also, reality is that you cannot buy complete security for the amount of resources is limited, yet security risks are infinite. If the app gets sued it will eventually become clear that the app cannot be litigated and has no responsibility to notify you, as decided by the courts http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06...
Reality is that the attacker was stopped by the first man with a firearm.
Reality is that automatic and semi-automatic gun ownership just got another solid, not even a theoretical card, to use when defending the gun ownership from nutty gun fearing zealots. Reality is that a single semi-automatic rifle would have been extremely effective in stopping the madman in Nice attack.
While the reality is that average car on the road is 11+ years old. If you take out commercial and industrial cars probably average consumer age is approximately 10 years.
While many advocate buying used, this used car needs to become a new purchase first, and, just as the statistics shows, on average every tenth car on the road is probably a new car. If everyone would be buying a used car, then there would be no supply of new cars.
Reality is that existing prices for both new and resale values represents a finely tuned, yet fluid, supply and demand model, that takes into account both purchasing power, vanity, depreciation, reliability, cost of auto-mechanics labor, crash accidents statistics, auto-industry profit margins and many other factors.
Yes, brand new car is often overpriced. That is part of the model, where salespeople commissions and average buyer's vanity comes into a play. It is also true, that sometimes the old is just not the right choice for some people.
In one hundred years people living will be wondering. They will be saying: in 2018 people were taking images using 3D, stereo, 1.5 Billion pixel gear. Gear lasted 30 years...
Yet in 2118, we are forced to get by with 13 centimeter, Apple 2118S screens with the Retina resolution, that needs to be replaced every two months.
You are simply brainwashed by the people talking about vision of stable and peaceful Europe. Truth is the same people, same ruling class, brought WW1 and WW2 to the European continent, why believe them now?
It is also the truth, that with the invention of nuclear weapons, conventional wars between more or less equal countries are no longer conventional. While you were happy to see countries merging, people were not happy with the values being shoved down their throats and thus this is a decision that they made.
In ten years, after never ending cluster*ucking in Greece, Portugal and Italy, Brits will understand that this is the best thing that they ever done in their generation. It was a bad marriage and the time to leave is well overdue.
Does not has microSD, as such usage possibilities are limited.
I am not even considering buying it no matter what the price is. They just want you to believe it that the sneaker net, empowered by microSD cards, are just obsolete like 3.5 mm audio jacks.
There is no evidence Russians indeed hacked into the server.
Any evidence that is available, can be easily falsified.
And how exactly did they they penetrated? There were people working in DNC almost around the clock and no body, I repeat, nobody saw any of the attempts to penetrate.
Also, those who claim inappropriate penetration, are of questionable character and should not be believed.
Some people just feel better when they learn that someone else is also doing badly. Studies have been made and it has been proven again and again.This new study, again, supports it.
Most famous empirical, yet cruel real life exercise took place in Soviet Russia in 1920-1930. They were building socialism, and anybody who was successful (irrespective of whether individual was loyal or not - that did not matter) was under the risk to be reported as a bourgeois government hater. Millions and millions people were pushed to the soviet class warfare mincer by their neighbors.
The rich and powerful started doing everything to look like they are normal people. No efforts are spared to be "accepted". That is why rich and powerful are polite in public, hate scandals, despise scandals of other rich people and try behaving like most of us mortals: Hillary riding subway, Warren Buffet living in his $600K house, IKEA owner driving a beater car, governor attending baseball game and so on and on. However, that does not change reality and to quote cynic George Carlin: There is a club and you ain't in it.
Except that it was done on humans, who were made to believe that everyone else is getting cucumbers. This is a well known phenomena, because positive attitude, (or, as experiment demonstrates, ignorance of the true state of affairs) combined with a good word, encouragement can do wonders for the inherently capable people.
Will there be an adjustment based on location? $2,000 in New York City is not the same as $2,000 in Indianopolis.
If there will be an adjustment it is no longer universal income. If there will not be adjustment, people in New York City will need supplemental income, in the form of subsidies, food stamps, lower taxes. Plus free healthare insurance.
It cannot work. It only works in the minds of low IQ, low energy, liberal leaning Marxists. Even the true Marxists in Soviet Union, the leading elite which was supposed to lead by example, never bothered to even pretend that everyone should have an equal income.
If Windows wants to be automatic car software, the question I have is very simple. It is about liability.
If Windows software makes a mistake, I assume Microsoft can be sued. Like Toyota has been sued.
But if Linux (Ubuntu, or, perhaps, Carbuntu) will be managing hardware - who do I sue if I get into the accident? Should we expect Open Source software insurance fee aka contemporary equivalent of "uninsured motorist" insurance charge?
Snowden's revelations demonstrated that FBI has access to most of the electronic data without even asking anybody (Prism, Stellar wind, Fussion centes and many others - does that ring a bell?).
To justify they are "asking" for a warrant. One conclusion appears to be evident: they are drowning in illegally collected data. The right hand does not know what the left hand collected, they don't know if it is legal or not: they do not care. They know that they can always find one justification or another, yet maintaining straight and serious poker face, while stating that liberties and privacy of the citizens are respected.
Normally, sand in a desert or snow reflect a lot of sun energy back to the space. Solar panels, on the other hand are nearly 100% black. Approximately 20% of energy gets converted to electricity. The rest of 80% energy is warming up the panels which are, on the other hand, warming up the air. It is not a lot, but at industrial outputs it feels. Further, excessive energy, given away for free, if used unnecessarily and is further contributing to the warming of the air.
So, 54% do not trust AI? The same way a couple hundred years ago people did no trust the science and medicine.
Do they trust traffic signal? You know, that one that shows red to stop and green to drive. It is controlled by AI.
Do they trust to fly a plane? Many people do. So, those planes are manned with the people who listen when AI tells them to change the altitude to avoid the collision. Well, a human pilot is not necessary, but people feel safer when human is managed by AI.
They do no trust AI. But probably half of the country can no longer drive without navigation, telling them where to go and how to avoid traffic.
Pay attention to the ownership structure of the business. Article says Qualcomm entered into the partnership with the Chinese government.
Partnerships in the rest of the world are voluntary. In China you do not have a choice, you have to have government as a partner to do business. This is a way to avoid US money laundering laws, and doing business in a different way is not possible. In these type of partnerships, also, only the western partner provides the capital. In Qualcomm/China partnership, where Qualcomm owns 45% of the "partnership", they however provide 100% of the capital.
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If they were more efficient it would be difficult to collect $20K per family.
That IS the point, on spending money on unnecessary IT, consultants, malpractice, lawyers, school loans. Put it another way, inefficiency is a systemic way for a significant part of the economy to make a living.
I am paying for everything out of pocket (high deductible plan). Recently at the doctor's office person in white coat told me: your child has strep, clearly visible. We will still swab you, to make the test (test alone cost me $100).
I am sure somewhere there is an internal office policy to "consider" doing the test, even all the symptoms are obvious.
Mandatory insurance (thx Obama), makes it easier for people to justify parting with the money, which becomes OPM, which then becomes medical industry revenue. There is an old saying: the fool and they money do not stick together for long. I hate to be made a fool and have no say in it.
There is a good chance,your tax accountant spent more than 22 minutes for you. In addition to compiling your tax return, what you do not see is scheduling, archiving work.
Also, you need your tax prepare only once a year, while doctors get a steady stream of patients. In reality you pay to the healthcare industry probably approximately $20,000 in the form of your family insurance premiums and copays.
Tax accountant can only get from you your $300 per year.
You are right and Yes, your tax accountant is more efficient. You also forget to compare $20,000 your family's healthcare premiums versus $300 tax preparer's fee. He has to be efficient since average solo practictioner cannot afford secretary, billers, office managers and entire lobying industry that would force you to pay tax preparation insurance fees.
Your statement has zero quantitative information in it, and sounds like a statement issued by left-leaning politician.
Your post is a political flame-bait. Why don't you volunteer and pay additional taxes, let's say double of what you are paying now.
Lead by example. And encourage others to pay up.
But you won't. Because, most likely, even if you double your taxes you will not be paying the average.
But most importantly, because you want OTHERS to pay, but you want to keep your own privileges.
Because of the Trump. With all his flaws and imperfections, I am sure he will opine and will call out this newly invented health hazard as bullshit. Keep in mind Starbucks and McDonalds, as officially nonpolitical they are, are clearly favoring democractic/so called liberal values.
I would love mrs Clinton to opine on the subject:
Bill: "Hillary, is porn a health hazard or no"?
Hillary:"Once I am in the White House, you will be under house arrest. Porn will be the only thing that you will have. Now shut up, switch your hands from your d**k to the phone, and make 25 more calls today to our donors".
Your legal interpretation is, without any doubt, correct. That being said, Russia is well known for breaking international treaties when it is strategically or opportunistically convenient for them. And we are not trying to single out Russia by the way, there is plenty of other, "nations, that are too large or too powerful to be punished", that are doing the same or worse.
There are two purposes:
first one is to replay "Star Wars" military program in reverse. Russians would salivate on the idea of causing economic cardiac arrest to the US economy because of unbearable military spending. Even now, US debt ratios are far worse than Greek. If a reader is not a math challenged person, it is not difficult to predict the future when debt is poorly managed.
second purpose is actually to build that orbital bomber. It will not be carrying nukes though. In reality it will be called scientific weather satellite orbiting carrier carrying "weather probes". In the case of actual war all those treaties are no longer considered binding.
There is no proof yet, and probably it will never surface.
However undermining one of the largest NATO country is Putin's wet dream.
The theory will be confirmed, if after the coup the Kurds will announce their independence. If they will ... it will confirm Russia's recent promises to partition the Turkey.
Just a theory: Putin stirred certain people and certain places and the coup happened.
Russians are spending truly monstrous amount of money to their intelligence service and to their agents. Since Erdogan, with all his flaws and corruption, was one of the leaders who said ***k you, Putin. Erdogan had it coming.
Why this theory has some credibility? The truth is that those who are observant could see that Putin's regime (just like Soviet's regime before him) is trying to have a voice and an influence, through either extreme right or extreme left movements in most of the key countries of the world. Erdogan did not play ball, thus he was a fair game in Russian's geopolitical games.
Piracy of intellectual property existed before the internet.
They forgot to mention that not only tor and bitcoin, but also internet hinders anti-piracy efforts.
Well... even if there is no TOR and Bitcoin, there is always a roster of shadowy less know payment services that will still accept and process the payments.
There are many problems that cannot be solved with the app. Not the terrorism.
This app was a scam by design: there are little benefits of knowing of attack 15 minutes after it took place.
Reality is that the app was just another project to skim money from government, like they have skimmed thousands of times before that. Remember the $2 million app that randomizes whether to go to left or to the right? Reality is that once money have been consumed, those who made profit moved on and they no longer care. Also, reality is that you cannot buy complete security for the amount of resources is limited, yet security risks are infinite. If the app gets sued it will eventually become clear that the app cannot be litigated and has no responsibility to notify you, as decided by the courts http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06...
Reality is that the attacker was stopped by the first man with a firearm.
Reality is that automatic and semi-automatic gun ownership just got another solid, not even a theoretical card, to use when defending the gun ownership from nutty gun fearing zealots. Reality is that a single semi-automatic rifle would have been extremely effective in stopping the madman in Nice attack.
And no. Let's not ban the trucks.
While the reality is that average car on the road is 11+ years old. If you take out commercial and industrial cars probably average consumer age is approximately 10 years.
While many advocate buying used, this used car needs to become a new purchase first, and, just as the statistics shows, on average every tenth car on the road is probably a new car. If everyone would be buying a used car, then there would be no supply of new cars.
Reality is that existing prices for both new and resale values represents a finely tuned, yet fluid, supply and demand model, that takes into account both purchasing power, vanity, depreciation, reliability, cost of auto-mechanics labor, crash accidents statistics, auto-industry profit margins and many other factors.
Yes, brand new car is often overpriced. That is part of the model, where salespeople commissions and average buyer's vanity comes into a play. It is also true, that sometimes the old is just not the right choice for some people.
In one hundred years people living will be wondering. They will be saying: in 2018 people were taking images using 3D, stereo, 1.5 Billion pixel gear. Gear lasted 30 years...
Yet in 2118, we are forced to get by with 13 centimeter, Apple 2118S screens with the Retina resolution, that needs to be replaced every two months.
You are simply brainwashed by the people talking about vision of stable and peaceful Europe. Truth is the same people, same ruling class, brought WW1 and WW2 to the European continent, why believe them now?
It is also the truth, that with the invention of nuclear weapons, conventional wars between more or less equal countries are no longer conventional. While you were happy to see countries merging, people were not happy with the values being shoved down their throats and thus this is a decision that they made.
In ten years, after never ending cluster*ucking in Greece, Portugal and Italy, Brits will understand that this is the best thing that they ever done in their generation. It was a bad marriage and the time to leave is well overdue.
Is like staying in the marriage with Angela Merkel.
Does not has microSD, as such usage possibilities are limited.
I am not even considering buying it no matter what the price is. They just want you to believe it that the sneaker net, empowered by microSD cards, are just obsolete like 3.5 mm audio jacks.
I will stick with Samsung tablet.
Would you store your naked pictures in the cloud? Probably no.
The same way, probably, men and women would not like to store certain type of information:
- Abortion,
- STD testing
- Sterilization
- STD's
- Genetic Abnormalities
- Addiction
- Health Risk Assessment
Every one of these items, if leaked, have serious ramifications to personal and professional life.
The answer is No.
DNC server was allowed, and no laws were broken.
There is no evidence Russians indeed hacked into the server.
Any evidence that is available, can be easily falsified.
And how exactly did they they penetrated? There were people working in DNC almost around the clock and no body, I repeat, nobody saw any of the attempts to penetrate.
Also, those who claim inappropriate penetration, are of questionable character and should not be believed.
Some people just feel better when they learn that someone else is also doing badly. Studies have been made and it has been proven again and again.This new study, again, supports it.
Most famous empirical, yet cruel real life exercise took place in Soviet Russia in 1920-1930. They were building socialism, and anybody who was successful (irrespective of whether individual was loyal or not - that did not matter) was under the risk to be reported as a bourgeois government hater. Millions and millions people were pushed to the soviet class warfare mincer by their neighbors.
The rich and powerful started doing everything to look like they are normal people. No efforts are spared to be "accepted". That is why rich and powerful are polite in public, hate scandals, despise scandals of other rich people and try behaving like most of us mortals: Hillary riding subway, Warren Buffet living in his $600K house, IKEA owner driving a beater car, governor attending baseball game and so on and on. However, that does not change reality and to quote cynic George Carlin: There is a club and you ain't in it.
The study is merely a repetition of the experiment about monkeys, cucumbers and grapes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Except that it was done on humans, who were made to believe that everyone else is getting cucumbers. This is a well known phenomena, because positive attitude, (or, as experiment demonstrates, ignorance of the true state of affairs) combined with a good word, encouragement can do wonders for the inherently capable people.
Will there be an adjustment based on location? $2,000 in New York City is not the same as $2,000 in Indianopolis.
If there will be an adjustment it is no longer universal income.
If there will not be adjustment, people in New York City will need supplemental income, in the form of subsidies, food stamps, lower taxes. Plus free healthare insurance.
It cannot work. It only works in the minds of low IQ, low energy, liberal leaning Marxists. Even the true Marxists in Soviet Union, the leading elite which was supposed to lead by example, never bothered to even pretend that everyone should have an equal income.
If Windows wants to be automatic car software, the question I have is very simple. It is about liability.
If Windows software makes a mistake, I assume Microsoft can be sued. Like Toyota has been sued.
But if Linux (Ubuntu, or, perhaps, Carbuntu) will be managing hardware - who do I sue if I get into the accident? Should we expect Open Source software insurance fee aka contemporary equivalent of "uninsured motorist" insurance charge?
Snowden's revelations demonstrated that FBI has access to most of the electronic data without even asking anybody (Prism, Stellar wind, Fussion centes and many others - does that ring a bell?).
To justify they are "asking" for a warrant. One conclusion appears to be evident: they are drowning in illegally collected data. The right hand does not know what the left hand collected, they don't know if it is legal or not: they do not care. They know that they can always find one justification or another, yet maintaining straight and serious poker face, while stating that liberties and privacy of the citizens are respected.
And Chile is a good example.
Normally, sand in a desert or snow reflect a lot of sun energy back to the space. Solar panels, on the other hand are nearly 100% black. Approximately 20% of energy gets converted to electricity. The rest of 80% energy is warming up the panels which are, on the other hand, warming up the air. It is not a lot, but at industrial outputs it feels. Further, excessive energy, given away for free, if used unnecessarily and is further contributing to the warming of the air.
So, 54% do not trust AI? The same way a couple hundred years ago people did no trust the science and medicine.
Do they trust traffic signal? You know, that one that shows red to stop and green to drive. It is controlled by AI.
Do they trust to fly a plane? Many people do. So, those planes are manned with the people who listen when AI tells them to change the altitude to avoid the collision. Well, a human pilot is not necessary, but people feel safer when human is managed by AI.
They do no trust AI. But probably half of the country can no longer drive without navigation, telling them where to go and how to avoid traffic.
Pay attention to the ownership structure of the business. Article says Qualcomm entered into the partnership with the Chinese government.
Partnerships in the rest of the world are voluntary. In China you do not have a choice, you have to have government as a partner to do business. This is a way to avoid US money laundering laws, and doing business in a different way is not possible. In these type of partnerships, also, only the western partner provides the capital. In Qualcomm/China partnership, where Qualcomm owns 45% of the "partnership", they however provide 100% of the capital.
That is not how it works.
NSA does not pay, per se. NSA reimburses Facebook for labor and expenses incurred to ensure data flow.