Everything you have posted has been a tangent that avoids addressing my original thesis, so I see no point in continuing this conversation.
The state has the constitutional authority (and I think many would argue the responsibility) to take reasonable measures to prevent outbreaks of dangerous, highly communicable diseases, such as by mandating involuntary vaccination programs or quarantines. The Supreme Court has upheld this view.
By contrast, the state (which a few specific exceptions) does not have the constitutional authority to force people to undertake medical procedures against their will, even if it would save their life, unless they are a direct threat to public health.
As for the safety and efficacy of vaccines, every vaccine in use in the United States today has to undergo the same extensive approval process as drugs. These are a matter of public record and require large scale, non epidemiological studies.
1. Whether or not you show symptoms of a communicable disease, you are usually still infectious. Just because you might not show any flu symptoms does not mean you are not capable of spreading the disease to others. People who are healthy but still infected are a public health threat.
2. The primary purpose of a vaccination program is not to stop individuals from being infected. It is to stop the infection from spreading through a population. That is why vaccines are an effective treatment against the public health threat of infection and diet and exercise are not. Once you reach a certain level of immunity (called herd immunity) it is mathematically impossible to have an outbreak of an infectious illness. Reaching a certain level of good diet and exercise in the population would not do the same. Infected people would still spread the disease regardless of whether they showed symptoms.
Your entire comment is a false analogy. You are comparing things which are CORRELATED with good individual health (and have never been shown conclusively to be a CAUSAL factor) with vaccines, which have been shown conclusively to be a CAUSAL factor in preventing the spread of infections in a population. They are in no way comparable.
Show me a large scale, non epidemiological scientific study that shows that good diet and exercise are a CAUSAL factor in preventing outbreaks of deadly communicable diseases such as meningitis, polio, smallpox, et cetera and I will concede the point. Otherwise, you are just committing the logical fallacy of the false analogy.
The last time I checked, poor diet and exercise was an individual choice that does not affect the well-being of others.
By contrast, lack of herd immunity can lead to outbreaks of infectious diseases that can spread rapidly through unvaccinated populations, causing widespread illness, injury, and death.
The Windows version of OneNote is the most powerful note taking program ever produced. It was also one of the first programs of its type, and offers excellent integration with other Office applications.
If you are using a Windows computer with stylus input and the MS Office suite, using OneNote is a no brainer. The handwriting recognition is pretty good. The Math equation recognition needs some work but is passable if you are a very neat writer.
If Evernote is already fulfilling your needs and you are not using a Windows tablet with a stylus, you might want to give it a look, but there is probably no reason to switch. If you do have a Windows tablet though, I think it is a no brainer. It was one of the first programs of its type and it is hands-down the most full featured.
On Windows, OneNote data is stored where you specify. You can save directly to your skydrive, to your library on your hard drive, to an individual folder on your harddrive, or to an enterprise network location.
OneNote is one of the most innovative software programs of the last decade and one that I have found particularly useful, as I have been using Windows tablets since 2005. While there have been imitators, none have been able to match it feature-for-feature.
I am unsure of the business logic behind the decision, but this is a big win for consumers, especially since Microsoft is now offering it on third party OS's, although in a much-reduced form.
Microsoft has had some really good ideas since Gates left, like OneNote and the Tablet PC. Their problem has been implementation. Companies like Apple have taken their ideas (like touchscreen smartphones and tablet PCs), repackaged them in a form attractive to the average consumer, and made billions. The fact that MS has so many innovative products that do not sell well speaks to some kind of serious problem within the upper levels of their corporate campus.
Nothing you listed creates a severe public health threat. Infectious diseases like polio do.
The old axiom is that your right to swing your fist ends where another man's nose begins. Someone who has HIV does not have the right to spread it around by engaging in unprotected sex without full disclosure because that creates a public health threat of spreading a deadly disease. Likewise, someone does not have the legal right to refuse a polio vaccine if mandated by the state ; they are creating a public health threat and putting others at risk of contracting a deadly illness.
If thousands of scientific studies and long FDA approval processes that demonstrate empirically that the risk for a vaccine is a tiny fraction of the risk from not being vaccinated will not convince you, I doubt anything will.
The fact is, children are largely protected from diseases like Polio and Measles due to herd immunity, which means that parents who refuse to take the minor risk to vaccinate their children are having their children protected by the vast majority that do take that risk. If you are ultimately a selfish person who is content to benefit from those who do undertake the minor risk with being vaccinated while refusing to undertake it yourself, then there is probably no convincing you.
It is like being the one guy in an area who refuses to pay the yearly fee to the volunteer fire district because you know that if a fire starts at your house, the district will respond because it puts your neighbors at risk. Not undertaking the very minor risk of vaccinating your children while relying on the herd immunity of those who take the risk is selfish and it is dangerous. It can lead to outbreaks, especially the kind that kill young children who cannot be vaccinated and whose deaths will be on your head.
It is not unconstitutional to fine or imprison people for refusing vaccinations. The Supreme Court ruled in Jacobson v. Massachusetts that the state could force vaccinations if a legitimate public health threat exists. The constitution does not protect your right to create a public health threat, which is why mandatory vaccinations or quarantines of those with infectious diseases is constitutional if there is a sufficient public health concern.
In my opinion, without a valid medical exemption, vaccinations should be compulsory. Parents who refuse should be charged with child neglect and endangerment. If a child dies from an infection (whether their own or someone else's) they should be charged with felony manslaughter and the state should provide free resources for anyone injured by their actions to sue for wrongful death, pain and suffering, or any related injury in court.
Not vaccinating children against highly infectious and dangerous diseases is a major public health hazard. It is not a constitutional right anymore than it is a constitutional right to build a giant bonfire without a permit in dry conditions.
I doubt that "refusal to vaccinate" is an inherited trait that passes on from parents to children. It is just like saying that inner-city gang violence is natural selection.
It seems more likely that it is a result of culture and circumstances, the same as violent crime among the poor and uneducated. It seems to be a fad among non-Hispanic, upper middle class whites. Once we see mass outbreaks, I think most people will start vaccinating again.
4K offers 4 times the resolution increase over 1080p whereas 1080p in 16:9 offered a nearly 7 times resolution increase over 480p. Do the math.
It should also be noted that most HD video is in 720p native resolution. Even a lot of modern Video game systems (Wii U, PS4, Xbox 1) internally render games in less than 1080p despite the fact that they all support 4K native output.
Other than PC gaming and films shot with equipment that is pretty uncommon today, 4K is really lacking in any serious type of content. Heck, other than bluray movies and a few high-res broadcasts, so is 1080p.
And, existing content does not benefit that much from the increase in resolution. In theory, the effective resolution of well preserved film is probably pretty similar to 4K, so if you do a lot of work to actually get old movies and maybe even some TV shows up to snuff, it could look better, but that is really the extent of it. And we have already seen that, other than major Hollywood movies and a handful of old TV shows, there has not been a lot of interest in converting old film into 1080p content, and there will probably be even less interest in converting it into 4K. Add to that the fact that, the way a lot of stuff is filmed, only a small part of the actual film gets used, so the effective resolution is even lower.
If a soldier stays behind to man a turret in the face of certain death to provide covering fire so his comrades can escape, is he committing suicide?
Does this happen often outside of movies and computer games?
Just some examples of MoH recipients:
Luther H. Story Sacrificed his life to save his unit by remaining behind and covering them as they withdrew
Ralph E. Pomeroy Sacrificed his life manning a heavy machine gun until mortally wounded.
James I. Poynter sacrificed his life to kill several of the enemy with hand grenades to save a group of fellow Marines.
George H. Ramer Led his men against a superior enemy force and although wounded refused medical aid, manning his post until the enemy overran his position
After all, Tobacco leads to the premature death of most people who use it.
I always thought of suicide as the act of killing yourself just for the sake of killing yourself. While one might call something a "suicide mission", that is not the same as suicide, is it? If a soldier stays behind to man a turret in the face of certain death to provide covering fire so his comrades can escape, is he committing suicide?
Well, the risk of environmental contamination is pretty real and the consequences severe. Fracking works by injecting ridiculous large quantities of chemicals and water into bedrock and then the pressure from the heat and gas sends a lot of those chemicals and water back to the surface where it is collected in ponds.
While there might not be clear evidence of the fracking process itself contaminating the groundwater, leaks of chemicals at the surface have happened and the consequences can be particularly nasty. To add insult to injury, many of these fracking companies have traditionally considered the cocktail trade secrets, so local residents, first responders, and regulators don't always know exactly what the contamination risk might.
Fracking leading to fire shooting out of your faucets might be an urban legend like nuclear explosions at power plants. That does not mean that there is not a real risk of a significant catastrophe. The nuclear industry is tightly regulated. Fracking regulations, until recently, have been largely nonexistent.
Flu shots are designed to trigger an immune response, so mild, flu-like symptoms such as swollen lymph nodes, fatigue, et cetera are normal.
Also, to the best of my knowledge, psychosomnia cannot cause full-blown flu symptoms such as fever, running nose, sore throat, fluid in the lungs, et cetera. If you have those symptoms, it is probably because you were already infected with the flu virus or another pathogen that causes flu-like symptoms when you received the vaccine.
. . . that is just part of life, especially something as dangerous as extracting oil or natural gas. When that happens, it only seems reasonable to do something to generate good publicity. However, it is better to do nothing at all (except apologize) than to attempt some insulting gesture. It makes it seem like the residents' exposure to potentially toxic smoke is worth nothing more than a coupon for free pizza.
It is insulting. Maybe they should actually pay to send out some doctors or some other meaningful assistance for the residents.
The plant kingdom relies on nitrates too, that does not mean that dumping thousands of tons of nitrates into a river is not pollution.
CO2 fixation is a feedback cycle. It normally is in stable equilibrium, which means that more CO2 in the atmosphere leads to faster fixation by plants. This is kind of like how a ball in a bowl will return to the equilibrium point if you disturb it. However, if you push the ball hard enough, it will go over the edge and no longer be in equilibrium.
This is what happened to CO2. Since the industrial revolution, we have broken the balance of nature, the normal feedback cycle. We pushed the ball over the edge. Before the industrial revolution, CO2 was not a pollutant; now it is.
Raising the sea levels by a foot can be the difference during a surge (such as a storm during the king tide) between a few low-lying areas getting flooded and massive floods sweeping across the New York or San Francisco metropolitan areas.
Also, a few feet is just what is projected over the coming decades. The ocean rise is not stoppable at this point and rises above a meter are inevitable. It is just a question of how much time we have to adapt before that happens. The more severe and more rapid the action, the more time we buy.
It is easy to say, "well, this won't happen during my lifetime", but that will be small comfort to our great grandchildren.
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the environment that cause adverse changes. Just because CO2 does not directly cause adverse changes the way Chernobyl or Bhopal did does not mean that CO2 is not pollution.
Over thousands of years we have built our civilization around the relative stability of the global climate. A rapid increase in temperatures basically undermine all that investment we have made. Many of our largest population and industrial centers are in areas directly threatened by rising sea water. We already know that adapting to the unprecedentedly quick climate change will cost trillions of dollars and countless lives. We should do our best to mitigate that and slow down the increase in the greenhouse effect, giving us more time to adjust our economy and infrastructure to the changes in temperature.
We'll see if AMD retakes the lead in efficiency.
In the meantime, they still beat Nvidia on price and system integration, although obviously system integration is not really a concern for people looking for aftermarket cards, but it is one of the major reason that all three gaming consoles went with AMD.
Still, I use Nvidia cards, although I am very disappointing with them purposefully restricting double-precision speed.
. . . in the same sense that alchemy was chemistry. Galileo was actually an astrologer, in the parlance of the day; so was everyone else who looked at the stars and tried to derive reason from them. As modern science developed, those who applied it to astrology became known as astronomers whereas those who applied it to frivolous nonsense such as horoscopes remained known as astrologers.
In the modern English-speaking world, astronomy is a science and astrology is a pseudoscience, but it is important to remember that was not always true. I think it is fair to call Galileo an astronomer, because his methods were close enough to the modern scientific philosophy applied to astronomy today, just as it is fair to call Newton a physicist, despite the fact that, back in his day, he would have been known as a natural philosopher.
But it is important for people to understand the history of how modern science developed and the meanings of these words.
. . . between laying bricks and writing code in terms of fixing mistakes. The difference is between being an independent contractor versus working for an employer.
If I negotiate a fee, agree to create something, then I am responsible for delivering it for that fee. If I make a mistake, I am responsible for fixing it without any additional cost to the client.
On the other hand, if someone is paying me to lay bricks or write code, then they get to decide how the profits from my labor are used. I can only negotiate my salary or hourly wage. They have no right to demand I work free anymore than I get to demand to keep all of the profits from my labors. All they can do is look at my performance, like the amount of time I have to spend debugging my code or relaying my bricks, and decide if I need retraining or to be replaced.
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Everything you have posted has been a tangent that avoids addressing my original thesis, so I see no point in continuing this conversation.
The state has the constitutional authority (and I think many would argue the responsibility) to take reasonable measures to prevent outbreaks of dangerous, highly communicable diseases, such as by mandating involuntary vaccination programs or quarantines. The Supreme Court has upheld this view.
By contrast, the state (which a few specific exceptions) does not have the constitutional authority to force people to undertake medical procedures against their will, even if it would save their life, unless they are a direct threat to public health.
As for the safety and efficacy of vaccines, every vaccine in use in the United States today has to undergo the same extensive approval process as drugs. These are a matter of public record and require large scale, non epidemiological studies.
1. Whether or not you show symptoms of a communicable disease, you are usually still infectious. Just because you might not show any flu symptoms does not mean you are not capable of spreading the disease to others. People who are healthy but still infected are a public health threat.
2. The primary purpose of a vaccination program is not to stop individuals from being infected. It is to stop the infection from spreading through a population. That is why vaccines are an effective treatment against the public health threat of infection and diet and exercise are not. Once you reach a certain level of immunity (called herd immunity) it is mathematically impossible to have an outbreak of an infectious illness. Reaching a certain level of good diet and exercise in the population would not do the same. Infected people would still spread the disease regardless of whether they showed symptoms.
Your entire comment is a false analogy. You are comparing things which are CORRELATED with good individual health (and have never been shown conclusively to be a CAUSAL factor) with vaccines, which have been shown conclusively to be a CAUSAL factor in preventing the spread of infections in a population. They are in no way comparable.
Show me a large scale, non epidemiological scientific study that shows that good diet and exercise are a CAUSAL factor in preventing outbreaks of deadly communicable diseases such as meningitis, polio, smallpox, et cetera and I will concede the point. Otherwise, you are just committing the logical fallacy of the false analogy.
The last time I checked, poor diet and exercise was an individual choice that does not affect the well-being of others.
By contrast, lack of herd immunity can lead to outbreaks of infectious diseases that can spread rapidly through unvaccinated populations, causing widespread illness, injury, and death.
The Windows version of OneNote is the most powerful note taking program ever produced. It was also one of the first programs of its type, and offers excellent integration with other Office applications.
If you are using a Windows computer with stylus input and the MS Office suite, using OneNote is a no brainer. The handwriting recognition is pretty good. The Math equation recognition needs some work but is passable if you are a very neat writer.
If Evernote is already fulfilling your needs and you are not using a Windows tablet with a stylus, you might want to give it a look, but there is probably no reason to switch. If you do have a Windows tablet though, I think it is a no brainer. It was one of the first programs of its type and it is hands-down the most full featured.
On Windows, OneNote data is stored where you specify. You can save directly to your skydrive, to your library on your hard drive, to an individual folder on your harddrive, or to an enterprise network location.
OneNote is one of the most innovative software programs of the last decade and one that I have found particularly useful, as I have been using Windows tablets since 2005. While there have been imitators, none have been able to match it feature-for-feature.
I am unsure of the business logic behind the decision, but this is a big win for consumers, especially since Microsoft is now offering it on third party OS's, although in a much-reduced form.
Microsoft has had some really good ideas since Gates left, like OneNote and the Tablet PC. Their problem has been implementation. Companies like Apple have taken their ideas (like touchscreen smartphones and tablet PCs), repackaged them in a form attractive to the average consumer, and made billions. The fact that MS has so many innovative products that do not sell well speaks to some kind of serious problem within the upper levels of their corporate campus.
Nothing you listed creates a severe public health threat. Infectious diseases like polio do.
The old axiom is that your right to swing your fist ends where another man's nose begins. Someone who has HIV does not have the right to spread it around by engaging in unprotected sex without full disclosure because that creates a public health threat of spreading a deadly disease. Likewise, someone does not have the legal right to refuse a polio vaccine if mandated by the state ; they are creating a public health threat and putting others at risk of contracting a deadly illness.
The question is, what would change your mind?
If thousands of scientific studies and long FDA approval processes that demonstrate empirically that the risk for a vaccine is a tiny fraction of the risk from not being vaccinated will not convince you, I doubt anything will.
The fact is, children are largely protected from diseases like Polio and Measles due to herd immunity, which means that parents who refuse to take the minor risk to vaccinate their children are having their children protected by the vast majority that do take that risk. If you are ultimately a selfish person who is content to benefit from those who do undertake the minor risk with being vaccinated while refusing to undertake it yourself, then there is probably no convincing you.
It is like being the one guy in an area who refuses to pay the yearly fee to the volunteer fire district because you know that if a fire starts at your house, the district will respond because it puts your neighbors at risk. Not undertaking the very minor risk of vaccinating your children while relying on the herd immunity of those who take the risk is selfish and it is dangerous. It can lead to outbreaks, especially the kind that kill young children who cannot be vaccinated and whose deaths will be on your head.
It is not unconstitutional to fine or imprison people for refusing vaccinations. The Supreme Court ruled in Jacobson v. Massachusetts that the state could force vaccinations if a legitimate public health threat exists. The constitution does not protect your right to create a public health threat, which is why mandatory vaccinations or quarantines of those with infectious diseases is constitutional if there is a sufficient public health concern.
In my opinion, without a valid medical exemption, vaccinations should be compulsory. Parents who refuse should be charged with child neglect and endangerment. If a child dies from an infection (whether their own or someone else's) they should be charged with felony manslaughter and the state should provide free resources for anyone injured by their actions to sue for wrongful death, pain and suffering, or any related injury in court.
Not vaccinating children against highly infectious and dangerous diseases is a major public health hazard. It is not a constitutional right anymore than it is a constitutional right to build a giant bonfire without a permit in dry conditions.
I doubt that "refusal to vaccinate" is an inherited trait that passes on from parents to children. It is just like saying that inner-city gang violence is natural selection.
It seems more likely that it is a result of culture and circumstances, the same as violent crime among the poor and uneducated. It seems to be a fad among non-Hispanic, upper middle class whites. Once we see mass outbreaks, I think most people will start vaccinating again.
4K offers 4 times the resolution increase over 1080p whereas 1080p in 16:9 offered a nearly 7 times resolution increase over 480p. Do the math.
It should also be noted that most HD video is in 720p native resolution. Even a lot of modern Video game systems (Wii U, PS4, Xbox 1) internally render games in less than 1080p despite the fact that they all support 4K native output.
Other than PC gaming and films shot with equipment that is pretty uncommon today, 4K is really lacking in any serious type of content. Heck, other than bluray movies and a few high-res broadcasts, so is 1080p.
And, existing content does not benefit that much from the increase in resolution. In theory, the effective resolution of well preserved film is probably pretty similar to 4K, so if you do a lot of work to actually get old movies and maybe even some TV shows up to snuff, it could look better, but that is really the extent of it. And we have already seen that, other than major Hollywood movies and a handful of old TV shows, there has not been a lot of interest in converting old film into 1080p content, and there will probably be even less interest in converting it into 4K. Add to that the fact that, the way a lot of stuff is filmed, only a small part of the actual film gets used, so the effective resolution is even lower.
If a soldier stays behind to man a turret in the face of certain death to provide covering fire so his comrades can escape, is he committing suicide?
Does this happen often outside of movies and computer games?
Just some examples of MoH recipients:
Luther H. Story Sacrificed his life to save his unit by remaining behind and covering them as they withdrew
Ralph E. Pomeroy Sacrificed his life manning a heavy machine gun until mortally wounded.
James I. Poynter sacrificed his life to kill several of the enemy with hand grenades to save a group of fellow Marines.
George H. Ramer Led his men against a superior enemy force and although wounded refused medical aid, manning his post until the enemy overran his position
After all, Tobacco leads to the premature death of most people who use it.
I always thought of suicide as the act of killing yourself just for the sake of killing yourself. While one might call something a "suicide mission", that is not the same as suicide, is it? If a soldier stays behind to man a turret in the face of certain death to provide covering fire so his comrades can escape, is he committing suicide?
Well, the risk of environmental contamination is pretty real and the consequences severe. Fracking works by injecting ridiculous large quantities of chemicals and water into bedrock and then the pressure from the heat and gas sends a lot of those chemicals and water back to the surface where it is collected in ponds. While there might not be clear evidence of the fracking process itself contaminating the groundwater, leaks of chemicals at the surface have happened and the consequences can be particularly nasty. To add insult to injury, many of these fracking companies have traditionally considered the cocktail trade secrets, so local residents, first responders, and regulators don't always know exactly what the contamination risk might. Fracking leading to fire shooting out of your faucets might be an urban legend like nuclear explosions at power plants. That does not mean that there is not a real risk of a significant catastrophe. The nuclear industry is tightly regulated. Fracking regulations, until recently, have been largely nonexistent.
Flu shots are designed to trigger an immune response, so mild, flu-like symptoms such as swollen lymph nodes, fatigue, et cetera are normal. Also, to the best of my knowledge, psychosomnia cannot cause full-blown flu symptoms such as fever, running nose, sore throat, fluid in the lungs, et cetera. If you have those symptoms, it is probably because you were already infected with the flu virus or another pathogen that causes flu-like symptoms when you received the vaccine.
. . . that is just part of life, especially something as dangerous as extracting oil or natural gas. When that happens, it only seems reasonable to do something to generate good publicity. However, it is better to do nothing at all (except apologize) than to attempt some insulting gesture. It makes it seem like the residents' exposure to potentially toxic smoke is worth nothing more than a coupon for free pizza. It is insulting. Maybe they should actually pay to send out some doctors or some other meaningful assistance for the residents.
The plant kingdom relies on nitrates too, that does not mean that dumping thousands of tons of nitrates into a river is not pollution. CO2 fixation is a feedback cycle. It normally is in stable equilibrium, which means that more CO2 in the atmosphere leads to faster fixation by plants. This is kind of like how a ball in a bowl will return to the equilibrium point if you disturb it. However, if you push the ball hard enough, it will go over the edge and no longer be in equilibrium. This is what happened to CO2. Since the industrial revolution, we have broken the balance of nature, the normal feedback cycle. We pushed the ball over the edge. Before the industrial revolution, CO2 was not a pollutant; now it is. Raising the sea levels by a foot can be the difference during a surge (such as a storm during the king tide) between a few low-lying areas getting flooded and massive floods sweeping across the New York or San Francisco metropolitan areas. Also, a few feet is just what is projected over the coming decades. The ocean rise is not stoppable at this point and rises above a meter are inevitable. It is just a question of how much time we have to adapt before that happens. The more severe and more rapid the action, the more time we buy. It is easy to say, "well, this won't happen during my lifetime", but that will be small comfort to our great grandchildren.
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the environment that cause adverse changes. Just because CO2 does not directly cause adverse changes the way Chernobyl or Bhopal did does not mean that CO2 is not pollution. Over thousands of years we have built our civilization around the relative stability of the global climate. A rapid increase in temperatures basically undermine all that investment we have made. Many of our largest population and industrial centers are in areas directly threatened by rising sea water. We already know that adapting to the unprecedentedly quick climate change will cost trillions of dollars and countless lives. We should do our best to mitigate that and slow down the increase in the greenhouse effect, giving us more time to adjust our economy and infrastructure to the changes in temperature.
We'll see if AMD retakes the lead in efficiency. In the meantime, they still beat Nvidia on price and system integration, although obviously system integration is not really a concern for people looking for aftermarket cards, but it is one of the major reason that all three gaming consoles went with AMD. Still, I use Nvidia cards, although I am very disappointing with them purposefully restricting double-precision speed.
It looks like all they may have left is price.
. . . in the same sense that alchemy was chemistry. Galileo was actually an astrologer, in the parlance of the day; so was everyone else who looked at the stars and tried to derive reason from them. As modern science developed, those who applied it to astrology became known as astronomers whereas those who applied it to frivolous nonsense such as horoscopes remained known as astrologers. In the modern English-speaking world, astronomy is a science and astrology is a pseudoscience, but it is important to remember that was not always true. I think it is fair to call Galileo an astronomer, because his methods were close enough to the modern scientific philosophy applied to astronomy today, just as it is fair to call Newton a physicist, despite the fact that, back in his day, he would have been known as a natural philosopher. But it is important for people to understand the history of how modern science developed and the meanings of these words.
. . . between laying bricks and writing code in terms of fixing mistakes. The difference is between being an independent contractor versus working for an employer. If I negotiate a fee, agree to create something, then I am responsible for delivering it for that fee. If I make a mistake, I am responsible for fixing it without any additional cost to the client. On the other hand, if someone is paying me to lay bricks or write code, then they get to decide how the profits from my labor are used. I can only negotiate my salary or hourly wage. They have no right to demand I work free anymore than I get to demand to keep all of the profits from my labors. All they can do is look at my performance, like the amount of time I have to spend debugging my code or relaying my bricks, and decide if I need retraining or to be replaced.