Personally I can see no case where a free market can ever provide reasonable fair health care.
Part of the problem is that everybody seems to have different definitions of "reasonable" and "fair" when it comes to health care. Personally, I'd like to try free market health care before I write it off.
BTW: The only reason dumb ass professors (most who have never worked outside of the educational field) teach students to put the opening brace at the end of a line is to save print space.
The more code I can fit on my screen, the better. An opening brace at the end of a line isn't hidden, hard to see or hard to find. If it takes you more than 3 seconds to find where a control statement begins, increase the size of your tab stop.
Personally, I think that an editor should be able to be configured to always display code in one's preferred style, regardless of the format that gets saved to disk.
We're getting the same sort of wagon-circling that we saw when Hans Reiser was charged. No one seems willing to admit that some of us "geeks" are self-important prima donas who border on pathologically criminal behavior.
Insisting on a single left to right continuum is too simplistic. Various two-dimensional methodologies are better, but even they are only approximations. It's simply not the case that everyone's opinions about immigration, taxation, trade and foreign policy can collectively be divided into two groups.
Undoubtedly the late stages of pregnancy and the early stages of Motherhood are challenging, but we are talking about a few months.
It's only a few months for some people. It's years for others. Far easier to ignore the kid and let the school system parent. There's tremendous variation; it's very difficult to predict what life with a kid will be like if you've never done it before. Looking at friends' experiences with babies is a poor predictor of what your experiences will be.
No matter what the cause, the increased global temperature is a bad thing for us and thus it is in our best interest to stop contributing to the change ASAP.
It is not a given that global warming will be a net negative for the human race (or even for just the first world); it has benefits as well as drawbacks. Furthermore, even if it is negative, in order to quantify the benefit of reduction of greenhouse gases, we must be able to predict the impact of such a reduction. Since we don't know how to do that yet, we don't know which specific approaches to greenhouse gas reduction will result in a net improvement of human life.
Humanity's top priority should be improving the quality of life of as many people as possible, which means (among other things) globalization and economic growth in the developing world. Those are not compatible with an ASAP approach to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases; sometimes being dirty in the short term creates a greater long-term good.
But what is really missing is proper gun training on how to use it properly take care of it, and treat it with the respect that such a tool deserves.
Absolutely. Gun safety classes in elementary and high schools (and offered free to adults too, when practical) would dramatically reduce accidental gun deaths.
First you'll have to prove that it's a "massive" degrading of the users experiance. I'd argue it isn't.
Proof isn't necessary; if a user says that it's less convenient for them, it is reasonable to believe them.
The profiles feature is what makes Netflix usable for my family. We have very different movie preferences, and this change promises to throw out all of the movie ratings except for those associated with the main profile. I'm not a heavy user, and I have 70+ movies in my queue, which will all be deleted (along with hundreds of my movie ratings) on September 1st. Netflix's advice is to print out the queue and manually add those movies to the main account's queue. Unfortunately, different family members watch movies at different rates, so without a lot of manual queue management (logging in every time we return a video) things will quickly get out of sync. Without profiles, there won't be much point in continuing the service for me, which is fine; it's just video, not something important.
Netflix claims that only 1% of their users use this feature. Apparently they think that risking 1% of their business is worth the benefits of reducing software overhead, which tells me that their software must really suck.
Of the two dissenting opinions, Justice Antonin Scalia's was the more apocalyptic, predicting "devastating" and "disastrous consequences" from the decision. "It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed," he said. "The nation will live to regret what the court has done today."
Keep in mind that he's talking about allowing people who have been held in detention for 6 years without even having been charged (let alone convicted) to challenge their detention.
He's also talking about every future unlawful combatant captured in every future conflict. The impact on the court system alone will be tremendous.
That it causes more Americans to be killed is not a sufficient reason to ban something, of course.
An interesting solution might be to allow temporary teaching certs to seasoned mature professionals
Or don't require teaching certificates or education degrees at all. Good schools will continue to avoid hiring incompetents, and bad schools already hire anybody willing to work there, so we may as well increase the pool of people available for bad schools to hire.
What is your job? In corporate culture, your job is to make your boss look good. Bosses who look good get promoted, and a good boss will take you along on his ride to the top. (You might have to work a few years before finding a good boss; such is life.)
Everyone holds one or more religious beliefs. Some of the most common are "there is a god", "there is no god", "there is more than one god" and "I don't know if there is a god".
All these neat looking open spaces and cubicles are my worst nightmare. I've managed to spend my entire career having my own private offices and my worst nightmare is to ever have to work in an open space or a cubicle--listening to every asshole in the office, having everyone looking over my shoulder, etc.
Open work areas aren't necessarily bad. They can increase information sharing and productivity. They don't have to be huge, and not all coworkers are annoying. It depends on the culture.
If your home is such a big problem that you NEED a shotgun to protect yourself you really NEED to move. Apparently you are living in some sort of post-apocalyptic nightmare where firearms are needed to stop your neighbors.
If you're only judging by the inhumanity of it, then you can't beat a knife.
There's very little that's as bad as being hacked to death by a rusty foot of steel.
What about being hacked to death by a spoon? Or shovel? Or being hacked to death twice? Or being claustrophobic and trapped in a dark closet as you're nibbled to death by zombie babies, only to respawn and be nibbled to death again, over and over again until the heat death of the universe?
What I'd really want was some way to have both the proprietary flash player and gnash installed side by side and an easy way to switch between them. That way, you could just use gnash until you hit some file that it has trouble with and then just switch over.
I do that on my Kubuntu desktop. I use Konqueror with gnash as my default browser, and when it can't handle something I right click and select "open this page in Firefox" (which has the adobe plugin installed.)
I will never understand why people have children they can't be bothered to raise. Shunted into daycare as soon as possible, raised by nannies, and they are still always clamoring for yet more school at younger ages.
Biology. There comes a point in the lives of many women (in their late 20s in my observation) where a hormonal switch gets flipped and they suddenly say "I want a baby." Then, after a horrific pregnancy + labor + first 3 months, they say "What have I done?" By then it's too late.
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Part of the problem is that everybody seems to have different definitions of "reasonable" and "fair" when it comes to health care. Personally, I'd like to try free market health care before I write it off.
The more code I can fit on my screen, the better. An opening brace at the end of a line isn't hidden, hard to see or hard to find. If it takes you more than 3 seconds to find where a control statement begins, increase the size of your tab stop.
Personally, I think that an editor should be able to be configured to always display code in one's preferred style, regardless of the format that gets saved to disk.
You seem willing to.
I'm waiting to hear the whole story.
Insisting on a single left to right continuum is too simplistic. Various two-dimensional methodologies are better, but even they are only approximations. It's simply not the case that everyone's opinions about immigration, taxation, trade and foreign policy can collectively be divided into two groups.
It's only a few months for some people. It's years for others. Far easier to ignore the kid and let the school system parent. There's tremendous variation; it's very difficult to predict what life with a kid will be like if you've never done it before. Looking at friends' experiences with babies is a poor predictor of what your experiences will be.
Except for the one that buys this guy's company and corners the market on cheap fuel.
According to wikipedia, "A series of trial exhibits indicated that Malvo and Muhammed were motivated by an affinity for Islamic Jihad."
It is not a given that global warming will be a net negative for the human race (or even for just the first world); it has benefits as well as drawbacks. Furthermore, even if it is negative, in order to quantify the benefit of reduction of greenhouse gases, we must be able to predict the impact of such a reduction. Since we don't know how to do that yet, we don't know which specific approaches to greenhouse gas reduction will result in a net improvement of human life.
Humanity's top priority should be improving the quality of life of as many people as possible, which means (among other things) globalization and economic growth in the developing world. Those are not compatible with an ASAP approach to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases; sometimes being dirty in the short term creates a greater long-term good.
Absolutely. Gun safety classes in elementary and high schools (and offered free to adults too, when practical) would dramatically reduce accidental gun deaths.
Once you log in and navigate to the queue, yes. How many times a month do you do that? With my own profile, I only need to do it every few months.
Proof isn't necessary; if a user says that it's less convenient for them, it is reasonable to believe them.
The profiles feature is what makes Netflix usable for my family. We have very different movie preferences, and this change promises to throw out all of the movie ratings except for those associated with the main profile. I'm not a heavy user, and I have 70+ movies in my queue, which will all be deleted (along with hundreds of my movie ratings) on September 1st. Netflix's advice is to print out the queue and manually add those movies to the main account's queue. Unfortunately, different family members watch movies at different rates, so without a lot of manual queue management (logging in every time we return a video) things will quickly get out of sync. Without profiles, there won't be much point in continuing the service for me, which is fine; it's just video, not something important.
Netflix claims that only 1% of their users use this feature. Apparently they think that risking 1% of their business is worth the benefits of reducing software overhead, which tells me that their software must really suck.
The movie ratings matter to some people too. Lots of multiple profile users have very different preferences.
He's also talking about every future unlawful combatant captured in every future conflict. The impact on the court system alone will be tremendous.
That it causes more Americans to be killed is not a sufficient reason to ban something, of course.
Or don't require teaching certificates or education degrees at all. Good schools will continue to avoid hiring incompetents, and bad schools already hire anybody willing to work there, so we may as well increase the pool of people available for bad schools to hire.
What is your job? In corporate culture, your job is to make your boss look good. Bosses who look good get promoted, and a good boss will take you along on his ride to the top. (You might have to work a few years before finding a good boss; such is life.)
Everyone holds one or more religious beliefs. Some of the most common are "there is a god", "there is no god", "there is more than one god" and "I don't know if there is a god".
Great Scott! It's almost as if the religious == irrational meme is not 100% accurate.
If books didn't use trees, those trees would not have been grown in the first place. Paper-based books help the environment by promoting tree farming.
Open work areas aren't necessarily bad. They can increase information sharing and productivity. They don't have to be huge, and not all coworkers are annoying. It depends on the culture.
The BBC disagrees:
Megascale engineering intended to fight global warming overshoots, leading to a worldwide ice age and mile-deep glaciers at the equator.
What about being hacked to death by a spoon? Or shovel? Or being hacked to death twice? Or being claustrophobic and trapped in a dark closet as you're nibbled to death by zombie babies, only to respawn and be nibbled to death again, over and over again until the heat death of the universe?
There's lots worse than being knifed.
Man's inhumanity to man will never be excised from humanity. Alas.
I do that on my Kubuntu desktop. I use Konqueror with gnash as my default browser, and when it can't handle something I right click and select "open this page in Firefox" (which has the adobe plugin installed.)
Biology. There comes a point in the lives of many women (in their late 20s in my observation) where a hormonal switch gets flipped and they suddenly say "I want a baby." Then, after a horrific pregnancy + labor + first 3 months, they say "What have I done?" By then it's too late.