If the government can tell me I have to have auto liability insurance, then I don't see why it can't tell me to have health insurance too.
States can require auto insurance in order to register a car. If you read the 10th amendment, all powers not delegated to federal government are regulated to the states. Some states do not require auto insurance anyways.
Two states do not require auto insurance. If you choose to not buy it, you're required to show other means to pay for any damage or injury you cause. Pretty much the same thing as insurance in my book.
Difference is the Federal government is requiring it, even if you don't register a car. So there is no way to avoid it and I missed the section of the Constitution giving the Federal government the right to force us to buy health insurance.
The Supremes have already confirmed that the ACA is constitutional. Your bona fides as a constitutional scholar who somehow knows better than they do are what, exactly?
You can't even claim "general welfare" because for the majority of people it hurts them.
The majority? You have a citation from an objective source for that, right? Off hand it seems to me that the people who don't have insurance are actually hurting me! When they don't pay for their health care, the provider a) has to write it off, b) charge everyone else – i.e. the responsible members of society – more, in order to operate in the black.
Just giving you an answer in case you really didn't know the difference. I've heard others ask the same thing before.
You don't win bonus points by being a patronizing.
There's pretty much no point in bringing iron or aluminum down. We'd leave it in orbit and build things with it there.
And if we could somehow get past this need to always generate profits now and take a longer term view of things, we could undertake long term projects that will produce profits 25, 50, or 100 years from now. E.g. moving whole asteroids nearer to Earth – slowly – where we can get to them more easily.
Whoever's idea it was to train the Mujahideen during the Russia-Afghanistan war should be hanged.
I have a sneaky suspicion that there's are direct links from mujahideen -> taliban -> islamic state.
Kinda like waving your hands dismissively and saying/writing "think of all the jobs you can replace with a bash script."
I notice in return that you also aren't offering any useful responses, including your first response.
eliminating all those jobs screwing caps on tubes of toothpaste will free up those people to do more valuable things.
if you're doing it right.
specific jobs get eliminated – they're replaced by other jobs. But 15M jobs aren't going to vanish into thin air because of automation.
It hasn't happened – yet – in the 30+ years I've been in the workforce.
I'm not sure why this gets +5 informative, this just isn't that uncommon.
The fact that you got two consecutive numbers is because your parents applied at the same time in the same state.
My bother and I were born in Illinois, but our parents didn't apply for our SSNs until we lived in California. Our SSNs are "California SSNs, and they're close, but not consecutive.
Unlike when we – you, your sister, me, my brother – got our SSNs, now you must apply for your child's SSN when they're born so you can claim them as a dependent on your tax return.
So it doesn't run a mainline Linux kernel? Or does someone know otherwise. I couldn't find anything on the nvidia web site. Nor do I see how to buy one at the educational price.
"This might come as a shock, but the World does not revolve around you!"
Straw man, no one said it did. You could have simply said "the Hurd guys probably do it for fun." and be done with it. That admission would OTOH arouse the question why this is news for nerds and why it matters.
I don't think it's a straw man. He wrote:
... I lost interest... why is the project still going at all?
I think there was a pretty strong implication that if it didn't matter to him, it didn't matter; hence, the world revolves around him.
Probably for much the same reasons that things like Haiku, OpenIndiana, DragonflyBSD, and etc., exist.
Who are you to question what is interesting to someone? I don't mean that in a rude way, but honestly, something doesn't have to have millions of users to be someone's pet project or interesting to a small niche audience. After all, how do you think Linux got started?
This might come as a shock, but the World does not revolve around you!
Sci-fi author John Scalzi has published an entertaining take-down of the cluelessness in this article.
One thing Scalzi has missed in his screed is this:
Noblesse oblige is a French phrase literally meaning "nobility obliges". It is the concept that nobility extends beyond mere entitlements and requires the person with such status to fulfill social responsibilities, particularly in leadership roles.
And it's one of the things that's missing from a lot of the 1%ers. This society made it possible for them to be 1%ers. They have a debt to society. And like the Lanisters – who always pay their debts – so should they.
NASA had to design custom-built processors since the commercial solutions available at the time were not designed to handle the intense workloads of space travel.
workloads? l do know (I worked at JPL for six years in the late 80s and early 90s) that commercial chips were not designed to handle the harsh environment of space.
Inside New Horizons we find a radiation-hardened, MIPS-based Mongoose-V processor worth $40,000 apiece.
A thing is worth exactly what someone else will pay for it. To me that processor isn't worth a hill of beans, even if NASA may have paid $40K for them. Back when I was at JPL one of the rad hardened CPUs that was available, IIRC, was the NSC 32000 – a NatSemi part that was a near clone of the Motorola 68000.
Using IM? Fire the dinosaurs that won't use modern communication methods. I'm 55 and I use IM, twitter, etc. Some of my 30-something and 40-something colleagues don't though. They're really annoying.
Or the colleague who sits two cubes over and only uses IM to ask me questions. If my IM window is covered up it might take me 15 minutes to see it and respond. Or he could turn around and ask me and get the answer immediately.
In rope tying, a knot is tied in a single piece of rope, e.g. a figure eight knot[1]. A hitch is used to tie a rope (on)to something, e.g. a clove hitch[2]. A bend is used to tie two ropes together, e.g. a sheet bend[3].
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If the government can tell me I have to have auto liability insurance, then I don't see why it can't tell me to have health insurance too.
States can require auto insurance in order to register a car. If you read the 10th amendment, all powers not delegated to federal government are regulated to the states. Some states do not require auto insurance anyways.
Two states do not require auto insurance. If you choose to not buy it, you're required to show other means to pay for any damage or injury you cause. Pretty much the same thing as insurance in my book.
Difference is the Federal government is requiring it, even if you don't register a car. So there is no way to avoid it and I missed the section of the Constitution giving the Federal government the right to force us to buy health insurance.
The Supremes have already confirmed that the ACA is constitutional. Your bona fides as a constitutional scholar who somehow knows better than they do are what, exactly?
You can't even claim "general welfare" because for the majority of people it hurts them.
The majority? You have a citation from an objective source for that, right? Off hand it seems to me that the people who don't have insurance are actually hurting me! When they don't pay for their health care, the provider a) has to write it off, b) charge everyone else – i.e. the responsible members of society – more, in order to operate in the black.
Just giving you an answer in case you really didn't know the difference. I've heard others ask the same thing before.
You don't win bonus points by being a patronizing.
I swore after Episodes I, II, and III that I'd never pay to see another one. And I'm sticking to my guns.
There's pretty much no point in bringing iron or aluminum down. We'd leave it in orbit and build things with it there.
And if we could somehow get past this need to always generate profits now and take a longer term view of things, we could undertake long term projects that will produce profits 25, 50, or 100 years from now. E.g. moving whole asteroids nearer to Earth – slowly – where we can get to them more easily.
Whoever's idea it was to train the Mujahideen during the Russia-Afghanistan war should be hanged.
I have a sneaky suspicion that there's are direct links from mujahideen -> taliban -> islamic state.
But I have solid dihydrogen monoxide. And transparent aluminum (aluminium for euro pedants) too.
Said nobody, ever.
Kinda like waving your hands dismissively and saying/writing "think of all the jobs you can replace with a bash script."
I notice in return that you also aren't offering any useful responses, including your first response.
eliminating all those jobs screwing caps on tubes of toothpaste will free up those people to do more valuable things.
if you're doing it right.
specific jobs get eliminated – they're replaced by other jobs. But 15M jobs aren't going to vanish into thin air because of automation.
It hasn't happened – yet – in the 30+ years I've been in the workforce.
Thanks – that's Econ 101 stuff. I don't dispute that automation eliminating jobs is a good thing – not even for a minute.
But I don't believe that 50% of all jobs in the UK can, or will, be eliminated by automation. Not any time soon.
UK population is 64M.
The UK workforce is 30M[1]
You're trying to tell us that half of all jobs in the UK can be replaced by "smart machines"?
Somehow I don't believe that number.
[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
I'm not sure why this gets +5 informative, this just isn't that uncommon.
The fact that you got two consecutive numbers is because your parents applied at the same time in the same state.
My bother and I were born in Illinois, but our parents didn't apply for our SSNs until we lived in California. Our SSNs are "California SSNs, and they're close, but not consecutive.
Unlike when we – you, your sister, me, my brother – got our SSNs, now you must apply for your child's SSN when they're born so you can claim them as a dependent on your tax return.
So it doesn't run a mainline Linux kernel? Or does someone know otherwise. I couldn't find anything on the nvidia web site. Nor do I see how to buy one at the educational price.
Straight to ad hominem attack. Way to go. Now I can take you really seriously.
"This might come as a shock, but the World does not revolve around you!"
Straw man, no one said it did. You could have simply said "the Hurd guys probably do it for fun." and be done with it. That admission would OTOH arouse the question why this is news for nerds and why it matters.
I don't think it's a straw man. He wrote:
... I lost interest... why is the project still going at all?
I think there was a pretty strong implication that if it didn't matter to him, it didn't matter; hence, the world revolves around him.
But that's just my opinion.
Lennart Poettering, is that you?
Probably for much the same reasons that things like Haiku, OpenIndiana, DragonflyBSD, and etc., exist.
Who are you to question what is interesting to someone? I don't mean that in a rude way, but honestly, something doesn't have to have millions of users to be someone's pet project or interesting to a small niche audience. After all, how do you think Linux got started?
This might come as a shock, but the World does not revolve around you!
Taxes is one way. As 1%ers they got a lot more. Some would say they owe a lot more too.
Sci-fi author John Scalzi has published an entertaining take-down of the cluelessness in this article.
One thing Scalzi has missed in his screed is this:
Noblesse oblige is a French phrase literally meaning "nobility obliges". It is the concept that nobility extends beyond mere entitlements and requires the person with such status to fulfill social responsibilities, particularly in leadership roles.
And it's one of the things that's missing from a lot of the 1%ers. This society made it possible for them to be 1%ers. They have a debt to society. And like the Lanisters – who always pay their debts – so should they.
If they won't do it voluntarily then we should just tax them.
A return to Reagan era tax rates would be a decent start. They could hardly complain.
NASA had to design custom-built processors since the commercial solutions available at the time were not designed to handle the intense workloads of space travel.
workloads? l do know (I worked at JPL for six years in the late 80s and early 90s) that commercial chips were not designed to handle the harsh environment of space.
Inside New Horizons we find a radiation-hardened, MIPS-based Mongoose-V processor worth $40,000 apiece.
A thing is worth exactly what someone else will pay for it. To me that processor isn't worth a hill of beans, even if NASA may have paid $40K for them. Back when I was at JPL one of the rad hardened CPUs that was available, IIRC, was the NSC 32000 – a NatSemi part that was a near clone of the Motorola 68000.
Sure, because they don't want the NSA or the FBI to find out about their tunnels under the border.
Oh, he meant Space Aliens? I bet they don't want the NSA or FBI to read their emails either.
Ever heard of FedEx?
Using IM? Fire the dinosaurs that won't use modern communication methods. I'm 55 and I use IM, twitter, etc. Some of my 30-something and 40-something colleagues don't though. They're really annoying.
Or the colleague who sits two cubes over and only uses IM to ask me questions. If my IM window is covered up it might take me 15 minutes to see it and respond. Or he could turn around and ask me and get the answer immediately.
... They were called "bends" in that study ...
In rope tying, a knot is tied in a single piece of rope, e.g. a figure eight knot[1]. A hitch is used to tie a rope (on)to something, e.g. a clove hitch[2]. A bend is used to tie two ropes together, e.g. a sheet bend[3].
[1] http://www.animatedknots.com/f...
[2] http://www.animatedknots.com/c...
[3] http://www.animatedknots.com/s...
Will Launchpad build the snaps after it builds the debs?
Fifty..... Million..... Dollars....
Let me know when they're going to devote Real Money to it.
But I like pigz! And Wilber and me are moving off to Massachusetts, so we can git *married*!!!
Then Rowan Co., Kentucky is where you want to go.