Until the Pope starts bailing people out, I'm going to stick with the law rather than the rantings of some saint.
Some of my friends around here live in houses with hidden compartments for hiding slaves on their way to Canada. I would have gladly done the same - a shame you would have turned them in.
Don't act as if law is sacred and that all law should be obeyed because it's "law".
Anyone acting this way is just ignorant of political philosophy beyond a fifth grade level. Heck, Augustine wrote "an unjust law is no law at all" in the 4th Century. Note to Catholics: that's the teaching of a Saint.
One step further, since you own the physical cart ( and license to use it ) i don't see a problem with downloading it. It's only 'piracy' if you don't own a license.
Right. I've heard Penn Jillette say several times he doesn't mind if you download BullShit! from Bittorrent if you subscribe to Showtime - you've already paid for it.
He probably doesn't own the copyright himself, but he's got the moral equation worked out properly.
It's pretty obvious from the state of HUMAN healthcare that there are is a lot of middlemen, greed and abuse involved.
Right.
That the US spends the most on its healthcare per capita, but doesn't get the best results is published fact.
Sort of, but unrelated to the matter at hand. It's very expensive on average, but it does have the best outcomes at the extreme upper end. That's why world leaders ship to the US for complex care.
Your arguments that since treating dogs and cats doesn't cost as much, for profit healthcare isn't evil and detrimental
I don't understand why this is so hard for you to understand. Veterinary medicine is for profit and it's not evil (pricing wise) and it's not detrimental. Do you disagree with any of that?
Their business model is superior. What's not to get here? It has the outcomes you seem to want without the waste and greed.
I'm talking reality, not some sort of fiction you've invented in your mind.
Reality is the status quo. Are you advocating the status quo or have you invented some sort of alternative in your mind?
If you cannot generally remember where you put your car, how are you going to remember the random cryptic string of digits that is your license plate to look up your car on this system?
You're asking how can you remember something that's always constant when you occasionally forget something that's always variable?
Do you know when your birthday is? Do you know what day of the week it fell on in 1993?
no, it also costs in greed. There are a lot of middlemen in the insurance company that have to be paid, then the shareholders have to make a profit, etc. Which is why for profit healthcare is evil.
But for-profit veterinary medicine does not have those cost problems. Why would the 'greed' be lacking there?
So, the disparity in costs, say open heart surgery at $12,000 vs $200,000 is entirely due to the $200,000 (human) cost being used to pay for people who can't afford open heart surgery? I thought that's what Medicare and Medicaid were for.
Absolutely. eBay has this, essentially, though it's a bit more narrowly focused.
We'd even have shows on NPR or PRI about it just like the money shows.
Heh, "Welcome to Michael in Cincinnati. / Uh, yeah, I have a really bad asshole score. / OK, here's what you do Michael: stop being an asshole. Our next caller is Bob in Milwaukee."
I dunno, that's the model that's followed in veterinary medicine and their prices are lower, their equipment up to date and the waits are shorter than most human-care systems.
It's fine to allow computers to trade automatically, but they should be forced to respond the the market like every other investor does. Granted, they will respond more quickly than a human can, but that response will still take place, at a minimum, nanoseconds after the trade they're responding to.
Right, and there's also price discrimination. I'm not paying the same fees and commissions an HFT algorithm is, so I need to experience much larger moves to make a profit. All players in a market need to access the market by the same rules.
Now, the bigger question is, "why doesn't somebody just open up a better, more fair market?" Go ahead, look into the regulations and see how easy it will be to do a NASDAQ in 2011.
I swear, half of the posts here can end with "regulatory capture".
Apple claims to own rectangular tablet computers with rounded corners and cameras on the front that can be used in portrait mode. If that doesn't just about cover all tablets what does?
Having an on-board automated system that would tell my wife she's following too closely would certainly end a lot of marital strife. Something about an impartial third party makes advice easier to accept.
This is unnecessary. Just the social stigma of everybody around you being informed that you're an asshole is enough to get all but the most psychopathic to behave.
even the materials the reactor is made of need to be of a certain kind
I've heard this from several fusion researchers. It's not intuitive that if you want to contribute your life's work to fusion science, you might want to go into materials engineering.
It's also not clear that enough people with a passion for materials engineering are also passionate about fusion research and would like to focus their energies there.
This is at least part of what makes it such a hard nut to crack.
There's the problem. You didn't (re)code fast enough but even though your code isn't ready YOU want it in the release. So you put it in, broken. Screw the users. It's just software's old Users/Devs argument. Move along.
And that's 'just' the entire problem with the pain many feel with open source projects. Less so with the commercially managed releases. Eventually we'll need to:
a) have rolling releases. This gets us out of the big jumps problem. b) have better QA. So everybody knows and accepts what's broken. c) have developers who want their products to survive QA. This is the largest hurdle - it slows down the nifty features and is less exciting for the ADD set. d) be better about defining interfaces to reduce dependency churn. This, again, is less interesting than features, but a large current need for big releases is the dependency graph.
None of these are surprising to software engineers, but FLOSS software is often 'take what you can get'. I'm not suggesting any gatekeepers, but rather an evolution of the community's standards and sensibilities.
That much thrashing indicates something is wrong and/or you have too little RAM.
It could be swapping, but it could also be seeking like crazy, especially on a slow laptop hard drive.
I'd like to see a way to buy a cheap amount of SSD ( ~= RAM size on mobo, SATA 6Gbps even) and dedicate that to hibernate activities. If I hibernate my laptop, nearly all the wake-up time is reading the memory image from disk.
Was there a "tendency" not to lie, or was it an on/off switch ?
I saw a different article on this yesterday. It was a reduced tendency, not an off switch. The reduction was a significant but small percentage (IIRC on the order of 15-20%).
I'd like to see the study repeated with vodka. Wait - did they control for vodka?
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Just tell the public that only terrorists, criminals and paedophiles want anonymity on the Internet.
How much money will it take to make us safe from anonymous Internet users?
Until the Pope starts bailing people out, I'm going to stick with the law rather than the rantings of some saint.
Some of my friends around here live in houses with hidden compartments for hiding slaves on their way to Canada. I would have gladly done the same - a shame you would have turned them in.
Don't act as if law is sacred and that all law should be obeyed because it's "law".
Anyone acting this way is just ignorant of political philosophy beyond a fifth grade level. Heck, Augustine wrote "an unjust law is no law at all" in the 4th Century. Note to Catholics: that's the teaching of a Saint.
One step further, since you own the physical cart ( and license to use it ) i don't see a problem with downloading it. It's only 'piracy' if you don't own a license.
Right. I've heard Penn Jillette say several times he doesn't mind if you download BullShit! from Bittorrent if you subscribe to Showtime - you've already paid for it.
He probably doesn't own the copyright himself, but he's got the moral equation worked out properly.
I guess ebay is pretty much the only option.
and yard sales, flea markets, Craigslist even.
It's pretty obvious from the state of HUMAN healthcare that there are is a lot of middlemen, greed and abuse involved.
Right.
That the US spends the most on its healthcare per capita, but doesn't get the best results is published fact.
Sort of, but unrelated to the matter at hand. It's very expensive on average, but it does have the best outcomes at the extreme upper end. That's why world leaders ship to the US for complex care.
Your arguments that since treating dogs and cats doesn't cost as much, for profit healthcare isn't evil and detrimental
I don't understand why this is so hard for you to understand. Veterinary medicine is for profit and it's not evil (pricing wise) and it's not detrimental. Do you disagree with any of that?
Their business model is superior. What's not to get here? It has the outcomes you seem to want without the waste and greed.
I'm talking reality, not some sort of fiction you've invented in your mind.
Reality is the status quo. Are you advocating the status quo or have you invented some sort of alternative in your mind?
In fact the really expensive procedures aren't even an alternative because there is not enough of a market to do the research.
You can go to a university medical center and get open heart surgery for your dog if you want to. Here's the first one that shows up on a search.
Have you seen what's happened to his career [wikimedia.org] after TNG finished? Basically, nothing except Reading Rainbow.
Heaven forbid he dedicates his life to helping gets kids excited about reading instead of starring in a sitcom on NBC Thursdays?
If you cannot generally remember where you put your car, how are you going to remember the random cryptic string of digits that is your license plate to look up your car on this system?
You're asking how can you remember something that's always constant when you occasionally forget something that's always variable?
Do you know when your birthday is? Do you know what day of the week it fell on in 1993?
no, it also costs in greed. There are a lot of middlemen in the insurance company that have to be paid, then the shareholders have to make a profit, etc. Which is why for profit healthcare is evil.
But for-profit veterinary medicine does not have those cost problems. Why would the 'greed' be lacking there?
So, the disparity in costs, say open heart surgery at $12,000 vs $200,000 is entirely due to the $200,000 (human) cost being used to pay for people who can't afford open heart surgery? I thought that's what Medicare and Medicaid were for.
So not a wonderful system to compare to how we want to treat human beings.
What does that have to do with the cost of medical procedures?
Call me when you can euthanize grama because her surgery is too expensive.
You theory is that because euthanasia is available, surgery is less expensive? Huh?
An asshole rating like a credit rating...
Absolutely. eBay has this, essentially, though it's a bit more narrowly focused.
We'd even have shows on NPR or PRI about it just like the money shows.
Heh, "Welcome to Michael in Cincinnati. / Uh, yeah, I have a really bad asshole score. / OK, here's what you do Michael: stop being an asshole. Our next caller is Bob in Milwaukee."
all-caps yelling the lameness filter won't permit.
Only if you want worse care.
This is why for profit medicare sucks.
I dunno, that's the model that's followed in veterinary medicine and their prices are lower, their equipment up to date and the waits are shorter than most human-care systems.
It's fine to allow computers to trade automatically, but they should be forced to respond the the market like every other investor does. Granted, they will respond more quickly than a human can, but that response will still take place, at a minimum, nanoseconds after the trade they're responding to.
Right, and there's also price discrimination. I'm not paying the same fees and commissions an HFT algorithm is, so I need to experience much larger moves to make a profit. All players in a market need to access the market by the same rules.
Now, the bigger question is, "why doesn't somebody just open up a better, more fair market?" Go ahead, look into the regulations and see how easy it will be to do a NASDAQ in 2011.
I swear, half of the posts here can end with "regulatory capture".
Apple claims to own rectangular tablet computers with rounded corners and cameras on the front that can be used in portrait mode. If that doesn't just about cover all tablets what does?
Everybody had those on Deep Space 9.
Having an on-board automated system that would tell my wife she's following too closely would certainly end a lot of marital strife. Something about an impartial third party makes advice easier to accept.
So true. I've set our TomTom to moo at 80MPH.
Get enough Asshole stickers and you get a ticket.
This is unnecessary. Just the social stigma of everybody around you being informed that you're an asshole is enough to get all but the most psychopathic to behave.
Transparency > retribution.
even the materials the reactor is made of need to be of a certain kind
I've heard this from several fusion researchers. It's not intuitive that if you want to contribute your life's work to fusion science, you might want to go into materials engineering.
It's also not clear that enough people with a passion for materials engineering are also passionate about fusion research and would like to focus their energies there.
This is at least part of what makes it such a hard nut to crack.
There's the problem. You didn't (re)code fast enough but even though your code isn't ready YOU want it in the release. So you put it in, broken. Screw the users. It's just software's old Users/Devs argument. Move along.
And that's 'just' the entire problem with the pain many feel with open source projects. Less so with the commercially managed releases. Eventually we'll need to:
a) have rolling releases. This gets us out of the big jumps problem.
b) have better QA. So everybody knows and accepts what's broken.
c) have developers who want their products to survive QA. This is the largest hurdle - it slows down the nifty features and is less exciting for the ADD set.
d) be better about defining interfaces to reduce dependency churn. This, again, is less interesting than features, but a large current need for big releases is the dependency graph.
None of these are surprising to software engineers, but FLOSS software is often 'take what you can get'. I'm not suggesting any gatekeepers, but rather an evolution of the community's standards and sensibilities.
That much thrashing indicates something is wrong and/or you have too little RAM.
It could be swapping, but it could also be seeking like crazy, especially on a slow laptop hard drive.
I'd like to see a way to buy a cheap amount of SSD ( ~= RAM size on mobo, SATA 6Gbps even) and dedicate that to hibernate activities. If I hibernate my laptop, nearly all the wake-up time is reading the memory image from disk.
Was there a "tendency" not to lie, or was it an on/off switch ?
I saw a different article on this yesterday. It was a reduced tendency, not an off switch. The reduction was a significant but small percentage (IIRC on the order of 15-20%).
I'd like to see the study repeated with vodka. Wait - did they control for vodka?
Hey, this could finally be the web language that isn't a kludge or poorly designed. Those other 22 could all go away.
Trouble is, we don't know - this article is a worthless waste of time until it's actually released or detailed.