right is right and wrong is wrong. of course we pursue technical solutions wherever possible. but we also pursue social and legal solutions
and we also consider the magnitude of the crime: if someone does {XYZ} and it results in {ABC}, well if {XYZ} is a small easy and completely unnecessary effort (shine a laser) and {ABC} is a large serious effect (a blind pilot), then we have to do something about that. no, we have to do a lot of things about that. technical, social, AND legal
but the idea that something is difficult to enforce, so we stop trying, is stupid. it doesn't matter how hard enforcement is. it matters that something has a large potential to harm and the person has no right and no good reason to do that thing. so we go after it and we punish it as best we can. no matter how hard
this is the way of a just society. it has to be this way. people understand if justice is hard to do. they don't understand if no one is trying to pursue justice
mandating private insurance is the best we can get though in this country because of the entrenched financial interests and their hordes of propagandized retards
think of it as a first step. universal healthcare is the nirvana, but we need to take baby steps to get there. the morons and the parasitical corporations won't let us have common sense all at once
2. Start your own company, or 3. Learn MVC. Unit testing. Factory Methods. DRY.
But MVC is mainly what you mean by "woefully out of date." That's the biggest wrinkle in the Microsoft world for you to get your head around. Get your head around it, it's not that alien.
then he disavowed his greatest legacy to pander to the ignorant propagandized wing of the hysterical right
Romney abandoned probably the greatest piece of legislation he will ever be identified with, to win the vote of the kind of douchebag that will vote against policies that means cheaper healthcare for him and a longer life. because some CEO brought enough of the right sort of propaganda on Fox News to appeal to his low IQ prejudices
i can't fathom a retard so fucking stupid he would choose to pay more for his healthcare and live less. so some CEO can pad his Cayman Island bank account
it's mind blowing how propagandized, ignorant and just beyond belief knuckle dragging dumb some Americans on the right can be
There are plenty of problems with Canadian healthcare. And you will find that not in a billion years will a single Canadian prefer our broken dysfunctional wasteful system over theirs.
What the USA excels in is critical care: when you have the heart attack. Why? Because IT MAKES MONEY. What is there no money in? Preventive care. Because it's cheap. You also live longer.
Wouldn't you prefer to prevent the heart attack for $100 than maybe live through the heart attack for $100,000? Well guess what: your stupid healthcare system doesn't agree with you. It is made so some asshole CEO can sit on a gold toilet, it's not made so you actually live a longer healthier life and spend far less on your healthcare.
Because some complete fucking retards in this country actually believe the profit principle has a place in a healthcare system. What is the system for? Your health? Or a shareholder? Why the fuck do so many ignorant fucking Americans not see the problem therein? You can't have both. No really: you cannot have a system to maximize profit, and a system that maximizes your health, at the same time. Those two goals are diametrically opposed to each other. But the cult of the unicorns and rainbows free market fundamentalism is so strong in this stupid fucking country common sense does not prevail.
Oh and "FREEDOM!" As in FREEDUMB: people who believe freedom means freedom from responsibility. "How dare you make me buy health insurance!" (And then they break their arm and avoid the bill because they can't afford it: freeloading, irresponsible ignorant assholes.)
You can make giant volumes of the problems in the Canadian healthcare system. In Great Britain. In France. In all of our economic peers on the world stage. And none of them, not a single citizen of those countries, with all of the problems in their health systems, would change it for the far, far worse system we have here. Go ahead, ask your friend. They look on our "healthcare" system with a mix of revulsion and disgust. Because our system is far far far more expensive, and we live shorter lives, because our system is made to profit off the attempt to MAYBE you save you from the heart attack, while the other systems are made to save the country, and you, money, by preventing you from getting the heart attack in the first place with screenings and cheap drugs (as opposed to expensive drugs with marketing campaigns and fashion model sales reps visiting doctors offices to get them push that instead).
A healthcare system doesn't mean a fucking thing if you can't afford it.
It blows my mind how Americans can be so utterly propagandized and so fucking retarded on how they are being shafted by paying so much and living shorter unhealthier lives. Oh but "EVIL SOCIALISM WHARGGARBBLBBLLE." Good for you retard, you hate the word "socialism." Now live a shorter life and pay a heck of a lot more for your healthcare, you dumb ignorant moron afraid of a silly word. That asshole CEO getting paid by policies that trade your lifeblood for his gold toilet thanks you.
hockey is a game where people beat each other up, and occasionally hit a puck with a stick. it is theorized the people are upset because it is so cold and the water is frozen
Our military expenditures are a tiny fraction of our Southern neighbor's
Less likely to carry guns
Have better healthcare and are therefore more relaxed
We emphasize coordination and and compassion and getting along at the U.N.
Our labor rights are more sound, so we're less agitated
Our commitment to education is high, we see ways to resolve conflict in wise ways rather than brutal vicious ways
We're polite to a fault, we stop our cars in the street so you can cross, we let you go first in line if we both arrive at the same time, and we express in low tones the thinking behind our disagreements
BUT DON'T YOU MOTHERFUCKERS EVER FUCKING MESS WITH OUR MOTHERFUCKING MAPLE SYRUP
i don't think the government should prevent you from drinking soda, and i don't think that the government should make you wear helmets
but there are plenty of situations where a personal choice without any regard as to responsibility becomes a cost society has to bear. such as your hospital trip. there are plenty of situations in life where you shouldn't do something, or it should be regulated, or you should be licensed, etc
this of course doesn't prevent the existence of morons who cry "it's my freedom!" when, in actuality, what they mean is freedom from responsibility
what they mean is that we, the rest of us, should bear the costs for their "freedom" to do something stupid and destructive (smoke in my face means i get cancer, drunk driving means i get killed just for driving on the road, "i don't need health insurance!"- and they break their arm and avoid the bill and we have to pay for it, etc)
it's a sort of blindness, a form of stupidity: people who see the potential for damage only to themselves, or don't see consequences or potential costs at all, or don't see the implications for other people, the environment, etc
freedom is real. i love freedom. there is a whole range of actions in this world which really do impact only me and society has no business butting in
but freedom doesn't exist in a world where people aren't responsible for the consequences of their actions on others
and freedom doesn't mean freedom from responsibility
there are many examples of utopianists. people who were fed up with society, and wanted to start a new one from scratch. usually these were religious in nature. heck, mormonism is a surviving example of this utopianist era
with thousands of other examples, some harmless, some malignant
but nowadays, there is no more new world. so the pioneer utopianists are doing it in cyberspace (forgive the outdated term)
but the thing with utopianists, today and from yesteryear, is there is a lot of faith in grand schemes that don't really mean much when coupled with basic human nature. they mostly fail
so the scorn is from people who see those with great passion for something like bitcoin, and the curious identification of someone who is so bothered by something that, yes, is a bother (contemporary currencies), but not something so horrible that going all utopian idealist on the issue actually results in any improvement
but hey, who knows, maybe bitcoin will be like mormonism: someday mainstream. 99% of utopian projects fail, but 1% do change history
but i wouldn't bet on bitcoin. it's more like second life to me: high minded but destined for the dustbin of history, populated with a lot of eager highminded idealists for a moment in time, riding the wave of fervent passion but destined to crumble, a curiosity show for the rest of us to mock. which may seem cruel, but anyone who is a fervent idealist better get used to mockery. if your idealism is among the 1% of utopian projects that work, you will change the world, so take heart and shoulder the mockery with fortitude. but please note: 99% fail, so don't be too disappointed if your efforts fail
there is a standing army behind the value of the American dollar. as long as that is true, the abstract representation of value that is the meaning of currency is as real as you ever will get. and that standing army makes a hell of a difference
whatever is source of your frustrations in real life, try to focus your awesome sense of judgment and keen punitive abilities on that, rather than random people on the internet
you need to type in a PIN that is SMSed to the phone to register the website. filter out online only phone numbers. phone numbers can be traced to an owner, or "oh yeah, my boyfriend {XYZ} borrowed my phone that day" which is law enforcement due diligence when investigating crime
seems to be about as good a system as you can hope for
Slashdot Mirror
for life
that doesn't mean we stop fighting murder
right is right and wrong is wrong. of course we pursue technical solutions wherever possible. but we also pursue social and legal solutions
and we also consider the magnitude of the crime: if someone does {XYZ} and it results in {ABC}, well if {XYZ} is a small easy and completely unnecessary effort (shine a laser) and {ABC} is a large serious effect (a blind pilot), then we have to do something about that. no, we have to do a lot of things about that. technical, social, AND legal
but the idea that something is difficult to enforce, so we stop trying, is stupid. it doesn't matter how hard enforcement is. it matters that something has a large potential to harm and the person has no right and no good reason to do that thing. so we go after it and we punish it as best we can. no matter how hard
this is the way of a just society. it has to be this way. people understand if justice is hard to do. they don't understand if no one is trying to pursue justice
i agree with universal healthcare
mandating private insurance is the best we can get though in this country because of the entrenched financial interests and their hordes of propagandized retards
think of it as a first step. universal healthcare is the nirvana, but we need to take baby steps to get there. the morons and the parasitical corporations won't let us have common sense all at once
2. Start your own company, or
3. Learn MVC. Unit testing. Factory Methods. DRY.
But MVC is mainly what you mean by "woefully out of date." That's the biggest wrinkle in the Microsoft world for you to get your head around. Get your head around it, it's not that alien.
http://www.asp.net/mvc
as governor of Massachusetts
then he disavowed his greatest legacy to pander to the ignorant propagandized wing of the hysterical right
Romney abandoned probably the greatest piece of legislation he will ever be identified with, to win the vote of the kind of douchebag that will vote against policies that means cheaper healthcare for him and a longer life. because some CEO brought enough of the right sort of propaganda on Fox News to appeal to his low IQ prejudices
i can't fathom a retard so fucking stupid he would choose to pay more for his healthcare and live less. so some CEO can pad his Cayman Island bank account
it's mind blowing how propagandized, ignorant and just beyond belief knuckle dragging dumb some Americans on the right can be
There are plenty of problems with Canadian healthcare. And you will find that not in a billion years will a single Canadian prefer our broken dysfunctional wasteful system over theirs.
What the USA excels in is critical care: when you have the heart attack. Why? Because IT MAKES MONEY. What is there no money in? Preventive care. Because it's cheap. You also live longer.
Wouldn't you prefer to prevent the heart attack for $100 than maybe live through the heart attack for $100,000? Well guess what: your stupid healthcare system doesn't agree with you. It is made so some asshole CEO can sit on a gold toilet, it's not made so you actually live a longer healthier life and spend far less on your healthcare.
Because some complete fucking retards in this country actually believe the profit principle has a place in a healthcare system. What is the system for? Your health? Or a shareholder? Why the fuck do so many ignorant fucking Americans not see the problem therein? You can't have both. No really: you cannot have a system to maximize profit, and a system that maximizes your health, at the same time. Those two goals are diametrically opposed to each other. But the cult of the unicorns and rainbows free market fundamentalism is so strong in this stupid fucking country common sense does not prevail.
Oh and "FREEDOM!" As in FREEDUMB: people who believe freedom means freedom from responsibility. "How dare you make me buy health insurance!" (And then they break their arm and avoid the bill because they can't afford it: freeloading, irresponsible ignorant assholes.)
You can make giant volumes of the problems in the Canadian healthcare system. In Great Britain. In France. In all of our economic peers on the world stage. And none of them, not a single citizen of those countries, with all of the problems in their health systems, would change it for the far, far worse system we have here. Go ahead, ask your friend. They look on our "healthcare" system with a mix of revulsion and disgust. Because our system is far far far more expensive, and we live shorter lives, because our system is made to profit off the attempt to MAYBE you save you from the heart attack, while the other systems are made to save the country, and you, money, by preventing you from getting the heart attack in the first place with screenings and cheap drugs (as opposed to expensive drugs with marketing campaigns and fashion model sales reps visiting doctors offices to get them push that instead).
A healthcare system doesn't mean a fucking thing if you can't afford it.
It blows my mind how Americans can be so utterly propagandized and so fucking retarded on how they are being shafted by paying so much and living shorter unhealthier lives. Oh but "EVIL SOCIALISM WHARGGARBBLBBLLE." Good for you retard, you hate the word "socialism." Now live a shorter life and pay a heck of a lot more for your healthcare, you dumb ignorant moron afraid of a silly word. That asshole CEO getting paid by policies that trade your lifeblood for his gold toilet thanks you.
Wake the fuck up America.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121003/REVIEWS/121009995
hockey is a game where people beat each other up, and occasionally hit a puck with a stick. it is theorized the people are upset because it is so cold and the water is frozen
they live longer and spend less
any questions you propagandized idiot?
Our military expenditures are a tiny fraction of our Southern neighbor's
Less likely to carry guns
Have better healthcare and are therefore more relaxed
We emphasize coordination and and compassion and getting along at the U.N.
Our labor rights are more sound, so we're less agitated
Our commitment to education is high, we see ways to resolve conflict in wise ways rather than brutal vicious ways
We're polite to a fault, we stop our cars in the street so you can cross, we let you go first in line if we both arrive at the same time, and we express in low tones the thinking behind our disagreements
BUT DON'T YOU MOTHERFUCKERS EVER FUCKING MESS WITH OUR MOTHERFUCKING MAPLE SYRUP
nerds like maple syrup more than people
I worked late the Monday night before, so I planned to go in late the next day. I never made it in.
I think I remember posting that dayhttp://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=21542&cid=2277966
Fuck you, Slashdot. It wasn't a karma whore. It was real.
slashdot prejudice asplodes
i don't think the government should prevent you from drinking soda, and i don't think that the government should make you wear helmets
but there are plenty of situations where a personal choice without any regard as to responsibility becomes a cost society has to bear. such as your hospital trip. there are plenty of situations in life where you shouldn't do something, or it should be regulated, or you should be licensed, etc
this of course doesn't prevent the existence of morons who cry "it's my freedom!" when, in actuality, what they mean is freedom from responsibility
what they mean is that we, the rest of us, should bear the costs for their "freedom" to do something stupid and destructive (smoke in my face means i get cancer, drunk driving means i get killed just for driving on the road, "i don't need health insurance!"- and they break their arm and avoid the bill and we have to pay for it, etc)
it's a sort of blindness, a form of stupidity: people who see the potential for damage only to themselves, or don't see consequences or potential costs at all, or don't see the implications for other people, the environment, etc
freedom is real. i love freedom. there is a whole range of actions in this world which really do impact only me and society has no business butting in
but freedom doesn't exist in a world where people aren't responsible for the consequences of their actions on others
and freedom doesn't mean freedom from responsibility
it teaches humility
their research is a dead end
otherwise, you'd hear about their research again
there are many examples of utopianists. people who were fed up with society, and wanted to start a new one from scratch. usually these were religious in nature. heck, mormonism is a surviving example of this utopianist era
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia
they run the range from this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_Society
to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple
with thousands of other examples, some harmless, some malignant
but nowadays, there is no more new world. so the pioneer utopianists are doing it in cyberspace (forgive the outdated term)
but the thing with utopianists, today and from yesteryear, is there is a lot of faith in grand schemes that don't really mean much when coupled with basic human nature. they mostly fail
so the scorn is from people who see those with great passion for something like bitcoin, and the curious identification of someone who is so bothered by something that, yes, is a bother (contemporary currencies), but not something so horrible that going all utopian idealist on the issue actually results in any improvement
but hey, who knows, maybe bitcoin will be like mormonism: someday mainstream. 99% of utopian projects fail, but 1% do change history
but i wouldn't bet on bitcoin. it's more like second life to me: high minded but destined for the dustbin of history, populated with a lot of eager highminded idealists for a moment in time, riding the wave of fervent passion but destined to crumble, a curiosity show for the rest of us to mock. which may seem cruel, but anyone who is a fervent idealist better get used to mockery. if your idealism is among the 1% of utopian projects that work, you will change the world, so take heart and shoulder the mockery with fortitude. but please note: 99% fail, so don't be too disappointed if your efforts fail
there is a standing army behind the value of the American dollar. as long as that is true, the abstract representation of value that is the meaning of currency is as real as you ever will get. and that standing army makes a hell of a difference
+1 funny
and... money
do you have a superior solution?
so then, there's just no hope for connecting a website to a real person
whatever is source of your frustrations in real life, try to focus your awesome sense of judgment and keen punitive abilities on that, rather than random people on the internet
thaaanks dude
you need to type in a PIN that is SMSed to the phone to register the website. filter out online only phone numbers. phone numbers can be traced to an owner, or "oh yeah, my boyfriend {XYZ} borrowed my phone that day" which is law enforcement due diligence when investigating crime
seems to be about as good a system as you can hope for
i dunno. you're the stalker, it seems like you would have experience with your scenario
to have good health insurance in the USA