Yen, Euro's, US dollars. Take your pick from the many legitimate currencies that are regularly traded for goods and services, or other currencies, around the world. More generally, any currency that one can pay taxes with. Still more generally, any currency that isn't regarded as little different than "Monopoly money" by more than a few guys living in their mothers' basements.
The Doctors have been colluding with government to fuck over patients well and good for a long time. There'd be some justice in seeing them take the shaft in their turn, but I'd rather just end the power of their guild to control may access to health care services and treatments.
I can see how you might think that, but it's not "The Doctors". If it's collusion you suspect, you should be looking at the medical insurance industry and "the government". Of course, "the government", is a collection of politicians who are largely (but universally) beholden to the insurance industry. The $9 aspirin is a function of insurance industry practices, plain and simple. So are all the other "outrageously priced" tests, treatments, medications, and supplies. It is in the insurance companies' interest to have things cost as much as possible. Yes, they will do their level best to make it as difficult as possible for health care providers to receive compensation, but that is precisely what they do. The net result is a "reason" for higher premiums and a tool to make sure that as much of that money as possible stays in their pocket.
Deathspawner,
Dude, listen to what you are saying. "Hey everybody! We're better off now because our right to due process is now in the hands of our corporate overlords." And you seriously think that is a good thing? Damn...
...for the corporate sponsored shadow government. God damn... I miss the days when there were at least some corporations that stood up to this kind of abuse.
On the contrary, they are a rather sharp bunch. Oh, sure, there's the occasional tool, like Rep. Orcutt, but let's not make the mistake of confusing the act of pandering to stupid constituents with actually being stupid.
I'd agree, but the fact is that "... maintaining those contacts, running those conferences, maintaining the staff that organize this hugely complex apparatus of knowledge..." is nowhere near as daunting as it used to be. To be sure, it requires some effort and that effort should be compensated, but the scale that used to justify selling out to this or that print journal no longer exists. Time for change.
...but you can forget asking them to forgo the prestige of established print journals for idealism. It's hard enough to get tenure today even with a list of publications in prestigious journals...
"Established print journals" exist today because, at one time, it was expensive to regularly collect, review, and publish (as in print and distribute) the articles featured in those journals. Now it isn't. The "prestige" you speak of is a function of the review process. The logistics of that process has never been particularly challenging or expensive, but with the today's technology they are positively trivial. Distribution - same deal. Printing (on dead trees) is unnecessary. So it's just a matter of collecting the the players who can provide effective peer review. And it is those players who, for mostly mercenary reasons, who are lining up with the publishers of print journals. The pursuit of knowledge should be above such crass considerations, so it is doubly shameful for those "peers" to hitch their wagon to an industry that hasn't yet realized it's dying.
I should not have to point this out, but storing passwords in the clear, for a large collections of users, on a system that contains sensitive data, is hardly the same thing as having a mailbox without a lock. All of those users have a reasonable expectation that their accounts will be secure. The keepers of that particular system have pissed on that trust. They should be punished for so willfully disregarding their responsibility here.
So it's wrong when they do it but not when the US does it, is that what you're saying?
Who said that? If you want to argue that war is wrong, fine. I agree, but please, don't even try to suggest that overtly hostile activity, sponsored by a foreign state's military, is not deserving of, at least, response-in-kind. As the GP pointed out, this is a war.
That kind of brain-dead security fail should be illegal, and I mean pay "a fine and go to jail" felony-type illegal. It is clear understatement to say that there is simply no excuse for this to have happened.
Somebody should invent some way to cool the air down. Think of all those poor bakery workers. Oh if only there was some sort of box you could plug into the window and it would make the air colder in the room it was in. Oh wait...
An increasingly obese America is getting too warm when it works? Good God man the temperature is up a degree, have some chips and try to last the night.
Dumbest. Report. Ever. But I can't want to see what they'd say in an ice age. Presumably "oh well, that's it, we're all gonna die then".
Who pays for crap like this?
Whoosh.
This clown's failure to grasp the big picture would be funny, if it weren't so predictably narrow-minded. So all jobs can be equated to the work of bakers who, typically, work in significantly warmer environments (we are meant to assume). Uh-huh. Sure. RTFA and try to understand that the metrics here are bigger than "output of one fat guy vs one skinny guy in a bakery".
Celebrating military victories is a completely different matter because both sides are prepared to fight, and celebrating the end of a war is more different still since that is not celebrating killing but the end of killings. There is no relativistic weaseling here. A military attack is simple to define, it's when a military attacks another military. When some twit kills unarmed people going about their daily business, only in the most sick society can that be celebrated.
Unarmed innocents have been killed by U.S. forces and by those seen as puppets of the U.S., in large numbers, and with great regularity in the Middle East. An unfriendly sentiment is to be expected when one's countrymen, friends, and family die that way. I am not defending terrorism, but I am not so foolish as to ignore the plain fact that a group that is essentially unable to engage in "a stand-up fight" will resort to such tactics as a political tool. That's right, political, not religious, political. We saw the same thing played out for decades in Northern Ireland, and with same ignorant assumptions that it was religious differences that were at the root of that conflict. You really need to get out more and learn than the world is a lot more complex than the vision handed out by Fox News.
Compared to Mohammed dudes like Jesus and Buddha look like saints!
Compared to most of his self-proclaimed followers, Jesus looks like a saint, but then that's always been the case. His "way" was supposed to be a model of love and compassion for his imperfect followers to emulate. Alas, very few of them do that, preferring instead to pick and chose old and new testament scripture to provide a comforting rationale for all their fearful and ignorant behavior.
...an episode of "Pawn Stars" in the not too distant future.
Rick: So what have you got there?
Geek: It's a BitCoin ATM
Chumley: Cool! I remember those. They were, like, supposed to replace ATM's for real money with this Internet pretend-money thingy. Bunch of people got totally scammed into buying them, man. Those things are totally collectible now.
This is the first thing I thought of. I've seen small companies send out mass emails to blocks of people, sharing my name with the hundreds of other customers on the list.
This is, by far, the most likely explanation.
Some of my wife's relatives are of the "forward-to-all every-damn-thing-that-hits-my-mailbox" type. Naturally, every email address in the relative's address book is in the CC: line. So every desktop that sees those emails now has her email address, with predictable results. It is far more likely that some desktop that has seen your secret email address in a CC: is to blame. Not saying that it could not be a server. Lord knows that happens often enough, but Occam's Razor and all.
Slashdot Mirror
Or... we could make up a bunch of shit about how they have stockpiles of WMD's, the need for regime change, etc.
Oh..., wait. What? No oil? Er....
And how many women on these sites are really single?
Meh. I want to know how many of them are really, you know... women.
Bull fucking shit.
Uh huh. Sure. Your colorful zeal notwithstanding...
It's seeing exponential adoption...
[citation needed]
Amateur bankers hustled by trivial attack. Film at eleven.
Yen, Euro's, US dollars. Take your pick from the many legitimate currencies that are regularly traded for goods and services, or other currencies, around the world. More generally, any currency that one can pay taxes with. Still more generally, any currency that isn't regarded as little different than "Monopoly money" by more than a few guys living in their mothers' basements.
It almost sounds y'all are talking about real money ...yet again.
The Doctors have been colluding with government to fuck over patients well and good for a long time. There'd be some justice in seeing them take the shaft in their turn, but I'd rather just end the power of their guild to control may access to health care services and treatments.
I can see how you might think that, but it's not "The Doctors". If it's collusion you suspect, you should be looking at the medical insurance industry and "the government". Of course, "the government", is a collection of politicians who are largely (but universally) beholden to the insurance industry. The $9 aspirin is a function of insurance industry practices, plain and simple. So are all the other "outrageously priced" tests, treatments, medications, and supplies. It is in the insurance companies' interest to have things cost as much as possible. Yes, they will do their level best to make it as difficult as possible for health care providers to receive compensation, but that is precisely what they do. The net result is a "reason" for higher premiums and a tool to make sure that as much of that money as possible stays in their pocket.
Pointing out, where the private property begins.
You just keep telling yourself that, Libertarian Boy.
Deathspawner,
Dude, listen to what you are saying. "Hey everybody! We're better off now because our right to due process is now in the hands of our corporate overlords." And you seriously think that is a good thing? Damn...
...for the corporate sponsored shadow government. God damn... I miss the days when there were at least some corporations that stood up to this kind of abuse.
"Just stay away from me, Bishop. You got that straight?"
On the contrary, they are a rather sharp bunch. Oh, sure, there's the occasional tool, like Rep. Orcutt, but let's not make the mistake of confusing the act of pandering to stupid constituents with actually being stupid.
I wouldn't be surprised if this guy met with an unfortunate accident.
There has been a lot of that happening recently in the gun-rights subculture.
LK
[citation needed]
...or did you expect to lob your nut-case conspiracy theory in here and not get called on it?
I'd agree, but the fact is that "... maintaining those contacts, running those conferences, maintaining the staff that organize this hugely complex apparatus of knowledge..." is nowhere near as daunting as it used to be. To be sure, it requires some effort and that effort should be compensated, but the scale that used to justify selling out to this or that print journal no longer exists. Time for change.
...but you can forget asking them to forgo the prestige of established print journals for idealism. It's hard enough to get tenure today even with a list of publications in prestigious journals...
"Established print journals" exist today because, at one time, it was expensive to regularly collect, review, and publish (as in print and distribute) the articles featured in those journals. Now it isn't. The "prestige" you speak of is a function of the review process. The logistics of that process has never been particularly challenging or expensive, but with the today's technology they are positively trivial. Distribution - same deal. Printing (on dead trees) is unnecessary. So it's just a matter of collecting the the players who can provide effective peer review. And it is those players who, for mostly mercenary reasons, who are lining up with the publishers of print journals. The pursuit of knowledge should be above such crass considerations, so it is doubly shameful for those "peers" to hitch their wagon to an industry that hasn't yet realized it's dying.
Please wake me up when we reach 5D
5D is so pedestrian. My D goes all they way up to eleven.
I should not have to point this out, but storing passwords in the clear, for a large collections of users, on a system that contains sensitive data, is hardly the same thing as having a mailbox without a lock. All of those users have a reasonable expectation that their accounts will be secure. The keepers of that particular system have pissed on that trust. They should be punished for so willfully disregarding their responsibility here.
So it's wrong when they do it but not when the US does it, is that what you're saying?
Who said that? If you want to argue that war is wrong, fine. I agree, but please, don't even try to suggest that overtly hostile activity, sponsored by a foreign state's military, is not deserving of, at least, response-in-kind. As the GP pointed out, this is a war.
That kind of brain-dead security fail should be illegal, and I mean pay "a fine and go to jail" felony-type illegal. It is clear understatement to say that there is simply no excuse for this to have happened.
Somebody should invent some way to cool the air down. Think of all those poor bakery workers. Oh if only there was some sort of box you could plug into the window and it would make the air colder in the room it was in. Oh wait...
An increasingly obese America is getting too warm when it works? Good God man the temperature is up a degree, have some chips and try to last the night.
Dumbest. Report. Ever. But I can't want to see what they'd say in an ice age. Presumably "oh well, that's it, we're all gonna die then".
Who pays for crap like this?
Whoosh.
This clown's failure to grasp the big picture would be funny, if it weren't so predictably narrow-minded. So all jobs can be equated to the work of bakers who, typically, work in significantly warmer environments (we are meant to assume). Uh-huh. Sure. RTFA and try to understand that the metrics here are bigger than "output of one fat guy vs one skinny guy in a bakery".
Celebrating military victories is a completely different matter because both sides are prepared to fight, and celebrating the end of a war is more different still since that is not celebrating killing but the end of killings. There is no relativistic weaseling here. A military attack is simple to define, it's when a military attacks another military. When some twit kills unarmed people going about their daily business, only in the most sick society can that be celebrated.
Unarmed innocents have been killed by U.S. forces and by those seen as puppets of the U.S., in large numbers, and with great regularity in the Middle East. An unfriendly sentiment is to be expected when one's countrymen, friends, and family die that way. I am not defending terrorism, but I am not so foolish as to ignore the plain fact that a group that is essentially unable to engage in "a stand-up fight" will resort to such tactics as a political tool. That's right, political, not religious, political. We saw the same thing played out for decades in Northern Ireland, and with same ignorant assumptions that it was religious differences that were at the root of that conflict. You really need to get out more and learn than the world is a lot more complex than the vision handed out by Fox News.
Compared to Mohammed dudes like Jesus and Buddha look like saints!
Compared to most of his self-proclaimed followers, Jesus looks like a saint, but then that's always been the case. His "way" was supposed to be a model of love and compassion for his imperfect followers to emulate. Alas, very few of them do that, preferring instead to pick and chose old and new testament scripture to provide a comforting rationale for all their fearful and ignorant behavior.
It is a function of their religion because Muslims are the only ones who do it.
Your grasp of logic appears to be fatally flawed. Come back when you can put together two premises and a conclusion that actually follows.
...an episode of "Pawn Stars" in the not too distant future.
Rick: So what have you got there?
Geek: It's a BitCoin ATM
Chumley: Cool! I remember those. They were, like, supposed to replace ATM's for real money with this Internet pretend-money thingy. Bunch of people got totally scammed into buying them, man. Those things are totally collectible now.
This is the first thing I thought of. I've seen small companies send out mass emails to blocks of people, sharing my name with the hundreds of other customers on the list.
This is, by far, the most likely explanation.
Some of my wife's relatives are of the "forward-to-all every-damn-thing-that-hits-my-mailbox" type. Naturally, every email address in the relative's address book is in the CC: line. So every desktop that sees those emails now has her email address, with predictable results. It is far more likely that some desktop that has seen your secret email address in a CC: is to blame. Not saying that it could not be a server. Lord knows that happens often enough, but Occam's Razor and all.