I'm sorry, but I sincerely doubt the no fee-for-service thing... unless you can find a solid reference:)
And if your pharmacist loses money on filling medicare prescriptions, why does he fill them? Sounds like someone who's actually making money off of it but just not as much as he wants.
That's a guy that wants to get out of paying the taxes in return for giving up Medicare benefits. I thought you were saying that people are forced to use Medicare's services, which I doubt is the case. It's like public schools... you have to pay taxes to support them but you can choose to send your child to a private school, nobody is forcing you to send them to the public school.
But they also claimed that nobody would broadcast anything without the broadcast flag. See how that turned out? They _will_ provide the content even we don't allow them to encrypt because they want viewers.
Comcast is already eliminating analog in most places, and now the FCC went and stupidly gave them a separable security waiver so they don't have to keep the digital unencrypted for their DTAs either anymore. Since I refuse to pay for cable without using my mythbox, that means I'll be canceling Comcast come October (when they're shutting off analog) unless something changes.
SAS is way too expensive. Remember, they were trying to do things cheap. (I looked into SAS myself for personal use, and while SAS controllers are affordable, expanders, which you need for any large setup, are not.)
Nintendo states on warioworld.com that it categorically declines to deal with students, hobbyists, and microISVs: one needs a dedicated office and a track record of published titles. So for which platform should students and hobbyists be building a portfolio to start a company? Most PC monitors are just too small for four people.
But, one thing Microsoft is good about with the 360/xbox live is allowing independent content (or at least so I hear). I've seen other people trying out games from the market with lots of interesting gameplay concepts that you would probably not see in a mainstream game
Consider also that the greatest users of infrastructure are not business, but individuals. For them, the rate of individual infrastructure usage is inversely proportional to the tax bracket they belong to. The larger your gross income, the larger the tax % you have to pay (while at the same time reducing your dependency on infrastructure.) OTH, the poorer you are, the less tax % you have to pay WHILE having to rely more on the infrastructure.
Yep, the poor people sure rely on the police to protect all that wealth they have. And use federal highways to transport all their goods so they can make a profit. And use our court system to battle out patents and corporate disputes. Damn those poor, using all that infrastructure.
If you actually want help and aren't just trolling, call your local state (not federal) representative. They're very helpful in sorting out stupid issues like this.
Wait, you admit that there are private schools in education, where there is a strong public influence, yet you think somehow that a public option that (unfortunately) is only available to a few will leas to a government monopoly?
Yeah, I'm sure the content companies _forced_ Comcast to get a waiver from the FCC. And they're the ones forcing Comcast to drop unencrypted analog service. Riiiight
I saw something similar where informal documentation (written many many years after the fact) on a very old system that was still in use said "we don't know what this loader parameter does. if you know, please tell us"
The problem is, it's not just whole articles being deleted, but also useful information being deleted from articles. For example the whole "trivia sections are discouraged" thing is ridiculous.
This is why I've never donated. Every time I consider it, within a few days (usually same day) I run into a case of where the deletionists deleted some useful information as "not encyclopedic."
The tech job market is actually pretty decent in Ann Arbor. Not great, but decent. Especially if you're willing to take a risk with a start-up... there's a ton of those springing up right now.
This. I do not contribute to wikipedia except for occasional typo fixes for exactly this reason. I haven't even had many of my own personal edits reverted, I am just tired of seeing useful information being gone because of the deletionists, and cannot in good conscience spend my time contributing to a place infested with such people.
Comcast's opt-out is also a different set of DNS servers, except that it appears that if you give them your cable modem MAC address they will automatically give you those opt-out DNS servers via DHCP
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I'm sorry, but I sincerely doubt the no fee-for-service thing... unless you can find a solid reference :)
And if your pharmacist loses money on filling medicare prescriptions, why does he fill them? Sounds like someone who's actually making money off of it but just not as much as he wants.
That's a guy that wants to get out of paying the taxes in return for giving up Medicare benefits. I thought you were saying that people are forced to use Medicare's services, which I doubt is the case. It's like public schools... you have to pay taxes to support them but you can choose to send your child to a private school, nobody is forcing you to send them to the public school.
But they also claimed that nobody would broadcast anything without the broadcast flag. See how that turned out? They _will_ provide the content even we don't allow them to encrypt because they want viewers.
Comcast is already eliminating analog in most places, and now the FCC went and stupidly gave them a separable security waiver so they don't have to keep the digital unencrypted for their DTAs either anymore. Since I refuse to pay for cable without using my mythbox, that means I'll be canceling Comcast come October (when they're shutting off analog) unless something changes.
Citation please?
SAS is way too expensive. Remember, they were trying to do things cheap. (I looked into SAS myself for personal use, and while SAS controllers are affordable, expanders, which you need for any large setup, are not.)
Nintendo states on warioworld.com that it categorically declines to deal with students, hobbyists, and microISVs: one needs a dedicated office and a track record of published titles. So for which platform should students and hobbyists be building a portfolio to start a company? Most PC monitors are just too small for four people.
Xbox 360. Seriously, I don't really like Microsoft, and I don't really like xbox (or playstation for that matter) games in general (i tend to like more playful games, http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/2005/11/blue-sky-in-games-campaign-launched.html)
But, one thing Microsoft is good about with the 360/xbox live is allowing independent content (or at least so I hear). I've seen other people trying out games from the market with lots of interesting gameplay concepts that you would probably not see in a mainstream game
Consider also that the greatest users of infrastructure are not business, but individuals. For them, the rate of individual infrastructure usage is inversely proportional to the tax bracket they belong to. The larger your gross income, the larger the tax % you have to pay (while at the same time reducing your dependency on infrastructure.) OTH, the poorer you are, the less tax % you have to pay WHILE having to rely more on the infrastructure.
Yep, the poor people sure rely on the police to protect all that wealth they have. And use federal highways to transport all their goods so they can make a profit. And use our court system to battle out patents and corporate disputes. Damn those poor, using all that infrastructure.
If you actually want help and aren't just trolling, call your local state (not federal) representative. They're very helpful in sorting out stupid issues like this.
Wait, you admit that there are private schools in education, where there is a strong public influence, yet you think somehow that a public option that (unfortunately) is only available to a few will leas to a government monopoly?
Yeah, I'm sure the content companies _forced_ Comcast to get a waiver from the FCC. And they're the ones forcing Comcast to drop unencrypted analog service. Riiiight
Plus IIRC it only allows you to store in an encrypted format and enforces something broadcast flag-like.
Check out SLAX
Check out netcat :)
I saw something similar where informal documentation (written many many years after the fact) on a very old system that was still in use said "we don't know what this loader parameter does. if you know, please tell us"
When I see sites like that, I have to wonder if it's all just an elaborate parody. It scares me to think that some people actually think like that.
When was this? The computer names at U of M engineering are horribly boring now (building+room+computer number)
The problem is, it's not just whole articles being deleted, but also useful information being deleted from articles. For example the whole "trivia sections are discouraged" thing is ridiculous.
This is why I've never donated. Every time I consider it, within a few days (usually same day) I run into a case of where the deletionists deleted some useful information as "not encyclopedic."
Did a normal 3 or 4 credit course only take 3 or 4 hours a week at your university?
The tech job market is actually pretty decent in Ann Arbor. Not great, but decent. Especially if you're willing to take a risk with a start-up... there's a ton of those springing up right now.
This. I do not contribute to wikipedia except for occasional typo fixes for exactly this reason. I haven't even had many of my own personal edits reverted, I am just tired of seeing useful information being gone because of the deletionists, and cannot in good conscience spend my time contributing to a place infested with such people.
Comcast's opt-out is also a different set of DNS servers, except that it appears that if you give them your cable modem MAC address they will automatically give you those opt-out DNS servers via DHCP
Comcast already knows you modem's MAC address (which is what they're using to opt out, not your computer's MAC address).
What's with all the funny mods in this thread?