What percentage of the military do you think will raise arms against a US insurrection? What do you do when a population with 300M firearms is willing to fight for what they believe is a just cause.
Civil war is as unlikely as Lessig's dream coming true, but it's not dismissable as you propose.
Lessig seems ignorant of the Constitution, particularly the bit that says the states shall decide how electors are chosen.
The Constitution says nothing about "winner take all." It says nothing to suggest that electors' freedom should be constrained in any way...They were to be citizens exercising judgment, not cogs turning a wheel.
The Constitution says nothing about many things. It says this or that shall or shall not be allowed. In this case, the states have done precisely what the Constitution requires them to do, determine how electors are selected.
Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, my secretary did a broadcast email of 100MB in photos to my entire company. Our home-brew mail server practically exploded.
Why is the total consumption strawman still living? Your argument is like a "C" student saying he won't study since he can't get an "A". Any oil obtained with the usual efficacy is a very good thing. At $75 per barrel, 24B barrels bought from US sources is $1.8T in reduced trade deficit and thousands of the very same jobs we seem to be lacking.
It's fine to be crack wise, but you might actually influence someone to oppose this. That isn't so fine.
True enough. But with such a small average, I doubt that enough calls are over a minute due to the intro to make much fuss. As I said earlier, better to have by-the-second billing (or as with many landlines, 6-second billing), and then complain about the intro.
Recall as well that there are so many free minutes out there (nights, weekends, circles, same services, etc.) that this becomes an even smaller issue. Frankly, I think it was Pogue's pique of the moment that got slashdotted.
Leave the name calling to those who can think. He didn't make a separate point, he merely pointed out what many had before him, that some calls may run over a minute. So yes, he got the math right. And no, he still doesn't get it. A quick google finds reference to the average vmail running 18 to 22 seconds. Add 15,...
Sorry, but if this case is restricted to voicemail (RTFA?), it uses the first 15 seconds of calls that are usually very short, typically under a minute. Mostly no harm, no foul. A slightly different case can be made for retrieving multiple emails, since that may run several minutes, but I doubt it accounts for more than a minute, even then.
I agree with the parent's parent, the article was not very interesting. I agree as well with another comment: Better to have billing by the second and _then_ bitch.
When I go to the Dr. and tell them I'm paying myself, they usually give me at least a 15% discount off the top of what they'd charge an insurance co.
Why in the world would you do that? Your insurance company gets much better rates than you receive individually (typically 1/3, as little as 1/10th) and you need them to track your expenses against your deductible (in case you break you leg and do your damnedest to reach that deductible). I've had plans with two different companies and I never pay a cent until billed by the provider, after the charge has been reduced to the insurance company contract rate.
I look at all my high deductible "Explanation of Benefits" statements and it's typical to see medication reduced by half or more from the walk-up rate, with the largest reduction I've seen coming close to 90%. For lab tests, I've seen far greater reductions (yes, really). Based on that, it seems clear to me that the uninsured, those paying cash, are the ones being ripped off in this system. The insured have the catastrophic event protection of the insurance system as well as the cost savings of the high deductible plans available to them.
I'm a big proponent of high deductible plans, as I find them to be a winner regardless of your health status if your deductible is also your out-of-pocket-maximum. If you don't have a health issue, you pocket your insurance savings and your pre-tax savings. If you have a serious event, you pocket your insurance savings, spend your pre-tax savings and avoid the 10% to 20% hospital copays of a traditional plan. If you fall between, your partial payment of the pretax savings is nicely offset by the lack of drug and office visit copays and you still save on the insurance cost.
I've also found that insurance costs are reduced so much that the employer can pay a portion of the deductible and still save money overall. In addition to paying most of the insurance premium (80% for employees, 70% for dependents), my company (that's also me, btw) pays half the deductible on a $2K/$4K plan. We get the full deduction from our income and employees (me again) can even opt to pay nothing into the savings system and have little risk of their out-of-pocket expense exceeding that of a traditional plan. We both save those dreaded payroll taxes, too.
Now, if I could find out why my hospital wants $44K+ each day for "room and board" and why the insurance company allowed $24K+, I'd have the answer to why health insurance costs so much. And yes, the other charges were all itemized separately. I'll grant that the room was private, but it hardly seems like difference could be that much of a factor, since the insurer had no trouble with it.
"providing 3 million amps of power per shot has been a limitation."
Hello, my name is Joe and I'm the world's first ultra-capacitor billionaire. My girlfriend Jane is surely in love with me and not my money, since she's the world's first super-conductor billionaire. We intend to spend our wealth in ways that will boggle the mind and exhaust the patience of the righteous. Have a nice day.
I've had no data corruption issues on 10.4 or 10.5, so I can't speak to your problems, but the speed is decent on wired connections (similar to USB direct) and pretty slow but not unusable on wireless. I do have some wireless G devices still and I suspect they are the culprits responsible for slow wireless service.
Back to the origin of the question, for the price of an AirPort, you get NAS on a USB port, a gigabit switch, wireless N and a router/DHCP server. Or you could spend $100 on the same bare NAS boxes that began this thread.
It's working well at my house, with read/write speeds comparable to a direct attached USB device. So well, in fact, that I'm about to buy a MiniStack drive case with the USB hub I mention (size and color matched accessories, gotta love 'em). And I really don't care about CPU utilization on this particular box. For backup purposes, I'd care even less.
$179 for an Airport base station, $321 for three 500GB USB drives and a USB 2.0 hub. Should be enough for a serious porn collection, and you get wireless N for free.
If 49% of males are sleepers and 35% of females are sleepers, how do we get to 51%? Must be a third gender, which would change IT into a personal pronoun. And they would be very sleepy.
Regardless of whether the French are free of the free market in these areas, the ultimate question is whether the system is successful and sustainable. Apparently, the answer is "not so much". So perhaps it's not accurate to blame the free market for what he perceives as the failures of either system in the US. But then he would have no point, would he?
From the closing paragraph: "But it's interesting to learn that health care isn't the only area in which the French, who can take a pragmatic approach because they aren't prisoners of free-market ideology, simply do things better."
Interesting that Krugman uses France's health care system as a point of comparison. Particularly since the French are beginning to realize they can't afford it any more.
Slashdot Mirror
Somebody made you buy an iPhone?
and give the money back to the shareholders.
Or not.
how Jor-El implanted the codex in Kal-El.
Not that I need a reason to rewatch a movie with Diane Lane and Ayelet Zurer in it.
Tell that to the people in Syria.
What percentage of the military do you think will raise arms against a US insurrection? What do you do when a population with 300M firearms is willing to fight for what they believe is a just cause.
Civil war is as unlikely as Lessig's dream coming true, but it's not dismissable as you propose.
Lessig seems ignorant of the Constitution, particularly the bit that says the states shall decide how electors are chosen.
The Constitution says nothing about "winner take all." It says nothing to suggest that electors' freedom should be constrained in any way...They were to be citizens exercising judgment, not cogs turning a wheel.
The Constitution says nothing about many things. It says this or that shall or shall not be allowed. In this case, the states have done precisely what the Constitution requires them to do, determine how electors are selected.
Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, my secretary did a broadcast email of 100MB in photos to my entire company. Our home-brew mail server practically exploded.
Just burn it on site.
sitesucker rules
Steel shot has generally been required for a decades.
http://www.ehow.com/list_6798681_steel-shot-regulations.html
Why is the total consumption strawman still living? Your argument is like a "C" student saying he won't study since he can't get an "A". Any oil obtained with the usual efficacy is a very good thing. At $75 per barrel, 24B barrels bought from US sources is $1.8T in reduced trade deficit and thousands of the very same jobs we seem to be lacking.
It's fine to be crack wise, but you might actually influence someone to oppose this. That isn't so fine.
True enough. But with such a small average, I doubt that enough calls are over a minute due to the intro to make much fuss. As I said earlier, better to have by-the-second billing (or as with many landlines, 6-second billing), and then complain about the intro.
Recall as well that there are so many free minutes out there (nights, weekends, circles, same services, etc.) that this becomes an even smaller issue. Frankly, I think it was Pogue's pique of the moment that got slashdotted.
Leave the name calling to those who can think. He didn't make a separate point, he merely pointed out what many had before him, that some calls may run over a minute. So yes, he got the math right. And no, he still doesn't get it. A quick google finds reference to the average vmail running 18 to 22 seconds. Add 15, ...
Well, you got the math right.
You are apparently the special case. "Typically" and "usually" includes all of us. I'll stand by "Usually very short, typically under a minute."
Sorry, but if this case is restricted to voicemail (RTFA?), it uses the first 15 seconds of calls that are usually very short, typically under a minute. Mostly no harm, no foul. A slightly different case can be made for retrieving multiple emails, since that may run several minutes, but I doubt it accounts for more than a minute, even then.
I agree with the parent's parent, the article was not very interesting. I agree as well with another comment: Better to have billing by the second and _then_ bitch.
When I go to the Dr. and tell them I'm paying myself, they usually give me at least a 15% discount off the top of what they'd charge an insurance co.
Why in the world would you do that? Your insurance company gets much better rates than you receive individually (typically 1/3, as little as 1/10th) and you need them to track your expenses against your deductible (in case you break you leg and do your damnedest to reach that deductible). I've had plans with two different companies and I never pay a cent until billed by the provider, after the charge has been reduced to the insurance company contract rate.
I look at all my high deductible "Explanation of Benefits" statements and it's typical to see medication reduced by half or more from the walk-up rate, with the largest reduction I've seen coming close to 90%. For lab tests, I've seen far greater reductions (yes, really). Based on that, it seems clear to me that the uninsured, those paying cash, are the ones being ripped off in this system. The insured have the catastrophic event protection of the insurance system as well as the cost savings of the high deductible plans available to them.
I'm a big proponent of high deductible plans, as I find them to be a winner regardless of your health status if your deductible is also your out-of-pocket-maximum. If you don't have a health issue, you pocket your insurance savings and your pre-tax savings. If you have a serious event, you pocket your insurance savings, spend your pre-tax savings and avoid the 10% to 20% hospital copays of a traditional plan. If you fall between, your partial payment of the pretax savings is nicely offset by the lack of drug and office visit copays and you still save on the insurance cost.
I've also found that insurance costs are reduced so much that the employer can pay a portion of the deductible and still save money overall. In addition to paying most of the insurance premium (80% for employees, 70% for dependents), my company (that's also me, btw) pays half the deductible on a $2K/$4K plan. We get the full deduction from our income and employees (me again) can even opt to pay nothing into the savings system and have little risk of their out-of-pocket expense exceeding that of a traditional plan. We both save those dreaded payroll taxes, too.
Now, if I could find out why my hospital wants $44K+ each day for "room and board" and why the insurance company allowed $24K+, I'd have the answer to why health insurance costs so much. And yes, the other charges were all itemized separately. I'll grant that the room was private, but it hardly seems like difference could be that much of a factor, since the insurer had no trouble with it.
Wikipedia is your friend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_specific_impulse_magnetoplasma_rocket
"providing 3 million amps of power per shot has been a limitation."
Hello, my name is Joe and I'm the world's first ultra-capacitor billionaire. My girlfriend Jane is surely in love with me and not my money, since she's the world's first super-conductor billionaire. We intend to spend our wealth in ways that will boggle the mind and exhaust the patience of the righteous. Have a nice day.
I like the LifeDrive, but any widescreen Palm is very nice in landscape mode. It's about the same width as a paperback page.
Hunnerds an' hunnerds of books in my pocket, and Sudoku, too!
I've had no data corruption issues on 10.4 or 10.5, so I can't speak to your problems, but the speed is decent on wired connections (similar to USB direct) and pretty slow but not unusable on wireless. I do have some wireless G devices still and I suspect they are the culprits responsible for slow wireless service.
Back to the origin of the question, for the price of an AirPort, you get NAS on a USB port, a gigabit switch, wireless N and a router/DHCP server. Or you could spend $100 on the same bare NAS boxes that began this thread.
It's working well at my house, with read/write speeds comparable to a direct attached USB device. So well, in fact, that I'm about to buy a MiniStack drive case with the USB hub I mention (size and color matched accessories, gotta love 'em). And I really don't care about CPU utilization on this particular box. For backup purposes, I'd care even less.
$179 for an Airport base station, $321 for three 500GB USB drives and a USB 2.0 hub. Should be enough for a serious porn collection, and you get wireless N for free.
If 49% of males are sleepers and 35% of females are sleepers, how do we get to 51%? Must be a third gender, which would change IT into a personal pronoun. And they would be very sleepy.
Seems like we just went through this discussion. OK, it was a few months back, but it's the same sad story.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/27/1753218
Regardless of whether the French are free of the free market in these areas, the ultimate question is whether the system is successful and sustainable. Apparently, the answer is "not so much". So perhaps it's not accurate to blame the free market for what he perceives as the failures of either system in the US. But then he would have no point, would he?
From the closing paragraph: "But it's interesting to learn that health care isn't the only area in which the French, who can take a pragmatic approach because they aren't prisoners of free-market ideology, simply do things better."
Interesting that Krugman uses France's health care system as a point of comparison. Particularly since the French are beginning to realize they can't afford it any more.