Do you know that stating a scenario is not the same as lying?
Had McCain been President I would have said McCain and Congress and then you would falsely accuse me of ideology on the Democrat site of the spectrum.
Here I defended Obama from a racial slur that an Anonymous coward did in saying that Obama has everyone by the "nut sack" and made a comment that he was gambling away our tax money. Proof that I don't go by ideology as you do, Walkingshark. I call it as I see it.
I am a Libertarian and a Pirate, I call it as I see it on both Democrats and Republicans. If I write a scenario it is because I thought it relevant, on that we disagree, but I still have a right and freedom of speech to write whatever scenario I want to on Slashdot.
A scenario is not a lie, you should be honest enough to admit that it is a potential but not a lie. Lying is morally wrong but the majority lie every day anyway. You can call me a liar for posting a scenario you don't like, but all I was doing was exercising my freedom of speech on Slashdot. Your personal attack on me shows the fallacy of your statement.
Actually it does relate to the article in case medical tests are considered "unnecessary" but multiple tests need to be done in order to narrow down the symptoms.
It is not that I am lying, but your lack of critical thinking and reading comprehension skills on the subject.
What I am ashamed of, is that people like you think it is propaganda, when it was meant as a possible scenario that the article will do if tests are being limited in number that doctors can do because now they are getting rubber stamped as unnecessary, and it may even harm the patient in some way.
I am neither a Democrat or Republican, I am an American Citizen disgusted at both parties for their incompetence and corruption, plus people like you who take everything and twist the words around to fit your own ideology and political agenda. Does the insane amount of lying you have to do on a daily basis to maintain your ideology ever, even for a second, bother you? Lying is morally wrong. You should be ashamed.
Yeah I still have my old Amiga 500 with Kickstart 2.0 it still runs great.
But I use my Amiga emulator because it is faster and saves my Amiga from wearing out. Yes I do legally own a few Kickstart ROMs in order to use the emulator.
My old Amiga 1000 broke down the floppy drive and keyboard and monitor, but it lasted about ten years from 1985 - 1995. I bought the Amiga 500 in 1996 to replace the Amiga 1000 at an Amiga convention.
I am looking forward to AROS getting ready for prime time so I can develop applications for it. That is because I cannot afford the PowerPC AmigaOS 4.0 systems and I'd rather use an old PC with AROS instead.
This sounds like the kind of old country doctor that Dr. McCoy would be on the USS Enterprise and argue against Mr. Spock's Science and Logic, all the while Dr. McCoy uses science in his medical bay to treat patients.
One can reason that the cervical cancer tests would reveal other sorts of cancer as well. It is like a woman who had hear breasts removed, died of breast cancer later anyway as the cancer came back after the breasts were surgically removed.
Why can't we just have one general "cancer test" developed for all kinds of cancer that exist, be it cervical, breast, lung, kidney, colon, etc? Our technology is as advanced as it can get for this day and age.
Instead of Dr. McCoy, we now have Dr. House who gets a patient with a "mystery illness" as many diseases and cancers, etc share symptoms. Then they have to run dozens of tests until they find the right one via logic and deduction and process of elimination. Until the heathcare insurance company or the government gets the bill for the dozens of tests run to solve the illness the patient had, and then treat it.
If a person's life is at stake, how many tests a doctor is allowed to make, could mean the difference between life and death.
Well Mr. Smith we'd like to run a series of tests to see what illness you have, but Obama and Congress passed a healthcare bill that limits us to run just one test. We ran it for lupis, but it came back negative, and since we ran one test, we cannot run another. I'm afraid we'll have to just release you from the hospital and write it up as "the flu" and give you a prescription for antibiotics. Sure hope it isn't cancer, AIDS, or even something that might kill you. Best of luck, Mr. Smith, we got other patients to help out now, they pile up a lot and we are really busy after that Universal healthcare bill got passed.
Let us see if the federal government can work on a 100% open source software solution using real open source operating systems and software applications.
Open source is not Communism, Open Source is freedom and Democracy as our founding fathers saw it. One can be free to choose any OS or software they want and still get work done, and not be tied down to just one vendor.
Push Open Source? It should read more like "Support Open Source" so we don't get confused with Microsoft pushing Windows on us all.
Thanks for the tip. I'll be sure to file for an S-Corp or something as soon as the book is finished being written. I've run two small businesses before, but that was computer technical support and I couldn't make them profitable. I guess the third time is the charm?
Or aliens, we could have been some alien high school science fair project that went wrong, so they shot the "Grey goo" to Earth and it evolved into the lifeforms we now have.
Would it be interesting to find out that we created ourselves via AEGIS and shot it back in time via a time travel paradox?
Actually everyone in politics and government is corrupt to a certain degree.
Please note that the Democrats in Congress and the White House have not gotten rid of the bills and laws that Bush passed, and many of them voted for the bills Bush put to vote in Congress and are Democrats, and still in Congress.
So what was your point again, only the neocons are corrupt? Ho ho ha ha he he heh heh, yeah right.
The main question that the liberal media and liberals in general keep asking themselves.
One day you will wake up and notice that neolibs are just as bad as neocons, when you do, please join us libertarians in saying both the donkeys and elephants are equally corrupt.
The "Obama has you by the nut sack" and "he may as well be betting in vegas with tax payer cash." portraying two negative stereotypes of African-Americans. Grabbing someone by the nut sack and gambling money away. If you cannot see that, you are blind.
One thing though, were do I get the money to start up the small business? I'm currently on disability and trying to write a book to help get me off disability.
I joined the Imagic "Numb Thumb" Club. The Atari 2600 only had one button but we pushed it with our thumb. Doctors called it "Numb Thumb" and Imagic turned it into a club.
#1 ReactOS and HaikuOS can use a different file system than FAT. #2 The source code of the ReactOS and HaikuOS uses different techniques to access FAT volumes anyway. #3 Since ReactOS and HaikuOS are not as widely used as Linux, doubtful Microsoft will sue them as there is no money to be made doing so. TomTom on the other hand, earns money hand over fist and thus made themselves a target by Microsoft.
Please note this is not "suing Linux" but "Suing Tomtom" for using a Linux based solution that accesses FAT devices and stores an 8 lettered file name as a 32 filed one. Had Tomtom used Windows CE, doubtful Microsoft would have sued them.
Yes it is possible to access FAT volumes and not break any patents, and still leave them in a way that Microsoft's FAT implementation(s) can still read it. For example you can read it in the 8 character file name, as Apple's old operating systems used to do and ignore the 32 character file name.
since sexual orientation is not at the federal level, she cannot sue in federal court, but usually some states and cities have sexual orientation at the state or city level. She would have to sue Microsoft at the state or city level and cite the state or city law that was broken.
In my humble opinion, I don't think she should be banned for being a lesbian. That has got nothing to do with playing video games.
I don't buy the "she'll be picked on by other gamers" defense either. I am a Christian but I do not pick on people for their sexual orientation. Maybe some Christians do, like the Westburrough Baptist church or whatever, but I don't. I am not a member of that church or any church that is biased against sexual orientation.
The only way they could have banned her is if she went into a rant bashing some other group on her profile like "I am a lesbian and all men are pigs and all Christians are idiots" then that might warrant a ban as she is more of a Rosie O'Donnell lesbian than an Ellen Degeneres lesbian and is offending people with hate speech. Even then it should be a warning to change her profile and repeated offenses warrant the ban.
Then again Microsoft owns the network she connects to, just like Wikipedia can mark an article for deletion and vote on it because it is part of their web site and network. Wikipedia while deleting articles for reasons that make no sense, still have the right to delete any article on their web site or ban any user for any reason. It really depends on what the terms of service say and if she violated any terms of service.
I think there is more to this story than reported. Like when the lesbian couple was ejected from a baseball game, we later learned that they were making out in public which is an ejectionable offense even for straight couples.
is to be as good with technology as a man is or better. She ought to be able to pull her own weight as anyone else can. She should not weasel her way out of work by claiming to be female and that gives her special treatment to goof off by gossiping, or calling other coworkers names, or calling the men idiots because we write code differently than she does, or cry when she does not get her way.
A Geek Goddess should be treated as an equal to a man, there should be no gender discrimination, that is how employment law states it.
Some women can be Geek Goddesses, and they are great to work with. Other women are not Geek Goddesses and they weasel their way out of work because they are female and use that fact to manipulate and control males. Women who were not Geek Goddesses I had to clean up their messes and pick up the slack for them when they weaseled their way out of work. I also had to put up with their insults and gossips and office politics and games. A Geek Goddess does none of that.
but you should notify the EEOC when they give you a bad reference. Usually all they should give is name, rank, and serial number, how long you worked there. If they give you a bad review they are in violation of employment law. Esp if you did nothing wrong.
Now note they can just start documenting stuff that didn't happen to try and prove you are a bad employee, they did that with me. Lost doctor's notes to make my sick days look like days I just didn't show up to work, deleted their PBX system calls I made calling in the sick day so it would not show up.
Your best bet is to document everything they say to so, maybe get it voice recorded on a tape player or voice recorder system. Then present it to the EEOC as evidence they are trying to blackmail you. You might have a case against your former employer if they give a bad review.
Some companies don't care if an employer gives a bad review, they know that sometimes employers give bad reviews because they don't want their ex-employee working for their competition. But if all gets worse you can always work as a contractor or start up your own business.
Me, it made me so sick that I ended up on disability because of the stress and discrimination my former employers had against me. But after 180 days ran out I no longer had the right to sue after the job was over. I was sick those 180 days and didn't know any better.
employment contracts are legal slavery, network use contracts doubly so.
You can get fired for just doing your job, it has happened to me two times. If you don't give them your passwords, they will use spyware to capture your keystrokes and steal your password and spy on your computer usage as well.
Even if when you use the Internet for research and development on programming web sites that are "fair use" they are used against you as surfing during work hours even if your manager told you to visit those web sites to learn new skills and find new technology to improve the programs you are responsible for. Meanwhile managers surf MSN, stock quotes, eBay, and so do coworkers and it is never counted against them.
When a manager is vague on what they want, and don't hand over meeting notes or descriptions of what they want the program to do, it is a "communication issue" with the programmer, not the manager, and the programmer is being a bad employee again.
The programmer does his best to make the program do what the managers want, even without the information needed. But it is not good enough, and sent back for a rewrite with a vague description to make it less like Outlook but more like a four windowed item list sorted by ID. When you ask which ID, they refuse to tell you if it is an employee ID, a matter ID, a client ID, a workgroup ID. Then you ask what you want in the data columns and rows, which they don't understand what a row and column are or what data means. So you say pieces of information on the up and down positions, and then they get mad at you for dumbing it down for them. The programmer is annoying the manager and project leader (who all have no programming or technical experience) and talking down to them. Another communication issue.
Since they know my passwords, they checked into the server to check my source code, and then scribbled all over it with gibberish and checked it back in. Forcing me to revert the changes and it looks like I was the one who did the wrecking of code because the managers used my password for various things that they got via spyware on my system.
That was a lousy troll there, AC. Next time try a little bit harder on the troll and less on the Obama-bashing. Since you couldn't Bush-bash anymore, you tried an Obama-bash which only makes you look racist.
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Do you know that stating a scenario is not the same as lying?
Had McCain been President I would have said McCain and Congress and then you would falsely accuse me of ideology on the Democrat site of the spectrum.
Here I defended Obama from a racial slur that an Anonymous coward did in saying that Obama has everyone by the "nut sack" and made a comment that he was gambling away our tax money. Proof that I don't go by ideology as you do, Walkingshark. I call it as I see it.
I am a Libertarian and a Pirate, I call it as I see it on both Democrats and Republicans. If I write a scenario it is because I thought it relevant, on that we disagree, but I still have a right and freedom of speech to write whatever scenario I want to on Slashdot.
A scenario is not a lie, you should be honest enough to admit that it is a potential but not a lie. Lying is morally wrong but the majority lie every day anyway. You can call me a liar for posting a scenario you don't like, but all I was doing was exercising my freedom of speech on Slashdot. Your personal attack on me shows the fallacy of your statement.
Actually it does relate to the article in case medical tests are considered "unnecessary" but multiple tests need to be done in order to narrow down the symptoms.
It is not that I am lying, but your lack of critical thinking and reading comprehension skills on the subject.
What I am ashamed of, is that people like you think it is propaganda, when it was meant as a possible scenario that the article will do if tests are being limited in number that doctors can do because now they are getting rubber stamped as unnecessary, and it may even harm the patient in some way.
I am neither a Democrat or Republican, I am an American Citizen disgusted at both parties for their incompetence and corruption, plus people like you who take everything and twist the words around to fit your own ideology and political agenda. Does the insane amount of lying you have to do on a daily basis to maintain your ideology ever, even for a second, bother you? Lying is morally wrong. You should be ashamed.
Yeah I still have my old Amiga 500 with Kickstart 2.0 it still runs great.
But I use my Amiga emulator because it is faster and saves my Amiga from wearing out. Yes I do legally own a few Kickstart ROMs in order to use the emulator.
My old Amiga 1000 broke down the floppy drive and keyboard and monitor, but it lasted about ten years from 1985 - 1995. I bought the Amiga 500 in 1996 to replace the Amiga 1000 at an Amiga convention.
I am looking forward to AROS getting ready for prime time so I can develop applications for it. That is because I cannot afford the PowerPC AmigaOS 4.0 systems and I'd rather use an old PC with AROS instead.
This sounds like the kind of old country doctor that Dr. McCoy would be on the USS Enterprise and argue against Mr. Spock's Science and Logic, all the while Dr. McCoy uses science in his medical bay to treat patients.
One can reason that the cervical cancer tests would reveal other sorts of cancer as well. It is like a woman who had hear breasts removed, died of breast cancer later anyway as the cancer came back after the breasts were surgically removed.
Why can't we just have one general "cancer test" developed for all kinds of cancer that exist, be it cervical, breast, lung, kidney, colon, etc? Our technology is as advanced as it can get for this day and age.
Instead of Dr. McCoy, we now have Dr. House who gets a patient with a "mystery illness" as many diseases and cancers, etc share symptoms. Then they have to run dozens of tests until they find the right one via logic and deduction and process of elimination. Until the heathcare insurance company or the government gets the bill for the dozens of tests run to solve the illness the patient had, and then treat it.
If a person's life is at stake, how many tests a doctor is allowed to make, could mean the difference between life and death.
Well Mr. Smith we'd like to run a series of tests to see what illness you have, but Obama and Congress passed a healthcare bill that limits us to run just one test. We ran it for lupis, but it came back negative, and since we ran one test, we cannot run another. I'm afraid we'll have to just release you from the hospital and write it up as "the flu" and give you a prescription for antibiotics. Sure hope it isn't cancer, AIDS, or even something that might kill you. Best of luck, Mr. Smith, we got other patients to help out now, they pile up a lot and we are really busy after that Universal healthcare bill got passed.
Let us see if the federal government can work on a 100% open source software solution using real open source operating systems and software applications.
Open source is not Communism, Open Source is freedom and Democracy as our founding fathers saw it. One can be free to choose any OS or software they want and still get work done, and not be tied down to just one vendor.
Push Open Source? It should read more like "Support Open Source" so we don't get confused with Microsoft pushing Windows on us all.
Thanks for the tip. I'll be sure to file for an S-Corp or something as soon as the book is finished being written. I've run two small businesses before, but that was computer technical support and I couldn't make them profitable. I guess the third time is the charm?
can sue a scientist for child support and alimony for getting her pregnant?
Or aliens, we could have been some alien high school science fair project that went wrong, so they shot the "Grey goo" to Earth and it evolved into the lifeforms we now have.
Would it be interesting to find out that we created ourselves via AEGIS and shot it back in time via a time travel paradox?
Q: Why do Slashdot Fascists try to dictate to us what we can and cannot do in subject lines?
How dare you! Hirez proof of the Libertarian Party and I'll have to bring this up in my Libertarian Pirate group that we need to register more Libertarians.
Smaller government, lower taxes, more freedom.
Actually everyone in politics and government is corrupt to a certain degree.
Please note that the Democrats in Congress and the White House have not gotten rid of the bills and laws that Bush passed, and many of them voted for the bills Bush put to vote in Congress and are Democrats, and still in Congress.
So what was your point again, only the neocons are corrupt? Ho ho ha ha he he heh heh, yeah right.
Neoliberals, socialliberals, modernliberals, moonbatliberals, hippieliberals, hard to tell them all apart these days.
The official motto of the Democratic party of America should be "Our corruption does not count."
The main question that the liberal media and liberals in general keep asking themselves.
One day you will wake up and notice that neolibs are just as bad as neocons, when you do, please join us libertarians in saying both the donkeys and elephants are equally corrupt.
The "Obama has you by the nut sack" and "he may as well be betting in vegas with tax payer cash." portraying two negative stereotypes of African-Americans. Grabbing someone by the nut sack and gambling money away. If you cannot see that, you are blind.
One thing though, were do I get the money to start up the small business? I'm currently on disability and trying to write a book to help get me off disability.
I don't smoke crack, I have schizoaffective disorder you insensitive clod!
I joined the Imagic "Numb Thumb" Club. The Atari 2600 only had one button but we pushed it with our thumb. Doctors called it "Numb Thumb" and Imagic turned it into a club.
#1 ReactOS and HaikuOS can use a different file system than FAT.
#2 The source code of the ReactOS and HaikuOS uses different techniques to access FAT volumes anyway.
#3 Since ReactOS and HaikuOS are not as widely used as Linux, doubtful Microsoft will sue them as there is no money to be made doing so. TomTom on the other hand, earns money hand over fist and thus made themselves a target by Microsoft.
Please note this is not "suing Linux" but "Suing Tomtom" for using a Linux based solution that accesses FAT devices and stores an 8 lettered file name as a 32 filed one. Had Tomtom used Windows CE, doubtful Microsoft would have sued them.
Yes it is possible to access FAT volumes and not break any patents, and still leave them in a way that Microsoft's FAT implementation(s) can still read it. For example you can read it in the 8 character file name, as Apple's old operating systems used to do and ignore the 32 character file name.
since sexual orientation is not at the federal level, she cannot sue in federal court, but usually some states and cities have sexual orientation at the state or city level. She would have to sue Microsoft at the state or city level and cite the state or city law that was broken.
In my humble opinion, I don't think she should be banned for being a lesbian. That has got nothing to do with playing video games.
I don't buy the "she'll be picked on by other gamers" defense either. I am a Christian but I do not pick on people for their sexual orientation. Maybe some Christians do, like the Westburrough Baptist church or whatever, but I don't. I am not a member of that church or any church that is biased against sexual orientation.
The only way they could have banned her is if she went into a rant bashing some other group on her profile like "I am a lesbian and all men are pigs and all Christians are idiots" then that might warrant a ban as she is more of a Rosie O'Donnell lesbian than an Ellen Degeneres lesbian and is offending people with hate speech. Even then it should be a warning to change her profile and repeated offenses warrant the ban.
Then again Microsoft owns the network she connects to, just like Wikipedia can mark an article for deletion and vote on it because it is part of their web site and network. Wikipedia while deleting articles for reasons that make no sense, still have the right to delete any article on their web site or ban any user for any reason. It really depends on what the terms of service say and if she violated any terms of service.
I think there is more to this story than reported. Like when the lesbian couple was ejected from a baseball game, we later learned that they were making out in public which is an ejectionable offense even for straight couples.
is to be as good with technology as a man is or better. She ought to be able to pull her own weight as anyone else can. She should not weasel her way out of work by claiming to be female and that gives her special treatment to goof off by gossiping, or calling other coworkers names, or calling the men idiots because we write code differently than she does, or cry when she does not get her way.
A Geek Goddess should be treated as an equal to a man, there should be no gender discrimination, that is how employment law states it.
Some women can be Geek Goddesses, and they are great to work with. Other women are not Geek Goddesses and they weasel their way out of work because they are female and use that fact to manipulate and control males. Women who were not Geek Goddesses I had to clean up their messes and pick up the slack for them when they weaseled their way out of work. I also had to put up with their insults and gossips and office politics and games. A Geek Goddess does none of that.
Link does not work, weak troll, AC, weak troll.
but you should notify the EEOC when they give you a bad reference. Usually all they should give is name, rank, and serial number, how long you worked there. If they give you a bad review they are in violation of employment law. Esp if you did nothing wrong.
Now note they can just start documenting stuff that didn't happen to try and prove you are a bad employee, they did that with me. Lost doctor's notes to make my sick days look like days I just didn't show up to work, deleted their PBX system calls I made calling in the sick day so it would not show up.
Your best bet is to document everything they say to so, maybe get it voice recorded on a tape player or voice recorder system. Then present it to the EEOC as evidence they are trying to blackmail you. You might have a case against your former employer if they give a bad review.
Some companies don't care if an employer gives a bad review, they know that sometimes employers give bad reviews because they don't want their ex-employee working for their competition. But if all gets worse you can always work as a contractor or start up your own business.
Me, it made me so sick that I ended up on disability because of the stress and discrimination my former employers had against me. But after 180 days ran out I no longer had the right to sue after the job was over. I was sick those 180 days and didn't know any better.
employment contracts are legal slavery, network use contracts doubly so.
You can get fired for just doing your job, it has happened to me two times. If you don't give them your passwords, they will use spyware to capture your keystrokes and steal your password and spy on your computer usage as well.
Even if when you use the Internet for research and development on programming web sites that are "fair use" they are used against you as surfing during work hours even if your manager told you to visit those web sites to learn new skills and find new technology to improve the programs you are responsible for. Meanwhile managers surf MSN, stock quotes, eBay, and so do coworkers and it is never counted against them.
When a manager is vague on what they want, and don't hand over meeting notes or descriptions of what they want the program to do, it is a "communication issue" with the programmer, not the manager, and the programmer is being a bad employee again.
The programmer does his best to make the program do what the managers want, even without the information needed. But it is not good enough, and sent back for a rewrite with a vague description to make it less like Outlook but more like a four windowed item list sorted by ID. When you ask which ID, they refuse to tell you if it is an employee ID, a matter ID, a client ID, a workgroup ID. Then you ask what you want in the data columns and rows, which they don't understand what a row and column are or what data means. So you say pieces of information on the up and down positions, and then they get mad at you for dumbing it down for them. The programmer is annoying the manager and project leader (who all have no programming or technical experience) and talking down to them. Another communication issue.
Since they know my passwords, they checked into the server to check my source code, and then scribbled all over it with gibberish and checked it back in. Forcing me to revert the changes and it looks like I was the one who did the wrecking of code because the managers used my password for various things that they got via spyware on my system.
That was a lousy troll there, AC. Next time try a little bit harder on the troll and less on the Obama-bashing. Since you couldn't Bush-bash anymore, you tried an Obama-bash which only makes you look racist.
I would rather they have:
Windows 8.0 (based on 7.0 and Vista)
Classic Windows 1.0 (based on Windows 2000 and XP)
Then see which one sells the best or the most.