Those studies ignore that nationalized heathcare is another stepping stone towards tyranny, which is more expensive than any possible gain of efficiency of a public plan. When the federal government has a centralized database of the health history of every citizen, just wait and see the legislation spew forth managing even more aspects of our lives. Also, watch as people who refuse to pay the added payroll taxes get sent to prison for their insolence.
In a free country, the government has no role in directing the individual health choices of its citizens. Imagine the irony of politicians spouting universal health care while also spouting that the USA is the land of the free. It's enough to make the founders of the USA to spin in their graves.
Power begets tyranny. It's sad how easily people forget that.
Corporate politics is ruining what's left of the U.S., and is pulling a lot of other nations down with it.
No, it's just politics that is dragging down the USA. Politicians don't take the Constitution seriously, anymore, as they've found it very easy to push tyrannical policies over on their constituencies. People are so conditioned regarding things like income tax and social security, that further incremental crimes like the PATRIOT Act go through easily. Nationalized health care will probably be the next criminal act by Congress and the President on the citizens of the USA, and I bet people will bend over enthousiastically for their new mandatory payroll deductions and an even less flexible benefits system.
Why is slashdot now some sort of leftist politics for kids site now?
It isn't necessarily leftist, when pointing out non-free aspects of a "free trade" plan. Nothing is stopping me from arguing on Slashdot to make it even more free. You know, I just did.
Genuine free trade lifts up the whole world and is the best long-term solution to all of our modern "woes", such as the so-called "war on terrorism," the "war on hunger," the "war on drugs," the "war on poverty," and every other war our politicians invent to wring votes from an ignorant and impressionable constituency.
Highly protectionist policies would only drive the USA into a dark age as it collapses and becomes the laughing stock of the entire planet.
So, what do you want? Jobs now only to have no jobs later, or a small amount of hardship now to guarantee a solid foundation for keeping jobs in the future.
The proposed language of the agreement has a number of serious flaws, including (but certainly not limited to) enhanced criminal penalties, a super-DMCA provision, reduced scope for fair use, and database protection elements.
Well, it really isn't free trade, then. If you want to call it free trade, then make it free trade and not some half-assed political pile of shit.
I bet Solaris is designed to run on more serious hardware.
I'd consider a dual Pentium III with a SCSI disk a dandy candidate for Solaris if there's no funds for getting a v210 or v60x.
Also, don't forget that Solaris/SPARC and Solaris/x86 are nearly the same code base (differing on drivers and assembler stuff, of course), meaning that Solaris/x86 fits very well into a Solaris/SPARC infrastructure.
It seems to me that most of GNU's file based utilities have some kind of -r recursive option.
GNU's not UNIX. The proper way to do recursive operations in UNIX is to either embed it into a find command line or to do a for-loop in the Bourne or C shell. Coding a -r operation into each individual command is a good example of how GNU went awry.
also the raid is Hardware raid 5,1,0 not software. other than a netapp at 25x the price, there's nothing that comes close.
The only "disadvantage" of Apple's product is each individual disk is relatively slow (specs say 7200 RPM vs. 10000 to 15000 RPM for other options). Other than that, Apple really has a killer product (at least on paper...I don't have one:(
I just want the courtesy of knowing WHO and WHY...
Well, that's what warrents and seopenas are supposed to be for. Too bad they're falling out of fashion.
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governments have tremendous powers that other organizations can't have
This is the basis of arguments in favor of limited government. Corporations can be taken down with a lawsuit. Governments get taken down by civil war.
Each "war" our government fights today (drugs, poverty, terror, etc.) is a step closer to a much bigger war, a revolutionary one, in the future.
I find some of the parallels between 18th century Enlgish imperialism and 21th century US imperialism unsettling. I recommend everyone read The Declaration of Independence to refresh our memories about why the USA came to be and why we should always challenge new taxes other federalized powers. It baffles me how the federal income tax was ever ratified--it was the biggest government power grab to date. Only nationalized health care will be bigger. US citizens should see this and vote accordingly in 2004...unfortunately this probably means voting for a third-party or independent canidate, as both republicans and democrats are taking the USA to hell in a handbasket.
All that is truly needed is accountability built into the system.
Why aren't the Diebold systems illegal? Given that there have been questionable election results already without hope of recount, isn't this an illegal outcome, where truth cannot be known?
Acrophobia is a funny thing. I'm not at all afraid of flying (sitting atop several tons of fuel worries me much more than aerodynamics). I'm not at all afraid of skyscrapers (the Sears Tower observation deck is more fascinating than scary). I'm not afraid of mountains (give me a good cliff any day). However put me on a catwalk or on a expanded-metal (i.e., transparent) stairway over a hundred-foot high stairwell, and I'm toast.
In Hong Kong, they don't try to reach for the heavens, they try to penetrate them. Perhaps it is atheist China sending a message to God: "Bend over, cause this is us one-billion strong!"
it has been proven many times; @Home, Privatized Power in California, and Alberta
None of these are proof, as there is extensive government intervention in each one. "Privatized" power in California is a joke.
If one brand of infrastructure becomes crap, then there's satellites, WLANs, microwave towers, HAM radio, etc. There's lots of ways to tell crappy company to go to hell with the loudest message of all: money.
Also, the key is for privatization to not imply proprietary communications methods. All proprietary networks I know of have failed. Microsoft Office will fail. It is merely a matter of time. Sun Micro, for example, is a private company who doesn't deal in proprietary communications protocols. They make it a core part of their business model.
See, privatization isn't bad by default, which is why knee-jerk reactions against it citing half-ass government deregulation efforts are so frustrating.
Just use ten times as many counters as we do, and you should be able to count the ballots in an equal amount of time.
The voting system in the USA is already highly distributed on a per-county basis, so scaling is a moot point. The apparent need for techology in our voting systems is purely politically motivated and totally unjustified.
If the votes are so undeterministic, why can't someone demand a re-vote? Call no contest or something? IANAL, so I don't know what legal recourse there is, but I'd think there would be something people can do.
Right now, it seems people are saying "well I don't think this is quite right" yet they just shrug their shoulders and limp away? Absurd.
Yeah, but the smell of Bush's ass is not appealing at all. Not one bit. Geez, when will this political corruption end? I hope Congress can get a clue before WW3 wipes out half the planet.
Unlike the current system, which is run like Enron, if you can afford it that is.
Whatever inflated insurance premiums people pay now will translate directly into mandatory payroll deductions or corporate taxes under a federal system. There will be no competition among insurance companies to provide any cost controls whatsoever, and rigid policies will cause people who fall through the cracks in regulation to go without treatment and die. The government will put even more of its tendrils in to personal bank accounts far beyond what happens with social security. The intelligence gathered into the central government medical database will be used to fufill political agendas causing a highly unnatural and skewed system as has happened with the federal income tax.
Simply, how can people trust politicians with their personal health?!? It is absurd.
It would be much better to let doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and insurance companies to work against eachother in building a sustainable cost structure without the extreme government intervention we have now. Also, allowing independent certification companies instead of the FDA to provide affirmations about treatments would allow a great deal of safety (not unlike Underwriter's Laboratories) without delaying medical products by years.
Doctors and drug companies cannot make treatment more expensive than patients and insurance companies are willing to pay. Doctors can limit liability by using independently certified products and treatment methods. Patients should be free to choose any doctor on the basis of cost and reputation. Patients should be able to choose any insurance on the basis of cost and reputation. Those who cannot afford insurance go to charity-based hospitals and missions. If we let the market set the prices for health care, my bet is prices will go down (the last thirty years of out-of-control health care has followed increasing government involvement).
Whiny tax-dodging bitch.
I'm more concerned about the road to tyranny these "social justice" programs lead the USA down. People who think this new found government power and system of taxation won't be used against them are naive. It will very likely be worse than the federal income tax. Much worse.
If we have congresspeople who really care about the Constitution and the reasons for which it exists, national healthcare will get thrown out with little debate.
I recently found this with Google. More elaboration of the same I said above.
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Those studies ignore that nationalized heathcare is another stepping stone towards tyranny, which is more expensive than any possible gain of efficiency of a public plan. When the federal government has a centralized database of the health history of every citizen, just wait and see the legislation spew forth managing even more aspects of our lives. Also, watch as people who refuse to pay the added payroll taxes get sent to prison for their insolence.
In a free country, the government has no role in directing the individual health choices of its citizens. Imagine the irony of politicians spouting universal health care while also spouting that the USA is the land of the free. It's enough to make the founders of the USA to spin in their graves.
Power begets tyranny. It's sad how easily people forget that.
Corporate politics is ruining what's left of the U.S., and is pulling a lot of other nations down with it.
No, it's just politics that is dragging down the USA. Politicians don't take the Constitution seriously, anymore, as they've found it very easy to push tyrannical policies over on their constituencies. People are so conditioned regarding things like income tax and social security, that further incremental crimes like the PATRIOT Act go through easily. Nationalized health care will probably be the next criminal act by Congress and the President on the citizens of the USA, and I bet people will bend over enthousiastically for their new mandatory payroll deductions and an even less flexible benefits system.
Why is slashdot now some sort of leftist politics for kids site now?
It isn't necessarily leftist, when pointing out non-free aspects of a "free trade" plan. Nothing is stopping me from arguing on Slashdot to make it even more free. You know, I just did.
I don't think $10,000 would cut it, anymore. A Congressman would wipe his ass with it and send it back to you for being so cheap.
Genuine free trade lifts up the whole world and is the best long-term solution to all of our modern "woes", such as the so-called "war on terrorism," the "war on hunger," the "war on drugs," the "war on poverty," and every other war our politicians invent to wring votes from an ignorant and impressionable constituency.
Highly protectionist policies would only drive the USA into a dark age as it collapses and becomes the laughing stock of the entire planet.
So, what do you want? Jobs now only to have no jobs later, or a small amount of hardship now to guarantee a solid foundation for keeping jobs in the future.
The proposed language of the agreement has a number of serious flaws, including (but certainly not limited to) enhanced criminal penalties, a super-DMCA provision, reduced scope for fair use, and database protection elements.
Well, it really isn't free trade, then. If you want to call it free trade, then make it free trade and not some half-assed political pile of shit.
I bet Solaris is designed to run on more serious hardware.
I'd consider a dual Pentium III with a SCSI disk a dandy candidate for Solaris if there's no funds for getting a v210 or v60x.
Also, don't forget that Solaris/SPARC and Solaris/x86 are nearly the same code base (differing on drivers and assembler stuff, of course), meaning that Solaris/x86 fits very well into a Solaris/SPARC infrastructure.
It seems to me that most of GNU's file based utilities have some kind of -r recursive option.
GNU's not UNIX. The proper way to do recursive operations in UNIX is to either embed it into a find command line or to do a for-loop in the Bourne or C shell. Coding a -r operation into each individual command is a good example of how GNU went awry.
it doesn't ship with perl (last time I checked)
When was this, 1993?!? Get your facts straight before posting (like that stops anyone on Slashdot, anyway).
also the raid is Hardware raid 5,1,0 not software. other than a netapp at 25x the price, there's nothing that comes close.
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The only "disadvantage" of Apple's product is each individual disk is relatively slow (specs say 7200 RPM vs. 10000 to 15000 RPM for other options). Other than that, Apple really has a killer product (at least on paper...I don't have one
under pressure and let it out
Light-up condoms, anyone?
In a world of total surveillence, the watchers are themselves watched.
Okay, what brand of morality would you like the world to crystalize into, because you'll be stuck in it for the rest of your life.
Witch hunting will be the spectator sport of the 21st century.
We have software that will detect bad behavior...
Great, now I have to worry about spending three weeks in prison to be "cleared" because my car stalled.
Companies like yours are whores for pork-barrel contracts and sickening, to say the least.
I just want the courtesy of knowing WHO and WHY...
Well, that's what warrents and seopenas are supposed to be for. Too bad they're falling out of fashion.
governments have tremendous powers that other organizations can't have
This is the basis of arguments in favor of limited government. Corporations can be taken down with a lawsuit. Governments get taken down by civil war.
Each "war" our government fights today (drugs, poverty, terror, etc.) is a step closer to a much bigger war, a revolutionary one, in the future.
I find some of the parallels between 18th century Enlgish imperialism and 21th century US imperialism unsettling. I recommend everyone read The Declaration of Independence to refresh our memories about why the USA came to be and why we should always challenge new taxes other federalized powers. It baffles me how the federal income tax was ever ratified--it was the biggest government power grab to date. Only nationalized health care will be bigger. US citizens should see this and vote accordingly in 2004...unfortunately this probably means voting for a third-party or independent canidate, as both republicans and democrats are taking the USA to hell in a handbasket.
All that is truly needed is accountability built into the system.
Why aren't the Diebold systems illegal? Given that there have been questionable election results already without hope of recount, isn't this an illegal outcome, where truth cannot be known?
Acrophobics
Acrophobia is a funny thing. I'm not at all afraid of flying (sitting atop several tons of fuel worries me much more than aerodynamics). I'm not at all afraid of skyscrapers (the Sears Tower observation deck is more fascinating than scary). I'm not afraid of mountains (give me a good cliff any day). However put me on a catwalk or on a expanded-metal (i.e., transparent) stairway over a hundred-foot high stairwell, and I'm toast.
In Hong Kong, they don't try to reach for the heavens, they try to penetrate them. Perhaps it is atheist China sending a message to God: "Bend over, cause this is us one-billion strong!"
it has been proven many times; @Home, Privatized Power in California, and Alberta
None of these are proof, as there is extensive government intervention in each one. "Privatized" power in California is a joke.
If one brand of infrastructure becomes crap, then there's satellites, WLANs, microwave towers, HAM radio, etc. There's lots of ways to tell crappy company to go to hell with the loudest message of all: money.
Also, the key is for privatization to not imply proprietary communications methods. All proprietary networks I know of have failed. Microsoft Office will fail. It is merely a matter of time. Sun Micro, for example, is a private company who doesn't deal in proprietary communications protocols. They make it a core part of their business model.
See, privatization isn't bad by default, which is why knee-jerk reactions against it citing half-ass government deregulation efforts are so frustrating.
The population of Canada is about an order of magitude smaller than the population of the US.
What's your point? The USA probably has ten times as many counties, too, and ten times as many volunteers.
Just use ten times as many counters as we do, and you should be able to count the ballots in an equal amount of time.
The voting system in the USA is already highly distributed on a per-county basis, so scaling is a moot point. The apparent need for techology in our voting systems is purely politically motivated and totally unjustified.
If the votes are so undeterministic, why can't someone demand a re-vote? Call no contest or something? IANAL, so I don't know what legal recourse there is, but I'd think there would be something people can do.
Right now, it seems people are saying "well I don't think this is quite right" yet they just shrug their shoulders and limp away? Absurd.
Connect the dots.
Uh oh...what if I see only one dot?!?
I smell a Bush victory in 2004!
Yeah, but the smell of Bush's ass is not appealing at all. Not one bit. Geez, when will this political corruption end? I hope Congress can get a clue before WW3 wipes out half the planet.
Unlike the current system, which is run like Enron, if you can afford it that is.
Whatever inflated insurance premiums people pay now will translate directly into mandatory payroll deductions or corporate taxes under a federal system. There will be no competition among insurance companies to provide any cost controls whatsoever, and rigid policies will cause people who fall through the cracks in regulation to go without treatment and die. The government will put even more of its tendrils in to personal bank accounts far beyond what happens with social security. The intelligence gathered into the central government medical database will be used to fufill political agendas causing a highly unnatural and skewed system as has happened with the federal income tax.
Simply, how can people trust politicians with their personal health?!? It is absurd.
It would be much better to let doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and insurance companies to work against eachother in building a sustainable cost structure without the extreme government intervention we have now. Also, allowing independent certification companies instead of the FDA to provide affirmations about treatments would allow a great deal of safety (not unlike Underwriter's Laboratories) without delaying medical products by years.
Doctors and drug companies cannot make treatment more expensive than patients and insurance companies are willing to pay. Doctors can limit liability by using independently certified products and treatment methods. Patients should be free to choose any doctor on the basis of cost and reputation. Patients should be able to choose any insurance on the basis of cost and reputation. Those who cannot afford insurance go to charity-based hospitals and missions. If we let the market set the prices for health care, my bet is prices will go down (the last thirty years of out-of-control health care has followed increasing government involvement).
Whiny tax-dodging bitch.
I'm more concerned about the road to tyranny these "social justice" programs lead the USA down. People who think this new found government power and system of taxation won't be used against them are naive. It will very likely be worse than the federal income tax. Much worse.
If we have congresspeople who really care about the Constitution and the reasons for which it exists, national healthcare will get thrown out with little debate.
I recently found this with Google. More elaboration of the same I said above.