Yes, you get free health care. Not always good care. Last time I was at the eye doctor there was a prisoner in handcuffs and belly chain sitting at the refractometer with a cop standing next to him. Nurse said they get 2-3 a week from the local jail.
For the large prisons a lot of the medical needs [like glasses] are cared for inside the walls - I knew an internist and a psychiatrist that had offices inside the walls of San Quinton in California.
There are some cases of people committing crimes in order to get healthcare.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the US Government, after much detailed study, concluded that private communications would actually be GOOD for the country?
OR is there a chance that valid court order will be a valid decryption key for this new Whatsapp - like Clipper, anyone remember Clipper?
What I said. Once a friend pointed out that nutritionists had just said that coffee is bad for you, again. On even years they find that coffee is good for you. Smoking? Bad Fat, nitrates and sugar? Bad Which is worse? Why bother
I have a hard time believing that smoking a pack-a-day is less bad than having white bread every day, even white bread with a McPatty on it. I think they said that bad diet kills more people than smoking, which might be true, but for an individual I'm pretty sure tobacco smoke is worse.
When we lived in the Ozark Mountains we knew a "turtle lady", whenever a box turtle was injured neighbours would take them to the Turtle Lady. She ended up with a collection of one eyed or three legged turtles as pets. As a demo she would line them up and ask you which one you wanted to come, she'd call it by name and it would come. Anyone who has owned two parrots will tell you they talk about the other one by name. Why not cats?
I think he just wants the.gov to take the heavy lifting while he take the PROFITS. No I say. Let the White Right blab hate and take the consequences. The.gov's responsibility is to thump you when you put profits over oversight. Your platform, your responsibility.
I have a sense of direction that amazes my friends, I "just kinda know" which way is North, most of the time. I moved from a location with no magnetic declination to this town with an 8 degree declination - no I did not *ever* sense within 8 degrees - I lost my "sense of direction" for 6 months or so. I have been for a ride in an MRI several times and despite wanting very much to feel it I felt nothing and had no diminution of my ability to point North right after. I've been in caves when a friend takes out a compass and asks me which way his needle points - I am pretty accurate even in curved passageways. My MRI experience makes me suspect that "it" is not a magnetic sense. INS?
Yes, my left and right eyes live in different visible universes. My rumination is that if something is beyond visibility/gravitation does it actually exist? And if "everyone" has a different visible universe and there are an infinite number of "everyones" then there is no big bang - it seems. Look at galaxy A which is close to the edge of visibility. People in galaxy A can look "further back in time" by looking at galaxy B which is beyond our visibility & B looks at C. No real edge, an "infinite" universe and no big bang. This does get mind bending when you think that we are looking at B as it used to be, but still it seems that if they can see C then they see C as it was before "our?" big bang.
>> The size of the universe may in fact be infinite.
Not from ANY pov. The universe is expanding, the more spacetime between you and what you are looking at the faster the target is moving away from you - if you look far enough back you get to the point where things are receding at C. Frequency of electromagnetic radiation = 0. Wavelength is infinite. It disappears. You can't see it OR feel its gravity, it is gone, not in "the universe" of things that matter in any way at all. Whatever is beyond really does not exist if it has no way to effect anything, even gravitationally. My gut feel is that this shows there might not have been a big bang, when looking at an object that is receding at C (-) you are looking back at T0 (+), this object has a different "observable universe" - and on and on. Different T0 for each observer, therefore no "universal T0", no big bang.
As I understand the international law (IANAL) a person seeking refugee status can do it at any NON adjoining country. Mexicans can't claim refugee status in USA, Guatemalans can't claim in Mexico but they can here. Should Mexico allow them transit to the USA? I think not, but what will you do with a Guatemalan that is HERE claiming refugee status? You must let them in, while the validity of the claim is investigated. If you don't like that you must change international law and agreements.
>> If I was to build a fence inside my property, >> after a number of years the land would >> become legally my neighbours
Adverse Possession is what you refer to. In most states your neighbour has to possess that property, adversely. You can put a fence anywhere you want on your property without giving any land to anybody. However there is a problem for 45 with this - if an alien gets on USA property the alien can claim refugee status. Build that wall miles inside the USA then have border patrol agents mainly along the wall and not along the actual border seems like an invitation to asylum seekers. Screw the wall, patrol the border.
Neutrons stabilize the nucleus by adding more strong force without electric force, but again size matters, a proton at one extreme of a uranium nucleus feels almost no strong force from the other side so adding *neutrons* doesn't help.
>> because they're approaching the size at which quantum >> effects no longer
I don't think so - neutrons and protons are attracted together by the strong force, which is quite strong but weakens very rapidly with distance. Protons repel each other with their positive electrical charges. The electric charge is weaker than the strong, but weakens over distance more slowly. As God builds up nuclei by adding protons their mutually repulsive force is greater than the strong force because the protons on one side of the nucleus don't feel the distant protons' strong force, but they do feel the electric force. Neutrons stabilize the nucleus by adding more strong force without electric force, but again size matters, a proton at one extreme of a uranium nucleus feels almost no strong force from the other side so adding protons doesn't help. A friend that works in the weeds of this stuff told me that as a proton detaches from a radium atom and moves a nuclear radius away feels an electrical repulsion of something like 5 POUNDS from all the other protons and no attraction from the strong force. Zooom!
That was "Social Media" That was fun. That was informative.
And it cost - money - to belong. Not a lot of money, but the members paid for the service. We were the users, clients - Byte was the service provider, Bix was the service. Clear as a bell. Also there was Delphi and several others. (even AOL?)
Then there were 'hidden cost' services like a college account and USNET.
That was "Social Media" That was fun. That was informative.
And it cost - money - to belong. Not a lot of money, but the members paid for the service. We were the users, clients - Byte was the service provider, Bix was the service. Clear as a bell. Also there was Delphi and several others. (even AOL?)
Then there were 'hidden cost' services like a college account and USNET.
I lived without a cellphone for at least 50 years, and I didn't have a palmtop, laptop, fliptop or any of that. I did have a "home phone" but it was a definitely a "dumb phone". I used a home phone as a data link, acoustically coupled @ 300 baud, but that didn't actually make it smart, even if capable of downloading porn at several minutes per still picture. 50 years, don't know how I managed. Sitting here in 2018 I wonder how I was able to find anything without GPS, but for 100K I bet I could remember. {Really, wtf is wrong with kids these days?}
What is the value of privacy, or is it anonymity? We can regulate anything if it is important enough. Murder can be committed without any tools or special training, but it is "very regulated" and enforced because we value life a lot. How much do we value privacy/anonymity?
>> hard time believing that my ancient fob is always broadcasting
Yea.
I had an after market fob that activated the fuel pump and ignition on a jalopy just by being in the car, no button. A resonant technology like the anti theft thingies in stores or quick-pass - these CAN be pinged while in your coat pocket at home. The button type do nothing till you push the button, these signals can be harvested in busy parking lots, but then you need to find the car later in order to be able to steal it. Of course there are the guys with a dolly they can slide under your car then up on a platform truck in under 90 seconds.
Why have *people* involved, anywhere? We don't need "Merchants" any more than "Shoppers" "We" don't want people involved if we want ultimate in *efficiency* !!!
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, you get free health care.
Not always good care.
Last time I was at the eye doctor there was a prisoner in handcuffs and belly chain sitting at the refractometer with a cop standing next to him. Nurse said they get 2-3 a week from the local jail.
For the large prisons a lot of the medical needs [like glasses] are cared for inside the walls - I knew an internist and a psychiatrist that had offices inside the walls of San Quinton in California.
There are some cases of people committing crimes in order to get healthcare.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the US Government, after much detailed study, concluded that private communications would actually be GOOD for the country?
OR is there a chance that valid court order will be a valid decryption key for this new Whatsapp - like Clipper, anyone remember Clipper?
VISA/MasterCard Service Center
"National Medical" about your Social Security
"Customer Services"
"Support Services"
etc
What I said.
Once a friend pointed out that nutritionists had just said that coffee is bad for you, again. On even years they find that coffee is good for you.
Smoking? Bad
Fat, nitrates and sugar? Bad
Which is worse? Why bother
I have a hard time believing that smoking a pack-a-day is less bad than having white bread every day, even white bread with a McPatty on it. I think they said that bad diet kills more people than smoking, which might be true, but for an individual I'm pretty sure tobacco smoke is worse.
When we lived in the Ozark Mountains we knew a "turtle lady", whenever a box turtle was injured neighbours would take them to the Turtle Lady. She ended up with a collection of one eyed or three legged turtles as pets. As a demo she would line them up and ask you which one you wanted to come, she'd call it by name and it would come. Anyone who has owned two parrots will tell you they talk about the other one by name. Why not cats?
Screw You Mark - take RESPONSIBILITY
I think he just wants the .gov to take the heavy lifting while he take the PROFITS. No I say. Let the White Right blab hate and take the consequences. The .gov's responsibility is to thump you when you put profits over oversight. Your platform, your responsibility.
>> deserve more than *just* an award
How about 1/3 Million each AND a few bragging rights?
I have a sense of direction that amazes my friends, I "just kinda know" which way is North, most of the time. I moved from a location with no magnetic declination to this town with an 8 degree declination - no I did not *ever* sense within 8 degrees - I lost my "sense of direction" for 6 months or so. I have been for a ride in an MRI several times and despite wanting very much to feel it I felt nothing and had no diminution of my ability to point North right after. I've been in caves when a friend takes out a compass and asks me which way his needle points - I am pretty accurate even in curved passageways. My MRI experience makes me suspect that "it" is not a magnetic sense. INS?
Yes, my left and right eyes live in different visible universes. My rumination is that if something is beyond visibility/gravitation does it actually exist? And if "everyone" has a different visible universe and there are an infinite number of "everyones" then there is no big bang - it seems. Look at galaxy A which is close to the edge of visibility. People in galaxy A can look "further back in time" by looking at galaxy B which is beyond our visibility & B looks at C. No real edge, an "infinite" universe and no big bang. This does get mind bending when you think that we are looking at B as it used to be, but still it seems that if they can see C then they see C as it was before "our?" big bang.
>> The size of the universe may in fact be infinite.
Not from ANY pov. The universe is expanding, the more spacetime between you and what you are looking at the faster the target is moving away from you - if you look far enough back you get to the point where things are receding at C. Frequency of electromagnetic radiation = 0. Wavelength is infinite. It disappears. You can't see it OR feel its gravity, it is gone, not in "the universe" of things that matter in any way at all. Whatever is beyond really does not exist if it has no way to effect anything, even gravitationally. My gut feel is that this shows there might not have been a big bang, when looking at an object that is receding at C (-) you are looking back at T0 (+), this object has a different "observable universe" - and on and on. Different T0 for each observer, therefore no "universal T0", no big bang.
An Ice guy I talked to said that they can not refuse a citizen entry, however they can FINE a citizen for entering contrary to the rules.
Out of modpoints.
Mod this up up up^^^^^^^^^
As I understand the international law (IANAL) a person seeking refugee status can do it at any NON adjoining country. Mexicans can't claim refugee status in USA, Guatemalans can't claim in Mexico but they can here. Should Mexico allow them transit to the USA? I think not, but what will you do with a Guatemalan that is HERE claiming refugee status? You must let them in, while the validity of the claim is investigated. If you don't like that you must change international law and agreements.
>> If I was to build a fence inside my property,
>> after a number of years the land would
>> become legally my neighbours
Adverse Possession is what you refer to. In most states your neighbour has to possess that property, adversely. You can put a fence anywhere you want on your property without giving any land to anybody. However there is a problem for 45 with this - if an alien gets on USA property the alien can claim refugee status. Build that wall miles inside the USA then have border patrol agents mainly along the wall and not along the actual border seems like an invitation to asylum seekers. Screw the wall, patrol the border.
I said:
> so adding protons doesn't help.
Its neutrons, not protons - it should have been
Neutrons stabilize the nucleus by adding more strong force without electric force, but again size matters, a proton at one extreme of a uranium nucleus feels almost no strong force from the other side so adding *neutrons* doesn't help.
>> because they're approaching the size at which quantum
>> effects no longer
I don't think so - neutrons and protons are attracted together by the strong force, which is quite strong but weakens very rapidly with distance. Protons repel each other with their positive electrical charges. The electric charge is weaker than the strong, but weakens over distance more slowly. As God builds up nuclei by adding protons their mutually repulsive force is greater than the strong force because the protons on one side of the nucleus don't feel the distant protons' strong force, but they do feel the electric force. Neutrons stabilize the nucleus by adding more strong force without electric force, but again size matters, a proton at one extreme of a uranium nucleus feels almost no strong force from the other side so adding protons doesn't help. A friend that works in the weeds of this stuff told me that as a proton detaches from a radium atom and moves a nuclear radius away feels an electrical repulsion of something like 5 POUNDS from all the other protons and no attraction from the strong force. Zooom!
Allow me to repost from another thread:
Byte (magazine) Information Exchange
That was "Social Media"
That was fun.
That was informative.
And it cost - money - to belong. Not a lot of money, but the members paid for the service.
We were the users, clients - Byte was the service provider, Bix was the service.
Clear as a bell.
Also there was Delphi and several others.
(even AOL?)
Then there were 'hidden cost' services like a college account and USNET.
Why put up with Farce Book?
Byte (magazine) Information Exchange
That was "Social Media"
That was fun.
That was informative.
And it cost - money - to belong. Not a lot of money, but the members paid for the service.
We were the users, clients - Byte was the service provider, Bix was the service.
Clear as a bell.
Also there was Delphi and several others.
(even AOL?)
Then there were 'hidden cost' services like a college account and USNET.
Why put up with Farce Book?
I lived without a cellphone for at least 50 years, and I didn't have a palmtop, laptop, fliptop or any of that. I did have a "home phone" but it was a definitely a "dumb phone". I used a home phone as a data link, acoustically coupled @ 300 baud, but that didn't actually make it smart, even if capable of downloading porn at several minutes per still picture. 50 years, don't know how I managed. Sitting here in 2018 I wonder how I was able to find anything without GPS, but for 100K I bet I could remember.
{Really, wtf is wrong with kids these days?}
Blue Tooth?
What is the value of privacy, or is it anonymity? We can regulate anything if it is important enough. Murder can be committed without any tools or special training, but it is "very regulated" and enforced because we value life a lot. How much do we value privacy/anonymity?
>> hard time believing that my ancient fob is always broadcasting
Yea.
I had an after market fob that activated the fuel pump and ignition on a jalopy just by being in the car, no button. A resonant technology like the anti theft thingies in stores or quick-pass - these CAN be pinged while in your coat pocket at home. The button type do nothing till you push the button, these signals can be harvested in busy parking lots, but then you need to find the car later in order to be able to steal it. Of course there are the guys with a dolly they can slide under your car then up on a platform truck in under 90 seconds.
Why have *people* involved, anywhere?
We don't need "Merchants" any more than "Shoppers"
"We" don't want people involved if we want ultimate in *efficiency* !!!
The only question is WHICH Christmas