Private incompetence pales in comparison to government incompetence.
Actually, the oposite is true. For example, the US Medicare system spends about 98% of its funding on patient care. Even the largest and most efficient private insurers only can manage about 90%. The radical right-wing wants to preserve the profits of private insurers and so they spend a great deal of their propaganda efforts highlighting mistakes in the public sector so it appears that government is less efficient than it actually is.
You radicals just twist everything to invent your own little worldview. I'm so gld you don't have control of the Congress anymore - maybe we can make the worldf a little safer if we can keep your sort of of power for just a little longer.
dont you just hate it when facts get in the way of a good hate-on?
Not really. What I hate is when the propaganda trolls start cherry-picking comments and news stories to build a totally false perception in an attempt to deflect blame from a criminally incompetent President.
The facts are that your boy Bush started the war. When you start a war, you better have a reason. And that reason needs be the same reason at the end as it was at the beginning. You forget that bush's first reason was that Iraq was involved in 9/11. When that didn't fly he changed to the WMD reason. Then it was because we had to remove Saddam. Now that Saddam has gone he has yet another reason. Your propaganda simply doesn't fly no matter how you manipulate and cherry-pick quotations.
It's also importnt to remember that this doesn't show any sort of relation with rational thought. Number 4 shows one of the "brightest light belongs to syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin". For those of you not familiar, she's a right-wing radical who thinks that the imprisoning of Japanese-Americans during WWII was a really good idea and we need to do it more often.
I have yet to hear a good argument why we can't make these things happen. Why young adults/children/teens can't have more of a say.
Why should we waste time and energy passing laws to give the franchise to 16 year-olds? They won't use it. The under-24 crowd is the least likely of any age group to vote.
One time I was having trouble with my phone and I had Pac Bell out to fix it. The bonehead repairman managed to disconnect my DSL line (I wondered why he made a beeline for the door when he finished). I called Speakeasy and they told me "no problem" and had me back in business that evening. I really can't imagine a shady outfit like Best Buy managing to keep that level of customer service. Does anyone have any recommendations for DSL?
I don't use MySpace so I know nothing of their security. But this guy's statement struck me, "Even when they have countermeasures in place... it's trivial to obfuscate to evade their detection mechanisms." If their security model is based on detecting patterns, then they will never be able to get out of the Red Queen's Race. A properly designed web app has as its core philosophy, "that which is not explicitly allowed is denied". Ttrying to detect all the possible variants of hacking and denying them then is a fool's errand.
99% ? I think your estimate is a little low. Competent people are never the ones with the chip on their shoulder about the 'special treatment' others are perceived to get.
If someone thinks people should help each other instead of just trying to make money, he might be a leftist as well as a conservative christian refering to the bible.>/i>
Unlikely. The conservative christian movement has no use for 'feed the hungry, heal the sick'. It's all gay marriage and abortion with them. Which is why the christian church has abdicated its moral leadership in the USA.
I don't know what school you guys went to but my degree required, up to and including, advanced differential equations. Counting the prerequisites, it was only a statistics class short of being a double major.
I'm not too sure I believe this. I'm fairly lanky so I would assume that people would not censor their anti-fat remarks around me. I can't recall ever hearing remarks like you describe. I'm certain I'd privy to statements like, "look at that fat bastard", if they actually were being made frequently. I'm inclined ot believe this is more of an urban myth or wishful thiking along the lines of Vietnam veterans getting spit on: sounds plausible but never actually happened.
Apparently you're one of those who don't know binary. If you're going to quote a geek phrase at least do us a favor by not getting the math totally wrong.
Or maybe use the <joke> tag for those who are humor-impaired.
Rules should be enforced to prevent wrong doing rather than punishing for it.
Is this a joke? Is there to be some enforcement organization responsible for scrutinizing every activity in order to prevent a misdeed before it occurs? How far do you want Big Brother to go in order to prevent wrongdoing?
Here's a great rule-of-thumb anytime someone discusses Java: If they mention applets, they have no idea what they are talking about. I've been a developer for nearly a decade, mostly Java but also PHP and Perl. In all that time, I have not written a single applet (outside of school). Java != applets
Not only can we buy crap we don't need, now we can buy crap that doesn't even exist. Whattacountry!
Man that's weird. I make a smartass remark, thinking it might get modded funny at best and it gets a +4 Insightful. Obviously my definition of insightful doesn't mesh with others'.
Fox is no better, no worse than everyone else. That is my point.
Then you really don't pay attention to news. There are examples of poor journalism everywhere. At every other news outlet, they are the exception. Fox, by comparison, has never made any effort to hide the fact that they are a propaganda outlet for the radical right. There has always been some bias. The Wall Street Journal is conservative in pretty much the same amount that Newsweek is liberal. Fox is off-the-charts propagandizing.
I'm sure that there are equally egregious examples from "right wing" media, but since I can't actually point to any "right wing" media outlets, I'm stumped at actually describing one.
Let me help you out:
In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States.
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Administrative overhead is just about the worst possible measure of efficiency.
Are you sure that bloated management salaries aren't a worse measure?
Private incompetence pales in comparison to government incompetence.
Actually, the oposite is true. For example, the US Medicare system spends about 98% of its funding on patient care. Even the largest and most efficient private insurers only can manage about 90%. The radical right-wing wants to preserve the profits of private insurers and so they spend a great deal of their propaganda efforts highlighting mistakes in the public sector so it appears that government is less efficient than it actually is.
You radicals just twist everything to invent your own little worldview. I'm so gld you don't have control of the Congress anymore - maybe we can make the worldf a little safer if we can keep your sort of of power for just a little longer.
dont you just hate it when facts get in the way of a good hate-on?
Not really. What I hate is when the propaganda trolls start cherry-picking comments and news stories to build a totally false perception in an attempt to deflect blame from a criminally incompetent President.
The facts are that your boy Bush started the war. When you start a war, you better have a reason. And that reason needs be the same reason at the end as it was at the beginning. You forget that bush's first reason was that Iraq was involved in 9/11. When that didn't fly he changed to the WMD reason. Then it was because we had to remove Saddam. Now that Saddam has gone he has yet another reason.
Your propaganda simply doesn't fly no matter how you manipulate and cherry-pick quotations.
It's also importnt to remember that this doesn't show any sort of relation with rational thought. Number 4 shows one of the "brightest light belongs to syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin". For those of you not familiar, she's a right-wing radical who thinks that the imprisoning of Japanese-Americans during WWII was a really good idea and we need to do it more often.
There's your "blogosphere".
I have yet to hear a good argument why we can't make these things happen. Why young adults/children/teens can't have more of a say.
Why should we waste time and energy passing laws to give the franchise to 16 year-olds? They won't use it. The under-24 crowd is the least likely of any age group to vote.
One time I was having trouble with my phone and I had Pac Bell out to fix it. The bonehead repairman managed to disconnect my DSL line (I wondered why he made a beeline for the door when he finished). I called Speakeasy and they told me "no problem" and had me back in business that evening.
I really can't imagine a shady outfit like Best Buy managing to keep that level of customer service. Does anyone have any recommendations for DSL?
I don't use MySpace so I know nothing of their security. But this guy's statement struck me, "Even when they have countermeasures in place... it's trivial to obfuscate to evade their detection mechanisms."
If their security model is based on detecting patterns, then they will never be able to get out of the Red Queen's Race. A properly designed web app has as its core philosophy, "that which is not explicitly allowed is denied". Ttrying to detect all the possible variants of hacking and denying them then is a fool's errand.
99% ?
I think your estimate is a little low. Competent people are never the ones with the chip on their shoulder about the 'special treatment' others are perceived to get.
If someone thinks people should help each other instead of just trying to make money, he might be a leftist as well as a conservative christian refering to the bible.>/i>
Unlikely. The conservative christian movement has no use for 'feed the hungry, heal the sick'. It's all gay marriage and abortion with them. Which is why the christian church has abdicated its moral leadership in the USA.
I don't know what school you guys went to but my degree required, up to and including, advanced differential equations. Counting the prerequisites, it was only a statistics class short of being a double major.
..and that, I believe, ties for the most math needed for any degree, after math majors of course
A physics degree will require as much math as a math degree.
Fat people get it the worst.
I'm not too sure I believe this. I'm fairly lanky so I would assume that people would not censor their anti-fat remarks around me. I can't recall ever hearing remarks like you describe. I'm certain I'd privy to statements like, "look at that fat bastard", if they actually were being made frequently. I'm inclined ot believe this is more of an urban myth or wishful thiking along the lines of Vietnam veterans getting spit on: sounds plausible but never actually happened.
Apparently you're one of those who don't know binary. If you're going to quote a geek phrase at least do us a favor by not getting the math totally wrong.
Or maybe use the <joke> tag for those who are humor-impaired.
But I do enjoy myself when corporate greed wins over stupid people.
I'm just the opposite: I like to see stupid people beating corporate greed. Actually, I like to see anyone beating corporate greed.
Rules should be enforced to prevent wrong doing rather than punishing for it.
Is this a joke? Is there to be some enforcement organization responsible for scrutinizing every activity in order to prevent a misdeed before it occurs? How far do you want Big Brother to go in order to prevent wrongdoing?
Damn, I'd like to see Puritanism gone wild:
You have - remember Ted Haggard?
Here's a great rule-of-thumb anytime someone discusses Java: If they mention applets, they have no idea what they are talking about.
I've been a developer for nearly a decade, mostly Java but also PHP and Perl. In all that time, I have not written a single applet (outside of school).
Java != applets
Not only can we buy crap we don't need, now we can buy crap that doesn't even exist. Whattacountry!
Man that's weird. I make a smartass remark, thinking it might get modded funny at best and it gets a +4 Insightful.
Obviously my definition of insightful doesn't mesh with others'.
Not only can we buy crap we don't need, now we can buy crap that doesn't even exist. Whattacountry!
Fox is no better, no worse than everyone else. That is my point.
Then you really don't pay attention to news. There are examples of poor journalism everywhere. At every other news outlet, they are the exception. Fox, by comparison, has never made any effort to hide the fact that they are a propaganda outlet for the radical right. There has always been some bias. The Wall Street Journal is conservative in pretty much the same amount that Newsweek is liberal. Fox is off-the-charts propagandizing.
I'm sure that there are equally egregious examples from "right wing" media, but since I can't actually point to any "right wing" media outlets, I'm stumped at actually describing one.
Let me help you out:
In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States.
They can do that but, if you're like me, chkrootkit runs from a mounted CD-ROM. It's a little harder for them to trojan it that way.
...I'm going to observe that I've noticed that my karma is slipping.
Maybe it's more due to off-topic posts?