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Once you accept that different standards of health care are moral
That's the hard part right there. For universal coverage to work, the rich must be forced to live under it as well, lest it be subverted into a two-tier health care system with only the rich getting good care.
I was going to mod you up but instead I'm posting to tell you I admire your attitude. It scares me that more and more intelligent but not particularly caring people are getting M.D.s for the money they think they'll earn or because their family thinks that's what they should do. I don't want to be treated as a "customer." If I'm screwing up my health by something I'm doing or failing to do, I want my doctor to tell me that, without reservation. Thank you.
If you think this is going to make anything less expensive than it is today for anyone, you're utterly naïve. It'll make it relatively less expensive for the grandma who downloads a few pix of the grandchildren when they jack up prices for the "heavy" (where heavy will be continually defined lower and lower) users, but she won't ever pay one red cent less than she does today.
Preemptive collection of data isn't worth the societal price, even if helps the state convict in a marginal DUI case such as in your example. In any case, I didn't argue that it was a bad idea *because* it might help in a DUI case, but rather that the intrusive data collection's possible assistance in a DUI case isn't sufficient justification for doing so.
True, I didn't catch that, mea culpa -- but a pattern of drinking does not evidence of a DUI make. The chemical test and police video of an impaired driver are more than sufficient to convict those truly driving drunk. Law abiding citizens who like to drink shouldn't have to fear that fact being used against them for myriad non-DUI related reasons by means of the unnecessary storage of purchaser biographical data at the point of sale.
You don't see a divorce lawyer issuing a subpoena for a local tavern's records in a contentious divorce to show the other spouse potentially unfit as a parent or as abusive? Or an insurance company defending an insured against liability for a fall pursuing information about the drinking habits of a plaintiff? I'd like to live in your world.
My experience with ESM is limited to the ancient WLR-1. The concept is pretty cool, but we didn't get into it near to the degree that you guys no doubt had do.
Even though I was only a boomer sailor, I understand the nostalgia and feel it now and again myself (though I will never miss "All hands, don EABs" but memories of "High chlorides in the port main condensate header" and the like will always bring a smile to this coner's face). I served in the mid-80s to the early 90s, and saw the transition to the Navy you describe starting to happen with the advent of NADSAP, the "Smoke Free Navy by the year 2000" and TQM. It seems it's gotten even worse since I left.
Hear, hear. I would probably have another year of life if I could get the time back I spent reorienting USB cables when trying to insert them backward.
That trial run is happening in Iraq. Suspected fighters (i.e. anyone with brown skin) are retina scanned with portable units into a biometric database.
You want the Customize Google Firefox extension. First thing I do is blacklist *.info, Experts Exchange, and other sites that return useless "results".
When the company fires you for being a whistle blower you can ring the register.
Retaliation is incredibly hard to prove, and everyone from the top down would be on board with painting the whistleblower as a long-term, incompetent malcontent, even if it takes falsifying records to do it. Bad idea--also, lawyers don't take those cases on contingency, so he'll need a large bankroll in place first.
You can't go a week without hearing about firefighters getting rocks thrown at them and their tenders by gangs of feral teens. Even paramedics rushing to people's aid have been attacked and beaten up for no reason at all.
Another reason could be, if UK practices are similar to US ones of late, is that firefighters and paramedics are being trained to snitch on those whom they are supposed to be helping. Then they are (correctly) regarded as just another instrument of the police state.
I wouldn't have been surprised at all to hear that Apple had used legal threats to attempt to suppress a satirical blog--it's not that far afield from things they have done.
"Click it or Ticket" (oh, that one's cute, isn't it?).
That one aggravates me the most of all. It's bad enough the Nanny State erroneously believes it has the moral right to force me to take a precaution which failing to take will harm no one other than myself, but then to proceed to rub my face in it on the freeway is just over the top.
If I were in the situation of wanting one, I'd buy one from Toys-R-Us, with the required extended warranty, then return the extended warranty. If they refused, I'd invoke a chargeback under the Fair Credit Billing Act for the amount of the extended warranty. Fortunately, I've been able to escape the throes of price gouging scum, so that hasn't been necessary.
An advertised feature of Truecrypt is the hidden volume capability. If you really think that if you're in a situation in which your machine is confiscated and you give them a passphrase that doesn't yield the incriminating evidence they expect to find that the authorities aren't going to apply a great deal of pressure (including pretrial confinement on whatever pretense they can find) on you to give up the "real" passphrase, well, let's just say I hope that doesn't happen to you.
Even in the U.S., the due process clause, speedy and public trial, and human rights only exist on paper, and are only enforceable if you happen to be able to afford counsel significantly more expensive than the public defender you'd get otherwise. That, and cops everywhere and throughout history have been known to "do what it takes" to punish whom they believe to be an offender, right or wrong.
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I use the Firefox CustomizeGoogle plugin to filter linkfarms (e.g. *.info/*) and cloakers (e.g. experts exchange, O'Reilly Safari). I've no affiliation, just posting because this sounds like what you want.
I was going to mod you up but instead I'm posting to tell you I admire your attitude. It scares me that more and more intelligent but not particularly caring people are getting M.D.s for the money they think they'll earn or because their family thinks that's what they should do. I don't want to be treated as a "customer." If I'm screwing up my health by something I'm doing or failing to do, I want my doctor to tell me that, without reservation. Thank you.
Later. Right now, let's play global thermonuclear war.
If you think this is going to make anything less expensive than it is today for anyone, you're utterly naïve. It'll make it relatively less expensive for the grandma who downloads a few pix of the grandchildren when they jack up prices for the "heavy" (where heavy will be continually defined lower and lower) users, but she won't ever pay one red cent less than she does today.
Preemptive collection of data isn't worth the societal price, even if helps the state convict in a marginal DUI case such as in your example. In any case, I didn't argue that it was a bad idea *because* it might help in a DUI case, but rather that the intrusive data collection's possible assistance in a DUI case isn't sufficient justification for doing so.
If only that were true (the change part, I mean).
True, I didn't catch that, mea culpa -- but a pattern of drinking does not evidence of a DUI make. The chemical test and police video of an impaired driver are more than sufficient to convict those truly driving drunk. Law abiding citizens who like to drink shouldn't have to fear that fact being used against them for myriad non-DUI related reasons by means of the unnecessary storage of purchaser biographical data at the point of sale.
At least paying in cash at a place with a paper log book makes
SELECT dl_no ,
name_last ,
address ,
SUM(pills_purchased)
FROM pseudoephedrine_purchases
GROUP BY dl_no ,
name_last ,
address
HAVING SUM(pills_purchased) > &no_knock_warrant_threshold
a good deal less likely.
You don't see a divorce lawyer issuing a subpoena for a local tavern's records in a contentious divorce to show the other spouse potentially unfit as a parent or as abusive? Or an insurance company defending an insured against liability for a fall pursuing information about the drinking habits of a plaintiff? I'd like to live in your world.
My experience with ESM is limited to the ancient WLR-1. The concept is pretty cool, but we didn't get into it near to the degree that you guys no doubt had do.
Even though I was only a boomer sailor, I understand the nostalgia and feel it now and again myself (though I will never miss "All hands, don EABs" but memories of "High chlorides in the port main condensate header" and the like will always bring a smile to this coner's face). I served in the mid-80s to the early 90s, and saw the transition to the Navy you describe starting to happen with the advent of NADSAP, the "Smoke Free Navy by the year 2000" and TQM. It seems it's gotten even worse since I left.
Hear, hear. I would probably have another year of life if I could get the time back I spent reorienting USB cables when trying to insert them backward.
The key there is the "if". And if it does, you'll already know based on the performance requirements of that job.
Is this your first encounter with rhetoric? Or do you really actually understand the post and are making an attempt at sarcasm?
You don't have a right to know shit about what an employee does in their off hours. Period.
That trial run is happening in Iraq. Suspected fighters (i.e. anyone with brown skin) are retina scanned with portable units into a biometric database.
You want the Customize Google Firefox extension. First thing I do is blacklist *.info, Experts Exchange, and other sites that return useless "results".
I wouldn't have been surprised at all to hear that Apple had used legal threats to attempt to suppress a satirical blog--it's not that far afield from things they have done.
That one aggravates me the most of all. It's bad enough the Nanny State erroneously believes it has the moral right to force me to take a precaution which failing to take will harm no one other than myself, but then to proceed to rub my face in it on the freeway is just over the top.
Funny, but seriously -- a retailer that's managed to piss off one in four customers is not one I'm going to send any money to.
If I were in the situation of wanting one, I'd buy one from Toys-R-Us, with the required extended warranty, then return the extended warranty. If they refused, I'd invoke a chargeback under the Fair Credit Billing Act for the amount of the extended warranty. Fortunately, I've been able to escape the throes of price gouging scum, so that hasn't been necessary.
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John Von Neumann, 1951
An advertised feature of Truecrypt is the hidden volume capability. If you really think that if you're in a situation in which your machine is confiscated and you give them a passphrase that doesn't yield the incriminating evidence they expect to find that the authorities aren't going to apply a great deal of pressure (including pretrial confinement on whatever pretense they can find) on you to give up the "real" passphrase, well, let's just say I hope that doesn't happen to you.
Even in the U.S., the due process clause, speedy and public trial, and human rights only exist on paper, and are only enforceable if you happen to be able to afford counsel significantly more expensive than the public defender you'd get otherwise. That, and cops everywhere and throughout history have been known to "do what it takes" to punish whom they believe to be an offender, right or wrong.