I am living well within my means, and saving money so that if it hits me, I will be able to pay for my own healthcare.
Really? And have you ever purchased insurance *not* mandated by law? Yes? Were you educated at any time in a public school? Yes? So you are willing to be supported by others when you were younger, but now that it's your time to support people you want them to screw off?
... and yet you neglect the likelihood that, because of Obamacare, the guy retains his health insurance for the next 30 years, paying in $60,000 over that time.
Most people have to visit the ER a few times during their lives, and yet most people don't use as much as they've paid for insurance until the last six months of their lives. The odds are good that, assuming he recovers and has gained some common sense, he will now contribute back his own costs and more over his life, until near the end.
Of course those expenses at the last six months are mostly unnecessary and unwanted by the dying anyway, but planning for that%H%H%H%H%H%OMG NAZI DEATH PANELS!!!!
You're attracting flames because you are acting so smug, thinking you're totally in control of your own life. You aren't. Some people figure this out on their own, and then at least respect those that have fallen. Others, perhaps like you, need to be T-boned by a guy with no insurance, then screwed over by your own insurance company, while trying to manage the onset of cystic fibrosis, before they realize that sometimes bad things happen to good people.
If the people don't beleive in justice, if there are no fair juries to be had, if we truly live in the mob rule of pure democracy, then I won't shed a tear over dispensing with monsters.
That's been tried too. It failed, miserably. Hint: after a while it's the aristocrats that end up on the receiving end of a bullet, or a large falling blade.
Then the rest of the people would change the law to implement federally guaranteed union powers, and things would be back just like they are now. Except without you complaining about it.
Actually I agree with you on one point. Marriage is a very religious thing. Why is the government involved at all? All unions should be civil unions in the eyes of the law, and then individual churches can choose to call them marriages or not.
With regard to freedom, if your belief in freedom includes the right for you to deny freedom to others, then your freedom isn't very free. Compare a person who says "live and let live" with someone who says "A society isn't really free unless I am free to steal his car." Both are definitions of freedom but one is more typical of American freedom than the other.
It would be illegal under your scheme to give real time or streaming applications priority. Try again. How about, "No Internet provider shall discriminate based on end-points." Discriminate by type of traffic, sure. Discriminate based on where it came from or where it is going, no.
So the cable company / ISP can discriminate against streaming video?
Oh, and what if you create a safe working environment for your employees, pay them a fair wage, and give them job security in the case of illness or workplace injury?
Then it's not likely your workers would form a union in the first place. Also, you'll be put out of business by the guy down the street who doesn't do any of those things and can undercut your prices - at least until his workers strike.
I think unions are a fine thing and every employee ought to have the right to join a union -- and every employer ought to have the right to say "fuck off, you're fired immediately and forever, we will NEVER allow union labor here"
And next time the union will form in secret. It's not like you can control who your employees assemble with in private, right? You won't know about it until the strike.
"Aha!" you say, "I'll fire them all then!" Sure. And next time they won't just strike, they'll lock themselves to their machines.
"But that's illegal!" you exclaim. Sure it is. But who's going to arrest them? In your hypothetical world, what're the odds that you're willing to pay enough in taxes for the police force to be from the upper class? They're most likely worker class folks too, just like your employees (and probably related to them as well). Even if you do manage to get them arrested, what are the odds that they'll be convicted by a jury of their peers? And, even if convicted, why do you think that would matter? People are willing to die to improve the lives of their families - what's a misdemeanor trespassing conviction?
"If I sue them they'll lose everything. That's not protecting their families." you pronounce. What exactly would you sue them for? Their house? Their car? Their retirement savings? In your hypothetical world your workers have none of those, because all of those things became possible because of unions.
Or maybe instead of a sit-in strike, it just so happens that your plant catches fire a few hours after the strike starts and burns down, since the volunteer / worker class firefighters are a bit slow protecting an empty factory. Shucks. One hothead employee gets caught and spends a dime upstate, while his family is the best taken care of in town. Meanwhile you're out of work, too.
In short, your idea has been tried. It failed. Miserably. So something else was tried. It worked at the time. Maybe it's not working as well now, but it hasn't failed yet. If you come up with something better maybe we can try it next.
Just last night the local ABC news affiliate had a story about a "firearm shooting", yet they completely refused to include the viewpoint of Tinfoil Astronomers, Inc., which postulates that the victim was actually hit by a meteor.
If it had been Fox News, and it was politically advantageous to do so, they would have aired both sides, then completely neglected to air a follow-up story when a bullet (and not a meteorite) was pulled from the victim. (Since of course that would be "not news".)
So you wouldn't mind if, when I saw you smoking, I walked up and sprayed some pepper spray onto the ground at your feet? Because I've wanted to do that to people who smoke in public for a long time.
Spam to a small address need not be that bad. I "rent" a.net address, have had it for more than a decade, and don't use spam filtering on incoming mail. Also I capture everything sent to the address and send it to a default account, which I review.
I get about 25 bounce backs a week from people wanting to confirm that an email with a forged header, seemingly from my domain, was legitimate. Occasionally I see WoW phishing emails or something about Viagra. It's not that bad. All of these go to the catch-all account. My actual account, which receives email from a dozen or so user names that I actually use, gets no spam at all.
Of course I own the domain and only I use it. My wife prefers Gmail. So addresses from that domain aren't plastered all over the internet to be harvested.
Then don't stand near the doors of the building, or in the way on the sidewalk. Smoke in the middle of the street and you won't infringe upon non-smoker pedestrians. Or put a trash bag over your head before you light up. Either way, your choice.
>>> Seriously, the risks of second hand smoke in an outdoor area are very small compared to the risks indoors.
Doesn't matter, it's the smell not the tiny chance of cancer.
>>> You are willing to tolerate diesel fumes
Huh? I don't see the OP mention this anywhere. I personally try to avoid inhaling diesel fumes as well. And gasoline fumes too for that matter, no matter how awesome they may smell.
When looking at the Google case, the pictures taken were not aimed to directly or even indirectly attack the Plaintiff, but instead was part of an automatic car system which either took a wrong turn or was mapped improperly.
Now that the case is over and they have some free time, Google's lawyers can divide up into two teams, and the side representing Google StreetView can sue the side representing Google Maps, to recover their damages in this case.
No, Apple is a hardware company that develops software to ensure hardware brand loyalty. The main reason they sell hardware is because that's the only way they could become a $100 billion company.
Name some Apple hardware that works with third-party software. Now name some Apple software that works with third-party hardware.
I don't dispute that the hardware isn't so special, and that the software inside is what makes it better. But don't jump to the conclusion that they are thus a software company. Be amazed at how they can use custom software to drive sales of expensive, profitable hardware.
When trade secrets are involved it's called theft, not copyright infringement.
"Theft" is when the original owner is deprived by the action. In this case, the trade secrets were stolen, because the original owner was deprived of the secret (as its not secret any more).
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I am living well within my means, and saving money so that if it hits me, I will be able to pay for my own healthcare.
Really? And have you ever purchased insurance *not* mandated by law? Yes? Were you educated at any time in a public school? Yes? So you are willing to be supported by others when you were younger, but now that it's your time to support people you want them to screw off?
Maybe if the amount "spent" on votes is distributed evenly amongst the voters, that could be corrected over time.
It's GDKP for politics!
... and yet you neglect the likelihood that, because of Obamacare, the guy retains his health insurance for the next 30 years, paying in $60,000 over that time.
Most people have to visit the ER a few times during their lives, and yet most people don't use as much as they've paid for insurance until the last six months of their lives. The odds are good that, assuming he recovers and has gained some common sense, he will now contribute back his own costs and more over his life, until near the end.
Of course those expenses at the last six months are mostly unnecessary and unwanted by the dying anyway, but planning for that%H%H%H%H%H%OMG NAZI DEATH PANELS!!!!
You're attracting flames because you are acting so smug, thinking you're totally in control of your own life. You aren't. Some people figure this out on their own, and then at least respect those that have fallen. Others, perhaps like you, need to be T-boned by a guy with no insurance, then screwed over by your own insurance company, while trying to manage the onset of cystic fibrosis, before they realize that sometimes bad things happen to good people.
Most government programs never accomplish what they promise to do and often come with significant negative consequences.
Most corporate assurances never accomplish what they promise and often come with significant negative consequences, too.
Sure, they'd happily discriminate against all streaming internet video.
Meanwhile, they offer cable service on the same wire, but that's *not* internet video and isn't subject to net neutrality rules at all.
Most cable companies would be happy to return to 1997's internet.
At step 2 I would have started shooting.
If the people don't beleive in justice, if there are no fair juries to be had, if we truly live in the mob rule of pure democracy, then I won't shed a tear over dispensing with monsters.
That's been tried too. It failed, miserably. Hint: after a while it's the aristocrats that end up on the receiving end of a bullet, or a large falling blade.
Then the rest of the people would change the law to implement federally guaranteed union powers, and things would be back just like they are now. Except without you complaining about it.
And if the one group of soldiers would harm or through inaction allow harm to another, then I wouldn't want them in the military.
Actually I agree with you on one point. Marriage is a very religious thing. Why is the government involved at all? All unions should be civil unions in the eyes of the law, and then individual churches can choose to call them marriages or not.
With regard to freedom, if your belief in freedom includes the right for you to deny freedom to others, then your freedom isn't very free. Compare a person who says "live and let live" with someone who says "A society isn't really free unless I am free to steal his car." Both are definitions of freedom but one is more typical of American freedom than the other.
It would be illegal under your scheme to give real time or streaming applications priority. Try again. How about, "No Internet provider shall discriminate based on end-points." Discriminate by type of traffic, sure. Discriminate based on where it came from or where it is going, no.
So the cable company / ISP can discriminate against streaming video?
Your wording needs more detail.
Oh, and what if you create a safe working environment for your employees, pay them a fair wage, and give them job security in the case of illness or workplace injury?
Then it's not likely your workers would form a union in the first place. Also, you'll be put out of business by the guy down the street who doesn't do any of those things and can undercut your prices - at least until his workers strike.
I think unions are a fine thing and every employee ought to have the right to join a union -- and every employer ought to have the right to say "fuck off, you're fired immediately and forever, we will NEVER allow union labor here"
And next time the union will form in secret. It's not like you can control who your employees assemble with in private, right? You won't know about it until the strike.
"Aha!" you say, "I'll fire them all then!" Sure. And next time they won't just strike, they'll lock themselves to their machines.
"But that's illegal!" you exclaim. Sure it is. But who's going to arrest them? In your hypothetical world, what're the odds that you're willing to pay enough in taxes for the police force to be from the upper class? They're most likely worker class folks too, just like your employees (and probably related to them as well). Even if you do manage to get them arrested, what are the odds that they'll be convicted by a jury of their peers? And, even if convicted, why do you think that would matter? People are willing to die to improve the lives of their families - what's a misdemeanor trespassing conviction?
"If I sue them they'll lose everything. That's not protecting their families." you pronounce. What exactly would you sue them for? Their house? Their car? Their retirement savings? In your hypothetical world your workers have none of those, because all of those things became possible because of unions.
Or maybe instead of a sit-in strike, it just so happens that your plant catches fire a few hours after the strike starts and burns down, since the volunteer / worker class firefighters are a bit slow protecting an empty factory. Shucks. One hothead employee gets caught and spends a dime upstate, while his family is the best taken care of in town. Meanwhile you're out of work, too.
In short, your idea has been tried. It failed. Miserably. So something else was tried. It worked at the time. Maybe it's not working as well now, but it hasn't failed yet. If you come up with something better maybe we can try it next.
That would be like every Schlage front door knob having identical keys.
They (mostly) all do - it's the Bump key.
I'd rather have the gays in the military than the homophobes. At least then they'd all believe in the freedom they're fighting for.
Just last night the local ABC news affiliate had a story about a "firearm shooting", yet they completely refused to include the viewpoint of Tinfoil Astronomers, Inc., which postulates that the victim was actually hit by a meteor.
If it had been Fox News, and it was politically advantageous to do so, they would have aired both sides, then completely neglected to air a follow-up story when a bullet (and not a meteorite) was pulled from the victim. (Since of course that would be "not news".)
I doubt Gates has much to do with it.
Instead....
Steve Ballmer pauses, puts down the chair, and sits in it.
So you wouldn't mind if, when I saw you smoking, I walked up and sprayed some pepper spray onto the ground at your feet? Because I've wanted to do that to people who smoke in public for a long time.
Spam to a small address need not be that bad. I "rent" a .net address, have had it for more than a decade, and don't use spam filtering on incoming mail. Also I capture everything sent to the address and send it to a default account, which I review.
I get about 25 bounce backs a week from people wanting to confirm that an email with a forged header, seemingly from my domain, was legitimate. Occasionally I see WoW phishing emails or something about Viagra. It's not that bad. All of these go to the catch-all account. My actual account, which receives email from a dozen or so user names that I actually use, gets no spam at all.
Of course I own the domain and only I use it. My wife prefers Gmail. So addresses from that domain aren't plastered all over the internet to be harvested.
He's busy trying to make a paperclip out of a gun.
Duh, shoot a hole through the corner of all the pages, then stick the barrel in the hole. Voila.
>>> Then don't stand near me.
Then don't stand near the doors of the building, or in the way on the sidewalk. Smoke in the middle of the street and you won't infringe upon non-smoker pedestrians. Or put a trash bag over your head before you light up. Either way, your choice.
>>> Seriously, the risks of second hand smoke in an outdoor area are very small compared to the risks indoors.
Doesn't matter, it's the smell not the tiny chance of cancer.
>>> You are willing to tolerate diesel fumes
Huh? I don't see the OP mention this anywhere. I personally try to avoid inhaling diesel fumes as well. And gasoline fumes too for that matter, no matter how awesome they may smell.
When looking at the Google case, the pictures taken were not aimed to directly or even indirectly attack the Plaintiff, but instead was part of an automatic car system which either took a wrong turn or was mapped improperly.
Now that the case is over and they have some free time, Google's lawyers can divide up into two teams, and the side representing Google StreetView can sue the side representing Google Maps, to recover their damages in this case.
I never stick the nose of my car in past the inner edge of the sidewalk. That's a public easement.
No, Apple is a hardware company that develops software to ensure hardware brand loyalty. The main reason they sell hardware is because that's the only way they could become a $100 billion company.
Name some Apple hardware that works with third-party software. Now name some Apple software that works with third-party hardware.
I don't dispute that the hardware isn't so special, and that the software inside is what makes it better. But don't jump to the conclusion that they are thus a software company. Be amazed at how they can use custom software to drive sales of expensive, profitable hardware.
It was a secret. Now it's no longer a secret. The original owner was deprived of a secret. Therefore, it's theft.
Your use of "physically stolen" to define theft is too narrow. Instead ask "did the original owner lose something?" If so, it's theft.
When trade secrets are involved it's called theft, not copyright infringement.
"Theft" is when the original owner is deprived by the action. In this case, the trade secrets were stolen, because the original owner was deprived of the secret (as its not secret any more).