What are the proprietary bits without source code? I just checked the chromium.org web site and it seems you can download all of the source code and build it yourself without adding in any proprietary bits. Google says it is all open source and you seem to be the only person who thinks otherwise. Do you have a link which describes the proprietary bits?
I just bought a sink from Home Depot web site. Shipped to my home address. Tax calculated at the correct rate for my location. I know it is complex but it's not rocket science. This is why we have computers.
ACA is certainly not a panacea. It is very weak (thanks to the efforts of the health industry and bribed politicians).
We need much stronger government regulation of prices and services similar to those of most other developed countries who manage to deliver much better quality health care and health outcomes for about half of the US cost.
I agree. The US Government can really be thought of as a large insurance company (SS, Medicare, Medicaid) with an army. Everything else is peanuts.
However, Social Security is fully funded for the next 25 years. After that, a small increase in the SS tax by making rich people pay the current tax rate on income over $106,000 would keep it solvent many more years into the future.
Medicare is a problem and that is what the ACA is designed to fix. Hopefully the Republicans won't kill it before it can have an effect on costs.
Defense. Yes we need to cut our defense spending (it would help if we didn't keep starting these oil wars and colonial world domination wars. (Ron Paul has it right here.)
That's just what Firefox did for me with the latest version. It notified me that the updates (to v7) had been downloaded and I needed to restart Firefox... tabs restore boom, new, updated Firefox.
This is actually quite common with modern software... nothing special... it just works.
You can get emergency care in an emergency room at any time and you will be billed (exorbitant rates) for the privilege. However, you can't get treatment for your cancer or any chronic or non-emergency condition. If you have one of these and no money, you'll just have to die at home (to the cheers of Republicans). This is the US "death panel" system.
IBM, HP and many other companies make billions of dollars supporting free software. It's called customization and maintenance. You should check it out.
In California, we are happy when someone leaves. This has the effect of increasing the average IQ of both California and wherever they land. (Not to mention making more space for us.)
This article is about skull morphology but it follows on some very interesting genetic studies which show that all modern humans (except those from Africa) have Neanderthal genes which where picked up when modern humans moved through Europe about 30,000 years ago. They've been able to sequence Neanderthal genes and find these in modern humans from all continents except Africa.
Interestingly, and probably not surprising since modern Africans did not migrate through Europe, modern Africans don't have any Neanderthal genes and as such could be considered the only "true bloodline" homo sapiens sapiens.
I've stayed in hotels with WiFi where they put all of their stations on the same channel. I guess they didn't want to interfere with outside channels... just interfere with their own customers.
I really don't think you have a clue about the economic and living conditions of these people in Nairobi. They are very poor. They do not have any choice about where to live. They are desperate to survive day to day. If some fool in their neighborhood taps into a fuel line, they can't avoid being incinerated.
It sounds like you are trying to say that these people have a choice to live in a nicer place and instead choose to live with this danger so they can tap the fuel line. You couldn't be more wrong.
I'm sure that you are rich enough to have a nice house in an area away from industrial hazards. However, you should realize that some people are not so lucky and must live wherever they can which can be a slum in an industrial area.
Don't forget the "different channels" part. I stayed in a few hotels this summer with lousy setups where they had all of their APs on the same channel. When the signal was weak (in most of the hotel), the connection would constantly switch back and forth between the APs which means that it spent most of its time connecting.
The Republican politicians are adamantly against Medicare. During the health care reform debate, there was a proposal to expand Medicare to everyone. Of course, this didn't have a chance since it would have cut out the insurance companies and reduced reimbursement for everyone else.
I put "free market" in quotes because I do not believe there is a free market in US health care. The US health care market consists of a set of monopolies (insurance, hospitals, doctors, pharma, etc) which, in the absence of effective government regulation means that you have no choice of provider or price. (There is some regulation of drug safety which is a good thing but irrelevant to the current discussion.)
The proper role of government here would be to regulate prices and access in a similar manner as the other 21 "developed" countries. This would give us lower prices, higher quality and better access.
Unfortunately, in the US, the health care monopolists have captured the regulatory mechanism (i.e. bribe all the politicians) so there is a very small chance of real regulatory control. In short, we are screwed.
Yes, because our "free market" health care system is working so well...
We have the highest drug costs and highest hospital and physician prices of any country in the world. We end up paying twice as much as any other developed country for lower quality and access to health care.
All other developed countries have strong regulation of health care prices and this gives them lower costs and better access to health services. Government regulation works.
As discussed extensively in the thread, there are two types of machines. One type emits X-rays which are ionizing radiation and which can cause cancer. The other type uses microwave radiation. The evidence for microwave radiation and cancer is not clear. There have been many studies of cell phone microwave radiation and microwave oven leakage which have been inconclusive. Some studies seem to show a link while others do not. It's still best to be safe rather than sorry.
It may be a very small amount of radiation or they may be calculating it wrong or they may be lying.
In any case, it is radiation and can cause cancer. There is no safe amount of radiation. Any amount of radiation can cause cancer. The more radiation, the greater your chance of cancer. I choose not to expose myself to this extra radiation.
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First, there is that whole "speed of light" business. Unless we can figure a way around that, we aren't going anywhere useful.
Second, life support. It's just real hard to survive without air, water and food. Robots don't need these.
From the way things are going here on earth, it doesn't look like we'll even be able to survive here much longer, not to mention in space.
What are the proprietary bits without source code? I just checked the chromium.org web site and it seems you can download all of the source code and build it yourself without adding in any proprietary bits. Google says it is all open source and you seem to be the only person who thinks otherwise. Do you have a link which describes the proprietary bits?
I just bought a sink from Home Depot web site. Shipped to my home address. Tax calculated at the correct rate for my location. I know it is complex but it's not rocket science. This is why we have computers.
You are right. The summary is wrong. If you read the linked articles they say it was sunk by a series of earthquakes that caused that area so sink.
If there's a virus, it must be Windows.
We need much stronger government regulation of prices and services similar to those of most other developed countries who manage to deliver much better quality health care and health outcomes for about half of the US cost.
However, Social Security is fully funded for the next 25 years. After that, a small increase in the SS tax by making rich people pay the current tax rate on income over $106,000 would keep it solvent many more years into the future.
Medicare is a problem and that is what the ACA is designed to fix. Hopefully the Republicans won't kill it before it can have an effect on costs.
Defense. Yes we need to cut our defense spending (it would help if we didn't keep starting these oil wars and colonial world domination wars. (Ron Paul has it right here.)
Unfortunately, the corporate states that run the world have other ideas.
You probably don't know about Firefox Sync which has been around for a few years (and it's built in to the browser .... ready to use out of the box).
What other cool features does your browser have?
(On second thought, don't bother, this conversation is stupid.)
This is actually quite common with modern software... nothing special... it just works.
You can get emergency care in an emergency room at any time and you will be billed (exorbitant rates) for the privilege. However, you can't get treatment for your cancer or any chronic or non-emergency condition. If you have one of these and no money, you'll just have to die at home (to the cheers of Republicans). This is the US "death panel" system.
It also has rounded corners so is sure to draw a lawsuit from Apple.
IBM, HP and many other companies make billions of dollars supporting free software. It's called customization and maintenance. You should check it out.
In California, we are happy when someone leaves. This has the effect of increasing the average IQ of both California and wherever they land. (Not to mention making more space for us.)
Interestingly, and probably not surprising since modern Africans did not migrate through Europe, modern Africans don't have any Neanderthal genes and as such could be considered the only "true bloodline" homo sapiens sapiens.
I've stayed in hotels with WiFi where they put all of their stations on the same channel. I guess they didn't want to interfere with outside channels... just interfere with their own customers.
It sounds like you are trying to say that these people have a choice to live in a nicer place and instead choose to live with this danger so they can tap the fuel line. You couldn't be more wrong.
I'm sure that you are rich enough to have a nice house in an area away from industrial hazards. However, you should realize that some people are not so lucky and must live wherever they can which can be a slum in an industrial area.
Don't forget the "different channels" part. I stayed in a few hotels this summer with lousy setups where they had all of their APs on the same channel. When the signal was weak (in most of the hotel), the connection would constantly switch back and forth between the APs which means that it spent most of its time connecting.
None of the Apple iOS phones run Flash either.
The Republican politicians are adamantly against Medicare. During the health care reform debate, there was a proposal to expand Medicare to everyone. Of course, this didn't have a chance since it would have cut out the insurance companies and reduced reimbursement for everyone else.
The proper role of government here would be to regulate prices and access in a similar manner as the other 21 "developed" countries. This would give us lower prices, higher quality and better access.
Unfortunately, in the US, the health care monopolists have captured the regulatory mechanism (i.e. bribe all the politicians) so there is a very small chance of real regulatory control. In short, we are screwed.
We have the highest drug costs and highest hospital and physician prices of any country in the world. We end up paying twice as much as any other developed country for lower quality and access to health care.
All other developed countries have strong regulation of health care prices and this gives them lower costs and better access to health services. Government regulation works.
As discussed extensively in the thread, there are two types of machines. One type emits X-rays which are ionizing radiation and which can cause cancer. The other type uses microwave radiation. The evidence for microwave radiation and cancer is not clear. There have been many studies of cell phone microwave radiation and microwave oven leakage which have been inconclusive. Some studies seem to show a link while others do not. It's still best to be safe rather than sorry.
In any case, it is radiation and can cause cancer. There is no safe amount of radiation. Any amount of radiation can cause cancer. The more radiation, the greater your chance of cancer. I choose not to expose myself to this extra radiation.