Actually, any private health or life insurance company does this already. Insurance is based on risks. You choose the risks. Why should the "Free" coverage from any Government isolate you, me or anyone from risks? In a more perfect Government there would be a very very limited medicaid system at the Government level. But it will take a long time to get there with so many people screaming for more "Free" stuff from Government,
However, I also believe that it's a lie that smoking and being overweight are the causes of rising health care costs. Typically unhealthy people die sooner in life. The costs of so called healthy living people are sky rocketing as they keep aging and slowly watch their health fail needing more and more life prolonging health care. This is an observation based on my own extended family. The so-called healthy ones lived longer, needed nursing homes and advanced health care for a much longer time than those that lived the "unhealthy" life. Those family members typically just died suddenly and did not have the need to all these life prolonging health services.
We all die. That is the first fact of being born. I plan to enjoy that life fully even if others claim it's not healthy. It's not as if there's a chance I'll never die.
Interesting coincidence that the Rustock Botnet spam network was taken down and MySpace loses 10 Million accounts? I know these two events can't be connected to each other, right?
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"Nothing is more important than saving... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans."
Al Gore's scare and doom movie caused this.
Lee said at the time that he experienced an "awakening" when he watched former Vice President Al Gore's environmental documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."
Actually Braille books and eBooks are equally accessible. Someone that CAN see has to locate either book for the blind person in the first place. Does the Kindle to text to speech for the nav menus also? If not maybe it could. That with a few tactile indicators on the buttons should allow a blind person to navigate the Kindle. However, because of this ruling even if the Kindle did get that upgrade it is still banned. So what next? A lawsuit for deaf, dumb, blind kids that play pinball but can't hear the Text to Speech feature?
You're the one that is misinformed. President Clinton was the first President to deny Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. President Bush was the first President to actually provide funding for embryonic stem cell research.
"President Barack Obama's March 9 executive order lifting a ban on embryonic stem cell research, an order that went into effect under his predecessor, George W. Bush. "
President Bush DID NOT ban embryonic stem cell research. He did limit Federal money to only the existing lines of embryos that had already been created at the time. No new money was to be spent on creating new embryo lines.
The fact remains President Bush was the first President to ever Federally fund embryonic research.
"No, they're not trying to remove the First Amendment. It's still there, and if this bill conflicts with the First Amendment (and I can't see how any reasonable person could say otherwise), its clear legally that the bill would be tossed out as unconstitutional."
And proof of this are the so called Hate Speech laws, no wait those were not thrown out as unconstitutional
Laws that restrict Religious freedom have been thrown out? Oops,wrong again.
Laws requiring permits for the people to peaceable assemble have been tossed out. Hmm.. nope those are still in place.
About the only part of the First Amendment that is still in tact is the Freedom of the Press, but they've been bought and paid for in most part by the DNC PR department.
The Second Amendment has been under constant assault and now since the latest ruling by the SCOTUS the Government is now trying to eliminate the production of ammunition. The new Inter-America http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/treaties/a-63.html treaty Obama is looking at would ban all illicit ammunition production. Illicit is defined as anyone that makes or reloads their own ammo. Hunters do this all the time. So the back door to banning guns is now banning ammo.
I can see how my blog could be considered a weapon as I repeatedly criticize the Federal, Sate and local Governments. Based on the latest DHS report my blog is extreme and could be considered 'sever' or 'hostile' since I repeatedly call for limited Federal Government and lower Federal Taxes. Since the DHS can classify anyone that supports the 10th Amendment as a Right Wing Extremist and a possible terrorist threat they can claim anything meets the criteria for the 'blog as a weapon'.
Where's Minesota? haha Minnesota is where I call home and I lived way up there near these mines in the town of Ely. These mines are about 30 miles south of the Canadian border. This is also where most of our iron ore used to come from.
Back in college I worked at some computer retail chain stores, Computer City and CompUSA, as a repair tech. I saw the same thing happening in some of those stores. It wasn't something that upper managment or regional managers or higher said to do. It was something that some low level managers did to improve their sales numbers.
Here in Minneapolis, MN we had "red light" cameras to catch people running read lights. It was finally determined in court that the cameras vioalted our rights under the MN State Constituion since the cameras did not photogragh the person bhind the wheel, jus tht car so they had no proof of who was driving. The only way you could get out of the ticket was to turn in the person that was driving your car. So guilty until you can prove someone else was guilty just didn't fly at the Supreme Court level.
Now with people faking plates I can see the real problem with these cameras.
My wife is a photographer and according to her with today's digital photography it is common to use a green screen background for portrait shots and the digitally add in the desired background. If the AP really objects to this they are NUTS!
This photo of the General looks like it was a quick snap from a cell phone then altered to make it presentable as a public relations head shot. The AP is so far out of line on this they border on being absurd.
To me it looks like the kooks at the AP were searching hard for a reason to deny the DoD access to the media. They have more than once rejected the DoD versions of a story claiming "bias" when they openly welcome stories from those with a real bias (aka terrorists) against the DoD or U.S. Government.
Yeah I know. My wife has a perfectly good Dual 2.0Ghz G5 Power Mac with 4gb of ram. There is NO need to upgrade that machine. It works perfectly good for her photography work and video editing. It's fast. I see no point in spending $1600 on up to get an Intel CPU iMac with the same amount of memory and really no other improvements. (400mhz faster, big woop.) When I NEED to upgrade her machine I'll upgrade it to the top end and not buy another one for 5 or 8 years.
But then Apple is saying the next version of OSX won't run on the PPC cpu either.
This is just one more reason why my wife and I prefer to drive instead of flying. We have traveled large portions of the country by car and motorcycle. It's more fun and we get to see more of the country.
Also, remember that it was Democrats that clamored to Federalize baggage screeners after 9-11. They said it was their fault the terrorists got on board with box cutters. (Even though at the time box cutters were not banned from carry on.) They wanted to make the "Professional" screeners by making the Federal employees. Then do you remember how many of them turned out to be illegal aliens? And all the screaming the Unions did when we tried to keep the illegals from having TSA jobs? And now we have proof that these TSA Professionals are allowed to dig through your luggage without supervision and steal whatever they want. How many others have not been caught yet? Maybe they should search the homes of every TSA employee with an eBay seller account.
Anything run by the Feds is bound to be screwed up.
I am very happy that I bought my Mac Book Pro this spring and did not wait for the next version. Both the Mac Book and Mac Book Pro are ugly abysmal steps backwards.
I've seen that keyboard before, it looks like the old TI99-4A keyboard.
If you alter your iPhone or any other device in such away that it was not intended and then you upgrade the software you should expect it to break or become a brick. That is just common sense. No manufacturer or software vendor should be held responsible for YOUR hacking of a device.
If Apple's deal with AT&T is illegal then every phone contract with every phone provider is illegal. Blackberry anyone? Or how about NextTel when those first came out. Every cell phone requires a service provider. My AT&T phone (Samsung, not an iPhone) will not work with other cell providers. Do I get to sue Samsung? No. So Samsung has chosen to make separate phones that will work with each cell provider. Apple has chosen to limit their customer base by not doing so. Is it criminal? No, poor marketing for sure. But it only hurts Apple. You as the end purchaser/user have the ultimate choice of NOT buying a product. It's YOUR choice to buy an iPhone knowing that it will only work with one provider. You choose to buy or not to buy. No one forced you to buy an iPhone.
Grow up people. Companies are here to make products people want and to make a profit doing so. Then they pay their employees and share holders. Nothing Steve Jobs is doing is beyond that and especially not criminally beyond that.
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Actually, any private health or life insurance company does this already. Insurance is based on risks. You choose the risks. Why should the "Free" coverage from any Government isolate you, me or anyone from risks? In a more perfect Government there would be a very very limited medicaid system at the Government level. But it will take a long time to get there with so many people screaming for more "Free" stuff from Government,
However, I also believe that it's a lie that smoking and being overweight are the causes of rising health care costs. Typically unhealthy people die sooner in life. The costs of so called healthy living people are sky rocketing as they keep aging and slowly watch their health fail needing more and more life prolonging health care. This is an observation based on my own extended family. The so-called healthy ones lived longer, needed nursing homes and advanced health care for a much longer time than those that lived the "unhealthy" life. Those family members typically just died suddenly and did not have the need to all these life prolonging health services.
We all die. That is the first fact of being born. I plan to enjoy that life fully even if others claim it's not healthy. It's not as if there's a chance I'll never die.
Interesting coincidence that the Rustock Botnet spam network was taken down and MySpace loses 10 Million accounts? I know these two events can't be connected to each other, right?
Apparently I stole Microsoft source code and tried to sell it and got busted back in 2004/2005. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Genovese
I am NOT ILLWILL!!
I am NOT THAT stupid!
disturbance in The Force.
Left Wing Envrion"Mental" Nut ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans."
"Nothing is more important than saving
Al Gore's scare and doom movie caused this.
Lee said at the time that he experienced an "awakening" when he watched former Vice President Al Gore's environmental documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."
eliminate yourself first and maybe others will follow.
Actually Braille books and eBooks are equally accessible. Someone that CAN see has to locate either book for the blind person in the first place. Does the Kindle to text to speech for the nav menus also? If not maybe it could. That with a few tactile indicators on the buttons should allow a blind person to navigate the Kindle. However, because of this ruling even if the Kindle did get that upgrade it is still banned. So what next? A lawsuit for deaf, dumb, blind kids that play pinball but can't hear the Text to Speech feature?
You're the one that is misinformed. President Clinton was the first President to deny Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. President Bush was the first President to actually provide funding for embryonic stem cell research.
Read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_controversy#Origins
None - because the claims about embryonic stem cells are false. http://www.stemcellresearchfacts.com/cures_failures.html
"President Barack Obama's March 9 executive order lifting a ban on embryonic stem cell research, an order that went into effect under his predecessor, George W. Bush. "
President Bush DID NOT ban embryonic stem cell research. He did limit Federal money to only the existing lines of embryos that had already been created at the time. No new money was to be spent on creating new embryo lines.
The fact remains President Bush was the first President to ever Federally fund embryonic research.
BTW: Far better research is being done with adult stem cells and there are actual cures and treatments in testing or completed. http://www.stemcellresearchfacts.com/cures_failures.html
"No, they're not trying to remove the First Amendment. It's still there, and if this bill conflicts with the First Amendment (and I can't see how any reasonable person could say otherwise), its clear legally that the bill would be tossed out as unconstitutional."
And proof of this are the so called Hate Speech laws, no wait those were not thrown out as unconstitutional
Laws that restrict Religious freedom have been thrown out? Oops,wrong again.
Laws requiring permits for the people to peaceable assemble have been tossed out. Hmm.. nope those are still in place.
About the only part of the First Amendment that is still in tact is the Freedom of the Press, but they've been bought and paid for in most part by the DNC PR department.
The Second Amendment has been under constant assault and now since the latest ruling by the SCOTUS the Government is now trying to eliminate the production of ammunition. The new Inter-America http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/treaties/a-63.html treaty Obama is looking at would ban all illicit ammunition production. Illicit is defined as anyone that makes or reloads their own ammo. Hunters do this all the time. So the back door to banning guns is now banning ammo.
I can see how my blog could be considered a weapon as I repeatedly criticize the Federal, Sate and local Governments. Based on the latest DHS report my blog is extreme and could be considered 'sever' or 'hostile' since I repeatedly call for limited Federal Government and lower Federal Taxes. Since the DHS can classify anyone that supports the 10th Amendment as a Right Wing Extremist and a possible terrorist threat they can claim anything meets the criteria for the 'blog as a weapon'.
nope, just south of Onterio. Where did you people learn geography?
Where's Minesota? haha Minnesota is where I call home and I lived way up there near these mines in the town of Ely. These mines are about 30 miles south of the Canadian border. This is also where most of our iron ore used to come from.
"basically, you have to arbitrate any offense committed on campus according to BC's liking (aka, admitting your guilt) "
This does not surprise me coming from the State that gave us Witch Trials.
It came down to commissions and their paycheck.
Back in college I worked at some computer retail chain stores, Computer City and CompUSA, as a repair tech. I saw the same thing happening in some of those stores. It wasn't something that upper managment or regional managers or higher said to do. It was something that some low level managers did to improve their sales numbers.
Here in Minneapolis, MN we had "red light" cameras to catch people running read lights. It was finally determined in court that the cameras vioalted our rights under the MN State Constituion since the cameras did not photogragh the person bhind the wheel, jus tht car so they had no proof of who was driving. The only way you could get out of the ticket was to turn in the person that was driving your car. So guilty until you can prove someone else was guilty just didn't fly at the Supreme Court level.
Now with people faking plates I can see the real problem with these cameras.
My wife is a photographer and according to her with today's digital photography it is common to use a green screen background for portrait shots and the digitally add in the desired background. If the AP really objects to this they are NUTS!
This photo of the General looks like it was a quick snap from a cell phone then altered to make it presentable as a public relations head shot. The AP is so far out of line on this they border on being absurd.
To me it looks like the kooks at the AP were searching hard for a reason to deny the DoD access to the media. They have more than once rejected the DoD versions of a story claiming "bias" when they openly welcome stories from those with a real bias (aka terrorists) against the DoD or U.S. Government.
For me the AP had lost all credibility ages ago.
Yeah I know. My wife has a perfectly good Dual 2.0Ghz G5 Power Mac with 4gb of ram. There is NO need to upgrade that machine. It works perfectly good for her photography work and video editing. It's fast. I see no point in spending $1600 on up to get an Intel CPU iMac with the same amount of memory and really no other improvements. (400mhz faster, big woop.) When I NEED to upgrade her machine I'll upgrade it to the top end and not buy another one for 5 or 8 years.
But then Apple is saying the next version of OSX won't run on the PPC cpu either.
Well, on the Apple.com Downloads site OpenOffice 3.0 has been featured since it was released. I've been using 3.0 since the beta's on my Mac.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/
I would be surprised if large numbers of Mac users are not downloading OpenOffice, well except those still running PowerPC CPUs.
This is just one more reason why my wife and I prefer to drive instead of flying. We have traveled large portions of the country by car and motorcycle. It's more fun and we get to see more of the country.
Also, remember that it was Democrats that clamored to Federalize baggage screeners after 9-11. They said it was their fault the terrorists got on board with box cutters. (Even though at the time box cutters were not banned from carry on.) They wanted to make the "Professional" screeners by making the Federal employees. Then do you remember how many of them turned out to be illegal aliens? And all the screaming the Unions did when we tried to keep the illegals from having TSA jobs? And now we have proof that these TSA Professionals are allowed to dig through your luggage without supervision and steal whatever they want. How many others have not been caught yet? Maybe they should search the homes of every TSA employee with an eBay seller account.
Anything run by the Feds is bound to be screwed up.
I am very happy that I bought my Mac Book Pro this spring and did not wait for the next version. Both the Mac Book and Mac Book Pro are ugly abysmal steps backwards.
I've seen that keyboard before, it looks like the old TI99-4A keyboard.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/139100-9/the_10_worst_pc_keyboards_of_all_time.html
I'll just upgrade my memory and keep my MBP for a few years until this line of ugly and featureless MBP's continue.
Oh, as far as the fire wire port goes, who the heck uses that? I have never used it. There are very few FW devices and they usually cost more.
"Grow Up" is directed at all the people here that seem to hate companies and profits and paying for software.
If you alter your iPhone or any other device in such away that it was not intended and then you upgrade the software you should expect it to break or become a brick. That is just common sense. No manufacturer or software vendor should be held responsible for YOUR hacking of a device.
If Apple's deal with AT&T is illegal then every phone contract with every phone provider is illegal. Blackberry anyone? Or how about NextTel when those first came out. Every cell phone requires a service provider. My AT&T phone (Samsung, not an iPhone) will not work with other cell providers. Do I get to sue Samsung? No. So Samsung has chosen to make separate phones that will work with each cell provider. Apple has chosen to limit their customer base by not doing so. Is it criminal? No, poor marketing for sure. But it only hurts Apple. You as the end purchaser/user have the ultimate choice of NOT buying a product. It's YOUR choice to buy an iPhone knowing that it will only work with one provider. You choose to buy or not to buy. No one forced you to buy an iPhone.
Grow up people. Companies are here to make products people want and to make a profit doing so. Then they pay their employees and share holders. Nothing Steve Jobs is doing is beyond that and especially not criminally beyond that.