i dissagree... CoH/V is very moron free after just 10 levels. I usually play pick-ups and would say that the ratio of nimrods to good players is 10%, not 90%. the lack of loot, and that you need to actually put a little thought into you costume insted of just using whatever artwork the devs decided to put on that new piece of armor you spend 3 days camping for keeps a LOT of the immature, morons away... or atleast they get frustrated with the fact that their lvl 30 is just as powerfull as your lvl 30.
yes, it is your fault, you voted didnt you?. And if you didnt, then it's still your fault as you didnt do your duty to ensure that your voice was heard.
There are 3rd party options and if you (and enough people like you) are as fed up with "the way things are" as you say you are to vote for someone who isnt in the red or the blue. They may just win and do something you actually support insted of moaning about how you have no say while you waste your ballot, or vote for someone you dont like.
maybe my dictionary is a little dusty.... but last i checked democracy is directly appointed by the people, so you ARE responcible for the actions of your administration.... unless you became a monarchy or a dictatorship while i was in the bathroom. If you really dont like what they are doing, quit posting on/. and go out there and do something about it... or else how is anyone else to know that you are against what they are doing?
i find it a little uncivilized that there is question as to weither the Bill of Rights applys to non-citizens, but im pritty damn sure that your speeding laws apply no matter what country you were born in
I really hope/. keeps up on the coverage of this story if it goes to court. It would be quite entertaining to see a govt get it's hat handed to them for strongarming their population.
it's insanely rare... but like plane crashes, when they happen they are ALL OVER the news. that makes any procedure that will reduce it to zero a very good PR move on behalf of the hospital. This isnt so much a big deal here in the Great White North, but in the States where hospitals need to compete for patients for money, having such a system in place could make the difference in which hospital one goes to for surgery.
1) there is a huge difference between cosmetic and nessisary surgeries. your overwaight friend there would have a VERY hard time getting approval for a bypass if he is eating a pizza as a snack (as you said in a comment lower down). Contrary to popular beliefe, you cant just waltz into a hospital and say "hay, im not feeling good, give me a surgery"... there are checks and controlls as to what is covered and what is not.
2)yes, our taxes are higher, but not as much as you may think. IIRC even in Ontario (one of the highest taxed provences in the country) its only a few % higher then the american national average. but seeing as you need to buy private insurence youre not ahead anything.
3) peace of mind... My mother didnt need to re-morgage her house to pay for her cancer treatment, I dont need to pay all $400 of my money up front for my medications every 3 months, When my dad broke his leg it didnt cost him thousands of dollars out of pocket to get treated. Of course i DO realize that all this money does come out of our pockets sometime, but its a lot easier to swollow a few extra hundred dollars taxes a year then needing to shell out $50,000 in one sitting.
4) we take care of our own... One thing that has always grated me about american healthcare is that it's based on a system of greed. "Why should i pay for that person to get better?" well, because that other person over there will pay to help you get better if you cant afford it. I dont know too many people with $100k laying around to be able to afford a major health emergency.
its not that much of a streach.... in my home town (small town in north-eastern Ontario) the greatest expence for road maitenece was snow removal by an order of magnitude, its one of the top 3 expences for the town. Every year there are several accidents attributed to poor snow removal. Trust me, they never have too many plows on the road.
how are more people harmed? they pay more so that every road is treated the same, you pay less but have no idea if that side road you are about to go down has the same quality of service as the one you just left. you have 10 levels of quality, 10 times the number of people who have to contacted to find out just who the heck missed plowing street A, 10 times more variable road conditions.
try moving to Canada where we do medi-care right, try moving to Europe where they do medicare right... hell, just do it right yourself and those problems go away. you mentioned the regulatory process for drugs.... how many hundred, how many thousand drugs have been turned down because they were unsafe? how many thousands are saved every year because these dangerous meds are NOT on the market? call me a little selfish, but i want to make damn sure that the pills im taking arnt going to kill me faster then whatever it is im taking them for. Just cause you cant do something doesnt meen it doesnt work:P
your generator story is all well and good, but what would have happened to you after y2k when the lights stayed on and no one wanted to pay up their share of the maitnence costs? would you have been able to keep such a large generator in working order? doubt it, those things are pricey to keep. Also, what if one of your neighbours is from Australia and wants 240v/50hz power and wont buy any generator that wont provide their needs? Once again, i would rather pay my taxes on time and get quality power out of the plug then take my chances with whatever I, or any of my neighbours, can make. there is accountability this way... if im getting constant brown-outs, i know whos butt to kick. If a neighbourhood powersystem is on the fritz who's responcible? The guy who maintains the generator? the guy who maintains the wires? the guy who has the 72" TV and is sucking up all the juice? Everyone wants to controll their own system but doesnt want to take the problems when that system fails.
and what about water? clean, clear and healty water? would you trust some Joe down the street to keep their filter running? what if his kid was sick one day and he didnt get a chance to fix the filter.... after all, it's not his day-job right? he may make a little money for it but not enough to live on... one day wont matter right?... sorry, I want someone whos ass is on the line if my water isnt 100% safe, there was a case here in Canada where someone was lazy and didnt maintain the filter, people got sick, he is now in jail and wont be out for a long, long time... good incentive to do it right. You may trust Joe... i sure dont, not with my life, not with the life of anyone i love.
just cause you didnt see it doesnt meen no one was hurt. Say one of those 591 cases was someone who didnt want to pay thier property taxes... no on hurt right? What if because of low funds your town had to let a snow-plow driver go... then that winter someone gets in an accident that they wouldnt have if the town had just that one extra snow-plow on the road... someone was hurt, you just didnt see it in court.
I had the extreme missfortune of working in retail for 6 months and in that time I had to either turn away a customer because we couldnt special order their battery, or sell them a whole new product just cause the battery died. Cellphones were the worst... every model seems to have a unique battery and if the company isnt making enough sales of that battery they will stop making it, or charge so much for them in order to turn a proft that it is cheaper for the customer to just buy a new one.
there was NO battery for a product 10 years old we could order... heck, 5 would be pushing it.
Also, AA's are international.... you move to Botswana you can still get AA's for your Wii.... will you be able to order special batteries? not from a local store, you would have to order it online and have it shipped.
agreed, this is a horid interview. Joystick set out to make sony look the fool and did a good job of making themselves look bad insted.
Now, I'm about as much of a Wii fan-girl as you're ever going to find, but I think that Mr Harrisson handled that interview with class and more civility then Joystick deserved.... I think Phil may have just got a new greese rag in the form of a t-shirt.
you are, two of my co-workers were rather "rudely" treated when they thought they could walk around with just a photocopy and were stoped at a military checkpoint.
and even 10 feet is pletny of range, hang out at a tourist trap, wait for your RFID reader to go off, find the american in the crowd and swipe their wallet/purse for the nice little greenbacks therein... in fact for targeted crimes, a smaller radius would be worse as it would make it easier for them to pick you out (unless we are talking a few cm)
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i dissagree... CoH/V is very moron free after just 10 levels. I usually play pick-ups and would say that the ratio of nimrods to good players is 10%, not 90%. the lack of loot, and that you need to actually put a little thought into you costume insted of just using whatever artwork the devs decided to put on that new piece of armor you spend 3 days camping for keeps a LOT of the immature, morons away... or atleast they get frustrated with the fact that their lvl 30 is just as powerfull as your lvl 30.
yes, it is your fault, you voted didnt you?. And if you didnt, then it's still your fault as you didnt do your duty to ensure that your voice was heard.
There are 3rd party options and if you (and enough people like you) are as fed up with "the way things are" as you say you are to vote for someone who isnt in the red or the blue. They may just win and do something you actually support insted of moaning about how you have no say while you waste your ballot, or vote for someone you dont like.
just what are the consols doing in standby that requires so much power? surely the little lights on them cant be using up that much juice.
maybe my dictionary is a little dusty.... but last i checked democracy is directly appointed by the people, so you ARE responcible for the actions of your administration.... unless you became a monarchy or a dictatorship while i was in the bathroom. If you really dont like what they are doing, quit posting on /. and go out there and do something about it... or else how is anyone else to know that you are against what they are doing?
i find it a little uncivilized that there is question as to weither the Bill of Rights applys to non-citizens, but im pritty damn sure that your speeding laws apply no matter what country you were born in
funny, all i seem to find out there is pr0n
i suspect, that if his motion had been granted and they lost that somehow or another, JT would not have ended up being a co-payer of any settlemnt.
I really hope /. keeps up on the coverage of this story if it goes to court. It would be quite entertaining to see a govt get it's hat handed to them for strongarming their population.
with all the talk of climate change, dont you meen a ford Explorer? or a hummer? or some other gas guzzleing SUV
it's insanely rare... but like plane crashes, when they happen they are ALL OVER the news. that makes any procedure that will reduce it to zero a very good PR move on behalf of the hospital. This isnt so much a big deal here in the Great White North, but in the States where hospitals need to compete for patients for money, having such a system in place could make the difference in which hospital one goes to for surgery.
dynamic... loading ok for me too, now.
looks like Extremetech's servers have seen better days.
hard to ski without it :)
1) there is a huge difference between cosmetic and nessisary surgeries. your overwaight friend there would have a VERY hard time getting approval for a bypass if he is eating a pizza as a snack (as you said in a comment lower down). Contrary to popular beliefe, you cant just waltz into a hospital and say "hay, im not feeling good, give me a surgery"... there are checks and controlls as to what is covered and what is not.
2)yes, our taxes are higher, but not as much as you may think. IIRC even in Ontario (one of the highest taxed provences in the country) its only a few % higher then the american national average. but seeing as you need to buy private insurence youre not ahead anything.
3) peace of mind... My mother didnt need to re-morgage her house to pay for her cancer treatment, I dont need to pay all $400 of my money up front for my medications every 3 months, When my dad broke his leg it didnt cost him thousands of dollars out of pocket to get treated. Of course i DO realize that all this money does come out of our pockets sometime, but its a lot easier to swollow a few extra hundred dollars taxes a year then needing to shell out $50,000 in one sitting.
4) we take care of our own... One thing that has always grated me about american healthcare is that it's based on a system of greed. "Why should i pay for that person to get better?" well, because that other person over there will pay to help you get better if you cant afford it. I dont know too many people with $100k laying around to be able to afford a major health emergency.
its not that much of a streach.... in my home town (small town in north-eastern Ontario) the greatest expence for road maitenece was snow removal by an order of magnitude, its one of the top 3 expences for the town. Every year there are several accidents attributed to poor snow removal. Trust me, they never have too many plows on the road.
how are more people harmed? they pay more so that every road is treated the same, you pay less but have no idea if that side road you are about to go down has the same quality of service as the one you just left. you have 10 levels of quality, 10 times the number of people who have to contacted to find out just who the heck missed plowing street A, 10 times more variable road conditions.
try moving to Canada where we do medi-care right, try moving to Europe where they do medicare right... hell, just do it right yourself and those problems go away. you mentioned the regulatory process for drugs.... how many hundred, how many thousand drugs have been turned down because they were unsafe? how many thousands are saved every year because these dangerous meds are NOT on the market? call me a little selfish, but i want to make damn sure that the pills im taking arnt going to kill me faster then whatever it is im taking them for. Just cause you cant do something doesnt meen it doesnt work :P
your generator story is all well and good, but what would have happened to you after y2k when the lights stayed on and no one wanted to pay up their share of the maitnence costs? would you have been able to keep such a large generator in working order? doubt it, those things are pricey to keep. Also, what if one of your neighbours is from Australia and wants 240v/50hz power and wont buy any generator that wont provide their needs? Once again, i would rather pay my taxes on time and get quality power out of the plug then take my chances with whatever I, or any of my neighbours, can make. there is accountability this way... if im getting constant brown-outs, i know whos butt to kick. If a neighbourhood powersystem is on the fritz who's responcible? The guy who maintains the generator? the guy who maintains the wires? the guy who has the 72" TV and is sucking up all the juice? Everyone wants to controll their own system but doesnt want to take the problems when that system fails.
and what about water? clean, clear and healty water? would you trust some Joe down the street to keep their filter running? what if his kid was sick one day and he didnt get a chance to fix the filter.... after all, it's not his day-job right? he may make a little money for it but not enough to live on... one day wont matter right?... sorry, I want someone whos ass is on the line if my water isnt 100% safe, there was a case here in Canada where someone was lazy and didnt maintain the filter, people got sick, he is now in jail and wont be out for a long, long time... good incentive to do it right. You may trust Joe... i sure dont, not with my life, not with the life of anyone i love.
just cause you didnt see it doesnt meen no one was hurt. Say one of those 591 cases was someone who didnt want to pay thier property taxes... no on hurt right? What if because of low funds your town had to let a snow-plow driver go... then that winter someone gets in an accident that they wouldnt have if the town had just that one extra snow-plow on the road... someone was hurt, you just didnt see it in court.
Cause China and Cuba have these and they are doing just great in terms of having a free market
what about state sponsored health care? road/sewer/water/electricity maintence? I fail to see how any of these create criminals.
really? thanks for the info (we only sold Motorolas, and a few LGs)
ive heard of worse ideas for a movie....
that is SO out to lunch...
I had the extreme missfortune of working in retail for 6 months and in that time I had to either turn away a customer because we couldnt special order their battery, or sell them a whole new product just cause the battery died. Cellphones were the worst... every model seems to have a unique battery and if the company isnt making enough sales of that battery they will stop making it, or charge so much for them in order to turn a proft that it is cheaper for the customer to just buy a new one.
there was NO battery for a product 10 years old we could order... heck, 5 would be pushing it.
Also, AA's are international.... you move to Botswana you can still get AA's for your Wii.... will you be able to order special batteries? not from a local store, you would have to order it online and have it shipped.
agreed, this is a horid interview. Joystick set out to make sony look the fool and did a good job of making themselves look bad insted.
Now, I'm about as much of a Wii fan-girl as you're ever going to find, but I think that Mr Harrisson handled that interview with class and more civility then Joystick deserved.... I think Phil may have just got a new greese rag in the form of a t-shirt.
you are, two of my co-workers were rather "rudely" treated when they thought they could walk around with just a photocopy and were stoped at a military checkpoint.
and even 10 feet is pletny of range, hang out at a tourist trap, wait for your RFID reader to go off, find the american in the crowd and swipe their wallet/purse for the nice little greenbacks therein... in fact for targeted crimes, a smaller radius would be worse as it would make it easier for them to pick you out (unless we are talking a few cm)