Car insurance is required by law in, AFAIK, all 50 of the United States as well. However, only liability insurance is required - the part of insurance that pays the damaged party when you cause a car accident. The intent is to reduce situations where an irresponsible person causes a car accident and then refuses to pay for the damages they cause. Disputes are left to the insurance company(/ies).
This is quite different from health insurance, where there is no liability to an injured party to cover. That is, if I choose to go without health insurance, the only folks at risk for my inability or unwillingness to pay is the health care provider, who has much greater resources for collection of unpaid debts than does an individual in the unfortunate circumstance of being in a car accident they didn't cause.
To be specific, the tactic is to suspend one of the codependent processes without killing it, kill the other process (which won't be restarted, since the process that restarts it is suspended), and then kill the first process.
Of course, there's nothing saying that a malware process can't either kill Process Explorer as soon as you run it, take steps to keep itself off the process list, masquerade as a necessary process, unsuspend its codependent process, etc.
No, I mean "sell" in the sense of a car dealer selling them. You don't buy the car from the dealer, you buy it from the dealership, yet you consider the dealer to have sold you the car, because he's the one that puts the screws to you while you're on the lot. In that sense, store clerks don't "sell" you the cigarettes - they merely effect the transaction. It's the advertising that "sells" the product.
Anyway, my *point* (before the silly semantic argument) was, if you want to avoid the impropriety of appearing to market an adult product to children, you have two choices: one, eliminate the kid-friendly advertising, or two, eliminate the product. It doesn't do RJR any good to pull all their Camel cigarettes, and it doesn't do Fox any good to pull their Simpsons movie. So, in both cases, they do the alternative: eliminating Joe Camel and not selling Duff.
Nog: The first landing parties will arrive here. Captain Wainwright: Where? Nog:(pointing vaguely at map) Here, right by this blue blob. Captain Wainwright:... You mean your people are going to invade... Cleveland?!
The answer isn't to socialize health care. The government already pays half of all health care costs in the US as it is, and enacts limits on pricing that have pushed the burden of costs into the arena of those not eligible for federal assistance (including the uninsured). (So where do the costs go when all health care prices face cost limitations? That's something Moore and friends always seem to ignore.) It's to examine what has made health care so expensive in the US, identify the inefficiencies in the system that are passed along to the consumer, and fix those inefficiencies (through internal action or even legislation, if necessary). It's to identify preventable illnesses (smoking, AIDS, illness due to drug use) with (a) a high cost of treatment and (b) a high incidence of occurrence among those for whom the costs are absorbed by the system (federal assistance, etc.), and enact prevention programs such that the cost of prevention is less than the cost of treatment.
In particular, smoking-related illnesses cause about 7% of the total expenditure on health care. Unfortunately, this statistic was from 1998, and we could sure use another look at the problem, including examining the effects of anti-smoking legislation that's been enacted in various places over the past decade. Reducing or eliminating smoking would thus save a lot of money, especially among those of lower income, where smoking prevalence is higher.
Actually, record stores don't need new music to stay afloat. They get far better margins on reselling used music. Now, you'll see a lot of the big-box and mall chain stores suffer once music distribution goes primarily digital, but there will still be plenty of mom-and-pop places happy to buy your unwanted CDs for pennies on the dollar and sell them to someone with musical tastes as bad as yours used to be.
Of course, the RIAA is against reselling used music, so I guess this isn't about saving those poor record stores after all, but rather lining the pockets of the RIAA members' executives.
It's important to note that the most recent action was that the Senate committee the bill was committed to - Commerce, etc. - has devised a substitute amendment, so when the bill is reported to the full Senate, they'll get the revised version. Both versions will appear on Thomas, but right now, only the unamended version is up.
In other words, we've been served a raw goose, and the OP should call us back when our goose is actually cooked.
There's an old adage that if your girlfriends keep dumping you, there's a good chance the problem isn't with them. I think the same thing applies here.
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As for the out-of-control-teens episodes, those can usually be summed up in one word:
"Whatever."
And they might succeed again with the FOX Noise crowd.
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Always best to know your enemy before you talk trash about them:
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,286006,00.htm
Two AP writers had this to say:
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jun30/0,4670,Sic
Car insurance is required by law in, AFAIK, all 50 of the United States as well. However, only liability insurance is required - the part of insurance that pays the damaged party when you cause a car accident. The intent is to reduce situations where an irresponsible person causes a car accident and then refuses to pay for the damages they cause. Disputes are left to the insurance company(/ies).
This is quite different from health insurance, where there is no liability to an injured party to cover. That is, if I choose to go without health insurance, the only folks at risk for my inability or unwillingness to pay is the health care provider, who has much greater resources for collection of unpaid debts than does an individual in the unfortunate circumstance of being in a car accident they didn't cause.
Leo Wong: Yeah, yeah, you a big squishy wuss.
I think they mean the people who live there, not the municipal government.
Yep, they downloaded one code over each internet.
To be specific, the tactic is to suspend one of the codependent processes without killing it, kill the other process (which won't be restarted, since the process that restarts it is suspended), and then kill the first process.
Of course, there's nothing saying that a malware process can't either kill Process Explorer as soon as you run it, take steps to keep itself off the process list, masquerade as a necessary process, unsuspend its codependent process, etc.
Do the research, find the best format, make the specs public and everyone profits.
Yeah, but how are you ever going to foist unwanted DRM on the consumer that way?
Still, I guess it just goes to show that now, perjury is OK!
It sure is! Nee-haw!
I don't see why they needed to spend any money on advertising, with all the free news coverage they've been getting.
Break out the railguns, baby, it's time for some head shots!
No, I mean "sell" in the sense of a car dealer selling them. You don't buy the car from the dealer, you buy it from the dealership, yet you consider the dealer to have sold you the car, because he's the one that puts the screws to you while you're on the lot. In that sense, store clerks don't "sell" you the cigarettes - they merely effect the transaction. It's the advertising that "sells" the product.
Anyway, my *point* (before the silly semantic argument) was, if you want to avoid the impropriety of appearing to market an adult product to children, you have two choices: one, eliminate the kid-friendly advertising, or two, eliminate the product. It doesn't do RJR any good to pull all their Camel cigarettes, and it doesn't do Fox any good to pull their Simpsons movie. So, in both cases, they do the alternative: eliminating Joe Camel and not selling Duff.
The universe is a spheroid region 705 meters in diameter. What more do you really need to know?
Why would the film rating have a bearing on whether or not the Kwik-E-Mart shops sell Duff beer?
For the same reason that Joe Camel doesn't sell cigarettes anymore.
Nog: The first landing parties will arrive here. ... You mean your people are going to invade... Cleveland?!
Captain Wainwright: Where?
Nog: (pointing vaguely at map) Here, right by this blue blob.
Captain Wainwright:
Exactly.
The answer isn't to socialize health care. The government already pays half of all health care costs in the US as it is, and enacts limits on pricing that have pushed the burden of costs into the arena of those not eligible for federal assistance (including the uninsured). (So where do the costs go when all health care prices face cost limitations? That's something Moore and friends always seem to ignore.) It's to examine what has made health care so expensive in the US, identify the inefficiencies in the system that are passed along to the consumer, and fix those inefficiencies (through internal action or even legislation, if necessary). It's to identify preventable illnesses (smoking, AIDS, illness due to drug use) with (a) a high cost of treatment and (b) a high incidence of occurrence among those for whom the costs are absorbed by the system (federal assistance, etc.), and enact prevention programs such that the cost of prevention is less than the cost of treatment.
In particular, smoking-related illnesses cause about 7% of the total expenditure on health care. Unfortunately, this statistic was from 1998, and we could sure use another look at the problem, including examining the effects of anti-smoking legislation that's been enacted in various places over the past decade. Reducing or eliminating smoking would thus save a lot of money, especially among those of lower income, where smoking prevalence is higher.
Actually, record stores don't need new music to stay afloat. They get far better margins on reselling used music. Now, you'll see a lot of the big-box and mall chain stores suffer once music distribution goes primarily digital, but there will still be plenty of mom-and-pop places happy to buy your unwanted CDs for pennies on the dollar and sell them to someone with musical tastes as bad as yours used to be.
Of course, the RIAA is against reselling used music, so I guess this isn't about saving those poor record stores after all, but rather lining the pockets of the RIAA members' executives.
I spent the last few years building up an immunity to blue pills.
You're going to regret that decision in another thirty years.
Ed McMahon: You are correct, sir!
It's important to note that the most recent action was that the Senate committee the bill was committed to - Commerce, etc. - has devised a substitute amendment, so when the bill is reported to the full Senate, they'll get the revised version. Both versions will appear on Thomas, but right now, only the unamended version is up.
In other words, we've been served a raw goose, and the OP should call us back when our goose is actually cooked.
If you don't want the number you're calling from to show up on my caller ID, then don't call me. Problem solved.
I suppose "What is your major malfunction, numbnuts?!" is also appropriate here.
Still going.
There's an old adage that if your girlfriends keep dumping you, there's a good chance the problem isn't with them. I think the same thing applies here.
How many decades will pass before we learn about the truth about 9-11?
In your case, I'm guessing all of them.
Well, if you go to Mars without a pressure suit, you'll never be able to see it again, once your eyes are done exploding.....