Me? I could live with the long copyrights if we also had big social safety nets and Basic Income (google the phrase if you don't recognize it). A lot of great stuff comes out of Canada and Europe because their socialized health care gives people the freedom to take risks you can't do in the states...
What? Programming is a high-risk activity? And if it was, socialized health care would demand that it be outlawed, as it would drive up the costs. Your have brought up the most nonsensical argument for socialized medicine I've ever heard.
You can't fix stupid, no matter how many mod points you have-- considering how many mod points the stupid, useless comments in this discussion are getting.
When you are sick (or your kid is sick) you don't want choice or options.
Yeah, I'll just take the first order of treatment from my doctor and not ask for a second opinion, even if it means lifetime impairment or a high risk of death.
Yeah...no.
Well, it's almost free for Congress, the President and VP, and their aides-- thanks to special subsidy that the Democrats had to have because, otherwise, the GOP would destroy the world economy and kill Grandma.
We could limit costs. Remember the 80 / 20 rule (actually closer to 90 / 10) - a few patients consume most of the resources. Kill or neglect those folks and you've saved quite a bit of money.
The bullying stopped when I got pissed off enough and sent one of my bullies to the hospital, in front of the entire school, after an assembly. (A good choice as it turned out.
Epic WIN. So I assume they expelled you after that, and welcomed the bully back to school with open arms after he healed up?
Excuse me, I am a disaster in the kitchen so I don't get all your baking analogies. Could we compare Windows 8.1 to automobiles, or sports, or something?
When Windows 8 came out, I thought about all the effort they put in since Windows 95 to have as few items on the desktop as possible. So, yes, it's like they went back to Windows 3.x Program Manager, having icons scattered all over.
The "free market" is a bunch of horseshit shoveled to gullible suckers.
You're right, we don't have a free market. But pessimism isn't going to fix that, and inaction isn't going to result in a better situation. We're not going to end up in a socialist utopia, but state-run capitalism that rewards the elite, yet treats the worker as mere chattel.
"'The metric that differentiates Silicon Valley from Washington does not fall along conventional political lines: Republican versus Democrat, conservative versus liberal, right versus left,' Rogers said. 'It falls between freedom and control. It is a metric that separates individual freedom to speak from tap-ready telephones; local reinvestment of profit from taxes that go to Washington; encryption to protect privacy from government eavesdropping; success in the marketplace from government subsidies; and a free, untaxed Internet from a regulated, overtaxed Internet.'"
This. Frankly, delivering physical media by air is such a dumb idea, I feel stupider for having heard it. Even in the bush, a poor satellite link could handle the job better and without the risk of ironically killing someone with a falling physics textbook. This sounds like a moronic idea some bean-counter thought of to protect a textbook publisher's IP-- because those dastardly ebooks can be too easily copied.
Well, the latency is ultimately going to be limited to the speed at which electromagnetic waves propagate through air, which at the refraction index of 1.0003 hardly differs from the 3x10^8 in a vacuum. Most of the latency will be introduced through the processing, although if there is much that would be trivial to address. I doubt processing power will be a difficult problem.
Are you making the assumption that rich people aren't already charitable? They CREATE charitable organizations! Giving the money to the government just ensures that the money is donated to the "causes" that the current regime deems fit.
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Well, I'm sure someone here has a Galaxy Gear.
Oh, so if they ask for your wallet you have to hand that over too? Sorry, it's empty already-- I had to check two bags.
Nope, they won't do anything. That's why I detest the 737-- six across in a crappy econojet and no overhead space for your bag.
What? Programming is a high-risk activity? And if it was, socialized health care would demand that it be outlawed, as it would drive up the costs. Your have brought up the most nonsensical argument for socialized medicine I've ever heard.
You can't fix stupid, no matter how many mod points you have-- considering how many mod points the stupid, useless comments in this discussion are getting.
Yeah, I'll just take the first order of treatment from my doctor and not ask for a second opinion, even if it means lifetime impairment or a high risk of death.
Yeah...no.
Well, it's almost free for Congress, the President and VP, and their aides-- thanks to special subsidy that the Democrats had to have because, otherwise, the GOP would destroy the world economy and kill Grandma.
FTFY
Considering that rooting the machine was one of his first achievements, I'd wager that he didn't take the microcomputer route like most of us did.
Your brain chooses how to respond to hurtful words, while a beating is mostly about physics.
Epic WIN. So I assume they expelled you after that, and welcomed the bully back to school with open arms after he healed up?
Run Windows 7 until that leaves support in 2020?
Excuse me, I am a disaster in the kitchen so I don't get all your baking analogies. Could we compare Windows 8.1 to automobiles, or sports, or something?
When Windows 8 came out, I thought about all the effort they put in since Windows 95 to have as few items on the desktop as possible. So, yes, it's like they went back to Windows 3.x Program Manager, having icons scattered all over.
Implied recognition that Obama and Nixon are much the same...
Why bother writing bots? Just play Progress Quest.
Apparently, Forbes, the Washington Times, the NY Post, et al are also summarily dismissed, right?
New flash: idiots abound in the media. See: Blair, Jayson.
You forgot Somalia.
You're right, we don't have a free market. But pessimism isn't going to fix that, and inaction isn't going to result in a better situation. We're not going to end up in a socialist utopia, but state-run capitalism that rewards the elite, yet treats the worker as mere chattel.
Boy, do IAWTP.
Ever hear of a nutritionist? In socialist medicine, the government is 100% responsible for every subj^H^H^H^H citizen's health. No excuses.
This. Frankly, delivering physical media by air is such a dumb idea, I feel stupider for having heard it. Even in the bush, a poor satellite link could handle the job better and without the risk of ironically killing someone with a falling physics textbook. This sounds like a moronic idea some bean-counter thought of to protect a textbook publisher's IP-- because those dastardly ebooks can be too easily copied.
Management and finance obtain the funding and drive the demand for the technology. This is what you call a "necessary evil".
Well, the latency is ultimately going to be limited to the speed at which electromagnetic waves propagate through air, which at the refraction index of 1.0003 hardly differs from the 3x10^8 in a vacuum. Most of the latency will be introduced through the processing, although if there is much that would be trivial to address. I doubt processing power will be a difficult problem.
The fact that we have to establish an arbitrary limit tells me that this is an unworkable philosophy.
Are you making the assumption that rich people aren't already charitable? They CREATE charitable organizations! Giving the money to the government just ensures that the money is donated to the "causes" that the current regime deems fit.