it's not that there is a large portion of us that support it, it's that the ones that do are loud mouth pricks who need to censor themselfs a bit more.
"I wonder if truth is a defense against slander/libel/defamation in Australia. It isn't in England, which is where the Aussies borrow much of their law from"
incorrect, it's even worse then that, we follow america much more then the UK
seriously, 60 isn't the end of the world, and you can't deny someone health care based on age. remmeber YOU will be that age one day to. lets see if you change your tune when it happens.
if a person wants to pay for their own health care and fight cancer to the end then fine, they have been paying into health insurance for decades by that time so they deserve that right.
" I also disagree that peoples' healths is priceless " and then you contridict yourself here "Don't think for a minute that I think my life is not priceless" - or is it you think your own life is pricless but not others?
I used to work in health care, and if you think you can put a price on any part of your body that would compensate you for it's loss, your sadly mistaken.
i do however agree with you that personal responsibility has a great deal to do with it. far too much is spent on diabeates which is preventable for many people.
your plan is great in theory, however in the real world perfectly healthy people get sick and require hospital care which would chew up your $10,000 in the first week.
this is what health insurance is for.
your only 1/2 right about the state breaking the health care system. believe it or not, their ARE things where free markets do not work, and health care is one of them. reason being that health care doesn't deal in money, it deals in peoples health which is priceless. all the typical measures used in a free market don't apply to health care. the only way to fix health care is to find a way where making money comes 2nd to treating peoples problems.
there is also a LOT of waste in health care, we could probably start by looking at that
its already been established that the virginia kid never played any video games, so why they fuck are they reacting like this? what a bunch of dickheads. if the kid WAS an unstable nut then maybe, but from what it looks like he's just a typical teenager who thought playing a game with his friends would be novel in a map of his school. i did something similar with quake when i was in school and there weren't any killings.
"Btw the people telling Digg to stand up to the MPAA, shut the fuck up unless you got the money for their defense. Oh wait you arn't willing to pay millions for their legal fee? Digg is a site that's run for the fans, there's no huge cash pile of money hidden in the backroom. They arn't getting rich off Digg, they are just people who are creating a fan created news "blog" or link site. Asking them to stand up and fight for the right here is a joke as it will only cause them to close."
what the hell are you talking about? digg is a highly profitable website making millions a year in ad revenue.
hah, he didn't do this out of the goodness of his heart, he just realised he was going down either by force of the users or in court. sucks to be kevin.
how the fuck can you say my name doesn't belong to me and in the next paragraph call it "private data" ? celebraties have successfully sued for the use of their name in domain names with the argument that it's copyrighted. are you suggesting the amount of money i have in the bank determines if i own my own name or not?
2. national secrets are covered under their own special laws, under which the key to decrypting your copy "cat woman" is not covered.
3. This also is not covered under trade secrets.
i had an account on digg which got banned because i had an argument in a thread with some christian fundy about evolution being a crock. he went sooking to the mods and i got a ban, i emailed and asked why and they sent me a snide little response about how i needed to learn respect, which is ironic considering the tone of thier email.
i am not shocked by this turn of events at all.
digg is nothing but a hang out for christian ringwingers and mac fanboys, it's loss with not be mourned on the internet. if you want a decent forum stay on/. (which digg constantly wanted to have penis size contests with anyway) or try fark.com
thats the first thing that popped into my mind as well - how can anyone have the cheek to make acusations that implicate someone then expect any kind of right to prevent them from responding. it's fairly predictable that if you accused me of something like that i'd respond as well
you are going by their rating system, which frankly is shit. the only thing that matters is how long since their last accident and how many people died. reason being, that if an airline has 20 crashes, changes managment and doesn't have another one for 50 years, the problems that resulted in those accidents have been fixed and hardly apply to the current airline.
point in case is qantas which last had an accident in 1951, vs delta which had one in 1996. the qantas as we know it has for all intents and purposes never had a crash, and with over 2 million trips (which is not trivial) i think quite rightly can claim to be one of the safest.
"Pollution from fossil fuel fired power plants causes thousands of deaths in Canada per year, primarily of the elderly, who have to be hospitalized for lengthy periods of time due to respiratory problems. Pollution from fossil-fuel plants is already costing taxpayers"
got any direct proof that it's the case, or are you just making it up as you go? i'm not claiming dirty power plants won't cause respiratory problems, i'm just dubious that it's actually contributing to any in canada. it's more something you find in 3rd world countries.
"Investments cost money"
this isn't an investment, it's a money sink in which people will be paying 8x more for power just to satisfy a few guilt trips.
solar reminds me of the japanese business model of charging nothing for printers then raping you on the refills. they scream FREE SUN SHINE... subtitle "cost of setup wil bankrupt you". until a dramaticly cheap and cleaner to produce solar panel comes along, it's just a pipe dream
"It isn't end-consumers who pay the $0.42/KWh, its the Province of Ontario"
like every greenie i've ever met, your lack of understanding of even basic economics is woeful. where the hell do you think the province gets it's money from dim wit??? CONSUMERS/TAX PAYERS.
and last i heard, the production of the solar panels is more toxic then just burning the same amount of coal. i hate this kind of feel good crap. do something REAL for the environment, not this fake shit.
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it's not that there is a large portion of us that support it, it's that the ones that do are loud mouth pricks who need to censor themselfs a bit more.
incorrect, it's even worse then that, we follow america much more then the UK
seriously, 60 isn't the end of the world, and you can't deny someone health care based on age. remmeber YOU will be that age one day to. lets see if you change your tune when it happens.
if a person wants to pay for their own health care and fight cancer to the end then fine, they have been paying into health insurance for decades by that time so they deserve that right.
I used to work in health care, and if you think you can put a price on any part of your body that would compensate you for it's loss, your sadly mistaken.
i do however agree with you that personal responsibility has a great deal to do with it. far too much is spent on diabeates which is preventable for many people.
the swiss pay 80% income tax. next please.
thats a stupid argument and ignorant to boot. would you expect anything but the best if it was your own life on the line? of course not.
this is what health insurance is for.
your only 1/2 right about the state breaking the health care system. believe it or not, their ARE things where free markets do not work, and health care is one of them. reason being that health care doesn't deal in money, it deals in peoples health which is priceless. all the typical measures used in a free market don't apply to health care. the only way to fix health care is to find a way where making money comes 2nd to treating peoples problems.
there is also a LOT of waste in health care, we could probably start by looking at that
its already been established that the virginia kid never played any video games, so why they fuck are they reacting like this? what a bunch of dickheads. if the kid WAS an unstable nut then maybe, but from what it looks like he's just a typical teenager who thought playing a game with his friends would be novel in a map of his school. i did something similar with quake when i was in school and there weren't any killings.
i believe the whole point, is why should we have to dick around to do it in the first place
so does this mean when i install my bick OS which defaults to turning off your NIC's, i will be able to claim my security is better then anyones?
what the hell are you talking about? digg is a highly profitable website making millions a year in ad revenue.
hah, he didn't do this out of the goodness of his heart, he just realised he was going down either by force of the users or in court. sucks to be kevin.
how the fuck can you say my name doesn't belong to me and in the next paragraph call it "private data" ? celebraties have successfully sued for the use of their name in domain names with the argument that it's copyrighted. are you suggesting the amount of money i have in the bank determines if i own my own name or not?
digg isn't a charity, their users make them money through their posts and the advertising money they are able to command because of thier patronage.
2. national secrets are covered under their own special laws, under which the key to decrypting your copy "cat woman" is not covered. 3. This also is not covered under trade secrets.
why would translating it into base 10 be important.
i am not shocked by this turn of events at all.
digg is nothing but a hang out for christian ringwingers and mac fanboys, it's loss with not be mourned on the internet. if you want a decent forum stay on /. (which digg constantly wanted to have penis size contests with anyway) or try fark.com
let me guess your a digg reading, mac loving blogger.
thats the first thing that popped into my mind as well - how can anyone have the cheek to make acusations that implicate someone then expect any kind of right to prevent them from responding. it's fairly predictable that if you accused me of something like that i'd respond as well
point in case is qantas which last had an accident in 1951, vs delta which had one in 1996. the qantas as we know it has for all intents and purposes never had a crash, and with over 2 million trips (which is not trivial) i think quite rightly can claim to be one of the safest.
AIX is a very mature and well supported unix os. frankly for business use it shits on linux. business is not interested in cutting edge.
got any direct proof that it's the case, or are you just making it up as you go? i'm not claiming dirty power plants won't cause respiratory problems, i'm just dubious that it's actually contributing to any in canada. it's more something you find in 3rd world countries. "Investments cost money"
this isn't an investment, it's a money sink in which people will be paying 8x more for power just to satisfy a few guilt trips.
who gives a fuck. your just trying to divert the argument to save some face.
solar reminds me of the japanese business model of charging nothing for printers then raping you on the refills. they scream FREE SUN SHINE... subtitle "cost of setup wil bankrupt you". until a dramaticly cheap and cleaner to produce solar panel comes along, it's just a pipe dream
like every greenie i've ever met, your lack of understanding of even basic economics is woeful. where the hell do you think the province gets it's money from dim wit??? CONSUMERS/TAX PAYERS.
and last i heard, the production of the solar panels is more toxic then just burning the same amount of coal. i hate this kind of feel good crap. do something REAL for the environment, not this fake shit.