First, at what time of year are CO2 levels being measured for use in writing environmental research papers (and dictating policy)? Second, if corn is such a big contributor, then corn ethanol is adding to CO2 levels not reducing them. Third, by pissing away water on bait fish in California instead of allowing farms to grow CO2-inhaling crops (of plant types that aren't completely cut down each harvest), we are effectively adding to CO2 levels.
Teach kids to be polite and to keep their attitude in check. No, as a matter of fact, you AREN'T special. No, as a matter of fact, even if you are special, you still need to be humble and treat other people as you would have them treat you.
Okay, fine, but consider this: Take a look at your phone bill, your electric bill, your water bill, your gas bill, your FedEx/UPS/USPS shipping statement, etc. specifically at the laundry list of fees. How many of those fees are there because of government regulation? Did you think that the company was going to eat those regulatory fees and not pass them onto the customer? That's what will happen if ISPs become utilities. All of the people they're going to have to hire simply to deal with the regulation are going to cost something. Those costs wouldn't be passed onto Netflix or whatever high-bandwidth/low-latency service. They'll be passed onto every customer of the ISP whether or not they use Netflix.
I thought the only thing riding American rails are containers full of Chinese goods (going east and empty ones going west). Personally, I'm a fan of trains but there are a few things that stand in the way of the pipe dream that is high-speed rail. For instance, have you noticed how many people cheer every rails-to-trails project that comes along? Guess what? You've now borked the land/right-of-way that would/should have been used for modern rail projects. Then, of course, there are the practical problems of trains rarely going where you need to get to and on a schedule you'd like. But the one that makes me chuckle is the battle between the California high-speed rail proponents and the environmentalists. Classic NIMBYs.
But rather the packets aren't getting bogged down by people using Tor or Bittorrent or Silk Road or some other network service known for trafficking in illicit content? For those of you who have had the experience of driving on an L.A. freeway during rush hour (which means pretty much any time of the day), you have no doubt seen the effects of a motorcycle squeezing between the lanes. People driving in cars end up slowing down out of fear of hitting one of those. Technically, the motorcycles' activity is legal but only for outdated, no-longer-necessary reasons. But they do slow down the flow of traffic. What if Netflix wants to be sure that some motorcycle packets aren't giving them trouble on a network that was designed for traffic that plays by the rules?
Too many kids quit science because of the way in which it's taught. High-school science classes quickly leave the practical realm for the hidden/theoretical realm, for want of a better word. This hidden realm contains the deeper concepts but the average high-school student doesn't have the resources to play around with the knowledge e.g. electron microscopes, spectrometers, or particle colliders. Kids are being required to regurgitate equations on command or memorize biological taxonomies. That's major boring sh*t. I venture to say that more kids want to be involved in a FIRST competition or a Mythbusters-style of learning. Kids want to blow stuff up. They want to push buttons and see the effects. They want to build things. Don't believe me? I can recall the experience of visiting the Ontario Science Centre back in the mid 1970s. You could play around with pretty much EVERYTHING. The place was always packed with people.
Yes, there is a mountain of paper work and there's nothing new about that. What's different now is that there is a legion of bureaucrats with no medical training whose purpose in life is to be the person the doctor has to get permission from to order a test or treatment, second-guess said doctor's requests, and deny said requests wherever possible. These people are now entrenched in the industry and the doctors will go before they do.
But what you're talking about wouldn't be fixed by a government-run healthcare system which we already have in the U.S. aka Medicare. There are now a lot of doctors who will no longer take Medicare patients not just because of the paperwork involved but because of the simple fact that they may not get reimbursed for months after treating the patient and sometimes not at all leaving the doctor holding the bag.
Couple this with a trial bar who has never once had its wings clipped with tort reform. Docs for the past couple of decades have been forced to practice C.Y.A. medicine and order every test just to be sure that some ambulance chaser lawyer has fewer avenues on which to sue. I'd be very interested to know how much malpractice insurance rates are in Canada.
Facts: My insurance premiums went up 21% this year and18% last year. Pretty much the week that the SCOTUS decided that this was a tax (or was it a fine), my premiums went up 20%. My health is great and I'm not in any of the high-risk groups nor have I been since I started paying for my own insurance many years ago. I see ZERO benefit from this. None.
To those who thing the docs are making money off of this, think again. Most small practices are selling out to gigantic hospital corporate entities which means they are now all on salary dictated by some useless functionary who isn't a doctor. The docs have to use a thing called the ICD (International classification of diseases). In version 9 of this list, there were roughly 13,000 codes. Now in version 10, there are 68,000. So what? Well, if you inadvertently use the wrong code, you are assumed to be guilty of fraud. And who gets the blame? Not the useless functionaries, oh no. The doc is left holding this bag of excrement. This is one big reason why small practices sold out. The back office costs kill the practice.
But then consider this: my bro-in-law is a physician and head of the department. I asked him how many people work for the hospital. He said, "5000." So I asked him how many of those are actual doctors or nurses. He said, "Fewer than 1000 and of the rest I have no idea what these people do even being head of my department."
So, who is benefiting from Obamacare? The bureaucrats and paper pushers aka Ship B people.
Seriously, don't make yourself the bulls-eye of an easy target. If you're so narcissistic that you need to take nekkid photos of yourself on your phone, don't be surprised when it comes back to bite you in your nekkid arse.
Dear FTDI, fix your damn Mac drivers. I'm tired of them kernel panicing my machine and you refusing to help because I'm not the OEM buyer of the chips. KTHXBYE.
What if it's not the soda but what people eat while drinking that soda? What if instead of the soda it's all that thai food hackers eat? Oh, and use of the word 'pop' only proves that they tested this in specific parts of the country.
Needing lots of access points is bad engineering. Take, for example, the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas. When they wanted to have coverage throughout the building, one vendor quoted 1500 access points. Fifteen hundred. That's godawful. Think of the power requirements alone. But that's for a permanent installation. Let's say you wanted to set up a temporary, secure, wireless network in a few minutes for something like an active shooter scenario in a school so that SWAT teams could use it to transmit body-worn camera video back to incident command. You don't have the luxury of time to plan optimum placement or the ability to set up dozens of hotspots. This is where building penetration is essential.
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Feh...memory pig.
Tort Reform. Now is the time.
Anyone remember what happened to the last people who tried to use a radio transmitter to speak to God? They all melted.
First, at what time of year are CO2 levels being measured for use in writing environmental research papers (and dictating policy)? Second, if corn is such a big contributor, then corn ethanol is adding to CO2 levels not reducing them. Third, by pissing away water on bait fish in California instead of allowing farms to grow CO2-inhaling crops (of plant types that aren't completely cut down each harvest), we are effectively adding to CO2 levels.
Teach kids to be polite and to keep their attitude in check. No, as a matter of fact, you AREN'T special. No, as a matter of fact, even if you are special, you still need to be humble and treat other people as you would have them treat you.
Can we also sue the Business Software Alliance?
So I shouldn't feel too guilty about eating a bagel with a mountain of cream cheese on it. Woohoo!!!
Unless these students contributed said charitable funds, they have no legal standing on their use.
Okay, fine, but consider this: Take a look at your phone bill, your electric bill, your water bill, your gas bill, your FedEx/UPS/USPS shipping statement, etc. specifically at the laundry list of fees. How many of those fees are there because of government regulation? Did you think that the company was going to eat those regulatory fees and not pass them onto the customer? That's what will happen if ISPs become utilities. All of the people they're going to have to hire simply to deal with the regulation are going to cost something. Those costs wouldn't be passed onto Netflix or whatever high-bandwidth/low-latency service. They'll be passed onto every customer of the ISP whether or not they use Netflix.
Dealing with the State Department is already a byzantine process. It'll only get worse now.
I thought the only thing riding American rails are containers full of Chinese goods (going east and empty ones going west).
Personally, I'm a fan of trains but there are a few things that stand in the way of the pipe dream that is high-speed rail. For instance, have you noticed how many people cheer every rails-to-trails project that comes along? Guess what? You've now borked the land/right-of-way that would/should have been used for modern rail projects. Then, of course, there are the practical problems of trains rarely going where you need to get to and on a schedule you'd like. But the one that makes me chuckle is the battle between the California high-speed rail proponents and the environmentalists. Classic NIMBYs.
But rather the packets aren't getting bogged down by people using Tor or Bittorrent or Silk Road or some other network service known for trafficking in illicit content? For those of you who have had the experience of driving on an L.A. freeway during rush hour (which means pretty much any time of the day), you have no doubt seen the effects of a motorcycle squeezing between the lanes. People driving in cars end up slowing down out of fear of hitting one of those. Technically, the motorcycles' activity is legal but only for outdated, no-longer-necessary reasons. But they do slow down the flow of traffic. What if Netflix wants to be sure that some motorcycle packets aren't giving them trouble on a network that was designed for traffic that plays by the rules?
This thing was funded and supposedly delivered almost two years ago. Let's hear from people who have one.
the NYT, MSNBC, and the Daily Show.
Too many kids quit science because of the way in which it's taught. High-school science classes quickly leave the practical realm for the hidden/theoretical realm, for want of a better word. This hidden realm contains the deeper concepts but the average high-school student doesn't have the resources to play around with the knowledge e.g. electron microscopes, spectrometers, or particle colliders. Kids are being required to regurgitate equations on command or memorize biological taxonomies. That's major boring sh*t. I venture to say that more kids want to be involved in a FIRST competition or a Mythbusters-style of learning. Kids want to blow stuff up. They want to push buttons and see the effects. They want to build things. Don't believe me? I can recall the experience of visiting the Ontario Science Centre back in the mid 1970s. You could play around with pretty much EVERYTHING. The place was always packed with people.
Yes, there is a mountain of paper work and there's nothing new about that. What's different now is that there is a legion of bureaucrats with no medical training whose purpose in life is to be the person the doctor has to get permission from to order a test or treatment, second-guess said doctor's requests, and deny said requests wherever possible. These people are now entrenched in the industry and the doctors will go before they do.
But what you're talking about wouldn't be fixed by a government-run healthcare system which we already have in the U.S. aka Medicare. There are now a lot of doctors who will no longer take Medicare patients not just because of the paperwork involved but because of the simple fact that they may not get reimbursed for months after treating the patient and sometimes not at all leaving the doctor holding the bag.
Couple this with a trial bar who has never once had its wings clipped with tort reform. Docs for the past couple of decades have been forced to practice C.Y.A. medicine and order every test just to be sure that some ambulance chaser lawyer has fewer avenues on which to sue. I'd be very interested to know how much malpractice insurance rates are in Canada.
Facts: My insurance premiums went up 21% this year and18% last year. Pretty much the week that the SCOTUS decided that this was a tax (or was it a fine), my premiums went up 20%. My health is great and I'm not in any of the high-risk groups nor have I been since I started paying for my own insurance many years ago. I see ZERO benefit from this. None.
To those who thing the docs are making money off of this, think again. Most small practices are selling out to gigantic hospital corporate entities which means they are now all on salary dictated by some useless functionary who isn't a doctor. The docs have to use a thing called the ICD (International classification of diseases). In version 9 of this list, there were roughly 13,000 codes. Now in version 10, there are 68,000. So what? Well, if you inadvertently use the wrong code, you are assumed to be guilty of fraud. And who gets the blame? Not the useless functionaries, oh no. The doc is left holding this bag of excrement. This is one big reason why small practices sold out. The back office costs kill the practice.
But then consider this: my bro-in-law is a physician and head of the department. I asked him how many people work for the hospital. He said, "5000." So I asked him how many of those are actual doctors or nurses. He said, "Fewer than 1000 and of the rest I have no idea what these people do even being head of my department."
So, who is benefiting from Obamacare? The bureaucrats and paper pushers aka Ship B people.
All different.
That a cop goes 10-100.
Seriously, don't make yourself the bulls-eye of an easy target. If you're so narcissistic that you need to take nekkid photos of yourself on your phone, don't be surprised when it comes back to bite you in your nekkid arse.
Dear FTDI, fix your damn Mac drivers. I'm tired of them kernel panicing my machine and you refusing to help because I'm not the OEM buyer of the chips. KTHXBYE.
And the signal will be blocked by several pieces of paper.
What if it's not the soda but what people eat while drinking that soda? What if instead of the soda it's all that thai food hackers eat? Oh, and use of the word 'pop' only proves that they tested this in specific parts of the country.
Just as cameras put on ten pounds.
Needing lots of access points is bad engineering. Take, for example, the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas. When they wanted to have coverage throughout the building, one vendor quoted 1500 access points. Fifteen hundred. That's godawful. Think of the power requirements alone. But that's for a permanent installation. Let's say you wanted to set up a temporary, secure, wireless network in a few minutes for something like an active shooter scenario in a school so that SWAT teams could use it to transmit body-worn camera video back to incident command. You don't have the luxury of time to plan optimum placement or the ability to set up dozens of hotspots. This is where building penetration is essential.