Patients can't choose cheaper care, because there are no posted rates. This is one of the primary problems with the current system, the fact that what you're charged depends upon who you are and how you're paying. That should have been one of the first things to go in the ACA.
No kidding. Linux in its 0 and 1.x version days was a hobbyist activity, requiring more than a little work and understanding to get going. Slackware was awesome when it came out, but even then it was less than straightforward unless you happened to have just the right hardware (that phrase sure sounds familiar, Solaris, Windows, OS/2, OSX all have/had similar issues)
The point is that there is historical evidence that people decided what went in the bible and changed the wording, meaning, etc to whatever suited them. So any debate about veracity of the bible is already voided and pointless. All you have to do is point to the historical record. There is as much room for debate there as water is wet.
Doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, patients and employers have only had unneeded and unwanted intrusion, regulation and control into all their interrelationships. None of them benefit. The Government (i.e., "the people of the government" or the ruling class) are the only winners. Everyone else pays and loses at their expense.
Seriously? Insurance companies are part of the problem in health care, interfering with doctors, patients, and hospitals in providing/receiving care. They need to be regulated to doing their job (providing averaged risk assessment policies) and stay out of the hospitals and doctors business.
The backbone should be a public utility. The gov't should assume the responsibility for the massive infrastructure required to build the backbone.
The last mile is the most expensive part of the entire network. Backbones have few pricier components. Every connection requires a port on a switch, etc.
Fortunately in my case HDHomeRun coupled with EyeTV (bought as a bundle when I picked them up) solves the OTA issue. The rest is via Netflix mail or, rarely, streaming. Streaming quality is bad enough that I'll wait for a disk to ship in most cases, YMMV.
Then you've missed the point, intentionally it seems. While it references this life and how to live, this temporary existence, it is pointing to eternal life and whether you will spend it in the presence of a perfect holy being of pure love or separate of that.
Show me where that is something other than a man-made statement with any more or less relevance than the World Turtle or Greek Mythology. Note the similar roles of Atlas and the Turtle and that there are other references to the bearing the world concept. It's also the source of the common phrase "bearing the weight of the world on his shoulders". If you really want to have a tie in with biblical stories, go for the earlier Sumerian Creation Myth. With a little research, if you're lucky, you'll start asking questions as dots connect.
It is foolish for atheists to get all caught up in the historicity debate
Seems like a non-debate, at least as far as Christianity is concerned. It is a fact bibles were selected and pieced together by a bunch of different people since around 100AD, and the contents were edited to meet with their then current beliefs. You can begin with wikipedia and expand your research from there.
It has already been proven that if government doesn't get involved, private business won't do squat for the general population. Hint - private business isn't tasked with providing for the public good, they're in it for the money. So what you're advocating is what we see globally - extremely rich areas well served (parts of US and Europe) surrounded by extremely poor masses living in squalor. I'd say your view exists already and has failed miserably.
Not only that, CC's aren't tied to your bank account, so your account(s) cannot be emptied. CC's have legal liability limits, and thus fraud or disputes do not directly affect your ability to pay say, your rent.
With stuff like that, the known illegal spying, secret courts, secret laws, and fighting terrorism for the sake of the children, who could have predicted most of what is going on these days besides the likes of Grisham & Clancy?
1) George Orwell
2) Aldous Huxley
do we really need to list the rest?
Well, the M4800 with 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD and what appears to be an older Intel i7 quad 2.5GHz CPU with QHD graphics, camera, microphone and 9 cell battery runs over $3900, but today, with some super sale apparently, it's "only" about $2800. I have no idea if the entire laptop has a 3 years warranty nor how well the thing works. For comparison, my recent MBP purchase was for these specs including AppleCare and arrived at the door for less than $2600. Granted, it doesn't come with an optical drive, so you could add in $79 for the super drive (although I'd buy something better).
Yeah, I checked out Dell last week because someone stated macs were way more expensive. Imagine my surprise when the first 2 laptops I spec'd out just based on hardware wound up costing significantly more than their Mac counterparts. What's even funnier is that this will be down-modded as a troll despite being the truth.
I'd love a link to this. I'm happy to hear that this would be the problem but fail to see why they didn't keep the option for the old quads. They certainly sold out fast enough after the announcement.
Apple doesn't sell the OS. They only sell the hardware, and license a copy of the OS to go with the hardware, or I believe that's their position at this point. They also no longer sell their productivity suit, as that also is given away, only useful on Apple hardware, since it only runs on OSX.
iOS devices are another story. Apple abandons them fairly quickly.
An iphone 4 ran iOS 7 (4 years later) which is better than any other phone I know. And abandonment is a little overstated, because the phone works fine with iOS 7, and will continue to do so, much like many Android phones still run fine on Gingerbread or Ice Cream Sandwich or Jelly Bean.
It's revocable monopoly ownership. Once licensed, only violations of the license result in the purchasing entity losing license to that spectrum. For the rest, the purchasing entity owns the spectrum and can do with it what they want, within terms of the license. At least that's how I understand it. Maybe the new licenses are worded differently, but that's how the old ones effectively were written.
Also they had an ancient, hacked and weird version of GCC for ages. I gather they have a modern compiler now, but it sure sucked a lot when they didn't.
What about my concern on who decides they are criminals? What if I don't trust the police to make such judgement?
If people with guns are pointing them at other people without guns, and state they will kill them unless 'x', I'd say the room for error in judgement is rather small, probably so close to 0 that error is impossible.
I fully agree on the question, but not on the answer. I simply do not wish the police to have the right to decide how many hostages it's ok to kill in a hostage situation. And giving them the weapons to apply the result of that decision is too close to implying they have the right to take it.
I think everyone reasonable agrees that the decision in such a situation is an extremely hard one. For me, that's precisely the reason to place the burden of making that decision far from the people we use to protect us from common criminals. Because those people are the most biased on precisely the taking of that kind of decisions.
In the case of the Russians, I believe that decision was made all the way at the top circles, if not the top. Israel, as well, was at the top. Do you have a case where such a decision was made by a local street policeman? Or even a sergeant? Instead of attacking windmills, how about focusing on something realistic?
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Patients can't choose cheaper care, because there are no posted rates. This is one of the primary problems with the current system, the fact that what you're charged depends upon who you are and how you're paying. That should have been one of the first things to go in the ACA.
No kidding. Linux in its 0 and 1.x version days was a hobbyist activity, requiring more than a little work and understanding to get going. Slackware was awesome when it came out, but even then it was less than straightforward unless you happened to have just the right hardware (that phrase sure sounds familiar, Solaris, Windows, OS/2, OSX all have/had similar issues)
The point is that there is historical evidence that people decided what went in the bible and changed the wording, meaning, etc to whatever suited them. So any debate about veracity of the bible is already voided and pointless. All you have to do is point to the historical record. There is as much room for debate there as water is wet.
Doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, patients and employers have only had unneeded and unwanted intrusion, regulation and control into all their interrelationships. None of them benefit. The Government (i.e., "the people of the government" or the ruling class) are the only winners. Everyone else pays and loses at their expense.
Seriously? Insurance companies are part of the problem in health care, interfering with doctors, patients, and hospitals in providing/receiving care. They need to be regulated to doing their job (providing averaged risk assessment policies) and stay out of the hospitals and doctors business.
I think you have that backward.
The backbone should be a public utility. The gov't should assume the responsibility for the massive infrastructure required to build the backbone.
The last mile is the most expensive part of the entire network. Backbones have few pricier components. Every connection requires a port on a switch, etc.
Fortunately in my case HDHomeRun coupled with EyeTV (bought as a bundle when I picked them up) solves the OTA issue. The rest is via Netflix mail or, rarely, streaming. Streaming quality is bad enough that I'll wait for a disk to ship in most cases, YMMV.
Sure hope that's a typo, or heart attacks are really fatal over there.
Then you've missed the point, intentionally it seems. While it references this life and how to live, this temporary existence, it is pointing to eternal life and whether you will spend it in the presence of a perfect holy being of pure love or separate of that.
Show me where that is something other than a man-made statement with any more or less relevance than the World Turtle or Greek Mythology. Note the similar roles of Atlas and the Turtle and that there are other references to the bearing the world concept. It's also the source of the common phrase "bearing the weight of the world on his shoulders". If you really want to have a tie in with biblical stories, go for the earlier Sumerian Creation Myth. With a little research, if you're lucky, you'll start asking questions as dots connect.
It is foolish for atheists to get all caught up in the historicity debate
Seems like a non-debate, at least as far as Christianity is concerned. It is a fact bibles were selected and pieced together by a bunch of different people since around 100AD, and the contents were edited to meet with their then current beliefs. You can begin with wikipedia and expand your research from there.
It has already been proven that if government doesn't get involved, private business won't do squat for the general population. Hint - private business isn't tasked with providing for the public good, they're in it for the money. So what you're advocating is what we see globally - extremely rich areas well served (parts of US and Europe) surrounded by extremely poor masses living in squalor. I'd say your view exists already and has failed miserably.
Not only that, CC's aren't tied to your bank account, so your account(s) cannot be emptied. CC's have legal liability limits, and thus fraud or disputes do not directly affect your ability to pay say, your rent.
Is YouTube necessarily "junk"?
Mostly, uhm.... yes.
-1) Jerome K. Jerome, whom we'll politely state Zamyatin was at least inspired by.
These authors did both parts, and more, as have quite a few others.
Name a monopoly that wasn't good for the shareholder, at least until its status resulted in regulation.
With stuff like that, the known illegal spying, secret courts, secret laws, and fighting terrorism for the sake of the children, who could have predicted most of what is going on these days besides the likes of Grisham & Clancy?
1) George Orwell
2) Aldous Huxley
do we really need to list the rest?
Well, the M4800 with 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD and what appears to be an older Intel i7 quad 2.5GHz CPU with QHD graphics, camera, microphone and 9 cell battery runs over $3900, but today, with some super sale apparently, it's "only" about $2800. I have no idea if the entire laptop has a 3 years warranty nor how well the thing works. For comparison, my recent MBP purchase was for these specs including AppleCare and arrived at the door for less than $2600. Granted, it doesn't come with an optical drive, so you could add in $79 for the super drive (although I'd buy something better).
Yeah, I checked out Dell last week because someone stated macs were way more expensive. Imagine my surprise when the first 2 laptops I spec'd out just based on hardware wound up costing significantly more than their Mac counterparts. What's even funnier is that this will be down-modded as a troll despite being the truth.
I'd love a link to this. I'm happy to hear that this would be the problem but fail to see why they didn't keep the option for the old quads. They certainly sold out fast enough after the announcement.
So we should stop shopping at Rite Aid and CVS. Vote with your (non) wallet
Apple doesn't sell the OS. They only sell the hardware, and license a copy of the OS to go with the hardware, or I believe that's their position at this point. They also no longer sell their productivity suit, as that also is given away, only useful on Apple hardware, since it only runs on OSX.
iOS devices are another story. Apple abandons them fairly quickly.
An iphone 4 ran iOS 7 (4 years later) which is better than any other phone I know. And abandonment is a little overstated, because the phone works fine with iOS 7, and will continue to do so, much like many Android phones still run fine on Gingerbread or Ice Cream Sandwich or Jelly Bean.
It's revocable monopoly ownership. Once licensed, only violations of the license result in the purchasing entity losing license to that spectrum. For the rest, the purchasing entity owns the spectrum and can do with it what they want, within terms of the license. At least that's how I understand it. Maybe the new licenses are worded differently, but that's how the old ones effectively were written.
Also they had an ancient, hacked and weird version of GCC for ages. I gather they have a modern compiler now, but it sure sucked a lot when they didn't.
Did you last work on a Mac? OS9?
What about my concern on who decides they are criminals? What if I don't trust the police to make such judgement?
If people with guns are pointing them at other people without guns, and state they will kill them unless 'x', I'd say the room for error in judgement is rather small, probably so close to 0 that error is impossible.
I fully agree on the question, but not on the answer. I simply do not wish the police to have the right to decide how many hostages it's ok to kill in a hostage situation. And giving them the weapons to apply the result of that decision is too close to implying they have the right to take it.
I think everyone reasonable agrees that the decision in such a situation is an extremely hard one. For me, that's precisely the reason to place the burden of making that decision far from the people we use to protect us from common criminals. Because those people are the most biased on precisely the taking of that kind of decisions.
In the case of the Russians, I believe that decision was made all the way at the top circles, if not the top. Israel, as well, was at the top. Do you have a case where such a decision was made by a local street policeman? Or even a sergeant? Instead of attacking windmills, how about focusing on something realistic?