Be careful what you ask for, 'cause you just might get it, square in the pocketbook when They push for metered service, just like how all the other utilities price their service.
wait until the daughter is asleep and then beat the shit out of her with a baseball bat for saying idiotic crap like "People have to take everything in proportion and thank God for the good and the bad".
And then shoot herself for having spawned and raised such an idiot.
public does better because public health is motivated by people not losing their jobs at the next election rather than profit.
I'm sure it is, but good intentions don't pay the bills. Put more crudely: spit in one hand, and wish in the other, and guess which hand fills up first.
My cousin in a new MD who got a nice 6 month trip to NZ as a contract psychiatrist (yes, that's her specialty) because NZ pays full-time doctors so little that no one wants to work there.
Immigration New Zealand has told one pregnant woman that - despite her financial stability - she would "be putting an additional strain on our already short services", which the department claimed were "stretched in most areas of the country".
This story has nothing to do with government funding or otherwise.
It has everything to do with the type of person that governments hire.
There's even a quote from an NHS official saying this guy shouldn't be a paramedic.
As if they'd say anything else. Anyway, if he shouldn't be a paramedic, why did they hire him???
I mean explain it so it makes sense
Because government bureaucracies are designed to follow "process" designed by politically-influenced dead-heads who can't find productive work in the private sector. And that "process" never includes doing the best job possible for a reasonable price; it's all about "fairness" and the rice bowl.
You do realize that there is nothing about single payer in the current legislation.
Didn't say there was...
But there are lots of people who think that single-payer is the answer to a maiden's prayer, and I think they need 40-50 whacks with a hardwood clue stick.
While I pretty much agree with you, a few comments:
But for suitably complex spreadsheets, I can imagine some accountants wishing there was some parallel processing done.
If the spreadsheet is that complicated, then a spreadsheet is probably the wrong tool for the job. But that has to do with how you use spreadsheets, not whether they are parallelized.
I curse at kmail for not being parallel. Sometimes when it runs spamassassin against incoming email, it can get annoyingly slow
That stems from a PC mentality which makes the MUA do double duty as both MUA and MTA. Remember that "Unix" is not a "desktop" OS, but as a do-all OS, happy to simultaneously run "desktop" and "server" apps.
Install fetchmail/gotmail, an MTA (I like postfix, but exim4 works just as well), spamassassin, an MDA (I like maildrop, but procmail is more popular) and an IMAP server (I like courier, but dovecot is also popular).
Once you have it all integrated (it's not as complicated as you might think), with new mail being dropped into ~/Maildir (I have a cron job that runs fetchmail every 5 minutes), then config kmail to also look at the "localhost" IMAP server. (Also, there are scripts on the 'net to convert mbox files to Maildir format, or you could drag-drop using kmail.)
Thus, in practice, you have "parallelism" even though the apps are single-threaded.
(This scheme also allows you to switch MUAs or access your mail from a different machine. (For example, I sometimes read my mail from my wife's Windows box, and one time when Debian Sid broke X, I was still able to read my email with Mutt from the console.)
But I think most reasonable people can see that they aren't the same thing, and that rape is bad, and rape fantasy is just a fantasy like any other.
I know that sociology and psychology are soft "sciences" and can produce dodgy results, but the literature does indicate that rape fantasies can in fact "lower the bar" regarding the acceptability of forced sex.
Do you get this up in arms over war games ("murder fantasy") as well?
War is not murder!
I do, though, think that violent games like the GTA series can slowly desensitize the player towards AFK violence, and, among younger players, permanently twist the brain.
Another example: a (theoretical?) KKK game where the purpose is to drive around shooting/maiming "niggers" and "kikes".
I actually think that there are too many laws in the US (and probably the EU, too). Cicero: "The more laws, the less justice."
Aren't you happy with the status quo where the actual acts are rightly looked down upon and criminalised, and people can have whatever opinions they like on fictional depictions, but where the latter isn't a matter of law?
In none of my comments to this article will you find me saying "there ought to be a law!" or "throw them in jail!". The members of any mob that performs some vigilante justice against the publishers of Rapelay should be punished, even though I might be in that mob, were they here in the US.
The point is that no responsible publisher should have brought it to market. G.B. Shaw:"Liberty means responsibility."
It's the millennia of civilization which says that "it's a Bad Thing to sexually assault the weak and under-age" which is my moral compass on this issue.
If something does no harm to others then I really don't see why people feel they have a duty to restrict it.
Are you saying that rape and rape fantasies of children are not harmful?
The pressure might be high enough to force the liquids into a solid, OR the extremely high pressures generate enough heat to maintain a liquid or rocky core.
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if they become a utility, as they should
Be careful what you ask for, 'cause you just might get it, square in the pocketbook when They push for metered service, just like how all the other utilities price their service.
you want *guns*.
And ammo. Lots of ammo.
should toss out the suit and censure the plaintiff's lawyer.
I'm not referring to Odd Magnar Strindmo.
I'm not sure where you live
He lives at home with his parents (or maybe in a dormitory room) and doesn't have a clue as to what it actually costs to run a home.
Do they realize that they can put eight quad-core xeons in a machine and finish the calculation in a single shift instead of waiting a month?
What makes you think they aren't?
And what makes you think this man would pony up the serious coin for such a beast just to find a prime number?
Better yet: "Why does Windows suck?"
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Being in Washington, MSFT has obviously paid them off to filter out unpleasant results.
David Tennant. Blech.
At least try for The Fourth, who had quality Companions.
What a fscking ingrate!!!! Why am I not surprised that he's Union?
How about a big thanks for the 864 bottles (144 six-packs) of beer he's received for free for the past 6 years...
wait until the daughter is asleep and then beat the shit out of her with a baseball bat for saying idiotic crap like "People have to take everything in proportion and thank God for the good and the bad".
And then shoot herself for having spawned and raised such an idiot.
It's called capitalism. Ain't got cash? Well we ain't got the answer. Gotta love it. Survival of the richest, litteraly. How did this benefit mankind?
Then Louisiana must not be capitalist...
My (self-employed, no insurance) sister was pretty rapidly diagnosed with Crohn's more than 10 years ago.
Maybe it's just that doctors suck in Washington.
public does better because public health is motivated by people not losing their jobs at the next election rather than profit.
I'm sure it is, but good intentions don't pay the bills. Put more crudely: spit in one hand, and wish in the other, and guess which hand fills up first.
My cousin in a new MD who got a nice 6 month trip to NZ as a contract psychiatrist (yes, that's her specialty) because NZ pays full-time doctors so little that no one wants to work there.
And then there the constant running out of money:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10575739&pnum=0
This story has nothing to do with government funding or otherwise.
It has everything to do with the type of person that governments hire.
There's even a quote from an NHS official saying this guy shouldn't be a paramedic.
As if they'd say anything else. Anyway, if he shouldn't be a paramedic, why did they hire him???
I mean explain it so it makes sense
Because government bureaucracies are designed to follow "process" designed by politically-influenced dead-heads who can't find productive work in the private sector. And that "process" never includes doing the best job possible for a reasonable price; it's all about "fairness" and the rice bowl.
Didn't think so.p>
Your rhetorical skills underwhelm me.
You do realize that there is nothing about single payer in the current legislation.
Didn't say there was...
But there are lots of people who think that single-payer is the answer to a maiden's prayer, and I think they need 40-50 whacks with a hardwood clue stick.
thought they could make up for their material inferiority as compared with the US ... troops simply by fighting harder and showing more spirit.
Never forget the usefulness of racial animus in motivating yourself to stay and fight.
Soviet troops
Huh? The Sovs had their hands full with Jerry, and didn't declare war on Japan until Aug. 8, 1945.
That can work to a degree against a numerically superior but less hardened foe, causing them to break before you do.
Like the poorly-led Chinese, most of whom really just wanted to go back to their farms.
Yeah, 'cause the US doesn't have HMO horror stories...
Just because I don't want an NHS doesn't mean that I'm blind to the inadequacies of the current system.
It's simply an effort to remind Americans that single-payer is not a wonder panacea.
In Mecha anime/manga they usually make up some pseudosience as to why they're using walkers and not tanks and planes.
I always thought it was because of Japan's samurai tradition/mythos (like the US has a Wild West gun mythos).
While I pretty much agree with you, a few comments:
But for suitably complex spreadsheets, I can imagine some accountants wishing there was some parallel processing done.
If the spreadsheet is that complicated, then a spreadsheet is probably the wrong tool for the job. But that has to do with how you use spreadsheets, not whether they are parallelized.
I curse at kmail for not being parallel. Sometimes when it runs spamassassin against incoming email, it can get annoyingly slow
That stems from a PC mentality which makes the MUA do double duty as both MUA and MTA. Remember that "Unix" is not a "desktop" OS, but as a do-all OS, happy to simultaneously run "desktop" and "server" apps.
Install fetchmail/gotmail, an MTA (I like postfix, but exim4 works just as well), spamassassin, an MDA (I like maildrop, but procmail is more popular) and an IMAP server (I like courier, but dovecot is also popular).
Once you have it all integrated (it's not as complicated as you might think), with new mail being dropped into ~/Maildir (I have a cron job that runs fetchmail every 5 minutes), then config kmail to also look at the "localhost" IMAP server. (Also, there are scripts on the 'net to convert mbox files to Maildir format, or you could drag-drop using kmail.)
Thus, in practice, you have "parallelism" even though the apps are single-threaded.
(This scheme also allows you to switch MUAs or access your mail from a different machine. (For example, I sometimes read my mail from my wife's Windows box, and one time when Debian Sid broke X, I was still able to read my email with Mutt from the console.)
good example of government-run health "care".
But I think most reasonable people can see that they aren't the same thing, and that rape is bad, and rape fantasy is just a fantasy like any other.
I know that sociology and psychology are soft "sciences" and can produce dodgy results, but the literature does indicate that rape fantasies can in fact "lower the bar" regarding the acceptability of forced sex.
Too bad this is just an abstract: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VH7-4B2CMD0-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=a656bfe084f145afca4196b9c062ddc8
Do you get this up in arms over war games ("murder fantasy") as well?
War is not murder!
I do, though, think that violent games like the GTA series can slowly desensitize the player towards AFK violence, and, among younger players, permanently twist the brain.
Another example: a (theoretical?) KKK game where the purpose is to drive around shooting/maiming "niggers" and "kikes".
then why are new laws and bans needed now?
I actually think that there are too many laws in the US (and probably the EU, too). Cicero: "The more laws, the less justice."
Aren't you happy with the status quo where the actual acts are rightly looked down upon and criminalised, and people can have whatever opinions they like on fictional depictions, but where the latter isn't a matter of law?
In none of my comments to this article will you find me saying "there ought to be a law!" or "throw them in jail!". The members of any mob that performs some vigilante justice against the publishers of Rapelay should be punished, even though I might be in that mob, were they here in the US.
The point is that no responsible publisher should have brought it to market. G.B. Shaw:"Liberty means responsibility."
And you're to be our moral compass on this issue?
Me? No.
It's the millennia of civilization which says that "it's a Bad Thing to sexually assault the weak and under-age" which is my moral compass on this issue.
If something does no harm to others then I really don't see why people feel they have a duty to restrict it.
Are you saying that rape and rape fantasies of children are not harmful?
and the mob behaviour that would in turn be incited would burn them clean out of existence in no time flat.
Some things deserve to be destroyed.
Depressing as this may sound, I'm inclined to suspect that such a game would succeed on this side of the pacific.
As a warning to the police as to who to look for first when someone gets raped..
"Demand for perverse behaviour" isn't a Japanese thing, it's a human one.
Moral equivalence in action. You suck.
You might be wiser to ask why there is no such backlash in Japan,
Because Japan is sick?
Go to any AA or Narcotics Anonymous or women's shelter and see how many of them were sexually abused as children.
what I could really use is a clamshell computer (think Samsung Alias 2) strapped to my forearm. (Like Turanga Leela, but real.)
Lol, are you serious?
Sure
What is at the centre of a gaseous planet then?
We DO NOT KNOW.
Is it gas and liquid all the way done, lol.
Maybe.
The pressure might be high enough to force the liquids into a solid, OR the extremely high pressures generate enough heat to maintain a liquid or rocky core.
But we just don't know...