The government making choices about people's lives is horrible.
I'm old enough to remember the 1970s and that "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." really was terrifying, because government fucked up so many things so badly.
but it's a statement that inherently says that some may disagree.
The problem is that when QALY is codified into near-impossible-to-change bureaucratic policy, choices that must be made by the individual shift to The State.
And, as any good libertarian/. reader knows, that's a Bad Thing.
Health Insurance should work like other insurance policies, for catastrophic issues.
Proof of your genius is that you think like me. Bravo!
So what happens? Many abuse the system only to waste our money and the valuable time of doctors and nurses just so they can come downtown and see friends or do shopping.
For any civilized society to survive, the populace must adhere to a certain code of conduct that can't be legislated. People must behave "well", and organic social pressure must be brought to bear upon those who refuse to behave adequately. Otherwise, society will fall apart.
Thank you, 1960s leftists, for promoting the Me Generation and thus ushering the downfall of American society.
It's an attempt to codify the idea that most people would rather live 2 more healthy years than 4 years wracked in pain.
That's as invalid an assumption as that of Bible-thumpers assuming that no one wants to go to Hell, even though many religions don't have a Hell, and atheists, obviously, know it doesn't exist.
For example, my uncle tried all sorts of painful cancer treatments while seriously juiced on morphine, and was in constant pain, but wanted to live for his friends, and to watch his nieces/nephews grow.
they'd probably just put JBoss out to pasture, which would leave a lot of folks who have deployed JBoss high-n-dry.
Just before they sold themselves to Compaq, DEC sold it's self-written DBMSs (the relational Rdb and DBMS, a CODASYL system) to Oracle.
We all thought that Big O would quickly force us all to migrate to RDBMS, but too many Important Customers doing Important Things rely on Rdb/OpenVMS, so 12 years later it's still under active development. (Of course, mostly by greybeards who have been working on it since the 80s...)
Oracle 11g on Linux, though, is winning lots of converts, so I wouldn't be surprised if it "soon" goes into maintenance mode, coasting along another decade until HP finally puts VMS out to pasture.
One of the problems with US education is that it has become too focused on facts and not learning.
But I was educated way before standardized tests became all the rage.
Memorizing a huge set of facts is great for passing a standardized test, but it doesn't provide the foundation for gathering your own facts (other than having them drilled into you)
If you don't have a foundational set of facts in your brain, then you wouldn't be able to read anything more complicated than Dr. Seuss. Just about any reasonably-complicated book would be impossible to read, since every other sentence would require you to do some sort of research on what the author is talking about.
Still, I'm not going to waste time "documenting my life" on Facebook or Twitter.
Neither will any other intelligent person.
But just as it's useful for us to have the personal letters and effects of Great Men and ordinary folks from the past, copies of newspapers from the 1800s, etc, etc, it will be useful for some of our descendants to have a record of our communications, thoughts, hopes, dreams, etc, plus the real reasons why W invaded Iraq.
The point where worthless turds with way fucking too much time on their useless hands disagree is
A less technical way to put it is that the average lobster doesn't give a shit about whether humans suffer, so there is no reason for humans to give a shit about whether lobsters suffer.
That's the attitude that has allowed weak, slow, defenseless homo sapien to become dominant species on the planet!!!
I hope this study helps push more humane methods for killing crabs (and lobsters),
You voted for (or wanted to, if you couldn't) Obama, didn't you? Maybe creamed in your pants at the non-thought of "Hope And Change"?
because after watching them boil alive in tins etc. it makes you squirm thinking of the millions of these organisms facing their last minutes on this planet in blinding pain
Whiny, tree-hugging worms pukes who's prosperity was built by unpleasant people doing unpleasant things don't deserve to be called "human". A couple of related quotes from Orwell come to mind. Substitute "vegetarian" for "pacifist" (there aren't too many aggressive vegetarians, anyway).
Pacifists are people who haven't faced the unpleasant facts of life, either economically or politically; if they did face those facts, they wouldn't be pacifists for long.
Rightly hating violence, [pacifists] do not wish to recognise that it is integral to modern society and that their own fine feelings and noble attitudes are all the fruit of injustice backed up by force. They do not want to learn where their incomes come from.
we are fast moving into a worl,... where what you know doesn't matter, only what you know how to learn does.
Sadly, humans haven't changed appreciably in the past 30 years. Most are still willfully ignorant of everything except their immediate concerns, don't like moving away from where they've "nested" (applies more to women, and obviously there are lots of exceptions), will follow a charismatic leader who tells them what they want to hear, etc.
IOW, civilization needs mostly Indians and just a few Chiefs. So, I think that most humans have evolved to be followers, a.k.a. sheeple.
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the totally insane witch hunt we have going on when it comes to kiddie pron
Have you ever seen kiddie porn?
Usenet makes it all too simple, and let me tell you: it's not busty blonde 17 year olds "this close" to 18, and it's really, really disgusting.
People won't understand the joke since we all know from head every RFC.
Google. It's really fscking simple to use...
is wrong with England?
They are the only chips that you can program and keep your sanity.
Your UID says you are old, but that statement indicates you are too young to have ever programmed a 68K or VAX.
The government making choices about people's lives is horrible.
I'm old enough to remember the 1970s and that "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." really was terrifying, because government fucked up so many things so badly.
The government making choices about people's lives is horrible. The free market doing it is worse.
"You" are delusional if you believe that the current US economy is a free market.
but it's a statement that inherently says that some may disagree.
The problem is that when QALY is codified into near-impossible-to-change bureaucratic policy, choices that must be made by the individual shift to The State.
And, as any good libertarian /. reader knows, that's a Bad Thing.
Health Insurance should work like other insurance policies, for catastrophic issues.
Proof of your genius is that you think like me. Bravo!
So what happens? Many abuse the system only to waste our money and the valuable time of doctors and nurses just so they can come downtown and see friends or do shopping.
For any civilized society to survive, the populace must adhere to a certain code of conduct that can't be legislated. People must behave "well", and organic social pressure must be brought to bear upon those who refuse to behave adequately. Otherwise, society will fall apart.
Thank you, 1960s leftists, for promoting the Me Generation and thus ushering the downfall of American society.
It's an attempt to codify the idea that most people would rather live 2 more healthy years than 4 years wracked in pain.
That's as invalid an assumption as that of Bible-thumpers assuming that no one wants to go to Hell, even though many religions don't have a Hell, and atheists, obviously, know it doesn't exist.
For example, my uncle tried all sorts of painful cancer treatments while seriously juiced on morphine, and was in constant pain, but wanted to live for his friends, and to watch his nieces/nephews grow.
Tell the girls you have a small notebook because you have no reason to compensate for anything else.
That is actually a good idea. Kinda hard to work into a conversation, though.
truck nutz
How incredibly stupid looking...
Your dignity has been saved.
Rice Burners (no, not Kawasaki riders, but the "other" rice burners) have no dignity.
Scooty Puff, Sr: The Doom-Bringer
http://pnwriders.com/image.php?u=1155&dateline=1231816052
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A place where Business Major girls can go to find CompSci geeks to do their Programming for Non-majors assignments for them...
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they'd probably just put JBoss out to pasture, which would leave a lot of folks who have deployed JBoss high-n-dry.
Just before they sold themselves to Compaq, DEC sold it's self-written DBMSs (the relational Rdb and DBMS, a CODASYL system) to Oracle.
We all thought that Big O would quickly force us all to migrate to RDBMS, but too many Important Customers doing Important Things rely on Rdb/OpenVMS, so 12 years later it's still under active development. (Of course, mostly by greybeards who have been working on it since the 80s...)
Oracle 11g on Linux, though, is winning lots of converts, so I wouldn't be surprised if it "soon" goes into maintenance mode, coasting along another decade until HP finally puts VMS out to pasture.
One of the problems with US education is that it has become too focused on facts and not learning.
But I was educated way before standardized tests became all the rage.
Memorizing a huge set of facts is great for passing a standardized test, but it doesn't provide the foundation for gathering your own facts (other than having them drilled into you)
If you don't have a foundational set of facts in your brain, then you wouldn't be able to read anything more complicated than Dr. Seuss. Just about any reasonably-complicated book would be impossible to read, since every other sentence would require you to do some sort of research on what the author is talking about.
Still, I'm not going to waste time "documenting my life" on Facebook or Twitter.
Neither will any other intelligent person.
But just as it's useful for us to have the personal letters and effects of Great Men and ordinary folks from the past, copies of newspapers from the 1800s, etc, etc, it will be useful for some of our descendants to have a record of our communications, thoughts, hopes, dreams, etc, plus the real reasons why W invaded Iraq.
Sure they can TinyURL
No, because the long URL is still out there. For example: http://tinyurl.com/c9fjov translates into http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/scanner/2008/11/16-22/pervert.jpg.
I can't have a non-violent view on how crabs and lobsters should be killed, without being a pacifist or a "Whiny, tree-hugging worms puke[..]"
If you can prove me wrong, I'd be glad to change my mind...
Seriously, the logic put into troll posts has decreased a lot recently
Logic in a Troll post???
The point where worthless turds with way fucking too much time on their useless hands disagree is
A less technical way to put it is that the average lobster doesn't give a shit about whether humans suffer, so there is no reason for humans to give a shit about whether lobsters suffer.
That's the attitude that has allowed weak, slow, defenseless homo sapien to become dominant species on the planet!!!
I hope this study helps push more humane methods for killing crabs (and lobsters),
You voted for (or wanted to, if you couldn't) Obama, didn't you? Maybe creamed in your pants at the non-thought of "Hope And Change"?
because after watching them boil alive in tins etc. it makes you squirm thinking of the millions of these organisms facing their last minutes on this planet in blinding pain
Whiny, tree-hugging worms pukes who's prosperity was built by unpleasant people doing unpleasant things don't deserve to be called "human". A couple of related quotes from Orwell come to mind. Substitute "vegetarian" for "pacifist" (there aren't too many aggressive vegetarians, anyway).
we are fast moving into a worl, ... where what you know doesn't matter, only what you know how to learn does.
Sadly, humans haven't changed appreciably in the past 30 years. Most are still willfully ignorant of everything except their immediate concerns, don't like moving away from where they've "nested" (applies more to women, and obviously there are lots of exceptions), will follow a charismatic leader who tells them what they want to hear, etc.
IOW, civilization needs mostly Indians and just a few Chiefs. So, I think that most humans have evolved to be followers, a.k.a. sheeple.
What facts do you choose to teach them?
Multiplication tables, phonic and grammar rules, the US Civil War was from 1861-1864, the Sun is a star, etc, etc, etc ad nauseum.
You want to teach children techniques, using which they can discover the facts they need in the future.
Amazingly, it's possible to do both. But children need a foundation of knowledge upon which to build.
Otherwise, instead of "standing on the shoulders of giants", each child must start at the ground floor, but that's not a recipe for progress.
The OP is one of those weird folks that think if children aren't told about sex then they won't figure it out
That's an untenable leap of logic. When the time comes, in 3ish years, I'll definitely be explaining "things" to them.
...And it couldn't have been Americium because that only turns up at the end for a short time when there are no other excuses left not to react
It keeps on hoping the Europanides will turn into the Actinides and solve it's messes itself.