Have you complained to them about the power reliability?
I live in a conservative suburb of a southern city. The state is "blue", hates taxes, and lets the power, telephone and cable companies run their lines on poles. (Part of the justification is that the water table is pretty high, and it rains a lot.) But... my house went more than a year without a clock-resetting power flicker, and that one lasted only a few seconds. One thing that I do know that the power company does is make an annual drive through each neighborhood looking for tree branches that hang too close to the lines, and then cuts them off. Presumably, they perform other sorts of behind the scenes maintenance, in order to keep reliability so high.
the premise that it's the job of government to attempt to improve society
I assert that most people want the government to improve society. Otherwise they wouldn't repeatedly vote for politicians who constantly increase the size of government.
Let me then rephrase my original point: if there were more blacks on the grand jury, and that grand jury had voted not to send the case to trial, then the appearance of voting along racial lines would have been minimized. Remember: perception is reality.
eugenics, and forced sterilizations.
Well, they do seem to be great ideas (kinda like Communism). The problem (which I do not think we can ever solve) is determining rules that do not devolve into racism and pseudo-science and thus terminating perfectly viable genes.
to a petite jury, and there are 9 whites, it's possible to vote racially and not send it to trial. There should have been more blacks on the grand Jury to ward against that...
Decency and decorum can be liberating. They inconvenience everyone -- a little -- but they also free us from worrying about who we might offend or why.
Greenwald is either a deluded Randroid (but honestly, is there any other kind?) or a front for those pushing corporatism for the sake of those who run large corporations.
A high-enough percentage of Tor users are there for drugs and child porn that a clever FBI attorney could convince a friendly judge that donating to Tor is Probable Cause. GCHQ probably doesn't even clever word smithing to investigate them.
the way they negotiate lower prices is to guarantee exclusivity in the supply chain. A treatment available on Medicaid from GSK won't be available through the same route from Pfizer, because Pfizer will be frozen out of the chain by virtue of a GSK-included clause in the Medicaid contract.
It sounds like you're referring to drug patents and the lack of certain drugs in the generics market. Am I misunderstanding you?
If not, then you need to do a better job explaining, since if that's not drug patents then what you wrote makes zero sense.
"Doofus" is an apt description for someone who says "So what?" to reducing the cost of drug testing.
drug makers will charge whatever maximizes their sales revenue, regardless of their development costs.
And insurance companies (including Medicare/Medicaid) know this, and thus negotiate much lower prices for drugs in their Formularies. Thus, insurance companies can negotiate even lower costs.
Or... the drug companies run same-size tests and get more accurate predictions on outcomes.
Too bad my mod points expired, because that's exactly what I was thinking. Although, 20% was my rule of thumb.
It probably has a lot to do with usage patterns: is your multi-TB volume used as an IMAP server, and thus chock full of 5-250KB files -- so that the FS can easily find contiguous holes --, or is it a video server fully of 1-5GB files so that contiguous holes are much harder to find when the disk is "only" around 70%? Or a DB server who's files are even huger, and so contiguous holes impossible to find one?
Even then, circumstances can alter the situation, since if you create a bunch of *huge* tablespaces on a virgin FS and they never extend, then you can get up to a high usage percentage without fragmentation.
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Who wants to bet that Obama and Holder were great First Amendment supporters back in 1992 during the Body Count "Cop Killer" brouhaha?
Sure, even if it's limited to "don't do it, because you'll get the clap!".
Ummm, isn't health a subunit of biology?
And biology is a subunit of chemistry, and chemistry is a subunit of physics. Yet, we still have chemistry and biology classes.
I've never had a class called "health" in my entire education.
That's... saddening. Very, very saddening.
contraception doing in a Biology textbook? Shouldn't that be taught in Health class?
Have you complained to them about the power reliability?
I live in a conservative suburb of a southern city. The state is "blue", hates taxes, and lets the power, telephone and cable companies run their lines on poles. (Part of the justification is that the water table is pretty high, and it rains a lot.) But... my house went more than a year without a clock-resetting power flicker, and that one lasted only a few seconds.
One thing that I do know that the power company does is make an annual drive through each neighborhood looking for tree branches that hang too close to the lines, and then cuts them off. Presumably, they perform other sorts of behind the scenes maintenance, in order to keep reliability so high.
Fascists like you favor it.
These delusions indicate that you need to go back on your medications.
usually by trying to force other people to do things for you.
Gotta love democracy, eh!! Forcing people who disagree with you to do what you feel is right just warms the cockles of your heart...
the premise that it's the job of government to attempt to improve society
I assert that most people want the government to improve society. Otherwise they wouldn't repeatedly vote for politicians who constantly increase the size of government.
Let me then rephrase my original point:
if there were more blacks on the grand jury, and that grand jury had voted not to send the case to trial, then the appearance of voting along racial lines would have been minimized. Remember: perception is reality.
eugenics, and forced sterilizations.
Well, they do seem to be great ideas (kinda like Communism). The problem (which I do not think we can ever solve) is determining rules that do not devolve into racism and pseudo-science and thus terminating perfectly viable genes.
You're saying that...
Absolutely not. You (and silfen) did not pay attention to what I wrote, specifically the parts about "possible" and "ward against".
you're presuming that this is a racial issue
Since I'm from the South, you'll have to trust me that the whole situation is a racial issue.
that both the black and the white jurors disregarded their job and instead just voted based on their political convictions.
Actually, no I'm not. But the appearance of racial voting that would not be there in a more equally mixed grand jury.
to a petite jury, and there are 9 whites, it's possible to vote racially and not send it to trial. There should have been more blacks on the grand Jury to ward against that...
Not that it would matter to the hooligans.
Interesting article, and insightful quote:
Decency and decorum can be liberating. They inconvenience everyone -- a little -- but they also free us from worrying about who we might offend or why.
Greenwald is either a deluded Randroid (but honestly, is there any other kind?) or a front for those pushing corporatism for the sake of those who run large corporations.
scientists, (which is how come we still get to have shitstorms over people wearing pimp shirts)
You really have to explain that one...
Under what pretense?
A high-enough percentage of Tor users are there for drugs and child porn that a clever FBI attorney could convince a friendly judge that donating to Tor is Probable Cause. GCHQ probably doesn't even clever word smithing to investigate them.
As a Swede, presumably living in Sweden
There are 8 metric ass-loads of people of Swedish descent living is the US.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
The FBI, GCHQ, BND, etc are going to tear apart the finances of every person that donates to this project.
I guess I don't know whether fuck all means "everything" or "nothing".
the way they negotiate lower prices is to guarantee exclusivity in the supply chain. A treatment available on Medicaid from GSK won't be available through the same route from Pfizer, because Pfizer will be frozen out of the chain by virtue of a GSK-included clause in the Medicaid contract.
It sounds like you're referring to drug patents and the lack of certain drugs in the generics market. Am I misunderstanding you?
If not, then you need to do a better job explaining, since if that's not drug patents then what you wrote makes zero sense.
"Doofus" is an apt description for someone who says "So what?" to reducing the cost of drug testing.
drug makers will charge whatever maximizes their sales revenue, regardless of their development costs.
And insurance companies (including Medicare/Medicaid) know this, and thus negotiate much lower prices for drugs in their Formularies. Thus, insurance companies can negotiate even lower costs.
Or... the drug companies run same-size tests and get more accurate predictions on outcomes.
if you don't limit yourself to the requirement that the text be optically readable
Also totally useless for the requirement of restarting an industrial civilization.
That makes zero sense.
Publish the books hard-bound on acid-free paper and then you've got something useful!!
Too bad my mod points expired, because that's exactly what I was thinking. Although, 20% was my rule of thumb.
It probably has a lot to do with usage patterns: is your multi-TB volume used as an IMAP server, and thus chock full of 5-250KB files -- so that the FS can easily find contiguous holes --, or is it a video server fully of 1-5GB files so that contiguous holes are much harder to find when the disk is "only" around 70%? Or a DB server who's files are even huger, and so contiguous holes impossible to find one?
Even then, circumstances can alter the situation, since if you create a bunch of *huge* tablespaces on a virgin FS and they never extend, then you can get up to a high usage percentage without fragmentation.
ISTM that panicky mothers would *love* this...