---Selfish. That's the word you should learn to appreciate.
Intelligence. That's the word you should learn.
---Somewhere in the world some poor person was just given $5.
Good on them. Someone choose freely to give and the poor person chose freely to accept.
---Or the fucking prick of a bastard who just won the lottery?
Did you know that the lottery does not work when people do not buy tickets? That, and people chose to buy tickets.
---That's their life. Not yours. You're being too self centered to think on the scale of more than 5 zeros.
There's a few of us who believe that "People" (in the loosest sense of the word) should be financially responsible. These banks were not. They lied and cheated and they lost. Instead of letting them fail and 'the market to correct itself', the government bails them out in the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
This money comes from 2 places: The People, and The People. We'll feel this bailout via taxes come April 15. But that's the small tax. The government can tax everybody equally. They just print more. There aint no such thing as a free lunch, and that includes Us. Our Dollar will be yet more devalued, and people will be none-the-wiser. They will still have X dollars, but trading them requires more.
Greenspan warned about that very idea of indirect taxation, but nobody listens to him any more.
You should know better. Private to cluster computing goes back and forth in time.
One year, it will be en vogue to run local clusters for all your apps. After contract negotiations and many articles in some business mag, they'll want remote services on Google, Amazon, or other cluster computing platform. Now its the cloud. It was before that the local virtualization cluster.
Yes, you are "prepared" to do something about it: you whine and cry for your government to protect you. You giddily ask for "MORE LAWS, MORE LAWS", because you don't want to take any responsibility for the shit you're in.
You limeys decry violence? Hypocrites. Your wretched nation has wrought violence on the whole world. You enslaved, robbed, killed, raped entire peoples. The stench of british "influence" is still felt all over the planet. Do you expect any sympathy because your clueless youth is happily knifing itself into oblivion? Well, you won't get it. You deserve it. Enjoy your fading into irrelevance, while the world shits on your face.
A hard-scifi fiction book I read discussed this in precision.
Greg Egan theorizes that there will be quantum detectors the size of a fly for surveillance purposes. These devices would be able to land on a person and capture their thoughts via neuron detection. To combat this, they have their neuron interconnects scrambled. It takes about 6 weeks for the nanobots to learn how to reconnect.
The devices learn that people have re-arranged brain patterns, so they combat it via intercranial nanobots. In result, a class of people (private investigator) would have knowledge crystallized in their brain while asleep.
Now we're coming up with the sensors. In due time, I think Greg Egan is right. Fiction or not... He has a few published papers too in that physics journal:)
I didnt make any comment on IF communism was good, bad, or ugly. I just stated that the respective governments call their form of government socialism. To my knowledge, there has been no communistic government in the Marxian sense.
---A null vote does not say you are ok with how things are, it says you don't believe in the voting system (or you don't care enough to vote for any other reason.)
I was planning to vote for all BUT presidential. I believe whoever wins, we're the ones who'll pay. It's either "Bush 3.0" or "I hates teh Bush". I dont want either, and the 3rd party candidates are nuts. In other countries, a null vote is called No Confidence.
---The EC is a joke. I don't live in a swing state, therefore my vote doesn't count.
It never did. I understand why the EC is set up the way it is. Each state has EC votes = House + Senate at a minimum of 3 votes. This system accounts for population AND shows that states are equal. To true, EC votes are determined by state laws. Most of those laws indicate majority gets all. That's the problem, not the EC.
And show me a federal election that 1 vote mattered. I've seen local elections with 3 vote difference, with an immediate recount.
---If the EC were gotten rid of, as someone said, their vote in Indiana would mean just as much as a vote a California. Every vote would count. You would get much, much larger voter turnout.
Then we would also get law that would suit California, but not Indiana. I like the fact that the founders could forsee the idea that each state is equal, but with varying populations and needs. I would also argue that people still wouldn't care, regardless of direct popular or EC voting.
Assuming that you are in the USA, why does the AMA require a "general track" for future-doctors?
It seems that understanding physics, biology, and chemistry would make the becomings of a great doctor. I mean, if there was a ATA (technological) that watched over programmers as the AMA does doctors, doesn't it make sense to start off in the real topics your degree is in? Waiting 4 years to even start your real training is a real waste.
Of course, I think the AMA is a waste. Anybody that smart should be able to become a doctor, and not the few spots they "allow". The intelligence alone should be the cutoff, not the arbitrary number allowed.
So you think osteopaths are BS? Perhaps they are.. then again, perhaps they arent.
You're right. The body is a chemical engine. NO2 works on the penis via Viagra. It also, in some cases, affects Red-Green color vision ALSO via the NO2 receptors. It also can affect the heart via NO2 receptors. That's how nitroglycerin works too, and why Alfred Nobel was prescribed it.
We see this in nearly every drug, where the supposed cure ends up inflicting a different symptom. Of course the percentage is small, but cross-receptors and inhibitors allow it to happen.
Now, you're going to tell me that each organ in the body is its own black box that We can treat directly? Utter rubbish. They do a part, and are part of the whole. And what makes me thikn towards osteopathy is that we are now learning how to tailor drugs for individuals. That right there says we need to look at what we affect across the whole system, and not just one part.
Well, I was not even going to vote for president. I'm in Indiana. R's had control and they ran the state in the ground... for 75 years. I'm going straight D (after voting some L and mostly R 2 years ago) except for president. I cant see Barr, Obama, or McCain doing anything positive here.
The Governor-R pissed up off because he sold our roads off, privatized damn near everything, and ignores the citizens. He's going down.
If you vote republican in Texas, Ill vote Obama in Indiana. I of course, have no way of knowing if you will uphold your side, other than honor.
---It's not really a lawsuit, it's just a motion in a case he's on. Motions for sanctions are actually fairly common.
Yeah, I did just notice that. They PDF was downloading around 1KB/s.. and it doesnt help that our home connection is modem:(
---Yes, but it's very rarely done. If someone is just completely crazy about filing multiple frivolous lawsuits, the court will occasionally order that the frivolous party cannot file lawsuits except through independent counsel; I think they did this to Jack Thompson. The theory is an attorney will filter out the crazy stuff, or face professional sanctions themselves.
As I said, how could this not be attributed to the RIAA lawyers? Filing thousands of lawsuits, and many of them frivolous is not a cause of censure?
---I believe strongly in the idea of free speech, and don't much care for censorship or other speech restrictions. That said, on some level I think I can agree with the idea that lawyers are part of our legal justice system, and therefore to be held to a higher standard of conduct than we mere mortals. I mean, I have no problem saying the same thing about judges or police officers. I certainly believe they should be held to higher standards.
But everybody should be held to the same standard. When people are said to be a higher standard, it reminds me of the dukes, earls, princes, and kings of old Europe. We all are equal here.. Though, the Bar could disbar him, though I highly doubt they would even consider that. Disbarment only really happens for illegal acts and consistent harassment using the legal system (the retarded ex-lawyer who badmouths games).
Judges are also majority voted in, and they can be voted out. I, by principle, vote the non-incumbent for judges. If they were good, sorry. If they were bad, thats good they're out. And I think they need a "break" anyways.
We've seen the "I sue dead people" and granny-no-computer on the business end of a (dia)RIAA lawsuit.. but this takes the cake.
Cant they dismiss this lawsuit on grounds of anti-SLAPP? He's here all the time and his blog letting us know whats happening. I've not witnessed any "RIAA are convicted murderers" or anything that would be represented as libel. He just tells who's suing who, based upon X evidence, and results of said cases.
IIRC, isnt there a ground that a judge can take away "lawsuit powers" when used as a weapon, rather than as to pursue 'truth and justice'?
And how do you say that one man, over the course of 8 years caused what the USA is today?
Bush didn't cause the mortgage crisis. Bush didnt get companies to heavily finance subprime lending. Bush didnt encourage or discourage manufacturing sector to leave the country.
Economically speaking, what is doing us in is the unspoken deal with China. Yes, Clinton did initiate it, but I believe he did in the best interests of the USA. We already had large portions of our manufacturing moving out of the country, so we needed cheaper goods to offset the lower average wages, China offered to make cheap goods (cheap in price and quality). We bought them up, and created a trade deficit. They hold our treasury bills in lien for our debt to China. If, they were to sell them on the open market... Well..
Educationally speaking, we were already in the hole. Most of Europe encourages advanced education and pays for it. Higher wages due to education equal more tax revenue. Instead, our public universities jack prices up higher and higher, in that poor and middle class cannot afford them. These are supposedly public... They sure dont serve the public like the rest of the 1'st world nations do. And there's NCLB act. Even though Bush passed that recently, we still will not know the effects of it until 10-15 years. Might as well call it guinea pig nation.
Structurally speaking, our roads are decrepit. We have the last remnants of a rail system that has been left in the dust for 30+ years. Our infrastructure to move things around are vehicles, and therefore petrol increases hurt everybody. We have no real public transportation, even in big cities. There is no transportation between cities. Our broadband and high speed interconnects are taken over by monopolies who wish nothing but to extract every cent without providing improvements.
And even recently, we're seeing mergers in the financial market.In other words, companies are going bankrupt and they're merging to stave off future bankruptcies. I would make the unasserted claim that our country runs off of credit. If credit somehow becomes very scarce, our country will slow. Also, if we lose any more jobs, our country will falter.
What country would want to come to a place with 3'rd world education, 3'rd world infrastructure, and a failing economics system?
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---Selfish. That's the word you should learn to appreciate.
Intelligence. That's the word you should learn.
---Somewhere in the world some poor person was just given $5.
Good on them. Someone choose freely to give and the poor person chose freely to accept.
---Or the fucking prick of a bastard who just won the lottery?
Did you know that the lottery does not work when people do not buy tickets? That, and people chose to buy tickets.
---That's their life. Not yours. You're being too self centered to think on the scale of more than 5 zeros.
There's a few of us who believe that "People" (in the loosest sense of the word) should be financially responsible. These banks were not. They lied and cheated and they lost. Instead of letting them fail and 'the market to correct itself', the government bails them out in the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
This money comes from 2 places: The People, and The People. We'll feel this bailout via taxes come April 15. But that's the small tax. The government can tax everybody equally. They just print more. There aint no such thing as a free lunch, and that includes Us. Our Dollar will be yet more devalued, and people will be none-the-wiser. They will still have X dollars, but trading them requires more.
Greenspan warned about that very idea of indirect taxation, but nobody listens to him any more.
You should know better. Private to cluster computing goes back and forth in time.
One year, it will be en vogue to run local clusters for all your apps. After contract negotiations and many articles in some business mag, they'll want remote services on Google, Amazon, or other cluster computing platform. Now its the cloud. It was before that the local virtualization cluster.
Ehh, Im a karma troll anyways. I take a hit, I get a string of +5's.
Its a service for Britons. unlimeted makes sense.
Well said.
Thank God for our gun rights. They've been eroded in some states, but we still can own pretty much anything.
A hard-scifi fiction book I read discussed this in precision.
Greg Egan theorizes that there will be quantum detectors the size of a fly for surveillance purposes. These devices would be able to land on a person and capture their thoughts via neuron detection. To combat this, they have their neuron interconnects scrambled. It takes about 6 weeks for the nanobots to learn how to reconnect.
The devices learn that people have re-arranged brain patterns, so they combat it via intercranial nanobots. In result, a class of people (private investigator) would have knowledge crystallized in their brain while asleep.
Now we're coming up with the sensors. In due time, I think Greg Egan is right. Fiction or not... He has a few published papers too in that physics journal :)
Oh Oh Oh Oh Stayin Alive. Stayin Alive.
I didnt make any comment on IF communism was good, bad, or ugly. I just stated that the respective governments call their form of government socialism. To my knowledge, there has been no communistic government in the Marxian sense.
Can... You... Hear... Me..... .....
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Where is the word "Communist" in United States of Socialist Republics or the People's Republic of China?
I believe the key words there are Republic, and Socialist.
---A null vote does not say you are ok with how things are, it says you don't believe in the voting system (or you don't care enough to vote for any other reason.)
I was planning to vote for all BUT presidential. I believe whoever wins, we're the ones who'll pay. It's either "Bush 3.0" or "I hates teh Bush". I dont want either, and the 3rd party candidates are nuts. In other countries, a null vote is called No Confidence.
---The EC is a joke. I don't live in a swing state, therefore my vote doesn't count.
It never did. I understand why the EC is set up the way it is. Each state has EC votes = House + Senate at a minimum of 3 votes. This system accounts for population AND shows that states are equal. To true, EC votes are determined by state laws. Most of those laws indicate majority gets all. That's the problem, not the EC.
And show me a federal election that 1 vote mattered. I've seen local elections with 3 vote difference, with an immediate recount.
---If the EC were gotten rid of, as someone said, their vote in Indiana would mean just as much as a vote a California. Every vote would count. You would get much, much larger voter turnout.
Then we would also get law that would suit California, but not Indiana. I like the fact that the founders could forsee the idea that each state is equal, but with varying populations and needs. I would also argue that people still wouldn't care, regardless of direct popular or EC voting.
Yah, my sis had AIDS. Ubuntu cleared it right up.
Did your small mind ever think I'm talking about the law here? The royalty were above it. Even our officials fall to it.
Yes, money can get you off, but only so many times. Ask OJ about it sometime.
Assuming that you are in the USA, why does the AMA require a "general track" for future-doctors?
It seems that understanding physics, biology, and chemistry would make the becomings of a great doctor. I mean, if there was a ATA (technological) that watched over programmers as the AMA does doctors, doesn't it make sense to start off in the real topics your degree is in? Waiting 4 years to even start your real training is a real waste.
Of course, I think the AMA is a waste. Anybody that smart should be able to become a doctor, and not the few spots they "allow". The intelligence alone should be the cutoff, not the arbitrary number allowed.
If a PA or nurse helps me, I EXPECT to pay the cost associated with the time on their profession, and not that of a doctor that may not even exist.
So you think osteopaths are BS? Perhaps they are.. then again, perhaps they arent.
You're right. The body is a chemical engine. NO2 works on the penis via Viagra. It also, in some cases, affects Red-Green color vision ALSO via the NO2 receptors. It also can affect the heart via NO2 receptors. That's how nitroglycerin works too, and why Alfred Nobel was prescribed it.
We see this in nearly every drug, where the supposed cure ends up inflicting a different symptom. Of course the percentage is small, but cross-receptors and inhibitors allow it to happen.
Now, you're going to tell me that each organ in the body is its own black box that We can treat directly? Utter rubbish. They do a part, and are part of the whole. And what makes me thikn towards osteopathy is that we are now learning how to tailor drugs for individuals. That right there says we need to look at what we affect across the whole system, and not just one part.
I thought some states, like Florida, made it a crime for electoral college voters to do other than the voting majority.
Well, I was not even going to vote for president. I'm in Indiana. R's had control and they ran the state in the ground... for 75 years. I'm going straight D (after voting some L and mostly R 2 years ago) except for president. I cant see Barr, Obama, or McCain doing anything positive here.
The Governor-R pissed up off because he sold our roads off, privatized damn near everything, and ignores the citizens. He's going down.
If you vote republican in Texas, Ill vote Obama in Indiana. I of course, have no way of knowing if you will uphold your side, other than honor.
---It's not really a lawsuit, it's just a motion in a case he's on. Motions for sanctions are actually fairly common.
Yeah, I did just notice that. They PDF was downloading around 1KB/s.. and it doesnt help that our home connection is modem :(
---Yes, but it's very rarely done. If someone is just completely crazy about filing multiple frivolous lawsuits, the court will occasionally order that the frivolous party cannot file lawsuits except through independent counsel; I think they did this to Jack Thompson. The theory is an attorney will filter out the crazy stuff, or face professional sanctions themselves.
As I said, how could this not be attributed to the RIAA lawyers? Filing thousands of lawsuits, and many of them frivolous is not a cause of censure?
---I believe strongly in the idea of free speech, and don't much care for censorship or other speech restrictions. That said, on some level I think I can agree with the idea that lawyers are part of our legal justice system, and therefore to be held to a higher standard of conduct than we mere mortals. I mean, I have no problem saying the same thing about judges or police officers. I certainly believe they should be held to higher standards.
But everybody should be held to the same standard. When people are said to be a higher standard, it reminds me of the dukes, earls, princes, and kings of old Europe. We all are equal here.. Though, the Bar could disbar him, though I highly doubt they would even consider that. Disbarment only really happens for illegal acts and consistent harassment using the legal system (the retarded ex-lawyer who badmouths games).
Judges are also majority voted in, and they can be voted out. I, by principle, vote the non-incumbent for judges. If they were good, sorry. If they were bad, thats good they're out. And I think they need a "break" anyways.
We've seen the "I sue dead people" and granny-no-computer on the business end of a (dia)RIAA lawsuit.. but this takes the cake.
Cant they dismiss this lawsuit on grounds of anti-SLAPP? He's here all the time and his blog letting us know whats happening. I've not witnessed any "RIAA are convicted murderers" or anything that would be represented as libel. He just tells who's suing who, based upon X evidence, and results of said cases.
IIRC, isnt there a ground that a judge can take away "lawsuit powers" when used as a weapon, rather than as to pursue 'truth and justice'?
rofl :)
My sister is a yuri-fangirl. Yaoi and Yaori are both disgusting.
Of course you'd hire them.... For peanuts.
And how do you say that one man, over the course of 8 years caused what the USA is today?
Bush didn't cause the mortgage crisis.
Bush didnt get companies to heavily finance subprime lending.
Bush didnt encourage or discourage manufacturing sector to leave the country.
Economically speaking, what is doing us in is the unspoken deal with China. Yes, Clinton did initiate it, but I believe he did in the best interests of the USA. We already had large portions of our manufacturing moving out of the country, so we needed cheaper goods to offset the lower average wages, China offered to make cheap goods (cheap in price and quality). We bought them up, and created a trade deficit. They hold our treasury bills in lien for our debt to China. If, they were to sell them on the open market... Well..
Educationally speaking, we were already in the hole. Most of Europe encourages advanced education and pays for it. Higher wages due to education equal more tax revenue. Instead, our public universities jack prices up higher and higher, in that poor and middle class cannot afford them. These are supposedly public... They sure dont serve the public like the rest of the 1'st world nations do. And there's NCLB act. Even though Bush passed that recently, we still will not know the effects of it until 10-15 years. Might as well call it guinea pig nation.
Structurally speaking, our roads are decrepit. We have the last remnants of a rail system that has been left in the dust for 30+ years. Our infrastructure to move things around are vehicles, and therefore petrol increases hurt everybody. We have no real public transportation, even in big cities. There is no transportation between cities. Our broadband and high speed interconnects are taken over by monopolies who wish nothing but to extract every cent without providing improvements.
And even recently, we're seeing mergers in the financial market.In other words, companies are going bankrupt and they're merging to stave off future bankruptcies. I would make the unasserted claim that our country runs off of credit. If credit somehow becomes very scarce, our country will slow. Also, if we lose any more jobs, our country will falter.
What country would want to come to a place with 3'rd world education, 3'rd world infrastructure, and a failing economics system?