No, the Conservative way would be for the hospital to have the choice to refuse to treat you if you can't pay. No business should be forced to service a non-paying customer. I would have no problem with this.
My stupid question is, what happens when that situation happens to YOU? If it's a live and death situation and you're refused treatment you have two basic choices: Get better on your own or die.
Wall Streeters make money by putting their money where their mouth is on how capital should be invested.
No, Wall Streeters make money by collecting commissions on shares, bonds, and futures they buy and sell for you, since Joe Sixpack isn't allowed directly into the market, and must go through a broker. When your broker advises you to dump the stuff he talked you into buying last week on somebody else's pump & dump scheme, the commissions paid on the trade just add insult to injury, and help fatten that Wall Streeter's wallet.
That's the problem with the stock market in general. Stable profit to the company means 0 gain for shareholders. The only way a stock is valuable is for the company to take risks and get bigger and bigger and bigger every year.
Um, no, that's what dividend checks are for. Course, they only make sense when you have 10's of thousands of shares in the company. A $20 dividend check doesn't mean much in the general scheme of things, a million dollar dividend check does.
Also that 2% of people are the ones who are driving technology. They want a cool new toy, they bribe the Government into funding the research, development, etc for their toy and a few years later if we're lucky, we get something borderline cool at Wallyworld when the Chinese make knockoffs.
Fixed that for you. I used to know a guy who was in the top 10% of the income range. How he got there was, first off, he inherited it. Second off, he never paid for anything he didn't have to, and if he could con you into paying for something, he'd do it in a heartbeat.
In the US trading done by an automated computer program is illegal. Whether it should be or not I do not know. But apparently drastic market sways were once caused when computers used certain software to control sale and purchases. In order to drop the amplitude and frequency of those sways automated trading was deemed illegal.
Supposedly, yeah. But the big trading houses are doing this. There is no way a human can do millisecond trading.
Probably the real world effect of such a law is simply that the big firms must follow the law whereas individuals would probably never be noticed. But with this high speed trading even the little guys might stick out like a soar thumb.
More like, eaten alive. How many little guys you know have the computing horsepower, software, and bandwidth of one of the major trading houses? Think your 4 GHz Intel box on a cheap DSL can outthink and outmanuever a couple networked Crays on the same T3 as the Exchange? Online trading is quite simply a good way to get eaten for lunch. All it's done is supply more suckers who have NO business in the stock market their opportunity to get bankrupted. And the market is ALWAYS hungry for more suckers. It's the only legal Ponzi scheme out there.
No, this just means the data will 'disappear' into the cloud when some citizen comes walking up with a FOIA request to see the data. "Hey, all that shit got lost someplace on the net, we ain't got it!!"
If you burn it in the atmosphere you'll get all sorts of compounds you don't expect: Hydrogen monoxide, hydrogen peroxide, nitrous and nitric acids, and if there's soot in the air, CO2.
You only get the weird stuff when you burn hydrocarbons under pressure. Burn hydrocarbons without the pressure, you don't get them.
Yes. Steam engines with modern materials are surprisingly lightweight, efficient, and effective, without the complexities of the internal combustion engine.
You'll still get carbon dioxide in the 'exhaust', though not carbon monoxide or those nitrous compounds you get from an internal combustion engine's exhaust. You won't need a catalytic converter, at least.
Dr Bell said: "The service records survive because the English exchequer had a very modern obsession with wanting to be sure that the government's money was being spent as intended.
Seems that even absolute monarchies had problems with bureaucrats. Makes you wonder if the species will ever evolve past them.
Makes me wonder about the rest of the curriculum at some of these 'colleges'. Hell, I might wanna update my BA in philosgen chemistry to a PhD someday...
Yeah, it was. Problem is, they keep wanting to execute Darwin for heresy. I don't think they care if he's already dead.
But foolishly, folks, I'll be interested to see the 'intelligent design' behind this speciation. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to do some quick research to find a good pharaceutical company to invest in on Monday, as I'm sure the blood pressures of some of our more religious citizens is about to triple upon hearing this news...
So this can patch you DNA back together after it's been ripped to shreds?
Nope, but it can prevent that highly damaged cell from dying. Which is believable, unlike the zero side effect claims.
OK, so some radiation-damanged cells are gonna survive. Cancer cells are cells with damaged nuclei that get kicked into high gear and don't die easily. Howbout I don't get irradiated in the first place so I don't have to deal with possible cancers a few years down the line after taking this drug?
Think of it from the O/S world - should people be allowed to reverse engineer the cards to allow MythTV to work with a paid for Dish card?
I think so, yes. It'd be fair use until I started offering that content for download to people who haven't paid for the service. Despite what the providers would have you believe, time shifting is fair use.
Among other things, this makes piracy MUCH harder, because the sattelite providers can buy pirated receivers, take them to the lab, find out the key used, and revoke it, disabling that entire batch of pirated receivers without affecting normal customers.
Ah, but isn't said reverse engineering a violation of the DMCA itself? The pirate recievers are electronic gadgets, built by proprietary companies. If the law doesn't cut both ways, it's a bad law and needs to go.
No, that's for attempted physics, as in, "Hey, check this out!", the kind of thing they put those 'Trained Professionals. Don't try this at home!' warnings on.
Today, gold hit about $938 an ounce. A pack of Camels around here is about $6.30. You can get about 150 packs per ounce. That's liable to stay about the same ratio unless they tack on even more cigarette taxes, or seriously devalue gold.
One of the factors used in determining whether something was fair use or not is "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work".
I suspect that the defense is trying to show that the songs in question made tons of money, despite the actions of the defendant, and as such this test might favor the defendant.
I don't know whether or not this will actually *work*, mind you, but it seems to provide a handle to request such information.
Conversely, the record labels, obviously profitable, use Hollywood accounting to hide those profits. If it ever came out exactly how much cash they were hiding due to said accounting practices, their boards of directors would be headed for jail on fraud charges, tax evasion, etc. You can hide a multitude of sins under enough paperwork...
And you can bet the record labels are profitable. If they weren't the stockholders would tar and feather the board of directors and run them out of town and replace them by people who would make them prifitable. ONLY thing a corporado fears is a stockholder revolt that takes his cushy job away and makes him actually have to work for a living...
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My stupid question is, what happens when that situation happens to YOU? If it's a live and death situation and you're refused treatment you have two basic choices: Get better on your own or die.
Hookers & blow. It's obvious, they're defense contractors.
... to say "Oh, shit, there goes the neighborhood!"?
I for one found Clippy to be annoying as hell, and was DAMNED glad they killed him.
No, Wall Streeters make money by collecting commissions on shares, bonds, and futures they buy and sell for you, since Joe Sixpack isn't allowed directly into the market, and must go through a broker. When your broker advises you to dump the stuff he talked you into buying last week on somebody else's pump & dump scheme, the commissions paid on the trade just add insult to injury, and help fatten that Wall Streeter's wallet.
Um, no, that's what dividend checks are for. Course, they only make sense when you have 10's of thousands of shares in the company. A $20 dividend check doesn't mean much in the general scheme of things, a million dollar dividend check does.
Fixed that for you. I used to know a guy who was in the top 10% of the income range. How he got there was, first off, he inherited it. Second off, he never paid for anything he didn't have to, and if he could con you into paying for something, he'd do it in a heartbeat.
Supposedly, yeah. But the big trading houses are doing this. There is no way a human can do millisecond trading.
More like, eaten alive. How many little guys you know have the computing horsepower, software, and bandwidth of one of the major trading houses? Think your 4 GHz Intel box on a cheap DSL can outthink and outmanuever a couple networked Crays on the same T3 as the Exchange? Online trading is quite simply a good way to get eaten for lunch. All it's done is supply more suckers who have NO business in the stock market their opportunity to get bankrupted. And the market is ALWAYS hungry for more suckers. It's the only legal Ponzi scheme out there.
No, this just means the data will 'disappear' into the cloud when some citizen comes walking up with a FOIA request to see the data. "Hey, all that shit got lost someplace on the net, we ain't got it!!"
You only get the weird stuff when you burn hydrocarbons under pressure. Burn hydrocarbons without the pressure, you don't get them.
You'll still get carbon dioxide in the 'exhaust', though not carbon monoxide or those nitrous compounds you get from an internal combustion engine's exhaust. You won't need a catalytic converter, at least.
Seems that even absolute monarchies had problems with bureaucrats. Makes you wonder if the species will ever evolve past them.
Top of the line storage 30 years ago was 8" floppy discs and 9 track tape reels.
Makes me wonder about the rest of the curriculum at some of these 'colleges'. Hell, I might wanna update my BA in philosgen chemistry to a PhD someday...
But foolishly, folks, I'll be interested to see the 'intelligent design' behind this speciation. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to do some quick research to find a good pharaceutical company to invest in on Monday, as I'm sure the blood pressures of some of our more religious citizens is about to triple upon hearing this news...
OK, so some radiation-damanged cells are gonna survive. Cancer cells are cells with damaged nuclei that get kicked into high gear and don't die easily. Howbout I don't get irradiated in the first place so I don't have to deal with possible cancers a few years down the line after taking this drug?
Bullshit. 78's ftw. Wax cylinders are so 1906.
Oh, then just pay for it with a Visa card.
I think so, yes. It'd be fair use until I started offering that content for download to people who haven't paid for the service. Despite what the providers would have you believe, time shifting is fair use.
Ah, but isn't said reverse engineering a violation of the DMCA itself? The pirate recievers are electronic gadgets, built by proprietary companies. If the law doesn't cut both ways, it's a bad law and needs to go.
No, that's for attempted physics, as in, "Hey, check this out!", the kind of thing they put those 'Trained Professionals. Don't try this at home!' warnings on.
Wouldn't that be cool if it were? 'Unknown organic blob swims to Hollywierd, eats Time-Warner, dies of toxic shock and insulin poisoning'.
Dibs on the copyright!!! WHERE'S MY MOVIE CONTRACT??
Today, gold hit about $938 an ounce. A pack of Camels around here is about $6.30. You can get about 150 packs per ounce. That's liable to stay about the same ratio unless they tack on even more cigarette taxes, or seriously devalue gold.
You say this like that's a bad thing. If it's one step closer to destroying Hollywoood accounting, then what's the harm?
Conversely, the record labels, obviously profitable, use Hollywood accounting to hide those profits. If it ever came out exactly how much cash they were hiding due to said accounting practices, their boards of directors would be headed for jail on fraud charges, tax evasion, etc. You can hide a multitude of sins under enough paperwork...
And you can bet the record labels are profitable. If they weren't the stockholders would tar and feather the board of directors and run them out of town and replace them by people who would make them prifitable. ONLY thing a corporado fears is a stockholder revolt that takes his cushy job away and makes him actually have to work for a living...
Great. You just gave RIAA the justification to break down doors and shoot kids with computers on sight.
No kool-aid for you!