...requires the Department of Health and Human Services to certify plans and publish an annual list of Medicare-approved plans, at least one of which must be targeted to the "special needs of Medicare's highest cost seniors."
So if you are not a member of the AARP but still uninsurable, they won't lift a finger for you.
"From the ways-to-get-tackled-by-stewardesses dept."
All right, next time I fly, I'm bringing my iPad, my iPhone, and a PSP and portable DVD player that I'll borrow from somewhere else. Because some of those stewardesses are friggin' hot.
It seems as if he's advocating making fonts and such harder to read, so that we are more likely to remember what we read, regardless of whether what we are reading is some trashy novel or a manual that we need to know to save lives. This seems wrong.
I've actually read a similar conclusion elsewhere. May have been in Discover magazine, but I am not sure.
I can see a biological basis for it. The harder it was to see our earlier predators, the more important it was to actually pay attention to them. Likewise for food sources, I suppose.
So, what sort of "education" do you suppose Gulet Mohamed was seeking in Somalia at a time when numerous other Somali Americans were returning to Somalia for training in extremist Islam, terrorism, and to engage in Jihad? (A number of them became suicide bombers.) Do you have any thoughts on that?
I have some thoughts on that. My thoughts are that a person is entitled to train as a terrorist. He is entitled to read about terrorism. He is entitled to hate the U.S. He is entitled to hold an extremist position in his religion. In fact, my thoughts are that he is entitled to DO terrorism, and one he DOES terrorism, we are entitled to try him fairly, and judge him, and put him on Death Row. But until he DOES terrorism, he IS NOT a terrorist.
Cox (who was a physicist at Johns Hopkins and published his theory originally in the context of an axiomatic approach to statistical mechanics) followed by Jaynes -- with extensive examples in both algebra and human words illustrating that this is indeed how we actually think -- provide us with a semi-quantitative ordinal basis for rank-ordering our degree of belief in networks of propositions, the self-consistently best way to determine at least approximately "best belief".
Note well that what Cox and Jaynes provide are the valid metaphysical and epistemological basis for knowledge. One simply cannot do any better, given our experience.
How do you know math is true? Logic? Probability theory? Science? Algebra? Unless you have a valid metaphysical and epistemological basis for any knowledge at all, your claims are content-free verbiage. Algebra won't validate the contents of your mind without understanding why algebra is valid in the first place. That is why philosophy is essential.
Philosophy cannot prove the validity of math, logic, probability theory, or algebra. Not formally. Nothing can; Gödel seems to have made that clear.
Far too many people ignorantly block all ICMP traffic. As a result, the network path in between the two communicating hosts are forced to buffer more data as the destination host becomes saturated. Worse, this type of filtering has a tendency to quickly compound, which in turn creates the exact type of bufferbloat he's describing.
Most routers offer ICMP blocking as a security measure. Here's what mine says about it:
Computer hackers use what is known as "Pinging" to find potential victims on the Internet. By pinging a specific IP address and receiving a response from the IP address, a hacker can determine that something of interest might be there. The Router can be set up so it will not respond to an ICMP Ping from the outside. This heightens the level of security of your Router.
Why not four UTF-32/UCS-4 characters instead of four decimal numbers?
I always liked FourChar constants from Mac OS and Palm: typing 'Form' instead of 0x466F726D. But that only works for two reasons.
First, you aren't trying to make globally-unique values. You just need something likely enough to be unique on your own machine. And if it isn't, well, there are workarounds. Neither is true of Internet addresses.
Second, you get to pick the characters you use, so you can ensure it is something memorable. This is mostly not true of Internet addresses. But the bigger problem is the relative paucity of printable word values. With FourChar constants, only 2/3 of possible byte values correspond to something printable. With UTF-32 code points, the situation is much worse, because there only a vanishingly small percentage of possible 32-bit values correspond to printable Unicode characters.
You know, I've never understood why Europeans are so smug and pushy with their ideology towards Americans. I rarely hear Americans carrying on about the systems of government over there.
And people making over this are the ones that supply jobs. Increasing their taxes makes jobs scarcer.
People don't supply jobs, companies supply jobs. A business owner or CEO in the 250k bracket that has his taxes raised is not going to tell his company to hire fewer people. Why would he? The company's income is not affected in the least.
While the Demcrats do advocate social spending, it appears they actually make an effort to reduce the debt.
Um, what? Please point to one article that proves this.
The Republicans did a very good job bringing about the budget surplus we had during the Clinton years. But they screwed up during the Bush years, and during the Obama years, they've been obstructing even good ideas that Obama has put forth. (I say Obama because I haven't heard many good ideas from the Democrats in Congress.) In particular, Bush's tax cuts and the recent extension of same under Republican pressure is unquestionably bad for the United States' budget situation.
The point is that scientific theories can only be proven wrong, never right, and that's kind of the whole point of the scientific method. In fact, skepticism should be encouraged considering it's the reason we got anywhere from Newton in the first place. Flamebait is one thing but discounting people who disagree simply because they disagree is contrary to the methods of modern science.
Yes, but we are not talking scientists, here, we are talking newscasters and the public. News shows should not be presenting non-consensus alternatives to the consensus scenario, unless they say that the non-consensus alternatives are generally judged to be unlikely and dismissed. The general public should not be encouraged to be skeptical of the consensus scenario, because that scenario is the one that is most likely to be as correct as far as we can tell.
An Engineer or Programmer who doesn't have $20,000 cash (or available credit from a card, or bank loan) is a person who can't handle money.
Even if this is true... what if you can't handle money? Not everyone is thoughtful and disciplined all the time. How do they get their necessary medical care when they hadn't planned for it in advance?
Or, what if they are thoughtful and disciplined, but made an educated gamble that they don't need to worry about it yet and bought a new house instead? But then they get nailed in an explosion and need heart surgery and a new leg.
On a side note, how is the title of this slashdot summary any better than what Fox News does?
Because we all know that Slashdot summaries and especially titles are inaccurate and misleading (somewhere in the range of "mild bias" to "omg wtf it says the exact opposite"). In fact, one of the first +5 Informative posts is always a correction from someone who actually RTFA'd.
Those poor Fox News victims cannot find enlightenment through moderation like we can.
And now we're trying to save the internet so future generations can be exposed to how stupid we were.
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, thus by preserving Goatse for all time, we are preventing future generations from making their own version, which would obviously be worse than ours, 'cause them damn kids cain't do nuffin' right.
We are thinking of the children! Save Goatse — For Great Justice!
I don't know how big the plasma cloud left over from this flare is, but as for the flare itself, 700 000 km is 0.004 AUs, so it was nowhere near Earth's orbit.
Regardless of how I feel about creationism, I gotta say this sounds like a fun park. I have always wondered what Noah's Ark would actually look like. I wonder how close it is to full size?
Everytime i see the word "enemy", i think yet another life and countless other inextricably linked lives being destroyed. Talking about them, in these terms, is hard to digest. There are no winners... some are just more dead than others.
The ones that are less dead are the winners. Seriously, though, dehumanization is a big risk of combat, from what I understand. Not having been in a war myself, I can't say how avoidable or unavoidable it is -- it may not be something a soldier has a choice about if he wants to live -- so I am not prepared to criticize much, but it is probably not a good thing.
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So if you are not a member of the AARP but still uninsurable, they won't lift a finger for you.
Dammit, where's my "Like" button? Dude's already modded up to 5, can't show my appreciation that way.
(Not that we're supposed to mod on that basis, but who are we kidding here?)
"From the ways-to-get-tackled-by-stewardesses dept."
All right, next time I fly, I'm bringing my iPad, my iPhone, and a PSP and portable DVD player that I'll borrow from somewhere else. Because some of those stewardesses are friggin' hot.
I've actually read a similar conclusion elsewhere. May have been in Discover magazine, but I am not sure.
I can see a biological basis for it. The harder it was to see our earlier predators, the more important it was to actually pay attention to them. Likewise for food sources, I suppose.
+ 1 lulz
I have some thoughts on that. My thoughts are that a person is entitled to train as a terrorist. He is entitled to read about terrorism. He is entitled to hate the U.S. He is entitled to hold an extremist position in his religion. In fact, my thoughts are that he is entitled to DO terrorism, and one he DOES terrorism, we are entitled to try him fairly, and judge him, and put him on Death Row. But until he DOES terrorism, he IS NOT a terrorist.
This interested me, and I did a some browsing on the web. If you, gentle reader, want to hear RGB's reasonings in more detail, he has it posted at http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Philosophy/axioms/axioms/.
Philosophy cannot prove the validity of math, logic, probability theory, or algebra. Not formally. Nothing can; Gödel seems to have made that clear.
Well, they say the best way to learn a language is in bed...
What was his job title? I'm guessing "Analyst."
Most routers offer ICMP blocking as a security measure. Here's what mine says about it:
Computer hackers use what is known as "Pinging" to find potential victims on the Internet. By pinging a specific IP address and receiving a response from the IP address, a hacker can determine that something of interest might be there. The Router can be set up so it will not respond to an ICMP Ping from the outside. This heightens the level of security of your Router.
Based on this, of course you'd disable ICMP Ping.
I always liked FourChar constants from Mac OS and Palm: typing 'Form' instead of 0x466F726D. But that only works for two reasons.
First, you aren't trying to make globally-unique values. You just need something likely enough to be unique on your own machine. And if it isn't, well, there are workarounds. Neither is true of Internet addresses.
Second, you get to pick the characters you use, so you can ensure it is something memorable. This is mostly not true of Internet addresses. But the bigger problem is the relative paucity of printable word values. With FourChar constants, only 2/3 of possible byte values correspond to something printable. With UTF-32 code points, the situation is much worse, because there only a vanishingly small percentage of possible 32-bit values correspond to printable Unicode characters.
Im on ur lawn, browsin ur wifi
The signal is coming from inside the house!
You know, like Julian Assange used to be. Bam!
QFT (because I've no mod points)
People don't supply jobs, companies supply jobs. A business owner or CEO in the 250k bracket that has his taxes raised is not going to tell his company to hire fewer people. Why would he? The company's income is not affected in the least.
The Republicans did a very good job bringing about the budget surplus we had during the Clinton years. But they screwed up during the Bush years, and during the Obama years, they've been obstructing even good ideas that Obama has put forth. (I say Obama because I haven't heard many good ideas from the Democrats in Congress.) In particular, Bush's tax cuts and the recent extension of same under Republican pressure is unquestionably bad for the United States' budget situation.
Yes, but we are not talking scientists, here, we are talking newscasters and the public. News shows should not be presenting non-consensus alternatives to the consensus scenario, unless they say that the non-consensus alternatives are generally judged to be unlikely and dismissed. The general public should not be encouraged to be skeptical of the consensus scenario, because that scenario is the one that is most likely to be as correct as far as we can tell.
Even if this is true... what if you can't handle money? Not everyone is thoughtful and disciplined all the time. How do they get their necessary medical care when they hadn't planned for it in advance?
Or, what if they are thoughtful and disciplined, but made an educated gamble that they don't need to worry about it yet and bought a new house instead? But then they get nailed in an explosion and need heart surgery and a new leg.
Because we all know that Slashdot summaries and especially titles are inaccurate and misleading (somewhere in the range of "mild bias" to "omg wtf it says the exact opposite"). In fact, one of the first +5 Informative posts is always a correction from someone who actually RTFA'd.
Those poor Fox News victims cannot find enlightenment through moderation like we can.
The flying spaghetti monster clearly doesn't want the titanic to exist.
Well, they did serve a fancy Spaghetti Bolognese. I can see why he would be pissed.
And now we're trying to save the internet so future generations can be exposed to how stupid we were.
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, thus by preserving Goatse for all time, we are preventing future generations from making their own version, which would obviously be worse than ours, 'cause them damn kids cain't do nuffin' right.
We are thinking of the children! Save Goatse — For Great Justice!
OTP? "One True Pairing?"
I don't know how big the plasma cloud left over from this flare is, but as for the flare itself, 700 000 km is 0.004 AUs, so it was nowhere near Earth's orbit.
Regardless of how I feel about creationism, I gotta say this sounds like a fun park. I have always wondered what Noah's Ark would actually look like. I wonder how close it is to full size?
Who's with me?
Everytime i see the word "enemy", i think yet another life and countless other inextricably linked lives being destroyed. Talking about them, in these terms, is hard to digest. There are no winners... some are just more dead than others.
The ones that are less dead are the winners. Seriously, though, dehumanization is a big risk of combat, from what I understand. Not having been in a war myself, I can't say how avoidable or unavoidable it is -- it may not be something a soldier has a choice about if he wants to live -- so I am not prepared to criticize much, but it is probably not a good thing.