It's sad to hear this news even if I stopped reading somewhere in book 10 because it just got too boring and drawn out. I have always wondered how it will end.
You have a right to your own life, but that right is not a blank check to force others to provide for your survival
So what you are saying is if I am dying of cancer and work at a job that doesn't offer me (or offers me unaffordable) health insurance I am shit out of luck because you don't want to help chip in for the costs so you can buy a bigger house or get a new S.U.V.?
To use government to force a company to provide a new drug at a discounted rate is a violation of rights. To use government to force a doctor to treat you at a fixed cost is a violation of rights. To use government to tax others to pay for the values needed for your own survival is a violation of rights.
Could you possibly point out these rights for those of us who are skeptics?
I can't remember where in the Constitution it gives corporations the right to anything.
I do recall in another document that I have to right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Probably in that order. What you are saying is that it is more important for you to have lots of money to buy useless stuff instead of everyone being healthy.
and [government] has absolutely *wrecked* the health care market, driving costs higher and higher
Really, because I thought it was the corporations trying to increase their pockets with as much money as possible. How is the government driving the costs higher and higher? IIRC the US has by far the most expensive health-care system in the world. It's not even ran by the government!
Have you ever gone to the library or had to use the services of a fire department? Those are paid for by tax dollars and they seem to work fine. Imagine if your house was burning down and the fire department wouldn't put it out because you couldn't pay to have it done.
Maybe if people would stop being so damned greedy and realize there's more to life than just making money things would go better for all of us.
PS - for all you Christians (like me) who agree with the poster: Guess What! God is a socialist!!!
Generally speaking, the hardware is most computers doesn't change very often. How often does the average computer user change hardware? Perhaps, boot time could be saved by having the BIOS detect the hardware once and say having you reset a jumper to tell the BIOS to rescan the hardware because you've made a change? That way it won't have to look for all the hardware all the time. It could also pass this info on to the operating system there by increasing the boot time so the OS doesn't have to search for hardware.
I've been blind in my left eye since birth also (glaucoma). Aside from a big gaping blind spot, it's not that bad. However, I wonder why scientist types only seem to research on blindness caused by degeneration or other failing parts. What about those of us who have damaged optic nerves? I would give my left nut just be be able to see a tiny amount of light out of my eye.
I agree with the parent. I grew up watching TNG and I loved it. (not a big Voyager/DS9 fan) I know there is better sci-fi with deeper meaning. I started reading Heinlein when I was 16, I'm totally different because of it.
Now that TNG is on Spike every day I DVR it and watch it whenever I want.
I can't understand people who would fall for that, entering credit card info on a non-secure connection is one thing. But who thinks you can really get a Schedule IV controlled drug w/o a prescription?!
relative when you're dealing with terabytes of data
They should be recompressing all those movies to Xvid, then they wouldnt have that bandwidth issue.
I mean isn't that what you would do if you had a network dedicated to "research"?
(the above post was meant to be humorous, not trollish)
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I had thought about how something like this would be possible; imagine how much you could save on heating and air-conditioning if you replaced windows with something like this. yes, it would look wierd, but cost in energy saving might make it practical.
Think of what it could do to bill-boards, just drive down a road and see some words apparently floating in mid-air. Creepy, but cool.
No. No. No. No. I'm sick of these "implied contracts" that we've all supposedly agreed to without having seen.
Just because you haven't seen them and don't like them doesn't mean that they aren't there. When you buy a ticket the theater is obliged to show you a movie at that time, and you agree to watch it at that time. Sure you can goof off if you want as long as no one else is going to be disturbed. The point is that it is an impiled contract that the theater will show you the movie at that time and that's when you can watch it.
I have yet to sign a contract regarding my rights to use a ticket, or DVD, or piece of software that I've purchased. Give me a piece of paper with clear terms and a signature line, and I'll be willing to admit that I have a business relationship with the entity I'm buying a product from.
First, you are a consumer, you don't have a "business relationship" with any "entity". Second, as with the ticket, if you buy a DVD you recieve a license to view the DVD privately in your home. It is clearly stated in the beginning of most DVDs. If you don't agree to it return the DVD and don't watch it.
I don't want to piss you off but what I'm saying is that you can't pretend that implied contracts are not real and therefore do not apply to you.
As a practicing physician, you are guaranteed a fresh supply of sick people that need to be treated, and hospitals and HMOs can't go and "outsource" their physicians abroad
I must live in soviet russia because the city I live in seems to be filled with M.D.'s who are Indian. I guess since they cant offshore the patients, they're sending the doctors to us.
All I know is I'm a sophmore in college and am trying to figure out what to change my major to from CS.
Unix admins are more expensive than Windows admins, although they generally have a much higher skill level. Maybe as Linux penetrates the market, this will equalize (both in cost and skill level).
I always laugh at the "windows staff is cheaper" stuff. I seriously can't believe the number of people who buy this. It's so blatently obvious that windows staff is cheap. Supply and demand IMHO. More companies use windows so there is more of a need for windows techs, and dare i admit it, there is not much need for skill in the windows market. I know how to stuff ranging from the mundane to the administering on both windows and linux, and even though I think linux is more powerful and practical, many tasks are easier to do on windows. But what do you expect?
I really laugh at the number of people who use windows and think they are getting a deal when they could be using linux or another open source alternative instead. I'm certain that if linux got more advertising it would totally stomp windows in the business market. Do we reall want IBM marketing linux? Look what happened to OS/2.
The booth monitors in out booth have headphone jacks, god only knows why, they can be loud enough when turned all the way up. Even if the glass is transparent, the main problem is the camera recording at 29.97 fps and the movie being shown at 25 fps. Unless you do a 3:2 pulldown there will be flicker and strobe effects. You would think people who deal with video would know this!
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If I were president, I'd eat peaches. Millions of peaches! That would help the economy by creating new jobs in the peach canning industry. :P
Wouldn't it be cheaper to equip these planes flare systems?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flare_(countermeasure)
For more information see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_countermeasures
Seriously though, what a waste of money!
Just an FYI from the FAQ at Dragonmount: http://www.dragonmount.com/Faq/index.php?action=artikel&cat=2&id=4&artlang=en
It's sad to hear this news even if I stopped reading somewhere in book 10 because it just got too boring and drawn out. I have always wondered how it will end.
Or you could just tune your shortwave radio to 2.5, 5, or 10 MHz, and get the same thing.
You do have a shortwave radio don't you?
You have a right to your own life, but that right is not a blank check to force others to provide for your survival
So what you are saying is if I am dying of cancer and work at a job that doesn't offer me (or offers me unaffordable) health insurance I am shit out of luck because you don't want to help chip in for the costs so you can buy a bigger house or get a new S.U.V.?
To use government to force a company to provide a new drug at a discounted rate is a violation of rights. To use government to force a doctor to treat you at a fixed cost is a violation of rights. To use government to tax others to pay for the values needed for your own survival is a violation of rights. Could you possibly point out these rights for those of us who are skeptics?
I can't remember where in the Constitution it gives corporations the right to anything.
I do recall in another document that I have to right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Probably in that order. What you are saying is that it is more important for you to have lots of money to buy useless stuff instead of everyone being healthy.
and [government] has absolutely *wrecked* the health care market, driving costs higher and higher
Really, because I thought it was the corporations trying to increase their pockets with as much money as possible. How is the government driving the costs higher and higher? IIRC the US has by far the most expensive health-care system in the world. It's not even ran by the government!
Have you ever gone to the library or had to use the services of a fire department? Those are paid for by tax dollars and they seem to work fine. Imagine if your house was burning down and the fire department wouldn't put it out because you couldn't pay to have it done.
Maybe if people would stop being so damned greedy and realize there's more to life than just making money things would go better for all of us.
PS - for all you Christians (like me) who agree with the poster: Guess What! God is a socialist!!!
Didn't they do something like this in MadMax Beyond Thunderdome?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089530/ But with pigs?
Generally speaking, the hardware is most computers doesn't change very often. How often does the average computer user change hardware? Perhaps, boot time could be saved by having the BIOS detect the hardware once and say having you reset a jumper to tell the BIOS to rescan the hardware because you've made a change? That way it won't have to look for all the hardware all the time. It could also pass this info on to the operating system there by increasing the boot time so the OS doesn't have to search for hardware.
Just a thought...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopatch
Bascially, you can hook a repeater up to a phone line.
I've been blind in my left eye since birth also (glaucoma). Aside from a big gaping blind spot, it's not that bad. However, I wonder why scientist types only seem to research on blindness caused by degeneration or other failing parts. What about those of us who have damaged optic nerves? I would give my left nut just be be able to see a tiny amount of light out of my eye.
I agree with the parent. I grew up watching TNG and I loved it. (not a big Voyager/DS9 fan) I know there is better sci-fi with deeper meaning. I started reading Heinlein when I was 16, I'm totally different because of it.
Now that TNG is on Spike every day I DVR it and watch it whenever I want.
How has the parent not been modded up?
If I had mod points you would get them.
Offtopic but I have to say it.
I feel America's DARE program needs to be replaced by having kids watch Requiem for a Dream. They'll never do drugs.
And what is sexual behavior but the most intriguing pattern of all?
Apparently he never saw Pi.
Offtopic yes, but I just have to comment.
I can't understand people who would fall for that, entering credit card info on a non-secure connection is one thing.
But who thinks you can really get a Schedule IV controlled drug w/o a prescription?!
Hancock shows massive evidence for the existence of pre-ice age civilization. To those who just blow this sort of thing off as crap all I can say is read it and look at the evidence. Perhaps this global flood was caused by the melting of ice at the end of the last Ice-Age.
relative when you're dealing with terabytes of data
They should be recompressing all those movies to Xvid, then they wouldnt have that bandwidth issue. I mean isn't that what you would do if you had a network dedicated to "research"? (the above post was meant to be humorous, not trollish)
This actually happened near where I live
As I recall, in colonial times, Sam Adams was notorious for breweing really bad beer.
I had thought about how something like this would be possible; imagine how much you could save on heating and air-conditioning if you replaced windows with something like this. yes, it would look wierd, but cost in energy saving might make it practical. Think of what it could do to bill-boards, just drive down a road and see some words apparently floating in mid-air. Creepy, but cool.
No. No. No. No. I'm sick of these "implied contracts" that we've all supposedly agreed to without having seen.
Just because you haven't seen them and don't like them doesn't mean that they aren't there. When you buy a ticket the theater is obliged to show you a movie at that time, and you agree to watch it at that time. Sure you can goof off if you want as long as no one else is going to be disturbed. The point is that it is an impiled contract that the theater will show you the movie at that time and that's when you can watch it.
I have yet to sign a contract regarding my rights to use a ticket, or DVD, or piece of software that I've purchased. Give me a piece of paper with clear terms and a signature line, and I'll be willing to admit that I have a business relationship with the entity I'm buying a product from.
First, you are a consumer, you don't have a "business relationship" with any "entity". Second, as with the ticket, if you buy a DVD you recieve a license to view the DVD privately in your home. It is clearly stated in the beginning of most DVDs. If you don't agree to it return the DVD and don't watch it.
I don't want to piss you off but what I'm saying is that you can't pretend that implied contracts are not real and therefore do not apply to you.
Should anyone still be confused on how these devices work...
This should clear it up for you
As a practicing physician, you are guaranteed a fresh supply of sick people that need to be treated, and hospitals and HMOs can't go and "outsource" their physicians abroad
I must live in soviet russia because the city I live in seems to be filled with M.D.'s who are Indian. I guess since they cant offshore the patients, they're sending the doctors to us.
All I know is I'm a sophmore in college and am trying to figure out what to change my major to from CS.
Unix admins are more expensive than Windows admins, although they generally have a much higher skill level. Maybe as Linux penetrates the market, this will equalize (both in cost and skill level).
I always laugh at the "windows staff is cheaper" stuff. I seriously can't believe the number of people who buy this. It's so blatently obvious that windows staff is cheap. Supply and demand IMHO. More companies use windows so there is more of a need for windows techs, and dare i admit it, there is not much need for skill in the windows market. I know how to stuff ranging from the mundane to the administering on both windows and linux, and even though I think linux is more powerful and practical, many tasks are easier to do on windows. But what do you expect?
I really laugh at the number of people who use windows and think they are getting a deal when they could be using linux or another open source alternative instead. I'm certain that if linux got more advertising it would totally stomp windows in the business market. Do we reall want IBM marketing linux? Look what happened to OS/2.
Even if you could buy one can you imagine how much shipping 5 tons of freight from Japan would be?
The booth monitors in out booth have headphone jacks, god only knows why, they can be loud enough when turned all the way up.
Even if the glass is transparent, the main problem is the camera recording at 29.97 fps and the movie being shown at 25 fps. Unless you do a 3:2 pulldown there will be flicker and strobe effects. You would think people who deal with video would know this!