"Maybe, just maybe, Healthcare reform is something that needs to be implemented over the objections of a majority?"
Replace the words healthcare reform with ACTA and reread that. Do you still like what you said? The argument that you made for one is the same that I could make for the other.
That's all well good and but I still don't find anything in law to support the Federal Government forcing me into a relationship with a private company for the privilege of existing. It was an EXTREMELY foolhardy action to take.
They should have gone with a public option and been done with it.
Also, we didn't get "Health Care Reform" no matter what liar it is that told you that. What we got was "Health Insurance Company bailout". If you owned a company wouldn't you love it if the Federal Government would, with the stroke of it's pen, force another 33 million customers into your arms?
Perhaps what you're describing is how many people use Facebook, and perhaps that's just how you envision all users using Facebook.
My family uses it somewhat differently. It's an excellent way to share pictures, stay involved with each others lives by sharing highlights (and lowlights) of what's happening, and just generally be social with each other. I also communicate with my brother who is stationed in Iraq. The soccer team my son plays on uses it much the same way. It's an ad-hoc way to share pictures, distribute information on when the next practice is, where everyone is staying for the next tournament, etc.
Just because you're angry at the kids on your lawn with bicycles doesn't mean us whippersnappers, I'm 38, haven't figured out a thing or two about convenient communications.
My son is in 4th grade and they studied fractions earlier in the year. They also covered basic Algebra and are now into what I would call beginners Geometry. Acute, Obtuse, calculate one side knowing the other two, etc...
70 years ago a bear came down from the hills and a large number of children. The people of the town bought an automatic defense system to keep the bear from coming down and eating any more children. A bear hasn't been in the town now for seven decades and the children have been safe from bear attacks.
Is it safe to stop worrying about the bears? Can we assume that the bear is dead and that we no longer have to protect against attack?
This phone has 4G AND a front facing camera. That has solved two of the three challanges. Depending on the efficiency of the 4G chipset they may have solved all three. We won't know until this summer.
I'm flabbergasted at your stories about the reactions to Obama's election!
I'm located in Central Wyoming, not precisely a known bastion for clear, or even liberal, thinking and I didn't see a single reaction like what you describe.
Yes there was lots of dark muttering. Yes there were lots of nutjobs writing "Letters to the Editor" in the paper. I'm a consultant so I'm a lot offices, typically medical, throughout the day and I can honestly say I didn't see this reaction anywhere that I went.
I have heard stories but reactions like what you describe but I had assumed they were exaggerations. No one is really that stupid, are they?
School is about academics, not sport. Your ability to hit a baseball or punt a soccer ball will likely have very little bearing on your future. Your ability to properly cogitate has almost everything to do with your future.
Sport is excellent and has many benefits for the young, and the old, but it is NOT the primary reason for schooling.
What is with the "For the Americans" line? I'm insulted. Most Americans would be perfectly capable of understanding the issue from your first paragraph. My fellow countrymen don't lack understanding, they just don't care.
Anyway, I'm sure there's far more people in China that would need a simplified explanation than there are people in America who do.
"Most of the TFT LCDs used in portable devices and computer monitors need a continuous refresh. The driving voltage determines the transmittance of the liquid crystal."
Of course I could have used the word "flicker" which would have been a more accurate way of describing the problem.
"...while nearly all LCD backlights (most notably fluorescent cathodes, which commonly operate at ~200 Hz) have a separate figure known as flicker, which describes how many times a second the backlight pulses on and off."
So the backlight "flickers" on and off. It's not a constant emission source.
No my eyes can't tell the difference between a reflected and emitted photon. They can however tell the difference between a static image and one that's refreshing 60 to 75 time per second.
Eyes are funny and very personal things. At 38 I don't wear glasses, I have an annual eye checkup and I don't need them but I do have some particular quirks with my vision. For instance the refresh rates of an LCD flat panel gives me headaches after sufficient time and I can't read in a car without getting motion sick. On the upside my night vision is so superior that few believe it. Not only can I see in lower light conditions but my eyes can go from strong light to see in the dark in about 90 seconds flat. Most people take upwards of 5 minutes for this transition and some people take 20. My depth perception is also better than average, however I have real issues with strong sunlight. I pretty much have to wear quality sunglasses when I go outside and this seems to be getting worse as I get older.
Your eyes are likely at better at some other things, maybe you've got less sensitivity to refresh rate for instance. Perhaps you can focus to a finer detail than I can or maybe you have more "zoom" than I do. Who knows?
What I do know is that to casually dismiss how someone else's body works is incorrect. For me an e-paper display is much better for long reading sessions than any monitor I have ever come across, no matter how much I fiddle with it's settings.
I register as a Republican and self identify as a Libertarian. I dislike this bill because it's crap.
The only thing we should be talking about is how we're going to fund the "Public Option" that starts 1/1/2011.
For me it's a business issue. We can't continue to saddle our companies, and workers, with our tremendously high health care costs and expect them to remain competitive with other 1st world nations...all of whom have publically funded health care.
The "reform" needs to be scrapped and they need to start over with how to pay for the public option being the ONLY discussion. Period.
I had a 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP. When I traded it last year at eight years old it had zero rust. The 3.8 Liter supercharged V6 had more oomph than most drivers know what to do with and the only problem I had was a failed fuel injector (one) at approximately 120,000 miles. Oh, and a recall for a leaking valve cover gasket.
I feel that I had a GM car with excellent corrosion resistance and a BETTER than "decent" engine. I also had trick goodies like a power sunroof, heated leather seats, and steering wheel controls for the factory Bose stereo. All of that and 30+ MPG on the highway with enough power to pull the paint off most Honda, Toyota, and Kia automobiles.
I had one of these in my 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP. When I first got the car I thought it was neat but gimmicky. I traded my GP for an Audi A4 late last year and I find that I miss the HUD in my GP terribly.
Why? Because of the functionality of it. In my GP's HUD I could see my speed, radio station, system messages, and other informaiton like low fuel without having to take my eyes from the road. It was very functional and it was a feature that I appreciated having.
Don't knock the functionality of a HUD until you've spent a lot of time driving a car equipped with one.
There's a lot of packing plants in the midwest that used to provide men a living wage for their families. Those guys are almost all gone and in their place are 30 guys named Jesus who all share the same social security number.
American citizens had those jobs and DID those jobs for years and years. It wasn't until outfits like Hormel, IBP, and other found it was cheaper to higher the Hispanics that supposedly no one wanted them.
I'd posit that this is true for MANY of these jobs that Americans supposedly don't want.
You just broke the needle off of my bullshit meter. There is so much unarguable evidence of SERIOUS problems with illegal immigration that I can't believe that ignoramus like you still exist.
How would like your house shot up by those "non-problem" illegal immigrants? Perhaps 30 rounds or so from an AK47 that are directed at YOUR family would change your mind?
There's thousands of stories just like those. I personally know people who are leaving the border areas because they can no longer deal with the crime and violence that these "non-problem" Hispanic immigrants bring with them. What planet do you live on that you don't know anything about this?
My family immigrated to the United States from Germany following WWII. My father was the first in his family born in the United States. Growing up around his family I spoke German before I spoke English. In all I'm at least somewhat familiar with and sympathetic to the plight of immigrants and those wanting to come here.
This wave of illegal immigrants from south of the border is nothing like the legal immigration from Europe and Asia. They bring with them violence, crime, and diseases that were eradicated from our country decades ago.
I have no problem with legal immigration from any area of the world but ILLEGAL immigration is a real problem and head in the sand people like you aren't helping.
P.S. If you really want to hear a rant let me put you in touch with some friends of mine that are Russian immigrants from the 80s. They are unbelievably pissed off about the situation. They got here with no English language and no money and have worked their assess of for more than two decades to get the things that are almost handed to the Hispanics. You can argue with them if you'd like but they're going to own your seemingly ignorant ass.
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"Maybe, just maybe, Healthcare reform is something that needs to be implemented over the objections of a majority?"
Replace the words healthcare reform with ACTA and reread that. Do you still like what you said? The argument that you made for one is the same that I could make for the other.
That's all well good and but I still don't find anything in law to support the Federal Government forcing me into a relationship with a private company for the privilege of existing. It was an EXTREMELY foolhardy action to take.
They should have gone with a public option and been done with it.
Also, we didn't get "Health Care Reform" no matter what liar it is that told you that. What we got was "Health Insurance Company bailout". If you owned a company wouldn't you love it if the Federal Government would, with the stroke of it's pen, force another 33 million customers into your arms?
That's a nice diatribe, wrong, but nice.
Perhaps what you're describing is how many people use Facebook, and perhaps that's just how you envision all users using Facebook.
My family uses it somewhat differently. It's an excellent way to share pictures, stay involved with each others lives by sharing highlights (and lowlights) of what's happening, and just generally be social with each other. I also communicate with my brother who is stationed in Iraq. The soccer team my son plays on uses it much the same way. It's an ad-hoc way to share pictures, distribute information on when the next practice is, where everyone is staying for the next tournament, etc.
Just because you're angry at the kids on your lawn with bicycles doesn't mean us whippersnappers, I'm 38, haven't figured out a thing or two about convenient communications.
Yup, we do.
Here's one from last year.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10268282-38.html
Why should they use their own bootstraps when there's so many bootstraps lying around that are attached to dumb Americans?
My son is in 4th grade and they studied fractions earlier in the year. They also covered basic Algebra and are now into what I would call beginners Geometry. Acute, Obtuse, calculate one side knowing the other two, etc...
This is at a public school.
70 years ago a bear came down from the hills and a large number of children. The people of the town bought an automatic defense system to keep the bear from coming down and eating any more children. A bear hasn't been in the town now for seven decades and the children have been safe from bear attacks.
Is it safe to stop worrying about the bears? Can we assume that the bear is dead and that we no longer have to protect against attack?
Danica Patrick has a bra size of roughly 32B. That's hardly "big breasted" ;-)
Bandwidth, form factory, and battery life.
This phone has 4G AND a front facing camera. That has solved two of the three challanges. Depending on the efficiency of the 4G chipset they may have solved all three. We won't know until this summer.
I didn't realize that this was a Motorola product!
It's possible that the volume of registrations would fall low enough that they wouldn't make any money by continuing to do business there.
You think it's likely that Apple will just pay? I think Nokia would disagree with you on that.
W.T.F.?
I'm flabbergasted at your stories about the reactions to Obama's election!
I'm located in Central Wyoming, not precisely a known bastion for clear, or even liberal, thinking and I didn't see a single reaction like what you describe.
Yes there was lots of dark muttering. Yes there were lots of nutjobs writing "Letters to the Editor" in the paper. I'm a consultant so I'm a lot offices, typically medical, throughout the day and I can honestly say I didn't see this reaction anywhere that I went.
I have heard stories but reactions like what you describe but I had assumed they were exaggerations. No one is really that stupid, are they?
School is about academics, not sport. Your ability to hit a baseball or punt a soccer ball will likely have very little bearing on your future. Your ability to properly cogitate has almost everything to do with your future.
Sport is excellent and has many benefits for the young, and the old, but it is NOT the primary reason for schooling.
The computer is at the mall?
Yes China owns billions. So do the Japanese.
The threat of China melting down our economy is drastically over rated.
What is with the "For the Americans" line? I'm insulted. Most Americans would be perfectly capable of understanding the issue from your first paragraph. My fellow countrymen don't lack understanding, they just don't care.
Anyway, I'm sure there's far more people in China that would need a simplified explanation than there are people in America who do.
From you link:
"Most of the TFT LCDs used in portable devices and computer monitors need a continuous refresh. The driving voltage determines the transmittance of the liquid crystal."
Of course I could have used the word "flicker" which would have been a more accurate way of describing the problem.
"...while nearly all LCD backlights (most notably fluorescent cathodes, which commonly operate at ~200 Hz) have a separate figure known as flicker, which describes how many times a second the backlight pulses on and off."
So the backlight "flickers" on and off. It's not a constant emission source.
You were saying something about "hypochondria"?
No my eyes can't tell the difference between a reflected and emitted photon. They can however tell the difference between a static image and one that's refreshing 60 to 75 time per second.
Eyes are funny and very personal things. At 38 I don't wear glasses, I have an annual eye checkup and I don't need them but I do have some particular quirks with my vision. For instance the refresh rates of an LCD flat panel gives me headaches after sufficient time and I can't read in a car without getting motion sick. On the upside my night vision is so superior that few believe it. Not only can I see in lower light conditions but my eyes can go from strong light to see in the dark in about 90 seconds flat. Most people take upwards of 5 minutes for this transition and some people take 20. My depth perception is also better than average, however I have real issues with strong sunlight. I pretty much have to wear quality sunglasses when I go outside and this seems to be getting worse as I get older.
Your eyes are likely at better at some other things, maybe you've got less sensitivity to refresh rate for instance. Perhaps you can focus to a finer detail than I can or maybe you have more "zoom" than I do. Who knows?
What I do know is that to casually dismiss how someone else's body works is incorrect. For me an e-paper display is much better for long reading sessions than any monitor I have ever come across, no matter how much I fiddle with it's settings.
Hype?
I own a Kindle 2 and for several hours of reading there's no contest between it and any computer screen I've ever seen. The Kindle wins hands down.
That's not hype, that's personal experience.
I register as a Republican and self identify as a Libertarian. I dislike this bill because it's crap.
The only thing we should be talking about is how we're going to fund the "Public Option" that starts 1/1/2011.
For me it's a business issue. We can't continue to saddle our companies, and workers, with our tremendously high health care costs and expect them to remain competitive with other 1st world nations...all of whom have publically funded health care.
The "reform" needs to be scrapped and they need to start over with how to pay for the public option being the ONLY discussion. Period.
I'm confused by a couple of your comments.
I had a 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP. When I traded it last year at eight years old it had zero rust. The 3.8 Liter supercharged V6 had more oomph than most drivers know what to do with and the only problem I had was a failed fuel injector (one) at approximately 120,000 miles. Oh, and a recall for a leaking valve cover gasket.
I feel that I had a GM car with excellent corrosion resistance and a BETTER than "decent" engine. I also had trick goodies like a power sunroof, heated leather seats, and steering wheel controls for the factory Bose stereo. All of that and 30+ MPG on the highway with enough power to pull the paint off most Honda, Toyota, and Kia automobiles.
A word about HUD.
I had one of these in my 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP. When I first got the car I thought it was neat but gimmicky. I traded my GP for an Audi A4 late last year and I find that I miss the HUD in my GP terribly.
Why? Because of the functionality of it. In my GP's HUD I could see my speed, radio station, system messages, and other informaiton like low fuel without having to take my eyes from the road. It was very functional and it was a feature that I appreciated having.
Don't knock the functionality of a HUD until you've spent a lot of time driving a car equipped with one.
There's a lot of packing plants in the midwest that used to provide men a living wage for their families. Those guys are almost all gone and in their place are 30 guys named Jesus who all share the same social security number.
American citizens had those jobs and DID those jobs for years and years. It wasn't until outfits like Hormel, IBP, and other found it was cheaper to higher the Hispanics that supposedly no one wanted them.
I'd posit that this is true for MANY of these jobs that Americans supposedly don't want.
Worry about non-problems?
You just broke the needle off of my bullshit meter. There is so much unarguable evidence of SERIOUS problems with illegal immigration that I can't believe that ignoramus like you still exist.
How would like your house shot up by those "non-problem" illegal immigrants? Perhaps 30 rounds or so from an AK47 that are directed at YOUR family would change your mind?
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-17332392_ITM
There's thousands of stories just like those. I personally know people who are leaving the border areas because they can no longer deal with the crime and violence that these "non-problem" Hispanic immigrants bring with them. What planet do you live on that you don't know anything about this?
My family immigrated to the United States from Germany following WWII. My father was the first in his family born in the United States. Growing up around his family I spoke German before I spoke English. In all I'm at least somewhat familiar with and sympathetic to the plight of immigrants and those wanting to come here.
This wave of illegal immigrants from south of the border is nothing like the legal immigration from Europe and Asia. They bring with them violence, crime, and diseases that were eradicated from our country decades ago.
I have no problem with legal immigration from any area of the world but ILLEGAL immigration is a real problem and head in the sand people like you aren't helping.
P.S. If you really want to hear a rant let me put you in touch with some friends of mine that are Russian immigrants from the 80s. They are unbelievably pissed off about the situation. They got here with no English language and no money and have worked their assess of for more than two decades to get the things that are almost handed to the Hispanics. You can argue with them if you'd like but they're going to own your seemingly ignorant ass.