No one is advocating scrapping the public health system. Anyone who claims that is just fear mongering. The most anyone is advocating is a parallel private system, much like the UK, where people who can afford to can get quality care. Not only would this be more in line with a free country, it would relieve a great deal of the financial pressure on the public system.
We already have private health care for lots of things (drugs, dentists, physiotherapy, etc.). All most people want is the same freedom for primary health care.
I don't know who you think these selfish rich bastards are, but anyone who is actually rich already gets care in the US when they need it. Paul Martin, Belinda Stronach, etc.
And let us not forget that champion of the Canadian health system, Jack Layton:
Harper majority? Can you say private health care accounts? Scary times.
Yeah, it would be pretty terrible if the residents of a free country could legally spend their own money on decent health care services instead of dying on waiting lists. We must put a stop to this Harper fellow.
Of course, if you absolutely want to, Gentoo is perfectly capable of running on a server. It's just not something I would use myself, or recommend to any others. People who do so, do it because they are already Gentoo fans, not because it's the system that's arguably best for their purpose
Sometimes you want a server that is incrementally updated, instead of every few years having to upgrade _everything_. I agree it's not common, but there are good reasons to run Gentoo on a server.
It's a very deliberate design choice. One you bought into when you installed Gentoo on a server. If you don't want things to change, then obviously you should be running CentOS or something similar, where only security problems are patched.
I have one server running Gentoo, and that's on purpose, because I want it to have the latest dev toys. Everything else runs CentOS.
You can replace your ECU, and there is no BSA-equivalent to come sue you for doing so. It isn't even illegal (yet). It will void your warranty, of course...
No, they want us to change our laws so that copying anything is an imprisonable offence, regardless of whether it is for profit. Just like the US.
This is just part of their PR campaign to get a new copyright law passed in Parliament, fast, before too many real people notice what we're about to lose.
Construction workers have to work to real standards. They get paid for overtime. Their jeans usually have fewer holes. Their job tends to keep them physically fit. On the job accidents result in injuries or death. They have surprisingly little spare time to read/.... or, it seems, anything else.
The vast majority of mail servers will retry in less than an hour. Most in much less. I'll take that delay (on only the first message from a particular mail server), in exchange for a 90% spam reduction, thank you very much.
If you don't want to, then enjoy your spam. Greylisting still works quite well, although there are botnets building that maintain state to defeat it.
You cannot legally operate a car in today's society without demonstrating and gaining accreditation in the fundamentals of car operation. You need to know how to how to signal a turn, how to parallel park, what traffic signs mean. And you have to prove to the state that you know it and can operate a car competently before you're allowed on the roads.
Based on things I see on the road every day, that part of the system isn't working too well.
I actually don't think the email client should do this, as top level domains can change. However, it seems like the rejection message from the SMTP server does have some standard sections. The client COULD pick up the rejection response and present the user with a clear indication that they typed the receiving address incorrectly and some choices of how to proceed (including one that resends the same message to a different recipient).
The only widely used mail server that doesn't give this information to the user is.... Exchange. Worst pile of crap ever.
The people (and software) that send out NDR's to spam, instead of just rejecting it outright, are already busy polluting the Internet. Why would they take the time to add SPF checking to their already misconfigured systems? Hell, they'd probably send NDR's for that, too.
I don't expect *nix to be THAT easy, but it would be nice to be confident that without having a secondary PC available, a given Linux can be installed on a 1 year old or less PC in less than 10 utterances of WTF, SOAB, or MFPOS.
It can't, because the hardware manufacturers don't provide Linux drivers, or in most cases any help at all to the people who do.
So it takes time to reverse-engineer whatever it is they do, and make Linux work.
The hardware works with Windows because the hardware guys have to provide working drivers for Windows to sell any of their stuff.
Personally, I find it miraculous that Linux has as many drivers as it does. And I carefully buy motherboards with supported chipsets.
So if the Democrats ever manage to find someone worth voting for, and they become President, we can look forward to all the Republicans lining up and supporting them? Excellent.
I'm not even American, but man I want some of whatever it is you're smoking.
I agree with you to a point. However, the fact is that we cannot predict what changes will happen. When you destabilize a massive system, bad things are going to happen. There is evidence that upswings in CO2 can precede ice ages... possibly due to melting ice changing the ocean currents that keep the polar regions warmer than they would otherwise. There is a possibility of methane hydrates melting off the ocean floor and methane being released from peat in the Arctic; methane is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2 and this could cause accelerated change (or even make the atmosphere unbreathable - there are extinction events associated with rapid climate change like this).
The thing is... the Earth is fairly habitable for us as it is. Sure there are things that can improve that, but there are also a lot of things that can make it worse, and rapid, uncontrolled change is likely to bring more of the latter than the former.
Depends where you live. I grew up in Northwestern Ontario. Every winter we had at least a month or more of -30C or lower. And I mean every winter.
My parents tell me they haven't had a winter that cold in about 10 years. On Christmas this year when I was talking to them, it was barely below 0. The warmest it ever reached that time of year when I was a kid was maybe -15C.
I don't know or care why it's getting warmer (it's not a bad thing for Canada, and I can't do anything about it anyway), but it most certainly is getting warmer.
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Hey, in Canada you can be convicted of having child porn if you have pictures of "kids" that you drew yourself from your imagination.
Child porn laws have no basis in rationality.
Your country was founded* by Puritans.
Those were Puritans from _your_ country, you know, the one actually doing the "invading".
No one is advocating scrapping the public health system. Anyone who claims that is just fear mongering. The most anyone is advocating is a parallel private system, much like the UK, where people who can afford to can get quality care. Not only would this be more in line with a free country, it would relieve a great deal of the financial pressure on the public system.
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We already have private health care for lots of things (drugs, dentists, physiotherapy, etc.). All most people want is the same freedom for primary health care.
I don't know who you think these selfish rich bastards are, but anyone who is actually rich already gets care in the US when they need it. Paul Martin, Belinda Stronach, etc.
And let us not forget that champion of the Canadian health system, Jack Layton:
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.htm
Harper majority? Can you say private health care accounts? Scary times.
Yeah, it would be pretty terrible if the residents of a free country could legally spend their own money on decent health care services instead of dying on waiting lists. We must put a stop to this Harper fellow.
Please don't interfere with a good leftist rant. Nothing Stephen Harper says or does can be good. Move along now.
Of course, if you absolutely want to, Gentoo is perfectly capable of running on a server. It's just not something I would use myself, or recommend to any others. People who do so, do it because they are already Gentoo fans, not because it's the system that's arguably best for their purpose
Sometimes you want a server that is incrementally updated, instead of every few years having to upgrade _everything_. I agree it's not common, but there are good reasons to run Gentoo on a server.
The hardened profile is another.
It's a very deliberate design choice. One you bought into when you installed Gentoo on a server. If you don't want things to change, then obviously you should be running CentOS or something similar, where only security problems are patched.
I have one server running Gentoo, and that's on purpose, because I want it to have the latest dev toys. Everything else runs CentOS.
You can replace your ECU, and there is no BSA-equivalent to come sue you for doing so. It isn't even illegal (yet). It will void your warranty, of course ...
What UK law allows any use of force by private organisations in civil cases?
None. They bring the sheriffs to handle that for them.
Well, the biggest sources of spam are the US and China. Give me a shout when the UN finally lets you back on the Internet.
No, they want us to change our laws so that copying anything is an imprisonable offence, regardless of whether it is for profit. Just like the US.
This is just part of their PR campaign to get a new copyright law passed in Parliament, fast, before too many real people notice what we're about to lose.
Construction workers have to work to real standards. /. ... or, it seems, anything else.
They get paid for overtime.
Their jeans usually have fewer holes.
Their job tends to keep them physically fit.
On the job accidents result in injuries or death.
They have surprisingly little spare time to read
The vast majority of spam is illegal in the US. Try finding a cop or prosecutor able and willing to do anything about it, though.
The vast majority of mail servers will retry in less than an hour. Most in much less. I'll take that delay (on only the first message from a particular mail server), in exchange for a 90% spam reduction, thank you very much.
If you don't want to, then enjoy your spam. Greylisting still works quite well, although there are botnets building that maintain state to defeat it.
You cannot legally operate a car in today's society without demonstrating and gaining accreditation in the fundamentals of car operation. You need to know how to how to signal a turn, how to parallel park, what traffic signs mean. And you have to prove to the state that you know it and can operate a car competently before you're allowed on the roads.
Based on things I see on the road every day, that part of the system isn't working too well.
I actually don't think the email client should do this, as top level domains can change. However, it seems like the rejection message from the SMTP server does have some standard sections. The client COULD pick up the rejection response and present the user with a clear indication that they typed the receiving address incorrectly and some choices of how to proceed (including one that resends the same message to a different recipient).
.... Exchange. Worst pile of crap ever.
The only widely used mail server that doesn't give this information to the user is
About 25% of the US prison population is in for drug crimes, according to a 2004 study, anyway. That percentage is slowly increasing.
The people (and software) that send out NDR's to spam, instead of just rejecting it outright, are already busy polluting the Internet. Why would they take the time to add SPF checking to their already misconfigured systems? Hell, they'd probably send NDR's for that, too.
I don't expect *nix to be THAT easy, but it would be nice to be confident that without having a secondary PC available, a given Linux can be installed on a 1 year old or less PC in less than 10 utterances of WTF, SOAB, or MFPOS.
It can't, because the hardware manufacturers don't provide Linux drivers, or in most cases any help at all to the people who do.
So it takes time to reverse-engineer whatever it is they do, and make Linux work.
The hardware works with Windows because the hardware guys have to provide working drivers for Windows to sell any of their stuff.
Personally, I find it miraculous that Linux has as many drivers as it does. And I carefully buy motherboards with supported chipsets.
So if the Democrats ever manage to find someone worth voting for, and they become President, we can look forward to all the Republicans lining up and supporting them? Excellent.
I'm not even American, but man I want some of whatever it is you're smoking.
I agree with you to a point. However, the fact is that we cannot predict what changes will happen. When you destabilize a massive system, bad things are going to happen. There is evidence that upswings in CO2 can precede ice ages ... possibly due to melting ice changing the ocean currents that keep the polar regions warmer than they would otherwise. There is a possibility of methane hydrates melting off the ocean floor and methane being released from peat in the Arctic; methane is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2 and this could cause accelerated change (or even make the atmosphere unbreathable - there are extinction events associated with rapid climate change like this).
... the Earth is fairly habitable for us as it is. Sure there are things that can improve that, but there are also a lot of things that can make it worse, and rapid, uncontrolled change is likely to bring more of the latter than the former.
The thing is
Depends where you live. I grew up in Northwestern Ontario. Every winter we had at least a month or more of -30C or lower. And I mean every winter.
My parents tell me they haven't had a winter that cold in about 10 years. On Christmas this year when I was talking to them, it was barely below 0. The warmest it ever reached that time of year when I was a kid was maybe -15C.
I don't know or care why it's getting warmer (it's not a bad thing for Canada, and I can't do anything about it anyway), but it most certainly is getting warmer.
The only people having their records "ploughed through" are those who are suspects.
All 22 million of them.
Why would they? I don't even need SORBS to tell me that reverse addresses with dotted quads in them are block-on-sight.
The reason that the Republicans don't turn on him publicly is that they have some semblance of respect for the office of the presidency
Yeah, I took note of that respect during the Clinton years. Good job.