That's because you're an idiot. You don't need to log out and log in as administrator! You use runas you dip shit! You're ignorance would be the same if somebody said they had to log out and back into Linux because they didn't know/hear about sudo. Just because you're an idiot doesn't mean that everybody's an idiot!
If you can get everybody to agree to change the clocks for DST why can't they just agree to change their frame of reference all at the same time? Leave the damn clocks alone.
Of course I'm here in Phoenix, AZ and we do leave the clocks alone and guess what? I don't miss a thing. The only problem is that everybody else changes their clocks!!!!
OK, I'll bite. Yes people that beat their wives deserve to live. Why? well because beating your wive is not a capital offense. So there. Even the law agrees with me. We do not kill people for beating their wives. Killing their wives? That's a totally different subject. And, BTW, it really doesn't matter if it is their wives, children, neighbors or strangers in a bar. Physical violence is physical violence and we already have laws regarding it. And the penalties do not involve capital punishment for such offenses. So your question/assertion is stupid!
Yes emotion is a human trait. But logic is the kingpin. A totally emotional and devoid of logic person is the kind of person you meet in insane asylums. Now I know that's where you like to hang out but still - most of us here in the real world are rational beings...
And there's a big difference between "you think it's OK to beat your wife" and "you think such people should be murdered by the state".
Hmmm... The George Bush thing... What's the Usenet law that says that arguments eventually boil down to some non-related thing about Hitler? I forget it. Seems to me like we can now officially substitute "George Bush" with "Hitler"... And/or perhaps 9/11 truthers/government conspiracy theories...
You're buying into the assumption that she was intelligent and successful. Many "doctors" in Russia are no where near as well paid, well respected or intelligent as in the US. And indeed there is at least some evidence that she may not be all that as the media portrayed her. Remember Hans met her when she was working *as an interpreter for a dating service*. Now I ask you, how many smart, intelligent female doctors making a good living stoop down and take a second job to be an interpreter? Answer is not many if any.
No it's extremely difficult to check if somebody has left the country. That's why we have 12 million illegal immigrants. It's hard to check if they are here or if they left.
He should never had been arrested because he violated no law. If he shouldn't have been arrested then how could he be resisting arrest. People are supposed to have free speech in this country. He asked 2 more questions than was allowed by the rules (rules - not laws mind you). An easy, non-violent way to handle such a violation would be to answer one question then admonish him for asking 2 additional questions and tell him you will not answer them and next time pay attention to the rules! Done. No arguments, no tasers, civilized and effective. Grow up people! You don't have the right to not be offended. Geeze!
Why mess around with the free version of VMWare? Go ahead and buy a supported version if you are installing $400 worth of software in it ($300 for a non OEM version of XP and $100 for Quicken). Wouldn't that be a text book example of wasting money? I mean if the free version works why spend the money?
Try to run something that uses 100% CPU and then try to do anything else while that happens. What a great scheduler... I do so regularly. Ever hear of priority queues? Use 'em!
Also, try to fill up your RAM. Kind of hard, isn't it? Windows doesn't seem to think you have as much RAM as you do and starts to swap far too early to be considered useful. This is why people complain about Firefox using $x amount of RAM; No people complain about Firefox's usage of RAM because it uses a lot of it. Most making the complaint don't even know what swapping is!
Windows starts to swap way too early and causes slowdowns all around.
Try to delete a file that's in use (something you can do in any Unix-like system). File in use? Whoops, can't do that. That may be a good thing!
Also, Windows has jack shit support for more filesystems than their own FAT and NTFS families (both of which get fragmented; modern filesystems prevent that on the fly). Sure, you can get more support via plugins (I believe there are two different ways to make a filesystem plugin for Windows: kernel and shell), but that isn't as reliable as having native support for them. Windows should at least support FFS (fast filesystem, the UNIX/BSD file system of choice for a few decades). Just about all systems support their own file systems and usually not much more than that. Why should Windows support FFS? Just because it's a Unix file system? Solaris should support NTFS and FAT? So should HP-UX or AIX. They don't either. So you're point makes no sense.
I'm sick and tired of people bemoaning the command line. What's do damn difficult with starting up a terminal and typing a command! Why is it you feel that clicking something is superior? Can't you type fer crying out loud!
Active Directory IS LDAP! I create LDAP Directories in TB's addressbook all the time. Granted you need to get through the front line help desk people to the LDAP people who know the appropriate LDAP magic words but it is indeed doable...
The point is that if you get good people you need less of them. I can't tell you how many times I've spend literally hours on the phone, on hold, transfered, having to explain the problem again, having to tell them that the problem has nothing to do with the solution they were suggesting, etc. I'm willing to guess that that 1 hours call could be chopped down to a 5 minute call if the tech on the other end were competent. Then do the math! You'd need to hire 12 people working problems at 1 hour a piece to cover what 1 good person would be doing (solving 12 issues/hour).
Regarding money: A good tech person could be had for 6x a bad person's salary (and the tech company saves the other 6x in salaries).
And while the purpose of calling tech support is not to tell them they have a good product, it is to solve a problem, I've been known to tell them they have a good product or a good service if and when they have a good product or provide good service!
Sorry if posted multiple times - I was having connection problems...
Ads are only useful is they are turned in to sales. If a person consciously blocks an ad he is explicitly saying he's not interested in purchasing anything. How then is it useful to forcefully push ads on a person who is saying "Thanks but no thanks". IOW the advertiser is wasting his ad $$$'s on such people. They should be more concerned with being effective than being annoying.
This makes no sense to me whatsoever. No ad does the advertiser any good unless they get a sale out of it. It's obvious that a person who consciously blocks an ad is not interested in looking at it and not interested in making a purchase. Merely displaying an ad to them is not gonna make him go out and buy the product. So your ad is effectively useless on such a person. That said, why do you care that somebody who doesn't want to see your ad blocks your ad?!? He's not your customer to start with and will not be your customer even if you managed to push your ad in front of his eyes. God man, shouldn't you be more concerned about being effective on people who are potential customers?!?
Let's say I earn a raise (or don't have to pay taxes), so I go out and buy goods and services I normally wouldn't buy; my demand for those goods and services means a proportional demand in jobs to create and provide those goods and services. In short, the more money people have the more jobs there will be and the less poverty we will have.
In theory, yes. But it seems more likely to me that you'd hit a point, very quickly, where people decide to charge more, rather than produce more, and then we're back where we started, only everyone has more dollars -- which are now worth less. It's called "inflation."
I took Econ 101. Did you?
You asked what would you do if you suddenly made more money either by not having to pay taxes or just getting a raise. Case in point. I'm making more money now. What did I do with this extra money? I invested it. Invested it in an IRA and also outside of retirement. My money went to other companies who now have more money to expand operations and offer jobs and benefits to more of them poor folk you seem so concerned about.
So the answer to your question in many cases is that people with extra money will spend, invest and even save it. All of these actions help the economy and the poor not hurt them!
Except many people have varying concepts of affordable. I have kids so the BCBS plans for a family run in the range of $600 (barely covers anything) to a typical co-pay 100% plan you'd find at most corporations which runs almost $1100. That's over $13,000 a YEAR for health coverage.
You should have taken such things into account before you decided to press the human xerox button buddy! Kids cost. Healthcare is one of those costs. Were you not aware of such things?
It's pretty scary when you're paying as much for health insurance as you are for your mortgage. Healthcare in this country is broken. We spend insane amounts on all the bean counters whose job is specifically to figure out how NOT to cover something and then blow hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars on a war fought over a lie and yet universal healthcare is some sort of evil that we can't afford.
It's a non sequitur. How much we spend on Iraq has nothing to do with healthcare. The government does not exist to provide for you when you obviously do stupid things like decide to make copies of yourself that you cannot afford. You made the blunder so you should pay for it! Not the government nor everybody else.
I know catastrophic illnesses can cost a lot of money. But over the course of, say, 20 years while your kids grow up, how many people are going to even come spent more than 25% of the $260,000 they pay in premiums.
Many will, many will not. Those bean counters you speak of are trying to balance things out so that their employers don't go broke by betting they have it covered when they don't. And yes, indeed, they are also trying to balance things out so their employers make a profit - otherwise why would anybody get into the business? And if you make it so that it is not profitable to be in the health insurance business there will be no health insurance and then where will you be?
I also think it should be illegal for hospitals and doctors to 'negotiate' rates with insurance companies.
Boy you sure are into forcing others to provide for you when you screw up in your life. Hospitals, doctors and insurance companies are all businesses and as such they all are, and should remain, free to conduct business in anyway they choose. Damn what ever happened to freedom loving Americans?!? As Ben Franklin said "Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve niether!". If you wish to sacrifice your liberty for security then go right ahead. I value liberty and would never deny you your opportunity to screw up your own life even more. However please stop trying to sacrifice my liberty for because you wish to sacrifice yours! You have no right to do that.
That said I agree that if the business is artificially limited into a monopoly then regulations may be necessary. But I'd far more wish to see a system where competition is fostered. As it stands consumers of medical services do typically talk about or haggle on price. Nor do they often have other options or other people, doctors, businesses to go to if they are dissatisfied with the level of service or price of a procedure. In all other areas of their lives, whether purchasing a car, house or iPod, they have options and competition. This keeps prices low and service levels high. We should strive for the same in the healthcare business.
Why does being self employed, poor, or a small business owner mean you have to pay 2-3 times more for services than someone who works for IBM?
The same reason why the retail customer pays more than the GM dealer, etc. Why are you not similarly advocating that you should be able to pay dealer cost for a car?
Everytime I see those EOBs where 50-75% of the cost is 'negotiated away' - we're all human - if they can survive charging $300 for a procedure, it should cost $300 for EVERYbody, not just people stuck in cubicles.
What denotes what are rights and what are privileges?
In this country it's called the Constitution.
Either God or a group of people who agree on what "rights" are not to be infringed. (They tend to cite God as the judge of such rights).
There is no god.
We call this social contract a government.
No you call it that. There is no social contract or at least I've never been asked to sign any papers. Also the government does not guarantee to enforce any such social contract so it wouldn't be worth the paper it's written on - which it ain't.
Without a government enforcing a social contract, there are no universal "rights".
Bullshit! Rights exist even if they are not enforced by anybody. They are just unexcercised.
But just what you may think is your so called "right". However your neighbor may think it's in his "right" to take your property.
Property rights are innate.
Who will be the arbitrator of such a conflict, the person who is the strongest?
You'd be hard pressed to show that that is not often the case....
Is that the kind of world we want to live in?
But that IS the kind of world we do live in son. You're just now finding that out?!? Or are you still that naive?!?
The strongest have the rights and the weak have none?
BINGO! Though I wouldn't say that the weak have none, it's demonstrable that the strong have more. And, really, this is exactly as it should be, evolution shows us this.
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That's because you're an idiot. You don't need to log out and log in as administrator! You use runas you dip shit! You're ignorance would be the same if somebody said they had to log out and back into Linux because they didn't know/hear about sudo. Just because you're an idiot doesn't mean that everybody's an idiot!
If you can get everybody to agree to change the clocks for DST why can't they just agree to change their frame of reference all at the same time? Leave the damn clocks alone. Of course I'm here in Phoenix, AZ and we do leave the clocks alone and guess what? I don't miss a thing. The only problem is that everybody else changes their clocks!!!!
Now all we need is somebody to design real names! I mean "ta bu shi da yu"?!? You've gots to be kidding!
Just because you're too stupid to figure it out doesn't mean that others don't get it...
Deal with is one thing - let them have control is quite another...
OK, I'll bite. Yes people that beat their wives deserve to live. Why? well because beating your wive is not a capital offense. So there. Even the law agrees with me. We do not kill people for beating their wives. Killing their wives? That's a totally different subject. And, BTW, it really doesn't matter if it is their wives, children, neighbors or strangers in a bar. Physical violence is physical violence and we already have laws regarding it. And the penalties do not involve capital punishment for such offenses. So your question/assertion is stupid! Yes emotion is a human trait. But logic is the kingpin. A totally emotional and devoid of logic person is the kind of person you meet in insane asylums. Now I know that's where you like to hang out but still - most of us here in the real world are rational beings... And there's a big difference between "you think it's OK to beat your wife" and "you think such people should be murdered by the state". Hmmm... The George Bush thing... What's the Usenet law that says that arguments eventually boil down to some non-related thing about Hitler? I forget it. Seems to me like we can now officially substitute "George Bush" with "Hitler"... And/or perhaps 9/11 truthers/government conspiracy theories...
You're buying into the assumption that she was intelligent and successful. Many "doctors" in Russia are no where near as well paid, well respected or intelligent as in the US. And indeed there is at least some evidence that she may not be all that as the media portrayed her. Remember Hans met her when she was working *as an interpreter for a dating service*. Now I ask you, how many smart, intelligent female doctors making a good living stoop down and take a second job to be an interpreter? Answer is not many if any.
No it's extremely difficult to check if somebody has left the country. That's why we have 12 million illegal immigrants. It's hard to check if they are here or if they left.
He should never had been arrested because he violated no law. If he shouldn't have been arrested then how could he be resisting arrest. People are supposed to have free speech in this country. He asked 2 more questions than was allowed by the rules (rules - not laws mind you). An easy, non-violent way to handle such a violation would be to answer one question then admonish him for asking 2 additional questions and tell him you will not answer them and next time pay attention to the rules! Done. No arguments, no tasers, civilized and effective. Grow up people! You don't have the right to not be offended. Geeze!
I do so regularly. Ever hear of priority queues? Use 'em! Also, try to fill up your RAM. Kind of hard, isn't it? Windows doesn't seem to think you have as much RAM as you do and starts to swap far too early to be considered useful. This is why people complain about Firefox using $x amount of RAM; No people complain about Firefox's usage of RAM because it uses a lot of it. Most making the complaint don't even know what swapping is! Windows starts to swap way too early and causes slowdowns all around.
Try to delete a file that's in use (something you can do in any Unix-like system). File in use? Whoops, can't do that.
That may be a good thing! Also, Windows has jack shit support for more filesystems than their own FAT and NTFS families (both of which get fragmented; modern filesystems prevent that on the fly). Sure, you can get more support via plugins (I believe there are two different ways to make a filesystem plugin for Windows: kernel and shell), but that isn't as reliable as having native support for them. Windows should at least support FFS (fast filesystem, the UNIX/BSD file system of choice for a few decades). Just about all systems support their own file systems and usually not much more than that. Why should Windows support FFS? Just because it's a Unix file system? Solaris should support NTFS and FAT? So should HP-UX or AIX. They don't either. So you're point makes no sense.
I'm sick and tired of people bemoaning the command line. What's do damn difficult with starting up a terminal and typing a command! Why is it you feel that clicking something is superior? Can't you type fer crying out loud!
If everybody "delays patch releases for a few days in case any big news comes out" then how does the big news come out?
http://finchsync.com/ Can't sync... Bullshit!
Active Directory IS LDAP! I create LDAP Directories in TB's addressbook all the time. Granted you need to get through the front line help desk people to the LDAP people who know the appropriate LDAP magic words but it is indeed doable...
The point is that if you get good people you need less of them. I can't tell you how many times I've spend literally hours on the phone, on hold, transfered, having to explain the problem again, having to tell them that the problem has nothing to do with the solution they were suggesting, etc. I'm willing to guess that that 1 hours call could be chopped down to a 5 minute call if the tech on the other end were competent. Then do the math! You'd need to hire 12 people working problems at 1 hour a piece to cover what 1 good person would be doing (solving 12 issues/hour). Regarding money: A good tech person could be had for 6x a bad person's salary (and the tech company saves the other 6x in salaries). And while the purpose of calling tech support is not to tell them they have a good product, it is to solve a problem, I've been known to tell them they have a good product or a good service if and when they have a good product or provide good service!
Actually all of my email folders are implemented as files...
Sorry if posted multiple times - I was having connection problems... Ads are only useful is they are turned in to sales. If a person consciously blocks an ad he is explicitly saying he's not interested in purchasing anything. How then is it useful to forcefully push ads on a person who is saying "Thanks but no thanks". IOW the advertiser is wasting his ad $$$'s on such people. They should be more concerned with being effective than being annoying.
This makes no sense to me whatsoever. No ad does the advertiser any good unless they get a sale out of it. It's obvious that a person who consciously blocks an ad is not interested in looking at it and not interested in making a purchase. Merely displaying an ad to them is not gonna make him go out and buy the product. So your ad is effectively useless on such a person. That said, why do you care that somebody who doesn't want to see your ad blocks your ad?!? He's not your customer to start with and will not be your customer even if you managed to push your ad in front of his eyes. God man, shouldn't you be more concerned about being effective on people who are potential customers?!?
Home of "the other white meat"! There's a lot of porkers up there!
You should have taken such things into account before you decided to press the human xerox button buddy! Kids cost. Healthcare is one of those costs. Were you not aware of such things?
It's a non sequitur. How much we spend on Iraq has nothing to do with healthcare. The government does not exist to provide for you when you obviously do stupid things like decide to make copies of yourself that you cannot afford. You made the blunder so you should pay for it! Not the government nor everybody else.
Many will, many will not. Those bean counters you speak of are trying to balance things out so that their employers don't go broke by betting they have it covered when they don't. And yes, indeed, they are also trying to balance things out so their employers make a profit - otherwise why would anybody get into the business? And if you make it so that it is not profitable to be in the health insurance business there will be no health insurance and then where will you be?
Boy you sure are into forcing others to provide for you when you screw up in your life. Hospitals, doctors and insurance companies are all businesses and as such they all are, and should remain, free to conduct business in anyway they choose. Damn what ever happened to freedom loving Americans?!? As Ben Franklin said "Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve niether!". If you wish to sacrifice your liberty for security then go right ahead. I value liberty and would never deny you your opportunity to screw up your own life even more. However please stop trying to sacrifice my liberty for because you wish to sacrifice yours! You have no right to do that. That said I agree that if the business is artificially limited into a monopoly then regulations may be necessary. But I'd far more wish to see a system where competition is fostered. As it stands consumers of medical services do typically talk about or haggle on price. Nor do they often have other options or other people, doctors, businesses to go to if they are dissatisfied with the level of service or price of a procedure. In all other areas of their lives, whether purchasing a car, house or iPod, they have options and competition. This keeps prices low and service levels high. We should strive for the same in the healthcare business.
The same reason why the retail customer pays more than the GM dealer, etc. Why are you not similarly advocating that you should be able to pay dealer cost for a car?
If they are chargin
No the protocol is the problem. There is no verification in the protocol - that's the problem!
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