Don't kid yourself. Healthcare is no anymore complex or hard to do than many other businesses. IOW there's nothing really "special" about healthcare. It's a product, a service that can gain from automation. The users of the automation are doctors and as such are probably smarter than your average person to start with. Keeping someone's lifetime history is not difficult to do (perhaps it's difficult for you but not for most people) and HIPPA guidelines are no more difficult than say IRS guidelines yet many software companies handle them with no problem either. Stop thinking your special or that healthcare is special - it's not.
The market rate is the lowest rate that
(i) a suitable worker is prepared to accept;
(ii) an employer is prepared to pay.
No actually it's both an agreed upon amount between what the worker is prepared to accept and the employer is prepared to pay. As I've heard said "We've outlawed slavery in 1865 son!".
Are you actually asking, "Why should collective bargaining be legal"? What part of the bargaining do you think should be outlawed - the bit where employees are allowed to express their views? The bit where people are allowed to not work if they so choose? Which Eastern nation are you modelling your "only some unions should be legal" assertion on?
The part of bargaining wherein I as a prospective employee is forced to join a union which I do not wish to join just to have employment at a particular company. If the employer is willing to hire me as non-union then the union should not be allowed to deny me my right to freely associate with and enter into contract with the employer. That part should be outlawed. Once that's outlawed unions disappear as the dues sucking, not really getting anything good for the little man sluts that they are.
Just not so. You can write unportable python just as you can with any language. Step one, code in an assumption that is only present on the current platform, e.g. make a call to execute a command such as, say, diff(1) which exists on Linux but not on Windows. Or use a Windows only style pathname (e.g. C:\Windows\Temp) or even rely on functionality that one very similar architecture has but the other doesn't (e.g. execute an ll command, which only works on HP-UX, or a ps command which has different options on different OSes or say an ls --auto=color on Solaris).
Just because the language exists on an architecture does not mean that you cannot foolishly doing something in that language that is architecturally dependent on a specific architecture, thus rending your script non-portable and non-operational on other architectures.
Why to people insist the news needs saving? AFAICT the news is horribly broken. Anybody who trusts the news is an idiot.
By news I mean old style news media. Who cares about papers....
I'm sorry but here in America you don't have the right not to be offended. We have this thing called freedom of speech (- Look it up) and thus have the right to say whatever the fuck we want. This cease and desist bullshit for speaking your mind is just plain fucking bullshit! I congratulate this guy for doing what he did and will do it myself in a similar situation.
Meantime I'm gonna "unsubscribe" this fucking CEO's email address from every unsubscribe link I get in SPAM!
Ugh! How stupid are people!! Really!!! Reminds me of the silly "You gotta turn of your cell phone and portable devices" bullshit. Only in America (well maybe the stupid hysteria has spread to stupid European countries too by now). I never - I repeat NEVER - turn off my cell phone. No plane has ever crashed as a result. It's a myth foolish people - just like this one. See http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=debunking+cell+phones+and+cancer&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
What if you did buy a bunch at an insanely cheap price, the stock bounces back up and you make a mint, then the regulators come in and say "Sorry we're canceling your order". I'd be pissed - and suing!
It's a sad day when we impose such obligations by law (that's if we do - you made no citation). Theft requires the intent to deprive somebody of their possession. No such intent can be proven here since the dude merely found something *AND* made an attempt to return it. He is under no obligation to return it and shouldn't be.
I disagree. What exact law did this guy break? I'm assuming the story as reported it truthful in that he found the phone and didn't steal the phone. The answer is no law was broken. If you can prove he actually stole it then you got a case.
Poppycock! The reason to use a debit card is 1) convenience and 2) to limit your risk. If you carry $100's of dollars in cash and are mugged kiss that money good bye. If you only have a debit card and are mugged you're liability is limited (probably only $50 tops).
Also it's been shown that many people start maintaining a balance when using credit cards. Sometimes it's a lack of control but often it's just because you're too busy with life to get to settling your debt. I've been debt free for a while now and used to pride myself on being able to pay off that balance every month. But then I got too busy and lost track.
Debit cards enforce a good practice, that of only spending that which you can afford and not borrowing.
If u hdn't notised teh literacy rate of ur avg office wrker has gone dwn tremd^h^h^h... a lot in recent yrs.... and im not only talking bout so called chat speek, or mispellings, either. every body can stop complaning bout silly punkuation errs to - we all no what was said. and if we happen 2 4get a wrd like 'know" and change the meening to b positive when we mean negtive, well we R HUMAN YA NO! we all no tht the computer can use spel checkers and grandma chequeors to correct 4 such things... even though peeps still 4get 2 use em. ppl just dont no how 2 comunicate any more!
But seriously, email communication can work as effectively as face to face communications but you have to know how to write effectively and put a little effort into it! The art of writing effectively and clearly has all but disappeared in today's society. The above paragraph is done in humor and is actually hard for me to do because I don't communicate like that. However I do see such actual chat speak like communications being passed of as legitimate business communications.
Writing effectively can be a challenge but I often find, in the world of computers where exacting details are pretty much a requirement for the computer, that attempting to properly and adequately convey the details of the situation often causes me to figure out the problem myself!
Besides, email communications provides a record of the communications that have happened and serve as a good knowledge base later to search for topics and solutions. Again, though, this requires well written emails to start with! To have a meeting and waste everybody's time only to then have to type it up anyway strikes me as largely an exercise in futility.
Truth is we don't know what they saw - if they saw anything. Imagination is very powerful.
To date no NDE person has ever described what doctors put on top of the cabinets in operating rooms. IOW none of them are really floating above their dying bodies - they are hallucinating and filling in the blanks to what they want to see.
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What a crappy, louse of a programmer would write...
You're more worried about covering your ass then doing a professional job. We have a name for your type - we call you the junior programmers and make sure you don't make the big $$$ which is reserved for people who are 1) professional, 2) know what they are doing and 3) not afraid of being responsible for things because - see #1 and #2!
No the real question is why System 2 needs to say "nuke it from obit and start over" instead of just issuing an error message and continuing onward. IOW there's no reason to stop the user from further processing just because the date is in disagreement!
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I don't know about you but I'm getting really tired of other people "protecting" me and treating me like a person who cannot protect nor fend for myself. I enter into relationships of my own choosing - of my own volition. But my government doesn't trust that I can make the right decision for myself and must force me to do what they think is right at the point of a gun. Didn't we used to overthrow such tyrants? Perhaps it's time to do so again!
If I wish to perform contract work for a client for years and at pretty handsome rate and I must then get my own benefits, to pick and choose those that I want and not get those which I determine I don't want, if I am happy with such a relationship then isn't it I who have voluntarily chosen to engage in such a relationship?!? If the government still wishes to steal my hard earned earnings in the form of taxation and they don't believe I'm paying my "fair share" then that is an issue between my government and me - not an issue between my government and my customers/client. Take me to tax court if you must and I will show you I am complying with your silly rules for membership in the Socialist States of America.
What happened to the thought that we should limit the abuse of forceful power that the government wields against our lives in the forms of such laws? Unlike the government, private business does not hold a gun to my head to force me to work for them. If they did, then that, and that alone, is the proper place for government to step in and protect my rights which are being violated against my will in a non-voluntary fashion. Now government implements this abuse of power indirectly by forcing private business to comply with legislation designed to protect me, even against my protestations to the contrary.
We see this in spades by private businesses asking all of these security questions that provide no real security, and collecting even more personal information, thus making identity theft even more likely, all in the name of 9/11 and the Patriot Act and "for my protection" as they say. But what if I don't want such protection or if I feel such protection is actually counter-intuitive or that it provide less security because now the identity thieves have a much more convenient target - your cell phone company's computer systems (and don't tell me you haven't heard of such theft of that information).
Lord please stop my government from forcing me to protect myself from that which I've voluntarily decided I do not wish to be protected from? IOW if you need me to sign a release I will gladly do it but stop forcing me to live my life as you see fit! It used to be that such an ideal was esteemed in this country but not it seems to be reviled! Why?!?
By 1989 I was making over $60k year. That's 20 years ago! If you can't make over $60K year today with decent programming skills then either you are not very good or not very aggressive and should consider a different career.
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Don't kid yourself. Healthcare is no anymore complex or hard to do than many other businesses. IOW there's nothing really "special" about healthcare. It's a product, a service that can gain from automation. The users of the automation are doctors and as such are probably smarter than your average person to start with. Keeping someone's lifetime history is not difficult to do (perhaps it's difficult for you but not for most people) and HIPPA guidelines are no more difficult than say IRS guidelines yet many software companies handle them with no problem either. Stop thinking your special or that healthcare is special - it's not.
Who cares?!? So she's got a fucking vagina. Big deal. More than 50% of humans do.
No actually it's both an agreed upon amount between what the worker is prepared to accept and the employer is prepared to pay. As I've heard said "We've outlawed slavery in 1865 son!".
The part of bargaining wherein I as a prospective employee is forced to join a union which I do not wish to join just to have employment at a particular company. If the employer is willing to hire me as non-union then the union should not be allowed to deny me my right to freely associate with and enter into contract with the employer. That part should be outlawed. Once that's outlawed unions disappear as the dues sucking, not really getting anything good for the little man sluts that they are.
Just not so. You can write unportable python just as you can with any language. Step one, code in an assumption that is only present on the current platform, e.g. make a call to execute a command such as, say, diff(1) which exists on Linux but not on Windows. Or use a Windows only style pathname (e.g. C:\Windows\Temp) or even rely on functionality that one very similar architecture has but the other doesn't (e.g. execute an ll command, which only works on HP-UX, or a ps command which has different options on different OSes or say an ls --auto=color on Solaris). Just because the language exists on an architecture does not mean that you cannot foolishly doing something in that language that is architecturally dependent on a specific architecture, thus rending your script non-portable and non-operational on other architectures.
What printer?!? I don't own a printer. Haven't for literally decades. Have you heard of the paperless office?
Why would you care what kind of person you'd be laying? You're just having sex not starting a frigging relationship!
Why to people insist the news needs saving? AFAICT the news is horribly broken. Anybody who trusts the news is an idiot. By news I mean old style news media. Who cares about papers....
I'm sorry but here in America you don't have the right not to be offended. We have this thing called freedom of speech (- Look it up) and thus have the right to say whatever the fuck we want. This cease and desist bullshit for speaking your mind is just plain fucking bullshit! I congratulate this guy for doing what he did and will do it myself in a similar situation. Meantime I'm gonna "unsubscribe" this fucking CEO's email address from every unsubscribe link I get in SPAM!
Except, of course, when your ideology *IS* one of thinking critically and rationally, which is what people call - Science!
Ugh! How stupid are people!! Really!!! Reminds me of the silly "You gotta turn of your cell phone and portable devices" bullshit. Only in America (well maybe the stupid hysteria has spread to stupid European countries too by now). I never - I repeat NEVER - turn off my cell phone. No plane has ever crashed as a result. It's a myth foolish people - just like this one. See http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=debunking+cell+phones+and+cancer&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
What if you did buy a bunch at an insanely cheap price, the stock bounces back up and you make a mint, then the regulators come in and say "Sorry we're canceling your order". I'd be pissed - and suing!
It's a sad day when we impose such obligations by law (that's if we do - you made no citation). Theft requires the intent to deprive somebody of their possession. No such intent can be proven here since the dude merely found something *AND* made an attempt to return it. He is under no obligation to return it and shouldn't be.
The part about having to wait 90 days. You don't have to do that. The asshole lost it.
I disagree. What exact law did this guy break? I'm assuming the story as reported it truthful in that he found the phone and didn't steal the phone. The answer is no law was broken. If you can prove he actually stole it then you got a case.
Poppycock! The reason to use a debit card is 1) convenience and 2) to limit your risk. If you carry $100's of dollars in cash and are mugged kiss that money good bye. If you only have a debit card and are mugged you're liability is limited (probably only $50 tops).
Also it's been shown that many people start maintaining a balance when using credit cards. Sometimes it's a lack of control but often it's just because you're too busy with life to get to settling your debt. I've been debt free for a while now and used to pride myself on being able to pay off that balance every month. But then I got too busy and lost track.
Debit cards enforce a good practice, that of only spending that which you can afford and not borrowing.
Nobody checks signatures! I routinely use "I will never pay this" as my signature and they happily accept it.
If u hdn't notised teh literacy rate of ur avg office wrker has gone dwn tremd^h^h^h... a lot in recent yrs.... and im not only talking bout so called chat speek, or mispellings, either. every body can stop complaning bout silly punkuation errs to - we all no what was said. and if we happen 2 4get a wrd like 'know" and change the meening to b positive when we mean negtive, well we R HUMAN YA NO! we all no tht the computer can use spel checkers and grandma chequeors to correct 4 such things... even though peeps still 4get 2 use em. ppl just dont no how 2 comunicate any more!
But seriously, email communication can work as effectively as face to face communications but you have to know how to write effectively and put a little effort into it! The art of writing effectively and clearly has all but disappeared in today's society. The above paragraph is done in humor and is actually hard for me to do because I don't communicate like that. However I do see such actual chat speak like communications being passed of as legitimate business communications.
Writing effectively can be a challenge but I often find, in the world of computers where exacting details are pretty much a requirement for the computer, that attempting to properly and adequately convey the details of the situation often causes me to figure out the problem myself!
Besides, email communications provides a record of the communications that have happened and serve as a good knowledge base later to search for topics and solutions. Again, though, this requires well written emails to start with! To have a meeting and waste everybody's time only to then have to type it up anyway strikes me as largely an exercise in futility.
Truth is we don't know what they saw - if they saw anything. Imagination is very powerful. To date no NDE person has ever described what doctors put on top of the cabinets in operating rooms. IOW none of them are really floating above their dying bodies - they are hallucinating and filling in the blanks to what they want to see.
^^^^^^^ What a crappy, louse of a programmer would write... You're more worried about covering your ass then doing a professional job. We have a name for your type - we call you the junior programmers and make sure you don't make the big $$$ which is reserved for people who are 1) professional, 2) know what they are doing and 3) not afraid of being responsible for things because - see #1 and #2!
No the real question is why System 2 needs to say "nuke it from obit and start over" instead of just issuing an error message and continuing onward. IOW there's no reason to stop the user from further processing just because the date is in disagreement!
I don't know about you but I'm getting really tired of other people "protecting" me and treating me like a person who cannot protect nor fend for myself. I enter into relationships of my own choosing - of my own volition. But my government doesn't trust that I can make the right decision for myself and must force me to do what they think is right at the point of a gun. Didn't we used to overthrow such tyrants? Perhaps it's time to do so again!
If I wish to perform contract work for a client for years and at pretty handsome rate and I must then get my own benefits, to pick and choose those that I want and not get those which I determine I don't want, if I am happy with such a relationship then isn't it I who have voluntarily chosen to engage in such a relationship?!? If the government still wishes to steal my hard earned earnings in the form of taxation and they don't believe I'm paying my "fair share" then that is an issue between my government and me - not an issue between my government and my customers/client. Take me to tax court if you must and I will show you I am complying with your silly rules for membership in the Socialist States of America.
What happened to the thought that we should limit the abuse of forceful power that the government wields against our lives in the forms of such laws? Unlike the government, private business does not hold a gun to my head to force me to work for them. If they did, then that, and that alone, is the proper place for government to step in and protect my rights which are being violated against my will in a non-voluntary fashion. Now government implements this abuse of power indirectly by forcing private business to comply with legislation designed to protect me, even against my protestations to the contrary.
We see this in spades by private businesses asking all of these security questions that provide no real security, and collecting even more personal information, thus making identity theft even more likely, all in the name of 9/11 and the Patriot Act and "for my protection" as they say. But what if I don't want such protection or if I feel such protection is actually counter-intuitive or that it provide less security because now the identity thieves have a much more convenient target - your cell phone company's computer systems (and don't tell me you haven't heard of such theft of that information).
Lord please stop my government from forcing me to protect myself from that which I've voluntarily decided I do not wish to be protected from? IOW if you need me to sign a release I will gladly do it but stop forcing me to live my life as you see fit! It used to be that such an ideal was esteemed in this country but not it seems to be reviled! Why?!?
Maybe Texas should be dethroned and other states should stop following them! How did they get in that position in the first place?
Sorry. You fail! You neglected to state to read all the instructions *before* doing any of them!
How many people will simply switch it back to Google? (Raises hand...)
By 1989 I was making over $60k year. That's 20 years ago! If you can't make over $60K year today with decent programming skills then either you are not very good or not very aggressive and should consider a different career.