I agree with your sentiment. Except for money "grubbing." I just call it sending signal to me via price-semaphore that I don't want to spend any money on it.
Heh. Yeah. Although I predict that I won't be buying any EA games at all any more. Not out of some kind of principled stand, mind, but simply out of not ever being exposed to them due to the paywall on the advertising.
Except for one bottle of irresponsibly cheap Cabernet from the supermarket, in my experience the more expensive the wine, the more likely you're drinking the cask instead of the grapes, which is fine for many (I find it unpleasant), but if one really likes the wood more than the water, it might be a good idea to think about switching the beverage choice from wine to whiskey.
Any taxation or obligation that you or I "don't begrudge" is one that is voluntarily taken on. The question is whether we have the authority to tie that yoke on others so that we can feel better about ourselves.
It's the difference between the sentence, "I would like to pay for your blahbiddyblah" and "I think you should pay for sam's blangohbibber" Don't invite yourself to dine at my table. That's for me to offer to you.
The passport you mention is not a right. The right is the freedom to move about. The passport infringes on your right to move about. The government isn't doing you any favors, and in fact is charging you a fee for the "privilege" of being tracked and controlled.
The existence of things that we really shouldn't be paying for in no way justifies taking on entirely new obligations and ceding control of a massive portion of our activity to the government. Numerous small tyrannies that have managed to entrench themselves don't justify adding a big tyranny to the mix.
That's not why Obama's healthcare plan is a bad idea. Whether it "works" or not is immaterial. There are two aspects of the plan that are extremely troublesome.
First, there's the obvious moral issue. The plan is to pay for the health care of 30M people who are either paying their own way or are unable to afford access to some health care options. The idea being that "health care" is a right. It's not a right, though. It's a product. A product that can help you to live longer or more comfortably.
A product that must be produced by the hands of men. It's certainly a nice thing to have, but in order to establish it as a right, men must be enslaved to the needs of others. Their output taken for the "greater good." Their time spent forcibly on another's well-being.
If you come into this earth without health care, you get the time that you get. We would all like more, but if you're getting extening your life using health "products" obtained without a voluntary transaction between parties (whether philanthropy or trade), then you might as well be holding a gun to someone's head and directly taking their time for your own.
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Then there's the constitutional issue: namely that there's nothing in there specifically authorizing the federal government to nationalize (and make no mistake, the eventual establishment of a single payer is indistinguishable from single provider) an eighth to a sixth of the nation's activity like this. The contortions that one has to go through to call the current bill "constitutional" are so twisted as to render the document impotent as a limiting contract between the government and the people.
And yet, LCD monitors hurt my eyes in a way that books and epaper do not. I don't know if it's UV that isn't getting filtered (in which case the gradual shift to LED will solve that) or if it's refresh rate or what (Maybe the monochromaticity of the elements has some kind of psycho-visual effect?). But I can't stare at a monitor comfortably for nearly as long as I can papers, books and whatnot.
From what I've read here on/., I'm not alone, so I really can't see why people are so dismissive of the differences between ePaper and active displays.
Somehow I doubt the jury were informed of the full scope of their rights and responsibilities. Further, the selection process being what it is, you can't say, "they should've known about it" since there very well could've been people who did know, but were rejected.
Just start using the romanized Japanese word for it whenever you need the subtle meaning. If you're using it in technical documentation, put a footnote the first time you use it. English doesn't care about linguistic purity or any of that nonsense.
Gah. I wish I had a good idea then. Not having shared your plight, I remain optimistic that there's gotta be away to free yourself from the unyielding gears of bureaucracy somehow.
I mean, "Brazil" wasn't supposed to be a documentary.
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way-side-comment: you're not really fscked. fscking is how one fixes corruption, and what happened to you is the opposite of fixing corruption.
I'm pretty sure you can request another SSN or taxpayer ID in circumstances like that. Also, if I were in your position, I'd try to reduce my withholding so that I'd always owe a little at the end. That way they can't refuse to send a refund.
That doesn't help you get back what you're owed, but just staunching the bleed seems like it would be an improvement.
It doesn't have an inventory of products either, so there's no way to tell how much they're supposed to collect. If they don't keep thing secure, you could have multiple people using a single person's set of credentials to do business, but only paying the "fair share" of a single one of those people. IRS has an economic incentive to avoid that outcome at least.
Barnes & Noble's device is fairly decent, although its missing Wikipedia and some of the features could be better done. Why is this is being set up as an Apple vs. Amazon fight when, of the several companies putting out eReaders, Apple is the only one who doesn't actually have a device available for sale right now?
SawStop's cheapest saw is $1600. To get the saw working again after a stoppage costs $169 in parts. That alone is more than I paid for my table saw, brand new.
I bet those prices would come down, if instead of being manufactured only by a boutique shop with low volume, the tech was licensed and included in at least one product line of a major manufacturer of power tools. Like, say, Riyobi...
As to the cost to put the saw back in working order, I have only one question in response: How much does it cost to get a hand working again after severing a digit or two?
I'm not a liberal, but you make a compelling argument. I'd been waiting for sawstop to trickle down after seeing it on one of the sciency channels. I'm saddened to learn that it might not have done so because of collusion.
This trends the upswing in vaccines in present-day school children against the upswing in autism.
Uh.. what upswing in vaccines? I'm pretty sure I remember reading that vaccination rates are dropping due to fears like yours. Further, what is your proposed mechanism? Is it the vaccine itself? Preservatives in the vaccine which have not actually been in the vaccines in question for two decades?
There is an obvious link between vaccines and autism: the symptoms for autism don't tend to reveal themselves until around the same time that doctors like to administer vaccines. So all you need to do is find a meta-study that looks at children who were vaccinated at the usual time and children that were vaccinated late and you've got your relationship right there.
If I were an MD, I'm sure I'd even be able to find one such study, since it's so obvious to do. Still, your claims are the extraordinary ones, since the proscribed course of action has definite, known, severe effects on child and infant mortality rates. The burden is on you.
What back door. The ex-employee had the password. He went in the *front* door.
It's not a back door if you forget to change the locks.
The real question is, why is there *one* password for all the cars? Shouldn't it be one password for each employee who has access to log into the "car disabling" server which then sends the lockdown signal using a trusted certificate?
They shouldn't have to change the passwords at all, just delete the employee's user account.
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You have to put some care into it. A wire-wound resistor will act as a low-pass filter...
I agree with your sentiment. Except for money "grubbing." I just call it sending signal to me via price-semaphore that I don't want to spend any money on it.
Heh. Yeah. Although I predict that I won't be buying any EA games at all any more. Not out of some kind of principled stand, mind, but simply out of not ever being exposed to them due to the paywall on the advertising.
Try going to a different country without one and see how it "infringes" your right to move about.
Yes, exactly. Thank you for supporting my point.
Wait.. are you saying that coal doesn't have a biological origin?
The refined palate is the key, and while some people definitely have it, most people don't taste nearly enough wine to develop it....
People with refined palates can't stand most wines....
Except for one bottle of irresponsibly cheap Cabernet from the supermarket, in my experience the more expensive the wine, the more likely you're drinking the cask instead of the grapes, which is fine for many (I find it unpleasant), but if one really likes the wood more than the water, it might be a good idea to think about switching the beverage choice from wine to whiskey.
What is this, Logan's Run? Just because something is over 30 doesn't mean it's not relevant.
Any taxation or obligation that you or I "don't begrudge" is one that is voluntarily taken on. The question is whether we have the authority to tie that yoke on others so that we can feel better about ourselves.
It's the difference between the sentence, "I would like to pay for your blahbiddyblah" and "I think you should pay for sam's blangohbibber" Don't invite yourself to dine at my table. That's for me to offer to you.
The passport you mention is not a right. The right is the freedom to move about. The passport infringes on your right to move about. The government isn't doing you any favors, and in fact is charging you a fee for the "privilege" of being tracked and controlled.
The existence of things that we really shouldn't be paying for in no way justifies taking on entirely new obligations and ceding control of a massive portion of our activity to the government. Numerous small tyrannies that have managed to entrench themselves don't justify adding a big tyranny to the mix.
Although, that kind of lends credence to the idea that it's really not that secure....
That's not why Obama's healthcare plan is a bad idea. Whether it "works" or not is immaterial. There are two aspects of the plan that are extremely troublesome.
First, there's the obvious moral issue. The plan is to pay for the health care of 30M people who are either paying their own way or are unable to afford access to some health care options. The idea being that "health care" is a right. It's not a right, though. It's a product. A product that can help you to live longer or more comfortably.
A product that must be produced by the hands of men. It's certainly a nice thing to have, but in order to establish it as a right, men must be enslaved to the needs of others. Their output taken for the "greater good." Their time spent forcibly on another's well-being.
If you come into this earth without health care, you get the time that you get. We would all like more, but if you're getting extening your life using health "products" obtained without a voluntary transaction between parties (whether philanthropy or trade), then you might as well be holding a gun to someone's head and directly taking their time for your own.
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Then there's the constitutional issue: namely that there's nothing in there specifically authorizing the federal government to nationalize (and make no mistake, the eventual establishment of a single payer is indistinguishable from single provider) an eighth to a sixth of the nation's activity like this. The contortions that one has to go through to call the current bill "constitutional" are so twisted as to render the document impotent as a limiting contract between the government and the people.
And yet, LCD monitors hurt my eyes in a way that books and epaper do not. I don't know if it's UV that isn't getting filtered (in which case the gradual shift to LED will solve that) or if it's refresh rate or what (Maybe the monochromaticity of the elements has some kind of psycho-visual effect?). But I can't stare at a monitor comfortably for nearly as long as I can papers, books and whatnot.
From what I've read here on /., I'm not alone, so I really can't see why people are so dismissive of the differences between ePaper and active displays.
Somehow I doubt the jury were informed of the full scope of their rights and responsibilities. Further, the selection process being what it is, you can't say, "they should've known about it" since there very well could've been people who did know, but were rejected.
On the prison baseball team, he will play second base.
Just start using the romanized Japanese word for it whenever you need the subtle meaning. If you're using it in technical documentation, put a footnote the first time you use it. English doesn't care about linguistic purity or any of that nonsense.
ePub (nook's default format, basically a zip'd up xhtml web site) is good enough for project gutenberg..
Gah. I wish I had a good idea then. Not having shared your plight, I remain optimistic that there's gotta be away to free yourself from the unyielding gears of bureaucracy somehow.
I mean, "Brazil" wasn't supposed to be a documentary.
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way-side-comment: you're not really fscked. fscking is how one fixes corruption, and what happened to you is the opposite of fixing corruption.
It's disturbing that the women's abuse center didn't itself do a background check...
I'm pretty sure you can request another SSN or taxpayer ID in circumstances like that. Also, if I were in your position, I'd try to reduce my withholding so that I'd always owe a little at the end. That way they can't refuse to send a refund.
That doesn't help you get back what you're owed, but just staunching the bleed seems like it would be an improvement.
I don't think he's a fan of taxes either, what with paying a fortune in tolls to that ferryman twice a day.
It doesn't have an inventory of products either, so there's no way to tell how much they're supposed to collect. If they don't keep thing secure, you could have multiple people using a single person's set of credentials to do business, but only paying the "fair share" of a single one of those people. IRS has an economic incentive to avoid that outcome at least.
Barnes & Noble's device is fairly decent, although its missing Wikipedia and some of the features could be better done. Why is this is being set up as an Apple vs. Amazon fight when, of the several companies putting out eReaders, Apple is the only one who doesn't actually have a device available for sale right now?
SawStop's cheapest saw is $1600. To get the saw working again after a stoppage costs $169 in parts. That alone is more than I paid for my table saw, brand new.
I bet those prices would come down, if instead of being manufactured only by a boutique shop with low volume, the tech was licensed and included in at least one product line of a major manufacturer of power tools. Like, say, Riyobi...
As to the cost to put the saw back in working order, I have only one question in response: How much does it cost to get a hand working again after severing a digit or two?
I'm not a liberal, but you make a compelling argument. I'd been waiting for sawstop to trickle down after seeing it on one of the sciency channels. I'm saddened to learn that it might not have done so because of collusion.
This trends the upswing in vaccines in present-day school children against the upswing in autism.
Uh.. what upswing in vaccines? I'm pretty sure I remember reading that vaccination rates are dropping due to fears like yours. Further, what is your proposed mechanism? Is it the vaccine itself? Preservatives in the vaccine which have not actually been in the vaccines in question for two decades?
There is an obvious link between vaccines and autism: the symptoms for autism don't tend to reveal themselves until around the same time that doctors like to administer vaccines. So all you need to do is find a meta-study that looks at children who were vaccinated at the usual time and children that were vaccinated late and you've got your relationship right there.
If I were an MD, I'm sure I'd even be able to find one such study, since it's so obvious to do. Still, your claims are the extraordinary ones, since the proscribed course of action has definite, known, severe effects on child and infant mortality rates. The burden is on you.
What back door. The ex-employee had the password. He went in the *front* door.
It's not a back door if you forget to change the locks.
The real question is, why is there *one* password for all the cars? Shouldn't it be one password for each employee who has access to log into the "car disabling" server which then sends the lockdown signal using a trusted certificate?
They shouldn't have to change the passwords at all, just delete the employee's user account.