Many don't have much of a choice. In Massachusetts, we're required by law to have health insurance, otherwise we lose our personal exemptions when we file our taxes.
I make too much money to be covered under the state's free programs, so I have to pay 100% out-of-pocket for an insurance policy. The cheapest there is for my family and me was recently $800/month. The premium was just raised to over $1,000/month. As if that weren't bad enough, the company also reduced the "benefits" across the board. Co-payments for doctor visits, ER visits, outpatient care, and prescriptions all went up.
I'd like to know why this isn't illegal. I'm forced into buying insurance by my state government, and the insurance company is free to do whatever they want with their rates and "benefits". How isn't this extortion? Pretty soon, my insurance premium will be more than my mortgage, and I'll get next to nothing for coverage.
Nobody is forcing you to go to the store, open your wallet, take out money, and ask the person behind the counter for cigarettes. Nobody is forcing you to place cigarettes to your mouth, light them, and inhale. The idea that you "simply continue to do it because you can't not do it" is hilarious to me. If you still light up, you honestly can't be as fearful as you claim to be, otherwise you wouldn't go through the steps of procuring the cigarettes in the first place.
I think it's admirable that you're seeking help quitting, and I wish you the best of luck, but the notion that you have no control over your actions is ridiculous. You choose to do the things you do out of desperation.
Throw away all of your cigarettes, take a week vacation, and just stay home. Start working on that project you've been meaning to do. Read books. Play games. Learn languages. Have a family member hold on to all of your money and credit/debit cards if you have to. If it's impossible for you to smoke, you'll have no choice but not to do so. If you're truly fearful for your life, you'll do whatever it takes. But don't pretend that you're somehow a victim of anything but your own actions.
Of course SBDs cost less than JDAMs... I've never had to pay for one. The best part is, they can be produced by just about anybody and, judging by their name, they're both stealthy and lethal. They're the ultimate weapon.
Thank you! I've been having this same exact problem in my kitchen. The baited ant traps simply haven't been working for me. I placed them directly in path of the ants' "marching lines", and they just go around them or over them--almost never in them. I even placed one directly in front of the ant-sized hole in my foundation where the majority of them have been coming in. Nada.
From the Terro site:
Colonies inside walls can be treated by drilling a small hole and injecting Terro® Ant Killer Spray using the extension tube that comes with the product. I won't even have to drill! Brilliant!
So how, exactly, is the GPL more free? You answered your own question. A person downloads a pile of code that is in the public domain. They can make changes and publish, and not disclose the changes.
How, then, am I to do to this derivative what the derivative's author did to the original public domain program? Where's my freedom? With the GPL, the derivative's author would have been forced to pass the freedom (s)he had on to me. In your scenario, the derivative's author took my freedoms away. (Yes, I know my freedoms still exist with the original public domain code, but we're talking about the derivative work now.)
Cutting off someone's connection and banning them for a year isn't quite the same thing as throttling. Unless things have changed recently...
Unlimited would mean that a person can use as much bandwidth as is provided to them without reaching a limit, at which point they are cut off and their bandwidth allocation is nonexistent.
Vanilla Sky was released in 2001. That was 7 years ago. In terms of watching movies, yes, that was a pretty long time ago. Long enough that I don't remember many details, especially some obscure song that was probably played during a part of the movie that I mostly likely was not paying attention to (like most of it).
I'm guessing the "one more chip" in your login name reflects your eating habits?
I didn't realize that the FSF actually tells people the original becomes proprietary. What I was saying is the same thing you're saying, only using different words. It's blatantly obvious that the license of the original remains untouched. Can we move past primitives now?
The GPL restricts what the user can do, and is thus less free. I think you misunderstand. The GPL doesn't restrict what the user can do. On the contrary, the GPL guarantees that the user has access to a GPL'd program's source code. How is this a restriction on the user?
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Many don't have much of a choice. In Massachusetts, we're required by law to have health insurance, otherwise we lose our personal exemptions when we file our taxes.
I make too much money to be covered under the state's free programs, so I have to pay 100% out-of-pocket for an insurance policy. The cheapest there is for my family and me was recently $800/month. The premium was just raised to over $1,000/month. As if that weren't bad enough, the company also reduced the "benefits" across the board. Co-payments for doctor visits, ER visits, outpatient care, and prescriptions all went up.
I'd like to know why this isn't illegal. I'm forced into buying insurance by my state government, and the insurance company is free to do whatever they want with their rates and "benefits". How isn't this extortion? Pretty soon, my insurance premium will be more than my mortgage, and I'll get next to nothing for coverage.
If I could skip the insurance companies, I would.
Nobody is forcing you to go to the store, open your wallet, take out money, and ask the person behind the counter for cigarettes. Nobody is forcing you to place cigarettes to your mouth, light them, and inhale. The idea that you "simply continue to do it because you can't not do it" is hilarious to me. If you still light up, you honestly can't be as fearful as you claim to be, otherwise you wouldn't go through the steps of procuring the cigarettes in the first place.
I think it's admirable that you're seeking help quitting, and I wish you the best of luck, but the notion that you have no control over your actions is ridiculous. You choose to do the things you do out of desperation.
Throw away all of your cigarettes, take a week vacation, and just stay home. Start working on that project you've been meaning to do. Read books. Play games. Learn languages. Have a family member hold on to all of your money and credit/debit cards if you have to. If it's impossible for you to smoke, you'll have no choice but not to do so. If you're truly fearful for your life, you'll do whatever it takes. But don't pretend that you're somehow a victim of anything but your own actions.
Watch what you say about Scientology. Wouldn't want to rub 'em the wrong way, you know.
You obviously don't know the definition of the word "cult". Instead of copying/pasting and repeating others, I'll just direct you to a sibling comment: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=562170&cid=23516326
I'd like my hash without salt, please. And I like my eggs scrambled, with cheese. Thanks.
- Have Google manage your medical records
- Die
You choose #2?Have fun with that. I'm sure Google won't hesitate to include you as a statistic somewhere as a result.
Nobody.
Seriously, the notion that land can be owned is ridiculous.
Now get off my lawn.
Your dog has fingers?
Amarok will be working on Windows soon, and since when does Amarok not support iPods?
What's wrong with Microsoft Bob? *ducks*
Business process changes.
Of course SBDs cost less than JDAMs... I've never had to pay for one. The best part is, they can be produced by just about anybody and, judging by their name, they're both stealthy and lethal. They're the ultimate weapon.
From the Terro site: Colonies inside walls can be treated by drilling a small hole and injecting Terro® Ant Killer Spray using the extension tube that comes with the product. I won't even have to drill! Brilliant!
I'm going to try Terro. Thanks again!
Webmin/Virtualmin, anyone?
How, then, am I to do to this derivative what the derivative's author did to the original public domain program? Where's my freedom? With the GPL, the derivative's author would have been forced to pass the freedom (s)he had on to me. In your scenario, the derivative's author took my freedoms away. (Yes, I know my freedoms still exist with the original public domain code, but we're talking about the derivative work now.)
How isn't the GPL more free?
In many areas, the choice for ISP is Comcast or dial-up. In terms of broadband ISPs, [insert local cable company] is a near monopoly.
Do you really consider dial-up to be a good alternative to broadband?
The fact remains that they said unlimited, but didn't mean it. That's called lying.
Cutting off someone's connection and banning them for a year isn't quite the same thing as throttling. Unless things have changed recently...
Unlimited would mean that a person can use as much bandwidth as is provided to them without reaching a limit, at which point they are cut off and their bandwidth allocation is nonexistent.
Not quite.
Vanilla Sky was released in 2001. That was 7 years ago. In terms of watching movies, yes, that was a pretty long time ago. Long enough that I don't remember many details, especially some obscure song that was probably played during a part of the movie that I mostly likely was not paying attention to (like most of it).
I'm guessing the "one more chip" in your login name reflects your eating habits?
Right, we all understand this. You're just being pedantic at this point.
I didn't realize that the FSF actually tells people the original becomes proprietary. What I was saying is the same thing you're saying, only using different words. It's blatantly obvious that the license of the original remains untouched. Can we move past primitives now?
Obviously, the latter. There's nothing preventing someone from making a proprietary derivative program from a non-copylefted free program.
Unlimited within context? AFAIK, "unlimited" has but one definition.