No, it isn't an attack. Doctors and hospitals find that with medical records, upping the codes for service in their favor is made easier. Hence, the government and insurance companies pay more.
It isn't clear how to go about fixing this. There's no way the government could have enough monitors to make sure doctors and hospitals are honest. Maybe they could use statistics. That has its own problems, what is the baseline. And baselines would change across the country. Spot checks might work if backed up by proper law enforcement. Upping the codes is not against the law though, so we'd need new laws. Compensating whistle blowers might also help a bit.
It is isn't that it is too hard for some people, it is just that some people like myself cannot be bothered learning some arcane bits of syntax time after time since we'll have forgotten from using it last 6 months ago; we have our real jobs to do that do not involve talking to a cli only a computer scientist's mother could love.
Bush didn't do it to prove anything to his Dad. I recall an interview at the time with Pops and he thought Iraq was a bad idea, he also thought so at the first Gulf war and insisted the U.S. not invade Iraq but just take back Kuwait so that the U.S. could give it back to the rightful undemocratic fat boys who liked to sell the U.S. oil.
The reasons for Iraq were, at the time, the Euroweenies were backing off sanctions and the no-fly zone. No one wanted a re-armed Iraq hanging around since Saddam had two sons who were even worse than he. Afghanistan had just happened. The U.S. had an easy time there so the neo-cons thought the U.S. had such a large dick they could also do Iraq just as easily. And it would also go a long way towards inserting a democratic government into the heard of Islamo Lunatic Hell. Let's just say that Iraq was not thought through hard enough, although knocking off one of the world's brutal dictators used to be something admired before the West got wrapped into self-afflicting therapy sessions. What happened to Iraq after the invasion was the result of Iraqis coming to appreciate that what they hated more than the U.S. was each other. And Iran was only more than willing to supply the extra bullets, bombs, etc., what it would take to completely disembowel a neighbor so their dick would look just a little bigger.
Oh bullshit. The current dust up is merely an excuse for frustrated Muslims to show to Allah that somehow they are worthy for Heaven. And if Islam is going to be offended by freedom of speech, what does that tell you about Islam? If Allah is so fucking powerful and sacred and his Prophet so Holy, how come He doesn't, in his infinite power, deal with it Himself.
This is yet one more expression of Islamic arrogance. They want to dictate to the rest of the world the terms of other peoples thinking. Fuck'em, take a chill pill.
The word "gormless", the people, Muslims. They got trolled and are now feeding the troll.
It isn't the same G-d. That idea only comes from the New Testament and the Koran accepting some or all of the Torah. Christianity added several features that Jews would never agree to. Similarly the Koran is inconsistent with the New Testament and inconsistent with the Torah. And each adheres to different principles and have different ideas on just what this G-d is.
Both the early (non-Jewish heritage) Christians and the early Muslims where keen to separate themselves from Judism.
Just for the record, government makes a lot more money in taxes per gallon of gasoline than the oil companies make in profit. Think about that before you pick your demons.
And the Liberals argue that they'll balance the budget by spending more, if only the rich folks would hand over all the riches they just know they are hoarding. And that environmental rules and regs have no economic cost.
The key I think is that in some sense, they are all correct and they are all wrong. The economy is a system. But it isn't a system where you can find the sweet spot and remain there, part of the system is open and part of it is closed (think open and closed loop control theory). And it is adaptive on top of that. So in any era, there is a mix of policies that yield prime (not maximal) economic benefit. Eras change and hence the mix must change. There isn't any roadmap for fixing on the correct set of policies, the system is too complicated. Hence we get deluged with ideologies proclaiming to lead us to the promised land. They simply don't want to admit the system is too damn complicated for their tiny pea brains.
By prime economic benefit, I do not mean to imply there is a pot of gold at the end the economic rainbow arc if we could just be intelligent enough to find it. In some algebraic systems, there are prime sets but there may be many of them. Here, we get different primes depending upon the prime we are shooting for...if we even know what prime we're shooting for. So you might get efficiency out a given collection of policies but the prime might not satisfy. And then, there may be no prime that will satisfy. And the primes with change with the era.
Kramer once said Mother Nature is wild and crazy. Yep, so is an economic system...unless you are N. Korea where they strive to minimalize benefit under any circumstance. Venezuela and Bolivia are on that path. China's been getting off that path.
Layer a nice thick layer of politics on all that, and you get....the current situation.
Science isn't always true. There have been some scientific theories which turned out to be false. That is increasingly uncommon as we have gotten better at determining what is pure speculation and what is a theory buttressed by evidence. Physic is has several theories which the physicists will admit have no evidence...yet. They simply say when they get it, they'll be able to rule out the ones that are clearly falsified leaving a smaller group of contenders...at least until some new theories are added for which science must still munch through.
Bullshit, the most evolutionists claims is 'this' is what we have evidence for now. In the future, we may have to revisit some of the minor points, the major points would already have counter-examples were they wrong. Evolutionists also rather think of Science and Religion as being apples and oranges, comparing them makes little sense. Leave the hillbillies out of it, they probably don't have an opinion.
I think, rather, Science gets in the way of fundamentalists creating the world of their dreams where they get to control everyone else. Come to it, Science gets in the way of any purported all-encompassing ideology.
Really? How about we weigh Quantum Mechanics in the court of public opinion. Once we get the definitive answer, we can either explore the rest of it or forget it as a dead end. We could do the same for Relativity as well, people have right to choose. There are theories in medicine just dying for an up or down vote. Come to it, how about Intuitionistic Logic, should we keep it or shelve it? Let the people decide.
Yep, no one ever has uttered the phrase, "I wish I lived back when Dentistry was new and fresh." Those old dentist tools look like they were from the Inquisition.
Are you out of your mind? The U.S. government couldn't give a rat's ass about NZ and canceled the treaty because y'all said you didn't want the U.S. military umbrella. After that, most of the U.S. government couldn't find NZ on the map, out of sight, out of mind. Get over yourself.
If you are talking about Anwar al-Aulaqi as being the assassinated U.S. citizen, this was the man who renounced his U.S. citizenship and decided to mount an internet and media campaign to have Americans killed. Death was too good for him.
Gee, what where they supposed to do for Osama, read him his Miranda rights? He wasn't a U.S. citizen, called for the death of Americans, took credit for 9/11. So yes, the U.S. executed him in front of his family and dumped him at sea. And that was way less than he deserved.
Get some perspective. Cyber is cheap compared to all the hardware and personnel costs for running a military. The Air Force just doesn't want to get caught with their pants down, and doesn't want to depend upon another service to provide them cyber capabilities.
Both parties have redistricted to their heart's content when they had the power to do so. This census, it was the Republicans. I do admit the voter id laws are pushed by Republicans to lower lower class turn out which would benefit the Democrats. Both sides are cheating to win. Every little misstep by either party's members are getting inflated to Biblical Proportions (dogs and cats living together kind of thing).
I also think the Republicans have gone overboard and not at all acting like the loyal opposition. Part of that is because they do not feel they have control over the executive branch agencies and feel they have been taken over by eco-feminist-anti-industry goblins. They are completely full of shit there.
The biggest difference between the parties appears to be Democrats accepting modern science and Republicans rejecting it believing it is some sort of scam. That stems from the Religious Right. On that basis, I reject the current crop of "Republicans" having been one my entire life. I also wouldn't trust the Democrats further than I can spit a two-headed rat given how they have been lying about the "security" of social security and medicare. I given the Democrats credit for trying to fix health care but in their own weaselly way they sold their asses to the insurance companies.
Apple and Jobs never gave any indication they were getting rid of OS X. That was pretty much the Press and the./'ers who somehow cannot see a news item without spinning a conspiracy theory to make it palatable to themselves.
Muslims also believe Allah is so other that He does not interact with the world....errr....unless he sends Gabriel to pass the message along. It's yer basic weaselly escape hatch you find in most religions when a contradiction is embarrassing.
And G-d didn't rape Mary if by that you mean he fucked her. Given yer basic godly powers, he could simple cause one of her eggs to become fertlizered in a fatherly sort of way and the rest is history.
Actually, what probably happened was at the Council of Nicea in the 300's, the church Elders considered Jesus saying he was the Son of G-d and figured it was literally true. In point of fact, it was common saying in Jesus time to say you were a Son of G-d. However, that meant that you were more or less religious and close to G-d in a spiritual sense. 300 years later, that nuance was lost and given the lore of virgin births of gods from the Greeks and India, they more or less bundled it all into a gnarly gumball and screwed up Christianity from thence forward
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No, it isn't an attack. Doctors and hospitals find that with medical records, upping the codes for service in their favor is made easier. Hence, the government and insurance companies pay more.
It isn't clear how to go about fixing this. There's no way the government could have enough monitors to make sure doctors and hospitals are honest. Maybe they could use statistics. That has its own problems, what is the baseline. And baselines would change across the country. Spot checks might work if backed up by proper law enforcement. Upping the codes is not against the law though, so we'd need new laws. Compensating whistle blowers might also help a bit.
It is isn't that it is too hard for some people, it is just that some people like myself cannot be bothered learning some arcane bits of syntax time after time since we'll have forgotten from using it last 6 months ago; we have our real jobs to do that do not involve talking to a cli only a computer scientist's mother could love.
Ghaddafi isn't feeling anything at the moment.
Bush didn't do it to prove anything to his Dad. I recall an interview at the time with Pops and he thought Iraq was a bad idea, he also thought so at the first Gulf war and insisted the U.S. not invade Iraq but just take back Kuwait so that the U.S. could give it back to the rightful undemocratic fat boys who liked to sell the U.S. oil.
The reasons for Iraq were, at the time, the Euroweenies were backing off sanctions and the no-fly zone. No one wanted a re-armed Iraq hanging around since Saddam had two sons who were even worse than he. Afghanistan had just happened. The U.S. had an easy time there so the neo-cons thought the U.S. had such a large dick they could also do Iraq just as easily. And it would also go a long way towards inserting a democratic government into the heard of Islamo Lunatic Hell. Let's just say that Iraq was not thought through hard enough, although knocking off one of the world's brutal dictators used to be something admired before the West got wrapped into self-afflicting therapy sessions. What happened to Iraq after the invasion was the result of Iraqis coming to appreciate that what they hated more than the U.S. was each other. And Iran was only more than willing to supply the extra bullets, bombs, etc., what it would take to completely disembowel a neighbor so their dick would look just a little bigger.
Oh bullshit. The current dust up is merely an excuse for frustrated Muslims to show to Allah that somehow they are worthy for Heaven. And if Islam is going to be offended by freedom of speech, what does that tell you about Islam? If Allah is so fucking powerful and sacred and his Prophet so Holy, how come He doesn't, in his infinite power, deal with it Himself.
This is yet one more expression of Islamic arrogance. They want to dictate to the rest of the world the terms of other peoples thinking. Fuck'em, take a chill pill.
The word "gormless", the people, Muslims. They got trolled and are now feeding the troll.
It isn't the same G-d. That idea only comes from the New Testament and the Koran accepting some or all of the Torah. Christianity added several features that Jews would never agree to. Similarly the Koran is inconsistent with the New Testament and inconsistent with the Torah. And each adheres to different principles and have different ideas on just what this G-d is.
Both the early (non-Jewish heritage) Christians and the early Muslims where keen to separate themselves from Judism.
Just for the record, government makes a lot more money in taxes per gallon of gasoline than the oil companies make in profit. Think about that before you pick your demons.
In 2006, the top 1% of households in the U.S., which made 19% of pre-tax income, paid 39% of all individual income taxes.
The top fifth of households paid 69% of all federal taxes. The top 1% paid 28%.
And the Liberals argue that they'll balance the budget by spending more, if only the rich folks would hand over all the riches they just know they are hoarding. And that environmental rules and regs have no economic cost.
The key I think is that in some sense, they are all correct and they are all wrong. The economy is a system. But it isn't a system where you can find the sweet spot and remain there, part of the system is open and part of it is closed (think open and closed loop control theory). And it is adaptive on top of that. So in any era, there is a mix of policies that yield prime (not maximal) economic benefit. Eras change and hence the mix must change. There isn't any roadmap for fixing on the correct set of policies, the system is too complicated. Hence we get deluged with ideologies proclaiming to lead us to the promised land. They simply don't want to admit the system is too damn complicated for their tiny pea brains.
By prime economic benefit, I do not mean to imply there is a pot of gold at the end the economic rainbow arc if we could just be intelligent enough to find it. In some algebraic systems, there are prime sets but there may be many of them. Here, we get different primes depending upon the prime we are shooting for...if we even know what prime we're shooting for. So you might get efficiency out a given collection of policies but the prime might not satisfy. And then, there may be no prime that will satisfy. And the primes with change with the era.
Kramer once said Mother Nature is wild and crazy. Yep, so is an economic system...unless you are N. Korea where they strive to minimalize benefit under any circumstance. Venezuela and Bolivia are on that path. China's been getting off that path.
Layer a nice thick layer of politics on all that, and you get....the current situation.
Science isn't always true. There have been some scientific theories which turned out to be false. That is increasingly uncommon as we have gotten better at determining what is pure speculation and what is a theory buttressed by evidence. Physic is has several theories which the physicists will admit have no evidence...yet. They simply say when they get it, they'll be able to rule out the ones that are clearly falsified leaving a smaller group of contenders...at least until some new theories are added for which science must still munch through.
Bullshit, the most evolutionists claims is 'this' is what we have evidence for now. In the future, we may have to revisit some of the minor points, the major points would already have counter-examples were they wrong. Evolutionists also rather think of Science and Religion as being apples and oranges, comparing them makes little sense. Leave the hillbillies out of it, they probably don't have an opinion.
I think, rather, Science gets in the way of fundamentalists creating the world of their dreams where they get to control everyone else. Come to it, Science gets in the way of any purported all-encompassing ideology.
Really? How about we weigh Quantum Mechanics in the court of public opinion. Once we get the definitive answer, we can either explore the rest of it or forget it as a dead end. We could do the same for Relativity as well, people have right to choose. There are theories in medicine just dying for an up or down vote. Come to it, how about Intuitionistic Logic, should we keep it or shelve it? Let the people decide.
Yep, no one ever has uttered the phrase, "I wish I lived back when Dentistry was new and fresh." Those old dentist tools look like they were from the Inquisition.
Errr...because some of us don't have a choice, Einstein?
DoD is filthy with java applets, that stuff won't get rewritten any time soon.
Wow, 6000 years of Biblical stories up in smoke over less than 50 breeding pairs.
Mmmmm...Neanderthal babes...
Don't let Jeff Goldblum near a movie set.
Are you out of your mind? The U.S. government couldn't give a rat's ass about NZ and canceled the treaty because y'all said you didn't want the U.S. military umbrella. After that, most of the U.S. government couldn't find NZ on the map, out of sight, out of mind. Get over yourself.
If you are talking about Anwar al-Aulaqi as being the assassinated U.S. citizen, this was the man who renounced his U.S. citizenship and decided to mount an internet and media campaign to have Americans killed. Death was too good for him.
Gee, what where they supposed to do for Osama, read him his Miranda rights? He wasn't a U.S. citizen, called for the death of Americans, took credit for 9/11. So yes, the U.S. executed him in front of his family and dumped him at sea. And that was way less than he deserved.
Get some perspective. Cyber is cheap compared to all the hardware and personnel costs for running a military. The Air Force just doesn't want to get caught with their pants down, and doesn't want to depend upon another service to provide them cyber capabilities.
Both parties have redistricted to their heart's content when they had the power to do so. This census, it was the Republicans. I do admit the voter id laws are pushed by Republicans to lower lower class turn out which would benefit the Democrats. Both sides are cheating to win. Every little misstep by either party's members are getting inflated to Biblical Proportions (dogs and cats living together kind of thing).
I also think the Republicans have gone overboard and not at all acting like the loyal opposition. Part of that is because they do not feel they have control over the executive branch agencies and feel they have been taken over by eco-feminist-anti-industry goblins. They are completely full of shit there.
The biggest difference between the parties appears to be Democrats accepting modern science and Republicans rejecting it believing it is some sort of scam. That stems from the Religious Right. On that basis, I reject the current crop of "Republicans" having been one my entire life. I also wouldn't trust the Democrats further than I can spit a two-headed rat given how they have been lying about the "security" of social security and medicare. I given the Democrats credit for trying to fix health care but in their own weaselly way they sold their asses to the insurance companies.
Apple and Jobs never gave any indication they were getting rid of OS X. That was pretty much the Press and the ./'ers who somehow cannot see a news item without spinning a conspiracy theory to make it palatable to themselves.
Muslims also believe Allah is so other that He does not interact with the world....errr....unless he sends Gabriel to pass the message along. It's yer basic weaselly escape hatch you find in most religions when a contradiction is embarrassing.
And G-d didn't rape Mary if by that you mean he fucked her. Given yer basic godly powers, he could simple cause one of her eggs to become fertlizered in a fatherly sort of way and the rest is history.
Actually, what probably happened was at the Council of Nicea in the 300's, the church Elders considered Jesus saying he was the Son of G-d and figured it was literally true. In point of fact, it was common saying in Jesus time to say you were a Son of G-d. However, that meant that you were more or less religious and close to G-d in a spiritual sense. 300 years later, that nuance was lost and given the lore of virgin births of gods from the Greeks and India, they more or less bundled it all into a gnarly gumball and screwed up Christianity from thence forward