The insurance companies will only use this as a reason to raise rates. I presume in the long run it will make the system more efficient, but I do not believe it will make it cheaper simply because the insurance companies will eat any efficiencies and fail to pass them on to the consumer or the taxpayer.
If insurance companies were good for the health system, it would be fixed by now. They aren't and they need to be kneecapped.
Just out of curiosity, would it be okay if we canned TSA so we'd all be free to carry firearms on to planes? Seems like a basic American right to me. How about battering rams to open cockpit doors, Americans won't be truly free unless they have this basic human right. Sticks of dynamite, the American Constitution would be travesty if these weren't allowed on.
Ummm...I am a bit confused about the reference to hail though. Are planes falling like hail in your area? Maybe you could contact your local sheriff. I'm sure s/he'd know what to do about that. Personally, I think you should get a crash helmet, it won't stop the big pieces but you could like it with tin foil for protection.
This notion has all the wonder of an Electric Monk from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. Just as we have TV things that record stuff for us and cell phones that do stuff for us, and Electric Monk believes things for you. So maybe we all just need an Electric Monk to believe that this technology is good for us...at least as good as all the data mining dear Google will be doing on precisely when men of a certain age wander off to the loo for a bit of mid-night relief.
Snoracle cannot patent a language. So I'm unsure what it means to fork Java unless you mean to call a language Java and then add/delete features. The class libraries are just that, class libraries and copywritable. But Google is not using them.
Suppose some took SNOBOL and did a clean-room implementation and called it Davlik, just to pick a name at random. Are the SNOBOL people out there, surely there are some left, going to get their knickers in a knot over it? Maybe if Uncle Larry is a closet SNOBOL freak, but I doubt others would. They'd find a way to get on with their lives happily using SNOBOL.
The problem here is that Snoracle has a warped view of what constitutes Imaginary Property and are attempting to foist it on the industry. It will only come to tears if they manage to get away with it.
The author said that customers were turned off as soon as they were passed to a salesdroid. Making salesdroids techno-proficient won't change that.
Also, salesdroids are in sales because they like sales and generally dislike (and even look down on) engineering. Every time engineering comes in and saves their ass because they sold some frankensystem, they learn that (1) a frankensale is a sale, (2) engineering MUST save their ass. Making them techno-proficient will only make them realize how much farther they can push frankensystems.
And good luck turning a salesdroid into a pre-natal engineer. They are generally Business School Product. That means they get dangerous if you give them two rocks to bang together. Worse, they'll attempt to flaunt their newly discovered "skills" to their customers who will quickly realize they are talking out of their ass a bit more than usual and distrust them all the more. Salesdroids are like your brother-in-law, your wife won't let you shoot him because he's your brother-in-law.
Insightful comment you made. Just to hopefully add a bit, I think the success of a revolution depends upon the proportion and status (in a very ill-defined sense) of the people the regime has bought off to the point where they depend upon the regime for survival (pick yer survival: religious, political, economic, etc.).
In Syria, the minorities have a stake in the government because the overwhelming majority of the people are Sunni whereas the regime is Alawite which a branch of Shi'ism. The Christians and other religious sects and the Kurds and other ethnic groups believe the government protects them from Sunni domination. Saudi Arabia's emphasis on Sunnism make the division sharper, just as they f-cked up the situation in Bahrain (there was no hint of Iranian involvement but those Saudi saw an Iranian behind every grain of sand). So the Syrian regime gets support it doesn't deserve, they cannot protect their minorities except through violence which will only make the Sunnis think of the minorities as ill-deserving of protection.
In Libya, the sects aren't a problem, it's the tribes. The Q. Dolt has been playing them off each other for decades. That kind of suspicion won't disappear overnight. Nor do the tribes feel any sort of common purpose, the tribe comes first. So the opposition has been diffuse. And the oil revenue has be paying for a certain segment of the population. That segment won't willingly give up.
The militaries in both countries depend intellectually and financially on the central government with no outside influence. With Egypt and Tunisia, there was Western influence. The consequence was the latter could see an existence separate professionally from the State. Syria and Libya's militaries can see no existence separate from the state because the State is their sole reason to exist.
Apple users pay for Apple software + hardware, without the software, Apple would be nothing better than your basic prole software developers, i.e. MS. The pretty box is simply because Apple knows how to package their goods as opposed to the Dell's, HP's, etc. package theirs. The reference to Minix is supposed to engender a moron's view of Linux, I presume. And the sexually active consumers, well, whatever turns you on.
Yes, it would be natural until you find yourself continually cleaning the screen to get the oily residue off. I have a policy in my office, you can point at the screen but if you touch it, I will break one of your fingers, you get to decide which one.
Maybe you didn't get the memo, MS tried for years to get users to buy into a desktop on a slab. Only two people wanted it, Steve and Bill. Anyone with any sense realized it was too ungainly and failed to solve a problem, any problem.
Actually, the U.S. Intelligence agencies pushed AGAINST war on the grounds they didn't trust the intelligence. It was the Bush administration that twisted it to promote the war. Geeze, at least get your history straight.
That might have worked, but Apple already had a bad experience with an traditional phone maker, Motorola. They recoiled because it was clear that Motorola just didn't get interfaces.
It's clear you have never done development. How do you know how hard it will be to marry WP7 to one of Nokia's platform? The second worst thing Nokia could do is ship a WP7 phone with bugs. The worst thing they could do is ship a WP7 phone.
Iranians do not wear burkas. That's mostly Sunni tradition. They do require women cover their heads though, 'tis a sign on their enslavement (to borrow a concept from Harry Potter).
They speak Farsi, mostly, not Arabic. Not sure what the translation rate if for Farsi but I'm betting it isn't high...probably higher than Arabic though. When your education system has been turned over the religious nutjobs such as Saudi Arabia, you don't need no stinking outside influences. Does anyone know to what extent the Iranian education system has been brought under the control of the religious police?
I hope you are right. However, the reason the theocracy was able to take over was that they were more brutal and more organized than anyone else in the country. Nothing has changed. They are also able to pull out the Allah card whenever they get threatened and in a Muslim nation, that carries a certain amount of weight. The next revolution, if there is one, will need quite a head of steam to win. And what would winning mean when there will be very well-armed Revolutionary Guards still around in the country. There's no way they'll all get rounded up and shot. It would be civil war that could take years to settle. And every time a plausible government could be formed, it's leaders will be assassinated. And if the end finally looks like it will come for those nutjobs, they'll pick a fight with Israel or the U.S. just to rally the people around an outside opponent.
U.S. foreign aid to Israel $2.3 Billion a year. Israel GDP: $200 Billion. Israel wouldn't really miss the aid in dollar terms. However, about 98% of that is military. I suspect it is mostly advanced weaponry.
So the implication that somehow Israel wouldn't have an economy without the U.S. is misleading...unless you mean Israel existing without the U.S. military behind it.
You do not understand Adam Smith, he believed in freedom of entry and exit to markets. Patents, and in particular software patents, are anathema to free entry and exit.
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The insurance companies will only use this as a reason to raise rates. I presume in the long run it will make the system more efficient, but I do not believe it will make it cheaper simply because the insurance companies will eat any efficiencies and fail to pass them on to the consumer or the taxpayer.
If insurance companies were good for the health system, it would be fixed by now. They aren't and they need to be kneecapped.
Just out of curiosity, would it be okay if we canned TSA so we'd all be free to carry firearms on to planes? Seems like a basic American right to me. How about battering rams to open cockpit doors, Americans won't be truly free unless they have this basic human right. Sticks of dynamite, the American Constitution would be travesty if these weren't allowed on.
Ummm...I am a bit confused about the reference to hail though. Are planes falling like hail in your area? Maybe you could contact your local sheriff. I'm sure s/he'd know what to do about that. Personally, I think you should get a crash helmet, it won't stop the big pieces but you could like it with tin foil for protection.
This notion has all the wonder of an Electric Monk from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. Just as we have TV things that record stuff for us and cell phones that do stuff for us, and Electric Monk believes things for you. So maybe we all just need an Electric Monk to believe that this technology is good for us...at least as good as all the data mining dear Google will be doing on precisely when men of a certain age wander off to the loo for a bit of mid-night relief.
Snoracle cannot patent a language. So I'm unsure what it means to fork Java unless you mean to call a language Java and then add/delete features. The class libraries are just that, class libraries and copywritable. But Google is not using them.
Suppose some took SNOBOL and did a clean-room implementation and called it Davlik, just to pick a name at random. Are the SNOBOL people out there, surely there are some left, going to get their knickers in a knot over it? Maybe if Uncle Larry is a closet SNOBOL freak, but I doubt others would. They'd find a way to get on with their lives happily using SNOBOL.
The problem here is that Snoracle has a warped view of what constitutes Imaginary Property and are attempting to foist it on the industry. It will only come to tears if they manage to get away with it.
Do you even know what a psychopath is?
So you are saying President Obama is capable of learning in office rather than slavishly following received Democrat dogma?
The author said that customers were turned off as soon as they were passed to a salesdroid. Making salesdroids techno-proficient won't change that.
Also, salesdroids are in sales because they like sales and generally dislike (and even look down on) engineering. Every time engineering comes in and saves their ass because they sold some frankensystem, they learn that (1) a frankensale is a sale, (2) engineering MUST save their ass. Making them techno-proficient will only make them realize how much farther they can push frankensystems.
And good luck turning a salesdroid into a pre-natal engineer. They are generally Business School Product. That means they get dangerous if you give them two rocks to bang together. Worse, they'll attempt to flaunt their newly discovered "skills" to their customers who will quickly realize they are talking out of their ass a bit more than usual and distrust them all the more. Salesdroids are like your brother-in-law, your wife won't let you shoot him because he's your brother-in-law.
Insightful comment you made. Just to hopefully add a bit, I think the success of a revolution depends upon the proportion and status (in a very ill-defined sense) of the people the regime has bought off to the point where they depend upon the regime for survival (pick yer survival: religious, political, economic, etc.).
In Syria, the minorities have a stake in the government because the overwhelming majority of the people are Sunni whereas the regime is Alawite which a branch of Shi'ism. The Christians and other religious sects and the Kurds and other ethnic groups believe the government protects them from Sunni domination. Saudi Arabia's emphasis on Sunnism make the division sharper, just as they f-cked up the situation in Bahrain (there was no hint of Iranian involvement but those Saudi saw an Iranian behind every grain of sand). So the Syrian regime gets support it doesn't deserve, they cannot protect their minorities except through violence which will only make the Sunnis think of the minorities as ill-deserving of protection.
In Libya, the sects aren't a problem, it's the tribes. The Q. Dolt has been playing them off each other for decades. That kind of suspicion won't disappear overnight. Nor do the tribes feel any sort of common purpose, the tribe comes first. So the opposition has been diffuse. And the oil revenue has be paying for a certain segment of the population. That segment won't willingly give up.
The militaries in both countries depend intellectually and financially on the central government with no outside influence. With Egypt and Tunisia, there was Western influence. The consequence was the latter could see an existence separate professionally from the State. Syria and Libya's militaries can see no existence separate from the state because the State is their sole reason to exist.
Umm...just a suggestion, if you kinda get off on Jobs, maybe you could satisfy yourself by yourself and leave us out of it?
Apple users pay for Apple software + hardware, without the software, Apple would be nothing better than your basic prole software developers, i.e. MS. The pretty box is simply because Apple knows how to package their goods as opposed to the Dell's, HP's, etc. package theirs. The reference to Minix is supposed to engender a moron's view of Linux, I presume. And the sexually active consumers, well, whatever turns you on.
Not East Texans, rather the federal courts in East Texas. In short, don't be an idiot.
Grindelwald? Is that you?
Yes, it would be natural until you find yourself continually cleaning the screen to get the oily residue off. I have a policy in my office, you can point at the screen but if you touch it, I will break one of your fingers, you get to decide which one.
Maybe you didn't get the memo, MS tried for years to get users to buy into a desktop on a slab. Only two people wanted it, Steve and Bill. Anyone with any sense realized it was too ungainly and failed to solve a problem, any problem.
Actually, the U.S. Intelligence agencies pushed AGAINST war on the grounds they didn't trust the intelligence. It was the Bush administration that twisted it to promote the war. Geeze, at least get your history straight.
Or more accurately, the precious privilege of keeping one's family alive.
That might have worked, but Apple already had a bad experience with an traditional phone maker, Motorola. They recoiled because it was clear that Motorola just didn't get interfaces.
It's clear you have never done development. How do you know how hard it will be to marry WP7 to one of Nokia's platform? The second worst thing Nokia could do is ship a WP7 phone with bugs. The worst thing they could do is ship a WP7 phone.
Iranians do not wear burkas. That's mostly Sunni tradition. They do require women cover their heads though, 'tis a sign on their enslavement (to borrow a concept from Harry Potter).
They speak Farsi, mostly, not Arabic. Not sure what the translation rate if for Farsi but I'm betting it isn't high...probably higher than Arabic though. When your education system has been turned over the religious nutjobs such as Saudi Arabia, you don't need no stinking outside influences. Does anyone know to what extent the Iranian education system has been brought under the control of the religious police?
Originally, it was from the Wall Street Journal, I read it this past weekend. It was either in Friday's or the Weekend edition.
I hope you are right. However, the reason the theocracy was able to take over was that they were more brutal and more organized than anyone else in the country. Nothing has changed. They are also able to pull out the Allah card whenever they get threatened and in a Muslim nation, that carries a certain amount of weight. The next revolution, if there is one, will need quite a head of steam to win. And what would winning mean when there will be very well-armed Revolutionary Guards still around in the country. There's no way they'll all get rounded up and shot. It would be civil war that could take years to settle. And every time a plausible government could be formed, it's leaders will be assassinated. And if the end finally looks like it will come for those nutjobs, they'll pick a fight with Israel or the U.S. just to rally the people around an outside opponent.
U.S. foreign aid to Israel $2.3 Billion a year. Israel GDP: $200 Billion. Israel wouldn't really miss the aid in dollar terms. However, about 98% of that is military. I suspect it is mostly advanced weaponry.
So the implication that somehow Israel wouldn't have an economy without the U.S. is misleading...unless you mean Israel existing without the U.S. military behind it.
You're an idiot, that's what's going on.
You do not understand Adam Smith, he believed in freedom of entry and exit to markets. Patents, and in particular software patents, are anathema to free entry and exit.