That's fine. I have no problem with helping such people since quite obviously they did not choose their condition.
Helping such people would be much more cost effective in the long run than the process we have now where everyone can do whatever they like secure in the knowledge someone else will pick up their tab.
Health is the responsibility of the person, not the community. Since the community has no say in how a person lives their life, whether that person smokes, gets drunk, uses drugs or is obese, why should the community be responsible to pay the medical bills for that person? Obviously the person doesn't care about their health or they wouldn't have chosen the lifestyle they lead.
A civilized society wouldn't force its citizens to hand over their money to protect those who choose to kill themselves through their own bad choices, especially when that society has endlessly informed its citizens about the dangers of such lifestyles choices.
It wasn't a jet crash, it was Russia deliberately ignoring repeated warnings their jet was about to enter Turkish airspace and Turkey doing what they said they would.
It is also interesting to note how certain Russia was they never entered Turkish air space and had the jet black box data to prove it, right up until the chips in the black box were, unsurprisingly, damaged and their data unrecoverable.
Even worse, a recent article indicated they had effectively stopped using their own process for testing and had gone back to using the previous method.
If anything screams scam, that should be a flashing red light.
You're missing the point. On this site the majority of people will tell you it's not the Aaron Schwartz's of the world (see above), or the hackers or the people who create the ransomware that are in the wrong. Nope, it's everyone else who should be held accountable for something they did or did not do.
See the previous article talking about a law saying IT people are now required to report instances of child porn they find on someone's machine. The litany of people defending the pedophiles, saying IT people have no responsibility to report such crime, was amazing.
Same with this. It's not the person who created the ransomware who is responsible, nope, it's the hosting company who had nothing to do with anything other having an agreement to give the guy space that is the problem.
Though this isn't surprising on here. The act of personal responsibility has been jettisoned in favor of coddling those who are being oppressed because they choose to live an alternative lifestyle. They bear no responsibility for anything because someone, somewhere else, gets to pick up the tab or take the blame for someone else's actions.
Depends. If they were a drug user, alcoholic or smoker, you are correct. They made their lifestyle choice so they should have to live with it. Why is it my responsibility to help them when for decades there have been warnings about the dangers of smoking, doing drugs and yes, alcoholism.
Obviously the kid knew more than the experts because they chose to ignore well-settled science.
If you like, we can use a similar spurious example: some people choose not to go to college and end up making minimum wage their entire life. Why is it my responsibility to give them my money because of the choice they made?
Considering I am forced to hand over my money to a private company whether I want to or not which only makes some wealthy people even more wealthy, it appears it's not just Republicans who are stealing money from the people.
There's a reason insurance companies use statistics to generate rates for people such as young drivers are more likely to be involved in accidents so their rates are necessarily higher.
In a similar vein, people with good credit scores are more likely to take care of their car or other possessions compared to those with lower credit scores.
So yes, those who are faithful are, on the whole, less likely to cheat their employer.
Also, how you act in your private life may impact your business life. If someone knows you work for ABC Company and sees you out driving erratically, cutting people off and so on, that may make them less likely to want to do business with ABC.
So knowing that Bob has been cheating on his wife may make some employers, unconsciously, wonder if he's cheating them as well.
Google revealed that their vehicles had been involved in 341 "disengagements" (when the driver had to take over) between September 2014 and October 2015. Of those "disengagements", 79.8% were due to a failure of the autonomous system.
Read the details here which outline the results of the report.
If it uses a rail system one is still locked in to what that rail goes to.
Granted, one is locked in when on a road but one can do what they want, when they want. I can pull off to the side of road in a car, you can't do that with Skyran.
If the car breaks down the only one inconvenienced is me. Can't do that with Skytran.
But please, continue telling me how I didn't read up on Skytran or what it represents.
no longer much reason to think Bitcoin can actually be better than the existing financial system.
You mean some pie-in-the-sky technology can't do better than an analog system which has been around for centuries? Oh noes, what we will do without technology to "simplify" our lives? How will we live? The horror.
Because what I want when traveling across the country is to be jammed in with a horde of unwashed masses, unable to stop when and where I want.
Maybe you like to be live like a rat in a cage but I prefer to have the freedom to do what I want, when I want without having to rely on someone else's schedule.
Roughly 15 years ago I worked at a place which had 2 controllers using 5.25" floppy discs. These controllers interfaced between the servers on our end and a mainframe on the other end.
During a power upgrade, there was concern these controllers would go down which was a problem because there was only one floppy between the two of them. A floppy had to be in the controller during boot up and left in at all times for the controller to work.
Fortunately no power was lost for the controllers and I heard they were finally taken out of commission a few years after I left.
You are working for the tax payers, not a private entity with private interests.
Because private companies don't get money from the government? How do you think defense contractors make their money, from selling equipment to other private companies?
No, they get their money by leeching* off the taxpayer.
Any company who gets money from taxpayer dollars should be required to list all employee salaries and compensation, top to bottom.
* There are those who consider government workers leeches. If that is so then so are companies who exist solely because of government contracts or who generate income from government contracts, in whatever capacity.
So while I have to be leeched off by the smokers, drug users, alcoholics and obese, who never have to change their ways because someone else gets to pick up the tab, the costs keep rising and the insurance companies keep getting richer.
Which is not unexpected. When you have a captive audience you can charge almost what you want because people are forced to hand over their money to a private company. Quite an odd situation to be in considering all the anti-government/big government/thieving business rantings on this site. One wouldn't expect people to be so happy to give corporate CEOs that much more money.
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That's not good when you get two-thirds of your revenue overseas.
And we know Apple accounts for all revenue it receives and accurately reports it on its taxes. It doesn't hide any revenues overseas.
That's fine. I have no problem with helping such people since quite obviously they did not choose their condition.
Helping such people would be much more cost effective in the long run than the process we have now where everyone can do whatever they like secure in the knowledge someone else will pick up their tab.
Health is the responsibility of the person, not the community. Since the community has no say in how a person lives their life, whether that person smokes, gets drunk, uses drugs or is obese, why should the community be responsible to pay the medical bills for that person? Obviously the person doesn't care about their health or they wouldn't have chosen the lifestyle they lead.
A civilized society wouldn't force its citizens to hand over their money to protect those who choose to kill themselves through their own bad choices, especially when that society has endlessly informed its citizens about the dangers of such lifestyles choices.
Is that like if someone is willing to cheat on their spouse then they're also willing to walk off with a copy of the code? The whole trust thing?
It wasn't a jet crash, it was Russia deliberately ignoring repeated warnings their jet was about to enter Turkish airspace and Turkey doing what they said they would.
It is also interesting to note how certain Russia was they never entered Turkish air space and had the jet black box data to prove it, right up until the chips in the black box were, unsurprisingly, damaged and their data unrecoverable.
Even worse, a recent article indicated they had effectively stopped using their own process for testing and had gone back to using the previous method.
If anything screams scam, that should be a flashing red light.
However, I find with my dyslexia I just don't enough bang from them.
You're missing the point. On this site the majority of people will tell you it's not the Aaron Schwartz's of the world (see above), or the hackers or the people who create the ransomware that are in the wrong. Nope, it's everyone else who should be held accountable for something they did or did not do.
See the previous article talking about a law saying IT people are now required to report instances of child porn they find on someone's machine. The litany of people defending the pedophiles, saying IT people have no responsibility to report such crime, was amazing.
Same with this. It's not the person who created the ransomware who is responsible, nope, it's the hosting company who had nothing to do with anything other having an agreement to give the guy space that is the problem.
Though this isn't surprising on here. The act of personal responsibility has been jettisoned in favor of coddling those who are being oppressed because they choose to live an alternative lifestyle. They bear no responsibility for anything because someone, somewhere else, gets to pick up the tab or take the blame for someone else's actions.
Depends. If they were a drug user, alcoholic or smoker, you are correct. They made their lifestyle choice so they should have to live with it. Why is it my responsibility to help them when for decades there have been warnings about the dangers of smoking, doing drugs and yes, alcoholism.
Obviously the kid knew more than the experts because they chose to ignore well-settled science.
If you like, we can use a similar spurious example: some people choose not to go to college and end up making minimum wage their entire life. Why is it my responsibility to give them my money because of the choice they made?
Or, get the government out of people's private lives and let them decide how they want to live.
You know, personal responsibility and all that.
the Republican governor of Nevada doesn't want his citizens to have good paying jobs. Keep 'em down with menial jobs at the casinos.
And yet I'm required to subsidize health care for smokers, alcoholics, drug users and the obese.
Why should they be given a break, let alone a subsidy, for their harebrained lifestyle choices?
Considering I am forced to hand over my money to a private company whether I want to or not which only makes some wealthy people even more wealthy, it appears it's not just Republicans who are stealing money from the people.
There's a reason insurance companies use statistics to generate rates for people such as young drivers are more likely to be involved in accidents so their rates are necessarily higher.
In a similar vein, people with good credit scores are more likely to take care of their car or other possessions compared to those with lower credit scores.
So yes, those who are faithful are, on the whole, less likely to cheat their employer.
Also, how you act in your private life may impact your business life. If someone knows you work for ABC Company and sees you out driving erratically, cutting people off and so on, that may make them less likely to want to do business with ABC.
So knowing that Bob has been cheating on his wife may make some employers, unconsciously, wonder if he's cheating them as well.
If they're willing to cheat on their spouse, why should I trust them as an employee to not cheat me?
fast, low fee, guaranteed.
Because what I want is to have to pay someone else to use my "money".
Oddly, when I hand over a $10 bill, a real piece of money, it doesn't cost me a cent to make my transaction and it's untraceable as to who used it.
Google revealed that their vehicles had been involved in 341 "disengagements" (when the driver had to take over) between September 2014 and October 2015. Of those "disengagements", 79.8% were due to a failure of the autonomous system.
Read the details here which outline the results of the report.
If it uses a rail system one is still locked in to what that rail goes to.
Granted, one is locked in when on a road but one can do what they want, when they want. I can pull off to the side of road in a car, you can't do that with Skyran.
If the car breaks down the only one inconvenienced is me. Can't do that with Skytran.
But please, continue telling me how I didn't read up on Skytran or what it represents.
no longer much reason to think Bitcoin can actually be better than the existing financial system.
You mean some pie-in-the-sky technology can't do better than an analog system which has been around for centuries? Oh noes, what we will do without technology to "simplify" our lives? How will we live? The horror.
for automated vehicle guidance: rail.
Because what I want when traveling across the country is to be jammed in with a horde of unwashed masses, unable to stop when and where I want.
Maybe you like to be live like a rat in a cage but I prefer to have the freedom to do what I want, when I want without having to rely on someone else's schedule.
Roughly 15 years ago I worked at a place which had 2 controllers using 5.25" floppy discs. These controllers interfaced between the servers on our end and a mainframe on the other end.
During a power upgrade, there was concern these controllers would go down which was a problem because there was only one floppy between the two of them. A floppy had to be in the controller during boot up and left in at all times for the controller to work.
Fortunately no power was lost for the controllers and I heard they were finally taken out of commission a few years after I left.
You are working for the tax payers, not a private entity with private interests.
Because private companies don't get money from the government? How do you think defense contractors make their money, from selling equipment to other private companies?
No, they get their money by leeching* off the taxpayer.
Any company who gets money from taxpayer dollars should be required to list all employee salaries and compensation, top to bottom.
* There are those who consider government workers leeches. If that is so then so are companies who exist solely because of government contracts or who generate income from government contracts, in whatever capacity.
I can pay for my own medical care.
See how that works?
the more software you have installed the slower and more vulnerable your system becomes.
Furthermore, affordably subsidized individual health care plans are available to all Americans via a high-tech government-run web site.
Yes, those plans are so affordable their costs are skyrocketing by double digits in many cases.
So while I have to be leeched off by the smokers, drug users, alcoholics and obese, who never have to change their ways because someone else gets to pick up the tab, the costs keep rising and the insurance companies keep getting richer.
Which is not unexpected. When you have a captive audience you can charge almost what you want because people are forced to hand over their money to a private company. Quite an odd situation to be in considering all the anti-government/big government/thieving business rantings on this site. One wouldn't expect people to be so happy to give corporate CEOs that much more money.