don't think there's anything voluntary about receiving medical treatment
If the government can force someone to buy health insurance, I don't see the problem. Both involve government intrusion into one's personal life so if you were happy with people being forced to buy something they didn't want or need, there is no reason not to have the government accessing those records.
There is nothing short of an absolute, death-like issue that you need to be texting at a red light, or anywhere else while driving. Time and time again I've been behind people who were texting, the light turn greens and invariably I, or someone else, has to put on the horn to get them to pay attention to what they're doing as they're holding up traffic.
If you're that narcissistic or ADD that you think you need to be checking every ten seconds, go seek help.
dropped half as much into funding FOSS development of these engines as they do for licensing,
How does this make the software free? Someone is still paying for it. All you're suggesting is they shift the burden from licensing to funding something else.
You're missing the point. One does need to make the calculation to see if they'll be arriving at the tree before or after your hunting partner. If it's before, no problems. If after, pick up the pace!
For the same reason we make you buy car insurance.
False dichotomy. While I have never had an accident in the several decades I've been driving, there is still a very small, non-zero chance I may plow into you. That affects you as well as I. Personally, since I've been such a great driver my rate should be half what it is, but it's still lower than almost everyone else. But that's a story for another time.
If I break my arm, how does that affect you? It doesn't. That's the difference. You want to get drunk every weekend or do whatever drugs you want, the cost of your medical expenses should be on your shoulders, not mine.
With RomObamacare, the burden is shifted to everyone else EXCEPT the person who should be taking personal responsibility for their lives. Instead, they get to continue to smoke, be obese, kill their liver, do drugs, secure in the knowledge that no matter what, someone else will pick up the tab. Not them.
If I can pay for my medical care out of my own pocket, how is that leeching?
Or are you referring to people leeching off me by taking my money because they couldn't take personal responsibility for themselves and continue to smoke, be obese, get drunk regularly and do drugs?
The hospital covers their losses on people who do not pay by charging higher prices for those who do.
So that means, with all the extra money flowing into the system, which will now be solely used to cover these previous losses, my bill will go down, right? That's what is supposed to happen, right?
Or is this about giving the health insurance companies hundreds of millions of dollars in free money from people like me who don't need health services?
For example we pay more than other first world nations for healthcare and get less of it.
Yes, and the President and his party is now forcing everyone to pay, whether they want to or not, whether they can or not, which now creates a larger financial burden for the very people he claims he was trying to help.
but is this seriously such a problem with people shitting and puking on trains...
Yes, sadly it is, particularly on the weekends when people are out "living their life to the fullest". It's their life so what do they care about the mess they leave behind?
How do you utilize more than 3GB of your memory in XP?
XP supports up to 4GB of memory
There are LOTS of usability tweaks in later versions.
I'm still waiting to find them. I did multiple tests comparing how easy it is to get to places in XP or make configuration changes and the extra steps involved in W7. In some cases it takes twice as many steps to accomplish the same thing.
Then there are the visual issues such as not being able to completely turn off all effects. In XP I could turn them all off. In W7 you can sort of turn them off but the system will still use them when it feels like.
The only reason people believe 7 is good is because it's the Service Pack for Vista which was so horrible. Of course 7 looks good when you use that comparison.
Roughly every month there is an article about someone "accidentally" hitting the accelerator rather than the brake in an automatic. As a result, they go flying through a store, over a parking garage edge or into a crowd.
It is essentially impossible to do this in a stick as both your feet are occupied. If you hit the gas, the clutch is still in so you don't go anywhere. If you pop the clutch you will most likely stall the car.
As to shifting in to neutral, if the software determines there is no issue or you are driving too fast, you may not be able to move the lever to neutral. With a clutch, there is no software to get in the way. You press the pedal, the plates disengage. Simple.
Going from a Windows 7 to an XP system is like night and day. Everything just works and works more smoothly. No hunting and having to search (why the fuck should I have to search for something on my own system?) for what I need. No buried menus to turn crap off.
With XP I never have to wait for the system to tell me, a minute or so later, that I mistyped a network resource, the whole time preventing me from retyping the correct path.
To use the tired phrase, "You can have my XP when you pry it from cold, dead hands."
You can have my keys when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
Analog always work. You never have to worry if the software in a keyless vehicle decides it's not going to work today or flake out while you're driving. Nor do you have to worry about your car being in a runaway situation and not being able to turn off your vehicle because the software says there's no problem.
It's the same thing with a manual transmission. When was the last time you ever heard of someone "accidentally" accelerating through a store because they hit the wrong pedal?
this level of detail in nature is strong evidence for creation rather than evolution.
So you're saying the Flying Spaghetti Monster created this highly complex system to move this critter rather than using the much simpler method of grasshoppers and crickets.
I guess that makes sense when you consider it had to impregnate someone else's wife (breaking one of its own commandments) to have its child which it then let be executed to fix the mistakes it made when it created man.
Yeah, I can see how you would believe this mechanism was created by such a being.
It took until windows 7 (more like 14 odd) for them to be mostly reliable.
By reliable you mean imaging a fresh W7 system, launching IE, selecting Windows Updates, waiting to find the site, then waiting for your system to be scanned which never completes.
Or better yet, you are told there are updates, you say to install them and the system just keeps grinding along, never doing anything until you restart.
I have estimated at least 25% of the time a new W7 install will not update right away unless and until you restart the machine.
The router does not look at the contents of each packet, only the headers. The router doesn't care where the packets are going to, or where they are coming from, it just finds the best path to the next router (if necessary).
I'm not sure how they, or anyone, can claim they weren't, and aren't now, siphoning every phone call and email yet are somehow able to target specific individuals or look for keywords.
If you're looking for keywords, then obviously you have to search everything. If you're looking for a specific word in a document, you have to search the entire document. You can't pick and choose.
The same with digital communications. Unlike a copper wire to someone's house where you can place a tap or read mail destined only to their address, you have to look at all traffic and then filter. Thus, you have to look at everyone's email and listen in on every phone call to find what you are looking for.
I barely qualify as geeky let alone as an expert, but even I know you can't claim to somehow, miraculously, target one individual's traffic in the stream while ignoring everyone else.
yep, not many people have the ability to play back 78's, wire recordings, 8 tracks, minidiscs, etc.
Just go to yard sales or flea markets and you can find the equipment. Fairly regularly I see 8-track players, turn tables and even, surprising as it may seem, the original laser disc player with discs!
A person may not be able to play back these items, but the equipment still exists and works.
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don't think there's anything voluntary about receiving medical treatment
If the government can force someone to buy health insurance, I don't see the problem. Both involve government intrusion into one's personal life so if you were happy with people being forced to buy something they didn't want or need, there is no reason not to have the government accessing those records.
A cop doing their job.
There is nothing short of an absolute, death-like issue that you need to be texting at a red light, or anywhere else while driving. Time and time again I've been behind people who were texting, the light turn greens and invariably I, or someone else, has to put on the horn to get them to pay attention to what they're doing as they're holding up traffic.
If you're that narcissistic or ADD that you think you need to be checking every ten seconds, go seek help.
Kudos to the cop enforcing the law.
I was thinking more along the lines of Bender.
dropped half as much into funding FOSS development of these engines as they do for licensing,
How does this make the software free? Someone is still paying for it. All you're suggesting is they shift the burden from licensing to funding something else.
You're missing the point. One does need to make the calculation to see if they'll be arriving at the tree before or after your hunting partner. If it's before, no problems. If after, pick up the pace!
But the zombie apocalypse is still ok, right?
For the same reason we make you buy car insurance.
False dichotomy. While I have never had an accident in the several decades I've been driving, there is still a very small, non-zero chance I may plow into you. That affects you as well as I. Personally, since I've been such a great driver my rate should be half what it is, but it's still lower than almost everyone else. But that's a story for another time.
If I break my arm, how does that affect you? It doesn't. That's the difference. You want to get drunk every weekend or do whatever drugs you want, the cost of your medical expenses should be on your shoulders, not mine.
With RomObamacare, the burden is shifted to everyone else EXCEPT the person who should be taking personal responsibility for their lives. Instead, they get to continue to smoke, be obese, kill their liver, do drugs, secure in the knowledge that no matter what, someone else will pick up the tab. Not them.
That's the difference.
the lucky shareholders of CSC who got 10 billion GBP for nothing.
Sort of like the health insurers in the U.S. who have gotten a multi-million dollar windfall by people being forced to buy something but won't use.
If I can pay for my medical care out of my own pocket, how is that leeching?
Or are you referring to people leeching off me by taking my money because they couldn't take personal responsibility for themselves and continue to smoke, be obese, get drunk regularly and do drugs?
The hospital covers their losses on people who do not pay by charging higher prices for those who do.
So that means, with all the extra money flowing into the system, which will now be solely used to cover these previous losses, my bill will go down, right? That's what is supposed to happen, right?
Or is this about giving the health insurance companies hundreds of millions of dollars in free money from people like me who don't need health services?
For example we pay more than other first world nations for healthcare and get less of it.
Yes, and the President and his party is now forcing everyone to pay, whether they want to or not, whether they can or not, which now creates a larger financial burden for the very people he claims he was trying to help.
So explain how making me pay more helps me?
but is this seriously such a problem with people shitting and puking on trains...
Yes, sadly it is, particularly on the weekends when people are out "living their life to the fullest". It's their life so what do they care about the mess they leave behind?
Witness what happens in New York City parks on weekends.
How do you snap two windows side by side in XP?
I move them side-by-side. How hard is that?
How do you utilize more than 3GB of your memory in XP?
XP supports up to 4GB of memory
There are LOTS of usability tweaks in later versions.
I'm still waiting to find them. I did multiple tests comparing how easy it is to get to places in XP or make configuration changes and the extra steps involved in W7. In some cases it takes twice as many steps to accomplish the same thing.
Then there are the visual issues such as not being able to completely turn off all effects. In XP I could turn them all off. In W7 you can sort of turn them off but the system will still use them when it feels like.
The only reason people believe 7 is good is because it's the Service Pack for Vista which was so horrible. Of course 7 looks good when you use that comparison.
Roughly every month there is an article about someone "accidentally" hitting the accelerator rather than the brake in an automatic. As a result, they go flying through a store, over a parking garage edge or into a crowd.
It is essentially impossible to do this in a stick as both your feet are occupied. If you hit the gas, the clutch is still in so you don't go anywhere. If you pop the clutch you will most likely stall the car.
As to shifting in to neutral, if the software determines there is no issue or you are driving too fast, you may not be able to move the lever to neutral. With a clutch, there is no software to get in the way. You press the pedal, the plates disengage. Simple.
version of 2000.
:)
I still have a system running 2000.
Going from a Windows 7 to an XP system is like night and day. Everything just works and works more smoothly. No hunting and having to search (why the fuck should I have to search for something on my own system?) for what I need. No buried menus to turn crap off.
With XP I never have to wait for the system to tell me, a minute or so later, that I mistyped a network resource, the whole time preventing me from retyping the correct path.
To use the tired phrase, "You can have my XP when you pry it from cold, dead hands."
Btw, that's cute - turning a key... so 1990s
You can have my keys when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
Analog always work. You never have to worry if the software in a keyless vehicle decides it's not going to work today or flake out while you're driving. Nor do you have to worry about your car being in a runaway situation and not being able to turn off your vehicle because the software says there's no problem.
It's the same thing with a manual transmission. When was the last time you ever heard of someone "accidentally" accelerating through a store because they hit the wrong pedal?
Analog just works. Period.
this level of detail in nature is strong evidence for creation rather than evolution.
So you're saying the Flying Spaghetti Monster created this highly complex system to move this critter rather than using the much simpler method of grasshoppers and crickets.
I guess that makes sense when you consider it had to impregnate someone else's wife (breaking one of its own commandments) to have its child which it then let be executed to fix the mistakes it made when it created man.
Yeah, I can see how you would believe this mechanism was created by such a being.
The belief that your photos and comments are somehow important to anyone else on the planet.
It took until windows 7 (more like 14 odd) for them to be mostly reliable.
By reliable you mean imaging a fresh W7 system, launching IE, selecting Windows Updates, waiting to find the site, then waiting for your system to be scanned which never completes.
Or better yet, you are told there are updates, you say to install them and the system just keeps grinding along, never doing anything until you restart.
I have estimated at least 25% of the time a new W7 install will not update right away unless and until you restart the machine.
Never had this problem with XP.
The router does not look at the contents of each packet, only the headers. The router doesn't care where the packets are going to, or where they are coming from, it just finds the best path to the next router (if necessary).
I'm not sure how they, or anyone, can claim they weren't, and aren't now, siphoning every phone call and email yet are somehow able to target specific individuals or look for keywords.
If you're looking for keywords, then obviously you have to search everything. If you're looking for a specific word in a document, you have to search the entire document. You can't pick and choose.
The same with digital communications. Unlike a copper wire to someone's house where you can place a tap or read mail destined only to their address, you have to look at all traffic and then filter. Thus, you have to look at everyone's email and listen in on every phone call to find what you are looking for.
I barely qualify as geeky let alone as an expert, but even I know you can't claim to somehow, miraculously, target one individual's traffic in the stream while ignoring everyone else.
Who's to fault these guys, they could be the next Zuckerberg.
*shivers*
You've never seen some British beaches, have you?
When I went away for my last two years of college, the beach behind my building was effectively all rocks.
yep, not many people have the ability to play back 78's, wire recordings, 8 tracks, minidiscs, etc.
Just go to yard sales or flea markets and you can find the equipment. Fairly regularly I see 8-track players, turn tables and even, surprising as it may seem, the original laser disc player with discs!
A person may not be able to play back these items, but the equipment still exists and works.