I like glancing at my home town newspaper without committing to a big subscription. If the ads don't work, though I won't have that option.
Sounds like your home town newspaper is suffering from lack of imagination as much as anything else. My home town newspaper provides a full pdf of the print version every day for free.
How do they do it? By thinking outside the box.
It costs them a whole lot less to distribute via the internet than by physical means, and their distribution is not limited by geography.
I get the newspaper in the form I am used to, and I cannot block the ads. But that doesn't matter, the ads are in a form that I am used to and readily accept.
The publisher can prove that they distributed x copies of the paper, so they can charge standard rates for the ads.
See, that's not so hard.
I'm getting real tired of hearing "OMG, Adblock users are cheats! They're bringing down the Internet!"
One model I've seen is for a newspaper to provide free access to a pdf of its full print edition. Just like reading the old-fashioned newspaper, print ads and all.
Nice thing for the newspaper, the reader can't block the ads so they can charge regular print advertising rates and the distribution costs are lower. Nice thing for the reader, it doesn't cost anything and is just there on the computer whenever they want it in a form that they are used to.
No mod points today, but I can give you a big AMEN, brother!
Once you get started (I went about halfway through the tutorial), Inkscape gets out of the way and just lets you be creative. It's hard to define what it is about the interface, but it is a real pleasure to work with. It passed the "wife test" with flying colors!
Answers:
1)It is going to be totally worth the store's time/money to individually "custom burn" each piece of fruit to hide individual blemishes. Not.
2)No "artificial chemical" imprinted, just a laser burn.
One advantage is if you are making something that requires processing of several pieces of fruit. This removes one step you have to perform on each piece of fruit.
As I was boarding a flight the other day, I noticed a clipboard that was sitting at the end of the jetway, and there was a form there that was used to verify that pilot and copilot were not eating the same thing for their in-flight meal.
The only thing that has worked reliably over the years (and at the moment) has been OSS. ALSA kind of worked for a while, but since the latest Amarok upgrade, the only thing that works is OSS.
From my POV, Linux audio has gotten worse, not better. The audio quality itself is fine, but a couple of times a year the Next Big Thing in Linux audio comes along and fucks up my audio.
Then I have to waste hours fucking around trying to figure out the magic combination of either mixer settings or order of starting applications, which works once I figure it out only to get broken again some months down the line.
Yes, I am ranting, I had to do this very thing yesterday to be able to get usable audio out of Xine and Amarok.
I am hardcore for Linux, but the audio system is in a perpetual alpha-quality state and never gets better.
Adam: God, this garden is nice and all, but I'm lonely and vaguely...unsatisfied. Plus I have to do all of the cooking and cleaning.
God: Well, I can provide a companion, who will satisfy your all of your needs whenever you ask. She will cook, clean, satisfy you, do anything you want whenever you want.
Adam: Sounds great! But what will it cost me?
God: One arm and one leg.
Adam: Hmmm, that's pretty expensive. What can I get for, say, one rib?
We are all "doomed to death", eventually. Lay off the histrionics.
Tell me, what is the difference between murder and natural caused when we are all doomed to death eventually and it doesn't matter?
I didn't say that it didn't matter. Your choice of the words "doomed to death" is an explicit appeal to emotion, not logic. That is what I see as a big problem with the current discussion about health care, the conversation is so full of people squawking emotion-laden buzzwords that the logical arguments are not being made/considered.
no one should ration health care or withhold this procedure because of their age or status/worth in society.
You still don't get it. The consideration of age in the decision, is not about "you've lived enough life, time to give it up", it is about risk/benefit. The older you are, the riskier surgery is. A doctor doesn't give a shit about your worth to society, the doctor is focused on the patient and the risk assessment.
Yet the current system "rations" health care all the time. If your insurance company decides to deny coverage for an "experimental procedure" (something I can tell you from personal experience, they have a -very- broad definition of), you -are- down to your worth - can you pay for the procedure yourself?
The "death panels" (to get back to your original topic) are quite real and are here today. They make decisions based not on what's best for the patient, but what's best for their bottom line, and yes they do take into account status/worth in society. Ignoring this fact does not make it go away.
How do you propose that this problem be dealt with?
it is not a doctors job to say "I will not potentially save this person and doom them to death because they might die in the operating table"
We are all "doomed to death", eventually. Lay off the histrionics.
If a doctor's evaluation is that the risk of surgery is greater than the benefit, they are bound by their Hippocratic oath not to perform that surgery. The patient is entitled to seek other doctors' opinions, but if none of those other doctors have a different opinion, none of them are going to operate. It is absolutely the doctor's job to "first, do no harm".
It is not anyone's right to dictate treatment to a doctor over that doctor's informed opinion. Ask Michael Jackson's doctor what happens when you let the patient dictate treatment.
It is not the doctors job to determine that a patient is too old to receive the same quality care that a 20 year old would receive and doom that old patient to death because they already lived their life.
Nice spin. There's that "doomed to death" thing again.
It's not because they have already lived their life, and the doctor just doesn't feel like operating. It is because the risk of the surgery is much greater than the potential benefit to be gained from it. It's nothing to do with age in particular. It's about risk/benefit.
The point is, it's the patient's decision to die from their condition and no one else.
The point is that it isn't, if the alternative to dying from their condition requires a doctor to perform some action that they cannot ethically perform. Forcing doctors to provide treatment in violation of their Hippocratic oath is not a road we want to go down.
we disagree on the pretense that you or anyone else can tell someone they aren't allowed to have surgery because they might die when the alternative to surgery is death for sure.
That's part of a doctor's job, to do an -informed- risk analysis based on what is best for the patient.
BTW, it is also what insurance companies do based on what is best for the insurance company, which I think is wrong.
a woman talking about her 105 year old mother getting a fucking pacemaker
If you are 105 years old, getting a pacemaker installed is insane in terms of risk/benefit. If you're that old you're not a good candidate for surgery.
Nothing to do with "death panels", it's just not good medical practice.
Whoops, had my posts mixed up, the reference to encryption is in a later thread. But I would still wager that these little devices are no worse than the average wifi...
Thankyou for demonstrating you know fuck all about RF. Yes, it stops at the meter but that means that it doesn't use the mains wiring in the street as an antenna. It still uses the ring mains in your house, moron.
My point wasn't that it isn't radiating, my point was that the "oh noes, some wise guy is going to read your email" BS was wrong. Your neighbor isn't going to be able to plug in one of these devices and sniff your traffic, because it is encrypted -and- blocked at the meter.
But now that you bring it up, it isn't like BPL broadcasting at high power over a large area, it is low-power RF broadcasting over a limited area. Like, you know, WiFi...
What's with the "moron" shit, BTW? I didn't attack you, I just disagreed with you. Your response shows a lack of civility and, might I add, a lack of maturity. Argue the facts, but don't call me names.
I'll wager this crap doesn't even have encryption like WiFi does, so if you're using it, a sufficiently skilled guy could easily intercept your data.
The ones I have used (Devolo) do have encryption, and the RF is blocked at the meter. I would wager that the RF leakage of one of these units is no worse than WiFi.
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I like glancing at my home town newspaper without committing to a big subscription. If the ads don't work, though I won't have that option.
Sounds like your home town newspaper is suffering from lack of imagination as much as anything else. My home town newspaper provides a full pdf of the print version every day for free.
How do they do it? By thinking outside the box.
It costs them a whole lot less to distribute via the internet than by physical means, and their distribution is not limited by geography.
I get the newspaper in the form I am used to, and I cannot block the ads. But that doesn't matter, the ads are in a form that I am used to and readily accept.
The publisher can prove that they distributed x copies of the paper, so they can charge standard rates for the ads.
See, that's not so hard.
I'm getting real tired of hearing "OMG, Adblock users are cheats! They're bringing down the Internet!"
One model I've seen is for a newspaper to provide free access to a pdf of its full print edition. Just like reading the old-fashioned newspaper, print ads and all. Nice thing for the newspaper, the reader can't block the ads so they can charge regular print advertising rates and the distribution costs are lower. Nice thing for the reader, it doesn't cost anything and is just there on the computer whenever they want it in a form that they are used to.
No mod points today, but I can give you a big AMEN, brother! Once you get started (I went about halfway through the tutorial), Inkscape gets out of the way and just lets you be creative. It's hard to define what it is about the interface, but it is a real pleasure to work with. It passed the "wife test" with flying colors!
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Answers: 1)It is going to be totally worth the store's time/money to individually "custom burn" each piece of fruit to hide individual blemishes. Not. 2)No "artificial chemical" imprinted, just a laser burn. One advantage is if you are making something that requires processing of several pieces of fruit. This removes one step you have to perform on each piece of fruit.
Not OSS. Nothing to see here, move along...
You can use the land for multiple purposes at the same time. Kind of like this...
Yet, during a recent trip to Maine, the number of people I saw on the interstate -texting- while driving was astounding.
When it comes to the cell phone, people just have no self-control. The dopamine response is just too strong.
I know there are at least some precautions.
As I was boarding a flight the other day, I noticed a clipboard that was sitting at the end of the jetway, and there was a form there that was used to verify that pilot and copilot were not eating the same thing for their in-flight meal.
A-fucking-men!
I feel your pain.
The only thing that has worked reliably over the years (and at the moment) has been OSS. ALSA kind of worked for a while, but since the latest Amarok upgrade, the only thing that works is OSS.
From my POV, Linux audio has gotten worse, not better. The audio quality itself is fine, but a couple of times a year the Next Big Thing in Linux audio comes along and fucks up my audio.
Then I have to waste hours fucking around trying to figure out the magic combination of either mixer settings or order of starting applications, which works once I figure it out only to get broken again some months down the line.
Yes, I am ranting, I had to do this very thing yesterday to be able to get usable audio out of Xine and Amarok.
I am hardcore for Linux, but the audio system is in a perpetual alpha-quality state and never gets better.
Fuck.
Adam: God, this garden is nice and all, but I'm lonely and vaguely...unsatisfied. Plus I have to do all of the cooking and cleaning.
God: Well, I can provide a companion, who will satisfy your all of your needs whenever you ask. She will cook, clean, satisfy you, do anything you want whenever you want.
Adam: Sounds great! But what will it cost me?
God: One arm and one leg.
Adam: Hmmm, that's pretty expensive. What can I get for, say, one rib?
We are all "doomed to death", eventually. Lay off the histrionics.
Tell me, what is the difference between murder and natural caused when we are all doomed to death eventually and it doesn't matter?
I didn't say that it didn't matter. Your choice of the words "doomed to death" is an explicit appeal to emotion, not logic. That is what I see as a big problem with the current discussion about health care, the conversation is so full of people squawking emotion-laden buzzwords that the logical arguments are not being made/considered.
no one should ration health care or withhold this procedure because of their age or status/worth in society.
You still don't get it. The consideration of age in the decision, is not about "you've lived enough life, time to give it up", it is about risk/benefit. The older you are, the riskier surgery is. A doctor doesn't give a shit about your worth to society, the doctor is focused on the patient and the risk assessment.
Yet the current system "rations" health care all the time. If your insurance company decides to deny coverage for an "experimental procedure" (something I can tell you from personal experience, they have a -very- broad definition of), you -are- down to your worth - can you pay for the procedure yourself?
The "death panels" (to get back to your original topic) are quite real and are here today. They make decisions based not on what's best for the patient, but what's best for their bottom line, and yes they do take into account status/worth in society. Ignoring this fact does not make it go away.
How do you propose that this problem be dealt with?
it is not a doctors job to say "I will not potentially save this person and doom them to death because they might die in the operating table"
We are all "doomed to death", eventually. Lay off the histrionics.
If a doctor's evaluation is that the risk of surgery is greater than the benefit, they are bound by their Hippocratic oath not to perform that surgery. The patient is entitled to seek other doctors' opinions, but if none of those other doctors have a different opinion, none of them are going to operate. It is absolutely the doctor's job to "first, do no harm".
It is not anyone's right to dictate treatment to a doctor over that doctor's informed opinion. Ask Michael Jackson's doctor what happens when you let the patient dictate treatment.
It is not the doctors job to determine that a patient is too old to receive the same quality care that a 20 year old would receive and doom that old patient to death because they already lived their life.
Nice spin. There's that "doomed to death" thing again.
It's not because they have already lived their life, and the doctor just doesn't feel like operating. It is because the risk of the surgery is much greater than the potential benefit to be gained from it. It's nothing to do with age in particular. It's about risk/benefit.
The point is, it's the patient's decision to die from their condition and no one else.
The point is that it isn't, if the alternative to dying from their condition requires a doctor to perform some action that they cannot ethically perform. Forcing doctors to provide treatment in violation of their Hippocratic oath is not a road we want to go down.
I'd worry orange penis would turn off sex desire.
You gotta lay off the Cheetos when you're surfing pr0n....
we disagree on the pretense that you or anyone else can tell someone they aren't allowed to have surgery because they might die when the alternative to surgery is death for sure.
That's part of a doctor's job, to do an -informed- risk analysis based on what is best for the patient.
BTW, it is also what insurance companies do based on what is best for the insurance company, which I think is wrong.
You might want to look into anger management.
We disagree about whether or not a 100 year old person is a good surgical candidate, no reason to fly off the handle and start hurling insults.
a woman talking about her 105 year old mother getting a fucking pacemaker
If you are 105 years old, getting a pacemaker installed is insane in terms of risk/benefit. If you're that old you're not a good candidate for surgery.
Nothing to do with "death panels", it's just not good medical practice.
Any competent doctor would concur.
i thought that the primary reason was, er, slavery.
Fail.
HOLY WAR!!!
Information wants to be free.
Whoops, had my posts mixed up, the reference to encryption is in a later thread. But I would still wager that these little devices are no worse than the average wifi...
Thankyou for demonstrating you know fuck all about RF. Yes, it stops at the meter but that means that it doesn't use the mains wiring in the street as an antenna. It still uses the ring mains in your house, moron.
My point wasn't that it isn't radiating, my point was that the "oh noes, some wise guy is going to read your email" BS was wrong. Your neighbor isn't going to be able to plug in one of these devices and sniff your traffic, because it is encrypted -and- blocked at the meter.
But now that you bring it up, it isn't like BPL broadcasting at high power over a large area, it is low-power RF broadcasting over a limited area. Like, you know, WiFi...
What's with the "moron" shit, BTW? I didn't attack you, I just disagreed with you. Your response shows a lack of civility and, might I add, a lack of maturity. Argue the facts, but don't call me names.
I'll wager this crap doesn't even have encryption like WiFi does, so if you're using it, a sufficiently skilled guy could easily intercept your data.
The ones I have used (Devolo) do have encryption, and the RF is blocked at the meter. I would wager that the RF leakage of one of these units is no worse than WiFi.