I know I've already committed karma suicide by taking an unpopular stance several times in this article, but I'm going to do it again by strongly disagreeing with a 4digit UID.
Anyways, the insurance costs are really not bad. One thing that people don't often realize (from foreign countries) is that we rarely pay the upfront cost. The vast majorities of American workers have some sort of payment or coverage help from their businesses. I know most other countries don't have this.
The comment about getting turfed out in life or death is completely false. There are very few hospitals that will reject insurance if it is a legitimate corporation. That, and hospitals in America will do anything in their power to save your life first, and worry about costs later. Most hospitals do have ERs, few don't. Only the local community hospitals don't, any significant city will certainly have at least one. Case in point: I live in a city of 200,000 people, and there are two major hospitals both with ER's.
I see no inherent problem in hospitals being for-profit, although it is untrue that all are. There are significant amounts of university-run hospitals. I use my hometown as a case example here again, the University of Rochester runs Strong Memorial Hospital which is a nationally recognized hospital for its outstanding care and services. I do not think that the American system is either broke, (certainly it has flaws), or un-fixable. The flaws we have certainly can be fixed.
I prefer the system we have in the States. For-profit doesn't always work out the best, but it does vastly increase efficiency. Hospitals in the States have more specialists, faster times, and IMHO, better care overall. Does it cost us money? Sure, deductibles from our paycheck, or co-pays. But you pay for that in higher taxes up North.
I have a lot of respect for Canadians, and I think it's a very interesting venture to try to give free-health care. But I think oftentimes it creates more problems than it solves. If your system satisfies you, beautiful. But I'll keep ours.
As an American, I disagree. I believe Canada has gone the way of Europe with socialism and a cradle-to-grave social net, whereas America has tried to keep government out of most affairs.
We Americans regard the world as dog-eat-dog because of the unique situation we are in, as the only superpower. There isn't worldwide hatred/love for Canada because it's actions rarely have worldwide implications. (Not to demean you or anything) Therefore we naturally have more enemies than Canada.
I do get the feeling though our military is sadly not necessarily the United States Armed Forces as much as the Western Civilization Armed Forces. We seem to have to fight the West's battles.:(
Your comment is fairly objective until you hit " Fascists, either Christian or racial, will definitely feel more at home in the USA. It's your kind of place."
#1- My apologies for wrongly labelling you a student. It's just the first thing I think of.
#2- I never said, nor did I mean to say you were part of the so-called "moral" majority. I was only saying that Utah mixes state and religion just as badly as Kansas, if not more. I'm not saying you're one of those crazy Mormons, but that's like Afghanistan pointing and laughing at Iraq's serious lack of a central government.
Intelligent design is not creationism of 20 years ago. It's more like God + Evolution, stating that a Supreme Being could have helped stuff evolve the way it did.
Intelligent design seems to contradict the idea of taking the creationist story literally. The idea that the world was created in 7 days is not Intelligent Design. Intelligent design believes that it is more a story, like you yourself mentioned, and could have happened over thousands of years through the process of evolution.
In 1999 the Kansas Board of Education voted to delete references to evolution from Kansas science standards. This had the net effect of removing the teaching of evolution from the state's science curriculum.
Subsequent elections altered the membership of the school board and led to renewed backing for evolution instruction in 2001.
It sounds like a good idea, and seems to have worked decently.
However in my opinion it was a failure because only 49% of Estonians have access to the Internet. That, combined with the miserable turnout rate, does not constitute a legitamite election.
Out of a population of 1,344,840, there are approximately 670,000 Estonians with access to internet. That's a paltry 49.8%. Any system where less than a majority is allowed to vote is not a success, compared to a much higher number. Clearly, it needs work.
What could be done to change computing to help mitigate this multitasking?"
Well, for starters, we could stop reading slashdot at work.
Yeaahhhh, I just read slashdot, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
Y'know, other than US control, I don't see any real legitimate beef that the EU/UN could have. As far as I know, (which isn't much, as a casual internet user) the internet has been run fine under US control.
What is their real complaint?! Please enlighten me!
The RICO act is actually a United States Federal law, meaning you can sue under this act not just in Oregon. (Wink wink nudge nudge)
"Under RICO", a person or group who commits any two of 35 crimes--27 federal crimes and 8 state crimes--within a 10-year period and (in the opinion of the U. S. Attorney bringing the case) has committed those crimes with similar purpose or results can be charged with racketeering. Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25,000 and/or sentenced to 20 years in prison. In addition, the racketeer must forfeit all ill-gotten gains and interest in any business gained through a pattern of "racketeering activity." The act also contains a civil component that allows plaintiffs to sue for triple damages."
So for everyone in every other state in the Union, sue away!
Someone probably did a cost/benefit analysis and found out that it was stupid. Better than trying to maintain it.
Example- (Quoted from Wikipedia)
The city of Rochester, New York once had an underground rapid transit system, called the Rochester Subway (AAR reporting mark RSB) from 1928-1956. Contemporary photos show, however, that like Boston's Green Line, it used single streetcar vehicles, and so using today's terms would likely be described as a light rail system.
In 1900 the Erie Canal was re-routed to by-pass downtown Rochester, and in 1919 the abandoned canal was bought to serve as the core of the subway. The subway was built below, and the subway's roof was turned into Broad Street.
There are proposals to build a new rapid transit system in Rochester, which would use some of the old tunnels.
The problem is my city, Rochester, is nowhere near big enough for another subway system. Unfortunately, plans are still moving forward because people think "We need this" but not "at what cost."
I disagree. I think a policy of greater economic interaction will slowly convert China into a more free society. Rich people are less willing to be shoved around by their government than poor people who depend on it.
will still be interesting, to say the least. For example, in Doom3, when surrounded by Americans, (aka- evil zombies for the American gamer) you will be able to hit the "OH SHIT RESCUE" button triggering the following response.
[GAME]: Mao Zedong and his undead Communist revolutionary army come to your rescue, destroying the evil American capitalist forces and ensuring peace and prosperity.
Lousy joke aside, does anyone think China won't use gaming as propaganda?
was the lack of Freespace3. I thought Freespace1/2 were phenomenally done. Freespace 2 was one of the few game sequels I thought thoroughly improved the previous game in every aspect. Graphics, gameplay, interaction were all great.
Sadly, Freespace3 was one of the many casualties of Interplay's death.
Disclaimer: I do INDEED use Linux most of the time.
Games- Counterstrike. Actually, I have made my move. I generally run Debian. There's just not a lot of games for it.
Programs- I don't use MS word, in fact OpenOffice is installed on my windows partion. I'm talking iTunes for my sisters iPod, Flickr Uploadr, Ares, etc.
Family? Maybe so. But how many people enjoy Linux? Not many. Installing programs for the average person is a bitch. Nobody knows what dependencies are, the concept of "root" is alien (Why can't I login to root is the #1 question I get), etc. That, and most programs aren't created for GNU/Linux that my family sees on the 'net and wants to download.
People are built to depend on Windows. Microsoft did a great job of it. KDE comes close, but I still hear complaints.
Linux isn't for everyone.
All in all, your "Linux evangelicism" really doesn't ring true.
I know myself, I haven't been able to quit Windows cold turkey. In general I use linux, but there are many Windows-specific things, several of which he mentions.
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Think they got wind of a potentially nasty lawsuit with the US Government? Absolutely. It definitely did have to do with the drop.
Except this is in Canada and the DMCA is a US-law.
Anyways, the insurance costs are really not bad. One thing that people don't often realize (from foreign countries) is that we rarely pay the upfront cost. The vast majorities of American workers have some sort of payment or coverage help from their businesses. I know most other countries don't have this.
The comment about getting turfed out in life or death is completely false. There are very few hospitals that will reject insurance if it is a legitimate corporation. That, and hospitals in America will do anything in their power to save your life first, and worry about costs later. Most hospitals do have ERs, few don't. Only the local community hospitals don't, any significant city will certainly have at least one. Case in point: I live in a city of 200,000 people, and there are two major hospitals both with ER's.
I see no inherent problem in hospitals being for-profit, although it is untrue that all are. There are significant amounts of university-run hospitals. I use my hometown as a case example here again, the University of Rochester runs Strong Memorial Hospital which is a nationally recognized hospital for its outstanding care and services. I do not think that the American system is either broke, (certainly it has flaws), or un-fixable. The flaws we have certainly can be fixed.
I prefer the system we have in the States. For-profit doesn't always work out the best, but it does vastly increase efficiency. Hospitals in the States have more specialists, faster times, and IMHO, better care overall. Does it cost us money? Sure, deductibles from our paycheck, or co-pays. But you pay for that in higher taxes up North.
I have a lot of respect for Canadians, and I think it's a very interesting venture to try to give free-health care. But I think oftentimes it creates more problems than it solves. If your system satisfies you, beautiful. But I'll keep ours.
We Americans regard the world as dog-eat-dog because of the unique situation we are in, as the only superpower. There isn't worldwide hatred/love for Canada because it's actions rarely have worldwide implications. (Not to demean you or anything) Therefore we naturally have more enemies than Canada.
I do get the feeling though our military is sadly not necessarily the United States Armed Forces as much as the Western Civilization Armed Forces. We seem to have to fight the West's battles. :(
Way to be.
Or since that won't probably work, pretend you are from the Ivory Coast.
#2- I never said, nor did I mean to say you were part of the so-called "moral" majority. I was only saying that Utah mixes state and religion just as badly as Kansas, if not more. I'm not saying you're one of those crazy Mormons, but that's like Afghanistan pointing and laughing at Iraq's serious lack of a central government.
Intelligent design is not creationism of 20 years ago. It's more like God + Evolution, stating that a Supreme Being could have helped stuff evolve the way it did.
Intelligent design seems to contradict the idea of taking the creationist story literally. The idea that the world was created in 7 days is not Intelligent Design. Intelligent design believes that it is more a story, like you yourself mentioned, and could have happened over thousands of years through the process of evolution.
In 1999 the Kansas Board of Education voted to delete references to evolution from Kansas science standards. This had the net effect of removing the teaching of evolution from the state's science curriculum.
Subsequent elections altered the membership of the school board and led to renewed backing for evolution instruction in 2001.
(I'm Mormon, so don't flame me for being anti-Mormon)
However in my opinion it was a failure because only 49% of Estonians have access to the Internet. That, combined with the miserable turnout rate, does not constitute a legitamite election.
Out of a population of 1,344,840, there are approximately 670,000 Estonians with access to internet. That's a paltry 49.8%. Any system where less than a majority is allowed to vote is not a success, compared to a much higher number. Clearly, it needs work.
Statistics Here
Well, for starters, we could stop reading slashdot at work.
Yeaahhhh, I just read slashdot, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
I guess we'll hope for another spring-up?
What is their real complaint?! Please enlighten me!
Spielberg already directed a World Famous Movie of Pong!
"Under RICO", a person or group who commits any two of 35 crimes--27 federal crimes and 8 state crimes--within a 10-year period and (in the opinion of the U. S. Attorney bringing the case) has committed those crimes with similar purpose or results can be charged with racketeering. Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25,000 and/or sentenced to 20 years in prison. In addition, the racketeer must forfeit all ill-gotten gains and interest in any business gained through a pattern of "racketeering activity." The act also contains a civil component that allows plaintiffs to sue for triple damages."
So for everyone in every other state in the Union, sue away!
Example- (Quoted from Wikipedia) The city of Rochester, New York once had an underground rapid transit system, called the Rochester Subway (AAR reporting mark RSB) from 1928-1956. Contemporary photos show, however, that like Boston's Green Line, it used single streetcar vehicles, and so using today's terms would likely be described as a light rail system.
In 1900 the Erie Canal was re-routed to by-pass downtown Rochester, and in 1919 the abandoned canal was bought to serve as the core of the subway. The subway was built below, and the subway's roof was turned into Broad Street.
There are proposals to build a new rapid transit system in Rochester, which would use some of the old tunnels.
The problem is my city, Rochester, is nowhere near big enough for another subway system. Unfortunately, plans are still moving forward because people think "We need this" but not "at what cost."
I disagree. I think a policy of greater economic interaction will slowly convert China into a more free society. Rich people are less willing to be shoved around by their government than poor people who depend on it.
Well, I can give you a yes with a very long but, or a no with a "except".
[GAME]: Mao Zedong and his undead Communist revolutionary army come to your rescue, destroying the evil American capitalist forces and ensuring peace and prosperity.
Lousy joke aside, does anyone think China won't use gaming as propaganda?
Sadly, Freespace3 was one of the many casualties of Interplay's death.
Games- Counterstrike. Actually, I have made my move. I generally run Debian. There's just not a lot of games for it.
Programs- I don't use MS word, in fact OpenOffice is installed on my windows partion. I'm talking iTunes for my sisters iPod, Flickr Uploadr, Ares, etc.
Family? Maybe so. But how many people enjoy Linux? Not many. Installing programs for the average person is a bitch. Nobody knows what dependencies are, the concept of "root" is alien (Why can't I login to root is the #1 question I get), etc. That, and most programs aren't created for GNU/Linux that my family sees on the 'net and wants to download.
People are built to depend on Windows. Microsoft did a great job of it. KDE comes close, but I still hear complaints.
Linux isn't for everyone.
All in all, your "Linux evangelicism" really doesn't ring true.
I'll list a few big ones.
Games, of course.
Certain programs.
Family.
We can all sleep tonight.