Problem is insurance premiums will never get lower, as the parent posted that extra money would just be considered profit, there's little or no competition for health insurance in the US, monopolies don't lower their prices.
Tell me, what would happen if only one (non functioning) eye were replaced with an implant while the other worked normally. Would such an implant at vga resolution improve or degrade the sight of the otherwise one eyed person?
Okay I'll play, I have a sparcstation 2 with 32 megs of ram, a 512meg scsi hdd mono framebuffer and a 19" mono monitor. Back when I was younger and more carefree I used to run netbsd on it with qvwm and then run solarir x86 on my PC just to confuse people.
Perhaps if you replaced the word author with the word storyteller, it's more apt for most fiction. Think about it, no offense to Stephen King but he tells stories, he entertains the people who like his stuff, proofreaders and editors make it readable, everyone's happy. He should be and is in that job.
What you're thinking of as authors are the um.. "serious" types who write the books you see studied in university level English lit classes and enjoyed by people with different tastes, that's fine but the other types don't need a new line of work, they just need the services a publisher provides above and beyond the printing and book binding.
hose who cling to the untrue doctrine that violence never settles anything would be advised to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Its fair use, sue me if you want copyright demons.
Then go to business school
become a complete tool
Shop at walmart
watch fox news
join the local religon
support insane copyright laws (we must protect disney's rat!)
?
profit!
The problem with encouraging kids to be timid and just like everyone else is they end up just like everyone else, part of the problem. Of course they should pay attention in class and obey the school rules but the people not doing that are more likely to be the bully. The kid who watches star trek instead of american idol and reads tolkien instead of twilight is the one getting picked on.
Here's the real lesson kids, give up anything that makes you an individual and join the herd or the dumb animals will trample you.
It's practical because the vast majority of trials take a day or two. It would be like 20 years ago telling someone they couldn't watch tv for 2 days, for most it wouldn't have been fun but a day or two of boredom isn't the end of the world and they did have nintendo.
Because said work is almost certain to contain stuff scraped from works already in the public domain. In the western world maybe an allusion to a bible story or fairy tale? A phrase Shakespeare managed to add into the English language? Anything that's part of the hero's journey has likely been done before. No doubt what someone gets published is different enough to be a new work but it would be built on the collective culture that came before it. When a work is controlled forever or a patent lasts forever sooner or later everything starts to infringe on everything else, with nothing you can build on there's no progress.
Copyright is a compromise, we delay building on your work for a few years while you try to make a buck and in exchange after those few years we get to make copies of your whatever, remix it, re-imagine it, see how it works when you replace the puppies with kittens, see how the story changes if it takes place in a different place or time or maybe just reference the one clever phrase you've ever come up with in your life.
If you want to keep control forever don't publish.
no stealing deprives someone of their property, since making a copy doesn't destory the orginal when it comes to digital goods it's instead considered copyright infringment, you can argue the same motive, to gain something without paying for it but stealing is a criminal matter infringment is civil.
I didn't lie, you did, there is NO jail time try watching something that isn't fox news.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090908/D9AJCL500.html
Just as auto coverage is now mandatory in most states, Baucus would a require that all Americans get health insurance once the system is overhauled. Penalties for failing to get insurance would start at $750 a year for individuals and $1,500 for families. Households making more than three times the federal poverty level - about $66,000 for a family of four - would face the maximum fines. For families, it would be $3,800, and for individuals, $950.
You did do something usual for a conservative though, You lied.
No one. Let me reapeat it NO ONE would be jailed for not having insurance, they would be fined and said fine was less than $1000.
That aside, torn reform is something valid to debate as the LAST step in fixing health care not done until everything else is, otherwise it just increases the profits of the same people who've been driving up prices to begin with. Maybe after companies sotp having near monopolies in the state(s) they operate in, after there's a public option to try and keep those guys honest, after havign a preexisting hangnail doesn't get you denied any form of health insurance and whatever else has slipped my mind just now, then we can talk about insane court awards and frivilous lawsuits.
You know... this is the first time a slashdot post has changed my mind on something I felt strongly about. I can still watch versions where Han shoots first and it doesn't harm me in any way if other people watch a revised version of the film. Thank you.
The topic wasn't elections it was petitions. The latter, in the United States at least is by secret ballot, the former is form of public support for something.
If it helps you can think of a petition as being like the decleration of independance. The people who signed it made a public stand and accepted any personal consequences that go along with it.
Joint filing of federal income taxes.
By any I assume you only needed one, I could list more if you like though it does vary by state as some expressly forbid contracts that simulate benfits granted by marriage.
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Problem is insurance premiums will never get lower, as the parent posted that extra money would just be considered profit, there's little or no competition for health insurance in the US, monopolies don't lower their prices.
This is why we need a -1 astroturfing.
No
Patton used ivory. Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled pistol
I disagree, at the point where the FBI is called you should start thinking about your 5'th amendment rights and shut the hell up.
Tell me, what would happen if only one (non functioning) eye were replaced with an implant while the other worked normally. Would such an implant at vga resolution improve or degrade the sight of the otherwise one eyed person?
Okay I'll play, I have a sparcstation 2 with 32 megs of ram, a 512meg scsi hdd mono framebuffer and a 19" mono monitor. Back when I was younger and more carefree I used to run netbsd on it with qvwm and then run solarir x86 on my PC just to confuse people.
If we go by the book like Lt kdawson, hours would seem like days.
Perhaps if you replaced the word author with the word storyteller, it's more apt for most fiction. Think about it, no offense to Stephen King but he tells stories, he entertains the people who like his stuff, proofreaders and editors make it readable, everyone's happy. He should be and is in that job.
What you're thinking of as authors are the um.. "serious" types who write the books you see studied in university level English lit classes and enjoyed by people with different tastes, that's fine but the other types don't need a new line of work, they just need the services a publisher provides above and beyond the printing and book binding.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Its fair use, sue me if you want copyright demons.
Then go to business school
become a complete tool
Shop at walmart
watch fox news
join the local religon
support insane copyright laws (we must protect disney's rat!)
?
profit!
The problem with encouraging kids to be timid and just like everyone else is they end up just like everyone else, part of the problem. Of course they should pay attention in class and obey the school rules but the people not doing that are more likely to be the bully. The kid who watches star trek instead of american idol and reads tolkien instead of twilight is the one getting picked on.
Here's the real lesson kids, give up anything that makes you an individual and join the herd or the dumb animals will trample you.
It's practical because the vast majority of trials take a day or two. It would be like 20 years ago telling someone they couldn't watch tv for 2 days, for most it wouldn't have been fun but a day or two of boredom isn't the end of the world and they did have nintendo.
What? No organ banks?
Because said work is almost certain to contain stuff scraped from works already in the public domain. In the western world maybe an allusion to a bible story or fairy tale? A phrase Shakespeare managed to add into the English language? Anything that's part of the hero's journey has likely been done before. No doubt what someone gets published is different enough to be a new work but it would be built on the collective culture that came before it. When a work is controlled forever or a patent lasts forever sooner or later everything starts to infringe on everything else, with nothing you can build on there's no progress. Copyright is a compromise, we delay building on your work for a few years while you try to make a buck and in exchange after those few years we get to make copies of your whatever, remix it, re-imagine it, see how it works when you replace the puppies with kittens, see how the story changes if it takes place in a different place or time or maybe just reference the one clever phrase you've ever come up with in your life. If you want to keep control forever don't publish.
no stealing deprives someone of their property, since making a copy doesn't destory the orginal when it comes to digital goods it's instead considered copyright infringment, you can argue the same motive, to gain something without paying for it but stealing is a criminal matter infringment is civil.
Does the FBI own the rights to the image they're showing around? Aren't they violating copyright? Can't they be sued for millions in made up damages?
What's the difference? You're their all-time best seller.
I didn't lie, you did, there is NO jail time try watching something that isn't fox news. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090908/D9AJCL500.html Just as auto coverage is now mandatory in most states, Baucus would a require that all Americans get health insurance once the system is overhauled. Penalties for failing to get insurance would start at $750 a year for individuals and $1,500 for families. Households making more than three times the federal poverty level - about $66,000 for a family of four - would face the maximum fines. For families, it would be $3,800, and for individuals, $950.
You did do something usual for a conservative though, You lied.
No one. Let me reapeat it NO ONE would be jailed for not having insurance, they would be fined and said fine was less than $1000.
That aside, torn reform is something valid to debate as the LAST step in fixing health care not done until everything else is, otherwise it just increases the profits of the same people who've been driving up prices to begin with. Maybe after companies sotp having near monopolies in the state(s) they operate in, after there's a public option to try and keep those guys honest, after havign a preexisting hangnail doesn't get you denied any form of health insurance and whatever else has slipped my mind just now, then we can talk about insane court awards and frivilous lawsuits.
Care to call me a wingnut now?
You know... this is the first time a slashdot post has changed my mind on something I felt strongly about. I can still watch versions where Han shoots first and it doesn't harm me in any way if other people watch a revised version of the film. Thank you.
The topic wasn't elections it was petitions. The latter, in the United States at least is by secret ballot, the former is form of public support for something. If it helps you can think of a petition as being like the decleration of independance. The people who signed it made a public stand and accepted any personal consequences that go along with it.
Joint filing of federal income taxes. By any I assume you only needed one, I could list more if you like though it does vary by state as some expressly forbid contracts that simulate benfits granted by marriage.
That all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again.
Citation needed
Summer -> Autumn -> Winter -> Spring ?
profit!