The one part that more unpopular with most people is the 'must buy insurance part'.
I would be perfectly fine with Universal Healthcare if it were not being done through the thieving "insurance" companies. As if medical care is not expensive enough now... just watch what happens.
Hm. Lots of Anonymous Cowards parroting this line about freeloading. Fuck off. If you want to frame the debate, then do it as person who we can speak with.
Shame on the mods for giving all these cowards so many mod points for flamebait assertions.:/
I haven't yet found a program which stopped working with newer java.
Then you have never dealt with the poorly (rigidly) written crap that is enterprise software. Try anything from Cisco if you would like an example.
It seems that this may be the case due to outsourcing. The software is written to spec and passes all the tests but it will break if _anything_ changes. Welcome to software written by the lowest bidder.
Actually, as someone else kindly pointed out, they will be taxing abortions, gay marriages, belonging to a non-recognized religion, etc. The problem is that they can now get as fine-grained as they want. New ideas about propery rights? Use tax law to enforce it. Meh.
So it's not the insurance that's a scam... it's denial of coverage *AFTER* paying that is a scam
You are correct there. Actually, overall, your entire reply is correct, which is why I classed Obamacare as only a slight negative in my original post.
I do find it hard to believe that I have such bad time with insurance and that most do not. Is it common for people to have to fight for months about _everything_ that is done by a doctor or hospital? Currently, my wife can barely walk due to an issue with her feet. It is not covered because it is not affecting her work. Huh? The old robot saying of, "does not compute." applies here.
Meh. Fuck insurance. I pay them LOTS of money and then I pay the doctors and hospitals LOTS of money too. At least I have been able to afford it but god, what a scam. I feel raped.
When something is pinned to the taskbar, if it isn't the first icon and you have a variable number of intervening programs running, each of which has a variable number of windows open, then the icon could be anywhere and you have to look for it.
Huh? Admittedly, I am using Server 2008 as a desktop OS currently, but it is essentially Windows 7... and the things I have pinned do NOT move around. Perhaps I made some adjustment somewhere and am not aware that I had done so?
And the Dock is annoying. I have it filled with stuff I might want to use but I still find myself having to open up Finder and navigating through folders to launch a program or utility that I do not use often. What a mess. At least a properly maintained Start Menu (yes, you have to maintain it!) is useful. It alleviates the need to go digging through the contents of my hard drive on a regular basis.
They partially have a point. The programs that I use most often, I pin (and before that, made shortcuts in quicklaunch).
However, this does NOT mean I want less accessiblity to the programs that I do not use every time I log in to my computer. This is the same crap that the Gnome guys are pulling: Take something that is convenient and try to turn it into the ONLY way a thing can be done. WTF people? Where is the perspective? Why this single track mind thing? It is not MY fault that half of the planet is barely more intelligent than a smart patient who has just been injected with sodiom pentathol.
Seriously, I want to CONTROL my computer. If controlling a computer is too hard for a vast majority, fine, put some things in to help them. DO NOT TAKE MY ABILITY TO CONTROL MY COMPUTER's BEHAVIOR. kthx.
Spoken clearly by a person who has never needed it.
I apologize for not fitting perfectly into your world view; however, my comment comes from someone who DID need it (for my son) and had every single aspect of the overall procedure denied coverage even though the incident itself was supposedly covered. To the tune of $15k. Do not get me started about dental insurance either. Oh. My. God. Bunch of god damned thieves.
Anyways, yeah. I have never needed insurance so that is why I am blind to the need for insurance. D'oh!
I have no idea at all what is in Obamacare. I really do not care because health insurance is a scam. They (the insurers) do anything they can to not actually PAY for anything so it really is irrelevant if I am covered or not (except that it costs me money).
Since at best, it only seems to be a slight negative that it passed, I would like to comment on how the summary characterizes the ruling:
All I can say is holy loopholes batman! This means that the federal government can write legislation concerning ANYTHING at all as long as the penalty is just a "tax". Don't like something? Tax it so high nobody could possibly pay it. Enforce the tax law with guns and prison. Voila, instant criminal penalties for anything the government wants to legislate.
Is this really the road we want to go down or is the summary way off (as usual)?
I should have saved some mod points so I could punish you for your original link. I have never given a negative mod but my god you deserve one. You are as bad as Apple with your first link. Very very very bad.:(
You can't be unbiased. What you can do is state what your bias is and report the facts.
Facts are very important. Most news outlets will omit or censor facts. But what I really wanted to reply to was the part about bias:
There is bias, which presents facts from a foregone conclusion. This kind of bias can be very annoying but it is mostly okay. Anyone with intelligence and imagination can extract the real story.
There is another type of bias where facts are presented in a certain order with some facts conveniently left out so that the presenter can tell a story completely and wildly different from what actually happened. Tabloids do this a lot, which is mostly okay because very few people actually believe tabloids.
I would call this latter type of bias, "lying with facts". I think we need a separate term for both types of bias because many people dismiss something merely because the word bias is used.
The police are allowed to request that you prove citizenship but there presumably a period of time for you to produce papers.
LOL. If you are being targeted, which is what this law is for, you will have the time from when they ask you to when you can have someone you know to bring the papers down to the police station while you wait in jail. Knowing Arizona, I am sure there will be some sort of processing fee to get released.
Regardless of illegal immigration, I do not want to live somewhere that resembles how the old Soviet Union was depicted. I do not care if almost every other country on Earth does it, this is where I live and it has NOT been like that before. Sheriff Joe can go fuck himself along with all the other haters.
I have an iPad 2. I have had an Acer Iconia A500 and a Samsung Galaxy Tab (still have the 7 inch model).
The iPad 2 was the best to type on out of all them. Amazingly, I am able to type VERY quickly and accurately on the iPad. The only thing that was slowing me down was the small amount of text I could see on the screen at one time.
I suspect a part of my brain was activated that I do not normally use... a kind of "excitement" if you will. Possibly my imagination/curiosity was piqued by using a futuristic non-touch typing keyboard. That means my experience will not be normal for everyone, but your joke about typing on an iPad is not fully accurate. Just saying.;)
All that's needed is for Nvidia to release the documentation on the components they manufacture, as AMD/ATI did in 2008 (and Intel has always done).
How is the ATI/AMD driver working out now that 4 years have passed? Yeah. So what point is their for Nvidia to do the same?
It is clear that for whatever reason, there are no qualified devs to create drivers for high performance GPUs. So why is everyone getting their panties in a bunch? They keep clamoring for specs and when they get them, they apparently can not do anything useful with them... even after 4 years.
The phrase, "put up or shut up" comes to mind here.
But whose fault is that when Torvalds flat out refuses to allow a hardware ABI that EVERYONE ELSE has? Solaris, BSD, Windows, OSX, hell even OS/2 has a fricking ABI now and the ONLY OS that doesn't is Linux. So why should Nvidia or anybody else jump through hoops to support a broken design?
IIRC, Linux does have an ABI. They just keep changing it around ever so slightly so that closed source drivers have to be recompiled each time a kernel update happens. They do this so it is a pain in the ass for you, the end user, to use closed source drivers.
In other words, this would not be such a problem if some kernel devs were not religious about forcing YOU to use only open source stuff.
I understand their position about wanting everything be open source, but considering the way the world works, they are only being a pain in the ass to users. They will NOT be forcing any companies into open sourcing their drivers through these shenanigans.
Welcome to the world of the end user being a political football.:)
You admit "Utah needs to change their local laws concerning the time and place it is appropriate to shoot" and that's precisely what I'm saying.
So are you saying that there should be regulations on ANYTHING that could cause fires? There should be regulations concerning where and when you can smoke a cigarette? There should be regulations concerning when you can use a magnifying glass? There should be regulations on when you can light a camp fire? There should be regulations on when you can... anything that could possibly ever cause a fire?
How about just a regulation concerning starting fires and not worry overly much about the thousands of ways a fire can start? Oh right. Guns. This is all a political issue, not a common fucking sense issue. Carry on. Make your regulations concerning guns. I can see what you are doing.
Seriously. Why the fuck is the discussion about firearms and laws/regulations for firearms. The problem is NOT with the damned guns. The problem is that someone started a fire. It could have been guns, it could have been smoking, it could have been campfires, it could have been anything.
Cigarettes can cause such fires... and sometimes do. I do not see you clamoring for stricter control of cigarettes because of that.
That is ignoring the volumes of hate speech, malware, scams, predators, etc.
Why should my kids be protected from seeing hate speech as an observer (as opposed to a victim)? Of what value is there in hiding it from them?
Malware? Despite Firefox and Noscript, both kids have had their computers infected. It is not a major problem. Wipe and reinstall. Did they lose some data that they wanted? You bet. Did they learn to be more careful (and make backups!)? You bet. I fail to see any problem.
Scams and predators... yeah. I have to admit that when my daughter asked me if she could have a MySpace account, I kind of shuddered inside. Eventually, she was going to be out on her own (as she is right now!) and she would need experience dealing with people who want to do things to her, with or without her permission. We had a long talk and her head was in the right place, so I agreed. I am sure she was exposed to some pretty nasty stuff as a young female on the internet. She is perfectly happy and healthy now and she is very VERY well armed as an adult now. Scary for me, but again, I fail to see the problem.
... or have some disturbing image in your mind that you can never "unsee"
I guess lemonparty, tubgirl, goat.cx, 2girls1cup, etc are pretty jarring. As a kid, before the internet, I got to watch some folks in Viet Nam prepare to get executed every time the evening news was starting. On Sundays, I got to watch an Olympic skier die everytime the sports show was being aired. I got to watch kids get napalmed and in other parts of the world, people getting hacked up by machetes. The world is a fucking nasty, evil, hardcore place. I am unsure what pretending the world is all butterflies and rainbows will do for a kid. They can see that the world can be a wonderful and loving place with some really cool people in it while they are with me. If they choose to look out of the window and see the rest of the world, I see no benefit in pulling the shades down. *shrug*
I am not here saying that all kids should be given thorough freedom to do as they please. I am saying that if kids are brought up reasonably, they need to be allowed to see the nastier things in life while I am still around to help them understand WTF is going on. Could something terrible have happened? You bet. I would be crying over their graves and wondering if I had done the right thing.
Life is risky and nothing is a sure bet. I played my cards to the best of my abilities and I am extremely happy with the outcome. One kid fully grown, happy and healthy, and taking on life's responsibilities as only a fully realized human can. The other is almost there. He is still young but it is clear that he is heading in the right direction and needs almost no handholding at all anymore.
Free your kids now. They are the ones who have to live their lives. They are the ones who are making decisions. Help them.
it is a shame you posted anonymously, we could have had a nice discussion clearing up any misconceptions you may have due to my imperfect communication skills. *sigh* Maybe next lifetime.
Spot-checking says your guess is wrong. He is allowed to look at porn if he wants, he chooses not to. I am unsure why. His behavior does not indicate there is anything wrong with him. Perhaps it is because he could get laid any time he wanted to. There is not a shortage of females interested in him. In fact, there are so many that it annoys him. I wish I would have had that problem when I was his age.:/
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The one part that more unpopular with most people is the 'must buy insurance part'.
I would be perfectly fine with Universal Healthcare if it were not being done through the thieving "insurance" companies. As if medical care is not expensive enough now... just watch what happens.
Ummm. Medical debts, like student loans, can NOT be discharged through bankruptcy. You are on the hook no matter what for the rest of your life.
Awesome, a post about freeloading but done by a logged in account.
Why do you think all opposition to this is about freeloading?
Perhaps some people opposed it because all it does is validate the exorbitant cost of decent care.
Perhaps others opposed it because they know that insurance itself is a scam.
For myself, this is one of those BOHICA moments that absolutely nothing can be done about.
Hm. Lots of Anonymous Cowards parroting this line about freeloading. Fuck off. If you want to frame the debate, then do it as person who we can speak with.
Shame on the mods for giving all these cowards so many mod points for flamebait assertions. :/
I haven't yet found a program which stopped working with newer java.
Then you have never dealt with the poorly (rigidly) written crap that is enterprise software. Try anything from Cisco if you would like an example.
It seems that this may be the case due to outsourcing. The software is written to spec and passes all the tests but it will break if _anything_ changes. Welcome to software written by the lowest bidder.
Actually, as someone else kindly pointed out, they will be taxing abortions, gay marriages, belonging to a non-recognized religion, etc. The problem is that they can now get as fine-grained as they want. New ideas about propery rights? Use tax law to enforce it. Meh.
So it's not the insurance that's a scam... it's denial of coverage *AFTER* paying that is a scam
You are correct there. Actually, overall, your entire reply is correct, which is why I classed Obamacare as only a slight negative in my original post.
I do find it hard to believe that I have such bad time with insurance and that most do not. Is it common for people to have to fight for months about _everything_ that is done by a doctor or hospital? Currently, my wife can barely walk due to an issue with her feet. It is not covered because it is not affecting her work. Huh? The old robot saying of, "does not compute." applies here.
Meh. Fuck insurance. I pay them LOTS of money and then I pay the doctors and hospitals LOTS of money too. At least I have been able to afford it but god, what a scam. I feel raped.
You are modded as funny but what you are saying is actually insightful. I ran out of mod points yesterday. Sorry.
When something is pinned to the taskbar, if it isn't the first icon and you have a variable number of intervening programs running, each of which has a variable number of windows open, then the icon could be anywhere and you have to look for it.
Huh? Admittedly, I am using Server 2008 as a desktop OS currently, but it is essentially Windows 7... and the things I have pinned do NOT move around. Perhaps I made some adjustment somewhere and am not aware that I had done so?
And the Dock is annoying. I have it filled with stuff I might want to use but I still find myself having to open up Finder and navigating through folders to launch a program or utility that I do not use often. What a mess. At least a properly maintained Start Menu (yes, you have to maintain it!) is useful. It alleviates the need to go digging through the contents of my hard drive on a regular basis.
They partially have a point. The programs that I use most often, I pin (and before that, made shortcuts in quicklaunch).
However, this does NOT mean I want less accessiblity to the programs that I do not use every time I log in to my computer. This is the same crap that the Gnome guys are pulling: Take something that is convenient and try to turn it into the ONLY way a thing can be done. WTF people? Where is the perspective? Why this single track mind thing? It is not MY fault that half of the planet is barely more intelligent than a smart patient who has just been injected with sodiom pentathol.
Seriously, I want to CONTROL my computer. If controlling a computer is too hard for a vast majority, fine, put some things in to help them. DO NOT TAKE MY ABILITY TO CONTROL MY COMPUTER's BEHAVIOR. kthx.
Spoken clearly by a person who has never needed it.
I apologize for not fitting perfectly into your world view; however, my comment comes from someone who DID need it (for my son) and had every single aspect of the overall procedure denied coverage even though the incident itself was supposedly covered. To the tune of $15k. Do not get me started about dental insurance either. Oh. My. God. Bunch of god damned thieves.
Anyways, yeah. I have never needed insurance so that is why I am blind to the need for insurance. D'oh!
I have no idea at all what is in Obamacare. I really do not care because health insurance is a scam. They (the insurers) do anything they can to not actually PAY for anything so it really is irrelevant if I am covered or not (except that it costs me money).
Since at best, it only seems to be a slight negative that it passed, I would like to comment on how the summary characterizes the ruling:
All I can say is holy loopholes batman! This means that the federal government can write legislation concerning ANYTHING at all as long as the penalty is just a "tax". Don't like something? Tax it so high nobody could possibly pay it. Enforce the tax law with guns and prison. Voila, instant criminal penalties for anything the government wants to legislate.
Is this really the road we want to go down or is the summary way off (as usual)?
Why? You like your porpoises to be dirty little sluts? ;)
I should have saved some mod points so I could punish you for your original link. I have never given a negative mod but my god you deserve one. You are as bad as Apple with your first link. Very very very bad. :(
wasn't going to comment but...
You can't be unbiased. What you can do is state what your bias is and report the facts.
Facts are very important. Most news outlets will omit or censor facts. But what I really wanted to reply to was the part about bias:
There is bias, which presents facts from a foregone conclusion. This kind of bias can be very annoying but it is mostly okay. Anyone with intelligence and imagination can extract the real story.
There is another type of bias where facts are presented in a certain order with some facts conveniently left out so that the presenter can tell a story completely and wildly different from what actually happened. Tabloids do this a lot, which is mostly okay because very few people actually believe tabloids.
I would call this latter type of bias, "lying with facts". I think we need a separate term for both types of bias because many people dismiss something merely because the word bias is used.
The police are allowed to request that you prove citizenship but there presumably a period of time for you to produce papers.
LOL. If you are being targeted, which is what this law is for, you will have the time from when they ask you to when you can have someone you know to bring the papers down to the police station while you wait in jail. Knowing Arizona, I am sure there will be some sort of processing fee to get released.
Regardless of illegal immigration, I do not want to live somewhere that resembles how the old Soviet Union was depicted. I do not care if almost every other country on Earth does it, this is where I live and it has NOT been like that before. Sheriff Joe can go fuck himself along with all the other haters.
I have an iPad 2. I have had an Acer Iconia A500 and a Samsung Galaxy Tab (still have the 7 inch model).
The iPad 2 was the best to type on out of all them. Amazingly, I am able to type VERY quickly and accurately on the iPad. The only thing that was slowing me down was the small amount of text I could see on the screen at one time.
I suspect a part of my brain was activated that I do not normally use... a kind of "excitement" if you will. Possibly my imagination/curiosity was piqued by using a futuristic non-touch typing keyboard. That means my experience will not be normal for everyone, but your joke about typing on an iPad is not fully accurate. Just saying. ;)
All that's needed is for Nvidia to release the documentation on the components they manufacture, as AMD/ATI did in 2008 (and Intel has always done).
How is the ATI/AMD driver working out now that 4 years have passed? Yeah. So what point is their for Nvidia to do the same?
It is clear that for whatever reason, there are no qualified devs to create drivers for high performance GPUs. So why is everyone getting their panties in a bunch? They keep clamoring for specs and when they get them, they apparently can not do anything useful with them... even after 4 years.
The phrase, "put up or shut up" comes to mind here.
But whose fault is that when Torvalds flat out refuses to allow a hardware ABI that EVERYONE ELSE has? Solaris, BSD, Windows, OSX, hell even OS/2 has a fricking ABI now and the ONLY OS that doesn't is Linux. So why should Nvidia or anybody else jump through hoops to support a broken design?
IIRC, Linux does have an ABI. They just keep changing it around ever so slightly so that closed source drivers have to be recompiled each time a kernel update happens. They do this so it is a pain in the ass for you, the end user, to use closed source drivers.
In other words, this would not be such a problem if some kernel devs were not religious about forcing YOU to use only open source stuff.
I understand their position about wanting everything be open source, but considering the way the world works, they are only being a pain in the ass to users. They will NOT be forcing any companies into open sourcing their drivers through these shenanigans.
Welcome to the world of the end user being a political football. :)
You admit "Utah needs to change their local laws concerning the time and place it is appropriate to shoot" and that's precisely what I'm saying.
So are you saying that there should be regulations on ANYTHING that could cause fires? There should be regulations concerning where and when you can smoke a cigarette? There should be regulations concerning when you can use a magnifying glass? There should be regulations on when you can light a camp fire? There should be regulations on when you can... anything that could possibly ever cause a fire?
How about just a regulation concerning starting fires and not worry overly much about the thousands of ways a fire can start? Oh right. Guns. This is all a political issue, not a common fucking sense issue. Carry on. Make your regulations concerning guns. I can see what you are doing.
Seriously. Why the fuck is the discussion about firearms and laws/regulations for firearms. The problem is NOT with the damned guns. The problem is that someone started a fire. It could have been guns, it could have been smoking, it could have been campfires, it could have been anything.
Cigarettes can cause such fires... and sometimes do. I do not see you clamoring for stricter control of cigarettes because of that.
Seriously. What. the. fuck. peoples.
That is ignoring the volumes of hate speech, malware, scams, predators, etc.
Why should my kids be protected from seeing hate speech as an observer (as opposed to a victim)? Of what value is there in hiding it from them?
Malware? Despite Firefox and Noscript, both kids have had their computers infected. It is not a major problem. Wipe and reinstall. Did they lose some data that they wanted? You bet. Did they learn to be more careful (and make backups!)? You bet. I fail to see any problem.
Scams and predators... yeah. I have to admit that when my daughter asked me if she could have a MySpace account, I kind of shuddered inside. Eventually, she was going to be out on her own (as she is right now!) and she would need experience dealing with people who want to do things to her, with or without her permission. We had a long talk and her head was in the right place, so I agreed. I am sure she was exposed to some pretty nasty stuff as a young female on the internet. She is perfectly happy and healthy now and she is very VERY well armed as an adult now. Scary for me, but again, I fail to see the problem.
... or have some disturbing image in your mind that you can never "unsee"
I guess lemonparty, tubgirl, goat.cx, 2girls1cup, etc are pretty jarring. As a kid, before the internet, I got to watch some folks in Viet Nam prepare to get executed every time the evening news was starting. On Sundays, I got to watch an Olympic skier die everytime the sports show was being aired. I got to watch kids get napalmed and in other parts of the world, people getting hacked up by machetes. The world is a fucking nasty, evil, hardcore place. I am unsure what pretending the world is all butterflies and rainbows will do for a kid. They can see that the world can be a wonderful and loving place with some really cool people in it while they are with me. If they choose to look out of the window and see the rest of the world, I see no benefit in pulling the shades down. *shrug*
I am not here saying that all kids should be given thorough freedom to do as they please. I am saying that if kids are brought up reasonably, they need to be allowed to see the nastier things in life while I am still around to help them understand WTF is going on. Could something terrible have happened? You bet. I would be crying over their graves and wondering if I had done the right thing.
Life is risky and nothing is a sure bet. I played my cards to the best of my abilities and I am extremely happy with the outcome. One kid fully grown, happy and healthy, and taking on life's responsibilities as only a fully realized human can. The other is almost there. He is still young but it is clear that he is heading in the right direction and needs almost no handholding at all anymore.
Free your kids now. They are the ones who have to live their lives. They are the ones who are making decisions. Help them.
it is a shame you posted anonymously, we could have had a nice discussion clearing up any misconceptions you may have due to my imperfect communication skills. *sigh* Maybe next lifetime.
Spot-checking says your guess is wrong. He is allowed to look at porn if he wants, he chooses not to. I am unsure why. His behavior does not indicate there is anything wrong with him. Perhaps it is because he could get laid any time he wanted to. There is not a shortage of females interested in him. In fact, there are so many that it annoys him. I wish I would have had that problem when I was his age. :/