Eight years ago your post would be: "These two candidates are the same guy! I'm voting for Nader!"
Do you honestly thing Gore would have run things just like Bush?
Now, do you honestly thing McCain would run things just like Obama?
Enough with the protest voting, we should mobilize people and teach them to vote for their best interests, not teaching them to be cynical and become protest voters.
I'm not willing to exploit a broken system to slightly improve the chances for a politician who I don't support. There is a far greater chance that I will die on my way to the polls than there is of the election being "won" by my vote. If you're looking out for your best interests, stay home. If you're idealistic and selfless enough to risk your life, then can't you go just a little bit further and vote the way you really feel?
It's in the Health Insurance company's best interests to not insurance people that are high risk. In a free market, those people will end up being uninsured.
That is incorrect. It is in the best interests of an insurance company to charge premiums that are proportional to a client's risk, playing the odds to still make a competative profit. Some people might not be able to afford higher the premiums, but they would not all go uninsured.
I think that the main reason our health care costs are so high is because of existing of government intervention, not because we're lacking it. The current situation is nowhere near an actual free market.
In addition to the process used to make the chair, one can patent any minor innovation in the chair itself. I'd imagine people would print out more fancy ergo chairs (with patents) than lousy Wal-Mart chairs.
When everyone can accurately 3d-print objects, does getting the design for, say, a type of chair then 3d-printing it without paying, count as theft? After all, you're not depriving anyone else of the model chair the 3d specifications were based on.
Just because it's a new manufacturing technology doesn't mean the laws are any different. If the chair is patented and you don't have permission, this would be patent infringement. It would not be theft.
Life doesn't begin until 18 years of age. Go ahead and slaughter anyone younger than that. Those conservative nut jobs and their crazy ideas that Life begins at birth.
But you do, of course, have time to waste on Slashdot. Don't you know of anyone who does have the time to think about politics? Can't you take five minutes out of your life to make them your advisor?
The problem is that, unlike many state legislatures, the US Congress has no rule (nor will it ever) against adding riders on bills that are not related to the main proposal. Additionally, there's only so much time to actually legislate during a session, so mashing bills together is pretty necessary.
It's not an ideal system, but running the federal government more or less requires it.
I don't think it's required. For example, instead of yes/no voting on the bill and all its proposed amendments, the legislature could use a preferential voting system like the Schulze method. That way each candidate could vote for what they actually wanted, and the votes would only have to be cast and counted once (as opposed to several times with amendments).
The best way to get GOOD co-op if your friends don't play is to join one of the few remaining guilds. I'be been a member of the Amazon Basin for years, and they're still a bunch of fun, skilled, and mature teammates. Even without them, one can solo all the way through Hell difficulty with the right character builds.
That nonsensical argument of yours lasted half a post longer than you thought it would. Instead of justifying the right of the state to limit the flow of ideas, you've made a hyperbolic strawman argument.
As a human born on planet Earth, I have a right to a plot of land for sustenance and shelter, in reasonable proximity to where I was born. This should supersede property rights of the mega-rich, even if my parents bargained away the rights. At most, the land can be loaned from humanity for an exclusive use of one person for a limited time. Lets not start the same heartless trend on Moon or even try to live there until we can behave decently on Earth.
That's a unique approach to land reform - you might be interested in the solution proposed by Geolibertarians. People who want land can rent some from the people with their "citizen's dividend", people who don't are fairly compensated, and the corporate machine can keep cranking out that nerdy stuff we like. Everybody wins.
Who wants a blank master hard drive? It could just as well come with a free (as in beer) OS that you can just as easily overwrite, for the sake of convenience.
Look at the accident and fatality rates with the masses and regular cars. I can't imagine how many deaths this would cause worldwide. A flying car is great in cheesy novels and movies, but horrible in reality.
I just looked at those, and then the accident/fatality rates associated with flying. The fact is that flying is much safer than driving, even with inexperienced pilots in small aircraft. When you say flying cars are "horrible in reality", which reality are you getting your evidence from?
The GPL and commercial licenses are not mutually exclusive. For example, if you want to improve on Qt you have the option of using the GPL with no money involved, or buying a normal license from Trolltech and then selling your work. There are some GPL projects that don't sell licenses, that can be said for some commercial software too.
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Legal, yes. But whether or not the outcome of this case is moral is hardly established, as NewYorkCountryLawyer and others have pointed out.
Just use Kaffeine or something similar. The problem is your DVD player, not your DVD.
I'm not willing to exploit a broken system to slightly improve the chances for a politician who I don't support. There is a far greater chance that I will die on my way to the polls than there is of the election being "won" by my vote. If you're looking out for your best interests, stay home. If you're idealistic and selfless enough to risk your life, then can't you go just a little bit further and vote the way you really feel?
So by "deal with it", you mean take it like a chump, compromising on what he thinks is right?
That is incorrect. It is in the best interests of an insurance company to charge premiums that are proportional to a client's risk, playing the odds to still make a competative profit. Some people might not be able to afford higher the premiums, but they would not all go uninsured.
I think that the main reason our health care costs are so high is because of existing of government intervention, not because we're lacking it. The current situation is nowhere near an actual free market.
In addition to the process used to make the chair, one can patent any minor innovation in the chair itself. I'd imagine people would print out more fancy ergo chairs (with patents) than lousy Wal-Mart chairs.
Just because it's a new manufacturing technology doesn't mean the laws are any different. If the chair is patented and you don't have permission, this would be patent infringement. It would not be theft.
This has nothing to do with democracy. If the voters don't believe in free speech, it won't be protected.
Don't tell me that "potential energy" nonsense! It's got to be incredibly simple as the grandparent amazingly discovered! This is Slashdot!
So, how old are you? Just curious. :-P
But you do, of course, have time to waste on Slashdot. Don't you know of anyone who does have the time to think about politics? Can't you take five minutes out of your life to make them your advisor?
I don't think it's required. For example, instead of yes/no voting on the bill and all its proposed amendments, the legislature could use a preferential voting system like the Schulze method. That way each candidate could vote for what they actually wanted, and the votes would only have to be cast and counted once (as opposed to several times with amendments).
Oh, ok. That's true.
The best way to get GOOD co-op if your friends don't play is to join one of the few remaining guilds. I'be been a member of the Amazon Basin for years, and they're still a bunch of fun, skilled, and mature teammates. Even without them, one can solo all the way through Hell difficulty with the right character builds.
You've never been able to harm party members in Diablo II. Are you thinking of a different game?
That nonsensical argument of yours lasted half a post longer than you thought it would. Instead of justifying the right of the state to limit the flow of ideas, you've made a hyperbolic strawman argument.
Ah, Slashdot. Where a point you don't agree with is a "troll".
The second world has a single-payer health care too, and many other first world countries have the death penalty.
Who wants a blank master hard drive? It could just as well come with a free (as in beer) OS that you can just as easily overwrite, for the sake of convenience.
That seems a little anthropocentric. If an alien life form has vast lifespans, those millennia might not feel quite so long.
BitTorrent is used for more than just piracy, dipshit.
The GPL and commercial licenses are not mutually exclusive. For example, if you want to improve on Qt you have the option of using the GPL with no money involved, or buying a normal license from Trolltech and then selling your work. There are some GPL projects that don't sell licenses, that can be said for some commercial software too.