Insurance is a gamble against yourself. It's always going to be in the favour of the insurance companies because they are private enterprises, created to make money. Everyone should realise that. Why should a private enterprise be forced to take on a losing proposition? That's not fair. Neither is life! Deal with it.
The obviously better solution is a public health care system.
This reminds me of an early episode of TNG: "Conspiracy". It's the one where these aliens take control of starfleet by living in the heads of the humans, leaving a telltale tail sticking out at the back of the neck... http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TNG/e pisode/68356.html
My first computer at home was an Apple IIe around '95 or so. Not long after, an IBM XT. In '99 I got my hands on a PII 350. Of course, I had experience with other machines at school, mostly Macs. I first used Linux at school, too, with Debian 2.1 (Slink) on a 386 with 8 MB of RAM in 98. So I didn't really join the computing world like most people did. I did miss out on some earlier tech, but I've used tech older than me (23 now).
I remember seeing Win95 on a box with 8 MB of RAM. The owner had to borrow another 8 to install '95, but it did actually run. Of course, it would take several minutes to load Netscape Navigator 4... but it did run. 16 MB is better for performance. With 24 MB or more, running lightweight applications, it was decent.
Funny, on the same machine, Linux runs about equally.
It hasn't always been. If you remember AudioGalaxy, they had a push function with the groups feature back in 2000. You could join groups created by users wherein users could send music to others in the group, and sent files would automatically be added to your download cue. It was an absolutely fantastic feature for discovering new music -- in fact, over half of what I listen to know what discovered through this feature of AG. Sadly, the P2P sharing features of the site were shutdown in 2002. I'm still waiting for someone to reproduce this by integrating RSS+bittorrent+audioscrobbler+website.
In a sense, yes. Actually, when the turbo button was disabled ("off"), it would cause the CPU to execute a bunch of no-ops, effectively making the CPU as slow as older models to allow games, etc., to be useable. The frequency at which the CPU ran never changed.
new cosmetics, but more importantly, to new applications in optical data processing
How can you tell a geek submitted this? Women could look prettier, but no, optical data processing is far more interesting.
Obviously, if you punch me, rape me, etc., I didn't do it. But if I'm not rich, not fit, not where I want to be in life, then it's entirely my own doing. Even if I've tried hard and failed -- I simply didn't do the necessary thing(s). I am 100% responsible for my situation, but not all of the events leading to it.
The very first step a boy has in becoming a man is taking one hundred percent responsibility for his situation in life. Where he is is entirely his fault. Once a man accepts this, he can begin to affect reality instead of being a victim and letting reality affect him. This is such a basic tenet of manhood, yet it's becoming increasingly rare to see it today. No wonder why women are always complaining they can't find a real man -- there are few out there!
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Insurance is a gamble against yourself. It's always going to be in the favour of the insurance companies because they are private enterprises, created to make money. Everyone should realise that. Why should a private enterprise be forced to take on a losing proposition? That's not fair. Neither is life! Deal with it.
The obviously better solution is a public health care system.
This reminds me of an early episode of TNG: "Conspiracy". It's the one where these aliens take control of starfleet by living in the heads of the humans, leaving a telltale tail sticking out at the back of the neck... http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TNG/e pisode/68356.html
Interesting calculation: If you live 80 years, that's 435.5 KB per second -- enough for a TV-quality video of your entire life.
Great! *cheerfully eats another can of beans*
And pointing that out will be modded +5 Funny, and this will be modded offtopic, and for point that out, it will be shamelessly ignored entirely.
My first computer at home was an Apple IIe around '95 or so. Not long after, an IBM XT. In '99 I got my hands on a PII 350. Of course, I had experience with other machines at school, mostly Macs. I first used Linux at school, too, with Debian 2.1 (Slink) on a 386 with 8 MB of RAM in 98. So I didn't really join the computing world like most people did. I did miss out on some earlier tech, but I've used tech older than me (23 now).
I remember seeing Win95 on a box with 8 MB of RAM. The owner had to borrow another 8 to install '95, but it did actually run. Of course, it would take several minutes to load Netscape Navigator 4... but it did run. 16 MB is better for performance. With 24 MB or more, running lightweight applications, it was decent. Funny, on the same machine, Linux runs about equally.
What about NetBSD? I'd like to see them install Windows CE on a mechanical pencil! Hah!
It hasn't always been. If you remember AudioGalaxy, they had a push function with the groups feature back in 2000. You could join groups created by users wherein users could send music to others in the group, and sent files would automatically be added to your download cue. It was an absolutely fantastic feature for discovering new music -- in fact, over half of what I listen to know what discovered through this feature of AG. Sadly, the P2P sharing features of the site were shutdown in 2002. I'm still waiting for someone to reproduce this by integrating RSS+bittorrent+audioscrobbler+website.
"may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch."
That, of course, would be not obvious, unless you are Dutch.
Yeah, that's it.
In a sense, yes. Actually, when the turbo button was disabled ("off"), it would cause the CPU to execute a bunch of no-ops, effectively making the CPU as slow as older models to allow games, etc., to be useable. The frequency at which the CPU ran never changed.
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Well I take off my hat to you. It looks like the tin heads have been foiled again!
Fool! I already cracked it! Your quadruple rot13 is so old skool.
Not entirely true. North of where I grew up, part of the Cassiar Highway was indeed intended to be a landing strip. Read more: http://www.britishcolumbia.com/regions/towns/?town ID=3952.
new cosmetics, but more importantly, to new applications in optical data processing How can you tell a geek submitted this? Women could look prettier, but no, optical data processing is far more interesting.
How perfectly cromulent.
Unix has threads, too. Recent Linux kernels have particularly fast threading.
Obviously, if you punch me, rape me, etc., I didn't do it. But if I'm not rich, not fit, not where I want to be in life, then it's entirely my own doing. Even if I've tried hard and failed -- I simply didn't do the necessary thing(s). I am 100% responsible for my situation, but not all of the events leading to it.
The very first step a boy has in becoming a man is taking one hundred percent responsibility for his situation in life. Where he is is entirely his fault. Once a man accepts this, he can begin to affect reality instead of being a victim and letting reality affect him. This is such a basic tenet of manhood, yet it's becoming increasingly rare to see it today. No wonder why women are always complaining they can't find a real man -- there are few out there!
This story stinks!
Admit it: you were antsy to make a pun.
Clever, isn't it? ;)