Actually, that's not the problem. The voices in my head are okay. The voices in your head are a bunch of assholes, however. Tell them to shut up, please.
You're right. Bitcoin is only the gun, not the criminal.
All cryptocurrency holders must immediately give their government a full accounting of all cryptocurrency transactions; any unreported transactions may reasonably be considered evidence of criminal wrongdoing (especially since such transactions are required by law to be declared, at least to the IRS in the United States - if you want to cheat, fine. Don't cheat the tax man; Al Capone can tell you all about that one).
Since cryptocurrency use is (of necessity) an organized activity, using a cryptocurrency without notifying the US Government of your total holdings on an annual basis handily constitutes a RICO worthy response. Enjoy your ill-gotten booty while you can!
Health care is far less accessible to me under the AHCA than is was previously. Should I suffer a debilitating injury now, I will have to choose between lifelong financial destitution or being crippled.
Yes, this is a personal experience, not a documented wide-ranging issue. But . . . I'm not an edge case, I'm part of a fairly large group. I don't believe my experiences are unique in this regard. The Affordable Health Care Act is not providing me with affordable health care, but rather the opposite.
Incidentally, Medicaid has existed since the sixties. Many people then said it would be unsustainable, yet it continued to work just fine until last year. SO . . . how long until the AHCA becomes unsustainable? It's already essentially unusable to me, but a lot of insurance companies are making money providing an insanely low level of protection.
(PERSONAL ANECDOTE). I have to admit to experiencing a parallel from back in the seventies. I found this really outta sight sandwich joint. It had the best (and the cheapest) steak and mushroom sandwich I've ever had. I was really sad when I found out it was a money-laundering front for organized crime - but only because I found out after the Fed shut it down under the RICO act.
(PERSONAL OPINION). Is cryptocurrency any different? I can make money for free by "mining" for valid cryptostrings (there's my cheap, excellent steak sandwich), but the primary players are guys from the Silk Road, et. al. Sooner or later, a government somewhere will squash cryptocurrency (and seize any value therein) under whatever variation of the RICO act they have. Too bad - I really liked the steak sandwiches there.
Before the AHCA, I was able to get medical care while I was unemployed. Now, I have insurance - with a huge deductable.
Sorry - this is just an effort to redistribute the wealth, while providing the illusion that it is making health care affordable. I'm already getting bills for daring to see a physician while between jobs - bills which I can't pay. Just saying - I was a lot better off before AHCA became the law of the land.
All I know is that Medicaid as it existed in the nineties helped me when I needed it. The Affordable Health Care Act has made all medical care financially impossible for me to get without incurring debt.
Incidentally, I didn't ask to be unemployed. Then again, I suppose society has no great obligation to see to it that I receive medical care of any sort.
Not to me, it isn't. Now, I can't even fall back onto Medicaid without incurring hefty fines. The result is that now I have medical bills which ain't gettin' paid (at least, not until I get my next job).
I've used Medicaid in the past. Worked like a charm; I received needed medical care and as a result I'm not crippled for life.
I'm between jobs again. I'm enrolled for insurance under the AHCA. I'm getting bills from my primary care physician's office because (despite what I was led to believe) I'm subject to a $5,200 individual deductable - and that was the BEST plan I saw offered under the AHCA. Incidentally, I'm not planning to pay that bill; at least, not until I find my next job.
(PERSONAL OPINION FOLLOWS)
I'll say this, though - as a mechanism to keep me in financial servitude, the AHCA is right up there with debtor's prison and serfdom as a model. I can reasonably foresee ending up a lifetime servant of the medical industry if I don't find myself a better way to pay for health care. Medicaid still exists, but there's no way to qualify for it now without facing a hefty fine. Either way, economic serfdom. Karl Marx would indeed be proud of the AHCA as a mechanism to propel a free enterprise society towards a socialist state.
Shame you expressed yourself so poorly. You've done what you believe a great disservice (unless you're actually a fan of the Affordable Health Care Act).
Take your hands off the keyboard, take a deep breath, and start posting again when you can express yourself without being offensive.
Support 'em both on the desktop. Find a way to gather metrics (cost, productivity, complaints). Factor out complaints involving "I can't have my animated wallpaper" (doesn't matter to an enterprise, or at least it shouldn't), "I can't install this e-card I got from my friend" (really?), "I can't install this software" (if it's enterprise software that's a problem to address; if it's "Solitaire Supreme" . . . ). Productivity might encounter a ramp-up period, especially from employees resistant to change. Unfortunately, this is not a problem to be fixed but a cultural issue to be considered as possibly not fixable. The cost thing should be a no-brainer.
We're talking about business here. Let the money have its voice.
Back in the nineties, I broke my leg while I was between jobs. I was uninsured. A US Federal Government program (Medicaid) picked up the freight, paying to get my right knee rebuilt. I'd suffered a torn lateral meniscus, a broken tibia and a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament. I'd be crippled to this day had not an already existing Federal program been there to provide medical care for low-income people such as I was then.
Now, of course, I am required by law to buy insurance. The fact that the insurance premium is paid by a tax credit means nothing; except that now I'm at the mercy of an insurance company which feels that they are being forced to carry the burden of insuring me (I'm between jobs again - *sigh*). Incidentally, my deductable is over five thousand dollars.
Medicaid sure helped me a lot more than Affordable Healthcare does now; but with mandatory participation, I can certainly believe the numbers being reported. What I want to know is how many of us would have chosen AHCA over Medicaid, had we been given a choice?
Yeah - unfortunately, no one "race" can lay claim to being the only one to practice bigotry. Being in the majority here in the US, we're just better at it (here).
I seriously doubt that this is true for others, however. To be clear, I believe in an Earth-centric universe, but we certainly live in a Heliocentric solar system. The contradiction there is left as an exercise for the reader.
Oh - while I didn't especially care for Star Trek: Voyager Lost In Space, I think Ms. Mulgrew is a fine actress. I'm sorry she got suckered in to this. And . . . Remo Williams Lives!.
The effect of boiling is that thermal energy is carried away with the (now gas) component of the coolant. The hot gas bubbles up, leaving the cooler liquid enveloping your circuit.
Put another way: boiling is nothing more than incredibly fast evaporation. That's exactly how sweat cools a body - by evaporation of a fluid on the surface of the object to be cooled. Mechanical removal of heat by a physical process - highly efficient.
I take it you also oppose hiring quotas. I do, but there are a lot of civil rights advocates who will take me to task for my opinion. I'll certainly admit, they have valid points (this is a debate I've engaged in quite often, not always successfully).
I keep seeing people essentially criticizing Symantec for releasing the details of this exploit. I'm sure the obsecurity model has worked quite well for all of you, hasn't it?
Security through obscurity is a long-debunked myth. You people need to get over it - hiding an exploit only guarantees its continued effectiveness (obsecurity works both ways, protecting the exploit as well as the exploited). Exposing an exploit causes people to work to close the exploit and put it out of business. There's a short-term loss as every script-kiddie takes advantage of their newly discovered toy, but a greater long-term advantage in securing systems against said exploit.
To be sure, secrecy can be used to add to security - but the secret should be what you've done to close the holes, not the fact that those holes exist.
Any consumer available product should certainly be engineered to be safe when used as directed, and should be able to accommodate any reasonably foreseeable circumstance without itself becoming an undue hazard. In this instance, a Tesla Motors vehicle should be able to withstand any circumstance which might reasonably be expected to occur - within bounds of reason. I understand that in all instances of battery fires, the vehicle's occupants had ample time to exit the vehicle and watch their car burn up from the safety of the roadside.
Incidentally, my (dinosaur powered) truck has a full skid plate under the carriage. That's an optional piece of equipment on my pickup, a vehicle which is even more likely than a passenger car to encounter operational conditions which include a greater chance of undercarriage damage (my truck's a 4x4 and was clearly designed with occasional off-road use as an intended capability). Mind you, I feel that my truck is quite well designed and is correctly engineered to perform its primary function adequately through many years of use; but Tesla is already exceeding even that mandate here, overengineering their product and even updating their design to accommodate "edge cases".
(Oh, and what you refer to as the "Chinese way" - we call that planned obsolescence in this country - it's practically the holy grail of manufacturing design for many firms, nationality notwithstanding)
Employees of Tesla. Owners of Tesla vehicles. Geeks (well, nerds actually) who want to own a Tesla. Proponents of zero emission vehicles. People who are interested in new or inventive technologies...
I don't come to/. for automotive news.
There's the trap - come to be a troll, but look out - you may learn something here if you're not careful!
Given the location and structural requirements, I'm going to say this is not a readily detachable part - at least, no more so than any other automotive component. Probably as difficult to remove as any structural chassis element.
Now, if you want to think in terms of malicious behavior, seen the news lately about "smart car tipping"?
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Actually, that's not the problem. The voices in my head are okay. The voices in your head are a bunch of assholes, however. Tell them to shut up, please.
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All cryptocurrency holders must immediately give their government a full accounting of all cryptocurrency transactions; any unreported transactions may reasonably be considered evidence of criminal wrongdoing (especially since such transactions are required by law to be declared, at least to the IRS in the United States - if you want to cheat, fine. Don't cheat the tax man; Al Capone can tell you all about that one).
Since cryptocurrency use is (of necessity) an organized activity, using a cryptocurrency without notifying the US Government of your total holdings on an annual basis handily constitutes a RICO worthy response. Enjoy your ill-gotten booty while you can!
Yes, this is a personal experience, not a documented wide-ranging issue. But . . . I'm not an edge case, I'm part of a fairly large group. I don't believe my experiences are unique in this regard. The Affordable Health Care Act is not providing me with affordable health care, but rather the opposite.
Incidentally, Medicaid has existed since the sixties. Many people then said it would be unsustainable, yet it continued to work just fine until last year. SO . . . how long until the AHCA becomes unsustainable? It's already essentially unusable to me, but a lot of insurance companies are making money providing an insanely low level of protection.
(PERSONAL OPINION). Is cryptocurrency any different? I can make money for free by "mining" for valid cryptostrings (there's my cheap, excellent steak sandwich), but the primary players are guys from the Silk Road, et. al. Sooner or later, a government somewhere will squash cryptocurrency (and seize any value therein) under whatever variation of the RICO act they have. Too bad - I really liked the steak sandwiches there.
Somebody (I assume with a personal agenda or an ax to grind) has downmodded a reasonably intelligent post.
Sorry - this is just an effort to redistribute the wealth, while providing the illusion that it is making health care affordable. I'm already getting bills for daring to see a physician while between jobs - bills which I can't pay. Just saying - I was a lot better off before AHCA became the law of the land.
Incidentally, I didn't ask to be unemployed. Then again, I suppose society has no great obligation to see to it that I receive medical care of any sort.
Not to me, it isn't. Now, I can't even fall back onto Medicaid without incurring hefty fines. The result is that now I have medical bills which ain't gettin' paid (at least, not until I get my next job).
Fixed that for you.
My individual deductable is only $5,200. Hell, that's chump change to an unemployed guy like me.
I'm between jobs again. I'm enrolled for insurance under the AHCA. I'm getting bills from my primary care physician's office because (despite what I was led to believe) I'm subject to a $5,200 individual deductable - and that was the BEST plan I saw offered under the AHCA. Incidentally, I'm not planning to pay that bill; at least, not until I find my next job.
(PERSONAL OPINION FOLLOWS)
I'll say this, though - as a mechanism to keep me in financial servitude, the AHCA is right up there with debtor's prison and serfdom as a model. I can reasonably foresee ending up a lifetime servant of the medical industry if I don't find myself a better way to pay for health care. Medicaid still exists, but there's no way to qualify for it now without facing a hefty fine. Either way, economic serfdom. Karl Marx would indeed be proud of the AHCA as a mechanism to propel a free enterprise society towards a socialist state.
Take your hands off the keyboard, take a deep breath, and start posting again when you can express yourself without being offensive.
We're talking about business here. Let the money have its voice.
Back in the nineties, I broke my leg while I was between jobs. I was uninsured. A US Federal Government program (Medicaid) picked up the freight, paying to get my right knee rebuilt. I'd suffered a torn lateral meniscus, a broken tibia and a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament. I'd be crippled to this day had not an already existing Federal program been there to provide medical care for low-income people such as I was then.
Now, of course, I am required by law to buy insurance. The fact that the insurance premium is paid by a tax credit means nothing; except that now I'm at the mercy of an insurance company which feels that they are being forced to carry the burden of insuring me (I'm between jobs again - *sigh*). Incidentally, my deductable is over five thousand dollars.
Medicaid sure helped me a lot more than Affordable Healthcare does now; but with mandatory participation, I can certainly believe the numbers being reported. What I want to know is how many of us would have chosen AHCA over Medicaid, had we been given a choice?
Yeah - unfortunately, no one "race" can lay claim to being the only one to practice bigotry. Being in the majority here in the US, we're just better at it (here).
Oh - while I didn't especially care for Star Trek: Voyager Lost In Space, I think Ms. Mulgrew is a fine actress. I'm sorry she got suckered in to this. And . . . Remo Williams Lives!.
Put another way: boiling is nothing more than incredibly fast evaporation. That's exactly how sweat cools a body - by evaporation of a fluid on the surface of the object to be cooled. Mechanical removal of heat by a physical process - highly efficient.
I take it you also oppose hiring quotas. I do, but there are a lot of civil rights advocates who will take me to task for my opinion. I'll certainly admit, they have valid points (this is a debate I've engaged in quite often, not always successfully).
Security through obscurity is a long-debunked myth. You people need to get over it - hiding an exploit only guarantees its continued effectiveness (obsecurity works both ways, protecting the exploit as well as the exploited). Exposing an exploit causes people to work to close the exploit and put it out of business. There's a short-term loss as every script-kiddie takes advantage of their newly discovered toy, but a greater long-term advantage in securing systems against said exploit.
To be sure, secrecy can be used to add to security - but the secret should be what you've done to close the holes, not the fact that those holes exist.
Incidentally, my (dinosaur powered) truck has a full skid plate under the carriage. That's an optional piece of equipment on my pickup, a vehicle which is even more likely than a passenger car to encounter operational conditions which include a greater chance of undercarriage damage (my truck's a 4x4 and was clearly designed with occasional off-road use as an intended capability). Mind you, I feel that my truck is quite well designed and is correctly engineered to perform its primary function adequately through many years of use; but Tesla is already exceeding even that mandate here, overengineering their product and even updating their design to accommodate "edge cases".
(Oh, and what you refer to as the "Chinese way" - we call that planned obsolescence in this country - it's practically the holy grail of manufacturing design for many firms, nationality notwithstanding)
Employees of Tesla. Owners of Tesla vehicles. Geeks (well, nerds actually) who want to own a Tesla. Proponents of zero emission vehicles. People who are interested in new or inventive technologies...
There's the trap - come to be a troll, but look out - you may learn something here if you're not careful!
Now, if you want to think in terms of malicious behavior, seen the news lately about "smart car tipping"?
You forgot Amoco, BP, Shell, Texaco, Sunoco . . .
Specifically, post video of your car running over the same kinds of debris that Tesla demonstrated here.