This will only DISCOURAGE people who need help from seeking treatment.
No. This database will hold information from "mental health adjudications". When you choose to go see a pshrink, or check yourself into a clinic, that is not an adjudication. When the cops talk you down from a ledge and Baker Act you for 72 hours, and you are ordered by a judge into a treatment program, that is a mental health adjudication. This bill cannot discourage the seeking of voluntary mental health care.
Local control might have some issues, but at least its easier to hold officals responsible.
"Some issues"? My company has branches in 23 states. Do you have any idea how bad the federal rules would have to be before they were harder to comply-with than 23 different sets of rules, drawn up by 23 different sets of local yokels?
One might assume that there's other work that they were already doing, and that they're no longer doing now that they're doing something else...
Removing viruses, removing malware, reinstalling Windows to remove registry cruft, removing pornadoes so that their teachers don't go to prison, etc. Switching to Linux can take less than no time (it's a manager thing, not a physics thing. if you didn't understand it instantly, don't bother trying).
People who were technically adept in those days really knew how things worked and why. Things have changed many of the "techies" are little more then highly trained appliance operators. This no doubt is a side effect of throw away society we have evolved into. Nobody fixes things anymore except for a few of us who are able to find our way around without a schematic diagram.
A lot of this problem isn't "throw away society" as much as it is "virtualization". So much of the work of today's devices (think MP3 player, or digital studio equipment) is implemented in software. You can't "trace the wires" and figure out what the device is doing, or how it is doing it. You would need a flowchart or UML model of the software, and even that would make things clear-as-mud, not clear-as-water.
The decision to move much of the work into software has great advantages in terms of device manufacturing. The manufacturer can use a standard chip, cranked out in the millions, costing pennies. The only reason those volumes work (lowering cost) is because of the hundreds of software/firmware implementations, that allow many radically different devices to use the same chip.
You also get the advantage of firmware upgradability, and product versions. The same Samsung MP3 player (YP-U2J) that is sold in the US, is sold in Europe, though the firmware supports different formats for different markets. I re-flashed my US-bought device with a European firmware, to get rid of the Microsoft-required MTP (Plays-for-Sure BS). With the European firmware, this device became a standard USB-Mass-Storage device (works with Linux), and as a side benefit, it plays Ogg Vorbis files (forbidden by Plays-for-Sure).
So while I agree that it is unfortunate that technicians today are locked out of the black boxes, there are valid reasons why the boxes are harder to understand and modify. This is not just a case of manufacturers being asshats for asshat's sake, or a side effect of our throw-away society.
He didn't say that quantum theory was bullshit. He said that quantum randomness is 'irrelevant to the discussion of "free will"'. Quantum randomness might enable you to act randomly, it does not enable you to exert control over your mental processes.
The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said, as Einstein paraphrased it, that "a human can very well do what he wants, but cannot will what he wants."
Free Will is basically a religious concept, that requires a supernatural agent. In a materialist worldview, human behavior is very complex, so complex as to not be practically predictable, but it is not 'free'.
I am not asserting that we can prove that a materialist worldview is correct, only that Free Will is incompatible with a materialist worldview.
how could this possibly inconvenience paying customers when it is done a single time while paying for it?
Have you ever walked out of a store, and had the security alarm go off because the idiot at the register failed to deactivate the security device? Now picture this: you get home with your new DVD. Three days later, you and your SO finally have a block of time in which to watch this new DVD that you've been wanting to see. It won't play (see above idiot). Now, not only is that evening 'blown', but you have to go back to the store (you kept the receipt, right?), and ask them to activate your disc, while they try to figure out whether your DVD is stolen (even if you have the receipt, it might not be for this copy of that title).
Yes, this will inconvenience hundreds of thousands of customers. Why does this industry insist on making their product harder to use for legal customers?
likely a need for better monitoring which requires more people
An even bigger reason for high-costs during peak usage is that your utility has to buy power from the interstate grid and/or third-party 'merchant plants' when their own generating capacity is insufficient. That can be very expensive.
Literally, I believe it means to reduce to a tenth part, or by 90%.
No, it meant to reduce by a tenth part, a 10% reduction. A Roman military unit would be 'decimated' as punishment for disobeying orders: one out of every ten soldiers would be killed. If you killed nine out of ten soldiers, you wouldn't have a military unit left.
Someone posted a copyrighted portion of the scientology bible (or whatever they call it). Because it was copyrighted material, and a seemingly serious legal threat was issued, the offending comment was removed.
It's a nitpick, but IIRC, their claim was that the document is protected as containing Trade Secrets, rather than copyright.
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Maybe we need a new moderation: (-1, Car Analogy).
Excellent notion. The moderation choices we have now are so bland.
You must have bought your DVD somewhere other than Wal*Mart.
I bought my DVD at WalMart. I didn't get a "Have a nice day". So tell me, was your "Have a nice day" worth the extra $9? Would you pay me $9 a pop to call you every morning and wish you a nice day? Would you still pay me $9 to wish you a nice day if I outsourced those phone calls to "Steve" in India (thus pocketing a cool $8.80)?
Alright, I'll get it over with: *ahem* Ding, dong, the witch is dead
That comment is untrue and unkind. All of the witches that I know are really nice (if slightly dotty) people. This guy was an asshole, who would probably have benefitted from a scoop of dottyness.
You don't prevent soldiers dying by providing soldiers with better weapons and support systems. You just shift deaths from one side to the other.
If anything, advanced weaponry acts so fast and devastating that the result is more death of soldiers...
No, in 'military' operations, using smart weapons can create defeats by destroying infrastructure and large (but not soldier-heavy) weapons such as tanks and planes. This kind of victory will result in much lower soldier death rates for both sides than meatgrinder warfare like Verdun and Gallipoli.
Now for the quotes around 'military' above: what we are doing in Iraq now is not a military operation. It's being performed by the military, but it is not combat. The US Army is acting as an army of occupation, for which all of that wiz-bang hardware means jack squat. Force-on-force the US Army is incredibly effective, but playing insurgent-bait sucks.
We will have all humanity united behind our efforts to introduce "Democracy" to the new planet with interstellar ballistic missiles.
Don't worry, the aliens will be so eager for our 'democracy', that they'll welcome us as liberators. They'll be showering our soldiers with flowers. Whole thing should take about six months.
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In other words: FUD Kills!
No. This database will hold information from "mental health adjudications". When you choose to go see a pshrink, or check yourself into a clinic, that is not an adjudication. When the cops talk you down from a ledge and Baker Act you for 72 hours, and you are ordered by a judge into a treatment program, that is a mental health adjudication. This bill cannot discourage the seeking of voluntary mental health care.
"Some issues"? My company has branches in 23 states. Do you have any idea how bad the federal rules would have to be before they were harder to comply-with than 23 different sets of rules, drawn up by 23 different sets of local yokels?
Removing viruses, removing malware, reinstalling Windows to remove registry cruft, removing pornadoes so that their teachers don't go to prison, etc. Switching to Linux can take less than no time (it's a manager thing, not a physics thing. if you didn't understand it instantly, don't bother trying).
And pity the poor soldier who has Akira flashbacks when this huge teddy bear grabs him.
Just because Denmark's a prison?
No taxation without duplication!
A lot of this problem isn't "throw away society" as much as it is "virtualization". So much of the work of today's devices (think MP3 player, or digital studio equipment) is implemented in software. You can't "trace the wires" and figure out what the device is doing, or how it is doing it. You would need a flowchart or UML model of the software, and even that would make things clear-as-mud, not clear-as-water.
The decision to move much of the work into software has great advantages in terms of device manufacturing. The manufacturer can use a standard chip, cranked out in the millions, costing pennies. The only reason those volumes work (lowering cost) is because of the hundreds of software/firmware implementations, that allow many radically different devices to use the same chip.
You also get the advantage of firmware upgradability, and product versions. The same Samsung MP3 player (YP-U2J) that is sold in the US, is sold in Europe, though the firmware supports different formats for different markets. I re-flashed my US-bought device with a European firmware, to get rid of the Microsoft-required MTP (Plays-for-Sure BS). With the European firmware, this device became a standard USB-Mass-Storage device (works with Linux), and as a side benefit, it plays Ogg Vorbis files (forbidden by Plays-for-Sure).
So while I agree that it is unfortunate that technicians today are locked out of the black boxes, there are valid reasons why the boxes are harder to understand and modify. This is not just a case of manufacturers being asshats for asshat's sake, or a side effect of our throw-away society.
Or maybe being an armed beligerent wackjob will get you shot.
We won't have it first, but we'll re-post this 'news' more times than anybody! Let's see Digg beat that!
He didn't say that quantum theory was bullshit. He said that quantum randomness is 'irrelevant to the discussion of "free will"'. Quantum randomness might enable you to act randomly, it does not enable you to exert control over your mental processes.
The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said, as Einstein paraphrased it, that "a human can very well do what he wants, but cannot will what he wants."
Free Will is basically a religious concept, that requires a supernatural agent. In a materialist worldview, human behavior is very complex, so complex as to not be practically predictable, but it is not 'free'.
I am not asserting that we can prove that a materialist worldview is correct, only that Free Will is incompatible with a materialist worldview.
Instead of a hyphen, wouldn't a colon be more appropriate?
Some enterprising Russian should set up a sister site. Maybe call it: Virtual Online Guitar Archive.
Have you ever walked out of a store, and had the security alarm go off because the idiot at the register failed to deactivate the security device? Now picture this: you get home with your new DVD. Three days later, you and your SO finally have a block of time in which to watch this new DVD that you've been wanting to see. It won't play (see above idiot). Now, not only is that evening 'blown', but you have to go back to the store (you kept the receipt, right?), and ask them to activate your disc, while they try to figure out whether your DVD is stolen (even if you have the receipt, it might not be for this copy of that title).
Yes, this will inconvenience hundreds of thousands of customers. Why does this industry insist on making their product harder to use for legal customers?
An even bigger reason for high-costs during peak usage is that your utility has to buy power from the interstate grid and/or third-party 'merchant plants' when their own generating capacity is insufficient. That can be very expensive.
No, it meant to reduce by a tenth part, a 10% reduction. A Roman military unit would be 'decimated' as punishment for disobeying orders: one out of every ten soldiers would be killed. If you killed nine out of ten soldiers, you wouldn't have a military unit left.
It's a nitpick, but IIRC, their claim was that the document is protected as containing Trade Secrets, rather than copyright.
Excellent notion. The moderation choices we have now are so bland.
Greasemonkey is your friend.
I bought my DVD at WalMart. I didn't get a "Have a nice day". So tell me, was your "Have a nice day" worth the extra $9? Would you pay me $9 a pop to call you every morning and wish you a nice day? Would you still pay me $9 to wish you a nice day if I outsourced those phone calls to "Steve" in India (thus pocketing a cool $8.80)?
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
That comment is untrue and unkind. All of the witches that I know are really nice (if slightly dotty) people. This guy was an asshole, who would probably have benefitted from a scoop of dottyness.
No one in this administration went to Vietnam.
No, in 'military' operations, using smart weapons can create defeats by destroying infrastructure and large (but not soldier-heavy) weapons such as tanks and planes. This kind of victory will result in much lower soldier death rates for both sides than meatgrinder warfare like Verdun and Gallipoli.
Now for the quotes around 'military' above: what we are doing in Iraq now is not a military operation. It's being performed by the military, but it is not combat. The US Army is acting as an army of occupation, for which all of that wiz-bang hardware means jack squat. Force-on-force the US Army is incredibly effective, but playing insurgent-bait sucks.
Actually those are only 10 annoying articles (the other 10 are dupes of the first 10).
Don't worry, the aliens will be so eager for our 'democracy', that they'll welcome us as liberators. They'll be showering our soldiers with flowers. Whole thing should take about six months.