Didn't I read another study the other day that said something like 75% of people who download Firefox end up downloading it again a few months later after their other browser got infected up the whazoo?
1. I would want it to lower my (a "healthy" person) premiums,...
This is exactly the reason I support universal health care. Free market driven health care doesn't work because it is not a free market. Just screw 5% of the people at a time and you'll be guaranteed 95% approval ratings of those that remain.
OK, fine, your premiums will go down. This year.
Next year, you'll be the one marginalized. If the justification is purely a question of maximum profitability, you can always tweak one more dollar out by squeezing one less healthy person out.
Taken not too much farther ahead, there will be no point in anyone getting insurance - the insurance companies will have subdivided people enough so that everyone is paying a little more than what they get back. That's the ultimate goal, the best way to maximize profits.
The insurance system in America will most certainly change in the not so distant future. This isn't a prediction based on Democratic versus Republican causes, though there seems to be support in the political winds of change too. No, I say that simply because the system is a bubble nearing burst. It's an unsustainable market, like a pyramid scheme nearing the tipping point.
Evidence the story is seriously dated can be found in the byline, as well as in this snippet: The firestorm of controversy even led to an entire newsthread discussing the lawsuit on the highly respected tech-news site Slashdot,...
The journalism on/. is getting more and more questionable, to be sure.
What gets me is the rampant speculation.
Did the RIAA sue TNT? Did TNT sue the RIAA?
Or did the RIAA pull their business because the Son of Satan - still a young lad and not yet able to lead the hellish forces and kick-start the end of days - is an intern at TNT?
Who knows?
But until we do know, let's just put anything up on the board. Drudge does it. Why can't we?
Alas, sometimes I fool myself into thinking, just because they use the motto "News for Nerds..." this site actually tries to act as a news site instead of a blog (or a blog of other blogs).
I'm going with Earth is their afterlife, and Cylons and "humans" in their universe are parts of a whole here on Earth.
Goes with the cylons ability to reincarnate - after being on Earth, they return to the ether world of BSG.
I don't know, though. Just seems like it may be a plot device that would work in the mind of a better writer than me.
Oh, I've seen a few that were plenty close, but I still also agree 100%. After all the GP mentioned the eye and brain filter. On quite a few occasions, I've checked out some phish sites, via cleaned html requests, just to check them out. In one case, I reported the offender to the local authorities and his boss because he was idiotic enough to be hosting it here in the states, on his work computer, at a university. And he was a professor. (Sure, it may have been a pwned box, but just the same...
Yeah, I'm trusting that I'm not subject to a MITM attack, but short of said phishers hacking DNS or routing upstream from me, that's unlikely. And even then, I'd suspect said unsavory character would be smart enough to also MITM my phish filter's requests as well, no?
Is there more to the story that truly indicates that the discussions on the great LED scare are the reason for the ban? How do we know the city didn't ban it for other, equally stupid reasons? I mean, really... unless there is more to the story, mroe reason to support the speculation, the author really seems a little childish making such a wild claim.
But really, what are the censoring for? I'm more worried about actual censorship than I am about a bunch of Adult Swim fans not being able to mutually mastubate over their pictures of Mumbles Menino.
The discrimination described by this article is against women.
The discrimination implied by the article is against men.
As the primary care taker for my two young girls, and as the IT Manager in a small-medium sized business, I am very happy to be working in a company where my manager, the VP of Ops, has no problem with me leaving because my kids' day care is closing.
Men can be parents too. Those who don't believe so should try it some time while they still can. I hate to say Thinkofthechildren here, but this one is legit. And if that phrase turns you off, try thinking of yourselves instead.
Evolution is easy to grasp in it's simplest form - your oversimplification is a good example.
The aspects of evolution which are difficult to grasp for are the things that Intelligent Design proponents push. It takes millions and millions of microscopic changes to make a macroscopic difference. The eye cannot just appear as one fluke evolutionary change. Flight wasn't a one step process. The process that allows for their development are not intuitive at all for the same reason that people cannot comprehend the true size of the solar system, let alone the universe.(1)
It's the concept of millions and millions that most people find unintuitive. I submit state lotteries as proof.
(1) reference Douglas Adams and the walk to the local chemist.
I agree, especially to the black art reference. It's still very approximate.
That makes me laugh out loud when I read in the same summary "it could trigger a tsunami that would do an untold amount of damage to the California coastline and many other places on Earth." Implied is the idea that we have an idea where it will hit the Earth. We're not sure if it will hit or be 100,000 miles away, but we can say it will hit the Pacific.
OK, I'll grant that TFA seems to be a little less obscure - in between the lines you can see the statistical assumption that whatever hits the Earth has a higher probability of hitting the very large Pacific than hitting, say, the Weber grill in my back yard.
But still, it's attempts like these to personalize the science that make me laugh.
reporter: An asteroid may hit the Earth, wiping out all life. Joe Q. Stupid: *shrug* reporter: An asteroid may hit the Earth, and it'll be bigger than El Nino. Joe Q. Stupid: I'm sorry, what was that again?
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Didn't I read another study the other day that said something like 75% of people who download Firefox end up downloading it again a few months later after their other browser got infected up the whazoo?
1. I would want it to lower my (a "healthy" person) premiums,...
This is exactly the reason I support universal health care. Free market driven health care doesn't work because it is not a free market. Just screw 5% of the people at a time and you'll be guaranteed 95% approval ratings of those that remain.
OK, fine, your premiums will go down. This year.
Next year, you'll be the one marginalized. If the justification is purely a question of maximum profitability, you can always tweak one more dollar out by squeezing one less healthy person out.
Taken not too much farther ahead, there will be no point in anyone getting insurance - the insurance companies will have subdivided people enough so that everyone is paying a little more than what they get back. That's the ultimate goal, the best way to maximize profits.
The insurance system in America will most certainly change in the not so distant future. This isn't a prediction based on Democratic versus Republican causes, though there seems to be support in the political winds of change too. No, I say that simply because the system is a bubble nearing burst. It's an unsustainable market, like a pyramid scheme nearing the tipping point.
We're Beatrice.
How does the method of heating water affect the smell of water, outside of having major leaks in your water heater?
Oh, just some guy who probably owns alot of stock in Cisco.
The story you cite is from 2001.
Evidence the story is seriously dated can be found in the byline, as well as in this snippet: The firestorm of controversy even led to an entire newsthread discussing the lawsuit on the highly respected tech-news site Slashdot,...
Are you referring to the hackers, the reporters, or FOX?
The journalism on /. is getting more and more questionable, to be sure.
What gets me is the rampant speculation.
Did the RIAA sue TNT? Did TNT sue the RIAA?
Or did the RIAA pull their business because the Son of Satan - still a young lad and not yet able to lead the hellish forces and kick-start the end of days - is an intern at TNT?
Who knows?
But until we do know, let's just put anything up on the board. Drudge does it. Why can't we?
Alas, sometimes I fool myself into thinking, just because they use the motto "News for Nerds..." this site actually tries to act as a news site instead of a blog (or a blog of other blogs).
...my fellow countrymen will never accept the kilogram as a unit of measure until it is redefined as being equal to 16 oz.
I'm going with Earth is their afterlife, and Cylons and "humans" in their universe are parts of a whole here on Earth.
Goes with the cylons ability to reincarnate - after being on Earth, they return to the ether world of BSG.
I don't know, though. Just seems like it may be a plot device that would work in the mind of a better writer than me.
Yeah, I'm trusting that I'm not subject to a MITM attack, but short of said phishers hacking DNS or routing upstream from me, that's unlikely. And even then, I'd suspect said unsavory character would be smart enough to also MITM my phish filter's requests as well, no?
Oh, wait... nevermind.
Anyone pissed off at me is more than welcome to try to crack my gateway at 127.0.0.1
Do your worst... I've been waiting for a chance to check out my new anti-DoS techniques against a flood.
... and named Chuck Norris as their lead defense attorney? Man, that would be wicked pissa.
But really, what are the censoring for? I'm more worried about actual censorship than I am about a bunch of Adult Swim fans not being able to mutually mastubate over their pictures of Mumbles Menino.
The discrimination implied by the article is against men.
As the primary care taker for my two young girls, and as the IT Manager in a small-medium sized business, I am very happy to be working in a company where my manager, the VP of Ops, has no problem with me leaving because my kids' day care is closing.
Men can be parents too. Those who don't believe so should try it some time while they still can. I hate to say Thinkofthechildren here, but this one is legit. And if that phrase turns you off, try thinking of yourselves instead.
I saw it, but I don't remember where it is.
The aspects of evolution which are difficult to grasp for are the things that Intelligent Design proponents push. It takes millions and millions of microscopic changes to make a macroscopic difference. The eye cannot just appear as one fluke evolutionary change. Flight wasn't a one step process. The process that allows for their development are not intuitive at all for the same reason that people cannot comprehend the true size of the solar system, let alone the universe.(1)
It's the concept of millions and millions that most people find unintuitive. I submit state lotteries as proof.
(1) reference Douglas Adams and the walk to the local chemist.
I still believed, you insensitive clod.
Al Jazeera will air Al Qaeda's propaganda, while Fox will air Bush's.
That makes me laugh out loud when I read in the same summary "it could trigger a tsunami that would do an untold amount of damage to the California coastline and many other places on Earth." Implied is the idea that we have an idea where it will hit the Earth. We're not sure if it will hit or be 100,000 miles away, but we can say it will hit the Pacific.
OK, I'll grant that TFA seems to be a little less obscure - in between the lines you can see the statistical assumption that whatever hits the Earth has a higher probability of hitting the very large Pacific than hitting, say, the Weber grill in my back yard.
But still, it's attempts like these to personalize the science that make me laugh.
reporter: An asteroid may hit the Earth, wiping out all life.
Joe Q. Stupid: *shrug*
reporter: An asteroid may hit the Earth, and it'll be bigger than El Nino.
Joe Q. Stupid: I'm sorry, what was that again?
I want to know the connection you're using to send this port 25 traffic out from within the event horizon. Now that's some serious technology.
Well, that's a relief. I saw it on
All joking aside... good explanation, with a nice real world artifact thrown in to help Joe Q. American understand the scope involved.
Not as much as you... at least I know it's rediculous.
oops.
/egg on face