We have record profits but want more money. This is a crucial issue that Congress needs to tackle, because record profits aren't enough. To that end, we think that we should have the right to seize personal property without due process. And even though we're currently abusing the DCMA (filing mass take-downs for content they don't own or review), we feel we need more power and promise not to abuse it for censorship.
Why wouldn't people support that?
The RIAA holds artists back from making more money by fighting the adoption of digital music. As content becomes more convenient to digest, people will consume more of it. Stop fighting consumers and embrace them. That is the way to combat piracy. Just look at iTunes, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime streaming, HBO Go, Spotify, etc. etc.
I don't anticipate buying the Wii U and hate the single tablet controller. I think it is a stupid decision. But they have a lot of third party developers confirmed to be making Wii U games well before the hardware is ready to launch.
And this won't be two Wii's. The hardware is considerably faster.
What about multiplayer in games? The Wii doesn't multitask. It can't have the app running while also playing Mario Kart to translate the new user accounts and connectivity to existing Wii games.
That's exactly what happened. The banks gave out bad loans relying on insurance policies to bail them out when they went belly up. When insurers refused to pay claims, then the banks freaked out and then the federal government basically paid those claims. When we bailed out banks, we were covering the costs insurance companies were legally obligated to pay to the banks, but just didn't. And somehow this is acceptable.
In addition, a study by the American Hospital Association determined that hospitals (in total) could incur as much as $22.5 billion in additional costs complying with merely three of the privacy provisions of HIPAA during its initial five-year period.
I didn't realize that 22.5 billion is a rounding error for hospitals.
You are correct that flood damage is a separate insurance. In my case, it was wind storms that caused the damage. It was clearly covered by my policy, but I wasn't getting a roof until FEMA kicked in funds. 9/11 is another example where insurance companies threw their hands in the air and said they couldn't pay claims on life insurance and property damage. They were bound by contract to pay those claims, but frankly didn't feel like it. So federal funds paid for it instead.
Or the mortgage crisis. There were insurance policies taken out against all these bad mortgages precisely because banks knew they were high risk. And while people were willing to accept premiums, they didn't feel like paying claims. You can just not honor contracts, bilk people out of billions, and then we expect the federal government to foot the bill.
I really don't want to get into an abortion debate, but sadly I'll take the bait.
1. Being pro-life isn't inherently tied to the Bible. Plenty of people around the entire world are pro-life without being Christian. Obama publicly claims to be Christian (I'd wager he is an atheist, not that it matters) and is pro-choice. 2. You apparently haven't read the Bible if you think Christianity dictates murdering people so that they get to meet Jesus. 3. Somehow you make distinction 2 while calling everyone ignorant.
I will say that I find the hypocrisy of both parties intriguing when it comes to abortion.
Democrats historically argue that they alone are the party of the people. They push for health care because keeping people alive should be priority one. And they want to abolish the death penalty because you shouldn't have any legal right to kill someone for any reason, except when it is a baby.
Republicans like to argue about the sanctity of life, and that is why abortion should be illegal. Whether or nor a fetus should be considered a baby at a given time shouldn't matter because all life is sacred, except when they advocate the death penalty.
I'm in the middle and fall closest to a Libertarian, except Libertarians don't work when it comes to foreign policy. I think the right to swing your fist extends to the very tip of my nose. We should be free to do whatever we want so long as we don't victimize another. I just happen to think the baby has a nose. And yet you think that makes me fucking stupid for trying to advocate for defending rights.
To be clear, even if we didn't have FEMA today, we'd have:
* The National Guard to be called in for such emergencies * Private charities such as the Red Cross and United Way * Private insurance companies footing the bill
Oddly, we've somehow moved to a system where insurance companies collect premiums forever, but don't pay out damages on their policies. We had a bad storm a few years back and I needed a new roof. I have home owner's insurance, and initially the insurance companies were refusing to handle the claims. But then the federal government via FEMA gave money to pay off the claims.
Why exactly should I pay premiums to an insurance company that refuses to pay valid claims, and also pay taxes for FEMA to eventually pay those same claims?
1. I've never seen any proof he is a racist. 2. He is a huge defender of individual rights, liberty and equality. You make him out to be a hate monger for reasons that aren't clear. 3. 50% of the country is pro-life. However you feel on the issue, you disagree with half of the people in the country. No politician unites the country on this issue. 4. Over 50% of the country is Christian in some form. 5. Paul has long suggested scaling back government because he is a Libertarian. That is what Libertarians do. They want more liberty and individual freedoms through smaller government. That doesn't mean he'd kill every program. For instance, he suggested killing the federal Department of Education, which mandates all the No Child Left Behind federal tests that everyone hates. It is a relatively recent department that largely gets in the way of education rather than improves it. Yet people report it as Paul would cut all government spending on public education.
Congress has to vote to fund it. As head of the Executive Branch, Bush has the right to reshuffle existing separate departments into one organization and create a cabinet position. If I recall correctly though, part of the Patriot Act was Congress authorizing the increased funding necessary to make it happen.
Most Americans in polls say the economy is the number one issue we have currently, and yet we seem to favor over-regulating industries to the point of crippling them. This doesn't add up.
It is possible to have common sense regulation while not burying businesses in expensive red tape.
For instance, HIPAA has done nothing but cost the health care industry a small fortune, which in turn gets passed on to consumers in rising health insurance premiums. We have extremely complex legislation that costs us all money, which in turn makes health care unaffordable for some. And what do we gain?
Before HIPAA, health records were still treated as confidential with court rulings to back that up. Common sense dictated that doctors and hospitals could be found liable for revealing confidential records. Why overreact with massive legislation that does more harm than good? And yet we do this time and time again because we feel that corporations are evil and can't be trusted, so we need to keep them in chains at all times.
My mother had an at-home business and needed to connect to her work email via POP and SMTP. Cox blocked access to 25 and 110. I contacted them, and they said they wouldn't open those ports for anyone. Last time I checked (2 years ago) this was still the case.
That being said, I think it stands head and shoulder above the competition. It is the most feature-rich desktop on the planet. And if you don't like how something looks or operates, you can customize it to look and operate exactly how you want.
And honestly, given the choices of a Windows 8 (Metro) desktop, Gnome Shell, Unity, Lion, and KDE 4.8 as modern desktops, only Lion and KDE are particularly appealing to me. And sadly Lion seems to be slowly morphing OS X into iOS. I'm beginning to think that perhaps only the KDE devs understand it is about having the right interface for the right hardware.
With KDE the same stack can easily switch between a Netbook interface, a traditional desktop shell, a more modern desktop shell, and a tablet interface. They don't force one interface for every situation.
I have the choice of low speed Qwest DSL where I can't use a router, or higher speed and higher price Cox cable modem service. Cox blocks mail ports, so I can't connect with a mail client to any email server other than their own.
I know you're an AC troll, but Hillary Clinton has spoken about how she has never once had to go through the TSA process because she is always on charter/private flights.
Obama is not the only individual in the country that gets to skip the TSA process.
Not everything that Microsoft makes is bad. Just because someone says a particular product or technology is good doesn't make them a troll. In fact, as much as Windows drives me up a wall, I am a really big fan of Microsoft Security Essentials.
Assuming that everything Microsoft is terrible conversely is trolling.
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Google up BDSM.
We have record profits but want more money. This is a crucial issue that Congress needs to tackle, because record profits aren't enough. To that end, we think that we should have the right to seize personal property without due process. And even though we're currently abusing the DCMA (filing mass take-downs for content they don't own or review), we feel we need more power and promise not to abuse it for censorship.
Why wouldn't people support that?
The RIAA holds artists back from making more money by fighting the adoption of digital music. As content becomes more convenient to digest, people will consume more of it. Stop fighting consumers and embrace them. That is the way to combat piracy. Just look at iTunes, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime streaming, HBO Go, Spotify, etc. etc.
I don't anticipate buying the Wii U and hate the single tablet controller. I think it is a stupid decision. But they have a lot of third party developers confirmed to be making Wii U games well before the hardware is ready to launch.
And this won't be two Wii's. The hardware is considerably faster.
What about multiplayer in games? The Wii doesn't multitask. It can't have the app running while also playing Mario Kart to translate the new user accounts and connectivity to existing Wii games.
That's exactly what happened. The banks gave out bad loans relying on insurance policies to bail them out when they went belly up. When insurers refused to pay claims, then the banks freaked out and then the federal government basically paid those claims. When we bailed out banks, we were covering the costs insurance companies were legally obligated to pay to the banks, but just didn't. And somehow this is acceptable.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/199043/the_high_cost_of_hipaa/
In addition, a study by the American Hospital Association determined that hospitals (in total) could incur as much as $22.5 billion in additional costs complying with merely three of the privacy provisions of HIPAA during its initial five-year period.
I didn't realize that 22.5 billion is a rounding error for hospitals.
You are correct that flood damage is a separate insurance. In my case, it was wind storms that caused the damage. It was clearly covered by my policy, but I wasn't getting a roof until FEMA kicked in funds. 9/11 is another example where insurance companies threw their hands in the air and said they couldn't pay claims on life insurance and property damage. They were bound by contract to pay those claims, but frankly didn't feel like it. So federal funds paid for it instead.
Or the mortgage crisis. There were insurance policies taken out against all these bad mortgages precisely because banks knew they were high risk. And while people were willing to accept premiums, they didn't feel like paying claims. You can just not honor contracts, bilk people out of billions, and then we expect the federal government to foot the bill.
Why?
I really don't want to get into an abortion debate, but sadly I'll take the bait.
1. Being pro-life isn't inherently tied to the Bible. Plenty of people around the entire world are pro-life without being Christian. Obama publicly claims to be Christian (I'd wager he is an atheist, not that it matters) and is pro-choice.
2. You apparently haven't read the Bible if you think Christianity dictates murdering people so that they get to meet Jesus.
3. Somehow you make distinction 2 while calling everyone ignorant.
I will say that I find the hypocrisy of both parties intriguing when it comes to abortion.
Democrats historically argue that they alone are the party of the people. They push for health care because keeping people alive should be priority one. And they want to abolish the death penalty because you shouldn't have any legal right to kill someone for any reason, except when it is a baby.
Republicans like to argue about the sanctity of life, and that is why abortion should be illegal. Whether or nor a fetus should be considered a baby at a given time shouldn't matter because all life is sacred, except when they advocate the death penalty.
I'm in the middle and fall closest to a Libertarian, except Libertarians don't work when it comes to foreign policy. I think the right to swing your fist extends to the very tip of my nose. We should be free to do whatever we want so long as we don't victimize another. I just happen to think the baby has a nose. And yet you think that makes me fucking stupid for trying to advocate for defending rights.
To be clear, even if we didn't have FEMA today, we'd have:
* The National Guard to be called in for such emergencies
* Private charities such as the Red Cross and United Way
* Private insurance companies footing the bill
Oddly, we've somehow moved to a system where insurance companies collect premiums forever, but don't pay out damages on their policies. We had a bad storm a few years back and I needed a new roof. I have home owner's insurance, and initially the insurance companies were refusing to handle the claims. But then the federal government via FEMA gave money to pay off the claims.
Why exactly should I pay premiums to an insurance company that refuses to pay valid claims, and also pay taxes for FEMA to eventually pay those same claims?
I do think he is a kook however:
1. I've never seen any proof he is a racist.
2. He is a huge defender of individual rights, liberty and equality. You make him out to be a hate monger for reasons that aren't clear.
3. 50% of the country is pro-life. However you feel on the issue, you disagree with half of the people in the country. No politician unites the country on this issue.
4. Over 50% of the country is Christian in some form.
5. Paul has long suggested scaling back government because he is a Libertarian. That is what Libertarians do. They want more liberty and individual freedoms through smaller government. That doesn't mean he'd kill every program. For instance, he suggested killing the federal Department of Education, which mandates all the No Child Left Behind federal tests that everyone hates. It is a relatively recent department that largely gets in the way of education rather than improves it. Yet people report it as Paul would cut all government spending on public education.
Congress has to vote to fund it. As head of the Executive Branch, Bush has the right to reshuffle existing separate departments into one organization and create a cabinet position. If I recall correctly though, part of the Patriot Act was Congress authorizing the increased funding necessary to make it happen.
US soldiers in Afghanistan would ignore orders to come home and overthrow the US government?
Part of me dies everyday when I read Slashdot comments.
To point 3, this is a very important distinction.
Most Americans in polls say the economy is the number one issue we have currently, and yet we seem to favor over-regulating industries to the point of crippling them. This doesn't add up.
It is possible to have common sense regulation while not burying businesses in expensive red tape.
For instance, HIPAA has done nothing but cost the health care industry a small fortune, which in turn gets passed on to consumers in rising health insurance premiums. We have extremely complex legislation that costs us all money, which in turn makes health care unaffordable for some. And what do we gain?
Before HIPAA, health records were still treated as confidential with court rulings to back that up. Common sense dictated that doctors and hospitals could be found liable for revealing confidential records. Why overreact with massive legislation that does more harm than good? And yet we do this time and time again because we feel that corporations are evil and can't be trusted, so we need to keep them in chains at all times.
Doom is a Wolfenstein 3D rip-off.
Several in the subject cite the leaks only happen with certain extensions.
There was one that was vague that I tried to reproduce and couldn't, but the leak said it was on 5. It may have already been fixed.
Please cite a documented case that isn't caused by an extension.
Firefox hasn't had any major memory leak problems since Firefox 2.
What advantage does XP have over KDE 3?
What advantage does KDE 3 have over 4?
My mother had an at-home business and needed to connect to her work email via POP and SMTP. Cox blocked access to 25 and 110. I contacted them, and they said they wouldn't open those ports for anyone. Last time I checked (2 years ago) this was still the case.
Opinions are subjective?
That being said, I think it stands head and shoulder above the competition. It is the most feature-rich desktop on the planet. And if you don't like how something looks or operates, you can customize it to look and operate exactly how you want.
And honestly, given the choices of a Windows 8 (Metro) desktop, Gnome Shell, Unity, Lion, and KDE 4.8 as modern desktops, only Lion and KDE are particularly appealing to me. And sadly Lion seems to be slowly morphing OS X into iOS. I'm beginning to think that perhaps only the KDE devs understand it is about having the right interface for the right hardware.
With KDE the same stack can easily switch between a Netbook interface, a traditional desktop shell, a more modern desktop shell, and a tablet interface. They don't force one interface for every situation.
I have the choice of low speed Qwest DSL where I can't use a router, or higher speed and higher price Cox cable modem service. Cox blocks mail ports, so I can't connect with a mail client to any email server other than their own.
I have amazing choices available to me.
Is Facebook fine with Google scraping data from their network? If Google did that without asking, wouldn't that make Google evil?
If Facebook is voluntarily offering up said data, then certainly Google should use it.
I know you're an AC troll, but Hillary Clinton has spoken about how she has never once had to go through the TSA process because she is always on charter/private flights.
Obama is not the only individual in the country that gets to skip the TSA process.
Would I ever purchase Skyrim on a console when the PC version allows mods, better graphics, etc? No.
Would I ever purchase Madden on the PC and play with mouse and keyboard rather than on my PS3 and big screen? No.
Supposedly they also support pools across multiple devices of different sizes that can be reallocated dynamically.
In that regard, it is more like zfs and btrfs, and on par with the best filesystems out there.
I'm curious what performance is like.
Not everything that Microsoft makes is bad. Just because someone says a particular product or technology is good doesn't make them a troll. In fact, as much as Windows drives me up a wall, I am a really big fan of Microsoft Security Essentials.
Assuming that everything Microsoft is terrible conversely is trolling.