It's already turned over to greedy unaccountable ruling elites. If my insurance company doesn't want to pay for a procedure, I'm out of luck. I've already declared bankruptcy once over uncovered medical expenses. The corporate overlords are making medical decisions for me already. Why not try something else? I don't even care what. Just something different from this expensive broken failure we have now. I cannot believe you are defending it. Every doctor I know knows the system is broken. It hasn't worked for me, my family, my parents, my friends, or anyone I know.
Americans have food insurance, btw. It's called food stamps. It kept me from going hungry when I was going through bankruptcy.
Health care is already trashed. We spend more than any other country per capita for the 45th best care. Our life expectancy is low, infant mortality is high, and a quarter of our citizens are uninsured. Doctors are unhappy, it is tough to fill many necessary jobs, and patients are getting shoddy care. Price increases are double-digits year after year, insurance gets worse and copays go up.
You're an idiot to be proud of our health care system. We need to do something, the current system is irrevocably broken.
Do you live somewhere that has radio stations, tv broadcast, or cellular service? Whether or not you do, you'd better freak out. You're being penetrated by electromagnetic radiation all the time! No matter what you do! No matter where you are!
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Anything can be porn. When I was in High School, I'd fantasize about girls I'd seen fully clothed. Hell, there's cultures where the sight of a woman's ankle is deeply erotic. I've seen closeups of a mouth that was more erotic than a full nude. Defining porn is a loser's mission.
CompuServe was really big. I was a bit jealous because there were resources that were available on CompuServe and not accessable to us regular internet users. Wasn't CompuServe the one with integer comma integer usernames? Reminded me of Digital Equipment. I just could never pay by the hour to be online.
Well, there is the usual adolescent desire for everyone to be the same. They'll pick on queers, blacks, nerds, tall people, short people, etc. ad nauseum.
However, there may be a bit of rationality behind it. I remember making fun of atari 400 and sinclair 1000 owners because they didn't have a real keyboard, TI owners for paying too much, and every time I'd meet a fellow commodore owner I'd get all exited and start trading programs. It felt good to find someone else who'd made the same decision that I did, and it had a payoff in terms of being able to trade experiences, techniques, and programs.
It is possible that this kind of behavior makes sense in a way. After all, if everyone owned a Wii there'd be more games for it.
I'll never understand it now that I'm not a kid anymore. I'll also never understand getting in a fight with someone over their religion, country, favorite team, etc., but it happens every day.
It is sad that in a world where anything can be copied without harming the original artificial scarcity is still enforced.
If/when we develop replicators in the real world, I sure hope people are free to use them. Humanity never would have gotten very far if the first person to domesticate fire patented it. Or the wheel was copyrighted forever.
Why are people so fixated on this? I think it'd be better for everyone if nothing was scarce anymore. We could dedicate ourselves to creative or pleasant pastimes without worrying where the money would come from.
You've obviously never been screwed by this. Let me educate you.
I had a thief steal my physical wallet while at a friend's house. By the time I realized what happened, 3 hours later, all my credit cards were maxed or turned off, my checking account was empty, and I had hundreds of dollars in overdraft charges, and I had no ID etc.
Getting everything straightened out took months. I spend literally dozens of hours taking care of everything. It was a huge deal, and lots of bills got paid late, and many fees were not covered. My credit score took a hundred point hit, I was out several hundred dollars in fees, and it makes me angry to this day when people minimize theft with "Oh, you aren't liable for fraudulent charges."
It's easier to blame people who are retards, but nobody deserves to go through what I went through, no matter how stupid they are.
What's the problem? I converted all our in-house vb.net and c# code to work in vista already. The only hiccups I had were a quirky parallel port library for some external hardware. Most of our apps didn't even need to be recompiled.
Ah, netcom. I loved my shell account. It broke my heart when they got bought by earthlink. I'm still angry, but I still have my earthlink account. Someday soon I'm going to get everything transferred to gmail or something. Someday soon.
Bah, genie & compuserve. I laughed about you posers on usenet, using my university dialup account. Of course, I had to pay for internet after I graduated and moved away. Everyone thought I was insane. Paying for internet?!? What's an internet!?!
The ipod nano must really piss you off. It's totally visible with the naked eye!
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The reason I bought a $20 mp3 player instead of an ipod was removable batteries. If I'm away from power for a while I want to be able to put a new battery in. I liked the ipod interface, but didn't want to buy a $50 dongle to use replaceable batteries.
I can use any near-dead AAA battery and get hours of use. I bought a couple of high-capacity rechargeables and get about 12 hours. Yeah, the interface sucks. But it plays music, better than my cassette player or cd portable ever did.
I don't know how they do things where you live, but here there are laws regarding police conduct. I read about cops getting busted for violating these laws quite often. When a cop shoots an unarmed suspect in the back or chases a car through a neighborhood resulting in a pedestrian fatality that is a violation of the law. There have to be laws about this, otherwise you end up with fascism. The laws, if they are good laws, will limit force to be proportional, will limit high-speed chases to minimize risk to bystanders.
The really frustrating thing is the ads are cheap. There's a chain of theaters here that doesn't show ads and their prices are the same as the other chains. We're all sitting through 20 minutes of ads for about 20 cents per person. What a ripoff!
Things could be a lot less irritating. I'm never going to buy a new SUV, join the army, drink pop, or take medical advice from an ad. It'd sure be nice if the current 90% of ads that are irrelevant to me never came back again. I'm also very against repetition. I'd much rather see a different geico ad, or a different ad. Maybe I'd be willing to see an ad once a day or once a week, but the current 10x/hour is unacceptable.
I don't care if the ads are perfect for me, just make them a little less close to 100% useless and/or irritating.
You're right about marriage. I sure don't want it. Let 'em have it, I say.
I don't know about racists. My grandma was a racist but she wasn't a bad person. It made me uncomfortable when she'd lock the door because a "nigger" was walking down the street, but she wasn't a bad person. Just grew up in a different era. My parents are homophobes, although now that about 10% of the neighborhood kids turned out gay they are learning to accept it. I don't even care about race or sexual orientation, although I hate cell-yapping retards.
I don't like that idea. I've been paying in for 20 years, probably 100k so far. I always assumed I'd have Social Security until 5 years ago, when it seemed the Republicans were determined to kill it. Sure there are demographic problems, but it's not in imminent danger. Healthcare is the big problem right now. That's going to bankrupt our country and citizens way before social security does.
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Does this mean my skin is going to sloth off when I hit 50?
Maybe, I don't know what that means.
It will, however, slough off the exact instant you turn 50 if you don't stop eating wireless routers.
It's already turned over to greedy unaccountable ruling elites. If my insurance company doesn't want to pay for a procedure, I'm out of luck. I've already declared bankruptcy once over uncovered medical expenses. The corporate overlords are making medical decisions for me already. Why not try something else? I don't even care what. Just something different from this expensive broken failure we have now. I cannot believe you are defending it. Every doctor I know knows the system is broken. It hasn't worked for me, my family, my parents, my friends, or anyone I know.
Americans have food insurance, btw. It's called food stamps. It kept me from going hungry when I was going through bankruptcy.
I've met several nubile young pagans who are sexually free but regrettably VERY religious.
My first sex partner was a very religious catholic schoolgirl. I'd say that sexual freedom and religios freedom aren't particularly related.
Health care is already trashed. We spend more than any other country per capita for the 45th best care. Our life expectancy is low, infant mortality is high, and a quarter of our citizens are uninsured. Doctors are unhappy, it is tough to fill many necessary jobs, and patients are getting shoddy care. Price increases are double-digits year after year, insurance gets worse and copays go up.
You're an idiot to be proud of our health care system. We need to do something, the current system is irrevocably broken.
Do you live somewhere that has radio stations, tv broadcast, or cellular service? Whether or not you do, you'd better freak out. You're being penetrated by electromagnetic radiation all the time! No matter what you do! No matter where you are!
Anything can be porn. When I was in High School, I'd fantasize about girls I'd seen fully clothed. Hell, there's cultures where the sight of a woman's ankle is deeply erotic. I've seen closeups of a mouth that was more erotic than a full nude. Defining porn is a loser's mission.
I took the liberty of doing a study for you. Here are the results:
Results 1 - 10 of about 328 for omg poniez!!!. (0.13 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 3,630,000 for pr0n. (0.12 seconds)
From this I conclude that there is 11067.07X more pr0n than omg poniez!!! on the intarweb. Now, let's correct your spelling:
Results 1 - 10 of about 152,000 for omg ponies!!!. (0.13 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 106,000,000 for porn [definition]. (0.10 seconds)
Now we know that there is 697.36X more porn than omg ponies!!. I'll leave the other calculations to the reader.
Interestingly, the search for "porn" was the fastest search. Somehow they've optimized that one.
CompuServe was really big. I was a bit jealous because there were resources that were available on CompuServe and not accessable to us regular internet users. Wasn't CompuServe the one with integer comma integer usernames? Reminded me of Digital Equipment. I just could never pay by the hour to be online.
Well, there is the usual adolescent desire for everyone to be the same. They'll pick on queers, blacks, nerds, tall people, short people, etc. ad nauseum.
However, there may be a bit of rationality behind it. I remember making fun of atari 400 and sinclair 1000 owners because they didn't have a real keyboard, TI owners for paying too much, and every time I'd meet a fellow commodore owner I'd get all exited and start trading programs. It felt good to find someone else who'd made the same decision that I did, and it had a payoff in terms of being able to trade experiences, techniques, and programs.
It is possible that this kind of behavior makes sense in a way. After all, if everyone owned a Wii there'd be more games for it.
I'll never understand it now that I'm not a kid anymore. I'll also never understand getting in a fight with someone over their religion, country, favorite team, etc., but it happens every day.
It is sad that in a world where anything can be copied without harming the original artificial scarcity is still enforced.
If/when we develop replicators in the real world, I sure hope people are free to use them. Humanity never would have gotten very far if the first person to domesticate fire patented it. Or the wheel was copyrighted forever.
Why are people so fixated on this? I think it'd be better for everyone if nothing was scarce anymore. We could dedicate ourselves to creative or pleasant pastimes without worrying where the money would come from.
You've obviously never been screwed by this. Let me educate you.
I had a thief steal my physical wallet while at a friend's house. By the time I realized what happened, 3 hours later, all my credit cards were maxed or turned off, my checking account was empty, and I had hundreds of dollars in overdraft charges, and I had no ID etc.
Getting everything straightened out took months. I spend literally dozens of hours taking care of everything. It was a huge deal, and lots of bills got paid late, and many fees were not covered. My credit score took a hundred point hit, I was out several hundred dollars in fees, and it makes me angry to this day when people minimize theft with "Oh, you aren't liable for fraudulent charges."
It's easier to blame people who are retards, but nobody deserves to go through what I went through, no matter how stupid they are.
What's the problem? I converted all our in-house vb.net and c# code to work in vista already. The only hiccups I had were a quirky parallel port library for some external hardware. Most of our apps didn't even need to be recompiled.
A scared turtle can swim 22 mph. That's way faster than I can swim.
Ah, netcom. I loved my shell account. It broke my heart when they got bought by earthlink. I'm still angry, but I still have my earthlink account. Someday soon I'm going to get everything transferred to gmail or something. Someday soon.
Bah, genie & compuserve. I laughed about you posers on usenet, using my university dialup account. Of course, I had to pay for internet after I graduated and moved away. Everyone thought I was insane. Paying for internet?!? What's an internet!?!
I think western medicine has problems, too.
You're destroying your credibility by intentionally misspelling "medical" and "doctor".
The ipod nano must really piss you off. It's totally visible with the naked eye!
The reason I bought a $20 mp3 player instead of an ipod was removable batteries. If I'm away from power for a while I want to be able to put a new battery in. I liked the ipod interface, but didn't want to buy a $50 dongle to use replaceable batteries.
I can use any near-dead AAA battery and get hours of use. I bought a couple of high-capacity rechargeables and get about 12 hours. Yeah, the interface sucks. But it plays music, better than my cassette player or cd portable ever did.
I don't know how they do things where you live, but here there are laws regarding police conduct. I read about cops getting busted for violating these laws quite often. When a cop shoots an unarmed suspect in the back or chases a car through a neighborhood resulting in a pedestrian fatality that is a violation of the law. There have to be laws about this, otherwise you end up with fascism. The laws, if they are good laws, will limit force to be proportional, will limit high-speed chases to minimize risk to bystanders.
The really frustrating thing is the ads are cheap. There's a chain of theaters here that doesn't show ads and their prices are the same as the other chains. We're all sitting through 20 minutes of ads for about 20 cents per person. What a ripoff!
Things could be a lot less irritating. I'm never going to buy a new SUV, join the army, drink pop, or take medical advice from an ad. It'd sure be nice if the current 90% of ads that are irrelevant to me never came back again. I'm also very against repetition. I'd much rather see a different geico ad, or a different ad. Maybe I'd be willing to see an ad once a day or once a week, but the current 10x/hour is unacceptable.
I don't care if the ads are perfect for me, just make them a little less close to 100% useless and/or irritating.
There's gravity in space. Otherwise, the space station would just shoot off away from earth, instead of orbiting it.
According to KVM over ethernet, yes.
You're right about marriage. I sure don't want it. Let 'em have it, I say.
I don't know about racists. My grandma was a racist but she wasn't a bad person. It made me uncomfortable when she'd lock the door because a "nigger" was walking down the street, but she wasn't a bad person. Just grew up in a different era. My parents are homophobes, although now that about 10% of the neighborhood kids turned out gay they are learning to accept it. I don't even care about race or sexual orientation, although I hate cell-yapping retards.
So hopefully we're becoming more educated.
I don't like that idea. I've been paying in for 20 years, probably 100k so far. I always assumed I'd have Social Security until 5 years ago, when it seemed the Republicans were determined to kill it. Sure there are demographic problems, but it's not in imminent danger. Healthcare is the big problem right now. That's going to bankrupt our country and citizens way before social security does.