What else needs to be said? Oh i copyright and patent and trademark this for Public use with no limitations or whatever needs to be said to prevent people and companies from trying to make money off this obvious use for small electronic devices. Battery that charges by clicking and/or moving a mouse to drive the mouse, easy simple.
Its been pointed out before but the Moniker "formerly known as prince" was forced on the purple rocker by his record f$#@%%^^&ing company. He was sick of them and their ways, but they insisted they owned his name and they had the money to "make him suffer" which is all record companies know. I despise record companies, I will never buy a record from a third party (knowingly ) ever again.
Its all they know how to do, restrict access to music and attack listeners and punish musicians.
If the industry was fish they would be poisoning rivers, seizing bbq's and sinking fishing boats.
Drive these suits into the poor house, add them to the list.
So sick of the bastards that run so many industries in the world.
even people who think the only valid form of knowledge is knowledge derived from the scientific method, actually end up accepting knowledge based on trust and "authority".
Its called peer review. If you want to posit something, you have to provide the theory, the evidence and the systems you used to accumulate the evidence. Then peers, colleagues, friends and enemies all examine your data, sift through through your calculations and your logic and your evidence and your methods. Then they do the experiment themselves. Then they devise new experiments, and publish those and the cycle starts again. And when the evidence doesn't match, new theorems have to be devised.
When the peers can't come up with a better reason for their evidence than the mere statement that it is valid "cause I was told it was" its called bullpucky. It doesn't matter how warm the idea is or good it makes you feel, or that your mother is still proud of you.
There were how many books or scrolls left out of your favourite absolute truth? Who appointed the editors what systems did they use to choose? What evidence that were correct did you apply to judge their skills? Which variant of its interpretation do you ascribe to? What year did that set of interpretations become correct? 33 years after the death of its founder? 1200? just the last eight or so years? Now apply those same questions to any other set of "I say this is true" systems. Intelligent design is a tiny tiny set of "dont argue with me" statements that are not shared anywhere else on the globe. To "agree" with (actually just accept)them you have to throw out not just all the evidence for most sciences, but their theories and even the idea of logic.
Positing that "I didn't do the test personally" is the same as throwing out the idea of scientific method is sophistry. Logic is a wonderful thing - it shouldnt be twisted to arrive at predetermined endpoint. It is the road that takes you to the endpoint it points to, if its not the one you wanted, well rethink. Throw out simple gene-to-outcome linearity. Throw out atoms as the smallest bit of matter, and now throw out electrons as the smallest. The sun isnt the centre, now our galaxy isnt the centre. Oh look there isnt enough matter in the universe, how do we explain that?
No one tried to prove that the sun was the centre of the solar system, they had to accept it despite their wants, needs, mother's love or papal decree and punishment.
Thats not a bad thing, its a good thing. That why we use recipes that are "tested in the kitchen," and not just accept that "This dude accepts all our "I tell you so's" about science so he'd make the best president."
And by the way to be really direct, have any of the "I have direct knowledge of the truth" insistors apologized for insisting on this particularly egregious error yet? Or has it lead to even a small amount of humility about their "I know the truth no matter what the evidence suggests" conceit?
I ask because in larger part because that's what they are for, political power, not science or spiritual knowledge.
It appears to me that religion does two things, it posits what and how the world and universe actually work and its origins, and two it proscribes social behaviour and systems to govern us all based on those presepts. I would suggest that evidence and scientific method show conclusively that the one is in error and history shows that the other is a cruel and terrible joke in which millions perish and societies crumble. Present history is everyday shoving this fact directly into our face.
Every time someone, who has a "because-I-said-so" belief system, sees the real life working out of the scientific method, with its "theory/evidence/new theory" cycle, they feel it provides an opportunity to disparage the method that provided the evidence they site as proof that the scientific method is wrong.
"My parents, and the people they gave authority for thinking over to, believe this (insert any mythology), you use the scientific method, one of us is wrong."
It isn't a choice between your particular set of "because i said so" mythologies and the scientific method. Its a choice between the entire set of "I insist this is true in spite of evidence" mythologies not limited to yours, on the one hand, and the scientific method, on the other.
The great thinkers of our history, including social justice, philosophical, religious and spiritual, thinkers, agreed on many things; kindness, generosity and justice come to mind, but where they differ is caused by the level of science and evidence of the universe we live in, or their willingness to study it.
Be kind and test your assumptions. Today's findings are another proof of that premise.
the companies that do this? And their relatives and their friends? If enough of the trolls were destroyed big time, including their investors and their families and their friends, wouldnt it stop happening?
I mean nothing illegal of course, just equitable legal quick-sand. I'm not suggesting child custody battles, or property confiscation, am I? Private investigators and church groups could help.
Indentation error, I posted, as you suggest, erronously. Clicking the wrong reply to the poster you argued well against. 'nothing wrong with ethanol' was the point of difference, and the beginning of my response, but as your comment was displayed and the OP was not, my retort fell short. I will place my replys more carefully in the future.
Thanks for low heat.
We already have catastrophic warming at rates that are shocking the climatologists who were already shouting warnings.
We need to remove hundreds of millions of tons from the atmosphere, and refix it so that it stays out of the atmosphere, that may be a multiple century job.
Any system that puts more CO2 into our atmosphere is "a bad thing" Solutions must be "Stop adding CO2, stop adding CO2, hellllo are you listening to me, STOP adding CO2!" "Aaaaawwwwwwwe mommmmm . . . "
And remove it from the atmosphere at the same time. Tons of low-energy, green-designed wood furniture, from solar-kilned hard woods will help. High energy manufacturing of wood replacements makes the problem worse.
If, after we have the atmosphere cleaned and the ecosystem is closer to balanced ( in a few generations ) we can discuss and monitor so-called "zero sum bio-fuels." Although for gosh sakes, why?
"Here's the deal-- you cannot have unlimited medical coverage."
Real coverage, all things covered, heart surgery, bone marrow transplants, pancreous transplants its all there, you're wrong. Are there things that aren't covered in Canada? Yes, almost all because they are unproven uses of unscrupulously priced new treatments. Do people leave Canada to get treatment in other countries? Yes and those costs are covered too. The philosophiocal stuff about "everything" being covered is a red herring and dosen't contribute to the discussion.
1) there are too many diseases that can be cured IF you have unlimited resources... well really about $2,000,000 to $10,000,000 or so. The point is- we can't afford to cure everyone's $350,000 bypass surgery so we let people pay for it themselves or die. You do it in canada too- you just do it via rationing and delays instead of via money. "Sure you can get your surgery-- in 17 months" vs "Sure you can get your surgery- for $350,000".
You're wrong -everyone gets by-pass surgery, and there's no rationing. And there's no wait. Annoying even painful waits for Hip replacement? There can be waits, even months, but for life threatening crises? Nope, doesn't happen. You cannot pay for services in Canada to jump the line, get services not paid for, or to end wait times, nope doesn't happen, ever, against the law.
2) If we could get the legal $ystem out of it, the costs would be much lower but there would be more malpractice. We currently say "no mistakes and no malpractice" but that decision probably doubles or triples every thing we do medically. Which in some cases means that the procedure that could be done cheaply- is now too expensive.
The real costs of American health care is billing. The billing systems are bigger than than the treatment buildings. There are so many insurance companies, government agencies, poor people, volunteer organizations and charities to deal with that hospitals, and health organizations, have billing and payment departments that have to employ more people, (who are often better paid) than care-providing staff. They spend more money trying to find ways to collect from working people that can't pay than they do on their treatments. The reason litigation is so expensive is because there are so many unscruplous people trying to make a killing off a money machine called healthcare, start to change that, and you massively lower the court costs.
3) Even in socialist countries- you are paying. Sure- you may rip off the doctors (with a resulting shortage of doctors and hence long wait periods) but the drug company executives are still flying around in jets and vacationing in maui.
Doctors in Canada get paid the same way as the U.S., buy the insurance company, and they set their own rates. Many make hundreds of thousands of dollars, many make in the realm of a million dollars, (though it is Canadian money). Canada has approximately the same number of Doctors per household as the reat of the OECD, and from I can tell more than the U.S. Yes, drug companies and their execs get far too much money, it's theft. But that has more to do with the same kind of copywrite legislation, and intellectuall property laws that are hurting society everywhere else, like technology, movies and software. The whole world is coming to the conclusion that this whole set of issues has run it's course. New laws need to be enacted to solve these problems.
So the point is not curing every illness known regardless of price- but setting a reasonable amount of tax dollars aside to cover a reasonable amount of medical expenses for the most people possible. No open heart surgery for 98 year olds on the tax dollar but if they want to pay for it themselves- okay. Yes to vaccinations for everyone and broken limbs (tho perhaps a limit on the number of times to reign in the reckless types).
This is a perfect example of what passes for defence from the republican right. Neo-cons have no shame, no logical defence, no basis of facts, but they sure do know how to attack the speaker.
The original story, racists critiqued, critic's right's abused, is not covered. One of the people reporting it is attacked. ((Although of course lamely attacked))
Treason -- thats what it means to attack a member of the house; minority leader, majority leader or Speaker of the House, what Quisling quibbles with these specifics.
What traitor advocates death for an elected representative and dosen't expect jail?
The quote, as you have even written, is "ABC/Disney Lawyers"
See, it's like this sentence "Disney's hammers hit his skull."
This does not blame the hammers nor does the sentence really blame lawyers.
Although I am sure that we must actually blame the lawyers. After becoming that well-studied in the rules of our democracy the best they can do is hire themselves out to these dirt peddlers?
Here's a modest proposal. Publish lists of censored sites and then encourage many many blogs/entertainment/poker/pr0n/history/shopping sites to set links and mirroring to slip past the blocked IP addresses. Then when you go to even not very popular sites, there are links to redirects to the blocked sites and blocked information.
It would be unstoppable if a suffient number of sites provided links.
A 'non-icon' possibly a greyed out 'f' which otherwise was just a normal part of the text could open a list of links. Leave the code choices up to each site to prevent easy blocking.
I did much the same thing when the war on Iraq was gearing up, posting to multiple sites that had nothing to do with politics or war or civics, as the censorship of messages agianst the war was all pervasive. Even those were roundly attacked, snipped and derided.
Is this a joke? I'm sorry does Stallman have corporate profits thats he's promoting, is there a K Street (almost all Republicans) lobbyist that works for him? or what?
If a guy is going door to door selling 'medicines' that are addictive and destructive and you start a group to stop him - you are not two competing special interests.
Is the above poster even aware of what is being said.
The reason we have privacy is because it's none of your F$#@#@ business.
"This is all too hard, we can't argue with them can we?" "Well if we had system where people could choose their own government, and we weren't already run by an ever-more powerful group of companies, but that's impossible."
Just relax this won't hurt a bit.
See, just below your ass are your hind "legs" - now get up on them. I know it's scary, but this is called standing up. It is different from kneeling.
All your major news outlets are liars, your entire administration is a betrayal, your major corporations proudly have no morals or empathy (ie: they are sociopaths). Collecting information about you is to have power over you.
cough, sorry.
Do you think that the heads of any company uses a gmail account? Do you think you could scan and file any of the documents sent accross the internet of any 'important person'?
Are you important? ?
Do you have the phone numbers (etc) of the ten thousand most powerful people in your economy(nation) in a searchable database. Do they have yours?
If you aren't active enough in trying to change all this to have warrented a DHS background check then you aren't using your life very well.
This is not troll, nor is it flame bait.
The control of information is what you are doing right now sitting in the darkened cubby or basement of your lives. Control of information is what this age is about.
Corporations aren't in the business of promoting charity, or principles. That's governments shtick. It's one the defining differences between the two entities.
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That's what government is for. If you want your government to do something about it, demand that it fund its own research programs into cures for whatever diseases you think it should work on. And while I'd support that, I'll be damned if you think I'm going to let government use this as an excuse to raise taxes, so be prepared to cut something else out of the budget (say, most of the Dept. of the Interior?).
Taken together creates a society (is that an evil word?) where no good is done, only the profitable. The unprincipled profitable.
The difficulty of trying to create a language where nonsense like this seems possible is explained in the book "1984." By the way, we were always at war with Eurasia.
Look silly - arranging a society with laws, and economic regulation is like writing software, every society does it, lefty, righty, even weird "what do you mean principles" really really righty societies -- even git-yer-fuggin'-law-off-me societies.
All software is an approximation, and all software is beta. It f#@#'s up. Crashes happen, things go down, files go missing. Because writing laws and economic regs is just like software, the way we organize our society therefor is in constant testing, but sometimes bug reports aren't allowed.
Except when the software is the real world society we live in, the crashes include the bodies of children. OK?
BUG REPORT: Patent law applied to health care causes care to have a buffer overflow, all files lost. OK?
Changing patent law to ensure that it gets the fuck out of the way of caring for people is not the end of freedom or democracy, positing a society where principles are laughed at, and purposefully unfunded --well that is.
. . and the ain't-no-such-thing-as-science geniuses says "I see no connection to global warming"
Exactly as the model predicts, but "Maybe it's just because of the immoral people down there,"
Yeah and the war in Iraq has nothing to do with oil, Katrina had nothing to do with incompetence.
Exposing a CIA agent had nothing to do with treason.
Diebold voting machines have nothing to do with destroying democracy.
Canada, a social experiement in country building, has developed a society that produces doctors like Banting who came up with insulin, you may have heard of it.
While he was developing it, various people attempted to: bribe him to give it to them, steal it from him and, this might the most important part of the arguement, hire him so his work became the property of that corporation. After one such corp, who had tried to steal it and tried to publish and sell it, was exposed as frauds by being unable to produce the said product, he was able to win the subsequent court case.
Dr. Banting said one of the reasons he wanted it credited to himself, was to insure that it was released as public property, at no cost beyond manufacture.
Thats why your mom can afford it.
Here's another little bit to add to your quantification of health costs and the profits therefrom, surgery is public property. It is against the law, everywhere, even in the US, to try and keep the knowledge of surgical practice away from other surgeons, or to try and restrict the knowledge for profit. Against the Law.
Recently another Canadian doctor, wait this is just coinsidence, came up with a surgical way to cure diabetes, which means it would be free, except for the work to do it. Jeepers gettin' all GPL on us.
Here's another little bitty bit, there is a particular disease that prevents the production of a certain protein that essentially causes suffers, almost always clustered in families, to experience pain. All the time. All over the body. Weeping pain. Please kill me pain. Theres an enzyme that isn't produced naturaly, but that can be made and administered, and it stops 95% of the pain. The treatment costs $45,000.00 a year per person. And now remember, it clusters in families.
OK, now make your arguements about research being paid for.
BZZZZZTTTT!, too late! All the research was done at the Nation Institutes of Health, using public funds. NIH all the way. How American law was perverted and twisted to cause crimes like this (and Katrina) is beyond me, but it happens.
Ok last point. At the end of World War 2, corporations paid over 50% of federal revenue. now its about 8%. Universities used to be paid for research, education and publication. Now they beg corps for it.
Who the hell is we? Every time you feel yourself saying we, us and our, try to figure out what you mean by it.
This is soccer shirt loyalty. The soccer fan buys a shirt in red and green, and says "We are Middletown!" Fine good for you. Someone else makes money for your shirt, players make money for you showing up and the sportbusiness owner makes money for your googly eyed confusion. The players aren't from Middleton, the owners probably aren't and the shirt's made by children in Bangaladesh. RAAAH! raaah! rah
Soccer shirt loyalty applies all over, and if you think about it more often, you can avoid or at least begin to resist some of the nonsense that results.
Lets see what ICANN has done in the past around issues of top-down control. From the Register June 2003
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The issues raised in the formation of the ccNSO are a microcosm of all of the wider problems of ICANN and the Internet. ICANN has spent years pressurising the rest of the world's domains - such as.uk for Britain,.fr for France - to sign a contract with it that would give ICANN ultimate control over their domains and what they did with them.
The concept that a US-based company, answerable to the US government, would be able to dictate exactly what every country in the world did with their Internet domains was ludicrous, but it didn't stop ICANN from using everything it had to force them to comply. It even started delaying changes to the technical side of the Internet - IANA. Countries retaliated by refusing to supply ICANN with money and threatening not to recognise ICANN at all.
How it ever got that far is testament to ICANN's arrogance. However, in what everyone is sensing is a sea-change, ICANN under new president/CEO Paul Twomey behaved pragmatically and conceded all control save over IANA and global interoperability - which is what ICANN was created for in the first place. "I don't think this is a big threat," said Dr Black.
ICANN, faced with outright refusal by countries to be controlled, initially argued that its policy diktats could be bypassed if the country's own public laws demanded it. Then it conceded that religious or cultural differences could justify not follows diktats too - but that it would have to give its permission each and every time. Eventually it realised the stupidity of its position and conceded sovereignty to, well, the sovereign nations."
~~snip
We! Us! Mine!
"My arrogance is based in better delusions than yours, and I have ordinance."
You really have to get out more, there was a story reported widely yesterday, and this is just a single example, about a guy who grumbled, with profanity, about his loss of rights at a security check point.
A judge found not that a guy "swearing" about his rights being lost, nor yelling was necessarily a crime but that:
by exclaiming that the screener should be in a different line of work, that he should live in a bubble, and that it was a free country in which he could say what he pleased.
was a crime.
The poster on boingboing.net says this:
Is this really a justifiable difference? So its okay to ask the TSA "Why the fuck do I have to take my shoes off?" but not to tell them they live in a bubble or that this is a free country?
A second example might be the fact that, appearing at a rally about getting the troops home sooner than incompetence has planned for, gets you and your freinds infiltrated by Homeland Security. You may find that unintimidating, your speech may not be affected by these surreptitious visits, but many others have seen summary judgements and wrongful convictions and broken furniture, and find the prospect daunting.
A third example might be the boy who was detained for wearing a t-shirt critical of a heretofor always-praised public figure of some renown.
A forth might be the literal screaming of the word traitor whenever someone mentions the huge purposeful campaign of dishonesty that has lead to the deaths of some 25,000 to 40,000 central asian foreigners and wounded or killed about 16,000 American citizens.
I am going out right this moment and getting some freedom fries to celebrate the huge window of proper discourse that is allowed.
It is easy to ensure support for your card in linux.
The accused is not an idiot.
Release the details of your hardware, and linauts all round the world will find terrific ways to pump that baby up, find speed, extract improvements and generaly make it shine.
The problem with the present suppliers of f'ing hardware in far too many ways is they put legals, obsfucations and pointless hinderances in our coders way in order to extract unearned cashflow. If NNNNyNNNvitya would just make hardware and let it survive in the market based on it's quality, not it's silly, and costly proprietiarianisms,(I made it up so I get to decide how it's spelled.) then the coding would procede faster, we would advance faster, and frag at better frame rates.
And don't think I've forgotten ATI, blecjhhh.
I very much hope that s3 just tells linux coders what the damn specs are, we would have the new top seller world wide. Surely design and manufacture are something to be proud of!
You have multiple indicators that fraud occured in your latest elections. You have multiple reports of people giving evidence that they know that there was software written to defraud the vote. You have multiple bizarre case of obvious 'errors'
AND
You have no way at all to check or confirm either vote totals, or the software that creates it.
AND
You have compelling evidence that your government lied to you in order to go to war, with major media conivance. Your media still lies to you. Distracts you with drivelNews, and avoids subjects that might drive you toward action. Your media is so filled with irrelevant feces that the two most trustable media sources are comedians.
And you can discuss, third party reports, that say "Probably everything is ok, don't worry."
Many of your parents died or put their lives at risk to protect democracy. Millions died to stop fascism. And you are happy to let your democracy, the control of the largest, most destructive, most deadly, military ever created, the largest polluter, the largest economy,
If our judges all had a personal relationship to Jesus wouldn't that help? A judiciary that understands blasphemy when they see it, will be able to understand that personal property in the "intellectual" sphere means you can critisize us when you can afford it. Excuse me? I said shut up.
More seriously, a free country is worth protecting. Think of what your fathers and mothers gave up during WWII. What they they willing to sacrifice to protect democracy for you, their children, and your children too. But what are you doing?
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What else needs to be said? Oh i copyright and patent and trademark this for Public use with no limitations or whatever needs to be said to prevent people and companies from trying to make money off this obvious use for small electronic devices. Battery that charges by clicking and/or moving a mouse to drive the mouse, easy simple.
Its been pointed out before but the Moniker "formerly known as prince" was forced on the purple rocker by his record f$#@%%^^&ing company. He was sick of them and their ways, but they insisted they owned his name and they had the money to "make him suffer" which is all record companies know. I despise record companies, I will never buy a record from a third party (knowingly ) ever again.
Its all they know how to do, restrict access to music and attack listeners and punish musicians.
If the industry was fish they would be poisoning rivers, seizing bbq's and sinking fishing boats.
Drive these suits into the poor house, add them to the list.
So sick of the bastards that run so many industries in the world.
So silly almost tortured use of logic to prove the opposite of the truth. Do you work for the Bush administration?
Its called peer review. If you want to posit something, you have to provide the theory, the evidence and the systems you used to accumulate the evidence. Then peers, colleagues, friends and enemies all examine your data, sift through through your calculations and your logic and your evidence and your methods. Then they do the experiment themselves. Then they devise new experiments, and publish those and the cycle starts again. And when the evidence doesn't match, new theorems have to be devised.
When the peers can't come up with a better reason for their evidence than the mere statement that it is valid "cause I was told it was" its called bullpucky. It doesn't matter how warm the idea is or good it makes you feel, or that your mother is still proud of you.
There were how many books or scrolls left out of your favourite absolute truth? Who appointed the editors what systems did they use to choose? What evidence that were correct did you apply to judge their skills? Which variant of its interpretation do you ascribe to? What year did that set of interpretations become correct? 33 years after the death of its founder? 1200? just the last eight or so years? Now apply those same questions to any other set of "I say this is true" systems. Intelligent design is a tiny tiny set of "dont argue with me" statements that are not shared anywhere else on the globe. To "agree" with (actually just accept)them you have to throw out not just all the evidence for most sciences, but their theories and even the idea of logic.
Positing that "I didn't do the test personally" is the same as throwing out the idea of scientific method is sophistry. Logic is a wonderful thing - it shouldnt be twisted to arrive at predetermined endpoint. It is the road that takes you to the endpoint it points to, if its not the one you wanted, well rethink. Throw out simple gene-to-outcome linearity. Throw out atoms as the smallest bit of matter, and now throw out electrons as the smallest. The sun isnt the centre, now our galaxy isnt the centre. Oh look there isnt enough matter in the universe, how do we explain that?
No one tried to prove that the sun was the centre of the solar system, they had to accept it despite their wants, needs, mother's love or papal decree and punishment.
Thats not a bad thing, its a good thing. That why we use recipes that are "tested in the kitchen," and not just accept that "This dude accepts all our "I tell you so's" about science so he'd make the best president." And by the way to be really direct, have any of the "I have direct knowledge of the truth" insistors apologized for insisting on this particularly egregious error yet? Or has it lead to even a small amount of humility about their "I know the truth no matter what the evidence suggests" conceit? I ask because in larger part because that's what they are for, political power, not science or spiritual knowledge. It appears to me that religion does two things, it posits what and how the world and universe actually work and its origins, and two it proscribes social behaviour and systems to govern us all based on those presepts. I would suggest that evidence and scientific method show conclusively that the one is in error and history shows that the other is a cruel and terrible joke in which millions perish and societies crumble. Present history is everyday shoving this fact directly into our face.
Every time someone, who has a "because-I-said-so" belief system, sees the real life working out of the scientific method, with its "theory/evidence/new theory" cycle, they feel it provides an opportunity to disparage the method that provided the evidence they site as proof that the scientific method is wrong.
"My parents, and the people they gave authority for thinking over to, believe this (insert any mythology), you use the scientific method, one of us is wrong."
It isn't a choice between your particular set of "because i said so" mythologies and the scientific method. Its a choice between the entire set of "I insist this is true in spite of evidence" mythologies not limited to yours, on the one hand, and the scientific method, on the other.
The great thinkers of our history, including social justice, philosophical, religious and spiritual, thinkers, agreed on many things; kindness, generosity and justice come to mind, but where they differ is caused by the level of science and evidence of the universe we live in, or their willingness to study it.
Be kind and test your assumptions. Today's findings are another proof of that premise.
the companies that do this? And their relatives and their friends? If enough of the trolls were destroyed big time, including their investors and their families and their friends, wouldnt it stop happening? I mean nothing illegal of course, just equitable legal quick-sand. I'm not suggesting child custody battles, or property confiscation, am I? Private investigators and church groups could help.
Indentation error, I posted, as you suggest, erronously. Clicking the wrong reply to the poster you argued well against. 'nothing wrong with ethanol' was the point of difference, and the beginning of my response, but as your comment was displayed and the OP was not, my retort fell short. I will place my replys more carefully in the future. Thanks for low heat.
We already have catastrophic warming at rates that are shocking the climatologists who were already shouting warnings.
We need to remove hundreds of millions of tons from the atmosphere, and refix it so that it stays out of the atmosphere, that may be a multiple century job.
Any system that puts more CO2 into our atmosphere is "a bad thing"
Solutions must be "Stop adding CO2, stop adding CO2, hellllo are you listening to me, STOP adding CO2!" "Aaaaawwwwwwwe mommmmm . . . "
And remove it from the atmosphere at the same time. Tons of low-energy, green-designed wood furniture, from solar-kilned hard woods will help. High energy manufacturing of wood replacements makes the problem worse.
If, after we have the atmosphere cleaned and the ecosystem is closer to balanced ( in a few generations ) we can discuss and monitor so-called "zero sum bio-fuels." Although for gosh sakes, why?
Real coverage, all things covered, heart surgery, bone marrow transplants, pancreous transplants its all there, you're wrong. Are there things that aren't covered in Canada? Yes, almost all because they are unproven uses of unscrupulously priced new treatments. Do people leave Canada to get treatment in other countries? Yes and those costs are covered too. The philosophiocal stuff about "everything" being covered is a red herring and dosen't contribute to the discussion.
You're wrong -everyone gets by-pass surgery, and there's no rationing. And there's no wait. Annoying even painful waits for Hip replacement? There can be waits, even months, but for life threatening crises? Nope, doesn't happen. You cannot pay for services in Canada to jump the line, get services not paid for, or to end wait times, nope doesn't happen, ever, against the law.
The real costs of American health care is billing. The billing systems are bigger than than the treatment buildings. There are so many insurance companies, government agencies, poor people, volunteer organizations and charities to deal with that hospitals, and health organizations, have billing and payment departments that have to employ more people, (who are often better paid) than care-providing staff. They spend more money trying to find ways to collect from working people that can't pay than they do on their treatments. The reason litigation is so expensive is because there are so many unscruplous people trying to make a killing off a money machine called healthcare, start to change that, and you massively lower the court costs.
Doctors in Canada get paid the same way as the U.S., buy the insurance company, and they set their own rates. Many make hundreds of thousands of dollars, many make in the realm of a million dollars, (though it is Canadian money). Canada has approximately the same number of Doctors per household as the reat of the OECD, and from I can tell more than the U.S. Yes, drug companies and their execs get far too much money, it's theft. But that has more to do with the same kind of copywrite legislation, and intellectuall property laws that are hurting society everywhere else, like technology, movies and software. The whole world is coming to the conclusion that this whole set of issues has run it's course. New laws need to be enacted to solve these problems.
ok ok i want a tuner card that fits this box-- is there one? this is perfect
gosh - quiet enough - power - finaly the right box for tivo replacement myth box!
No really lets do this -
Can I help? I don't code well enough for this . . . but I could test and... someone help me out here, I _want_ to contibute
This is a perfect example of what passes for defence from the republican right. Neo-cons have no shame, no logical defence, no basis of facts, but they sure do know how to attack the speaker.
The original story, racists critiqued, critic's right's abused, is not covered. One of the people reporting it is attacked. ((Although of course lamely attacked))
Treason -- thats what it means to attack a member of the house; minority leader, majority leader or Speaker of the House, what Quisling quibbles with these specifics.
What traitor advocates death for an elected representative and dosen't expect jail?
The quote, as you have even written, is "ABC/Disney Lawyers" See, it's like this sentence "Disney's hammers hit his skull." This does not blame the hammers nor does the sentence really blame lawyers.
Although I am sure that we must actually blame the lawyers. After becoming that well-studied in the rules of our democracy the best they can do is hire themselves out to these dirt peddlers?
Here's a modest proposal. Publish lists of censored sites and then encourage many many blogs/entertainment/poker/pr0n/history/shopping sites to set links and mirroring to slip past the blocked IP addresses. Then when you go to even not very popular sites, there are links to redirects to the blocked sites and blocked information.
It would be unstoppable if a suffient number of sites provided links.
A 'non-icon' possibly a greyed out 'f' which otherwise was just a normal part of the text could open a list of links. Leave the code choices up to each site to prevent easy blocking.
I did much the same thing when the war on Iraq was gearing up, posting to multiple sites that had nothing to do with politics or war or civics, as the censorship of messages agianst the war was all pervasive. Even those were roundly attacked, snipped and derided.
Posting censored material is really our duty.
Is this a joke? I'm sorry does Stallman have corporate profits thats he's promoting, is there a K Street (almost all Republicans) lobbyist that works for him? or what?
If a guy is going door to door selling 'medicines' that are addictive and destructive and you start a group to stop him - you are not two competing special interests.
Is the above poster even aware of what is being said.
The reason we have privacy is because it's none of your F$#@#@ business.
"This is all too hard, we can't argue with them can we?" "Well if we had system where people could choose their own government, and we weren't already run by an ever-more powerful group of companies, but that's impossible."
Just relax this won't hurt a bit.
See, just below your ass are your hind "legs" - now get up on them. I know it's scary, but this is called standing up. It is different from kneeling.
All your major news outlets are liars, your entire administration is a betrayal, your major corporations proudly have no morals or empathy (ie: they are sociopaths). Collecting information about you is to have power over you.
cough, sorry.
Do you think that the heads of any company uses a gmail account? Do you think you could scan and file any of the documents sent accross the internet of any 'important person'?
Are you important? ?
Do you have the phone numbers (etc) of the ten thousand most powerful people in your economy(nation) in a searchable database. Do they have yours?
If you aren't active enough in trying to change all this to have warrented a DHS background check then you aren't using your life very well.
This is not troll, nor is it flame bait.
The control of information is what you are doing right now sitting in the darkened cubby or basement of your lives. Control of information is what this age is about.
and Taken together creates a society (is that an evil word?) where no good is done, only the profitable. The unprincipled profitable.
The difficulty of trying to create a language where nonsense like this seems possible is explained in the book "1984." By the way, we were always at war with Eurasia.
Look silly - arranging a society with laws, and economic regulation is like writing software, every society does it, lefty, righty, even weird "what do you mean principles" really really righty societies -- even git-yer-fuggin'-law-off-me societies.
All software is an approximation, and all software is beta. It f#@#'s up. Crashes happen, things go down, files go missing. Because writing laws and economic regs is just like software, the way we organize our society therefor is in constant testing, but sometimes bug reports aren't allowed.
Except when the software is the real world society we live in, the crashes include the bodies of children. OK?
BUG REPORT: Patent law applied to health care causes care to have a buffer overflow, all files lost. OK?
Changing patent law to ensure that it gets the fuck out of the way of caring for people is not the end of freedom or democracy, positing a society where principles are laughed at, and purposefully unfunded --well that is.
. . and the ain't-no-such-thing-as-science geniuses says "I see no connection to global warming"
Exactly as the model predicts, but "Maybe it's just because of the immoral people down there,"
Yeah and the war in Iraq has nothing to do with oil, Katrina had nothing to do with incompetence.
Exposing a CIA agent had nothing to do with treason.
Diebold voting machines have nothing to do with destroying democracy.
Zoloft for everyone!
Dumb and dumberer,
Canada, a social experiement in country building, has developed a society that produces doctors like Banting who came up with insulin, you may have heard of it.
While he was developing it, various people attempted to: bribe him to give it to them, steal it from him and, this might the most important part of the arguement, hire him so his work became the property of that corporation. After one such corp, who had tried to steal it and tried to publish and sell it, was exposed as frauds by being unable to produce the said product, he was able to win the subsequent court case.
Dr. Banting said one of the reasons he wanted it credited to himself, was to insure that it was released as public property, at no cost beyond manufacture.
Thats why your mom can afford it.
Here's another little bit to add to your quantification of health costs and the profits therefrom, surgery is public property. It is against the law, everywhere, even in the US, to try and keep the knowledge of surgical practice away from other surgeons, or to try and restrict the knowledge for profit. Against the Law.
Recently another Canadian doctor, wait this is just coinsidence, came up with a surgical way to cure diabetes, which means it would be free, except for the work to do it. Jeepers gettin' all GPL on us.
Here's another little bitty bit, there is a particular disease that prevents the production of a certain protein that essentially causes suffers, almost always clustered in families, to experience pain. All the time. All over the body. Weeping pain. Please kill me pain. Theres an enzyme that isn't produced naturaly, but that can be made and administered, and it stops 95% of the pain. The treatment costs $45,000.00 a year per person. And now remember, it clusters in families.
OK, now make your arguements about research being paid for.
BZZZZZTTTT!, too late! All the research was done at the Nation Institutes of Health, using public funds. NIH all the way. How American law was perverted and twisted to cause crimes like this (and Katrina) is beyond me, but it happens.
Ok last point. At the end of World War 2, corporations paid over 50% of federal revenue. now its about 8%. Universities used to be paid for research, education and publication. Now they beg corps for it.
Is the picture a little clearer now?
Gotcha.
.uk for Britain, .fr for France - to sign a contract with it that would give ICANN ultimate control over their domains and what they did with them.
Who the hell is we? Every time you feel yourself saying we, us and our, try to figure out what you mean by it.
This is soccer shirt loyalty. The soccer fan buys a shirt in red and green, and says "We are Middletown!" Fine good for you. Someone else makes money for your shirt, players make money for you showing up and the sportbusiness owner makes money for your googly eyed confusion. The players aren't from Middleton, the owners probably aren't and the shirt's made by children in Bangaladesh. RAAAH! raaah! rah
Soccer shirt loyalty applies all over, and if you think about it more often, you can avoid or at least begin to resist some of the nonsense that results.
Lets see what ICANN has done in the past around issues of top-down control. From the Register June 2003
~~snip
The issues raised in the formation of the ccNSO are a microcosm of all of the wider problems of ICANN and the Internet. ICANN has spent years pressurising the rest of the world's domains - such as
The concept that a US-based company, answerable to the US government, would be able to dictate exactly what every country in the world did with their Internet domains was ludicrous, but it didn't stop ICANN from using everything it had to force them to comply. It even started delaying changes to the technical side of the Internet - IANA. Countries retaliated by refusing to supply ICANN with money and threatening not to recognise ICANN at all.
How it ever got that far is testament to ICANN's arrogance. However, in what everyone is sensing is a sea-change, ICANN under new president/CEO Paul Twomey behaved pragmatically and conceded all control save over IANA and global interoperability - which is what ICANN was created for in the first place. "I don't think this is a big threat," said Dr Black.
ICANN, faced with outright refusal by countries to be controlled, initially argued that its policy diktats could be bypassed if the country's own public laws demanded it. Then it conceded that religious or cultural differences could justify not follows diktats too - but that it would have to give its permission each and every time. Eventually it realised the stupidity of its position and conceded sovereignty to, well, the sovereign nations."
~~snip
We! Us! Mine!
"My arrogance is based in better delusions than yours, and I have ordinance."
You can see how discussions can get bogged down.
http://lawgeek.typepad.com/lawgeek/2005/09/no_fir
A second example might be the fact that, appearing at a rally about getting the troops home sooner than incompetence has planned for, gets you and your freinds infiltrated by Homeland Security. You may find that unintimidating, your speech may not be affected by these surreptitious visits, but many others have seen summary judgements and wrongful convictions and broken furniture, and find the prospect daunting.
A third example might be the boy who was detained for wearing a t-shirt critical of a heretofor always-praised public figure of some renown.
A forth might be the literal screaming of the word traitor whenever someone mentions the huge purposeful campaign of dishonesty that has lead to the deaths of some 25,000 to 40,000 central asian foreigners and wounded or killed about 16,000 American citizens.
I am going out right this moment and getting some freedom fries to celebrate the huge window of proper discourse that is allowed.
It is easy to ensure support for your card in linux.
The accused is not an idiot.
Release the details of your hardware, and linauts all round the world will find terrific ways to pump that baby up, find speed, extract improvements and generaly make it shine.
The problem with the present suppliers of f'ing hardware in far too many ways is they put legals, obsfucations and pointless hinderances in our coders way in order to extract unearned cashflow. If NNNNyNNNvitya would just make hardware and let it survive in the market based on it's quality, not it's silly, and costly proprietiarianisms,(I made it up so I get to decide how it's spelled.) then the coding would procede faster, we would advance faster, and frag at better frame rates.
And don't think I've forgotten ATI, blecjhhh.
I very much hope that s3 just tells linux coders what the damn specs are, we would have the new top seller world wide. Surely design and manufacture are something to be proud of!
You have multiple indicators that fraud occured in your latest elections. You have multiple reports of people giving evidence that they know that there was software written to defraud the vote. You have multiple bizarre case of obvious 'errors'
AND
You have no way at all to check or confirm either vote totals, or the software that creates it.
AND
You have compelling evidence that your government lied to you in order to go to war, with major media conivance. Your media still lies to you. Distracts you with drivelNews, and avoids subjects that might drive you toward action. Your media is so filled with irrelevant feces that the two most trustable media sources are comedians.
And you can discuss, third party reports, that say "Probably everything is ok, don't worry."
Many of your parents died or put their lives at risk to protect democracy. Millions died to stop fascism. And you are happy to let your democracy, the control of the largest, most destructive, most deadly, military ever created, the largest polluter, the largest economy,
fall into the hands other than your own.
Shame on you.
What is the standing of their GPL compliance?
If our judges all had a personal relationship to Jesus wouldn't that help? A judiciary that understands blasphemy when they see it, will be able to understand that personal property in the "intellectual" sphere means you can critisize us when you can afford it. Excuse me? I said shut up.
More seriously, a free country is worth protecting. Think of what your fathers and mothers gave up during WWII. What they they willing to sacrifice to protect democracy for you, their children, and your children too. But what are you doing?
here's how its pronounced.
man DREE va
emphasis on the DREE
think arriba (it's here) you all had tv cartoon character(s) shouting aahhreeeba!
So it's Arriba Mandriva!