The problem is that a heavily regulated system like this raises prices, so your only choices become the best healthcare or no healthcare. It's perfectly fine if you have the money for the first option, but not everyone does.
Not to mention that some people would be willing to take the risk to save money. Everything you do in life has a risk, why regulate just that one? There are many cases where I'd be willing to go to a hospital with a crappy wireless network to save some money. I'd think twice about getting heart surgery there, but not everything a hospital does is that big of a deal.
I don't see what a person's genes have to do with hiring them. You don't know things because of your genes, you know things because you learned them. If some genes make you predisposed to learning more, then we're already doing genetic testing by hiring the smartest applicants.
The problem with Btrfs isn't that it doesn't work (it works fine and has for years). The problem is that it's not very fast right now (most benchmarks I've seen show it slightly behind other major file systems in most tasks), and most things don't make use of the cool things it does.
Arch does have an LTS kernel (although "long-term" in Arch is like 6 months), which you can use if the current version is broken. I used it for a while when wine + some kernel version caused World of Warcraft to not work. Hope this helps if you problems in the future.
But why hasn't somebody developed some low-frequency wireless that is suitable for internet speeds?
Because lower frequency means slower data transfer. They're directly related. And 20 Mbps is seriously overestimating the current speed of wireless technology.
For example, it is reportedly possible to write PDFs which display different content in different operating systems, browsers or PDF readers -- or even depending on a computer's language settings.
Notice that if this was automatic, it would be well-known already. What it sounds like is that you can write a document in several languages (or for different PDF readers if you want) and have the reader's computer decide the correct one to show.
So, there might be multiple versions, but the author would be aware of all of them.
It means that the banks are deciding what's illegal now. The government either doesn't have the authority (not this country) or a real reason to shut them down, so now the banks are doing it for them. Justice is served?
You might find this description interesting. They didn't just translate the words into Klingon, they also made the story more Klingon. From the link: "Most notably, Scrooge (here, SQuja’ — pronounced Sk-OOO-JA!) is suffering from a lack of courage and honor, rather than compassion and humanity. He’d rather hide out in his hole, grumpily counting his gold, than fight in battle."
Surely the people of the US don't want to be without a postal service?
Is it really that big of a deal?
Junk mail - Finally we can get rid of this.
Post cards - Sad to lose, but not really the government's problem.
Letters - Important letters could still be sent by UPS/Fedex. It would be more expensive, but I suspect without the USPS, they would offer something comparable to normal mail (no doubt it would be more expensive). All of those businesses that send you pointless letters all the time (TV/internet service, banks, etc) would suddenly have a huge incentive to convince people to accept them in email form (less waste).
Packages - Fedex and UPS already do this. They're more expensive, but pouring money into the USPS via taxes just hides the real price.
We wouldn't be without postal service, we'd just be without government postal service.
It could have to do with the size of the vocabulary used. An encyclopedia will always have a huge number of different words, no matter how simple you make the pages.
There's nothing wrong with basic grammar. It might not be as fun to read, but more people can understand it. Also, some people will likely be interested in "advanced" or "intermediate" sites, so sites catering to a smarter audience will have to be written better.
The reason I don't use one is that you could lose your password database. I'd rather remember a bunch of passwords than rely on always having that file. Even backing it up I don't feel safe.
Yeah I had that issue with my bank. They asked for the answers to a bunch of questions when I first created my account for password recovery purposes, so I put in long random strings, but recently they changed to using the "two factor" (yeah right) authentication, so I had to go to my bank to change them.
I'd say more like 10 or 15. I've basically got any money I'll make from it by then (if any). There are very few exceptions to this, LotR and Foundation come to mind for books.
Not to mention that these books cost like $8 each, and a lot of fans would buy them even if they were available online for free (see: Baen Free Library).
You might be surprised by how many people are leaving Ubuntu over its terrible release cycles. "Want a new version of Pidgin? You can wait 6 months." "Oh, the 6 month release broke your [sound/video/anything], we'll fix it in 6 months."
Arch has used a rolling release forever and while things occasionally break (less often that Ubuntu ironically), the fix usually consists of waiting a couple days for them to push a fixed version.
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The point is that I'm not forcing you to go to my hospital, but with these regulations, you want to force me to go to yours.
The problem is that a heavily regulated system like this raises prices, so your only choices become the best healthcare or no healthcare. It's perfectly fine if you have the money for the first option, but not everyone does.
Not to mention that some people would be willing to take the risk to save money. Everything you do in life has a risk, why regulate just that one? There are many cases where I'd be willing to go to a hospital with a crappy wireless network to save some money. I'd think twice about getting heart surgery there, but not everything a hospital does is that big of a deal.
I don't see what a person's genes have to do with hiring them. You don't know things because of your genes, you know things because you learned them. If some genes make you predisposed to learning more, then we're already doing genetic testing by hiring the smartest applicants.
Real people like who, exactly? So far, it's just you and your stories. Not a lot of hard data there.
To be fair, that's the same amount of evidence you've been presenting..
The problem with Btrfs isn't that it doesn't work (it works fine and has for years). The problem is that it's not very fast right now (most benchmarks I've seen show it slightly behind other major file systems in most tasks), and most things don't make use of the cool things it does.
Arch does have an LTS kernel (although "long-term" in Arch is like 6 months), which you can use if the current version is broken. I used it for a while when wine + some kernel version caused World of Warcraft to not work. Hope this helps if you problems in the future.
pacman -S kernel26-lts
But why hasn't somebody developed some low-frequency wireless that is suitable for internet speeds?
Because lower frequency means slower data transfer. They're directly related. And 20 Mbps is seriously overestimating the current speed of wireless technology.
For example, it is reportedly possible to write PDFs which display different content in different operating systems, browsers or PDF readers -- or even depending on a computer's language settings.
Notice that if this was automatic, it would be well-known already. What it sounds like is that you can write a document in several languages (or for different PDF readers if you want) and have the reader's computer decide the correct one to show.
So, there might be multiple versions, but the author would be aware of all of them.
I don't see how that's better. If I always open the English documentation anyway, what's wrong with my computer picking it automatically?
What does this really mean?
It means that the banks are deciding what's illegal now. The government either doesn't have the authority (not this country) or a real reason to shut them down, so now the banks are doing it for them. Justice is served?
I suppose the *IAA kickbacks will be larger than the fees gained on infringing sites.
Which is sort of funny, since it means that MasterCard doesn't think is piracy is significant enough to make money off of.
You might find this description interesting. They didn't just translate the words into Klingon, they also made the story more Klingon. From the link: "Most notably, Scrooge (here, SQuja’ — pronounced Sk-OOO-JA!) is suffering from a lack of courage and honor, rather than compassion and humanity. He’d rather hide out in his hole, grumpily counting his gold, than fight in battle."
I didn't say they'd go away, I said businesses would have more incentive to get people with email access to use it.
Surely the people of the US don't want to be without a postal service?
Is it really that big of a deal?
We wouldn't be without postal service, we'd just be without government postal service.
I was under the impression that junk mail was how the USPS made all of its money already. I suspect they've carefully considered the rates for it.
But how will I heat my house without all of the junk mail they bring me?
But then they'd have to admit that 4G and 3G are sometimes exactly the same.
It could have to do with the size of the vocabulary used. An encyclopedia will always have a huge number of different words, no matter how simple you make the pages.
There's nothing wrong with basic grammar. It might not be as fun to read, but more people can understand it. Also, some people will likely be interested in "advanced" or "intermediate" sites, so sites catering to a smarter audience will have to be written better.
The reason I don't use one is that you could lose your password database. I'd rather remember a bunch of passwords than rely on always having that file. Even backing it up I don't feel safe.
Yeah I had that issue with my bank. They asked for the answers to a bunch of questions when I first created my account for password recovery purposes, so I put in long random strings, but recently they changed to using the "two factor" (yeah right) authentication, so I had to go to my bank to change them.
There might be, to be generous, a few thousand Anonymous
Fixed that for you.
I'd say more like 10 or 15. I've basically got any money I'll make from it by then (if any). There are very few exceptions to this, LotR and Foundation come to mind for books.
Not to mention that these books cost like $8 each, and a lot of fans would buy them even if they were available online for free (see: Baen Free Library).
You might be surprised by how many people are leaving Ubuntu over its terrible release cycles. "Want a new version of Pidgin? You can wait 6 months." "Oh, the 6 month release broke your [sound/video/anything], we'll fix it in 6 months."
Arch has used a rolling release forever and while things occasionally break (less often that Ubuntu ironically), the fix usually consists of waiting a couple days for them to push a fixed version.
I actually thought their response was fairly interesting. It you troll by making people post interesting things, then by all means continue.