If someone knows they are genetically disposed to malady "x", there is now a law which guarantees that they can get insurance coverage at the same price as someone who is at less risk. What does Congress expect them to do, not take advantage of that fact? If insurance companies can't set pricing based on full knowledge and actuarial statistics, but people can, it will increase costs.
Actually, in the long run, costs will decrease. Prior to this law, many people avoided preventative genetic testing (in some cases, on the advice of their doctors) because if something was found, they could face increased rates, dropped coverage or even loss of employment. Now they can get tested early without these worries and their conditions can be treated earlier which is generally less expensive for the insurance companies and also means the person can return to the workforce sooner which benefits everyone.
"Broadband" isn't a data transmission speed, not anymore than "cable", "modem" or "DSL" are transmission speeds.
You're right; it isn't a speed, it's a bandwidth (a broad bandwidth).
1. of, pertaining to, or responsive to a continuous, wide range of frequencies.
Note the use of the word wide (i.e. broad) in that definition.
Hence: "the broadband of 0-25kHz" mentioned in the article.
This is the part I have a problem with. While "broad" and "narrow" are somewhat relative terms, broadband is typically bandwidths of megahertz or gigahertz. A bandwidth of 25,000 hertz (less than the bandwidth of human hearing at around 32kHz) is definitely considered narrowband by anyone in the RF or data transmission world. While you are correct that the word "broadband" does not refer to a specific range of data transfer speeds, using the word to refer to "anything faster than standard dial-up" is an equally serious mis-use of a technical term.
And to be honest, I'm not sure your assertion was true even before home-watchable recorded media.
Sure it was. Before home video, theater re-releases were common; not to mention the fact that the film makes money every time it get shown on TV. The advent of home video made it even more true. I've purchased movies on DVD for which I wasn't even alive during their theatrical release. Mediocre movies (like video games) get one shot at making money in theater and maybe another shot from home video, but truly great classic films will continue to make money (at least at a slow trickle) until they enter the public domain (even then, they can still make money for someone, just not necessarily the copyright holder).
I don't think so. I am not sure about this yet. Micrsoft, as a company, is very intelligent. They threw a lot of money at OOXML. I may not like their software offerings, but I fully admit Microsoft doesn't just waste money.
They threw a lot of money at Vista too and look how that turned out: Years late, missing important promised features, PITA for users. In fact, I suspect that one reason OOXML support is late is because staff got pulled off of Office to work on Vista.
The main difference was that the PC clone makers didn't have to buy IBM-DOS from IBM to put on their clones; they could buy MS-DOS from Microsoft (or CP/M for that matter).
Releasing that much water vapor could have significant weather effects. Creating a higher demand for water may have disastrous effects on society.
If you could only make hydrogen from cracking fresh water that might be true, but as far as I know, it's just as easy to crack salt water and the planet is 2/3 covered in the stuff (and apparently sea levels are rising so please use as much as you can). As for water vapor having significant weather effects, I'd rather live in a city covered in fog than covered in smog.
I would agree with that, but you have to weigh the "anything interesting" part against the bigger picture. In this case, the "anything interesting" was an Allied effort that saved thousands of lives and probably shortened the war by a year. I tend to think that's worth preserving and that the value to society is greater then allowing a developer to build a strip mall or cookie-cutter condos over it.
But you could make the same argument for preserving a factory that built tanks, a shipyard, an airfield, a university laboratory that developed a slightly improved radar. Eventually you have nothing but museums. Some are necessary, but you have to draw the line somewhere. The building didn't shorten the war; the people who worked there did. We honour them by documenting their successes and continuing to build on their work in cryptography, not by turning their workshop into a shrine.
Charles Foster Kane was the main character of the movie 'Citizen Kane' and 'Rosebud' is a significant quote from the film. To give any more away would be a spoiler; if you haven't seen it, please rent it. It is considered by many critics and film buffs to be the greatest American film of all time.
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Several episodes of The Simpsons feature drinking-and-driving by the main characters which frequently results in few negative consequences. I wonder if MADD has gone after them as well?
From the question it seems like it's related to a life insurance policy that doesn't pay on suicide, which is the norm. So, the family ought to do a cost-benefit analysis about renting lawyer time for said subpoenas versus getting what they stand to gain by proving it wasn't a premeditated suicide.
I can't imagine anything they could find by accessing these accounts that could prove he didn't commit suicide (though they could find something that suggests he was planning a suicide). Financially, they have nothing to gain and everything to lose, if the insurance company has already made up their mind. Emotionally, likewise, I think I'd rather no know.
Kill the command ship with photon torpedoes. All robots instantly power down. My understanding is that they won't fix this design flaw for at least another millennium, at which time they will start cloning soldiers.
And for those skeptics who think they government would not be able to maintain it I would say this: If they could make our roads run in a decent way... then the last mile cabling could be done in a decent way also.
Where do you live? The roads I drive on are full of potholes and crumbling bridges. The excessive gasoline tax I pay (that is supposed to maintain transportation infrastructure) is siphoned off for other things. You really want the people running our roads to run our internet connections?
It's even scarier from the other side. The only reason the US is thinking of pulling out of Iraq is because of all the solders coming home in body bags. If it was robots doing the fighting, the US would be there permanently (and anywhere else they thought they had vested interests). Is there any effective defense against a robot army (other than a larger robot army, or maybe an EMP)?
So along comes a knock off firm who takes the whole IP without doing any R&D and pushes it out at a lower margin and steals profit from the designer. What happens? the original firm suffers and the balance is risked. A similar situation exists in patent car parts and 3rd party parts - when you buy original manufacturer parts you are helping design the next model of car. Without that income the whole system hangs in jeopardy.
Firstly, I doubt that replacement auto parts form any significant percentage of profits for car makers (as apposed to say, selling cars). Secondly, 3rd party parts are not pretending to be original OEM parts. Thirdly, most 3rd party parts makers do put significant R & D into their parts which are often superior (at least for specialized applications) to the original parts.
What about software companies? Should Microsoft make its profits primarily from from t-shirt and merchandise sales? And Steve Balmer touring and dancing around?
Not so much dancing, but I'd certainly pay to see Balmer throwing chairs at a WWE or UFC match.
Canada has low density, but the population tends to clump near the US border. Australia has the population clumped on their East coast. Therefore, these countries aren't representative of the difficulty of penetration in the United States.
The US population is equally "clumpy" (see map), being "clumped" along the east and west coast and along major waterways like the Great Lakes and the Mississippi. Yes that makes it difficult to get broadband to Buttscratch Montana (population 4 1/2), but it is absolutely no excuse why so many people in major US population centers either can't get broadband at all or have no choice in providers (which drives the price up and service down).
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Lower reaction rates also mean lower self-discharge (leakage) rates, which is what I think the GP was referring to.
I think you meant to type, "before you LOOSE to much cache"
Actually, in the long run, costs will decrease. Prior to this law, many people avoided preventative genetic testing (in some cases, on the advice of their doctors) because if something was found, they could face increased rates, dropped coverage or even loss of employment. Now they can get tested early without these worries and their conditions can be treated earlier which is generally less expensive for the insurance companies and also means the person can return to the workforce sooner which benefits everyone.
You're right; it isn't a speed, it's a bandwidth (a broad bandwidth).
1. of, pertaining to, or responsive to a continuous, wide range of frequencies.
Note the use of the word wide (i.e. broad) in that definition.
Hence: "the broadband of 0-25kHz" mentioned in the article.
This is the part I have a problem with. While "broad" and "narrow" are somewhat relative terms, broadband is typically bandwidths of megahertz or gigahertz. A bandwidth of 25,000 hertz (less than the bandwidth of human hearing at around 32kHz) is definitely considered narrowband by anyone in the RF or data transmission world. While you are correct that the word "broadband" does not refer to a specific range of data transfer speeds, using the word to refer to "anything faster than standard dial-up" is an equally serious mis-use of a technical term.
Sure it was. Before home video, theater re-releases were common; not to mention the fact that the film makes money every time it get shown on TV. The advent of home video made it even more true. I've purchased movies on DVD for which I wasn't even alive during their theatrical release. Mediocre movies (like video games) get one shot at making money in theater and maybe another shot from home video, but truly great classic films will continue to make money (at least at a slow trickle) until they enter the public domain (even then, they can still make money for someone, just not necessarily the copyright holder).
They threw a lot of money at Vista too and look how that turned out: Years late, missing important promised features, PITA for users. In fact, I suspect that one reason OOXML support is late is because staff got pulled off of Office to work on Vista.
The main difference was that the PC clone makers didn't have to buy IBM-DOS from IBM to put on their clones; they could buy MS-DOS from Microsoft (or CP/M for that matter).
Don't say that, it's homophobic!
If you could only make hydrogen from cracking fresh water that might be true, but as far as I know, it's just as easy to crack salt water and the planet is 2/3 covered in the stuff (and apparently sea levels are rising so please use as much as you can). As for water vapor having significant weather effects, I'd rather live in a city covered in fog than covered in smog.
Disco Stu: "Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continues... AAY!"
But you could make the same argument for preserving a factory that built tanks, a shipyard, an airfield, a university laboratory that developed a slightly improved radar. Eventually you have nothing but museums. Some are necessary, but you have to draw the line somewhere. The building didn't shorten the war; the people who worked there did. We honour them by documenting their successes and continuing to build on their work in cryptography, not by turning their workshop into a shrine.
I hope the probe is spherical, because a globe-shaped space device designed to suck up dust would logically be called ... a Dyson Sphere.
You could be right, I was just reading about that here.
Charles Foster Kane was the main character of the movie 'Citizen Kane' and 'Rosebud' is a significant quote from the film. To give any more away would be a spoiler; if you haven't seen it, please rent it. It is considered by many critics and film buffs to be the greatest American film of all time.
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Several episodes of The Simpsons feature drinking-and-driving by the main characters which frequently results in few negative consequences. I wonder if MADD has gone after them as well?
I can't imagine anything they could find by accessing these accounts that could prove he didn't commit suicide (though they could find something that suggests he was planning a suicide). Financially, they have nothing to gain and everything to lose, if the insurance company has already made up their mind. Emotionally, likewise, I think I'd rather no know.
And the legal solution to that is not to ban people from having arms, but to make hitting someone's face illegal.
Photon torpedo = Star Trek
Proton torpedo = Star Wars
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Where do you live? The roads I drive on are full of potholes and crumbling bridges. The excessive gasoline tax I pay (that is supposed to maintain transportation infrastructure) is siphoned off for other things. You really want the people running our roads to run our internet connections?
It's even scarier from the other side. The only reason the US is thinking of pulling out of Iraq is because of all the solders coming home in body bags. If it was robots doing the fighting, the US would be there permanently (and anywhere else they thought they had vested interests). Is there any effective defense against a robot army (other than a larger robot army, or maybe an EMP)?
These are not ordinary citizens, they are political candidates. As a wise man once said, "with great power comes great responsibility".
Firstly, I doubt that replacement auto parts form any significant percentage of profits for car makers (as apposed to say, selling cars). Secondly, 3rd party parts are not pretending to be original OEM parts. Thirdly, most 3rd party parts makers do put significant R & D into their parts which are often superior (at least for specialized applications) to the original parts.
Not so much dancing, but I'd certainly pay to see Balmer throwing chairs at a WWE or UFC match.
The US population is equally "clumpy" (see map), being "clumped" along the east and west coast and along major waterways like the Great Lakes and the Mississippi. Yes that makes it difficult to get broadband to Buttscratch Montana (population 4 1/2), but it is absolutely no excuse why so many people in major US population centers either can't get broadband at all or have no choice in providers (which drives the price up and service down).