Do you also think that your car insurance company should have zero access to your driving/accident record? How can you bear risk if you have no idea what that risk is?
You DO have an idea of what risk is, as a set of proportions or probability. You can compensate for that by determining your rates according to those general models rather than excluding people from first world status.
By the way, this is people's health, not their car.
How'd they create it? By insulating the general public from the costs? Doesn't the general public share some blame too if that's the case?
no, they don't. They are never told the costs, are compelled to take care of themselves, and have no bargaining or lobbying power against centralized corporate power.
The insurance industry, however, was exposed to the costs and could easily have engaged in bargaining and lobbying to put the abuses in check.
They still can now, but refuse to do so.
I'd like to add to this that driving involves choices, medical conditions don't. Many chronic conditions are genetic, and completely unrelated to lifestyle.
Do you also think that your car insurance company should have zero access to your driving/accident record? How can you bear risk if you have no idea what that risk is?
You DO have an idea of what risk is, as a set of proportions or probability. You can compensate for that by determining your rates according to those general models rather than excluding people from first world status.
By the way, this is people's health, not their car.
How'd they create it? By insulating the general public from the costs? Doesn't the general public share some blame too if that's the case?
no, they don't. They are never told the costs, are compelled to take care of themselves, and have no bargaining or lobbying power against centralized corporate power.
The insurance industry, however, was exposed to the costs and could easily have engaged in bargaining and lobbying to put the abuses in check.
I guess to add to my point, corn-based ethanol doesn't make sense, it is only being produced because of the subsidies. Switchgrass yields something on the order of 10x's more ethanol per acre but farmers don't get the huge subsidies to grow it. I have also seen some arguments that other crops were being abandoned to grow corn for ethanol because of the subsidies thus reducing the supply of other crops and increasing prices. Its not the governments job to set prices.
Yes, someone made the bath water too hot, so nobody should ever take baths again.
Removing stupidity from regulation is the right thing, not removing regulation all together. (might I mention that "removal" of regulation from international trade is what caused this current financial crash. You can blame the banks but the truth is people reached the end of their capacity to carry the debts which compensated for the wage freezes +30% inflation over the past decade caused by FTA's and offshoring)
There should be no subsidies, the agriculture business in this country is profitable without subsidies, why should taxpayer money go into the pockets of "big farm"? It ain't ma & pa tilling the fields anymore you know.
Because we should not be subject to famine? Contrary to popular belief, our nation gets hit with frosts, droughts, and floods just as often as those in the third world. The difference is two fold: infrastructure and subsidies to encourage enough over-production of a resource we literally cannot live without.
I've heard of some other curious instances, like elementary kids being homeschooled for a few years and then placed into schools, where they nearly immediately assume leadership roles in their classroom and don't have the self-esteem issues from being picked on so much.
These people are obviously not jewish, catholic, or asian : P
There's also something to be said from learning social skills from adults rather than other immature kids.
someone needs to assume temporary residence in a city outside the coastal megalopoli.
Every city and county between new york and san francisco is filled to the ears with "adults" who never grew up. (that's not to say there aren't a fair share IN those cities, but the ratio is far higher in what is colloquially referred to as "middle america".
you won't starve in a couple days, nor will you die of thirst.
Most people I know have stuff in their freezer, pantry, or fridge which are perfectly edible/drinkable but which have fallen out of their culinary favor. By the end of the second day they'll reach for that and be fine.
Actually the use of 30% of the US's corn for ethanol because of misguided subsidies is one of the major causes of the massive hike in prices.
Actually news reports point to the contrary situation: Ethanol plants across america have closed down because of the higher price of corn.
It's tempting to say they were a victim of their own success, but the government's job is to assure enough commodity food is produced to avoid the type of volatility we see in the oil markets.
Oil is important, but you're more likely to see riots over food than SUV's.
I'm defining "our" as the US where I live, where the cost of living is much higher.
The same economic policies were used against us by britain and europe when we were developing. A sound policy which gave limited protection to business and at the time the labor standards which resulted in a consuming "middle class" gave rise to our economic power.
The problems with less prosperous nations are not US trade policies, but their own domestic policy and in many cases political unrest. (please don't apply the fallacy of composition to this statement. This is very different at the level of individual people and families)
Their search ability could be limited much like the limited credit searches of those who are wanting to provide you credit, ie they can't see the whole picture unless they are actually your provider or you have approved them to.
The point of an insurance company is to bear risk, not avoid it.
Medical insurance providers should have zero access, and in all reality should not be able to ask any health questions period.
The presence of ubiquitous medical benefits has insulated the general public from the costs of medical care and prescriptions for a long time, allowing equipment, malpractice, and pharmaceutical providers to jack up their rates beyond all reason.
The medical insurance industry has produced this market imbalance, and they should be forced to take responsibility for it by not discriminating against those interested in buying coverage and leaving people with actual, painful, and potentially terminal conditions to rot in agony and permanent disability until their deaths.
It just seems that likening a coronal mass ejection to a "katrina-like" event is as realistic as likening a tornado to that little swirl in your bathtub drain.
I know what you mean.
However, this dissimilarity can be resolved by placing a toy trailer and a talking action figure saying "it was like a freight train" near said bathtub drain.
Private and semi-private energy companies, like all lnstitutions promoted by competition to cut costs, suffer the malady of products and infrastructure "built by the lowest bidder".
Because of the nature of pure capitalism and even mixed economies, it is against the interests of any individual actor to create a more robust electronic infrastructure.
This is a role for the dreaded "R" word..ok i'll say it.. RRRegulation.
This is why i hope a solar storm like the one this article fear-mongers about happens.
When it does, various electronic infrastructure companies (power, telecom, etc) will happily welcome a law which sets a minimum level of EMP hardening and other standards.
It's important to note that, despite raising their costs a bit, it won't matter to them so long as their competition suffers the same way.
The cost will likely be passed on to the consumer, but "main street" will also be happy to pay an extra 3 bucks on a few bills knowing region-wide blackouts of power, phone, and internet will no longer be common, especially with a catastrophic failure fresh in their minds.
Additonally, I find it interesting that you are opposed to government helping diminish competition, but you're perfectly fine with their governments diminishing competition by allowing multinationals to work their citizens 20 hours a day at 5 cents a week and chuck out any worker who has to go to the bathroom or develops a cold.
I'm sorry but competition and efficiency are not a "goal" of economics, economics is a tool, much like physics or chemistry, which should be used to enrich our lives and solve problems.
As such, there are times when "free market fundamentalism" does not create public welfare. International "free trade" without protections to assure parity of rights and labor standards between nations simply allows one nation to funnel jobs and wealth from the other like a mosquito.
The consumer and the third world farmer are the biggest losers,
the third world farmer is not having problems because of US trade policy, he is having problems because of political and climactic issues in his own.
As for "the consumer", nominal prices mean nothing. When offshoring renders you unemployed and drives down wages across the board the lower nominal prices mean nothing, and much more often people end up spending a much higher fraction of their income on the products they buy.
"Free trade" with nations without socioeconomic parity drives down real wages through this process as upper management siphons off more and more for their already fat pockets.
Please take into account all economic forces rather than just quoting incomplete and incompetently taught high school econ 101
Good point, but the other question to ask would be who saves the money?
Having these records would make it easier to switch providers. Without them, more tests might need to be done since "we don't have the records". Switching providers isn't in the providers' interest. Charging for lots of tests is.
This is very clearly useful, but the pitfall is the insurance industry slipping loopholes into the formal bill allowing them to datamine peoples' records to further exclude anyone who actually requires medical care.
"i'm sorry sir, but your records show you're prone to sinus infection" [denied]
Would you rather have famine whenever there's a frost in florida or a flood on the great plains?
There are HUMANITARIAN reasons for farm subsidies.
In fact, it is the scaling back of farm subsidies which have caused the massive hike in food prices which threaten to cause civil unrest in dozens of nations around the globe.
wow gold has a higher us dollar exchange rate than the japanese yen.
I would find it funny after all the wacky predictions of D&D and usenet becoming the new system of power for the world if businesses actually started accepting wow gold for food and blizzard's patches came under the scrutiny of the fed.
real goods cannot be copied infinitely without a marginal cost of production. As such they have no export value and thus do not provide positive cash flow to our nation.
correcting this to read:
real goods cannot be copied infinitely without a marginal cost of reproduction while software can. As such, software has no export value and will not provide positive cash flow for our national economy.
Money is based off real resources, not wishful thinking. the belief in IP is no better than the housing or.com bubble.
If it were then it would be impossible for windows to be "freer than free".
Nobody on the street buys windows unless they know absolutely nobody who understands what p2p is.
real goods cannot be copied infinitely without a marginal cost of production. As such they have no export value and thus do not provide positive cash flow to our nation.
Yah, wealth is created by making stuff, and not by just pulling ideas out of one's arse. If the ideas can be used to make something, then they might be worth a bit, but an idea alone is worth exactly bupkus.
Cheers,
You may agree with the idea i'm expressing, but my comment is off topic and will be treated as such.
I'm willing to accept that. I have karma to burn : )
change the permission of the folder to exclude/application/fubar's group. BAM, same thing.
my point still stands.
User running/application/fubar still has full rwx access to the folder. So does fubar. Whups. Your point fails.
You may have a point if you're talking about multiple users, but then, again, your point fails, because this patent is talking about a single user.
"application permissions" would be called file associations (also around for a long time), or encrypting the file and attaching a module to the desired application allowing access to the file.
encryption and file associations have also been here since our parents were children.
ok, by that description the concept of user accounts combined with the standard rwx permission system " advantageously protects a user from any program to be executed".
Programs executed in one user space do not affect the programs or data in another user space unless the rwx permissions are changed properly.
in your example: Unix works with user permissions... This is application permissions. You have rwx access to/user/[name]/library, but maybe you don't want/application/fubar to have full access there
change the permission of the folder to exclude/application/fubar's group. BAM, same thing.
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Do you also think that your car insurance company should have zero access to your driving/accident record? How can you bear risk if you have no idea what that risk is?
You DO have an idea of what risk is, as a set of proportions or probability. You can compensate for that by determining your rates according to those general models rather than excluding people from first world status.
By the way, this is people's health, not their car.
How'd they create it? By insulating the general public from the costs? Doesn't the general public share some blame too if that's the case?
no, they don't. They are never told the costs, are compelled to take care of themselves, and have no bargaining or lobbying power against centralized corporate power.
The insurance industry, however, was exposed to the costs and could easily have engaged in bargaining and lobbying to put the abuses in check.
They still can now, but refuse to do so.
I'd like to add to this that driving involves choices, medical conditions don't. Many chronic conditions are genetic, and completely unrelated to lifestyle.
Kennedy, for instance, had adison's
Do you also think that your car insurance company should have zero access to your driving/accident record? How can you bear risk if you have no idea what that risk is?
You DO have an idea of what risk is, as a set of proportions or probability. You can compensate for that by determining your rates according to those general models rather than excluding people from first world status.
By the way, this is people's health, not their car.
How'd they create it? By insulating the general public from the costs? Doesn't the general public share some blame too if that's the case?
no, they don't. They are never told the costs, are compelled to take care of themselves, and have no bargaining or lobbying power against centralized corporate power.
The insurance industry, however, was exposed to the costs and could easily have engaged in bargaining and lobbying to put the abuses in check.
They still can now, but refuse to do so.
I guess to add to my point, corn-based ethanol doesn't make sense, it is only being produced because of the subsidies. Switchgrass yields something on the order of 10x's more ethanol per acre but farmers don't get the huge subsidies to grow it. I have also seen some arguments that other crops were being abandoned to grow corn for ethanol because of the subsidies thus reducing the supply of other crops and increasing prices. Its not the governments job to set prices.
Yes, someone made the bath water too hot, so nobody should ever take baths again.
Removing stupidity from regulation is the right thing, not removing regulation all together.
(might I mention that "removal" of regulation from international trade is what caused this current financial crash. You can blame the banks but the truth is people reached the end of their capacity to carry the debts which compensated for the wage freezes +30% inflation over the past decade caused by FTA's and offshoring)
There should be no subsidies, the agriculture business in this country is profitable without subsidies, why should taxpayer money go into the pockets of "big farm"? It ain't ma & pa tilling the fields anymore you know.
Because we should not be subject to famine? Contrary to popular belief, our nation gets hit with frosts, droughts, and floods just as often as those in the third world. The difference is two fold: infrastructure and subsidies to encourage enough over-production of a resource we literally cannot live without.
Ah yes. I can from your stat...wait...oh...wait. No statistics were provided. Hrm...
Would you like me to get the statistical analysis to prove the sky is blue too?
One of the lesser mentioned symptoms of adult ADD is the propensity to speak out improperly (otherwise known as a lack of tact).
ADD also tends to drive creativity and the capacity to make obtuse connections. This is generally what makes a nerd a nerd.
Get the right ADD medication and some paxil.
I've heard of some other curious instances, like elementary kids being homeschooled for a few years and then placed into schools, where they nearly immediately assume leadership roles in their classroom and don't have the self-esteem issues from being picked on so much.
These people are obviously not jewish, catholic, or asian : P
There's also something to be said from learning social skills from adults rather than other immature kids.
someone needs to assume temporary residence in a city outside the coastal megalopoli.
Every city and county between new york and san francisco is filled to the ears with "adults" who never grew up. (that's not to say there aren't a fair share IN those cities, but the ratio is far higher in what is colloquially referred to as "middle america".
I also wonder if this should really be teached in class...
Like English? ;)
Shut up, kidspeak is a legitimate dialect, just like ebonics and legalese. /satire
you won't starve in a couple days, nor will you die of thirst.
Most people I know have stuff in their freezer, pantry, or fridge which are perfectly edible/drinkable but which have fallen out of their culinary favor. By the end of the second day they'll reach for that and be fine.
Actually the use of 30% of the US's corn for ethanol because of misguided subsidies is one of the major causes of the massive hike in prices.
Actually news reports point to the contrary situation: Ethanol plants across america have closed down because of the higher price of corn.
It's tempting to say they were a victim of their own success, but the government's job is to assure enough commodity food is produced to avoid the type of volatility we see in the oil markets.
Oil is important, but you're more likely to see riots over food than SUV's.
I'm defining "our" as the US where I live, where the cost of living is much higher.
The same economic policies were used against us by britain and europe when we were developing. A sound policy which gave limited protection to business and at the time the labor standards which resulted in a consuming "middle class" gave rise to our economic power.
The problems with less prosperous nations are not US trade policies, but their own domestic policy and in many cases political unrest. (please don't apply the fallacy of composition to this statement. This is very different at the level of individual people and families)
Their search ability could be limited much like the limited credit searches of those who are wanting to provide you credit, ie they can't see the whole picture unless they are actually your provider or you have approved them to.
The point of an insurance company is to bear risk, not avoid it.
Medical insurance providers should have zero access, and in all reality should not be able to ask any health questions period.
The presence of ubiquitous medical benefits has insulated the general public from the costs of medical care and prescriptions for a long time, allowing equipment, malpractice, and pharmaceutical providers to jack up their rates beyond all reason.
The medical insurance industry has produced this market imbalance, and they should be forced to take responsibility for it by not discriminating against those interested in buying coverage and leaving people with actual, painful, and potentially terminal conditions to rot in agony and permanent disability until their deaths.
You can stock up on "wait for the national guard".
Military equipment is supposed to be EMP hardened.
They did it for east berlin, they'll do it for us.
It just seems that likening a coronal mass ejection to a "katrina-like" event is as realistic as likening a tornado to that little swirl in your bathtub drain.
I know what you mean.
However, this dissimilarity can be resolved by placing a toy trailer and a talking action figure saying "it was like a freight train" near said bathtub drain.
Private and semi-private energy companies, like all lnstitutions promoted by competition to cut costs, suffer the malady of products and infrastructure "built by the lowest bidder".
Because of the nature of pure capitalism and even mixed economies, it is against the interests of any individual actor to create a more robust electronic infrastructure.
This is a role for the dreaded "R" word..ok i'll say it.. RRRegulation.
This is why i hope a solar storm like the one this article fear-mongers about happens.
When it does, various electronic infrastructure companies (power, telecom, etc) will happily welcome a law which sets a minimum level of EMP hardening and other standards.
It's important to note that, despite raising their costs a bit, it won't matter to them so long as their competition suffers the same way.
The cost will likely be passed on to the consumer, but "main street" will also be happy to pay an extra 3 bucks on a few bills knowing region-wide blackouts of power, phone, and internet will no longer be common, especially with a catastrophic failure fresh in their minds.
Additonally, I find it interesting that you are opposed to government helping diminish competition, but you're perfectly fine with their governments diminishing competition by allowing multinationals to work their citizens 20 hours a day at 5 cents a week and chuck out any worker who has to go to the bathroom or develops a cold.
I'm sorry but competition and efficiency are not a "goal" of economics, economics is a tool, much like physics or chemistry, which should be used to enrich our lives and solve problems.
As such, there are times when "free market fundamentalism" does not create public welfare. International "free trade" without protections to assure parity of rights and labor standards between nations simply allows one nation to funnel jobs and wealth from the other like a mosquito.
The consumer and the third world farmer are the biggest losers,
the third world farmer is not having problems because of US trade policy, he is having problems because of political and climactic issues in his own.
As for "the consumer", nominal prices mean nothing. When offshoring renders you unemployed and drives down wages across the board the lower nominal prices mean nothing, and much more often people end up spending a much higher fraction of their income on the products they buy.
"Free trade" with nations without socioeconomic parity drives down real wages through this process as upper management siphons off more and more for their already fat pockets.
Please take into account all economic forces rather than just quoting incomplete and incompetently taught high school econ 101
Good point, but the other question to ask would be who saves the money?
Having these records would make it easier to switch providers. Without them, more tests might need to be done since "we don't have the records". Switching providers isn't in the providers' interest. Charging for lots of tests is.
This is very clearly useful, but the pitfall is the insurance industry slipping loopholes into the formal bill allowing them to datamine peoples' records to further exclude anyone who actually requires medical care.
"i'm sorry sir, but your records show you're prone to sinus infection" [denied]
Would you rather have famine whenever there's a frost in florida or a flood on the great plains?
There are HUMANITARIAN reasons for farm subsidies.
In fact, it is the scaling back of farm subsidies which have caused the massive hike in food prices which threaten to cause civil unrest in dozens of nations around the globe.
wow gold has a higher us dollar exchange rate than the japanese yen.
I would find it funny after all the wacky predictions of D&D and usenet becoming the new system of power for the world if businesses actually started accepting wow gold for food and blizzard's patches came under the scrutiny of the fed.
that's what the cp function is for in terminal.
correction..
real goods cannot be copied infinitely without a marginal cost of production. As such they have no export value and thus do not provide positive cash flow to our nation.
correcting this to read:
real goods cannot be copied infinitely without a marginal cost of reproduction while software can. As such, software has no export value and will not provide positive cash flow for our national economy.
Money is based off real resources, not wishful thinking. the belief in IP is no better than the housing or .com bubble.
no, it's not.
If it were then it would be impossible for windows to be "freer than free".
Nobody on the street buys windows unless they know absolutely nobody who understands what p2p is.
real goods cannot be copied infinitely without a marginal cost of production. As such they have no export value and thus do not provide positive cash flow to our nation.
Yah, wealth is created by making stuff , and not by just pulling ideas out of one's arse. If the ideas can be used to make something, then they might be worth a bit, but an idea alone is worth exactly bupkus.
Cheers,
You may agree with the idea i'm expressing, but my comment is off topic and will be treated as such.
I'm willing to accept that. I have karma to burn : )
change the permission of the folder to exclude /application/fubar's group. BAM, same thing.
my point still stands.
User running /application/fubar still has full rwx access to the folder. So does fubar. Whups. Your point fails.
You may have a point if you're talking about multiple users, but then, again, your point fails, because this patent is talking about a single user.
"application permissions" would be called file associations (also around for a long time), or encrypting the file and attaching a module to the desired application allowing access to the file.
encryption and file associations have also been here since our parents were children.
ok, by that description the concept of user accounts combined with the standard rwx permission system " advantageously protects a user from any program to be executed".
Programs executed in one user space do not affect the programs or data in another user space unless the rwx permissions are changed properly.
in your example: /user/[name]/library, but maybe you don't want /application/fubar to have full access there
Unix works with user permissions... This is application permissions. You have rwx access to
change the permission of the folder to exclude /application/fubar's group. BAM, same thing.
my point still stands.
when we engaged in mild protectionism this wasn't an issue. We used to charge tariffs on imports from nations without proper human and labor rights.
Now we don't.
this video tells the story of congressional stupidity starting at around the 9:40 mark.