No "health care system" is going to be able to overcome the human propensity to make unhealthy lifestyle choices unless it forces people to bear the costs of those choices themselves.
I've never crossed into obesity.
i've never smoked
i've never drank excessively.
I was diagnosed with crohn's disease 11 years ago and have quickly degenerated after the insurance company dropped me and nobody will sell me a policy at ANY Price.
explain to me what lifestyle choice i bungled again?
It's really easy to blame insurance companies, especially since the Democrat party has been on the propaganda trail blaming the insurance companies, but they've actually been quite acquiescent about the whole thing.
this is the image they have cultivated, but its a lie.
The truth is while the insurance companies themselves claimed they were for reform, they shadow-funded several groups which are out there right now undermining reform and propagating lies through TV spots and astroturfing.
Hint: those TV spots you see talking gloom and doom are NOT from the RNC, and certainly not the democrats. Theyre the health reform version of "hands off the internet", the notorious anti-neutrality astroturfing group.
I can tell you as a person who is "uninsurable at any price" because of crohns while 600 lb men get coverage for gastric bypasses that the insurance companies ARE to blame, they are responsible for every single massive lie being propagated today. It's vicious, ugly, and criminal what they're doing to make sure people like me, who are crippled by easily managed chronic conditions, remain bankrupt and suffering.
You may not like their solutions, but that's ok, we can come up with a solution. But believing that a single payer system will magically solve everything is just silly. Such a drastic overhaul of any system is likely to cause more problems than it solves.
yes, there are so many horrible problems that every other industrialized nation has one, and anyone in those nations suggesting getting rid of them is marginalized as a dingbat (if they say so from a political office, they don't have it in the next year).
The layout is much cleaner, OS X users will immediately "get" the dock (whether you like it or not is another issue)...
My main curiousity was the Media Center (got a deal on a PC from a friend that is dedicated to that purpose, leaving me to do my "work" on an old PowerMac) and it is amazingly good vs. Vista's complete F%^%*!? dissapointment. I was adamant that MS owed Vista MC users some love, and felt shafted to need an OS to finally get a WMC that works, but this is soooo much better all the way around...and @ the pre-ordered $49 goes a long, long way to fixing the hurt.
yay! now the dialogues telling you you can't record channels x y and z because of the "broadcast flag" will be friendly and poofy!
You don't seem to understand the reason why any windows based MC sucks.
disney is already doing this to all ISP's with compulsory wholesale licensing a-la cable TV.
If you have any major ISP (ATT, Comcast, etc) you are unknowingly paying disney for ESPN360 even if you dont use it.
ISP's resisted this for quite some time, but disney/espn started offering it free to university students, and presenting them with a message when they went home in the summer saying "complain to your ISP because they're not paying us".
It doesn't matter at this point of comcast buys disney/viacom/whatever because the other side of this equation is already doing this.
Unless the government or FCC intervene internet service costs could skyrocket as more content providers catch on and start pulling this.
I'd love to play aion.. it seems like an artistically stunning and immersive title.
Their lack of support for mac, despite statistics indicating 50% of college level sales are mac notebooks, means I will not be purchasing any time soon.
I have been consulting with a company for a year and they have offered me a job with the company now. They like my work and I know what my job responsibilities would be, but it would be a cut in pay and I could no longer deduct my mileage. I wouldn't have to buy my own health insurance anymore. I would also get trained in different technologies. I prefer the consulting, personally, but may be cut off if I don't take the offer.
take the job now! Do you not listen to the news or the debate in congress?
I'm sure there's some small-town nobody somewhere in the continental us, or some native in the northwest territories who also has accounts on these sites.
I like how people like the GP are blaming *us* for expecting to get a decent job straight out of college. (By decent I don't mean 80K cushy, I mean something better than working at a retail store at the mall; you know, the same shit you did from 14 - college graduation, working for someone with less education than you.)
YOU FUCKERS ARE THE ONES WHO'VE SOLD US THIS LIE!!!! Fuck.
(Glad I didn't fall for it though!)
At the risk of sounding like some 4-chan lurker, im going to quote this for truth in case the neo-con mod-squad that seems to dominate/. buries this one too.
The technology is very interesting, but you can't get any traction unless people are willing to actually buy and wear the glasses. As geeks, sometimes we overlook the attractiveness aspect of new technology. We shouldn't, it's half the battle.
ben franklin, doc hollywood.
the important thing is to purchase a scale proportional to your face (unlike this poor woman in the picture)
Some EA marketing guy has figured out how to manipulate Slashdot's Firehose.
the astroturfing is rife here, I think the meta-mod system has failed.
I think there needs to be an "astroturf" mod option in both comment moderation, firehose moderation, and meta-moderation.
I've been a member since 03 and have watched over the years as empty political rhetoric has drifted from -1 over a couple hours to +5 in less than 10 minutes, and rebuttals/fact checks have become buried or censored a-la digg "burial brigade" style abuse.
It just is not fair. Kids today aren't entitled, they are screwed over. The older generation didn't have to take bullshit like this. There were no trouble getting a job back then, especially not for college graduates. Things have gone quite a bit downhill since then.
Bull. There has never been trouble getting a job. There has always been trouble getting a job you want.
Meanwhile the advantage that college graduates once had has evaporated due to the change in supply/demand. Now that so many people are college graduates, being a college graduate is no longer special. Doubly so now that curricula and grade-inflation and such have taken their toll. When my father got his MBA, one of the requirements for graduating was to visit a real-world company and solve a random serious real-world problem it had.
I don't agree with the grade inflation hype.
it happens in grade school, it does not happen in college. Colleges frequently have to deal with people who graduated high school with improper curricula, and rather than "dumb down" their coursework they put these students through augmented introductory courses to bring them up to speed.
There have been numerous recessions, and every generation has had to deal with downturns. Now it's our turn.
people have had their education disregarded and been forced to train their indian and chinese replacements long before the credit market hit the skids.
FTA's with nations which don't have socio-economic parity has caused this mess.
It's obvious that as the entitlement generation grows up we'll see more of this: "I should get a job even though I'm mediocre at what I do and if I don't then I should be able to sue someone".
Let's hope she gets laughed out of court.
The applicants are not the only ones who feel "entitled".
Employers, especially larger ones, feel "entitled" to canned labor without job training.
The employer equivalent of your quoted statement is: "I should get skilled labor even though I don't want to invest one cent in training or orientation, and if I don't i'll blame the colleges and call the applicants selfish and 'entitled'"
The downside, based upon her attitude, is that the only person she could blame then is herself. Unless she sues the customers of the world for not buying her product/service.
hey, it works for a few other businesses. Tennenbaum can attest to it!
ESPN360 has been pulling a reverse on the "charge for access" BS the ISP's whispered about to start this whole movement.
They offered it free to colleges to hook people, then demanded cable style "bulk license fees" from ISP's.
One by one they have been caving. Complaints to the FCC regarding this practice, which forces every customer to pay for services they likely don't want or use, have been slow producing results.
I'm probably going to get posted a troll for this, but I'm putting it out there anyway. The only people that I know that have Segways near the small town in Michigan where I live also happen to be Mac owners/Apple Fanboys. I've talked, more so joked with co-workers in IT, and they all agree, there always seems to be an aura of smug around Mac users that when they come to us for help they come to us with an attitude of superiority, talk down to us when asking for help, and act like they are doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to work on their system. Now I can't say that every Segway owner is also a Mac user and acts this way, I'm only speaking from my own experience, and maybe the two products just happen to appeal to the same smug people.
anyone who understands how superior mac actually is is capable of doing their own system diagnostics. Did it ever occur to you that mac users who are actually educated about unix are smug for a very valid reason?
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No "health care system" is going to be able to overcome the human propensity to make unhealthy lifestyle choices unless it forces people to bear the costs of those choices themselves.
I've never crossed into obesity.
i've never smoked
i've never drank excessively.
I was diagnosed with crohn's disease 11 years ago and have quickly degenerated after the insurance company dropped me and nobody will sell me a policy at ANY Price.
explain to me what lifestyle choice i bungled again?
It's really easy to blame insurance companies, especially since the Democrat party has been on the propaganda trail blaming the insurance companies, but they've actually been quite acquiescent about the whole thing.
this is the image they have cultivated, but its a lie.
The truth is while the insurance companies themselves claimed they were for reform, they shadow-funded several groups which are out there right now undermining reform and propagating lies through TV spots and astroturfing.
Hint: those TV spots you see talking gloom and doom are NOT from the RNC, and certainly not the democrats. Theyre the health reform version of "hands off the internet", the notorious anti-neutrality astroturfing group.
I can tell you as a person who is "uninsurable at any price" because of crohns while 600 lb men get coverage for gastric bypasses that the insurance companies ARE to blame, they are responsible for every single massive lie being propagated today. It's vicious, ugly, and criminal what they're doing to make sure people like me, who are crippled by easily managed chronic conditions, remain bankrupt and suffering.
You may not like their solutions, but that's ok, we can come up with a solution. But believing that a single payer system will magically solve everything is just silly. Such a drastic overhaul of any system is likely to cause more problems than it solves.
yes, there are so many horrible problems that every other industrialized nation has one, and anyone in those nations suggesting getting rid of them is marginalized as a dingbat (if they say so from a political office, they don't have it in the next year).
On the other hand, it has new DRM for stuff which you can't handle without supporting some - such as BluRay.
VLC can't handle torrented matroska files?
The layout is much cleaner, OS X users will immediately "get" the dock (whether you like it or not is another issue)...
My main curiousity was the Media Center (got a deal on a PC from a friend that is dedicated to that purpose, leaving me to do my "work" on an old PowerMac) and it is amazingly good vs. Vista's complete F%^%*!? dissapointment.
I was adamant that MS owed Vista MC users some love, and felt shafted to need an OS to finally get a WMC that works, but this is soooo much better all the way around...and @ the pre-ordered $49 goes a long, long way to fixing the hurt.
yay! now the dialogues telling you you can't record channels x y and z because of the "broadcast flag" will be friendly and poofy!
You don't seem to understand the reason why any windows based MC sucks.
disney is already doing this to all ISP's with compulsory wholesale licensing a-la cable TV.
If you have any major ISP (ATT, Comcast, etc) you are unknowingly paying disney for ESPN360 even if you dont use it.
ISP's resisted this for quite some time, but disney/espn started offering it free to university students, and presenting them with a message when they went home in the summer saying "complain to your ISP because they're not paying us".
It doesn't matter at this point of comcast buys disney/viacom/whatever because the other side of this equation is already doing this.
Unless the government or FCC intervene internet service costs could skyrocket as more content providers catch on and start pulling this.
slashdot seems to have improperly published the link?.. bug anyone?
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/the-daily-show-explains-how-fox-self-pollinates-outrage/
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/the-daily-show-explains-how-fox-self-pollinates-outrage/>the daily show is already outlining this happening on fox news.
Replying to remove an improper mod of this comment.
I'd love to play aion.. it seems like an artistically stunning and immersive title.
Their lack of support for mac, despite statistics indicating 50% of college level sales are mac notebooks, means I will not be purchasing any time soon.
I am in a similar but different situation.
I have been consulting with a company for a year and they have offered me a job with the company now. They like my work and I know what my job responsibilities would be, but it would be a cut in pay and I could no longer deduct my mileage. I wouldn't have to buy my own health insurance anymore. I would also get trained in different technologies. I prefer the consulting, personally, but may be cut off if I don't take the offer.
take the job now! Do you not listen to the news or the debate in congress?
I'm sure there's some small-town nobody somewhere in the continental us, or some native in the northwest territories who also has accounts on these sites.
OMG russia is after THEM!!!
Establish a small fleet of permanent skimmer barges.
The plastic is already broken down into pellets even finer than those delivered to molding factories it's ripe for harvest and sale!
I predict mass arrests because devices like this will give positives for "traces".
All dollars have traces of cocaine on them, so anyone who handles cash money on a daily basis (almost everyone) will be flagged by this device.
huge government debacle incoming.
I like how people like the GP are blaming *us* for expecting to get a decent job straight out of college. (By decent I don't mean 80K cushy, I mean something better than working at a retail store at the mall; you know, the same shit you did from 14 - college graduation, working for someone with less education than you.)
YOU FUCKERS ARE THE ONES WHO'VE SOLD US THIS LIE!!!! Fuck.
(Glad I didn't fall for it though!)
At the risk of sounding like some 4-chan lurker, im going to quote this for truth in case the neo-con mod-squad that seems to dominate /. buries this one too.
There were only two people in the world who ever looked good in round glasses: John Lennon and Mahatma Gandhi.
This poor lady looks like she needs a wedgie.
The technology is very interesting, but you can't get any traction unless people are willing to actually buy and wear the glasses. As geeks, sometimes we overlook the attractiveness aspect of new technology. We shouldn't, it's half the battle.
ben franklin, doc hollywood.
the important thing is to purchase a scale proportional to your face (unlike this poor woman in the picture)
Some EA marketing guy has figured out how to manipulate Slashdot's Firehose.
the astroturfing is rife here, I think the meta-mod system has failed.
I think there needs to be an "astroturf" mod option in both comment moderation, firehose moderation, and meta-moderation.
I've been a member since 03 and have watched over the years as empty political rhetoric has drifted from -1 over a couple hours to +5 in less than 10 minutes, and rebuttals/fact checks have become buried or censored a-la digg "burial brigade" style abuse.
I heard the aliens from zeta reticuli utilize paravirtual entropy drivers to get to earth.
Bull. There has never been trouble getting a job. There has always been trouble getting a job you want.
Meanwhile the advantage that college graduates once had has evaporated due to the change in supply/demand. Now that so many people are college graduates, being a college graduate is no longer special. Doubly so now that curricula and grade-inflation and such have taken their toll. When my father got his MBA, one of the requirements for graduating was to visit a real-world company and solve a random serious real-world problem it had.
I don't agree with the grade inflation hype.
it happens in grade school, it does not happen in college. Colleges frequently have to deal with people who graduated high school with improper curricula, and rather than "dumb down" their coursework they put these students through augmented introductory courses to bring them up to speed.
Please.
There have been numerous recessions, and every generation has had to deal with downturns. Now it's our turn.
people have had their education disregarded and been forced to train their indian and chinese replacements long before the credit market hit the skids.
FTA's with nations which don't have socio-economic parity has caused this mess.
The national average GPA for college graduates is 3.2 (according to a quick google search)
you mean this site?. Yes, i'm sure "your mobile BFF" is accurate.
It's obvious that as the entitlement generation grows up we'll see more of this: "I should get a job even though I'm mediocre at what I do and if I don't then I should be able to sue someone".
Let's hope she gets laughed out of court.
The applicants are not the only ones who feel "entitled".
Employers, especially larger ones, feel "entitled" to canned labor without job training.
The employer equivalent of your quoted statement is: "I should get skilled labor even though I don't want to invest one cent in training or orientation, and if I don't i'll blame the colleges and call the applicants selfish and 'entitled'"
I'm growing more and more tired of one-sided comments about the "entitlement generation".
The point this poster makes is particularly salient: the applicants are not the only ones who feel "entitled"
The downside, based upon her attitude, is that the only person she could blame then is herself. Unless she sues the customers of the world for not buying her product/service.
hey, it works for a few other businesses. Tennenbaum can attest to it!
ESPN360 has been pulling a reverse on the "charge for access" BS the ISP's whispered about to start this whole movement.
They offered it free to colleges to hook people, then demanded cable style "bulk license fees" from ISP's.
One by one they have been caving. Complaints to the FCC regarding this practice, which forces every customer to pay for services they likely don't want or use, have been slow producing results.
I'm probably going to get posted a troll for this, but I'm putting it out there anyway. The only people that I know that have Segways near the small town in Michigan where I live also happen to be Mac owners/Apple Fanboys. I've talked, more so joked with co-workers in IT, and they all agree, there always seems to be an aura of smug around Mac users that when they come to us for help they come to us with an attitude of superiority, talk down to us when asking for help, and act like they are doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to work on their system. Now I can't say that every Segway owner is also a Mac user and acts this way, I'm only speaking from my own experience, and maybe the two products just happen to appeal to the same smug people.
anyone who understands how superior mac actually is is capable of doing their own system diagnostics. Did it ever occur to you that mac users who are actually educated about unix are smug for a very valid reason?