That is why the concept of health insurance as business is inherently wrong. It is about threatening people with events out of their control into taking a bet which is unfavourable to them.
The insurance companies are not threatening people with illness; nature is.
Cutting out the extra tiers will cut costs immensely and save money by pure volume.
The waste of governmental corruption exceeds the savings from economies of scale.
I can't speak for Republicans have in mind, but if the vile wars of aggression were stopped, the federal income tax could be eliminated, and states could raise taxes.
That would be fraud, which is in the purview of the government to prosecute. Prevention of such a calamity is in the purview of the private sector, where private ratings agencies would conduct audits on the financial solvency of insurance companies.
Insurance is supposed to be about spreading risk of uncertain futures, not giving hand-outs (wealth redistribution) when futures are known. Wealth redistribution is fine (even though it's not insurance) as long as it follows the precedence outlined by the principle of subsidiarity: self, family, community or church, provincial government, national government, world government.
Based on the headline, I thought it was going to be about Ken Thompson's self-referencing compiler that not only inserted a back door whenever it saw that it was compiling the UNIX login command, it also inserted the back door insertion code whenever it saw it was compiling the compiler source code.
So under your system, if you are born to poor parents, you are screwed for life? Land of opportunity indeed.
There is no way the U.S. federal government should be (in the long term) involved in health insurance. States could create their own safety nets. But they should be constructed in a way that do not violate the principle of subsidiarity.
I agree, even though I am a free market advocate. The long-term solution to healthcare is completely free market: your parents buy you a health insurance plan before you're born (similar to how parents know they have to pay for their kids' college and braces). In the meantime, for those of us already born, Medicare should be expanded to cover everyone born before (e.g.) 2015, and no one else -- ever. A 100-year phase out of Medicare similar to the phase-out Ron Paul has proposed for Social Security.
In a nutshell, the team led by Barr Group found what the NASA team sought but couldn’t find: “a systematic software malfunction in the Main CPU that opens the throttle without operator action and continues to properly control fuel injection and ignition” that is not reliably detected by any fail-safe. To be clear, NASA never concluded software wasn’t at least one of the causes of Toyota’s high complaint rate for unintended acceleration; they just said they weren’t able to find the specific software defect(s) that caused unintended acceleration. We did.
Why is the ability to think logically the opposite of being socially persuasive?
It's not, and in the trivium of classical education, rhetoric follows logic and grammar.
What if the world were filled with citizens who each combined the best of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak? There would be a lot fewer nerds in the basement grousing about social inequity (and instead doing something about it), and a lot more politicians who would be able to foresee the unforeseen consequences of Obamacare. The current power brokers would be threatened. Thus, no real education is made available in the public schools.
That's because people no longer need Word file format capability. The new lingua franca is PowerPoint. And Impress renders PowerPoint files differently enough (and vice versa) that people are back to relying on authentic Microsoft Office again.
If I had to deal with fleshy bugs, I would think programming were especially hard too.
Also, missing from the list: managing multiple projects. The "one interruption costs 20 minutes" is BS. Brief interruptions have little effect. The problem is the weeks-long "interruption" to work on a temporary emergency priority, and then afterward going back to the first project having to rebuild all the mental structures in your mind. Compounding the problem is that during the mental rebuild process, interruptions do hamper it during that time. Interruptions are like wind. The stronger and more established the mental structures, the more resilient they are against the wind. Even though mental rebuilds are a fragile time, still the fragility is overestimated and so it becomes the fear of interruption (interruptions are more painful than destructive) that leads to procrastination and delay -- worse than the interruptions themselves.
And that's not getting into the multiple project issue of dealing with multiple bosses in a non-linear org chart. I suppose that might fall under the overly broad "4. Dealing with other people."
"Male dominance near historic lows" isn't the most interesting takeaway. What's more interesting is that the 2008 global financial crisis shook loose GenX'ers in the U.S., but nowhere else in the world. Sure, we can say the GFC rid the industry of the dot-com charlatans, but the housing bubble was global due to the network and interdependency of central banks -- why wasn't the same effect observed across the world? I suspect that perhaps the low interest rates and housing bubbles in other countries did not translate into inflated software development salaries at the time, but I don't have enough data and information.
ST:2009 was the best film by Academy Awards, inflation-adjusted box office, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and IMDB. Abrams blew it with ST:ID. While ST:2009 had great special effects, Abrams was so overly focused on special effects with his Trek-unprecedented $190m ST:ID budget that he forgot about the plot.
Lucas suffered a similar problem. Oh, Lucas didn't forget about the plot in the prequel trilogy -- in fact it was richer in the prequels. Lucas was so focused on special effects in the prequels that he left all the character development on the cutting room floor. The prequels would have been much better with the cut scenes that are available on the DVDs. Couldn't let the special effects budget go to waste on the cutting room floor, you know.
Resource constraints increase creativity. Thus, I sadly have little hope for Abrams Wars.
The cynical amongst web analytics professionals accuse Google of hiding organic keyword searches from website operators in order to force them into paying for AdWords with its paid keywords.
And the cause of junk patents is the distorted economy of issuing patents. USPTO gets paid for every patent they issue, good or bad, yet are immune from lawsuits from the businesses they negatively impact by their bad behavior.
More importantly, he released information in a way that made it incontrovertible. It wasn't some retarded infowars release right after a video about weather control and right after another about reptilian humans.
Klein worked for more than 20 years as a technician at AT&T. Here he tells the story of how he inadvertently discovered that the whole flow of Internet traffic in several AT&T operations centers was being regularly diverted to the National Security Agency (NSA). Klein is a witness in a lawsuit filed against AT&T by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which alleges AT&T illegally gave the NSA access to its networks. This is the edited transcript of an interview conducted on Jan. 9, 2007.
I'm pretty sure that Infowars.com has never had a story about aliens, and I'm also pretty sure Infowars.com linked to pbs.com back in 2007.
Aside from the deprivation of water for an extended period of time (which was probably due to fear of him washing off residue, but still, it perhaps shouldn't have been for that long), I, anti-TSA and 9-11 truther, support these TSA and FBI actions for the most part (though I would have preferred they had been done by private businesses, such as the airlines and airport). Non-invasive chemical testing is precisely the sort of testing that should be done, rather than sexual molestation and virtual strip searching.
The only problem here is JetBlue a) denying him passage and b) compounding the problem by not rebooking him for the same fare. I support such actions in theory, under the First Amendment freedom of association, but if the guy's account is accurate, the public should know about JetBlue's policies.
Note: My personal support of First Amendment freedom of association is at odds with the Civil Rights Act, which I think should be abolished, except in the South. The guy may have a case of racial discrimination under the Civil Rights Act, but of course JetBlue would use the defense that they had the results of the objective chemical test.
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The insurance companies are not threatening people with illness; nature is.
The waste of governmental corruption exceeds the savings from economies of scale.
I can't speak for Republicans have in mind, but if the vile wars of aggression were stopped, the federal income tax could be eliminated, and states could raise taxes.
I would foresee GEICO and ilk offering discount health insurance in a free market where health insurance is not tied to employment.
There hasn't been a free market in health insurance since it was tied to employment in WWII.
Fractional reserve banking is fraud, but the government does not prosecute it. In fact, it encourages it.
That would be fraud, which is in the purview of the government to prosecute. Prevention of such a calamity is in the purview of the private sector, where private ratings agencies would conduct audits on the financial solvency of insurance companies.
Insurance is supposed to be about spreading risk of uncertain futures, not giving hand-outs (wealth redistribution) when futures are known. Wealth redistribution is fine (even though it's not insurance) as long as it follows the precedence outlined by the principle of subsidiarity: self, family, community or church, provincial government, national government, world government.
Based on the headline, I thought it was going to be about Ken Thompson's self-referencing compiler that not only inserted a back door whenever it saw that it was compiling the UNIX login command, it also inserted the back door insertion code whenever it saw it was compiling the compiler source code.
There is no way the U.S. federal government should be (in the long term) involved in health insurance. States could create their own safety nets. But they should be constructed in a way that do not violate the principle of subsidiarity.
It is not the responsibility of health insurance companies to equalize everyone's genes to ensure everyone can have babies of the same health level.
I agree, even though I am a free market advocate. The long-term solution to healthcare is completely free market: your parents buy you a health insurance plan before you're born (similar to how parents know they have to pay for their kids' college and braces). In the meantime, for those of us already born, Medicare should be expanded to cover everyone born before (e.g.) 2015, and no one else -- ever. A 100-year phase out of Medicare similar to the phase-out Ron Paul has proposed for Social Security.
2nd link, 5th paragraph:
Why is the ability to think logically the opposite of being socially persuasive?
It's not, and in the trivium of classical education, rhetoric follows logic and grammar.
What if the world were filled with citizens who each combined the best of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak? There would be a lot fewer nerds in the basement grousing about social inequity (and instead doing something about it), and a lot more politicians who would be able to foresee the unforeseen consequences of Obamacare. The current power brokers would be threatened. Thus, no real education is made available in the public schools.
That's because people no longer need Word file format capability. The new lingua franca is PowerPoint. And Impress renders PowerPoint files differently enough (and vice versa) that people are back to relying on authentic Microsoft Office again.
If I had to deal with fleshy bugs, I would think programming were especially hard too.
Also, missing from the list: managing multiple projects. The "one interruption costs 20 minutes" is BS. Brief interruptions have little effect. The problem is the weeks-long "interruption" to work on a temporary emergency priority, and then afterward going back to the first project having to rebuild all the mental structures in your mind. Compounding the problem is that during the mental rebuild process, interruptions do hamper it during that time. Interruptions are like wind. The stronger and more established the mental structures, the more resilient they are against the wind. Even though mental rebuilds are a fragile time, still the fragility is overestimated and so it becomes the fear of interruption (interruptions are more painful than destructive) that leads to procrastination and delay -- worse than the interruptions themselves.
And that's not getting into the multiple project issue of dealing with multiple bosses in a non-linear org chart. I suppose that might fall under the overly broad "4. Dealing with other people."
This is not micromanagement. It's being involved in design reviews.
"Male dominance near historic lows" isn't the most interesting takeaway. What's more interesting is that the 2008 global financial crisis shook loose GenX'ers in the U.S., but nowhere else in the world. Sure, we can say the GFC rid the industry of the dot-com charlatans, but the housing bubble was global due to the network and interdependency of central banks -- why wasn't the same effect observed across the world? I suspect that perhaps the low interest rates and housing bubbles in other countries did not translate into inflated software development salaries at the time, but I don't have enough data and information.
ST:2009 was the best film by Academy Awards, inflation-adjusted box office, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and IMDB. Abrams blew it with ST:ID. While ST:2009 had great special effects, Abrams was so overly focused on special effects with his Trek-unprecedented $190m ST:ID budget that he forgot about the plot.
Lucas suffered a similar problem. Oh, Lucas didn't forget about the plot in the prequel trilogy -- in fact it was richer in the prequels. Lucas was so focused on special effects in the prequels that he left all the character development on the cutting room floor. The prequels would have been much better with the cut scenes that are available on the DVDs. Couldn't let the special effects budget go to waste on the cutting room floor, you know.
Resource constraints increase creativity. Thus, I sadly have little hope for Abrams Wars.
Do you have a link that describes that? I'm not finding anything Googling for combinations of Tex, pipeline, and parsing.
I'm not aware of any pipelining system that performs partial parsing. In CPU pipelining, "instruction decode" is AFAIK a single, atomic step.
The cynical amongst web analytics professionals accuse Google of hiding organic keyword searches from website operators in order to force them into paying for AdWords with its paid keywords.
And the cause of junk patents is the distorted economy of issuing patents. USPTO gets paid for every patent they issue, good or bad, yet are immune from lawsuits from the businesses they negatively impact by their bad behavior.
The term for this immunity is royal perogative.
The solution to get more allowed usage is to purchase business service from your ISP.
PBS is retarded?
I'm pretty sure that Infowars.com has never had a story about aliens, and I'm also pretty sure Infowars.com linked to pbs.com back in 2007.
Aside from the deprivation of water for an extended period of time (which was probably due to fear of him washing off residue, but still, it perhaps shouldn't have been for that long), I, anti-TSA and 9-11 truther, support these TSA and FBI actions for the most part (though I would have preferred they had been done by private businesses, such as the airlines and airport). Non-invasive chemical testing is precisely the sort of testing that should be done, rather than sexual molestation and virtual strip searching.
The only problem here is JetBlue a) denying him passage and b) compounding the problem by not rebooking him for the same fare. I support such actions in theory, under the First Amendment freedom of association, but if the guy's account is accurate, the public should know about JetBlue's policies.
Note: My personal support of First Amendment freedom of association is at odds with the Civil Rights Act, which I think should be abolished, except in the South. The guy may have a case of racial discrimination under the Civil Rights Act, but of course JetBlue would use the defense that they had the results of the objective chemical test.