LMAO. Yeah. Because Kazaa didn't tell you at the start of the install that files on your computer will be shared with other users unless disabled. Oh wait, it does.
You know, this is a civil case. I find the preponderence of belief that she didn't have any intention to do any such thing really quite high. You know, what with the perjury she committed, the fact that she replaced the hard drive after being caught, and lied about that, etc, etc.
Let's be honest here. Whatever you think or don't think of the RIAA's actions, Jammie Thomas was quite possibly one of the worst defendants that anyone could have chosen to take up the cause. We're not talking the grandmother whose kids come over once every week and play on the PC, etc. We're talking a woman who was logged onto filesharing sites using her email account and username she'd used on dozens of sites over the last decade, when she found out she'd been caught, she immediately went to Best Buy, had them replace her hard drive, then LIED ABOUT IT IN COURT, for a start.
No, health insurance in the US is NOT like a bookmaker. In an idealized world, it would be - however they've bastardized things. Say I have condition 'y', or am predisposed to condition 'z'. I have health insurance that provides coverage 'w' for condition 'y', and coverage 'x' for condition 'z'. I am with health insurer 'a', paying a premium of say $500 a month. I see that health insurer 'b' is offering the same coverage 'w' and 'x' for a premium of $480. I switch. I have not switched for material changes to my coverage (I am not adding coverage for a condition I have). The demographics of the population have not changed (increasing preponderance of conditions 'y' or 'z'). I have not increased my risk of 'z'. But the insurer, who has previously set me a market rate of $480 a month is allowed to deny coverage on the grounds that that condition exists in the first place.
This isn't insuring against risk. As I said, no variables changed. Insurance company 'B' had set their rate based on their evaluations. It's more akin to a casino, where there's always a house advantage.
Realize that I work for a company that writes software that does, amongst other things, adjudications for health insurance claims and coverage. Not to be an argument from authority, but I do have an awareness of how the industry works, on both sides of Oz's curtain.
For a large part, I liked how things were when I lived in Australia. Everyone had access to universal healthcare, with a premium of 1% of taxable income. You could also take out private healthcare, which offered differing benefits (private rooms, shorter queues, whatever). If your income was over $50,000 a year, you were able to go one of two ways. You could either pay 1.5% premium for Medicare, or you could take out private cover, and pay 0%. This lessened the burden on the universal system for those who could afford private coverage, whilst allowing them to not be unfairly taxed.
Yup. Whilst I'm sure Jonny Ives isn't doing badly for himself... Jobs is not (and pardon my blasphemy here), is not Apple.
It's just the way things flow uphill, right to the top. I'm sure Steve has plenty of meetings with plenty of people who contribute plenty of amazing ideas and make plenty of amazing products happen. They're not all multi-billionaires.
Things just get kicked upstairs. Kinda like in The Sopranos. (No, I'm not comparing Apple to LCN, I've just been watching the series again, so the phrase 'kick it upstairs' is fresh in my mind).
Yup. Go to a chiro, with insurance. Have a look at your hourly bill: $160. Go without insurance: $40.
How does that work? (Bear in mind, I work in the healthcare insurance industry, so I know of what I speak). What amazes me is that people somehow think their insurance is this magical creature that makes money and pays these excesses/is a charity covering that cost.
That money is still coming out of you, you're just put on an indirect payment plan!
Imagine a more direct method of the same: "Well, your bill is $40. Or you can pay me $40/month for the next four months."
Some would have you believe that the latter is a good deal, because it means, in theory, if you're not denied coverage, rescinded for some real or implied reason, etc, etc, that when you go to the emergency room for a couple of days and come home with a bill equal to many people's annual salary, you reap the benefits of insurance, forgetting that without the implied acceptance of such high rates, your hospital stay wouldn't have cost anywhere near as much in the first place.
I used to work for a corporate law firm in Australia. They charged up to $600/hr for legal work, more when they went into court. Companies happily paid this, because legal expenses are tax deductible. The company knows they get to write it off, so the law firms can make a mint. When was the last time you heard of a law firm going bankrupt?
Doctors are being advised to invest in MRI, LASIK. Leaving aside the interesting side effect that doctors who own or own shares in an MRI machine/practice are up to 10% more likely to refer you for an MRI, this is a fantastic investment, because of people like you and me on insurance. You can pay $1, 1.5M for an MRI machine, and see your investment paid off within a year, quite easily, and then anything beyond that is a nice skim of upwards of $500,000 a year in profit. Why? Because we, the working stiff, are paying upwards of $1,800 for an hours worth of diagnostic procedure (and again, remember, "insurance" isn't paying it. You are. Insurance is just giving you a nice payment plan).
Must be great for Jobs, who has probably never before set foot in Tennessee in his life. Meanwhile, all the other transplant waiting list patients around the country, who either cannot afford the trip to Tennessee, or whose insurance won't pay for organ transportation, they can spent an extra eight months waiting...
Not quite. I actually agree with a lot of what you said. However, I am looking more to the divide between 'profiling as a valid security technique' and 'profiling as applied by a lowest common denominator element', which is a large part of what profiling would seem to be these days.
You're not. If your home or work is in a listed low coverage area, they'll let you out of your contract with no ETF, no arguments - all I got was a "We hope you'll consider us again when we've got better coverage in your area" (and I happily would... the -only- problem I have ever had with Tmo was coverage.
Exactly. Without commenting on the specifics of this election, counting takes days only if you have representatives from each party present who are allowed to challenge the inclusion of a vote on what can occasionally be the most dubious of grounds (hanging chad, anyone?).
If your Buildings Management infrastructure team waits until there's zero capacity before doing something about either expansion or server consolidation, you have bigger problems. Yeah, I know the entire process can take a month+ from request to go-live, but it's funny how many here are justifying adding weeks and months to install dates due to problems IT and infrastructure could and should be well equipped to expect, and to handle, even down to "install software on x32 machines".
You should try working in a monolithic corporate structure, EVERYTHING is like that. It sucks. But it pays well.
The last company I worked at, I was the manager in a department of 130 people. When I left, the company had deployed server #100,000 to its datacenter.
I understand CM well, but (and I hope you're exaggerating), if your IT team requires backout plans for "Install OS" as a deployment step, then someone needs to step in and reign in the bureaucrats.
Apropos of anything else, that sounds horrid. I just pair my Nokia N95 to my Mac, create a modem connection with a phone number of *99#, and I get 3G tethering over BT via the native connectivity options.
Bring a 32-way server up this week, when your project hasn't been approved yet. These things take about a month to get delivered and another month to get installed, configured, connected to the SAN and ready for applications
A month to rackmount a server, install and configure OS, configure iSCSI, or FC? Wow. No wonder your users are unhappy with their expectations of IT.
LMAO. Because of course, the Palm pre and the iPhone are the only phones on the planet that support MMS. Not Nokia phones from 5 years ago, or Motorola phones from 5 years ago, or Sony Ericsson phones from 5 years ago. Of course, they don't count, in your world, but perhaps -that- is what he meant by the iPhone being behind. Take the fanboy blinders off.
I'm not sure why this is, but I've seen many smartphones from Blackberries to Windows Mobile devices that do not get MMS
Say what? The iPhone is the only smart phone I've ever seen that doesn't get MMS - I've had Blackberry's that do, a T-mobile MDA (WinMo), my Nokia N95 and Communicator.
In other words, perjury. Wow. Way to have the courage of your convictions, able to stand up and say "I believe that copyright is wrong, and it's a belief I'm willing to defend." Instead, you're going for weaseling and "w00t. score. free shit."
And gasp, shock, horror... the judge is sustaining an objection to the defendant's OWN EXPERT stating that the use of private non routable addresses (first time I've heard them called Black IPs) was a "possible cause" when he'd previously testified that there was no such network involved?
Or because it's currently 5.30PM ET on the eve of the changeover, and not likely to change due to logistics, rather than some partisan "Raa raa President sez"
If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd say "you are aware that cameras have a record function, right? did the dealer have cnn playing on a tv behind him for authenticity?" - but in reality, most of the large poker sites are legit, because there's plenty of money in the rake, and it only takes one pissed off employee or calculating player to bring your house of cards down, if you're up to shenanigans.
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You know, this is a civil case. I find the preponderence of belief that she didn't have any intention to do any such thing really quite high. You know, what with the perjury she committed, the fact that she replaced the hard drive after being caught, and lied about that, etc, etc.
Let's be honest here. Whatever you think or don't think of the RIAA's actions, Jammie Thomas was quite possibly one of the worst defendants that anyone could have chosen to take up the cause. We're not talking the grandmother whose kids come over once every week and play on the PC, etc. We're talking a woman who was logged onto filesharing sites using her email account and username she'd used on dozens of sites over the last decade, when she found out she'd been caught, she immediately went to Best Buy, had them replace her hard drive, then LIED ABOUT IT IN COURT, for a start.
This isn't insuring against risk. As I said, no variables changed. Insurance company 'B' had set their rate based on their evaluations. It's more akin to a casino, where there's always a house advantage.
Realize that I work for a company that writes software that does, amongst other things, adjudications for health insurance claims and coverage. Not to be an argument from authority, but I do have an awareness of how the industry works, on both sides of Oz's curtain.
For a large part, I liked how things were when I lived in Australia. Everyone had access to universal healthcare, with a premium of 1% of taxable income. You could also take out private healthcare, which offered differing benefits (private rooms, shorter queues, whatever). If your income was over $50,000 a year, you were able to go one of two ways. You could either pay 1.5% premium for Medicare, or you could take out private cover, and pay 0%. This lessened the burden on the universal system for those who could afford private coverage, whilst allowing them to not be unfairly taxed.
*sits, rapt* Oh do, do tell us more of the Time And The Kingdom Of The Baboons, papa!
It's just the way things flow uphill, right to the top. I'm sure Steve has plenty of meetings with plenty of people who contribute plenty of amazing ideas and make plenty of amazing products happen. They're not all multi-billionaires.
Things just get kicked upstairs. Kinda like in The Sopranos. (No, I'm not comparing Apple to LCN, I've just been watching the series again, so the phrase 'kick it upstairs' is fresh in my mind).
How does that work? (Bear in mind, I work in the healthcare insurance industry, so I know of what I speak). What amazes me is that people somehow think their insurance is this magical creature that makes money and pays these excesses/is a charity covering that cost.
That money is still coming out of you, you're just put on an indirect payment plan!
Imagine a more direct method of the same: "Well, your bill is $40. Or you can pay me $40/month for the next four months."
Some would have you believe that the latter is a good deal, because it means, in theory, if you're not denied coverage, rescinded for some real or implied reason, etc, etc, that when you go to the emergency room for a couple of days and come home with a bill equal to many people's annual salary, you reap the benefits of insurance, forgetting that without the implied acceptance of such high rates, your hospital stay wouldn't have cost anywhere near as much in the first place.
I used to work for a corporate law firm in Australia. They charged up to $600/hr for legal work, more when they went into court. Companies happily paid this, because legal expenses are tax deductible. The company knows they get to write it off, so the law firms can make a mint. When was the last time you heard of a law firm going bankrupt?
Doctors are being advised to invest in MRI, LASIK. Leaving aside the interesting side effect that doctors who own or own shares in an MRI machine/practice are up to 10% more likely to refer you for an MRI, this is a fantastic investment, because of people like you and me on insurance. You can pay $1, 1.5M for an MRI machine, and see your investment paid off within a year, quite easily, and then anything beyond that is a nice skim of upwards of $500,000 a year in profit. Why? Because we, the working stiff, are paying upwards of $1,800 for an hours worth of diagnostic procedure (and again, remember, "insurance" isn't paying it. You are. Insurance is just giving you a nice payment plan).
Must be great for Jobs, who has probably never before set foot in Tennessee in his life. Meanwhile, all the other transplant waiting list patients around the country, who either cannot afford the trip to Tennessee, or whose insurance won't pay for organ transportation, they can spent an extra eight months waiting...
Not quite. I actually agree with a lot of what you said. However, I am looking more to the divide between 'profiling as a valid security technique' and 'profiling as applied by a lowest common denominator element', which is a large part of what profiling would seem to be these days.
It's also bad when done by people on the side of the latest cause de jour (which isn't to belittle the situation in Iran).
How do we know who said people were? Could be rednecks, generic fuckwits, etc, etc.
Not quite. Let's not blame Obama here, it had nothing to do with him, specifically.
When crafting DNC legislation, political parties and PACs got a nice little exemption, gotta make sure they can still do what they want.
You're not. If your home or work is in a listed low coverage area, they'll let you out of your contract with no ETF, no arguments - all I got was a "We hope you'll consider us again when we've got better coverage in your area" (and I happily would... the -only- problem I have ever had with Tmo was coverage.
Exactly. Without commenting on the specifics of this election, counting takes days only if you have representatives from each party present who are allowed to challenge the inclusion of a vote on what can occasionally be the most dubious of grounds (hanging chad, anyone?).
If your Buildings Management infrastructure team waits until there's zero capacity before doing something about either expansion or server consolidation, you have bigger problems. Yeah, I know the entire process can take a month+ from request to go-live, but it's funny how many here are justifying adding weeks and months to install dates due to problems IT and infrastructure could and should be well equipped to expect, and to handle, even down to "install software on x32 machines".
The last company I worked at, I was the manager in a department of 130 people. When I left, the company had deployed server #100,000 to its datacenter.
I understand CM well, but (and I hope you're exaggerating), if your IT team requires backout plans for "Install OS" as a deployment step, then someone needs to step in and reign in the bureaucrats.
Apropos of anything else, that sounds horrid. I just pair my Nokia N95 to my Mac, create a modem connection with a phone number of *99#, and I get 3G tethering over BT via the native connectivity options.
A month to rackmount a server, install and configure OS, configure iSCSI, or FC? Wow. No wonder your users are unhappy with their expectations of IT.
"Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from failure scenarios."
"you can protect your applications from failure of a single location"
LOL. Seems you haven't heard of the very real concept of criminal copyright infringement...
Mmmm, yeah, I can't wait for a N97 North American release. Looks to me to beat the crap out of the iPhone.
LMAO. Because of course, the Palm pre and the iPhone are the only phones on the planet that support MMS. Not Nokia phones from 5 years ago, or Motorola phones from 5 years ago, or Sony Ericsson phones from 5 years ago. Of course, they don't count, in your world, but perhaps -that- is what he meant by the iPhone being behind. Take the fanboy blinders off.
Say what? The iPhone is the only smart phone I've ever seen that doesn't get MMS - I've had Blackberry's that do, a T-mobile MDA (WinMo), my Nokia N95 and Communicator.
In other words, perjury. Wow. Way to have the courage of your convictions, able to stand up and say "I believe that copyright is wrong, and it's a belief I'm willing to defend." Instead, you're going for weaseling and "w00t. score. free shit."
The alternative...
"Are you in possession of an open Wireless Access Point, which allowed any client within range to connect, if its operator so chose?"
"I am."
"On the day in question, was this Wireless Access Point connected to your internet connection through ABC ISP Inc?"
"Uhhh...."
Quelle horreur!
Or because it's currently 5.30PM ET on the eve of the changeover, and not likely to change due to logistics, rather than some partisan "Raa raa President sez"
If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd say "you are aware that cameras have a record function, right? did the dealer have cnn playing on a tv behind him for authenticity?" - but in reality, most of the large poker sites are legit, because there's plenty of money in the rake, and it only takes one pissed off employee or calculating player to bring your house of cards down, if you're up to shenanigans.