But how much of the growing billions of dollars of red accounting in Microsoft's Xbox division is funded by the company I work for with their recent $75,000 SQL 2008 + $10,000 operating system bill? (and no, it wasn't my decision...)
Just because they are heavily competing in the gaming sector doesn't mean they don't have a monopoly somewhere else.
*locking in users - The free software community is as much to blame as Microsoft.
Please explain. When the document you are trying to open is documented and the source is available to copy that opens said document... how is that locking a user to a specific company or brand?
When it's illegal to make a program that uses documents from proprietary software because of a silly patent, how is that the fault of the open source/FSF community?
I'm against the idea that someone decided they were going to stick it to the evil electric company that was going to bring nuclear power to the area when all they are going to do is pass that cost on to the users. It's a "hidden" tax stream.
I'm anticipating those newfangled steam powered vehicles and trains that everyone is talking about. I mean, they run on water which is like 75% of the Earth's surface!
Oh and we have nuclear power here, so electricity is cheap compared to surrounding states.
My parents live in the distribution network of a nuclear plant and it actually costs them more because the plant has to pay all the schools and public facilities in the area a "hazard" tax just to exist. The up side to that is that the schools in the area have quite possibly the best facilities I've ever seen. It's really too bad it was re-distributed wealth and my parents are paying for a school that we didn't get to attend.
Somewhat off topic, but has anyone had experience with Verizon's "open" activation? The video in that article states that it's a CDMA phone so I assume it's a "VZ friendly" device. I plan on checking out Sholes when it hits, but if it's not a quality device I plan on immediately checking out this Samsung. My friend has a G1 and I've used it (and love it) but I don't want to use T-Mobile.
Many... Many times. I would regularly get head shots in Unreal Tournament (forget which version...) and everyone thought I had a cheat on. I just learned to aim for the head and had my mouse sensitivity just right. It didn't matter if I was jumping, strafing, or running.
Oh please... Hitler took over pink as the new black a few years ago. All the cool kids have been bringing up Hitler in conversations for a while now. Where have you been?
Not even close. According to most of those "internet polls" I'm a radical Libertarian. It's a stated point in The Constitution that the federal government is to "promote trade between states." If a state is limiting the reach of a company to only encompass it's border, then the federal government has all the rights to remove that restriction: (Article 1 - 10) Also, in Article 4-2: The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. (together with the 14th amendment could be interpreted that no citizen should be denied access to something available to another state as long as someone is willing to provide it.)
By limiting a company to state borders, you are effectively limiting the freedom of all US Citizens competition, choice and freedom.
Negative sir. That's the honest truth. If I walked into the hospital tomorrow with no money, and a life ending ailment. I'd live out the rest of my life to the fullest, but I can accept death. I don't know why you can't accept that life ends... sometimes premature.
If they gave everyone sitting in a broken down house watching Jerry Springer health care, how many of those people would take that as a clue to get off their asses and work? Now, how many will take that as an incentive to stay healthy? How many will feel obligated to return the favor to the person footing the bill for that?
I think you'll find the answers are the same. Zero.
Giving people what they want will only teach them to raise their kids to act and work just as they do (or don't.) Just like social security. I know loads of people that think SS is there so they don't have to have retirement savings.
It gets used every day... now take that system and put it into a public option that everyone can pick from and now that entire system is backed up to 2050 in waiting lines. It's mot like there are nurses and doctors twiddling their thumbs.
Any life lost is tragic and affects multiple people, but I don't think anyone has the right to demand someone else pay for their life. It's downright egotistical if you ask me. How can one person demand special treatment simply because of their financial status in the world (whether it be higher or lower than average)?
This may sound heartless, but I'm trying to figure out where people feel they should be privileged to the best medical care in the world without having to pay for it or provide back to society an equal or greater benefit. Where is the incentive for people to succeed in life? If I didn't have to pay for health care, food, and shelter... I wouldn't have a job. There's no point in working in a boring job with no motivation to leave that job for something better. In order to do that, you have to better yourself, save money, and work toward that goal. If there are no more primal cares in life then there's no point listening to some other jackoff tell you how to do your job. Just quit and live off the government.
Living in a remote area has it's advantages and disadvantages. You have to wait longer for packages, might not get cable like everyone else, you might have to travel an hour or two for a good hospital or be able to hit a store at 2am, but the advantages range from peace and quiet, personal space, privacy, and many other things that most people might never have. So you make life decisions when you choose your surroundings. I hope this makes sense. I think too many people feel they deserve health care when they don't contribute as much as someone who works their tail off at three jobs to afford it themselves. They think that they can choose to live on the peak of a mountain and expect that a helicopter team be dispatched if they have a heart attack. What makes you more important than a person growing up in Downtown Megacity?
I also have to wonder where is it written that cancer (in an above poster's example) is the great plague of our world today? It's not a contagious problem even if it's fairly widespread so it's not like having it will bring forth the extinction of human kind. It will merely shorten the life expectancy of the person with this condition. They can't accept that diagnosis? It has to be someone other person's problem now? Where is it written that I have to give up my own incentive to take care of myself to help someone else? Honestly now...if I choose to save money, not buy an Escalade, Lexus, or Acura and drive around in a Miata, what makes a person that chooses to spend liberally more important than me that they can outright demand I pay for their lifestyle indirectly?
Mark my words, if I could not afford to pay for my medical treatment, I might ask close family for help but barring that, I would not ask a stranger to pay for my life. It's just not right. I would gladly accept death.
There ARE options in life, even if they are slowly being taken away. Too many people are in "Me" mode. They don't think about their children as long as they have something. Too many people have children that can't afford them, and too many people think someone else should pay for it. There are too many people that think their life is more important to Donald Trump's life because of some arbitrary reason.
For example, recent studies have shown that it can take up to 2 DECADES for both sexes to recover economically from a divorce, and that even after "recovery" they never make up all the lost income. So they didn't have a crystal ball
I find this funny, because if people were actually (morally, fiscally, and socially) allowed to live with each other to find out if they are compatible matches... we probably wouldn't have so much of this. Some of this though is poor personal choices and carelessness. (ie: kids having kids) But while there are laws/taxes/etc. preferring marriage to living single, this will continue on indefinitely.
There are a lot of reasons for prices being so high. None of them are from lack of options. Most, but not all, of them delve into government interference in the medical system like restricting sales of policies across state lines limiting competition, regulations on requirements/treatment/care, frivolous lawsuits forcing doctors into "defensive" medicine and testing more then they need to protect themselves, and other such things.
So when do we start rounding up the children of disadvantage parents and where will we put them so they can be raised to your high standards? Or do we rewrite the rules of the world to make sure those children are taken care of to your high caliber of lifestyle? What incentive do their parents have to give a damn if their kids will be cared for no matter what way they are raised? What incentives are given to parents who control their reproductive urges, but would normally be able to care for those children?
There were no charitable organizations or free clinics that he could have gone to? (doubtful) I also doubt that not having health care was the primary concern for this death. What was the cause?
There's a difference between the public and private sector. If you don't feel like being photographed, scrutinized, and watched... feel free to join the private sector. I suggest you stay away from Hollywood jobs because people are crazy stupid for "star" information and will pay people to violate this private sector right.
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Put the dog house over it. ;)
I wonder if this may be the cause of "Gulf War Syndrome" we heard a lot about a few years back...
But how much of the growing billions of dollars of red accounting in Microsoft's Xbox division is funded by the company I work for with their recent $75,000 SQL 2008 + $10,000 operating system bill? (and no, it wasn't my decision...)
Just because they are heavily competing in the gaming sector doesn't mean they don't have a monopoly somewhere else.
It's how it's implemented. The time it takes one machine to calculate different parts of the game code is different between the two machines.
Yeah, because we all know that PC Processors all run the same speed.
I read that out loud and thought: "My dog ate my gyro"
*locking in users - The free software community is as much to blame as Microsoft.
Please explain. When the document you are trying to open is documented and the source is available to copy that opens said document... how is that locking a user to a specific company or brand?
When it's illegal to make a program that uses documents from proprietary software because of a silly patent, how is that the fault of the open source/FSF community?
I'm against the idea that someone decided they were going to stick it to the evil electric company that was going to bring nuclear power to the area when all they are going to do is pass that cost on to the users. It's a "hidden" tax stream.
I'm anticipating those newfangled steam powered vehicles and trains that everyone is talking about. I mean, they run on water which is like 75% of the Earth's surface!
Oh and we have nuclear power here, so electricity is cheap compared to surrounding states.
My parents live in the distribution network of a nuclear plant and it actually costs them more because the plant has to pay all the schools and public facilities in the area a "hazard" tax just to exist. The up side to that is that the schools in the area have quite possibly the best facilities I've ever seen. It's really too bad it was re-distributed wealth and my parents are paying for a school that we didn't get to attend.
Somewhat off topic, but has anyone had experience with Verizon's "open" activation? The video in that article states that it's a CDMA phone so I assume it's a "VZ friendly" device. I plan on checking out Sholes when it hits, but if it's not a quality device I plan on immediately checking out this Samsung. My friend has a G1 and I've used it (and love it) but I don't want to use T-Mobile.
Many... Many times. I would regularly get head shots in Unreal Tournament (forget which version...) and everyone thought I had a cheat on. I just learned to aim for the head and had my mouse sensitivity just right. It didn't matter if I was jumping, strafing, or running.
Oh please... Hitler took over pink as the new black a few years ago. All the cool kids have been bringing up Hitler in conversations for a while now. Where have you been?
The same could be done with the removal of the cross state restrictions on current healthcare and you wouldn't require government takeover for that.
Not even close. According to most of those "internet polls" I'm a radical Libertarian. It's a stated point in The Constitution that the federal government is to "promote trade between states." If a state is limiting the reach of a company to only encompass it's border, then the federal government has all the rights to remove that restriction: (Article 1 - 10) Also, in Article 4-2: The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. (together with the 14th amendment could be interpreted that no citizen should be denied access to something available to another state as long as someone is willing to provide it.)
By limiting a company to state borders, you are effectively limiting the freedom of all US Citizens competition, choice and freedom.
Negative sir. That's the honest truth. If I walked into the hospital tomorrow with no money, and a life ending ailment. I'd live out the rest of my life to the fullest, but I can accept death. I don't know why you can't accept that life ends... sometimes premature.
Something to think about:
If they gave everyone sitting in a broken down house watching Jerry Springer health care, how many of those people would take that as a clue to get off their asses and work? Now, how many will take that as an incentive to stay healthy? How many will feel obligated to return the favor to the person footing the bill for that?
I think you'll find the answers are the same. Zero.
Giving people what they want will only teach them to raise their kids to act and work just as they do (or don't.) Just like social security. I know loads of people that think SS is there so they don't have to have retirement savings.
It gets used every day... now take that system and put it into a public option that everyone can pick from and now that entire system is backed up to 2050 in waiting lines. It's mot like there are nurses and doctors twiddling their thumbs.
Any life lost is tragic and affects multiple people, but I don't think anyone has the right to demand someone else pay for their life. It's downright egotistical if you ask me. How can one person demand special treatment simply because of their financial status in the world (whether it be higher or lower than average)?
This may sound heartless, but I'm trying to figure out where people feel they should be privileged to the best medical care in the world without having to pay for it or provide back to society an equal or greater benefit. Where is the incentive for people to succeed in life? If I didn't have to pay for health care, food, and shelter... I wouldn't have a job. There's no point in working in a boring job with no motivation to leave that job for something better. In order to do that, you have to better yourself, save money, and work toward that goal. If there are no more primal cares in life then there's no point listening to some other jackoff tell you how to do your job. Just quit and live off the government.
Living in a remote area has it's advantages and disadvantages. You have to wait longer for packages, might not get cable like everyone else, you might have to travel an hour or two for a good hospital or be able to hit a store at 2am, but the advantages range from peace and quiet, personal space, privacy, and many other things that most people might never have. So you make life decisions when you choose your surroundings. I hope this makes sense. I think too many people feel they deserve health care when they don't contribute as much as someone who works their tail off at three jobs to afford it themselves. They think that they can choose to live on the peak of a mountain and expect that a helicopter team be dispatched if they have a heart attack. What makes you more important than a person growing up in Downtown Megacity?
I also have to wonder where is it written that cancer (in an above poster's example) is the great plague of our world today? It's not a contagious problem even if it's fairly widespread so it's not like having it will bring forth the extinction of human kind. It will merely shorten the life expectancy of the person with this condition. They can't accept that diagnosis? It has to be someone other person's problem now? Where is it written that I have to give up my own incentive to take care of myself to help someone else? Honestly now...if I choose to save money, not buy an Escalade, Lexus, or Acura and drive around in a Miata, what makes a person that chooses to spend liberally more important than me that they can outright demand I pay for their lifestyle indirectly?
Mark my words, if I could not afford to pay for my medical treatment, I might ask close family for help but barring that, I would not ask a stranger to pay for my life. It's just not right. I would gladly accept death.
There ARE options in life, even if they are slowly being taken away. Too many people are in "Me" mode. They don't think about their children as long as they have something. Too many people have children that can't afford them, and too many people think someone else should pay for it. There are too many people that think their life is more important to Donald Trump's life because of some arbitrary reason.
For example, recent studies have shown that it can take up to 2 DECADES for both sexes to recover economically from a divorce, and that even after "recovery" they never make up all the lost income. So they didn't have a crystal ball
I find this funny, because if people were actually (morally, fiscally, and socially) allowed to live with each other to find out if they are compatible matches... we probably wouldn't have so much of this. Some of this though is poor personal choices and carelessness. (ie: kids having kids) But while there are laws/taxes/etc. preferring marriage to living single, this will continue on indefinitely.
There are a lot of reasons for prices being so high. None of them are from lack of options. Most, but not all, of them delve into government interference in the medical system like restricting sales of policies across state lines limiting competition, regulations on requirements/treatment/care, frivolous lawsuits forcing doctors into "defensive" medicine and testing more then they need to protect themselves, and other such things.
So when do we start rounding up the children of disadvantage parents and where will we put them so they can be raised to your high standards? Or do we rewrite the rules of the world to make sure those children are taken care of to your high caliber of lifestyle? What incentive do their parents have to give a damn if their kids will be cared for no matter what way they are raised? What incentives are given to parents who control their reproductive urges, but would normally be able to care for those children?
Have you ever seen Idiocracy?
There were no charitable organizations or free clinics that he could have gone to? (doubtful) I also doubt that not having health care was the primary concern for this death. What was the cause?
There's a difference between the public and private sector. If you don't feel like being photographed, scrutinized, and watched... feel free to join the private sector. I suggest you stay away from Hollywood jobs because people are crazy stupid for "star" information and will pay people to violate this private sector right.
So you are attributing a camera to a weapon?