Try telling that to the anti-euthanasia or pro-life crowds.
As a Christian all I can say is, try telling those poor fools anything. I'm not supposed to make decisions about anyone's life but my own (treat others as you would like to be treated).
The "God hates fags" crowd is even worse. Those "Christians" obviously don't read their bibles. Gays' sins are no worse than mine or anyone else's.
I agree about deductions, they shouldn't exist. And you're correct about early taxes, in the beginning only the rich were taxed (my grandparents were young adults then). But as to your McDonalds illustration, the rich get far more from government than anyone. Why should a McDouble cost as much as a Big Mac?
Here, in Oregon, where the Death with Dignity Act has been playing out for years with a marked lack of apocalypse, one of its attractions and advantages is that doomed patients can control their own destiny without devolving it onto family members and the medical system. One claim is that this also substantially decreases another form of suffering: the loss of control of your own misery (and destiny).
From your G+ link: " The typical update latency for an app is weeks for security fixes (sometimes months) and months (sometimes years) for major features."
Yet doesn't list a single one. The he goes on to say "What did the (mostly closed source) competition do? It went into the exact opposite direction"
WTF? This is a fairy tale. The guy is either an apple fanboy or an MS shill. Don' tbelieve everything you read!
The other link is almost as bad. "The kernel cannot recover from video, sound and network drivers' crashes." Of course not; the kernel doesn't crash, and those processes can be restarted without closing anything but those processes.
All I can say is it works for me.
Android is linux BASED, just as Apple is BSD based. Linux is the kernel, Red Hat and Ubuntu are full OSes.
I've said before, if someone is happy with Windows there is no reason for them to switch.
As someone who has a friend who lost his leg in a motorcycle accident and now has a prosthesis, and another friend with a nonfunctional arm from the same cause, I find your comment highly offensive.
Yet more proof that Cybernetics don't make people less human, they make them More Human. I, for one, welcome our new Cyborg overlords.
No, it doesn't make one more human, only more functional. I'm not 100% human but I'm more functional than I was before my CrystaLens was implanted.
Your brain makes you human. So I'm human, only with a non-human device implanted. Oh, and we're not your overlords (Cheney was, look how that turned out. I certainly didn't welcome him!)
Wondering if the data collected from this cyborg (yes dude you're now a cyborg)
You'd be surprised how many cyborgs there are. There are a lot of folks with artificial joints, pacemakers, cochlear implants, and all sorts of artificial machinery incorporated into their bodies.
When it's time for you to become a cyborg, not only will resistance be futile, you will be damned glad to be assimilated.
I don't know about a bionic leg, but I have a bionic lens in my left eye. I had to practice reading to strengthen the focusing muscles I hadn't used in ten years, but the actual workings are just like with a normal 20 year old eye. even though I'm 60..
I would imagine at first the leg would take a little getting used to, but after a while it will probably be natural to him. Except that leg looks pretty heavy.
Like many political things, it's misnamed. we have a flat 6% state income tax in Illinois, and it's a sham because of all the other taxes like sales, property, gasoline, cigarettes, booze, etc. Not fair at all.
IMO those who earn more should pay a higher rate. Too bad Romney pays less than half the rate I do.
There are two things wrong with this method. First, assisted suicide is for those who are already dying and probably can't reach a railroad track. More importantly, his is incredibly selfish -- how would you like to be the guy driving the train?
Or in other words, we don't like seeing sick old people. So we try to kill them off.
It's not for your sake, it's for their sake. Have you ever seen someone die of cancer? I'll tell you, it isn't pretty. I can't imagine a more hellish way to die. And what do you consider "old"? My friend Linda was only 49 when she died of cancer, even children get cancer.
You're thinking wrong. It's not for your sake unless it's you who is dying in the most horrible way a person can die. It has nothing to do with "dignity" but everything to do with not making someone die by torture. After seeing the hel Linda went through, I'm al for this.
DOH! Had what my mom calls a "senior moment" and young folks call a "brain fart". But what he said was "it's hard to get lethal drugs" which is obviously false.
A bullet works, too, but it leaves more of a mess for someone to clean up. I understand haning one's self isn't a bad way to go. Slitting your wrists might be a little painful, particularly if the blade isn't sharp.
I'm assuming they meant a prescription drug approach that is guaranteed and quick, as opposed to "might not work and leave you crippled".
I've known a couple of people who have had nearly fatal overdoses of illegal drugs, who would have died had someone not found them, and none of them wound up crippled. And have you ever seen someone dying of cancer? They're already crippled.
I see this as a good thing; the last few weeks of a cancer patient's life is nothing short of hell itself. Yes, I lost a dear friend to cancer a few years ago, I would not want to die like she did. I'd far rather have a bullet to the brain.
And 99% of the purpose of most "security cameras" are just like the TSA. They're security theater, with the intent to aggravate thieves into not even trying to steal.
Yet they keep stealing; few stores are without them, and shoplifting still happens.
Last year my house was burglarized, and the burglars stole a box of blank checks. The first thing they did was forge one and try to cash it at my bank. The cops checked the bank's footage, and the burglar was in jail that night.
Of course one of the cops probably has my Epiphone... I never got any of the stolen items back.
Is it really that difficult to acquire a lethal dose of a drug without doctor assistance?
You said "no", I call bullshit. You can overdose from alcohol; people do it all the time. They call it "alcohol poisoning." Others overdose on heroin and other opiates. Others, barbituates. In fact, almost every "downer" drug can be lethal, even the over-the-counter drugs like alcohol.
I disagree. My old Model M had a short, coiled cord. My Logitech keyboard has no cord. I'd say that's quite an improvement, especially since I use the TV for a monitor and sit across the room from the computer.
30% stronger, so we should all have to pay an extra 30% towards are taxes this year, right?
No, taxes stay the same, but you're paying 30% more for your fuel. Notice how gas prices jump every damned time a hurricane comes around, even if it lands in Mexico or doesn't land at all?
No, it isn't. I was in the military (USAF), and you do sign a contract, which includes the provision that they can keep you up to six years; that's twice an army enlistment and an extra two years in a navy or air force enlistment. It's not a breach of contract because it's actually IN the contract.
You aren't "forced to re-up," you remain in your current enlistment until six years after you sign the papers or they discharge you, whichever comes first.
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Try telling that to the anti-euthanasia or pro-life crowds.
As a Christian all I can say is, try telling those poor fools anything. I'm not supposed to make decisions about anyone's life but my own (treat others as you would like to be treated).
The "God hates fags" crowd is even worse. Those "Christians" obviously don't read their bibles. Gays' sins are no worse than mine or anyone else's.
It's better than being in a wheelchair. He was fucked when he lost his leg, not when he got a cybernetic prosthetic.
I agree about deductions, they shouldn't exist. And you're correct about early taxes, in the beginning only the rich were taxed (my grandparents were young adults then). But as to your McDonalds illustration, the rich get far more from government than anyone. Why should a McDouble cost as much as a Big Mac?
Here, in Oregon, where the Death with Dignity Act has been playing out for years with a marked lack of apocalypse, one of its attractions and advantages is that doomed patients can control their own destiny without devolving it onto family members and the medical system. One claim is that this also substantially decreases another form of suffering: the loss of control of your own misery (and destiny).
I couldn't agree more.
From your G+ link: " The typical update latency for an app is weeks for security fixes (sometimes months) and months (sometimes years) for major features."
Yet doesn't list a single one. The he goes on to say "What did the (mostly closed source) competition do? It went into the exact opposite direction"
WTF? This is a fairy tale. The guy is either an apple fanboy or an MS shill. Don' tbelieve everything you read!
The other link is almost as bad. "The kernel cannot recover from video, sound and network drivers' crashes." Of course not; the kernel doesn't crash, and those processes can be restarted without closing anything but those processes.
All I can say is it works for me.
Android is linux BASED, just as Apple is BSD based. Linux is the kernel, Red Hat and Ubuntu are full OSes.
I've said before, if someone is happy with Windows there is no reason for them to switch.
As someone who has a friend who lost his leg in a motorcycle accident and now has a prosthesis, and another friend with a nonfunctional arm from the same cause, I find your comment highly offensive.
The manufacturer may own the rights to any device or system into which it is installed. This guy is screwed!
How is the man with the world's best prosthetic leg in any way screwed?
Yet more proof that Cybernetics don't make people less human, they make them More Human. I, for one, welcome our new Cyborg overlords.
No, it doesn't make one more human, only more functional. I'm not 100% human but I'm more functional than I was before my CrystaLens was implanted.
Your brain makes you human. So I'm human, only with a non-human device implanted. Oh, and we're not your overlords (Cheney was, look how that turned out. I certainly didn't welcome him!)
Wondering if the data collected from this cyborg (yes dude you're now a cyborg)
You'd be surprised how many cyborgs there are. There are a lot of folks with artificial joints, pacemakers, cochlear implants, and all sorts of artificial machinery incorporated into their bodies.
When it's time for you to become a cyborg, not only will resistance be futile, you will be damned glad to be assimilated.
I don't know about a bionic leg, but I have a bionic lens in my left eye. I had to practice reading to strengthen the focusing muscles I hadn't used in ten years, but the actual workings are just like with a normal 20 year old eye. even though I'm 60..
I would imagine at first the leg would take a little getting used to, but after a while it will probably be natural to him. Except that leg looks pretty heavy.
Like many political things, it's misnamed. we have a flat 6% state income tax in Illinois, and it's a sham because of all the other taxes like sales, property, gasoline, cigarettes, booze, etc. Not fair at all.
IMO those who earn more should pay a higher rate. Too bad Romney pays less than half the rate I do.
(2) stepping in front of a train.
There are two things wrong with this method. First, assisted suicide is for those who are already dying and probably can't reach a railroad track. More importantly, his is incredibly selfish -- how would you like to be the guy driving the train?
I use one for sound when I'm on the couch using the laptop. It's not nearly as good having no wire.
Or in other words, we don't like seeing sick old people. So we try to kill them off.
It's not for your sake, it's for their sake. Have you ever seen someone die of cancer? I'll tell you, it isn't pretty. I can't imagine a more hellish way to die. And what do you consider "old"? My friend Linda was only 49 when she died of cancer, even children get cancer.
You're thinking wrong. It's not for your sake unless it's you who is dying in the most horrible way a person can die. It has nothing to do with "dignity" but everything to do with not making someone die by torture. After seeing the hel Linda went through, I'm al for this.
The doctors can just make it less likely that your attempts will instead increase your suffering.
If you're in your last month of cancer, there is no way possible to increase your suffering. I cannot imagine a worse way to die.
Uh, he said yes.
DOH! Had what my mom calls a "senior moment" and young folks call a "brain fart". But what he said was "it's hard to get lethal drugs" which is obviously false.
A bullet works, too, but it leaves more of a mess for someone to clean up. I understand haning one's self isn't a bad way to go. Slitting your wrists might be a little painful, particularly if the blade isn't sharp.
I'm assuming they meant a prescription drug approach that is guaranteed and quick, as opposed to "might not work and leave you crippled".
I've known a couple of people who have had nearly fatal overdoses of illegal drugs, who would have died had someone not found them, and none of them wound up crippled. And have you ever seen someone dying of cancer? They're already crippled.
I see this as a good thing; the last few weeks of a cancer patient's life is nothing short of hell itself. Yes, I lost a dear friend to cancer a few years ago, I would not want to die like she did. I'd far rather have a bullet to the brain.
Screwing around with the registry. The wrong registry entry in the right place will cause any program to go "boom".
And 99% of the purpose of most "security cameras" are just like the TSA. They're security theater, with the intent to aggravate thieves into not even trying to steal.
Yet they keep stealing; few stores are without them, and shoplifting still happens.
Last year my house was burglarized, and the burglars stole a box of blank checks. The first thing they did was forge one and try to cash it at my bank. The cops checked the bank's footage, and the burglar was in jail that night.
Of course one of the cops probably has my Epiphone... I never got any of the stolen items back.
Is it really that difficult to acquire a lethal dose of a drug without doctor assistance?
You said "no", I call bullshit. You can overdose from alcohol; people do it all the time. They call it "alcohol poisoning." Others overdose on heroin and other opiates. Others, barbituates. In fact, almost every "downer" drug can be lethal, even the over-the-counter drugs like alcohol.
You got the second question right, though.
I disagree. My old Model M had a short, coiled cord. My Logitech keyboard has no cord. I'd say that's quite an improvement, especially since I use the TV for a monitor and sit across the room from the computer.
Were the Rolling Stones singing to the US Government? HEY, YOU, GET OFF OF MY CLOUD!
One more reason to maintain your own data and backups. Like you say, this shouldn't have surprised anyone.
30% stronger, so we should all have to pay an extra 30% towards are taxes this year, right?
No, taxes stay the same, but you're paying 30% more for your fuel. Notice how gas prices jump every damned time a hurricane comes around, even if it lands in Mexico or doesn't land at all?
Fine, disregard my Air Force example
No, the AC is dead wrong. They promised me that I'd get one of my first three choices that I tested well for. I tested well for all three I chose:
They made me a driver.
It's like a breach of contract
No, it isn't. I was in the military (USAF), and you do sign a contract, which includes the provision that they can keep you up to six years; that's twice an army enlistment and an extra two years in a navy or air force enlistment. It's not a breach of contract because it's actually IN the contract.
You aren't "forced to re-up," you remain in your current enlistment until six years after you sign the papers or they discharge you, whichever comes first.
Well, my point (which I very obviously failed at making) was that both companies are evil. I doubt there's a non-evil corporation in existance.