I doubt very much that's an American thing. If you don't have any debt, as in no loans, CC etc., then they don't know how to rate your risk. Which doesn't make you high risk so much as an unknown. Which for reasons related to prudence mean that any lender should eye such a person with caution.
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Somebody needs to go back to school and get themselves an education. I think that somebody might be k10quaint. I must have missed the GP advocating murdering the rich and seizing all their properties in order to have a workers paradise. Seriously, these sorts of asinine posts are why we in America can't have any good things, we've got a lot of dumb asses making comments about how it communist to not be for the full completely unregulated economy that they want. Never mind that Adam Smith felt very strongly that such an economy wouldn't work because you'd inevitably end up with monopoly coverage by one source over everything.
Well, here's the thing, Fox News doesn't seem to have any trouble attracting viewers, and it's been pretty much garbage since the day it was created. Likewise AM talk radio doesn't even pretend to accurately portray reality. I don't think that reputation is really something that matters as much as perhaps it should.
The problem is that the charities that represent people needing transplants lie to get changes enacted to make it easier to take them without getting proper authorization. Typically they'll include not just the people that are on the list and able to take the transplant, but individuals who are on the list even if they're known to be ineligible. There's also been some disturbing changes made in that now rather than requiring the patient to be brain dead, cardiac death suffices. But probably the worst part of it is that there isn't any guarantee that the doctor responsible for saving the individuals life isn't also the doctor for the patient that needs the transplant.
It's beyond disturbing and it's not particularly secretive either.
That's been known for a while. The question is, why on Earth did they not test the phones properly? And by properly, I mean in real world circumstances. It's not real world to have it covered in a fake mock up of a previous iPhone. Sure many, perhaps even most, users will put some sort of protective coating on their iPhone, but that's still not appropriate testing conditions. Given that you can only be sure that people can use it without, that's one of the conditions under which to test.
I don't recall them complaining about bars, I recall them complaining about trying to fix reception with a software update. All this graph seemed to confirm is that somebody was working awfully hard to eliminate the 3rd bar while keeping the other 4.
That's not entirely true, I'm not as well versed at Linux as BSD, but we've got things like security levels, flags on top of that. An exploit of that fashion is not going to be able to do things to the kernel if you've got it properly configured, nor is it going to be able to make things run at boot without ones say so.
Sandboxing helps, but Windows has to do it, because it's just way too easy for viruses to install crap to the boot sector.
Depends on what the specifics of the code are. That's usually the responsibility of a library to deal with, you can also use ifdefs in languages like C if you have to, but generally speaking the ideal cross platform code will segregate platform specific code from the rest of it.
You mean despite the fact that other OSes enforce the security model on all the applications that expect to run on it? I know that under FreeBSD and Linux applications are expected to run with the provided resources unless they're specifically run as root or similar. I'm not sure I understand why MS would allow third party apps to do so without having the user make adjustments themselves. Ultimately this is MS' fault for allowing in the first place.
Not really. The problem is that the video tag doesn't have an agreed upon default player nor does it have a way of specifying it as yet. HTML5 in general hasn't been finalized by the W3C, which means that any work done now on it could change somewhat. But more importantly declaring it over when the standard hasn't even been finalized is kind of idiotic.
Um, that's how insurance works. It's not that the companies like doing it, it's that it allows them to offer rates that are more closely related to actual group. A company that theoretically covered everybody in a given area would have a reliable estimation of the cost, but it would over charge the well and undercharge the unhealthy. So, they segment it up into risk pools, so that the amount the healthy over pay is less and the amount that the unhealthy under pay is also less. That in and of itself makes little difference to the company, but it does allow for a lower pay out over all as the cost of poor health decisions is passed more directly to the consumers.
Same goes for other types of insurance as well. Where the malfeasance comes into it is when they charge huge rates to the high risk pool knowing that they can't get insurance from elsewhere even at that price.
That's what I've been doing. Right now I'm using Win XP, the copy that I got like 5 years ago, won't be updating when it hits the end of life, instead I'll be switching over full time to something else. I got pissed off over their GFWL bullshit wanting to keep my money and refusing to let me pay for just the points I needed to buy the item.
Because they're expensive and time consuming to build. Solar is less expensive and quicker to build. Solar really isn't speculative, we know where the sun is going to be at any given point in the year as well as a rough estimate for the kind of weather that the array is being set up in. No part of this is speculative in nature. That being said, having nuclear as a part of the mix is a wise idea, given that it's waste is easily contained and could be refined for more fuel until it's mostly spent.
The IRS figure includes more than just fuel costs. It's the number used to estimate the cost of driving for deductions. It's intended to cover the other costs associated with travel, such as maintenance, insurance and depreciation. Admittedly, it's not perfect, but it does give a reasonable estimate for taxation purposes.
You're correct. Any welfare money tends to come with strings attached and is unreliable as a substantial portion of the populace believes fully that nobody ever had bad luck. If you're poor, then it's because you were lazy or incompetent and that they shouldn't be required to help out. Farming all those essential services to nonprofits means that portions of the needy just don't get anything at all. If it isn't a popular cause chances are you'll get precisely zip in terms of support.
What's really fucked up is that if you're abused as a child, they'll send the abuser to prison if caught, but the actual support given is pretty minimal and it's a pretty good bet that people are going to look the other way.
This is a similar deal, people gripe about fuel prices and terrorism, but they don't want to actually pay for the measures needed to deal with it. Folks are all for change, but they don't want to pay for it, and they don't want the upper classes to pay their fair share.
Wait, what? Firefox runs just fine in its full form on my Eee PC, that's clocked in at somewhat less than 1 GHZ. The only issue I could see is that the full version takes up too much memory for a cell phone and the interface doesn't really work on a screen of that size. But that's the case with all the other browsers except IE, which really doesn't run well on anything that slow.
Eh, screw it, just make it take up 3/4 of the screen space and remove all those other annoying buttons. The perhaps replace the URL field with a Google bar. Also it should only actually go to lolcats and pr0n sites.
That's been known for many years. People tend to scan left to right across the top then diagonally to the middle of the left hand side, then diagonally to the bottom right of the page. It's a habit people picked up presumably from reading things like magazines and newspapers. Not sure what works for languages that go from left to right, but in English and similar languages it works out.
I'd mod you informative if I hadn't already posted. Personally at this point, I only buy download only games from indie developers and sites like GoG that allow me to own the game sans any kind of DRM. There's a lot of games that I'd love to buy, but won't because the DRM or packaging is ridiculous. Starcraft II is a game that I really want to play, but won't due to the ridiculous DRM policy in place on it. Well, and them removing network play.
A lot of them already did that. I know my alma mater did so years ago to deal with the problem of p2p using up all the bandwidth. They throttled it severely to make the network useful for all the other users.
Well that and things like ubisoft changing stores. I got an email from them earlier today that they'll be changing stores the beginning of August. Subsequently I won't be able to download those games again because they're not going to carry over those purchases. Now, fortunately I already have a copy, and am downloading again just to make sure that it's fully functioning, but this is why I don't generally buy download only games.
Fairtax is a scam whereby the rich don't pay their fair share and the rest of us end up picking up the tab. 23% sales tax is enough to kill pretty much any economic activity.
But then again, what the hell, lets just let corporate entities make up their own decisions, I mean it's not like we just had to spend trillions of dollars bailing them out for incompetent decisions. Wait, we did, didn't we? Taxing things of this nature is the least intrusive way of guiding things in a reasonable direction. It allows them to have a say, but makes it less costly for companies that choose to behave responsibly.
Consumers are already paying for the degenerate practice of shipping jobs overseas. It's already being accounted for by artificially reduced wages and tax revenue that never gets collected since corporate entities don't have to ever book those profits. Putting a tax of this sort on those items puts the price of said items closer to what they'd be were the Chinese and Japanese engaging in illegal currency manipulation. Yes, it will make things cost more, but they would've already cost more were the entirety of the cost passed on as it should've been previously.
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I doubt very much that's an American thing. If you don't have any debt, as in no loans, CC etc., then they don't know how to rate your risk. Which doesn't make you high risk so much as an unknown. Which for reasons related to prudence mean that any lender should eye such a person with caution.
Somebody needs to go back to school and get themselves an education. I think that somebody might be k10quaint. I must have missed the GP advocating murdering the rich and seizing all their properties in order to have a workers paradise. Seriously, these sorts of asinine posts are why we in America can't have any good things, we've got a lot of dumb asses making comments about how it communist to not be for the full completely unregulated economy that they want. Never mind that Adam Smith felt very strongly that such an economy wouldn't work because you'd inevitably end up with monopoly coverage by one source over everything.
Well, here's the thing, Fox News doesn't seem to have any trouble attracting viewers, and it's been pretty much garbage since the day it was created. Likewise AM talk radio doesn't even pretend to accurately portray reality. I don't think that reputation is really something that matters as much as perhaps it should.
The problem is that the charities that represent people needing transplants lie to get changes enacted to make it easier to take them without getting proper authorization. Typically they'll include not just the people that are on the list and able to take the transplant, but individuals who are on the list even if they're known to be ineligible. There's also been some disturbing changes made in that now rather than requiring the patient to be brain dead, cardiac death suffices. But probably the worst part of it is that there isn't any guarantee that the doctor responsible for saving the individuals life isn't also the doctor for the patient that needs the transplant.
It's beyond disturbing and it's not particularly secretive either.
That's been known for a while. The question is, why on Earth did they not test the phones properly? And by properly, I mean in real world circumstances. It's not real world to have it covered in a fake mock up of a previous iPhone. Sure many, perhaps even most, users will put some sort of protective coating on their iPhone, but that's still not appropriate testing conditions. Given that you can only be sure that people can use it without, that's one of the conditions under which to test.
I don't recall them complaining about bars, I recall them complaining about trying to fix reception with a software update. All this graph seemed to confirm is that somebody was working awfully hard to eliminate the 3rd bar while keeping the other 4.
That's not entirely true, I'm not as well versed at Linux as BSD, but we've got things like security levels, flags on top of that. An exploit of that fashion is not going to be able to do things to the kernel if you've got it properly configured, nor is it going to be able to make things run at boot without ones say so.
Sandboxing helps, but Windows has to do it, because it's just way too easy for viruses to install crap to the boot sector.
Well, then God help you when you come across an app blog that blogs blog apps.
Depends on what the specifics of the code are. That's usually the responsibility of a library to deal with, you can also use ifdefs in languages like C if you have to, but generally speaking the ideal cross platform code will segregate platform specific code from the rest of it.
You mean despite the fact that other OSes enforce the security model on all the applications that expect to run on it? I know that under FreeBSD and Linux applications are expected to run with the provided resources unless they're specifically run as root or similar. I'm not sure I understand why MS would allow third party apps to do so without having the user make adjustments themselves. Ultimately this is MS' fault for allowing in the first place.
You mean like a three way blink tag?
Not really. The problem is that the video tag doesn't have an agreed upon default player nor does it have a way of specifying it as yet. HTML5 in general hasn't been finalized by the W3C, which means that any work done now on it could change somewhat. But more importantly declaring it over when the standard hasn't even been finalized is kind of idiotic.
Um, that's how insurance works. It's not that the companies like doing it, it's that it allows them to offer rates that are more closely related to actual group. A company that theoretically covered everybody in a given area would have a reliable estimation of the cost, but it would over charge the well and undercharge the unhealthy. So, they segment it up into risk pools, so that the amount the healthy over pay is less and the amount that the unhealthy under pay is also less. That in and of itself makes little difference to the company, but it does allow for a lower pay out over all as the cost of poor health decisions is passed more directly to the consumers.
Same goes for other types of insurance as well. Where the malfeasance comes into it is when they charge huge rates to the high risk pool knowing that they can't get insurance from elsewhere even at that price.
That's what I've been doing. Right now I'm using Win XP, the copy that I got like 5 years ago, won't be updating when it hits the end of life, instead I'll be switching over full time to something else. I got pissed off over their GFWL bullshit wanting to keep my money and refusing to let me pay for just the points I needed to buy the item.
Because they're expensive and time consuming to build. Solar is less expensive and quicker to build. Solar really isn't speculative, we know where the sun is going to be at any given point in the year as well as a rough estimate for the kind of weather that the array is being set up in. No part of this is speculative in nature. That being said, having nuclear as a part of the mix is a wise idea, given that it's waste is easily contained and could be refined for more fuel until it's mostly spent.
The IRS figure includes more than just fuel costs. It's the number used to estimate the cost of driving for deductions. It's intended to cover the other costs associated with travel, such as maintenance, insurance and depreciation. Admittedly, it's not perfect, but it does give a reasonable estimate for taxation purposes.
You're correct. Any welfare money tends to come with strings attached and is unreliable as a substantial portion of the populace believes fully that nobody ever had bad luck. If you're poor, then it's because you were lazy or incompetent and that they shouldn't be required to help out. Farming all those essential services to nonprofits means that portions of the needy just don't get anything at all. If it isn't a popular cause chances are you'll get precisely zip in terms of support.
What's really fucked up is that if you're abused as a child, they'll send the abuser to prison if caught, but the actual support given is pretty minimal and it's a pretty good bet that people are going to look the other way.
This is a similar deal, people gripe about fuel prices and terrorism, but they don't want to actually pay for the measures needed to deal with it. Folks are all for change, but they don't want to pay for it, and they don't want the upper classes to pay their fair share.
Wait, what? Firefox runs just fine in its full form on my Eee PC, that's clocked in at somewhat less than 1 GHZ. The only issue I could see is that the full version takes up too much memory for a cell phone and the interface doesn't really work on a screen of that size. But that's the case with all the other browsers except IE, which really doesn't run well on anything that slow.
Eh, screw it, just make it take up 3/4 of the screen space and remove all those other annoying buttons. The perhaps replace the URL field with a Google bar. Also it should only actually go to lolcats and pr0n sites.
That's been known for many years. People tend to scan left to right across the top then diagonally to the middle of the left hand side, then diagonally to the bottom right of the page. It's a habit people picked up presumably from reading things like magazines and newspapers. Not sure what works for languages that go from left to right, but in English and similar languages it works out.
I'd mod you informative if I hadn't already posted. Personally at this point, I only buy download only games from indie developers and sites like GoG that allow me to own the game sans any kind of DRM. There's a lot of games that I'd love to buy, but won't because the DRM or packaging is ridiculous. Starcraft II is a game that I really want to play, but won't due to the ridiculous DRM policy in place on it. Well, and them removing network play.
A lot of them already did that. I know my alma mater did so years ago to deal with the problem of p2p using up all the bandwidth. They throttled it severely to make the network useful for all the other users.
Well that and things like ubisoft changing stores. I got an email from them earlier today that they'll be changing stores the beginning of August. Subsequently I won't be able to download those games again because they're not going to carry over those purchases. Now, fortunately I already have a copy, and am downloading again just to make sure that it's fully functioning, but this is why I don't generally buy download only games.
Fairtax is a scam whereby the rich don't pay their fair share and the rest of us end up picking up the tab. 23% sales tax is enough to kill pretty much any economic activity.
But then again, what the hell, lets just let corporate entities make up their own decisions, I mean it's not like we just had to spend trillions of dollars bailing them out for incompetent decisions. Wait, we did, didn't we? Taxing things of this nature is the least intrusive way of guiding things in a reasonable direction. It allows them to have a say, but makes it less costly for companies that choose to behave responsibly.
Consumers are already paying for the degenerate practice of shipping jobs overseas. It's already being accounted for by artificially reduced wages and tax revenue that never gets collected since corporate entities don't have to ever book those profits. Putting a tax of this sort on those items puts the price of said items closer to what they'd be were the Chinese and Japanese engaging in illegal currency manipulation. Yes, it will make things cost more, but they would've already cost more were the entirety of the cost passed on as it should've been previously.