Add a better bios. UEFI secure boot requirement can be one of two bios installed. The other default will be another bios for other than Microsoft future stuff. The UEFI can checksum the alternate bios and if there is a trojan in the latter, could be arranged to provide a warning, or take other action.
I am 71. I cannot buy health insurance that leaves me with money for food or housing or clothes. I have no disabilities, mental or other and I am writing this note to you Americans on Slashdot. My BP is 120/70, I have only the degradation in functions (ears, eyes, speed) that comes with ageing.
I live in Canada in Quebec. If I need immediate attention, as happened two years ago when the flesh eating bacteria caught hold, starting at my toes, if it were not for universal healthcare, I would not be typing this note and my family would be with memories of me.
I went to the emergency at the hospital, they immediately did a triage, and within 30 minutes I was admitted and within an hour I was on intravenous antibiotics. I was in the hospital for 6 days before being given antibiotics that I would inject at home for another ten days.
Given my financial situation, what would be my situation in the majority of the 50 states? Would I come out with zero debts? My total expenses were around $400.00 due to having antibiotics to inject while not in the hospital. The $400 is tax deductable.
We in Quebec have a prescription plan with the government that is a fallback one. It is obligatory if one does not have group insurance. In my case, there is a max filling fee of $20/mo, plus the benefit of a percentage discount that the government assumes. There is also a ceiling per year for any citizen for his medication costs. (I am fortunate, no medication).
I have free examinations, xrays, mri's etc. I do not abuse the system. What is my cost? About $1,000 per year on my income tax. If I earned ten times more, it would be about $3,500 . Yes, I have a wife, and she is included in that annual medical portion of income tax that I pay.
Ask yourself this, does your private plan have a ceiling on expenses? We in Canada have Cancer patients and they are not subject to "your allotment of money ran out, sorry".
Hurrah for universal health care. Europe, Canada, Latin America, Australia, Israel, Russia (I think China as well) has Universal health care. The people in all countries are the resources, not corporate profits.
When the initial term is up, I would not mind continuous monitoring. If the vehicle was stolen, could they locate it. At that point I would pay a finders fee.
Americans come to Canada for health reasons. They migrate and become landed immigrants. Taxes pay for medicare. Visits, hospital stays, physiotherapy and more is included. Drugs with a ceiling on monthly expenses included (In Quebec there is a max per year for drugs, above which government pays).
Produced by Brazillians. Is that bad? Because they are south of the equator, will the screws be threaded in reverse, Water spins in a toilet in reverse to North America, so the screws should be turned clockwise to unscrew.
Is clockwise in Brazil actually counter-clockwise in North America.
Next time you are in Montreal Canada, or intending to visit, let me know via mlug.ca or lsatenstein at yahoo.com and we can meet for a coffee and kindle a new friendship.
You are doubly right. I was put out by your remarks. It erased my sense of being open-minded, and where I would no bother to respond, I did. I just believe that one should always not use a vinegar type of response, but more a honey mode. The latter achieves the desired results, and it does not damage the messenger.
Your rebuttal is such that I believe you cannot respect the opinions of others. Does that include your parents, former wife, children and social contacts.
The other thing to remember is that people on Slashdot are not stupid and therefore their remarks should not be taken out of context.
It would have been very much nicer to say, I cannot agree with your blah blah blah, and here is why, instead of attacking the individual.
In some countries, young children are at risk from predators. Today's society has both parents working so the kid has a key. In many countries, the child's cellphone can only call preprogrammed numbers (home, grandparents, parents work place, police and mabe a doctor or other caregiver ).
This is not discrimination, but reality. And yes, vendors do look to upgrading their infrastructure. They have no choice, or they will lose out to competitors or new technology.
2X the internal staff costs. Why not. As an outside vendor, I have to pay group insurance, pension benefits, and a whole slew of fees, in addition to the work of book-keeping and our admin salaries. If we make 10%-15%, per placement, we are doing well. We make some growth with volume, but then we have to pay for extra courses to keep our employees from jumping ship.
Wake up, with the cash crunch by governments, all American internet sales organizations will collect sales tax, or the government will use VAT, which is the tax added to the imported or selling price.
Governments and aging populations and exporting jobs is the killer as well as having to provide some medical benefits.
Enough of --no money, sorry, can't operate, cant give you medication, --you die.
Beer You can make your own, or drink Canadian or BUD, I look Coors light. We also have sleemans and others.
As for cold, first year is perhaps an adjustment, thereafter you take it in stride. You can go out in all but the rainy weather. That is, snow is ok to go out and to walk in if dressed warmly. Rain will soak you.
We are metric, which will take you a day to adjust to,
I believe that today we have more freedom than you Americans, no guns, except for police and bad guys, and low crime rate. And we have universal medicare. It works, we have medical triage in that booboos are not urgent, but fever, cancer and heart, etc, are top priority. We have top universities at non-bankrupt fees (for locals), or if you get landed immigrant status, McGill, Univ of Tor, UBC, and other top universities are under 3k per semester.
Gee, I thought that at resonance, very very little power was required to sustain vibration. What am I not understanding about power loss and oscillators, unless the oscillators are mistuned from a natural resonance..
Medical knowledge in the Americas and in Europe are more or less at the same level of advancement. The difference is that in the USA, a day in an emergency outpatient department (for a splinter removal), can cost you close to $1000.00 (Florida) and the same treatment in Russia ($0.00) and in Europe, $50-$75.00 In Montreal it is around the $100.00 mark, including the prescription for some topical antibiotics.
I guess you have not lived in other countries. Your tax system is very very progressive, but your deductions --WOW, what you can deduct is just amazing. In the end, bottom line, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.
Is my wife one of the pre-humanoid pussy's? To me she is beautiful, has a wonderful personality and body, and is the mother of three great kids. Perhaps I am the pre-humanoid and she is the human.
I love her just the same either way, and I am fortunate enough to say if I could do it again, I would marry her again.
Actually, What MS is saying is that word is a dynamic product, doing processing (spell check, etc) behind the scenes while you keyboard or do pasting. It probably reworks the page layout several times, based on input lines.
I am still in IT. I do programming (C, C++, QT) and find that one does not lose ability to reason. What one loses is scratchpad memory. That is, ability to remember 4+ things at a time.
It is by repetition that the learning embeds itself in my persistent memory. This natural phenomenon of poor scratchpad memory storage for seniors is a reason that many of us choose retirement. I am programming at an office, because staying home would lead to a big downer. I am not ready to go to McD's and solve the worlds problems with the other bench politicians, or go to religious institution for early morning prayers so as to socialize and keep busy.
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Add a better bios. UEFI secure boot requirement can be one of two bios installed. The other default will be another bios for other than Microsoft future stuff.
The UEFI can checksum the alternate bios and if there is a trojan in the latter, could be arranged to provide a warning, or take other action.
I am 71. I cannot buy health insurance that leaves me with money for food or housing or clothes. I have no disabilities, mental or other and I am writing this note to you Americans on Slashdot. My BP is 120/70, I have only the degradation in functions (ears, eyes, speed) that comes with ageing.
I live in Canada in Quebec. If I need immediate attention, as happened two years ago when the flesh eating bacteria caught hold, starting at my toes, if it were not for universal healthcare, I would not be typing this note and my family would be with memories of me.
I went to the emergency at the hospital, they immediately did a triage, and within 30 minutes I was admitted and within an hour I was on intravenous antibiotics. I was in the hospital for 6 days before being given antibiotics that I would inject at home for another ten days.
Given my financial situation, what would be my situation in the majority of the 50 states? Would I come out with zero debts? My total expenses were around $400.00 due to having antibiotics to inject while not in the hospital. The $400 is tax deductable.
We in Quebec have a prescription plan with the government that is a fallback one. It is obligatory if one does not have group insurance. In my case, there is a max filling fee of $20/mo, plus the benefit of a percentage discount that the government assumes. There is also a ceiling per year for any citizen for his medication costs. (I am fortunate, no medication).
I have free examinations, xrays, mri's etc. I do not abuse the system. What is my cost? About $1,000 per year on my income tax. If I earned ten times more, it would be about $3,500 . Yes, I have a wife, and she is included in that annual medical portion of income tax that I pay.
Ask yourself this, does your private plan have a ceiling on expenses? We in Canada have Cancer patients and they are not subject to "your allotment of money ran out, sorry".
Hurrah for universal health care. Europe, Canada, Latin America, Australia, Israel, Russia (I think China as well) has Universal health care. The people in all countries are the resources, not corporate profits.
When the initial term is up, I would not mind continuous monitoring. If the vehicle was stolen, could they locate it. At that point I would pay a finders fee.
Americans come to Canada for health reasons. They migrate and become landed immigrants. Taxes pay for medicare. Visits, hospital stays, physiotherapy and more is included. Drugs with a ceiling on monthly expenses included (In Quebec there is a max per year for drugs, above which government pays).
Produced by Brazillians. Is that bad? Because they are south of the equator, will the screws be threaded in reverse, Water spins in a toilet in reverse to North America, so the screws should be turned clockwise to unscrew.
Is clockwise in Brazil actually counter-clockwise in North America.
Some humor based on being south of the equator
This welcome intrusion means that I and the rest of the world will switch to a 4 day workweek, and eventually to a 3.5 day one.
One day less at a time.
And the robots will maintain the robots. Ad infinitely recursive
We the directors are the sheiks of the company, and until the well runs dry, we reward our ceos with lots of candy.
Each of us gets candy too.
And only if the shareholders don't squeek.
Next time you are in Montreal Canada, or intending to visit, let me know via mlug.ca or lsatenstein at yahoo.com and we can meet for a coffee and kindle a new friendship.
Leslie
You are doubly right. I was put out by your remarks. It erased my sense of being open-minded, and where I would no bother to respond, I did. I just believe that one should always not use a vinegar type of response, but more a honey mode. The latter achieves the desired results, and it does not damage the messenger.
No, it is going to the keypunch, duplicating a card to a dsn= position, and change a few letters in the name field. Or change the DCB=( )
Your rebuttal is such that I believe you cannot respect the opinions of others. Does that include your parents, former wife, children and social contacts.
The other thing to remember is that people on Slashdot are not stupid and therefore their remarks should not be taken out of context.
It would have been very much nicer to say, I cannot agree with your blah blah blah, and here is why, instead of attacking the individual.
In some countries, young children are at risk from predators. Today's society has both parents working so the kid has a key. In many countries, the child's cellphone can only call preprogrammed numbers (home, grandparents, parents work place, police and mabe a doctor or other caregiver ).
Changing times means changing dangers.
This is not discrimination, but reality.
And yes, vendors do look to upgrading their infrastructure. They have no choice, or they will lose out to competitors or new technology.
2X the internal staff costs. Why not. As an outside vendor, I have to pay group insurance, pension benefits, and a whole slew of fees, in addition to the work of book-keeping and our admin salaries. If we make 10%-15%, per placement, we are doing well. We make some growth with volume, but then we have to pay for extra courses to keep our employees from jumping ship.
Wake up, with the cash crunch by governments, all American internet sales organizations will collect sales tax, or the government will use VAT, which is the tax added to the imported or selling price.
Governments and aging populations and exporting jobs is the killer as well as having to provide some medical benefits.
Enough of --no money, sorry, can't operate, cant give you medication, --you die.
Seems that the trend is to dump the desktop for a combined TV / Desktop device.
Hard disk is external via USB connection or perhaps bluetooth.
Beer You can make your own, or drink Canadian or BUD, I look Coors light.
We also have sleemans and others.
As for cold, first year is perhaps an adjustment, thereafter you take it in stride. You can go out in all but the rainy weather. That is, snow is ok to go out and to walk in if dressed warmly. Rain will soak you.
We are metric, which will take you a day to adjust to,
I believe that today we have more freedom than you Americans, no guns, except for police and bad guys, and low crime rate.
And we have universal medicare. It works, we have medical triage in that booboos are not urgent, but fever, cancer and heart, etc, are top priority. We have top universities at non-bankrupt fees (for locals), or if you get landed immigrant status, McGill, Univ of Tor, UBC, and other top universities are under 3k per semester.
Come to Canada and live freer and better. Bring some skills
Canada is looking for skilled Americans.
Gee, I thought that at resonance, very very little power was required to sustain vibration. What am I not understanding about power loss and oscillators, unless the oscillators are mistuned from a natural resonance..
Medical knowledge in the Americas and in Europe are more or less at the same level of advancement. The difference is that in the USA, a day in an emergency outpatient department (for a splinter removal), can cost you close to $1000.00 (Florida) and the same treatment in Russia ($0.00) and in Europe, $50-$75.00 In Montreal it is around the $100.00 mark, including the prescription for some topical antibiotics.
I guess you have not lived in other countries. Your tax system is very very progressive, but your deductions --WOW, what you can deduct is just amazing. In the end, bottom line, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.
Is my wife one of the pre-humanoid pussy's? To me she is beautiful, has a wonderful personality and body, and is the mother of three great kids. Perhaps I am the pre-humanoid and she is the human.
I love her just the same either way, and I am fortunate enough to say if I could do it again, I would marry her again.
Actually, What MS is saying is that word is a dynamic product, doing processing (spell check, etc) behind the scenes while you keyboard or do pasting.
It probably reworks the page layout several times, based on input lines.
And dynamic spell checking is a resource hog.
Same will be true for similar competing products.
How can a teacher get her own free ipad? Have the schools dole them out.
The kids wont know what to do with a crayon, or how to hold a pen or pencil. Since the Ipad is the newest toy. Will it save the school money? Yes.
Poor poor approach to automating teachers. The only things kids will know is how to put an x on a cheque, or is that a check. Well, whatever.
I am still in IT. I do programming (C, C++, QT) and find that one does not lose ability to reason. What one loses is scratchpad memory. That is, ability to remember 4+ things at a time.
It is by repetition that the learning embeds itself in my persistent memory. This natural phenomenon of poor scratchpad memory storage for seniors is a reason that many of us choose retirement. I am programming at an office, because staying home would lead to a big downer. I am not ready to go to McD's and solve the worlds problems with the other bench politicians, or go to religious institution for early morning prayers so as to socialize and keep busy.
I still have a life.