God damn it somebody please mod that as TROLL. The link goes to the NIMP thing. For that matter why can't anything pointing to a known trojan be filtered out??
THIS comment is offtopic. The above comment is dangerous to your computer. I have to hand it to the asshat who posted it, he managed to make the status bar report that the link was to yahoo, and somehow overcame the slashcode that reports a link's domain at the end of the link.
The private sector's doing it now and they're doing a horrible job of it, like I said.
Health care is not a power delegate to the U.S. government by the Constitution
Health care isn't a power. If the government mandated health care, say, passed a law that everyone must have an exam yearly then I would agree that it was unconstitutional. Of course I don't see how thay can constitutionally mandate vaccinations for children, either.
The Constitution was amended to allow them to levy taxes, that's a power. It doesn't say what they must use those monies for.
Most electricity is private sector, and like I said it's more expensive and less reliable. For you. Not for most people.
That's my point, most people are paying usarious rates for bad service. I have the least expensive power in my state.
Again: that doesn't mean that therefore government should do it...
And again, if not government, then who?
...especially when doing so means violating my constitutional rights, such as in federal health care, which violates my Tenth Amendment rights.
In what way?
When choice is opened up, your comparison to electrical transmission and roads no longer makes sense
Well, if it ever happens I may agree with you.
Not that we shouldn't have private sector roads and electrical transmission, too.
Most electricity is private sector, and like I said it's more expensive and less reliable. Some things the private sector just doesn't do well at, and infrastructure and health care are two of them.
You had a "skip" button that skipped to the next of four stereo tracks. In many (iirc, most) cases the skip was in the middle of a song! You still had to sit through half an album side. If it was a double album you had to sit through a whole album side. No rewind like cassettes had, only fast forward. If you forwarded past the beginning of the song you wanted, you had to keep fast forwarding.
With an LP you could lift the tonearm and place it at the beginning of the wanted track. Where songs started was clearly visible.
A few rare players could play a special version of 8-track: quadraphonic sound.
Believe it or not, quadraphonic sound was available on LPs, too. Stereo LPs were backwards compatible; if you played a stereo LP on a monophonic player, both channels would play (through the same speaker of course). This was accomplished by having both channels from the needle going up and down, and one channel with the sideways motion. The two signals were fed together to phase out one channel from the channel holding the up and down motion.
Quadraphonic was possible by modulating the two rear channels with a 40 khz tone and demodulating it on playback. Compare that to CD's 20khz ceiling. They used to have speaker enclosures with supersonic speakers called "super tweeters", which are no longer necessary since CDs can't reproduce frequencies that high.
Quadraphonic never took hold because of the expense of the equipment - you needed four of everything instead of two of everything. So a $1000 stereo sounded almost twice as good as a $1000 quadraphonic setup. That, coupled with the fact that in a live performance the audience is not usually in the middle of the orchestra makes the whole idea stupid on its face.
Surround sound happened because they've figured out that you don't really need more than one woofer. The woofer is the most expensive speaker, and speakers are the most expensive part of any stereo, especially now. The other electronics have vastly come down in price; in 1977 I paid $600 for a twenty five inch TV.
I knew a guy with quadraphonic cassettes. That's possible because a cassette has four channels. But you had to either rewind the cassette or listen to it play backwards when it was done.
That quite misses the point, now doesn't it? Where record companies are concerned, "the best" = "whatever sells".
Why should I give two shits what concerns the record companies? And the fact the they do, in fact, equate "what sells" with "the best" backs up my assertion that they're selling shit on a stick.
contrary to popular belief the industry has far more failures than it has successes
I said that. If they knew what sold they wouldn't have, now would they?
The 14-year-old girls who buy her CDs think Led Zeppelin sucks
You mean the fourteen year old girle who get their parents to buy her CDs for them. Making a demographic that has no income your primary target is pretty foolish. But that's the MAFIAA labels for you.
Someone at slashdot once claimed to be in the industry (grain of salt of course) and sais he asked why they targeted twelve year olds. "Because we can tell them what they like" was the answer.
I would probably have picked the A&R guy who passed on The Beatles.
Q- How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A- THAT'S NOT FUNNY ASSHOLE! I'LL CUT YOUR DICK OFF YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!!!
Darnn slashdot's lameness filter. Darn it to heck! Bad filter, bad bad bad (hits lameness filter on nose with rolled up newspaper). Yes you stupid humorless algorythm, caps is like yelling. That was the point, you stupid bot.
Speaking of funny, yesterday's Dilbert was one that you have to be a nerd to appreciate.
If it were mandated by law that you couln't get copyright without opening your source then the licensee would NOT be free to distribute modified binaries without source anyway. You can't make an illegal license and expect it to stand up in court.
Of course they would. People don't want to compile their own ode, and it would be illegal to sell programs with the copied code. Now if they can get hold of the code (have a burglar break into the offices or a cracker break into their corporate servers) there's no way to tell if the code is legal.
American life spans are shorter due to higher incidence of accidents and homicide
I don't belive it. You're going to have to show me some believable numbers from a believable site before you'll convince me. I could easily show you the statictics showing our life spans are shorter, but you admit I'm right about that.
Infant mortality in the industrialized world is a function of genetics
Bullshit. Again, cite a study.
it is not a Federal function under the US constitution
Neither is building roads prohibited, but both are allowed. "To promote the general welfare", as the Constitution itself says.
Americans pay more for their healthcare, but by every direct measure of medical outcomes they also receive superior results
Bullshit again; if our health care were superior our life spans would be longer and infant mortality lower.
I would not want to trade e.g. US cancer survival rates for the European cancer survival rates
Again, citation needed. And with all of them, no neocon sites or insurance company sites.
That's why the private sector can't work with health care - the one who pays isn't the one to choose. I can only go with my employers' choice of health insurance, unlike my car insurance. And your choices of doctors or hospitals may be limited by your insurance plan.
Some things the private sector does badly, and health care, like roads, is one.
There are only two problems with SS amd medicare, and one solution. The first problem is one you noted: the funds were looted, "borrowed" to pay for war and roads. The second is that the rich aren't paying their fair share. Take SS tax; my employer and I together pay 15% of my income to social security, while Bill Gates and Microsoft pay far, far less than 1% of his salary.
Make the rich and their employers pay the same fifteen percent I do (and that includes ALL income; capital gains, interest income, all the income nobody has to actually WORK FOR to earn) and you'll have no shortfall whatever.
acknowledging this does not imply "the government should do it." Then who should? Not-government. There's only one thing that is not-government: the private sector.
They're doing as shitty a job of it as private-sector CILCO is doing at delivering natural gas to my home, and as bad as city-owned CWLP is good at delivering electricity to my home at the cheapest rates in my state. When the two F-2 tornados tore through here in 2006 everyone had power in a week, but later that year when a single F-1 went through the St Louis area 100 miles south of here where CILCO delivers electricity, people were without power for a month.
In some circumstances the private sector does an abysmal job. Those circumstances are almost always where the one who pays has no choice: like health care, you can't choose insurance companies (you're stuck with your employer's choice) and in many cases you can't even choose the doctor you want, as you have to use one approved by your insurance company.
The private sector is great for shoes and cars and washing machines, but it sucks at roads and electrical transmission and health care.
Slashdot Mirror
It's much better than the April Fool's jokes I submitted.
What? You're serious?
projectors will initially cost about $350, then quickly drop to less than $300.'"
Yeah, right. One that's as big as a kid's lunch box is thousands now. Well, let's see if we can find a link or two.
God damn it somebody please mod that as TROLL. The link goes to the NIMP thing. For that matter why can't anything pointing to a known trojan be filtered out??
THIS comment is offtopic. The above comment is dangerous to your computer. I have to hand it to the asshat who posted it, he managed to make the status bar report that the link was to yahoo, and somehow overcame the slashcode that reports a link's domain at the end of the link.
Godsmack, RIAA
Well, I submitted an article about using thiotimoline for space exploration but it's either pending or rejected.
I tried. Sorry.
Ummmmm. I already said. Private sector.
The private sector's doing it now and they're doing a horrible job of it, like I said.
Health care is not a power delegate to the U.S. government by the Constitution
Health care isn't a power. If the government mandated health care, say, passed a law that everyone must have an exam yearly then I would agree that it was unconstitutional. Of course I don't see how thay can constitutionally mandate vaccinations for children, either.
The Constitution was amended to allow them to levy taxes, that's a power. It doesn't say what they must use those monies for.
Most electricity is private sector, and like I said it's more expensive and less reliable.
For you. Not for most people.
That's my point, most people are paying usarious rates for bad service. I have the least expensive power in my state.
Not typical these days, no. My tastes are quite a bit more eclectic than when I was young.
I grew up there on St Raphael.
Oh, Ok =)
And again, if not government, then who?
In what way?
When choice is opened up, your comparison to electrical transmission and roads no longer makes sense
Well, if it ever happens I may agree with you.
Not that we shouldn't have private sector roads and electrical transmission, too.
Most electricity is private sector, and like I said it's more expensive and less reliable. Some things the private sector just doesn't do well at, and infrastructure and health care are two of them.
They had a rudimentary form of track selection
You had a "skip" button that skipped to the next of four stereo tracks. In many (iirc, most) cases the skip was in the middle of a song! You still had to sit through half an album side. If it was a double album you had to sit through a whole album side. No rewind like cassettes had, only fast forward. If you forwarded past the beginning of the song you wanted, you had to keep fast forwarding.
With an LP you could lift the tonearm and place it at the beginning of the wanted track. Where songs started was clearly visible.
A few rare players could play a special version of 8-track: quadraphonic sound.
Believe it or not, quadraphonic sound was available on LPs, too. Stereo LPs were backwards compatible; if you played a stereo LP on a monophonic player, both channels would play (through the same speaker of course). This was accomplished by having both channels from the needle going up and down, and one channel with the sideways motion. The two signals were fed together to phase out one channel from the channel holding the up and down motion.
Quadraphonic was possible by modulating the two rear channels with a 40 khz tone and demodulating it on playback. Compare that to CD's 20khz ceiling. They used to have speaker enclosures with supersonic speakers called "super tweeters", which are no longer necessary since CDs can't reproduce frequencies that high.
Quadraphonic never took hold because of the expense of the equipment - you needed four of everything instead of two of everything. So a $1000 stereo sounded almost twice as good as a $1000 quadraphonic setup. That, coupled with the fact that in a live performance the audience is not usually in the middle of the orchestra makes the whole idea stupid on its face.
Surround sound happened because they've figured out that you don't really need more than one woofer. The woofer is the most expensive speaker, and speakers are the most expensive part of any stereo, especially now. The other electronics have vastly come down in price; in 1977 I paid $600 for a twenty five inch TV.
I knew a guy with quadraphonic cassettes. That's possible because a cassette has four channels. But you had to either rewind the cassette or listen to it play backwards when it was done.
That quite misses the point, now doesn't it? Where record companies are concerned, "the best" = "whatever sells".
Why should I give two shits what concerns the record companies? And the fact the they do, in fact, equate "what sells" with "the best" backs up my assertion that they're selling shit on a stick.
contrary to popular belief the industry has far more failures than it has successes
I said that. If they knew what sold they wouldn't have, now would they?
The 14-year-old girls who buy her CDs think Led Zeppelin sucks
You mean the fourteen year old girle who get their parents to buy her CDs for them. Making a demographic that has no income your primary target is pretty foolish. But that's the MAFIAA labels for you.
Someone at slashdot once claimed to be in the industry (grain of salt of course) and sais he asked why they targeted twelve year olds. "Because we can tell them what they like" was the answer.
I would probably have picked the A&R guy who passed on The Beatles.
An excellent example.
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data"
There are no data.
Are you retarded? What part of "Lancet Oncology Journal" do you not understand (I gave that example because it is the most recent)?
1) no you didn't. Nowhere in your original post did you mention the "Lancet Oncology Journal".
2) If you had, which you didn't, I don't have a copy of the Lancet Oncology Journal.
The only way you could not find a myriad of supporting citations in reputable medical journals is if you refused to look
If you want to confince me of something it's up to you to cite, not up to me to search. No link == bullshit.
By "the labels" I meant the big four, not the indies.
Q- How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A- THAT'S NOT FUNNY ASSHOLE! I'LL CUT YOUR DICK OFF YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!!!
Darnn slashdot's lameness filter. Darn it to heck! Bad filter, bad bad bad (hits lameness filter on nose with rolled up newspaper). Yes you stupid humorless algorythm, caps is like yelling. That was the point, you stupid bot.
Speaking of funny, yesterday's Dilbert was one that you have to be a nerd to appreciate.
Judging on your comment's moderation, apparently the mods did!
OT but your name - do you live in Cahokia by chance?
Two guys are playing golf when rain threatens. One of them says to the other "we better stop, a thunderstorm is coming up and it could be dangerous."
"Relax" says the second one, and pulls a club from his bag and holds it high in the air.
"WTF are you doing!?!?" exclaims the fist golfer.
The second replies "Not even God can hit a one iron!"
I was in a major metropolitan area (St Louis) and they most certainly didn't get played there. At all. Period.
MOZART RULEZ
Yeah, I agree, Mozart kicked serious ass.
If it were mandated by law that you couln't get copyright without opening your source then the licensee would NOT be free to distribute modified binaries without source anyway. You can't make an illegal license and expect it to stand up in court.
Of course they would. People don't want to compile their own ode, and it would be illegal to sell programs with the copied code. Now if they can get hold of the code (have a burglar break into the offices or a cracker break into their corporate servers) there's no way to tell if the code is legal.
Pesintone is in Britain. Both Beardstown and Petersburg are close to here.
American life spans are shorter due to higher incidence of accidents and homicide
I don't belive it. You're going to have to show me some believable numbers from a believable site before you'll convince me. I could easily show you the statictics showing our life spans are shorter, but you admit I'm right about that.
Infant mortality in the industrialized world is a function of genetics
Bullshit. Again, cite a study.
it is not a Federal function under the US constitution
Neither is building roads prohibited, but both are allowed. "To promote the general welfare", as the Constitution itself says.
Americans pay more for their healthcare, but by every direct measure of medical outcomes they also receive superior results
Bullshit again; if our health care were superior our life spans would be longer and infant mortality lower.
I would not want to trade e.g. US cancer survival rates for the European cancer survival rates
Again, citation needed. And with all of them, no neocon sites or insurance company sites.
That's why the private sector can't work with health care - the one who pays isn't the one to choose. I can only go with my employers' choice of health insurance, unlike my car insurance. And your choices of doctors or hospitals may be limited by your insurance plan.
Some things the private sector does badly, and health care, like roads, is one.
There are only two problems with SS amd medicare, and one solution. The first problem is one you noted: the funds were looted, "borrowed" to pay for war and roads. The second is that the rich aren't paying their fair share. Take SS tax; my employer and I together pay 15% of my income to social security, while Bill Gates and Microsoft pay far, far less than 1% of his salary.
Make the rich and their employers pay the same fifteen percent I do (and that includes ALL income; capital gains, interest income, all the income nobody has to actually WORK FOR to earn) and you'll have no shortfall whatever.
acknowledging this does not imply "the government should do it."
Then who should?
Not-government. There's only one thing that is not-government: the private sector.
They're doing as shitty a job of it as private-sector CILCO is doing at delivering natural gas to my home, and as bad as city-owned CWLP is good at delivering electricity to my home at the cheapest rates in my state. When the two F-2 tornados tore through here in 2006 everyone had power in a week, but later that year when a single F-1 went through the St Louis area 100 miles south of here where CILCO delivers electricity, people were without power for a month.
In some circumstances the private sector does an abysmal job. Those circumstances are almost always where the one who pays has no choice: like health care, you can't choose insurance companies (you're stuck with your employer's choice) and in many cases you can't even choose the doctor you want, as you have to use one approved by your insurance company.
The private sector is great for shoes and cars and washing machines, but it sucks at roads and electrical transmission and health care.
I work in one of the US divisions of Sony as a system administrator
Why? For God's dsake, WHY???? Can't you find an honest job?