What is the point of having an intelligent interlocutor - I mean the answer is known (42) and the rest is just plain old blathering about things - something I can do with my wife (if we were still talking with each other that is) so in fact this is just an exercise in futility. But of course there are money to be made there I guess - all this call center folk can be then optimized out of existence (sold to slavery to Zamunda, Kidneys sold to some reach oil country etc) so maybe it makes sense after all?
well I dare to disagree that this 'pandemic' should not have been treated as such by authorities - they have to react on the advise of bodies like WHO. What was really wrong is that nobody of authority really took notice of how WHO changes rules and definitions and as a consequence nobody really investigated whether pandemic claims were all true. Obviously they either did not have the time or went out of their way to not see what was going on. What is really bad is t hat this damaged the reputation of WHO and made general population really doubting the sense of vaccination (it is in normal conditions sensible to have vaccinations against certain diseases) and in what authorities says about imminent epidemic/pandemic. I suppose we not only pay to the fat cats in big pharma now but we as a society will pay the price in blood next time around when nobody will believe another this time possibly real danger - I'd say alikes of Sir Roy M. Anderson should be hanged together with his friends from GSK if this bad scenario occurs.
as for politicians I guess they had no real choice - WHO used its (recently changed) rules to announce a pandemic and govs had to do something as negligence in case of pending disaster would not only be deadly in political terms but criminal. And on top of this strange annoucnement by WHO (which is I suppose to be investigated now) there are cases like the one of Sir Roy M. Anderson. The whole thing stinks like an industrial swine farm hence the name of the disease.
What are those females that you talk about - the human population of my basement consist of males only, I already wondered about that a while ago but it seems they just went extinct. No wonder: in a documentaries I saw they seemed all to be making all these strange noises that I made once when I had lung infection which is probably caused by the fact that although not equipped in much fur they still prefer to go around naked. In fact if it seems they all died out.
It is a known fact that the authoritarian regimes are beneficial to the economy if they take it seriously as long as the country is to be rebuild, the economy is at its low or hardly existing. OC that is true that the prosperous rich does not need democracy - Germans learned what does it mean whet this goes wrong the hard way and millions had died while they were learning.
What I wanted to say is this: they can prosper and grow faster than anybody else and part of this success will be in authoritarian regime that controls things like exchange rate and suppresses workers that want higher wages etc. This may go badly wrong as there is no control of such regime and this is the reason why democracy with all its weakness is better - not because it allows for faster growth but because it allows to take advantage of experience and knowledge of majority and is thus able to correct its own failures (most of the time).
yes that is interesting to observe esp. comparing with what Japan did before and how they coped with IP rights. OC IP rights in the west are a bit screwed but still some protection is reasonable and China is doing close to nothing to ensure that. This does make doing business with chinese companies difficult and risky. The question is - where is the point of equilibrium for this - I think the west and esp. US are bit over the top with this. OTOH China is exaggerating too - I wonder what will be the consequences for their own creative businesses or do they use hit men to protect their IP? This in my view raises two questions:
how do the products that they reverse engineered compare with originals? Are they of better or worse quality and if the later is true - is this justified by price or is it just crap that is worthless so too expensive even if price is close to nothing.
is it possible to have prospering industries in such environment - here on/. IP rights are usually in high disregard and I can see why but is there a level at which the IP protection is reasonable and benefits businesses, customers and society at large and if so where is it?
I guess we will find out the hard way considering how China is paying attention to what others say - summit in Copenhagen is a good hint on that I suppose.
Producing more sooth and thus making everybody in the range of its fall absorbing warmth from the sun in much more efficient way fixes the mini-ice age problem so they should just increase usage of coal etc.
If it is good for chinese kids it is also good for any other one. Stop complaining and invest in cadmiun ore mines!
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You do not have to put much effort in convincing me that JS is source of all evil including Osama and rectal cancer but my observation over years brought me is understanding that the real pain that starts when somebody wants to use different language/set of tools over legacy code is caused not that much by the fact the legacy is coded in X but that legacy is coded badly in X. X is sometimes relevant but usually not significantly.
so there is a line there somewhere only nobody knows where. I wonder how much destroying lives nonsense is done in the name of justice and kids protection.- I guess using brains could help but prosecuting people according to the latter of law is easier.
extension or replacement - if t here are people for which 2L is their 1L that is fine too - I still prefer documentaries in my cellar but I can understand there are people that enjoy virtual sex in 2Las well as enjoying rubbing their real selves against other equally real bodies and even exchanging body fluids or do whatever they prefer to do. The point is looking from aside any of these three alternatives may be perceived as disturbing and I am sure there are places where majority of such activities are illegal, bottom line is however: there are people ready to invest money into such activities and they do not hurt anybody in a process so the service is maybe not up to everybody's liking but it certainly satisfies certain needs and generates profits in a process. I do not mind and I see not why should anybody be disturbed by this. Then again there are people putting other people in the prison only for smoking a joint - how sick is that compared to 2L? I think GP should take it easy and get some perspective - getting out of cellar and getting aforementioned date with real people may help but is not really necessary.
so what you say is : come to us we are great and you are nothing? In my practice I have seen doctors err. They caused great deal of pain and in one case I landed at emergency station of a hospital. The doctors there asked what 3rd world country practitioner was it that caused the injury - they were very surprised with the answer. There were also other cases where medicine was administered without hesitation and without even considering what alternatives (known to so called standard medicine) can be used instead of blasting the illness with expensive high tech.
Majority is good of course and tries to inform a patient but what is the use of such information if the patient does not understand? I inform myself also in wikipedia as even if this is flawed to some extend it is as flawed as everything else out there. I try to think and analyze what happens and what I see. I do not diagnose myself but prepare for a discussion with my physician and I do not run to a doctor with every cough. I think that is reasonable attitude. If more have followed we would have a healthier society maybe or at least would have to pay a little less for it and it could become a bit more efficient. In any case one should consider carefully what one says - wikipedia may be inaccurate but what WHO and some western world health advisers did in 2009 is just a shame.
I agree however that the majority is not even making an effort, barred being capable of understanding what they read. But is it not responsibility of a doctor to ensure that treatment can be completed - this is the same with tuberculosis as it is with liver transplant but somehow there are usually no mechanisms ensuring that TB-antibiotics are actually taken as long as they should - why? OC majority of doctors try their best and are good guys only sometimes it all goes wrong. But of course I may be a pessimist and see things wrong or you may be overly optimistic about medicine.
It is good that practitioners understood that antibitics should be used with care. My current physician prescribe apparently after some consideration and if she does not see other way. I am involved (or so I am allowed to believe) in her decision making. I trust her more because of this. Hightech doctors that have no time to explain the need for their high tech and disregard so called traditional medicine even without looking at it are at least partially guilty for the mistrust and proliferation of snake oil healers.
well I like the attitude but event with right one you may fall too - there is this thing about the size of China and the authoritarian regimes being more efficient in achieving their (admittedly often badly placed) goals - US may fall (behind) for other reasons too but sheer size of an adversary may already be a problem. The perception of US as oppressor rather than savior does not help either. 'funny' thing though is that all these spitting at US (on occasion being in that camp myself) may find themselves missing US Gendarme especially looking at the mess the new big boy is going to make of things. This all said even if current road is of one way kind it may end going upwards too. Only future can tell what happens. Each nation and state make mistakes and lives trough difficult times, the authoritarian regimes tend to make mistakes however that are difficult to fix because nobody dares call them mistakes - there is a strength in structures that rely on general population if only to chose mistake makers.
Even assuming that the Iranian militias and revolutionary guards do not deserve (just yet) to be called terrorists and they technically speaking do not train Hezbollah but pay their bills only then their president still threw threats at some occupying force to be wiped out from the face of earth. So what did you check exactly?
which is an old pattern - good stuff is replaced by slightly worse stuff which has advantage that is cheaper, the evil part of it is that when the good stuff is replaced these days then it is replaced in a very efficient way i.e. is not there to be had anymore. I fully understand your sentiment but the point is: it is unavoidable. The other point is however that the original stuff is overpriced although it is also produced in china only under slightly better standards. The real problem (for western economies) is that China does not even need to suppress its own people too much to keep prices down and production going. OC they do suppress their own people but not in such a way to make them revolt and in fact they are happy (or majority of them are) as they increase their standard of living with every year.
As for TFA - I do not see the situation in so black colours after all if chinese stop giving us the materials we want we invent workarounds and generate wealth in a process. As long as we (in a sense: western world) can still do that we are safe and happy. After all with the collapsing economies and de-industrialisation and all this other crap it is still better to live in the west that it is in China. OC this may end one day but it is still so.
I read this and TFA and it makes a strange feeling of deja vu - I thought german medical system is en expensive and inefficient shit but it appears US of A has even more expensive (and less efficient) one.
What I find interesting is this terrible thing that customers can at last chose and decrease costs instead of paying what the golden guild of doctors think is a reasonable fee.
Another interesting thing is that the Swiss do it already too and apparently they do it not only to save costs but to provide better service. I see some benefits if I do not have to go to the praxis with a flu or something they can diagnose with help of a patient. In Switzerland you can call and if they think you should visit a 'real' doctor then you can directly make an appointment - see here (only in German). This is good especially if you have to provide service to areas with low population density where the doctors are far away physically but easily accessible trough broadband internet. OC you would need some regulation to ensure that the companies driving this think also about customers i.e. sick people instead of as it most likely is the case described in TFA money only. Apparently you can do both - care for people and make money. That I am afraid is a concept foreign to majority of health officials and bureaucrats.
well not sure about the 'fired' part but had similar problems with our subcontractor in India. This time it was not standard equipment and they dealt with low level support software that we in our grandiose corporation did not maintain any more. They refused majority of requests bringing me to boiling and it took me some time to realize that that was not because their incompetence but because if they did do what I wanted them to their costs would spiral out of the agreed level and make the whole thing unprofitable. Not sure if that was the same in your case but at least in mine it seems that they followed the script and use their brains only not to achieve mine satisfaction - their goal had only something remote to do with it and all with profitability of their enterprise which would be smaller if they did all we wanted. Well welcome to the great new world - a customer in the west is not the most important factor. Now what do you think will happen when $ eventually falls...
I think we should welcome our meteorite overlords and appreciate the fact that if the object is big enough its impact will remove the need to care about greenhouse gases, melting ice caps etc. - always look at the bright side of life!
MAD function only if both sides are assured of mutual destruction and there are no maniacs involved. The first part funtions also because the world in which we all live - earth would become very unattractive if US/USSR all out war took place. However if a maniac in small country A drops its bomb on small country B and annihilates it in a process the remaining forces of country B can then annihilate country A. The boss of country A lives in a nice place somewhere else. In this scenario - personal ambition of a maniac may cause use of nuclear weapons even if cost of it would be high. OTOH they can hope that they succeed i.e. country B will not answer. What if Iran attacks US with one bomb - US is not completely destroyed - do you think US forces will use nuclear weapons against Iran then? This is unknown - so they may assume that corrupt west is just all soft belly and do whatever they want as the possession of nuclear heads gives them advantage they did not have. On top of it all - maniacs can have skewed goals and hierarchy of values which allow them to accept nuclear disaster anyway. I'd say bomb them now before is too late.
Interesting question would be: can you buy stuff that is not worn/used by a "star"? I have impression that the answer here would be flat 'no' so what this means we are all shepple and if you are concious or not it simply makes no difference anymore - all is commerce.
Well it is not that drastic that is why we do not hear more of this and that is why legal systems in number of western countries did not collapse yet. It is simple - ask for 100kE/$ of damages and offer 1kE as an option i.e. court not involved if you pay 'reasonable' fine. You would be surprised to know how many people would refrain from legal action in such cases. Especially if letters in question refer to alleged consumption of (illegally acquired) pr0n.... Interestingly for some legal reason I did not really comprehend they can press such charges against you in any court in the country (that is how it works in Germany anyway) which has two benefits: it adds to your legal costs and ensures a judge that is likely to see things their way. But cavalry seems to be on its way at least in Germany they are discussing now to let us all pay a license fee for using a computer like device just to compensate for alleged theft so we are all 'saved'. To me it seems that not only the lawmakers in western world but the the whole lot of legal system is supporting a bunch of parasites.
I suppose there are laws that make such actions illegal or even classified as an act of terror as by doing all these fake registrations you attack state institutions. I do not see how this is going to improve anything - unless they see the light of reason some day, which is doubtful, the only thing there is that can prevent legal action is, in light of all this nonsense, to cut your internet connection but that may be impossible at some point of time.
A friend of my a lawyer specializing in representing clients attacked with legal letters (Germany) says that the practice is so wide spread that not only courts are overloaded but lawyers representing the blood suckers have work for years so lets look at the bright side: at last we found an activity that is not going to be off shored to China that soon.
well I am wondering who moderated parents post funny - after all if you laugh you either did not understand or this is rather hysterical laughter than anything else.
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What is the point of having an intelligent interlocutor - I mean the answer is known (42) and the rest is just plain old blathering about things - something I can do with my wife (if we were still talking with each other that is) so in fact this is just an exercise in futility. But of course there are money to be made there I guess - all this call center folk can be then optimized out of existence (sold to slavery to Zamunda, Kidneys sold to some reach oil country etc) so maybe it makes sense after all?
well I dare to disagree that this 'pandemic' should not have been treated as such by authorities - they have to react on the advise of bodies like WHO. What was really wrong is that nobody of authority really took notice of how WHO changes rules and definitions and as a consequence nobody really investigated whether pandemic claims were all true. Obviously they either did not have the time or went out of their way to not see what was going on. What is really bad is t hat this damaged the reputation of WHO and made general population really doubting the sense of vaccination (it is in normal conditions sensible to have vaccinations against certain diseases) and in what authorities says about imminent epidemic/pandemic. I suppose we not only pay to the fat cats in big pharma now but we as a society will pay the price in blood next time around when nobody will believe another this time possibly real danger - I'd say alikes of Sir Roy M. Anderson should be hanged together with his friends from GSK if this bad scenario occurs.
as for politicians I guess they had no real choice - WHO used its (recently changed) rules to announce a pandemic and govs had to do something as negligence in case of pending disaster would not only be deadly in political terms but criminal. And on top of this strange annoucnement by WHO (which is I suppose to be investigated now) there are cases like the one of Sir Roy M. Anderson. The whole thing stinks like an industrial swine farm hence the name of the disease.
What are those females that you talk about - the human population of my basement consist of males only, I already wondered about that a while ago but it seems they just went extinct. No wonder: in a documentaries I saw they seemed all to be making all these strange noises that I made once when I had lung infection which is probably caused by the fact that although not equipped in much fur they still prefer to go around naked. In fact if it seems they all died out.
What I wanted to say is this: they can prosper and grow faster than anybody else and part of this success will be in authoritarian regime that controls things like exchange rate and suppresses workers that want higher wages etc. This may go badly wrong as there is no control of such regime and this is the reason why democracy with all its weakness is better - not because it allows for faster growth but because it allows to take advantage of experience and knowledge of majority and is thus able to correct its own failures (most of the time).
I guess we will find out the hard way considering how China is paying attention to what others say - summit in Copenhagen is a good hint on that I suppose.
Producing more sooth and thus making everybody in the range of its fall absorbing warmth from the sun in much more efficient way fixes the mini-ice age problem so they should just increase usage of coal etc.
If it is good for chinese kids it is also good for any other one. Stop complaining and invest in cadmiun ore mines!
You do not have to put much effort in convincing me that JS is source of all evil including Osama and rectal cancer but my observation over years brought me is understanding that the real pain that starts when somebody wants to use different language/set of tools over legacy code is caused not that much by the fact the legacy is coded in X but that legacy is coded badly in X. X is sometimes relevant but usually not significantly.
so there is a line there somewhere only nobody knows where. I wonder how much destroying lives nonsense is done in the name of justice and kids protection.- I guess using brains could help but prosecuting people according to the latter of law is easier.
extension or replacement - if t here are people for which 2L is their 1L that is fine too - I still prefer documentaries in my cellar but I can understand there are people that enjoy virtual sex in 2Las well as enjoying rubbing their real selves against other equally real bodies and even exchanging body fluids or do whatever they prefer to do. The point is looking from aside any of these three alternatives may be perceived as disturbing and I am sure there are places where majority of such activities are illegal, bottom line is however: there are people ready to invest money into such activities and they do not hurt anybody in a process so the service is maybe not up to everybody's liking but it certainly satisfies certain needs and generates profits in a process. I do not mind and I see not why should anybody be disturbed by this. Then again there are people putting other people in the prison only for smoking a joint - how sick is that compared to 2L? I think GP should take it easy and get some perspective - getting out of cellar and getting aforementioned date with real people may help but is not really necessary.
Majority is good of course and tries to inform a patient but what is the use of such information if the patient does not understand? I inform myself also in wikipedia as even if this is flawed to some extend it is as flawed as everything else out there. I try to think and analyze what happens and what I see. I do not diagnose myself but prepare for a discussion with my physician and I do not run to a doctor with every cough. I think that is reasonable attitude. If more have followed we would have a healthier society maybe or at least would have to pay a little less for it and it could become a bit more efficient. In any case one should consider carefully what one says - wikipedia may be inaccurate but what WHO and some western world health advisers did in 2009 is just a shame.
I agree however that the majority is not even making an effort, barred being capable of understanding what they read. But is it not responsibility of a doctor to ensure that treatment can be completed - this is the same with tuberculosis as it is with liver transplant but somehow there are usually no mechanisms ensuring that TB-antibiotics are actually taken as long as they should - why? OC majority of doctors try their best and are good guys only sometimes it all goes wrong. But of course I may be a pessimist and see things wrong or you may be overly optimistic about medicine. It is good that practitioners understood that antibitics should be used with care. My current physician prescribe apparently after some consideration and if she does not see other way. I am involved (or so I am allowed to believe) in her decision making. I trust her more because of this. Hightech doctors that have no time to explain the need for their high tech and disregard so called traditional medicine even without looking at it are at least partially guilty for the mistrust and proliferation of snake oil healers.
well I like the attitude but event with right one you may fall too - there is this thing about the size of China and the authoritarian regimes being more efficient in achieving their (admittedly often badly placed) goals - US may fall (behind) for other reasons too but sheer size of an adversary may already be a problem. The perception of US as oppressor rather than savior does not help either. 'funny' thing though is that all these spitting at US (on occasion being in that camp myself) may find themselves missing US Gendarme especially looking at the mess the new big boy is going to make of things. This all said even if current road is of one way kind it may end going upwards too. Only future can tell what happens. Each nation and state make mistakes and lives trough difficult times, the authoritarian regimes tend to make mistakes however that are difficult to fix because nobody dares call them mistakes - there is a strength in structures that rely on general population if only to chose mistake makers.
Even assuming that the Iranian militias and revolutionary guards do not deserve (just yet) to be called terrorists and they technically speaking do not train Hezbollah but pay their bills only then their president still threw threats at some occupying force to be wiped out from the face of earth. So what did you check exactly?
As for TFA - I do not see the situation in so black colours after all if chinese stop giving us the materials we want we invent workarounds and generate wealth in a process. As long as we (in a sense: western world) can still do that we are safe and happy. After all with the collapsing economies and de-industrialisation and all this other crap it is still better to live in the west that it is in China. OC this may end one day but it is still so.
Thought crime is becoming easier every day.
What I find interesting is this terrible thing that customers can at last chose and decrease costs instead of paying what the golden guild of doctors think is a reasonable fee.
Another interesting thing is that the Swiss do it already too and apparently they do it not only to save costs but to provide better service. I see some benefits if I do not have to go to the praxis with a flu or something they can diagnose with help of a patient. In Switzerland you can call and if they think you should visit a 'real' doctor then you can directly make an appointment - see here (only in German). This is good especially if you have to provide service to areas with low population density where the doctors are far away physically but easily accessible trough broadband internet. OC you would need some regulation to ensure that the companies driving this think also about customers i.e. sick people instead of as it most likely is the case described in TFA money only. Apparently you can do both - care for people and make money. That I am afraid is a concept foreign to majority of health officials and bureaucrats.
well not sure about the 'fired' part but had similar problems with our subcontractor in India. This time it was not standard equipment and they dealt with low level support software that we in our grandiose corporation did not maintain any more. They refused majority of requests bringing me to boiling and it took me some time to realize that that was not because their incompetence but because if they did do what I wanted them to their costs would spiral out of the agreed level and make the whole thing unprofitable. Not sure if that was the same in your case but at least in mine it seems that they followed the script and use their brains only not to achieve mine satisfaction - their goal had only something remote to do with it and all with profitability of their enterprise which would be smaller if they did all we wanted. Well welcome to the great new world - a customer in the west is not the most important factor. Now what do you think will happen when $ eventually falls...
I think we should welcome our meteorite overlords and appreciate the fact that if the object is big enough its impact will remove the need to care about greenhouse gases, melting ice caps etc. - always look at the bright side of life!
MAD function only if both sides are assured of mutual destruction and there are no maniacs involved. The first part funtions also because the world in which we all live - earth would become very unattractive if US/USSR all out war took place. However if a maniac in small country A drops its bomb on small country B and annihilates it in a process the remaining forces of country B can then annihilate country A. The boss of country A lives in a nice place somewhere else. In this scenario - personal ambition of a maniac may cause use of nuclear weapons even if cost of it would be high. OTOH they can hope that they succeed i.e. country B will not answer. What if Iran attacks US with one bomb - US is not completely destroyed - do you think US forces will use nuclear weapons against Iran then? This is unknown - so they may assume that corrupt west is just all soft belly and do whatever they want as the possession of nuclear heads gives them advantage they did not have. On top of it all - maniacs can have skewed goals and hierarchy of values which allow them to accept nuclear disaster anyway. I'd say bomb them now before is too late.
well you can but it makes more fun to tell them suckers about righteous men etc. as per Ezekiel 25,17
Interesting question would be: can you buy stuff that is not worn/used by a "star"? I have impression that the answer here would be flat 'no' so what this means we are all shepple and if you are concious or not it simply makes no difference anymore - all is commerce.
Well it is not that drastic that is why we do not hear more of this and that is why legal systems in number of western countries did not collapse yet. It is simple - ask for 100kE/$ of damages and offer 1kE as an option i.e. court not involved if you pay 'reasonable' fine. You would be surprised to know how many people would refrain from legal action in such cases. Especially if letters in question refer to alleged consumption of (illegally acquired) pr0n.... Interestingly for some legal reason I did not really comprehend they can press such charges against you in any court in the country (that is how it works in Germany anyway) which has two benefits: it adds to your legal costs and ensures a judge that is likely to see things their way. But cavalry seems to be on its way at least in Germany they are discussing now to let us all pay a license fee for using a computer like device just to compensate for alleged theft so we are all 'saved'. To me it seems that not only the lawmakers in western world but the the whole lot of legal system is supporting a bunch of parasites.
A friend of my a lawyer specializing in representing clients attacked with legal letters (Germany) says that the practice is so wide spread that not only courts are overloaded but lawyers representing the blood suckers have work for years so lets look at the bright side: at last we found an activity that is not going to be off shored to China that soon.
well I am wondering who moderated parents post funny - after all if you laugh you either did not understand or this is rather hysterical laughter than anything else.