It was just announced that Microsoft has purchased GitHub, so people who don't like the GVFS name can just...git. And by the way, when "something sinister" is one of the multiple choices for guessing Microsoft's agenda, it's always a safe bet.
Exactly zero schoolchildren have been "slaughtered" by the "well-regulated militia".
According to the NRA, you are wrong. Here is a quote from NRA spokesghoul Dana Loesch, who is quoting the father of the Second Amendment, slaveowner George Mason:
"George Mason was one of the founding fathers, and he said ‘The militia is the whole of the people.’ It’s every man, it’s every woman, that is who the militia is. In the context of the time, a well-regulated militia meant an American man, an American woman, a citizen of the United States of America, who could operate and service their firearm."
I'm not sure if you got that, so I'll summarize for you: Every American citizen who can operate and service their firearm is the well-regulated militia. Every single school-shooter qualifies.
the number of bears has been on the decline, while bear attacks have increased. bears are still vastly more dangerous to children than guns.
Except the numbers don't bear that out.
Go to your link. Count the number of fatal bear attacks since 1999. Compare that number to the schoolchildren who have been slaughtered by the well-regulated militia since 1999. Then go fuck yourself.
since 1900 there have about 140 deaths from school shootings.
First of all, those 200 killed in bear attacks are since 1900. That's 118 years. Those "141 deaths from school shootings" you have referenced all happened since 1999. You must be from the John Lott school of bogus statistical analysis in support of well-regulated murderers of school children.
Why don't you compare those numbers again, but this time, since 1995? You will be surprised at the answer.
, I was simply referencing the utility of having a firearm which involves the love of a child, the sort of thing would not be possible if the grabbers had their way and rounded them all up
Just so we're clear, you are statistically more likely to use that gun of yours to kill a member of your family or yourself than you are to protect your 5 year-old child from a bear.
If you really cared about the child, the best thing you could do is turn in the gun. But let's be honest. This has nothing to do with the love of a child, does it?
HR departments will never, ever, be able to use blockchain anything. They all like to use proprietary systems for getting resumes, CVs, cover letters, job history, etc, and they'll never settle on anything standard. You start the application process. You are given the option of uploading a CV (which of course contains your job history). The very next page in the application process asks you to enter your job history. And every single company's application pages are completely different. Nothing standard. And then when you filled out everything and are ready to hit SUBMIT... wait, what's this? You are told that you first have to fix the field marked with an "*" except THERE ARE NO FIELDS MARKED WITH A FUCKING ASTERISK. And don't hit SAVE and then SUBMIT because you have to hit SUBMIT before SAVE or it wipes everything out and you have to start over, which is going to be hard since you just put your foot through the monitor.
And if you guys think the system for applying for tech jobs is bad, god help you if you ever apply for an academic job where you have to submit transcripts and teaching statements and research statements and three references from people who are scattered all over the fucking world or on sabbatical or doing research in New Guinea.
Another possibility is Trump is not an ideologue and acts on hunches that are telling him something is beneficial to the country at the moment, without necessarily understanding (or trying to understand) why.
This is my favorite flavor of Trump apologia. It's the "Father Knows Best" argument for why he's really the greatest president ever.
This is also the theory of Scott Adams, who is now known mainly for making excuses for anything Trump does, and for being a feckless cunt.
All these broken promisies, the first two absolutely critical to his base, and still his poll #s are at or near 40%.
Are those the same polls that said Hillary would win?
Anyway, if you do a deep dive into those polls, you'll find that he's still an historically unpopular president. As long as he's sufficiently racist and does things like take children away from asylum seekers, he'll keep drawing his 5,000 at rallies, but he's about as popular with most Americans as he is with Melania.
The administration has also discussed invoking the Defense Production Act of 1950, which allows the federal government to intervene in private industry in the name of national security.
Finally we have a president who truly understands the value of "free markets" without government interference.
At least Trump is demonstrating that every one of the most hallowed conservative principles really don't mean a thing to conservatives. They never did. It was always a con job. Trump could perform an abortion with a rusty screwdriver while raising taxes and banning guns on Fifth Avenue and conservatives would still meekly seek his approval and make excuses for him as long as he continues to send up the racist bat-signal.
Keep in mind we're playing in the globalist big leagues now and if your company doesn't span a nation, if not multiple nations, it isn't even a piece on the table at this point.
Unless America starts requiring reciprocation clauses in regards to corporate ownership/financial investment by foreign nations (ie to deal with china's 51 percent pro-Chinese ownership requirements), America is only going to circle the drain faster with a bunch of large corporate breakups without equivalents being done to their international competitors.
The days of single nation corporations which can be easily influenced by a single government are long past.
You're right. I was wrong. It wasn't two years, it was 18 months. so sue me.
Please adjust my above comment to read "ONE YEAR" for both Trump and Obama, and "first anniversary" instead of second anniversary.
Everything else is correct, and I sincerely apologize for calling Scott Adama a "feckless cunt", since it's unfair to all the feckless cunts out there.
Health care circa 1840 was not a system, it was individuals dealing with doctors.
In 1840, almost every hospital was non-profit. And the vast majority of health care in the US was not provided by hospitals or doctors. Sick people relied mostly on home remedies, midwives, local folk healers, or in the case of African Americans, the obeah or conjurer.
Here's an interesting little blurb about US health care in the 1800s that you might find interesting. Remember, this is an era that you're pointing to as a model ("individuals dealing with doctors")..
The diploma mills were encouraged by a public that abhorred government regulation or any interference with the rights of the common man to do as he wished. There were no licensing requirements for medical personnel or professional oversight. In the face of declining respectability, physicians, anxious to reestablish their credentials, began to use more extreme depletion methods. Their model was Benjamin Rush, who as a leading physician at the turn of the century proposed using more extreme bleeding and purging. The poorly trained could point to the dramatic effects of their therapies as a form of success.
But not all people accepted this “heroic” medicine. The result was a proliferation of competing health initiatives, a growth of medical sectarians such as homeopaths, hydropaths, new botanical theorists such as Thomsonianism as well as fitness gurus such as Sylvester Graham and John Harvey Kellogg. The sugar-coated pill advertised by a variety of entrepreneurs also competed freely. They had only to patent the shape of the bottles. There was no control over their ingredients. The medical scene in the nineteenth century was a chaotic free-for-all.
As American doctors moved to prove themselves through their heroic therapies, European doctors were moving in the opposite direction by drawing on scientific methods. Laboratory studies had begun to extract the key ingredients of herbal remedies such as quinine from the cinchona bark that was one of the very few curative remedies available for malaria. In France doctors were using autopsies to evaluate particular therapies while investigating mortality rates for those same procedures. They concluded that the time-honored therapies did not work and could cause harm. The European studies were putting science to use to evaluate their traditions and found them wanting. Thus Europeans drastically moderated their actions in the face of disease.
Americans rejected both the science and the idea of moderation. Even the most forward-looking physician in America, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (the father of the future Supreme Court justice), a proponent of clean hands, ridiculed the idea that science could have any practical value for the medical profession. In the absence of verifiable cures doctors who wanted to follow the European trends to let nature heal were accused of “therapeutic nihilism” that could destroy them as a profession. Americans, the orthodox argued, were superior and did not have to follow the practices of their weaker European forebears.
They didn't learn their lesson back in the '80s, and now here they are pulling shit again.
The only way to deal with corporations is for the government to stand on their necks until they behave. In the absence of serious and unrelenting regulation, corporations will always, always try to fuck everyone. They'd throw a baby into a wood chipper for a 5-cent increase in stock price. Thomas Jefferson knew this. James Madison knew this.
We'll have to wait until some semblance of sanity has been restored to Congress, but AT&T should really be broken up again, and it should be the opening salvo in a number of corporate breakups.
Of course not. What you would do is, being a sensible responsible adult with more foresight than a goldfish, researched ahead of time what options are available to you instead of waiting until something bad happens.
So, you're just going to ignore all the coupons and loyalty discounts and go with whoever had the best price on a chest intubation three years ago? And what if the hospital that has the best prices on chest intubation only has surgeons that charge twice as much to do repair of the abdominal wall? What's that? You didn't know that when you go to a hospital the doctor, pathologists, radiologists are all separate corporate entities? You didn't realize that the emergency room doctor will bill separately from the doctor on the surgical ward? That the anesthesiologist is also a separate corporate entity?
So, when you have all that non-goldfish-like foresight, you better also be able to do very complex analysis. And before you tell me how you're going to have an app to figure all that stuff, remember that doctors move from hospital to hospital all the time. Oh, and the make of your app requires access to your medical records.
Except it has worked, for the thousands of years before the last few hundred when the idea of non-free market based healthcare came to be.
No, it has not. Give me an example of a healthcare system - anywhere, at any time - that has been profit-driven and "free market" and worked.
You have just demonstrated "sarcasm" in response to sarcasm.
I wasn't being sarcastic. The government of California is doing a good job statewide, and the local governments are even better. You'd be surprised how nice things can be when you get rid of all the Republican jackoffs. After Texas, it's absolutely refreshing.
Currently insurance companies have to act as our collective heathcare bargaining agencies, because we are forbidden from forming buyer clubs to do the negotiating ourselves.
Observation of healthcare worldwide over a 50 year period teaches us that the best "buyer clubs" for health care are run at the national level.
There has never been a successful profit-based "free market" health care system anywhere in the world.
You missed the Subject of this story: "... trial rollout...". That means what they're doing today is intended to expand tomorrow. The fact that it's only state-owned vehicles today is irrelevant. The time to object to this idea is now, not after it becomes mandatory for all vehicles.
It depends. If the idea is to eventually have all state-owned vehicles with digital license plates with built-in GPS , then I'm all for it. If the idea is to have all vehicles in private hands with digital license plates with built-in GPS then I'm against it.
Fortunately, California is a state that has led the nation in privacy protection laws. My main reason for pointing this out is that I was initially responding to a comment of "OMFG! CALIFORNIA IS 1984 NOW AND THEY'RE ALL DOOOMED!"
The rest of the country seems obsessed with what California does. We're fine, thank you, now please leave us alone.
You would if providers were required to publish up-front the prices for those services (regardless of means of payment).
No, you wouldn't. If your kid is hurt in a rollover accident, you're not going to have the ambulance wait while you google which trauma center has the best price on chest intubations.
There is a reason that "free market", profit-based health care has never worked anywhere in the world.
All of these groups, and the private insurance companies that serve the middle class, would be helped by:
If you include "private insurance companies" in the health care discussion, you've already gone well beyond anything like a "free market", because the consumer of health care is no longer the customer of the health care provider.
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It was just announced that Microsoft has purchased GitHub, so people who don't like the GVFS name can just...git. And by the way, when "something sinister" is one of the multiple choices for guessing Microsoft's agenda, it's always a safe bet.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/...
According to the NRA, you are wrong. Here is a quote from NRA spokesghoul Dana Loesch, who is quoting the father of the Second Amendment, slaveowner George Mason:
I'm not sure if you got that, so I'll summarize for you: Every American citizen who can operate and service their firearm is the well-regulated militia. Every single school-shooter qualifies.
So, what you're saying is that statistically, well-regulated militias slaughtering school children isn't really a problem for you. Noted.
Except the numbers don't bear that out.
Go to your link. Count the number of fatal bear attacks since 1999. Compare that number to the schoolchildren who have been slaughtered by the well-regulated militia since 1999. Then go fuck yourself.
Buy Overload. It's a terrific game. I've been playing it on and off today, and it's everything you'd hope for from a modern version of Descent.
The only reason I'm giving it a 7.5 instead of a 9 out of 10 is because it does not contain any anime tiddies.
But seriously, Overload is very, very good.
First of all, those 200 killed in bear attacks are since 1900. That's 118 years. Those "141 deaths from school shootings" you have referenced all happened since 1999. You must be from the John Lott school of bogus statistical analysis in support of well-regulated murderers of school children.
Why don't you compare those numbers again, but this time, since 1995? You will be surprised at the answer.
Just so we're clear, you are statistically more likely to use that gun of yours to kill a member of your family or yourself than you are to protect your 5 year-old child from a bear.
If you really cared about the child, the best thing you could do is turn in the gun. But let's be honest. This has nothing to do with the love of a child, does it?
Unfortunately, you mistook your wife for the bear and now the 5 year-old has lost his mother.
Also, I'm pretty sure that no school shooting in the US has involved a bear.
Here's your "Trump free market":
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
HR departments will never, ever, be able to use blockchain anything. They all like to use proprietary systems for getting resumes, CVs, cover letters, job history, etc, and they'll never settle on anything standard. You start the application process. You are given the option of uploading a CV (which of course contains your job history). The very next page in the application process asks you to enter your job history. And every single company's application pages are completely different. Nothing standard. And then when you filled out everything and are ready to hit SUBMIT... wait, what's this? You are told that you first have to fix the field marked with an "*" except THERE ARE NO FIELDS MARKED WITH A FUCKING ASTERISK. And don't hit SAVE and then SUBMIT because you have to hit SUBMIT before SAVE or it wipes everything out and you have to start over, which is going to be hard since you just put your foot through the monitor.
And if you guys think the system for applying for tech jobs is bad, god help you if you ever apply for an academic job where you have to submit transcripts and teaching statements and research statements and three references from people who are scattered all over the fucking world or on sabbatical or doing research in New Guinea.
This is my favorite flavor of Trump apologia. It's the "Father Knows Best" argument for why he's really the greatest president ever.
This is also the theory of Scott Adams, who is now known mainly for making excuses for anything Trump does, and for being a feckless cunt.
Are those the same polls that said Hillary would win?
Anyway, if you do a deep dive into those polls, you'll find that he's still an historically unpopular president. As long as he's sufficiently racist and does things like take children away from asylum seekers, he'll keep drawing his 5,000 at rallies, but he's about as popular with most Americans as he is with Melania.
Finally we have a president who truly understands the value of "free markets" without government interference.
At least Trump is demonstrating that every one of the most hallowed conservative principles really don't mean a thing to conservatives. They never did. It was always a con job. Trump could perform an abortion with a rusty screwdriver while raising taxes and banning guns on Fifth Avenue and conservatives would still meekly seek his approval and make excuses for him as long as he continues to send up the racist bat-signal.
A reckoning will come.
That is so much horseshit.
You're right. I was wrong. It wasn't two years, it was 18 months. so sue me.
Please adjust my above comment to read "ONE YEAR" for both Trump and Obama, and "first anniversary" instead of second anniversary.
Everything else is correct, and I sincerely apologize for calling Scott Adama a "feckless cunt", since it's unfair to all the feckless cunts out there.
The same people who pay for it now: you and me.
If you settle down for a second and give it a moment's thought, you'll understand just how poorly-informed your questions really are.
In 1840, almost every hospital was non-profit. And the vast majority of health care in the US was not provided by hospitals or doctors. Sick people relied mostly on home remedies, midwives, local folk healers, or in the case of African Americans, the obeah or conjurer.
Here's an interesting little blurb about US health care in the 1800s that you might find interesting. Remember, this is an era that you're pointing to as a model ("individuals dealing with doctors")..
They didn't learn their lesson back in the '80s, and now here they are pulling shit again.
The only way to deal with corporations is for the government to stand on their necks until they behave. In the absence of serious and unrelenting regulation, corporations will always, always try to fuck everyone. They'd throw a baby into a wood chipper for a 5-cent increase in stock price. Thomas Jefferson knew this. James Madison knew this.
We'll have to wait until some semblance of sanity has been restored to Congress, but AT&T should really be broken up again, and it should be the opening salvo in a number of corporate breakups.
So, you're just going to ignore all the coupons and loyalty discounts and go with whoever had the best price on a chest intubation three years ago? And what if the hospital that has the best prices on chest intubation only has surgeons that charge twice as much to do repair of the abdominal wall? What's that? You didn't know that when you go to a hospital the doctor, pathologists, radiologists are all separate corporate entities? You didn't realize that the emergency room doctor will bill separately from the doctor on the surgical ward? That the anesthesiologist is also a separate corporate entity?
So, when you have all that non-goldfish-like foresight, you better also be able to do very complex analysis. And before you tell me how you're going to have an app to figure all that stuff, remember that doctors move from hospital to hospital all the time. Oh, and the make of your app requires access to your medical records.
No, it has not. Give me an example of a healthcare system - anywhere, at any time - that has been profit-driven and "free market" and worked.
I wasn't being sarcastic. The government of California is doing a good job statewide, and the local governments are even better. You'd be surprised how nice things can be when you get rid of all the Republican jackoffs. After Texas, it's absolutely refreshing.
It's good to rely on a government that does what we tell it to do, using our vote and public forms.
Observation of healthcare worldwide over a 50 year period teaches us that the best "buyer clubs" for health care are run at the national level.
There has never been a successful profit-based "free market" health care system anywhere in the world.
It depends. If the idea is to eventually have all state-owned vehicles with digital license plates with built-in GPS , then I'm all for it. If the idea is to have all vehicles in private hands with digital license plates with built-in GPS then I'm against it.
Fortunately, California is a state that has led the nation in privacy protection laws. My main reason for pointing this out is that I was initially responding to a comment of "OMFG! CALIFORNIA IS 1984 NOW AND THEY'RE ALL DOOOMED!"
The rest of the country seems obsessed with what California does. We're fine, thank you, now please leave us alone.
No, you wouldn't. If your kid is hurt in a rollover accident, you're not going to have the ambulance wait while you google which trauma center has the best price on chest intubations.
There is a reason that "free market", profit-based health care has never worked anywhere in the world.
If you include "private insurance companies" in the health care discussion, you've already gone well beyond anything like a "free market", because the consumer of health care is no longer the customer of the health care provider.