All those printer cartridge makers who force you to replace the whole cartridge when you run out of just one color are salivating at the prospect of selling a replacement scent cartridge with 20000 different tanks.
When you move from one home to the next, as you are packing, if you come across a carton that came from the previous residence but has never been opened, save yourself time, and throw away the carton without even opening it. Use a modified version of that rule. Dont upload any song you have not listened to in the last 3 years. Use the find command with -atime modifier to find the songs that have been accessed in the last 3 years.
Plug-in is going to be very popular, among the malware purveyors ! looking for some automated way to find all the holes in the websites. Though this is going to create some new exploits in some pages, it is good in the long run. It is essentially spraying red paint on all unlocked cars in a neighborhood. Some cars will be burgled in the short run. But all car owners will start locking their cars, in the long run.
I agree with you, a tax funded single payer system would be the best option. I was replying to
nschubach casting the points in terms he/she would understand. We preaching to our choir, and them preaching their choir will lead to endless chatter and no consensus. The same people who claim "taxation is theft, government never produces anything of value" jump to defend government spending on tourism promotion. We have to make them see the connection. That was what I was trying to do
On your first point
Let's see, I am dying of cancer, do I want treatment that costs X? Everyone will say yes, so the question becomes "Can I afford not to die slowly and in pain?"
:
I already made that point. Everyone wants a Lexus. And everyone will end up with monthly payments of a Lexus. Either we pay it or at some point for some treatment we have to do cost/benefit analysis. I would rather have the government with our elected representatives make that analysis, rather than private insurance company executives. The downside of elected reps making the decision is that they have very deep pockets and are motivated by reelection and votes than true cost/benefit analysis. This is the sticking point. Unless we have the collective will to say, "yes you need treatment X, otherwise you will die a slow and painful death. But sadly the society can not afford that treatment". If you cant bring yourself to say that, be prepared to pay huge taxes for healthcare.
Packaging it in Chrome means that you get a significant user base without requiring people to install *another* client.
Isn't that how Microsoft became evil? They bundled in windows certified printer driver to nullify the advantage WordPerfect had, that it would print on any printer. They bundled in IE to kill Netscape...
I'm not sure I understand why the federal government is more efficient and/or intelligent than any other method... What makes the federal government more capable/cheaper/efficient than the ability for providers to compete and offer their insurance to anyone across the country instead of being limited by state?
Free markets will work only when the consumer makes rational informed choices. It would work if everyone is paying for their own healthcare with their own money. Everyone thinks "this treatment costs X and the benefit is Y, do I want it?". This will drive down the cost and give you all the benefits of competitive marketplace.
What we have instead is NOT even, "I pay a fixed amount to some health insurance company. Then I get to the all-you-can-eat buffet of healthcare". First problem, everyone feels entitled to Lexus level care because they have paid the premium. Second most wont buy insurance till they are sick.
But what we have in USA is "your employer pays the insurance company to pay the doctor and the pharmacy to deliver healthcare". The ultimate consumer is not free to shop for the best health service. It is bundled with a even bigger issue employment. Once the consumer is constrained, the other party will exploit their advantage to the hilt. That is what going on right now. The insurance company's customer is not you. It is your employer. It will deliver just enough care, so that people don't quit en masse. That is all the service expected from them by your employer.
Remember two days ago there was a thread here about State government paying for tourism advertisements? Though most merchants would benefit by it they would/could not create a voluntary pool to do the advertising. Some free loaders will game the system by not contributing to the pool, figuring they will get the benefit anyway, why pay for it. The only way to fund it is through a tax. This is corporate welfare if the tax is on general public. If the tax is on the likely beneficiaries of the advertisement pool, it is a mandate to participate in a forced pool. Got it?
Now go back and show me what part of the current system in USA is really free market striving its best to deliver the best care at the lowest price to the ultimate customers?
I think there was this short story by O' Henry, written around 1900 about someone breaking shop windows to go to jail for the winter every year.
The Cop and the Anthem. http://www.classicreader.com/book/1757/1/
By no means do I have blind faith in them, but I feel like ICANN will be pretty sure to not allow some random dude in eastern Europe to register.bank.
No not a random dude from eastern Europe. But a random analyst from Goldman Sachs consolidating a bunch of random dudes from anywhere in the world to create a portfolio of high risk/high reward venture exploiting the emerging opportunities due to the relaxed regulatory environment in the highspeed data networks, (note to secratary: Bradley, sprinkle some synergy, paradigm and out-of-the-box in there, will you)? Definitely.
GPUs are not really that much faster. GPUs are essentially tiny CPUs with very limited, I mean extremely limited cache/register/instruction sets. And they throw in hundreds or even thousands of these together in a card. Essentially GPUs are large number of weak processors. Some problems are "embarrassingly parallel", painting a 3D scene on a 2D screen or testing a guess passwords of an encrypted file. Some other problems are quite parallel but you need to aggregate the data at the end, like multiplying a matrix by a vector. Some problems are very difficult to parallelize. Decomposing a mesh/grid of a 3D domain into million small tetrahedrons and hexahedrons is extremely difficult to parallelize.
It just so happens, guessing a password can be done by a relatively weak CPU and one can pack thousands of such weak CPUs in one card and buy it cheaply. That is all. Don't hold your breath waiting for GPU to solve the Navier-Stokes equation for the Large Eddy simulation with particle combustion anytime soon.
One small problem. Market cap of ORCL is 167 billion dollars. GOOG is 156 billion. Very curiously the difference seems to be twice the amount ORCL is dunning GOOG for. I leave it to the day traders to argue this is what the market is valuing the value of the law suite.
These guys are big fish, swimming with the sharks. For example Gurle joined in Jan 2010. Just 18 months with the company. All the fired ones seem to be the MBA types who move in just to dress the company up for sale or IPO. Not the founders and early grunts who toil in garages and warehouses during the very early days living on pizza, sleeping in the office, desperately churning out code on a shoe string budget, not knowing if they can make pay roll next month.
These suits ate little fish in their time. They got eaten by bigger fish. They will again start eating little fish once again. Just stay out of their jaws, if you can.
why is it that always republicans are behind the gravest, dastardliest shit, and they are behind less dastardly shit with a democrat close to their aisle ?
what the fuck is wrong with republicans ?
Don't blame just the Republicans. Blame the gutless Democrats who don't stand up to them too.
At least the 10% who participate in the old ways would know what protections they have about free speech. And they will be sure no private company would be able to data mine, who influenced whom and find the real source of ideas that shift the power to the people instead of vested interests and "take care of them".
It is a totally biased test. They would use some terminology like "Object Oriented" and disqualify Fortran from running. Throwing the word "object" does not make it objective. Fortran will beat C++ hollow.
Just that you will go mad figuring out the Hollerith field way of specifying strings and will never complete the project. But if you actually got the code to compile and run, Fortran would be the most awesomest language.
Businesses benefit from increased patronage. Residents benefit from more affluent businesses. How do you think Florida manages without state income tax?
So the benefits of business profits will trickle down to the taxpayers eventually. What is galling is often the same people who tolerant of such taxpayer funded largess to the businesses argue that government does nothing well, government is a parasite, taxation is theft.
Let me tell you why the businesses don't pool their own money to create advertising. It is because of the free-loader problem. Some businesses would refuse to contribute to the pool, because they will get the benefit anyway. The only way to create such an ad program is by forcibly collect taxes from everyone and then fund it. Or you have to mandate the membership to the ad pool.
It is not so different from healthcare. We have mandated that Hospitals can turn no one away. Now people would not buy any health insurance because they can go to the hospital after they get sick and they will be treated. It is expensive to deliver healthcare this way. It is quite painful for the uninsured too. But the tragedy of the commons is that, there will always be welchers and free loaders. And the only way to avoid it is using a health insurance mandate or use tax money to cover all the uninsured or to allow hospitals to turn the dying uninsured patients away.
If you support government spending on tourism ads, you should at least understand the complexities of the health care issue. Hope you do.
How about flipping that around. Letting sport teams to build their own stadiums but let it be a 100% tax free zone. No taxes on employees who work at the stadium (ie. no income tax), no sales tax, no building permits or fees, etc. We'll leave property tax in there to let them have policy/fire coverage. But we'd also enact a law the government for charging tax to out-of-state visitors who spend money at businesses near such venues. After all, the government didn't bring them in, private money did. They shouldn't have any right to tax them. See how absurd that picture is yet? Probably, but for all the wrong reasons.
Why should the stadia be 100% tax free? They will be treated just like any other business. No special privileges. If the mom and pop coffee store pays taxes, the stadia owners can pay the tax too. If the employees of the landscaping company pay income taxes the stadia employees can pay the same tax. Just treat them like any other business, with no subsidies.
The corporate owned media has completely brainwashed Americans into thinking that the corporations have to be coddled and allowed unlimited tax-deductible expenses in the elections, and be taxed at negative rates, given huge subsidies and then spend tax dollars to advertize for them, only then they will create a few mimimum wage jobs. We have the lowest corporate tax rate in the last 60 years, and it is not creating jobs. Bush administration was very lax with enforcement of all regulations. It did not create jobs.
It is high time we Americans stop subsidizing the corporations and ask them to earn a living on their own.
No, it isn't. Or are you arguing if a state, say Florida or Nevada pays for TV advertisement enticing would-be tourists to take a trip there and pour money into their local businesses? C'mon, you can't be that dumb.
That is corporate welfare. There is nothing to stop these businesses to pool money together to launch an ad campaign. Why should the State pay for advertisement? It is the same local businesses who bellyache and bitch to high heavens about government spending and deficit.
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Responded without reading the posting in full. Running away shamefacedly.
Don't you think this might incorrectly flag people who send out lots of chain emails to all their friends?
I, for one, hope so.
My! you talk as though that is a bad thing!
All those printer cartridge makers who force you to replace the whole cartridge when you run out of just one color are salivating at the prospect of selling a replacement scent cartridge with 20000 different tanks.
When you move from one home to the next, as you are packing, if you come across a carton that came from the previous residence but has never been opened, save yourself time, and throw away the carton without even opening it. Use a modified version of that rule. Dont upload any song you have not listened to in the last 3 years. Use the find command with -atime modifier to find the songs that have been accessed in the last 3 years.
Plug-in is going to be very popular, among the malware purveyors ! looking for some automated way to find all the holes in the websites. Though this is going to create some new exploits in some pages, it is good in the long run. It is essentially spraying red paint on all unlocked cars in a neighborhood. Some cars will be burgled in the short run. But all car owners will start locking their cars, in the long run.
On your first point
Let's see, I am dying of cancer, do I want treatment that costs X? Everyone will say yes, so the question becomes "Can I afford not to die slowly and in pain?"
:
I already made that point. Everyone wants a Lexus. And everyone will end up with monthly payments of a Lexus. Either we pay it or at some point for some treatment we have to do cost/benefit analysis. I would rather have the government with our elected representatives make that analysis, rather than private insurance company executives. The downside of elected reps making the decision is that they have very deep pockets and are motivated by reelection and votes than true cost/benefit analysis. This is the sticking point. Unless we have the collective will to say, "yes you need treatment X, otherwise you will die a slow and painful death. But sadly the society can not afford that treatment". If you cant bring yourself to say that, be prepared to pay huge taxes for healthcare.
Packaging it in Chrome means that you get a significant user base without requiring people to install *another* client.
Isn't that how Microsoft became evil? They bundled in windows certified printer driver to nullify the advantage WordPerfect had, that it would print on any printer. They bundled in IE to kill Netscape...
I'm not sure I understand why the federal government is more efficient and/or intelligent than any other method... What makes the federal government more capable/cheaper/efficient than the ability for providers to compete and offer their insurance to anyone across the country instead of being limited by state?
Free markets will work only when the consumer makes rational informed choices. It would work if everyone is paying for their own healthcare with their own money. Everyone thinks "this treatment costs X and the benefit is Y, do I want it?". This will drive down the cost and give you all the benefits of competitive marketplace.
What we have instead is NOT even, "I pay a fixed amount to some health insurance company. Then I get to the all-you-can-eat buffet of healthcare". First problem, everyone feels entitled to Lexus level care because they have paid the premium. Second most wont buy insurance till they are sick.
But what we have in USA is "your employer pays the insurance company to pay the doctor and the pharmacy to deliver healthcare". The ultimate consumer is not free to shop for the best health service. It is bundled with a even bigger issue employment. Once the consumer is constrained, the other party will exploit their advantage to the hilt. That is what going on right now. The insurance company's customer is not you. It is your employer. It will deliver just enough care, so that people don't quit en masse. That is all the service expected from them by your employer.
Remember two days ago there was a thread here about State government paying for tourism advertisements? Though most merchants would benefit by it they would/could not create a voluntary pool to do the advertising. Some free loaders will game the system by not contributing to the pool, figuring they will get the benefit anyway, why pay for it. The only way to fund it is through a tax. This is corporate welfare if the tax is on general public. If the tax is on the likely beneficiaries of the advertisement pool, it is a mandate to participate in a forced pool. Got it?
Now go back and show me what part of the current system in USA is really free market striving its best to deliver the best care at the lowest price to the ultimate customers?
I think there was this short story by O' Henry, written around 1900 about someone breaking shop windows to go to jail for the winter every year. The Cop and the Anthem. http://www.classicreader.com/book/1757/1/
By no means do I have blind faith in them, but I feel like ICANN will be pretty sure to not allow some random dude in eastern Europe to register .bank.
No not a random dude from eastern Europe. But a random analyst from Goldman Sachs consolidating a bunch of random dudes from anywhere in the world to create a portfolio of high risk/high reward venture exploiting the emerging opportunities due to the relaxed regulatory environment in the highspeed data networks, (note to secratary: Bradley, sprinkle some synergy, paradigm and out-of-the-box in there, will you)? Definitely.
It just so happens, guessing a password can be done by a relatively weak CPU and one can pack thousands of such weak CPUs in one card and buy it cheaply. That is all. Don't hold your breath waiting for GPU to solve the Navier-Stokes equation for the Large Eddy simulation with particle combustion anytime soon.
One small problem. Market cap of ORCL is 167 billion dollars. GOOG is 156 billion. Very curiously the difference seems to be twice the amount ORCL is dunning GOOG for. I leave it to the day traders to argue this is what the market is valuing the value of the law suite.
These suits ate little fish in their time. They got eaten by bigger fish. They will again start eating little fish once again. Just stay out of their jaws, if you can.
. You can brutalize your toaster, but not a ...
I am a toaster, you insensitive clod!, and when I am done toasting, I also help in the drive in counter.
The question is what is harmed. In this it looks like it is harmful to Microsoft's market share and profits.
why is it that always republicans are behind the gravest, dastardliest shit, and they are behind less dastardly shit with a democrat close to their aisle ? what the fuck is wrong with republicans ?
Don't blame just the Republicans. Blame the gutless Democrats who don't stand up to them too.
Please make it a car analogy. Wallet analogies are not accepted here.
$500,000 in bit coin is worth almost 8, yes eight, repeat eight US Dollars.
At least the 10% who participate in the old ways would know what protections they have about free speech. And they will be sure no private company would be able to data mine, who influenced whom and find the real source of ideas that shift the power to the people instead of vested interests and "take care of them".
The derivative
of the sine function equals
the cosine function
Words folded in
three lines
haiku. NOT
You need an ah-ha moment, otherwise it is not a haiku, like:
Boy pisses
Mountain shakes
Reflection in puddle.
Just that you will go mad figuring out the Hollerith field way of specifying strings and will never complete the project. But if you actually got the code to compile and run, Fortran would be the most awesomest language.
Businesses benefit from increased patronage. Residents benefit from more affluent businesses. How do you think Florida manages without state income tax?
So the benefits of business profits will trickle down to the taxpayers eventually. What is galling is often the same people who tolerant of such taxpayer funded largess to the businesses argue that government does nothing well, government is a parasite, taxation is theft.
Let me tell you why the businesses don't pool their own money to create advertising. It is because of the free-loader problem. Some businesses would refuse to contribute to the pool, because they will get the benefit anyway. The only way to create such an ad program is by forcibly collect taxes from everyone and then fund it. Or you have to mandate the membership to the ad pool.
It is not so different from healthcare. We have mandated that Hospitals can turn no one away. Now people would not buy any health insurance because they can go to the hospital after they get sick and they will be treated. It is expensive to deliver healthcare this way. It is quite painful for the uninsured too. But the tragedy of the commons is that, there will always be welchers and free loaders. And the only way to avoid it is using a health insurance mandate or use tax money to cover all the uninsured or to allow hospitals to turn the dying uninsured patients away.
If you support government spending on tourism ads, you should at least understand the complexities of the health care issue. Hope you do.
How about flipping that around. Letting sport teams to build their own stadiums but let it be a 100% tax free zone. No taxes on employees who work at the stadium (ie. no income tax), no sales tax, no building permits or fees, etc. We'll leave property tax in there to let them have policy/fire coverage. But we'd also enact a law the government for charging tax to out-of-state visitors who spend money at businesses near such venues. After all, the government didn't bring them in, private money did. They shouldn't have any right to tax them. See how absurd that picture is yet? Probably, but for all the wrong reasons.
Why should the stadia be 100% tax free? They will be treated just like any other business. No special privileges. If the mom and pop coffee store pays taxes, the stadia owners can pay the tax too. If the employees of the landscaping company pay income taxes the stadia employees can pay the same tax. Just treat them like any other business, with no subsidies.
The corporate owned media has completely brainwashed Americans into thinking that the corporations have to be coddled and allowed unlimited tax-deductible expenses in the elections, and be taxed at negative rates, given huge subsidies and then spend tax dollars to advertize for them, only then they will create a few mimimum wage jobs. We have the lowest corporate tax rate in the last 60 years, and it is not creating jobs. Bush administration was very lax with enforcement of all regulations. It did not create jobs.
It is high time we Americans stop subsidizing the corporations and ask them to earn a living on their own.
No, it isn't. Or are you arguing if a state, say Florida or Nevada pays for TV advertisement enticing would-be tourists to take a trip there and pour money into their local businesses? C'mon, you can't be that dumb.
That is corporate welfare. There is nothing to stop these businesses to pool money together to launch an ad campaign. Why should the State pay for advertisement? It is the same local businesses who bellyache and bitch to high heavens about government spending and deficit.
It's the repeat of the same issues coders had with MSN Channels, Active Desktop, VB, ActiveX, .NET1.0, .NET2.0 and they seem to never learn.
No, it is not that they never learn. It is that a new generation suckers are being conned every few years. There are suckers being born every minute.