And that, my friend, is exactly the problem with socialism in general, and socialized medicine in particular.
Socialism is in fact a lot more dangerous to personal freedom than even communism: under communism each person decides how much one should work for the common good, and how much one needs for personal gain (which makes sure any large communist community is infeasible). Under socialism however, the government decides how much you should produce, and how much of that you should ever get back.
Oh yeah, and one more thing: most people forget that Hitler was largely a socialist!
Silly rabbit. State or Federal Government has no constitutional right to grant personal rights of any kind. They are limited to taking your rights and your property away from you...
Until they can make robots that can beat me in hand to hand combat after finishing a triathalon while running on batteries What's with the double standard? Would YOU be running on batteries during triathlon? At the very least you should be required to haul your own oxygen tank if you are to demand that a robot's PSU be self-contained...
Nothing from Maher or Randi Rodes/Air America either.
I gave you the link to Edwin Black's book (who is a respected author, wrote other critically acclaimed books such as IBM and the Holocaust, quite famous, and balanced enough). What else do you want?
They already make leaps of logic like "Bin Laden hit us, so let's invade Iraq," so just you wait for the upcoming "DDoS from a Chinese IP, tunneled through a Canadian ISP, so let's invade Venezuela" reasoning...
I claimed that today's Planned Parenthood and such have their origins in the nazi and the occult/satanic ideologies. I said nothing about when condoms were invented, but thanks for the strawman.
Here's some more reading on the Planned Parenthood style of family planning, the Nazis, and the occult:
Virtual Machine/emulation could be the answer here. Apple did the same by providing "Classic" environment to run MacOS 7-9 apps on OS X, and it worked well enough.
Microsoft already gives out free Virtual PC for windows, so they certainly have the technology... And I hate to admit it, but the speed of windows-on-windows emulation is just amazing. With hardware virtualization support you simply can't see a difference in performance between emulation and your native environment.
There's nothing wrong with family education/planning per se, just with the way it's done these days. Today's "education" consists of giving out condoms, carrots, and advice to preteens that goes something like this: "it's natural to have sex when you are 12, it's good to be gay, it's great to be promiscuous and "experiment", it's best to stick to oral/anal/manual so you don't suffer the consequences (and here are come booklets to teach you about that), or just use these free condoms/dams here; don't listed to your parents and hide your activities from them. And yeah, we can give you free IUDs/pills/abortions so long as you won't let your parents know"
I find it morbidly intriguing (and quite enlightening) that present-day "family planning" beliefs has its origins in the satanic/occult movement, and the nazi eugenics programs of yore.
That would certainly not be true in America where 70%+ of under-16 are sexually active, and one in four girls under 18 has an STD (here: www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/science/12std.html ).
Personally I heard that from a liberal CongressCritter quoted that during Bill Gates testimony last March. Apparently its some quote from a 60's TV show or something, meant to show that young people are no longer interested in math and science.
That's the problem with engineers: they are never content. Always searching for a better way. Always trying to change things.
So what if the new skin is crude, broken, inefficient, obstructive, and plain ugly to boot? Just bend over and accept the changes like everybody else. Or are you some kind of a terrorist.
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That's certainly better than Yahoo+Google merger that has EVIL written all over it.
And that, my friend, is exactly the problem with socialism in general, and socialized medicine in particular.
Socialism is in fact a lot more dangerous to personal freedom than even communism: under communism each person decides how much one should work for the common good, and how much one needs for personal gain (which makes sure any large communist community is infeasible). Under socialism however, the government decides how much you should produce, and how much of that you should ever get back.
Oh yeah, and one more thing: most people forget that Hitler was largely a socialist!
You know all those people typing IANAL?
It's not that they aren't lawers, it's the damn slashdot hiding Unicode character 2665 in their posts.
Ever tried carrying 2 iPhones in public? Or two watches? Or 2 pairs of sunglasses?
The looks you get one wouldn't believe.
Fast enough to play doom, quake, UT, and gnuchess (in that order).
Hell, my Palm PDA is fast enough to run quake...
Silly rabbit. State or Federal Government has no constitutional right to grant personal rights of any kind. They are limited to taking your rights and your property away from you...
As they say, Gentlemen, fire up your botnets (not that I know WTF Uwe is).
And you are a pedant and not a people person.
Would they actually license something like that to drive on public roads?
Well, everyone does it, pretty much. European royal family, folks in ancient Egipt and Rome, white supremacists, etc.
Nothing from Maher or Randi Rodes/Air America either.
I gave you the link to Edwin Black's book (who is a respected author, wrote other critically acclaimed books such as IBM and the Holocaust, quite famous, and balanced enough). What else do you want?
Ever heard of a Joe Job?
They already make leaps of logic like "Bin Laden hit us, so let's invade Iraq," so just you wait for the upcoming "DDoS from a Chinese IP, tunneled through a Canadian ISP, so let's invade Venezuela" reasoning...
Easy: just plant some child pornography on the victim's computer, and all will be forgiven.
I claimed that today's Planned Parenthood and such have their origins in the nazi and the occult/satanic ideologies. I said nothing about when condoms were invented, but thanks for the strawman.
Here's some more reading on the Planned Parenthood style of family planning, the Nazis, and the occult:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger
www.gateway.org/content/pdf/link_to_occult.pdf
www.happinessonline.org/MoralDrift/p15.htm
http://books.google.com/books?as_isbn=1568582587
Virtual Machine/emulation could be the answer here. Apple did the same by providing "Classic" environment to run MacOS 7-9 apps on OS X, and it worked well enough.
Microsoft already gives out free Virtual PC for windows, so they certainly have the technology... And I hate to admit it, but the speed of windows-on-windows emulation is just amazing. With hardware virtualization support you simply can't see a difference in performance between emulation and your native environment.
Having smelly feet all over their desktop is punishment enough...
What would this program think if it detected you periodically typing with just one hand?
There's nothing wrong with family education/planning per se, just with the way it's done these days. Today's "education" consists of giving out condoms, carrots, and advice to preteens that goes something like this: "it's natural to have sex when you are 12, it's good to be gay, it's great to be promiscuous and "experiment", it's best to stick to oral/anal/manual so you don't suffer the consequences (and here are come booklets to teach you about that), or just use these free condoms/dams here; don't listed to your parents and hide your activities from them. And yeah, we can give you free IUDs/pills/abortions so long as you won't let your parents know"
I find it morbidly intriguing (and quite enlightening) that present-day "family planning" beliefs has its origins in the satanic/occult movement, and the nazi eugenics programs of yore.
Genital HPV is a sexually transmitted disease, so I am not sure why its inclusion with other STDs would make the study worthless.
Ah yes, thanks for pointing that out. I did not say that properly of course; it should have been: 70%+ are sexually active by the time they are 16.
I can't find a source right now (not the sort of thing I bookmark). Here are some random hits from google agreeing with my point:
78% in Britain http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10023100
60%+ had oral sex: nymag.com/lifestyle/sex/annual/2005/15079/
66% of 12 graders had sex: http://www.aspeneducation.com/factsheetpromiscuity.html
Lots of others as well.
But 70%+ of teenagers in what country?
That would certainly not be true in America where 70%+ of under-16 are sexually active, and one in four girls under 18 has an STD (here: www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/science/12std.html ).
Personally I heard that from a liberal CongressCritter quoted that during Bill Gates testimony last March. Apparently its some quote from a 60's TV show or something, meant to show that young people are no longer interested in math and science.
That's the problem with engineers: they are never content. Always searching for a better way. Always trying to change things.
So what if the new skin is crude, broken, inefficient, obstructive, and plain ugly to boot? Just bend over and accept the changes like everybody else. Or are you some kind of a terrorist.
479 bytes x 100 comments makes how many additional crud kilobytes? How many extra minutes on dialup?