1. You can't pick and choose who is right. In 2007 the democratically held Senate used the same gimmick to try and unsuccessfully block the same sorts of appointments by then President George W. Bush. Harry Reid deployed the same tactic to prevent the President from appointing people. It didn't work then.... it didn't work now.
Fact is you can't say this unconstitutional now and not hold the same objections when Bush did it. Fact is the senate was in recess and the house was using a gimmick to pretend the senate was in session. Fact is the courts have not yet weighed in about the use of this gimmick. It may take years for this to work its way to the Supreme Court. Eventually it will be appealed to the conservative court and how they decide may or may not be in favor of the President. But until SCOTUS decides, this is mostly political hot air. Until then this is the broken system we have... where political parties try and destroy each other rather than doing their job of doing their work for the citizens of the US.
2. Obamas order is not the law of the land. This is a temporary executive order. Congress would still need to pass it for these folks to become legalized, so it is meaningless except as a suck up to the latino vote. There is nothing permanently binding in it since the president does not make the laws. You seem to confuse what a presidential order is vs a law.
3. Free exercise of religion sure. That is guaranteed by the constitution and these institutions indeed can do whatever they want on their own and independently of the government. Just as religious schools can operate independently and wish to do so so they can teach creationism instead of evolution. But like all institutions, if they take government money... there are strings attached since the government cannot favor establishment of any religion.
And so religious medical institutions cannot demand the government make allowances for their particular view because this makes the government a tacit participant in a particular religious ideology. This is about choice. The religious institutions want to have it both ways. They want to choose to involve themselves with the government programs and yet they don't want to have to abide by the restrictions placed on the government by the constitution.
If they want to not provide birth control, nobody is forcing them to. But they cannot participate in healthcare that is tied up in some sort of governmental program. The establishment clause makes this the case. There cannot be government backed exercise of religion which is what these institutions are trying for.
How would you like it if muslim organizations were also saying that certain muslim practices needed to be implemented across our entire national system of care because they have the right to free exercise of religion but also want to be part of our health exchanges. People would be screaming about Sharia Law being imposed upon everyone.
Well such is the case here. You perhaps can't see it the same way, but I don't think you would be happy if this were other religious groups trying to insert themselves into your medicare or child health or national insurance exchange system.
No religious hospital or insurer is "required" to participate in the government exchanges. But if they choose to do it. They cannot discriminate based upon religious ideology.
So no I will not be calling the WH to complain and I think my principles are just fine. You just have some beliefs which are divergent from mine.
1. Recess appointments are constitutional. Article II section 2. Even George Washington had a recess appointment. 2 The dream act hasn't been put in place by anyone. The president is just doing what every president since Reagan's Amnesty has done. He just made it a political football by by stating so publicly to score political points with a constituent group. 3. No insurer should be allowed to deny reasonable medical care based upon religious ideology if they are participating in government programs. This is also in the constitution.
Texting in a car is one thing. People figuring out how to file a flight plan, do all of the calculations necessary, communicate coherently on the radio, get in the air while doing their hair or chitchatting on the phone is a bit worrisome. Having them land safely seems even more implausible.
Great point. Mathematics helps form the basics of logical problem solving. I had math up through calculus in high school. When I decided to go back to college and take some courses, I was able to figure out how to do chemistry problems a couple of ways besides what was in the book. It really helped that I had developed a way of problem solving that became embedded in my brain even though I couldn't remember any specific formulas.
Math helps develop thinking and problem solving.
Instead of less math we need more math. After all..... mathematics can better define the workings of our universe. Sounds like Andrew Hacker misses this part of why math is vital.
A big chunk of them are xray scanners. It isn't the scanner working under normal conditions that would worry me so much. But if it malfunctions and spews out lots of radiation all over the airport, that might worry me. I still won't go through them or have my kids go through them.
Other World computing with have kits for these in no time. They always seem to. ??? I was going to upgrade one of my machines a few years ago and it was going to cost 800 bucks to max it out. I waited a year and paid less than $130 for the same upgrade at OWC.....then again....
We may be getting to the end of 3rd party upgrading.... seems like in 10 years there won't be much of that left.
My eyes are tired. I think the extra resolution makes them seem less so. That is reason enough to get this incremental change. Within 3 years 60% of laptops will have this sort of resolution so I am not sure why you are saying it is useless overkill. For me it is not useless and I don't think it will be for most of the rest of everybody either.
I seem to remember when I had my old Atari, people would say things like 64K memory.... who needs that much memory. What would you do with more than that even? People said the same thing about the 1 mb hard drives.... it is overkill. You could never come close to filling it up with every game out for the Atari.
And yet.... here we are......and even now people think things are useless and overkill. They are not useless nor overkill ever.
Photographers take their laptops with them a lot of places when they are on field shoots and trips. I wouldn't want to carry a 21" laptop though. I am debating between a MB Air 13" and a new 15" MBPro right now. I will have to test to see which will be more functional for my travel work, but I suspect the new Display will be what really will make the difference for me. personally.
If I need a big display I can plug the MB into the 27" cinema display... that works well, plus I have a portable computer when I am not doing production work at home.
I don't want any optical media anymore.... they all break. I would rather have an external one than waste space in the laptop I cart around all the time.
Make them smaller and powerful... but kick the optical media to the curb already. That ship has sailed already.
Yep.... that is one of the things I like about the MBP... long battery life for work in the field. The display resolution and weight are 2 of the other things I really like.
Yep... it seems so. So far it seems like the rest of the technological appliance companies are only beginning to catch on. That will be great for everyone, but for now Apple with its constant technological salad tossing seems to have hit on a combo that works better than what other companies in the same field are doing currently and seems like it will continue on this trend for at least the next 5-8 years. Beyond that it is tough to say... new paradigms will change how things are done and Apple may or may not be part of that, but for now, I will continue to buy up Apple stock as I see fit.
I think the reason Apple is making money is because a bajillion people are buying i-devices and accompanying apps. Computers are nice.... products the plebes want to buy en masse is even nicer for apple.
Could you point to this plethora of technically better laptops?
Bigger, bulkier, with less battery life and lower resolution screen doesn't start these technically better machines off so well at least for what I want to do.
I would love to see if you could find another machine for 1400 with superior specs. I think it would be hard to find one with superior video specs for one. Being able to upgrade the ram or the battery although a convenience is not really a machine spec and at least for me is not really that important since any laptop is merely a tool to run my business more efficiently.
Lower weight, slim form factor, longer battery life are all specs that I would find crucial for as a photographer. The resolution is just a capper for me.
The cost of the machine although it might seem like it costs more on its face actually isn't for what you get and how long the macs seem to last. I hear that macs are vastly overpriced all the time, but for the most part I just don't find this to be true. Slightly more expensive at the beginning... yes, but over time.. not at all.
As a production tool I think I find this current MBP to be one of the most exciting laptops to come along in a while. It is a game changer for me... especially since I am currently in need of a new one. Couldn't have come at a better time for me personally.
Yep.... me too. Tired of hardware switches.... the countless hours of tinkering to get the drivers to play nicely with my soundcard or video card. It is fun for the hobbiest tinkerer, but not so much for grandma or my dad or the millions of others like them.
Even I myself just don't have time to muck around like I used to. Now I buy the machine I need... use it for 5-6 years and get the next one. The old one just goes to the back of the line for use by someone else I know or I just donate it to some charity. I just don't want to waste my time or waste my life on doing things which cost me life-force and in the end don't get me a good return.
I can buy a nice MBP with retina display for a couple of grand.... maybe 800 or so more than what I would pay for some Acer, but it will last me longer in general, allow me to do my photo business better, I won't have to tinker so I won't be wasting my life. Over a 5 year period, it is basically a business expense that will pay for itself. A computer is merely a tool to earn a living. It can be expensed like anything else.... but having a nice machine will really enhance a person's day to day function and bottom line.
Yep.... the battery thing is mostly over-rated and will become even more so in the next 10 years. Eventually the battery will last more than long enough for the device to become obsolete as a technology so the point of a hinged battery door will be an odd concept.
Who cares about the batteries anyhow. I had to replace the battery on my PJBox after about 6 years, but by then I had almost stopped using it. The hard drive on my original mac mini is finally going bad after being on 24/7 for roughly 7 years.... big deal. The iPod I sold never needed a battery change and seemed to hold its charge decently. Upgradability is over-rated for almost everyone in the modern context.
I have built more than 60 linux boxes over the last 15 years, but generally once I build one... the hardware remains pretty much the same until I get rid of it. I guess I don't really understand the need to be constantly upgrading hardware and tinkering. Once a system is built... I cut it loose and build something a bit better the next time around. Constant upgrading of any system is just a nuisance really... except for the hobbiest I suppose. But these days products really aren't made with them in mind. Products these days are made for the consumer who doesn't want to think about upgrades other than buying a better gadget as technology advances.
Other than upgrading the ram in my hackintosh and one of my mini's I haven't really found that I need to do anything to my macs. Use a mac for 6 or 8 years until it is getting long in the tooth and get a new one and sell the old one.
Thomas Jefferson as part of the original bill of rights put Freedom from Monopoly as one of those rights because of the doings of a then infamous group called the East India Trading Company which resulted in our revolutionary war. Unfortunately, the business lobby was as strong in his day and even though he attempted to get it put in the constitution something like 12 times during his time in the public sphere, it was shot down each time.
I'm not arguing that macs can't be infected by mac exploits.. All computers can be infected by things meant to exploit them. But malware intended for windows injected on a mac wouldn't have much effect I would presume. Same thing for malware intended for linux wouldn't have much effect on a windows machine as of yet. Perhaps I am wrong???
The article is about macs passing windows malware onto window machines. So what you are saying by calling my comment ignorant, which it could possibly be, is that the macs pass these windows virus' on to windows machines from the macs?
Are you saying these macs are then relaying this malware to windows machines? Are you truly seeing these infected macs then passing these infections to windows machines?
I remain unaware of macs contaminated with windows trojans then of themselves passing these trojans on to windows machines.
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1. You can't pick and choose who is right. In 2007 the democratically held Senate used the same gimmick to try and unsuccessfully block the same sorts of appointments by then President George W. Bush. Harry Reid deployed the same tactic to prevent the President from appointing people. It didn't work then .... it didn't work now.
Fact is you can't say this unconstitutional now and not hold the same objections when Bush did it.
Fact is the senate was in recess and the house was using a gimmick to pretend the senate was in session.
Fact is the courts have not yet weighed in about the use of this gimmick. It may take years for this to work its way to the Supreme Court. Eventually it will be appealed to the conservative court and how they decide may or may not be in favor of the President. But until SCOTUS decides, this is mostly political hot air. Until then this is the broken system we have... where political parties try and destroy each other rather than doing their job of doing their work for the citizens of the US.
2. Obamas order is not the law of the land. This is a temporary executive order. Congress would still need to pass it for these folks to become legalized, so it is meaningless except as a suck up to the latino vote. There is nothing permanently binding in it since the president does not make the laws. You seem to confuse what a presidential order is vs a law.
3. Free exercise of religion sure. That is guaranteed by the constitution and these institutions indeed can do whatever they want on their own and independently of the government. Just as religious schools can operate independently and wish to do so so they can teach creationism instead of evolution. But like all institutions, if they take government money... there are strings attached since the government cannot favor establishment of any religion.
And so religious medical institutions cannot demand the government make allowances for their particular view because this makes the government a tacit participant in a particular religious ideology. This is about choice. The religious institutions want to have it both ways. They want to choose to involve themselves with the government programs and yet they don't want to have to abide by the restrictions placed on the government by the constitution.
If they want to not provide birth control, nobody is forcing them to. But they cannot participate in healthcare that is tied up in some sort of governmental program.
The establishment clause makes this the case. There cannot be government backed exercise of religion which is what these institutions are trying for.
How would you like it if muslim organizations were also saying that certain muslim practices needed to be implemented across our entire national system of care because they have the right to free exercise of religion but also want to be part of our health exchanges. People would be screaming about Sharia Law being imposed upon everyone.
Well such is the case here. You perhaps can't see it the same way, but I don't think you would be happy if this were other religious groups trying to insert themselves into your medicare or child health or national insurance exchange system.
No religious hospital or insurer is "required" to participate in the government exchanges. But if they choose to do it. They cannot discriminate based upon religious ideology.
So no I will not be calling the WH to complain and I think my principles are just fine. You just have some beliefs which are divergent from mine.
1. Recess appointments are constitutional. Article II section 2. Even George Washington had a recess appointment.
2 The dream act hasn't been put in place by anyone. The president is just doing what every president since Reagan's Amnesty has done. He just made it a political football by by stating so publicly to score political points with a constituent group.
3. No insurer should be allowed to deny reasonable medical care based upon religious ideology if they are participating in government programs. This is also in the constitution.
Texting in a car is one thing. People figuring out how to file a flight plan, do all of the calculations necessary, communicate coherently on the radio, get in the air while doing their hair or chitchatting on the phone is a bit worrisome. Having them land safely seems even more implausible.
Great point. Mathematics helps form the basics of logical problem solving. I had math up through calculus in high school.
When I decided to go back to college and take some courses, I was able to figure out how to do chemistry problems a couple of ways besides what was in the book. It really helped that I had developed a way of problem solving that became embedded in my brain even though I couldn't remember any specific formulas.
Math helps develop thinking and problem solving.
Instead of less math we need more math. After all..... mathematics can better define the workings of our universe.
Sounds like Andrew Hacker misses this part of why math is vital.
A big chunk of them are xray scanners.
It isn't the scanner working under normal conditions that would worry me so much.
But if it malfunctions and spews out lots of radiation all over the airport, that might worry me.
I still won't go through them or have my kids go through them.
Other World computing with have kits for these in no time. They always seem to. ???
I was going to upgrade one of my machines a few years ago and it was going to cost 800 bucks to max it out. I waited a year and paid less than $130 for the same upgrade at OWC.....then again....
We may be getting to the end of 3rd party upgrading.... seems like in 10 years there won't be much of that left.
My eyes are tired. I think the extra resolution makes them seem less so. That is reason enough to get this incremental change.
Within 3 years 60% of laptops will have this sort of resolution so I am not sure why you are saying it is useless overkill.
For me it is not useless and I don't think it will be for most of the rest of everybody either.
I seem to remember when I had my old Atari, people would say things like 64K memory.... who needs that much memory. What would you do with more than that even?
People said the same thing about the 1 mb hard drives.... it is overkill. You could never come close to filling it up with every game out for the Atari.
And yet.... here we are......and even now people think things are useless and overkill. They are not useless nor overkill ever.
Photographers take their laptops with them a lot of places when they are on field shoots and trips. I wouldn't want to carry a 21" laptop though.
I am debating between a MB Air 13" and a new 15" MBPro right now. I will have to test to see which will be more functional for my travel work, but I suspect the new Display will be what really will make the difference for me. personally.
If I need a big display I can plug the MB into the 27" cinema display... that works well, plus I have a portable computer when I am not doing production work at home.
I don't want any optical media anymore.... they all break. I would rather have an external one than waste space in the laptop I cart around all the time.
Make them smaller and powerful... but kick the optical media to the curb already.
That ship has sailed already.
Yep.... that is one of the things I like about the MBP... long battery life for work in the field. The display resolution and weight are 2 of the other things I really like.
Couchslug.... wish I had mod point.... preach on brother.
Yep... it seems so.
So far it seems like the rest of the technological appliance companies are only beginning to catch on. That will be great for everyone, but for now Apple with its constant technological salad tossing seems to have hit on a combo that works better than what other companies in the same field are doing currently and seems like it will continue on this trend for at least the next 5-8 years. Beyond that it is tough to say... new paradigms will change how things are done and Apple may or may not be part of that, but for now, I will continue to buy up Apple stock as I see fit.
I think the reason Apple is making money is because a bajillion people are buying i-devices and accompanying apps. Computers are nice.... products the plebes want to buy en masse is even nicer for apple.
Could you point to this plethora of technically better laptops?
Bigger, bulkier, with less battery life and lower resolution screen doesn't start these technically better machines off so well at least for what I want to do.
I would love to see if you could find another machine for 1400 with superior specs. I think it would be hard to find one with superior video specs for one. Being able to upgrade the ram or the battery although a convenience is not really a machine spec and at least for me is not really that important since any laptop is merely a tool to run my business more efficiently.
Lower weight, slim form factor, longer battery life are all specs that I would find crucial for as a photographer. The resolution is just a capper for me.
The cost of the machine although it might seem like it costs more on its face actually isn't for what you get and how long the macs seem to last. I hear that macs are vastly overpriced all the time, but for the most part I just don't find this to be true. Slightly more expensive at the beginning ... yes, but over time.. not at all.
As a production tool I think I find this current MBP to be one of the most exciting laptops to come along in a while. It is a game changer for me... especially since I am currently in need of a new one. Couldn't have come at a better time for me personally.
Yep.... me too. Tired of hardware switches.... the countless hours of tinkering to get the drivers to play nicely with my soundcard or video card. It is fun for the hobbiest tinkerer, but not so much for grandma or my dad or the millions of others like them.
Even I myself just don't have time to muck around like I used to. Now I buy the machine I need... use it for 5-6 years and get the next one. The old one just goes to the back of the line for use by someone else I know or I just donate it to some charity. I just don't want to waste my time or waste my life on doing things which cost me life-force and in the end don't get me a good return.
I can buy a nice MBP with retina display for a couple of grand.... maybe 800 or so more than what I would pay for some Acer, but it will last me longer in general, allow me to do my photo business better, I won't have to tinker so I won't be wasting my life. Over a 5 year period, it is basically a business expense that will pay for itself. A computer is merely a tool to earn a living. It can be expensed like anything else.... but having a nice machine will really enhance a person's day to day function and bottom line.
Yep.... the battery thing is mostly over-rated and will become even more so in the next 10 years. Eventually the battery will last more than long enough for the device to become obsolete as a technology so the point of a hinged battery door will be an odd concept.
Who cares about the batteries anyhow. I had to replace the battery on my PJBox after about 6 years, but by then I had almost stopped using it.
The hard drive on my original mac mini is finally going bad after being on 24/7 for roughly 7 years.... big deal. The iPod I sold never needed a battery change and seemed to hold its charge decently.
Upgradability is over-rated for almost everyone in the modern context.
I have built more than 60 linux boxes over the last 15 years, but generally once I build one ... the hardware remains pretty much the same until I get rid of it.
I guess I don't really understand the need to be constantly upgrading hardware and tinkering. Once a system is built... I cut it loose and build something a bit better the next time around. Constant upgrading of any system is just a nuisance really... except for the hobbiest I suppose. But these days products really aren't made with them in mind. Products these days are made for the consumer who doesn't want to think about upgrades other than buying a better gadget as technology advances.
Other than upgrading the ram in my hackintosh and one of my mini's I haven't really found that I need to do anything to my macs.
Use a mac for 6 or 8 years until it is getting long in the tooth and get a new one and sell the old one.
Lets just get it over with and create skynet. Our pesky problems will be solved.
A book too. Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nihm. Amazing book as I remember when I was 8.
Perhaps scientists are breeding the next super-race. A few super smart engineered rats get away and bam.... competition with the humans.
Thomas Jefferson as part of the original bill of rights put Freedom from Monopoly as one of those rights because of the doings of a then infamous group called the East India Trading Company which resulted in our revolutionary war.
Unfortunately, the business lobby was as strong in his day and even though he attempted to get it put in the constitution something like 12 times during his time in the public sphere, it was shot down each time.
Security theatre is moving from a drama to a tragedy.
I'm not arguing that macs can't be infected by mac exploits..
All computers can be infected by things meant to exploit them.
But malware intended for windows injected on a mac wouldn't have much effect I would presume.
Same thing for malware intended for linux wouldn't have much effect on a windows machine as of yet.
Perhaps I am wrong???
The article is about macs passing windows malware onto window machines.
So what you are saying by calling my comment ignorant, which it could possibly be, is that the macs pass these windows virus' on to windows machines from the macs?
Are you saying these macs are then relaying this malware to windows machines?
Are you truly seeing these infected macs then passing these infections to windows machines?
I remain unaware of macs contaminated with windows trojans then of themselves passing these trojans on to windows machines.
Contaminated is actually a more apt description as you say although even if contaminated it can't rub off as Foot and Mouth contamination can exactly.