Basically, a ad had a trademark on it, and the trademark owner asked for the ad to be removed? Not really big news... Wait, aren't trademarks designed so that I can identify an organization. If he was claiming to be MoveOn, he should have been removed, but he wasn't he was mocking move on. Its censorship if I ever saw it.
Oppose the censorship that is inflicted upon us NOW so we will not have to face a situation similar to their's TOMORROW.
Me thinks that if you were truely censored I wouldn't be reading your post.
Re:Opiate of the Masses
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Why Myths Persist
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There are also countless examples through-out history of people that have died or killed themselves for their religion
There are also millions of people who have been needlessly killed by atheist in attempts to destroy religion. Mao, Pol Pot, and Stalin were all atheist who persecuted religious people because religion violated communism. Also during the Columbine Massacre the two shooters killed a few people because they believed in God.
I know plenty of people that hate black people, Jews, Muslims, etc. but as long as they don't DO anything about it (like kill/hang/enslave/deny employment & education/conscript) I guess I don't really care.
Let me repeat that, people who have been paying for the insurance their entire lives die because the insurance companies want to save a few bucks.
No, actually, most hospitals cannot legally turn someone down because they cannot pay. The reason insurance denys so many claims is because hospitals only will really bother to seek payment from insurance companies. Insurance companies can't afford to pay for both payers and non-payers, so they deny stuff. True, clinics can turn you down and insurance denying clinics can prevent you from seeing your primary care provider. People rarely die due to insurance denials because hospitals have to admit everyone. Actually, socialist systems can be a pretty big threat to your health, I hear far more about socialist systems killing people. True, everyone gets treatment, but many are unable to be treated in time or figure out their paperwork. There are people who die waiting for treatment in Canada. We need reforms on insurance laws to mandate insurance companies simplify, not cover everything. If I buy car insurance, I have the option to forgo collision, I think if you buy medical insurance, you should be able to pick and choose what you are covered for. If you don't want drug coverage, fine, if you don't want clinic visits fine, then you can have surgery and emergency only insurance. We also need tax incentives to help encourage people to pay for their own insurance. Reforming malpractice lawsuits would help a ton too.
You do realize that the US ranks 45th in the world in terms of life expectancy, right below Saint Helena and right above Cyprus, right? The average life expectancy in Cuba, an impoverished nation which is under an embargo that covers much medical technology is only one year less than that in the US, the wealthiest nation on the planet. Meanwhile, we spend twice as much as anyone else for this worse care. Check out all of the cited studies linked from that page, too.
You do realize that healthcare doesn't really relate to life expectancy do you? Americans live unhealthy lifestyles. We have soring obesity rates, we don't sleep enough, and we want a quick fix for everything. American culture wants to eat whatever it wants, not exercise, and still be healthy and that just cannot happen.
As for high healthcare cost, well we could easily save billions by reforming malpractice laws, making sure people pay their bills, and promoting insurance. Doctors have to pay huge amounts for malpractice insurance which then gets transfered over to consumers. If we were to reform malpractice laws so that the person who is suing has to prove that the doctor was hugely incompetent. It should be reformed so that you have to have some proof before even filing a suit. Currently the family of a patient can sue just because somebody died or a patient can sue because he still was sick without any proof that the doctor was at fault. We need to have the same "innocent until proven guilty" and the need for proof "beyond reasonable doubt" that are present in criminal cases to be present in civil cases, and if someone sues someone else and they lose they should have to pay the legal fees for the person that was sued. That way doctors wouldn't have to pay malpractice insurance and would be sued unless they were truly responsible. Each year, our doctors order millions of dollars in unnecessary procedures because they know that a doctor can't usually be sued for doing too much, and if he only does what is actually necessary he looks worse in a court. Currently we also spend huge amounts on the uninsured. Hospitals will rarely even bother to try to seek payment from someone unless they have insurance. They only really get paid by insurance companies and the government's reimbursement for the care of the poor (which rarely covers everything, and most hospitals cannot or will not turn people away). So they go after insurance companies which means that the insured must bear the burden of the uninsured. The simple solution here would be to have the uninsured pay for their medical bills over time rather than just forgetting about it. If a procedure cost $10,000 and they can only pay for $2000 a year, have them pay over 5 years. Finally provide a tax incentive for people that are insured to encourage people to have insurance.
Insurance companies can deal with some of the unhealthy lifestyles issues by simply charging more for people who have unhealthy lifestyles. They charge more for smokers, I imagine if you drink, test positive for drug use, are overweight, or just generally out of shape they could charge more for that too. With incentive people will be healthier.
The other problem is (and if you have been around hospitals as much as I have you know this) that people who don't have insurance tend to treat the ER like it is a primary care provider. People will go to the ER because they have the flu or they have cramps or they have some other minor medical issue. They go because they don't have insurance and they know a hospital cannot legally turn them away. This backlogs the ERs in America. You hear about 4 hour wait times, this is why. Perhaps we could allow for ERs to turn people away that have very minor issues like the flu. The flu is not an emergency. The ER is not a primary care provider. The ER is for emergencies only.
The alternative is an organization that runs like the Department of Motor Vehicles or the Post Office could be dealing with your heart transplant. Have you been to the DMV lat
But/. did censor the moderation report critical of the slashdot mod system. Remember they quietly banned anyone who modded that post up./. Really isn't in possition to cast any stones.
Actually, most of what you said could also be said about FDR
What other president lied to start a war that has killed more than 3000 American troops?
FDR promised not to send troops to Europe, after Pearl Harbor, he did, and if saying something (be it Iraq has WMDs or I won't get involved in Europe's war) and then something else happens to be true=lie then both lied. Both couldn't have known the real truth and said what they believed was true at the time.
What other president's administration has called the Geneva Convention "Quaint" and "Obsolete"?
None. Nether ever said that.
What other president has actually defended torture?
We did use interogation if that is what you mean by "torture" (though typically torture involves actually torturing someone).
What other president has overseen the arrest of innocent people (there have been "enemy combatants" released with their charges dropped), holding them for years as "enemy combatants" without any right to habeas corpus?
Well FDR ordered the relocation (essentially the imprisonment) of Japanese Americans without cause and without trial and held enemy combatants without court trials (military tribunals were used).
What other president has overseen warrant-less NSA and FBI wiretaps?
Well there was mass censorship of what troops said. Under FDR all letters to and from troops were monitored and in most cases censored.
Perhaps if Bush should be impeached then FDR should have been jailed for life. FDR also did other things too, for example, when the Supreme Court ruled portions of the New Deal unconstitutional FDR decided that he had more authority than the court and tried to have congress pass a law to restructure the courts and allow him to place more people in that would rule his way. He expanded federal power more than any other President as well. Oh and I could probably make similar comparisons to Bush and Lincoln, but I don't really have time for that.
dont blame education blame multi-millionaire executives (and shareholders who pay their wages) who think their workers are worth less than the person that paints their house or fixes their car, why would anybody bother ?
Well, the people willingly work for them, so why should the executives pay any more than they have to, that is wasteful.
Re:Will anyone gain anything from this? Not Linux
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We don't choose to run and install Linux because its the EASY choice, we choose it cause its free, fast and stable.
Speak for yourself, I use it because it is much less of a pain in my back side to manage. It is software, not a revolution. I don't use it because it is free, I use it because it works, though I suppose only free software could work that way.
I actually want to try this. I'm interested in the OLPC project and I hope they release a laptop in the US for sale, because I'd buy one in an instant. It's cheap, lightweight, and I don't demand much from a computer, so the low performance isn't an issue with me.
I don't think they will sell em commercially. Lots of people do want them to sell em for $200-$300 in 1st world nations so that they can use the funding to provide a few free laptops to children.
I can think of a few uses my school might have for an OLPC laptop. I certainly could see the benefit to buying them and using them when computer labs fill up. No reason only 3rd world countries should have OLPC laptops, schools in modern nations could use them too.
The internet is being reigned in now - this was possibly the last great refuge for free speech...
Does anybody but me find it ironic that the number one place people complain about threats to internet free speech and censorship is the internet itself?
What does this make service packs? XP is a lot different than XP SP2. I installed XP SP1 and SP2 on my HP, would that void my warranty? It is different than original configuration?
Here is my user persona, I spend most of my time playing with the KDE taskbar hide buttons you got any arguments on how windows server can compete against that?
The guy created something that involves robots, beer, catapults, remote controls, and dangerously fast moving projectiles. He spent a lot of time creating an overly complicated and somewhat destructive method to do something trivially easy.
But can it run Linux?
Seriously if it did, it would have all things it would take to be the perfect/. article. It's like the perfect storm in/. beer tech.
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It looks like California was terminated.
But I hate you now :P
You do realize that healthcare doesn't really relate to life expectancy do you? Americans live unhealthy lifestyles. We have soring obesity rates, we don't sleep enough, and we want a quick fix for everything. American culture wants to eat whatever it wants, not exercise, and still be healthy and that just cannot happen.
As for high healthcare cost, well we could easily save billions by reforming malpractice laws, making sure people pay their bills, and promoting insurance. Doctors have to pay huge amounts for malpractice insurance which then gets transfered over to consumers. If we were to reform malpractice laws so that the person who is suing has to prove that the doctor was hugely incompetent. It should be reformed so that you have to have some proof before even filing a suit. Currently the family of a patient can sue just because somebody died or a patient can sue because he still was sick without any proof that the doctor was at fault. We need to have the same "innocent until proven guilty" and the need for proof "beyond reasonable doubt" that are present in criminal cases to be present in civil cases, and if someone sues someone else and they lose they should have to pay the legal fees for the person that was sued. That way doctors wouldn't have to pay malpractice insurance and would be sued unless they were truly responsible. Each year, our doctors order millions of dollars in unnecessary procedures because they know that a doctor can't usually be sued for doing too much, and if he only does what is actually necessary he looks worse in a court. Currently we also spend huge amounts on the uninsured. Hospitals will rarely even bother to try to seek payment from someone unless they have insurance. They only really get paid by insurance companies and the government's reimbursement for the care of the poor (which rarely covers everything, and most hospitals cannot or will not turn people away). So they go after insurance companies which means that the insured must bear the burden of the uninsured. The simple solution here would be to have the uninsured pay for their medical bills over time rather than just forgetting about it. If a procedure cost $10,000 and they can only pay for $2000 a year, have them pay over 5 years. Finally provide a tax incentive for people that are insured to encourage people to have insurance.
Insurance companies can deal with some of the unhealthy lifestyles issues by simply charging more for people who have unhealthy lifestyles. They charge more for smokers, I imagine if you drink, test positive for drug use, are overweight, or just generally out of shape they could charge more for that too. With incentive people will be healthier.
The other problem is (and if you have been around hospitals as much as I have you know this) that people who don't have insurance tend to treat the ER like it is a primary care provider. People will go to the ER because they have the flu or they have cramps or they have some other minor medical issue. They go because they don't have insurance and they know a hospital cannot legally turn them away. This backlogs the ERs in America. You hear about 4 hour wait times, this is why. Perhaps we could allow for ERs to turn people away that have very minor issues like the flu. The flu is not an emergency. The ER is not a primary care provider. The ER is for emergencies only.
The alternative is an organization that runs like the Department of Motor Vehicles or the Post Office could be dealing with your heart transplant. Have you been to the DMV lat
And I for one would like to welcome our new search engine overlords.
What about that weird guy with the radio monitor?
But /. did censor the moderation report critical of the slashdot mod system. Remember they quietly banned anyone who modded that post up. /. Really isn't in possition to cast any stones.
Perhaps if Bush should be impeached then FDR should have been jailed for life. FDR also did other things too, for example, when the Supreme Court ruled portions of the New Deal unconstitutional FDR decided that he had more authority than the court and tried to have congress pass a law to restructure the courts and allow him to place more people in that would rule his way. He expanded federal power more than any other President as well. Oh and I could probably make similar comparisons to Bush and Lincoln, but I don't really have time for that.
I can think of a few uses my school might have for an OLPC laptop. I certainly could see the benefit to buying them and using them when computer labs fill up. No reason only 3rd world countries should have OLPC laptops, schools in modern nations could use them too.
Does anybody but me find it ironic that the number one place people complain about threats to internet free speech and censorship is the internet itself?
What does this make service packs? XP is a lot different than XP SP2. I installed XP SP1 and SP2 on my HP, would that void my warranty? It is different than original configuration?
Oh hell, after eating all that Irish cabbage I could power the damn thing myself.
Here is my user persona, I spend most of my time playing with the KDE taskbar hide buttons you got any arguments on how windows server can compete against that?
Seriously if it did, it would have all things it would take to be the perfect /. article. It's like the perfect storm in /. beer tech.