And if the purpose of the business is propagation of my beliefs, then it is double-plus good, right?

Thank you! I must have hit the wrong button, or perhaps it doesn't work correctly on my browser.

Well, as long as they don't force it into the command prompt somehow, I will still have some hope of doing useful work in spite of having windows installed.

On a different matter, did you just add me to your foes list today after reading my rant about how badly the ribbon interface sucks? I don't recall seeing you on my freaks list before today.

That is not particularly useful, though. The Hide/Show transcript button displays the transcript in real-time, with the video. I can't search the text of it, and I can't go through it more quickly with my own eyes than the speed that the people in the video are speaking.

In other words, it is mostly a waste of time. It takes the same amount of time to watch a video with transcript as it does without.

I think that might be the best possible way to overcome all the nonsense that the religiously-motivated conservatives have been using for some time in their efforts. They seem to be afraid to do it themselves because they wouldn't want to be accused of being a false prophet. Since I'm agnostic I wouldn't take nearly as much offense at such a label being applied to me :)

Being as one conservative leader in particular is likely our country's most successful cult leader in decades, I think we see how afraid they are of being labeled as such.

Would be to put it all in youtube videos, right?
WRONG.

Sure, videos have their purpose but just give me a damned transcript. I can read a transcript in much less time than it takes to watch some old guy babble, and I can search the text of it as well.

That is exactly what I did. Unfortunately every once in a while one of my colleagues will send me a document (usually a power point presentation) that won't open in anything other than the newest version of office (and sometimes only the newest version on the same platform as their, to boot). They then get to listen to me cursing office for some time while I try to read their document.

Can they also put a switch in this to make Office usable? I can't stand that fucking ribbon interface that makes everything I used to do the most often 5 times more difficult.

First, I agree that the data should have been free. I even agree that the investigation into him seemed to be heavy handed.

However, Schwartz made an odd and poor choice in getting to the data. He could have downloaded the data from his own desk in his own office. Instead he went to the library and entered a wiring closet that was clearly not supposed to be open to the public. If he wanted to further his cause, this was a poor choice.

Some sensors to warn the dumbass wearing the headphones (with volume at 11, naturally) that they are about to walk into something (say, a wall, a manhole cover, a train, a taxi, etc) might be a good idea.

Is the presumption then that natural market forces (ie, not regulations from governmental forces) will prevent the employers from either colluding against employees or from buying each other out?

The other problem I see with that premise is that especially small markets would seem to discourage labor specialization. It would seem that you would eventually end up with markets where > 90% of the population is involved in food production or trades that exist to aid in the same. To me that seems to operate counter to the types of gains in efficiency that we have tended to celebrate in the past century or so.

In 5 words you combined your strange alternate definition of lying with your atrocious double standard for who is obligated to do what.

Petty insults do not improve your argument.

How did you come up with that notion? I would rephrase this as a non-question since you don't like to answer questions that I ask, but you're not really worth that level of effort anymore since you aren't likely here for a discussion anyways.

That's because you don't read the replies I write. The argument you previously wanted to present was dependent on such things happening, however everyone knows that they never did. You then tried to abandon the topic as you cannot bear to admit to being wrong.

I'm sorry that the truth is so troublesome to you.

Yet you replied to parts fo the reply that came later than that statement of fact. Hence your claim to have "stopped reading" is disproven by your own writing.

You can pretend to have not said it, but your comments counter that claim. Has it been that long since slashdot fired you that you have forgotten how comments work here?

Your repeated use of petty insults shows you are frustrated, I presume it is because you are making yourself look like such an outrageous ignoramus.

Having completely dismantled your argument already, I'm done with you Pudge. I expect you will follow up with some silly insult (perhaps as part of another fact-free reply), in part because you just can't stand to not have the last word (even when you are thoroughly and repeatedly demonstrated to be wrong). So go ahead, take the last word. The record in this thread plainly demonstrates you to be wrong regardless of what you might claim and I don't need to say anything else.

It was a different fork of this thread. No reasonable person would expect me to be versed on the contents of every comment in every fork of this thread. Granted, you don't tend to pretend to be reasonable, but that is a different matter.

No. It may be what you want Crony capitalism to be, but you are describing only one type of crony capitalism. It can also happen when a purchased politician prevents regulations from occurring, to improve profitability.

It is also noted that you have still failed to produce an example of a federal regulation that actually impedes profitability of health insurance companies.

I would argue that workers' benefit depends on how many employers exist on the market. If there are not enough employers on the market then wages will be suppressed and workers neglected.