Hmmm, this argument sounds familiar: "Don't use centralized policies to enforce good behavior. All it takes is education. It's the parents' fault. Don't restrict me from doing something I want to do."

Like in the real world:
* Education quality varies: not everyone has the resources of a Fortune 500 company
* Even the best education does not necessarily change people's core sensibility: some people are just bad/stupid
* Deterrence is preferable to punishment: it's cheaper to force near universal compliance than to capture, punish, and cleanup after offenders. Costs may be high when you consider possibly valuable information getting to the wrong coworkers, employees, customers, vendors, etc. In a corporate context, the possible punishments all seem too severe for what is essentially a single key press.
* Mistakes happen. Design systems to disallow mistakes: People are human

Sometimes, a central authority has to make policies that restrict people's freedoms for the better of the group. Whether it's mandatory seat belts, air bags, back up cameras, unleaded gas, brake lights, or removal of reply all, protecting society can make sense.

All true, security is not a selling point.

But the reason people don't list it for cell phones is that security is assumed. Similar to if you asked me what I look for in a bank, security is not something I would list. I assume all banks offer adequate security. At least to the level required by law.

What you're pointing out is the average user does not realize/understand how poor the security really is on their devices.

Although, I generally agree with your intuitive sentiment (better pay -> better pool of applicants -> better teachers), there seems to be an inconsistency in your argument (if it's hard to evaluate teachers, then how do we know better pay yields better teachers?).

We still need an evaluation system, even if it's not perfect. Expanding the pool without an evaluation system only bets on marginally increasing the average quality. This, itself, is not an efficient way to improve quality.

Do you know if you can search the contents of a pdf file without a 3rd-party ifilter?

I ask because in Windows 7, you need a 3rd-party ifilter to search the contents of a pdf file. There is no built-in support.

I think works created by the US government are considered public domain. It doesn't get any more public domain than that.

OK, I have one, but for me, it's a doozy. Searching for contents of a file doesn't work the way I want by default. Mainly because if you're searching in a non-indexed directory, there's no option to search the contents of a file. Even if you're in an indexed directory, only files with known AND selected types are searched. And if you want to search PDFs, you have to install one of two 3rd party iFilters (1 of which costs $600 if you want to search PDFs on your Win Server). WTF? No PDF search in Win 7? Even Vista allowed you to search ANY file. Changing the settings doesn't make it work even as well as Vista. Some people have VMs running Vista just so they can do better searches. I use a 3rd party app to search for contents of a file in Win 7, which is beyond irritating.

And MS hasn't addressed or fixed the search UI since people started complaining about it in 2009:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/ecbecc00-f3e7-429f-87cd-8900fc313add/

Other than that, I actually like Win 7.

It's cheaper to have someone buy the domain than to have someone convince icann to revoke the domain. Great for registrars.

And my mod points expired last night. Argh! (why does my argh have a silent h?)

Ah, wit!

When torrenting, you are usually downloading and distributing simultaneously. I suppose you could be a just a leecher, but most bt clients throttle you for this.

"Back of the bus", in the US, is a reference to a method of racial discrimination in the US where blacks were forced to move to the farthest seats away from where fares were paid. This is different from the younger experience of wanting to be in the back of a school bus farther away from surveillance by authority (bus driver).

From Wiki re Rosa Parks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

In Montgomery, the first four rows of bus seats were reserved for white people. Buses had "colored" sections for black people—who made up more than 75% of the bus system's riders—generally in the rear of the bus. These sections were not fixed in size but were determined by the placement of a movable sign. Black people could sit in the middle rows, until the white section was full. Then they had to move to seats in the rear, stand, or, if there was no room, leave the bus. Black people were not allowed to sit across the aisle from white people. The driver also could move the "colored" section sign, or remove it altogether. If white people were already sitting in the front, black people could board to pay the fare, but then had to disembark and reenter through the rear door. Sometimes, the bus departed before the black customers who had paid could make it to the back entrance.

In 1900, Montgomery had passed a city ordinance for the purpose of segregating passengers by race. Conductors were given the power to assign seats to accomplish that purpose; however, no passengers would be required to move or give up their seat and stand if the bus was crowded and no other seats were available. Over time and by custom, however, Montgomery bus drivers had adopted the practice of requiring black riders to move whenever there were no white only seats left.

This is sort of how it works.

S00–T98 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes
S90–S99 ankle and foot
S92 Fracture of foot, except ankle
S92.4 Fracture of great toe

For unusual cases, it'd be something like: S92.9 Fracture of foot, unspecified
in which case a progress note would have to be sent to the insurer.

No, health insurance is just like any other insurance, such as car insurance.

1) Insurers collect premiums. This is their revenue.
2) Insurers spend money on running their business. This is overhead.
3) Insurers pay out money for covered events. This is claims paid.
4) What's left over is profit.

Every transaction (claim) costs insurers money. Be it healthcare, auto, or life.

This poster does not understand the nature of any insurance industry, much less American health insurance.
If they can deny a claim, then they can keep the money that they collected through premiums as profit.

It's counter-intuitive because it's not true.

Having been in healthcare for a while now, I have no idea what this poster is talking about.