Well, I think ONE thing is pretty clear.

Don't RUN from the cops. The one common denominator from most of the recently publicized cop shootings of citizens, is that the citizen generally ran from the officer.

wait, are we talking cops here, or are we talkin' rhinoceros'es[es?]

I know at least one of those things does not like it. maybe its both? I guess it could be both. so, when you see a wild animal OR a scared cop, don't run, don't charge them. maybe put your hands up right high so that they think you are taller than you are. I've heard that helps, sometimes.

I might think about an upgrade like that when those processors are being thrown away, if I haven't upgraded before then. But right now they're still over $120 for the 1090T, and around $200 for the 1100T. The last time I spent that much I upgraded from a 720BE and doubled my cores. If I'm going to spend another hundred bucks, I need to double my performance again, which isn't really possible. It would make more sense to just buy a new MB+CPU, otherwise. The one I have now doesn't even support SLI, which I would consider now that there are low-wattage cards worth doing it with. I'm not interested in using a kilowatt or more for gaming, that's bullshit. My system TDP is around 300W and I can play current games, albeit not at top quality and top resolution at the same time. I mostly don't play current games anyway, so I mostly don't care.

Ridiculously good for the amount of money I have spent on it versus the amount of time I've had it, I think you mean.

Single-core performance? What is this single-core? Nothing which uses a lot of CPU is single-threaded, and hasn't been since forever. Whether I'm [de]compressing an archive, transcoding video, playing a game, or surfing the web, I'm using multiple threads which can be relocated across processors — and are.

Bullshit. We all know you don't have a girlfriend.

Only a minuscule minority of the kids who actually get to go to a university have seen adversity, so sure, I guess that's true. But "college kid" is misleading.

That's okay, we'll just export some military technology to them and they'll be happy to give us their fusion generators or whatever, like always. But seriously, you can buy science.

If it just convinces them that we need carbon caps (trades I think are bullshit, but anyway) that will be a step in the right direction. We do not require belief, just limits on CO2 emissions.

Rule 1: Always check your inputs.

Rule 2: It comes after rule 1.

I think you mistyped jerk me around and jack me off, there.

Only people who haven't had real adversity in their lives are brought together by bullshit frat initiation adversity.

ianal, but I think 'free to go' means free to move about. it does not mean you have to change (x,y) locations right there at that moment.

Too bad your mother didn't give you a name.

The trouble is that a court is, effectively, a species of transaction cost in this situation(ie. if the transaction is '$X for potentially degrading use of my water supply'; but I have to sue you to obtain $X, that transaction is [i]painfully[/i] inefficient compared to just about any commercial payment processor in existence; and that's if I can afford to sue you at all.)

Plus, since pollution can be relatively tricky to detect and identify the source of, and can often be shunted off to shell entities with almost zero resources against which to make claims, any hope of legal redress is further dimmed. Never mind the fact that things like 'dying slowly of some nasty cancer' don't have an amount of money that is really compensatory.

It's called the rent-a-friend program. Ditto frats.

I have one of those too but I've been too lazy to badcap the system it's in. It was a really great processor too, got it to OC to 3.2 with a $20 cooler master heat pipe and arctic silver iv. I bought that originally for $100, and then upgraded to this twice-the-cores X6 1045T later, for $110 shipped or so. You just can't beat the value of these mid-range AMD chips.

Actually, single payer fixes that as well because it essentially means you have one customer. Ergo, the customer has a lot of power to set terms. Even in countries with both public and private health care systems, the public system sets the ceiling for prices and a minimum floor for service, so if a private institution wants to charge more, they need to provide greater service and service that is worth the price being asked of it. Basically it eliminates the "you pay what we say because you're too sick or powerless to negotiate" that causes that kind of fraudulent pricing.

So every patient receives the buying power of an entire country. Any funny business and it will be investigated.

Single payer also cuts down on hospital administration and allows health care workers to get on with their job of caring for patients.

Reality disagrees with your assertion.

Just about every country that has a public health system run by the government spends less on health care than the United States does. Hell, we spend less on health care than the United States Government alone spends on health care per person, not even thinking about counting the amount of private monies spent.

If you don't think an American can handle it, just outsource it to Australia, Canada, the UK or anywhere else that spends less on health care than you do. We've literally got decades of experience with reasonable cost health care provision.