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Comment Re:I am afraid the answer is, "Yes!" (Score 2) 517

The answer is, pretty much, always yes. How many versions of GTK+ does the average linux distro come with? libav? gstreamer? Heck, the qt3 compatibility library is built-in to qt4. Then there's the 32-bit stuff on 64-bit systems which, granted, is optional, but almost always installed for something.

Comment Re:SCOTUS Decisions often based on reality (Score 1) 591

According to the Chief Justice their are multiple drafting mistakes in the law.

That's great - so congress can fix it. It's not the court's job to fix mistakes in the law. The Supreme Court turns down cases all the time for that exact reason.

If they wanted to force states to setup their own exchanges they would not provide the federal option at all.

The federal government can't force states to set up their own exchange. 10th amendment. So they made an incentive. It's done *all the time* Check out how the entire federal department of education works. They can't force the states to do anything, but if you want federal money...

Your interpretation is also likely unconstitutional. (Federal Government is required to treat citizens the same regardless of what state they live in.)

Not sure where you got that from. You think every state gets federal highway dollars distributed evenly? Education? Agricultural subsidies? ANYTHING?

Comment Re:SCOTUS Decisions often based on reality (Score 1) 591

There is zero ambiguity here in terms of what Congress intended; it's clear that a law was poorly drafted. This is a not a maybe-they-meant-Y situation, this is a "hey, they accidentally used a sentence that probably says Y."

Two points on that:

1. There were HUNDREDS of lawyers involved in combing over every letter of that law. You really think someone left one of the key parts of the bill sloppily worded like that?

2. The counter argument to the subsidy intent was that the federal government wanted to force the states to create their own exchanges. To incentivize that, the states would only get the subsidized plans if they did set up their own.

Comment Context (Score 1) 591

So when you go to interpret a law, you can't count on what it says anymore?

If the law intended for the federal government to subsidize all plans on exchanges established by the states OR the federal government, why didn't it say so?

Comment What? (Score 1) 346

FTA:

"But the commission said Uber controls the tools driver use,"

You mean the Uber app? That's what Uber is, isn't it? If you hire contractors to staff a phone bank, the contractors don't get to bring in their own phones to use, you can make them use your own phone system.

monitors their approval ratings and terminates their access to the system if their ratings fall below 4.6 stars.

So - performance reviews are forbidden when you are a contractor?

Last I checked, if you work for Uber you can work whenever and wherever you want, which is, pretty much, a textbook contractor arrangement.

Comment A few.. (Score 4, Insightful) 389

One license for transferring music data off a storage medium. One license for converting digital music data to an analog form. One license for each speaker reproducing the sound, including woofers and tweeters. One license per 10m^3 of space where the mean audio is within two deviations of the average loudness of the music.

If you are listening to said music, you need a license for that, and another if you are planning on remembering listening to the music, plus a re-performance license if you are going to hum a substantial portion of the primary melody in the shower later.

Comment Brand new IP phones (Score 1) 395

Just got a brand new Polycom IP phone system at work. It's fantastic. Web page setup and administration. Crystal-clear voice quality. All-digital hookup to the switch so voice quality is outstanding. Plus, in-network calls are handled by the VPN, so calls to any of our offices in the world are free, and dialing out to any phone number that's local to any office is a local call.

Unless you're usually out of the office, I'm not sure why you'd want to sign up for insane monthly fees and bi-yearly upgrade costs for mobiles.

Comment DIY (Score 1) 558

MSI G45 MB
Core i7-4770 CPU, non-overclocked
16GB RAM
ATI R9 270 video card
512GB Crucial SSD
750GB WD Black drive
1TB WD Black drive
LG Blu-Ray Burner
Generic mid-size Antec case
Cheapo Asus 27" LED monitor
APC UPS
Microsoft Sidewinder mouse
i-Rocks buckling-spring keyboard

Works well for games and a few virtualized development environments. Need to replace the (2) WD spinning disk drives with a single 4TB or similar. They were both the primary system drives from previous machines. Now the 1TB is for VMs and the 750GB is backup/cold storage.

The more interesting box is an Intel NUC with a 1TB spinning disk, 256MB SSD, and 16GB of RAM that runs ESXi and and entire sharepoint development stack (SQL Server, Domain Controller, App Server)

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