Throwing a flag, bullshit on the field. You see Billy there is a teeny tiny itty bitty problem with SSD that none of the companies will talk about...they shit themselves WITHOUT WARNING.

Now can a HDD shit itself without warning? Yes but frankly since the coming of SMART its pretty damned rare, instead you get what I had last week, with SMART screaming on boot and a sector scan showing sectors failing. Final result? I was able to get more than 95% of the user's data off the failing drive, with the only thing being lost that which was actually on the failed sectors themselves.

Let us compare that to an SSD failure, shall we? Oh look, all your shit is gone, NO WARNING and no chance in hell of saving anything...wow, sucks to be you huh? I'm sure you'll talk about "cloud backups" or some such bullshit, yeah with the data caps? Hope daddy gave you a trust fund because that shit isn't gonna work on your average residential line in the USA, and in a perfect world people would have backups...and I would have a billion dollars and be woken up every morning by my Alyson Hannigan sexbot who blows me while I eat steak in bed...ain't no perfect world Billy.

So until the SSD OEMs can create an SSD that gives you an "Oh shit I'm gonna die soon" warning all it takes is one person they know getting an SSD shit itself scenario before it turns off everybody they know. BTW if you can show me where I can get a 1Tb SSD for $60 I'd be grateful, as my customers (which are Joe and Jane average BTW) are going through data like crap through a goose, those little 64Gb and 128gb SSDs ain't gonna cut it. Have you SEEN the size of files the average camcorder puts out today? Camera? Hell we now have 41MP fricking smartphones dude, where all that data gonna go? Sure as hell ain't going to the cloud, not with TW/Comcrap merging, by the time the corp buyouts are done you'll be lucky if you get 50Gb a month and then ONLY to the shitty websites, gotta pay those dividends and bonuses ya know.

Seriously guys like you REALLY ought to have to work at a mom&pop shop at least one month every 5 years so that the corporate bullshit don't rot your brain. Sure when you have $100K+ storage budgets throwing several tens of thousands on fatty SSDs with RAID ain't no thing but that is about as fucking far from reality in the consumers space, which just FYI curbstomps corp when it comes to market size just FYI, than it is from here to Mars.

Group insurance works well to spread the cost, and that's the main benefit of the ACA.

That's not "insurance", it is group health management. And it only works as long as you're part of the group. And it only works because, in the long run, the government picks up the tab after you retire; but those funds are drying up as well.

In different words, "group insurance" does not actually work. Like many other welfare programs, it is indirectly financed by borrowing and is not sustainable.

Technically, that is the intended free market result. There is no financial sense (even across the whole society possibly) to keep people alive when that would cost more than you can ever get back from them.

That's bullshit. In a free market, what "society" wants is not relevant. What is relevant is the initiative and responsibility you take for your own life. If you prepare and insure early on, you can get cheap health insurance and will be protected even if "society" can never get anything back from you. That's the whole point of insurance. On the other hand, if you choose not to get insured and squander your money on something else, that's your choice too and you need to live with the consequences.

What you describe, namely a cost-benefit analysis of individual lives, is exactly what socialized medicine relies on in order to determine who gets care and who doesn't. It is the exact opposite of a free-market outcome.

And then you use health insurance as an example of how insurance and society's goals are in alignment? You gotta be kidding! The free market brought us to the awful state we were in before

There was no "free market" in health care before Obamacare. Obamacare simply changed from a highly regulated, corrupt system to a different highly regulated, corrupt system.

The insurers were denying coverage to people who were most in need.

If by "people in need" you mean "sick people without insurance", yes they did. The problem prior to Obamacare was that there was essentially no free market in insurance by which responsible people could prevent getting into that situation.

Obamacare, on the other hand, has given up on the idea of "health insurance" altogether. What it really is is a hobbled socialized medicine system that shoves vast amounts of tax payer money in the hands of insurance companies, drug companies, and medical providers. It's even worse than what we had before.

Either we need fully socialized medicine or we need a free market, not the succession of increasingly corrupt systems that our politicians have brought us. But, take it from someone who has actually lived under serveral different systems, between the two, the free market system is by far the better one.

Talking about lenses ... has anyone invented lenses made from clear resin ?

Resins are cheap and easy to mould. It shouldn't be too hard to make lenses out of resins.

Plus there are some types of resins with the ability to absorb/refract part of the light frequencies, making them suitable to become "light filter", filtering out part of the light spectrum.

300 bauds? Pffffft !

My first modem was the Bell 101. Try guessing how fast it can go ?

That sir is Stalinisim.... we will bury you....

flashed into the rom would be fun if they had a random X hours and erase contents mode... Nothing is more enjoyable than knowing you are pissing off whoever bough your phone. I would like random insulting popups as well.

Moto G you cant pull the battery, Got another tip?

Step 1 change gmail password.
Step 2 realize you were dumb for not setting a lock screen code.
Step 3 - buy unlocked Moto X used on ebay for $260 and keep it in your front pocket next time.

Yeah, but Vancouver is one of the warmest places in the country. If you live in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Edmonton, Calgary, or just about anywhere other than Vancouver, it can get pretty cold in winter.

You seem to confuse Marxisim and Communism.

Communism means everyone helps everyone else, community ownership of the city and the infrastructure. Everyone is equal.
This is of course horrible, dastardly, and evil in the eyes of republicans, how DARE you take my riches and give them to someone who is poor, help help repression of the rich!

Marxisim is far closer to what we have here in the USA. It is class based, the RICH have different rules to live by than the workers do, and they also live differently than the poor. The poor must never have enough to be elevated out of their class, and the same goes for the working class, they must NOT be allowed into the ruling class, but Marx talks about how you pacify both classes by allowing one here and there to be elevated by the way of lottery. Thus it gives the image of hope to them where there really is none. Marx talks about how the rich and working should help the poor to keep them from revolting and rising up.

Cayman islands.

Ideally the people of Ukraine. It really should be for foreign powers to say. I mean you realize many government have provisions to handle ousting members and reforming, right? Particularly many parliamentary systems, but others as well. Even the US has something via the 25th amendment. The vice president and either a majority of the cabinet or congress can declare the president unable to discharge his duties and oust him (go read it if you want more specifics). It isn't a situation of "Well they were elected, now they are there and there's nothing you can do until the next election!" There are processes for removal/recall in pretty much all political systems.

I don't know anything about Ukrainian law, but really, it is for them to decide internally. Their courts need to rule on their law. It is really up to the US or Russia to come and say "No we don't think you should have done it that way, you do it our way instead."

And not shilling, go educate yourself. Vice News has some good coverage, split in 5 pieces, on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The most important things to note:

1) The Russian forces are not wearing insignias, or identifying themselves as Russian military. They either refuse to identify themselves at all, or identify themselves as being from the non-existent "Ukrainian Self Defense Force."

2) They Russian units are surrounding and/or capturing Ukrainian military installations. They are not moving to their bases, they are taking over Ukrainian bases. The Ukrainian commanders have been keeping things very cool, to avoid Russia being able to say they were provoked, so there hasn't been any violence, but it is a military attack on military targets, make no mistake.

3) Speaking of provocation, the Russian military has been trying it. They've been moving in and taking over Ukrainian bases, then withdrawing, only to do it again later. They are trying to goad the Ukrainian military in to firing on them.

4) Russia has been importing other non-governmental groups like Serbian Paramilitary forces to do, well who knows, but it isn't likely anything good.

So no, it is nothing like the US in Japan. Now if suddenly troops showed up in Maizuru and blocked off the military port there, troops wearing American uniforms, speaking English, armed with American weapons but wearing no insignias, no identifiers, and refusing to answer questions. If they blockaded the base, and then later went in and took it over, well ya, I'd be saying that the US was invading Japan and that it was clearly underhanded and illegit.

Having bases in a country doesn't mean free run to do as you please.