> There might be /some/ argument that it's depriving the already super rich hollywood producers of their revenue but generally that assumes anyone who pirated something would have otherwise bought it which is certainly not the case. Most piracy is by children who don't have any money and could not have bought the content anyway.

Then do without. Problem solved. Oh wait, this is the 'EVERYTHING SHOULD BE FREE GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE' generation.

Plame and her husband were an example of clear corruption. She was using her intel position to feed information to her husband for more political uses. They got caught, and paid the price that a career government employee pays when they get involved in politics - career ended.

Suffice to say that your summary doesn't do justice to the actual story, they didn't have much that was of value and are only well known because of the politics they were involved in. They couldn't make their lawsuits stick and now she's writing spy novels. So much for Valerie Plame.

I always thought Twiki was a completely useless design.and Dr Theopolis should have been a dialup server someplace.

What level of AI?

Apple IIe disk drives (in 1983!) used to come with a program that would play 20 questions with you and guess the animal you were thinking of. It could even learn to a certain extent.

All that has happened since then in AI, is that the knowledge base has gotten larger.

Too bad parent posted AC, because that short story is the absolute best futurist discussion of the topic.

If your income is low enough- go platinum and make the feds pay for it.

There is one other option- thjis, if you have moral qualms is supposedly Obamacare friendly while avoiding the moral problems of traditional health insurance companies.

No, it is ELITIST bullshit that they are spewing. Making blanket judgements based on what someone like Ezekiel Emanuel told them to say. It doesn't matter if it is true or not, they believe it, because they were told by someone who knows better than anyone else. And it is "better" depending on who you ask, just don't ask the patient, doctor, health insurance company or anyone immediately involved in your health care (lack of) choices. It IS better for the DNC as it provides a nice new entitlement to ensnare unsuspecting weak individuals into a lifelong servitude of voting for the candidates the Party Dictates they vote for.

Welcome to Soviet Amerika!

High-sulfur diesel is great for all engines, even modern ones. But it's not good for catalysts, and that's why it's gone now. It's more expensive to add other lubricity agents, but that's what they've done. Biodiesel has more lubricity, but gels in cold weather. Then there's green diesel, which needs lubricity agents again. You could cut it 10% with biodiesel, though, and it would be a pretty much ideal carbon-neutral fuel (if the cracking energy came from someplace carbon-neutral.)

Sadly, they changed the oil, too. Now it's hard to find oil for the old engines. The old oil ruins catalysts. The new oil sucks. My engines are old, there's no catalyst on my truck or my car. They want Delo 400, but all I can find is Delo 400LE. I could get Rotella T Synthetic for the same price, but putting synthetic in an old engine is a recipe for environmental harm.

You would need regular inspections to make sure people didn't blow up their neighborhood. It's a lot more leak-prone than your range.

Yes, it's entirely true.

...and be one of three people. And actually, not all of them will get jobs either, because some of those job requirements are written to be unfillable, so that a foreign worker can be hired instead.

This changes from state to state and individual to individual so much that the *best* way to figure this out is to go to your state exchange.

If it is working, that is. Mine isn't. Near as I can tell from my state website, I need to do my taxes for the year *before* I can make any intelligent decisions other than "just pay the damn tax, it's cheaper for your family than the cheapest catastrophic plan". No subsidies in my income bracket, likely, unless I made $20,000 less than I think I did.

In general, under Obamacare everything is rated now: Catastrophic, Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum. Catastrophic will always be the cheapest, with around a 5k-10k deductible before they'll pay for anything. Bronze is the best if you want some care and want to get your deductible down into human ranges of 2k-5k. Silver gets you even better deductibles- but you'll pay for the premiums more than the Obamacare tax. Platinum is only for politicians and rich people who can afford to drop $40k/year in premiums.

Including, apparently, taking over Oracle?

Near as I can tell, they're the only ones actually profiting from this, at least in Oregon. 300,000 uninsured, maybe 400,000 due to canceled policies, and 30,000 signed up to replace their health insurance, with a whopping 44 actually ready to pay a premium.

The only winner is Oracle, with $300 million in contractor fees for putting up a PDF file.

Feel free to provide your evidence that I've done such a thing. You have none, of course: you're lying.

I labelled no such things as lies. You're lying.

You're lying.

You're lying.

Operation McCall on CNN
IAEA Al-Tuwaitha site report

A little bit of critical reading of the two sources in conjunction with each other will show some discrepancies. I have a nice award from the OSD hung up in my basement that says I was at Al-Tuwaitha. My time in Iraq with dosimeter badges and looking at the abandoned fortifications atop the depicted berms (in the IAEA report) convince me that there was every appearance of a WMD program in Iraq. There may have been no nuclear weapon produced, but the theater was excellent.

If people are willingly and intentionally running red lights, because of some sort of need to "beat the system" or whatever lame excuse, they need to be hit with a steep fine (one month cop salary) AND 40 hours community service. Make it painful to be in a hurry.

The above solution is enough to make it safer, idiots ignoring the rules of the road need to be caught, because they are the ones that are causing the problems. I have no sympathy for people's willful arrogance in situations like this.