What's hysterically funny about all this is that the same people who are claiming that "This is the Will of the People" are the first ones to scream "It's not a Democracy, it's a Republic!"
What's hysterically funny is that there's no conflict there. Government must do the will of The People or it will fall, sooner or later.
So what you are saying is that you deserve to be punished every time you accidentaly hurt yourself?
If someone steals your car and runs someone over, your culpability is determined by whether you left the car unlocked and the keys in the ignition. Why shouldn't computers be treated the same way?
They would seriously demand that you lock your doors to protect fifty bucks worth of groceries, AND be fully prepared to pay for the replacement of your top when somebody sliced it to open the door lock and get at those groceries?
You have no idea how mandated insurance works, do you? They don't really pay for the replacement of your top. You and all the other insured do that. Since you're required by law to have car insurance, you're still going to get the insurance even though it's unfair. And because it's mandated, all the insurance companies can abuse you, because there's more money in it than being the one that doesn't — who will quickly find themselves put out of business by all the others one way or another. Maybe buying legislation to make them act like assholes, for example.
I don't think simple machines count. I think you need machinery for it to be a cyborg thing. Also, wooden legs, fake teeth, and glass eyes are all readily detachable. The eye is at least sort of inside the body, but it's not a machine at all.
The bottom line is that health care costs are too high. It will take many years for the costs to stabilize and respond to market forces again.
The market is broken. Health care costs are out of control. Proof? Insurance companies pay less for procedures than do individuals. It's all a scam. To assert that health care costs are stabilized at a reasonable level by market forces is a pathetic joke.
When was the last time that invading somebody for their cash was actually cost effective?
For a nation? A long time ago. For the people running the war, and the people selling war supplies? Every time.
You wouldn't believe the number of people here who seriously believe that Switzerland is sitting on "massive french tax-evaded riches", just because the government implied it over and over as it was doing all it could to avoid bankruptcy.
Even if it were true, how would invading Switzerland help? The money would go out the back door as they went in the front. The only solution is to clean up the mess at home, and address the future. The past is already past.
In fairness, Switzerland also wasn't really in anyone's way and has relatively easy to defend terrain.
In fairness, Switzerland was already known for banking and the Nazis needed their services as much as anyone else.
Some years ago on a flight to (or was it from?) Vegas I was unfortunate enough to be seated next to a 13 year old girl who explained to me how the tool she used to get free internet access via AOL worked.
Just how much detail did she provide?
Enough to where I just wanted her to shut the hell up, though I'm not rude enough to say so to a little girl. Eventually I managed to get my mp3 player into action by a long drawn-out process of fiddling with it meaningfully.
Putting the gene into an organism that can survive in a range of environments which make the process commercially viable was researched at a public university and is patented by Butamax. Apparently Gevo also has some relevant patent so they have something to fight about.
I really don't see the purpose in giving a mobile phone to a kid who cannot read
It's not unusual for a four year old to be able to read. Lots of kids who can't read can manipulate iOS or hell, even Windows with a multitouch display.
Technology in the classroom...all of it...it's just **tools to teach**
Oddly, writing is a technology, and paper is a technology, you put them together and you can convey knowledge. But if you put computers together with writing then you can convey knowledge much more cheaply, because one computer can present an entire library.
A new generation of script kiddies.
Some years ago on a flight to (or was it from?) Vegas I was unfortunate enough to be seated next to a 13 year old girl who explained to me how the tool she used to get free internet access via AOL worked.
Those who don't probably also don't have WiFi.
Many if not most ISP-provided home router/modems now include WiFi, and it is turned on by default.
I can sort-of-touch-type at 75 wpm with about 99% accuracy. I do need a sort of overview of the keyboard; I don't have to look down at it, but I need to be able to sort of see my hands and the keyboard down below the screen someplace. I started chatting online at 14. Now I'm in my thirties, but I had this skill by the time I was 20 or so.
My hands are massive and it hurts me to place them on the home keys, my fingers don't want to be that close together in that position. So I type with about three fingers on each hand most of the time, backspace with the right ring finger, special keys with the pinkies, space bar with the right thumb like normal, most of the time. But sometimes I'll use the left, a habit from using it for paging while mousing.
IOW you really don't necessarily need to learn touch typing, but it's going to take a fuck of a lot of typing to gain proficiency otherwise. I spent most of the time between about 13 and 17 in front of a keyboard.
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