This is retarded.

1. It isn't for profit healthcare that is the problem, it's THIRD PARTY PAY.
2. I don't use third party pay, ever, for healthcare. I've been insured nonstop for over 30 years, and NEVER ONCE has my insurer paid my doctor.
3. Even when I've had emergencies, I still called around, negotiated a fair cash up front rate, paid cash up front, and billed it to my insurer. My cash up front rate was sometimes below any co-pay negotiated with my insurer, lol.

I just recently had some elective surgery that would have cost me about $2000 on my annual deductible, but I was able to cash pay a negotiated rate of $400 including a follow-up "free". I submitted the $400 to my insurer and they reimbursed me.

Third party insurance exists because YOU VOTERS demanded the HMO Act of the 1970s, which tied health care to employment, and then employers outsourced it to third parties.

Health care is remarkably cheap in the US (cash pay, negotiated) and I don't have to wait months to see a doctor when I call and say I am cash pay. They bump me up fast.

I imagine that the first question after installing Linux would be "Now how do I sync albums that I bought on the band's Bandcamp page onto my iPhone?" As far as I'm aware:

- iTunes for Windows uses the Apple Mobile Device Service driver to sync over a USB cable, and drivers don't run in Wine.
- libimobiledevice on Linux can write files to an iPhone but not the music database that the included Music app uses.
- Though the VLC app can play music from files, nothing but the included Music app can make playlists containing both purchased music and rented music from the roommate's Apple Music family plan. Not all bands are with a label that's on Apple Music.

I left Windows on her laptop and turned off S Mode.

Many new computers with Windows 11, such as a Lenovo IdeaPad that my roommate received as a birthday gift, come set to "S Mode" and will not run applications from outside the Store. There is a way to disable S Mode permanently on a particular PC. This shows a sequence of alert boxes whose wording may be scary to particularly nontechnical users such as my roommate.

In my part of the United States, both Kroger and Dollar Tree impose a surcharge for cash back on a debit transaction. Walmart still does not.

The claim was that trade deficits were the closest thing to an emergency that the President could find as a justification. I explained that the fentanyl use epidemic was the other justification, which some people might have an easier time accepting as an emergency.

As I understand the executive order abolishing de minimis entry, the tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China aren't based on trade deficit as much as on these countries' failure to cooperate in preventing fentanyl and fentanyl precursors from getting smuggled into the USA.

There is danger to the user's bank accounts from running an app that was made for the primary purpose of enabling financial scams, social-engineering the user into draining their life savings. The previous featured article states that the initial set of countries where Google plans to put this policy change into effect (Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand) are hotbeds of scamware distributed through unknown sources.

Correct: AHRA's carveout extends only to noncommercial use. However, I still find it useful to distinguish a statutory "carveout" from a (theoretically negotiated) "license", even when there's something in between the two called a "compulsory license".

In case anyone's confused:

The quotation was from the lyrics of the song "I Want Your Sex" from George Michael's 1987 solo debut Faith . That song's lyrics are from the point of view of the male in a heterosexual monogamous couple: "I can't take much more, girl / I'm losing control" (my emphasis). Michael's turn toward specifically gay lyrics would come several years later, starting around 1998.

Again, that depends on the country. Slashdot's home country (the USA) has the Audio Home Recording Act, which creates a carveout for private copying of sound recordings.

Still no remote revocation.

Over time, a smaller fraction of newly released movies and TV series have been made available on DVD. Instead, many are exclusive to a streaming service.

Your spelling implies that you learned English in Britain or another Commonwealth country. I don't know how the law works in Britain, but in Slashdot's home country (the USA), some of the carveouts for individual use in the copyright statute apply to "the owner of a lawfully made copy." (The statute defines "copy" as a physical object in which a work is fixed.) See, for example, Title 17, United States Code, sections 109 (regarding resale of an individual copy) and 117 (regarding copying a computer program into RAM for use).

Google has always been a crawler, not a directory. Its crawl was seeded at times with data from Dmoz Open Directory Project, a directory that Netscape acquired in 1998 and ran as an open database to compete with Yahoo.

One downside of the directory model is that the operator of a newly established website may not know what search engines its prospective audience are using.

A second downside is time cost of navigating the red tape of keeping the site's listing updated everywhere. This has included finding where in each directory's detailed categorization a site belongs and understanding what each directory expects in each field of the submission form so as to avoid a binding rejection that can delay a site's addition for months. It has also included solving CAPTCHAs meant to deter spammers from overloading a search engine with low-quality sites. In fact, the first CAPTCHA I ever saw was on AltaVista's submission circa early 2000, and it surprised me enough to try opening the site in Lynx to grab a screenshot and complain about its inaccessibility on Slashdot. It took until fourth quarter 2003 for inaccessibility of CAPTCHA to be recognized by a notable organization.

A third is monetary cost to submit a listing. At one point, some search engines were start charging a fee to crawl a site. In particular, Overture's GoTo.com pretended to be a search engine but was 100 percent pay-for-click ads. (Imagine if Google had a search engine just for AdWords listings, and that were the default.)

J. R. R. Tolkien indeed suggested that Men hunted Hobbits for sport. See "LOTR: Did Men Hunt Hobbits To Extinction For Sport?" by Alice Rose Dodds, as well as a quotation from Tolkien's The Nature of Middle-earth .

The "nursery" paradigm can help to bring some sense of scope and lifetime back to a multithreaded task. See "Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful" by Nathaniel J. Smith (8000 words)