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Another Tip:
Assign the letters "X:","Y:","Z:" to your optical drives.
Why? your older (...and sometimes newer - thx lazy programmers) programs may need your optical drive to be a specific letter. Because the way windows maps partitions if you use external drives or just tend to swap hard disks your optical drive letter may change from boot-to-boot.
When you add a new hard drive, windows will first map it first - giving it a letter - and map optical drives later. So if your you have hard disk partitions C:,D: and your optical drive as E:, and you added a new hard disk with 2 partitions, then you'd have hard disk partitions C:,D:,E:,F: and your oprtical drive's letter would be G:.
However if you manually assign, the letter Z: it will never change since this is the last letter windows can assign. X: and Y: are also unlikely to change as you'd need several dozen partitions for them to be bumped.
Could you write a more in-depth explanation of writing the .reg file?
What you describe is something that normally can't be done, as programs usually have dozens entries in the registry referring to their path.
I know there is a windows variable that tells the system where the "Program Files" folder is, but even beyond that I'd have to export all my program settings. (I use several programs on the web, like Flashget for downloading stuff from FTPs, FlashFXP for uploading stuff and I also heavily reconfigured my mail client Thunderbird, finally I have all my IM clients with their logs and setups).
Assign the letters "X:","Y:","Z:" to your optical drives.
Why? your older (...and sometimes newer - thx lazy programmers) programs may need your optical drive to be a specific letter. Because the way windows maps partitions if you use external drives or just tend to swap hard disks your optical drive letter may change from boot-to-boot.
When you add a new hard drive, windows will first map it first - giving it a letter - and map optical drives later. So if your you have hard disk partitions C:,D: and your optical drive as E:, and you added a new hard disk with 2 partitions, then you'd have hard disk partitions C:,D:,E:,F: and your oprtical drive's letter would be G:.
However if you manually assign, the letter Z: it will never change since this is the last letter windows can assign. X: and Y: are also unlikely to change as you'd need several dozen partitions for them to be bumped.
Could you write a more in-depth explanation of writing the .reg file?
What you describe is something that normally can't be done, as programs usually have dozens entries in the registry referring to their path.
I know there is a windows variable that tells the system where the "Program Files" folder is, but even beyond that I'd have to export all my program settings. (I use several programs on the web, like Flashget for downloading stuff from FTPs, FlashFXP for uploading stuff and I also heavily reconfigured my mail client Thunderbird, finally I have all my IM clients with their logs and setups).
Flaser
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Tegumi wrote...
Don't double post. Next time you do, I'll delete it.You could try using a program called DVDFlick. You'll have to rename the Vob file to .mpeg, but it'll burn fine afterwards.
You'll need a DVD authoring software. Nero can do this. DVD Flick can also do this for you and it's freeware. However I think you could simply drop and use your VOB files.
Flaser
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...well you *could* raise the top 10% income tax. But that goes against the (unproven) principle that anything but a flat tax is Un-American.
Also, why I agree that industrial tax would slow the recovery, I have some further bad news for you: several companies didn't pay *ANY* tax.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/03/1815219/What-the-Top-US-Companies-Pay-In-Taxes
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/12/national/main4342535.shtml?placeValuesBeforeTB_=savedValues&KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=550&width=980
...and given that they moved everything overseas, I doubt that cutting their margins would seriously impede recovery. Hell, they're both subsidized (...and backed up by the right arm of Uncle Sam in case of oil companies), they bleed the country of capital and get away without paying back a cent.
There are indeed purely domestic enterprises that would be hit harder and as a result more painful for America if they were heavily taxed.
...so I think instead a mere industrial tax, an off-shore tax should be levied. It should target companies who're not reinvesting in the US. Why? They can "import" their product into the country toll free, they are eligible for government subsidies yet they don't reinvest any of that.
Another note:
The Financial Crisis wasn't the start of America's decline.
Watch this:
In other words, data manipulation has been used for close to a decade to mask the fact that the USA's inflation adjusted GDP was in a decline.
Once again, it's not purely fiscal but a combination of fiscal AND monetary irresponsibility that has lead to this.
EDIT:
Here's an article on the German model:
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/health-reform-without-a-public-plan-the-german-model/
It's actually pretty close to what you propose.
Also, why I agree that industrial tax would slow the recovery, I have some further bad news for you: several companies didn't pay *ANY* tax.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/03/1815219/What-the-Top-US-Companies-Pay-In-Taxes
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/12/national/main4342535.shtml?placeValuesBeforeTB_=savedValues&KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=550&width=980
...and given that they moved everything overseas, I doubt that cutting their margins would seriously impede recovery. Hell, they're both subsidized (...and backed up by the right arm of Uncle Sam in case of oil companies), they bleed the country of capital and get away without paying back a cent.
There are indeed purely domestic enterprises that would be hit harder and as a result more painful for America if they were heavily taxed.
...so I think instead a mere industrial tax, an off-shore tax should be levied. It should target companies who're not reinvesting in the US. Why? They can "import" their product into the country toll free, they are eligible for government subsidies yet they don't reinvest any of that.
Another note:
The Financial Crisis wasn't the start of America's decline.
Watch this:
In other words, data manipulation has been used for close to a decade to mask the fact that the USA's inflation adjusted GDP was in a decline.
Once again, it's not purely fiscal but a combination of fiscal AND monetary irresponsibility that has lead to this.
EDIT:
Here's an article on the German model:
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/health-reform-without-a-public-plan-the-german-model/
It's actually pretty close to what you propose.
Flaser
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I guess it could be Naughty Upskirt Angels by Shiden Akira.
Desudesu translated it:
http://desudesu0.com/?p=6095
Desudesu translated it:
http://desudesu0.com/?p=6095
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Although I agree with F_PoD's assessment that the reform is unlivable and won't solve the problem, I can't endorse any program that promotes "opting out" of health care.
My reason is simple: health care is not a luxury but a basic human need.
If we completely privatize health-care we will inevitably make it unavailable for the most poor. Especially in America a lot of damage has been done to institutional health-care.
I don't say that each and every person should be eligible for each and every medical procedure to preserve and extend his life. If it were merely a question of will then YES, I'd say that that should be the case. Unfortunately medical expenses have risen dramatically over the last couple of decades. NO, unfortunately, not all of it is due legal or fiscal reasons, a great portion of the price rise is also due the sheer complexity and material use of modern medicine.
So for the next couple of decades society as a whole won't be able to finance (not as in, finance as a public program through taxes, but finance as pay it et all) the health-care of everyone.
However *SOME* health-care SHOULD be provided. Things like vaccination (a lot of damages was done over the years by nut-jobs and idiots - thanks to them diphtheria and polio are about to reappear), basic dental-care (amalgam dental fillings are cheap and good enough for most people - I have them too) and basic life saving operations (trauma care, appendectomy, setting bones, etc).
As is, a lot of people can't even afford these, when in fact the country should be more than able to finance these things and loosing people to such ailment is actually a drain on the national budget (since dead or crippled people pay no taxes and produce no goods).
A good part of this has to do with the insane greed and callousness of the super-rich.
No, not a direct "killing of the poor", but a conscious and unrepentant promotion of selfishness and wealth accumulation through under any cost through whatever means. The adoration, idealization of winning and winners closely ties into this.
I have nothing against rich people but the mere possession of wealth - be it an insane fortune that shadows the GDP of some countries - is no whatsoever guarantee for a person's human decency.
The later takes a lot more and is more about what you do for others than for yourself. It might also do a lot with classical puritan values like modesty, sacrifice and hard working. Americans are quick to proclaim these ideas (as well as how pious they are), but in actually following them I find it harder and harder to see actual examples.
Ever since Reagenomics, success (as in financial success) has been pushed as the ultimate goal and the embodiment of the American dream even at the detriment of these values.
Winning is everything, regardless how you got there and cheating is fine as long as you're not caught. If you dare speak out against this cult of "success", or what's (and what kind of stuff is) done to achieve it, you're labeled a looser, for only losers whine, winners are all smiles. If you're annoying you're told to "move on", "get over it" (read: get out of my fucking face!).
Bit by bit, most Americans have convinced themselves, that they're the one at fault, that it's their fault that they're not rich and famous. It was only their own shortcomings that condemned them to poverty and toil.
My reason is simple: health care is not a luxury but a basic human need.
If we completely privatize health-care we will inevitably make it unavailable for the most poor. Especially in America a lot of damage has been done to institutional health-care.
I don't say that each and every person should be eligible for each and every medical procedure to preserve and extend his life. If it were merely a question of will then YES, I'd say that that should be the case. Unfortunately medical expenses have risen dramatically over the last couple of decades. NO, unfortunately, not all of it is due legal or fiscal reasons, a great portion of the price rise is also due the sheer complexity and material use of modern medicine.
So for the next couple of decades society as a whole won't be able to finance (not as in, finance as a public program through taxes, but finance as pay it et all) the health-care of everyone.
However *SOME* health-care SHOULD be provided. Things like vaccination (a lot of damages was done over the years by nut-jobs and idiots - thanks to them diphtheria and polio are about to reappear), basic dental-care (amalgam dental fillings are cheap and good enough for most people - I have them too) and basic life saving operations (trauma care, appendectomy, setting bones, etc).
As is, a lot of people can't even afford these, when in fact the country should be more than able to finance these things and loosing people to such ailment is actually a drain on the national budget (since dead or crippled people pay no taxes and produce no goods).
A good part of this has to do with the insane greed and callousness of the super-rich.
No, not a direct "killing of the poor", but a conscious and unrepentant promotion of selfishness and wealth accumulation through under any cost through whatever means. The adoration, idealization of winning and winners closely ties into this.
I have nothing against rich people but the mere possession of wealth - be it an insane fortune that shadows the GDP of some countries - is no whatsoever guarantee for a person's human decency.
The later takes a lot more and is more about what you do for others than for yourself. It might also do a lot with classical puritan values like modesty, sacrifice and hard working. Americans are quick to proclaim these ideas (as well as how pious they are), but in actually following them I find it harder and harder to see actual examples.
Ever since Reagenomics, success (as in financial success) has been pushed as the ultimate goal and the embodiment of the American dream even at the detriment of these values.
Winning is everything, regardless how you got there and cheating is fine as long as you're not caught. If you dare speak out against this cult of "success", or what's (and what kind of stuff is) done to achieve it, you're labeled a looser, for only losers whine, winners are all smiles. If you're annoying you're told to "move on", "get over it" (read: get out of my fucking face!).
Bit by bit, most Americans have convinced themselves, that they're the one at fault, that it's their fault that they're not rich and famous. It was only their own shortcomings that condemned them to poverty and toil.
Flaser
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...in that case I find it even more odd that you'd call this guy your friend.
Flaser
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FFS give us men an option too, so we can see the results of these polls!
Flaser
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Congratulations!
You just abandoned another fellow human being! Your friend obviously had problems, so the natural reaction is to mark him a looser and distance yourself, lest the scorn on him might cast a shadow on you.
Some friend you are...
For my true friends I'd do almost anything (including murder and getting shot). I'm talking about guys I hang out with, or "pals". I only have a few friends but with them I know perfectly well where I stand - and yeah, I *know* they'd do the same for me too.
You just abandoned another fellow human being! Your friend obviously had problems, so the natural reaction is to mark him a looser and distance yourself, lest the scorn on him might cast a shadow on you.
Some friend you are...
For my true friends I'd do almost anything (including murder and getting shot). I'm talking about guys I hang out with, or "pals". I only have a few friends but with them I know perfectly well where I stand - and yeah, I *know* they'd do the same for me too.
Flaser
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Dungeon basement.
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F_PoD, you're bringing me around, not on the issue whether state run health-care is bad (or good) but on the notion that for America it won't help either and as is, the current scheme doesn't solve anything.
However I'd like to point out two things:
First: In the current privatized insurance based system no party is really interested in lowering prices. At first glance one would say insurance companies are - since with cheaper procedures and medication they could cut their costs - however it's not that simple. What they're interested in is maximizing profit. As long as they can push these costs onto the insurer or build it into their prices - and their clients paying (since typically this is another big business they can shoulder a lot) - they won't do anything radical. I think has a lot to do with what I'll address second. Furthermore since medical expenses can be used to generate tax-free "expanses" (kinda like what's done with employee life insurance) the actually insurance buyers might also be interested in "expensive" schemes if it allows them to siphon out money from the company tax-free.
Second: For a free market to function, the number of participants has to be high enough (ergo no monopolies or oligopolies) that their singular production influences the supply-demand. Also entry capital has to be low enough that new participants can enter the market.
You keep bringing up Wal-Mart as the epitome of a "good" monopoly. This is very deceptive. Although their prices are very low, you still pay a lot for those products... and often in more sinister ways than you'd think at a glance. Wal-Mart can keep their prices low, since they literally employ the cheapest labor available. Often times this means their labor is not in the US. This means that although prices will be cheaper, American workers won't earn as much as these jobs are effectively lost. Also this production externalities further costs in wasteful transportation and toxic waste - you usually don't have to pay for these, but such thing have a tendency to still come around and bit you in the ass.
So yeah, Wal-Mart is cheap, but to get their it had to take away your well paying job first. It keeps happening with the various *Marts of business. So far only blue collar jobs were exported, now even areas like IT and R&D are being moved overseas and white collar people finding themselves pumping gas or handling a *mart counter. (...and only 20-30 hours a week, since they won't employ you full time, as then they'd have to pay a lot more benefits after you... so you'll likely still need *another* job, working close to 50-70 hours a week).
Meanwhile corps are turning on the vice and you'll need to do more hours anyway in any job - without more pay (so in effect your wage was just cut) and with your benefits cut.
I'm for *free market*, but for free market to exist you need strong state regulation. Not intervention, regulation. However it seems the corporations have taken over the state... and no, primarily I'm not talking about the Congress or White House. The FED - that's where the real stinking fish is.
However I'd like to point out two things:
First: In the current privatized insurance based system no party is really interested in lowering prices. At first glance one would say insurance companies are - since with cheaper procedures and medication they could cut their costs - however it's not that simple. What they're interested in is maximizing profit. As long as they can push these costs onto the insurer or build it into their prices - and their clients paying (since typically this is another big business they can shoulder a lot) - they won't do anything radical. I think has a lot to do with what I'll address second. Furthermore since medical expenses can be used to generate tax-free "expanses" (kinda like what's done with employee life insurance) the actually insurance buyers might also be interested in "expensive" schemes if it allows them to siphon out money from the company tax-free.
Second: For a free market to function, the number of participants has to be high enough (ergo no monopolies or oligopolies) that their singular production influences the supply-demand. Also entry capital has to be low enough that new participants can enter the market.
You keep bringing up Wal-Mart as the epitome of a "good" monopoly. This is very deceptive. Although their prices are very low, you still pay a lot for those products... and often in more sinister ways than you'd think at a glance. Wal-Mart can keep their prices low, since they literally employ the cheapest labor available. Often times this means their labor is not in the US. This means that although prices will be cheaper, American workers won't earn as much as these jobs are effectively lost. Also this production externalities further costs in wasteful transportation and toxic waste - you usually don't have to pay for these, but such thing have a tendency to still come around and bit you in the ass.
So yeah, Wal-Mart is cheap, but to get their it had to take away your well paying job first. It keeps happening with the various *Marts of business. So far only blue collar jobs were exported, now even areas like IT and R&D are being moved overseas and white collar people finding themselves pumping gas or handling a *mart counter. (...and only 20-30 hours a week, since they won't employ you full time, as then they'd have to pay a lot more benefits after you... so you'll likely still need *another* job, working close to 50-70 hours a week).
Meanwhile corps are turning on the vice and you'll need to do more hours anyway in any job - without more pay (so in effect your wage was just cut) and with your benefits cut.
I'm for *free market*, but for free market to exist you need strong state regulation. Not intervention, regulation. However it seems the corporations have taken over the state... and no, primarily I'm not talking about the Congress or White House. The FED - that's where the real stinking fish is.
Flaser
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Fun fact: about 1/3 of natural pregnancies ends in miscarriage or the girl won't even notice it as the zygote fails to properly adhere to the wall of the uterus.
So apparently God has some invisible scheme, where a great bunch of kids need to die before they're even born (and since they might have been conceived in sin they go straight to Hell) or God doesn't give a shit about a bunch of cells and to have a soul you need a mind of your own for it to reside in...
...or there's no God, what we call a soul is actually the program running on the hardware called the mind (with instinct and several unconscious subsystem being your OS) so only a developed mind can be called a human.
I'm an atheist, so I go with the last option, but first two options should give some pause to those who oppose abortion on religious grounds.
So apparently God has some invisible scheme, where a great bunch of kids need to die before they're even born (and since they might have been conceived in sin they go straight to Hell) or God doesn't give a shit about a bunch of cells and to have a soul you need a mind of your own for it to reside in...
...or there's no God, what we call a soul is actually the program running on the hardware called the mind (with instinct and several unconscious subsystem being your OS) so only a developed mind can be called a human.
I'm an atheist, so I go with the last option, but first two options should give some pause to those who oppose abortion on religious grounds.
Flaser
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I don't care.
...as long as they're not jacking off to me it won't even bother me.
If they do it'd be awkward but, hell life's already thrown some awkward shit at me, not to mention my own fuck ups to be ashamed of.
...as long as they're not jacking off to me it won't even bother me.
If they do it'd be awkward but, hell life's already thrown some awkward shit at me, not to mention my own fuck ups to be ashamed of.
Flaser
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Most guys should take a hint or two from this guy:
Miles Vorkosigan
The guy's a cripple, yet by the time he's 20 he had a mercenary army of his own, and a "harem" three girls. It includes Taura an eight-foot tall prototype for a super-soldier with tremendous strength, as well as Elli Quinn (impossible beautiful girl - though she payed quite a price for that) and finally his wife Ekaterina. He also almost scored with his childhood sweetheart Elena Bothari who still has a thing for him.
He's be a Kavorka man if not for his impeccable gentlemanly conduct and genuine compassion.
Miles Vorkosigan
Despite repeated corrective surgeries, Miles's height only reaches four-foot-nine at maturity. He has his mother's sea grey eyes and his father's dark hair. Miles is described as winter pale with laugh lines around his eyes and pain lines around his mouth. Miles was slightly hunch-backed, but after his death and cryo-revival, a surgeon managed to straighten his spine a bit, giving him a valued additional centimeter of height. Miles has fine scars running all over his body from having his easily broken bones replaced with synthetics in his twenties. Many people on Barrayar are prejudiced against him because they incorrectly believe him to be a mutant.
The guy's a cripple, yet by the time he's 20 he had a mercenary army of his own, and a "harem" three girls. It includes Taura an eight-foot tall prototype for a super-soldier with tremendous strength, as well as Elli Quinn (impossible beautiful girl - though she payed quite a price for that) and finally his wife Ekaterina. He also almost scored with his childhood sweetheart Elena Bothari who still has a thing for him.
He's be a Kavorka man if not for his impeccable gentlemanly conduct and genuine compassion.
Flaser
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I shave my face (used to have a beard for a while). I trim everything else.
Flaser
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26.
I'm also an "oldfag". I started watching anime in 1996. Hentai soon followed.
I'm also an "oldfag". I started watching anime in 1996. Hentai soon followed.
Flaser
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...didn't see that coming did, ya?
Flaser
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I was (and will be) debating with F_PoD whether the USA should adopt a state run or a privatized health-care scheme.
However what you wrote about "Debt" is utter bullshit. I could go on and on why, but:
1. I'm not an economist.
2. People already did this in concise and good manner:
...finally the very pedantic and libertarian (as far as their action plan goes) but in its assessment correct, "Money as Debt":
This isn't stictly health-care related, but it is the very foundation upon which a pension and health-care system is based. When it has been plundered by the super-rich - inflation is the result of fiscal policy and actions of the participants, and is an invisible tax on everybody's wealth - both of those are in jeopardy.
However what you wrote about "Debt" is utter bullshit. I could go on and on why, but:
1. I'm not an economist.
2. People already did this in concise and good manner:
...finally the very pedantic and libertarian (as far as their action plan goes) but in its assessment correct, "Money as Debt":
This isn't stictly health-care related, but it is the very foundation upon which a pension and health-care system is based. When it has been plundered by the super-rich - inflation is the result of fiscal policy and actions of the participants, and is an invisible tax on everybody's wealth - both of those are in jeopardy.
Flaser
OCD Hentai Collector
1. It's under a spoiler.
2. You gotta press it to run it.
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3. Have a good day.
2. You gotta press it to run it.
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3. Have a good day.
Flaser
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