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    Your genetic info can no longer be used for discrimination against you

    The argument you make only makes sense in the context of something other than health care and health insurance, namely life insurance. Life insurance premiums currently do indeed get established with certain individual dispositions considered. Your points make complete agreeable sense when...
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    Opinions on a oil price floor in the US

    Again, seems ok in principle. But for all I know, oil could fall below $100 and not see it again for another 10 yrs. The rich would be inconvenienced by $200 oil but the poor would be devastated. You're trading "possibly affordable unpredictability" with "predictable unaffordability". So its...
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    Opinions on a oil price floor in the US

    Not a bad idea in principle. Only rpobelm is the lack of flow of capital to the lower income families (unless you believe in trickle-down economics) who are likely the ones hurt most by sustained higher prices. If somehow you could change tax laws owing to the extra income brought about by...
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    Your genetic info can no longer be used for discrimination against you

    This is an ethical issue. Not an actuarial one. The flaw in your argument is that the expression "likely to cost them extra money in payouts" in the context of auto insurance, is tied to choices made by the driver(s) of vehicles. One's genetic makeup is not a matter of choice. Sickle...
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    Your genetic info can no longer be used for discrimination against you

    It'll probably all shake out in the end anyway. Those without the bad genes can still potentially get sick. Irregular premiums would not diminish the risk of those without the bad genes. It would only help the insurance companies turn a larger profit. Those who feel this is unfair are...
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    The biggest problem with a nationalized healthcare system

    So I think you're saying that average Joe pays for medical care, gets treatment, that money goes to R&D and the whole system continually improves. In effect, I think you're attempting to connect the "healthcare system" to "medical R&D". This is incorrect. Privatized healthcare does not...
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    Bush lifts executive ban on offshore drilling

    Fair enough. If its been explored and they find no oil, there seems to be no reason to hold on to the lease, right? Completely agree. If they have 10,000 acres, or even millions of acres, they're not going to explore it overnight. So what I'm trying to understand is that IF it does take...
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    Bush lifts executive ban on offshore drilling

    If there's evidence for any one of your points, I'd love to see it. 1) Oil companies have depleted their existing oil 2) lease rights requires oil companies to explore or lose (perhaps true but time frame would be rather important. 1 yr limit is one thing. 60 yr limit is another) 3) Oil...
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    Bush lifts executive ban on offshore drilling

    I have yet to really understand what this does for the US. Wouldn't mind being educated on this a bit. The counter argument that big-oil has existing access to plenty of land with oil seems to work against the need for off-shore and ANWR. Are either of them that much cost-effective for...
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    Bailouts To Continue

    Yeah, but I think that would be egregious misuse of gov funds. Bailing out of individual shareholders wouldn't be taken lightly by most voters, IMHO.
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    Bailouts To Continue

    Yeah. This is absolutely correct. Should the government take over Fannie and Freddie, they would likely be rolled up under the FHA. You can't hold stock in government institutions.
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    Building a home theater for family

    Can you give me an idea of distance behind the seating area they're placed? And probably the fact that the bay window is still lower than the actual ceiling helps alot. Also, if you didnt do this already, putting in some batted insulation around the wall sub will help with controlling the...
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    Building a home theater for family

    This is a cool setup. I like the clean look of the wall the TV is mounted on. About the placement of the rear speakers.... are they over the seating area or still far enough behind? How is the spatial representation of the sound with them mounted overhead? And do they have pointable...
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    nvlddmkm stopped responding ?

    Just to add one more experience to this.... Q6600 is at 3.0Ghz and is undervolted to 1.3v. System has been running fine with the 8800GT since I got it last november. Last week I got an Accelero S1. Wasn't happy with temps from 8800gt factory cooler. Took meticulous care to remove all...
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    VISTA SP1 Accidentally Released On Windows Update*CONFIRMED*

    Unfortunately still no luck even with KB937287 installed.
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    If you could get Monster cables the same price as Monoprice cables

    For HDMI cables, I'd definitely bite. For anything else (component,rca,coax,etc) you could buy yourself a nice crimper at partsexpress, some belden cable, and make your own a/v-phile quality stuff to exact lengths and recover the price of the parts in the money saved after the first two...
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    Microsoft Office 2007 Basic $79.99

    Many companies that allow their employees to telecommute have special employee benefits that include Microsoft software (through their institutional license) for basically shipping and handling. Federal government agencies, especially, offer this. MS Office Business Edition 2007 for cost of...
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    The 6 mill home theater

    I think the other HT setups on that website are nicer. In fact, the reader's postings, aside from lower ceilings, actually seem better because they were cheaper to construct than the pros'. I think the SMX theater that gave inspiration to Anand for his HT is on there too. Wish they had...
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    Accelero S1 and Thermaltake Armor w/ 25cm fan

    Yep. Checked the pdf from the AC website but it didn't really give me the assurance that it would fit. If the alignment is poor between the case fan and the heatsink, I know for a fact that it won't fit. But if the fan is high enough on the panel, the heatsink *may* miss it and therefore fit...
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    Sound deadening

    I have very similar problems in my house. Sounds like you're looking for decorative bass traps. If you're a DIY'er like me, there's plenty of stuff you can find from google on how to make them yourself. The other thing to try if you're a bit artistic is wall tapestries. Can either make...
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    Accelero S1 and Thermaltake Armor w/ 25cm fan

    Anyone have this combination? My MB is the ga-p35-ds4. I'm thinking of getting a better cooling solution for my 8800gt but I can't tell from the measurements on the Arctic Cooling website if the accelero will fit into my case. Main conflict seems to be the possibility of my side 25cm fan on...
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    New York Giants Style 18-1 Shirt - ~$12.00

    LOL. Amusing to me since I really don't feel strongly about either team. But I'm sure there are a few that will buy these in bulk. :)
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    Vista Memory Utilization - Superfetch?

    With the way superfetch works and all that money you spent for your memory, you should be screaming "<b>Yeah! Only 10MB free!</b>". Isn't the point of having all that memory so it gets used?
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    Wake on Lan settings help.

    Well, that screenshot shows that the setting would be a double-negative: Turn off WOL? No. Might be worth a try to switch it to Yes if it doesn't work as it is. But I can confirm what JackMDS has said. There's no "special" setting. Set it in the MB bios and enable it on the NIC and it...
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    ***FIXED*** Vista booting is extremely slow...

    Sounds as if you may have "Boot from USB" enabled in bios and the boot order of your drives is out of whack. Perhaps disabling boot from bios is the trick... Edit: Err... I meant "disabling boot from usb" is the trick...
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    debugging lan throughput issues

    Sorry for the naive question, but how can I get error count from iperf? These are windows-based machines....
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    debugging lan throughput issues

    Would appreciate your thoughts and opinions.... I think the wiring in my wall jacks is keeping me from better iperf numbers. At best, right now, iperf shows 450kbps with all firewalls and antiviruses turned off. (When connected with a short patch cable into a single router I get 960-980kbps...
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    Am I completely off the deep end?? What am I doing wrong?

    I think I made sure to initiate the copy from cold-booted machines. Over the many times I tried to copy over the network, I think I tried running media player only once or twice. I thought the fix was in the way the tcp stack was being optimized in vista but I'm not really an expert to...
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    Am I completely off the deep end?? What am I doing wrong?

    In case it wasn't obvious, I was kidding about DRM... :)
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    Am I completely off the deep end?? What am I doing wrong?

    Well, the new RC SP1 seems to have helped. The remainder of the poor file transfer performance I think I can blame on a combination of my router/HD's/cabling/firewalls. With everything set the way I want for day-to-day use I max out at 200 Mbps. With firewalls disabled iperf shows 480...
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    No audio: Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6, Vista 64-bit

    A shot in the dark, but by any chance do you have a front panel audio header connected to the MB? Would having an Azalea codec on an AC3 header be causing some sort of conflict?
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    Inexpensive Access Point with A,B, and G support

    If you're using only up to G, I would recommend getting a wireless router instead unless you have specific requirements for bridging or repeating (which some routers will do anyway). Repeating function looks better on paper than it actually is. So GOOD wireless routers can be had for less than...
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    Wake on lan - Can setup a switch to use this?

    I don't think you're asking for WOL in this situation. WOL essentially requires using one computer to send magic packets or shutdown command to another over a lan: 2 computers total as a minimum. You've only mentioned 1 computer in your scenario.
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    Kingston 4GB DataTraveler USB flash drive $23 shipped

    ^ QFT I actually have this drive and it is very slow. But you get what you pay for. Its a nice 4gb quick backup drive that you can keep plugged into the back forever for important documents.
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    Free shipping on Fans and Heatsinks

    Nice. Just ordered a couple of PWM fans. Been looking for something like this for a while.
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    Vista SP1(beta)- Available to the general public next-week

    Strange. Installed RC1 SP on my vistax64 and didn't realize till now that I don't have the "evaluation copy" thing on my screen.
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    Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC1 Publicly Available

    Verdict for me is still undecided. File transfer across network is definitely improved. The good: 1. the "Calculating time" thing is a lot faster. LAN transfers through explorer start up right away. (well, within about 5 seconds which could be from the HD just spinning up) 2. My gigabit...
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    Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC1 Publicly Available

    I'm waiting to get home tonight to try it. Any ideas on how crowded the download servers are? What kind of speeds are to be expected through a standard cable modem?
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    I think I got a good OC Q6000 chip...

    I don't know much about the ECS board, but given the OC-ability of the Q6600, just setting the multi to 9x333 is worth a shot with your current system. I wouldn't be surprised if it works. The worst that will probably happen given your stock results is that the board wont post.
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    Vista SP1(beta)- Available to the general public next-week

    This is the one thing I'm looking forward to the most. Can't believe how quiet this problem has been. Everyone is either a tcp expert and can program their own stack or no one is using vista on a lan and having to copy files across machines....