Posts by kes166

I don't see how you're disagreeing with me. In the situation you describe, you're not breaking the law to change it, you're just breaking the law. Withholding any moral judgement, I think you'd be both selfish and foolish in that instance: selfish because your actions are aimed at your own benefit and foolish because they don't actually benefit you and you know it (you say so right here).

But the case you describe has nothing to do with civil disobedience, and can't ride on the shoulders of Thoreau and Gandhi and King. What you're describing is a simple attempt to evade a law you disagree with, for your own financial benefit.

Now, as it happens, I agree that a single-payer, tax-funded European-style system would be much preferable to the mess that was passed, but since the mess is the law, my choice is to comply or to break the law, and I don't really see that engaging in civil disobedience on this front is going to get what I want, so I obey the law.

You have $150. Someone knocks on your door and says "You MUST have this". Ok, so you take it from him.

"You now owe me $250" says random guy ... What do you do?

It's that simple. I can't afford health insurance. I want it, but I need to set priorities. If self preservation is selfish, then everyone is selfish.

jon.kiparsky wrote:
If you're breaking a law to change it, though, you don't complain about being arrested. You stand up and politely and firmly tell the world, "I rode a bus, and I'm being arrested for it" or "I violated the ObamaCare law and I'm being penalized for it". You take the consequences, in other words, and that is your moral leverage for changing the law.

I disagree with that. If I get fined for not having health insurance, then I get legal action against me for not paying the fine, it's because I can't afford the health insurance bill, not because I want to make a point to whomever. I will make as big a stink about it as I can, but it's not because I'm making a point, it's because I'm trying to save myself.

I have a job, and if I end up in jail because I don't have health insurance, that will most likly make me lose my job. I will of course sue the government, and in maybe 10 years I might see a settlement and laws might be changed, but that won't help me at all for the time in between not having a job.

I just want the government to stop telling me what I MUST have.

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I'm probably not the best person on daniweb to try and help with this issue, but I'll give it a shot until someone else chimes in ....

A computer rebooting itself could be numerous things. Have you installed any hardware on the computer recently within the last week maybe? My first suggestion would be to unplug everything from your computer except your keyboard (a basic keyboard), your mouse (a basic mouse), and your monitor. Boot it up and see if you still get an error.

If it is a software issue, you may need to run system restore to restore your computer to the settings from the last restore point using the windows cd.

You could also try to boot into the recovery console using the windows cd and try running fixmbr when you get to the command prompt.

inflation -> expensive

Minerva McGonagall

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I'm assuming you meant 543 Sgt?

unless you defected to the other team :'(

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Monkey Librarian

Mr. Quackers relizes he is asking himself to give himself his own sunglasses and kilt and his head explodes all over the floor from confusion.

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I seem to recall from a move, dandruf shampoo is toxic to arsenic based life ... :)

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So Nasa is going to unveil a "astrobiological finding" on thursday. What do you think it's going to be?

I think they found something living on one of saturn's moon.

On top of spagetti, all covered with cheese, I lost my poor meatball, when somebody sneezed.

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