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The record companies wanted to raise prices, particularly on the one or two hits that'd otherwise sell an album but Apple refused.

Actually, Apple has been allowing that since April 2009.

I saw this two or so years ago. When I searched a few minutes ago, I can't find that it's gone anywhere, but it's not yet been very long.

sending spam isn't a sex offense

Hell, these days sex offenses aren't sex offenses half the time, they're stupid teenagers that some prosecutor wants to make an example of.

"No doubt the alleged HBGary plot is troubling..."

Troubling? That's an understatement... "The Obama Administration’s Justice Department advised the largest bank in America where to find a corporate hacker [Three military contracting 'cyber-security' companies] to fabricate information that could be used to blackmail American journalists" Corporate America, the Military Industrial Complex and the Government all in bed together to operate outside the law inside the US and without any checks, balances or semblance of respect for the law... and this Ted Samson character is more worried about the civil disobedience group Anonymous... Hellooo... threat assessment!?

Yea, that bit in the TFS come across to me as it's written by a chill to manipulate the public opinion... You know, like out of HBGary's proposals?

"No doubt the alleged HBGary plot is troubling..."

Troubling? That's an understatement... "The Obama Administration’s Justice Department advised the largest bank in America where to find a corporate hacker [Three military contracting 'cyber-security' companies] to fabricate information that could be used to blackmail American journalists"
Corporate America, the Military Industrial Complex and the Government all in bed together to operate outside the law inside the US and without any checks, balances or semblance of respect for the law... and this Ted Samson character is more worried about the civil disobedience group Anonymous... Hellooo... threat assessment!?

It's simple really. This is mainstream (i.e. lowest common denominator, bottom of the barrel, that which is easiest to sell, what has style but no substance, etc.) thought on the matter: if you are concerned about the government or members of the government acting completely outside of the law, with impunity, well then you're just another paranoid tin-foil hat-wearing insane nutter conspiracy type. You will be dismissed and ridiculed without ever testing the veracity of your claims. That's because we just don't like the way you sound, and that tie you're wearing pisses us off too.

But, if you're concerned about a group of online vandals who cause a lot of inconvenience to a few people, but nothing on the scale of abusive government with no effective checks and balances... well then, we approve of that. Those damned vigilantes. It's definitely okay to believe that a bunch of people with little no no association, organization, or preperation can conspire to bring down a Web site.

It's those insane morons who believe that a bunch of people who are from the same social class, who play golf with each other, who are in bed with the same special interests, who work similar jobs, who all benefit from a more powerful government, why it's madness to believe that they are anything other than saints who are acting in our interests. MADNESS I TELL YOU. What kind of idiot would believe a story like that? Clearly we must ridicule them immediately. We absolutely must, at all costs, ignore every historical precedent for such abuses of power, every self-interested motive of any authority figure involved, every precedent for past abuses of power our own government has perpetrated, and every lack of oversight and basic competency any public official has ever shown. After all, we have some nutters to ridicule.

"No doubt the alleged HBGary plot is troubling..."

Troubling? That's an understatement... "The Obama Administration’s Justice Department advised the largest bank in America where to find a corporate hacker [Three military contracting 'cyber-security' companies] to fabricate information that could be used to blackmail American journalists" Corporate America, the Military Industrial Complex and the Government all in bed together to operate outside the law inside the US and without any checks, balances or semblance of respect for the law... and this Ted Samson character is more worried about the civil disobedience group Anonymous... Hellooo... threat assessment!?

There's a difference between acting rationally for the long term versus the short term. Plus the difference between acting rationally for the betterment for the officers versus the shareholders or customers or employees.

Yes, there is, and that difference is not generally recognized by economists, particularly the disciples of Milton Friedman and overzealous "free marketeers" in general. Whether one calls the behavior "irrational" as istartedi and I call it, or a different kind of rationality or rationality from a different "viewpoint" as you call it, the real point is that the distinction is generally not being made at all in the field where it most needs to be, in economics, especially "economics" for the masses as seen on Sunday morning "news" opinion, campaign stumping and commentary programs.

The most visible spokespeople for the field of economics, the propagators of common "wisdom," haven't even gotten around to arguing such semantics, and they can't because aside from Krugman, Taleb, David Cay Johnston, Simon Johnson, Robert Reich and a few others, despite the mountain of evidence piling up since 15 September 2008 that irrationality has been widespread among the most wealthy actors in the US economy ever since Glass-Steagall was repealed by Gramm-Leech-Bliley exposing the "rational actor" model as a blatant error, more an inversion of reality than a simplification of the sort appropriate to a "scientific" model of reality, nevertheless most economists not only won't admit the obvious fact that this cornerstone of their libertardian world view is dead wrong, they won't even consider whether the "rational actor" assumption has significant limitations and flaws, for instance in collectives such as corporations in which individual decision-makers can have interests that may sometimes be in direct conflict with the presumed "rational" goals of the corporate collective. As a direct result of the obstinate refusal of Toohey-esque "think" tank "fellows" and "experts" from AEI, CEI, et al, who are paid not to know that the "rational actor" and other rosy assumptions of "mainstream" economics are wrong (because their real jobs are to be apologists for those very corporations that have all but destroyed the middle class), we have the spectacle of labor unions, the organizing tool of the working middle class, being scapegoated for what is 100% the fault of Fortune 500 financial institutions.

When we really think about it, we all know that no labor union had, nor has ever had, the power to cripple the economy this way because they have never had the power to re-write the rules by which the game is played. And yet we all know a few basic facts that suffice to show the basic nature of the problem: Wall Street was bailed out, and corporate GM was bailed out, but the old-GM stocks which comprise the totality of the pension plans of loyal, multi-decade GM workers are now penny stocks. This is morally wrong, and the direct result of economic common "wisdom" that is factually wrong.

Islam Inside?

Probably.

Abu Dhabi is an Islamic nation

Abu Dhabi buys fabs and a share of AMD

The UAE (of which Abu Dhabi is a part) is well known as a transit point for smuggling to Iran

Iran illegally obtains AMD CPUs

I remember once upon a time when I was first setting up my mail server I experienced this exact problem. As I recall, there was some kind of hotmail-ish website I went to that helped me get its IP allowed by their system.

Here are some great resources on sending email to hotmail:

http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx (generic troubleshooting page for sending to hotmail)

https://postmaster.live.com/snds/ (Signing up here lets you see what hotmail thinks of a specific IP, assuming you control RDNS for it. This might have been what I did once upon a time)

Finally, if none of those help, you can ask them directly here:

https://support.msn.com/eform.aspx?productKey=edfsmsbl&ct=eformts&st=1&wfxredirect=1

Regards,

Anom

There is http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4534017/ or even George W. Bush.

Of course, I thought that George W. Bush was one of the stupidest people in the country until I realized that 47.9% of the votes were for him.

They have been doing it for years online. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29040299/ns/us_news-military/ http://www.slate.com/id/2126479/
The next gen would be very direct http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/15/sunstein
The old Office of Strategic Influence:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0219-01.htm

I couldn't find that story, which depressed me greatly, but I was able to find a story about a armless man who headbutted another man(with two perfectly good arms) to death. I feel like that's a decent substitute.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20844553/ns/us_news-weird_news/

Here it is. It was one mind-controlled robotic arm and the other was prosthetic and he had been successfully driving for an entire year before the accident.

Dunno about the rest, but plastics can be replaced by lignin.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28283260/

'For the United States, the choice is clear; on the spectrum of Internet freedom, we place ourselves on the side of openness,', U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

"Hillary Clinton ordered American officials to spy on high ranking UN diplomats, including British representatives" link

"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned on Monday the leak of more than 250,000 classified State Department documents, saying the U.S. was taking aggressive steps to hold responsible those who "stole" the information" link

I guess fixing the existing infrastructure in the US is not a sexy headline making theme for politicians but the existing problems should be addressed before we start spending money on random things just to create jobs.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/rebuilding-america/4301459

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2627

http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/2009/02/04/americas-bridges-are-falling-down.htm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20095291/ns/business-eye_on_the_economy/

Doesn't seem like gun control is crime control. For the nutjob who wants to kill people, not having a gun isn't a problem.

Example:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25026870/

Shtiweasel site that steals from others and does so piss poorly and does not supply links to the original article.

MSNBC the inbred masturbatory union of two megaliths does somewhat better.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/10/6025925-satellite-spots-the-suns-latest-leaks

You forgot "Think of the Children."

Well, that's maybe where we differ. I think we need to be adults and think of everybody, especially if Al Qaeda is successful in getting nuclear weapons, which they already have permission to use.

But, if it will make you more comfortable, for the moment lets forget about the children, and see where we stand. We can recap, and maybe you could point out what is actually wrong instead of in essence saying "I don't like it".

I pointed out that the courts have ruled against your assertion that the government's national security wiretapping is illegal, and a human rights violation: Intelligence Court Releases Ruling in Favor of Warrantless Wiretapping

Even the page you linked to noted the EFF defeat on the legal question:

EFF Plans Appeal of Jewel v. NSA Warrantless Wiretapping Case
Court Rules That Mass Surveillance of Americans is Immune From Judicial Review
San Francisco - A federal judge has dismissed Jewel v. NSA, a case from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of AT&T customers challenging the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans' phone calls and emails.

I also pointed out just a handful of the many active terrorism investigations and court cases going on inside the US. This points to a genuine, current, dangerous threat of people being killed by militant Muslim extremists. I assume you don't debate that they are genuine.

Daniel Boyd pleads guilty to US terrorism charges -9 February 2011
Domestic Terrorist 'Jihad Jane' Pleads Guilty to Four Charges - Feb 2, 2011
Stockham requests new attorney - February 05, 2011
Note: This individual is apparently an American Sunni Muslim who tried to attack a Shia Muslim Mosque.
Iranian Book Celebrating Suicide Bombers Found in Arizona Desert - January 27, 2011
Baltimore man accused of plotting to blow up military recruiting station in Md. - Thursday, December 9, 2010
Oregon Bomb Suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud Wanted "Spectacular Show," - November 29, 2010
Faisal Shahzad: 'War With Muslims Has Just Begun' - Oct. 5, 2010
2 MN women charged with aiding Somali terrorists - Aug 5, 2010
U.S. links 8 to Somali terrorist group - November 24, 2009
And here's one for the Canadians: Converts Who Kill

I then pointed out that this current turmoil started with Al Qaeda's 9/11 attacks, and that according to Bin Laden, he won't stop trying to a

So who is this "John Brandon" fellow? Never heard of him before. Maybe he's some college intern, and soon to be kicked out.

MSNBC had a similar article: "Video Games Make Teens Violent" and then goes on to cite an Indiana University study showing that games decrease self-control and increase aggression in the human brain.

âoeThereâ(TM)s enough data that clearly indicates that game violence is a problem,â he says. âoeAnd itâ(TM)s not just a problem for kids with behavior disorders.â - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16099971/ns/technology_and_science-games/

It's Japan. I thought we'd see something more akin to Mega Maid

Hmm, my my, where have I heard this before?
Perhaps here? http://www.pickensplan.com/theplan/

      * Create millions of new jobs by building out the capacity to generate up to 22 percent of our electricity from wind. And adding to that with additional solar generation capacity;
        * Building a 21st century backbone electrical transmission grid;
        * Providing incentives for homeowners and the owners of commercial buildings to upgrade their insulation and other energy saving options; and
        * Using America's natural gas to replace imported oil as a transportation fuel in addition to its other uses in power generation, chemicals, etc.

While dependence on foreign oil is a critical concern, it is not a problem that can be solved in isolation. We have to think about energy as a whole, and that begins by considering our energy alternatives and thinking about how we will fuel our world in the next 10 to 20 years and beyond.

So, one has to wonder how does pending 50 million $ I'm with the government, and I'm here to help plan contrast and qualitatively learn from the 80 Million spend on the private sector T. Boone Pickens 80 million dollar plan.

And where was the press when Mr. Boon Pickens was spending and promoting is 80 million dollar effort, Oh I forgot they were /removed obvious remark/.
Hey, but they did report $80 Million the loss Here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40612094/ns/business-oil_and_energy/

Now don't mod me down for point out how history repeats. Its just sad how politics colors engineering, and renewable energy is a learnable technology, I'm just not sure anyone's trying to learn.

I think this line alone is a commentary on both the hyperbole used by his lawyers and the sad state of the US reputation in Europe.

ORLY? When the Wall Street Journal is saying that he should be tried under the Espionage Act ... I don't think Guantanamo is exactly a big huge stretch to imagine.

Maybe that reputation is based on things like the CIA kidnapping people in foreign countries to be whisked away to "unofficial" places?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31510813/#41414080 - ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

unbelievable that the TV heads are talking about it in AMERICA of all places.

Yes, US government and the Fed will cause the new economic collapse and possibly a new world war of some sort in the process.

That's called a "rockoon". First tried in 1949. Works OK, payload rather limited.

Back in 2004, JP Aerospace was pushing the idea of a permanent station at the edge of space which was really a balloon.They're still sending up balloons, but they're basically repeating what the USAF did in the late 1940s.

Accelerating a fragile airship to orbital velocity at the edge of the atmosphere is a fantasy. If there's enough air to get lift, there's enough air to get drag.

It's about PEACE. It has been given may to people in that same position as Obama, who were making efforts to bring peace to some region or conflict, but hadn't achieved it yet. The Prize in that situation is supposed to enhance the person's recognition in order to increase their chances of success at bringing peace. Other examples include Desmond Tutu (opponent of South African apartheid who got the Prize long before apartheid actually ended), Jimmy Carter (mideast), Woodrow Wilson (League of Nations), and numerous others. Rachel Maddow did a segment about this just after Obama got the Prize. Transcript here.

Here's a citation for the number of people put in danger by the leaks, from the Pentagon:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38417666/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/egypt-isp-shutdown/
Gov calls, sends, codes all the 'big' isp's a message. Smaller isp's, private groups get a DHS visit.
You wake up, turn on your adsl modem, cable, optical device ect no lights for you today.
Ring the telco, at best a recored message, or nothing.
Dust off your sat phone or phone an isp outside the USA with your CC.
Can that US sat phone running in the US on a US CC be turned off or tracked http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3078689 as in Iraq?. Can international calls be blocked?
Whats left? Ham radio is registered, ie the gov would have a "list" of users and detection would not be hard...
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2009/04/fleetcom Brazilian Sat-Hack like or risk a data hand over to a fleeing tourist/diplomat/press?
NO CARRIER

I am sure that the US is pursuing those who DDoSed WikiLeaks with equal energy.

I don't see any necessary connection between (just to be concrete in my example) Russia adopts Sharia law, and whether or not Russia forcibly occupies Chechnya.

The Chechen resistance is a jihad to establish Muslim self-rule in Chechnya. But jihads don't necessarily stop when their immediate objectives are achieved, and when they do stop they're not necessarily at the borders that non-Muslims had established.

My point is that maybe the religious arguments that people find compelling when they're under seige by Russia, would be such compelling arguments if they were able to live in peace and independence.

Ah, but can they live in peace and independence? Or will there be another excuse later on.. Russia is stealing their natural resources, Russia is corrupting their political parties, etc. Look at Pakistan's relationship with India where you see the exact same arguments, and of course the underlying theme that no true Muslim will submit to Hindu-Zionist power (i.e. work together, give up terrorist "strategic depth", all that crazy stuff). Perhaps India would have been better off treating Pakistan as Russia treats Chechnya. They'd have the same amount of terrorism but wouldn't have to be in a nuclear arms race and wouldn't have to have a million troops permanently stationed the border.

My point is basically that two things are unusual about the Russian suicide bombers, presumably: their religion, and how much Russia is pissing on their region. And maybe its the pissed-on attribute that's a stronger impetus for their suicide bombings than is their religion.

In what sense is Islam an unusual religion for suicide bombers?

Anyway, my problem with your statement is you are ignoring the wealth of Islamic terrorism examples we have to draw from. Heck just a few days ago a teenager blew himself up in Pakistan to kill some Shias. In case you're unfamiliar with it, let me give you a little background info. Shias are a minority Muslim sect in Pakistan. The Sunnis are not being "pissed on" in any way shape or form. They dominate Pakistan in the army, in politics, in civil rights, etc.

My point is, perhaps Chechen terrorists are motivated by Russia's actions towards them, but to pretend that their religion plays no role in how they respond to Russia's actions is ludicrous. And perhaps more importantly, their culture, and the Islamic influence on their culture, plays a HUGE role in determining what actions by Russia are deemed provocative to begin with. Here's a great 3-part article on the interactions of the Bolsheviks with the Muslim population.

I'm not saying Chechnya is at fault or that they are morally wrong for resisting Russian rule (I'm not saying the opposite either). I'm just saying you should not ignore Islam's influence on their culture and more importantly their relationship with other cultures.

According to this article the XL1 is a concept car and will never enter production:

"Volkswagen says the XL1 is a concept rather than a production model preview, but the technology used within it could provide clues about how a future VW Golf TDI diesel economy winner could emerge."

http://cars.uk.msn.com/news/photos.aspx?cp-documentid=155973354

Over all the actual tax burden is right around 40% regardless of who you are:

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/Advice/YourRealTaxRate40.aspx

Now the problem is, regardless of how much money you have you MUST eat and you MUST buy heat and you MUST have basic clothing and you MUST have many other things before you can hope to have anything extra to save or to buy an education or otherwise improve yourself.

40% off of 100K means you still have a little cash left over.

40% off of 35K means you can't even get all the necessaties.

Not true that the rich pay the lions share. Once you factor in ALL taxes, fees etc (like sales tax, property tax vehicle millage, excise taxes drivers license fees etc) than the actual burden of government is about 40.4% across ALL income levels.

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/Advice/YourRealTaxRate40.aspx

The poor pay ~40%, the rich pay ~40% etc. Std of 5.3% There are a couple of outliers...like families making 150K are taxed at 54% while families making 50K are taxed at 25% but generally everyone pays about 47%

Now the big issue as I see it is that historically when you have anything BUT a progressive tax system (rich pay more) you gradually move to a feudal type system. A few rich lords (or CEOs) and everyone else is a serf. It makes sense since money is fungable and can be transfered between generations and since money tends to breed more money, unless you have a method for moving it around it will tend to accumulate to a few.

This is exactly what we have seen happen since Reagan... as the original article argued

because they are taking the jobs that no one wants

That's only one side of the story. At first, American DID want those jobs in the past, but quickly got undercutted by companies not following the labor laws. This led to a positive feed-back cycle that involves both illegal immigration and a change in the American work ethic culture in two ways.

1). Companies hire illegally to skip both payroll taxation and pay below minimum wage.
2). The first reason lead to an entire work force culture that's mainly Hispanic and speaks Spanish.

Mike Rowe provided an excellent presentation at TED, but he clearly missed the point as to why American's started down this path. The story MSNBC recently did dove-tales into this.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41182482/ns/business-us_business/

Warren Buffett and Ahmadinijad agree!

2009 http://www.zerohedge.com/article/here-why-dollar-now-effectively-worthless

2008 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/warren-buffett-says-us-dollar-worthless-if-account-deficit-persists

2007 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21870271/ns/business-world_business/ ...

2003 http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/12-16g-04.asp

Hey, if I had that many double-consonants in my full name, would I be rich, too?

No, she really didn't, she blamed it on the media.

"The media incentivized political opponents to file false ethics charges and expensive, wasteful, frivolous lawsuits against me, my family and my staff, in an obvious attempt to destroy us.”

Instead of talking about the joint Republican/Democratic investigation, its all the goddamned media's fault.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27105917/ns/politics-decision_08/

Then Sarah and her daughter went full Hollywood and started making the money.

I sort of wonder if this is an olive branch from Wikileaks to the US government. After all, the United States has been pressuring Switzerland to allow investigators to peek inside Swiss accounts for awhile now. You may recall that the US offered amnesty to tax evaders using Swiss accounts who 'fessed-up a couple years ago. This provides some incentive to the US government to ease up a bit on Wikileaks.

Pics or it didn't happen

Here you go... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41082627/ns/technology_and_science-security/

Seriously guys, when you're incarcerated, you don't have a choice which facility you will be housed in. The USBOP is obviously making an example out of this guy, and I can totally understand why. What I don't understand is why this article seems to be doing a lot of crying on behalf of Kernell. Don't commit the crime if you're going to whine all the way to prison. It's that simple.

The minimum security federal prison in Ashland is widely-known as being one of the easiest in which to do time.

Yeah he could have been put in a halfway house but that would really have been just a slap on the wrist for interfering with a federal election. It doesn't matter that all he did was guess a password, his actions directly influenced a major election. Imagine if there was little or no punishment for this offense, there's a lot of people who would happily take some time in a halfway house in order to get paid to interfere with an election in this manner. If the penalty is time in a federal prison, even a club fed like the one in Ashland, less people would be willing to take the hit.

Elections need to be protected from this sort of interference and one of the best ways is to have the threat of serious incarceration.

Citation needed. Several blogs and news sources sympathetic to PFC Manning have said that he is allowed to read books that his friends and family mail to him and he is allowed 1 hour of TV in his cell every day (which is separate from the one hour he gets to leave his cell)

One source of many
http://bltwy.msnbc.msn.com/politics/bradley-mannings-prison-hell-1669811.story

Idiot.

Crime rate and unemployment aren't linked [pajamasmedia.com].

A good, decent person doesn't become a desperate criminal when they lose their job, and a degenerate crook probably isn't all that employable anyway. Now you could argue that the presence of the benefits you (rightly) advocate is the reason they're not related, but I'd expect to see some sort of link, even if minor due to benefits.

I would claim that the reason is closely related to paying benefits. This stops people from becoming completely desperate. I don't have a link to show it, but from my understanding, a lot of crimes are crimes of opportunity driven by desperation.

I would note though, those unemployment numbers on the site you linked to aren't exactly accurate as far as unemployment is concerned. The numbers tracked by the feds is the numbers of unemployed applying for or receiving benefits. It isn't really an accurate measurement of the unemployed because quite a few people are completely disqualified from that accounting by either not working enough hours or months at an employer or by reaching the end of a set term limit for drawing benefits. You can search for the real unemployment numbers and get any number of articles with any number of estimates concerning them. I'll leave the reader to decide which is more accurate or not.

Now there's nothing wrong with that, unless you think you are only capable of performing the end-stage labor to deliver the product. That's what I'm calling the 'peasant mentality'- the underlying belief that you are only good enough to be a cog in someone else's machine.

In my case, my biggest problem was being broke and scraping up the cash to start contracting out on my own. In my area, you have to have a business license, insurance, some jobs require a performance bond, then there is advertising depending on what you are doing, making sure you have tools and so on. But a lot of people simply aren't skilled in much of anything that could transfer into an own your own business ordeal. Some people have been factory workers all their lives because that's what dad did and it worked for him as well as it's the best paying job around.

I guess what I'm getting at is that there's a lot of anxiety with the realization you are not employable and have to be your own boss. Some people finally realize it and get stepping, some, simply won't be able to.

And I say that as a person who went 20 years employed with no gaps outside of when I broke a leg and often worked more then one job with the least time on a job being 2 years. I thought I could literally get a job anywhere doing anything. Reality was hard to set in for a while. I made the change, others will too. But it's not always easy or obvious.

I was going to congratulate you on a reasonable post until the bits where you (a) ridiculed the notion that the US was detaining people without trial in cuba, and (b) claimed that all you need to do to get healthcare in the US is show up to a hospital. Unfortunately, this nonsense puts you in exactly the same nut-boat as the lunatic you were trying to shut down.

For the record:

The United States has and currently holds individuals without trial in Cuba.

Here's a patchwork discussion of how to get assistance if you're uninsured and have cancer. Note that hospitals are not required to provide more than stabilization, though many underfunded county hospitals do provide "indigent care". The uninsured have roughly half the five-year survival rate of people who have insurance. Even Medicaid isn't always enough --- several people have been recently been denied organ transplants recently because of state and local budget cuts.

Lesson: respond vigorously to cranks but do not treat it as an opportunity to push your own broken worldview.

Kinda disappointed that in such a detailed graph they forgot to look at the game. I'm sure that there are better screenshots of it, as it was one of the unlockable trophies.

Almost Soviet in that way.
If its not measured, it does not exist. Feds can keep most of the tame press away. University funding can be shifted.
http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/27/5717367-is-dispersant-still-being-sprayed-in-the-gulf
Long term studies and samples then become lost in the mix of "persistent but unsubstantiated reports".

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/OMB_Wiki_memo.pdf

wow

It's not like that belief isn't parroted *all over the internet*. I'm sure if you bothered to look you could find a few hundred such references here, here, here, and here. Concentrate your searching to the time when gun laws were being liberalized.

The US Navy seems to manage it OK:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30178013/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123953580718311447.html

"MOMBASA, Kenya -- In a daring high-seas rescue, U.S. Navy SEAL snipers killed three Somali pirates and freed the American sea captain who had offered himself as a hostage to save his crew...."

You mean "no incidents like this excluding those involving underworld characters."

-- Nagasaki mayor dies after being shot: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18151200/

Or "no incidents like this excluding those involving edged weapons."

-- 6 knifed to death in Britain in a 24 hour period: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1034472/SIX-stabbed-death-just-24-hours-Blade-Britains-knife-epidemic-spirals-control.html

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/OMB_Wiki_memo.pdf