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Cambridge, Mass. Moves To Nix Security Cameras
An anonymous reader writes "Citing privacy concerns, the Cambridge, Mass. City Council has voted 9-0 to remove security cameras scattered throughout the city. 'Because of the slow erosion of our civil liberties since 9/11, it is important to raise questions regarding these cameras,' said Marjorie Decker, a Cambridge city councilor. Rather than citing privacy, WCBVTV is running the story under the headline 'City's Move To Nix Security Cams May Cost Thousands.'"
On the other hand... I don't think anyone in England felt that anyone within the country was responsible for the V2 rockets flying in their direction from France. Fighting a war with a known enemy is quite a bit different than the "war on terror" we've chosen to wage with the entire planet. I'm not saying I agree with the steps we've taken, I'm just saying that the events that have led up to it have been significantly different.
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
If you don't get your lexus, at worst you don't have a car.
And possiblly not have a job, since we don't have reliable public transportation everyone, or affordable housing new places of employment.
Your neighbor doesn't get the health care she needs, she dies.
Oh well. People die all the time. Given the obesity rate, she's probably obese, and clearly doesn't care if she lives. That's what's lacking in all this nonsense about national health care. There's no requirement for people to step up and take responsiblity for their own bad choices... but yet I get stuck with the bill when some fatass gets diabetes.
So please, spare me the "so and so will DIE without healthcare." So and so needs take responsiblity for her own life and wellbeing, and stop whining that everyone else should do it for her.
I wish people would stop making analogies on slashdot, as they're invariably awful.
Well, here I agree with you.
I bet I can find at least one way you are not altruistic.
So what's your point? I bet I can find at least one way in which you're not smarmy in your comments, but that too would have shit to do with the point at hand.
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Actually, it's called civilization.
Coming to think of it, most barbarian tribes also help the weak amongst them. So I guess it's not civilization but basic humanity. No wait, dolphins help sick dolphins stay afloat, right? So I guess you fail to live up to moral standards of even animals.
I suppose we could categorize you with invertebrates, but they don't post bad analogies on Slashdot, so they're still better in the "less annoying" department than libertarians like you.
Actually, it's quite different. You don't die from lack of a car, but you do die from lack of medicine. You don't get a Lexus, and you're inconvenienced. You don't get medical attention, and you're dead. See the difference, sub-invertebrate?
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
http://www.privatehealth.co.uk/
http://www.axappphealthcare.co.uk/
etc. etc.
It's apparently so illegal that I can find dozens of websites offering me private healthcare services if I'm a UK resident. I can't find a single European country where it's "ILLEGAL" to get private medical care. You can make the choice to live or die here if you have enough money. If your insurance company decides that your treatment isn't worth paying for, and you can't pay for it yourself, you're as shit out of luck as when the government decides your treatment isn't worth paying for. You can't go to any other company because you have a preexisting condition, and so many times claims are denied not even for a reason, but just because "We don't wanna pay." I can't imagine anyone who has had actual EXPERIENCE with the US healthcare system would have any reason to defend it, except libertarians who think it's all fantastic because it's "free market."
National healthcare probably only works for countries that still actually have some concept of "nation" and "people" left, unlike the US which is becoming just a random conglomeration of consumers with the libertarian as the nadir, someone who thinks they've reached the pinnacle of human achievement when they can sit in their house-fortress tax free and yell "I'm the king of the castle!" and declare the triumph of the free market while getting reamed 6 ways to Sunday by Blue Cross, AEtna, Sony, and 573 multinationals. You're the useful idiot, AC, and next time you take time out from snuggling your dog-eared copy of Atlas Shrugged to snark at me like a little whiny bitch, why not post under an actual user name? It might give you a hint of credibility.