Exactly, all Commonwealth members are equal. There is one area where they do have to legislate together, namely the Monarchy. Things like the order of succession have to be agreed to by all members of the Commonwealth.
- elective abortions (ie not medically necessary) - if you arent going to pay for infertility treatments, why pay for the fertility removal treatments
Is it cheaper to pay for an abortion or for a birth? Ideally, of course would be to pay, or subsidize, birth control along with education on how to use it.
- medical marijiuanna - as it would be tantamount to a doctor prescribing a glass of wine every day. Every state that has medical cannabis laws makes provisions to grow your own so that your expenses are curbed considerably. CBD oil for seizures would be the only possible exception since its impossible to extract at home without also extracting all the other cannabis
Now that it is legal here, hopefully there will many more studies, but currently, often marijuana is a cheaper option compared to most pharmaceuticals. And no, growing it yourself is often not an option. Grow it outside and it is likely to be stolen. Grow it inside and if you are a renter, yo will be kicked out for ruining the property and if you own your own house, there is a similar problem.
- sex change operation - turning a normally functioning male into an apparently looking female (or vice versus) is not medically necessary. No one says you cant do it, just that someone else should not have to subsidize it. It would be no different than asking for penis enlargement surgery or implant surgery.
Would it be cheaper to pay for the mental health support for someone who feels so strongly they're in the wrong body that they would get a sex change operation?
Even boob jobs can be needed, I know someone where the best option for her back was breast reduction surgery to make her more normal sized.
Around here (Canada), the paper ballots are counted at the polling station when the polls close, with members of the public including party members of all interested parties, watching the process like hawks. At that, I'm free to watch the whole process from beginning to end if I desire (assuming room, which I've never heard of being a problem) There is a weakness with the advanced/absentee votes, which almost never enough to affect the outcome, having to be stored. Usually the absentee votes aren't even bothered to be counted. Candidate wins by 2000 votes and only 1000 advanced votes, why bother counting.
NN is not about the Internet being neutral towards nazis, thankfully.
In a sense it is, it stops your ISP from routing nazis or anyone else the ISP doesn't like, to/dev/nul. You're right that it doesn't stop private sites from discriminating, but there are lots of sites and few ISP's. I personally have one practical choice to get on the internet and that choice should just transmit packets.
I'm kind of surprised that more effort isn't put into making synthetic fuels. The technology isn't that immature, the Germans for example studied it quite a bit during the war and today it is being considered for use on Mars. Seems ideal for solar and wind as you just make the fuel while the Sun is shining, and/or wind blowing. Probably not very efficient, but neither is pumped hydro storage. Be easier to research as well compared to nuclear as you could research in a garage unlike nuclear where the government has an interest for various reasons from weapons to radiation leaks. Nuclear is the right solution in places, if it can be built economically, and should be part of the solution, especially if some of the newer type plants can be brought on line. Other places it may not make sense. Earthquakes, the need to shed a lot of heat are some examples of problems with nuclear. All these technologies also have the cleanup problem at end of life.
OK, here in BC (and Canada in general I believe), compo is government based and all workers have to be covered. In the case of contractors, the contracting company or in the case of self-employed, the individual, have to cover it. It costs money but the idea is that all workers are protected. So in this case the only difference using contractors would make is who pays for compo, or in the case of not covering the workers, who gets sued/charged by the Province. Seems in America, the workers have shit rights compared to the employers. Here, I often hear government ads on the radio reminding workers of their rights like a safe work environment.
So what you're saying is that we need to make the solar to fuel conversion more efficient? That coal took 10's-100's of millions of years of solar to store what we're burning, likewise with natural gas though the time scale is perhaps shorter. Use solar and wind to make methane might be the simplest. Hydrogen sounds nice but is hard to deal with.
Dogs in particular, have evolved to be pack animals, packs that are held together by emotional bonds similar to the bonds that hold human families together. We've guided that so that dogs and humans are members of the same pack, held together by emotion. Dogs and humans aren't that different,having evolved from a common ancestor and evolution often repeats itself as certain solutions are optimal.
Yes, that seems to describe many American Libertarians. Funny enough. libertarianism was originally a left wing thing, the ones just a bit saner then the anarchists.
1) They think that Trump is better than the democrats, the lesser of two evils
While I can understand voting for the lesser evil, something I've considered in my country. I still don't understand being proud of it and heavily supporting it. Though I think your #2 is mostly right.
Well with no net neutrality, ISP's can route anyone they don't like to/dev/nul. I'd be pissed if I payed for a business connection and my ISP blocked my content, which is illegal here.
Is the American government refusing them a domain name?
That's not how domain name distribution works.
Well whoever is in charge of the.us domain. What I really meant is, has the US government confiscated their domain, something they're known to do if they don't like someones content, usually because some business doesn't like it.
I haven't really been paying attention,
Yea that's pretty obvious.
but it seems that a bunch of people are trying to get others to host their content whether they want to or not.
Well then, by all means point us to the US government-run web hosting service that's available to all Americans, regardless of what opinions we hold. I can wait.
Up to you to tell your government how to run things. Seems right now the people don't want their government doing things like that.
It's amazing how many libertarians heavily support Trump, who is very authoritarian. At that, with some libertarians, it seems that they just want the government out of the way so their favorite authoritarian, usually of a corporate nature, can do what ever it wants. A libertarian should be against authoritarianism, whether left or right rather then being blind to the authoritarianism in their party.
Are they too stupid to set up a web server? is their ISP blocking them from serving content? Is the American government refusing them a domain name? I haven't really been paying attention, but it seems that a bunch of people are trying to get others to host their content whether they want to or not.
Net neutrality is about stopping your ISP from routing gab.com to/dev/nul. Freedom of association is about not having to deal with gab.com if you don't want to.
True, now your ISP has the freedom to censor your speech, to limit which sites you go to, and limit who you associate with over their network. Definitely a move to more freedom for the ISP and that is what is important. In my crappy country, my ISP got in shit for blocking sites it didn't like, such as the unions site during a strike. Imagine that, stopping a business from blocking sites it has decided its customers shouldn't see.
Well there's chromium and webkit in QT which allow fairly easy development of browsers that are mostly equal in features to Chrome. I'm surprised you have problems playing Youtube on Firefox on Linux. Most all videos play here on Firefox (actually SeaMonkey, but same engine) on OS/2 using VESA video drivers. There are dropped frames, especially at higher resolutions and I do prefer using Firefox on Linux to watch Youtube. This is a 10 year old Q8800 computer and a crappy LTE net connection.
With all these companies, it is a drawback of capitalism, it tends towards being anti-free market. They grow too big, become a public company where increasing profits are the most important thing and often are run by committee and committees have no morals.
Pressed submit to soon, meant to continue the last line, Then there is the whole freedom to not associate with groups that you don't want to associate with. This is tempered by making it illegal to not associate with people who can't help being the way they are, if you are a business or such. Just read about someone getting smacked down for firing people just because of their race.
I thought it was the payment people along with the hosting people refusing to have anything to do with Gab. The payment people part is worth looking at for having a quasi-monopoly but if no one wants to host them, I don't see how you can force hosting. Shame that on the internet, people can't self-host. Then there is the whole freedom to not associate with groups that you don't want to associate with.
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I wouldn't either, even were I pure as the driven snow.
I have no love for Zuck or FB, but it's hard to see this as anything but a dog and pony show, or a kangaroo court.
There's no benefit to him, and plenty of potential downside. Why would he show up?
Because he wants to do business (sell ads) in these countries.
Exactly, all Commonwealth members are equal.
There is one area where they do have to legislate together, namely the Monarchy. Things like the order of succession have to be agreed to by all members of the Commonwealth.
Since studies show BMW drivers are assholes, no, as it will create more mental health issues as well as accidents.
- elective abortions (ie not medically necessary) - if you arent going to pay for infertility treatments, why pay for the fertility removal treatments
Is it cheaper to pay for an abortion or for a birth? Ideally, of course would be to pay, or subsidize, birth control along with education on how to use it.
- medical marijiuanna - as it would be tantamount to a doctor prescribing a glass of wine every day. Every state that has medical cannabis laws makes provisions to grow your own so that your expenses are curbed considerably. CBD oil for seizures would be the only possible exception since its impossible to extract at home without also extracting all the other cannabis
Now that it is legal here, hopefully there will many more studies, but currently, often marijuana is a cheaper option compared to most pharmaceuticals. And no, growing it yourself is often not an option. Grow it outside and it is likely to be stolen. Grow it inside and if you are a renter, yo will be kicked out for ruining the property and if you own your own house, there is a similar problem.
- sex change operation - turning a normally functioning male into an apparently looking female (or vice versus) is not medically necessary. No one says you cant do it, just that someone else should not have to subsidize it. It would be no different than asking for penis enlargement surgery or implant surgery.
Would it be cheaper to pay for the mental health support for someone who feels so strongly they're in the wrong body that they would get a sex change operation?
Even boob jobs can be needed, I know someone where the best option for her back was breast reduction surgery to make her more normal sized.
Around here (Canada), the paper ballots are counted at the polling station when the polls close, with members of the public including party members of all interested parties, watching the process like hawks. At that, I'm free to watch the whole process from beginning to end if I desire (assuming room, which I've never heard of being a problem)
There is a weakness with the advanced/absentee votes, which almost never enough to affect the outcome, having to be stored. Usually the absentee votes aren't even bothered to be counted. Candidate wins by 2000 votes and only 1000 advanced votes, why bother counting.
NN is not about the Internet being neutral towards nazis, thankfully.
In a sense it is, it stops your ISP from routing nazis or anyone else the ISP doesn't like, to /dev/nul.
You're right that it doesn't stop private sites from discriminating, but there are lots of sites and few ISP's. I personally have one practical choice to get on the internet and that choice should just transmit packets.
I'm kind of surprised that more effort isn't put into making synthetic fuels. The technology isn't that immature, the Germans for example studied it quite a bit during the war and today it is being considered for use on Mars. Seems ideal for solar and wind as you just make the fuel while the Sun is shining, and/or wind blowing. Probably not very efficient, but neither is pumped hydro storage. Be easier to research as well compared to nuclear as you could research in a garage unlike nuclear where the government has an interest for various reasons from weapons to radiation leaks.
Nuclear is the right solution in places, if it can be built economically, and should be part of the solution, especially if some of the newer type plants can be brought on line. Other places it may not make sense. Earthquakes, the need to shed a lot of heat are some examples of problems with nuclear. All these technologies also have the cleanup problem at end of life.
OK, here in BC (and Canada in general I believe), compo is government based and all workers have to be covered. In the case of contractors, the contracting company or in the case of self-employed, the individual, have to cover it. It costs money but the idea is that all workers are protected.
So in this case the only difference using contractors would make is who pays for compo, or in the case of not covering the workers, who gets sued/charged by the Province.
Seems in America, the workers have shit rights compared to the employers. Here, I often hear government ads on the radio reminding workers of their rights like a safe work environment.
Government run workers compensation. Workers, including contractors have to be covered here. Self employed have to cover themselves.
Contractors don't have to be covered by compo there?
Out of those 150,000 odd people, a good chunk of them are dying early over weird/stupid accidents. Why wouldn't you care?
So what you're saying is that we need to make the solar to fuel conversion more efficient? That coal took 10's-100's of millions of years of solar to store what we're burning, likewise with natural gas though the time scale is perhaps shorter.
Use solar and wind to make methane might be the simplest. Hydrogen sounds nice but is hard to deal with.
How else are they going to find time to spend on Facebook?
Dogs in particular, have evolved to be pack animals, packs that are held together by emotional bonds similar to the bonds that hold human families together. We've guided that so that dogs and humans are members of the same pack, held together by emotion.
Dogs and humans aren't that different,having evolved from a common ancestor and evolution often repeats itself as certain solutions are optimal.
Yes, that seems to describe many American Libertarians. Funny enough. libertarianism was originally a left wing thing, the ones just a bit saner then the anarchists.
1) They think that Trump is better than the democrats, the lesser of two evils
While I can understand voting for the lesser evil, something I've considered in my country. I still don't understand being proud of it and heavily supporting it.
Though I think your #2 is mostly right.
Are they too stupid to set up a web server?
That's not the problem.
Well whatever type of server they use.
is their ISP blocking them from serving content?
Basically, yes.
Well with no net neutrality, ISP's can route anyone they don't like to /dev/nul. I'd be pissed if I payed for a business connection and my ISP blocked my content, which is illegal here.
Is the American government refusing them a domain name?
That's not how domain name distribution works.
Well whoever is in charge of the .us domain. What I really meant is, has the US government confiscated their domain, something they're known to do if they don't like someones content, usually because some business doesn't like it.
I haven't really been paying attention,
Yea that's pretty obvious.
but it seems that a bunch of people are trying to get others to host their content whether they want to or not.
Well then, by all means point us to the US government-run web hosting service that's available to all Americans, regardless of what opinions we hold. I can wait.
Up to you to tell your government how to run things. Seems right now the people don't want their government doing things like that.
It's amazing how many libertarians heavily support Trump, who is very authoritarian. At that, with some libertarians, it seems that they just want the government out of the way so their favorite authoritarian, usually of a corporate nature, can do what ever it wants.
A libertarian should be against authoritarianism, whether left or right rather then being blind to the authoritarianism in their party.
Are they too stupid to set up a web server? is their ISP blocking them from serving content? Is the American government refusing them a domain name? I haven't really been paying attention, but it seems that a bunch of people are trying to get others to host their content whether they want to or not.
Net neutrality is about stopping your ISP from routing gab.com to /dev/nul. Freedom of association is about not having to deal with gab.com if you don't want to.
Lots of ties? 5 countries are tied for 1st, likewise for second and third, then the 22nd is at #10.
True, now your ISP has the freedom to censor your speech, to limit which sites you go to, and limit who you associate with over their network. Definitely a move to more freedom for the ISP and that is what is important.
In my crappy country, my ISP got in shit for blocking sites it didn't like, such as the unions site during a strike. Imagine that, stopping a business from blocking sites it has decided its customers shouldn't see.
Well there's chromium and webkit in QT which allow fairly easy development of browsers that are mostly equal in features to Chrome.
I'm surprised you have problems playing Youtube on Firefox on Linux. Most all videos play here on Firefox (actually SeaMonkey, but same engine) on OS/2 using VESA video drivers. There are dropped frames, especially at higher resolutions and I do prefer using Firefox on Linux to watch Youtube. This is a 10 year old Q8800 computer and a crappy LTE net connection.
With all these companies, it is a drawback of capitalism, it tends towards being anti-free market. They grow too big, become a public company where increasing profits are the most important thing and often are run by committee and committees have no morals.
Pressed submit to soon, meant to continue the last line,
Then there is the whole freedom to not associate with groups that you don't want to associate with. This is tempered by making it illegal to not associate with people who can't help being the way they are, if you are a business or such. Just read about someone getting smacked down for firing people just because of their race.
I thought it was the payment people along with the hosting people refusing to have anything to do with Gab. The payment people part is worth looking at for having a quasi-monopoly but if no one wants to host them, I don't see how you can force hosting. Shame that on the internet, people can't self-host.
Then there is the whole freedom to not associate with groups that you don't want to associate with.