And once you get in to health care and insurance, even a simple question, fundamental to every other financial transaction, "What does this do and what will it cost" is a nightmare journey through bizarre alternate realities which ultimately comes down to you'll have to sign here and agree to pay in order to find out how much. Even when you do pay, nobody can actually swear that there won't be any more surprise bills. And BTW, even if it's an unmitigated disaster, you will be expected to pay in full.
Given that SSRIs are known to sometimes (for reasons unknown) cause suicidal ideation where there was none before, and the way we tend to hand those out like candy, I would say those are far more likely than the opiates to be causing a rise in suicide.
That largely depends on how you choose to selectively interpret the data.
On the one hand, we have much better contact with the world, and a lot more stuff. Household chores are certainly easier now.
Some people have good healthcare, some would be better off with the town witch from the Middle Ages than what they have now (read, nothing). People today are in a lot more debt than in the past, and so cannot get by without a job for any length of time. They have nowhere to store up food for hard times. In that sense, they are less secure than before (a factor in mental health to be certain).
People tend to have less roots in the community than before (if any). Even Gypsys had more since their whole community moved around with them. Another mental health factor.
If there is too much solar power then the price at solar production peaks can make the price go negative.
OMG, NO! Not cheap electricity! Anything but that! OH THE HUMANITY!
If it's cheaper to pay people to use it than it is to throttle production, so be it! It's not a bad problem to have if you're a consumer. Not that any consumer will ever be paid to use electricity, that will be absorbed at the distributor level.
Meanwhile, I can set the dishwasher and dryer to run during that cheap peak production. It might be a good time for charging electric cars too.
No, I just have to look at what happens in real life. Did you know it is illegal to use the social security card/number as identification for any purpose? It is. But even the DMV ignores that and demands SS card.
What's the authority for Snidely to have me audited?
He has dirt on the people who decide who will be "randomly" audited. On the other hand, if he puts in a good word, they will find they have a significantly better chance of a promotion next year.
Watch the news and you'll see that not expecting the abuses to happen YET AGAIN is the real leap of faith.
You would be amazed. No tornado in London, surely but how about a small vortex in the corner of a building just about strong enough to lift a plastic bag?
The part you're missing is the stewards of that data. You assume someone unswervingly on the said of good. A Dudley Dorite. Alas, he's fictional.
What happens when Snidely gets in to office and wants to know who these "Citizens for a Better Tomorrow" are. The nefarious group that opposes his cuts to education and healthcare? Well, let's see, they meet at the corner of A and B every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Amazing, your records show that you have consistently bought chips at the place across the street from the meetings wight after they end for the day.
Hrmm, looks like Sarten-X needs his taxes audited. He's probably a copyright infringer, better confiscate his computer and look it over very carefully. Lets review the street video, this nefarious Sarten-X is probably a serial jay walker too.
And you will never even know why the harassment is happening. You'll never be able to prove that it is harassment. But you will be much too busy to go to Citizens for a Better Tomorrow meetings.
Put another way, they could buy inexpensive units off the shelf and set them to the audiologist's prescription and just throw them away when the battery gets weak for less than that, IF the FDA allowed it.
Put it another way.... say you needed an artificial arm...would you probably wouldn't run down to the nearest street fair and buy a "Toysmith 6135 Galaxy Grabber Robot Claw", merely because it was a cheaper commercially available alternative.
Actually, there have been a number of articles right here on/. about people getting cheap 3D printed prosthetics that they report work better for them than the outrageously expensive ones the FDA likes.
Simple principle, if it costs more than you have, it doesn't exist for any practical purpose. This seems to be beyond the FDA's comprehension.
I did read the whole thing. You based expectations in the U.S. upon Smith, but what we have in the U.S. doesn't resemble Smith enough to warrant that. We didn't even make it 100 years before that particular corruption set in.
Where is your evidence for that extreme assertion? I have seen far more people who have retired and then get a job for mental health reasons than I have seen people who get a windfall and quit working.
Why not? One man with a spreadsheet does the work of a room full of people with adding machines. One guy with a backhoe does the work of 10 men with shovels. Yet somehow, none of that enormous productivity increase showed up in their paychecks.
Smith also called for strong regulation and admonished that corporate charters should only be granted when absolutely necessary and they should be kept on a short leash. Does that sound like what we have?
Nope. The welder will now have $80,000 a year. Last time I checked that was more than $62K. Are you so desperate to believe it will fail that your basic arithmetic skills fell out of your ear?
Because you want $62,000 a year so you can take a nice vacation. Because that job won't be so bad when the employer knows he has to be nice to you or you'll go away and leave him hanging.
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Hear! Hear!
And once you get in to health care and insurance, even a simple question, fundamental to every other financial transaction, "What does this do and what will it cost" is a nightmare journey through bizarre alternate realities which ultimately comes down to you'll have to sign here and agree to pay in order to find out how much. Even when you do pay, nobody can actually swear that there won't be any more surprise bills. And BTW, even if it's an unmitigated disaster, you will be expected to pay in full.
So you think the purveyors of chemical warfare wouldn't subvert the "wrong" vote? You think they don't do that now? Have you seen the U.S.?
It's not so much sucking it up as having it crammed down their throats. When they protested, the cops resorted to chemical warfare to shut them up.
Apparently you were not created as a foe capable of defeating Data.
Get over it. They accidentally posted a dupe, people bitched and moaned, so they un-posted it. A few comments broke. Big fat hairy deal.
Given that SSRIs are known to sometimes (for reasons unknown) cause suicidal ideation where there was none before, and the way we tend to hand those out like candy, I would say those are far more likely than the opiates to be causing a rise in suicide.
That largely depends on how you choose to selectively interpret the data.
On the one hand, we have much better contact with the world, and a lot more stuff. Household chores are certainly easier now.
Some people have good healthcare, some would be better off with the town witch from the Middle Ages than what they have now (read, nothing). People today are in a lot more debt than in the past, and so cannot get by without a job for any length of time. They have nowhere to store up food for hard times. In that sense, they are less secure than before (a factor in mental health to be certain).
People tend to have less roots in the community than before (if any). Even Gypsys had more since their whole community moved around with them. Another mental health factor.
No. No oath he has taken requires perjury before Congress. His other oaths may call for his silence before Congress.
OMG, NO! Not cheap electricity! Anything but that! OH THE HUMANITY!
If it's cheaper to pay people to use it than it is to throttle production, so be it! It's not a bad problem to have if you're a consumer. Not that any consumer will ever be paid to use electricity, that will be absorbed at the distributor level.
Meanwhile, I can set the dishwasher and dryer to run during that cheap peak production. It might be a good time for charging electric cars too.
No, I just have to look at what happens in real life. Did you know it is illegal to use the social security card/number as identification for any purpose? It is. But even the DMV ignores that and demands SS card.
What's the authority for Snidely to have me audited?
He has dirt on the people who decide who will be "randomly" audited. On the other hand, if he puts in a good word, they will find they have a significantly better chance of a promotion next year.
Watch the news and you'll see that not expecting the abuses to happen YET AGAIN is the real leap of faith.
I also appreciated that bit of humor where he had someone holding him and then pushing him back to the standing position when he leaned back.
You would be amazed. No tornado in London, surely but how about a small vortex in the corner of a building just about strong enough to lift a plastic bag?
The part you're missing is the stewards of that data. You assume someone unswervingly on the said of good. A Dudley Dorite. Alas, he's fictional.
What happens when Snidely gets in to office and wants to know who these "Citizens for a Better Tomorrow" are. The nefarious group that opposes his cuts to education and healthcare? Well, let's see, they meet at the corner of A and B every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Amazing, your records show that you have consistently bought chips at the place across the street from the meetings wight after they end for the day.
Hrmm, looks like Sarten-X needs his taxes audited. He's probably a copyright infringer, better confiscate his computer and look it over very carefully. Lets review the street video, this nefarious Sarten-X is probably a serial jay walker too.
And you will never even know why the harassment is happening. You'll never be able to prove that it is harassment. But you will be much too busy to go to Citizens for a Better Tomorrow meetings.
Put another way, they could buy inexpensive units off the shelf and set them to the audiologist's prescription and just throw them away when the battery gets weak for less than that, IF the FDA allowed it.
And yet somehow, everyone and his dog manages to make dirt cheap and very loud MP3 players without a single concern for any of that.
Put it another way.... say you needed an artificial arm ...would you probably wouldn't run down to the nearest street fair and buy a "Toysmith 6135 Galaxy Grabber Robot Claw", merely because it was a cheaper commercially available alternative.
Actually, there have been a number of articles right here on /. about people getting cheap 3D printed prosthetics that they report work better for them than the outrageously expensive ones the FDA likes.
Simple principle, if it costs more than you have, it doesn't exist for any practical purpose. This seems to be beyond the FDA's comprehension.
I did read the whole thing. You based expectations in the U.S. upon Smith, but what we have in the U.S. doesn't resemble Smith enough to warrant that. We didn't even make it 100 years before that particular corruption set in.
Where is your evidence for that extreme assertion? I have seen far more people who have retired and then get a job for mental health reasons than I have seen people who get a windfall and quit working.
Why should the farmer wake up and bust his butt at 5am in the morning to get the eggs for your breakfast if he had no financial incentive to do so.
What makes you think he has no financial incentive? He still gets paid for the eggs just like now. So if it's enough now, it will be enough then.
Why not? One man with a spreadsheet does the work of a room full of people with adding machines. One guy with a backhoe does the work of 10 men with shovels. Yet somehow, none of that enormous productivity increase showed up in their paychecks.
Smith also called for strong regulation and admonished that corporate charters should only be granted when absolutely necessary and they should be kept on a short leash. Does that sound like what we have?
So your primary argument is that they can't be socialist because that would conflict with your beliefs about socialism?
Nope. The welder will now have $80,000 a year. Last time I checked that was more than $62K. Are you so desperate to believe it will fail that your basic arithmetic skills fell out of your ear?
Because you want $62,000 a year so you can take a nice vacation. Because that job won't be so bad when the employer knows he has to be nice to you or you'll go away and leave him hanging.
It sounds like you are shockingly willing to cut your nose off to spite your face.