And then a pick pocket nabs your phone one fine day and sees you'll be on vacation next week, so he tips off his friend Benny the Burglar. About mid-way through your vacation he hoovers your bank account. When you get back home,
it's empty.
Your only consolation is that your phone is (probably) fried so he won't run up your phone bill.
As others pointed out, if the self-destruct has a flaw, you're even more screwed.
As a member of the left, I am well aware that in the language of the time the Constitution was written, well regulated meant (more or less) able to hit the broad side of a barn without shooting people on your own side, and the militia meant everyone old enough to defend the country (realistically, they pictured men since they didn't see women as able with a weapon).
State sanctioned had nothing to do with it.
What we need is proper universal health care and it needs to include mental health. I would like to agree that people with mental illness that includes violent ideation should be able to have their right to own guns suspended by the courts after due process, but we need to make sure to prevent the abuse of mental health care like the Soviet Union did with "sluggishly progressing schizophrenia"
When you can explain how Galt managed to smelt the ore, forge the steel, clear the land, quarry the gravel, lay the track, design machine and build the train, and build all of the stations with his own two hands without any input from anyone else, I might believe you.
Otherwise, the basic premise of her writing refutes itself.
More directly on topic, perhaps Comcast would prefer to individually negotiate right of way with each and every property owner it's lines cross where the owners are free to say no and free to not renew the agreement.
Of course, they've often forgotten that their existing workflow is the way it is to accommodate the limitations of the old tech and the limitations of paper processing before that. Yet, somehow even minor changes are off the table even if it means the difference between using something off the shelf or either spending a fortune in modifications or spending a fortune on spit and bailing wire to hold the old system together for another year.
Definitely the war on drugs. Since doctors DO prescribe marijuana and it is known to have beneficial effects, the DEA (not doctors) claiming it has no recognized medical use is complete BS.
It's not just that nobody would, it's that nobody does. You couldn't get the parts even if you did want to do it that way now. It would all have to be custom made and in many cases nobody exactly remembers HOW.
It's also worthwhile since due to years of neglect, the Saturn V cannot actually be built anymore. The materials, parts, and tools are no longer available. It would have to be re-designed from scratch.
If we tax wealth so one individual can have only so much wealth then we are capping the national economy.
Nice try, but no. It simply means that when the economy grows a lot of people get a little richer rather than a few people getting a lot richer.
As for the rest, the leading indicator of wealth is being born to above average wealth. It's not like there aren't plenty of people in the middle and lower class who are just as intelligent, it's just that they have a lot further to go and a lot less help getting there. Most of us don't get a "small loan of a million dollars" from the Bank of Dad.
Yes, the feds could have made it much easier by being a one stop shop for demonstrating compliance, but the FCC is derelict in it's duty so they'll have to deal with each state individually.
Not if they can get away with paying a less qualified person less money. If it's OK to have the driver sleep, it's OK to have a non driver with a cellphone if anything goes wrong that requires a driver with a CDL.
Remember, the employer isn't interested in the employee's livelihood, they want the cheapest option available to them.
Neither of them are supposed to act like bumbling fools and release 0 day exploits to hacker groups. Three of the most damaging crypto locker type attacks out there can be directly attributed to the idiots at the NSA that couldn't secure their weapons.
I'm pretty sure irresponsible idiots running around with weapons isn't in anyone's interest.
Then we have the Branch Davidians. The first two cops arrived to simply serve papers and were fired upon one being killed as I recall.
Your recall is VERY wrong. Nobody walked up to serve a warrent. The compound was rushed by a large group of ATF agents armed with automatic weapons including a team whose job was to immediately shoot all the dogs no matter what else happened. It was a paramilitary assault from the start. Peaceful execution of the search warrant was never contemplated by the ATF.
Also, the ATF "fibbed" a bit to obtain the warrant.
And there's a serious issue. Law enforcement at all levels going for the exciting and violent option because knocking on the door and having a polite conversation or arresting an unarmed man jogging alone isn't nearly as much fun as raiding a compound with paramilitary gear.
All of that may be true of your country, but not this one. Many employers actively avoid providing health insurance for their employees by either limiting their hours so they can be classified as part time or mis-classifying them as contractors. It may be stupid, but that's what they do. Your claim that people making minimum wage are not a significant part of the working class is simply absurd. Even people making more than minimum wage suffer for it since it creates a large pool of people ready to replace them if they demand even a tiny raise.
The article that this discussion is connected to is all about some large businesses that are anything but satisfied with the current state of healthcare in the U.S. Small businesses and sole proprietorships are no more satisfied, they just aren't big enough to make a move like this. Many individuals have complained that they still can't afford healthcare because after paying for the insurance, they don't have enough left over to cover the crazy co-pays and the many things that aren't covered.
Consider though, when the income tax was first imposed, the minimum income that required any payment at all was (in inflation adjusted dollars) $74,000. The average person didn't need to file.
Meanwhile, you are putting words in my mouth and ideas in my head that simply aren't there. I do not assume that all working class people are on minimum wage, but I do recognize that many are and nobody in the upper class is.
What you seem to not realize is that employer paid healthcare is still an expense that limits how many people the employer will hire. It's also why many employers make sure to cut hours for part time employees and not allow them to become full time. Until the ACA came along, it would sometimes force small business owners to shut down entirely just so they could actually get health insurance for themselves. Note, I'm not claiming that ACA is a great solution, or even a proper solution, but it is marginally better than the previous state of affairs.
Can you think of any employer that wouldn't rather not have to deal with health insurance at all? Can you think of any working class person who wouldn't rather not get surprise bills? That wouldn't rather not deal with limits, deductibles, co-pays, billing errors, failures to submit claims, etc, etc, etc? Can you think of any working class people who were happy to not be insurable due to pre-existing conditions?
OTOH, raising the minimum wage would be quite pro working class. As would making taxes more progressive. Stopping immigration can go either way depending on how carefully employment of illegals is watched. If that enforcement is lax, it's just a way to make sure there are plenty of illegals who can't complain when their rights are violated. Expanding public healthcare would be a huge benefit to the working class and small businesses that employ them.
You seem rather avid about U.S. politics for someone living in a nordic country where your right is to the left of the Democrats.
You seem to have mistaken me for a Clinton supporter. Because of the DNC's many shenanigans combined with Clinton's abandonment of the rank and file Democrats, I didn't vote for her either. The actual working class and for that matter, the middle class are essentially unrepresented today.
One of those changes would be getting paid a hell of a lot less. Nobody is going to pay double the cost of a truck just for the privilege of changing the trucker's job while paying him just as much as he makes driving the cheaper truck.
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Unless, of course, the author just said that to avoid being driven out of academia for heresy.
And then a pick pocket nabs your phone one fine day and sees you'll be on vacation next week, so he tips off his friend Benny the Burglar. About mid-way through your vacation he hoovers your bank account. When you get back home, it's empty.
Your only consolation is that your phone is (probably) fried so he won't run up your phone bill.
As others pointed out, if the self-destruct has a flaw, you're even more screwed.
Strong crypto is a better bet for your safety.
As a member of the left, I am well aware that in the language of the time the Constitution was written, well regulated meant (more or less) able to hit the broad side of a barn without shooting people on your own side, and the militia meant everyone old enough to defend the country (realistically, they pictured men since they didn't see women as able with a weapon).
State sanctioned had nothing to do with it.
What we need is proper universal health care and it needs to include mental health. I would like to agree that people with mental illness that includes violent ideation should be able to have their right to own guns suspended by the courts after due process, but we need to make sure to prevent the abuse of mental health care like the Soviet Union did with "sluggishly progressing schizophrenia"
That's not a UTF processing fail, it's just a MS fail.
Honestly, VT should offer a settlement. One time only, just say the word and they can tear up the contract right away.
Then Comcast can have 30 days to sell off their equipment to whoever signs the deal w/ the state or get it out of the right of way.
When you can explain how Galt managed to smelt the ore, forge the steel, clear the land, quarry the gravel, lay the track, design machine and build the train, and build all of the stations with his own two hands without any input from anyone else, I might believe you.
Otherwise, the basic premise of her writing refutes itself.
More directly on topic, perhaps Comcast would prefer to individually negotiate right of way with each and every property owner it's lines cross where the owners are free to say no and free to not renew the agreement.
Of course, they've often forgotten that their existing workflow is the way it is to accommodate the limitations of the old tech and the limitations of paper processing before that. Yet, somehow even minor changes are off the table even if it means the difference between using something off the shelf or either spending a fortune in modifications or spending a fortune on spit and bailing wire to hold the old system together for another year.
Don Duguid's commentary during previous Winter Olympics really helped non-curlers to appreciate the sport and understand it's strategy.
ANNNNNNNNNNddd.. It's gone!
Definitely the war on drugs. Since doctors DO prescribe marijuana and it is known to have beneficial effects, the DEA (not doctors) claiming it has no recognized medical use is complete BS.
It's not just that nobody would, it's that nobody does. You couldn't get the parts even if you did want to do it that way now. It would all have to be custom made and in many cases nobody exactly remembers HOW.
It's also worthwhile since due to years of neglect, the Saturn V cannot actually be built anymore. The materials, parts, and tools are no longer available. It would have to be re-designed from scratch.
If we tax wealth so one individual can have only so much wealth then we are capping the national economy.
Nice try, but no. It simply means that when the economy grows a lot of people get a little richer rather than a few people getting a lot richer.
As for the rest, the leading indicator of wealth is being born to above average wealth. It's not like there aren't plenty of people in the middle and lower class who are just as intelligent, it's just that they have a lot further to go and a lot less help getting there. Most of us don't get a "small loan of a million dollars" from the Bank of Dad.
Yes, the feds could have made it much easier by being a one stop shop for demonstrating compliance, but the FCC is derelict in it's duty so they'll have to deal with each state individually.
Or some idiot violated security protocols.
Not if they can get away with paying a less qualified person less money. If it's OK to have the driver sleep, it's OK to have a non driver with a cellphone if anything goes wrong that requires a driver with a CDL.
Remember, the employer isn't interested in the employee's livelihood, they want the cheapest option available to them.
Neither of them are supposed to act like bumbling fools and release 0 day exploits to hacker groups. Three of the most damaging crypto locker type attacks out there can be directly attributed to the idiots at the NSA that couldn't secure their weapons.
I'm pretty sure irresponsible idiots running around with weapons isn't in anyone's interest.
Then we have the Branch Davidians. The first two cops arrived to simply serve papers and were fired upon one being killed as I recall.
Your recall is VERY wrong. Nobody walked up to serve a warrent. The compound was rushed by a large group of ATF agents armed with automatic weapons including a team whose job was to immediately shoot all the dogs no matter what else happened. It was a paramilitary assault from the start. Peaceful execution of the search warrant was never contemplated by the ATF.
Also, the ATF "fibbed" a bit to obtain the warrant.
And there's a serious issue. Law enforcement at all levels going for the exciting and violent option because knocking on the door and having a polite conversation or arresting an unarmed man jogging alone isn't nearly as much fun as raiding a compound with paramilitary gear.
So the police are now run by Leo Wanker?
All of that may be true of your country, but not this one. Many employers actively avoid providing health insurance for their employees by either limiting their hours so they can be classified as part time or mis-classifying them as contractors. It may be stupid, but that's what they do. Your claim that people making minimum wage are not a significant part of the working class is simply absurd. Even people making more than minimum wage suffer for it since it creates a large pool of people ready to replace them if they demand even a tiny raise.
The article that this discussion is connected to is all about some large businesses that are anything but satisfied with the current state of healthcare in the U.S. Small businesses and sole proprietorships are no more satisfied, they just aren't big enough to make a move like this. Many individuals have complained that they still can't afford healthcare because after paying for the insurance, they don't have enough left over to cover the crazy co-pays and the many things that aren't covered.
Consider though, when the income tax was first imposed, the minimum income that required any payment at all was (in inflation adjusted dollars) $74,000. The average person didn't need to file.
Meanwhile, you are putting words in my mouth and ideas in my head that simply aren't there. I do not assume that all working class people are on minimum wage, but I do recognize that many are and nobody in the upper class is.
What you seem to not realize is that employer paid healthcare is still an expense that limits how many people the employer will hire. It's also why many employers make sure to cut hours for part time employees and not allow them to become full time. Until the ACA came along, it would sometimes force small business owners to shut down entirely just so they could actually get health insurance for themselves. Note, I'm not claiming that ACA is a great solution, or even a proper solution, but it is marginally better than the previous state of affairs.
Can you think of any employer that wouldn't rather not have to deal with health insurance at all? Can you think of any working class person who wouldn't rather not get surprise bills? That wouldn't rather not deal with limits, deductibles, co-pays, billing errors, failures to submit claims, etc, etc, etc? Can you think of any working class people who were happy to not be insurable due to pre-existing conditions?
OTOH, what they're saying is that they KNEW their drill procedure created confusion and still said "this is not a drill" for a drill.
OTOH, raising the minimum wage would be quite pro working class. As would making taxes more progressive. Stopping immigration can go either way depending on how carefully employment of illegals is watched. If that enforcement is lax, it's just a way to make sure there are plenty of illegals who can't complain when their rights are violated. Expanding public healthcare would be a huge benefit to the working class and small businesses that employ them.
You seem rather avid about U.S. politics for someone living in a nordic country where your right is to the left of the Democrats.
You seem to have mistaken me for a Clinton supporter. Because of the DNC's many shenanigans combined with Clinton's abandonment of the rank and file Democrats, I didn't vote for her either. The actual working class and for that matter, the middle class are essentially unrepresented today.
One of those changes would be getting paid a hell of a lot less. Nobody is going to pay double the cost of a truck just for the privilege of changing the trucker's job while paying him just as much as he makes driving the cheaper truck.