The reason for that is insurance companies raking off huge sums of money to do nothing more than shuffle papers. If you look at a single-payer system like Canada, you'll find they're about twice as efficient at putting the dollars going in at the taxpayer end of the system into actual health care.
That isn't to say they're perfect (or that there's no waste in hospitals), but the US system is a complete mess.
Well, my friend, let's keep an eye on this and see what happens. It's not likely we'll be able to do much more than congratulate each other for being as cynical about Trump and his backers as we needed to be.
Don't feel too safe about this. I bet they make some cosmetic changes to the TPP and bring it back i a couple of years. And Trump will gleefully sign it, saying something like "I'm not against trade, I'm against bad deals".
In some respects, U Calgary isn't even really much of a university. Its incestuous relationship with the local oil barons makes the quality and reliability of anything that comes out of there, including research and graduates, suspect.
What's scary is that sooner or later, the hackers are going to start believing that going to a company with their findings is "all downside". The next step, of course, would be to sell their efforts to the highest bidder. And that, in turn, would probably lead to methods of anonymous transfer of wealth that might give average people access to some of the same tools as those routinely used by top banks, corporations and multi-billionaires.
You ignore vastly changed cultural realities that would have had Heinlein write an entirely different book if he were alive today. When he wrote Starship Troopers, families needing two working parents just to provide the necessities of life for their children were unheard-of. And the social contract of the time ensured that if somebody went off to perform national service and earn their right to vote, they would be compensated well enough that their family could bear their absence economically.
In today's world, we have had it beaten into us that none of that would be true. When Heinlein wrote Starship Troopers, the United States had a middle class. Today it has an upper class, a poverty-stricken lower class, and a lot of people struggling desperately to avoid slipping off the last rung of the ladder.
Can go FUCK itself with broken, rusty garden shears.
I could use that snotty "fixed that for you" meme, but I'd have to add, "In a way I think you'd like".
I will not use Windows 10. Well, I might reconsider if somebody figures out how to turn it into a hacked, broken bitch that publishes the private data of the entire Microsoft Board of Directors, the top 100 shareholders, and all of their families.
So the replacement workers the Americans are being forced to train before getting shoved out the door are from India?
This could make a great "different cultures" comedy...maybe even a rom-com. It would go like this: one of the fresh young faces hires the Boomer who just trained her and got kicked out of the corporation to be her nanny. They could call it "Scumbag Millionaire".
And I will continue to dismiss denier trolls without wasting time debunking (for the hundredth time) yet another zombie myth.
And if you're trying to hold comments at Slashdot up to some mythical standard of excellence, you clearly haven't been paying attention. They're all over the map...as are mine.
I couldn't help but notice, by the way, that you have nothing to say even remotely acceptable by the standards you claim to espouse.
I offer many ideas (good ones) and lots of facts. I just don't bother, for the most part, engaging with global warming deniers anymore. They're liars and cheats, and I don't waste my time. On the other hand, I do enjoy pointing out that they are, in fact, liars and cheats in a low-effort, accurate manner.
Heck, I even respond sometimes to anonymous cowards, and that's really going the extra mile.
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Anyone trying to claim there's as many phony liberal-created stories out there as conservative ones is either a liar or a fool.
Of course, it's a matter of pure coincidence that Facebook board member Peter Thiel has been named to Trump's transition team.
The reason for that is insurance companies raking off huge sums of money to do nothing more than shuffle papers. If you look at a single-payer system like Canada, you'll find they're about twice as efficient at putting the dollars going in at the taxpayer end of the system into actual health care.
That isn't to say they're perfect (or that there's no waste in hospitals), but the US system is a complete mess.
Well, my friend, let's keep an eye on this and see what happens. It's not likely we'll be able to do much more than congratulate each other for being as cynical about Trump and his backers as we needed to be.
Cheers!
Don't feel too safe about this. I bet they make some cosmetic changes to the TPP and bring it back i a couple of years. And Trump will gleefully sign it, saying something like "I'm not against trade, I'm against bad deals".
If you're not a "believer" in AGW, then you probably aren't a "believer" in gravity or evolution...or even science.
So if you're going to post the kind of drivel you seem so fond of, at least show the rest of us enough respect to keep it short.
In some respects, U Calgary isn't even really much of a university. Its incestuous relationship with the local oil barons makes the quality and reliability of anything that comes out of there, including research and graduates, suspect.
I rarely do the "what he said" thing, but in your case, I have to make an exception. What an excellent summary of the situation!
What's scary is that sooner or later, the hackers are going to start believing that going to a company with their findings is "all downside". The next step, of course, would be to sell their efforts to the highest bidder. And that, in turn, would probably lead to methods of anonymous transfer of wealth that might give average people access to some of the same tools as those routinely used by top banks, corporations and multi-billionaires.
It would be an interesting world.
Get off your high horse. I've read it twice, once as a kid and once when I was older. I doubt I'm the only one here who can say that.
You ignore vastly changed cultural realities that would have had Heinlein write an entirely different book if he were alive today. When he wrote Starship Troopers, families needing two working parents just to provide the necessities of life for their children were unheard-of. And the social contract of the time ensured that if somebody went off to perform national service and earn their right to vote, they would be compensated well enough that their family could bear their absence economically.
In today's world, we have had it beaten into us that none of that would be true. When Heinlein wrote Starship Troopers, the United States had a middle class. Today it has an upper class, a poverty-stricken lower class, and a lot of people struggling desperately to avoid slipping off the last rung of the ladder.
Once again, Windows 10 users get what they deserve.
Can go FUCK itself with broken, rusty garden shears.
I could use that snotty "fixed that for you" meme, but I'd have to add, "In a way I think you'd like".
I will not use Windows 10. Well, I might reconsider if somebody figures out how to turn it into a hacked, broken bitch that publishes the private data of the entire Microsoft Board of Directors, the top 100 shareholders, and all of their families.
So the replacement workers the Americans are being forced to train before getting shoved out the door are from India?
This could make a great "different cultures" comedy...maybe even a rom-com. It would go like this: one of the fresh young faces hires the Boomer who just trained her and got kicked out of the corporation to be her nanny. They could call it "Scumbag Millionaire".
Liar
As I said...
And I will continue to dismiss denier trolls without wasting time debunking (for the hundredth time) yet another zombie myth.
And if you're trying to hold comments at Slashdot up to some mythical standard of excellence, you clearly haven't been paying attention. They're all over the map...as are mine.
I couldn't help but notice, by the way, that you have nothing to say even remotely acceptable by the standards you claim to espouse.
Pity you had to explain that to the lad.
Ah...I bet you're a Trump lover, too. They also are so stupid they'll cut their own throats for free.
I offer many ideas (good ones) and lots of facts. I just don't bother, for the most part, engaging with global warming deniers anymore. They're liars and cheats, and I don't waste my time. On the other hand, I do enjoy pointing out that they are, in fact, liars and cheats in a low-effort, accurate manner.
Heck, I even respond sometimes to anonymous cowards, and that's really going the extra mile.
Bet I've got a lot more "5" comments than you. :-)
Your pet moderators are here in force. Let the lying begin!
GW denier trolls have thoroughly infested this page. The Koch Brothers must be paying well, these days.
If I had points, I'd mod you up for that. LOL
...is the joy you get from scrubbing the filthy thing off your computer once and for all.
If it were true you have a "post-graduate level of understanding", I'd have thought you would have written your comment very differently.
What "absurd extrapolations and doomsaying" are you referring to?
Sorry, dude. You need to get at least up to high school science level to understand this. More would be better.
Do you really think there's only 200 years of data contributing to our understanding of how climate works? You have a lot of catching up to do.