The idea of clinging to your state government is a function of nationalism. This is what drove Brexit. To some degree, this also drives the idea of Federalism. We want to be distinct enough to control our own destiny and not be subject to the whims of idiots we don't agree with.
You will whine about Russian meddling and then happily meddle in someone else's election in another state (like Alabama).
You feel for them? Because they've been told to avoid "buzz word bingo? Seriously? Get over yourself.
The only useful word on that list is "fetus". The rest are political nonsense. That includes "science based". One would hope that phrase would never need to be said in a medical environment.
> A better question is why US police departments are publishing personal details in public arrest reports at all.
Call it transparency. If they didn't publish this stuff, then someone would probably try to say that they have something to hide and are therefore up to no good.
Someone will likely object just because some people will object to what cops do regardless.
> Disseminating information without authorization (violating a license agreement) is not the same as accessing information without authorization (hacking).
Both can be felonies under US Federal law. If you violate a license, then standard copyright rules apply. This is how the GPL works.
> you won't get chemotherapy or an organ transplant in the emergency room
There was an old liberal hit piece I saw on American health care. It was a kind of tale of two patients. The American patient without any insurance had a kidney transplant. The Canadian patient was still stuck on dialysis.
> Any Emergency care in an urban US hospital is going to be outrageous as well, in my experience. In a rural area, you have the added joy of an hour drive.
I've never had to wait in an ER. There are more than enough hospitals around. Probably more than we really need.
Maybe a hospital in a city center is ugly. The rest don't seem to be.
> What are these death panels Americans talk about? I'd imagine US insurance companies are more likely to have those given the need for profit over people.
No. It's the socialized systems that are more backwards and less aggressive. Even in the US, you're better off with private insurance than any of the public options.
When is the last time you've begged to be taxed more for the elderly, the poor, or veterans? Government budgets are an ugly limitation. Everyone things someone else should pay.
This narrative is really bullshit if you think about it. What costs are there really if some git use the ER as their GP? So they bother the on duty doctors and nurses. What real costs are the hospital enduring.
They simple aren't. All those idiots are doing is giving the hospital a tax write off.
It's not like they're running the cat scan machine or getting blood drawn or even getting an x-ray.
They aren't creating any more costs than if they had gone to the quick clinic instead. There is no one to pay their bogus bill even if they want to create one.
The basic operational cost of the ER is the same whether it's full or empty.
The same goes for abused NHS ambulances and MRI machines that are sitting idle at night.
> The stories people hear in the U.S. about long waiting times, people dying before getting service etc. are hand-picked outliers designed to set an anti-public health care agenda.
You can say the same about US "horror stories". They are propaganda pushed by people with a socialist agenda.
Although my own "outlier" is a matter of personal knowledge. Someone I know and care about was killed by Canadian medicine.
You've clearly never heard a Brit describe their health care experiences. It's funny how they make up excuses for the NHS while eviscerating it in gorry detail.
Australians are great for this too.
The whole common language thing makes it easy to see for yourself in their own press or just from conversations made possible by this here Internet.
> Single payer would not bankrupt America. How about cutting your fucked up military budget? Lol. Omg the US used to really be a beacon and now it's just a fucked up mess.
Completely gutting the entire Pentagon would not pay for the health care for 320M Americans. Our current military budget is roughly equal to our Medicare budget.
That's just one program for a portion of our population. It's not even a proper single payer system. It doesn't cover everything and people still have to buy their own gap plans.
There is no free lunch here. People that think there is are the problem.
No. The idea that deadbeats like you can be trusted to fully fund public health care is what's stupid.
The US already has fine examples of what happens when you let the Feds manage this kind of stuff. You don't even have to look to Canada or Tories ravaging the NHS.
> What I really don't get, is the influx of right wing trolling? Normally the side that isn't in power is the one trolling, because they are the ones most upset because their views are being ignored. Check out Slashdot from 2001-2008.
You are confusing Washington with Hollywood.
We still get partisan nonsense shoved down our throats constantly. If anything, it's even worse now because it's infested outlets that used to be politically neutral. You can't get away from it.
Unless you're one of the party faithful, it's annoying. Plus some of it is really deranged.
Also, fundies and tea baggers have nothing on the much more numerous liberal brand of wing nut that has arisen recently.
> If the work of bringing to kids was more evenly distributed between both parents and it was easier to integrate work and parenting (flexible hours etc) it wouldn't be a problem.
Sure. Let's FORCE everyone to work whether they want to or not. Let's make it harder for everyone that does work to adequately concentrate on their job.
NOBODY runs business like this, expecting everyone do do everything. People specialize so they can be more efficient and take advantage of people's talents.
Let those that have the inclination and talent do what they do best. Besides, there are certain biological elements to this that are not at all delegable.
> It doesn't for nursing which has flexible hours or for teaching where no state requires you to work more than half the days of the year.
It's hard to do that when you work 12 hour shifts.
When I learned that little detail I was shocked that anyone was left to do the work. It's not like they get to just sit around for those 12 hours either.
Meanwhile, in the real world I know women that completely retired from the workforce once they decided to breed. They did so because they could. They had the economic means to do so. Society didn't put them in a position of being forced to work.
Some also come back after an extended absence.
A lot of Americans simply don't have to settle for his 12 or 24 maternity leave bull crap that a lot of people find so amazing.
"Maternity leave" just means that you eventually have to split your time between your jackass boss and your kids. A longer maternity leave just postpones the pain/expense. It doesn't really get rid of it.
This has nothing to do with equality. That's why the term is used.
This is about an enforced notion of political correctness meant for public consumption. It's bullshit public virtue that doesn't reflect any reality. Outcomes differ because people choose to make different choices. They don't mindlessly follow the current orthodoxy.
Women actually have minds of their own. They exercise free will.
The SJW class objects to choices freely made by others that they don't approve of. Feminism has been pulling this crap for decades (and alienating people over it).
> Gotta love the nerd rage. Just because your gross doesn't make discrimination okay.
How can you possibly be so ILLITERATE and post a response? Women self selected for this. They were NOT discriminated against. They CHOSE to avoid computing because of the exact social stigma pointed out in what you responded to.
This entire SJW nonsense is prefaced on the idea that personal choices equal "discrimination".
Pretty much every female in my (current) entire economic class dumps their corporate overlords because they have the means to do so. Can't say I blame them really.
I don't find faster boot time to be terribly useful for a media appliance. Although SystemD seems to make automatically starting a Linux machine as an appliance a much less reliable thing.
SystemD generates Windows style "faster booting". You get to a boot prompt faster but the system is still sorting itself out. So it's all an illusion. They system isn't really ready yet. It's not useful. It's basically a sham.
You are also very likely to get things out of order so things will be broken with fairly trivial setups.
Again, if your system is more likely to get broken either by the vendors or the end users then your design failed.
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The idea of clinging to your state government is a function of nationalism. This is what drove Brexit. To some degree, this also drives the idea of Federalism. We want to be distinct enough to control our own destiny and not be subject to the whims of idiots we don't agree with.
You will whine about Russian meddling and then happily meddle in someone else's election in another state (like Alabama).
You feel for them? Because they've been told to avoid "buzz word bingo? Seriously? Get over yourself.
The only useful word on that list is "fetus". The rest are political nonsense. That includes "science based". One would hope that phrase would never need to be said in a medical environment.
> A better question is why US police departments are publishing personal details in public arrest reports at all.
Call it transparency. If they didn't publish this stuff, then someone would probably try to say that they have something to hide and are therefore up to no good.
Someone will likely object just because some people will object to what cops do regardless.
> Ironically enough, LinkedIn scrapes its users browser for known extensions. See https://github.com/prophittcor... for details.
Server interrogates clients for their functionality.
That doesn't sound nearly as nefarious as you think it does.
> Disseminating information without authorization (violating a license agreement) is not the same as accessing information without authorization (hacking).
Both can be felonies under US Federal law. If you violate a license, then standard copyright rules apply. This is how the GPL works.
Sure. Whatever. I've "been there, and done that" and I simply don't buy the propaganda. I know people that have been killed by your "better results".
I would rather spend more and have more facilities, better treatment options, and expensive miracle drugs.
Things like "unreasonable" are very subjective. So are "satisfaction" surveys that are poisoned by a news media that lies to push an agenda.
I am aware of some of the lies because of the whole "been there, done that thing". I don't just get my information from the news media.
> you won't get chemotherapy or an organ transplant in the emergency room
There was an old liberal hit piece I saw on American health care. It was a kind of tale of two patients. The American patient without any insurance had a kidney transplant. The Canadian patient was still stuck on dialysis.
> Any Emergency care in an urban US hospital is going to be outrageous as well, in my experience. In a rural area, you have the added joy of an hour drive.
I've never had to wait in an ER. There are more than enough hospitals around. Probably more than we really need.
Maybe a hospital in a city center is ugly. The rest don't seem to be.
> What are these death panels Americans talk about? I'd imagine US insurance companies are more likely to have those given the need for profit over people.
No. It's the socialized systems that are more backwards and less aggressive. Even in the US, you're better off with private insurance than any of the public options.
When is the last time you've begged to be taxed more for the elderly, the poor, or veterans? Government budgets are an ugly limitation. Everyone things someone else should pay.
This narrative is really bullshit if you think about it. What costs are there really if some git use the ER as their GP? So they bother the on duty doctors and nurses. What real costs are the hospital enduring.
They simple aren't. All those idiots are doing is giving the hospital a tax write off.
It's not like they're running the cat scan machine or getting blood drawn or even getting an x-ray.
They aren't creating any more costs than if they had gone to the quick clinic instead. There is no one to pay their bogus bill even if they want to create one.
The basic operational cost of the ER is the same whether it's full or empty.
The same goes for abused NHS ambulances and MRI machines that are sitting idle at night.
> The stories people hear in the U.S. about long waiting times, people dying before getting service etc. are hand-picked outliers designed to set an anti-public health care agenda.
You can say the same about US "horror stories". They are propaganda pushed by people with a socialist agenda.
Although my own "outlier" is a matter of personal knowledge. Someone I know and care about was killed by Canadian medicine.
> higher care satisfaction
You've clearly never heard a Brit describe their health care experiences. It's funny how they make up excuses for the NHS while eviscerating it in gorry detail.
Australians are great for this too.
The whole common language thing makes it easy to see for yourself in their own press or just from conversations made possible by this here Internet.
> Yet everyone gets their insulin in Canada. I can't say the same for USA.
I don't have to wait 2 months for an MRI. I don't have to worry about being put on a waiting list for back surgery or a bone marrow transplant.
I don't have to worry about DYING because my Canadian doctor didn't do a proper cancer work up on me.
It's trivial for me to get a GP. I can get next day specialist visits. In a pinch, I can see my oncologist the same day.
We could use some spackle for the cracks but "be like Canada" is a really stupid approach.
> Single payer would not bankrupt America. How about cutting your fucked up military budget? Lol. Omg the US used to really be a beacon and now it's just a fucked up mess.
Completely gutting the entire Pentagon would not pay for the health care for 320M Americans. Our current military budget is roughly equal to our Medicare budget.
That's just one program for a portion of our population. It's not even a proper single payer system. It doesn't cover everything and people still have to buy their own gap plans.
There is no free lunch here. People that think there is are the problem.
> This is so dangerously stupid.
No. The idea that deadbeats like you can be trusted to fully fund public health care is what's stupid.
The US already has fine examples of what happens when you let the Feds manage this kind of stuff. You don't even have to look to Canada or Tories ravaging the NHS.
> What I really don't get, is the influx of right wing trolling? Normally the side that isn't in power is the one trolling, because they are the ones most upset because their views are being ignored. Check out Slashdot from 2001-2008.
You are confusing Washington with Hollywood.
We still get partisan nonsense shoved down our throats constantly. If anything, it's even worse now because it's infested outlets that used to be politically neutral. You can't get away from it.
Unless you're one of the party faithful, it's annoying. Plus some of it is really deranged.
Also, fundies and tea baggers have nothing on the much more numerous liberal brand of wing nut that has arisen recently.
> If the work of bringing to kids was more evenly distributed between both parents and it was easier to integrate work and parenting (flexible hours etc) it wouldn't be a problem.
Sure. Let's FORCE everyone to work whether they want to or not. Let's make it harder for everyone that does work to adequately concentrate on their job.
NOBODY runs business like this, expecting everyone do do everything. People specialize so they can be more efficient and take advantage of people's talents.
Let those that have the inclination and talent do what they do best. Besides, there are certain biological elements to this that are not at all delegable.
> It doesn't for nursing which has flexible hours or for teaching where no state requires you to work more than half the days of the year.
It's hard to do that when you work 12 hour shifts.
When I learned that little detail I was shocked that anyone was left to do the work. It's not like they get to just sit around for those 12 hours either.
Meanwhile, in the real world I know women that completely retired from the workforce once they decided to breed. They did so because they could. They had the economic means to do so. Society didn't put them in a position of being forced to work.
Some also come back after an extended absence.
A lot of Americans simply don't have to settle for his 12 or 24 maternity leave bull crap that a lot of people find so amazing.
"Maternity leave" just means that you eventually have to split your time between your jackass boss and your kids. A longer maternity leave just postpones the pain/expense. It doesn't really get rid of it.
This has nothing to do with equality. That's why the term is used.
This is about an enforced notion of political correctness meant for public consumption. It's bullshit public virtue that doesn't reflect any reality. Outcomes differ because people choose to make different choices. They don't mindlessly follow the current orthodoxy.
Women actually have minds of their own. They exercise free will.
The SJW class objects to choices freely made by others that they don't approve of. Feminism has been pulling this crap for decades (and alienating people over it).
> Gotta love the nerd rage. Just because your gross doesn't make discrimination okay.
How can you possibly be so ILLITERATE and post a response? Women self selected for this. They were NOT discriminated against. They CHOSE to avoid computing because of the exact social stigma pointed out in what you responded to.
This entire SJW nonsense is prefaced on the idea that personal choices equal "discrimination".
Pretty much every female in my (current) entire economic class dumps their corporate overlords because they have the means to do so. Can't say I blame them really.
> Lucky you, I've spend days trying to debug NFS mount on boot dependency problems with sysvinit.
I've never had problems like that in 20 some odd years of using NFS with the old boot systems.
I don't find faster boot time to be terribly useful for a media appliance. Although SystemD seems to make automatically starting a Linux machine as an appliance a much less reliable thing.
SystemD generates Windows style "faster booting". You get to a boot prompt faster but the system is still sorting itself out. So it's all an illusion. They system isn't really ready yet. It's not useful. It's basically a sham.
You are also very likely to get things out of order so things will be broken with fairly trivial setups.
Again, if your system is more likely to get broken either by the vendors or the end users then your design failed.
> If you don't write your systemd unit files correctly, you can't blame systemd.
Sure you can.
systemd makes it much more likely that nearly everyone will do it wrong.
That's an artifact of piss poor system design.