Without trolls to make you aware of those 256 other flavors, you would never be aware of them. All you would see is a small number of highly visible brands that you would see in any healthy functioning market.
Better yet. Why are these companies completely unwilling to develop talent? They want some ideal candidate to magically appear out of the ether and be willing to take whatever pittance they want to offer. They are also unwilling to retain current employees.
There's one guy (I like to call him 2-Bobs) I know who's job it is to cull people from a large telecom. When things are slow, they just dispose of the excess workforce. I always wondered if they will get to the point where they've already burned everyone and no one wants to work for them.
> I live a modest lifestyle, save 20% of my income and have a rent-controlled studio
Communism + low expectations.
Take away either of those and your example collapses in on itself. Things are simply unsustainable where you choose to live. You have to make grave compromises with your lifestyle PLUS have the government distort the rental market for you.
Forget cbs.com. Just stick up an antenna and pull it off the air for free. OTA tuners are the easiest to deal with regardless of platform. There's none of that stupid encryption to get in the way and the tech is cheap and simple.
> A-la-carte sounds good, right up until it's five-bucks a channel for the ones you're on the fence about
A lot of people could pay $10 or $15 for a couple of really obscure channels and still come out WAY ahead. The cost of cable is insane and out of control these days.
> You seem to think that insurance companies aren't going to make cost benefit analyses whenever they can get away with it.
Yet in practice American private insurers are more aggressive than public systems in both the US and Europe. For my particular condition the US public systems are at least 10 years behind the times in terms of standards of care.
I know two people killed by socialized medicine in the US and Canada because of substandard cancer treatment. Horror stories about cancer drugs and the NHS are bad enough that they show up in the popular media.
> Are there problems with the healthcare the NHS provides? -yes. If we factor the cost of the healthcare is it bloody great? -yes
This is the big problem with the usual socialist approach to healthcare. When your life is on the line, it's not the CHEAP option you want. It's the BEST option you want. Medicine is no place for the "cheap junk for less" mentality.
It's one of the most important things in society being practiced by our most educated and well trained people. Yet everyone thinks it's a place for a bargain and that doctors and nurses should be given the shaft.
Most of this is bullshit. The one about US public education is just plain funny.
Even with all things considered, the US still comes out ahead. What Europe has is a basic nanny state. You aren't left with any choices. All of your money is taken from you and spent on your behalf. You have no option to do things differently.
In the US you can squander every cent you have, be prepared for a rainy day, build wealth, or retire early. This is especially true for the whole "dual professional income" setup that's a must just to scrap by in some places in Europe.
As far as roads go... there's money it just gets squandered on other things. Plus American liberals aren't committed enough to social welfare to tax themselves appropriately.
> Add to it the additional costs that US workers have to take in the form of high property taxes, health care insurances
You mean the property taxes on a 5000 sqft McMansion? Yeah, those suck but they're are entirely optional.
This has to be the world's best kept secret. American liberals really want you to believe it's hell here and Eurotrash are quite wiling to jump on the dogpile.
The simple truth is that we make more, we keep more, we get taxed less, and our money goes farther. Even with the ugliness of Obamacare premium hikes I am still WAY ahead of my European counterparts.
I make enough that I can go and see how the other half lives for myself. The other half is pretty much stuck camping.
You just can't make a ball "too good". Any sport is highly regulated. Screwing around with the elements too much will be viewed as a rules violation. There just isn't that much to invent here.
This is just more of the usual "patents run amok" that we see in our own domain. It should not surprise anyone that it happens with "physical stuff" too.
> There's nothing about a golf ball that makes it unworthy of patents.
This statement is most likely false. Golf is an old well established sport with set rules. The ball itself is a very simple item that's at the center of the game. The idea that there is any "secret sauce" in any sports ball is on it's face absurd. You have a high bar to reach to argue to the contrary.
This is more likely than not a manifestation of the bullshit we see in the parts of the patent system we are intimately familiar with.
Pride is better than apathy, narcissism and nihilism. Pride in something can inspire you to do what is necessary to maintain and protect it. This includes giving your time an money to things that America-hating liberals claim to value.
That would be people that are driven by what "feels right" versus what "makes sense". They will happily ignore important legal principles that protect us from tyranny so long as they happen to be getting their way. They give no thought to the future or potential consequences.
They only fixate on getting the free rainbow unicorn. They give no consideration to how much the stable fees will be.
Modern liberals also have also abandoned classical liberal values. They deserve scorn an derision just for that.
Not it doesn't. Learning about the relevant country in your foreign language class does to some extent. However this information is pretty much universally ignored by American students based on the general ignorance level in the US.
Bubble sort is something that should stick in your head like mental debris simply because you should have been exposed to it as a computer science student. It's like any number of other things from the standard curriculum that "smart people" seem to be ignorant of.
It's more along the lines of did you go to school for this? Did you attend class? Did you actually pay attention?
If you've forgotten everything you've ever been taught in the life just what value do you think you bring to any team?
Except some women like being grabbed by the pussy and will happily accommodate you given the right conditions. They have their own free will and sometimes they make choices you don't approve of. THAT was the whole point of the anecdote that certain people get their panties in a bunch over.
Screeching modern feminists have a problem accepting the idea that they can both be respected and a sex object. This is a pretty sad 50s idea really.
They want to control women's bodies every much as religious old men do. They just use a different pretense to come justify their actions.
If NO ONE else were interested in servicing your entire town sure. Even then, this clause would apply if and only if they ONLY serviced your town and nothing else. Unless your town is 100 miles away from anything else, I don't see that being a real problem in Denmark.
Reno is not a bad example of a town literally in the middle of nowhere.
You would probably think of it as living on the Moon and net neutrality would probably be low on your list of complaints.
No. It does go both ways. It's only acknowledged when the victim is acceptable. Otherwise it gets ignored. There's a particular narrative and anything that falls outside of that narrative will be ignored, belittled, or denied.
This very article is the perfect example of this "narrative curation" in action.
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Without trolls to make you aware of those 256 other flavors, you would never be aware of them. All you would see is a small number of highly visible brands that you would see in any healthy functioning market.
Screwed? You must be joking. Do you know how expensive the alternatives are? How crude? How seedy?
On their worst day, Uber is cheaper and the driver is far less creepy than any cabbie you will ever encounter.
Perhaps drivers are getting screwed. Not the customers.
Better yet. Why are these companies completely unwilling to develop talent? They want some ideal candidate to magically appear out of the ether and be willing to take whatever pittance they want to offer. They are also unwilling to retain current employees.
There's one guy (I like to call him 2-Bobs) I know who's job it is to cull people from a large telecom. When things are slow, they just dispose of the excess workforce. I always wondered if they will get to the point where they've already burned everyone and no one wants to work for them.
> I live a modest lifestyle, save 20% of my income and have a rent-controlled studio
Communism + low expectations.
Take away either of those and your example collapses in on itself. Things are simply unsustainable where you choose to live. You have to make grave compromises with your lifestyle PLUS have the government distort the rental market for you.
Forget cbs.com. Just stick up an antenna and pull it off the air for free. OTA tuners are the easiest to deal with regardless of platform. There's none of that stupid encryption to get in the way and the tech is cheap and simple.
> They are 100% dominating the HTPC space now
You should really lay off whatever drugs you're abusing there.
> A-la-carte sounds good, right up until it's five-bucks a channel for the ones you're on the fence about
A lot of people could pay $10 or $15 for a couple of really obscure channels and still come out WAY ahead. The cost of cable is insane and out of control these days.
> What's not to like about Healthcare in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the BeNeLux, Sweden...?
Germany is a few decades behind the times in orthopedics and seem to be generally stingy. Sweden does poorly with rare conditions.
Any ferret face can set a bone. That's not the stuff you want to hang your hat on.
> You seem to think that insurance companies aren't going to make cost benefit analyses whenever they can get away with it.
Yet in practice American private insurers are more aggressive than public systems in both the US and Europe. For my particular condition the US public systems are at least 10 years behind the times in terms of standards of care.
I know two people killed by socialized medicine in the US and Canada because of substandard cancer treatment. Horror stories about cancer drugs and the NHS are bad enough that they show up in the popular media.
> Are there problems with the healthcare the NHS provides? -yes. If we factor the cost of the healthcare is it bloody great? -yes
This is the big problem with the usual socialist approach to healthcare. When your life is on the line, it's not the CHEAP option you want. It's the BEST option you want. Medicine is no place for the "cheap junk for less" mentality.
It's one of the most important things in society being practiced by our most educated and well trained people. Yet everyone thinks it's a place for a bargain and that doctors and nurses should be given the shaft.
Surgery is no place for the Walmart mentality.
Most of this is bullshit. The one about US public education is just plain funny.
Even with all things considered, the US still comes out ahead. What Europe has is a basic nanny state. You aren't left with any choices. All of your money is taken from you and spent on your behalf. You have no option to do things differently.
In the US you can squander every cent you have, be prepared for a rainy day, build wealth, or retire early. This is especially true for the whole "dual professional income" setup that's a must just to scrap by in some places in Europe.
As far as roads go... there's money it just gets squandered on other things. Plus American liberals aren't committed enough to social welfare to tax themselves appropriately.
> Add to it the additional costs that US workers have to take in the form of high property taxes, health care insurances
You mean the property taxes on a 5000 sqft McMansion? Yeah, those suck but they're are entirely optional.
This has to be the world's best kept secret. American liberals really want you to believe it's hell here and Eurotrash are quite wiling to jump on the dogpile.
The simple truth is that we make more, we keep more, we get taxed less, and our money goes farther. Even with the ugliness of Obamacare premium hikes I am still WAY ahead of my European counterparts.
I make enough that I can go and see how the other half lives for myself. The other half is pretty much stuck camping.
THIS.
You just can't make a ball "too good". Any sport is highly regulated. Screwing around with the elements too much will be viewed as a rules violation. There just isn't that much to invent here.
This is just more of the usual "patents run amok" that we see in our own domain. It should not surprise anyone that it happens with "physical stuff" too.
> There's nothing about a golf ball that makes it unworthy of patents.
This statement is most likely false. Golf is an old well established sport with set rules. The ball itself is a very simple item that's at the center of the game. The idea that there is any "secret sauce" in any sports ball is on it's face absurd. You have a high bar to reach to argue to the contrary.
This is more likely than not a manifestation of the bullshit we see in the parts of the patent system we are intimately familiar with.
Pride is better than apathy, narcissism and nihilism. Pride in something can inspire you to do what is necessary to maintain and protect it. This includes giving your time an money to things that America-hating liberals claim to value.
Shit jobs pay less. That's just the way it goes. That's why you should have decided to be a doctor or a nurse instead of a teacher or a maid.
This nonsense is perpetrated by the losers that try to turn other girls into losers by pushing them away from more useful and more lucrative fields.
The biggest problem with liberalism is liberals.
That would be people that are driven by what "feels right" versus what "makes sense". They will happily ignore important legal principles that protect us from tyranny so long as they happen to be getting their way. They give no thought to the future or potential consequences.
They only fixate on getting the free rainbow unicorn. They give no consideration to how much the stable fees will be.
Modern liberals also have also abandoned classical liberal values. They deserve scorn an derision just for that.
Not it doesn't. Learning about the relevant country in your foreign language class does to some extent. However this information is pretty much universally ignored by American students based on the general ignorance level in the US.
Bubble sort is something that should stick in your head like mental debris simply because you should have been exposed to it as a computer science student. It's like any number of other things from the standard curriculum that "smart people" seem to be ignorant of.
It's more along the lines of did you go to school for this? Did you attend class? Did you actually pay attention?
If you've forgotten everything you've ever been taught in the life just what value do you think you bring to any team?
Except some women like being grabbed by the pussy and will happily accommodate you given the right conditions. They have their own free will and sometimes they make choices you don't approve of. THAT was the whole point of the anecdote that certain people get their panties in a bunch over.
Screeching modern feminists have a problem accepting the idea that they can both be respected and a sex object. This is a pretty sad 50s idea really.
They want to control women's bodies every much as religious old men do. They just use a different pretense to come justify their actions.
If NO ONE else were interested in servicing your entire town sure. Even then, this clause would apply if and only if they ONLY serviced your town and nothing else. Unless your town is 100 miles away from anything else, I don't see that being a real problem in Denmark.
Reno is not a bad example of a town literally in the middle of nowhere.
You would probably think of it as living on the Moon and net neutrality would probably be low on your list of complaints.
No. It does go both ways. It's only acknowledged when the victim is acceptable. Otherwise it gets ignored. There's a particular narrative and anything that falls outside of that narrative will be ignored, belittled, or denied.
This very article is the perfect example of this "narrative curation" in action.
That certainly explains all of the virtue signalling and SJW propaganda.
> It's like corruption in Russia,
That's funny because "Russian corruption" goes back way further than Putin.
We still have legacy polices in place that readily allow for that.