Not really. Liberals will be quick to call him another "white" man as soon as it suits them. Denying him his genetic, cultural, and national distinctiveness is now part of the progressive agenda.
> Maybe Americans need to live in a framework that allows them to walk away from hostile work environments.
That's called self-discipline.
Americans have more choices. They can chose to be vulnerable or not. We make more, keep more, and our currency goes farther. We just have a consumer culture that encourages blowing it all.
Even ghetto children have this fixation on overpriced status symbols.
Europeans are also not one hegemon. Liberals love to whine about diversity and then actually ignore it. Or they perhaps suppress the idea that people are different because it doesn't match their simplistic notion of equality.
Each country in Europe is distinct. They are each their own thing that's developed over thousands of years. They are not a mishmash of all ethnicities (like the US tends to be).
This reminds me of an NPR article about how Barilla was going to shut down it's southern pasta factory because the southern Italians can't be bothered to come into work.
Forget about the Army. We do the same with technology and medicine. I don't mind. We can carry their candy asses. In the end we have better stuff. We benefit. Our own lives end up better.
We survive things that might have killed us if left to the whining socialists.
Americans really don't know how good they have it. A lot of them whine about how every other place is so much better. Except they've never bothered to actually visit those places.
Plus there are plenty of ways to "live it up". Not all of them are terribly expensive. Otherwise European vacationers would be screwed. '-p
In our case it was just living the "European lifestyle" in a place that's not like a big European city. That means two working professionals. Except one pays the bills, and the other pays for the frills.
We didn't live life to the credit limit. We saved and invested instead.
We also didn't have to compromise too much on the fun.
As far as vacation time goes: quality over quantity.
In that part of the country they have laws intended to suppress reporting of negative things about agribusiness and such. The reporter might have run afoul of one of those.
Whatever the excuse, hopefully it will get bitch slapped by the Supremes and struck down.
> Having been in one of those jobs, I usually took vacation where there was no service of any sort,
I've managed to do on-call support while on vacation on another continent before. When you are "the guy" in a small startup type company it's bothersome but it won't grind you into the dust. You don't have that many machines to deal with.
At least your employer will let you have a life even if some piece of shit entertainer doesn't want you to have one.
I'm not a doctor, but I actually got paged during one of the Star Wars movies and had to immediately leave and fix the problem for which I was paged.
There are any number of emergency situations that should make this a huge civil liability for the person responsible for the phone ban.
As far as "doing it wrong" goes, I have done production support for companies of all sizes. The only time I have ever had 8 hour on-call shifts was ONE outsourcer.
So what's the big deal about it anyways? Europeans don't have anything anyways. So why is it a big deal having nothing here? It's not a death mark. It's just a way to get out from under your debts.
That would be the same utterly civilized NHS where expensive cancer drugs are denied to patients. The same NHS where doctors need to go on strike. The same NHS where you need to pay for your own diagnostic procedures. The same NHS where orthopedic surgeries are being rationed.
The same NHS where I personally know someone who had to get a mortgage on his house to pay for treatment.
Europe is great so long as you've never been there, have no friends or family there, or have never read their own press.
I have bigger medical bills. Probably spent more time in the hospital. Had a more serious condition. Have had to deal with it for longer.
This jackass is a fucking loser. He's not the class of people that government rescue programs are meant to benefit. He's from the class of people that should be able to fend for themselves. He should be able get out of this kind of thing and be able to pay for OTHER people's treatment both directly and through taxes.
This schmuck points to a problem with Americans, not the healthcare system.
People put up charity drives all the time. If you're particularly sympathetic, or you can draw from some tight knit ethnic group, you can attract a great deal of money.
Some idiot lawyer from California that should have known better is probably not terribly sympathetic.
Drug companies spend about 60 BILLION per year on R&D.
MY drug costs are crazy because I have a rare condition and I'm shocked to have ANY drugs developed for me and mine. The small company that "robs" my peeps puts half a BILLION back into R&D.
There are several other companies lining up trying to make better drugs.
Socialism certainly isn't doing this. Otherwise it would be Finland doing all the work.
> - A year long illness can easily kick you into the million dollar club. A bad MI, a couple of weeks in the ICU, a couple more weeks in a step down unit, rehab, a few more procedures, a couple of expensive drugs and a host of billing errors and you're there. Hell, I'm an ER doc and I can run up $100,000 easy peasy.
Bullshit.
I've had a 2 year long illness and I'm nowhere near a million yet.
What liberals don't want to tell you is that those billing numbers for hospital procedures are BULLSHIT. Private insurance only pays a 3rd of that at most. Labs and diagnostic procedures pay even less. So when you see something in the media that says some procedure costs X, it's probably safe to divide that by 3.
If you are going to drag the "niggling bits" in then you have to drag those in when you are making your comparison to Canada, or the UK, or Finland.
Being out of work is usually worse than your medical bills.
A 10K out of pocket limit is also crap. It amazes me what kind of health insurance nightmares come out of blue states.
Before Obamacare, there were catastrophic plans that were "you pay, then we pay". They were nice and simple and fairly cheap. Obamacare banned them. Dems also seem hell bent on banning health savings accounts too.
As far as disagreements about treatments go, you can appeal.
Try doing that with a government beaurocracy.
Which reminds me... don't even get me started on the US disability system. Or Medicare. Or Medicaid.
We need to fix the half-assed attempts at socialized medicine we already have before creating new ones (or expanding them).
You're missing zeroes. The actual leading edge cancer treatments are terribly expensive. They also represent an improvement in the state of the art. They've managed patients where everything else failed.
That's assuming you weren't just talking about some shaman or some other form of quackery.
You have inferior care that gets people killed. You have arbitrary limits on expensive care that are a death sentence. You have delays in care that are deadly or crippling.
You don't develop the interesting new treatments. You just whine after someone else does that they're too expensive.
It doesn't really matter. Unless you're living paycheck to paycheck with no savings or credit, it really shouldn't be a problem. This is not the kind of guy we should be throwing a pity party for.
You have an out of pocket limit for the year. After that, stuff should be free. If that's not the case, then how did he manage that?
This is a non-trivial issue.
My medical bills probably make his look puny. I have been sicker over a longer period of time. I probably have been in the hospital more. I have been on very expensive drugs.
This nonsense is no excuse for socialized medicine.
Why bother with Nazis? These are the same Russians that were the red scare from the time they stole the revolution from Kerenski until Gorbachev let it finally implode.
You don't need to point to 1941 Germans, you can point to 1980 Russians.
The great (funny) thing about these arguments is that Russia doesn't represent any great ideological existentialist threat any more. That's Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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> For both the folks that want one?
A proper workstation was part of their line-up for YEARS. It's how they accommodated their serious professional users.
Suddenly those no longer exist?
Yeah, because nothing says "consistent" UI like a bank of completely customizable keys.
Not really. Liberals will be quick to call him another "white" man as soon as it suits them. Denying him his genetic, cultural, and national distinctiveness is now part of the progressive agenda.
> His argument is solid. What other PC operating system supports as many hardware devices,
Anything that doesn't choke as soon as you move away from x86.
> Maybe Americans need to live in a framework that allows them to walk away from hostile work environments.
That's called self-discipline.
Americans have more choices. They can chose to be vulnerable or not. We make more, keep more, and our currency goes farther. We just have a consumer culture that encourages blowing it all.
Even ghetto children have this fixation on overpriced status symbols.
Losers have an excuse for everything.
Europeans are also not one hegemon. Liberals love to whine about diversity and then actually ignore it. Or they perhaps suppress the idea that people are different because it doesn't match their simplistic notion of equality.
Each country in Europe is distinct. They are each their own thing that's developed over thousands of years. They are not a mishmash of all ethnicities (like the US tends to be).
This reminds me of an NPR article about how Barilla was going to shut down it's southern pasta factory because the southern Italians can't be bothered to come into work.
Forget about the Army. We do the same with technology and medicine. I don't mind. We can carry their candy asses. In the end we have better stuff. We benefit. Our own lives end up better.
We survive things that might have killed us if left to the whining socialists.
Why do you think he didn't? I did.
Americans really don't know how good they have it. A lot of them whine about how every other place is so much better. Except they've never bothered to actually visit those places.
Plus there are plenty of ways to "live it up". Not all of them are terribly expensive. Otherwise European vacationers would be screwed. '-p
In our case it was just living the "European lifestyle" in a place that's not like a big European city. That means two working professionals. Except one pays the bills, and the other pays for the frills.
We didn't live life to the credit limit. We saved and invested instead.
We also didn't have to compromise too much on the fun.
As far as vacation time goes: quality over quantity.
In that part of the country they have laws intended to suppress reporting of negative things about agribusiness and such. The reporter might have run afoul of one of those.
Whatever the excuse, hopefully it will get bitch slapped by the Supremes and struck down.
> Having been in one of those jobs, I usually took vacation where there was no service of any sort,
I've managed to do on-call support while on vacation on another continent before. When you are "the guy" in a small startup type company it's bothersome but it won't grind you into the dust. You don't have that many machines to deal with.
At least your employer will let you have a life even if some piece of shit entertainer doesn't want you to have one.
I'm not a doctor, but I actually got paged during one of the Star Wars movies and had to immediately leave and fix the problem for which I was paged.
There are any number of emergency situations that should make this a huge civil liability for the person responsible for the phone ban.
As far as "doing it wrong" goes, I have done production support for companies of all sizes. The only time I have ever had 8 hour on-call shifts was ONE outsourcer.
That's what bankruptcy is for you stupid fool.
So what's the big deal about it anyways? Europeans don't have anything anyways. So why is it a big deal having nothing here? It's not a death mark. It's just a way to get out from under your debts.
Going broke in the US is not so bad really.
That would be the same utterly civilized NHS where expensive cancer drugs are denied to patients. The same NHS where doctors need to go on strike. The same NHS where you need to pay for your own diagnostic procedures. The same NHS where orthopedic surgeries are being rationed.
The same NHS where I personally know someone who had to get a mortgage on his house to pay for treatment.
Europe is great so long as you've never been there, have no friends or family there, or have never read their own press.
I have bigger medical bills. Probably spent more time in the hospital. Had a more serious condition. Have had to deal with it for longer.
This jackass is a fucking loser. He's not the class of people that government rescue programs are meant to benefit. He's from the class of people that should be able to fend for themselves. He should be able get out of this kind of thing and be able to pay for OTHER people's treatment both directly and through taxes.
This schmuck points to a problem with Americans, not the healthcare system.
People put up charity drives all the time. If you're particularly sympathetic, or you can draw from some tight knit ethnic group, you can attract a great deal of money.
Some idiot lawyer from California that should have known better is probably not terribly sympathetic.
Drug companies spend about 60 BILLION per year on R&D.
MY drug costs are crazy because I have a rare condition and I'm shocked to have ANY drugs developed for me and mine. The small company that "robs" my peeps puts half a BILLION back into R&D.
There are several other companies lining up trying to make better drugs.
Socialism certainly isn't doing this. Otherwise it would be Finland doing all the work.
> - A year long illness can easily kick you into the million dollar club. A bad MI, a couple of weeks in the ICU, a couple more weeks in a step down unit, rehab, a few more procedures, a couple of expensive drugs and a host of billing errors and you're there. Hell, I'm an ER doc and I can run up $100,000 easy peasy.
Bullshit.
I've had a 2 year long illness and I'm nowhere near a million yet.
What liberals don't want to tell you is that those billing numbers for hospital procedures are BULLSHIT. Private insurance only pays a 3rd of that at most. Labs and diagnostic procedures pay even less. So when you see something in the media that says some procedure costs X, it's probably safe to divide that by 3.
If you are going to drag the "niggling bits" in then you have to drag those in when you are making your comparison to Canada, or the UK, or Finland.
Being out of work is usually worse than your medical bills.
A 10K out of pocket limit is also crap. It amazes me what kind of health insurance nightmares come out of blue states.
Before Obamacare, there were catastrophic plans that were "you pay, then we pay". They were nice and simple and fairly cheap. Obamacare banned them. Dems also seem hell bent on banning health savings accounts too.
As far as disagreements about treatments go, you can appeal.
Try doing that with a government beaurocracy.
Which reminds me... don't even get me started on the US disability system. Or Medicare. Or Medicaid.
We need to fix the half-assed attempts at socialized medicine we already have before creating new ones (or expanding them).
You're missing zeroes. The actual leading edge cancer treatments are terribly expensive. They also represent an improvement in the state of the art. They've managed patients where everything else failed.
That's assuming you weren't just talking about some shaman or some other form of quackery.
> And yet countries like Canada where I live
You have inferior care that gets people killed. You have arbitrary limits on expensive care that are a death sentence. You have delays in care that are deadly or crippling.
You don't develop the interesting new treatments. You just whine after someone else does that they're too expensive.
It doesn't really matter. Unless you're living paycheck to paycheck with no savings or credit, it really shouldn't be a problem. This is not the kind of guy we should be throwing a pity party for.
You have an out of pocket limit for the year. After that, stuff should be free. If that's not the case, then how did he manage that?
This is a non-trivial issue.
My medical bills probably make his look puny. I have been sicker over a longer period of time. I probably have been in the hospital more. I have been on very expensive drugs.
This nonsense is no excuse for socialized medicine.
Why bother with Nazis? These are the same Russians that were the red scare from the time they stole the revolution from Kerenski until Gorbachev let it finally implode.
You don't need to point to 1941 Germans, you can point to 1980 Russians.
The great (funny) thing about these arguments is that Russia doesn't represent any great ideological existentialist threat any more. That's Iran and Saudi Arabia.