who don't have to go to a very expensive grad school on top of their undergraduate degree in underwater basket weaving.
There have been state programs to pay for teacher tuition since when I was an undergrad. Same goes for reimbursement programs for teaching in less than desirable districts.
Your list is all TOTAL BULLSHIT and demonstrates the crux of the issue. You've been fed a line of propaganda by people with a clear political agenda and of you've swallowed it hook-line-and-sinker.
Medical care is the absolute flagship element of the BS socialist narrative that liberal journalists push. The technological advancement alone in medical care in the last two generations alone negate your nonsense.
Your chances of surviving into adulthood are far greater and you are far more likely to survive a crippling or life threatening illness. Many conditions that would have been a certain death sentence are now manageable and survivable.
You are simply in the sway of professional trolls posing as journalists (or entertainers) that use mindless hysterics to sell you ads.
> We're not going to be able to feed the planet if we don't embrace GMO
That particular narrative has to DIE. It's total bullshit. We already make plenty of food. We have for decades. We let food rot and fields go fallow to prop up commodity food prices. We simply don't need GMOs to "feed people".
Monsanto GMOs have NOTHING to do with "feeding the planet". They only make your Twinkies cheaper.
> This would ring truer if the arguments against GMOs were more cogent:-\
"Roundup Ready"
I am fine with a GMO that was created to deal with a crop pest. I'm not so enthusiastic about a GMO created by a poison maker.
It's your argument that lacks nuance. It's not the tech. It's not about being a blind science groupie and treating science like religion. It's about individuals that use technology.
Monopolistic mega corp, versus university professor, versus monk.
I don't trust the overly processed food-like-substances that Monsanto GMOs make cheaper either.
The Ghetto was invented for the Jews. Except Jews were able to thrive in them. It's funny how that kind of thing works out differently for some people.
If your wife can't eat American bread, it's much more likely due to bromates that are banned in Europe versus Roundup that's only recently been given the could shoulder.
Roundup has been a common farm chemical since before many of you were born. If the cause+effect is really that legitimate here, then there should be a lot more farmers in this guy's position.
It was never the responsibility of Ma Bell to deal with wire fraud. That was always the job of the government. It's not the role of private corporations to run petty fiefdoms as if they were Robber Barons.
As others have implied, it's quite strange that the same people who will screech "free speech" when discussing FCC regulations will completely gloss over (or even happily embrace) corporate censorship.
> But in both those cases, "Censorship" was dressed up in other civil liberty arguments.
The baker was being forced to create content. Facebook (or Slashdot) is only required to merely tolerate what you post. It's a VAST difference that you're just casually glossing over.
The baker is also is just one guy, much more like you than a global corporation controlling a platform used by BILLIONS with a large enough share of the market to be subject to the Sherman Act.
No. Mass Transit simply sucks. There is no getting around it. Private transport sucks far less. One is trying to be a generic one size-fits-all solution and the other is tailored to a particular person. There is simply no way that one can compete with the other if you care about the quality of the experience.
You can have an ideal set of circumstances for mass transit and the private option will always be better. The only advantage mass transit has is cost. If your population isn't dirt poor and struggling just to get by, that bargain might not be viewed worthwhile.
24 years ago I installed my first copy of Slackware. The moment I got that PC online, it logged break in attempts.
You don't really need a pronouncement from Microsoft to know that all manner of miscreants are trying to break into pretty much everywhere.
This is a generalized computer security problem that's been turned into a political circus that largely distracts from the real issues that aren't limited to politicians or elections.
> Talk radio conservatives, internet conservatives - every place with a passion for conservatism is pushing right in line with Trump.
So you've never actually paid any attention to any of that stuff then.
Conservatives are not nearly the mindless hive mind that liberals are. Talking heads even from the same outlet can have different points of view. Conservatives have a bigger tent (than liberals) these days.
Considering what nonsense "liberals" have been latching onto lately, it's not really that hard to be considered a heretic by them.
> And the same way libertarians will give to charity just as soon as social security is dismantled.
That's as compared to liberals... which is NEVER.
Liberals like to talk a good game but they don't want to take any responsibility for this stuff. If you point out how their lord and savior (the government) has screwed the pooch, they refuse to hear it.
They think they're "superior and enlightened" but ultimately they end up victimizing the people the claim to help.
Liberals view the nanny state as a way to avoid being responsible, or even helping to foot the bill.
> Didn't the repubtards say Hillary would cause us to goto war with Russia. So somehow it's still her fault even tho trump is in bed with them?
This pandering moron quite literally promised a direct confrontation with our planet's other nuclear superpower a full year after they had deployed SB-400s into Syria to deal with Turkey having the gall to defend it's own airspace.
It is not at all clear that Trump is the bigger idiot.
Clearly you have NEVER actually drunk "Soy Milk". Soy Milk (and friends) are NOTHING like dairy milk either in terms of taste, texture, or molecular gastronomy.
Soy Milk is somewhat vaguely like skim milk. Except skim milk doesn't really fit your description of dairy milk very well at all.
> Tests in the US aren't immediately scheduled either
My GP has his own blood testing machine. I've had MRIs, CAT scans, and ultrasounds done immediately. My first oncology consult was done on a weekend.
> What's the big deal about going to the ER if it's cheap and relatively well-run
The ER is not cheap. You just think it's free because you aren't directly paying for it. You are abusing a shared resource because you don't think it has any value. That places a collective burden on the rest of us.
It's the kind of abusive nonsense that you get out of socialism. Individual ideas about worth and value are distorted because you perceive things as gratis.
Although you are forgetting triage. An ER in a system running at near capacity is not going to be "well run". Or rather, you will be at the END of a long queue because you're an idiot and patients with real problems need to be seen first.
While you are waiting at the ER because you aren't really dying, I can check in to the local quick care clinic online and not have to wait in a room full of sick people for hours on end. I can show up when they actually expect to see me.
Capitalism is a beautiful thing. Smart, hungry, greedy innovative people will stand in line to take my money and give me something better in return. Instead of shortages, there are so many facilities around you wonder how they all stay in business.
> Among other possible cases, hiring and firing decisions are an obvious candidate: employer-pooled insurance doesn't remove the impact of high or low cost individuals; just average it across a bunch of employees.
That would make your employer ripe for a lawsuit from some bottom feeder more than willing to take your case on contingency. Depending on your condition, you might already have reason to have invoked the ADA explicitly.
> Here in BC, Canada it's a whopping $75/month per family, assuming two adults.
I would rather not have to wait 6 weeks for an MRI, or have trouble even getting a family doctor, or have to go to the ER on the weekend instead of one of the several quick care clinics within easy walking distance even in my sorry post-cancer condition.
The idea you think you can get away with paying only $75 per family is why I want NOTHING to do with people like you having monopoly control over my cancer treatment.
A big deal of Walmart's success also has to do with sound IT practices. They aren't just a bunch of stupid troglodytes. They eat everyone else's lunch by focusing on what's important in terms of data and not getting distracted by meaningless nonsense.
Walmart can compete on Amazon's own terms. Their grocery pickup service is a good example of this. Amazon's attempts are sad jokes by comparisons.
Each "faction" uses tech to it's advantage. It's not as one sided as you want to make it out to be.
> Meanwhile, someone like me only stop by the gas station for 5 minutes once every 3 weeks
So you are a shut in then.
You describe my own habits more or less and I am on medical isolation leave.
The "wife" is not the problem. She's fairly normal. The problem is YOU. You are pretty much a "grandma" in the grand scheme of thing and you have some strange delusions of being the least bit relevant.
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> teachers who
who don't have to go to a very expensive grad school on top of their undergraduate degree in underwater basket weaving.
There have been state programs to pay for teacher tuition since when I was an undergrad. Same goes for reimbursement programs for teaching in less than desirable districts.
> My grandparents had:
Your list is all TOTAL BULLSHIT and demonstrates the crux of the issue. You've been fed a line of propaganda by people with a clear political agenda and of you've swallowed it hook-line-and-sinker.
Medical care is the absolute flagship element of the BS socialist narrative that liberal journalists push. The technological advancement alone in medical care in the last two generations alone negate your nonsense.
Your chances of surviving into adulthood are far greater and you are far more likely to survive a crippling or life threatening illness. Many conditions that would have been a certain death sentence are now manageable and survivable.
You are simply in the sway of professional trolls posing as journalists (or entertainers) that use mindless hysterics to sell you ads.
> We're not going to be able to feed the planet if we don't embrace GMO
That particular narrative has to DIE. It's total bullshit. We already make plenty of food. We have for decades. We let food rot and fields go fallow to prop up commodity food prices. We simply don't need GMOs to "feed people".
Monsanto GMOs have NOTHING to do with "feeding the planet". They only make your Twinkies cheaper.
> This would ring truer if the arguments against GMOs were more cogent :-\
"Roundup Ready"
I am fine with a GMO that was created to deal with a crop pest. I'm not so enthusiastic about a GMO created by a poison maker.
It's your argument that lacks nuance. It's not the tech. It's not about being a blind science groupie and treating science like religion. It's about individuals that use technology.
Monopolistic mega corp, versus university professor, versus monk.
I don't trust the overly processed food-like-substances that Monsanto GMOs make cheaper either.
The Ghetto was invented for the Jews. Except Jews were able to thrive in them. It's funny how that kind of thing works out differently for some people.
If your wife can't eat American bread, it's much more likely due to bromates that are banned in Europe versus Roundup that's only recently been given the could shoulder.
Roundup has been a common farm chemical since before many of you were born. If the cause+effect is really that legitimate here, then there should be a lot more farmers in this guy's position.
It was never the responsibility of Ma Bell to deal with wire fraud. That was always the job of the government. It's not the role of private corporations to run petty fiefdoms as if they were Robber Barons.
As others have implied, it's quite strange that the same people who will screech "free speech" when discussing FCC regulations will completely gloss over (or even happily embrace) corporate censorship.
> But in both those cases, "Censorship" was dressed up in other civil liberty arguments.
The baker was being forced to create content. Facebook (or Slashdot) is only required to merely tolerate what you post. It's a VAST difference that you're just casually glossing over.
The baker is also is just one guy, much more like you than a global corporation controlling a platform used by BILLIONS with a large enough share of the market to be subject to the Sherman Act.
The idea that the likes of Uber are making New York more pedestrian hostile than it already is is just absurd.
No. Mass Transit simply sucks. There is no getting around it. Private transport sucks far less. One is trying to be a generic one size-fits-all solution and the other is tailored to a particular person. There is simply no way that one can compete with the other if you care about the quality of the experience.
You can have an ideal set of circumstances for mass transit and the private option will always be better. The only advantage mass transit has is cost. If your population isn't dirt poor and struggling just to get by, that bargain might not be viewed worthwhile.
24 years ago I installed my first copy of Slackware. The moment I got that PC online, it logged break in attempts.
You don't really need a pronouncement from Microsoft to know that all manner of miscreants are trying to break into pretty much everywhere.
This is a generalized computer security problem that's been turned into a political circus that largely distracts from the real issues that aren't limited to politicians or elections.
> Talk radio conservatives, internet conservatives - every place with a passion for conservatism is pushing right in line with Trump.
So you've never actually paid any attention to any of that stuff then.
Conservatives are not nearly the mindless hive mind that liberals are. Talking heads even from the same outlet can have different points of view. Conservatives have a bigger tent (than liberals) these days.
Considering what nonsense "liberals" have been latching onto lately, it's not really that hard to be considered a heretic by them.
> And the same way libertarians will give to charity just as soon as social security is dismantled.
That's as compared to liberals... which is NEVER.
Liberals like to talk a good game but they don't want to take any responsibility for this stuff. If you point out how their lord and savior (the government) has screwed the pooch, they refuse to hear it.
They think they're "superior and enlightened" but ultimately they end up victimizing the people the claim to help.
Liberals view the nanny state as a way to avoid being responsible, or even helping to foot the bill.
> Didn't the repubtards say Hillary would cause us to goto war with Russia. So somehow it's still her fault even tho trump is in bed with them?
This pandering moron quite literally promised a direct confrontation with our planet's other nuclear superpower a full year after they had deployed SB-400s into Syria to deal with Turkey having the gall to defend it's own airspace.
It is not at all clear that Trump is the bigger idiot.
> They're thick. They have body.
Clearly you have NEVER actually drunk "Soy Milk". Soy Milk (and friends) are NOTHING like dairy milk either in terms of taste, texture, or molecular gastronomy.
Soy Milk is somewhat vaguely like skim milk. Except skim milk doesn't really fit your description of dairy milk very well at all.
> Unfortunately "Fake News" has morphed into "News the Government Doesn't Want To Hear". This is oppression of the Press.
If you think stuff like this in regards to Egypt is "news", then you simply haven't been paying attention.
> Tests in the US aren't immediately scheduled either
My GP has his own blood testing machine. I've had MRIs, CAT scans, and ultrasounds done immediately. My first oncology consult was done on a weekend.
> What's the big deal about going to the ER if it's cheap and relatively well-run
The ER is not cheap. You just think it's free because you aren't directly paying for it. You are abusing a shared resource because you don't think it has any value. That places a collective burden on the rest of us.
It's the kind of abusive nonsense that you get out of socialism. Individual ideas about worth and value are distorted because you perceive things as gratis.
Although you are forgetting triage. An ER in a system running at near capacity is not going to be "well run". Or rather, you will be at the END of a long queue because you're an idiot and patients with real problems need to be seen first.
While you are waiting at the ER because you aren't really dying, I can check in to the local quick care clinic online and not have to wait in a room full of sick people for hours on end. I can show up when they actually expect to see me.
Capitalism is a beautiful thing. Smart, hungry, greedy innovative people will stand in line to take my money and give me something better in return. Instead of shortages, there are so many facilities around you wonder how they all stay in business.
> Among other possible cases, hiring and firing decisions are an obvious candidate: employer-pooled insurance doesn't remove the impact of high or low cost individuals; just average it across a bunch of employees.
That would make your employer ripe for a lawsuit from some bottom feeder more than willing to take your case on contingency. Depending on your condition, you might already have reason to have invoked the ADA explicitly.
> Compare medical costs for common procedures between the US and the rest of the world, and you'll be singing a different tune.
Is that the more advanced US version or the less advanced Canadian version?
For my own "big ticket" procedure, what my insurance company actually paid was very much in line with what the NHS says the procedure costs.
The news media pushes a particular agenda, and the stuff they say about medical costs reflect this (IOW they lie).
> Here in BC, Canada it's a whopping $75/month per family, assuming two adults.
I would rather not have to wait 6 weeks for an MRI, or have trouble even getting a family doctor, or have to go to the ER on the weekend instead of one of the several quick care clinics within easy walking distance even in my sorry post-cancer condition.
The idea you think you can get away with paying only $75 per family is why I want NOTHING to do with people like you having monopoly control over my cancer treatment.
> They may be preparing for the end of obama care.
Before Obamacare, the state private markets were based strictly on age.
Before Obamacare, if you weren't in the private market you were part of your employer's group and paid your employer's rate.
A big deal of Walmart's success also has to do with sound IT practices. They aren't just a bunch of stupid troglodytes. They eat everyone else's lunch by focusing on what's important in terms of data and not getting distracted by meaningless nonsense.
Walmart can compete on Amazon's own terms. Their grocery pickup service is a good example of this. Amazon's attempts are sad jokes by comparisons.
Each "faction" uses tech to it's advantage. It's not as one sided as you want to make it out to be.
> If Puerto Rico were whiter then the White House might have bothered lifting more than one finger in trying to help them.
So Houston and Florida are "white" now? What utter deranged nonsense.
> Meanwhile, someone like me only stop by the gas station for 5 minutes once every 3 weeks
So you are a shut in then.
You describe my own habits more or less and I am on medical isolation leave.
The "wife" is not the problem. She's fairly normal. The problem is YOU. You are pretty much a "grandma" in the grand scheme of thing and you have some strange delusions of being the least bit relevant.