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  1. Re: guy at the top was in on the ruse too on Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality · · Score: 1

    You do realize it's been illegal since 1997 to drop coverage once you get sick?

  2. Re:Which part is a surprise on The New York Times Has Lessons For Others Making the Slow Transition To Digital · · Score: 1

    No Kidding. Whatever strategy they're using, it isn't working.

    https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1385421580228&chddm=1102802&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=NYSE:NYT&ntsp=0&ei=xtqTUrCNIJTksQedCA

  3. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    Everyone isn't? I've always had to pay one if I have service from the power company. Whether I use electricity or not.

  4. Re:guy at the top was in on the ruse too on Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality · · Score: 3, Informative

    Even the dates codified in this law have been changed by executive action. This president does not appear to think he is bound by the law or required to faithfully execute it.

  5. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    It's called a line access fee. In theory it's supposed to pay for the grid, not the fuel.

  6. Re:Yes. on Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? · · Score: 1

    Good job latching on to a point of minutiae, and ignoring the big picture.

  7. Re:Yes. on Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? · · Score: 1

    No, socialism is government control and ownership of the means of production.

  8. Re:2 Words on Electric Cars: Drivers Love 'Em, So Why Are Sales Still Low? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have nothing against trucks or SUV's, but it sounds like what you really need is a minivan.

  9. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 2

    I've bought a fair amount of Solyndra industrial automation components off ebay over the last 2 years. I usually get these components for 10% of retail cost. In most cases they are new, in the box. Solyndra's bankruptcy has helped me.

  10. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 0

    Which is it? 20 billion or 50 billion? If they give them subsidies, an actual total exists.

  11. Re:Kardashev scale on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 1

    China has already solved that problem. You just forcibly relocate from their ancestral homes, to stacked concrete ice-cube trays in smog choked cities. If they refuse, you shoot them.

  12. Re:An example to follow on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 1

    If you want a lean, muscular body, eat the two hamburger patties, and ditch the buns.

  13. Re:An example to follow on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 1

    All this CO2 that cows expel, while they are producing delicious red meat, where does it come from?

  14. Re: Stop Pumping up OIL!!! on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 1

    Where does the carbon that they belch out in various gases come from?

  15. Re:Stop Pumping up OIL!!! on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 1

    You mean burning oil, the sand just clogs up the jets.

  16. Re: Socialism on Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video) · · Score: 1

    Have you actually been following the economic situation in Venezuela, or are you just spouting socialist fantasies you dreamed up in your head?

  17. Re:Incompetent boobs, no Stealthy Liars on Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video) · · Score: 1

    That's what's available on the exchange, buddy. We don't have a plethora of choices any more.

  18. Re:Socialism on Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video) · · Score: 1

    For a clear example, check out Venezuela.

  19. Re:Could they redirect some of the load? on Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video) · · Score: 2

    Personally, I'm looking forward to the day when the website is working as intended. Then 48 million people can see how expensive the insurance they are forced to buy actually is. Or maybe like me, they will be denied access to healthcare.gov, and be forced to enroll in medicaid if they want health insurance. Strange considering that 2 months ago I had a better than Platinum level plan that cost me $165 a month.

  20. Re:Incompetent boobs, no Stealthy Liars on Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video) · · Score: 1

    Yet under one system my insurance cost $165 a month, and under the other it costs $451 for inferior coverage. Funny how that works.

  21. Re:Me too! on Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video) · · Score: 1

    Since when is "many" synonymous with two.

  22. Re:Futility of certain laws on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 2

    All you need to make one is a piece of brass and a lathe from Harbor Freight. They are drawn, because it better suits high levels of production, not because it is necessary.

  23. Re:Liberty is the only thing in danger here. on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    DC V Heller, struck down the outright ban. As the parent said they still have a de facto ban. Why don't you take a look at what it takes to procure a permit and a handgun in DC and then get back to us.

  24. For the State Department... on US Wary of Allowing Russian Electronic Monitoring Stations Inside US · · Score: 1

    permitting Russia to build the stations would help mend the Obama administration's relationship with the government of President Vladimir V. Putin

    Why is this necessary? I thought giving Russia a red plastic button who's meaning was lost in translation was all that was necessary. Hillary Clinton's skills at international relations were all that was necessary to improve relations. Right?

    http://www.eurodialogue.org/osce/The-Reset-At-One-Year-The-View-From-Moscow

  25. Re:And it was marked -1 for other reasons. on Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half · · Score: 1

    But I suppose that when every jackass's opinion carries equal weight to actual verifieable independently corroborated facts,

    Isn't that a pretty good description of consensus?