Medicare and Medicaid is most of the problem in the US. We spend most of our money in health care on preventing the end. Most other countries spend their money on preventative medicine. Preventative medicine is cheaper and includes life style changes. The US needs to become better balanced to preventative and remove many of the government regulations that bloat the cost of health care and decrease the availability of treatment.
That's still less than the area Phoenix metropolitan. Phoenix metro has an area of 14,573 sq miles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Metropolitan_Area).
or over 390 billion square feet. Just putting one of these on every house there would just about cover it. Not saying that anyone would go along with that.
The electoral college was setup to give everyone in the country a far say. If the elections were based on a popular vote then the major metropolitan area's or more populous states would dictate the direction of the country. With the electoral college it gives small populous states such as Wyoming an equal say as to who the president should be. The state winner takes all has in essence changed elections now to a popular vote because large states have more electoral college votes, which undermine the original reason behind creating the electoral college. If no one votes no one would be in the electoral college. You vote for members of the electoral college, which in turn votes for the president, so your vote does count. The Legislature is based on a popular vote, it would not be a balanced system if all government officials were a popular vote. Try understanding the reason the fore fathers designed this country the way it is. What is popular isn't always the right thing to do.
For a matter of fact the obscenity regulation is a federal law. Look at the FCC's site for once before spatting off (http://www.fcc.gov/eb/oip/). It is illegal for a government body to restrict a business or person for actions that are not deemed illegal by a law. I'm not saying Comcast is doing the right thing, but it is not in the power of the FCC to do anything until the Legislature passes a law relating to it. How would you like it if the government told you that you would be put in prison because they didn't like how you treated someone? It's the same thing for business.
This is an invalid point. The FCC can only regulate communications in relation to the laws. Currently there aren't any real laws that the FCC can use to put against Comcast in net neutrality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality_in_the_United_States). If there was a law and Kevin Martin violated it then you would have reason for concern. If you look most of the laws posed do not relate provide net neutrality to illegal content. A good amount of content over a Bittorent is illegal according to the DCMA, which Bill Clinton signed into law. This is the same law that has given more power to the RIAA which in return is putting pressure on Comcast to behave how it is. So before pointing fingers at any single person, a good understanding of all the factors involved is needed. Without the DCMA ever being passed this issue with Comcast may never have come up.
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Medicare and Medicaid is most of the problem in the US. We spend most of our money in health care on preventing the end. Most other countries spend their money on preventative medicine. Preventative medicine is cheaper and includes life style changes. The US needs to become better balanced to preventative and remove many of the government regulations that bloat the cost of health care and decrease the availability of treatment.
That's still less than the area Phoenix metropolitan. Phoenix metro has an area of 14,573 sq miles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Metropolitan_Area). or over 390 billion square feet. Just putting one of these on every house there would just about cover it. Not saying that anyone would go along with that.
The electoral college was setup to give everyone in the country a far say. If the elections were based on a popular vote then the major metropolitan area's or more populous states would dictate the direction of the country. With the electoral college it gives small populous states such as Wyoming an equal say as to who the president should be. The state winner takes all has in essence changed elections now to a popular vote because large states have more electoral college votes, which undermine the original reason behind creating the electoral college. If no one votes no one would be in the electoral college. You vote for members of the electoral college, which in turn votes for the president, so your vote does count. The Legislature is based on a popular vote, it would not be a balanced system if all government officials were a popular vote. Try understanding the reason the fore fathers designed this country the way it is. What is popular isn't always the right thing to do.
For a matter of fact the obscenity regulation is a federal law. Look at the FCC's site for once before spatting off (http://www.fcc.gov/eb/oip/). It is illegal for a government body to restrict a business or person for actions that are not deemed illegal by a law. I'm not saying Comcast is doing the right thing, but it is not in the power of the FCC to do anything until the Legislature passes a law relating to it. How would you like it if the government told you that you would be put in prison because they didn't like how you treated someone? It's the same thing for business.
This is an invalid point. The FCC can only regulate communications in relation to the laws. Currently there aren't any real laws that the FCC can use to put against Comcast in net neutrality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality_in_the_United_States). If there was a law and Kevin Martin violated it then you would have reason for concern. If you look most of the laws posed do not relate provide net neutrality to illegal content. A good amount of content over a Bittorent is illegal according to the DCMA, which Bill Clinton signed into law. This is the same law that has given more power to the RIAA which in return is putting pressure on Comcast to behave how it is. So before pointing fingers at any single person, a good understanding of all the factors involved is needed. Without the DCMA ever being passed this issue with Comcast may never have come up.
I say we need to strike fear into the RIAA. Let's all sue them for 2x their net worth.