Without it, someone could publish a book and have a movie company make a movie based on the book right away without giving the author anything.
- there is 0 problem with this. Government shouldn't be in any business, including business of protectionism and oppression via artificial oppressive monopoly power enforced by government agencies on anybody's behalf.
Governments (this time it's Russia) cannot allow competition on criminal activity. Governments are the only ones with the 'legal' (legal in quotes, anything governments do they see as legal) authority to any form of criminal activity. All that governments are is criminal activity. No individual is allowed to murder another individual, to steal, to kidnap. Governments do all those things and it's legal because they say it is.
Ministry of Finance has prepared a more strict set of rules that will be added to the criminal code. These rules will apply to issuance of fiat currencies (in TFA they call it 'currency surrogates'). Anybody issuing a 'currency surrogate' can be sent to prison for up to 4 years. For any top managers of banks or financial organisations the prison sentence can be up to 7 years and also a prohibition to work in certain top management positions in the future.
The previous version of the law was less strict in that it only would have sent a person to prison for up to 1 year maximum (or if somebody is a part to an organisation up to 2 years maximum) for any one of the following: 1. purchasing with the intent to sell, 2. selling of 'money surrogates'
According to the March rule changes, now for the same 'offence' the punishment will include a monetary fine of up to 500,000 rubles or an amount equal to the 3 years of salary or 3 years of any other income of the 'offender' or imprisonment of up to 4 years.
In case an individual acts as part of an organisation the prison sentence went up to 4 years. Also for an organisation (organized group) there is also a fine starting from 500,000 rubles up to 1,000,000 rubles or an amount equal to 2 - 4 years or salary or other income and a prison sentence of up to 6 years.
Also for top managers of a financial institution, a bank, an insurance company, a stock market, etc.), the penalties will be much heavier. They will face up to 7 years in prison and they will no longer be allowed to work in top management positions in certain companies (and government I suppose) and they will not be allowed to work in certain professions for a period of up to 3 years. They also may face a fine from 1,000,000 to 2,500,000 rubles or an amount equal to 2-4 years of their income.
Ministry of Finance considers usage of 'money surrogates' to be a proof of criminal activity by definition and by default.
Currently, between 2 and 3 million non-melanoma skin cancers and 132,000 melanoma skin cancers occur globally each year. One in every three cancers diagnosed is a skin cancer and, according to Skin Cancer Foundation Statistics, one in every five Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime.
Please let me correct you. I despise Sanders more than all other politicians rilunning in this race (and I generally despise politicians). He is the epithome of collectivism in usa politics, there is nobody more loathsome than Sanders AFAIC.
Didn't you know, don't you listen to your POTUS? You have a recovery, didn't you know? You have 'low unemployment', didn't you know? Your economy is the best, first in the world, didn't you know?
The hundreds of trillions of dollars in debt... don't exist. The structural problems with the economy due to massive central planning, government regulation, money manipulation... don't exist.
I don't see how it is possible to have the majority switch to anything from their existing code base. I predict a gigantic fail for this plan of switching people from AngularJS 1 to AngularJS 2 in a year. It's nonsense.
Let me explain something to Google here: vast majority of projects will not be rewritten with AngularJS 2, if they have AngularJS 1 as the code base, they will stay AngularJS 1 and will continue being developed as AngularJS 1. It takes MONEY to switch from one framework to another, money that most projects already spent on design, development, testing and releasing into production in the first place.
Forget about safety, I wouldn't give up control of the car for most of my driving, I love driving, I don't do public transportation. I don't like others driving me at all and also I sometimes get sick the way some people drive.
Now, I think a few pairs of robot eyes on the road and surrounding environment would actually increase my safety, so I am all for the car helping in bad situations, helping to avoid them if I miss something.
I think every government that is voted in by any type of majority of people is oppressive against minorities. In case of the Western collectivist systems, the oppressed minorities just happen to be businessmen, people who start and operate their own small to medium size businesses. Large businesses are also oppressed, but large businesses turn around and game the system that oppresses them to ensure that they are not oppressed by the laws that are put forward to oppress them.
Basically every new law that comes out from government, be it a new tax or regulation or labour relation or any kind of requirement on businesses, anything at all that deals with money is oppression. However large businesses know that they must play this game, where they go and offer donations to the government Mafia to be excluded from this particular oppression and collection. In all of these cases the people who suffer the most are small and middle sized businesses that have no money to buy their freedom and who end up paying these taxes and so on.
The vast majority of people are of-course employees or unemployed, but they don't own anything productive so from their perspective the people who do own productive businesses and make more then they do should be the ones that are milked and this majority always hopes to see the proceeds of this theft.
The collectivist democracy has proven once and again to be much more oppressive than many types of monarchy. At least a monarch can be killed, democracy will really only kill itself but it's a machine, killing one individual component doesn't stop the machine.
AFAIC we haven't seen real freedom on this planet in any kind of civilized society but we came close in the second half of the nineteenth century in the USA. Today the freer (as in individual self ownership) societies are found in a few places around the world. Switzerland, Singapore, even China is a much freer (from point of view of doing business, which is truly the only freedom that really counts at the end) than most of the rest of the world.
I have been predicting a huge reset of the entire system for a decade or more, I see the collapse of the USD and bonds coming. The USA economy is done for, the country is bankrupt, it will default and restructure in the next little while but not without a fight. The central bankers will fight tooth and nail, they will inflate more and more, go into negative rate territory deeper and deeper. The government will come out with bigger and bigger more and more disasterous programs, be it housing, medical, infrastructure make shift jobs, energy, military, stock market, whatever it is, it will be huge, bigger than anything before it. The money printing will be profoundly larger than anything before. I think the vast majority of modern Americans is constitutionally incapable of understanding such basic concepts as economics, money, inflation, government oppression, individual freedom.
I think USA will go through an even deeper crisis of tyranny against the individual before it comes to its senses. I see vast fortunes that will be made and lost in this crisis, the streets will turn red, first the red flags, then blood, it's fascinating to see this after being born in a system that has gone through that and self destructed, to see this happen in the same way again is going to be fascinating.
AFAIC the *worst* candidate you have today is Sanders, not Trump. Trump is pretty much all talk, he is not going to start WWIII, no chance, he has too much to lose in that. Sanders on the other hand doesn't have anything to lose, he is offering a quick though idiotic 'solution' to all your problems - socialism.
AFAIC USA would be much better off with Trump, regardless what he says today than with Sanders, who will attempt to push through his agenda.
1. Ha, would you look at this garbage! Pre-communist Russia had introduced various reforms, that allowed people to become independent farmers. De-feudalization was happening for over half a century in Russia before the revolution, you shouldn't be yapping about anything really, but especially this.
2. You are a person, not a dog, if you care to 'fend for yourself' it is totally within your grasp. People are buying and selling property every day, I am sure you can manage if you cared.
3. All forms of property are based on violence? Who did you violate to keep your kidneys? Who exactly did I violate to own millions of lines of code that I and my teams built?
4. We have plenty of cooperation among free individuals, I have teams that are physically in different countries from me, working for me based on mutual economic interest. Nobody is forcing anybody into anything.
5. Youth in the West are oppressed by the economic system for a single reason: their centrally planned, collectivist political system is destroying any chance of a sound economic system.
6. An allegory, John Galt is a fucking allegory. Of-course you may not realise it, but thousands of businesses left USA and are leaving. Thousands more are and will be bought out by foreigners. John Galt is not one person, it is a representation of movement of capital away from the collectivist theft and oppression.
Sure, but those are 'governments'. On the other hand individual politicians who are pushing for this type of thing can be made an example of so that others would think twice.
This is a clear cut case of Danegeld. Google should have never paid a single cent to UK government, now every vulture out there will be after them. AFAIC Google should hire hitmen to get rid of these officials making these demands.
Personally I think it's time to off Larry Summers and the rest of pro-government 'economists' and be done with it.
They have already murdered the 100$ bill when they defaulted on the gold exchange back in 1971. The world was taken off the gold standard (since the USD was the 'reserve currency'), since then the world's economy has been sliding into total crapper.
I normally have 8 of those, 10 200s and some small denominations in my wallet when moving around Europe.
I have a number of funny anecdotes to tell about this as well, for example one of many times I crossed the border between France and UK (train or air) the immigration agent asks me if I have money on me (I think she was under impression I was trying to enter the country to stay there or something), I show her the cash. Then she asks me where did I get that money. I was taken aback: earned it. Fucking cunt.
Remember puling out a 500Euro note when trying to pay for a meal in a Russian cafe, the bill was 300 rubles or so, I am looking at the note, looking at the bill, the cashier is looking at the bill weirdly as well..... finally realised that was the wrong currency:)
The society is unfair alright, but it is unfair for the exact sentiments expressed here - you believe somebody, anybody at all owes you something, anything at all. You are right, to survive people will kill. That is why individual freedom and businesses that individuals build to produce products that other individuals may find useful and would trade for is what actually economy is.
Economy is not government planning, economy is not fake money printing by central banks, economy is not fake interest rate setting by governments.
Economy is only individuals producing something so that they and others can use it by exchanging their productivity for it. Of-course in the absence of free markets and with central planning, theft and redistribution (which is what USA and most of the West have with their collectivist: fascist/socialist systems) what arises is oppression, government provided monopoly, resource mis-allocation, all the taxation that destroys and moves businesses elsewhere.
Where is John Galt? John Galt moved his business out of USA anywhere else, to China, to Mexico, to wherever he feels it is a freer society. Freer as in - less intervention of government into business, less taxation (there shouldn't be any taxation or government of-course, but I digress). Where are the businesses ran by all the John Galts out there? Automating. Outsourcing. Moving assets and production elsewhere.
What are you going to be left with? The only thing you are capable of in absence of real production capacity, in absence of somebody telling you what to do, in absence of real savings and with plenty of fake printed cash slushing around your stock markets, housing markets, bond markets, etc. You are going to have your civil unrest, your murder, your robbery. Not because John Galt is a bad person for not wanting to be your fucking slave and deciding to move but because you are part of the problem, you make your collective decisions based on idiotic notions that others owe you something just because you graced this planet with your amazing presence.
Guess what, nobody owes you shit and people who can will move and/or make sure you cannot attack them that easily. AFAIC I think the next step in civilization is coming, the one when we realise we cannot build further based on theft, robbery, oppression, confiscation and redistribution. The next step of civilization is either to self destruct or to become free individuals, free from government. Governments were always there, ruling, destroying, stealing, murdering, kidnapping and using crowds to that effect, to justify their own behaviour. The crowds are filthy shit, but if they stop being crowds and realise they are individuals they may become something that's worth actually dealing with.
What I say I mean very specifically, none if it is somehow opposite to my value system, so it is not a 'troll' of any kind unless you consider actual points of view to be 'trolling', but I am not holding my breath for anybody to understand that. Once again: you reap what you sow, you sow theft and entitlement ideology, you reap complete devastation of productivity and destruction of your standard of living.
WTF are you talking about? Who owes you shelter and health care and food? The most I can imagine you answering that is probably your parents, before you are capable of getting those things on your own. I do not owe you one single thing on this entire planet, not one. You are not anybody to me, if we exchange anything it's going to be for cold hard cash. I was born in this so called 'civilization', AFAIC it's crap because of ideas like yours. I don't want anybody to be my slave and I am not your slave either.
As to cracking skulls - that is precisely why civilization invented guns, so that if you come at me with yours I have mine and I prefer that to any government oppression of any individual.
Giving CEOs suggestions on who to employ here? You must be some successful businessman with a track record of making various business decisions including who to hire and fire.
I already said it here, nothing should be public. Private courts, as it was in the USA, private police, private property. I don't even believe in public defence anymore. All military activity should be paid upfront with bonds to private contractors.
I do not support any form of government but I am for meaningful governance, with courts and police and all functions that society needs to be private and paid for by insurance premiums.
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In the past 18 months Angela Merkel has pledged billions of euros to the vicious fascist regime in Kiev
- ha! This piece of garbage gets a +5 rating on /., that's the only part that I found Interesting about that comment.
Without it, someone could publish a book and have a movie company make a movie based on the book right away without giving the author anything.
- there is 0 problem with this. Government shouldn't be in any business, including business of protectionism and oppression via artificial oppressive monopoly power enforced by government agencies on anybody's behalf.
Governments (this time it's Russia) cannot allow competition on criminal activity. Governments are the only ones with the 'legal' (legal in quotes, anything governments do they see as legal) authority to any form of criminal activity. All that governments are is criminal activity. No individual is allowed to murder another individual, to steal, to kidnap. Governments do all those things and it's legal because they say it is.
I am going to translate some of the text from here:
Moscow, March 10th, INTERFAX.RU
Ministry of Finance has prepared a more strict set of rules that will be added to the criminal code. These rules will apply to issuance of fiat currencies (in TFA they call it 'currency surrogates'). Anybody issuing a 'currency surrogate' can be sent to prison for up to 4 years. For any top managers of banks or financial organisations the prison sentence can be up to 7 years and also a prohibition to work in certain top management positions in the future.
The previous version of the law was less strict in that it only would have sent a person to prison for up to 1 year maximum (or if somebody is a part to an organisation up to 2 years maximum) for any one of the following:
1. purchasing with the intent to sell,
2. selling of 'money surrogates'
According to the March rule changes, now for the same 'offence' the punishment will include a monetary fine of up to 500,000 rubles or an amount equal to the 3 years of salary or 3 years of any other income of the 'offender' or imprisonment of up to 4 years.
In case an individual acts as part of an organisation the prison sentence went up to 4 years. Also for an organisation (organized group) there is also a fine starting from 500,000 rubles up to 1,000,000 rubles or an amount equal to 2 - 4 years or salary or other income and a prison sentence of up to 6 years.
Also for top managers of a financial institution, a bank, an insurance company, a stock market, etc.), the penalties will be much heavier. They will face up to 7 years in prison and they will no longer be allowed to work in top management positions in certain companies (and government I suppose) and they will not be allowed to work in certain professions for a period of up to 3 years. They also may face a fine from 1,000,000 to 2,500,000 rubles or an amount equal to 2-4 years of their income.
Ministry of Finance considers usage of 'money surrogates' to be a proof of criminal activity by definition and by default.
So in a disaster area a nuclear power plant can cause some radiation leakage and it affects the people who work there. Ok.
Under normal operating conditions the Sun causes cancer and kills people with Renewable Solar Radiation!!!!!
Headline: SUN CAUSES CANCER AND KILLS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE!!!
From WHO:
Currently, between 2 and 3 million non-melanoma skin cancers and 132,000 melanoma skin cancers occur globally each year. One in every three cancers diagnosed is a skin cancer and, according to Skin Cancer Foundation Statistics, one in every five Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime.
In 2012 alone 232,000 people had new incidents of melanoma, and 55,000 people died from it.
The SUN is MURDERING people! We need to find safer methods to produce energy, I suggest nuclear.
Would I? See, nobody is ASKING for a penny, they are coming with a gun to my door.
Please let me correct you. I despise Sanders more than all other politicians rilunning in this race (and I generally despise politicians). He is the epithome of collectivism in usa politics, there is nobody more loathsome than Sanders AFAIC.
Didn't you know, don't you listen to your POTUS? You have a recovery, didn't you know? You have 'low unemployment', didn't you know? Your economy is the best, first in the world, didn't you know?
The hundreds of trillions of dollars in debt ... don't exist. ... don't exist.
The structural problems with the economy due to massive central planning, government regulation, money manipulation
I don't see how it is possible to have the majority switch to anything from their existing code base. I predict a gigantic fail for this plan of switching people from AngularJS 1 to AngularJS 2 in a year. It's nonsense.
Let me explain something to Google here: vast majority of projects will not be rewritten with AngularJS 2, if they have AngularJS 1 as the code base, they will stay AngularJS 1 and will continue being developed as AngularJS 1. It takes MONEY to switch from one framework to another, money that most projects already spent on design, development, testing and releasing into production in the first place.
Its an excuse. A couple of soldiers followed orders and shot up a Palestinian refugee camp, and the IDF needs a cover story.
- FTFY.
Forget about safety, I wouldn't give up control of the car for most of my driving, I love driving, I don't do public transportation. I don't like others driving me at all and also I sometimes get sick the way some people drive.
Now, I think a few pairs of robot eyes on the road and surrounding environment would actually increase my safety, so I am all for the car helping in bad situations, helping to avoid them if I miss something.
Wrong, North Korean leader has personally designed and built rockets that went to the Moon and he established a colony there.
I agree, this is very inefficient. They should aim for 5-8 times less compensation, not 3. I would fire half of the management.
I think every government that is voted in by any type of majority of people is oppressive against minorities. In case of the Western collectivist systems, the oppressed minorities just happen to be businessmen, people who start and operate their own small to medium size businesses. Large businesses are also oppressed, but large businesses turn around and game the system that oppresses them to ensure that they are not oppressed by the laws that are put forward to oppress them.
Basically every new law that comes out from government, be it a new tax or regulation or labour relation or any kind of requirement on businesses, anything at all that deals with money is oppression. However large businesses know that they must play this game, where they go and offer donations to the government Mafia to be excluded from this particular oppression and collection. In all of these cases the people who suffer the most are small and middle sized businesses that have no money to buy their freedom and who end up paying these taxes and so on.
The vast majority of people are of-course employees or unemployed, but they don't own anything productive so from their perspective the people who do own productive businesses and make more then they do should be the ones that are milked and this majority always hopes to see the proceeds of this theft.
The collectivist democracy has proven once and again to be much more oppressive than many types of monarchy. At least a monarch can be killed, democracy will really only kill itself but it's a machine, killing one individual component doesn't stop the machine.
AFAIC we haven't seen real freedom on this planet in any kind of civilized society but we came close in the second half of the nineteenth century in the USA. Today the freer (as in individual self ownership) societies are found in a few places around the world. Switzerland, Singapore, even China is a much freer (from point of view of doing business, which is truly the only freedom that really counts at the end) than most of the rest of the world.
I have been predicting a huge reset of the entire system for a decade or more, I see the collapse of the USD and bonds coming. The USA economy is done for, the country is bankrupt, it will default and restructure in the next little while but not without a fight. The central bankers will fight tooth and nail, they will inflate more and more, go into negative rate territory deeper and deeper. The government will come out with bigger and bigger more and more disasterous programs, be it housing, medical, infrastructure make shift jobs, energy, military, stock market, whatever it is, it will be huge, bigger than anything before it. The money printing will be profoundly larger than anything before. I think the vast majority of modern Americans is constitutionally incapable of understanding such basic concepts as economics, money, inflation, government oppression, individual freedom.
I think USA will go through an even deeper crisis of tyranny against the individual before it comes to its senses. I see vast fortunes that will be made and lost in this crisis, the streets will turn red, first the red flags, then blood, it's fascinating to see this after being born in a system that has gone through that and self destructed, to see this happen in the same way again is going to be fascinating.
AFAIC the *worst* candidate you have today is Sanders, not Trump. Trump is pretty much all talk, he is not going to start WWIII, no chance, he has too much to lose in that. Sanders on the other hand doesn't have anything to lose, he is offering a quick though idiotic 'solution' to all your problems - socialism.
AFAIC USA would be much better off with Trump, regardless what he says today than with Sanders, who will attempt to push through his agenda.
1. Ha, would you look at this garbage! Pre-communist Russia had introduced various reforms, that allowed people to become independent farmers. De-feudalization was happening for over half a century in Russia before the revolution, you shouldn't be yapping about anything really, but especially this.
2. You are a person, not a dog, if you care to 'fend for yourself' it is totally within your grasp. People are buying and selling property every day, I am sure you can manage if you cared.
3. All forms of property are based on violence? Who did you violate to keep your kidneys? Who exactly did I violate to own millions of lines of code that I and my teams built?
4. We have plenty of cooperation among free individuals, I have teams that are physically in different countries from me, working for me based on mutual economic interest. Nobody is forcing anybody into anything.
5. Youth in the West are oppressed by the economic system for a single reason: their centrally planned, collectivist political system is destroying any chance of a sound economic system.
6. An allegory, John Galt is a fucking allegory. Of-course you may not realise it, but thousands of businesses left USA and are leaving. Thousands more are and will be bought out by foreigners. John Galt is not one person, it is a representation of movement of capital away from the collectivist theft and oppression.
Sure, but those are 'governments'. On the other hand individual politicians who are pushing for this type of thing can be made an example of so that others would think twice.
All good except this part:
We should pay our fair share of taxes, but there's no way we should set ourselves up for being blind-sided.
- AFAIC the only fair share of income taxes collected from anybody is 0.
This is a clear cut case of Danegeld. Google should have never paid a single cent to UK government, now every vulture out there will be after them. AFAIC Google should hire hitmen to get rid of these officials making these demands.
Personally I think it's time to off Larry Summers and the rest of pro-government 'economists' and be done with it.
They have already murdered the 100$ bill when they defaulted on the gold exchange back in 1971. The world was taken off the gold standard (since the USD was the 'reserve currency'), since then the world's economy has been sliding into total crapper.
I normally have 8 of those, 10 200s and some small denominations in my wallet when moving around Europe.
I have a number of funny anecdotes to tell about this as well, for example one of many times I crossed the border between France and UK (train or air) the immigration agent asks me if I have money on me (I think she was under impression I was trying to enter the country to stay there or something), I show her the cash. Then she asks me where did I get that money. I was taken aback: earned it. Fucking cunt.
Remember puling out a 500Euro note when trying to pay for a meal in a Russian cafe, the bill was 300 rubles or so, I am looking at the note, looking at the bill, the cashier is looking at the bill weirdly as well..... finally realised that was the wrong currency :)
Made my comment just in the nick of time, so that I can refer to it now, when reading posts like this one.
The society is unfair alright, but it is unfair for the exact sentiments expressed here - you believe somebody, anybody at all owes you something, anything at all. You are right, to survive people will kill. That is why individual freedom and businesses that individuals build to produce products that other individuals may find useful and would trade for is what actually economy is.
Economy is not government planning, economy is not fake money printing by central banks, economy is not fake interest rate setting by governments.
Economy is only individuals producing something so that they and others can use it by exchanging their productivity for it. Of-course in the absence of free markets and with central planning, theft and redistribution (which is what USA and most of the West have with their collectivist: fascist/socialist systems) what arises is oppression, government provided monopoly, resource mis-allocation, all the taxation that destroys and moves businesses elsewhere.
Where is John Galt? John Galt moved his business out of USA anywhere else, to China, to Mexico, to wherever he feels it is a freer society. Freer as in - less intervention of government into business, less taxation (there shouldn't be any taxation or government of-course, but I digress). Where are the businesses ran by all the John Galts out there? Automating. Outsourcing. Moving assets and production elsewhere.
What are you going to be left with? The only thing you are capable of in absence of real production capacity, in absence of somebody telling you what to do, in absence of real savings and with plenty of fake printed cash slushing around your stock markets, housing markets, bond markets, etc. You are going to have your civil unrest, your murder, your robbery. Not because John Galt is a bad person for not wanting to be your fucking slave and deciding to move but because you are part of the problem, you make your collective decisions based on idiotic notions that others owe you something just because you graced this planet with your amazing presence.
Guess what, nobody owes you shit and people who can will move and/or make sure you cannot attack them that easily. AFAIC I think the next step in civilization is coming, the one when we realise we cannot build further based on theft, robbery, oppression, confiscation and redistribution. The next step of civilization is either to self destruct or to become free individuals, free from government. Governments were always there, ruling, destroying, stealing, murdering, kidnapping and using crowds to that effect, to justify their own behaviour. The crowds are filthy shit, but if they stop being crowds and realise they are individuals they may become something that's worth actually dealing with.
What I say I mean very specifically, none if it is somehow opposite to my value system, so it is not a 'troll' of any kind unless you consider actual points of view to be 'trolling', but I am not holding my breath for anybody to understand that. Once again: you reap what you sow, you sow theft and entitlement ideology, you reap complete devastation of productivity and destruction of your standard of living.
WTF are you talking about? Who owes you shelter and health care and food? The most I can imagine you answering that is probably your parents, before you are capable of getting those things on your own. I do not owe you one single thing on this entire planet, not one. You are not anybody to me, if we exchange anything it's going to be for cold hard cash. I was born in this so called 'civilization', AFAIC it's crap because of ideas like yours. I don't want anybody to be my slave and I am not your slave either.
As to cracking skulls - that is precisely why civilization invented guns, so that if you come at me with yours I have mine and I prefer that to any government oppression of any individual.
Giving CEOs suggestions on who to employ here? You must be some successful businessman with a track record of making various business decisions including who to hire and fire.
I already said it here, nothing should be public. Private courts, as it was in the USA, private police, private property. I don't even believe in public defence anymore. All military activity should be paid upfront with bonds to private contractors.
I do not support any form of government but I am for meaningful governance, with courts and police and all functions that society needs to be private and paid for by insurance premiums.