U.S. health care is pretty good all things considered, but a big part of the problem is that the U.S. is just terribly unhealthy. One-third of the country is obese (we consume more sugar per capita than anyone else, and we're almost 25% higher than the next country) and we're near the top of the lists for almost all types of hard drug use.
Yes, I suppose not having enough food or enough money to buy drugs is one way to reduce those things. Onward to Venezuela/Cuba style government!
The name "Yleem D.S. Poblete" sounds like the type of name a race of alien lizard people would choose as sounding nice and inconspicuous!
And that's coming from me!!
Cheeto wouldn't even use the proper name of the bill. He dropped Senator McCain's name from it when referencing the bill...he's a child.
He's under no obligation to use the stupid name of a bill.
Every bill of any note is always named the "I Love Puppies and Rainbows" bill, even if all it does is fund the 100th version of the Robert Byrd Pig Research Institute.
...when it was just a way for Zuck to get off on yearbook photos. Can we go back to breastfeeding pix, pirating boxes and Putin pupeteering stupid Americans?
Why no, we can't.
If FB can do the "oh no, OMG Putin, OMG, "fake news!"" stuff, they can do then this too. FB knows what's best, after all.
"But they'll never re-educate me!! I'm a loyal party member!"
However, it is not new in that this is not the first sale of the game. This is the second sale. If/when someone buys this game and has a problem, who are they going to go to? The seller or Bethesda? Most likely they will contact Bethesda asking for help/support but they are not the original owner.
Why should that matter? If it's never been opened/activated/whatever, then so what? Bethesda sold one game and they have to support one game.
I'm against preventing second hand sales, but I think I have to agree with them.
Here is the problem, Game company sells a game on discount, is like, here, you wanted to play it? Here's a good deal for you!
Gets more players, more fans, exposes their content to more people, this is a good thing. Problem? While it's on sale, a bunch of scalpers (Yes it's the same breed) pick up the game cheaper, and then resell it at a higher price, making a profit. Often close to or at the original cost. So they're literally taking money off the sale of a brand new game that the company was selling. Typically I feel the businesses are all doing the shady shit, in this case, it sounds like scalpers or "unauthorized resellers"
I don't get the hate for "scalpers".
Some super sale gets announced, and only the savviest and quickest get to take advantage of it. And that's OK with you, but only if those savvy quick people consume it themselves? Why? What's so great about them?
Anyway, it's called arbitrage and is almost impossible to prevent, for any significant price differential.
There's been a major news story that Apple, Google, and Facebook removed a bunch of Infowars stuff. I haven't seen anything about them agreeing to do it together. Again, if they did... so what?
So... what I said is true. They coordinated (obviously; it didn't magically happen that all three did that at the same time) to censor someone. Like I said they did.
And when you're investing, you're not spending a large chunk of your life for that money. Why should a supposedly democratic country have a tax system that explicitly encourages wealth concentration by taxing capitalists less than labor?
Er, because you do in fact have to have capital, you have to be able to accumulate it and invest it, in order to have any kind of modern economy?
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But ... but ... Steve Jobs! Looking thoughtful! Memes!
Cuba is down to 33rd in the world in life expectancy.
That's terrible - only one notch above the USA, at 34th in the world!
The US has a lot of subcultures.
The ones you are dissing for low life expectancy are likely not the ones that you think you are dissing.
U.S. health care is pretty good all things considered, but a big part of the problem is that the U.S. is just terribly unhealthy. One-third of the country is obese (we consume more sugar per capita than anyone else, and we're almost 25% higher than the next country) and we're near the top of the lists for almost all types of hard drug use.
Yes, I suppose not having enough food or enough money to buy drugs is one way to reduce those things. Onward to Venezuela/Cuba style government!
According to Michael Moore they've got free and "incredible healthcare"......
You do realize, I hope, that a place can be good in some areas, such as basic health care, but weak in others such as internet availability.
Except, of course, that isn't the case with Cuba. Nobody travels to Cuba to use the great healthcare. Because it isn't great.
Um, we still have one now.
Well, OK, my wife has her own laptop. But we have a shared family computer, and the kids don't have phones.
Funky.
The way I browse/type/click, I'm surprised I haven't been brought in for some sort of evaluation by now.
The name "Yleem D.S. Poblete" sounds like the type of name a race of alien lizard people would choose as sounding nice and inconspicuous! And that's coming from me!!
Like "John Bigboote" or "John Smallberries"?
Oh, that old thing? What's all that talk about "equal protection clause"?
Constitution? It's a tool of dead white males!
To, uh .. er ... to help them stay dead, and white, or something!
Cheeto wouldn't even use the proper name of the bill. He dropped Senator McCain's name from it when referencing the bill...he's a child.
He's under no obligation to use the stupid name of a bill.
Every bill of any note is always named the "I Love Puppies and Rainbows" bill, even if all it does is fund the 100th version of the Robert Byrd Pig Research Institute.
...when it was just a way for Zuck to get off on yearbook photos. Can we go back to breastfeeding pix, pirating boxes and Putin pupeteering stupid Americans?
Why no, we can't.
If FB can do the "oh no, OMG Putin, OMG, "fake news!"" stuff, they can do then this too. FB knows what's best, after all.
"But they'll never re-educate me!! I'm a loyal party member!"
Ah, that's not how this works, comrade ...
Politics aside, I'd like that $25 broadband please ...
The bill contains this little nugget in the footnotes:
" “Female” means an individual who self-identifies her gender as a woman, without regard to the individual’s designated sex at birth."
I was already hoping the bill would pass because of the silliness of it, but with the above it's gonna be comedy gold.
I look forward to the coder bro CEOs having to come to work in dresses as "Mary".
I mean, those who don't do that already ...
... what if the dude identifies as a woman?
California's gonna tell him that he isn't one?
No!
Forest fires are yet another beautiful part of nature.
As are trees.
Both should be allowed to grow, unchecked. What could go wrong?
China is a totalitarian communist dictatorship.
The surprise is that you can ever reach websites the head honchos don't like; not that you can't here or there or now and then.
11 year old changes election results! ... er no, news about results posted to a website ... er, no, not an actual website, a fake one ...
Sheesh. I can always count on /.
However, it is not new in that this is not the first sale of the game. This is the second sale. If/when someone buys this game and has a problem, who are they going to go to? The seller or Bethesda? Most likely they will contact Bethesda asking for help/support but they are not the original owner.
Why should that matter? If it's never been opened/activated/whatever, then so what? Bethesda sold one game and they have to support one game.
I'm against preventing second hand sales, but I think I have to agree with them.
Here is the problem, Game company sells a game on discount, is like, here, you wanted to play it? Here's a good deal for you!
Gets more players, more fans, exposes their content to more people, this is a good thing. Problem? While it's on sale, a bunch of scalpers (Yes it's the same breed) pick up the game cheaper, and then resell it at a higher price, making a profit. Often close to or at the original cost. So they're literally taking money off the sale of a brand new game that the company was selling. Typically I feel the businesses are all doing the shady shit, in this case, it sounds like scalpers or "unauthorized resellers"
I don't get the hate for "scalpers".
Some super sale gets announced, and only the savviest and quickest get to take advantage of it. And that's OK with you, but only if those savvy quick people consume it themselves? Why? What's so great about them?
Anyway, it's called arbitrage and is almost impossible to prevent, for any significant price differential.
Bring them online as readers.
As for writers, well, Facebook will decide who they are, thank you very much.
There's been a major news story that Apple, Google, and Facebook removed a bunch of Infowars stuff. I haven't seen anything about them agreeing to do it together. Again, if they did... so what?
So ... what I said is true. They coordinated (obviously; it didn't magically happen that all three did that at the same time) to censor someone. Like I said they did.
So, you did know that.
There's not much you can do to a simple rectangular phone to make it look more stylish.
Oh come now, surely it could me made thinner and slipperier.
Wrapping it in a new case is simpler and cheaper.
Well, yes, but at least Apple owners know that it is more "beautiful" underneath that case. It gives them a warm glow ...
And when you're investing, you're not spending a large chunk of your life for that money. Why should a supposedly democratic country have a tax system that explicitly encourages wealth concentration by taxing capitalists less than labor?
Er, because you do in fact have to have capital, you have to be able to accumulate it and invest it, in order to have any kind of modern economy?
... you could try competing on price. Lower price, not higher price.
You could try competing on user freedom. "Hey, buy our phone, you can actually delete crap apps that you never wanted in the first place."
You said "I doubt that's true" ... and yet it has been a major news story in the last few days.
I doubt that's true, but so what if they did?
You don't have access to news?