If the gov't required all public companies to disclose all such threats and ban them from giving out money or extortionists (or else get in big trouble), then there would be a bigger financial incentive for companies to not pay extortionists than to pay them, and it will eventually cut out this black market from the start. Eventually, the extortionists would realize they have no leverage with the target companies and just stop - hacking them to send a message to other companies wouldn't accomplish anything. And since they're a public company, they wouldn't have as much of a vested interest in trying to duck the gov't and pay off the criminals. I'd bet that this improves the overall safety of companies. Thoughts?
Maybe this has been mentioned before, but why is Bill Gates still the icon for MS? He stepped down quite down quite some time ago. Maybe this exposes not just/. bias against MS in general, but for him personally? Along with that, maybe this is an attempt to freeze-frame MS as "The Man"? Ballmar might make a more interesting (funny) icon anyway.
How has private industry done so far with american healthcare? Cost more, gets less. Yup, that is a sign of success.
Oh and how has private industry been managing the economy?
It kinda amazes me that people with a healthcare system that is useless in the middle of a global recession all under the management of private industry, then dare to ask whether government can run things.
Imagine a discussion in North Korea: "Can private industry be expected to handle food production?"
Answer: "Who knows, but the question is silly when the current system is such an obvious mess".
Sometimes you got to take a chance. Do anything because when you are nose deep in shit, chances are anything is an improvement.
Can the government do a better job? It would be hard to imagine how they can screw it up even more.
Actually the government had a lot to do with american healthcare right now. For one, health insurance has anti-trust exemption from an old law that needs to be taken off the books. In fact, they are even forbidden to compete across state lines. Before the government tries to ultra-regulate the health care industry, they should try to de-regulate it and see if that wasn't the major problem all along.
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Yes. The vast reduction in court proceedings is a big selling point to this system.
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If the gov't required all public companies to disclose all such threats and ban them from giving out money or extortionists (or else get in big trouble), then there would be a bigger financial incentive for companies to not pay extortionists than to pay them, and it will eventually cut out this black market from the start. Eventually, the extortionists would realize they have no leverage with the target companies and just stop - hacking them to send a message to other companies wouldn't accomplish anything. And since they're a public company, they wouldn't have as much of a vested interest in trying to duck the gov't and pay off the criminals. I'd bet that this improves the overall safety of companies. Thoughts?
Maybe this has been mentioned before, but why is Bill Gates still the icon for MS? He stepped down quite down quite some time ago. Maybe this exposes not just /. bias against MS in general, but for him personally? Along with that, maybe this is an attempt to freeze-frame MS as "The Man"? Ballmar might make a more interesting (funny) icon anyway.
How has private industry done so far with american healthcare? Cost more, gets less. Yup, that is a sign of success.
Oh and how has private industry been managing the economy?
It kinda amazes me that people with a healthcare system that is useless in the middle of a global recession all under the management of private industry, then dare to ask whether government can run things.
Imagine a discussion in North Korea: "Can private industry be expected to handle food production?"
Answer: "Who knows, but the question is silly when the current system is such an obvious mess".
Sometimes you got to take a chance. Do anything because when you are nose deep in shit, chances are anything is an improvement.
Can the government do a better job? It would be hard to imagine how they can screw it up even more.
Actually the government had a lot to do with american healthcare right now. For one, health insurance has anti-trust exemption from an old law that needs to be taken off the books. In fact, they are even forbidden to compete across state lines. Before the government tries to ultra-regulate the health care industry, they should try to de-regulate it and see if that wasn't the major problem all along.