Doesn't it make sense that it could be a little hereditary too?
In the EU it was considered a hereditary talent. New people could learn it, but there were thousands of families that produced the best(light) and worst(darksiders) out of the EU timeline. In some families it was such an over-reaching ability that there were generational gifts bestowed on children who went for training, everything from items to enhance the force, to saber crystal heirlooms, and their own form of non-robe clothing when they became a knight so people could distinguish that they came from a particular family on a particular planet.
Both sides ran unpopular candidates. It's not like Trump had mass market appeal either, and in fact he lost the popular vote.
What screwed the Democrats was playing defence. They tried to defend Clinton, but Trump and the far right never do that. They always attack.
The popular vote means squat in US elections, so that doesn't matter. The democrats weren't playing defense, the democrats believed they had it in the bag. They believed the polls, they thought that she wouldn't need to head to the rust belt or some fly-over country state. The people in the party told her that.
You know what Trump's attack was? Pointing out her failures, what was the democrats response? BUT YOU CAN'T DO THAT, SHE'S FEMALE! And people looked left, and they looked right, and picked the person that wasn't playing identity politics, but pointing out serious flaws. It also helped that even when Trump made an ass out of himself, he rolled with his own mistakes. Self-depreciating humor is a selling point for a lot of people. I know that you really think that the "far right" is this gigantic great machine, but it's not. It's just that you're so far to the left that anyone to the right of Trotsky seems like they're right-wing.
You know what's funny though? Ask yourself where the democrats are today. No really, ask yourself. Hell ask people on the street. What's their platform? What are they doing? Who are the fresh faces? What's the party leadership? What are they doing for average people? What is their tax plan? What's their healthcare plan? What do they want to do with any other issue ranging from jobs, to border, to really anything.
There's nothing. Nobody knows, because the democrats don't know. They're still screeching "im peach FOTYA-FAVIE!" like it's going out of style, while yelling that the family with a combined income of $50k/year are going to die because they no longer have to pay $6k/year for insurance with a $10k/deductible or be penalized $3500-9k for not paying that outrageous price in the first place.
Many of those warmongers found places in Bush Jr's administration and pushed for the Iraq War again after 9-11. This time, unfortunately, the Bush in office wasn't smart enough to see through the lies and approved the Iraq War. Had he been as good as his father, he would have rejected these calls, would have concentrated on Afghanistan and Al Qaeda/the Taliban, and might have ended the conflict much sooner.
And let's not forget, that while the republicans were purging those neocons out of the party, the democrats were welcoming them with open arms. Hugh Hewitt, David Frum, and so on are very happily welcomed by the progressives and democrats as tea party groups were busy purging them.
Hardly, that's the nuclear ones. They don't work when there's an 'incident', when there's a checkup, or in Winter when the river is frozen or in summer when the water is low or when the river is already too hot or...
What the hell are you even talking about? Nuclear generally has a higher up-time then any other power source. Bruce nuclear didn't even SCRAM when the NE blackout happened, they kept the reactors at 60% until they could reconnect to the grid, which was around 4hrs. That was faster then any other power producer in the NE area of north america. Faster then hydro-electric(Niagara Falls took 8hrs), coal and NG plants were as long as 12hrs and many auto-shutdown requiring a full restart.
The CDC still classifies cigarettes/tobacco use as the #1 cause of preventable death. Smoking causes heart disease and cancer, and with over 400,000 deaths per year, it's pretty safe to say it's one hell of a contributor to our top killers as an "underlying" cause. Little point in splitting hairs over that.
But the CDC doesn't classify that as the cause. Rather it's the underlying cause, those things cause other issues. Heart disease, cancer are what kill the people.
Given your logic, you would also argue that it wasn't the drugs or obesity that killed Elvis, it was a toilet that did him in. Go argue with the CDC and their facts when it comes to deaths directly attributed to diabetes. No shit people die from not taking care of themselves; diabetes is literally caused by not taking care of yourself.
And there's the part where you go from making some sense to none at all. You should go read the CDC's facts, because they don't their secondary, 3rd, 4th, as the underlying cause. Oh, diabetes is literally caused by not taking care of yourself? I should let me sister know that when her pancreas just went up and stopped producing insulin when she was 4. I'm sure she'll be relieved to hear of this from such a practiced expert. You should really let Sick Kids know about such a earth shattering medical breakthrough, I'm sure all those kids will be happy to hear it too.
My father did die of diabetes related issues, he was a type 1 who didn't take care of himself following a stroke. Is it his fault or is it the brain damage... Because a stroke IS brain damage.
While you have my sympathies on your father, that's a case where your father lacked fundamental and proper care. Either from a lack of proper teaching, or a lack of not having organizations like CCAS(as we call it here in Ontario), who are nurses who check on patients who are unable to properly care for themselves. But I'll also bet your father was: A drinker, didn't give two whits about their cholesterol, didn't have regular checkups and ignored symptoms thinking that "it'll just go away." Which is very common in men. Ask yourself how many times you'll feel something wrong and go "well if it goes away in a few, I won't worry about it."
The patent was sold for 1 dollar for altruistic reasons. Tell me, where is the altruism today?
No it really didn't, the reasons were far beyond that. Regular R-insulin is dirt cheap, I can cross the border into Michigan and buy it for $9/mo at walmart. It's $11.50/mo from walmart in most locations in Ohio for instance. That altruism is still around, you don't hear it. Just like you don't hear about the cop, ems, firefighter that's paying out of their own pocket to put some family kicked out of their house into a motel. Or the cop who refused to file a charge against someone who was caught stealing food at a grocery store, instead paid for it out of their own pocket and took the person(and/or their family) to their house for meals.
Then you have humanitarians like Martin Shkreli, who seem to represent the whole of the industry.
Look at the systemic lack of action by police, councils and the crown in the UK over the massive child prostitution, child grooming and rape gangs, and it becomes a case that it's a bit from column a and b. More so that the prevailing political thought is "not to punish those asians" but to ignore it, or even accost the victims. And you've seen the same happening in other EU countries with regards to similar issues, or issues stemming from that. Again with the government, courts, police, crowns offices, and so on not doing anything. Then, the political left in these countries will start to screech that if you dare question any of this, you're "racist, sexist, islamophobe, etc, etc, etc." So, this pushes left-of-centre to the middle or right into the political right. And people on the right who were dismissed as "crazy lunatics" and "racists" for daring to want to limit immigrants who refuse to integrate into society aren't looking quite so crazy to these people. Rather, those people are looking back going well...maybe they were really correct all along.
That doesn't make it a case of "others" but a fundamental breakdown in the social contract. Where politicians and members of government see themselves as the elite and "they know best" and the people who are suffering under it, and asking "why the fuck didn't the police charge xyz person who groomed and raped my daughter who just hung herself."
I didn't say it was our largest killer, I said it was one of our largest killers, and 80,000 deaths per year makes that fact pretty damn clear. It was ranked 7th on our list in 2014, and I doubt much has changed since then. And you haven't even identified our actual largest killer, which is a product we call cigarettes. Greed again clarifies why this top killer is a legal product today. You're really degrading your fact-checking capability now. There are less than 2,000 cases of malaria reported in the US each year. That's a far cry from diabetes.
Except that your actual largest killer isn't cigarettes. It's not even the underlying cause. More people die from strokes unrelated to smoking then strokes directly related to smoking. You should probably look up those stats a bit more.
This fact has already been clarified here, and $1 back in 1921 is as much of a goodwill gesture as $1000 would be today.
No, because they sold the patent to the university for $1 to allow open production by multiple companies. Because it was an actual "treatable health threat" and an easy one at that. That link doesn't even explain the reasons "why" it was sold for $1 to UoT, go on read a bit more.
My argument has to do with Greed, which adds to those 80,000 deaths per year. When people cannot afford the very chemical required to sustain life, it's a death sentence, which sadly still rings true today. You know this
Except it's not. Those 80k deaths are not the primary cause, it's an underlying cause. It's not even secondary, it's usually 3rd or 4th underlying. Now here's the interesting party, you can bet that many of those people are on insulin. Many of those people simply didn't or refused to take actual care of themselves. I know diabetics that are in their 30's and have lost fingers, toes, feet, an entire leg all because of their own lack of action, or because they simply didn't care. Either not eating right, not caring to take insulin, eating foods that spike their blood sugar, and so on. That's *in* Canada, where insulin is covered. Primary deaths by diabetes are under the number of deaths in the US by malaria.
Insulin isn't a chemical either, not even close to one. If you're going to argue with someone at least get your shit right.
Actually in MOST cities I've been to in the US, what I described as the deplorable state of most cabs and drivers holds true.
You should try traveling outside of the US then, because it's not like that in Canada, Japan, UK, France, Germany, Denmark or anything else. In many cases cab companies are where all those countries were 50 years ago, and there really isn't any desire to make changes because of a variety of reasons. Almost all of them relate to government. So again, that's an elected official problem.
It's called "line-rushing" in the walmart term. They've been testing them in a bunch of places in Canada and the US. There's no cashier in several of the cases, but there's a person who pre-scan's everything for you while you're waiting and then you take the scanner with you plug it into the terminal and that's it. All totaled up and you just pay for it instead of unloading/loading it back into the cart. But unless walmart gives me a 10% discount like fast food chains and other stores are doing in Canada and the US, I'd never use their "self-checkout" systems.
Let's be honest here. I've seen people going shopping in pyjama's or underwear at Winn-Dixie's, Sweetbay, and Meijer in the US just as often as Walmart. Hell when Zellers existed here in Canada, you'd see the same thing along with Target(during the buyout) and in the US too.
Greed is the only fucking reason this product still costs so much in the US. And regardless of how many people use insulin, diabetes is still one of the largest killers in our society. Get your fucking facts straight next time.
Yeah not really. The reason the product still costs so much in the US is because of a variety of things, everything ranging from the source of said insulin and groups like PETA that try to shut it down. To the new types of insulin that are tested and developed because of insulin resistance. Diabetes isn't one of the largest killers in your society. That's heart disease, cancer and diseases related to weakened immune systems from secondary factors(old age, etc). You're more likely to die of malaria in the US then diabetes. FYI the reason it was sold for $1 wasn't because of a goodwill gesture, you should go read up some more about Frederick Banting and Rickard Macleod. There's far more to that story then you understand, or go take a trip to London, Ontario visit Banting House where they figured it all out.
And before you or some sad AC troll replies with a "but u don't know anything about diabetics" or something else, I'll just add that having a sister who was a juvenile diabetic back in the 1980's, I do know a few things. You know those lovely 1980's where the child mortality rate from undiagnosed diabetes in young children still had a 50% death rate. Look at how far we've come, it's less then 5% now in the west...in 30 years.
Sure, there are definitely people in Canada who do not enjoy the same level of service that I do... but he was suggesting that you can only get decent internet access if you're close to a huge city, and that's just blatant nonsense. Pretty much every mid-size city has access to cable/ADSL speeds over 20 Mbps, as do many small towns close to them.
No it's not blatant nonsense. It's that you don't understand that not every mid-size city has access to cable/ADSL, you believe it does because you happen to be living in an area that has "large transit" to a major city nearby. Hell the street I live on now, is on 1934 copper lines still. Bell has zero interest in deploying fiber here, the only option is cable. You should be able to figure it out, a city with a pop of 23k isn't "small" in Canada, that's a large city. Let's look at Woodstock, until 4 years ago there was zero fiber. The only areas that were laid out were new subs on the north end, even at that the speeds were limited to 20Mbps. That meant 98% of the city was limited to 3/512 DSL. Roughly half of that same city is still on 1930's(some cases 1910 copper), and they're just starting to roll out FFTN but it's all still dark until next year.
I think what the GP meant was an agency cannot undo a regulation "at will". There is a defined process that must be followed, which, if I remember correctly, includes providing justification for the change.
Not actually true. Any regulation can be undone without any justification given, that's pretty much the point of a regulation. Unless it's a regulation with regards to law, in which case it's a different beast.
Huh? Congress repeals laws quite frequently. What do you think the whole argument this year about the ACA was?
I wasn't clear, an individual can't "undue" the law. It requires the courts or congress, senate and so on to do that.
I'm also a good 2hr drive from Toronto and it's 25Mbps or nothing at all. Here's what Bell offers when I lived in another town 2hrs from Toronto, the reality is it's 5/1 service at the very best. Most get 3/512. Check another 2hr town like Ingersoll, Ontario(12k), Woodstock, Ontario(pop 40k) enjoy!
Maybe it was broadband in 2010. Today you should be able to get at least 100 Mbps. Many of the areas we're bringing broadband to are receiving 1 Gbps symmetric. 10 Mbps is a complete joke, you'd be lucky to get two Netflix streams on that without stuttering.
Don't come to Canada then, because once you get outside of the big cities like Toronto, London, Ottawa, Vancouver and so on, or even on the outside edges of them? You're lucky if you can get 5Mbps/1Mbps service. In my own area, the fastest you can get is 25Mbps/1Mbps on cable, 3Mbps/512Kbps on DSL.
Apparently the failure mode of libertarianism is government action. Comcast paid for that last mile, and you're just going to socialize it? Chalk up another episode of lying hypocrisy from Mashiki.
You mean Comcast paid for it with either/and/or full monopoly rights, zero taxes, heavy government investment(state/local/city) in many cases. In other words, in most cases it's via your tax dollars not their dollars and on top of that they fight tooth and nail against any form of competition, including filing lawsuits against startups trying to gain "right-of-way" access on the same poles.
Chalk up another episode of the AC comment stalker, that show's they're as deranged two days ago as they are today.
Also, you cannot unilaterally undue rules. There would need to be justification for the change. As yet, the FCC has yet to present evidence for the change.
You absolutely can unilaterally undue rules and regulations. You absolutely cannot undue laws. You understand so little how governments are actually supposed to function is scary. The entire point you're trying to present is fiat by executive order AKA how a dictatorship/junta/non-democracy works.
This IS a public concern over the general welfare for all people and all businesses the same as clean drinking water and electricity is. It must be protected to provide for the general welfare of everyone not just a few special interests.
The only part of the internet that should be regulated as a utility is the "last mile" or "the pole to your home." Anything else is generally overkill, and the market can handle the rest if competition is healthy. Ask yourself this, if tomorrow comcast, AT&T, and so on could no longer hold local monopolies because the "pole to home" is classed as a utility and you can get access from *any* ISP, how much do you think things would change as companies tried to position themselves better?
Right, you can already see it can't you? ISP's would suddenly start positioning themselves based on what they want to offer, people who cared about x thing would shift to those other companies in an instant.
What customer protection regulations are you talking about?
Geez, the last cabs I've been in, where ragged, shitty and frankly, the person driving it scared me....looked like a hardened convict.
That's something to take up with either your city or state. In most places, they're not like that at all. Sounds like to me you have a far bigger problem with "entrenched politicians" then "entrenched cab companies."
Those "consumer protection" regulations and mandatory requirements include: Having the proper license(chauffeurs), proper insurance, including liability insurance and personal injury, first aid training(in Canada most require class a or b), 1yr safety inspections, 6mo "file and report" vehicle self-inspections, police background checks, automatic license revocation on drunk driving charge and the list goes on. That's all normal stuff that in Canada for example, Uber and Lyft among others have been trying to skirt for years by trying to claim they're not a cab company.
No, the French will be happily reprocessing nuclear fuel and laughing at the schmucks who are still reliant on fossil fools.
French reactors have a problem handing reprocessed nuclear fuel and require very specific mixes in order to operate properly. It's a well known design problem even with their current generations of reactors, which are why the current and future CANDU designs are being picked by more countries as a nuclear power solution. CANDU can use any fuel source, at any stage of it's life whether enriched uranium, highly enriched uranium, plutonium, all byproduct waste from highly radioactive to low radioactive and various types of MOX fuels.
On top of that nearly all of the uranium that France uses in it's nuclear program comes directly from Canada, and the various reprocessing facilities we have here. One of the reasons S.Korea went with CANDU designs was to directly get away from the problem of "long hauling" radioactive material.
Sure did, why don't you go look in your post history. Should be in the last 3 years, give or take a bit.
I see you're confusing fantasy with reality again. I always post logged in since then my posts get auto-modded up to +2 because I have excellent karma.
Uh-huh, sure thing. Strange you've got exactly the same writing style, which have the same grammatical and spelling as one particular AC.
This is: your areguments are bad therefore you're an idiot.
When you can't attack the argument, and attack the person you've already lost. It only makes you look petty to everyone else, just a useful tip.
He used to post lots of broken links. Then he switched ot links to things which directly contradicted what he said in short order. Now he posts links to vrey long things which eventually contradict what he said.
Except the part where I never posted broken links, but you did a bang up job of showing how you were unable to click on something when it didn't suit your agenda, while screeching that it was about hacking you. That was more funny then anything else. You also did a bang up job of screeching that something was false because you refused to click on a link. BTW, you were more entertaining when you were posting as a AC.
If you talk to him, you generally get a barrage of crazy back.
This coming from a person that much like another person refuses to admit that they're wrong on something? Come on it's not that hard. I mean, that fbi.gov link might just be the russians hiding on the server waiting to steal your info...for whatever reason.
He's a bit like this chap
Oh the irony of the adhom, coming from someone who has repeatedly claimed in the past that they hold the moral high ground...
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Doesn't it make sense that it could be a little hereditary too?
In the EU it was considered a hereditary talent. New people could learn it, but there were thousands of families that produced the best(light) and worst(darksiders) out of the EU timeline. In some families it was such an over-reaching ability that there were generational gifts bestowed on children who went for training, everything from items to enhance the force, to saber crystal heirlooms, and their own form of non-robe clothing when they became a knight so people could distinguish that they came from a particular family on a particular planet.
Both sides ran unpopular candidates. It's not like Trump had mass market appeal either, and in fact he lost the popular vote.
What screwed the Democrats was playing defence. They tried to defend Clinton, but Trump and the far right never do that. They always attack.
The popular vote means squat in US elections, so that doesn't matter. The democrats weren't playing defense, the democrats believed they had it in the bag. They believed the polls, they thought that she wouldn't need to head to the rust belt or some fly-over country state. The people in the party told her that.
You know what Trump's attack was? Pointing out her failures, what was the democrats response? BUT YOU CAN'T DO THAT, SHE'S FEMALE! And people looked left, and they looked right, and picked the person that wasn't playing identity politics, but pointing out serious flaws. It also helped that even when Trump made an ass out of himself, he rolled with his own mistakes. Self-depreciating humor is a selling point for a lot of people. I know that you really think that the "far right" is this gigantic great machine, but it's not. It's just that you're so far to the left that anyone to the right of Trotsky seems like they're right-wing.
You know what's funny though? Ask yourself where the democrats are today. No really, ask yourself. Hell ask people on the street. What's their platform? What are they doing? Who are the fresh faces? What's the party leadership? What are they doing for average people? What is their tax plan? What's their healthcare plan? What do they want to do with any other issue ranging from jobs, to border, to really anything.
There's nothing. Nobody knows, because the democrats don't know. They're still screeching "im peach FOTYA-FAVIE!" like it's going out of style, while yelling that the family with a combined income of $50k/year are going to die because they no longer have to pay $6k/year for insurance with a $10k/deductible or be penalized $3500-9k for not paying that outrageous price in the first place.
Many of those warmongers found places in Bush Jr's administration and pushed for the Iraq War again after 9-11. This time, unfortunately, the Bush in office wasn't smart enough to see through the lies and approved the Iraq War. Had he been as good as his father, he would have rejected these calls, would have concentrated on Afghanistan and Al Qaeda/the Taliban, and might have ended the conflict much sooner.
And let's not forget, that while the republicans were purging those neocons out of the party, the democrats were welcoming them with open arms. Hugh Hewitt, David Frum, and so on are very happily welcomed by the progressives and democrats as tea party groups were busy purging them.
Hardly, that's the nuclear ones. They don't work when there's an 'incident', when there's a checkup, or in Winter when the river is frozen or in summer when the water is low or when the river is already too hot or ...
What the hell are you even talking about? Nuclear generally has a higher up-time then any other power source. Bruce nuclear didn't even SCRAM when the NE blackout happened, they kept the reactors at 60% until they could reconnect to the grid, which was around 4hrs. That was faster then any other power producer in the NE area of north america. Faster then hydro-electric(Niagara Falls took 8hrs), coal and NG plants were as long as 12hrs and many auto-shutdown requiring a full restart.
The CDC still classifies cigarettes/tobacco use as the #1 cause of preventable death. Smoking causes heart disease and cancer, and with over 400,000 deaths per year, it's pretty safe to say it's one hell of a contributor to our top killers as an "underlying" cause. Little point in splitting hairs over that.
But the CDC doesn't classify that as the cause. Rather it's the underlying cause, those things cause other issues. Heart disease, cancer are what kill the people.
Given your logic, you would also argue that it wasn't the drugs or obesity that killed Elvis, it was a toilet that did him in. Go argue with the CDC and their facts when it comes to deaths directly attributed to diabetes. No shit people die from not taking care of themselves; diabetes is literally caused by not taking care of yourself.
And there's the part where you go from making some sense to none at all. You should go read the CDC's facts, because they don't their secondary, 3rd, 4th, as the underlying cause. Oh, diabetes is literally caused by not taking care of yourself? I should let me sister know that when her pancreas just went up and stopped producing insulin when she was 4. I'm sure she'll be relieved to hear of this from such a practiced expert. You should really let Sick Kids know about such a earth shattering medical breakthrough, I'm sure all those kids will be happy to hear it too.
My father did die of diabetes related issues, he was a type 1 who didn't take care of himself following a stroke. Is it his fault or is it the brain damage... Because a stroke IS brain damage.
While you have my sympathies on your father, that's a case where your father lacked fundamental and proper care. Either from a lack of proper teaching, or a lack of not having organizations like CCAS(as we call it here in Ontario), who are nurses who check on patients who are unable to properly care for themselves. But I'll also bet your father was: A drinker, didn't give two whits about their cholesterol, didn't have regular checkups and ignored symptoms thinking that "it'll just go away." Which is very common in men. Ask yourself how many times you'll feel something wrong and go "well if it goes away in a few, I won't worry about it."
The patent was sold for 1 dollar for altruistic reasons. Tell me, where is the altruism today?
No it really didn't, the reasons were far beyond that. Regular R-insulin is dirt cheap, I can cross the border into Michigan and buy it for $9/mo at walmart. It's $11.50/mo from walmart in most locations in Ohio for instance. That altruism is still around, you don't hear it. Just like you don't hear about the cop, ems, firefighter that's paying out of their own pocket to put some family kicked out of their house into a motel. Or the cop who refused to file a charge against someone who was caught stealing food at a grocery store, instead paid for it out of their own pocket and took the person(and/or their family) to their house for meals.
Then you have humanitarians like Martin Shkreli, who seem to represent the whole of the industry.
Far more to that story, far more.
Hahahhahahah Insulin isn't a chemical? When was the last time you looked up that definition? You must be a Canadian Trump Voter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Don't let the stupid hurt you.
Look at the systemic lack of action by police, councils and the crown in the UK over the massive child prostitution, child grooming and rape gangs, and it becomes a case that it's a bit from column a and b. More so that the prevailing political thought is "not to punish those asians" but to ignore it, or even accost the victims. And you've seen the same happening in other EU countries with regards to similar issues, or issues stemming from that. Again with the government, courts, police, crowns offices, and so on not doing anything. Then, the political left in these countries will start to screech that if you dare question any of this, you're "racist, sexist, islamophobe, etc, etc, etc." So, this pushes left-of-centre to the middle or right into the political right. And people on the right who were dismissed as "crazy lunatics" and "racists" for daring to want to limit immigrants who refuse to integrate into society aren't looking quite so crazy to these people. Rather, those people are looking back going well...maybe they were really correct all along.
That doesn't make it a case of "others" but a fundamental breakdown in the social contract. Where politicians and members of government see themselves as the elite and "they know best" and the people who are suffering under it, and asking "why the fuck didn't the police charge xyz person who groomed and raped my daughter who just hung herself."
I didn't say it was our largest killer, I said it was one of our largest killers, and 80,000 deaths per year makes that fact pretty damn clear. It was ranked 7th on our list in 2014, and I doubt much has changed since then. And you haven't even identified our actual largest killer, which is a product we call cigarettes. Greed again clarifies why this top killer is a legal product today. You're really degrading your fact-checking capability now. There are less than 2,000 cases of malaria reported in the US each year. That's a far cry from diabetes.
Except that your actual largest killer isn't cigarettes. It's not even the underlying cause. More people die from strokes unrelated to smoking then strokes directly related to smoking. You should probably look up those stats a bit more.
This fact has already been clarified here, and $1 back in 1921 is as much of a goodwill gesture as $1000 would be today.
No, because they sold the patent to the university for $1 to allow open production by multiple companies. Because it was an actual "treatable health threat" and an easy one at that. That link doesn't even explain the reasons "why" it was sold for $1 to UoT, go on read a bit more.
My argument has to do with Greed, which adds to those 80,000 deaths per year. When people cannot afford the very chemical required to sustain life, it's a death sentence, which sadly still rings true today. You know this
Except it's not. Those 80k deaths are not the primary cause, it's an underlying cause. It's not even secondary, it's usually 3rd or 4th underlying. Now here's the interesting party, you can bet that many of those people are on insulin. Many of those people simply didn't or refused to take actual care of themselves. I know diabetics that are in their 30's and have lost fingers, toes, feet, an entire leg all because of their own lack of action, or because they simply didn't care. Either not eating right, not caring to take insulin, eating foods that spike their blood sugar, and so on. That's *in* Canada, where insulin is covered. Primary deaths by diabetes are under the number of deaths in the US by malaria.
Insulin isn't a chemical either, not even close to one. If you're going to argue with someone at least get your shit right.
Actually in MOST cities I've been to in the US, what I described as the deplorable state of most cabs and drivers holds true.
You should try traveling outside of the US then, because it's not like that in Canada, Japan, UK, France, Germany, Denmark or anything else. In many cases cab companies are where all those countries were 50 years ago, and there really isn't any desire to make changes because of a variety of reasons. Almost all of them relate to government. So again, that's an elected official problem.
It's called "line-rushing" in the walmart term. They've been testing them in a bunch of places in Canada and the US. There's no cashier in several of the cases, but there's a person who pre-scan's everything for you while you're waiting and then you take the scanner with you plug it into the terminal and that's it. All totaled up and you just pay for it instead of unloading/loading it back into the cart. But unless walmart gives me a 10% discount like fast food chains and other stores are doing in Canada and the US, I'd never use their "self-checkout" systems.
Let's be honest here. I've seen people going shopping in pyjama's or underwear at Winn-Dixie's, Sweetbay, and Meijer in the US just as often as Walmart. Hell when Zellers existed here in Canada, you'd see the same thing along with Target(during the buyout) and in the US too.
Greed is the only fucking reason this product still costs so much in the US. And regardless of how many people use insulin, diabetes is still one of the largest killers in our society. Get your fucking facts straight next time.
Yeah not really. The reason the product still costs so much in the US is because of a variety of things, everything ranging from the source of said insulin and groups like PETA that try to shut it down. To the new types of insulin that are tested and developed because of insulin resistance. Diabetes isn't one of the largest killers in your society. That's heart disease, cancer and diseases related to weakened immune systems from secondary factors(old age, etc). You're more likely to die of malaria in the US then diabetes. FYI the reason it was sold for $1 wasn't because of a goodwill gesture, you should go read up some more about Frederick Banting and Rickard Macleod. There's far more to that story then you understand, or go take a trip to London, Ontario visit Banting House where they figured it all out.
And before you or some sad AC troll replies with a "but u don't know anything about diabetics" or something else, I'll just add that having a sister who was a juvenile diabetic back in the 1980's, I do know a few things. You know those lovely 1980's where the child mortality rate from undiagnosed diabetes in young children still had a 50% death rate. Look at how far we've come, it's less then 5% now in the west...in 30 years.
Sure, there are definitely people in Canada who do not enjoy the same level of service that I do ... but he was suggesting that you can only get decent internet access if you're close to a huge city, and that's just blatant nonsense. Pretty much every mid-size city has access to cable/ADSL speeds over 20 Mbps, as do many small towns close to them.
No it's not blatant nonsense. It's that you don't understand that not every mid-size city has access to cable/ADSL, you believe it does because you happen to be living in an area that has "large transit" to a major city nearby. Hell the street I live on now, is on 1934 copper lines still. Bell has zero interest in deploying fiber here, the only option is cable. You should be able to figure it out, a city with a pop of 23k isn't "small" in Canada, that's a large city. Let's look at Woodstock, until 4 years ago there was zero fiber. The only areas that were laid out were new subs on the north end, even at that the speeds were limited to 20Mbps. That meant 98% of the city was limited to 3/512 DSL. Roughly half of that same city is still on 1930's(some cases 1910 copper), and they're just starting to roll out FFTN but it's all still dark until next year.
I think what the GP meant was an agency cannot undo a regulation "at will". There is a defined process that must be followed, which, if I remember correctly, includes providing justification for the change.
Not actually true. Any regulation can be undone without any justification given, that's pretty much the point of a regulation. Unless it's a regulation with regards to law, in which case it's a different beast.
Huh? Congress repeals laws quite frequently. What do you think the whole argument this year about the ACA was?
I wasn't clear, an individual can't "undue" the law. It requires the courts or congress, senate and so on to do that.
I'm also a good 2hr drive from Toronto and it's 25Mbps or nothing at all. Here's what Bell offers when I lived in another town 2hrs from Toronto, the reality is it's 5/1 service at the very best. Most get 3/512. Check another 2hr town like Ingersoll, Ontario(12k), Woodstock, Ontario(pop 40k) enjoy!
Maybe it was broadband in 2010. Today you should be able to get at least 100 Mbps. Many of the areas we're bringing broadband to are receiving 1 Gbps symmetric.
10 Mbps is a complete joke, you'd be lucky to get two Netflix streams on that without stuttering.
Don't come to Canada then, because once you get outside of the big cities like Toronto, London, Ottawa, Vancouver and so on, or even on the outside edges of them? You're lucky if you can get 5Mbps/1Mbps service. In my own area, the fastest you can get is 25Mbps/1Mbps on cable, 3Mbps/512Kbps on DSL.
Apparently the failure mode of libertarianism is government action. Comcast paid for that last mile, and you're just going to socialize it? Chalk up another episode of lying hypocrisy from Mashiki.
You mean Comcast paid for it with either/and/or full monopoly rights, zero taxes, heavy government investment(state/local/city) in many cases. In other words, in most cases it's via your tax dollars not their dollars and on top of that they fight tooth and nail against any form of competition, including filing lawsuits against startups trying to gain "right-of-way" access on the same poles.
Chalk up another episode of the AC comment stalker, that show's they're as deranged two days ago as they are today.
Also, you cannot unilaterally undue rules. There would need to be justification for the change. As yet, the FCC has yet to present evidence for the change.
You absolutely can unilaterally undue rules and regulations. You absolutely cannot undue laws. You understand so little how governments are actually supposed to function is scary. The entire point you're trying to present is fiat by executive order AKA how a dictatorship/junta/non-democracy works.
This IS a public concern over the general welfare for all people and all businesses the same as clean drinking water and electricity is. It must be protected to provide for the general welfare of everyone not just a few special interests.
The only part of the internet that should be regulated as a utility is the "last mile" or "the pole to your home." Anything else is generally overkill, and the market can handle the rest if competition is healthy. Ask yourself this, if tomorrow comcast, AT&T, and so on could no longer hold local monopolies because the "pole to home" is classed as a utility and you can get access from *any* ISP, how much do you think things would change as companies tried to position themselves better?
Right, you can already see it can't you? ISP's would suddenly start positioning themselves based on what they want to offer, people who cared about x thing would shift to those other companies in an instant.
What customer protection regulations are you talking about?
Geez, the last cabs I've been in, where ragged, shitty and frankly, the person driving it scared me....looked like a hardened convict.
That's something to take up with either your city or state. In most places, they're not like that at all. Sounds like to me you have a far bigger problem with "entrenched politicians" then "entrenched cab companies."
Those "consumer protection" regulations and mandatory requirements include: Having the proper license(chauffeurs), proper insurance, including liability insurance and personal injury, first aid training(in Canada most require class a or b), 1yr safety inspections, 6mo "file and report" vehicle self-inspections, police background checks, automatic license revocation on drunk driving charge and the list goes on. That's all normal stuff that in Canada for example, Uber and Lyft among others have been trying to skirt for years by trying to claim they're not a cab company.
No, the French will be happily reprocessing nuclear fuel and laughing at the schmucks who are still reliant on fossil fools.
French reactors have a problem handing reprocessed nuclear fuel and require very specific mixes in order to operate properly. It's a well known design problem even with their current generations of reactors, which are why the current and future CANDU designs are being picked by more countries as a nuclear power solution. CANDU can use any fuel source, at any stage of it's life whether enriched uranium, highly enriched uranium, plutonium, all byproduct waste from highly radioactive to low radioactive and various types of MOX fuels.
On top of that nearly all of the uranium that France uses in it's nuclear program comes directly from Canada, and the various reprocessing facilities we have here. One of the reasons S.Korea went with CANDU designs was to directly get away from the problem of "long hauling" radioactive material.
Good job that never happened!
Sure did, why don't you go look in your post history. Should be in the last 3 years, give or take a bit.
I see you're confusing fantasy with reality again. I always post logged in since then my posts get auto-modded up to +2 because I have excellent karma.
Uh-huh, sure thing. Strange you've got exactly the same writing style, which have the same grammatical and spelling as one particular AC.
This is: your areguments are bad therefore you're an idiot.
When you can't attack the argument, and attack the person you've already lost. It only makes you look petty to everyone else, just a useful tip.
He used to post lots of broken links. Then he switched ot links to things which directly contradicted what he said in short order. Now he posts links to vrey long things which eventually contradict what he said.
Except the part where I never posted broken links, but you did a bang up job of showing how you were unable to click on something when it didn't suit your agenda, while screeching that it was about hacking you. That was more funny then anything else. You also did a bang up job of screeching that something was false because you refused to click on a link. BTW, you were more entertaining when you were posting as a AC.
If you talk to him, you generally get a barrage of crazy back.
This coming from a person that much like another person refuses to admit that they're wrong on something? Come on it's not that hard. I mean, that fbi.gov link might just be the russians hiding on the server waiting to steal your info...for whatever reason.
He's a bit like this chap
Oh the irony of the adhom, coming from someone who has repeatedly claimed in the past that they hold the moral high ground...