"Indeed, the average person on Earth is more free today, in 2014, than he or she would have been in the actual year 1984"
Maybe the average person on Earth is more free today, but the average American is most definitely NOT more free today than they were in 1984. Try to buy a large soda in New York. Try to smoke just about anywhere indoors. Try to board a plane with a pocket knife, or even just a soda. 20 year old adults can serve in the Marines, but can't buy a drink.
And how exactly should we "re-direct" our frustration to the "people at TSA headquarters who are being paid the big bucks to make the rules"? Should we all go down there and invite them to lunch? The TSA agents ARE the face of the TSA. They are the only part of the TSA agency that most people will ever come into contact with. If the TSA agents don't like being the face of an organization with absurd rules, then they should ALL quit. Maybe that would cause some kind of change to those absurd rules.
The people running for office mostly just want to be rich. To be elected to office, they need to appeal mainly to one of two groups of people: those who want less government telling them what to do, or those who want more government to take from others and give to them. Once elected to office, they don't have to actually do either. They simply need to pretend that they are working on less/more government while blaming any issues on the other side for not accomplishing less/more government. This is why Democrats have been promising to end poverty for 40 years yet poverty continues to rise (even when they control the White House and Congress). This is why Republicans have been promising to reduce the size of the federal government for 40 years yet the government continues to grow (even when they control the White House and Congress).
While there may be a small handful of honest politicians who truly believe in doing what is in the best interest of the American people, this is obviously not the majority of the people in Washington.
If the government can't put together a website, what in the world makes people think it can manage the complex healthcare system? The pain is only beginning. The failed amateur website will be nothing compared to the government crashing our healthcare system.
Compared to Watergate, what the NSA is doing is 10000000 times worse. Instead of stealing documents/info from just the Democratic headquarters, the NSA is capturing and storing info from ALL Americans. They are storing so-called "metadata" for every single cell phone call. The secret court ruberstamp grants them access to email and web info for anyone for any reason. They have worked to reduce the effectiveness of encryption standards for all internet users. And we don't even know all the "back doors" they have installed. If this stuff came to light when a Republican was in the White House, you can bet that he would have been impeached.
This is exactly the concept on which the USA was founded: a "loose" federation of states. Over time, the federal government has been growing more and more massive, grabbing more power for itself.
Not sure why this is such a big deal. There are some people who are against Obamacare, but didn't know that the Affordable Care Act is the same thing. Why is that a problem?
On average men are taller than women. Does that mean every man is taller than every woman? Obviously not. But if there is a job that requires reaching tall heights, you can bet that there will be more men working in that position than women.
http://www.webmd.com/balance/features/how-male-female-brains-differ "Boys generally demonstrate superiority over female peers in areas of the brain involved in math and geometry. These areas of the brain mature about four years earlier in boys than in girls, according to a recent study that measured brain development in more than 500 children. Researchers concluded that when it comes to math, the brain of a 12-year-old girl resembles that of an 8-year-old boy. Conversely, the same researchers found that areas of the brain involved in language and fine motor skills (such as handwriting) mature about six years earlier in girls than in boys."
At some point our society went from "leveling the playing the field" to "drastically changing the playing field to make the end-game scores the same". See, it doesn't matter that millions of years of evolution have resulted in some significant differences between males and females. It doesn't matter that there are already programs/scholarships to place to favor one group over another. It doesn't even matter if they can't find any specific examples of discrimination. The very fact that there are more of X than Y in a specific profession is reason enough to try to slant the playing field even further in an effort to make the end result the same.
This would be great if a majority of the voting public actually gave a damn. Unfortunately they are too concerned with Miley Cyrus to care about our government spying on us.
I don't understand why some people put so much value in the opinions of those who get paid to pretend to be someone else. This is especially annoying around election time.
So you are claiming that the Democrats came into negotiations wanting something else, but they submitted a plan that they thought the Republicans would support. And when not a single Republican signed on to support it, they moved forward with that plan anyway??? Is that your take on history?
Only in a liberal's mind can a bill passed without a single Republican vote be considered a "compromise".
If compromises were being planned just to appease Republicans, yet not a single Republican was willing to sign the bill, why was the bill written with those compromises anyway???? What kind of sense does that make?
The gestures made to get 3 of the most liberal Republicans onboard were extremely weak gestures just to provide some political cover if/when the "trainwreck" of a law became reality. There was never a serious effort to work in a bi-partisan fashion with the Republican party on healthcare reform. The TRUE compromises were made in the effort of keeping center Demoncrats onboard (exactly like the original poster said).
The Cornhusker kickback was added to appease Democrat Ben Nelson (the 60th vote). The Louisiana Purchase was the inclusion of millions in Medicaid federal aid to help out Democrat Mary Landrieu.
I agree. And furthermore, I find it disturbing that a major news outlet seems to be celebrating this criminal. What happens if someone else attempts to break this record and hits a child on a bike because they were going too fast around a curve? Will that just be an "accident"? This is no different than someone running around in public with a loaded shotgun. Would CNN be celebrating that action?
You don't see any Monopoly like actions yet from Amazon because they are not truly a Monopoly yet. When MS was battling neck-and-neck with Apple, they were generally seen in a pretty positive light. It wasn't until they had destroyed all competition that they started abusing their monopoly status. I predict the same thing with Amazon. After Amazon has destroyed most of the local stores and there is no other alternative but to shop with them, will they still provide the same great service for the same low prices? History says that this is not likely.
Obama has been elected twice by lying about the ACA. Watch how popular it is when the younger generation are forced to pay for health insurance that they don't need.
Laws against Illegal Immigration have been on the books much longer than 3 years and they have been vetted by the supreme court. Liberals have had plenty of time to make changes to these laws and haven't been able to. Is the Obama administration "throwing a temper tantrum" when they refuse to enforce those laws?
The NSA info didn't stop the Boston Bombers, even though the Russians explicitly warned our government to watch them. The NSA info didn't help to realize that Snowden was untrustworthy, even though his supervisor warned the chain of command. Has the NSA info actually done anything more than spy on innocent US citizens?
If a Republican were in the White House, the NYT would have reported on this instantly and heavily. When Bush was in office, the NYT leaked confidential info that put our troops in danger. And look at the constant stream of stories they did on Abu Gharib and interrogation techniques. Why weren't they scared of the feds then?
The main reason the American media are holding back on this story is because Obama is currently in the White House.
And who is it that you would want to decide "who needs care most urgently"? The political bureaucrats? The guys who give kickbacks to their friends and make life hard on everyone else? Is that who you would trust to decide whether they give a liver transplant to one of their alcoholic friends instead of to your sick child? A government system always results in corruption, and the people who get ahead are the ones with political connections. I would take the US system any day over that.
Note the 2nd part: "unless they exploit a cross-site scripting or other bug at the target website"
Also, even if the attacker can't see what the target website sends back, that doesn't mean they can't get the information. Given that these are web email apps we are talking about, perhaps the hacker sent an email to himself containing all the contact info and then sent another instruction to delete that email in order to cover his tracks.
Getting a job in politics is like winning the lottery. The "winners" stand to make millions off the kickbacks and side deals. And all it takes to lose that lottery ticket is a small scandal that the press can run with right before re-election. The story doesn't even need to be completely true. The very insinuation of wrong-doing can be enough to lose a re-election. This is especially true for a Republican politician.
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"Indeed, the average person on Earth is more free today, in 2014, than he or she would have been in the actual year 1984"
Maybe the average person on Earth is more free today, but the average American is most definitely NOT more free today than they were in 1984. Try to buy a large soda in New York. Try to smoke just about anywhere indoors. Try to board a plane with a pocket knife, or even just a soda. 20 year old adults can serve in the Marines, but can't buy a drink.
And how exactly should we "re-direct" our frustration to the "people at TSA headquarters who are being paid the big bucks to make the rules"? Should we all go down there and invite them to lunch? The TSA agents ARE the face of the TSA. They are the only part of the TSA agency that most people will ever come into contact with. If the TSA agents don't like being the face of an organization with absurd rules, then they should ALL quit. Maybe that would cause some kind of change to those absurd rules.
Future cost of cable will be this:
$150 per month for cable TV + internet
$140 per month for internet only
Enjoy your options.
Sounds like the standard Microsoft "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" strategy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
The people running for office mostly just want to be rich. To be elected to office, they need to appeal mainly to one of two groups of people: those who want less government telling them what to do, or those who want more government to take from others and give to them. Once elected to office, they don't have to actually do either. They simply need to pretend that they are working on less/more government while blaming any issues on the other side for not accomplishing less/more government. This is why Democrats have been promising to end poverty for 40 years yet poverty continues to rise (even when they control the White House and Congress). This is why Republicans have been promising to reduce the size of the federal government for 40 years yet the government continues to grow (even when they control the White House and Congress).
While there may be a small handful of honest politicians who truly believe in doing what is in the best interest of the American people, this is obviously not the majority of the people in Washington.
If the government can't put together a website, what in the world makes people think it can manage the complex healthcare system? The pain is only beginning. The failed amateur website will be nothing compared to the government crashing our healthcare system.
Compared to Watergate, what the NSA is doing is 10000000 times worse. Instead of stealing documents/info from just the Democratic headquarters, the NSA is capturing and storing info from ALL Americans. They are storing so-called "metadata" for every single cell phone call. The secret court ruberstamp grants them access to email and web info for anyone for any reason. They have worked to reduce the effectiveness of encryption standards for all internet users. And we don't even know all the "back doors" they have installed. If this stuff came to light when a Republican was in the White House, you can bet that he would have been impeached.
This is exactly the concept on which the USA was founded: a "loose" federation of states. Over time, the federal government has been growing more and more massive, grabbing more power for itself.
Not sure why this is such a big deal. There are some people who are against Obamacare, but didn't know that the Affordable Care Act is the same thing. Why is that a problem?
On average men are taller than women. Does that mean every man is taller than every woman? Obviously not. But if there is a job that requires reaching tall heights, you can bet that there will be more men working in that position than women.
http://www.webmd.com/balance/features/how-male-female-brains-differ
"Boys generally demonstrate superiority over female peers in areas of the brain involved in math and geometry. These areas of the brain mature about four years earlier in boys than in girls, according to a recent study that measured brain development in more than 500 children. Researchers concluded that when it comes to math, the brain of a 12-year-old girl resembles that of an 8-year-old boy. Conversely, the same researchers found that areas of the brain involved in language and fine motor skills (such as handwriting) mature about six years earlier in girls than in boys."
At some point our society went from "leveling the playing the field" to "drastically changing the playing field to make the end-game scores the same". See, it doesn't matter that millions of years of evolution have resulted in some significant differences between males and females. It doesn't matter that there are already programs/scholarships to place to favor one group over another. It doesn't even matter if they can't find any specific examples of discrimination. The very fact that there are more of X than Y in a specific profession is reason enough to try to slant the playing field even further in an effort to make the end result the same.
This would be great if a majority of the voting public actually gave a damn. Unfortunately they are too concerned with Miley Cyrus to care about our government spying on us.
I don't understand why some people put so much value in the opinions of those who get paid to pretend to be someone else. This is especially annoying around election time.
So you are claiming that the Democrats came into negotiations wanting something else, but they submitted a plan that they thought the Republicans would support. And when not a single Republican signed on to support it, they moved forward with that plan anyway??? Is that your take on history?
Only in a liberal's mind can a bill passed without a single Republican vote be considered a "compromise".
If compromises were being planned just to appease Republicans, yet not a single Republican was willing to sign the bill, why was the bill written with those compromises anyway???? What kind of sense does that make?
The gestures made to get 3 of the most liberal Republicans onboard were extremely weak gestures just to provide some political cover if/when the "trainwreck" of a law became reality. There was never a serious effort to work in a bi-partisan fashion with the Republican party on healthcare reform. The TRUE compromises were made in the effort of keeping center Demoncrats onboard (exactly like the original poster said).
The Cornhusker kickback was added to appease Democrat Ben Nelson (the 60th vote). The Louisiana Purchase was the inclusion of millions in Medicaid federal aid to help out Democrat Mary Landrieu.
I agree. And furthermore, I find it disturbing that a major news outlet seems to be celebrating this criminal. What happens if someone else attempts to break this record and hits a child on a bike because they were going too fast around a curve? Will that just be an "accident"? This is no different than someone running around in public with a loaded shotgun. Would CNN be celebrating that action?
A democracy also doesn't work when the majority of citizens are more concerned about Miley Cyrus than they are about being spied on everyday.
You don't see any Monopoly like actions yet from Amazon because they are not truly a Monopoly yet. When MS was battling neck-and-neck with Apple, they were generally seen in a pretty positive light. It wasn't until they had destroyed all competition that they started abusing their monopoly status. I predict the same thing with Amazon. After Amazon has destroyed most of the local stores and there is no other alternative but to shop with them, will they still provide the same great service for the same low prices? History says that this is not likely.
Obama has been elected twice by lying about the ACA. Watch how popular it is when the younger generation are forced to pay for health insurance that they don't need.
Laws against Illegal Immigration have been on the books much longer than 3 years and they have been vetted by the supreme court. Liberals have had plenty of time to make changes to these laws and haven't been able to. Is the Obama administration "throwing a temper tantrum" when they refuse to enforce those laws?
The NSA info didn't stop the Boston Bombers, even though the Russians explicitly warned our government to watch them. The NSA info didn't help to realize that Snowden was untrustworthy, even though his supervisor warned the chain of command. Has the NSA info actually done anything more than spy on innocent US citizens?
If a Republican were in the White House, the NYT would have reported on this instantly and heavily. When Bush was in office, the NYT leaked confidential info that put our troops in danger. And look at the constant stream of stories they did on Abu Gharib and interrogation techniques. Why weren't they scared of the feds then?
The main reason the American media are holding back on this story is because Obama is currently in the White House.
And who is it that you would want to decide "who needs care most urgently"? The political bureaucrats? The guys who give kickbacks to their friends and make life hard on everyone else? Is that who you would trust to decide whether they give a liver transplant to one of their alcoholic friends instead of to your sick child? A government system always results in corruption, and the people who get ahead are the ones with political connections. I would take the US system any day over that.
Note the 2nd part: "unless they exploit a cross-site scripting or other bug at the target website"
Also, even if the attacker can't see what the target website sends back, that doesn't mean they can't get the information. Given that these are web email apps we are talking about, perhaps the hacker sent an email to himself containing all the contact info and then sent another instruction to delete that email in order to cover his tracks.
Getting a job in politics is like winning the lottery. The "winners" stand to make millions off the kickbacks and side deals. And all it takes to lose that lottery ticket is a small scandal that the press can run with right before re-election. The story doesn't even need to be completely true. The very insinuation of wrong-doing can be enough to lose a re-election. This is especially true for a Republican politician.