LOL. You should talk to whole sections of the healthcare industry if you want to know the true opinion of Medicare. I'll let you in on a secret, though: without it, there's no FUCKING healthcare industry at all. At least not one revolving around long-term care. You do want to die with some dignity, don't you?
Because sans medicare, you'd best start picking out what goddamn ice floe you want to die on.
Just before you get that big phat right-wing cock too far down your throat, I'll warn you that you're gonna choke on it.
Lest you forget, Obamacare is a Democrat invention. Lock, Stock, and Barrel
God, did mental retardation take a sudden spike over the last few weeks? There's some powerful fukin' STUPID folks clogging up the intertoobz these days.
Yes, it's almost a text-book example of a strawman argument. Someone most certainly did break into this CVS system and someone almost certainly did insert a backdoor. Not sure who it is, but of course the NSA have been pretty much admitting that they've been spying on everything we do, so it is also not really conspiratorial or hysterical to presume that they or someone like them might be pulling crap like this. However, anything unsettling that can be marked as a conspiracy immediately is, to delegitimize criticism and complaints.
More than one. How many people absent-mindedly carry a GUN to the airport? Now imagine how many people ignore or defy the order to shut off the phone, just because.
I'm sure in the last decade every plane in the sky has carried at least 3-4 fully activated, broadcasting devices onboard, and in the last 5 years it's probably more like 10-15. These things are everywhere in our lives now.
Long long time ago. Do you actually think all airline passengers obediently turn off their devices? Many of them simply tuck it away where it can't be seen.
It has EVERYTHING to do with an authoritarian mind-set that when you get on the plane, you will behave as you are told or get a jelly finger up the ass.
If all these gizmos could crash a plane, help me understand how no plane crash has ever been attributed to one because I assure you, many passengers merely slip their cellphones into a pocket and don't bother turning them off at all.
Doesn't actually sound all that paradoxical, once you look at it.
The more useful a thing is, the more it will get used.
Until it runs out. Fortunately at the same time we're doing this renewable energy is taking off hugely, so by the time we finish rapidly eating the last few bits of the petroleum cake, we'll have a new cake to chow on.
Exactly. Fingerprints are the worst password ever. You literally leave your password in plain sight RIGHT ON THE OBJECT you are supposed to be securing. How much less secure could you get?
Tea Party stupid is special. It comes with a heaping side of massive, deliberate willful ignorance. It is very different and one reason the Tea Party will vanish in the next two or three cycles, taking the Republicans with them.
Because you write what you know. When Lucas was the head of a multimillion dollar entertainment empire, he spent all fucking day at meetings. So when he wrote his epic, he wrote about what he was doing which is BORING DEATH TO EVERYONE BUT HIM.
So as long as the author of the scripts has the skill level above that of apprentice screenwriter, he can remember not to stage every goddamn important scene around a god-damn CONFERENCE TABLE WHICH IS BORING AS FUCK GEORGE!!!/rant off
For millions and millions of dollars' profit, it would pay to be aware of such things. Apple's cluelessness is reinforced by this eye-candy design decision.
You'll have to excuse the oil industry trolls who are making as much concern as they can. Their business model is about to evaporate completely and they don't know what to do, so spread FUD and confusion!
Well, you have to recognize that "conservatives" aren't anymore, they are con-artists. The "conservative" movement has been sabotaged by a pack of slimy con-men who are out to loot the public's treasure wherever they can get their hands on it. That is all they are about anymore, and the sooner people wake up to this, the better.
"Small government" is just small for the con-artists, whose scams are now being legalized so that the maximum number of people can be fleeced.
Years ago, I remember reading in my Time-Life books, which were an amazing series that I re-bought for my own kids, about how cars were manufactured.
There was a Time-Life book on almost every topic of the modern world. This one talked about how early transport was done, and when they talked about cars they SPECIFICALLY mentioned how engineers would put the car on a machine to simulate use, and deliberately weaken parts that lasted longer than the "designed" life of the car.
There was no whispered conspiratorial tone to this; it was stated matter-of-factly in that matter-of-fact tone of voice you do not find in modern media. So, basically, it's not a myth or a conspiracy that our modern conveniences have been deliberately and intentionally made to fall apart at a certain rate in order to ensure profitability for the parts manufacturers.
Kudos to Elon Musk for his willingness to break this absurd paradigm.
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I take that that he meant the story to turn into a turgid, cheap soap opera.
LOL. You should talk to whole sections of the healthcare industry if you want to know the true opinion of Medicare. I'll let you in on a secret, though: without it, there's no FUCKING healthcare industry at all. At least not one revolving around long-term care. You do want to die with some dignity, don't you?
Because sans medicare, you'd best start picking out what goddamn ice floe you want to die on.
Just before you get that big phat right-wing cock too far down your throat, I'll warn you that you're gonna choke on it.
God, did mental retardation take a sudden spike over the last few weeks? There's some powerful fukin' STUPID folks clogging up the intertoobz these days.
I think it is fascinating how everyone's suddenly a fucking expert on web design these days.
It's kind of a relief to know that pretty soon China's economic model will evaporate once 3d printing becomes consumerized.
At least, the part where cheap labor is mercilessly exploited in an inhuman fashion by lazy, worthless douchebags.
Yes, it's almost a text-book example of a strawman argument. Someone most certainly did break into this CVS system and someone almost certainly did insert a backdoor. Not sure who it is, but of course the NSA have been pretty much admitting that they've been spying on everything we do, so it is also not really conspiratorial or hysterical to presume that they or someone like them might be pulling crap like this. However, anything unsettling that can be marked as a conspiracy immediately is, to delegitimize criticism and complaints.
Based on what? Your personal estimation of how important their time is? Based on your priorities of what is or is not important?
Sometimes people's astounding high-handed arrogance just boggles my mind. Who the fuck do you think you are?
More than one. How many people absent-mindedly carry a GUN to the airport? Now imagine how many people ignore or defy the order to shut off the phone, just because.
I'm sure in the last decade every plane in the sky has carried at least 3-4 fully activated, broadcasting devices onboard, and in the last 5 years it's probably more like 10-15. These things are everywhere in our lives now.
Long long time ago. Do you actually think all airline passengers obediently turn off their devices? Many of them simply tuck it away where it can't be seen.
It has EVERYTHING to do with an authoritarian mind-set that when you get on the plane, you will behave as you are told or get a jelly finger up the ass.
If all these gizmos could crash a plane, help me understand how no plane crash has ever been attributed to one because I assure you, many passengers merely slip their cellphones into a pocket and don't bother turning them off at all.
Doesn't actually sound all that paradoxical, once you look at it.
The more useful a thing is, the more it will get used.
Until it runs out. Fortunately at the same time we're doing this renewable energy is taking off hugely, so by the time we finish rapidly eating the last few bits of the petroleum cake, we'll have a new cake to chow on.
The cake is still a lie, BTW.
Play the bass. Don't use a pick. My fingerprints are hamburger from 30+ years of abuse.
Exactly. Fingerprints are the worst password ever. You literally leave your password in plain sight RIGHT ON THE OBJECT you are supposed to be securing. How much less secure could you get?
If you saw that in the US, (you did miss saying you "saw" a government rip up the road) you saw a private contractor doing it, almost certainly.
You did not see "government" employees doing it. Prove I'm wrong. I'll wait.
I will never EVER purchase a house under an HOA. They sound like the ultimate in horror and misery that one can inflict upon oneself.
Tea Party stupid is special. It comes with a heaping side of massive, deliberate willful ignorance. It is very different and one reason the Tea Party will vanish in the next two or three cycles, taking the Republicans with them.
That's funny, I can tell how tiny someone's dick is by how fast they drive their car.
The faster the car, the smaller the dick. It is axiomatic, 100% of the time.
This is more like crossing the Rubicon. They're making a point and sticking it in hard.
I think you're inhuman and should never be allowed to make a decision for someone else again.
The bunny sled is why I have no interest in the rest of that movie. I don't even want to watch installment 1 again.
It was like Monty Python intruded, unasked, into the movie.
Because you write what you know. When Lucas was the head of a multimillion dollar entertainment empire, he spent all fucking day at meetings. So when he wrote his epic, he wrote about what he was doing which is BORING DEATH TO EVERYONE BUT HIM.
So as long as the author of the scripts has the skill level above that of apprentice screenwriter, he can remember not to stage every goddamn important scene around a god-damn CONFERENCE TABLE WHICH IS BORING AS FUCK GEORGE!!! /rant off
For millions and millions of dollars' profit, it would pay to be aware of such things. Apple's cluelessness is reinforced by this eye-candy design decision.
You'll have to excuse the oil industry trolls who are making as much concern as they can. Their business model is about to evaporate completely and they don't know what to do, so spread FUD and confusion!
Well, you have to recognize that "conservatives" aren't anymore, they are con-artists. The "conservative" movement has been sabotaged by a pack of slimy con-men who are out to loot the public's treasure wherever they can get their hands on it. That is all they are about anymore, and the sooner people wake up to this, the better.
"Small government" is just small for the con-artists, whose scams are now being legalized so that the maximum number of people can be fleeced.
Years ago, I remember reading in my Time-Life books, which were an amazing series that I re-bought for my own kids, about how cars were manufactured.
There was a Time-Life book on almost every topic of the modern world. This one talked about how early transport was done, and when they talked about cars they SPECIFICALLY mentioned how engineers would put the car on a machine to simulate use, and deliberately weaken parts that lasted longer than the "designed" life of the car.
There was no whispered conspiratorial tone to this; it was stated matter-of-factly in that matter-of-fact tone of voice you do not find in modern media. So, basically, it's not a myth or a conspiracy that our modern conveniences have been deliberately and intentionally made to fall apart at a certain rate in order to ensure profitability for the parts manufacturers.
Kudos to Elon Musk for his willingness to break this absurd paradigm.