If only there was some document; some. ..set of principles, that could somehow restrain this overreach.
It would have to be clear and simple, though: something as straightforward as the U.S. Constitution.
As long as you're plugging in, I'm sure that you'd arrange to bind a credit card account to the MAC address that would be associated with the car, and the transaction would handle itself.
For example, the Navy uses 2190 mineral oil to cool the 23699 synthetic oil in the LM2500 gas turbines that move most of the fleet. The 2190 is also used to lube the main reduction gear that steps down the RPM of that LM2500 by a ratio of ratio of 21.3746 to 1 (ISTR it was 27:1 on the old Ticonderoga-class, but this is a different drive train).
The 2190 mineral oil system has a heat exchanger, trading all that lovely hotness with seawater.
The rationale for using 2190 to cool the high-performance 23699 is that, in case of a heat exchanger failure, a bit of mineral oil in the synthetic (for which the engineers test repeatedly throughout the day) is a lot less damaging than getting seawater in there.
ObamaCare “adopts the ‘individual mandate’ concept from the conservative Heritage Foundation,” Jonathan Alter wrote recently in The Washington Post. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews makes the same claim, asserting that Republican support of a mandate “has its roots in a proposal by the conservative Heritage Foundation.” Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi and others have made similar claims.
The confusion arises from the fact that 20 years ago, I held the view that as a technical matter, some form of requirement to purchase insurance was needed in a near-universal insurance market to avoid massive instability through “adverse selection” (insurers avoiding bad risks and healthy people declining coverage). At that time, President Clinton was proposing a universal health care plan, and Heritage and I devised a viable alternative.
My view was shared at the time by many conservative experts, including American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholars, as well as most non-conservative analysts. Even libertarian-conservative icon Milton Friedman, in a 1991 Wall Street Journal article, advocated replacing Medicare and Medicaid “with a requirement that every U.S. family unit have a major medical insurance policy.”
My idea was hardly new. Heritage did not invent the individual mandate.
But the version of the health insurance mandate Heritage and I supported in the 1990s had three critical features. First, it was not primarily intended to push people to obtain protection for their own good, but to protect others. Like auto damage liability insurance required in most states, our requirement focused on “catastrophic” costs — so hospitals and taxpayers would not have to foot the bill for the expensive illness or accident of someone who did not buy insurance.
Second, we sought to induce people to buy coverage primarily through the carrot of a generous health credit or voucher, financed in part by a fundamental reform of the tax treatment of health coverage, rather than by a stick.
And third, in the legislation we helped craft that ultimately became a preferred alternative to ClintonCare, the “mandate” was actually the loss of certain tax breaks for those not choosing to buy coverage, not a legal requirement.
From the soaring triumph of the Apollo Project, to the sub-Hades goat-ropery Healthcare.gov in just half a century.
I, for one, am willing to confess that the U.S. won the Cold War, and is losing the sequel.
Nor are we likely to, in the name of Progress, since that really means keeping everyone on the plantation instead of getting off the planet.
There just aren't any votes to buy off of the Earth, and where is the political power in that?
Because the Koch Brothers cannot fool the American voters twice.
When did they fool Americans the first time?
When did Americans remain unfooled, and neglect to re-elect, a no-talent rodeo clown?
What have the Koch Brothers even done, other than support classical libertarian values, and try to avert the kinds of catastrophes we se unfolding now with #ObamaCare?
Why does the notion of restoring prosperity offend you so?
leaving the Tea Party in power is counter to the interests of >>99% of all people in this country and beyond
When (and be specific) has the Tea Party ever been in power? Or are you trying to say that Harry Reid is a Tea Partier? Such would be as valid as your claiming #OccupyResoluteDesk is conservative.
the only way they can get and hold power is to push people away from voting (one way or another)
Wait, are you saying that Tea Partiers are going to engage in voter fraud to achieve their goals of protecting the integrity of our founding ideals? Any evidence or basis for that? Any? As a veteran, who's served to protect this country from turning into a third world armpit (which it's becoming, alas) I find this innuendo offensive. But, as a conservative, I guess I'm supposed to accept the falsehood in silence, or something.
But of course, they don't fear the parts of the constitution that they dislike.
I dislike the 16th & 17th Amendments. Do you have a point, and, if so, what might it be?
If anyone is trying to actively disenfranchise voters, it is the conservatives in the GOP and their ultra-hard-right faction called the Tea Party.
I'm genuinely curious how you possibly think that statement even sort of correlates to reality.
If this was an early Troll Tuesday entry, then I salute you: it's a winner.
If you give the people any chance to participate in government, besides paying taxes and voting for the carefully-groomed, reliable idiots, then they are likely to develop some misplaced sense of ownership.
That is absolutely NOT how this plantation is run.
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If only there was some document; some. . .set of principles, that could somehow restrain this overreach.
It would have to be clear and simple, though: something as straightforward as the U.S. Constitution.
He's a representative sample of what the U.S. government has become, and that's by no means limited to either component party of the Ruling Class.
You're already solving that problem just getting the juice in. The issue is really moving some packetry atop the 'trons.
As long as you're plugging in, I'm sure that you'd arrange to bind a credit card account to the MAC address that would be associated with the car, and the transaction would handle itself.
You see that a lot in CBR systems, too.
For example, the Navy uses 2190 mineral oil to cool the 23699 synthetic oil in the LM2500 gas turbines that move most of the fleet. The 2190 is also used to lube the main reduction gear that steps down the RPM of that LM2500 by a ratio of ratio of 21.3746 to 1 (ISTR it was 27:1 on the old Ticonderoga-class, but this is a different drive train).
The 2190 mineral oil system has a heat exchanger, trading all that lovely hotness with seawater.
The rationale for using 2190 to cool the high-performance 23699 is that, in case of a heat exchanger failure, a bit of mineral oil in the synthetic (for which the engineers test repeatedly throughout the day) is a lot less damaging than getting seawater in there.
"Don't be evil" is just lip service?
3) the whole point is to have a chilling effect on file trading
Nothing's prefect.
And Princess Pelosi knows full well that, once the hook is set, there's no escaping it.
Far from a sympathetic character, that one.
ObamaCare “adopts the ‘individual mandate’ concept from the conservative Heritage Foundation,” Jonathan Alter wrote recently in The Washington Post. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews makes the same claim, asserting that Republican support of a mandate “has its roots in a proposal by the conservative Heritage Foundation.” Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi and others have made similar claims.
The confusion arises from the fact that 20 years ago, I held the view that as a technical matter, some form of requirement to purchase insurance was needed in a near-universal insurance market to avoid massive instability through “adverse selection” (insurers avoiding bad risks and healthy people declining coverage). At that time, President Clinton was proposing a universal health care plan, and Heritage and I devised a viable alternative.
My view was shared at the time by many conservative experts, including American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholars, as well as most non-conservative analysts. Even libertarian-conservative icon Milton Friedman, in a 1991 Wall Street Journal article, advocated replacing Medicare and Medicaid “with a requirement that every U.S. family unit have a major medical insurance policy.”
My idea was hardly new. Heritage did not invent the individual mandate.
But the version of the health insurance mandate Heritage and I supported in the 1990s had three critical features. First, it was not primarily intended to push people to obtain protection for their own good, but to protect others. Like auto damage liability insurance required in most states, our requirement focused on “catastrophic” costs — so hospitals and taxpayers would not have to foot the bill for the expensive illness or accident of someone who did not buy insurance.
Second, we sought to induce people to buy coverage primarily through the carrot of a generous health credit or voucher, financed in part by a fundamental reform of the tax treatment of health coverage, rather than by a stick.
And third, in the legislation we helped craft that ultimately became a preferred alternative to ClintonCare, the “mandate” was actually the loss of certain tax breaks for those not choosing to buy coverage, not a legal requirement.
Complexity sucks.
From the soaring triumph of the Apollo Project, to the sub-Hades goat-ropery Healthcare.gov in just half a century.
I, for one, am willing to confess that the U.S. won the Cold War, and is losing the sequel.
Nor are we likely to, in the name of Progress, since that really means keeping everyone on the plantation instead of getting off the planet.
There just aren't any votes to buy off of the Earth, and where is the political power in that?
Because the Koch Brothers cannot fool the American voters twice.
When did they fool Americans the first time?
When did Americans remain unfooled, and neglect to re-elect, a no-talent rodeo clown?
What have the Koch Brothers even done, other than support classical libertarian values, and try to avert the kinds of catastrophes we se unfolding now with #ObamaCare?
Why does the notion of restoring prosperity offend you so?
leaving the Tea Party in power is counter to the interests of >>99% of all people in this country and beyond
When (and be specific) has the Tea Party ever been in power? Or are you trying to say that Harry Reid is a Tea Partier? Such would be as valid as your claiming #OccupyResoluteDesk is conservative.
the only way they can get and hold power is to push people away from voting (one way or another)
Wait, are you saying that Tea Partiers are going to engage in voter fraud to achieve their goals of protecting the integrity of our founding ideals? Any evidence or basis for that? Any? As a veteran, who's served to protect this country from turning into a third world armpit (which it's becoming, alas) I find this innuendo offensive. But, as a conservative, I guess I'm supposed to accept the falsehood in silence, or something.
But of course, they don't fear the parts of the constitution that they dislike.
I dislike the 16th & 17th Amendments. Do you have a point, and, if so, what might it be?
If anyone is trying to actively disenfranchise voters, it is the conservatives in the GOP and their ultra-hard-right faction called the Tea Party.
I'm genuinely curious how you possibly think that statement even sort of correlates to reality.
If this was an early Troll Tuesday entry, then I salute you: it's a winner.
If you give the people any chance to participate in government, besides paying taxes and voting for the carefully-groomed, reliable idiots, then they are likely to develop some misplaced sense of ownership.
That is absolutely NOT how this plantation is run.
That might explain a few things.
Sometimes you win; sometimes you're Ambassador Chris Stevens.
I'm after a more general-purpose observation here.
But will the Tea Party succeed in displacing "Da Jooz" as the go-to boogeymen?
Smells like Alinsky's dirty socks.
Anybody not agreeing with the Ruling Class is now "Tea Party", huh?
Or maybe he's being lured out for a very special cup of tea by an especially special someone.
I saw "Hyperbolic BS" doing a five-year jam in the Oval Office.
Ticket price was beyond outrageous.
Only if the U.S. were still a place where notions of Rule of Law and Equality Before the Law were more than pleasant memories.
It doesn't show, but, whenever they leave the family home, they go out the window--Steven Wright