The only reason that markets have been enshrined, is that the left has done everything in their power to destroy anything that looks like a religion (unless it a poorly copied imitation of a eastern religion that ignores everything other than sitting with your eyes closed and chanting while wearing strange clothes).
There has been a strong push to have government take the place of religion (so said leftist can have some control over it) along with the spiritual and charity functions it once assumed, with an equal and opposite push-back to not let the government have those powers and responsibilities. The only place for those powers and responsibilities to land is the free market.
Wrong. The government is stopping me if they are taking my money through taxes in order to pay for the care of people they find more deserving.
You stated how you budget a portion of your income. In Europe there would need to be another line item, "Taxes taken by government to pay for care of people that are not me or my family." If you're fine with that, cool. But, don't act like that isn't going to change how the numbers fall out.
Instead of all the expensive, high tech stuff, might the just allow people to raise and harvest rhinos? When tried in South Africa, the rhino population spiked and the poaching dipped (why take the chance of getting nabbed poaching what has become a commodity item?)
Of course, the "animal protectionist" don't care for that idea, because . . . REASONS?
Alligator farming became a thing in the southern US, providing a valuable source of handbags, shoes and tough, tasteless, chewy meat, and the alligators are becoming the pests that they once were.
A Congress critter was once asked why the tax code was so complicated, and why didn't they just simplify it. The critter responded, "Why would we voluntarily give up so much power?"
I ask you here, why would the Congress critters give up so much power?
Or, just tax employer insurance like the income that it is, then watch as insurance slowly stops being tied to a job. Then people can buy insurance or pay their doctor out of pocket. The doctors that don't have two extra people on staff to haggle with insurance companies will be able to charge less, and will get the patients that are paying out of pocket.
You're single payer wetdream of getting someone else to support you, still requires a lot of payers that must also support a cadre of visible and hidden salaries whose job is nothing more than pointlessly shuffle papers around.
Things cost more because most of the R&D happens here. Europe is often the beneficiary of that.
And the military meme IS boring. That is why I'm happy that Trump is pulling out of Syria. If ISIS re-constitutes itself, Europe will be the recipient of most of the terrorist attacks. Let them send their people and money in to fight them.
The Europeans sacrifice the young and the old. The US sacrifices the poor. What we're saying here is that there really isn't enough for everybody to have all the want all the time.
At least in the US, we can choose. If I've worked all my life to save a nest-egg, I can choose to spend it on EOL care, or I can choose to take a leisurely swim to Europe. Europe, having leaders that are smarter than the rest of us, makes those decisions for me. (Because, I can't have the nest-egg if they've taxed it out of me beforehand.)
Better yet, tax the health insurance "benefit" just like any other pay. The government playing favorites with "tax this, but not that" is what screws the market.
I was going to say that libraries are useless, but that is because I was thinking about warehouses of books.
But, your post leads me to think of the remake of "A Time Machine" that came out in the early 2000's. The "library" was a computer hologram that could dispense knowledge is the most appropriate way. Unlike a book warehouse, I would find such a place very useful.
This is why I don't like big cities and mass transit. At the end of the day, all humanity gets reduced to automata. You are not a person with your own goals and desires. We much force you into a box that exactly matches all the other boxes so that we can increase efficiency. Step on the escalator, ignore your personal space and sidle up next to the other person that you have never met as if you're best friends.
"Did they compare to abuse to men?" Why does that matter? If men are abused online every 30 seconds that doesn't make this normal.
Actually, that would quite literally be the definition of "normal". And that is why that matters.
If I scream "GRAVEYARDS ARE FULL OF THE BODIES OF DEAD PEOPLE!!", you're not likely to get very ruffled, now are you. Of course not, that is normal. And it isn't exactly newsworthy. In fact, it might be newsworthy if someone of note tried to make hay over the fact.
Well, this "study" is trying to make out like women being "abused" online is abnormal, but what the gp is pointing out is that "people are being abused online". So women (being actual people) being abused online is normal and not newsworthy. The fact that a "study" is being published to point out the obvious is what is newsworthy.
The extreme right would probably label me an SJW for not approving of sexual harassment, or being perfectly OK with Les Moonves being thrown out on his ass without his $120M golden parachute.
Possibly off topic, but most of the really hard right people I know thinks he should have his ass kicked to within an inch of his life on the way out. I don't know where the idea that right wingers support sexual harassment, but that smear campaign makes literally NO sense. Right wingers do support the right to a trial by jury, the right to confront your accusers and that sort of thing, so maybe the #metoo move sprung off of that to conflate "a quick trial and a fair hanging" with "let them go free".
Giggling about boobs might be offensive to a certain group of uptight, self-absorbed people that used to be associated with old conservatives, but they are free to ignore it. The rest of us think it is light hearted fun.
Banning a package is a forceful measure to shut down a community.
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Also, it doesn't even make sense. How does a buzzword filled sentence that is clear to the target audience kill the language?
The only reason that markets have been enshrined, is that the left has done everything in their power to destroy anything that looks like a religion (unless it a poorly copied imitation of a eastern religion that ignores everything other than sitting with your eyes closed and chanting while wearing strange clothes).
There has been a strong push to have government take the place of religion (so said leftist can have some control over it) along with the spiritual and charity functions it once assumed, with an equal and opposite push-back to not let the government have those powers and responsibilities. The only place for those powers and responsibilities to land is the free market.
What else would they prefer? DR-DOS?
The only reason most people are not begging is because there are some laws preventing the crony capitalists from extracting every ounce of flesh.
Remains willfully clueless that the people pushing socialism (authoritarianism) are the same ones digging their heels in to push "crony capitalism".
Socialism is where a small group seeks control with lies and manipulation that center around the phrase "the greater good".
Crony capitalism is where a small group seeks control with lies and manipulation that center around the phrase "the greater good".
Wrong. The government is stopping me if they are taking my money through taxes in order to pay for the care of people they find more deserving.
You stated how you budget a portion of your income. In Europe there would need to be another line item, "Taxes taken by government to pay for care of people that are not me or my family." If you're fine with that, cool. But, don't act like that isn't going to change how the numbers fall out.
But, I can't get the coverage with the money that the government took from me to spend on the people they decided were more deserving.
The point is that that health care ain't free. You're just letting the government decide who gets it instead of the people that earned it.
Instead of all the expensive, high tech stuff, might the just allow people to raise and harvest rhinos? When tried in South Africa, the rhino population spiked and the poaching dipped (why take the chance of getting nabbed poaching what has become a commodity item?)
Of course, the "animal protectionist" don't care for that idea, because . . . REASONS?
Alligator farming became a thing in the southern US, providing a valuable source of handbags, shoes and tough, tasteless, chewy meat, and the alligators are becoming the pests that they once were.
A Congress critter was once asked why the tax code was so complicated, and why didn't they just simplify it. The critter responded, "Why would we voluntarily give up so much power?"
I ask you here, why would the Congress critters give up so much power?
Or, just tax employer insurance like the income that it is, then watch as insurance slowly stops being tied to a job. Then people can buy insurance or pay their doctor out of pocket. The doctors that don't have two extra people on staff to haggle with insurance companies will be able to charge less, and will get the patients that are paying out of pocket.
You're single payer wetdream of getting someone else to support you, still requires a lot of payers that must also support a cadre of visible and hidden salaries whose job is nothing more than pointlessly shuffle papers around.
Things cost more because most of the R&D happens here. Europe is often the beneficiary of that.
And the military meme IS boring. That is why I'm happy that Trump is pulling out of Syria. If ISIS re-constitutes itself, Europe will be the recipient of most of the terrorist attacks. Let them send their people and money in to fight them.
The Europeans sacrifice the young and the old. The US sacrifices the poor. What we're saying here is that there really isn't enough for everybody to have all the want all the time.
At least in the US, we can choose. If I've worked all my life to save a nest-egg, I can choose to spend it on EOL care, or I can choose to take a leisurely swim to Europe. Europe, having leaders that are smarter than the rest of us, makes those decisions for me. (Because, I can't have the nest-egg if they've taxed it out of me beforehand.)
Great. Because, there won't be any abuse of the system problems with that.
BTW, there is no way to make it "free". What you're requesting is that it be "free" to you.
Better yet, tax the health insurance "benefit" just like any other pay. The government playing favorites with "tax this, but not that" is what screws the market.
"Common sense" is code for, "shit I don't understand, but that I have a traditional received response for."
If engineers wanted computers to have "common sense," they'd design them to.
Just about every "AI" follows your definition of "common sense". Reference google's Dialogflow.
I was going to say that libraries are useless, but that is because I was thinking about warehouses of books.
But, your post leads me to think of the remake of "A Time Machine" that came out in the early 2000's. The "library" was a computer hologram that could dispense knowledge is the most appropriate way. Unlike a book warehouse, I would find such a place very useful.
This is why I don't like big cities and mass transit. At the end of the day, all humanity gets reduced to automata. You are not a person with your own goals and desires. We much force you into a box that exactly matches all the other boxes so that we can increase efficiency. Step on the escalator, ignore your personal space and sidle up next to the other person that you have never met as if you're best friends.
No, thank you.
"Did they compare to abuse to men?" Why does that matter? If men are abused online every 30 seconds that doesn't make this normal.
Actually, that would quite literally be the definition of "normal". And that is why that matters.
If I scream "GRAVEYARDS ARE FULL OF THE BODIES OF DEAD PEOPLE!!", you're not likely to get very ruffled, now are you. Of course not, that is normal. And it isn't exactly newsworthy. In fact, it might be newsworthy if someone of note tried to make hay over the fact.
Well, this "study" is trying to make out like women being "abused" online is abnormal, but what the gp is pointing out is that "people are being abused online". So women (being actual people) being abused online is normal and not newsworthy. The fact that a "study" is being published to point out the obvious is what is newsworthy.
Whatever? People see. a homeless man and his dog begging for a food on a corner in pouring, freezing rain.
What is their response?
"Poor dog."
Already there.
The extreme right would probably label me an SJW for not approving of sexual harassment, or being perfectly OK with Les Moonves being thrown out on his ass without his $120M golden parachute.
Possibly off topic, but most of the really hard right people I know thinks he should have his ass kicked to within an inch of his life on the way out. I don't know where the idea that right wingers support sexual harassment, but that smear campaign makes literally NO sense. Right wingers do support the right to a trial by jury, the right to confront your accusers and that sort of thing, so maybe the #metoo move sprung off of that to conflate "a quick trial and a fair hanging" with "let them go free".
Thank you, AC. You put my thoughts into words.
Giggling about boobs might be offensive to a certain group of uptight, self-absorbed people that used to be associated with old conservatives, but they are free to ignore it. The rest of us think it is light hearted fun.
Banning a package is a forceful measure to shut down a community.
That's why we started Grou.ps (http://grou.ps/) an open source online community builder Grou.ps just a week ago.
Why would you start yet another open source project instead of just joining Diaspora?
That is already a thing and is called Diaspora. Duckduckgo it.
Only if I can get my damn BLINK tag back!!
So should computer makers remove keyboard access to the OS? That is, after all, the biggest security hole to the computer.
Seriously, removing access in the name of "security" is professional malpractice.
But anyway, "IoT. The S is for security."