Your fiancee, her father and her mother are all wrong. And if you care to look there are boatloads of statistics on patient outcomes that will explain just how wrong they are.
Actually, illegal immigrants contribute more than they consume.
He belongs to a big club. As the debate over Social Security heats up, the estimated seven million or so illegal immigrant workers in the United States are now providing the system with a subsidy of as much as $7 billion a year.
"the Republican party need to spend a while in "time out" after the total fuck up they've pulled on the country between the corruption, the misrepresentation, and the disregard for the *rest* of the Bill of Rights."
Amazing how the people you vote for become "them" when the policies you voted for blow up in your face...
You agreed to the MS EULA. No where does it say it will work on every computer you buy - in fact it's pretty clear that they don't guarentee it will work at all. I'm a Unix/Linux user and have no great love for MS - their business practices are revolting to be honest - but it's been clear for years that their anti-copying policies restricted h/w upgrades. Regardless of what *you* call it, you had a hardware upgrade from the OSs perspective.
Quit whining. And you might consider your alternatives in the future - or you can keep repeating the same mistake over and over. Your call.
If you're starting a family it will probably relieve stress if you add private insurance to the universal public healthcare. I've just switched to Bupa since my employer offers a great deal on them but I know VHI's web site better. Just based on what you said, their top level package will run you about EUR 140 or so a month. That includes the 10% online discount.
Obviously I'm assuming you live in Ireland. If you live in another developed nation, you should look into the options there. Unless you live in the USA, but no person who cares about their family's health lives there, do they?
"My Direct Democracy, a liberal group blog, is trying out a new campaign tactic [...]"
(my bolding)
This isn't new. It was done by right-wing bloggers to John Kerry in 2004. And more power to them - they saw the possibilities in new technology and they used it. The folks at MyDD even give the right credit for the idea.
BASIC is evil. And it's something thse of us over 30 had to unlearn in CS.
Meanwhile any OS a sane person interested in programming should install has programming languages on it. And if not just go get Squeak. David Brin could have written an article on the wealth of programming languages that do not suck like BASIC did when he was a kid. Instead he wrote a bunch of twaddle.
"Who hasn't sat through sexual harrassment training"
I haven't. I manage to do it by actually believing this phrase and acting accordingly:
"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people."
I treat male and female co-workers alike. I treat them as individual people. Some of them I can make rude comments to. Some I can't. And that has always been based on their religiosity and their personality.
Genitals don't process conversation. Their ears and brains do - organs men and women have in common.
At the White House correspondants dinner he was not only funny, he was funny and fearless. It takes a lot of guts for a comedian to play to an audience he can't see while telling the cold hard truth about the audience he can see.
I know the media savaged him afterwards for not being funny. It was cute. But then if I'd deserved the bad job performance review he'd given them - peppered with humour so the folks at home could laugh at their hapless asses - I'd be all cranky and crotchety too.
Tough.
If the press in America won't do their job, they should expect rough treatment from the public.
You're talking about one office - the head of one branch of government.
There are other offices. And right now there are people challenging what you point out. Ned Lamont is challenging Lieberman in CT. Winograd is challenging Harmen in CA. Tasini is challenging Clinton in NY. And Howard Dean is executing a 50 state strategy to re-energise local Democratic parties across America. Not to invest in individual campaigns but to invest in the party - to give people a place to debate and discuss ideas.
You're apathetic because you choose to be apathetic. People are acting on the things you mention. They need help. If you want to be apathetic and not help, that's your choice. But accept your own responsibility for that choice, don't blame outside forces for your own self-imposed apathy.
Political parties are made up of the people who show up to them. If you don't like that the GOP or the Dems are "run by corporations" then get active in one of them.
Either that or please offer some cheese with your pointless whines.
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Yes, but no one has done that.
And last I checked Debian didn't include Gems which is really annoying if you're learning Ruby and a book mentions a bunch of gems you should install.
Unfortunately for you I live in a country with socialised medicine and I not only know the stats, I know first hand that you're wrong.
Also, your source of info there is rather humorous. Nice try though.
Your fiancee, her father and her mother are all wrong. And if you care to look there are boatloads of statistics on patient outcomes that will explain just how wrong they are.
But thanks for playing.
They did those things as well. But they have also been speaking out against rap and hip-hop for years.
I think your "liar" comment was uncivil, rude and incorrect.
Jackson and Sharpton have been speaking out against profanity and misogyny in rap for years.
But then you don't really care about that, you were just searching for a way to excuse hate speech.
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Never been to NZ, but from what I've seen/heard it sounds like you got a better deal.
Google has offices in Toronto and Montreal.
"the Republican party need to spend a while in "time out" after the total fuck up they've pulled on the country between the corruption, the misrepresentation, and the disregard for the *rest* of the Bill of Rights."
Amazing how the people you vote for become "them" when the policies you voted for blow up in your face...
You agreed to the MS EULA. No where does it say it will work on every computer you buy - in fact it's pretty clear that they don't guarentee it will work at all. I'm a Unix/Linux user and have no great love for MS - their business practices are revolting to be honest - but it's been clear for years that their anti-copying policies restricted h/w upgrades. Regardless of what *you* call it, you had a hardware upgrade from the OSs perspective.
Quit whining. And you might consider your alternatives in the future - or you can keep repeating the same mistake over and over. Your call.
Wow. Wingnuts are getting pretty sensitive if that comment scored a troll rating.
As a New York native I find that comment both funny and enraging.
WTF is this numbnut still doing in office? Why?
You overclockers, always bragging.
If you're starting a family it will probably relieve stress if you add private insurance to the universal public healthcare. I've just switched to Bupa since my employer offers a great deal on them but I know VHI's web site better. Just based on what you said, their top level package will run you about EUR 140 or so a month. That includes the 10% online discount.
Obviously I'm assuming you live in Ireland. If you live in another developed nation, you should look into the options there. Unless you live in the USA, but no person who cares about their family's health lives there, do they?
"My Direct Democracy, a liberal group blog, is trying out a new campaign tactic [...]"
(my bolding)
This isn't new. It was done by right-wing bloggers to John Kerry in 2004. And more power to them - they saw the possibilities in new technology and they used it. The folks at MyDD even give the right credit for the idea.
If you do leave, vote: http://www.votefromabroad.org/
You're on crack. Unless the center suddenly includes Ghengis Kahn, no American network is left of center. None.
BASIC is evil. And it's something thse of us over 30 had to unlearn in CS.
Meanwhile any OS a sane person interested in programming should install has programming languages on it. And if not just go get Squeak. David Brin could have written an article on the wealth of programming languages that do not suck like BASIC did when he was a kid. Instead he wrote a bunch of twaddle.
Bad David. No cookie for you.
"Who hasn't sat through sexual harrassment training"
I haven't. I manage to do it by actually believing this phrase and acting accordingly:
"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people."
I treat male and female co-workers alike. I treat them as individual people. Some of them I can make rude comments to. Some I can't. And that has always been based on their religiosity and their personality.
Genitals don't process conversation. Their ears and brains do - organs men and women have in common.
perhaps you should watch it yourself and decide?
He's not funny to you.
To a lot of people, he's damn funny.
At the White House correspondants dinner he was not only funny, he was funny and fearless. It takes a lot of guts for a comedian to play to an audience he can't see while telling the cold hard truth about the audience he can see.
I know the media savaged him afterwards for not being funny. It was cute. But then if I'd deserved the bad job performance review he'd given them - peppered with humour so the folks at home could laugh at their hapless asses - I'd be all cranky and crotchety too.
Tough.
If the press in America won't do their job, they should expect rough treatment from the public.
Uh, bullshit?
Apple's no saint, but Microsoft doesn't have a site like this: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html
You're talking about one office - the head of one branch of government.
There are other offices. And right now there are people challenging what you point out. Ned Lamont is challenging Lieberman in CT. Winograd is challenging Harmen in CA. Tasini is challenging Clinton in NY. And Howard Dean is executing a 50 state strategy to re-energise local Democratic parties across America. Not to invest in individual campaigns but to invest in the party - to give people a place to debate and discuss ideas.
You're apathetic because you choose to be apathetic. People are acting on the things you mention. They need help. If you want to be apathetic and not help, that's your choice. But accept your own responsibility for that choice, don't blame outside forces for your own self-imposed apathy.
Political parties are made up of the people who show up to them. If you don't like that the GOP or the Dems are "run by corporations" then get active in one of them.
Either that or please offer some cheese with your pointless whines.
Your point is?