Europeans... those would be the people who implemented fascism, communism, two World Wars, and the Holocaust in the span of forty years? Yeah, I'll be sure to listen to those guys.
If people are that venal when their constituents can actually show up at their house and complain, what makes you think that the ones with more power over more money, with less direct interaction with the voters, are more honest?
This is only surprising if your idea of who supports the Tea Party segment of the Republican Party comes from MSNBC. Hint: most aren't social conservatives.
I've often entertained the idea that a decent but not foolproof filter system is exactly the right thing to deploy: your children will be forced to learn about computers in order to hack around your filter, and the fact that they can do it will be proof that they're mature enough to be entrusted with what they find.
Usually not, although the description is not entirely accurate - the shoulder joint isn't touched. The device is put just under the skin next to the collar bone.
You're the one who brought up income inequality. Don't get mad when I follow you there.
Shouldn't you be focusing on the points being made instead of tripping over the metaphor used?
What point? A bald assertion that the middle class existed from ca. 1933 until some undefined point in the recent past, expressed with all the clarity of a stoned teenager? I'll be sure to file that one away for consideration.
Please. They're taking advantage of the structure of the US Constitution in order to try to score some political concessions. It's neither unprecedented nor the end of the world. After all, don't elections have consequences?
However, we don't have one anymore; we have the poor, and the super rich. The line separating those two is getting thinner every year.
What on earth does that even mean? Shouldn't you be saying that the gap gets wider, if you think there really isn't a middle class? What's the border between super-rich and middle-class? And between middle-class and poor? Put up some ballpark numbers.
I will grant you that the division in society is becoming more entrenched, but the funny thing is that it's the social conservatives - one of the least popular groups in American politics - who actually have the correct solution for that. As I once saw it put, it would be a lot better if American elites preached what they practiced - because among the upper middle class, children are not born out of wedlock and divorces almost never occur once children are born until they're all grown. Making a lasting partnership matters, and it grants enormous advantages to your children.
Replace it with the one we had fifty years ago - AFAICT the perfect moment is right after the Civil Rights Acts and just before the godawful mess that was the Great Society. Government doesn't have to be a leviathan that spies on everyone, gives small town police military equipment for them to conduct no-knock raids, and imprisons millions of people because they like to get high on the wrong thing.
Government should look like a pyramid - the biggest taxes and expenditures should be local, then state, and then federal. The feds are there to coordinate things, not to micromanage everyone. I'd much rather pay a lot more in local taxes and a lot less in federal - I can go complain at a city council meeting every week if I think something is wrong. Can't do that with Congress or the federal bureaucracy.
Vegetarians are a self-selected group concerned about their health. The study that should be done is to take a bunch of vegetarians and start requiring half of them to eat meat five times a week and compare them to the others that remain strictly vegetarian.
Ah yes, the old fire and police argument. Guess who runs those? Hint: unless you live on a military base or in DC, it's not the federal government.
This is a terrible idea. Allow me to explain how this will actually work in practice. Doctors will be given a massive set of questions to ask (but they won't be paid more for the extra time it takes to ask them), they will be given a new set of tests to run (wasn't the point of this to cut healthcare costs?), and they'll have to switch to fully electronic medical records of the sort that don't really exist today - the kind where every diagnosis a patient has is properly coded in ICD-10, along with initial diagnosis dates, therapeutic intervention, and outcome, as well as compliance data. Surprise! - people diagnosed with early heart failure are usually prescribed diuretics, which they then don't take because diuretics then make you have to pee all the time. And they lie to their doctors about it. (Don't lie to your doctor. If you don't want to answer, fine. Just say so. If you don't want to take a pill, just say so. But it's impossible to help you if we don't know the truth.)
Furthermore, TFA elides so much as to be meaningless: heart failure is a symptom, not a disease. It's caused by some process killing the heart. Usually, that's coronary disease, which will precipitate the heart failure by causing a big heart attack. Finding heart failure from other causes earlier is of questionable benefit - as with cancer, there is legitimate question as to whether early detection really prolongs life or just means that you spot the thing that will kill you earlier without changing the course of the disease.
So: big mandate imposing significant costs on front-line personnel, vast quantities of data in the hands of the feds, and standardized EMR's that can be data mined. Sounds like the perfect government project.
Government is power plus money. And its decisions affect everyone. Plans to "get the money out of politics" founder on the simple reality that people have immense incentives to make sure that government gives them more than it takes from them. If you really want the money out of politics, you can either find a race of angels to elect to office, or you can remove the incentives by making government much smaller.
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Not really, but it does have the advantage of being funny.
Tea Partiers vs. Europeans
Europeans... those would be the people who implemented fascism, communism, two World Wars, and the Holocaust in the span of forty years? Yeah, I'll be sure to listen to those guys.
... says the guy who won't even log in.
If people are that venal when their constituents can actually show up at their house and complain, what makes you think that the ones with more power over more money, with less direct interaction with the voters, are more honest?
I know tea-baggers
Why do you refer to people you obviously have contempt for by analogy to gay sex acts? Are you a closeted homophobe?
This is only surprising if your idea of who supports the Tea Party segment of the Republican Party comes from MSNBC. Hint: most aren't social conservatives.
They're still exposed to damage, and who will certify them safe after a wreck even if there isn't any visible damage?
Yeah, cost of repairing small damage just goes through the roof if you do this.
I've often entertained the idea that a decent but not foolproof filter system is exactly the right thing to deploy: your children will be forced to learn about computers in order to hack around your filter, and the fact that they can do it will be proof that they're mature enough to be entrusted with what they find.
The video clearly shows it's venous access. I don't imagine you're want to be screwing a metal object into an active LV.
Usually not, although the description is not entirely accurate - the shoulder joint isn't touched. The device is put just under the skin next to the collar bone.
If you like the cash lifestyle, it's a lot easier to get a few thousand out of the bank at a time.
It's a quote from Obama. Sauce for the goose...
Oh, and Charles Murray, Coming Apart.
Shouldn't you be focusing on the points being made instead of tripping over the metaphor used?
What point? A bald assertion that the middle class existed from ca. 1933 until some undefined point in the recent past, expressed with all the clarity of a stoned teenager? I'll be sure to file that one away for consideration.
Please. They're taking advantage of the structure of the US Constitution in order to try to score some political concessions. It's neither unprecedented nor the end of the world. After all, don't elections have consequences?
However, we don't have one anymore; we have the poor, and the super rich. The line separating those two is getting thinner every year.
What on earth does that even mean? Shouldn't you be saying that the gap gets wider, if you think there really isn't a middle class? What's the border between super-rich and middle-class? And between middle-class and poor? Put up some ballpark numbers.
I will grant you that the division in society is becoming more entrenched, but the funny thing is that it's the social conservatives - one of the least popular groups in American politics - who actually have the correct solution for that. As I once saw it put, it would be a lot better if American elites preached what they practiced - because among the upper middle class, children are not born out of wedlock and divorces almost never occur once children are born until they're all grown. Making a lasting partnership matters, and it grants enormous advantages to your children.
Replace it with the one we had fifty years ago - AFAICT the perfect moment is right after the Civil Rights Acts and just before the godawful mess that was the Great Society. Government doesn't have to be a leviathan that spies on everyone, gives small town police military equipment for them to conduct no-knock raids, and imprisons millions of people because they like to get high on the wrong thing.
Government should look like a pyramid - the biggest taxes and expenditures should be local, then state, and then federal. The feds are there to coordinate things, not to micromanage everyone. I'd much rather pay a lot more in local taxes and a lot less in federal - I can go complain at a city council meeting every week if I think something is wrong. Can't do that with Congress or the federal bureaucracy.
Absolutely correct. Mod parent up.
Vegetarians are a self-selected group concerned about their health. The study that should be done is to take a bunch of vegetarians and start requiring half of them to eat meat five times a week and compare them to the others that remain strictly vegetarian.
Ah yes, the old fire and police argument. Guess who runs those? Hint: unless you live on a military base or in DC, it's not the federal government.
This is a terrible idea. Allow me to explain how this will actually work in practice. Doctors will be given a massive set of questions to ask (but they won't be paid more for the extra time it takes to ask them), they will be given a new set of tests to run (wasn't the point of this to cut healthcare costs?), and they'll have to switch to fully electronic medical records of the sort that don't really exist today - the kind where every diagnosis a patient has is properly coded in ICD-10, along with initial diagnosis dates, therapeutic intervention, and outcome, as well as compliance data. Surprise! - people diagnosed with early heart failure are usually prescribed diuretics, which they then don't take because diuretics then make you have to pee all the time. And they lie to their doctors about it. (Don't lie to your doctor. If you don't want to answer, fine. Just say so. If you don't want to take a pill, just say so. But it's impossible to help you if we don't know the truth.)
Furthermore, TFA elides so much as to be meaningless: heart failure is a symptom, not a disease. It's caused by some process killing the heart. Usually, that's coronary disease, which will precipitate the heart failure by causing a big heart attack. Finding heart failure from other causes earlier is of questionable benefit - as with cancer, there is legitimate question as to whether early detection really prolongs life or just means that you spot the thing that will kill you earlier without changing the course of the disease.
So: big mandate imposing significant costs on front-line personnel, vast quantities of data in the hands of the feds, and standardized EMR's that can be data mined. Sounds like the perfect government project.
Government is power plus money. And its decisions affect everyone. Plans to "get the money out of politics" founder on the simple reality that people have immense incentives to make sure that government gives them more than it takes from them. If you really want the money out of politics, you can either find a race of angels to elect to office, or you can remove the incentives by making government much smaller.
There's nothing particularly remarkable about flying into space in a small capsule.
What's impressive is that he did it while that capsule was strapped to the top of a not-especially-reliable missile.
It is not a run-on sentence, merely a complex one.
Those are all really nice hotels, but they cater largely to business travelers. Think boutique.