Nobody's doubled down on AGW. As the MASSIVE body of evidence removes doubt (except for those who would have their world view threaten by said evidence), its the responsibility of NASA to utilize space based resources to predict, measure, understand and if at all possible mitigate the impacts of AGW. Just as it is the National Forestry's job to plan for fighting and prevent the already growing impact of AGW on large and destructive fires in the Western U.S. There are now places whose fire seasons now run all year. Every agency, that is responsible to serve the public, and for whom there is a measurable impact from AGW is honor bound to do what it can to protect services and prevent loss of life and property. How is any of this inappropriate or antithetical to the proper management of resources?
I can understand and completely appreciate the Christian sentiment. I understand where it comes from and I won't argue its point. There is absolutely the human aspect that is gross, carnal, selfish, greedy and self serving, and you don't have to go far to see all makes and models of human depravity speeding down life's highway. That said, even from your context, God made us in his image, there is God stuff in each of us... spiritus, the breath of life. The Maslow pyramid exists because there is a hunger, a need, an aspiration to be more, to be better. Not everyone heeds the call. But its there nonetheless. You'd say God call's us all, and not everyone listens. Whatever it is, its there. Or we'd never get the Gandhis and the Kings and the Mandelas. And yes, each of these men are as human as human can be with all their foibles, frailties and failings. It doesn't diminish the magnificence or the dignity of the human spirit which they so powerfully represent.
I'm not saying Anonymous is such a force in the world. But beyond the punks, and the show boats, and the pimply faced script kiddies desperate to prove themselves in their community, there is something there about fighting against what they see as wrong. I respect that. I also see the need to have a society of rules, that protect us from the unruly. You just need to be at least as careful watching the cop as you do the criminal.
A tremendous amount of the language of American freedom comes from Native American colonies. Our constitution bears a remarkable resemblance to that of the Iroquois Confederacy, in fact there's a Senate Resolution acknowledging that document as a vital inspiration for our constitution. The only reason Europeans could have settled north America, was because 95% of the native American population was wiped out by plague (up until that time early European colonies often resorted to cannibalism when things got particularly ugly. Oh, did I mention that a huge number of European settlers simply joined the native tribes? They were welcomed and so most tribes had a significant percent of white mixing by the time of western expansion. For an really incredible look at our bogus history take a look here. Its truly fascinating.
Because they're the big boys. Trade billions and its presumed you should be taking everyone else's money, and if you fsck up somehow, they just say sorry and hand the money to you. Welcome to world where might is right.
You look, and you listen. Are you telling me you can't tell the difference between Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin or Franco from Gandhi, Mandela or Lincoln? Start with the words. Then observe the actions. A despot is easy to spot. When Mandela became President, he invited one of the men who guarded him in prison as a VIP guest. He spoke to his nation reborn and said that we must forgive, that until these men are forgiven, none of us is free. That is how you tell bloody brutes from men of faith and dignity. If the men who run your nation are not among the great men of purpose and humanity, then you must stand up and face them. If the media is owned by despots then speak in the streets like King. If your words are wise, and deep, and resonate in the human heart, you will be heard. You don't fight for fighting's sake. You fight to preserve that which is good and just. If in your struggle you break bad laws, then you pay the consequence gladly. Gandhi was arrested, and beaten many times. It didn't stop him, it didn't even slow him down.
And when our founding fathers found these truths to be self evident, and the oppression of their native land unbearable, they did what they knew in their minds and hearts to be moral and just. The disobeyed the despots. They fought for that, which they knew was worth of living and dying. Our society has ceased to stand even for itself let alone its posterity. Is it not long passed time to say, enough, you may not rob me of another right or personal freedom, in fact I'm taking what's mine back and you cannot have it. Not now, not ever.
But peaceful, civil disobedience, has a long and honorable history. From Gandhi, to King, to Mandela, to the Occupy Movement. When laws are unjust, it is the responsibility of the moral man to contest the law. When those in power oppress or thwart the will of the people, it is the prerogative of the people to let those in power know that what they have done will not stand.
Over the years I have seen people tried for attacking even killing child molesters. I'm not condoning taking the law into your own hands. I am saying when a person has a 20 year history of raping babies, and he get's caught doing it again, then one of his past victims comes along and get's a little payback with interest... I have a damn hard time getting up anything resembling moral indignation.
This guy needs his own Wikipedia page titled "LOOSER" including his current and high school pictures and an endlessly looping video of Jim Carey saying...
All so future generations know how to spot one on sight.
Douglas Adams had it all right. Put the Bankers, Lawyers, Politicians, Insurance Executives, CEOs, etc... but not the phone sanitizers... in a space ship, launch it to a habitable but uninhabited planet, and get them all as far from the rest of the human race as is conceivably possible. Oh, and if the planet is uninhabitable, eh.
Ah, explains the new "You have FaceMail..." So now we'll have AOLusers and folks who got FACED... add them to the YAHOOs and there you are, the shallow end of the technological gene pool.
Hey, ease up, Microsoft Marketing guys gotta eat too. Its not even smoke... yeah, its fog, and he's not blowing it, he's just forcefully exhaling it up your pant leg. If it any of it get's up your ass... is it really his fault? Cut him a break.
How banal. How trite. An app to appeal to the baby Republicans... oh isn't that just precious. I wanna see a little showmanship!!! I wanna see a little fanfare. They should have had the Republican Convention at Disney World, hell its a circus isn't it? And we all know that Florida's all tied up with a bow... can you say JIM CROW!!! So why not have the Mickey bend over, shoot a 50 ft. fireball out of his ass and the smoke coalesces into the ghost of Walt Disney who introduces the newest attraction "Political Land" and the new VP is... and its get's said with fireworks and the choirs of angels backing it up.
Hey, I'm a Democrat, social liberal, fiscal moderate, which in a place like this probably makes me some kind of communist, but I am perfectly comfortable saying Romney is almost certainly a moderate who's had to get all pumped up to appeal to his base. I mean the guy already instituted the equivalent of ObamaCare in his own state and its doing just fine. Only the poor slob can't even crow about his accomplishment, because he's sposed' to be all man up against SOCIALISM... booga booga.
I am equally comfortable admitting Obama is not the change I was hoping for. I wanted to see the greedy buggers who almost buried this nation pay for their crimes, and I wanted to see real reform starting with the return of Glass-Steagall. Instead we have a milk toast moderate with a hitman from the recording industries rooming in the Whitehouse, all the while watching my civil and constitutional right vanishing faster than John Holmes at a weenie roast.
I have a brain, attached to two eyes, and I can think and see for myself. I don't do party lines, mostly those are just Conga's straight to hell (whether you be dancing to the left or dancing to the right.) Obama has accomplished some good things too, and its a fact, the numbers are in, ObamaCare will actually save money for the nation, not cost it. The fact is, by limiting costs, its already improving government costs, and by providing medical coverage to the poor (who now are subsidized through emergency visits at 4-8 times the cost of regular medical service) we'll save untold billions. It won't matter, the clowns that promised the world would end if it was passed won't acknowledge they're wrong, that they've been serially wrong for so long, that if they were ever right it might break space and time as we know it. They'll just continue to make crazy ass claims based on undiluted fear and stupid.
I wish I had another choice than Obama. Someone with a reputation for getting things done and getting people to line up and get stuff done. Sadly in this pit-bull political environment, Jebus himself would have a hard time getting folks to play nice. If I thought for a moment that Romney could stand up against the idiots in his party that want to turn America into a full on fascist state, I'd consider him. I'm just not at all certain he has the integrity of conviction to protect us from the flaming wackos walking the isles of Congress. The real challenge for Americans this fall is figuring out how to preserve our freedom, and not fall to the corporate rapist or the rabid ideologues who would turn our nation into a religious state or worse one devoted to an agenda of fear, hate and totalitarian control.
The debates this fall will be interesting, I just doubt anyone will be debating what's really at stake.
Hmmmm, Alaskan Flaming Cheese Doodle vs Disney Animatronic Mormon Billionaire... man I'm really stumped here. With Sarah we got some weird kind of head on collision between Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, Jersey Shore and a bad day on CSPAN. With Mitt, we got a genetic melding between Chevy Chase, Zaphod Beeblebrox, a Crash Test Dummy and a tabernacle door knocker.
If Sarah had been elected as Vice President, I'm guessing it would be under the same restriction that Dan Quayle served as Veep, that under the circumstance that the President was for any reason unable to perform the his duties, that the Secret Service would immediately shoot the Vice President.
I've always wondered if Mitt was hand operated or remote controlled... My money is on Jim Henson productions. I hear the nasty job belongs to the guy with his hand up Mitt's pants, moving the mouth.
Anyway, I'm going with Mitt, he has the benefit of being a team effort and all those extra opinions would probably make Mitt more of a consensus guy, by definition.
And who passed these ridiculous laws? Legislators, paid for by insurance companies. Insurance companies are not interested in keeping you healthy. They aren't interested in a state for of healthy Californians. They aren't even vaguely interested in making certain that medicine is affordable and accessible to every Californian. They're interested in one thing, and one thing only. Making a profit, and if that happens over your dead and bankrupt body, be poor, then be dead.
I get it. You want to know why you should pay for the medical care of lazy, violent, people who in all likelihood weren't even born here. Its a perfectly reasonable questions. Okay, let's do this from a simple focus on sanity. What part of the entire cost of medicine in this country of 350,000,000 people do you think these folk represent (honestly?) 4%? 6%? Let go completely batfsck and say 12%. So you're going to break the back of the honest hard working 88% because you resent having to carry 12% of the population, man I don't know about you, but that sounds frighteningly like cutting off my nose to spite my face.
Beyond the simple insanity of running the vast majority of the society into the ditch, lets try this, you have a population of poor people, many foreign nationals, without access to proper health care, many involved with intravenous drug use. So now we have an explosion of hepatitis, tuberculosis, HIV, STDs, cholera, malaria, plague and a raft of new virii popping out of the jungles, all singing, all dancing and mutating into virulent strains for which there will be no vaccines or antibiotics. So you saved a buck, how's that compared to the horror you experience when a poor kid from Central America brings some killer bug to school and your kids catches it because little Hernando didn't have access to a free Clinica to clear up his bug early? You're gonna be real proud of the tax money you saved? Bet your neighbors will want to vote you man of the year too.
I'm not even talking about the humanity, the morality, even the consideration for the quality of life for other human beings. I'm just talking about public frigging health. The ability to work and shop and play without the overriding concern that there's going to be a pandemic that will tear a hole in society large enough to drive a fleet of trucks through. Friend, there's an ebola outbreak going on in Africa right this minute. I'm telling you, the systems we have in place today are no more prepared for a coming global pandemic, than they are to keeping John Q. functional and healthy. Ask any economist, you barrow money when its cheap and abundant, and you pay it back when your economy is booming because you had the vision and wisdom (not to mention accountability to society) to invest in your infrastructure. Now is the time to invest in infrastructure. Anyone who tells you different has a political or ideological axe to grind and you want to know why their hands are behind their back. I understand you're all about personal responsibility. Try as you might, you can't make others responsible. So rather than get pissed off, or self justified, realize you're the one who can determine a future, the poor slobs with needles in their veins are nailed to rails whose destination is titled "Self Destruction". Have a wee bit of compassion, and for sure make certain you don't end up in one of their craters. You're responsible for all of it, your mess, their mess, and all the great stuff too, you have all the say and now all that's called for is just a little wisdom.
This is a myth perpetuated by people who pull reasons out of hats and other dark orifices to empty your wallet. If any of this smoke had even a passing hint of reality to it, we would be seeing a global pattern that would bear this out. Such a pattern is embarrassingly absent. Here's what is present,
Americas spend more for medicine than any people on the planet; per capita: $7,146, as a percentage of GDP: 15.2%
Our life expectancy is 42 (50th for new borns) in the world falling behind Cuba and Chile, Our child mortality rate is one of the highest in the industrialized world.
The WHO rated American medicine over all at 72 of 191, being beaten by Mexico, Sri Lanka and Uraguay, but tied in a dead heat with Surinam.
Medical care is the number 1 reason for bankruptcy being a a significant cause in 46.2% and mentioned in 62.1% of all bankruptcies.
The United States is one of only 3 industrialize countries (the other two being Mexico and Turkey) on the planet that failed to cover virtually all of their citizens (at least 98.4%) with complete medical coverage. As a result, a 2009 Harvard study reported that 44,900 American's die needlessly every year due to lack of access to affordable medical care.
We have a ridiculous run away malpractice problem, for profit hospitals that have no problem charging $10 for an antacid tablet that costs less than a penny, semiprivate hospital rooms that can cost $20,000 a day, doctors charging $250 for a 30 second visit, pharmaceutical companies who no longer produce useful drugs, but keep pumping out analogues of prior cash cow meds to keep drug patents and fat profits coming, while at the same time moving heaven and earth to sabotage and undermine the generic drug industry, and a greedy insurance system that gladly spins the whole disaster on and on as it take ever fatter slices for itself. This is the picture of an industry rife with greed, gluttony, payola, bribery and an utter disregard for human life or dignity.
Anyone who thinks for a moment that this industry doesn't need to be regulated within an inch of its existence, has no clue to the depth and breath of the depravity that has been visited on the American people. It has passed being a bad joke, its beyond obscene, it is now a full on tragedy, a national shame, an indictment of our system of enterprise and government. It is a blight on our children and nothing less than beating it back into a not for profit service designed to protect and promote the health and well being of PEOPLE is an acceptable answer.
No, no, no that was Consumes not consumers... everyone knows Google's soup support engineers are second to none! Consumes, chowders, bisques, they support it all. I once tried to move 50 gallons of Gazpacho to a cloud server and I'd never have succeeded without their help. I hear some of them have even trained under Martha Stewart! Why anything would want to be under Martha Stewart for any reason... sorry different conversation all together. You need Vichyssois over the network, under the Google Page "More" selection, go straight to "SOUP".
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Nobody's doubled down on AGW. As the MASSIVE body of evidence removes doubt (except for those who would have their world view threaten by said evidence), its the responsibility of NASA to utilize space based resources to predict, measure, understand and if at all possible mitigate the impacts of AGW. Just as it is the National Forestry's job to plan for fighting and prevent the already growing impact of AGW on large and destructive fires in the Western U.S. There are now places whose fire seasons now run all year. Every agency, that is responsible to serve the public, and for whom there is a measurable impact from AGW is honor bound to do what it can to protect services and prevent loss of life and property. How is any of this inappropriate or antithetical to the proper management of resources?
I can understand and completely appreciate the Christian sentiment. I understand where it comes from and I won't argue its point. There is absolutely the human aspect that is gross, carnal, selfish, greedy and self serving, and you don't have to go far to see all makes and models of human depravity speeding down life's highway. That said, even from your context, God made us in his image, there is God stuff in each of us... spiritus, the breath of life. The Maslow pyramid exists because there is a hunger, a need, an aspiration to be more, to be better. Not everyone heeds the call. But its there nonetheless. You'd say God call's us all, and not everyone listens. Whatever it is, its there. Or we'd never get the Gandhis and the Kings and the Mandelas. And yes, each of these men are as human as human can be with all their foibles, frailties and failings. It doesn't diminish the magnificence or the dignity of the human spirit which they so powerfully represent.
I'm not saying Anonymous is such a force in the world. But beyond the punks, and the show boats, and the pimply faced script kiddies desperate to prove themselves in their community, there is something there about fighting against what they see as wrong. I respect that. I also see the need to have a society of rules, that protect us from the unruly. You just need to be at least as careful watching the cop as you do the criminal.
A tremendous amount of the language of American freedom comes from Native American colonies. Our constitution bears a remarkable resemblance to that of the Iroquois Confederacy, in fact there's a Senate Resolution acknowledging that document as a vital inspiration for our constitution. The only reason Europeans could have settled north America, was because 95% of the native American population was wiped out by plague (up until that time early European colonies often resorted to cannibalism when things got particularly ugly. Oh, did I mention that a huge number of European settlers simply joined the native tribes? They were welcomed and so most tribes had a significant percent of white mixing by the time of western expansion. For an really incredible look at our bogus history take a look here. Its truly fascinating.
Because they're the big boys. Trade billions and its presumed you should be taking everyone else's money, and if you fsck up somehow, they just say sorry and hand the money to you. Welcome to world where might is right.
What part of wealthy, powerful people with vast computing power screwing the general public do you not understand?
You look, and you listen. Are you telling me you can't tell the difference between Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin or Franco from Gandhi, Mandela or Lincoln? Start with the words. Then observe the actions. A despot is easy to spot. When Mandela became President, he invited one of the men who guarded him in prison as a VIP guest. He spoke to his nation reborn and said that we must forgive, that until these men are forgiven, none of us is free. That is how you tell bloody brutes from men of faith and dignity. If the men who run your nation are not among the great men of purpose and humanity, then you must stand up and face them. If the media is owned by despots then speak in the streets like King. If your words are wise, and deep, and resonate in the human heart, you will be heard. You don't fight for fighting's sake. You fight to preserve that which is good and just. If in your struggle you break bad laws, then you pay the consequence gladly. Gandhi was arrested, and beaten many times. It didn't stop him, it didn't even slow him down.
And when our founding fathers found these truths to be self evident, and the oppression of their native land unbearable, they did what they knew in their minds and hearts to be moral and just. The disobeyed the despots. They fought for that, which they knew was worth of living and dying. Our society has ceased to stand even for itself let alone its posterity. Is it not long passed time to say, enough, you may not rob me of another right or personal freedom, in fact I'm taking what's mine back and you cannot have it. Not now, not ever.
But peaceful, civil disobedience, has a long and honorable history. From Gandhi, to King, to Mandela, to the Occupy Movement. When laws are unjust, it is the responsibility of the moral man to contest the law. When those in power oppress or thwart the will of the people, it is the prerogative of the people to let those in power know that what they have done will not stand.
Over the years I have seen people tried for attacking even killing child molesters. I'm not condoning taking the law into your own hands. I am saying when a person has a 20 year history of raping babies, and he get's caught doing it again, then one of his past victims comes along and get's a little payback with interest... I have a damn hard time getting up anything resembling moral indignation.
Like Soylent Green... like Soylent Green...
This guy needs his own Wikipedia page titled "LOOSER" including his current and high school pictures and an endlessly looping video of Jim Carey saying...
All so future generations know how to spot one on sight.
In much the same way a bunch of people at a bus stop are a group or loose affiliation... all going in the same direction... yeah.
Douglas Adams had it all right. Put the Bankers, Lawyers, Politicians, Insurance Executives, CEOs, etc... but not the phone sanitizers... in a space ship, launch it to a habitable but uninhabited planet, and get them all as far from the rest of the human race as is conceivably possible. Oh, and if the planet is uninhabitable, eh.
Ah, explains the new "You have FaceMail..." So now we'll have AOLusers and folks who got FACED... add them to the YAHOOs and there you are, the shallow end of the technological gene pool.
Hey, ease up, Microsoft Marketing guys gotta eat too. Its not even smoke... yeah, its fog, and he's not blowing it, he's just forcefully exhaling it up your pant leg. If it any of it get's up your ass... is it really his fault? Cut him a break.
How banal. How trite. An app to appeal to the baby Republicans... oh isn't that just precious. I wanna see a little showmanship!!! I wanna see a little fanfare. They should have had the Republican Convention at Disney World, hell its a circus isn't it? And we all know that Florida's all tied up with a bow... can you say JIM CROW!!! So why not have the Mickey bend over, shoot a 50 ft. fireball out of his ass and the smoke coalesces into the ghost of Walt Disney who introduces the newest attraction "Political Land" and the new VP is... and its get's said with fireworks and the choirs of angels backing it up.
An app... blow me.
Hey, I'm a Democrat, social liberal, fiscal moderate, which in a place like this probably makes me some kind of communist, but I am perfectly comfortable saying Romney is almost certainly a moderate who's had to get all pumped up to appeal to his base. I mean the guy already instituted the equivalent of ObamaCare in his own state and its doing just fine. Only the poor slob can't even crow about his accomplishment, because he's sposed' to be all man up against SOCIALISM... booga booga.
I am equally comfortable admitting Obama is not the change I was hoping for. I wanted to see the greedy buggers who almost buried this nation pay for their crimes, and I wanted to see real reform starting with the return of Glass-Steagall. Instead we have a milk toast moderate with a hitman from the recording industries rooming in the Whitehouse, all the while watching my civil and constitutional right vanishing faster than John Holmes at a weenie roast.
I have a brain, attached to two eyes, and I can think and see for myself. I don't do party lines, mostly those are just Conga's straight to hell (whether you be dancing to the left or dancing to the right.) Obama has accomplished some good things too, and its a fact, the numbers are in, ObamaCare will actually save money for the nation, not cost it. The fact is, by limiting costs, its already improving government costs, and by providing medical coverage to the poor (who now are subsidized through emergency visits at 4-8 times the cost of regular medical service) we'll save untold billions. It won't matter, the clowns that promised the world would end if it was passed won't acknowledge they're wrong, that they've been serially wrong for so long, that if they were ever right it might break space and time as we know it. They'll just continue to make crazy ass claims based on undiluted fear and stupid.
I wish I had another choice than Obama. Someone with a reputation for getting things done and getting people to line up and get stuff done. Sadly in this pit-bull political environment, Jebus himself would have a hard time getting folks to play nice. If I thought for a moment that Romney could stand up against the idiots in his party that want to turn America into a full on fascist state, I'd consider him. I'm just not at all certain he has the integrity of conviction to protect us from the flaming wackos walking the isles of Congress. The real challenge for Americans this fall is figuring out how to preserve our freedom, and not fall to the corporate rapist or the rabid ideologues who would turn our nation into a religious state or worse one devoted to an agenda of fear, hate and totalitarian control.
The debates this fall will be interesting, I just doubt anyone will be debating what's really at stake.
Hmmmm, Alaskan Flaming Cheese Doodle vs Disney Animatronic Mormon Billionaire... man I'm really stumped here. With Sarah we got some weird kind of head on collision between Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, Jersey Shore and a bad day on CSPAN. With Mitt, we got a genetic melding between Chevy Chase, Zaphod Beeblebrox, a Crash Test Dummy and a tabernacle door knocker.
If Sarah had been elected as Vice President, I'm guessing it would be under the same restriction that Dan Quayle served as Veep, that under the circumstance that the President was for any reason unable to perform the his duties, that the Secret Service would immediately shoot the Vice President.
I've always wondered if Mitt was hand operated or remote controlled... My money is on Jim Henson productions. I hear the nasty job belongs to the guy with his hand up Mitt's pants, moving the mouth.
Anyway, I'm going with Mitt, he has the benefit of being a team effort and all those extra opinions would probably make Mitt more of a consensus guy, by definition.
And who passed these ridiculous laws? Legislators, paid for by insurance companies. Insurance companies are not interested in keeping you healthy. They aren't interested in a state for of healthy Californians. They aren't even vaguely interested in making certain that medicine is affordable and accessible to every Californian. They're interested in one thing, and one thing only. Making a profit, and if that happens over your dead and bankrupt body, be poor, then be dead.
I get it. You want to know why you should pay for the medical care of lazy, violent, people who in all likelihood weren't even born here. Its a perfectly reasonable questions. Okay, let's do this from a simple focus on sanity. What part of the entire cost of medicine in this country of 350,000,000 people do you think these folk represent (honestly?) 4%? 6%? Let go completely batfsck and say 12%. So you're going to break the back of the honest hard working 88% because you resent having to carry 12% of the population, man I don't know about you, but that sounds frighteningly like cutting off my nose to spite my face.
Beyond the simple insanity of running the vast majority of the society into the ditch, lets try this, you have a population of poor people, many foreign nationals, without access to proper health care, many involved with intravenous drug use. So now we have an explosion of hepatitis, tuberculosis, HIV, STDs, cholera, malaria, plague and a raft of new virii popping out of the jungles, all singing, all dancing and mutating into virulent strains for which there will be no vaccines or antibiotics. So you saved a buck, how's that compared to the horror you experience when a poor kid from Central America brings some killer bug to school and your kids catches it because little Hernando didn't have access to a free Clinica to clear up his bug early? You're gonna be real proud of the tax money you saved? Bet your neighbors will want to vote you man of the year too.
I'm not even talking about the humanity, the morality, even the consideration for the quality of life for other human beings. I'm just talking about public frigging health. The ability to work and shop and play without the overriding concern that there's going to be a pandemic that will tear a hole in society large enough to drive a fleet of trucks through. Friend, there's an ebola outbreak going on in Africa right this minute. I'm telling you, the systems we have in place today are no more prepared for a coming global pandemic, than they are to keeping John Q. functional and healthy. Ask any economist, you barrow money when its cheap and abundant, and you pay it back when your economy is booming because you had the vision and wisdom (not to mention accountability to society) to invest in your infrastructure. Now is the time to invest in infrastructure. Anyone who tells you different has a political or ideological axe to grind and you want to know why their hands are behind their back. I understand you're all about personal responsibility. Try as you might, you can't make others responsible. So rather than get pissed off, or self justified, realize you're the one who can determine a future, the poor slobs with needles in their veins are nailed to rails whose destination is titled "Self Destruction". Have a wee bit of compassion, and for sure make certain you don't end up in one of their craters. You're responsible for all of it, your mess, their mess, and all the great stuff too, you have all the say and now all that's called for is just a little wisdom.
This is a myth perpetuated by people who pull reasons out of hats and other dark orifices to empty your wallet. If any of this smoke had even a passing hint of reality to it, we would be seeing a global pattern that would bear this out. Such a pattern is embarrassingly absent. Here's what is present,
Americas spend more for medicine than any people on the planet; per capita: $7,146, as a percentage of GDP: 15.2%
Our life expectancy is 42 (50th for new borns) in the world falling behind Cuba and Chile, Our child mortality rate is one of the highest in the industrialized world.
The WHO rated American medicine over all at 72 of 191, being beaten by Mexico, Sri Lanka and Uraguay, but tied in a dead heat with Surinam.
Medical care is the number 1 reason for bankruptcy being a a significant cause in 46.2% and mentioned in 62.1% of all bankruptcies.
The United States is one of only 3 industrialize countries (the other two being Mexico and Turkey) on the planet that failed to cover virtually all of their citizens (at least 98.4%) with complete medical coverage. As a result, a 2009 Harvard study reported that 44,900 American's die needlessly every year due to lack of access to affordable medical care.
We have a ridiculous run away malpractice problem, for profit hospitals that have no problem charging $10 for an antacid tablet that costs less than a penny, semiprivate hospital rooms that can cost $20,000 a day, doctors charging $250 for a 30 second visit, pharmaceutical companies who no longer produce useful drugs, but keep pumping out analogues of prior cash cow meds to keep drug patents and fat profits coming, while at the same time moving heaven and earth to sabotage and undermine the generic drug industry, and a greedy insurance system that gladly spins the whole disaster on and on as it take ever fatter slices for itself. This is the picture of an industry rife with greed, gluttony, payola, bribery and an utter disregard for human life or dignity.
Anyone who thinks for a moment that this industry doesn't need to be regulated within an inch of its existence, has no clue to the depth and breath of the depravity that has been visited on the American people. It has passed being a bad joke, its beyond obscene, it is now a full on tragedy, a national shame, an indictment of our system of enterprise and government. It is a blight on our children and nothing less than beating it back into a not for profit service designed to protect and promote the health and well being of PEOPLE is an acceptable answer.
You can dispense with wafer ovens altogether... just put your silicon outside in the parking lot...
Either way, I'm also in the FB is a junk stock camp. It's being held aloft by a powerful combination of stupid and optimism.
Let's not bring the religious right into this issue... its already convoluted enough!!!
No, no, no that was Consumes not consumers... everyone knows Google's soup support engineers are second to none! Consumes, chowders, bisques, they support it all. I once tried to move 50 gallons of Gazpacho to a cloud server and I'd never have succeeded without their help. I hear some of them have even trained under Martha Stewart! Why anything would want to be under Martha Stewart for any reason... sorry different conversation all together. You need Vichyssois over the network, under the Google Page "More" selection, go straight to "SOUP".
If you experienced a day(s) of goatse, how did you survive indeed!?!!
I believe that would be the "Zygote" rating.