Hypochondria is abnormal concern for one's health. If one has just been diagnosed with a terminal illness I hardly see a strong reaction as "Hypochondria". And I have no doubt that the change of administration has already impacted the internet negatively. Cox waited 8 years to impose bandwidth caps and just happen to do it this year. There's no way in hell you'll convince me that's a coincidence. Next thing you'll tell me they did it for traffic management instead of profit.
and it pisses me off. Obama is _required_ to appoint 2 Republicans. Had Trump left Obama's appointees in then we wouldn't have lost NN. You're lying by omission, and if you're smart enough to tell that nuanced a lie then it's probably deliberate. On the off chance it's _not_ deliberate then please, wake up. It might already be too late but we can at least _try_ to fix the Internet.
but it won't do any good if the Republicans pass a law blocks the States from any action while not restoring NN. Right now that looks like what's going to happen. We need to change who's running the country _before_ passing any laws. That means showing up for the Mid terms. And vote in your primary too. There's a lot of 'Blue Dog" Dems around that are just Republicans with a D next to their name. It won't do any good if we vote those jokers in.
read the article. They never caught the guy. There's no indication that the 'Merry Christmas' had anything to do with the assault. It's more likely the perpetrator was coked up and would have slugged the guy no matter what he said. You should be ashamed of yourself for posting that clap-trap.
Real wages are way, way down. e.g. raw buying power. Inflation takes _everything_ into account. That means consumer electronics, which thanks to China got dirt cheap, factor in. It throws the numbers off for just about everything when a 32" TV is now $100 bucks instead of $5000.
Disney forced the chains to put Star Wars at least 4 of their best screens, whether there was enough ticket volume or not. They'll use Fox's assets to further push their competitors out.
do you? And what forced people to shop at Wal-Mart was 40 years of declining wages. They leveraged the low prices to try and maintain their standard of living long enough to see their children on their own so they could free up that money to again, just barely hold on. Those prices were low because Wal-Mart is a predatory business in a largely unregulated economy.
Basically, you're making a lot of choices that others don't have an assuming because you personally have them that everybody else does. If people could just do anything anyone else does without regard to birthplace we'd all be billionaires.
or any other kind of long term care. They just patch you up enough so you don't die then and there and send you on their way. The idea you have healthcare because of the ER is a bold face lie meant to trick you into supporting a for pay insurance company that pockets trillions of dollars while providing less than no service. I say 'less than no' because they actively fight you when you try to use the product _you_paid_for_.
and for historic reasons some of them had a 'D' next to their names. Also, what does Obama's skin color got to do with any of this?
Google the phrase "Wallet Biopsy". Look up the cost of Single Payer Health Care vs our current system. You've been had (assuming you're not an insurance company shill). No joke, we could pay off the national debt in 10 years with the savings from Single Payer Health Care.
but they want to stop disruption. They want to put a stop to this thing were their investments can turn out to be worthless, where a company like MySpace can get overwhelmed by Facebook in a few years. To a certain extent that's what conservatism is: Favoring the establishment over new players, stability over progress.
if the party in power changes. And yes, this is a partisan issue. The Republican party opposes Net Neutrality. The facts there speak for themselves. Ajit Pai is their appointee, they just proposed a law that doesn't restore NN but does prevent the States doing it, etc, etc. Meanwhile it was a Democrat appointee that protected it for 8 years under a Democratic president. Furthermore, the Republican party makes deregulation and laziee fair capitalism a central plank of it's party. To call this anything other than a partisan issue is disingenuous at best and an outright lie at worst.
Here's the real question: How important is NN to you? Gun Control and Abortion are both powerful wedge issues that drive people to the polls. I don't see NN being one of those. Maybe if we could get this framed as a small business concern we'd have a chance, but I've yet to see anyone even mention that angle.
what offsets those fees is how much easier it is to upsell somebody on credit. That's why you can pay with a credit card for things like food, video games electronics and even the down payment on a car but you can't do it for rent or a house payment (not without crazy fees anyway).
I wish I could say I don't fall for this. Microsoft did this with XBox points. You don't feel the cost the same way when you're not counting out bills and change.
because I get cash back and pay it off every month. It's about $500/yr. It's basically a 1% discount on life in general. It pays for my video game hobby. I'm not responsible for fraud so I don't really care about the malware and there's plenty of better ways to steal my identity than a random credit card swipe anyway. And I like the idea that if I'm mugged all they get is cheap cell phone and a wallet full of worthless plastic.
As for tracking, meh. They way I see it is that if I live in a society where tracking the sandwich I bought becomes a significant impact on freedom then I'm already so thoroughly screwed it hardly matters anymore. In terms of freedom I've got much, much bigger fish to fry.
Especially down south. The religious right here are constantly trying to gain ground. They're also working hard to get evolution out of schools and theology back in (they call it "intelligent design" to make it sound like science). They're very well funded and I don't think they're intentions are pure. I see it more as a push for the more authoritarian side of religion. The folks I see doing it don't spend much time talking about helping the poor or ending wars. Just expanisionism.
you need a stable, well funded working class to have children and an education system to train them. Those things are really, really pricey. On the other hand in a dog eat dog economy some folks are bound to make it through sheer force of will, good genetics and dumb luck. Hence the relentless push to bring in labor from overseas. Let somebody else pay the costs to train the next generation of employees, both the economic (food, shelter, schools, etc) and social (e.g. that dog eat dog capitalism again).
to leave to the free market. It's not a twinkie. You can't shop around for a heart transplant. Also, if you need it you _need_ it. Meaning the person selling it to you has a ton of leverage. And no, it's not doctors selling it to you, it's the for profit insurance industry. Speaking of which, in what kind of healthy industry do you have a situation where the person selling you a product does everything it can to avoid delivering it? None, the answer is none.
We don't need a gov't take over of healthcare, but we do need a gov't take over to _pay_ for healthcare. Single payer is the only rational system that isn't just dog eat dog, winner take all.
that if you call yourself conservative but then support progressive policies, well, you're not conservative, are you? Similarly if you call yourself conservative but favor rolling back to the 1600s then, well, you're changes are so radical you're not really conservative anymore. One of the most conservative politicians in our time is, oddly, Hillary Clinton. She'd have left everything as it; at most tweaking things just a hair and only really doing that to maintain status quo elsewhere. It was one of the reasons folks hated her with a passion. There are very, very few 'real' conservatives. e.g. folks who don't want change. What I see mostly are people who want to make a better world (the Bernie Sanders crowd) and people who want to profit as much as they can from that world (the Donald Trump crowd). In the middle you've got Hillary Clinton and Mitt Rhomney.
That's the beauty of words. But it doesn't change the fact that a lot of very powerful people are using the sentiment behind your words to maintain and expand their wealth and power, more often than not at your expense and the expense of the entire working class.
but it was also over 9 years. There were 190 million people in America. If you were doing well in life you didn't have to serve.
Nam didn't have much impact on the average middle class American. It had almost no impact on the upper middle class and zero on the wealthy. What's scary is it was a 9 year war that only ended because the relatively high casulties and the threat of draft. Today we've got no draft and few casualties. That's objectively better in a lot of ways, but it's scary too. There's zero reason to end the 7 or so wars we're fighting. We've been roped into endless, 1984 style war. Barring a change in our politics that's going to end very, very badly...
unlike the working class. Once in a while things move faster than they can keep up, e.g. the dawn of the Internet. But for the most part they keep a lid on this kind of 'disruptive' tech. Right now the solution is to keep all the money for themselves (re:Apple and their $650 billion in cash) and then use it here and there to buy any and all potential start ups. The upcoming corporate tax cut in America is going to exacerbate this as companies have a ton of cash but not a lot worth spending it on. R&D, let us remember, is mostly done by the government.
We shouldn't be surprised. This is the essence of what it means to be "conservative". It means to push back against change. It's just nobody ever seems to question the actual motive of that particular ideology. It's always simple time this and when things were better that. Never a word about how it just so happens the ideology favors the establishment over new players.
it mostly came out of government functions. Schools, court buildings, etc. People were 'triggered' because a lot of non Christians get kinda nervous about the cult-like atmosphere of the evangelicals, the fact that many of our closest allies are still theocracies and the thousands of years of recorded history of religion being used in conjuncture with government to oppress.
Through a lot of hard fought battles America became a secular nation, there are those of us who want to keep it that way. And then there are those among us who do not.
birth rates are dropping in pretty much every first world nation. Usually well below sustainability. It's become clear that, given options, people will control the population just fine. The birth rate stays high in poor countries because children are basically their retirement plan.
Stop voting Republican. It's already been pointed out that they're the ones behind this. And vote in your primary. Voting doesn't do any good if your just voting for Republicans running with a D next to their name (Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelocy, I'm looking at you).
IIRC. But this is basically her family connections getting her something she doesn't deserve. Our aristocracy at work. Me? If I screwed up half as much as she did I'd be in prison. No joke, they lied about blood tests.
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Hypochondria is abnormal concern for one's health. If one has just been diagnosed with a terminal illness I hardly see a strong reaction as "Hypochondria". And I have no doubt that the change of administration has already impacted the internet negatively. Cox waited 8 years to impose bandwidth caps and just happen to do it this year. There's no way in hell you'll convince me that's a coincidence. Next thing you'll tell me they did it for traffic management instead of profit.
you get it every 2 years. It's just most either choose not to speak up or if they do they speak up about different things.
and it pisses me off. Obama is _required_ to appoint 2 Republicans. Had Trump left Obama's appointees in then we wouldn't have lost NN. You're lying by omission, and if you're smart enough to tell that nuanced a lie then it's probably deliberate. On the off chance it's _not_ deliberate then please, wake up. It might already be too late but we can at least _try_ to fix the Internet.
but it won't do any good if the Republicans pass a law blocks the States from any action while not restoring NN. Right now that looks like what's going to happen. We need to change who's running the country _before_ passing any laws. That means showing up for the Mid terms. And vote in your primary too. There's a lot of 'Blue Dog" Dems around that are just Republicans with a D next to their name. It won't do any good if we vote those jokers in.
read the article. They never caught the guy. There's no indication that the 'Merry Christmas' had anything to do with the assault. It's more likely the perpetrator was coked up and would have slugged the guy no matter what he said. You should be ashamed of yourself for posting that clap-trap.
Real wages are way, way down. e.g. raw buying power. Inflation takes _everything_ into account. That means consumer electronics, which thanks to China got dirt cheap, factor in. It throws the numbers off for just about everything when a 32" TV is now $100 bucks instead of $5000.
Disney forced the chains to put Star Wars at least 4 of their best screens, whether there was enough ticket volume or not. They'll use Fox's assets to further push their competitors out.
do you? And what forced people to shop at Wal-Mart was 40 years of declining wages. They leveraged the low prices to try and maintain their standard of living long enough to see their children on their own so they could free up that money to again, just barely hold on. Those prices were low because Wal-Mart is a predatory business in a largely unregulated economy.
Basically, you're making a lot of choices that others don't have an assuming because you personally have them that everybody else does. If people could just do anything anyone else does without regard to birthplace we'd all be billionaires.
or any other kind of long term care. They just patch you up enough so you don't die then and there and send you on their way. The idea you have healthcare because of the ER is a bold face lie meant to trick you into supporting a for pay insurance company that pockets trillions of dollars while providing less than no service. I say 'less than no' because they actively fight you when you try to use the product _you_paid_for_.
and for historic reasons some of them had a 'D' next to their names. Also, what does Obama's skin color got to do with any of this?
Google the phrase "Wallet Biopsy". Look up the cost of Single Payer Health Care vs our current system. You've been had (assuming you're not an insurance company shill). No joke, we could pay off the national debt in 10 years with the savings from Single Payer Health Care.
but they want to stop disruption. They want to put a stop to this thing were their investments can turn out to be worthless, where a company like MySpace can get overwhelmed by Facebook in a few years. To a certain extent that's what conservatism is: Favoring the establishment over new players, stability over progress.
if the party in power changes. And yes, this is a partisan issue. The Republican party opposes Net Neutrality. The facts there speak for themselves. Ajit Pai is their appointee, they just proposed a law that doesn't restore NN but does prevent the States doing it, etc, etc. Meanwhile it was a Democrat appointee that protected it for 8 years under a Democratic president. Furthermore, the Republican party makes deregulation and laziee fair capitalism a central plank of it's party. To call this anything other than a partisan issue is disingenuous at best and an outright lie at worst.
Here's the real question: How important is NN to you? Gun Control and Abortion are both powerful wedge issues that drive people to the polls. I don't see NN being one of those. Maybe if we could get this framed as a small business concern we'd have a chance, but I've yet to see anyone even mention that angle.
what offsets those fees is how much easier it is to upsell somebody on credit. That's why you can pay with a credit card for things like food, video games electronics and even the down payment on a car but you can't do it for rent or a house payment (not without crazy fees anyway).
I wish I could say I don't fall for this. Microsoft did this with XBox points. You don't feel the cost the same way when you're not counting out bills and change.
because I get cash back and pay it off every month. It's about $500/yr. It's basically a 1% discount on life in general. It pays for my video game hobby. I'm not responsible for fraud so I don't really care about the malware and there's plenty of better ways to steal my identity than a random credit card swipe anyway. And I like the idea that if I'm mugged all they get is cheap cell phone and a wallet full of worthless plastic.
As for tracking, meh. They way I see it is that if I live in a society where tracking the sandwich I bought becomes a significant impact on freedom then I'm already so thoroughly screwed it hardly matters anymore. In terms of freedom I've got much, much bigger fish to fry.
Especially down south. The religious right here are constantly trying to gain ground. They're also working hard to get evolution out of schools and theology back in (they call it "intelligent design" to make it sound like science). They're very well funded and I don't think they're intentions are pure. I see it more as a push for the more authoritarian side of religion. The folks I see doing it don't spend much time talking about helping the poor or ending wars. Just expanisionism.
you need a stable, well funded working class to have children and an education system to train them. Those things are really, really pricey. On the other hand in a dog eat dog economy some folks are bound to make it through sheer force of will, good genetics and dumb luck. Hence the relentless push to bring in labor from overseas. Let somebody else pay the costs to train the next generation of employees, both the economic (food, shelter, schools, etc) and social (e.g. that dog eat dog capitalism again).
to leave to the free market. It's not a twinkie. You can't shop around for a heart transplant. Also, if you need it you _need_ it. Meaning the person selling it to you has a ton of leverage. And no, it's not doctors selling it to you, it's the for profit insurance industry. Speaking of which, in what kind of healthy industry do you have a situation where the person selling you a product does everything it can to avoid delivering it? None, the answer is none.
We don't need a gov't take over of healthcare, but we do need a gov't take over to _pay_ for healthcare. Single payer is the only rational system that isn't just dog eat dog, winner take all.
that if you call yourself conservative but then support progressive policies, well, you're not conservative, are you? Similarly if you call yourself conservative but favor rolling back to the 1600s then, well, you're changes are so radical you're not really conservative anymore. One of the most conservative politicians in our time is, oddly, Hillary Clinton. She'd have left everything as it; at most tweaking things just a hair and only really doing that to maintain status quo elsewhere. It was one of the reasons folks hated her with a passion. There are very, very few 'real' conservatives. e.g. folks who don't want change. What I see mostly are people who want to make a better world (the Bernie Sanders crowd) and people who want to profit as much as they can from that world (the Donald Trump crowd). In the middle you've got Hillary Clinton and Mitt Rhomney.
That's the beauty of words. But it doesn't change the fact that a lot of very powerful people are using the sentiment behind your words to maintain and expand their wealth and power, more often than not at your expense and the expense of the entire working class.
but it was also over 9 years. There were 190 million people in America. If you were doing well in life you didn't have to serve.
Nam didn't have much impact on the average middle class American. It had almost no impact on the upper middle class and zero on the wealthy. What's scary is it was a 9 year war that only ended because the relatively high casulties and the threat of draft. Today we've got no draft and few casualties. That's objectively better in a lot of ways, but it's scary too. There's zero reason to end the 7 or so wars we're fighting. We've been roped into endless, 1984 style war. Barring a change in our politics that's going to end very, very badly...
unlike the working class. Once in a while things move faster than they can keep up, e.g. the dawn of the Internet. But for the most part they keep a lid on this kind of 'disruptive' tech. Right now the solution is to keep all the money for themselves (re:Apple and their $650 billion in cash) and then use it here and there to buy any and all potential start ups. The upcoming corporate tax cut in America is going to exacerbate this as companies have a ton of cash but not a lot worth spending it on. R&D, let us remember, is mostly done by the government.
We shouldn't be surprised. This is the essence of what it means to be "conservative". It means to push back against change. It's just nobody ever seems to question the actual motive of that particular ideology. It's always simple time this and when things were better that. Never a word about how it just so happens the ideology favors the establishment over new players.
it mostly came out of government functions. Schools, court buildings, etc. People were 'triggered' because a lot of non Christians get kinda nervous about the cult-like atmosphere of the evangelicals, the fact that many of our closest allies are still theocracies and the thousands of years of recorded history of religion being used in conjuncture with government to oppress.
Through a lot of hard fought battles America became a secular nation, there are those of us who want to keep it that way. And then there are those among us who do not.
birth rates are dropping in pretty much every first world nation. Usually well below sustainability. It's become clear that, given options, people will control the population just fine. The birth rate stays high in poor countries because children are basically their retirement plan.
Stop voting Republican. It's already been pointed out that they're the ones behind this. And vote in your primary. Voting doesn't do any good if your just voting for Republicans running with a D next to their name (Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelocy, I'm looking at you).
IIRC. But this is basically her family connections getting her something she doesn't deserve. Our aristocracy at work. Me? If I screwed up half as much as she did I'd be in prison. No joke, they lied about blood tests.