But you can. You can pay for private heathcare in France, and you can get insured. If you didn't organise it before now, that's hardly anyone else's fault..
You can have a complementary insurance, but you can not get rid of "securite sociale". You have to pay 10 or 20% (i dont know how much it really is...) of your salary to have "securite sociale". And then you have to pay again for another insurance. And you cant have a private insurance if you dont have "securite sociale" first, cause it is mandatory for any private insurance. So right now i'm screwed basically.
And by the way, this very particular piece of argumentation does not render null everything I just said. These are real situations. You wouldnt want that to happen to you right ? Then dont ask for the State.
I guess they're talking about MHD propulsion (magneto-hydro-dynamic). That's why the "planes" can accelerate to a VERY fast speed without a sonic bang: the plane creates its own shockwave and rides it. Funny thing is that today I received a mail from a UFO site notifying of an update, about a French scientist, Jean Pierre Petit, who thinks the US gov has the tech., solved the energy problem associated, and will more or les let his secrets be known. How weird. check this link, french only sorry:( Des armes et des ovnis
747-400 has a payload of over 120 tons with a range of over 4400 nautical miles. Why not just use 747s? (Although, if this airship has the advantages of stealth and being able to "land" just about anywhere, there might be some point.)
Why not use B747 ? Because they're not what you think they are. They are probably using magneto-hydronamic (MHD) tech to generate a shockwave in front of them and surf it. Sounds like a UFO ? Well, consider the F117 was developped in the 70's. Disclosed in 1990. Do you know why militaries disclose sercrets ? 1/ can not be kept any longer. Not a good reason, considering secrecy was held for 10 years. 2/ impress your enemies 3/ you have better reason 2 and 3 are not exclusive, and I think that's exactly what happened: the message is: "you cant touch us" and "guess what we developped between 1980 and now ?".
Now, I'd say that if such crafts are disclosed by the US militaries, it would be a way to tell Saddam and others: we can get thousands of men in a day in your country. Remember 1990 ? US Army took 6 month to be able to operate. Now, if that could last 10 days to bring all the people on the battlefiled, imagine the strategic advantage.
"You *NEED* some privacy in your life. I will NEVER vote for somebody who supports making something like this mandatory."
Considering the b-box won't tell you where your kids are gone that night, when not coupled with a GPS and a map (but it could be done...), what's the privacy issue ? As a matter of fact, I dont understand very well why I would'nt get one since it'll drive (no pun) my insurance rates down!
Of course, as a libertarian, I can't agree with it being mandatory. If people want to die earlier not fastening seat belts, it's their problem. If they want higher insurance, let's them have that too. Speed limits are another matter 'cause it's my life that's in the balance....
Pure communism is only an economic system (i.e. it's actually possible to have a democratic government and a communist economic model)
You can NOT have communism without a dictatorship since communism depends on individuals giving up their rights for the system to live on. Historic fact: Everywhere someone tried to implement a communist system it failed, resulting in horrible and massive crimes. Logical argumentation: in a communist system, there is no private property. You can not choose what you want to produce, what your children need to study, etc etc. There is no market to define that, but still someone, something must take decisions. Therefore you have a "party", a "comity", a "soviet", whatever you want to call it, to decide in your place. Since many decisions will hurt people, they will have to be enforced by violence. Of course, you can still argue that "soviets" can be democratically elected. So what ? In the end, they will use violence to enforce the decisions they take.
But I also recognize that health care, like food, clothing and shelter, is a basic human need whereas software is a luxury item
If you think that "basic human need" should be processed by gov, then why don't you write to your congressman asking him to "socialize" Wal-Mart and KMart ?
Capitalism for healthcare doesnt drive costs up: in the USA, there are "HMO" and medicare and medicaid... So the "private" sector is in fact not so large, whatever people may believe.
Last but not least, costs only reflects prices in a free market (US medical sector is not free), so if cost may grow it is because demand is growing, and supply cant follow. When price can not follow demand, there is scarcity. In the UK, you have queues to see a doctor, queues in hospital. In France, since nurses wage is fixed by the state, there is 40.000 nurses job not fulfilled. Noone wants a poor job, badly paid. Guess the service in hospitals is not quite good....
These issues are bigger than your fucking day to day life. These issues are more important than a few windows that might get broken in the chaos.
Bigger than my everyday life so you can screw it up ? How nice! But who are you to decide that your protest is more important than my life anyway ?
About the "broken windows", there were far more destruction in Genoa (Italy): banks were burnt, shops, cars burnt too... Many people in Genoa couldn't just believe what Black Block and other so-called "protesters" did to their city.
In fact, the "protesters" are apprentice terrorists: they adopt the very same methods: blow up things, destroy, spread fear of their arrival...
In France, a bomb blew up a macdonald's, and an employee was killed. After this "incident", no more bombing. But i'm pretty sure that this wont stop other people to do it in other countries.
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So... after the "long lasting mouse", are we gonna see the "artistic/speaking mouse" ?
"Planet of the Apes" is tomorrow...
And by the way, this very particular piece of argumentation does not render null everything I just said. These are real situations. You wouldnt want that to happen to you right ? Then dont ask for the State.
I guess they're talking about MHD propulsion (magneto-hydro-dynamic). That's why the "planes" can accelerate to a VERY fast speed without a sonic bang: the plane creates its own shockwave and rides it. :( Des armes et des ovnis
Funny thing is that today I received a mail from a UFO site notifying of an update, about a French scientist, Jean Pierre Petit, who thinks the US gov has the tech., solved the energy problem associated, and will more or les let his secrets be known. How weird.
check this link, french only sorry
1/ can not be kept any longer. Not a good reason, considering secrecy was held for 10 years.
2/ impress your enemies
3/ you have better
reason 2 and 3 are not exclusive, and I think that's exactly what happened: the message is: "you cant touch us" and "guess what we developped between 1980 and now ?".
Now, I'd say that if such crafts are disclosed by the US militaries, it would be a way to tell Saddam and others: we can get thousands of men in a day in your country. Remember 1990 ? US Army took 6 month to be able to operate. Now, if that could last 10 days to bring all the people on the battlefiled, imagine the strategic advantage.
"You *NEED* some privacy in your life. I will NEVER vote for somebody who supports making something like this mandatory."
Considering the b-box won't tell you where your kids are gone that night, when not coupled with a GPS and a map (but it could be done...), what's the privacy issue ?
As a matter of fact, I dont understand very well why I would'nt get one since it'll drive (no pun) my insurance rates down!
Of course, as a libertarian, I can't agree with it being mandatory. If people want to die earlier not fastening seat belts, it's their problem. If they want higher insurance, let's them have that too. Speed limits are another matter 'cause it's my life that's in the balance....
You can NOT have communism without a dictatorship since communism depends on individuals giving up their rights for the system to live on.
Historic fact: Everywhere someone tried to implement a communist system it failed, resulting in horrible and massive crimes.
Logical argumentation: in a communist system, there is no private property. You can not choose what you want to produce, what your children need to study, etc etc. There is no market to define that, but still someone, something must take decisions. Therefore you have a "party", a "comity", a "soviet", whatever you want to call it, to decide in your place. Since many decisions will hurt people, they will have to be enforced by violence. Of course, you can still argue that "soviets" can be democratically elected. So what ? In the end, they will use violence to enforce the decisions they take.
Capitalism for healthcare doesnt drive costs up: in the USA, there are "HMO" and medicare and medicaid... So the "private" sector is in fact not so large, whatever people may believe.
Last but not least, costs only reflects prices in a free market (US medical sector is not free), so if cost may grow it is because demand is growing, and supply cant follow. When price can not follow demand, there is scarcity. In the UK, you have queues to see a doctor, queues in hospital. In France, since nurses wage is fixed by the state, there is 40.000 nurses job not fulfilled. Noone wants a poor job, badly paid. Guess the service in hospitals is not quite good....
Bigger than my everyday life so you can screw it up ? How nice! But who are you to decide that your protest is more important than my life anyway ?
About the "broken windows", there were far more destruction in Genoa (Italy): banks were burnt, shops, cars burnt too... Many people in Genoa couldn't just believe what Black Block and other so-called "protesters" did to their city.
In fact, the "protesters" are apprentice terrorists: they adopt the very same methods: blow up things, destroy, spread fear of their arrival... In France, a bomb blew up a macdonald's, and an employee was killed. After this "incident", no more bombing. But i'm pretty sure that this wont stop other people to do it in other countries.