If you want socialized health care, fucking socialize it and take private business out of the equation entirely, it will never work as long as there greedy businesses mixed in with it.
Yes, only people who offer value in free exchange are the greedy ones. Men with guns who take they want aren't greedy at all.
And no, killing people is not "an enormous, extremely profitable business" for the government. It is quite the opposite.
Killing people - not so profitable. Threatening to kill them - very profitable. That's where the power is at. Things are the way they are because most people support men with guns making it that way.
Yes, that's part of the tactic of the corps. No bureaucrat is going to cut his own project. Or his own budget.
So the corp over promises, and the bureaucrats sign on, thereby committing to the project and the relationship. The bureaucrats are never going to say "please cut the project where all my expertise and relationships are", even if he's not being greased under the table. Which the decision makers are.
Healthcare should have never been allowed to become for profit.
You win the Thug of the Day award. Yes, people shouldn't be *allowed* to exchange value for value based on their own preferences. The government should step in and shoot them. Yay! What a Brave New World!
It's costs that much because men with guns prevent competition from others who would provide those chemicals at a lower cost.
When I'm free to purchase medical care from anyone willing to provide it, it will be time to talk about market failure in health care. Until then, the medical mafia is just another shakedown operation enabled by government guns.
Health care is cheap. Government control is expensive.
Obama seems to think he can spend money as he sees fit, contrary to law. Congress decides spending & passes the budget, not the President.
Then reality has shown him to be correct. Rules are enforced on the ruled by the rulers. Rulers don't enforce rules on themselves. Rules are for the peasants.
Government agencies don't operate in the same way businesses do. For example, the requirements documents are NEVER frozen. Some reptilian politician gets a burr up his ass, writes some new regulations, and *POOF* the requirements have to be changed and any code already written has to be either dumped or changed to reflect it.
And even if the requirement documents never changed, even if they were chiseled in granite, they'd still be shit.
When doesn't this happen in government IT? Shit requirements in, they're run through a blender every other month, and a system slowly grows, while the bureaucrats sign off again and again, because he who spots the problem is held to have created the problem.
H1Bs may or may not be good. Local workers may or may not be good.
The larger issue is the use of H1Bs by the various subcontracting pimps.
If Google or Msoft is directly sponsoring an H1B, they're doing their due diligence on who they're getting. It's arguable whether that is "good for the country" or not. It probably is.
But the majority of H1Bs are going to subcontracting pimps, and they aren't scouring the world for geniuses. The warm body orgs aren't hiring the best and brightest, they're pushing who they have in their systems, and under their thumbs. Who they have the paperwork on.
The decision that the true hiring org makes is which pimp to procure from, not which genius to hire. It's hugely corrupting to the businesses involved, as the slush fund generated by taking 25% off the top of dozens of salaries is huge, so that millions of dollars turn on which pimp gets hired. If you think that none of that slush manages to find it's way back into the pocket of the corporate decision makers who choose the pimp, you are deluded.
Corporations corrupted, shareholders robbed by middle management decision makers, citizens put out of work, labor laws evaded, disposable human cogs imported to the country, who often plan on leaving, and thereby are willing to take legal risks in a foreign land, knowing that they'll be getting out of dodge in a few years anyway.
and they both leave the room thinking they understood what was said, when in fact, neither did.
That's quite a common occurrence in meetings where you don't have someone with real requirements gathering skill. When other people are running the show, I like to end meetings with "just for laughs, why don't we right down what we just agreed on?" Invariably, hilarity ensues.
Scientists in general and especially climate scientists and the IPCC, need to stay out of the public/political debate, it only undermines the public's faith on their impartiality.
You've got the migration patterns wrong. Ideologues and zealots got into science, and drove the unbelievers out.
Your linked study really just shows what everyone could already see - the climate models are missing something. This of course isn't a surprise; they're missing lots of things, many of which are called out in the study (ENSO, AMO, volcanic activity, unexpected stratospheric aerosol variation or solar variation, etc)..
Heathen! Heretic! Barbarian! Denier!
The science is settled! It's been settled! The models have been perfect forever!
So sayeth Al Gore! So it is, was, and ever shall be!
Also, it's unlikely that you'd be willing to be *completely* honest with your friend. Having an objective person totally separate from the scenario is valuable.
The main value that psychologist bring to the table today is to fulfill the role of that good friend who isn't afraid to lay out a few home truths.
Actually, I don't think so. In my limited experience, there seems a large methodological bias towards non directed therapy. Let the patient talk. Maybe ask leading questions, but no trace of "lay out a few home truths", at least about the patient himself.
My experience is the abuse of the H1B system comes from indirect hires through contract agencies. Basically, if you have a pimp, you're treated like a whore.
They need to work on adding taxes that will cover electric plug ins, etc. The government is reluctant to do so; however, funding for transportation infrastructure has to come from somewhere ---- and it should come in proportionate amounts from those who use that infrastructure most heavily.
Which reverses your original comment. It's the electrics that are being relatively subsidized, when compared to gas/diesel powered cars.
(Note that electrics are also "fossil fueled", as approximately 70% of grid power comes from fossil fuels. )
You originally wrote:
The problem is the government is already unfairly picking winners and already subsidizing fossil fuel vehicles by failing to require that manufacturers and operators of fossil fuel vehicles pay for the pollution they generate in order to internalize the externalities.
Approximately 2/3 of the layoffs are from Nokia. Msoft is also restructuring to clear out middle management, and refocus the business to devices and cloud services.
I'm not a big fan of the H1B program, but this announcement by Msoft is just the wrong horse to be flogging over the H1B program.
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Instead, Oregon placed a gag order on everyone involved in the project to hide the problems from the public.
That's the way government solves problems - point guns at people to shut them up. Problem solved!
If you want socialized health care, fucking socialize it and take private business out of the equation entirely, it will never work as long as there greedy businesses mixed in with it.
Yes, only people who offer value in free exchange are the greedy ones. Men with guns who take they want aren't greedy at all.
Yes, the Kulaks are always sabotaging the plans of the Party!
Now you're catching on.
And no, killing people is not "an enormous, extremely profitable business" for the government. It is quite the opposite.
Killing people - not so profitable. Threatening to kill them - very profitable. That's where the power is at. Things are the way they are because most people support men with guns making it that way.
Yes, that's part of the tactic of the corps. No bureaucrat is going to cut his own project. Or his own budget.
So the corp over promises, and the bureaucrats sign on, thereby committing to the project and the relationship. The bureaucrats are never going to say "please cut the project where all my expertise and relationships are", even if he's not being greased under the table. Which the decision makers are.
Healthcare should have never been allowed to become for profit.
You win the Thug of the Day award. Yes, people shouldn't be *allowed* to exchange value for value based on their own preferences. The government should step in and shoot them. Yay! What a Brave New World!
and so got temporary exclusivity from the FDA
It's the guns of the government that caused the problem. When the government no longer enforces medical monopolies, we'll stop paying monopoly prices.
It's costs that much because men with guns prevent competition from others who would provide those chemicals at a lower cost.
When I'm free to purchase medical care from anyone willing to provide it, it will be time to talk about market failure in health care. Until then, the medical mafia is just another shakedown operation enabled by government guns.
Health care is cheap. Government control is expensive.
Obama seems to think he can spend money as he sees fit, contrary to law. Congress decides spending & passes the budget, not the President.
Then reality has shown him to be correct. Rules are enforced on the ruled by the rulers. Rulers don't enforce rules on themselves. Rules are for the peasants.
Government agencies don't operate in the same way businesses do. For example, the requirements documents are NEVER frozen. Some reptilian politician gets a burr up his ass, writes some new regulations, and *POOF* the requirements have to be changed and any code already written has to be either dumped or changed to reflect it.
And even if the requirement documents never changed, even if they were chiseled in granite, they'd still be shit.
When doesn't this happen in government IT? Shit requirements in, they're run through a blender every other month, and a system slowly grows, while the bureaucrats sign off again and again, because he who spots the problem is held to have created the problem.
But HR won't.
H1Bs may or may not be good. Local workers may or may not be good.
The larger issue is the use of H1Bs by the various subcontracting pimps.
If Google or Msoft is directly sponsoring an H1B, they're doing their due diligence on who they're getting. It's arguable whether that is "good for the country" or not. It probably is.
But the majority of H1Bs are going to subcontracting pimps, and they aren't scouring the world for geniuses. The warm body orgs aren't hiring the best and brightest, they're pushing who they have in their systems, and under their thumbs. Who they have the paperwork on.
The decision that the true hiring org makes is which pimp to procure from, not which genius to hire. It's hugely corrupting to the businesses involved, as the slush fund generated by taking 25% off the top of dozens of salaries is huge, so that millions of dollars turn on which pimp gets hired. If you think that none of that slush manages to find it's way back into the pocket of the corporate decision makers who choose the pimp, you are deluded.
Corporations corrupted, shareholders robbed by middle management decision makers, citizens put out of work, labor laws evaded, disposable human cogs imported to the country, who often plan on leaving, and thereby are willing to take legal risks in a foreign land, knowing that they'll be getting out of dodge in a few years anyway.
What's not to like?
and they both leave the room thinking they understood what was said, when in fact, neither did.
That's quite a common occurrence in meetings where you don't have someone with real requirements gathering skill. When other people are running the show, I like to end meetings with "just for laughs, why don't we right down what we just agreed on?" Invariably, hilarity ensues.
And know we might have am idea of where that missing heat went... Thereby possibly being able to improve the models.
How do you improve on perfection? The SCIENCE WAS SETTLED! Didn't you get the memo?
Scientists in general and especially climate scientists and the IPCC, need to stay out of the public/political debate, it only undermines the public's faith on their impartiality.
You've got the migration patterns wrong. Ideologues and zealots got into science, and drove the unbelievers out.
Your linked study really just shows what everyone could already see - the climate models are missing something. This of course isn't a surprise; they're missing lots of things, many of which are called out in the study (ENSO, AMO, volcanic activity, unexpected stratospheric aerosol variation or solar variation, etc). .
Heathen! Heretic! Barbarian! Denier!
The science is settled! It's been settled! The models have been perfect forever!
So sayeth Al Gore! So it is, was, and ever shall be!
Amen.
The great scourge of rape jokes is only the rationalization of a larger movement to install speech censors and enforce ideological conformity.
Honey, where's my complain' pants? I got me some letters to write!
That was awesome! Thank you.
Also, it's unlikely that you'd be willing to be *completely* honest with your friend. Having an objective person totally separate from the scenario is valuable.
The main value that psychologist bring to the table today is to fulfill the role of that good friend who isn't afraid to lay out a few home truths.
Actually, I don't think so. In my limited experience, there seems a large methodological bias towards non directed therapy. Let the patient talk. Maybe ask leading questions, but no trace of "lay out a few home truths", at least about the patient himself.
Are you direct with Msoft?
My experience is the abuse of the H1B system comes from indirect hires through contract agencies. Basically, if you have a pimp, you're treated like a whore.
You can look up how much an H1b visa holder makes.
If you spring for a membership fee, the lowest of which is $29.
Is there anywhere we can get this government information for free?
They need to work on adding taxes that will cover electric plug ins, etc.
The government is reluctant to do so; however, funding for transportation infrastructure has to come from somewhere ---- and it should come in proportionate amounts from those who use that infrastructure most heavily.
Which reverses your original comment. It's the electrics that are being relatively subsidized, when compared to gas/diesel powered cars.
(Note that electrics are also "fossil fueled", as approximately 70% of grid power comes from fossil fuels. )
You originally wrote:
The problem is the government is already unfairly picking winners and already subsidizing fossil fuel vehicles by failing to require that manufacturers and operators of fossil fuel vehicles pay for the pollution they generate in order to internalize the externalities.
Approximately 2/3 of the layoffs are from Nokia. Msoft is also restructuring to clear out middle management, and refocus the business to devices and cloud services.
I'm not a big fan of the H1B program, but this announcement by Msoft is just the wrong horse to be flogging over the H1B program.