You are cynical and wrong about Republicans. We do believe it's a bad idea.
So you voted for Clinton and 92 and 96, right? Because 'Obamcare' was crafted by the Heritage Foundation and backed by candidates like Bush and Dole before being signed into law by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts.
My insurance premiums haven't budged in 5 YEARS, and this year they're scheduled to nearly double (~90% jump).
Trent Boyett is a liar, sir. If your health insurance has been so insulated from the real world so as to have not budged in five years, it would also be insulated from winger hysteria over the implementation of Republican health insurance reform.
Most of the new drugs and treatments come out of the USA. The companies inventing them are making a profit, while the government is trillions in debt..
Could we get some smarter trolls please? Most Pharma money is spent on advertizing and shareholder profits, not research. And the government is in debt for giving huge tax cuts to the rich while waging a global War Of Terror.
So what is the opposition party alternative? Repeal.
It was the opposition party's plan to begin with, going back to the early 90's when it was the Heritage Foundation plan. Democrats hated it when it was signed into law in Massachusetts by Mitt Romney and it became known as Romneycare.
So it's been hilarious to see partisans from both side of the aisle develop collective amnesia as to where Obamacare really comes from.
They've had four years to get ready for this. As for integrating different systems, bitch please. Massive enterprises constantly make use of middleman software to pass requests from Database A to Database C and back again, every second of every day.
My point is simply that there's nowhere in the world right now with a good, working system.
But that's a combination of false equivalencies and complaining about anecdotes because no system run by humans will be perfect. Bottom line: socialized medicine provides better care for less money. I don't know why people are still debating this when for-profit insurance depends on taking your money while denying your claims.
How to know when someone doesn't understand Russia? Of all the human rights problems to list, they choose the (favorite hipster issue of) Pussy Riot.
Seriously, can the snobbery. You're shocked, shocked that the political imprisonment of a protest group known for grabbing media attention is a well known example?
You don't think killing journalists or fixing elections is a little more worthy of note?
You don't think you could same the same crap over the protesting of Russia's anti-gay laws? It's not like they're making it an capitol offense a la Uganda. Have some priorities, people!
And, as I said, in the same situation, the US probably would (and likely has) grant asylum to someone fleeing Russia. And then it just becomes more hypocrisy.
We've been there for some time. We've granted asylum to terrorists wanted in Venezuela and Cuba, and are denying the extradition of the ex-president of Bolivia to answer charges of genocide.
And then we lose our shit when a whisteblower applies for asylum.
and the Kremlin's treatment of dissidents has also been awkward to say the least
We've mentally tortured one whisteblower (Manning), upgraded petty trespassing and vandalism charges into a terrorism prosecution against a nun over 80 years old, and planned on shooting OWS leaders in the head, if necessary.
It is Obama and the Executive Branch's job to enforce existing law. They're doing that.
Did you type that with a straight face? Where's the criminal prosecutions for Bush's/ATT&T's violations of FISA? The immunity passed in 2008 was civil, not criminal.
Reagan and the first Bush sent almost a thousand bankers to jail over the S&L crisis. The mortgage bubble was 70 times as large, and fraudulent documents have been used to steal homes from hundreds of thousands if not millions of people.
The only person to have gone to jail for Bush's torture program was one of the men who confirmed it's existence, John Kiriakou. When the U.N. Convention Against Torture, proudly signed by that commie pinko Ronald Reagan, requires the prosecution of those who commit torture.
So, I ask again....did you type that with a straight face? And if you really want to hang your hat on the Espionage Act of 1917, then where the hell are the prosecutions of Rove et all for outing Valerie Plame?
Acting as if this is just about the rule of law is laughable, when you look at all the laws they are either violating or ignoring.
Out of interest, in what way did he get caught on that? I thought he claimed the email recording was just metadata.
The weasel words are obvious. They aren't "targeting" your email, they're just trying to collect every bit of information from every person they can. And now "bulk collection" doesn't mean just collecting emails, you have to actually read them as well.
So, let's assume that in ten days, Greenwald and his colleagues aren't dead. Are you going to adjust your beliefs to match the new evidence?
We bombed Al Jazeera offices under Bush, Obama personally called to keep a journalist imprisoned in Yemen, before going to wage a bigger war on the press and whisteblowers than Nixon and Reagan and Bush combined. Oh, and there was that triffling matter of assassinating an American citizen for political speech and then the man's son for no particular reason.
So, going to adjust the snobby response? It's not like it would be totally obvious if every investigative journalist started turning up dead in small engine plane crashes.
Heads up...life has always been a contest, for each creature to struggle and fight with others to survive...in our case, to also live more comfortably and provide for our families, even if that means beating someone else out of things to do so.
And when that Randian Sociopathy applies to you you'll just bow down and accept your fate, right? Funny how the people advocating for 'creative destruction' arrogantly believe it will never apply to their own self-centered selves.
So you're saying that if you cherry-pick the pieces of sci-fi works that you like, abstract their concepts away to near-meaninglessness, rearrange them a lot, reinterpret them through a modern viewpoint, mash them together with other similarly-processed pieces of sci-fi from different authors during radically different periods of cultural history, and have an agenda, then you "constantly find [it] interesting" that they "more or less come true eventually"?
No. He's talking about common themes of government manipulation and surveillance, since authors writing books in nineteen freaking fourty nine would have no clue that the Internet or Facebook were coming half a century later.
Care to try again, without being a willfully obtuse asshat this time?
this is off topic, but there is lots of history that shows that some of these dystopian ideas are dumb. the USA and Australia were both originally populated by criminals, slaves, and people the UK didn't want. both became greater than the mother country because people don't just give up and die.
Did you spend three seconds thinking about this before you posted? There was about a billion people in 1800. We now have seven times that number, and far more by the time Elysium rolls around, unless a whole lotta people start dying from climate change or disease. Nearly every inch of the earth's surface is claimed by one nation or another.
And the people in 1800 were looking at a world of, from their point of view, infinite resources. We've already passed peak oil and are finding limits to important resources like zinc and helium.
So what land and resources are your 'criminals and slaves' going to be able to use to better themselves now, much less 140 years from now?
Than explain why Africa and South America, regions with the richest natural resources in the world, are also the continually poorest? Or why Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, islands almost completely devoid of any natural resources, are some of the richest places in the world?
Of course, we are free to make our own personal definitions as we wish, but terrorists are the guys that kill civilians, with full intent of causing fear, terror, and chaos.
You referring to Bush's "Shock and Awe", meant to terrorize Iraqis into compliance, or Obama's double taps, targeting funerals and people trying to rescue those hit in a "signature strike", where the DOD isn't even sure who it is they're trying to kill? Or maybe you're going farther back, to Reagan's support of death squads and civilian-slaughtering dictatorships like Pinochet. So many options of Western hypocrisy to chose from....
No, it didn't. It sucked on crappy hardware of the time, and it had driver issues early on.
Which...means it sucked. You've really screwed the pooch as a software company if reverting to your previous version is both a performance and usability upgrade.
Vista was the ME of it's decade, and for the same reasons. Yeah, it got better after a stream of updates and a service pack, but then we have to give the same consideration for XP.
It's a desktop computer where the core components are virtually non-upgradeable, now maybe that's ok but what do you get in return for that compromise?
Because most computers are replaced before they have their motherboards/cpu's upgraded. It's like with user-replaceable batteries on mp3 players: sure, it sounds like a nice feature, and some people still act like it's a crime against humanity to have a sealed one, but 80-90% of the market just doesn't care.
I was hoping to replace my ancient mac pro with a new one but the inability to swap the graphics cards is deal breaker.
Being able to drive three 4k displays isn't enough? More if you use the expansion capabilities of Thunderbolt? Then like with mp3 player batteries, go ahead and buy whatever is out that does do what you want, as Apple isn't holding a gun to anyone's head.
Irrelevant, as is the rest of your post. The question wasn't who invented the technology in the first place, but if Apple's research can be used by other people.
Correct. But that discounts the importance of polish and timing.
He's not correct. Because "polish" is just another word for.....innovation. Like the "polish" with the first iPod, though you left out the microdrive (everything else used tiny flash memory or far more bulky notebook/desktop drives). And the 400 Mpbs interface when everything else used 11 Mpbs USB or parallel.
Said Steve Jobs. In reality, Apple had nothing to lose and everything to gain from the vendor lock in. I didn't think anyone actually took that statement at face value.
The problem with taking that tautology at face value: no one was ever prevented from buying the same music for similar devices, Apple has always made most of their money from selling hardware not music or software, and Apple has maintained their market dominance long after unencumbered songs have become the norm.
Remember Steve Jobs was the same one who ripped off Woz back in the day
Did he also run over your dog when you were five? "Back in day" is around the Ford and Carter Administrations. Got a horse that doesn't have 40 odd years of dust on it?
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So you voted for Clinton and 92 and 96, right? Because 'Obamcare' was crafted by the Heritage Foundation and backed by candidates like Bush and Dole before being signed into law by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts.
Trent Boyett is a liar, sir. If your health insurance has been so insulated from the real world so as to have not budged in five years, it would also be insulated from winger hysteria over the implementation of Republican health insurance reform.
Could we get some smarter trolls please? Most Pharma money is spent on advertizing and shareholder profits, not research. And the government is in debt for giving huge tax cuts to the rich while waging a global War Of Terror.
It was the opposition party's plan to begin with, going back to the early 90's when it was the Heritage Foundation plan. Democrats hated it when it was signed into law in Massachusetts by Mitt Romney and it became known as Romneycare.
So it's been hilarious to see partisans from both side of the aisle develop collective amnesia as to where Obamacare really comes from.
They've had four years to get ready for this. As for integrating different systems, bitch please. Massive enterprises constantly make use of middleman software to pass requests from Database A to Database C and back again, every second of every day.
This is about profit, not capability.
But that's a combination of false equivalencies and complaining about anecdotes because no system run by humans will be perfect. Bottom line: socialized medicine provides better care for less money. I don't know why people are still debating this when for-profit insurance depends on taking your money while denying your claims.
Seriously, can the snobbery. You're shocked, shocked that the political imprisonment of a protest group known for grabbing media attention is a well known example?
You don't think you could same the same crap over the protesting of Russia's anti-gay laws? It's not like they're making it an capitol offense a la Uganda. Have some priorities, people!
We've been there for some time. We've granted asylum to terrorists wanted in Venezuela and Cuba, and are denying the extradition of the ex-president of Bolivia to answer charges of genocide.
And then we lose our shit when a whisteblower applies for asylum.
We've mentally tortured one whisteblower (Manning), upgraded petty trespassing and vandalism charges into a terrorism prosecution against a nun over 80 years old, and planned on shooting OWS leaders in the head, if necessary.
Did you type that with a straight face? Where's the criminal prosecutions for Bush's/ATT&T's violations of FISA? The immunity passed in 2008 was civil, not criminal.
Reagan and the first Bush sent almost a thousand bankers to jail over the S&L crisis. The mortgage bubble was 70 times as large, and fraudulent documents have been used to steal homes from hundreds of thousands if not millions of people.
The only person to have gone to jail for Bush's torture program was one of the men who confirmed it's existence, John Kiriakou. When the U.N. Convention Against Torture, proudly signed by that commie pinko Ronald Reagan, requires the prosecution of those who commit torture.
So, I ask again....did you type that with a straight face? And if you really want to hang your hat on the Espionage Act of 1917, then where the hell are the prosecutions of Rove et all for outing Valerie Plame?
Acting as if this is just about the rule of law is laughable, when you look at all the laws they are either violating or ignoring.
The weasel words are obvious. They aren't "targeting" your email, they're just trying to collect every bit of information from every person they can. And now "bulk collection" doesn't mean just collecting emails, you have to actually read them as well.
We bombed Al Jazeera offices under Bush, Obama personally called to keep a journalist imprisoned in Yemen, before going to wage a bigger war on the press and whisteblowers than Nixon and Reagan and Bush combined. Oh, and there was that triffling matter of assassinating an American citizen for political speech and then the man's son for no particular reason.
So, going to adjust the snobby response? It's not like it would be totally obvious if every investigative journalist started turning up dead in small engine plane crashes.
I'd also like to see how he deals with having his groundwater poisoned by fracking or his air poisoned by a chemical factory in the next state.
And when that Randian Sociopathy applies to you you'll just bow down and accept your fate, right? Funny how the people advocating for 'creative destruction' arrogantly believe it will never apply to their own self-centered selves.
No. He's talking about common themes of government manipulation and surveillance, since authors writing books in nineteen freaking fourty nine would have no clue that the Internet or Facebook were coming half a century later.
Care to try again, without being a willfully obtuse asshat this time?
this is off topic, but there is lots of history that shows that some of these dystopian ideas are dumb. the USA and Australia were both originally populated by criminals, slaves, and people the UK didn't want. both became greater than the mother country because people don't just give up and die.
Did you spend three seconds thinking about this before you posted? There was about a billion people in 1800. We now have seven times that number, and far more by the time Elysium rolls around, unless a whole lotta people start dying from climate change or disease. Nearly every inch of the earth's surface is claimed by one nation or another.
And the people in 1800 were looking at a world of, from their point of view, infinite resources. We've already passed peak oil and are finding limits to important resources like zinc and helium.
So what land and resources are your 'criminals and slaves' going to be able to use to better themselves now, much less 140 years from now?
Capitalism.
You referring to Bush's "Shock and Awe", meant to terrorize Iraqis into compliance, or Obama's double taps, targeting funerals and people trying to rescue those hit in a "signature strike", where the DOD isn't even sure who it is they're trying to kill? Or maybe you're going farther back, to Reagan's support of death squads and civilian-slaughtering dictatorships like Pinochet. So many options of Western hypocrisy to chose from....
And I carry around a Tiger Stone in my pocket. Never been attacked by a tiger.
Which...means it sucked. You've really screwed the pooch as a software company if reverting to your previous version is both a performance and usability upgrade.
Vista was the ME of it's decade, and for the same reasons. Yeah, it got better after a stream of updates and a service pack, but then we have to give the same consideration for XP.
Because most computers are replaced before they have their motherboards/cpu's upgraded. It's like with user-replaceable batteries on mp3 players: sure, it sounds like a nice feature, and some people still act like it's a crime against humanity to have a sealed one, but 80-90% of the market just doesn't care.
Being able to drive three 4k displays isn't enough? More if you use the expansion capabilities of Thunderbolt? Then like with mp3 player batteries, go ahead and buy whatever is out that does do what you want, as Apple isn't holding a gun to anyone's head.
Irrelevant, as is the rest of your post. The question wasn't who invented the technology in the first place, but if Apple's research can be used by other people.
He's not correct. Because "polish" is just another word for.....innovation. Like the "polish" with the first iPod, though you left out the microdrive (everything else used tiny flash memory or far more bulky notebook/desktop drives). And the 400 Mpbs interface when everything else used 11 Mpbs USB or parallel.
Here.
The problem with taking that tautology at face value: no one was ever prevented from buying the same music for similar devices, Apple has always made most of their money from selling hardware not music or software, and Apple has maintained their market dominance long after unencumbered songs have become the norm.
Did he also run over your dog when you were five? "Back in day" is around the Ford and Carter Administrations. Got a horse that doesn't have 40 odd years of dust on it?