"Except a true libritarian would only...blah, blah, blah"
No, there's no such thing as a "true libertarian" or a "true republican" or a "true democrat". There are agreed upon guiding principles, and a wide range of overall beliefs in all of them.
As a libertarian leaning person, I would generally agree with the removal of regulations, but not in a case where there's no opportunity for the market to be free. Nobody is going to run more cable to our homes, so you're stuck with the fiber and ISPs you've got until 5G comes along. ISPs are virtual utilities and utilities need regulation.
Democrats REALLY want the Federal Government to gain control of the Internet.
Net Neutrality is a backdoor to let their SJW insanity control the Internet.
I am not, nor have I ever been a Democrat. You need to stop spreading the word of Comcast, Verizon and AT&T, because that's where the money against net neutrality is coming from. Don't believe it, then believe the links below. This is all about lobbying money into the Republican party, much like the Democrats are beholden to trial lawyers and Hollywood.
"Given it's size and diversity, it is highly likely that aliens exist."
Given that there's been a grand total of zero evidence to back this up, the odds are much slimmer. And you don't need to "know everything about the universe" to project that. Feel free to toss out the Drake equation...it's truly meaningless since much of it is only based upon conjecture, speculation and unmeasured parameters.
"You see something in the sky, you report to the Air Force or FBI. They have a duty to investigate it if it seems at all like a credible sighting"
Really? Which office of the USAF is responsible and assigned to do so? Answer: None. Oh, and as for the FBI, it's not in their swim lane either: https://www.fbi.gov/about/miss...
Um, no. Just no. This was a payoff to a buddy of Harry. If we really wanted to look for UFOs, there would have been a competitive competition for the contract. There wasn't. End of story.
So, Harry Reid funds a pork barrel project for a buddy, and it gets headlines indicating that the DoD wants to look for UFOs? No, no it doesn't. It was simply doing what Congress required it to do. Congress creates the budget, not the Pentagon. Most likely, the only reason it was classified was to keep it from leaking out and embarrassing everyone.
You've clearly never been to Flint. I have...I grew up about twenty miles away, and while the city itself sucks, you can live in a very nice home with some of the best year round sports, shopping, and amenities just a few miles away, at prices Californians can only dream of.
I manage a team a team in northern CA, and travel there frequently. You've got nothing on MI except higher taxes.
Your comparison of middlemen is only of value in an open marketplace. That's not the case with healthcare, where middlemen are, again, of NO value. They're not taking on the risk. They get subsidized. They can set their fees as virtual monopolies.
As one of my professors told us, you have to volatize your esters...swirl the wine around. I'm betting that that didn't used to be common practice, and thus there was no need for larger glasses.
What non-alcoholic drinks a full 449ml class of wine? My bet is that the glasses are mostly larger for esthetics. The glasses are typically much less than half full when the wine is poured.
We have our own poor to take care of. I you can't solve that, than you have no business trying to solve it for the rest of the world. Do we really need to be sending money around the world when we have homeless on the streets of every major city? How about all of those veterans who still can't get help in spite of all the media attention that was brought to it over the last couple years?
Many of us who do have decent healthcare are not pleased with our premiums skyrocketing. This isn't giving us any better healthcare, and has in fact removed access to many of the "Cadillac" plans that we used to have because companies are no longer willing to pay for those. Yeah, I get it that more people have healthcare now...and many also have reduced benefits, and more expense as a result.
I'd argue that the solution is for people to have fewer kids, but that's somewhat off-topic.
Yes, we do need of get rid of the insurance companies. If you accept that government is going to be involved in our healthcare, then there's no logical reason for insurance companies. I'm no fan of big government, but insurance companies are simply leaches on the system.
And to pile onto your ER example, I have my own anecdotes. Last March, I had a severe fall that nearly sliced my nose off of my face when it hit the edge of a flagstone step...the photos were brutal. I was on the surgical table for about 1.5 hrs., and spent one night in the trauma unit. This came to more than $50,000, not including subsequent visits to the plastic surgeon's office. And while I only had to cover about 10% of that, I don't understand where all that money went, other than profit, or to subsidize those who couldn't afford ER visits.
Just one more...my daughter sliced her hand open while working in the kitchen of a local resort. The staff at the resort basically superglued the cut. I came and took her to a local ER, where she got a tetanus shot, and after the doctor examined it, told us that the glue job was fine, and she could go home. $1500 for a shot and a look by a doctor. Fortunately, that was covered by workman's compensation.
Bullshit. Single payer removes a middleman that is of no value added, and in fact raises the total cost of healthcare. And, for whatever it's worth, I'm saying this as a fiscal conservative.
I was on a business trip to Germany last year, and went to visit an area where I used to live in the 80-90s about an hour west of Frankfurt. It's mostly very hilly farmlands, but generally very beautiful country. I'm not by nature against wind farms, but there were turbines all over, and IMHO, it was an eyesore. I could see why people would get all NIMBY about this. Is there a practical reason they couldn't be grouped closer together? Does that somehow reduce their efficiency?
And what are the odds that confidential information is going to be held on commercial servers in foreign nations? How about classified data? Now, if they want their own cloud, even built be contractors, that's fine, but keep our shit out of foreign hands please. And, sweet Jesus, please don't pull the dumbass moves that OMB did. Our private data doesn't have to be available 24/7 on the web.
So, in addition to X-box and Surface, you need to consider anything that's being thrown away because MS no longer supports an OS on it...even though MS didn't manufacture the hardware, they're somewhat responsible for it being tossed.
So, the weight of the waste doesn't matter nearly as much as the volume and obviously any related hazardous materials. With the US producing more waste than any other nation, I thought this perspective was useful...
From howstuffworks: The Great Pyramid in Egypt is 756 feet by 756 feet at the base and is 481 feet tall, and anyone who has seen it in real life knows that it's a huge thing -- one of the biggest things ever built by man. If you took all the trash that the United States would generate in 100 years and piled it up in the shape of the Great Pyramid, it would be about 32 times bigger. So the base of this trash pyramid would be about 4.5 miles by 4.5 miles, and the pyramid would rise almost 3 miles high
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"Except a true libritarian would only...blah, blah, blah"
No, there's no such thing as a "true libertarian" or a "true republican" or a "true democrat". There are agreed upon guiding principles, and a wide range of overall beliefs in all of them.
As a libertarian leaning person, I would generally agree with the removal of regulations, but not in a case where there's no opportunity for the market to be free. Nobody is going to run more cable to our homes, so you're stuck with the fiber and ISPs you've got until 5G comes along. ISPs are virtual utilities and utilities need regulation.
I'd argue that a black market is a free market.
Racist!
Democrats REALLY want the Federal Government to gain control of the Internet.
Net Neutrality is a backdoor to let their SJW insanity control the Internet.
I am not, nor have I ever been a Democrat. You need to stop spreading the word of Comcast, Verizon and AT&T, because that's where the money against net neutrality is coming from. Don't believe it, then believe the links below. This is all about lobbying money into the Republican party, much like the Democrats are beholden to trial lawyers and Hollywood.
https://www.opensecrets.org/ne...
https://www.politico.com/story...
https://www.theverge.com/2017/...
"Given it's size and diversity, it is highly likely that aliens exist."
Given that there's been a grand total of zero evidence to back this up, the odds are much slimmer. And you don't need to "know everything about the universe" to project that. Feel free to toss out the Drake equation...it's truly meaningless since much of it is only based upon conjecture, speculation and unmeasured parameters.
https://www.realclearscience.c...
Three more words
Waste of money
"You see something in the sky, you report to the Air Force or FBI. They have a duty to investigate it if it seems at all like a credible sighting"
Really? Which office of the USAF is responsible and assigned to do so? Answer: None. Oh, and as for the FBI, it's not in their swim lane either: https://www.fbi.gov/about/miss...
Um, no. Just no. This was a payoff to a buddy of Harry. If we really wanted to look for UFOs, there would have been a competitive competition for the contract. There wasn't. End of story.
So, Harry Reid funds a pork barrel project for a buddy, and it gets headlines indicating that the DoD wants to look for UFOs? No, no it doesn't. It was simply doing what Congress required it to do. Congress creates the budget, not the Pentagon. Most likely, the only reason it was classified was to keep it from leaking out and embarrassing everyone.
Oh, and people were leaving CA long before he fires...
https://www.charismanews.com/o...
http://www.sacbee.com/site-ser...
You've clearly never been to Flint. I have...I grew up about twenty miles away, and while the city itself sucks, you can live in a very nice home with some of the best year round sports, shopping, and amenities just a few miles away, at prices Californians can only dream of.
I manage a team a team in northern CA, and travel there frequently. You've got nothing on MI except higher taxes.
"...while the rental market struggled to meet the new demand."
Really? Yeah, those poor landlords had to raise their rents...oh, the horror.
Oh, and cram your "grade-school reasoning". That was a jackass comment.
Your comparison of middlemen is only of value in an open marketplace. That's not the case with healthcare, where middlemen are, again, of NO value. They're not taking on the risk. They get subsidized. They can set their fees as virtual monopolies.
As one of my professors told us, you have to volatize your esters...swirl the wine around. I'm betting that that didn't used to be common practice, and thus there was no need for larger glasses.
What non-alcoholic drinks a full 449ml class of wine? My bet is that the glasses are mostly larger for esthetics. The glasses are typically much less than half full when the wine is poured.
Depends.
We have our own poor to take care of. I you can't solve that, than you have no business trying to solve it for the rest of the world. Do we really need to be sending money around the world when we have homeless on the streets of every major city? How about all of those veterans who still can't get help in spite of all the media attention that was brought to it over the last couple years?
Many of us who do have decent healthcare are not pleased with our premiums skyrocketing. This isn't giving us any better healthcare, and has in fact removed access to many of the "Cadillac" plans that we used to have because companies are no longer willing to pay for those. Yeah, I get it that more people have healthcare now...and many also have reduced benefits, and more expense as a result.
I'd argue that the solution is for people to have fewer kids, but that's somewhat off-topic.
Yes, we do need of get rid of the insurance companies. If you accept that government is going to be involved in our healthcare, then there's no logical reason for insurance companies. I'm no fan of big government, but insurance companies are simply leaches on the system.
And to pile onto your ER example, I have my own anecdotes. Last March, I had a severe fall that nearly sliced my nose off of my face when it hit the edge of a flagstone step...the photos were brutal. I was on the surgical table for about 1.5 hrs., and spent one night in the trauma unit. This came to more than $50,000, not including subsequent visits to the plastic surgeon's office. And while I only had to cover about 10% of that, I don't understand where all that money went, other than profit, or to subsidize those who couldn't afford ER visits.
Just one more...my daughter sliced her hand open while working in the kitchen of a local resort. The staff at the resort basically superglued the cut. I came and took her to a local ER, where she got a tetanus shot, and after the doctor examined it, told us that the glue job was fine, and she could go home. $1500 for a shot and a look by a doctor. Fortunately, that was covered by workman's compensation.
Bullshit. Single payer removes a middleman that is of no value added, and in fact raises the total cost of healthcare.
And, for whatever it's worth, I'm saying this as a fiscal conservative.
I was on a business trip to Germany last year, and went to visit an area where I used to live in the 80-90s about an hour west of Frankfurt. It's mostly very hilly farmlands, but generally very beautiful country. I'm not by nature against wind farms, but there were turbines all over, and IMHO, it was an eyesore. I could see why people would get all NIMBY about this. Is there a practical reason they couldn't be grouped closer together? Does that somehow reduce their efficiency?
Don't blame Michigan engineers for the poor practices of the companies and unions they had to work with.
"Hilarity ensues"
What does Clinton have to do with the cloud, and why is she suing???
And what are the odds that confidential information is going to be held on commercial servers in foreign nations? How about classified data? Now, if they want their own cloud, even built be contractors, that's fine, but keep our shit out of foreign hands please. And, sweet Jesus, please don't pull the dumbass moves that OMB did. Our private data doesn't have to be available 24/7 on the web.
So, in addition to X-box and Surface, you need to consider anything that's being thrown away because MS no longer supports an OS on it...even though MS didn't manufacture the hardware, they're somewhat responsible for it being tossed.
I've yet to have a dishwasher last more than half that. And I've had dishwashers since the 70s.
So, the weight of the waste doesn't matter nearly as much as the volume and obviously any related hazardous materials. With the US producing more waste than any other nation, I thought this perspective was useful...
From howstuffworks:
The Great Pyramid in Egypt is 756 feet by 756 feet at the base and is 481 feet tall, and anyone who has seen it in real life knows that it's a huge thing -- one of the biggest things ever built by man. If you took all the trash that the United States would generate in 100 years and piled it up in the shape of the Great Pyramid, it would be about 32 times bigger. So the base of this trash pyramid would be about 4.5 miles by 4.5 miles, and the pyramid would rise almost 3 miles high