Everyone wants affordable healthcare. No one wants Obamacare. Those are two separate statements. 51% of the country voted for Obamacare over 49% for Romneycare.
You do realize that "Romneycare" is the name given to the policies similar to Obamacare which Romney enacted during his governorship of Massachusetts?
In other words, if you like Romneycare then you like Obamacare too, because they're the same thing (except the latter is nationwide).
You don't understand what "gerrymandering" is, do you? It means that the voting districts were purposefully drawn in such a way as to effectively disenfranchise as many moderate voters as possible.
The budget of $132 billion (estimated, 2011 - god only knows what it is today; nobody else seems to know) should be immediately cut to whatever is really necessary rock bottom for the food safety and inspection program, and the ridiculous cabinet status terminated. My guess is a couple of billion.
Isn't the food safety and inspection program funded by user fees from the agricultural/packing industry?
instead they are using the budget and the massive harm not passing it causes the country to try and hold a gun to Obama's head
I wish they were using the budget!
No, if I understand correctly, they're refusing to raise the borrowing limit again. I don't think Congress has been able to agree on an actual budget since Bush was in office.
It's not, but "homophobia" gets used even when it's inaccurate because there's no word for "gay hater" in common use. (It's hard to construct one too: "mishomony," maybe?)
Which is interesting because those cars actually get much better gas mileage than their predecessors.
The 23-year-old Honda CRX and Geo Metro -- not to mention a whole bunch of other old economy cars -- beg to differ. For other examples, my wife's 1998 Volkswagen Diesel blows a new one completely out of the water in terms of fuel economy, and my 10-year-old Accent is only slightly outclassed by a new one. Even the first hybrid got much better fuel economy than its modern counterpart!
The funny thing in this case is that we're talking about US Senators, who weren't supposed to be directly elected in the first place (until the 17th Amendment). The way it should work is that Senators are chosen by the state legislature, in which case we'd be able to call up our state rep/state senator (who we actually can call up, because their constituencies are small enough that they'd have time to talk) and complain.
If people are so in arms about nuclear energy, why are they not freaking out about the pre-packaged critical nuclear reactions sitting on top of fueled missiles, only under control of a computer to avert disaster?
Oh to head off the "Americans like cheap stuff." - tell that to Apple ($600+ PHONE?!?), Harley Davidson, and every luxury car maker that's showing increasing sales.
Not to mention every "cheap" car maker that sells bottom-of-the-line hatchbacks that cost (and weigh) twice as much as they did a decade or so ago...
What is the potential downside to climate change? Death, misery, and destruction. If we stop doing the things that cause climate change, you'll get the same results.
Bullshit. Stopping doing the things that cause climate change results in investment and innovation because you invent new things to do to accomplish the same goals without the harmful side-effects.
"Chemical industry" isn't a thing that exists, is it?
Of course it is; the chemical industry makes all the chemicals that everybody else (including agriculture) uses. Major corporations include BASF, Dow and DuPont.
According to my HIPAA training from two days ago (I just started working at a company that makes medical billing software), Business Associates are equally responsible for maintaining privacy, and are subject to exactly the same fines as Covered Entities. In fact, the guy training me pointed out that this is likely to result in an increase in enforcement, since the feds can fine both the Covered Entity and the Business Associate for the same breach. Apparently, this is a fairly recent rule change.
the concept of being alone in a 3D world was probably recaptured beautifully by the game "portal" which introduced a dynamic element to the puzzles, so if anyone is looking to what happened to games like "Myst" and "Riven" and "The Seventh Guest", they finally came of age in "Portal" in my opinion.
This would have earned an "insightful" had I not already posted in this thread.
I got banned from my high school computer network for installing Wolf3D on the server. A teacher walked in and our entire Turbo Pascal class was slaying Nazis. My only defense was that it was more useful than learning Pascal. They were not amused.
You just had the wrong teacher. I spent my senior year playing Team Fortress Classic in my Cisco CCNA class with permission because my friends and I didn't suck at computers and finished our work really quickly.
Sure, you need decent quality... but why should you be forced to buy something with an Apple logo when an Underwriters Laboratories logo would be perfectly sufficient?
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You do realize that "Romneycare" is the name given to the policies similar to Obamacare which Romney enacted during his governorship of Massachusetts?
In other words, if you like Romneycare then you like Obamacare too, because they're the same thing (except the latter is nationwide).
You don't understand what "gerrymandering" is, do you? It means that the voting districts were purposefully drawn in such a way as to effectively disenfranchise as many moderate voters as possible.
It seems to me that if the government isn't spending money to keep itself running, then we shouldn't have to keep paying taxes to fund it.
Too bad that argument is guaranteed not to fly, though...
Isn't the food safety and inspection program funded by user fees from the agricultural/packing industry?
Austerity? You must be thinking of Europe. The US government did "quantitative easing" instead.
I wish they were using the budget!
No, if I understand correctly, they're refusing to raise the borrowing limit again. I don't think Congress has been able to agree on an actual budget since Bush was in office.
Are you fucking kidding me? In the first movie, they made a damn fuck-up cadet the captain!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's not, but "homophobia" gets used even when it's inaccurate because there's no word for "gay hater" in common use. (It's hard to construct one too: "mishomony," maybe?)
Dangit, you were this close to an "All your base..." meme!
The 23-year-old Honda CRX and Geo Metro -- not to mention a whole bunch of other old economy cars -- beg to differ. For other examples, my wife's 1998 Volkswagen Diesel blows a new one completely out of the water in terms of fuel economy, and my 10-year-old Accent is only slightly outclassed by a new one. Even the first hybrid got much better fuel economy than its modern counterpart!
The funny thing in this case is that we're talking about US Senators, who weren't supposed to be directly elected in the first place (until the 17th Amendment). The way it should work is that Senators are chosen by the state legislature, in which case we'd be able to call up our state rep/state senator (who we actually can call up, because their constituencies are small enough that they'd have time to talk) and complain.
The broken window fallacy only applies to like-for-like replacement. I'm talking about improvements.
Who said they aren't?
On the contrary, hydrocarbons provide an extremely convenient form of energy storage, much more efficient than any battery yet developed.
Burning hydrocarbons in fixed-installation engines/furnaces (e.g. power plants) is unbelievably stupid, but doing so in vehicles is not.
Renewable hydrocarbons are clearly superior to fossil fuels, of course...
Not to mention every "cheap" car maker that sells bottom-of-the-line hatchbacks that cost (and weigh) twice as much as they did a decade or so ago...
Bullshit. Stopping doing the things that cause climate change results in investment and innovation because you invent new things to do to accomplish the same goals without the harmful side-effects.
Of course it is; the chemical industry makes all the chemicals that everybody else (including agriculture) uses. Major corporations include BASF, Dow and DuPont.
No, you stated a claim. For it to be recognized as a truth, you have to prove it.
Surely at least the state's centralized database is, though?
According to my HIPAA training from two days ago (I just started working at a company that makes medical billing software), Business Associates are equally responsible for maintaining privacy, and are subject to exactly the same fines as Covered Entities. In fact, the guy training me pointed out that this is likely to result in an increase in enforcement, since the feds can fine both the Covered Entity and the Business Associate for the same breach. Apparently, this is a fairly recent rule change.
This would have earned an "insightful" had I not already posted in this thread.
You just had the wrong teacher. I spent my senior year playing Team Fortress Classic in my Cisco CCNA class with permission because my friends and I didn't suck at computers and finished our work really quickly.
You're talking about Deep Space Nine. The Next Generation was much more utopian.
Sure, you need decent quality... but why should you be forced to buy something with an Apple logo when an Underwriters Laboratories logo would be perfectly sufficient?
It was a joke, numbnuts.