Yes, it is of course just part of the wonders of modern society, where a sociopath can keep on messing up society via influential positions he gets via friends (i.e. fellow sociopaths). Isn't it great?
I don't really care if it's great and so many organisations depend on it. I don't even care about the vulnerabilities.
I didn't ask for it, was installed behind my back and I was given no means to uninstal it. It's malware and Mozilla did the right thing cutting this evil by the root. MS behaviour is completely unacceptable and should be handled in a very strong and assertive way. Kudos for defending user freedom, Mozilla!
Now, if the MS plugin is so important, offer it as an optional download and allow for users to uninstall it, just like Java, Adobe and Flash.
Also, if your Medicare and Medicaid are so expensive, you must be doing something wrong.
Of course! The first thing wrong, was establishing these programs in the first place. Instead of fixing this, you and yours propose even more of the same — why don't we expand Medicare to all — that's what you are asking...
So how do you propose to solve the US healthcare problem? The way that all other developed countries use, that works very well, or something else? How do you provide health care to those who can't pay for it directly?
Capitalism's record at providing immense economic benefits even to the least fortunate of its participants is well established and beyond doubt.
Socialism, on the other hand, has little to show economically wherever practiced, and slides into horrible tyranny (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Kim, Pol Pot, Castro, Mugabe) from a slightest push-over. Having tried both, I'll choose capitalism over and over again — the "wilder" the better. Thank you very much.
How you can include Hitler in the Socialist field is beyond understanding. Maybe it's because his party was called National-Socialist, but that's just too simpleton. All the capitalist corporations that employed slave labor during Nazism, including a few American ones were very happy with the "socialism" of Hitler.
All other capitalist developed countries have socialised medicine. So, what have socialism and tiranny have to do with the subject?
Since we're talking about horrible tiranny, let's go a little further and talk about Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Salazar and their beloved corporations. While we're at it,we could move on to others like the Bothas, Mobutu, Batista, Somoza, Pinochet, Noriega, Reza Pahlevi, Saddam Hussein, the Saud dinnasty, etc. etc. etc. all very pro-capitalism and all very horribly tyrannic (Some even became enemies of the US but that's it, if you play with snakes, you eventually get bitten).
And Pol Pot was helped by the Americans to power to help fight the Vietcong. As usual, the US screwed up big time and created a monster way beyond their wildest dreams.
I was saying that since the income inequality is
so big,
it's only fair that tax inequality is also big. And quoting the National Tax Payers Union about social justice is like quoting Adolf Hitler about racial justice.
Your next issue is about military spending versus social spending. 21.6 percent spent on defense is completely crazy. And it's money sent down the toilet. Social spending brings an important return but you talk of it like it's nonsense.
Also, if your Medicare and Medicaid are so expensive, you must be doing something wrong. Maybe your private health care companies are using them as cash cows. Then the problem is not the government, but plain old capitalism gone wild.
Please take it slowly. It's too much reality for their lobby-tomised brains to handle. You can't just shatter someone's deepest religious beliefs with merciless attacks of logic and facts. It just ain't right.
I though that this whole free-market, no state bullshit had come to a definitive end after the subprime bubble flushed the world's economy down the toilet. But they seem to be coming even stronger than before. This is happening here in Europe also (the approval of the hideous Lisbon Treaty is one of the major signs). I guess it's called "the swan song".
You have to be completely blind to defend a system that costs twice as much as a public one would and doesn't provide full coverage for everyone. Not mentioning the 40 millions with no coverage at all. Corporate media bullshit in effect. Come on, all developed countries, and many underdeveloped have a public healthcare system. They can afford it and it works. Are you Americans so incompetent you can't do the same? I don't believe it.
If you keep exempting the rich from paying taxes and spend all your public money in useless defence contracts, guess what. You get shitty public services.
For the aforementioned rich it's not so big of a problem, they only care about public services when they're bidding for a good public contract. They can afford private education, private healthcare, private security, etc.
For the vast majority of the people, it's a disgrace. You can't realise that, either because you're a millionaire or you're brainwashed by the media and lobbies (owned by the aforementioned rich).
Why not the other way around? Ah OK, it's not compatible with the free-market mantra, that will bring prosperity and happiness to all the universe anytime soon. Thou shall not deny the Dogma!!!
Corporations are bad, evil, et cetera but at least I can ignore them. I can't ignore Congress because they keep pushing their way through my front door, trying to run every piece of my life.
Have you tried getting out and seeing the world? Corporate abuse and monopolies are all around. You can't ignore them, nobody can. And the worst that can happen is when corporations and the government get together.
Why is Government even allowed to use our driver licenses for anything other than driving, anyways? I don't even carry mine unless I'm driving. Why would I?
Maybe having a national ID card, like most of the world, would help to avoid that.
Yeah, we all know we can't trust any of these "scientific" studies because the organic food corporations are so much more gigantic, rich and powerful than the fast-food corporations.
It's like global warming. It's all a lie. The tree-hugging hippies have soooo much money and power that they bought all the scientists, the media and all the politicians, too. The poor oil corporations don't have a chance.
No, it's OK for the West to interfere in any country they please, because the West is the sole righteous Holder of The Absolute Truth (TM) and if you don't agree, you must be a Freedom Hating Commie Terrorist (TM) and be sent to some shithole to be re-educated by waterboarding.
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Using a supercapacitor, of course.
I believe it's Maoist China we're talking about...
What's the big deal? Two thirds of the people can't even tell decent music from out of tune shit.
Yes, it is of course just part of the wonders of modern society, where a sociopath can keep on messing up society via influential positions he gets via friends (i.e. fellow sociopaths). Isn't it great?
Sociopaths rule the world. It won't ever change. Get used to it.
How can I block it back?
Better, live in a country with socialised education. Problem solved.
Education shouldn't be a business. I vehemently oppose to student loans because I vehemently oppose to tuition.
I don't really care if it's great and so many organisations depend on it. I don't even care about the vulnerabilities.
I didn't ask for it, was installed behind my back and I was given no means to uninstal it. It's malware and Mozilla did the right thing cutting this evil by the root. MS behaviour is completely unacceptable and should be handled in a very strong and assertive way. Kudos for defending user freedom, Mozilla!
Now, if the MS plugin is so important, offer it as an optional download and allow for users to uninstall it, just like Java, Adobe and Flash.
Also, if your Medicare and Medicaid are so expensive, you must be doing something wrong.
Of course! The first thing wrong, was establishing these programs in the first place. Instead of fixing this, you and yours propose even more of the same — why don't we expand Medicare to all — that's what you are asking...
So how do you propose to solve the US healthcare problem? The way that all other developed countries use, that works very well, or something else? How do you provide health care to those who can't pay for it directly?
Capitalism's record at providing immense economic benefits even to the least fortunate of its participants is well established and beyond doubt. Socialism, on the other hand, has little to show economically wherever practiced, and slides into horrible tyranny (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Kim, Pol Pot, Castro, Mugabe) from a slightest push-over. Having tried both, I'll choose capitalism over and over again — the "wilder" the better. Thank you very much.
How you can include Hitler in the Socialist field is beyond understanding. Maybe it's because his party was called National-Socialist, but that's just too simpleton. All the capitalist corporations that employed slave labor during Nazism, including a few American ones were very happy with the "socialism" of Hitler.
All other capitalist developed countries have socialised medicine. So, what have socialism and tiranny have to do with the subject?
Since we're talking about horrible tiranny, let's go a little further and talk about Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Salazar and their beloved corporations. While we're at it ,we could move on to others like the Bothas, Mobutu, Batista, Somoza, Pinochet, Noriega, Reza Pahlevi, Saddam Hussein, the Saud dinnasty, etc. etc. etc. all very pro-capitalism and all very horribly tyrannic (Some even became enemies of the US but that's it, if you play with snakes, you eventually get bitten).
And Pol Pot was helped by the Americans to power to help fight the Vietcong. As usual, the US screwed up big time and created a monster way beyond their wildest dreams.
I was saying that since the income inequality is so big, it's only fair that tax inequality is also big. And quoting the National Tax Payers Union about social justice is like quoting Adolf Hitler about racial justice.
Your next issue is about military spending versus social spending. 21.6 percent spent on defense is completely crazy. And it's money sent down the toilet. Social spending brings an important return but you talk of it like it's nonsense.
Also, if your Medicare and Medicaid are so expensive, you must be doing something wrong. Maybe your private health care companies are using them as cash cows. Then the problem is not the government, but plain old capitalism gone wild.
I guess we're co-workers.
Please take it slowly. It's too much reality for their lobby-tomised brains to handle. You can't just shatter someone's deepest religious beliefs with merciless attacks of logic and facts. It just ain't right.
I though that this whole free-market, no state bullshit had come to a definitive end after the subprime bubble flushed the world's economy down the toilet. But they seem to be coming even stronger than before. This is happening here in Europe also (the approval of the hideous Lisbon Treaty is one of the major signs). I guess it's called "the swan song".
You have to be completely blind to defend a system that costs twice as much as a public one would and doesn't provide full coverage for everyone. Not mentioning the 40 millions with no coverage at all. Corporate media bullshit in effect. Come on, all developed countries, and many underdeveloped have a public healthcare system. They can afford it and it works. Are you Americans so incompetent you can't do the same? I don't believe it.
If you keep exempting the rich from paying taxes and spend all your public money in useless defence contracts, guess what. You get shitty public services.
For the aforementioned rich it's not so big of a problem, they only care about public services when they're bidding for a good public contract. They can afford private education, private healthcare, private security, etc.
For the vast majority of the people, it's a disgrace. You can't realise that, either because you're a millionaire or you're brainwashed by the media and lobbies (owned by the aforementioned rich).
Before governments existed, people killed each other for food, shelter or anything. Don't blame it on governments.
Why not the other way around? Ah OK, it's not compatible with the free-market mantra, that will bring prosperity and happiness to all the universe anytime soon. Thou shall not deny the Dogma!!!
if your argument is "We suck, but you suck more"
You are right, "Correlation != causation." is a lot more insightful.
At least we don't have so many of our population in jail so it's cheaper.
About the war on drugs, it seems that the rest of the world, while not doing much better, is doing a lot less worse.
Maybe the "war on drugs" is somewhat of a poor excuse and there are other causes, like, for instance, hum, income inequality?
Corporations are bad, evil, et cetera but at least I can ignore them. I can't ignore Congress because they keep pushing their way through my front door, trying to run every piece of my life.
Have you tried getting out and seeing the world? Corporate abuse and monopolies are all around. You can't ignore them, nobody can. And the worst that can happen is when corporations and the government get together.
Why is Government even allowed to use our driver licenses for anything other than driving, anyways? I don't even carry mine unless I'm driving. Why would I?
Maybe having a national ID card, like most of the world, would help to avoid that.
I'm so glad private corporations exist, because they are sooooo more reliable. And their consultants are sooooo much cheaper.
Wow! Where did you get all that information? Fox News? You must be a genius!
Yeah, we all know we can't trust any of these "scientific" studies because the organic food corporations are so much more gigantic, rich and powerful than the fast-food corporations.
It's like global warming. It's all a lie. The tree-hugging hippies have soooo much money and power that they bought all the scientists, the media and all the politicians, too. The poor oil corporations don't have a chance.
What do you expect in the J. Edgar Hoover building?
No, it's OK for the West to interfere in any country they please, because the West is the sole righteous Holder of The Absolute Truth (TM) and if you don't agree, you must be a Freedom Hating Commie Terrorist (TM) and be sent to some shithole to be re-educated by waterboarding.