Looking back over the last 2 decades at what drugs cost to develop, and at how many people are on prescription drugs, and at how much is spent advertising directly to patients new drugs with profound side effects and little to no long term testing, how can anyone come to the conclusion that medical care in the US is superior in any way ?
Oh yeah, marketing and big pharma lobbyists, and a mainstream media that is essentially owned by the drug companies.
When was the last time a major network even did any kind of expose or reporting on big pharma ?
Peter Jennings did a thing on the Statin disaster a LONG time ago, and that's the last time I remember seeing anyone question the insane and reckless US system of pharmacopoeia propaganda.
Where are the major breakthroughs that translate into anything substantial ?
Your absolute faith in the incorruptibility of the FDA runs contrary to the reality.
Having said that, completely getting rid of all oversight and regulation is truly an idiotic suggestion. The people that make these suggestions are actually THE problem.
If something doesn't work, you fix it. You don't just toss it in the garbage.
You fix something that's broken by identifying what's wrong with it.
People who suggest simply disposing of all regulatory agencies and replacing them with nothing are people who simply can not be trusted to fix anything. They work for the status quo just as surely as the lobbyists for the status quo do.
It's a method that works great in the US. Constantly distract from what the real problem is so that people with a vested financial interest in hurting everybody can simply continue business as usual, with their same tired saggy old cheerleaders shouting "yay team".
So it's no surprise that nuclear advocates and the people who are vested in this expensive technology, with markedly hidden long-term costs, are geared-up to manipulate and propagandize.
Renewables work, the money you get out of investment in them works, the technology developed has somewhere to go, to improve...
This latest attempt to con people into a fake package deal, a fake option of both or none, is politics as usual. Follow the money. It's so obvious.
The thing that isn't being discussed is what needs to happen to the grid in the US. It's regional, mostly build around railroads and petrochemicals, it's inefficient. It's expensive to maintain these multiple regional grids, and there is no time-zone shifting of load, which is, to put it bluntly, idiotic yet profitable for certain corporations and political interests.
We need a modern grid, we need literally a hundred times more geothermal development and baseline capacity, and we need to stop letting the big corporations call the shots with their only real interest being in the short term returns on investment to the long term detriment of society, technology, and the nation as a whole...
There is nothing visionary about claiming nuclear is competitive and cost effective, and better than renewables in ANY way. THAT facade ignores the true long term cost of nuclear power.
The shell game of picking a side, the "lesser of two evils", is a con game, and the public looses every time.
People don't seem to understand that your "choosing" a side is engineered, predicted, and manipulated. Because, yeah, "choosing" one fake option over another instead of just saying loudly "I don't want either, they both suck ass and we demand a real choice" ultimately forces real change that impacts too many wallets to be permitted.
To most people "education" is about memorization of disparate crap.
Smart people make connections and arrange data in a dynamic and efficient way. Stupid people just memorize. It's not hard to tell the difference, and not surprising that a mind full of garbage piled haphazardly fills up and overflows.
Easy answers are what advertising and entertainment is all about. Let's see a study that logs the relationship between people's immersion in garbage vs. people who actually have some comprehension of the interrelatedness of things.
Pretty sure you'll find that the way information is arranged is more significant than the volume of it.
You have some points, but I'm not aware of the claim that these "boot camps" were telling people they were the equivalent of CS grads. So. Right there I have to call bullshit.
I have met plenty of CS grads that turn their noses up at the MS certs.
"Boot Camps" for MCSE's existed for the purpose of getting people to pass the MS cert exams through Sylvan testing in a relatively short period of time. If you didn't have the background and experience to enter into a two week program for 10-15K, then there was nobody to blame but yourself.
This isn't a "Libertarian" vs. whatever dipshit idealist thing at all.
Now, the issue of the state regulating institutions is really a separate issue. MCSE boot camps were never represented in any way as institutions. We do, however, have scads of fake commercial "Universities" constantly advertising and suckering in people they straddle with debt that don't get regulated by the state at all, and really offer very little of use. So for the state to so utterly fail to protect the public in that regard seems to me a very real failing.
Real Universities will take people's money regardless of if you can pass courses or secure employment, so in a very real way it all seems pretty questionable to me, and making the whole thing out to be a horse shit "Libertarian" vs. whatever moronic other thing you think you are is just a huge distraction. The system is broken, and retards are not going to fix it.
It sucks because the public puts up with it sucking.
When someone tries to get employees to and from work efficiently with their own busses, their employees get harassed by SF "activists" (code for people on various form of mental/physical disability who are more often than not merely junkies, who choose not to work).
That's all, nothing new about SF to see here, unless you've a great deal vested in deluding yourself.
I just don't see how anyone can continue to adhere to the same tired partisan political blathering that passes for intelligent political discourse.
Neither party cares about the public, the constitution, privacy, or anything except for the money being funneled mostly secretly by lobbyists and special interest groups.
Education is the most important investment any nation can make. Democracies that have implemented this don't have the same extreme examples as the ones that have refused to.
Democracy without a well educated public is better than a backwards totalitarian regime, yet remains similar enough to one that to ignore it and refuse to act on the awareness is the real problem of our age.
Nobody wants to address the underlying problems, so nothing gets resolved. It's in the best interest of many of the exterme wealthy to keep it this way.
to legitimize the ability Congress has granted these organizations to make anyone they want to disappear without a trace or recourse.
The seven major corporations that own virtually all US media have their talking heads in place constantly telling the public "Snowden baaaad".
The vast majority of our cowardly and essentially useless whore elected officials are silent on the subject of the police state in which we now reside.
Is this the USA or the USSR ? I really can't tell the difference. Ahh, right, we have MUCH better PR.
People have become more insular because of the tech that was supposed to make interaction easier.
Check out what goes on with teens, check out sites like chatroulette for instance. I'd argue that today's teens and twenty-somethings are more socially retarded than ever. And addicted to the high that relative anonymity and the dis-inhibition they experience on-line.
Not to mention games where you go around shooting hookers in strip clubs. I mean, come on. There isn't going to be a consequence to all this ? Really ?
Blaming parents is easy. Admitting that society has a long ways to go to catch up to tech, and making an honest effort to identify how and why is some work. And we all have a great deal of work to do. Kids shouldn't be as insulated from the real world and human interaction as they are now. It's not healthy for them or for society as a whole. And replacing real world interaction with something that is arguably psychotic like social networking is just crazy. And profitable. Let's put some of the blame where it belongs.
Corporations are people that don't give a fuck about your kids mental health or social development.
The entire island of the UK can fit inside the state of Nevada.
Don't feel bad; a lot of American city-dwellers don't get out of the cities and meet many people and interact with many businesses outside their insular experience either.
Whistleblowers get immunity and awards, not amnesty.
We have a criminal class ruling the USA. We need to stop dancing around the reality and begin to deal with it. Just because this class has a great PR machine doesn't mean they should get away with conning the US public indefinitely.
As compartmentalized as the NSA is, SOMEBODY is responsible. Precisely who is, and should be tried for treason nobody seems to want to talk about. I supposed we could start with the entire Congress...
I don't believe that everyone being held is guilty.
I also believe that anyone that makes excuses for such a system that lacks checks and balances and oversight, like yourself, is as much, if not a significantly greater threat to my liberty, and should be locked up with the other assumed and presumed "terrorists".
"Type-1 diabetics, can eat any and all foods, but they have to be cognizant of the effect and impact. There is a difference between cannot, and should be cognizant of the side effects."
This is only partially true. Elimination of all foods that cause radical impact IS a viable solution. Foods that do not cause the spike are foods that do not cause the weight to be packed on. Complete elimination of them is really the ONLY solution. And they tend to be foods that many athletes eliminate, so it can, and is done successfully
.
We all have to deal with remarks from unkind people who simply don't understand, and lack experience. The line we have to personally draw is when we deceive ourselves. You don't need empty platitudes, I agree, nobody does. What people need is to seek out the people who have actually been where you are and come back from it. What they discovered is that the entire medical approach of "you can eat anything anyone else does, just be cognoscente of it's impact" is seriously flawed, it isn't helpful or true, not if you want to have optimal health.
Those foods are poison to people with a particular metabolic reaction to them. They must be eliminated entirely and replaced with foods that are neutral or have a positive impact.
There are people all over the internet that have accomplished it, they aren't difficult to find, but their conclusions are difficult to accept when the medical establishment is determined to keep people perpetual patients, and patients are unwilling to make the necessary changes.
You, and people with similar conditions, need support and positive approaches, and I'm here to tell you, it IS out there if you just look for it and ignore the others that don't really care.
Jesus, I hope we weren't on the line to pay for this "research".
Go to a new city. Just ride public transit for a few months. Then get a car.
Happened to me. The public transit routes were absolutely USELESS so far as knowing the city. They're designed that way, for economic reasons. Not laid-out so that you actually know how to get anywhere by any other method.
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People need to follow the money.
And stop being so damn gullible.
Looking back over the last 2 decades at what drugs cost to develop, and at how many people are on prescription drugs, and at how much is spent advertising directly to patients new drugs with profound side effects and little to no long term testing, how can anyone come to the conclusion that medical care in the US is superior in any way ?
Oh yeah, marketing and big pharma lobbyists, and a mainstream media that is essentially owned by the drug companies.
When was the last time a major network even did any kind of expose or reporting on big pharma ?
Peter Jennings did a thing on the Statin disaster a LONG time ago, and that's the last time I remember seeing anyone question the insane and reckless US system of pharmacopoeia propaganda.
Where are the major breakthroughs that translate into anything substantial ?
Your absolute faith in the incorruptibility of the FDA runs contrary to the reality.
Having said that, completely getting rid of all oversight and regulation is truly an idiotic suggestion. The people that make these suggestions are actually THE problem.
If something doesn't work, you fix it. You don't just toss it in the garbage.
You fix something that's broken by identifying what's wrong with it.
People who suggest simply disposing of all regulatory agencies and replacing them with nothing are people who simply can not be trusted to fix anything. They work for the status quo just as surely as the lobbyists for the status quo do.
It's a method that works great in the US. Constantly distract from what the real problem is so that people with a vested financial interest in hurting everybody can simply continue business as usual, with their same tired saggy old cheerleaders shouting "yay team".
http://www2.geeks.com/
Their site doesn't work anymore, but you can still go to their physical store and buy electronics that vaporizes after a few uses !
They take up WAY too much room in the elevators and escalators...
So it's no surprise that nuclear advocates and the people who are vested in this expensive technology, with markedly hidden long-term costs, are geared-up to manipulate and propagandize.
Renewables work, the money you get out of investment in them works, the technology developed has somewhere to go, to improve...
This latest attempt to con people into a fake package deal, a fake option of both or none, is politics as usual. Follow the money. It's so obvious.
The thing that isn't being discussed is what needs to happen to the grid in the US. It's regional, mostly build around railroads and petrochemicals, it's inefficient. It's expensive to maintain these multiple regional grids, and there is no time-zone shifting of load, which is, to put it bluntly, idiotic yet profitable for certain corporations and political interests.
We need a modern grid, we need literally a hundred times more geothermal development and baseline capacity, and we need to stop letting the big corporations call the shots with their only real interest being in the short term returns on investment to the long term detriment of society, technology, and the nation as a whole...
There is nothing visionary about claiming nuclear is competitive and cost effective, and better than renewables in ANY way. THAT facade ignores the true long term cost of nuclear power.
THIS !
Partisan politics IS THE Status Quo.
The shell game of picking a side, the "lesser of two evils", is a con game, and the public looses every time.
People don't seem to understand that your "choosing" a side is engineered, predicted, and manipulated. Because, yeah, "choosing" one fake option over another instead of just saying loudly "I don't want either, they both suck ass and we demand a real choice" ultimately forces real change that impacts too many wallets to be permitted.
To most people "education" is about memorization of disparate crap.
Smart people make connections and arrange data in a dynamic and efficient way. Stupid people just memorize. It's not hard to tell the difference, and not surprising that a mind full of garbage piled haphazardly fills up and overflows.
Easy answers are what advertising and entertainment is all about. Let's see a study that logs the relationship between people's immersion in garbage vs. people who actually have some comprehension of the interrelatedness of things.
Pretty sure you'll find that the way information is arranged is more significant than the volume of it.
You have some points, but I'm not aware of the claim that these "boot camps" were telling people they were the equivalent of CS grads. So. Right there I have to call bullshit.
I have met plenty of CS grads that turn their noses up at the MS certs.
"Boot Camps" for MCSE's existed for the purpose of getting people to pass the MS cert exams through Sylvan testing in a relatively short period of time. If you didn't have the background and experience to enter into a two week program for 10-15K, then there was nobody to blame but yourself.
This isn't a "Libertarian" vs. whatever dipshit idealist thing at all.
Now, the issue of the state regulating institutions is really a separate issue. MCSE boot camps were never represented in any way as institutions. We do, however, have scads of fake commercial "Universities" constantly advertising and suckering in people they straddle with debt that don't get regulated by the state at all, and really offer very little of use. So for the state to so utterly fail to protect the public in that regard seems to me a very real failing.
Real Universities will take people's money regardless of if you can pass courses or secure employment, so in a very real way it all seems pretty questionable to me, and making the whole thing out to be a horse shit "Libertarian" vs. whatever moronic other thing you think you are is just a huge distraction. The system is broken, and retards are not going to fix it.
Public transit in SF just plain sucks.
It sucks because the public puts up with it sucking.
When someone tries to get employees to and from work efficiently with their own busses, their employees get harassed by SF "activists" (code for people on various form of mental/physical disability who are more often than not merely junkies, who choose not to work).
That's all, nothing new about SF to see here, unless you've a great deal vested in deluding yourself.
I just don't see how anyone can continue to adhere to the same tired partisan political blathering that passes for intelligent political discourse.
Neither party cares about the public, the constitution, privacy, or anything except for the money being funneled mostly secretly by lobbyists and special interest groups.
The Coup d'état against the US people wasn't broadcast by the US media.
Education is the most important investment any nation can make. Democracies that have implemented this don't have the same extreme examples as the ones that have refused to.
Democracy without a well educated public is better than a backwards totalitarian regime, yet remains similar enough to one that to ignore it and refuse to act on the awareness is the real problem of our age.
Nobody wants to address the underlying problems, so nothing gets resolved. It's in the best interest of many of the exterme wealthy to keep it this way.
What I've always told my clients is this:
If it's important enough to keep private, don't have it on your computer...
Employee bonuses discussed via emails ? Really ?
to legitimize the ability Congress has granted these organizations to make anyone they want to disappear without a trace or recourse.
The seven major corporations that own virtually all US media have their talking heads in place constantly telling the public "Snowden baaaad".
The vast majority of our cowardly and essentially useless whore elected officials are silent on the subject of the police state in which we now reside.
Is this the USA or the USSR ? I really can't tell the difference. Ahh, right, we have MUCH better PR.
Nobody of any consequence is interested in the tired "left" this "right" that blather. Begone. You've nothing to contribute here.
I'm embarrassed to admit though that today is not that day.
It distracts from the very real issues.
People have become more insular because of the tech that was supposed to make interaction easier.
Check out what goes on with teens, check out sites like chatroulette for instance. I'd argue that today's teens and twenty-somethings are more socially retarded than ever. And addicted to the high that relative anonymity and the dis-inhibition they experience on-line.
Not to mention games where you go around shooting hookers in strip clubs. I mean, come on. There isn't going to be a consequence to all this ? Really ?
Blaming parents is easy. Admitting that society has a long ways to go to catch up to tech, and making an honest effort to identify how and why is some work. And we all have a great deal of work to do. Kids shouldn't be as insulated from the real world and human interaction as they are now. It's not healthy for them or for society as a whole. And replacing real world interaction with something that is arguably psychotic like social networking is just crazy. And profitable. Let's put some of the blame where it belongs.
Corporations are people that don't give a fuck about your kids mental health or social development.
The entire island of the UK can fit inside the state of Nevada.
Don't feel bad; a lot of American city-dwellers don't get out of the cities and meet many people and interact with many businesses outside their insular experience either.
You are everything that is wrong with the USA today.
Good little obedient tool.
Because government employees dropped the ball.
And NONE of them have EVER been held accountable.
We can see the shoes of the person behind the curtain.
And they are shiny, black FBI shoes.
And when alcoholics stop plowing-down pedestrians and causing traffic accidents, I'll agree with you.
Whistleblowers get immunity and awards, not amnesty.
We have a criminal class ruling the USA. We need to stop dancing around the reality and begin to deal with it. Just because this class has a great PR machine doesn't mean they should get away with conning the US public indefinitely.
As compartmentalized as the NSA is, SOMEBODY is responsible. Precisely who is, and should be tried for treason nobody seems to want to talk about. I supposed we could start with the entire Congress...
I don't believe that everyone being held is guilty.
I also believe that anyone that makes excuses for such a system that lacks checks and balances and oversight, like yourself, is as much, if not a significantly greater threat to my liberty, and should be locked up with the other assumed and presumed "terrorists".
Asshole.
"Type-1 diabetics, can eat any and all foods, but they have to be cognizant of the effect and impact. There is a difference between cannot, and should be cognizant of the side effects."
This is only partially true. Elimination of all foods that cause radical impact IS a viable solution. Foods that do not cause the spike are foods that do not cause the weight to be packed on. Complete elimination of them is really the ONLY solution. And they tend to be foods that many athletes eliminate, so it can, and is done successfully .
We all have to deal with remarks from unkind people who simply don't understand, and lack experience. The line we have to personally draw is when we deceive ourselves. You don't need empty platitudes, I agree, nobody does. What people need is to seek out the people who have actually been where you are and come back from it. What they discovered is that the entire medical approach of "you can eat anything anyone else does, just be cognoscente of it's impact" is seriously flawed, it isn't helpful or true, not if you want to have optimal health.
Those foods are poison to people with a particular metabolic reaction to them. They must be eliminated entirely and replaced with foods that are neutral or have a positive impact.
There are people all over the internet that have accomplished it, they aren't difficult to find, but their conclusions are difficult to accept when the medical establishment is determined to keep people perpetual patients, and patients are unwilling to make the necessary changes.
You, and people with similar conditions, need support and positive approaches, and I'm here to tell you, it IS out there if you just look for it and ignore the others that don't really care.
Follow the money. Who voted for what, and who is pulling their strings ?
Congress is a bipartisan mess of corporate assholery.
Jesus, I hope we weren't on the line to pay for this "research".
Go to a new city. Just ride public transit for a few months. Then get a car.
Happened to me. The public transit routes were absolutely USELESS so far as knowing the city. They're designed that way, for economic reasons. Not laid-out so that you actually know how to get anywhere by any other method.