Which has nothing to do with "free" healthcare. Someone is still paying for it. People throw around "free" as if something magically appears out of thin air. Everything has a cost to it and either you pay for it or you force other people to pay for it.
In either case, it is not free. Case in point, my dad talks with a guy in England. Recently they had a three-way discussion with someone else who listens to Fox and, rightly, talks about the cost of Obamneycare and how England has free healthcare.
The person from England corrected him by saying his healthcare is not "free". He's paid for it, 3% of his salary since he started working, and now when he needs to see a doctor or have a medical procedure done, that money is being used to pay for the bills. It is not "free". It's his money.
Again, if you want someone to have "free" healthcare, you pay for it. Forcing me and everyone else to hand over our money just because does not make something "free".
The former. Witness the number of people on here and elsewhere who will give every excuse imaginable why they don't pay the people for the work they've produced but instead pirate it because it's free.
They're greedy because they believe they are entitled to everything for free and dishonest because they make excuses for why they shouldn't pay someone for the work which has been produced.
Being able to preview the book via Google Books allows you to do more than judge a book by it's cover and avoid a poor financial investment.
No one says you must buy the book on the day it is offered for sale. There's this thing called patience wherein you wait for others to read the book, give their opinion and compare different opinions. Then, rather than paying full price, find it at a yard sale or flea market, open it up and read a few pages to determine if the opinions were valid. If they were you can then, for practically nothing ($1 - $2 usually), purchase the book without any fear of a poor financial investment.
Being an adult means you've outgrown the need to have something that second. You should try it. Though if you're considering a mass produced book as a financial investment, that might explain things.
Anyone who has the least bit of common sense could have told you she's a fraud. She has yet to submit her process to anyone else for confirmation it does what it says it does, her own company has been relying more and more on standard tests rather than their supposed "miracle" process, and companies which have been using her service have been dropping her and going back to what is known to work.
I remember seeing her listed as one of those youngest self-made billionaires and all I could think was how much she's pulled the wool over on everyone. I can't wait for the lawsuits to come flying in.
There is no amount of "proof" which would cause the Russians to admit their sub was in Swedish waters.
Considering all the pictures and videos of Soviet troops, tanks, artillery and related vehicles crossing into Ukraine, despite captured Russian troops and nearly 2,000 dead Russian soldiers, despite terrorists in East Ukraine openly stating Russian troops are fighting along side them, Russia still maintains it is not actually invading Ukraine.
Poor people, and especially black people, have much shorter expected lifetimes than rich white people. So they pay into the system, but collect much less in benefits, since they have many fewer years of retirement.
So it's like insurance where I pay and pay and pay but never get to use the money I paid? Do I get a refund of all the money I've been forced to hand over to a private company for no reason?
Nadella asked, " Is technology helping us preserve our enduring values such as privacy, or is it compromising it?"
Coming from the man who heads a company whose product EXPLICITLY invades ones privacy, whose company has direct and omniscient control over someone's equipment, who can decide whether or not you're allowed to use the software you purchased (assuming you didn't get a free upgrade), the man's hypocrisy is stunning.
Then again, as we've read time and again, CEOs and the like have a sociopathic streak in them. Maybe his warped mind doesn't grasp that what they are doing is invasion of privacy.
where they have yet to confirm whether they will conform to the "Minsk" peace agreement protocols that their president already signed.
You mean the same protocols which explicitly state Russia is to remove all its troops from Ukrainian soil, allow Ukraine to take full and absolute control over its internationally recognized borders and stop supplying arms, ammunition and all other support to the terrorists in East Ukraine? You mean like all those items which Russia signed and agreed to conform to?
If we use the assumption this was Hillary's fault (it isn't but go with me), then we can also state with equal certainty the invasion and occupation of Iraq was entirely Bush's fault as was the rise of ISIS which was a direct result of his lies.
Or Mark Zuckerberg or the Koch Brothers or anyone else who has millions/billions and don't want to pay taxes on the money.
After all, I'm sure there's not a single Republican lawmaker who's upset at Bill Clinton for having such great economic success when he was president that would ever dream of avoiding/evading taxes through a charitable trust or other means. They're as clean as the driven slush.
And there's the Russian troll. Considering USAID distributes food, medicine and shelter, and helps those countries who want to have some form of democracy, unlike Russia, it is quite clear why you trolls would mention an NGO.
After all, Russia has a long history of paranoia when it comes to groups trying to help people better themselves or understand why oppression, such as is practiced in Russia, is not how countries become strong and independent.
How's the weather in St. Petersburg? Is Uncle Putin still paying you in rubles which decline in value each day? Has your vodka allotment been increased to keep you under control?
It's a known fact in Russia one does not speak out openly or things will happen to you. Bad things. Just ask Boris Nemtsov.
Oh wait, you can't. Putin ordered his assassination in a pathetic attempt to silence the work he and others had done showing the systemic corruption in Russia.
Go ask the Tartars of Crimea who have their homes invaded by Russian police searching for anything that is against the official party line or that references Tartar culture. Since Russian's invasion of Crimea this is a daily occurrence, not to mention any Tartar newspaper radio service being shut down.
Just the other day Putin ordered the creation of a "national guard", over 400K strong with tanks and artillery to be used, he claims, to fight terrorism. The reality is with conditions worsening in Russia due to sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine and plunging oil prices, with elections in the fall Putin is planning to use this national guard to suppress any vocal opposition to his hand chosen candidates. In other words, if you speak out against Heir Putin, the national guard can and will shoot you on sight, no other order necessary.
As I recall, it was mostly lefties parroting Paul Krugman, while in the same breath stating it would help workers to give billions to banks (WTF?).
Go read Too Big To Fail and House of Cards (no, not that one). In both books the perpetrators of the financial collapse all said it was up to the government to do something. I don't know that I would call Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon leftists, unless you're claiming George Bush was a leftist because he was the one who gave these same people $700 billion of taxpayer money so they could pay out their bonuses.
If anything, the past decade has been another complete repudiation of much of Keynesian economics (those of us who lived through the 70s could already see the handwriting on the wall), but it appears now every generation gets its own war and financial crisis.
Repudiation can only happen if the entire process is done and the results do not match the hype. I have yet to see anyone practice Keynesian economics in the way Keynes spoke about. When we start paying off the debt we accumulated when things were bad, let me know. Everyone leaves out that little bit about Keynes.
Further, for the last 30+ years we've seen the failure of trickle down economics yet Kansas is doing its best to go bankrupt proving otherwise.
The man who once ran Putin's campaign to take over all independent media in Russia was found bludgeoned to death in a Washington, D.C. hotel room. He would have been privy to all kinds of insider information, including money Putin has stolen from the Russian people. Take note of the NY Times article where, before an investigation had even begun, the Russia state media was already lying about what happened to Lesin: he had a heart attack.
But this wasn't the first Russian who had inside knowledge of Putin's thefts, and who met a similar fate. Considering the billions Putin has squirreled away overseas, it's understandable people such as Lesin would need to be liquidated, especially, if the reports are true, they are giving inside information to the U.S. or others.
This other article from the Guardian appears to be more in depth, detailing how Putin and his oligarchs have amassed personal fortunes worth anywhere from hundreds of millions of dollars to billions of dollars, all stolen via the endemic corruption of Russian business. Bank Rossiya is essentially Putin's personal bank from which he doles out billions to those who please him. To those who fall out of favor, they have to watch their backs or face the same fate as Lesin.
I'm sure there will be denials about all the facts, but since there is no word for truth in Russian, it's understandable. After all, how can a report about someone's death being from a heart attack come out when the investigation hadn't even begun if you don't want the truth to be known?
The key quote from his article, and one that I found at some point in the past:
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -- Isaac Asimov
Just because something is in common usage doesn't make it right.
Such as when people use "your" rather than "you're" then scream bloody murder when people point out their incorrect usage.
"Everyone knows what you mean," they say, not grasping that if they're lazy in the correct use of language, what else are they lazy at and why should someone take them seriously?
The Uber taxi service has been flouting the law since day one. Their taxi service does not pay the same fees, insurance os taxes that every other taxi service does, even though the people they hire are paid by them and rely on the services the Uber taxi service provides.
Not sure how this isn't obvious. The Uber taxi service is trying to simultaneously claim they don't fix prices while at the same time clearly doing so.
Your are not their teacher, they never asked you to correct them. It will not improve there spelling, the most likely outcome will be that they will be annoyed with you. What you are actually doing is making yourself feel superior by putting someone else down.
Yeah, so? If they can't spell correctly, what else can't they do? Should we accept mediocrity and failure?
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Well, advocate for single payer healthcare first
Which has nothing to do with "free" healthcare. Someone is still paying for it. People throw around "free" as if something magically appears out of thin air. Everything has a cost to it and either you pay for it or you force other people to pay for it.
In either case, it is not free. Case in point, my dad talks with a guy in England. Recently they had a three-way discussion with someone else who listens to Fox and, rightly, talks about the cost of Obamneycare and how England has free healthcare.
The person from England corrected him by saying his healthcare is not "free". He's paid for it, 3% of his salary since he started working, and now when he needs to see a doctor or have a medical procedure done, that money is being used to pay for the bills. It is not "free". It's his money.
Again, if you want someone to have "free" healthcare, you pay for it. Forcing me and everyone else to hand over our money just because does not make something "free".
Make healthcare free for everyone.
It's easy to be generous with other people's money.
If you want someone to have free healthcare, you pay for it. Forcing everyone else to pay is not "free" healthcare.
The former. Witness the number of people on here and elsewhere who will give every excuse imaginable why they don't pay the people for the work they've produced but instead pirate it because it's free.
They're greedy because they believe they are entitled to everything for free and dishonest because they make excuses for why they shouldn't pay someone for the work which has been produced.
Being able to preview the book via Google Books allows you to do more than judge a book by it's cover and avoid a poor financial investment.
No one says you must buy the book on the day it is offered for sale. There's this thing called patience wherein you wait for others to read the book, give their opinion and compare different opinions. Then, rather than paying full price, find it at a yard sale or flea market, open it up and read a few pages to determine if the opinions were valid. If they were you can then, for practically nothing ($1 - $2 usually), purchase the book without any fear of a poor financial investment.
Being an adult means you've outgrown the need to have something that second. You should try it. Though if you're considering a mass produced book as a financial investment, that might explain things.
Anyone who has the least bit of common sense could have told you she's a fraud. She has yet to submit her process to anyone else for confirmation it does what it says it does, her own company has been relying more and more on standard tests rather than their supposed "miracle" process, and companies which have been using her service have been dropping her and going back to what is known to work.
I remember seeing her listed as one of those youngest self-made billionaires and all I could think was how much she's pulled the wool over on everyone. I can't wait for the lawsuits to come flying in.
There is no amount of "proof" which would cause the Russians to admit their sub was in Swedish waters.
Considering all the pictures and videos of Soviet troops, tanks, artillery and related vehicles crossing into Ukraine, despite captured Russian troops and nearly 2,000 dead Russian soldiers, despite terrorists in East Ukraine openly stating Russian troops are fighting along side them, Russia still maintains it is not actually invading Ukraine.
Poor people, and especially black people, have much shorter expected lifetimes than rich white people. So they pay into the system, but collect much less in benefits, since they have many fewer years of retirement.
So it's like insurance where I pay and pay and pay but never get to use the money I paid? Do I get a refund of all the money I've been forced to hand over to a private company for no reason?
Nadella asked, " Is technology helping us preserve our enduring values such as privacy, or is it compromising it?"
Coming from the man who heads a company whose product EXPLICITLY invades ones privacy, whose company has direct and omniscient control over someone's equipment, who can decide whether or not you're allowed to use the software you purchased (assuming you didn't get a free upgrade), the man's hypocrisy is stunning.
Then again, as we've read time and again, CEOs and the like have a sociopathic streak in them. Maybe his warped mind doesn't grasp that what they are doing is invasion of privacy.
VR is immersive by nature.
As opposed to reality?
where they have yet to confirm whether they will conform to the "Minsk" peace agreement protocols that their president already signed.
You mean the same protocols which explicitly state Russia is to remove all its troops from Ukrainian soil, allow Ukraine to take full and absolute control over its internationally recognized borders and stop supplying arms, ammunition and all other support to the terrorists in East Ukraine? You mean like all those items which Russia signed and agreed to conform to?
these poor folks?
Trolling pretty hard today, aren't you?
If we use the assumption this was Hillary's fault (it isn't but go with me), then we can also state with equal certainty the invasion and occupation of Iraq was entirely Bush's fault as was the rise of ISIS which was a direct result of his lies.
Well done Bush. What a disaster!
Or Mark Zuckerberg or the Koch Brothers or anyone else who has millions/billions and don't want to pay taxes on the money.
After all, I'm sure there's not a single Republican lawmaker who's upset at Bill Clinton for having such great economic success when he was president that would ever dream of avoiding/evading taxes through a charitable trust or other means. They're as clean as the driven slush.
And there's the Russian troll. Considering USAID distributes food, medicine and shelter, and helps those countries who want to have some form of democracy, unlike Russia, it is quite clear why you trolls would mention an NGO.
After all, Russia has a long history of paranoia when it comes to groups trying to help people better themselves or understand why oppression, such as is practiced in Russia, is not how countries become strong and independent.
How's the weather in St. Petersburg? Is Uncle Putin still paying you in rubles which decline in value each day? Has your vodka allotment been increased to keep you under control?
It's a known fact in Russia one does not speak out openly or things will happen to you. Bad things. Just ask Boris Nemtsov.
Oh wait, you can't. Putin ordered his assassination in a pathetic attempt to silence the work he and others had done showing the systemic corruption in Russia.
Go ask the Tartars of Crimea who have their homes invaded by Russian police searching for anything that is against the official party line or that references Tartar culture. Since Russian's invasion of Crimea this is a daily occurrence, not to mention any Tartar newspaper radio service being shut down.
Just the other day Putin ordered the creation of a "national guard", over 400K strong with tanks and artillery to be used, he claims, to fight terrorism. The reality is with conditions worsening in Russia due to sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine and plunging oil prices, with elections in the fall Putin is planning to use this national guard to suppress any vocal opposition to his hand chosen candidates. In other words, if you speak out against Heir Putin, the national guard can and will shoot you on sight, no other order necessary.
Should of also gone after loan abuse with schools as well.
Or whatever school you graduated from which didn't teach you proper grammar.
If having $1000 to put towards something, anything, is what you consider ridiculously wealthy you might want to seek out a better job.
The fact you can't come up with that money doesn't mean others haven't managed their money as poorly as you have.
As I recall, it was mostly lefties parroting Paul Krugman, while in the same breath stating it would help workers to give billions to banks (WTF?).
Go read Too Big To Fail and House of Cards (no, not that one). In both books the perpetrators of the financial collapse all said it was up to the government to do something. I don't know that I would call Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon leftists, unless you're claiming George Bush was a leftist because he was the one who gave these same people $700 billion of taxpayer money so they could pay out their bonuses.
If anything, the past decade has been another complete repudiation of much of Keynesian economics (those of us who lived through the 70s could already see the handwriting on the wall), but it appears now every generation gets its own war and financial crisis.
Repudiation can only happen if the entire process is done and the results do not match the hype. I have yet to see anyone practice Keynesian economics in the way Keynes spoke about. When we start paying off the debt we accumulated when things were bad, let me know. Everyone leaves out that little bit about Keynes.
Further, for the last 30+ years we've seen the failure of trickle down economics yet Kansas is doing its best to go bankrupt proving otherwise.
Especially ones who can't use the correct English word in their writing.
So how's the weather in St. Petersburg Russian troll? Didn't see the other article from the Panama Papers which explicitly mentions Putin, did ya?
I guess you need to get your daily vodka allotment somehow.
The man who once ran Putin's campaign to take over all independent media in Russia was found bludgeoned to death in a Washington, D.C. hotel room. He would have been privy to all kinds of insider information, including money Putin has stolen from the Russian people. Take note of the NY Times article where, before an investigation had even begun, the Russia state media was already lying about what happened to Lesin: he had a heart attack.
But this wasn't the first Russian who had inside knowledge of Putin's thefts, and who met a similar fate. Considering the billions Putin has squirreled away overseas, it's understandable people such as Lesin would need to be liquidated, especially, if the reports are true, they are giving inside information to the U.S. or others.
This other article from the Guardian appears to be more in depth, detailing how Putin and his oligarchs have amassed personal fortunes worth anywhere from hundreds of millions of dollars to billions of dollars, all stolen via the endemic corruption of Russian business. Bank Rossiya is essentially Putin's personal bank from which he doles out billions to those who please him. To those who fall out of favor, they have to watch their backs or face the same fate as Lesin.
I'm sure there will be denials about all the facts, but since there is no word for truth in Russian, it's understandable. After all, how can a report about someone's death being from a heart attack come out when the investigation hadn't even begun if you don't want the truth to be known?
The key quote from his article, and one that I found at some point in the past:
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -- Isaac Asimov
Just because something is in common usage doesn't make it right.
Such as when people use "your" rather than "you're" then scream bloody murder when people point out their incorrect usage.
"Everyone knows what you mean," they say, not grasping that if they're lazy in the correct use of language, what else are they lazy at and why should someone take them seriously?
The Uber taxi service has been flouting the law since day one. Their taxi service does not pay the same fees, insurance os taxes that every other taxi service does, even though the people they hire are paid by them and rely on the services the Uber taxi service provides.
Not sure how this isn't obvious. The Uber taxi service is trying to simultaneously claim they don't fix prices while at the same time clearly doing so.
Your are not their teacher, they never asked you to correct them. It will not improve there spelling, the most likely outcome will be that they will be annoyed with you. What you are actually doing is making yourself feel superior by putting someone else down.
Yeah, so? If they can't spell correctly, what else can't they do? Should we accept mediocrity and failure?
As Jason Statham might say. . .