NASA certainly has thousands of pages of documents for going to space. Are you saying we should make a national health agency and just give it money?
For the vast majority, being poor isn't a "mistake". It's not always possible to live the healthiest lifestyle without money. But go ahead and live with your "poor people should die" theory. As long as you don't have to get close to them, you should be ok.
There's no easy solution to health care that's going to be doable with a 3-page bill. Health care is a very complicated system so it will require a complicated bill.
Just to be clear on your position: You believe that it's better for us to keep funding (expensive) emergency care rather than (cheap) preventative care, poor people that can't afford that should just die (because they're just lazy for being poor), and anyone who has any medical condition has it because of something they did to themself.
Wouldn't it be nicer if people weren't tied to an employer for health insurance (and not at their mercy)? How about the poor person that gets injured in a hit and run? They should die because they weren't responsible enough to spend their minimum wage job on health insurance instead of food?
The crazy libertarian view may seem nice if everyone is able to provide for themselves, but in our reality, corporations are always trying to screw people out of their money so not everyone can afford to pay the high costs of hospital care.
So your statement "The Democrats couldn't get a majority of their party" is true because 67% is not a majority? Who taught you math?
Malpractice reform: Malpractice accounts for ~30 billion. Assuming we can cut that down to 0 we've saved almost 2%, but a 2% that will shrink over time as other costs rise. While helpful, it's not a long term solution.
Cross-state insurance: A logistical nightmare for insurance companies - it's not like people are going to travel from New York to North Dakota to visit their doctor so the insurance company has to expand their network to the entire country. It might increase competition (if enough companies went for it), similar to how the new health care exchanges have been working.
"Cost control" is great as long as it's not just "we're going to lower coverage as rates go up". That's sort of the opposite of helping people.
You know what things people love and are very popular? Covering pre-existing conditions, students stay on their parents insurance, no life time caps. Problem is you can't just include those things if people can just get insurance as soon as they get sick - hence the insurance mandate.
Going back to lowering costs - when we cover comprehensive, then people can stay healthy and get care when it's cheap. Catastrophic health care is much more expensive. I'd much rather my health insurance gave grandma $20 for a flu shot than $20,000 for a hospital stay. It's a more long term solution to lowering costs that is needed.
It's weird how some people don't think we should provide health care to our citizens now in the modern world. Pretty much all the other first world countries do and they have much cheaper health care costs with much healthier citizens.
The Democrats couldn't even get a majority of their own party on board to support a public option
What you mean is actually "The Democrats couldn't even get a majority on board to support a public option". If the senate was all Democrats, they could have passed it easily, but the Republicans wouldn't even come to the table. The whole health care concept even came out of a Republican think tank.
You could read what the article is saying. They monitored and acknowledged that there was piracy, but there was a large increase the last week that correlated with the lack of a legal alternative for TW customers. That's pretty good evidence showing that sprinklers are making the sidewalk more wet. No one's saying that it doesn't rain - everyone knows it rains, that's a given, but this sprinkler theory is often debated by the big media so this provides a good example.
Obamacare is unfixable. It needs to be put down like a rabid dog and THEN we can evaluate what our options are after that.
The problem is people like you that are entirely inflexible. There are definitely flaws in ObamaCare - it's a huge bill - but most bills that size would have been updated and fixed a few times by congress. Unfortunately, there are some in congress that would rather not fix it, but just go back and start again.
It's been a few years now since ObamaCare's been passed, where are the better ideas? The only thing we've seen are minor things (e.g. malpractice reform) from Republicans that would do little to bring down costs and not insure more people.
Going back would likely cause insurance companies to raise rates again as they could use the excuse plus they wouldn't be restricted by how much money has to go towards health care any more.
Well given that the crime ratings were measured in incidents per 100,000 or 1,000 (which accounts for population growth), it's reasonable to compare to the gun ownership as a percentage as well.
But you're smart enough to go to the about:config page whereas Joe User isn't smart enough to find it in the normal preferences.
It may not be your problem, but it is Mozilla's problem if their users are having problems with the Internet being broken on their computers.
Realistically how often do you turn off JS that way anyways? I'm willing to bet Mozilla has stats showing it's about never. The people that would turn off JS use NoScript instead. It's not a bad move to remove features that no one uses from the main interface.
Probably the other searches weren't even taken into account. It seems more like the police asked about pressure cookers so the dad said "oh yeah I was searching for those the other day" and then mom remembers "oh I was searching for backpacks" then they put those together with the recent news about the NSA and hit the media with it.
It's actually worse than that. The problem is there isn't a puppeteer, it's just how the system of bureaucracy and government have evolved over the decades. If there was a puppeteer, it'd be easy.
You seem to be confusing things that sometimes happen in the US with things that always happen in the US.
1. I've seen a dui roadblock once in the US (another one in Canada). The officer asked a couple questions ("had I been drinking?" "no") then let me on my way. It's not like the Iraqi style checkpoints where the whole vehicle gets searched over.
2. That's a generalization. Some airports just have metal detectors. If you're flying on a private plane you won't see any of that. Pretty much the same in other countries.
3. That may be true for some police officers (the ones you see on youtube), but you're not going to read about the millions of friendly interactions that happen. I bet you could find similar bad apple officers in other countries.
4. There are very few cases of this. The Swartz case was terrible, there are others like it that shouldn't have happened either, but lots of countries prosecute computer crimes.
We do have problems with our drug laws and sentencing, but that doesn't make us a Police state like Syria.
As for an American freedom most countries don't have - out first amendment rights are a great example. Now I know you're going to say "OMG but Bush's freedom of speech zones and that time a police officer silenced someone!" but the reality is we have much more protection to say what we want than other countries in the world. Just look at the KKK and Nazi parades that are allowed.
You seem to think that there are all these perfect countries outside of the US, but failed to list a single one of them (aside from the ones with friendly police - Cuba, Laos, Columbia, and Malaysia). Is that because they're all imaginary or because you wouldn't want people to find similar counter examples for those countries?
The second is a shower head which they price at $437.22. Again, you don't buy a shower head every year, the $400+ ones will have a 10-year warranty and are going to be of significantly better quality than what comes out of a 3-D printer.
I've bought a shower head in the past. It cost $25. Looking on amazon, there are even some in the $5 range! There are a few in the expensive range that cost hundreds of dollars, but those also include quite a bit of plumbing, polished chrome/brass, knobs, and are made of metal. Even those are over priced. It seems the "researchers" just want to amazon and clicked "sort price high to low" then picked the first results.
You're making the assumption that government spending is a bad thing. Massachusetts is doing much better economically than most other states while having top schools and infrastructure.
True, from the research side of things, but in terms of commercial software, Nuance (in Burlington) has bought up so many other companies that they're definitely the heavy hitter in the industry.
Just imagine how many lines of useless java code could be removed if it had implemented properties! No more of these pointless getValue(){return value;} that everyone in the java world seems to admire. if there's a part of your code that can be auto generated, there's a problem with the language.
Yet in cities with municipal utilities they citizens have much better service for much less money. It's the companies that have been pushing these agreements with municipalities to have monopolies, not the cities. It's too much cost to run separate lines for each company (not to mention the difficulty a smaller company would have.
Just look at the phone market where there are options available and very little preventing people from switching. You'd thing the free market would have brought the prices down, but instead I can often get my TV/phone/Internet at home for the same price as a phone plan.
Because their competitor got an upperhand and they feel the need to level it again. No one thought Apple and Samsung would unleash their patent arsenals on each other for the same reason
The statistics conservatives were excited about a few months ago was that Rifles (not handguns, shotguns, or other) were responsible for fewer deaths than "blunt objects" (which includes clubs, hammers, etc). Of course this morphed into "Hammers kill more people than guns", but according to the statistics, guns make up over two thirds of all homicides.
But do people other than computer professionals actually disable javascript? Since firefox receives statistics on every button clicked, I'm guessing the usage is so low that accidental clicks make up a good percentage. At that point it's a failure of a user interface to provide extra options that are never used.
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NASA certainly has thousands of pages of documents for going to space. Are you saying we should make a national health agency and just give it money?
For the vast majority, being poor isn't a "mistake". It's not always possible to live the healthiest lifestyle without money. But go ahead and live with your "poor people should die" theory. As long as you don't have to get close to them, you should be ok.
There's no easy solution to health care that's going to be doable with a 3-page bill. Health care is a very complicated system so it will require a complicated bill.
Just to be clear on your position: You believe that it's better for us to keep funding (expensive) emergency care rather than (cheap) preventative care, poor people that can't afford that should just die (because they're just lazy for being poor), and anyone who has any medical condition has it because of something they did to themself.
Wouldn't it be nicer if people weren't tied to an employer for health insurance (and not at their mercy)? How about the poor person that gets injured in a hit and run? They should die because they weren't responsible enough to spend their minimum wage job on health insurance instead of food?
The crazy libertarian view may seem nice if everyone is able to provide for themselves, but in our reality, corporations are always trying to screw people out of their money so not everyone can afford to pay the high costs of hospital care.
So your statement "The Democrats couldn't get a majority of their party" is true because 67% is not a majority? Who taught you math?
Malpractice reform: Malpractice accounts for ~30 billion. Assuming we can cut that down to 0 we've saved almost 2%, but a 2% that will shrink over time as other costs rise. While helpful, it's not a long term solution.
Cross-state insurance: A logistical nightmare for insurance companies - it's not like people are going to travel from New York to North Dakota to visit their doctor so the insurance company has to expand their network to the entire country. It might increase competition (if enough companies went for it), similar to how the new health care exchanges have been working.
"Cost control" is great as long as it's not just "we're going to lower coverage as rates go up". That's sort of the opposite of helping people.
You know what things people love and are very popular? Covering pre-existing conditions, students stay on their parents insurance, no life time caps. Problem is you can't just include those things if people can just get insurance as soon as they get sick - hence the insurance mandate.
Going back to lowering costs - when we cover comprehensive, then people can stay healthy and get care when it's cheap. Catastrophic health care is much more expensive. I'd much rather my health insurance gave grandma $20 for a flu shot than $20,000 for a hospital stay. It's a more long term solution to lowering costs that is needed.
It's weird how some people don't think we should provide health care to our citizens now in the modern world. Pretty much all the other first world countries do and they have much cheaper health care costs with much healthier citizens.
Not that it has no effect, but that the main reason people pirate is that they are greedy and want things for free
The Democrats couldn't even get a majority of their own party on board to support a public option
What you mean is actually "The Democrats couldn't even get a majority on board to support a public option". If the senate was all Democrats, they could have passed it easily, but the Republicans wouldn't even come to the table. The whole health care concept even came out of a Republican think tank.
What ideas did the Republicans want again?
You could read what the article is saying. They monitored and acknowledged that there was piracy, but there was a large increase the last week that correlated with the lack of a legal alternative for TW customers. That's pretty good evidence showing that sprinklers are making the sidewalk more wet. No one's saying that it doesn't rain - everyone knows it rains, that's a given, but this sprinkler theory is often debated by the big media so this provides a good example.
The Democrats made lots of compromises, the biggest one being the public option. Can you name any that the Republicans made?
They're a little more interested in restricting legislative actions that might make Democrats look good.
Obamacare is unfixable. It needs to be put down like a rabid dog and THEN we can evaluate what our options are after that.
The problem is people like you that are entirely inflexible. There are definitely flaws in ObamaCare - it's a huge bill - but most bills that size would have been updated and fixed a few times by congress. Unfortunately, there are some in congress that would rather not fix it, but just go back and start again.
It's been a few years now since ObamaCare's been passed, where are the better ideas? The only thing we've seen are minor things (e.g. malpractice reform) from Republicans that would do little to bring down costs and not insure more people.
Going back would likely cause insurance companies to raise rates again as they could use the excuse plus they wouldn't be restricted by how much money has to go towards health care any more.
Well given that the crime ratings were measured in incidents per 100,000 or 1,000 (which accounts for population growth), it's reasonable to compare to the gun ownership as a percentage as well.
But you're smart enough to go to the about:config page whereas Joe User isn't smart enough to find it in the normal preferences.
It may not be your problem, but it is Mozilla's problem if their users are having problems with the Internet being broken on their computers.
Realistically how often do you turn off JS that way anyways? I'm willing to bet Mozilla has stats showing it's about never. The people that would turn off JS use NoScript instead. It's not a bad move to remove features that no one uses from the main interface.
Probably the other searches weren't even taken into account. It seems more like the police asked about pressure cookers so the dad said "oh yeah I was searching for those the other day" and then mom remembers "oh I was searching for backpacks" then they put those together with the recent news about the NSA and hit the media with it.
It's actually worse than that. The problem is there isn't a puppeteer, it's just how the system of bureaucracy and government have evolved over the decades. If there was a puppeteer, it'd be easy.
You seem to be confusing things that sometimes happen in the US with things that always happen in the US.
1. I've seen a dui roadblock once in the US (another one in Canada). The officer asked a couple questions ("had I been drinking?" "no") then let me on my way. It's not like the Iraqi style checkpoints where the whole vehicle gets searched over.
2. That's a generalization. Some airports just have metal detectors. If you're flying on a private plane you won't see any of that. Pretty much the same in other countries.
3. That may be true for some police officers (the ones you see on youtube), but you're not going to read about the millions of friendly interactions that happen. I bet you could find similar bad apple officers in other countries.
4. There are very few cases of this. The Swartz case was terrible, there are others like it that shouldn't have happened either, but lots of countries prosecute computer crimes.
We do have problems with our drug laws and sentencing, but that doesn't make us a Police state like Syria.
As for an American freedom most countries don't have - out first amendment rights are a great example. Now I know you're going to say "OMG but Bush's freedom of speech zones and that time a police officer silenced someone!" but the reality is we have much more protection to say what we want than other countries in the world. Just look at the KKK and Nazi parades that are allowed.
You seem to think that there are all these perfect countries outside of the US, but failed to list a single one of them (aside from the ones with friendly police - Cuba, Laos, Columbia, and Malaysia). Is that because they're all imaginary or because you wouldn't want people to find similar counter examples for those countries?
The second is a shower head which they price at $437.22. Again, you don't buy a shower head every year, the $400+ ones will have a 10-year warranty and are going to be of significantly better quality than what comes out of a 3-D printer.
I've bought a shower head in the past. It cost $25. Looking on amazon, there are even some in the $5 range! There are a few in the expensive range that cost hundreds of dollars, but those also include quite a bit of plumbing, polished chrome/brass, knobs, and are made of metal. Even those are over priced. It seems the "researchers" just want to amazon and clicked "sort price high to low" then picked the first results.
Did you tell them before it was delivered or when they walked in on you injecting it?
You're making the assumption that government spending is a bad thing. Massachusetts is doing much better economically than most other states while having top schools and infrastructure.
True, from the research side of things, but in terms of commercial software, Nuance (in Burlington) has bought up so many other companies that they're definitely the heavy hitter in the industry.
Just imagine how many lines of useless java code could be removed if it had implemented properties! No more of these pointless getValue(){return value;} that everyone in the java world seems to admire. if there's a part of your code that can be auto generated, there's a problem with the language.
Yet in cities with municipal utilities they citizens have much better service for much less money. It's the companies that have been pushing these agreements with municipalities to have monopolies, not the cities. It's too much cost to run separate lines for each company (not to mention the difficulty a smaller company would have.
Just look at the phone market where there are options available and very little preventing people from switching. You'd thing the free market would have brought the prices down, but instead I can often get my TV/phone/Internet at home for the same price as a phone plan.
Because their competitor got an upperhand and they feel the need to level it again. No one thought Apple and Samsung would unleash their patent arsenals on each other for the same reason
There hasn't been a Presidential alert, but it's part of the EBS system for cases like World War III or Alien invasions.
Suicide isn't a subset of Homicide, but even if HALF of those were suicides, there would still be more gun homicides than everything else combined.
According to the CDC there were 19,392 gun related suicides, so over twice as many as homicides.
Sometimes the NRA column in the TeaParty newsletter isn't the most reliable source of facts.
Guns are not number one.
I take it you've never visited the FBI's website.
The statistics conservatives were excited about a few months ago was that Rifles (not handguns, shotguns, or other) were responsible for fewer deaths than "blunt objects" (which includes clubs, hammers, etc). Of course this morphed into "Hammers kill more people than guns", but according to the statistics, guns make up over two thirds of all homicides.
And yet Israel was still using regular cheap metal detectors and let me keep my shoes on....
But do people other than computer professionals actually disable javascript? Since firefox receives statistics on every button clicked, I'm guessing the usage is so low that accidental clicks make up a good percentage. At that point it's a failure of a user interface to provide extra options that are never used.