.... Maybe it's just that they actually don't think the program is worth all of the effort because in 2015 there was a major change in legislation which forced them to be more compliant.....
Yeah...let's all agree that's what's really happening... This sort of thing will help me sleep at night, right? But yeah, I know what you're saying and everything, I fully get it. Just being a tad playful. No, you are not being a tad playful. Neither am I. This is the NSA, this is what they do, and how they do it. They are playing nothing but games. I think for the most part they likely have a beneficial influence, and I'm okay with it. Not saying there are not or have not been abuses. |
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You can check last edit in op, according to Sri Lankan's authority it was retaliation. Edit 3 Sri Lanka says Easter bombing spree that killed 321 people was 'retaliation' for the mosque shootings in New Zealand https://qr.ae/TWp4fVSeriously? I don't think that we can justify one suicide attack by pointing out another one. Also, in this case this theory doesn't make any sense. There is no indication that Brenton Tarrant, the perpetrator of the Christchurch terrorist attack was a religious Christian. He was a white nationalist who hated Muslims. And how can the Muslims retaliate by attacking a bunch of non-white Christians? It doesn't have to make sense. It's Muslims.... Very few, if any, of their suicide bombing hysterics make sense to the typical Western mind. Did 9/11 "make sense?" |
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The US has a lower number of doctors ....
I am seriously unimpressed with your one sided use of biased propaganda statistics. They seem to make the point opposite to what you may think they are making. |
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...Even those that scream communism can probably agree that if you consolidate buying power, there would be more negotiating power. ...
In the real world of price, distribution and production this may not be what it seems at first glance. I'm reminded of when - this is from memory, could be wrong - Hillary was responsible for consolidating one vaccine production issue into one order, where previously there had been six suppliers there was just one. Ramp up capability in case of a sudden demand was limited. That was the bird flu issue. Oftentimes, "consolidating buying power" leads to price changes exponentially less as the order size increases. Past a certain point the benefits are negligible. On another, weakly related comparison, any of us would, in a crisis, take Walmart's distribution over FEMA's. |
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Too bad the pharmaceutical industry are the largest advertisers for mainstream media and the largest political donors...
hahaha.... I know where that's headed... |
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Its neat, but its not a picture of the part of the black hole that people really care about. They used microwave imaging, which would give them information on a distance quite far from the event horizon itself where the region of space was relatively warm. To get an image of the event horizon, they would have to use unfathomably high energy gamma radiation. I didn't run the numbers myself, but I was speaking with a stellar astrophysicist who said that we'd need a power source on the magnitude of the sun to get an image of the event horizon of a black hole using the same process.
I'm not putting anyone on the project down, its certainly cool and I'd be willing to bet that they themselves reported nothing incorrectly, but the media jumped on this like a medical study that found one guy who had a stroke after drinking a cup of coffee, so they report that coffee causes strokes. Astrophysicists think its neat, but not really that groundbreaking.
I sort of agree with that perspective but really, exponentially scaling up the power to get closer to an event horizon? That's likely to sort of get like "where's the surface of a star?" It's indefinite, but we nonetheless have entire observatories that do nothing but look at the surface of the sun. Work of this sort can quite likely go a long way without actually imaging the event horizon. I imagine that in any such long term observation, we could see really huge breakthroughs. |
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.... No insurance company is going to stop covering an immediately life saving medication, so the price can be jacked up. That type of thing could be eliminated by someone with enough buying power to say that either the drug companies play ball or they won't be selling any products in the US.
As a side note, I'm aware of the plethora of other issues. Just saying play hardball with the drug companies isn't a complete solution to health care reform, its a very small step.
Obviously you really know this subject, so we're in agreement. Something just occurred to me. There's only one person who could actually play hardball with the drug companies all the way down the line to a solution, and it's a guy who stood against both the Republican and Democrat parties, through truly difficult years, and that's Trump. |
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I can't say I'm completely on board with a government run system, but one of the things that I believe the government could do is be solely in charge of procuring medications, which would then be distributed to all of the usual pharmacies. ....
Let's say that's a Great Idea. Get the people to agree, and have it put into committees in the House or Senate. Get it to a floor vote and then meld it with the other body's version. By that time, you've got a sell-out to the very companies that were overcharging. That's the power of the lobbies and the way things work in DC. It winds up a Bad Idea. |
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I am familiar with the paper from which that article pulls its 4% figure, and it is flawed ... I'll listen you your argument on that AFTER you enumerate the flaws in the 65% number. Fair's fair. |
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The Obama administration will be known as the administration with zero scandals.
"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." All of the major institutions that can create a narrative share an ideology friendly to Obama -- most of the Press, most of higher education, Hollywood.
Private email servers. What actually happened, or the truth does not matter.
Bengazi. Vote for democrats if you don't want them to make scandals.... Kavanaugh. ...If democrats are in charge then everything is calm....
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IMO this very US idea that 'Government should stay out of my life' just doesn't work when we are talking about healthcare. You want the Government accountable to meeting the health needs of the population, just like you want them accountable for national security, education and public infrastructure.
That's your opinion, but you are wrong. The reason is that in the USA the health care and Pharma companies are a powerful enough force to subvert legislation to their wishes. Thus your (or any) proposed "solution" simply becomes a tool for these forces to use to legislate themselves large chunks of our money. You can't get around that. So let me get this right. You're saying that because the US Government is in the pocket of private interest groups..... If the US Government is so weak that they can't legislate to put the health needs for their citizens ahead of the profits of private companies, then that says a lot about the country. Probably does say a lot. But that's pretty much the way it is. That's how strong the lobbies are in DC. You take your "good idea" (we could debate that but leaving that for the moment...) put it in Washington and it becomes .... "bad." |
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It would be useful to include in your critique, other human myth systems besides religion. Otherwise, you would convince people to leave religion, and they would simply be sucked into the next convenient quasi-religion they encounter.
Like Climate Change.
Or has that became a religion? I don't keep up...
The best thing people could do is admit when they are wrong, unfortunately it's really hard to do it and really easy to stick to one ideology, religion, belief. I admit I was probably wrong about climate change, it does seem like evidence for it is a bit shaky so my views about it are neutral now, I will say I simply don't know if it's caused by humans or not. I am not being critical of views. Not in the least. I am only pointing out that many will, in the absence of religion, substitute alterative myth systems, among which at least in some people, it becomes something like a religion. |
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IMO this very US idea that 'Government should stay out of my life' just doesn't work when we are talking about healthcare. You want the Government accountable to meeting the health needs of the population, just like you want them accountable for national security, education and public infrastructure.
That's your opinion, but you are wrong. The reason is that in the USA the health care and Pharma companies are a powerful enough force to subvert legislation to their wishes. Thus your (or any) proposed "solution" simply becomes a tool for these forces to use to legislate themselves large chunks of our money. You can't get around that. |
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^^^ However, all Muslims agree that there is only ONE Koran. If they don't want to do what it says, are they really Muslim? If the Koran was all sweet and joy like the Bible NT is, okay let it exist. But since it is full of violence here and there, be warned about the Muslims. You might think you know them, but they could be lying just like their holy writings to tell them to, when they are talking to non-Muslims.  Sweet and joy This isn't a valid comparison. The Koran builds on the Old Testament. Badecker's argument was concerning the NT. There is certainly a vast difference between the attitude a person would gain if he tried to be as the Koran instructed, versus the NT. |
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After the recent breaches in Facebook and the data that hackers have stolen, I don't believe that Zuckerberg is capable of protecting our privacy. And I also think that he indeed doesn't want the full privacy because if that happens then he will probably lose data from the users and he wouldn't be able to "feed" his AI algorithms with userdata. Well, let's consider this for a minute. Let's say that we want the secrets of FB. We will keep their secrets secret - their algorithms and business strategies and their calculated lies and misinformation. We tell them, "you can trust us." We won't get them. But they want ours. |
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God wants us to examine why we accept and believe in Him. The only way we can do this is to share our religious convictions about Him. Atheists can't make a universe like ours. Nor can they find a working way that a universe like ours could come into being by accident. This means that they are holding themselves up as gods of noting. And their ideas that there is no God shows that they agree that they are nothing gods. Religion has done nothing but a disservice to humanity, not only asking for money since forever but also creating thousands of conflicts and impeding science to progress many, many times. They are still trying, even in 2019 with stem cells, etc. Religion is a disease, it sucks your life, it promises you things and it doesn't deliver. It would be useful to include in your critique, other human myth systems besides religion. Otherwise, you would convince people to leave religion, and they would simply be sucked into the next convenient quasi-religion they encounter. Like Climate Change. Or has that became a religion? I don't keep up... |
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^^^ Do you really believe this? Okay. I'll go along with your beliefs this time, and not respect them. belief /bɪˈliːf/ noun 1. an acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof. I don't ''believe'' it, I have evidence to prove it, that's the official definition of belief anyways. The ultimate argument that God does or does not exist would be whether a God would create Badecker. |
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Mark Zuckerberg is a parasite. He has all the money and means to run a socially conscious network, yet is more interested in padding his bank balance even further. Social networks really are bad for your mind, especially with all the secret tests, psychological experiments and personal information leaks that have been discovered over time.
They are all saying he is a CIA agent but i m not agree with that. He is more smart and educated for being a cia agent in his student years. He is a parasite. i completely agree with that. he is a real parasite for all internet anonymous community. He and his company more like a intelligence service, for dirty politic relations. I very much doubt he is a CIA agent but do I think he works with the CIA? Yes. Wake up, people. Operations like Google and FB may own operations like the CIA, or be angling to. |
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.... Maybe it's just that they actually don't think the program is worth all of the effort because in 2015 there was a major change in legislation which forced them to be more compliant.....
Yeah...let's all agree that's what's really happening... |
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