Still needed because of corporations and the people who run them.
Give them an inch and they'll take your life.
Big tobacco. Harmfully addictive social media. Binding arbitration for things like negligence, death and rape. Throttling emergency services accounts during an emergency.
First, I hope it works and becomes a model that this kind of public transportation should continue to be built out.
Second, it's irresponsible to continue to promote and encourage large groups of people to live and play in the desert southwest of the U.S, especially with tax dollars. They have serious problems with water and no one really seems to care to solve the real underlying issues, historic water mismanagement and now too many people.
Did we learn nothing from ITT Tech and Corinthian College?
Yes and expectedly so, but not always in a bad way.
First, as stated already, are there really any "new" stories humans have not told? Finding something new after several thousand years of story telling is tough. That doesn't mean we can't freshen up or retell a story in a new and engaging way. Take the acting styles of the silent era and compare it to method acting post WWII. Also, societal norms and expectations shift, which may allow the story tellers to be more free with their new vision of past work or force them to use clever metaphors and analogies to retell stories, depending on which way that shift goes.
Now the technology part. Oral tradition, written, audio recording, silent movies, talkies, Technicolor, VistaVision, practical effects, digital effects etc. These have allowed story tellers to tell stories in new, modern fashion continually bringing new audiences to "old" stories. Yes, some have become very niche retellings aimed at a specific audience or "test grouped" into bland servings of celebrity faces, but sometimes you get some great reinterpretations.
Yojimbo (1961, Japanese samurai film in black and white) and it's Italian, color remake, A fist Full of Dollars (1964), are both very good films, the later taking the story and making it their art by retelling as a Spaghetti Western.
Also, make sure they are just across state lines.
Yes, "fear" is what I mean.
The framers of the Constitution also lived in a pre-industrialized world, pre full auto guns, pre atomic etc. This is not abdication of responsibility, it's congress knowing it can't act fast enough and putting the power where it needs to be, just what the framers would have wanted.
I'm OK with courts striking down particular enforcement actions, but not gutting agencies simply because they can respond too quickly to potential harm.
Banning DDT has killed untold millions due to fly and mosquito borne diseases.
You're one of those people. I have an in-law by marriage that said "Rachel Carson is the biggest mass murderer in history". I already knew he was a Southern Baptist, but that really confirmed it.
I hope you like a uninhabitable planet because we keep killing everything. Humans cannot survive if they are the only species. We need a rich diversity for balance.
I like to think if there is a god, the real test is to get us to save the planet and live in harmony with it, not destroy it. How do you think God will treat you if you ruin his creations before he's ready to do for the second coming?
Congress: We give the EPA broad authority to regulate pollutants because we can't keep up with how fast companies make new ways to pollute.
EPA: Thank you congress for a sensible mandate.
SCOTUS: That power is to broad because companies can't make enough money polluting in new ways and it cost them a lot in lawyer fees and process design. It's too uncertain how they can continue to pollute and make money. OVER RULED!
Corporate America: Thank you Mitch McConnel! Oh, and I guess Donald Trump too.
I thought legislating from the bench was the GPOs biggest feat under President Obama, besides the obvious reasons.
Become an abusive monopoly, duopoly, what have you, suffer the wrath of regulation.
Markets are only fair and competitive when they have rules to keep them that way; history has certainly taught us that. Economics is not supposed to only benefit a company/business. Markets are supposed to be beneficial to the society in which they operate. So, if a company starts to abuse its market power, governments can step in and address the problem.
Do you know what a turtle is?
First, I have not used 23andMe or any such service, due to the obvious concerns about a private company holding my genetic information with no real privacy laws in effect.
Second, this new tact: "sells subscription health reports".
More subscriptions can screw off.
While it is wonderful we can potentially achieve a vaccine to prevent some cancers, I dislike how we in the U.S. fundamentally treat people in relation to medicine and work.
Will this be even remotely affordable? As in, I wouldn't think twice about getting it if I was poor with bad or no medical insurance.
Also, as we keep increasing the health and lifespan of people, too many politicians want social safety nets reduced, like Social Security retirement benefits to start at a higher age because people live longer. Except, SSI and medical benefits are not enough for many seniors. Why don't we lift the income cap of taxed SSI from about $130K to against 100% of earned income.
Look at what happened with Epipens and insulin. Also, some insurance plans require thounsands of dollars of out of pocket expense before the insurance starts paying for things.
Late stage capitalism moving very quickly the last 10 years. Consolidate market players, sell nothing, rent everything.
This may not work for food, water and clothing, but pretty much all else.
Regulators
we regulate any stealing of his property
and we damn good too
But you can't be any geek off the street
gotta be handy with the steel if you know what I mean, earn your keep!
-Warren G
Or something like that.
God doesn't play dice. -- Albert Einstein
