Are you serious? The Corp pays for nothing: they raise their prices to cover unpaid ER bills, and customers pay handsomely, i.e. our pockets are picked, in the Jeffersonian sense, for healthcare delivered to the uninsured in the most costly and inefficient way.

Incorrect. For my neighbor to have no insurance indeed picks my pocket. Do you think ERs are free?

You eat three meals a day, for a month, on that $200? This figure alone causes me to suspect that you are unusually frugal, i.e. never eating out, always brown-bagging lunch, no pre-prepared food, lots of very simple, home-cooked fare, etc. Not an impossible lifestyle, but an usual one these days, in this country.

I'm sure it depends. How hot is the clerk? How bored and/or neglected is the MILF?

Do you have a citation for that?

But what does it taste like?

I bought a factory unlocked iPhone, at full price, and now can use whatever GSM prepaid "plan" I want (I use a six-year-old T-Mo To Go account), no contract, no BS. There's also no access to phone network data, but I find WiFi to be more than adequate for me. I now have a phone that costs me as much as I want to spend on phone minutes (and no more) that is also a handheld WiFi computer.

It's not really fair to be "severely pissed off" at Obama over those issues, none of which he can do much about with a congress that opposes and obstructs his efforts to do anything at all.

I think a lot of people on /. (and elsewhere) just live to complain. Some things never change....

Yes, I do. I remember Larry Ellison (I think) trying to push diskless "Net PCs" back in the late 90's. No-one wanted them then, and I don't think they'll really do that much better (re: storing all of everyone's data) now.

I think you've got it!

Because the Fox News crowd has convinced poor conservatives that to vote democrat is to support the evil Socialist, Gay, Junkie, non-White, non-male, Atheist, etc. etc. etc. Lib'rals. And supporting the Lib'rals would be the end of the world for these folks...

Seems excessive. Why not simply write the guy a ticket for some petty misdemeanor, and uninstall his software? Does the SS really not have anything better to do than go after this guy?

Just because legalization isn't a panacea, i.e. a perfect solution, doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. E.g., I oppose Human Trafficking (a.k.a. Slavery), too, but would still support drug legalization, even if some cartels switch from drug smuggling to slave running. The latter would require different solutions, anyway.

I'd take these new "malware" scares seriously if I ever, ever encountered one on my Mac in real life, or knew anyone that had. I hear lots of haters, lots of hearsay, but not much else.