Montana isn't exactly swimming in money. They're 35th in the nation on per capital GDP. And as a Red state they probably don't have the tax dollars to do that or the political will to raise those tax dollars.
Huh. Seems biased to me. Republicans did implement TARP and quantitative easing to stop the Recession. These things should have made Democrats happy, but the stereotypes persist.
Why is it that strange, conservative legislature with a liberal governor should end up more centrist with less stupid left or right wing bits.
Because that's how it used to be? People working together to solve problems? States have power over the federal government and I'm glad a small state is using it instead of just complaining.
I want net neutrality, but this is embarrassingly stupid. You can't have net neutrality in one state on a practical level to begin with, and this is definitely not something the states are empowered to do beside that.
We are a collection of states that can generally do what they want. You have it wrong, my friend. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The usual Commerce Clause that gives the federal government the authority to regulate interstate commerce, even as extended as it is, can hardly be used to override a state from placing equal access requirements on local services.
The thing about a second opinion is, it's not necessarily different from the first. The point of seeking a second opinion is not to keep talking to doctor after doctor until one says something you like. If every doctor has the same opinion, it's likely because that opinion is what is true.
And I did provide an example of someone you can go to in order to get a differing opinion if that's really what you're after: the kook down the street.
What I think you are proposing prevents someone from finding the "kook down the street" because the forum is controlled by a governing body - in this case some consensus of "expert" doctors. What will happen is new ideas and medical procedures will be suppressed alongside the "kooks". Who controls the governing body? European doctors perform different techniques and drugs than US doctors which is different than Chinese doctors. What about procedures or drugs that are illegal in some places but widely used in other places? If you use set theory to only allow what is universally "correct" much information is excluded.
And if they use a panel of experts than the experts are controlling the news people see. That's not good either.
... Why? What if, instead of calling them "experts," we called them "journalists"? Is that still bad? Even though that's how it is anyway, and how it has always been?
You could make the standard argument about bias, but that's why we get our news from multiple sources (multiple journalists) instead of just one. Let's try a medical analogy: your rely on your doctor for medical advice, because you doctor spends all of his time on that crap and knows a lot more about it than you do. If you disagree with your doctor or don't like what he says, then you get a second opinion from another knowledgeable doctor who, let me repeat, follows developments in his field closely and knows more about it than you do.
To complete the analogy: Where do you go to get your second opinion when only doctors who have the same opinion are allowed to talk about it on the forum you use? Perhaps you can go to another forum where only doctors with a different opinion are allowed?
The only end I see with this approach is building up the walls to your personal echo chamber.
Well, you have to launch it from your submarine anyway - you don't want it to detonate on top of you, do you?
This is a "Drone Torpedo" capable of 6,200mile range. It *is* the submarine.
If the owner is providing slow support to move wires, cables, etc., then that is another matter.
That was exactly the matter that OTMR was intended to address. How else would you have addressed this matter?
Take them to court. That's why you pay your lawyers.
Uh they did. And they lost? Expect slow or no support on moving wires in the future.
I don't hate either, actually. Google is everywhere and I appreciate their efforts to make my life easier, even if at the same time they're recording every time I hit the head ( 2.5 times on average, I looked it up ). And comcast is the only game in town for reliable and fast internet connectivity.
I wish that weren't the case, I really do, but the fact is both companies are doing everything they can to make my life easier. Given all the folks who are actively trying to do the opposite, I have to say I appreciate them.
All of these companies are after profit. They all want you in their walled garden to spend all of your money with their products and their partners. Knowing how often you hit the head provides them valuable data with which they can push advertising and other products. Perhaps that is what you want. However I know that elsewhere in the world you can get fiber straight to your home for around 30 euro a month without that sort of relationship. Buying products sponsored by and having a symbiotic relationship with Comcast is not something I want and I should have that choice.
I really don't understand why Americans tolerate their current voting system. Computer-tallied paper ballots and pencils with ballot boxes and any manual counting observed by the candidate's representatives is pretty solid.
Computer kiosks with known flaws, with the electronic records purged ASAP looks an awful lot like the dream system of someone who wants to generate whatever result they like and should offend (and terrify) the average voter.
You are right. In my state it it still done on paper with optical scanners. The electronic voting machines are not ubiquitous in the USA.
Best as I can determine the electronic voting machines without a paper trail is only done in the following 11 states: Virginia, Texas, Tennesee, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Louisiana, Kentucky, Indiana, Florida, and Delaware.
Sure corruption is bad - but it's teenaged acne next to the cancer of "the opposition are the enemy" that Democrats embrace today.
Fixed that for you.
I gave you a bloody map, what more do you want? And why are you putting "charging stations" in quotes? Superchargers are real. There are 7619 supercharger stalls operational today (aka, not counting those under construction). The average spacing along US interstates is about 70 miles (a bit more in more densely populated areas, a bit less in less densely populated ones), evenly spaced. Doubling by the end of next year. And that's just Tesla's network.
I'd love an electric car but the lack of charging stations is a real issue. It's going to be overcome but 7619 charging stations really isn't a solid number compared with 150,000 gas stations.
I live near Boston and during my 70 mile round trip commute there are no charging stations en route or nearby either end. The closest station is well out of the way, so my only option is my house which would need a high power outlet to be routed. I would have to carefully monitor the charge and ensure to plug the car in every two days or I'd be stuck. I fill up on gasoline once a week which takes about 3 minutes.
As of today an electric car doesn't serve my needs. I really want a Tesla though.
There is no gun forcing you to take a job you can't do well enough to earn a decent living doing
Of course not. You always can just starve to death, that's always an option.
No problem. The economy is bad, you just die. Problem solved.
In the USA 3,933 people died in 2014 of malnutrition according to the CDC. Of these the vast majority were older than 75 or otherwise out of the working pool. In 2012 the count was 3,382 and in 2010 during the poor economy the count was 2,948 with similar age trends.
Where do you get your findings that people are dying of starvation for reasons other than abuse and neglect of the elderly?
My interests have not been represented in quite a few years. I am white, heterosexual, have medical insurance provided by my employer(s), college educated with BS and MS degrees in my chosen professional field, widowed, no kids, make too much money to claim lower bracket tax deductions and not enough money to take advantage of the higher bracket tax deductions, and practice no denomination of religious beliefs.
In fact, you are exactly the demographic that the Democratic party represents. Sure, they give some lip service to progressive ideas and identity politics, but that's because that's what people like you want to hear. But the establishment Democrats do nothing to support policies to actually help the poor and working class - they help people like you. It's why urban centers on the costs are so blue.
Uh, I'm not sure where you get your information however the Democrats haven't supported the middle class and especially the white, male middle class for years. They emphasize support for minorities and the working poor who are abundant in the urban centers on the coasts.
Article says "Could endanger *entire* ships" If this flaw can't sink or disable the engines it isn't endangering them, much less the *entire* ship.
"Apple will embrace Face ID as its authentication method for a competitive advantage over Android smartphones"
seems a bit premature to speak of a "competitive advantage" when the feature is not even widely embraced as yet.
It's not even released yet.
It is better to live rich than to die rich. -- Samuel Johnson
