A few years ago, my doctor prescribed something for this purpose to me with no argument whatsoever.

For some idiotic reason, it hadn't occured to me that state insurance wouldn't cover it. It doesn't matter how fat you are, and how much it isn't an issue of vanity, they won't. My understanding is that even most private insurers won't touch it. If diet and exercise haven't been working for you, or if you've deteriorated to the point that exercise is difficult, the only option insurance will ever consider is stomach stapling. They won't even touch the cheaper, reversible, and less harmful other surgeries that operate on similar principles. Only stomach stapling. That's it.

This crap usually costs around $200 or so a bottle, if I remember correctly, so basically they're only available to rich people obsessing over the last five pounds that won't fuck off of their perfect waistlines.

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So, when's the last time you rediculed anything?

Wrong. Class warfare is exactly what I'm talking about. Elected officials are merely puppets at this point, engaging in televised pageantry and backbiting for our entertainment. The true power to govern has rested with unaccountable, no-profile appointees for many years. The Federal Reserve, the Pentagon, higher courts, our diplomatic corps, and all regulatory agencies are given to people who just walked out of a corporate boardroom, and will walk right back to it when their term is up. This isn't some nebulous conspiracy theory, it's the literal truth and a matter of public record.

When somebody writes the law, dictates the particulars of how it will be enforced, and has more money than the rest of their countrymen put together, the only way to get them out is to kill them.

Billionaires have nothing to do with this specifically.

They have everything to do with the state of our governance and economy as a whole. Literally every problem is related to this in some way, and the plutocrats ultimately write all policies. The only form of power which they can never totally control is violence.

No, he really doesn't. This is exactly the kind of political discourse our nation has desperately needed for several decades. Can you think of a practical way to get billionaires to listen to people other than pointing guns at them?

What kind of pretentious ass actually uses <em> instead of <i>, anyway? Hell, for titles, it's not even appropriate in the way the standards mean it. You don't italicize a title for emphasis, you do it because that's what you do with titles. And when I want to emphasize, I want to italicize. I like italics. Some dillhole's CSS can't tell me what to do! *shakes fist*

They will be. Slashdot's already had plenty of stories about people getting rung up for using and distributing data that's supposed to be public, and that's for things that Republicans haven't pledged to attack by any means necessary. I wouldn't be surprised to hear about criminal charges. And although it's unlikely, if they are convicted, they will go to and stay in prison. Obama's not going to want to save them, or he'll look even worse for all the awful shit his administration has pulled in the same fashion.

If the phone you get him costs more than five cents to replace and activate, you're going to regret this. He will lose it at least once a week. He's four.

Oh, and I've just realized why the outdoors parts of the original trilogy probably seem better.

If the protagonist's current problem is some big ugly monster instead of some stupid evil person, the scene is much harder for Lucas to ruin with his big, ugly, stupid, evil dialogue. Since Lucas didn't really make Knights of the Old Republic, it had far better dialogue than he was capable of, making interpersonal conflict fun and interesting.

The first Knights of the Old Republic was a masterpiece, and plenty of it took place in cities. There is nothing about Star Wars that needs to be in the boondocks to work. It just needs to be directed well, which many parts of the prequel series didn't have the benefit of because nobody was willing to tell George Lucas anything. It's my understanding that in the original trilogy, Spielberg walked him back from alot of his usual idiocy.

It's not going to be directed well now either, because JJ Abrams is simply a hack.

I mean, this is exactly one of the things it's meant to address, as far as I know. I'm really confused as to how they think this argument is going to work.

Government-owned crime syndicate needs clownish do-nothing to stand around like a deer in headlights while taking the blame for coworkers' malfeasance by virtue of a blatantly dishonest job title. Flexible hours, competitive pay and benefits.

Someday, robosympathy will make sense. I'd prefer that we liked them a little better than a wrench by then. Most of the robot horror stories that have been written happen because we're unfeeling and brutal.

The RMAH was an unmitigated disaster. This isn't because it was a bad idea, it's because Blizzard made it one by trying to stick their fingers in the pie instead of just regulating the inevitable like they were supposed to.

The GAH is the main thing that was missing from Diablo II.

Trading will happen, with or without support. Trading, by itself, doesn't make the game any less of what it is. There was plenty of it in Diablo II. But because it wasn't supported, it was inconvenient, untrustworthy, and generally garbage. All Blizzard is doing here is opening the way for old-school scammers and farmers to screw everything up. They could just fix the problems with their moronic implementation of the auction house concept, 90% of which would be gone just by temporarily removing the RMAH, letting the market stabilize, and turning it back on as a facilitator instead of a goddamn business model.

No, though. We'll just wash our hands of the whole goddamn thing and trade this set of problems we created for the set of problems the playerbase created years ago. Why fix anything if it'd take actual work and won't cause customers who have already paid us to keep paying? Screw that.

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