I don't recall the 1870s having food stamps, section 8 housing, earned income tax credits giving you more money than you paid in, free emergency room care, etc. 150 years ago, you came her and worked your ass off or you died. There was no option to simply live off the labor of others.

You said the magic word. Willpower. It has nothing to do with money, it has to do with convenience. Americans have become lazy fat fucks, and it's easier to eat poorly than well. It has little to do with money.

Doritos are cheap? Compare them pound for pound with a bag of apples and get back to me. I get tired of this fucking lame ass excuse that eating healthy food is too expensive.

I'm quite lazy as well, and have also coasted through life on being able to pull off a win at the last minute. Didn't do the homework? I'll bang something out between classes and it will be better than what most people spent hours slaving over. Didn't study for the test? I learned most of it while staring at the ceiling in class so I can pull off an A to help make up for the homework I didn't feel like doing. Hell, my interviewing (read: bullshitting) skills paired with my intelligence are good enough that I'm making far more money than my effort really deserves.

I don't know if schools are necessarily setting people up, but I was certainly never instilled with a work ethic. Which is why I too am perusing Slashdot at work.

You moron, their country is not 50% solar.

How does this ignorant shit get modded insightful?

I was just thinking about that, but I couldn't remember who created or much about it all really. Because it sucked.

Oh, and as for women of course nobody has ever heard of Heart, Joan Jett, Lita Ford, or bands nowadays such as Halestorm. No, women are never in mainstream rock.

You're an idiot. Typical moron looking for bigotry where it doesn't exist. You probably believe that those poor women and blacks need your powerful support to get anywhere. Talk about a bigot...

Sevendust got a lot of radio play where I am, and let to my being a fan.

Kings X? Killswitch Engage? Living Colour? Lenny Kravitz? Some guy named Hendrix might have had a little influence on rock.

You have selective memory.

Finding the bitcoin might be easy, but managing power loads, working deals with local utilities or other involved parties, and managing the actual sales of the bitcoin (because unless you can turn a bitcoin into actual cash, the value of a bitcoin is ZERO) is whole lot more work than plugging in a board.

That's quite likely. But don't blame capitalism for the propensity of some people to use the power of the state for their own ends. Socialism and communism seem to fall prey to the same human weaknesses.

So essentially give them new parents that are involved in the educational process?

Then how do YOU know about it?

Are you fucking kidding me? I get so tired of this bullshit. Go to the store and buy 5lbs of apples for a few bucks.

Many are. I personally wouldn't care who came to the US if it was a dog eat dog economy. Let everyone come. But that's not where we are, so immigration control it is.

How long will a 1 week old baby survive without it's mother? Should post-natal abortion be legal?

I'm pro-choice, but I like to see consistency.