Exactly. You, and Barb, and Mattel are free to say unacceptable things all day long. You are free to try to place those utterings on any media you can find, but you are most certainly not guaranteed the right to use someone else's media for that purpose. You are also not protected from having your utterings labeled as "unacceptable", racist, misogynist, "of Satan", or any other term. Get over it.

Penis jokes, and then it has the temerity to tell someone to "grow up"... Further comment hardly seems sporting.

Yep. Make the infrastructure a public utility. That is the only solution that makes sense in a market where a natural monopoly exists. With a truly robust infrastructure in place, true competition can exist, on a level playing field. Of course, the so called "conservatives" will resist this at every turn, because they don't really believe in free markets, they just like to give lip service to it because it sells votes in Tea Party land like nobody's business.

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Sorry, I know that "citation" is a big word to Tea Party types. No, it's not the thing you get for speeding.

I'm sure that's how you remember it being presented on Fox News. The reality is rather different.

Yeah, as in "Fuck you, citizens. We don't work for you."

They did it by refusing to pay the bills. Literally. Wake the fuck up and pay attention to how your country is being governed. Or were you just being deliberately disingenuous?

It hasn't yet. Indeed, it clearly has not harmed the party whose leaders clearly stated that obstructionism would be SOP for them. You go with what works. Right?

May you and your family enjoy the brightest blessings, AC. Would that all parents had even a tenth of the love and insight that your kids' parents have. Well done.

Yes, yes. There are probably a few knuckle-dragging idiots who would not hire someone because of their gender or the color of their skin, but we all know how hard it is to find good help. The very first system administrator I ever hired was female, and African-American. She was a gem and was poached from us less than 6 months later. This industry hires on merit. To deny that is absurd.

Now, it is also undeniably true that such talent is not present in proportional numbers amongst various minorities. That's a problem, but it's not of the tech industry's doing. There's plenty of blame to go around. Many of those minorities still suffer from inadequate education. The members of those communities must shoulder some of the burden as well - it is, all too often, still not cool to be smart in those communities. Intellectual achievement is often met with derision even within families. Girls are usually conditioned against pursuing STEM interests. Such observation is not racist, or sexist. The lack of achievement is nothing to with race or gender. It has everything to do with what the community is doing, or not doing.

That's probably not going to solve the problem. There's already a land-rush business in such policies for "covered entities" and "business associates" encumbered by HIPAA, and the general consensus is that they are not worth the paper they're written on. All include (not surprisingly) clauses that require the insured to have "implemented all required safeguards..." (or words to that effect). The problem is that there is no "standard requirement". The clause is just weasel-wording to ensure that no matter who diligent the policy holder may have been, a breach will have been "not adequately prevented". The net effect of this insurance push will be to lean on that rather than proper security, with predictable results.

Incorrect. Ted Cruz is no moron. He knows which side his bread is buttered on and he is wasting no time taking the position that his puppet-masters have told him to take, and he's hoping that the moron's who voted for him continue to overlook this behavior.

Yes, and TFA makes it clear that they are focusing on Type 1 patients, so lets all STFU about how fat people are to blame for all their own problems. M'kay?

Unless they are Too Big To Fail (tm).

Surely, you aren't suggesting some sort of malfeasance on the part of auditors or regulators? Not in South Korea?