The Democratic Nat'l Convention had free speech zones in Boston.

The protesters cuffed themselves and put cloth over their heads like detainees in gitmo. Yes, very loud group.

Free Speech Zones are clearly against the constitution and it is not just the fake republicans than use them.

Uhh. There is no free-market in the US for just about anything. Cellphone companies license spectrum that no one else can use and become defacto monopolies.

I have traveled a bit and only one country that I have been to had a free-market of any kind. Ghana, West Africa.

Ghana has between 4 and 6 cell phone providers that compete with one and another.

Ghana would not give exclusive rights to any cellular company when they first approached the country before there was cellular technology in the country.

Instead Ghana started it's own government-run cell company because no major provider would agree to anything but a monopoly position.

Strangely enough... 6 competing companies are there now making money hand over fist, and the Ghanaian government just sold their old government phone/internet company to Vodacomm.

Privatization does work, in a real free market. We live in a completely socialized state that pretends it is a free-market driven economy.

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The part of that case that no one remembers is that McDonalds in particular had been warned on multiple occasions by whatever inspector (health?) for the local gov that it's coffee was too hot.

Hence why they deserved to lose that case.

IIRC it was something over 170 degrees. It was crazy hot.

RNC protesters being arrested got pretty big headlines on all the news networks when it happened. Don't think you need to cite that, assuming your audience are NEWS website goers.

FBI being used to inappropriately investigate people who aren't in line with the party in power is not unusual. Really, watch your damned national and local news if you haven't seen stories about this.

The anti-flag thing is a stupid debate, real conservative republicans have been on the news debunking the idea of making the proper way of getting rid of a flag as stupid, and Scalia (SCOTUS, incase you didn't know), a conservative if you ever met one says it is free speech.

Every single thing this guy said has been covered by all the national news associations, not just idiot bloggers.

Asking for citations on such hugely public events which were covered by multiple news outlets just shows your own ignorance, and is not "+3 insightful"

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Plasmodium vivaX <---- BAD MOTHER, does not go away
Plasmodium malariae <---- easy to treat
Plasmodium ovale <---- not so strong symptoms
Plasmodium falciparum <---- can be resistant to treatment, can hit like a 5 ton truck

Had Malaria 8 times. If you know you have it and get treatment (pills or a shot) early, it isn't even as bad as a cold.

Had a resistant form of Malaria once. It sucked balls because treatment would only work for a few days and then the symptoms would come back... harder. Took some stronger medicine and was fine.

Malaria is not a big deal for healthy adults who can sense the symptoms. It is a HUGE deal for children who can not always understand the way they feel, or the elderly who have weak immune systems.

But this isn't capitalism. There is no free market in telecommunications, they are awarded a monopoly on spectrum, and have often been given rights to put up radio towers wherever they want. These companies then take that monopoly advantage and lack of competition to milk consumers for every penny they can.

All the cell carriers have roughly the same price plans for everything, and the costs go up at similar times. There needs to be an investigation into their trust, because I cannot believe that there is not price fixing going on.

Except that the scope of this project is to interface with all aspects of the recovery funds that are doled out. That means tracking thousands upon thousands of projects.

When I was evaluating web-based project tracking software for a quarter billion dollar project using a mildly customized product, we were looking at over 140,000 USD per year.

Given the shear size of the, lets call it "Recovery Project" 3.6 million a year for a customized system with thousands of concurrent viewers that can view and track thousands of different subprojects, yeah I can see 18million.

And here is the fun part: Any of you who say they could do it for cheaper, probably couldn't do it at all, let alone near that price.

Those who have actually done something similar don't see this as being an outrageous price tag.