as are many people (mostly males). So better color space really doesn't matter to me.

and it's no worse than Shrek. No _better_ than Shrek, mind you, but it's not worse than any of the adult reference heavy dreck that passes for children's movies today. The days of Secret of Nimh or even Black Caldron are long gone...

lets get the Gov't to enforce the law. It's our Government. I never said we trusted it. I don't trust fire, but I use it to cook my food.

since they'll be removing the $5/mo surcharges for building out FiOS right?

nVidia's been using that for years to keep their mid range from biting into their high end. At those price points I wish I was confident enough in AMD's driver stability to buy an R9 270X. 256 bit interface + 1500 mhz core clock for $210 bucks.

is the insurance industry spent half a billion dollars in 1 year on anti-single payer campaigns. They were fighting for their lives, and they won.

If you're talking about America Healthcare is cheaper in every other 1st world country and they have just as many unhealthy people (dear god, have you seen British food?). Heathcare is expensive in America because Regan gutted the education system 30 years ago and we've got a doctor shortage (esp primary care docs) and because we let a large, completely unnecessary industry skim money off the top.

And before anyone tries to blame malpractice insurance it accounts for about 10% of the cost of health care. I forget how pointed this out but: Would you sign a waiver on any mistakes the doctor might commit for a 10% discount on surgery?

The disruption is not lower rates for drivers it's bigger profits for investors. 10% of 481 Billion is a nice chunk of change. Throw in some data analytics to get rid of high risk drivers (or charge them 3x what they pay today) and now you're really talkin'

Big Data and Expert Systems suck for everybody except the investor class :(.

What did we get out of the last big housing crisis? There's a ever loving economic crash every 10 years like clockwork. The Republicans pull back the regulations, the economy crashes when rampant speculation runs out of control, the gov't bails out the rich and well connected and the Democrats get voted in to clean up the mess. It's been like this since the 70s, probably since before that.

Christ, the things that get modded up on /. these days...

The US Constitution was written by a bunch of wealthy land owners. Our representative gov't was specifically designed to ensure they'd keep that land and that the rabble wouldn't get too uppity. They weren't shy about it either. You can read plenty of documents from the time where they talk about it.

Republicans are in favor of Civil Asset forfeiture laws. It fits in well with their tough anti-crime stance. So it's not much of stretch to see them opposing this. Even Rand Paul pretty quickly dropped his bill banning civil asset forfeiture (or at least quietly let it die, which is the same thing). This is the first real step taken towards ending the practice since it began.

The real question is: after 40 years of non-stop tax cuts (especially for top earners) how are we going to fill the gaping hole in local law enforcement budgets this'll leave?

because I live in America, and our economic system isn't designed to handle a world of expert systems that replace all but the top and bottom 5% of workers; leaving the remaining 90% without the means to secure food, shelter and health care.

We have a dualapoly because of a lack of regulation. at&t and Verizon have been buying up competitors for years. There's a funny video of one of the guys from The Daily Show showing how AT&T undid their breakup through mergers

to rubber stamp 'em. U of Phoenix got it's start when a guy bought a secretary school so he could use the accreditation.

they're the ruling class. America has one. We just don't like to talk about/acknowledge our social betters.