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Comment Re:And this too shall pass away. (Score 1) 639

Here's the rub. You stop paying to keep people above poverty levels and they start to get sick. Sick from poor infrastructure, sick from poor nutrition, sick from lack of preventative healthcare, sick from poor working conditions, sick from poor housing conditions, sick from poor education.

Soon you have a sick impoverished population that can't work, can't produce and requires increasing levels of emergency care. Soon the sickness begins to spread up from poverty into every class. Unemployable populace leads to a lack of demand leads to unemployment in all sectors leads to lack of demand and so on into full blown depression. The job makers can't make jobs if there's no demand, so they just keep their money which leads to a lack of liquidity and no money market which then prevents anyone who can find demand from borrowing. No demand, no liquidity, no productivity, no economy.

So go ahead and stop providing a basic level of prosperity. See what happens.

Comment Re:31km in an Earthquake Zone (Score 2) 292

The cities are crowded but there is still a lot of open land in between. There are still small towns and villages all over the place. Look at a population map of the place up close.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Japan_Population_density_map.svg

http://www.firstpr.com.au/jncrisis/Japan-population-density-833x846.png

Comment Re:Market changing? Not competing successfully? (Score 0) 408

This is a publicly held corporation. They are contractually obligated to do what is in the best interests of their shareholders (within the legal limits). If a series of lawsuits were in line with that charter then that is what they should be doing. What's more likely is that Dell does not hold any relevant patents to the smartphone and tablet domain.

Comment Re:Problem solved (Score 1) 277

Think of it this way. You send an email, it gets forwarded, then forwarded again, then posted on a forum, then tweeted.

You then tell the person you sent the email to to delete it and every copy that may have been made of it.

Is that reasonable? How could you do that and who gives you the right, especially when there are whole conversations tangentially related to that email that would become orphaned.

The same happens on Facebook. People post an image, it gets reposted elsewhere, comments are added to the reposted info. If the original poster wants it removed what happens to everyone else? Are their conversations about the image to be removed as well or do they just lose their subject matter or???

Comment Re: Damn... (Score 1) 602

Actually a person can become faster at reading faces through training. Expressions and micro-expressions are all there.

It's knowing what to do with them eg sympathizing and anticipating, that is hard. This too can be learned though it may never seem "normal" as it may appear too calculated and come off as sneaky, sly, disingenuous or even arrogant (just because you know exactly what someone is thinking before they say a word does not mean you should tell them or even acknowledge it, sometimes they want to say it first and don't want a response).

Comment Re:Damn... (Score 4, Insightful) 602

If its not a disease then you can't prescribe for it and insurance won't pay for it. Whenever in doubt of the hidden agenda, follow the money. These guides are essentially accounting code manuals, not medical in any way. It's very much the same as going to a mechanic for service and having them look up which procedures are covered under warranty.

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