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Comment Re:Be Careful What You Wish For (Score 2, Informative) 631

It absolutely was an objection! I don't see how you could possibly read the EFF's letter and think anything else.

Snippets:

Our message has been clear from the beginning: the FCC has a role to play, but its role must be firmly bounded.

But we are deeply concerned that the FCC’s new rules will include a provision that sounds like a recipe for overreach and confusion: the so-called “general conduct rule.”

First, it suggests that the FCC believes it has broad authority to pursue any number of practices—hardly the narrow, light-touch approach we need to protect the open Internet.

We are days away from a final vote, and it appears that many of the proposed rules will make sense for the Internet. Based on what we know so far, however, the general conduct proposal may not. The FCC should rethink this one.

The EFF clearly has a problem with the general conduct rule. Leave the partisan group-mindedness behind--there are clearly some not-black and some not-white (grey, you might even say) shades here.

Comment Re:So when do we get to SEE these rules? (Score 2) 631

I'm a bit curious why the leftist talking points right now seem to solely be focusing on Fox News. Even the EFF had serious issues with the vast extent of the FCC's net neutrality rules, see, e.g.:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/dear-fcc-rethink-those-vague-general-conduct-rules

I do not know what the status is of the general conduct rules. Do you?

Comment Re: Screw your laws (Score 1) 193

Yes, but the taxi company does have some responsibilities such as making sure the drivers have licenses

Which means exactly what? They have fulfilled a bureaucratic check list of meaningless drivel?

Yeah, that is one of the "there ought to be a law" kind of crap laws that make noise signifying nothing.

Let me put it to you this way, would you know if you got into a taxi that the guy had three accidents last year or none? Rookie Driver or one that has been driving the town for seven years (and knows his way around)? What do you know exactly?

What you know, exactly, is that someone filled out a form somewhere, once upon a time. That is about all you really know, after that it is really a crap shoot. AT LEAST with Uber, you have all the information available, including "customer" reviews. Which is a hell of a lot more relevant.

Comment Re: Is that really a lot? (Score 1) 280

Corporate Greed and Unions are the exact same issue. Both want more than the market can bear, and eventually it all collapses. And government comes in an props up the failing Corporation/Union, often at the same time (think GM).

Why? because we're afraid of allowing failure. YET Failure is a great teacher. Something we keep failing to learn ;)

Comment Re:Is it just me... (Score 1) 516

...that thinks the new icons actually look quite nice?

Probably not, but the icons make me think they were created in Paint. Yesterday, I had a chance to work on a Windows 10 machine. I didn't have enough time to notice them, as the computer kept freezing up when I was trying to change the desktop image.

Comment Re:Better revolution in beekeeping (Score 1) 131

Would be breeding a better bee. One that is more resistant to mites, insecticides, wax moths, etc., and that isn't so susceptible to CCD.

Lots of people are working on this. One example is the Minnesota Hygienic Bee.

Ironically, one such effort might be responsible for the introduction of the Varroa destructor mite to the West. Brother Adam was a very famous beekeeper living in England who tried to breed an improved bee--the so-called Buckfast bee--by crossing many types of honeybees that were imported from around the world--Italians, Germans, Asian bees, and even some African species. His goals were to breed a better bee after the Isle of Wight disease pretty much destroyed all native English bees.

The ironic part is that the Varroa destructor mite (of Asian origin) was first discovered in England not far from Buckfast abbey, and it's believed that it was probably brought to England as part of one of Brother Adam's shipments.

Comment Re:Sounds good (Score 1) 599

You seem to be desperate to make some kind of point in this argument, but I don't see evidence of that happening. Are you being paid to post on Slashdot on this topic?

Yes, I make mad ca$h posting anti-Obamacare posts on Slashdot. You figured me out!

He talked about how this has directly helped him. Can you explain how this has directly hurt you?

I can give you 2 specific instances where Obamacare has turned into a pain in the neck for me.

  1. 1) My work used to offer an FSA, which you could put money into for buying over-the-counter medicine, bandages, pain relievers, saline solution, etc. Obamacare changed that so you could only by prescription medicines instead of the other stuff. FSA's are use-it or lose-it, and it's hard to predict what kinds of medical expenses you might have a year in advance, so most people stopped using it, since they didn't want to have a pile of cash unspent that would go to the IRS.
  2. 2) Similarly, my wife's work offered an HSA, which could be used to buy over-the-counter medicine. Obamacare affected that so you could only get medicine by prescription as well.

So basically, what you could buy on your own now requires you to set up a doctor's visit, take time off of work, and wait for a pharmacists. This is what I have to do to get my OTC allergy medicine. You might not think that's a big deal, but this is a situation that affects millions of people. How many truly sick people aren't able to get a doctor's visit as soon as they might need because somebody who never used to have to visit a doctor now needs to waste a half hour just to get something they could have just gotten at their local grocery store before the rule changes in Obamacare? Not to mention the additional waits for people getting prescriptions and hours of productivity lost.

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