Yes, because Rory is/was clearly just in the closet still.

Maybe I'll read this Rousseau social contract thing, maybe I won't. But just because I need to eat doesn't mean my food is given to me. It costs money. Sure, if the people who sold McDonalds their buns, burgers, ketchup etc... gave them to them for free, and if the contractors who built their facilities did the work for free and if the utilities were granted to the building for free and all the employees worked for free then I could drive up to McDs and get me a free big mac "whenever" I wanted (giant line of people also wanting free big macs not included).

People do donate enormous amounts of their own time and money to all sorts of causes including healthcare. I donate money to some healthcare related organizations (komen, MS). Yes, I donate to both of those because my close friends and family have been affected by them. So, in that way I am a bit selfish. However, my statement that if you can't afford it you can't have it is meant to say that you can't magically create free supply to meet demand. It just doesn't work that way unless the ENTIRE supply chain is made free. That sort of utopian "social contract" is as close to impossible as I think anything could be. What is described as greed or selfishness is what motivates most of society to go do whatever job they do. That's how they earn the money to pay for the stuff they want out of society. Whether that's dollars or a barter system, if you didn't have people who were driven to excel by the desire to acquire money, society would not be able to function. Would you want a doctor who was being paid $7.25 an hour and had just a highschool education? No you'd want one who was smart enough to make it through med school, residency etc... which is years of really expensive training. Would you want him to be so accessible to people that you had to schedule your appointments a year in advance?

Fire departments and police departments are a service that I'm happy to contribute to as a local service. It is annoying that people who don't provide any part of the funds to run those departments can end up using them freely and therefore make it cost me more in taxes to support. But my local community being protected overall by fire and police services has a direct, positive impact on me and my family, so at least for my current location, I've deemed that acceptable. I don't know that I could see a privatization of those services being successful in my lifetime. Same goes for roads. I don't think your average DoT does a GREAT job of maintaining public roads, but we're reliant on them now and to change it would be devastating. But every public service comes at a cost just like every private service. You can hope to rely on some people having the means to pay for all people to use them, but when the all is greater than the some can even afford, then it doesn't matter how mean it sounds, it's just a fact that eventually someone's going to lose out. The longer that is artificially sustained, the more someones are going to lose out. If you can't afford it, you can't have it. Whether that's an individual or an entire nation. If you can't afford it, you can't have it.

Also there are many way more complex options available for health care today compared to 30, 40, 50 years ago. You can have a machine/computer that cost billions or more to develop and costs a hospital or doctor's office millions to own and high on-going maintenance that just didn't exist. You can treat things today that were untreatable back then.

And behind the demand isn't just that more people are sick it's that people seem to think that expensive healthcare is a right rather than a privilege to be acquired via trade. Doctors spend ridiculous amounts of their own money just to get to the point of being able to take their first patient, and continue to spend ridiculous amounts of their own money to keep treating them. That is going to to cost you money to make use of their services. They have to feed their families too. If my car breaks down, I don't expect someone else to pay for it to be fixed. I know that I have to pay a mechanic to do the work that I can't possibly do on my own. Yet healthcare, an industry that requires significantly more investment by those who provide it is expected to just be given away? So you have cancer? Well if you can't afford treatment then I guess you're out of luck. If you're my friend or family member I will do what I can to help you out, but joe blow down the street shouldn't be forced to contribute. If you can find someone who will donate the care to you, great. But short of the world somehow generating everything that everyone needs out of thin air, things are going to cost money. If you can't afford them, you can't have them.

Not really arguing the point, but one reason would be that Mass population/demographics may not be a close enough reflection of the rest of the states in the union to be an accurate estimate of what would happen elsewhere. And the fact that it's "success" includes the highest premiums in the country makes success a subjective term.

The answer is, it is not unlicensed use. Which means your assertion that the only reason to have it on a USB drive is for unlicensed use is incorrect.

And computers with DESIGN software!

i wouldn't want anybody being in charge of licensing free speech. NY Finance Elite, homeless people without a dime to their name, middle class mid-america suburbanites. No matter how much any particular group or person may align with my beliefs, I do not want them or anyone else telling me or anyone else what free speech is valid.

We still have desktop and laptop computers that use USB to store/read data. If that's where I store my ebooks so that they can be read on whatever computer I happen to be using, is that unlicense use?

Well they could have had a stinger at the end of the credit with a bald guy looking on from his fortunately saved...or possibly completely demolished HQ. But no stinger...I was surprised there wasn't....

Element jokes can be good....periodically

As long as you keep all your lights off.

every time you use facebook with ads, you're generating money for them :) that's how it is "free". However, I still agree...cry more noobs.

But that only applies if you are in a mutually assured destruction scenario. The "destabilization" claim is that this gives India enough of a first strike success chance that they think they'll have only acceptable losses from any retaliation. In War Games all scenarios with Russia resulted in complete annihilation, if WOPR had access to a level of weapon that it believed would prevent most or all of Russian Nuclear response, it would have immediately launched that weapon.

I don't know man...out of the five I think the philosopher is the one being set up...yeah the environmentalist is annoying, but the philosopher...really....

Well the point of this article is the reactions of five people in different industries giving a stereotypical reaction to the image based on what someone feels a person in that industry would say as a representative of that industry.