...it's the 10 percenters who keep perpetuating it.

Exactly. It's missing most of the features that a liberal healthcare act would have. No one outside of the USA would view it as liberal.

It's missing:
single payer
universal healthcare
free healthcare
etc...

It keeps:
privatization of healthcare
insurance providers market
huge medical settlements
very minimal to non-existent penalties for not getting healthcare

A cross on every door would scare the fuck out of me. OTOH, a Starbucks on every corner sounds great!

How long until number of Starbucks coffees becomes the global cost basis across currencies?

Interesting. The Obamacare of X analogy is great. Well, except that Obamacare is a conservative approach to healthcare, that only gets portrayed as liberal because Obama is pushing it. No one cared when Romney rolled out Romneycare in his own state.

Politics aside, how is it that republicans want to fuck over everyone but the privileged and corporate, yet get such widespread support from the people who will suffer most from their policies?

Duh.

There will be trillions of life forms across a trillion times as many planets across a trillion times as many stars...and that's just in our known universe. Of course we have no idea what they will look like.

Agreed. I bought two homes. Both times the sellers defrauded us. Both times the seller's agent was colluding. One time our agent was in on it. Worse than car sales people because at least everyone understands that car sales people are out to screw them.

I tell people the same. Know someone on the inside, or don't spend more than 10 minutes applying.

I think if you know someone, you have a 50% chance of getting an interview and a 10% chance of getting a job.
Otherwise, I'd say you have a 5% chance of getting an interview and a 1% chance of getting a job.
all things being equal.

I was told by Google HR that they do NOT require CS degrees for their computer scientist / software engineer positions. They were eager to hire me for this position despite my not having a CS degree (I have a related advanced technical degree). However, I wanted a product manager position, and they refused to even interview me for it on the basis that I didn't have a CS degree. They said a CS degree WAS required for this position. We went round and round about the absurdity of not requiring it for a computer science position but requiring it for a product management position, until I said, fuck it, this doesn't sound like the place for me. Sad.

Agreed. Part of the reason this is possible, though, is due to faster SSDs and RAM and efficiency gains in caching, algorithms, etc, and the push to do lots of processing in the cloud. The processor stopped being the bottleneck long ago.

With a few trillion planets in orbit, makes me think that if life is a 1 in a million chance, we've got millions of planets with life just in our galaxy....with at least trillions of planets of life across the universe.

With the compromised emails floating around, who knows who REALLY sent out the notice. ;)

By "beings", I hope he mains simple self replicating single celled organisms, or he's got it wrong.

I guess I can't convince the ignorant masses. All I can say is that I have first hand experience with this and I can tell you that the remaining issues are primarily legal and regulatory. No major technology breakthroughs are needed at this point. Just costs need to come down and some engineering needs to happen.