I used to work for a interlock device company. Add to this the fact that these devices need to be regularly calibrated and tested by authorized centers which you know will not be a free service either, so there will be that additional owners expense as well. As to the risk of non-drivers blowing samples to start the vehicles, we generally handled that with cameras.

Also don't think that an interlock device just asks for a single sample to start your car, oh no. They ask for samples on a randomized schedule during the entire operation of the vehicle because you could blow under when you started your car but your BAC continued to rise throughout your trip. So if you blow a high sample we had the ability to notify 911 and offer real time GPS coordinates of your location to police.

Wouldn't you love all that in your car at all times?

Robert Heinlein addressed that in Starship Troopers, and honestly I think in a very elegant way. Stress that there is a difference between a Citizen and a Civilian. The moral difference between a civilian and citizen is one of civic duty to one's country. Make citizenship something earned, so it is valued, not something given.

Is this voice menu going to have access to telemetry from all the machinery in the restaurant, or know when something is broken/out of stock? Or are we going to have to now rely on said error prone employee to update some interface letting the software know that the shake machine is broken, or being cleaned, etc.

Trust me automation is a good thing, but with how many times I get told "sorry x is not working, or we are out of x" this could get messy.

Yeah, she's only the 4th most liberal out of the 20 democratic candidates. Granted she's not as liberal as Sanders, but she's by no means a "moderate" democrat. That doesn't make her a moderate unless you're now saying the watermark for the democratic party should be Sanders. If you take him out of the running then she's VERY liberal compared to most of her opponents.

to block any content where an objectionable word is in the audio. I mean they can block someone for using 10 seconds of a copyrighted song but they can't listen for George Carlin's 7 words you can't say on TV and flag it as not kid friendly? That at least would be a start, then we can start addressing the video content after that.

Just do SOMETHING! Ignoring it obviously hasn't been the best strategy to date.

He isn't union. :) Actually odds are the driver is a postal employee and the other is from the truck company.

Technically at 1 failure out of 100k makes this a seven 9's system. That's on pair with medical devices and aerospace systems. That's a very stable system in general. To put that into perspective, if you were running trying to run a system with a seven 9's uptime that ran 24/7/365 you would only have outage of about 36 mins over the course of a year. These are very stable and dependable systems.

1. No, not everyone who gets the vaccine is immune, generally vaccines have around an 95% success rate.
2. No, not everyone who doesn't get a vaccine did it by choice. Some people with certain allergies can't have certain vaccines.

That's were herd immunity comes in, we are trying to protect THOSE people. By electing to not inoculate your children, you lower the effectiveness of herd immunity by skewing the coverage group in the wrong direction. Unfortunately though, your "choice" can endanger the lives of people around you and your children.

Non medical exemptions are dangerous to the population as a whole and should be banned.

Balance billing isn't the only reason that this is a good thing to be publicly available. Hospitals have been playing a game with insurance companies for years. The how much is too much game. Lets say service X actually costs the hospital $100 dollars to perform. Even though many hospitals are supposed non-profits (funny how 7 of the top 10 most "profitable" hospitals in the US are non-profits) they determine, hey we're going to charge insurance $300 dollars for service X. Insurance company doesn't argue.... so next year, hospital decides to raise cost of service X to $500 dollars, and the insurance company doesn't argue. So the hospital goes, "Hey, wonder if they'll pay $1000!" and raises the cost of service X to $1000. Insurance company goes, no that's too much for that service, we'll pay you only $800. So the hospital decides, "fine, so they'll pay us $800, so lets keep it on the chargemaster as $1000 so we can continue to justify receiving 800 from the insurance companies and maybe some poor sucker with no insurance will be stuck paying us $1000 sometimes.

Hopefully being able to see the chargemaster and the ludicrous pricing that hospitals charge will open the eyes of the public to say enough is enough.

Forget ditching DST, get rid of standard time. Who cares if i go to work in the dark, I want to come home to enjoy some sunlight! During standard time in the winter I not only get the joy of coming to work in the dark, but getting home in the dark as well, because it's sunset by the time I leave.

I'd love to have an hour of daylight to get stuff done outside when i get home and not have to wait for the weekend!

You don't honestly think loss of license means that a person is no longer in the "pool of drivers" do you? Currently 1 in 5 accidents are caused by unlicensed drivers in the US equating to about 8400 deaths annually. So obviously a lack of a license means nothing to tens of thousands of people.

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Yep we see lots of examples of working single payer solutions.

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Our solution is broken, but many 1st world systems are broken. Just giving everyone access to healthcare doesn't necessarily improve healthcare. We have many more issues beyond just that. We need to come up with effective policies for handling wait times, delays for essential testing and services, the inevitable loss of incoming medical professionals when incomes stagnate or fall, and the lack of innovation in medicine that artificially deflating costs will cause (ever wonder why many of these countries sickest people seek help in the US)?

Wow, so I was one of the LUCKY ones that not only had to switch my plans, but ended up having to pay more for worst benefits.

Hooray for ACA! I'm sorry, but forcing people to shittier coverage just to make it so that everyone can have shitty coverage is not a win for anyone. My personal premium costs went up 15% and my out of pocket responsibility went up by 1600 dollars (at the time). Why? Because my previous plan was considered a Cadillac plan, so the insurance provider was going to be penalized for offering it. Now just a few short years later i've swung to a high deductable HSA to keep premiums down and just deal with the fact that I have to build up a large warchest to cover unexpected medical expenses.

Premiums slowed, because the plans got worst, not because the ACA did anything positive to reduce them.

That doesn't mean you are a conservative, it means you are a libertarian. I think many people both republican and democrat misrepresent themselves in politics.

As defined by George Mason University's Institute For Human Studies :

The libertarian or “classical liberal” perspective is that peace, prosperity, and social harmony are fostered by “as much liberty as possible” and “as little government as necessary.” With a long intellectual tradition spanning hundreds of years, libertarian ideas of individual rights, economic liberty, and limited government have contributed to history-changing movements like abolition, women’s suffrage, and the civil rights movement.

Makes me long for the good old days of Pets.com..... Man I miss that sock puppet!