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Comment: Re:Obviously (Score 1) 187

Agreed- just realize that if the tax is $640, then the average care provided must cost must be under $640.

And we need to be really careful we don't run up a bill on our kids and grandkids and then leave them holding the bag. One way to prevent that would be to allot estate tax to fund part of the medical system.

Right now, the government makes you spend through your cash and sell your house before the healthcare becomes free.

Comment: Re:Obviously (Score 1) 187

Semantic difference.

I agree with you.

However, we can't afford to give everyone $100,000,000 of health care. We need to decide what we can afford and then give within that budget ala Kansas.

Otherwise, it just turns into yet another iteration of the current generation robbing the next generation to pay for their health care.

Comment: Re:Obviously (Score 1) 187

Exactly.

For one thing, mandating that people purchase products means that they could mandate that we purchase pepsi products instead of coca cola products and that's not currently constitutional.

We need national health insurance. The current system is turning into a cleverly designed system of wage slavery. Work or die.

But it should be limited-- something like $5k per year and a $100k cap.

If you want more, you buy it privately. But if you are unemployed and break your leg, you should be able to get it set.

Comment: Just to be clear- they believe in Yahweh. (Score 3, Interesting) 1159

Yahweh, the god of the bible is who they believe did this.

Not Shiva.
Not some random god.

They may wave hands a bit on "Allah" but the fact is most christians beliefs are exclusive of islamic beliefs. The islamics will go to hell or purgatory. The christians will go to a lower level of heaven (at best) or hell.

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They willfully ignore mountains of hard facts which they could observe themselves directly in order to maintain this belief. Even tho the conclusion from that is that Yahweh for some unknown reason decided to create all kinds of false evidence of an older earth and to create dna patterns which are very similar to apes.

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There is a huge gap from "a god created the universe" to "the god of the bible created the universe and wants us to worship it, ordered hebrew tribes to slaughter men, women, "suckling babies", and old people, ordered them to not mix two types of cloth, and had a few dozen kids attacked by bears for mocking elijah. Killed 99% of humans at least once- perhaps twice, and then repeatedly engaged in infanticide and genocide.

Sure-- an unknown god may have created the universe-- but that doesn't mean it is yahweh.

  Most Theists disbelieve every god but one. Atheists just beleive in one less god than theists.
 

Comment: Re:Obviously (Score 3, Interesting) 187

It's purely a matter of saying it bluntly instead of trying to say it cleverly.

You can't say, "You MUST pay $640 to buy health insurance"-- unconstitutional.

But...

You can say, "You MUST give the federal government $640 per year in taxes. The Federal government will provide you health care. There will be tax exemptions for people whose income is low". -- constitutional

Comment: Re:Not to mention pre-screeing would effectively k (Score 1) 343

by Maxo-Texas (#40168589) Attached to: Cost of Pre-Screening All YouTube Content: US$37 Billion

Lol. It's trivially easy to use Google to find all kinds of infringing material including torrents.

However, google does also have a legitimate business-- showing car ads to people who search for car information, showing vitamin ads to people searching for vitamins.

It is a bit creepy tho. A friend of mine had a bug problem so I searched for bug info and suddenly every site I visited was throwing up bug ads to me.

Comment: Re:Salaries (Score 1) 853

by Maxo-Texas (#40163445) Attached to: IT Positions Some of the Toughest Jobs To Fill In US

"http://youtu.be/TCbFEgFajGU
As it says "Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers. See what Bush and Congress really mean by a "shortage of skilled U.S. workers." Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and thousands of other companies are running fake ads in Sunday newspapers across the country each week.""

Thousands of other companies.

Comment: Not to mention pre-screeing would effectively kill (Score 1) 343

by Maxo-Texas (#40156957) Attached to: Cost of Pre-Screening All YouTube Content: US$37 Billion

Removing all the infringing copyrighted content on Youtube would basically kill it and the copyrighted content would just go elsewhere- probably like a Mirv'd cluster bomb.

I go to You tube most often to see copyrighted songs with lyrics so I can sing them.

Then I go for instructional videos which would probably remain but which get a fraction of the hits.

Youtube basically has an illegal business model.

The Vevo channels change that a bit.

if (argc > 1 && strcmp(argv[1], "-advice") == 0) { printf("Don't Panic!\n"); exit(42); } (Arnold Robbins in the LJ of February '95, describing RCS)

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