Vinegar, really? To their credit, the "conspiracy theorists" don't make such radical claims nor do they contribute it to commercial airliners. A contrail is not the same as a chemtrail. I'll give the conspiracy theorists credit because the trails that are left behind are by federally deployed jets at high altitude. In California, they're deployed every two hours.

It's not ludicrous and it *is* scientifically sound. The research was done in the 1940s to help mitigate global warming.

Oh, The Washington Times. How quickly the country forgets real controversies.

Are the mods this stupid? All the posts modded up are worthless.

You are the one who is shady. I have walked out on a job because of sexual harassment. Was it provable, no. Would the former employer admit to it, no.

Nice high rode you got there, dumbfuck. Be a better employer and associate and business and employees wouldn't leave.

I have to repeat this again because it's the best advice and was modded down. The golden rule still applies regardless: You only care about your employer as much as they care about you.

IBM was pretty public about laying off all the non-Sales positions and moving anything to do with technology and engineering overseas or giving it to Visa applicants. It was a cornerstone of the strategy. They're a 'consulting' firm now. They sell commodity services using cheap foreign labor paid at subsistence wages.

I suppose if you mean that the sales people are the only ones that add value you're right, in your own fashion. But if you feel that way what the heck are you doing on /.? Astroturfing?

if you've got kids, particularly girls, you're stuck. They all want to watch the same shows and the same night. I'm too broke for cable right now (When it hit $170/mo for Internet+tv I had to bail) and it drives my kid nuts. Sure, the shows might show up on Netflix, but it takes months. I can get them on iTunes, but it's so expensive I might as well buy cable (and I'm sure that's by design).

I know a lot of people will rant about Television being brain rot and all that, but for most normal people (hint: Not the /. crowd) TV is a social thing. It genuinely puts my kid at a social disadvantage that she doesn't have it.

there's a bunch of sales reps and H1-B contractors gathered round an old name nobody remembers....

You only care about your employer as much as they care about you.

It's unproven treatments that don't get covered. There are lots of Cancer treatments like that. It might extend your life, it might not (and have bad side effects).

The super rich will still get the best of the best. You're not going to change that. What single payer does is make sure you get good basic care and usually a bit more.

If you think you'll do better on you're own you're being silly. If you were one of the super rich you'd have better things to do than post on /. :).

you don't have to chip in _anything_. The insurance companies profits would pay for your healthcare. You buy wholesale if you can, right? Then why do you have an insurance company between you and life saving medicine?

lots of states will not opt those people in. Lots more will use lies and subterfuge to keep people off the roles. Arizona does everything it can to disqualify people. I've got friends with kids on the local medicaid program that have to report birthday money from granddad as 'income'...

Obamacare is really an attempt to create the sort of socialism that Americans can stomach. I got a good buddy with some serious health problems who relies on gov't health care (got several actually, because if you have a health problem it isn't long until you die or need help from the gov't unless you're an Heir/heiress).

Anyway, I started asking him what he was gonna do. How would he use private insurance. Wouldn't they insurer just keep raising his rates. He said that would be wrong, and so somebody should do something 'bout that. I asked who, and how and he said there should be a law that the insurance companies could only charge so much.

Basically he, like most Americans, deep down want single payer health care. But we're been taught from cradle to grave that socialism is bad. We're indoctrinated. It's called cognitive dissonance. He knows he needs socialism to live. He knows he needs help, and he knows it's his right (as a human) to live. Not just to have some blind dumb chance at good luck, but to actually have a life. But he's been taught, over and over, lied to and lied to. So he breaks down.

Obama recognized that there's lots of people like that. So he's giving them what they need (socialized health care) but doing it in the only way he can. He's letting the devil have it's due, and he's going to give billions and billions to parasitic insurance companies who's only purpose is to make us feel better about getting something that's a basic human right.

they don't get to decide. Doctors do. It's single PAYER, not single INSURER. It doesn't work the way you're thinking in Europe, Canada, Germany or any of the other single payer systems where people are entitled (whoops used a bad word) to health care. The only purpose of the gov't is to pay doctors. And they can be well paid and still provide great service.

But far be it from me to let a little thing like facts and the failures of the US healthcare system get in thy way of irrational fear mongering perpetuated by a multi-billion dollar insurance industry. Viva la death panels (well, the private ones anyway) :).

just do away with insurance companies and switch to single payer. We all need health care to live and stuff. What we don't need is a middle man that adds no value between us and our doctors.

Face it, health 'insurance' made since when the only thing a doctor could do was a) amputate and b) give out aspirin. It didn't matter that they only did a few big things that were mostly comfort before you died. Now we want to _use_ insurance. Insurance can't be profitable if we're all going to use it. The entire _point_ of insurance is that most of us aren't going to use it.

It's like hurricane insurance in Florida. Good luck buying it.