Did the software beep enough? It needs to beep for each magnitude you zoom in.

Best if every face scanned is shown on screen next to the original and beep.

I think he's saying the house costs $60k to build, but because of the land value it costs $415k to buy. The same house in the middle of no where would be a different value.

Do all questions need to have a purpose? I bet you complain about the lack of options on the polls too.

How about instead of an increased minimum wage, we abolish it and provide a minimum income for people. At that point employers lose the upper hand in forcing people to take low wages to survive and instead they have to compete with pay and benefits people think fit the job.

Of course there are issues with funding that (higher taxes on the rich would work best) and it would work better on a sliding scale so people that do work get more money, it doesn't just get taken out of their minimum

Or it was taking the Skynet approach and preemptively blocking the largest vulnerability - people using the system

They probably had the commercial version which autoupdates as soon as it can, and they thought that was great. Why they had A/V on their servers (or were using windows servers) is another question...

That's crazy - a ban infringing our liberties and legal bean enthusiasts won't help.

The only way to stop a bad person with an assault bean is to have a good guy with an assault bean.

I said severe austerity - obviously they didn't full out because that would have destroyed their economy even more, but it's clear from the trend what would have happened.

That article seems to have forgotten Ireland which went through some severe austerity (hundreds of thousands left the country, most public sector took a 20% pay cut). While their government is slowly recovering now, I don't think you'll find many Irish happy with the situation.

Probably because that's a lot of work. It's much easier to just to see the result you're looking for and publish.

Lead pipes were used for hundreds of years, doesn't mean they're good for you. It's the same with organic food - they have to use more of the "natural" pesticides in place of the better working (and less toxic) artificial ones.

So basically the libertarian world: 1. Lax regulations giving corporations free rein to abuse consumers 2. Women get oppressed as they have for millennium 3. same 4. This message brought to you by the NRA? Isn't free education for everyone against the libertarian way?

Immediate life saving help costs a whole lot more than preventative health care. It's the unfunded emergency care that makes health care cost so much for the paying customers - they've got to recoup that money from somewhere. Seems a bit contradictory that eating a lot is a pre-existing condition, but smoking a lot is not.

I'm sure you're a healthy person that rejects health insurance, but some day you're going to be sick and want the help from insurance. Health insurance only works if you have it all the time, not just when you're sick. Pretty much everyone is going to need serious medical care at some point, so it's logical that they should get it now.

The socialist countries (even the ones with crippling austerity measures) survive with their health care and are MUCH healthier than Americans.

Do you really think the old system with tens of millions of people without access to health care was the BEST one? Been a bit short on other ideas...

There's always going to be the extreme libertarian view that Government should be abolished and everyone should fend for themselves, but countries with GOOD governments tend to be much better than countries with little or bad governments. Now I'm not saying the US has the best government, but it's not a bad one (despite some bad things it does) and it won't help to cut it down so it just functions less efficiently.

The mess of the health care act was because of the TeaParty/GOP/libertarians that are actually in favor of millions of people dying as a legitimate solution. It may sound crazy - because it is. Pretty much all other developed countries manage to provide health care to their citizens, but in the US we're worried about "death panels" killing off grandma and providing health care to women so we can't go there. ObamaCare was a first step - get everyone to have some sort of health care. A single payer would likely be more efficient than running through insurance companies, but that's too scary for some. We very much need more health care reform, but while some are offering solutions in reforms that will cover more people and bring down costs, others think the best solution is to drop tens of millions of people from the system and "scrap it". The system we had was fairly poor for those with money and horrible for those without - and costs were going up, yet people keep believing it's the American way that we should go back to. You can't make this stuff up, and you can't fix stupid.

This article immediately reminded me of the part of Snow Crash where the US Government monitors its employees reading the memos and disciplines them for taking too long or not long enough - and how the good employees will go back to reference earlier parts of the memo, etc.

Of course the employees were all basically gaming the system so they appeared to be doing it correctly.