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Comment The education part sounds great... (Score 2, Insightful) 56

But why should you do evil and work for the criminals in the financial sector? Have you no sense of ethics ?

Just because an inner city kid is poor and needs a free education doesn't mean he should do the dirty work.

JPMorgan owes a lot more than 13 billion and a free tech farm for grooming new corporate fall guys.

Why should crime pay when its too big to fail, with labor that is too small to pay, except for the dirty work.

I'm glad for the free school but I can't help but be cynical about Wall Street.

Comment They don't want to void the warranty..... (Score 1) 99

If there is ever any concern about how medicine is administered, just ask their lawyers. They will call the insurance company who will prepare the Hospital Administrator to testify on behalf of a robot, prior to the deposition. This might be why that new medical procedure is so expensive, even though robots don't need malpractice insurance or an early tee time. Maybe we can eventually eliminate all medical personnel and just give all of our health care dollars directly to insurance company shareholders and collection agencies, and just drop dead. We're already halfway there.

Perhaps we could afford our medicine if we just paid for medicine without the added cost of the insurance and finance and legal lobby that have infiltrated our every transactional need. The have systematically insinuated themselves throughout every capital venture in medicine from the student loan for med school to the GE MRI finance package, and everything in between. This is why they will do anything to stop a single payer health care system.

How much longer will it be before we do the math and stop listening to politicians who only serve the lobby? Stop voting for them! All of them. Insist on paying all your medical costs directly for medical treatment. Get the insurance company shareholder profit out of the middle of your medical costs. Each dollar you spend for your good health and well being should go exclusively to the medical practitioners.

Nobody needs insurance - what we need is medical treatment.

We should devote the funds we pay and pay and pay to remain available to those costs alone.

Sorry BlueCross brown nose, but you'll have to get a job at McDonald's.

Comment Re:I wish I could say this stage was unnecessary (Score 2, Interesting) 99

Though not all would-be 'medical advances' end so salubriously, the sad fact is, we don't know any better way --

Whats the copay and deductible on a "salubrious" medical advance?

Sign me up for some of that, Webster!

I love the bonus vocabulary that comes with well educated scholars. Its nice to get a $10 word to go with that $20 aspirin.

Comment Re:Technology can't cure human nature (Score 1) 256

Then I think we agree.

Its like the serpent eating its tail: "Don't tread on me" creates a fortress out of its physical configuration.

Its the territory of circular logic; like moats, vaults, gun barrels, and even coin. Its an attempt to take a stand.

Its becomes anarchy when you lose control of what you say is yours. Its all a sense of entitlement no matter how you slice it. It works if there is mutual consent to honor the rules. And like I said before, technology can't fix human nature, yet. When people get a hold of technological power they will continue to fail to control themselves as inevitably as they fail to control others.

Comment Technology can't cure human nature (Score 2) 256

Gold, salt, silver, greenbacks, plastic, bitcoin. Take your pick, None of it cures society of thieves, bank robbers, or scoundrels. And anyone who guarantees your money is secure is probably complicit in its theft. There will always be ways to steal your coin. Bitcoin just limits who might steal it.

Comment Re:I agree... (Score 1) 279

but it's so damned tough that the people who excel at it will be good at almost anything.

I knew a waitress at Denny's that had a PhD in pH (Organic Chem) from Oxford University. She also really loved horses.

Only Denny's needed an equestrian chemist on graveyard shift.

She was our favorite waitress among the teenagers, way back then. So I concur with your assessment.

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