it's the only way they bother. Either the gov't pays for it and gives it away free for a private company to monetize, or the gov't requires the private company to pay for it in exchange for the revenue. Either way it pretty much boils down to the gov't paying for it.

I'm not complaining. I'm in favor of infrastructure investment. Just don't expect them to bother if it's their money on the line and they're not promised a tonne of long term profits (and a bail out if those profits never materialize). The kinda ppl that run cable companies are rich, and they didn't get rich taking risks.

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You can be selective with who you work with, but don't burn bridges. If the interviewer is not capable of accessing the position or your capabilities, then the politely and assertively ask to speaking with someone who can.

if a country is nuts enough to consent to organ sales for cash then I don't think it'll be hard to make the regulations as loose as they need to be....

Unless you're very, very wealthy. Our last president (Bush jr) signed a law into effect that makes it impossible to discharge debt under $100,000. If you stop paying you're credit cards they just sell all the debt to one company and sue you. When the banks got all that bail out money and no regulation they took that chance to buy up hundreds of smaller cards and debt. Used to be you'd have $10k in debt with 5 companies, and the $2k wasn't enough to sue over. Now there's only a few big players in the industry and they swap debt until they have enough to sue over.

In the South they've got debter's prisons back. The way it works is they company sues, the judge orders $X amount of money to be paid per month, and if you don't pay... well you just violated a judges order. He holds you in contempt of court until you pay, and you stay in jail until your family comes up with the money. Good times...

when my mother passed I was pretty broke. The mortuary offered to buy her remains from me (I said no).

and you'll find plenty of ex-patriot doctors from China talking about prisoners killed for their organs...

With all the outsourcing and all our manufacturing jobs (that aren't done by robots) pretty much gone I see more and more adults in Fast Food. That means less of these jobs for teenagers. Plus American Kids get a _lot_ more homework now. They have to keep up with the standardized testing, and companies don't like training workers so they demanded the schools do _something_ so they don't have to, and the schools responded with a tonne of homework.

It boils down to an eroding middle class due to massive wealth inequality, but we're not allowed to talk about that (the same folks who benefit the most also own the media outlets). It's fun to watch these pundits that aren't allowed to talk about what's really happening (or who've got the blinders on too tightly to see) try to come with reasons for it.

to my Firefox extension and they were all kinda shady. Extension development is kinda niche to begin with, so I figured they were planning something like this. I'm just surprised it took so long for people to notice.

I don't see it as a huge problem though. Most extension developers are like me, hobbiests and enthusiasts. There's really only a few big ones (like Adblock Plus and Firebug) and those are big enough they're not a target for these sorts of things.

They're literally doing God's work.

The problem with religion, nay the world, is thinking one's own will is the will of God's.

This is an interesting conclusion. Could you point to examples that let you reach such a generalization?

In the U.S., there were a lot of intellectual movements in the mid-1800s to early 1900s. This was when the common man actually read literature for insight, entertainment, and enrichment, and then discussed what they read with their fellowman.