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Comment Re:Functional unemployment is 20% (Score 1) 169

President Harry S. Truman proposed universal health insurance in 1945, where workers would pay a fee or tax and the government would then pay the doctor or hospital of the patient's choice

The AMA claimed this was "socialism" because the federal government controlled the money.

Um ... that kind of program literally is socialism.

Now, you may like socialism ... or this particular kind of socialist program ... but that doesn't magically make it not be socialism.

Comment Re: U.S. Users? (Score 1) 29

I don't think this is trying to get back into the US market. OnePlus is banned because it's part of a Chinese corporation. OPPO is... that corporation. It's not going to confuse any regulator who found something to complain about with OnePlus. This is more likely a mundane tactic of being liked in Europe for phones and wanting to expand that reputation to the parts of the organization that sell other consumer electronics.

Comment Re:The Great Equalization has begun. (Score 1) 84

This... is going to be interesting.

Especially interesting for these who don't understand and appreciate what they still (somewhat) have.

Y'all may think that you like communism, or (other peoples' exotic) eastern theocracy, but if they get the upper hand, you will find out much too late that you do not really like them at all ...

Comment Looking for silver lining here (Score 3, Funny) 94

Charles Poon, Ford's vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, added, "Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product."

(Looks for silver lining) ... er, well, refreshingly honest, I guess?

Comment Re:Is this (corporate) exceptionalism, USA? (Score 0) 22

TL;DR: US company that screws-over its suppliers and its employees also suffers employees that help suppliers screw-over other suppliers.

Er, actually it sounds like values from other, non-US cultures operating in parts of a worldwide company.

The ring allegedly extracted about $100 million in unfair advantages by bribing Amazon employees in Asia to help them sell more products and sabotage their competitors.

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