The non-Fox-News viewpoints of CNN seem to me to be worth preserving. And it's doubtful they would be if Paramount takes over Warner's portfolio, which includes CNN.

Look at what happened to CBS, in particular 60 Minutes, when the Ellisons' Skydance Media took over. One of the most venerable investigative-journalism shows in history has been run into the gutter.

Yeah..sad to see a lesbian liberal take two networks of "news" and try to make them more center based and less left leaning and try to report all news fairly....how dare they.

Windows search used to be kind of OK. Never as good as Everything, but Everything didn't exist for most of history. But they really fucked it up somewhere along the line, which I didn't notice because I was using Everything, and now it's very challenging to construct a complex search without learning a whole new language of keywords.

If they keep the facilities small enough then you might be right, but then they miss out on economies of scale. They will still need some nurses in order to put up the semblance of providing health care in the process, not in the facilities perhaps, but around them.

Well, we didn't have childcare provisions or maternity leave laws forty years ago when things were booming, so those aren't likely to have any causal bearing. It's also the same healthcare system; the difference is that there have been 30 years of legislative attempts to make it "more affordable". Interestingly, the only sector of the economy where costs have increased at a similar rate to healthcare is higher education, which has seen over forty years of "affordability" action. And please note the distinction between legal and illegal immigration.

Wish I had mod points....spot on everything.

The top shareholders and the executives are. Hence Luigi.

The insurers are motivated to drive health care costs up by the so-called affordable care act, which caps their profits at a percentage of those costs. Since they're not the ones paying the bills, the insured are (and via APTC, the government is, which means the taxpayers are) they want those costs to go up because they get to collect more profit. You need to not ignore reality if you want it to make sense.

Every nation does this, they mock the failures of their adversaries. We do it constantly relating to China and Russia. So what?

Cool to see you admit to crime in public

The major advantage is being able to use an engine that's worthless for acceleration, e.g. Atkinson cycle. All ICEs are most efficient at a specific point on the torque/RPM chart so that's not the differentiator.

Regen braking is the biggest benefit in the city. It's essentially irrelevant everywhere else, but whether it matters most or not depends on where you're driving.

Nothing could be more compatible with American crony capitalism than just continually building retirement homes in SD and sending poor old people there to die. But they will need to find some way to give out some nursing degrees.

True, because they will never have any self-awareness in SD or any other flyover state. They will cry and complain about how they can't attract these professionals but they won't make any changes to the shitty society that drove those people away in the first place.

There are people who would prefer the weather there, but still won't move there because they don't want to deal with the provincial hicks in sticks bullshit. THAT is the non-starter, which as you said, is not going to change.

Wow, only $551/mo? I see silver premiums as high as $900 being paid for by APTC. It's a good thing we did obamacare instead of Medicare for all! Otherwise, how would those poor insurance company shareholders become richer?

What? Yes, of course they will.

You mean by raising salaries? Muppet.

Mouse buttons and config dialogs are both confusing to you but I'm getting worse?