People who make this argument miss the point. The massive costs are largely the result of NIMBYs and all the red tape and bureaucracy that forces constant changes and jumping through hoops to continue to comply and go online.

The irony is we operate old, less-safe nukes because it's easier in a regulatory fashion to keep them running, even though newer, modern designs would be safer and better for everyone because the plants can't be built.

So shut up about "long term" effects. There are none. Zero. Ever. For any vaccine ever created in the history of mankind.

It's ignorant and absolute statements like these that make people struggle to believe the assorted narratives we're constantly being asked to swallow. Zero ill effects or long term effects for any vaccine ever? That's a pretty big reach. Use terms like rare rather than never. Because if you study the history of vaccine/drug development, plenty of the drug companies' products have caused harm, especially early rounds of them. It's a matter of weighing the potential harms between the "cure" and the disease.

If he's got qualified immunity and a monopoly on state-sanctioned violence then he should be recorded any time he interacts with a non-cop while on duty. Janitors can't whip out a weapon and shoot you if they feel like it for any reason at all

FTFY

Fortunately most shareholders understand that running a business requires rather more than immediate profit maximisation.

I don't know what public corporate structure you're familiar with, but MBAs here in the US are taught it's morally imperative to do whatever it takes to increase share value. Shareholders understand "My stock value goes up" and "My stock value goes down." Most of them have zero interest in the company's long-term success as an investment because the stock market does not reward that sort of thinking.

It's funny how my cable Internet service went from $80 for ~10-15 megabit when it was a monopoly to $45 for 300 megabit within 2 weeks of AT&T laying fiber behind my house.

Though they still try to get me to rent a cable modem from them, because the 'substandard' modem I own wouldn't handle the speed, when it's rated for ~400 Mbps

I live in a state that passed Voter ID. Since the law passed, local Democratic Party workers no longer come to my house asking to speak to several other voters registered to my address who definitely don't live at my address. So yes, there is fraud, and yes voter ID has prevented fraud.

The state will issue an ID for free for the purposes of voting so there is no financial barrier to voting.

You say voter suppression, sensible people say fraud prevention.

It is significantly more a matter of convenience than baby size. The entire OB industry is based around convenience, painlessness and reducing the amount of time medical staff need to actually work on you. They want to clear the bed for the next patient as quickly as possible. Another significant part of the problem is medical care professionals (at least in the U.S.) treat childbirth like a pathology rather than a life event. Both the doctors and the patients treat this like something that should be scheduled, painless, and regimented when the process is unpredictable and defies easy scheduling.

My wife had both of our children at home under the care of a midwife. The birth was painful and messy, but our children are healthy. Contrary to what you see on medical shows, movies and TV, most of the events of birth take a significant amount of time... it's not 5 minutes between "my water broke" and "baby is born" unless you have to fit a birth inside a 22-minute show.

Cost-wise, the home birth cost much more out of pocket, but was actually significantly cheaper overall - somewhere between 15 and 30% of the cost of a hospital birth. Of course, these costs are hidden when you have insurance, but be assured that somebody pays that extra 70-85%.

Poor quality is still quality.

I don't think anything short of a Constitutional amendment is going to protect our property against unreasonable searches and seizures

Why would a new amendment make any more difference than the ones we already have?

Isn't the quote actually "Houston, we've had a problem?"

I know Tom Hanks said it the other way but c'mon submitter.

They are sociopaths and psychotics and we can only hope they die of old age before the country falls headlong into a French Revolution of purges, pogroms, and random bloodletting.

What makes you think their children will be any different? There has been a trend for the ruling class in the US to function equivalently to royalty (Bush I & II, Clintons, Kennedys). I don't see why the next generation of sociopaths will be any better than the current batch.

So now users can call tech support with their mouse plugged into their monitor and say that their "computer doesn't work".

Actually, let's just pause right there. If the monitor has the correct type of outlet for the mouse's plug, why shouldn't the user be able to plug the mouse into the monitor, and have it work fine? It just means that the monitor has to serve as a peripheral hub for the computer.

I don't understand the fixation on making a completely universal plug. It seems good in theory, but what does it actually get us beyond some cable interchanging possibilities and expensive upgrades?

The ability to plug in pretty much any device into your computer without needing to have a special adapter card for it. Do you really want to go back to the bad old days where adding an external peripheral to your computer meant adding a custom adapter card just for that one peripheral?

Here's the devices that I have that plug through USB. Can you imagine what nightmare this would be without an universal plug?

1. Mouse
2. DAC with headphone amplifier
3. iPod
4. Digital camera
5. GPS receiver
6. External HD

Why aren't we working on better wireless communication so that we don't need wires at all? I can't get my wireless mouse 2 feet away from the receiver, and I sure as hell don't want another cable cluttering things up.

Because we don't all really need wireless stuff.

Ugh, not me. I find movies like this and "Catch Me If You Can" like listening to fingernails on a blackboard. The "Lucy Show" was another. Lucy began every show with a lie and then spent the next twenty minutes trying to cover it up, the last two minutes getting caught.

1) look at some weird hobby project you did
2) describe it's functionality in the form of a contest description :)
3) send the contest description to NASA
4) apply your weird hobby project for the contest
5) profit! :D

The standard *nix command to tell your computer (and the rest of the world) that you are not longer you is kill. Your body could be more or less the same, but you are not there anymore. If you refuse to die, the superuser, superhero, or even the government could make sure that you are effectively dead.