Comment Re:Functional unemployment is 20% (Score 1) 181
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
Now, you may like socialism
Comment But, but ... (Score -1, Offtopic) 132
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)
Comment Re:Now now guys ... (Score 1) 22
From the summary, "Five people in the US were convicted and received jail terms or probation.", so sounds like some westerners are involved as well.
Possibly, though their names, citizenship status, etc. would be helpful to know that.
Comment Re:What is a "harmful response?" (Score 1) 59
Then you do it.
I think we've identified the harmful bit right there.
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.
Comment Now now guys ... (Score 1, Funny) 22
.... don't impose your western values on the eastern folk of this 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.
Comment Re:"Disarm" is doing some heavy lifting here... (Score 0) 31
One of the things that made Germany just suddenly pop off like that is they stole billions of dollars in property from the Jewish people.
Um
Comment Then I guess ... (Score 1) 163
Or we can just emote some more.