That does not work. Simply because income is a relative function where only the difference of income between people is of importance. If you give 500$/month to everyone, then, sooner than expected, you'll have to spend 500$ more per month for sustaining your living. In France, when they started giving some money to pay the rent for the poor (they called this "APL") then slowly, the rent raised to the same amount of the given money. The "poor" who was before paying 100$ for his place now has to pay 150$ but they get 50$ from the state (and this cost 65$ for the French people to collect).

Economy works like any other thermodynamic stuff, you can generate work when there is a difference in some variable between agents. If you raise the temperature for your complete system, then there's no additional work that can be extracted.

The only way to solve these would be have a deflating currency so you can't collect it and store it endlessly without loosing almost all its value. That would slowly equilibrate the difference between the rich and poor, since the rich's money stock (their treasure) is loosing value and they can't renew is faster than what it loose. The poor still live on the edge, and because they spend almost all they earn, there would be no impact for them.

The first link in the chain of event is using that plane. The second link is trusting that plane. The last link is expecting such mass of metal to fly. The final link is not willing to admit that, in order to save cost, (good) software review was skipped. I really hope the people will force Dennis Muilenburg to fly such plane (without the "software improvment") for the rest of his life (and ideally, all the people who were implied by such a decision).

Yes.

You want to disable Javascript with no extension? It's easy, start the developer's console, click settings, click disable Javascript.
Now, you won't have javascript enabled. Sure, it's MUCH easier with an extension, since it's one click only. Don't blame the developer for some dream/need (only) you want. The feature is present, so don't be lazy and instead of ranting, use it.

IMHO, most user wants javascript. So any sane developer will try to satisfy the majority of his users.

Bah. That's simple. Set up a dictionary of price per act (you'll need to ask all doctors to agree on the expected average price first, and if they don't, use the currently observed average in the country minus 20%, to give an incentive to agree on something initially). Then compute the total sum of medial act that's done in the country for the past 5 years, and compute an average yearly amount, that what you need your people to pay for.

How you get the people to pay for it is politics, it's not math.

Write in the law that doctor should publish the price of their acts.

Then, tell the people that that act will be refund for the amount written in the dictionary minus 5% (for administrative cost and to prevent people going to see multiple doctor for the same illness). Doctor that want more than the agreed price will get less people because the refund is only up to the agreed amount and not more.

Review the dictionary of price & taxes every year. That way, politician will have a power on the outrageous medical prices in US, and you will have a power on the politicians.

The "insurance" should be the government. There is no monopoly whatsoever. When you save some ill guy, he might as well saves you when you'll be ill in turn.

Or, like it should happen, have a money that's devaluative based on People choice. Instead of taxes that, in all cases, the corporations will succeed in avoiding, make the money deflates.
You win 100f$ this year, it'll value 95f$ next year. The missing 5f$ is captured to pay for People's services (like road, health, education, defense, law, etc...).
Since the corporation can't avoid using the money, there's no way to escape the scheme. They win 100f$, even if they convert to 100€ in a Irish bank, the instant they want to use it on US ground, it'll aligned to the new value (so 95f$ a year later).

That way, there is no possible escape. The depreciation rate could also be based on the amount (that is a small fee per f$ per transaction that cumulate exponentially when combined).

It's not a matter of quantity, it's a matter of quality. It's amazing that with only a 1/10th of the budget per year per student, European countries succeed with better education for their people.
Honestly, when we are getting a résumé from a US college, we double test the candidate.

US sell weapons to the world, it covers 30% of the market.
Russia came second, with 25%
Then you have Europe with 20% (6% for France, 5% for Germany and 5% for England, 4% for the other countries).
China has 9%.

What do you think would happen if there was a war ?

If you talk about the size of the army, US is peanuts compared to China (twice the size).
In a major conflict, China will likely ally will Russia, Korea, leading to a 4x larger army with a lot larger weapon industry (at least 35% of the world production).

In this case, do you think US alone with all it's proudness will be powerful enough to resist ?
Do you really really believe in the lies of your arrogant president to protect you without Europe ?

The only counter power is the western world, that is: US + Europe. That was the deal of NATO and honestly, it's more than ever required.

The price US pays for defense is mainly because a screw on a tank cost 100$ when sold to US army. You are targeting the wrong enemy if you think NATO is where you should save.

So, what you are talking about is ... taxes ?
That's how it's done almost everywhere, except in "great america", again.
Health should be maintained by people, not for-profit individuals/companies. Even if it needs company, let them get money by bidding on part of the process.
Who's going to get the ambulance business monopoly for New York for the next 2 years ? Taking bids, and selecting the best offer.
Who's going to get the monopoly of AIDS cure/treatment manufacturing based on publicly financed researches ? Taking bids again, and selecting the best offer.

You're a company that has developed a new cure ? Great, you'll be able to bid on the next round. But as soon as some one else is getting better price than you, you're done unless you continue innovating.

That's the only way you can get a competitive market, that can be healthy for all of you.
Unfortunately, that means having less immediately (based on taxes, it's always much easier to collect when you work than when you're ill), but for a better luck of surviving longer.

http://weboob.org/modules 80% of the modules' icons you'll find on your desktop after installation have sexual connotations. It should not be removed, but at least it should be flagged NSFW.

Exactly! Just have a look to the their website ( http://weboob.org/applications... ) and look at the icons. It's not something you might want on your work's desktop. Anyway, I angry that removing the package is dumb, it should be simply flagged NSFW and that's it.