Not sure if you are agreeing or disagreeing with me, my main issue is copy-paste from Google results, that now get mangled with their URL rewriting for SEO count.
Some entity (or service) has to provide your internet access. So perhaps you are always going to need an ISP to some extent. Or you are thinking mesh? Maybe in the future ISPs will compete on privacy issues and concerns in addition to how they compete now: bandwidth and cost. Maybe we'll have municipal WiFi, maybe we'll have mesh. We should work towards a mix of mesh and muni as well as a more privacy-focused ISP model. One can dream :)
In simple terms, yes. Or if she
is really sick, just show up at the
emergency room of any Hill-Burton
hospital. The US healthcare
system is a patchwork with problems,
but broadly for people with
serious, e.g., life threatening,
medical problems, we don't turn
them away -- first cut, broadly,
with holes in the cloth.
But in the case in the Obama
town hall, supposedly the woman
could pay a reasonable amount
for health insurance. In that case,
just move to a community rated
state, wait whatever waiting period
if any, get medical insurance
at the same rate as everyone else
in that 'community rated' state,
and be fine.
Could argue that in part Obamacare is a
path to 'community rating' for
all the states. But some of the
states don't want community rating --
as far as I can tell, really only
the richest states want that.
My view, in brief, is that Obamacare
was not about healthcare. Instead,
Obama wanted to play politics and, generally,
just wanted a bigger Federal Government
to have still more ability to play politics.
Nancy wanted a big case of 'socialism' --
Nancy just dreams of socialism,
in particular
of Big Daddy Big Federal Government taking
care of everyone and making everything
'all right',
especially for
insecure, single women with
small children. Really Nancy
wants to use the Federal Government
to establish a lot of
'social and cultural values'
that would conflict with
'limited government'. Nancy
wants a big, security blanket,
socialistic
government providing a
basic level of material
support and quality of life
for everyone.
I could agree with Nancy except
I fear that her hands on the
economy would make the economy
so sick it couldn't provide
what she wants, that is,
she will choke the goose
that lays the golden eggs.
If Nancy could actually do a good
job, then we have something
to discuss; I just fear that
Nancy will make a mess,
a disaster. To me it's first
mostly a matter of simple
competence at execution
and not 'political principles'
or 'social philosophy'.
I just think her boat
will leak and not float.
And, yes, even if in simple
terms the execution is good,
there will be the issue of
motivation -- if the 'floor'
provided by the Federal Government
is high enough, then a lot of
people will try less hard
and the goose will lay fewer
golden eggs.
It is fair to assume that every transactions are logged (specially that one), but I get from 1% to 3% off all my purchases with visa, so I keep using it for now...
