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by vision
Sat Oct 26, 2013 7:44 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: [Split] On perceptions in Russia
Replies: 275
Views: 13925

Re: [Split] On perceptions in Russia

sigma wrote:Like any normal people, you do not want to hear and even see these abnormal people.
You misunderstand. I don't want to hear your bigotry. After reading about your nationalism I can't see how Russians are different than the Muslims you hate.
by vision
Sat Oct 26, 2013 3:48 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: [Split] On perceptions in Russia
Replies: 275
Views: 13925

Re: [Split] On perceptions in Russia

Top Gun wrote:...wow.
Double wow. You know, I used to think it was pretty cool the Internet let me easily converse with people all over the world. I think I would like to give that ability back.
by vision
Fri Oct 25, 2013 8:15 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: data.healthcare.gov
Replies: 71
Views: 2388

Re: data.healthcare.gov

not according to slick, he spouts off his information implying it to be fact Right, they are just projections. However, it's not like the plan was made willy-nilly. Some brilliant people have run the numbers and it looks like it has a fair shot at working. Remember, this is modeled after the succes...
by vision
Fri Oct 25, 2013 6:54 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: data.healthcare.gov
Replies: 71
Views: 2388

Re: data.healthcare.gov

Long list of things... The ACA isn't even fully implemented. It's going to take years before we see the actual results of the law. All this panic-mongering (slick's word) is premature. In fact, absolutely no one here including myself can make any factual statements about how successful or unsuccess...
by vision
Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:36 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Lightbeam
Replies: 7
Views: 434

Re: Lightbeam

tunnelcat wrote:I've got Ghostery on Firefox. It keeps a list of all the trackers I run into, which I block if I haven't already. There are hundreds in the list, and new ones show up everyday. It's scary. :shock:
Ghostery is funded by an ad agency. Use donttrack.us
by vision
Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:35 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: You get to keep your doctor
Replies: 89
Views: 3120

Re: You get to keep your doctor

Vision, the thing about Washington is they don't compromise in the sense that ordinary people would. Good point Krom. This also highlights the need for more moderates in the government. I think what vision just told us was…STFU and bend over…at least that’s the way I took it. More like, let's try t...
by vision
Fri Oct 25, 2013 1:43 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: data.healthcare.gov
Replies: 71
Views: 2388

Re: data.healthcare.gov

I didn't know my President was going to. And I had no idea the media was going to help him do it. I just don't understand all this anger toward the President and the media. Why isn't more of it directed toward the greed in the insurance and the medical industries? That's how we got here in the firs...
by vision
Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:09 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: You get to keep your doctor
Replies: 89
Views: 3120

Re: You get to keep your doctor

All these years people complain about the broken health care system in America and the second someone does something about it everyone cries. And you can't say we are going in the wrong direction. This is the only direction anyone could come up with because it rides the line between government care ...
by vision
Thu Oct 24, 2013 12:39 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: data.healthcare.gov
Replies: 71
Views: 2388

Re: data.healthcare.gov

what does creating an account have to do with actual purchase? That was a dumb thing to do, according to some geeks I know, because a lot of pathways changed. Agreed. It doesn't really matter is rate information is on data.heathcare.gov because the average user doesn't shop for insurance by digging...
by vision
Wed Oct 23, 2013 11:42 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: data.healthcare.gov
Replies: 71
Views: 2388

Re: data.healthcare.gov

As if you actually listened. You didn't because you want your fantasy to continue without being shattered. I listened to the first 10 minutes. I especially like when John Bachelor says "Now Francis and Jeff and I are all very careful reporters, we don't like asking questions that we don't know...
by vision
Wed Oct 23, 2013 10:24 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: data.healthcare.gov
Replies: 71
Views: 2388

Re: data.healthcare.gov

You are an idiot and that podcast is ridiculously juvenile.
by vision
Wed Oct 23, 2013 10:11 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: data.healthcare.gov
Replies: 71
Views: 2388

Re: data.healthcare.gov

I have to admit this is a really cool idea. I like how the API's are there to help developers integrate with the system. If someone told you this isn't supposed to be public you are an idiot for believing them. It's clearly designed for non-healthcare.gov agencies and developers. There is nothing us...
by vision
Wed Oct 23, 2013 7:53 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: hiring new employees
Replies: 83
Views: 5961

Re: hiring new employees

I did a lot of things, from scrap collection to dishwashing…all before I finished High School . I was kind of the same way. flipped burgers at 2 joint and delivered the newspaper @ 3am, 3 jobs all at the same time. graduated from High school , joined the military, 32 years later in management. Just...
by vision
Wed Oct 23, 2013 7:39 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: The New Civility
Replies: 12
Views: 650

Re: The New Civility

Thank you Spidey for doing woodchip's job. Perhaps if you followed more than the Dems protectionist news sources I wouldn't have to link every thing. Funny how Spidey can find it. And quite frankly I don't give a rats rear end if you think it nonsense because you are too intellectuality incurious an...
by vision
Wed Oct 23, 2013 4:34 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: The New Civility
Replies: 12
Views: 650

Re: The New Civility

I hope you're smarter than what you just said. It is propaganda by a leftist hater to get himself re-elected. Great. If it is propaganda, then it's despicable. But I am smarter than to just look at some random image on a webpage and draw conclusions from it without context. Apparently you are not. ...
by vision
Wed Oct 23, 2013 4:04 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: 640 Million
Replies: 311
Views: 13087

Re: 640 Million

If Obama really wanted ACA to work he would have put the NSA in charge... The job they have done instead, with three+ years to build the system and hundreds of millions of dollars, is remarkably terrible! The NSA is also terrible. They failed to stop the Boston bombings. Can't really compare the tw...
by vision
Wed Oct 23, 2013 12:57 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: The New Civility
Replies: 12
Views: 650

Re: The New Civility

I'm trying to figure out why people are commenting on this dubious picture. exacttarget.com is a marketing website. The entire thing could be clever image editing and pure propaganda.

Sources for evaluation please. Use your brains people.
by vision
Wed Oct 23, 2013 12:48 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Alternative sources of energy
Replies: 29
Views: 1112

Re: Alternative sources of energy

But seriously, what is all this BS about having to strip down naked and decide our place in creation apart from the reasoning, planning, and inventing faculties which we and no other living creatures on earth have been endowed with? Insanity. Human beings are not special and certainly not divine. O...
by vision
Wed Oct 23, 2013 12:32 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: hiring new employees
Replies: 83
Views: 5961

Re: hiring new employees

...go ahead and find me some credible data that says no, people are not getting married later, staying in school longer, and choosing careers later in life. Good luck with that. Oh wait, vision fails yet again. Median marriage age of males goes from 23 years old in 60's to 28 years in 2010. Funny h...
by vision
Tue Oct 22, 2013 9:39 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Alternative sources of energy
Replies: 29
Views: 1112

Re: Alternative sources of energy

Anyone who thinks alternative energy can't keep up is seriously underestimating the mind bogglingly enormous amount of energy from the sun that strikes the earth every day which we don't harvest or use in any manner. Agreed. With the exception of nuclear, alternative energies in their current form ...
by vision
Tue Oct 22, 2013 12:40 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: hiring new employees
Replies: 83
Views: 5961

Re: hiring new employees

And what data is that? Or are you just giving a lazy reply. You need to be spoon fed all your information or are you capable of looking things up on your own? Oh wait, your a Fox News viewer... This isn't a controversial topic, the trends are widely visible and accepted. Here, since you are being d...
by vision
Tue Oct 22, 2013 1:30 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: hiring new employees
Replies: 83
Views: 5961

Re: hiring new employees

What makes you think we were jumping into marriage back in the 50's and 60's. Were you there? I didn't have to be there, that data is readily available. Over the last half century people are staying in school longer and putting off marriage and families until later. It's not just the United States ...
by vision
Mon Oct 21, 2013 2:48 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: hiring new employees
Replies: 83
Views: 5961

Re: hiring new employees

I was pointing at a job starts at 15 dollars... Oh right, that might have more to do with the fact most people don't settle into careers until much later these days, along with not starting families until later, and buying houses until later, and so on. Could be part of a cultural reaction to a num...
by vision
Mon Oct 21, 2013 11:47 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: hiring new employees
Replies: 83
Views: 5961

Re: hiring new employees

It's a good job not hard at all but it seems the younger ones want something more than 15 dollars an hour to start. There is still this sad idea in America that kids are adults when they reach 18 and expected to support themselves like their parents did at their age. But this is a different world. ...
by vision
Fri Oct 18, 2013 11:49 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: So, let's summarize, shall we??
Replies: 44
Views: 1307

Re: So, let's summarize, shall we??

I am not envisioning Texas becoming 'liberal', nor anything resembling California. I am. And sooner than you would think. Texas and California have a lot more in common than most realize. But the main reason Texas is turning blue is because it has a couple major cities just like California. Why thi...
by vision
Thu Oct 17, 2013 6:39 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Surprise Surprsie
Replies: 24
Views: 837

Re: Surprise Surprsie

...aaaaand this thread proves I am right. A bunch of people arguing about a study no one actually read because none of the methods or data are available . And naturally, we have the one guy who never took a statistics class and doesn't know why self-reported tea party members can appear to have high...
by vision
Thu Oct 17, 2013 4:44 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Surprise Surprsie
Replies: 24
Views: 837

Re: Surprise Surprsie

Yes vision, it is a trick story and I tried to fool you. So because it is not peered reviewed and gets reported on makes it a worthless study. Remember that the next time you quote some source about global warming. Oh and I don't see anything peer reviewed for your "final analysis" You di...
by vision
Thu Oct 17, 2013 3:37 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Surprise Surprsie
Replies: 24
Views: 837

Re: Surprise Surprsie

What a messy article. I had to go to the original blog to understand what they were talking about, but even that says very little. There is no paper to review, no methods, no data. We have an author who links to several other sites in his post, none of which add anything of meaning to his story. Als...
by vision
Thu Oct 17, 2013 2:47 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: hiring new employees
Replies: 83
Views: 5961

Re: hiring new employees

If anybody thinks they have a right to be so cynical these days because their parents and other older people are asshats, then they need a large dose of reality…the older people before me were starting world wars, and the older people before them were burning people at the stake. etc Selfish punks ...
by vision
Mon Oct 14, 2013 8:11 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: How to render one's party obsolete:
Replies: 158
Views: 6042

Re: How to render one's party obsolete:

The post was directed at vision... The national debt has always been a problem. Yes, it is extremely high. Yes, everyone sane is concerned about it. I am concerned about it. I'm a conservative (even though insane right-wingers here will call me otherwise). But we are in this position for a couple o...
by vision
Mon Oct 14, 2013 5:05 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: How to render one's party obsolete:
Replies: 158
Views: 6042

Re: How to render one's party obsolete:

Same scare tactics about sequester and not passing a budget. Yawn. This is actually a much bigger deal than many are admitting. The world economy is still shaky years after our recession rippled across the world. And now after the NSA revelation, the mistrust of the United States has never been hig...
by vision
Mon Oct 14, 2013 4:21 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: 640 Million
Replies: 311
Views: 13087

Re: 640 Million

So you see any agreement between the parties? I said sufficient level of agreement. Unfortunately, one republican voting for is sufficient in our current legislative process. Your concealed weapon analogy is so stupid it doesn't merit any attention other than pointing out how stupid it is. Yeah, yo...
by vision
Mon Oct 14, 2013 4:08 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Anti-depression via deep brain stimulation
Replies: 16
Views: 1544

Re: Anti-depression via deep brain stimulation

Still this isn't a cure, it's a symptom arrester. True, there currently is no cure for depression and that is unfortunate. However, anything that has close to permanent effects is in practice a cure even if the underlying cause has not been remedied. It's the same for other diseases that, let's say...
by vision
Sun Oct 13, 2013 7:05 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: How to render one's party obsolete:
Replies: 158
Views: 6042

Re: How to render one's party obsolete:

Anecdote: A friend of mine does mostly work for the government. We was in the middle of a job when they shut down the base he was at. By doing this, it effectively doubled the money he was going to make and the government would have to shell out to complete the work. However, he has no idea when the...
by vision
Sun Oct 13, 2013 1:35 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: 640 Million
Replies: 311
Views: 13087

Re: 640 Million

Speaking of voting, the ACA was voted into law fair and square. It also survived and insane amount of attempts to repeal it. Just accept this is the way things are -- for now. Fair and square? No debate and the Democrats controlled everything. I wonder how you would react if the Tea Party was in to...
by vision
Sun Oct 13, 2013 1:58 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: 640 Million
Replies: 311
Views: 13087

Re: 640 Million

News Flash, Will: No one likes taxes. No one approves of everything their taxes pay for. Unfortunately for you, you live in a democracy and sometimes you are not going to like the arrangement. Personally, I don't like my taxes going toward war. I don't like government funding and tax-breaks for reli...
by vision
Sat Oct 12, 2013 3:47 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: 640 Million
Replies: 311
Views: 13087

Re: 640 Million

ITT: Single minded people who know nothing about software or the Internet.
by vision
Sat Oct 12, 2013 12:32 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Anti-depression via deep brain stimulation
Replies: 16
Views: 1544

Re: Anti-depression via deep brain stimulation

...triggering the brain's pleasure mechanisms is no way to becoming stronger... Ok I thought maybe you had a basic understanding of what depression is but I guess not. Depression is when the brain's pain center is overactive or their pleasure center is under-active (I know describing them as pleasu...
by vision
Fri Oct 11, 2013 2:29 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: 640 Million
Replies: 311
Views: 13087

Re: 640 Million

But considering correct number is still 200+% above the given cost I'm not feeling like I was wrong about saying the price is way too much for a site that isn't working...Government always spends way more than it should. Again, the site works . The bugs are to be expected given the size and scope o...