A quotation for CSS
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LunaticFringe wrote:
Rutan played it pretty close to the vest up till the first public flights
Rutan[^] Been around for years!
------------------------------------ In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. Stephen J Gould
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Meh. Pretty ridiculous straw man. I'm all for a complete overhaul of the medical system, but I'm not at ALL convinced by silliness like this -
Ian Shlasko wrote:
I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Right. Thank the FSM that the government takes such pains to ensure the safety of the food supply. If it wasn't for them, there'd be scandals from rotting peanuts, contaminated beef, salmonella-laden chicken, red tide fouled shellfish.... nope, don't see any of that, thanks to the brilliance of the FDA. Or improperly approved drugs, forced through the process by pharmceutical companies and their lobbyists. Or faulty medical devices, inadequately tested and with virtually no meaningful government review... And it would be just as easy to find fault with the DOT - maintained roads (bridges falling in Minnesota, some ridiculous percentage of which, nationwide, are in danger of failure...) or any other of these shining examples cited in the screed. Nope, this is no less simplistic and silly than CSS's positions. Kool-aid for the fan base, but hardly a convincing argument.
I took this to be a case of exageration in the opposite direction pointing out all the ways in which government agencies positively influence your day to day life. Of course, it stretches the point to make it as much as it can.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I took this to be a case of exageration in the opposite direction pointing out all the ways in which government agencies positively influence your day to day life. Of course, it stretches the point to make it as much as it can.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
I think the point of it is like this little movie quote from Life of Brian: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhatHaveTheRomansEverDoneForUs[^] Basically, poking fun at the people who claim that government is 100% ineffective, while ignoring all of the ways in which it improves their life. It's all in good fun, though.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Developer, Author (Guardians of Xen)
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I took this to be a case of exageration in the opposite direction pointing out all the ways in which government agencies positively influence your day to day life. Of course, it stretches the point to make it as much as it can.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Very much exaggeration for effect. It took me a while to remember why it seemed familiar; a version of the original here was passed around for trolling several years ago. It took me a while to remember what to use as keywords, but I was able to find a the republican countertrolling version from the time. Technically I suppose I probably should update/redeact it to reflect shouting points that have changed in the last 4 years, but I'm not interested enough in political arguments to bother. :rolleyes: Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffee pot with water to prepare his morning coffee. Joe can afford the coffee because corporate loving rich Republicans exported our jobs overseas with NAFTA and CAFTA. With his first swallow of coffee, he takes his daily medication. His medications work because money-grubbing Republicans refuse to place price controls on drugs, thereby allowing pharmaceutical companies to earn enough money to pay for the extensive R&D and take the risks necessary to create miracle drugs. But the drugs still cost too much because government mandated health insurance has artificially increased the demand for medications with no one to police the prices, but that’s OK since Joe’s Bush-supporting bossman pays all but $10 of Joe's medications. In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient, none of which are damaging to his skin because some animal-hating sadistic corporations paid some scientists to swab the shampoo in some poor rabbit’s eyes. Just for kicks. Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some dollar-worshipping conservative developers built some nice houses with pretty yards 15 miles from the industrial sector of the city, and Joe drives his comfortable and affordable “Japanese” car made in Georgia without the inflated cost of union labor, and Joe can stop on his way home to pick up a package of reasonably priced T-shirts at the evil Wal-Mart, instead of having to park his car and take a filthy subway to pay twice as much downtown. Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because his parents instilled in him the value of hard work so he studied when he was in school and learned that he could get by just fine without relying on the government. Joe's employer pays these benefits because Joe's employer doesn't Joe’s a valuable employee and Joe’s employer doesn’t want him to go work for his
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Very much exaggeration for effect. It took me a while to remember why it seemed familiar; a version of the original here was passed around for trolling several years ago. It took me a while to remember what to use as keywords, but I was able to find a the republican countertrolling version from the time. Technically I suppose I probably should update/redeact it to reflect shouting points that have changed in the last 4 years, but I'm not interested enough in political arguments to bother. :rolleyes: Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffee pot with water to prepare his morning coffee. Joe can afford the coffee because corporate loving rich Republicans exported our jobs overseas with NAFTA and CAFTA. With his first swallow of coffee, he takes his daily medication. His medications work because money-grubbing Republicans refuse to place price controls on drugs, thereby allowing pharmaceutical companies to earn enough money to pay for the extensive R&D and take the risks necessary to create miracle drugs. But the drugs still cost too much because government mandated health insurance has artificially increased the demand for medications with no one to police the prices, but that’s OK since Joe’s Bush-supporting bossman pays all but $10 of Joe's medications. In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient, none of which are damaging to his skin because some animal-hating sadistic corporations paid some scientists to swab the shampoo in some poor rabbit’s eyes. Just for kicks. Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some dollar-worshipping conservative developers built some nice houses with pretty yards 15 miles from the industrial sector of the city, and Joe drives his comfortable and affordable “Japanese” car made in Georgia without the inflated cost of union labor, and Joe can stop on his way home to pick up a package of reasonably priced T-shirts at the evil Wal-Mart, instead of having to park his car and take a filthy subway to pay twice as much downtown. Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because his parents instilled in him the value of hard work so he studied when he was in school and learned that he could get by just fine without relying on the government. Joe's employer pays these benefits because Joe's employer doesn't Joe’s a valuable employee and Joe’s employer doesn’t want him to go work for his
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I think the point of it is like this little movie quote from Life of Brian: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhatHaveTheRomansEverDoneForUs[^] Basically, poking fun at the people who claim that government is 100% ineffective, while ignoring all of the ways in which it improves their life. It's all in good fun, though.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Developer, Author (Guardians of Xen)