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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#177876: Mar 13th 2017 at 12:23:40 PM

"LGBT rights and the world" exists. But oy.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#177877: Mar 13th 2017 at 12:33:10 PM

[up][up]Honestly, after this atrocity, I completely understand if anyone who isn't an American (and anyone who is,) hates our guts, if they haven't already. We aren't doing any favors in winning worldwide brownie points, are we?

edited 13th Mar '17 12:33:42 PM by kkhohoho

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#177878: Mar 13th 2017 at 12:44:48 PM

Politico: Trump doesn't want the Obama care repeal and Replace to happen because he wants Obama care to implode before doing so.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#177879: Mar 13th 2017 at 1:15:14 PM

[up] y'know, of there's a real chance of that happening (or the GOP having a way to help it along) that would probably actually be the smarter move on their side. It would reduce the Democratic ability to fight back against a repealing then.

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#177880: Mar 13th 2017 at 1:23:11 PM

That seems really slimy, though, but that's clearly none of their concern.

Won't at least 10 million people still suffer from losing their coverage?

@177841: What a horrible story. At least he managed to escape with his life.

edited 13th Mar '17 1:27:14 PM by BearyScary

Do not obey in advance.
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#177881: Mar 13th 2017 at 1:23:30 PM

On the other hand, leaving it for a year leaves it there for people to uptalk for that year, as well as for more people to take advantage of the law and their insurance, which might well just entrench it more.

People tend to get defensive of a thing that they've learned personally helps them. It's part of why Medicare has been so dangerous to touch until now.

[up]You might want to edit that sentence so it makes sense, because "so my" is not a phrase that means anything.

edited 13th Mar '17 1:24:11 PM by AceofSpades

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#177882: Mar 13th 2017 at 1:45:27 PM

Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, promised this sunday "surprises" in his relationship with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, hinting at an agreement to import american food to his country.

"The revolutionary goverment is importing products from many brother countries: Trinidad y Tobago, Panamá, Colombia, México, Nicaragua (...) even the United States. Comrade Trump is offering me food at good prices ", said Maduro in his weekly tv show.

[lol]

This name needs to stick.

I'm putting money down on the food that Maduro was promised is Trump Steaks.

http://m.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/maduro-amenaza-expropiar-panaderias-por-guerra-del-pan-66792

edited 13th Mar '17 1:46:36 PM by MadSkillz

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#177883: Mar 13th 2017 at 1:50:19 PM

Te juro que no me sorprendería un carajo si Maduro y Trump se mandan un Molotov-Ribbentrop.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#177884: Mar 13th 2017 at 1:52:13 PM

[up] Did you just go into Ricky Ricardo Angrish?

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#177885: Mar 13th 2017 at 1:56:06 PM

No, as Mad Skillz posted an article in Spanish, I answered in Spanish. If anyone wants a translation, here:

I swear it wouldn't surprise me at all if Maduro and Trump pull a Molotov-Ribbentrop.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#177886: Mar 13th 2017 at 2:32:03 PM

[lol]

Despite my very limited Spanish, I'm guessing that's the polite version of what was said.

| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#177887: Mar 13th 2017 at 2:32:17 PM

About Sanders and the Zika Virus. This is from someone who is living in a country suffering for a Zika epidemic:

Oh fuck you Sanders. Just fuck you.

He is the kind of asshole who'd rather have everyone die of a fucking disease or starve to death because the Big Whatever or the US Government is going to get involved, for the sake of ideological purity. Without this kind of funding and the involvement of those large Pharmaceutical corporations those vaccines and medicine won't be made fast enough at enough quantities and at this rate I couldn't give a flying fuck if someone is getting a profit out of it.

I've seen the same kind of assholes speak up against the biggie mean US during the Haiti earthquake when someone started bashing the US relief efforts because the airports had to give preference to the USAF and US Army cargo aircraft while conveniently ignoring the US Military has the most efficient logistical arms and the training to do if effectively.

[up]No, it is a quite literal translation.

edited 13th Mar '17 2:36:16 PM by AngelusNox

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TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#177888: Mar 13th 2017 at 2:40:08 PM

My bad then. I thought IF found time to call Maduro a fucker or something to that effect.

| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#177889: Mar 13th 2017 at 3:27:11 PM

Well, there's something translatable to "a damn/a fuck", but english syntax makes in untranslatable since it refers to my surprise and AFAIK "I wouldn't be surprised a fuck if [x]" is not grammatically correct in English. If I had cursed one of them out I would have translated the insult.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#177890: Mar 13th 2017 at 3:51:10 PM

@Angelus: I'm going to give Sanders the benefit of the doubt. I think his worry is that the results of the research will end up getting Shkreli'd out of the affordability range. He wants to make sure that a cure can be sold at an affordable price after it's made.

Sanders has a problem with communicating coherent ideas incoherently, and this is an example of that.

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#177891: Mar 13th 2017 at 3:53:12 PM

Wanderer: a este punto me imagino que chavez tomo posesion del cuerpo de trump para joder a los US en una ultima jugada de triunfo.

I mean really, I feel trump is the right wing counterpart of maduro, the more I hear him speak, the more it resemble.

dios los crea....

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#177892: Mar 13th 2017 at 3:54:34 PM

I don't know whether granting a monopoly to the results of vaccine research is in any way useful. Maybe there is evidence that it is.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#177893: Mar 13th 2017 at 4:26:37 PM

"Republican plan to repeal Obamacare would leave millions uninsured: report" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obamacare-idUSKBN16K0ZX

First part of the article:

Fourteen million Americans would lose medical insurance by next year under a Republican plan to dismantle Obamacare that would also reduce the budget deficit, the nonpartisan U.S. Congressional Budget Office said on Monday.

The CBO report, which also dealt a potential setback to President Donald Trump's first major legislative initiative, forecast that 24 million more people would be uninsured in 2026 if the plan being considered in the House of Representatives were adopted. Obamacare expanded insurance to about 20 million Americans. (bit.ly/2mkdeYA)

The report could influence sentiment toward a bill already under fire from Democrats and some Republicans, who have long vowed to repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act, former Democratic President Barack Obama's signature piece of domestic policy.

The CBO projected that 52 million people would be uninsured by 2026 if the bill became law, compared with 28 million who would not have coverage that year if the law remained unchanged.

Two House of Representatives committees have approved the legislation to dismantle Obamacare that was unveiled by Republican leaders a week ago, but it faces opposition from not only Democrats but also medical providers including doctors and hospitals and many conservatives. The CBO report's findings could make the Republican plan a harder sell for lawmakers, particularly in the U.S. Senate.

The agency, however, said federal deficits would fall by $337 billion between 2017 and 2026 under the Republican bill.

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#177894: Mar 13th 2017 at 4:33:26 PM

Well, there's something translatable to "a damn/a fuck", but english syntax makes in untranslatable since it refers to my surprise and AFAIK "I wouldn't be surprised a fuck if [x]" is not grammatically correct in English. If I had cursed one of them out I would have translated the insult.

That's where f*ck's flexibility as a word comes in handy. It can be conjugated as any part of a sentence. In this case, an adverb.

"I wouldn't be f*cking surprised if [x]".

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Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#177895: Mar 13th 2017 at 4:36:58 PM

I know historians are going to look back at the 2010s the same way they now look at the 30s and 80s.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#177897: Mar 13th 2017 at 5:29:54 PM

Girl Guides of Canada has cancelled all trips to the US due to uncertainty about crossing the border.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/girl-guides-of-canada-cancelling-u-s-trips-due-to-uncertain-entry-rules-1.3323157

Keeping really serious threats at bay.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#177898: Mar 13th 2017 at 5:35:53 PM

Really serious threats as far as the Trump Administration is confirmed.

i'm tired, my friend
NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#177899: Mar 13th 2017 at 5:47:27 PM

I don't know whether granting a monopoly to the results of vaccine research is in any way useful. Maybe there is evidence that it is.
The pharmaceutical industry is an odd duck because they have to spend enormous amounts of money on products that take a very long time to develop and often don't make it to market at all. This means that they have to make all their money on the products that do make it to market, or else they go out of business. This leads to accusations of price gouging when a life-saving medicine that costs $5 to manufacture is sold for $100 a dose. The problem is that the $100 price tag isn't just paying for the manufacturing costs, it's also paying for the (much larger) R&D costs — and the R&D costs that went into failed products as well.

The solution to this problem is a state-owned pharmaceutical company that doesn't have to worry about going out of business, but good luck making that happen in the US.

Also worth noting: the recent controversies with expensive drugs all involved old products that had been relatively cheap having their prices suddenly jacked up by obscene amounts when the current manufacturers realized that they had a small captive audience of people who needed that drug that they could squeeze dry. Generally speaking, the money on a new drug has to be recouped before the patent runs out and "generic" versions become available. That these other drug companies found exceptions to that rule and exploited it ruthlessly is exactly what pissed people off.

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TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#177900: Mar 13th 2017 at 6:01:31 PM

So, guys, we got another email story! This time from good ol Rex!

New York says Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used an email alias to discuss climate change while he was Exxon Mobil Corp.’s chief executive: Wayne Tracker.

Tillerson sent messages from the account to discuss the risks posed by climate change, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a court filing about his office’s fraud investigation of the company. Tillerson, whose middle name is Wayne, used the Wayne Tracker account on the Exxon system from at least 2008 through 2015, Schneiderman said.

Schneiderman made the claim in a letter Monday to Justice Barry Ostrager in New York state court in Manhattan, accusing Exxon of failing to turn over all relevant documents required by a court order. The filing comes in a protracted legal dispute in which Exxon seeks to derail probes by New York and Massachusetts into whether the company misled investors for years about the possible impact of climate change on its business....

"Despite the company’s incidental production of approximately 60 documents bearing the ‘Wayne Tracker’ email address, neither Exxon nor its counsel have ever disclosed that this separate email account was a vehicle for Mr. Tillerson’s relevant communications at Exxon, and no documents appear to have been collected from this email account," Schneiderman said.

''The existence of the secondary email account was discovered by Schneiderman’s team while reviewing other Exxon documents. New York claims the Irving, Texas-based energy giant has failed to turn over thousands of relevant files. In addition to climate change, the alias account was also used to discuss other "important matters" that weren’t specified in the letter.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-13/tillerson-used-alias-email-for-climate-messages-n-y-says

Rex Tillerson essentially used an alternate email account to discuss business at Exxon to attempt to conceal evidence from the State of New York. They refused to turn over email evidence when subpoenaed, then once a court order was issued, they turned over email evidence that omitted emails from the alternate email account.

Seems legit!

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