she had to recognize that there were exceptions to her theory. So that started our politial discussions. From there on - with gusto - we argued all the time the initial argument was on greed. She had to see that there was such a thing as greed in this world. Doctors could cost an awful lot more money than books earn
she gave me her power of attorney to deal with all matters having to do with health and Social Security. Whether she agreed or not is not the issue -- Evva Pryor, legal consultant
In the end, she didn't accept Social Security, but pragmatically allowed Evva Pryor to sign her up under a Power of Attorney, apparently.
This way she got to cling to her naive beliefs about brutal anti-socialism AND not suffer for them.
"Benefits for me but not thee" as well as avoiding karmic justice, seems to be the hallmark of the modern American Republican, and I can see why she's the poster-child. The fact she took what she describes as 'hand-outs' gives her closet a skeleton the remaining Darth Koch can use to destroy her when Zombie Ayn Rand is no longer valuable.
But reading the excerpt, it's funny that this "tax and hand-outs" diatribe doesn't hold water when it's not "you being paid by these handouts and then paying to live" but instead "the state provides your first 5 basic needs (food, clothing, shelter, belonging, safety) for you based on voters' decisions" since there is no money given TO the individual. But that's just an observation based on the pittance I've read this morning; I don't want to get into some argument with a Rand fan about what the Prophet really meant.
I see where you say robbing a lane for motorized pedestrians is impactful on the capacity provided by the roadway. This kind of thing should be studied.
The article isn't clear whether agencies other than law enforcement are using these tools to spy internally on staff or externally on citizenry.
When I was working in gov we went through a phase where all machines had some kind of "forensic analysis agent" running on it "to capture state and data in case of a breach or malfeasance", and we argued often and long about the odds, value and effectiveness of data collection 24/7 for a hope during a fringe event.
These forensic tool companies sell fear and uncertainty very effectively, and they do not lack for paying customers who may never use the software for which they're taking on all this leak risk.
People want fine-tuned success when we're still at broad-stroke level of change required.
This go-around, focus on
all people are people
everyone gets a vote
armed demonstrations get Armed Response
lies get lawsuits
prisoners get at least Geneva Convention-level treatment
Later, we can work on the other things we need. You know, allowing for Texit if they build their walls, eminent-domaining prisons back for cruelty reasons, taxing the wealthy, all that. But now, let's just get the absolute basics in.
It's weird how I've worked in Large-scale Enterprise shops for more than the last decade, and ESX since about 4 has required absolutely no break-fix other than patching and whatever the underlying hardware needed. We're talking thousands of VMs, and flawless metro-vmotion of hundreds of hot-and-running streaming VMs at times, and over years. To see what you've written, it could be a very different product from the one I've used, as I've seen none of what you mention.
I hope you can see the same reliability one day, from the product where you've migrated.
Resilience is an attribute. Salf-sacrifice for the kids or the home is admirable.
Did you just not make that leap?