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Buying coffee the Obamacare way.

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In today's news from the USA's most worthless, corrupt, and inefficient district:

Gates slammed for his book.

Incomptence and bloat, v2.0.
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Yes, in this era of the US being mostly a tech & service economy, let's outsource that $45mil to make a decent website to Ireland. Because there's no way anyone here could do it and keep that money in-country.
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TPRJones wrote:Yes, in this era of the US being mostly a tech & service economy, let's outsource that $45mil to make a decent website to Ireland. Because there's no way anyone here could do it and keep that money in-country.
In 2013, the Ethisphere Institute designated Accenture as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 5th time.

Bet that rating's going to take a hit from this job.
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Because checks and balances are for pussies.
We are not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to make sure that we're providing Americans the kind of help that they need. I've got a pen, and I've got a phone. And I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward...

Notwithstanding that many of those powers are gross misinterpretations of Constitutional authority built up over many decades, but whatever.
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Accenture on JK

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Magic Johnson, the Obamacare spokesman.

The funny part is that he's trying to sell people on Obamacare based on his positive experiences using the previous health care system.

By their logic McDonald's should hire people who just ate at Ruth's Chris to shill Big Macs.
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The Condor to website devs: you suck
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The flaws that have been found are mere speculation, pointed out Krush, whose firm has done security work for the Department of Health and Human Services.

“Nobody here at this table can tell you there is a vulnerability,” he said during testimony. To actually test the flaws would require hacking the website itself, which would mean breaking the law, he noted.

Welp, there goes the website. Don't poke the internet, Krush, unless you want it to poke back a thousand-fold.

Moron.

Besides, it's illegal under US law to hack the site, but there are plenty of countries around the world that have no such laws. Like the MPAA and RIAA, Krush fails to consider that the whole world is not subject to US law.




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And, it is my understanding that if a government site HAS been hacked, and information stolen, the government is not obligated to let anyone know at all, because fuck you.

My guess is that it is completely compromised and, as I have said before, you are safer giving your credit card number to a russian porn site.
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I can think of any number of shady drug companies that'd like to see what meds people need so they can refine their spambots with specific symptoms for specific people. Come to think of it, crawling to obtain that info and doing the mass e-mails is probably more functionality than the site itself offers.
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Obama on shiznit, complete with misleading headline.

A couple of the places he really fucks up:
“There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President,” he said. “Now, the flip side of it is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because I’m a black President.”

“You can be somebody who, for very legitimate reasons, worries about the power of the federal government—that it’s distant, that it’s bureaucratic, that it’s not accountable—and as a consequence you think that more power should reside in the hands of state governments,” he said.

But Obama said “that philosophy is wrapped up in the history of states’ rights in the context of the civil-rights movement and the Civil War and (South Carolina Sen. John C.) Calhoun. There’s a pretty long history there.”

To sum things up, the number of people who like and hate him because of his half-black heritage is about equal. In addition states' rights is all about the Civil War. That was never done anywhere else, at anytime before. Fucking idiot.
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I actually don't mind his quote on race because he's right. I don't think the numbers balance out, but I have no proof either way.

There are simply folks out there who love and/or hate him based on his skin color.

As for the pot quote, it irks me. Apparently, scientists can talk about the benefits of pot until they're blue in the face, but a politician states an opinion, and that's front page news? That's what we should base our policies on?
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To sum things up, the number of people who like and hate him because of his half-black heritage is about equal.

He uses the same "some" qualifier, but doesn't say it's equal.
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TheCatt wrote:
To sum things up, the number of people who like and hate him because of his half-black heritage is about equal.
He uses the same "some" qualifier, but doesn't say it's equal.
I suppose. But the "flip side" comparison reminds me specifically of coins, which has an undercurrent of "cancels each other out."
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As for the pot quote, it irks me. Apparently, scientists can talk about the benefits of pot until they're blue in the face, but a politician states an opinion, and that's front page news? That's what we should base our policies on?

That was the least interesting bit in the article, but it makes the headline. Perhaps to hide the batshit insane "states' rights = racial oppression" argument.
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I think there are WAY fewer actual racists than they are trying to sell to us. It's just their excuse for.... for anything. Everything.
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Filmmaker who made anti-Obama documentary getting indicted for election fraud.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic....olating

“Trying to influence elections through bogus campaign contributions is a serious crime,” George Venizelos, the assistant director in charge of the New York FBI office said in a statement. “Today, Mr. D’Souza finds himself on the wrong side of the law.”


Yet nothing ever came from the fact during the election cycle Obama's donation website would not verify anyone who made donations, even from non-citizens overseas.




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Dinesh D'Souza is the dude that was part of the reason Politically Incorrect was axed. He has a history of pissing people off.



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