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Neo-liberalism and the Elimination of the Concept of Public Good or Community

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Wed, 09/07/2016 - 2:42pm

It has been over two weeks since I last posted an essay in this series on neo-liberalism. I was both hosting out of town company and traveling during that time. Recently I have experienced a number of technical problems on my end too. I hope to avoid any future time gaps of this length between essays.

For those who may be interested in previous essays on this subject, here are the links to those essays.

DoD announces new TriCare Transgender Policy

Submitted by Robyn on Wed, 09/07/2016 - 1:04pm

Military.com announced yesterday the release of a new TriCare policy which includes some coverage of treatment for transgender people. TriCare governs medical treatment for military members, their family, and retirees.

The move gives the health care system's regional contractors the go-ahead to cover some transgender care starting Oct. 6.

Taking a Bite out of Apple

Submitted by ek hornbeck on Wed, 09/07/2016 - 10:31am

Full disclosure- I have a mint in box Apple ][c that I've never used and somewhere in a pile of pieces a Romar ][ clone that I used to develop an Applesloth Basic (much faster using Bill Gate's compiler) translation of an Insurance Rating program originally written for a Radio Shack Trash-80.

It was my first gig writing poetry for machines.

I parted ways with Apple after the ][e (the ][c was a trade in my boss gave me for a bonus because he had no use for it and it was slated for the dumpster) because it was clear that Apple was moving away from open architecture to proprietary (and much more expensive due to lack of competition) hardware and never looked back.

Just as well, things kept getting worse and worse with each new machine and useless toy (do you really need an iPod? Really?). On the other hand my Aunty Mame swears by them because she thinks they're easier to use. I disagree.

Normally I keep my opinions to myself (not terribly interested in re-litigating the language wars either which 'C' won hands down and if you don't think so take a look at the volume of software written using it and the number of variants) but what makes Apple newsworthy today is the recent $14 Billion tax judgement levied against them by the European Commission.

Apple claims they're going to appeal but unfortunately for them the European Commission is one of those 'Courts of No Appeal' that the European Union is riddled with. They're not accountable to anyone, least of all voters.

Top 10 Western lies about Syrian conflict

Submitted by Alex Ocana on Wed, 09/07/2016 - 9:43am

Here are the lies:

1. The West has failed to intervene in Syria - and that's been the problem

2. The conflict is the fault of wicked Assad (and Russia for supporting him)

3.President Assad enjoys little support in Syria

4. Assad has made no concessions and isn't interested in peace and reconciliation

5. Syria's conflict is simply sectarian

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