Tag: USA

The Only Concrete Takeaway From Trump’s Speech: Medicaid Is Doomed


Trump has spent his life making preposterous promises and never following through, but when it comes to Medicaid he may well keep his word.

Medicaid is not just healthcare for the poor. It also pays the bills for over 60 percent of nursing home residents, and 40 percent of all national long-term care costs. And the number of Americans who need nursing home care is going to rise significantly over the next several decades as the baby boom ages into their eighties and nineties. Cutting Medicaid over this period is a recipe for people literally dying in the streets (or for luckier ones, on the foldout couch in their kid’s living room).

Source: The Only Concrete Takeaway From Trump’s Speech: Medicaid Is Doomed

The value of duck sex research versus a sceptical US Congress | Ars Technica UK


Some of the things scientists do seem absurd, which creates political ammunition.

Source: The value of duck sex research versus a sceptical US Congress | Ars Technica UK

Apple Says Nebraska Will Become A ‘Mecca For Hackers’ If Right To Repair Bill Passes | Techdirt

[T]he prospect of a Cupertino-based megacorporation losing business to local repair shops isn’t a very sympathetic argument at the Nebraska statehouse. And so Apple has tried a slew of other tactics, according to state Sen. Lydia Brasch, who was recently visited by Steve Kester, an Apple state government affairs specialist.”Apple said we would be the only state that would pass this, and that we would become the mecca for bad actors,” Brasch, who is sponsoring the bill, told me in a phone call. “They said that doing this would make it very easy for hackers to relocate to Nebraska.”

Source: Apple Says Nebraska Will Become A ‘Mecca For Hackers’ If Right To Repair Bill Passes | Techdirt

Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Between BitTorrent Peers – TorrentFreak

A District Court judge in Seattle has taken a novel approach in a series of default judgments targeting alleged BitTorrent pirates. Since the defendants are accused of sharing files in the same swarm, they should also share the penalty among each other, the judge argues. According to the order, these cases are not intended to provide a windfall to filmmakers.

Source: Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Between BitTorrent Peers – TorrentFreak

Trump Made Calls To Air Force General About The F-35 With Boeing CEO Secretly Listening In


Hey, you remember that time when you were 14 and you called up your crush with your best friend secretly listening in so that after they could tell you what to say? President Donald Trump did just that, except with the Air Force General in charge of the F-35 program and the fucking CEO of Boeing in the room listening.

Source: Trump Made Calls To Air Force General About The F-35 With Boeing CEO Secretly Listening In

Apple Wants To Stop You Fixing Your iPhone And iPad: Source Says It Will Testify Against ‘Right To Repair’ Legislation | Techdirt

an Apple representative, staffer, or lobbyist will testify against the bill at a hearing in Lincoln on March 9. AT&T will also argue against the bill, the source said. The source told me that at least one of the companies plans to say that consumers who repair their own phones could cause lithium batteries to catch fire.

Source: Apple Wants To Stop You Fixing Your iPhone And iPad: Source Says It Will Testify Against ‘Right To Repair’ Legislation | Techdirt

Sen. Joni Ernst Puts Planned Parenthood — and Access to Birth Control — on the Chopping Block


Stripping Planned Parenthood of federal funding could seriously damage the networks of providers that offer women’s health services, leaving thousands of women without access to preventive care.

Source: Sen. Joni Ernst Puts Planned Parenthood — and Access to Birth Control — on the Chopping Block