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Re:Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on... by VikingCoder on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @03:08PM (#6407327)
I don't get it. Can you expand upon what you're worried I might have said, which you think is far, far worse?
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Re:Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on... by Florin_Andrei on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @03:17PM (#6407391)
It seems like you're saying, it's either Ayn Rand or Stalin, there's no middle ground.
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Re:Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on... by VikingCoder on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @05:09PM (#6408162)
I get ya.

From that perspective it's hard to describe exactly what I'm thinking...

If you lean towards "capitalism and free markets are good," then I really don't think you have a leg to stand on, in criticizing a corporation for offering luxury services.

If you lean towards, "Universal healthcare, and this is health care, so therefore the government should have a monopoly on it, except this should be way down low on the list of priorities," then it's a completely different conversation.

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Re:Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on... by eli_gottlieb on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @06:35PM (#6408630)
And what if I lean towards, "Universal healthcare, and this is health care, so therefore the government should have a monopoly on it, and this should be way up high on the list of priorities"?
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Re:Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on... by Florin_Andrei on Thursday September 19, 2013 @11:06AM (#6412059)
Then you'd be right. ;)
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