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The WHO ranks the US health care system #1 in responsiveness to the needs and choices of the individual patient (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704130904574644230678102274). If that is nowhere near good, then what are you grading it on? Are you flunking it because Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison, the Koch brothers and the Walton family aren't pooling their money to give you free access to healthcare?

Where the US famously ranked 37th in overall performance is more based on our funding and distribution than how well it responds to patients needs (by a factor of 5). We tend to charge people for health care somewhat based on what goods and services they use, instead of making Mark Zuckerberg fund unlimited access to a 30 year old bum living in his mother's basement dividing his time among reddit, McD's and drinking himself sick (notice no job). Actually, those factors only get the US downgraded to 15th in overall attainment. The remaining downfall is that the WHO thinks we should have a better health care ranking with our resources. (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/14/paul-hipp/rocker-viral-video-mocks-us-37th-best-health-care-/)

To summarize...The UK sets records for wait times for a hospital bed. The US guarantees that anyone can walk into any emergency room with no money or resources and get excellent care (i.e. not sleeping in hospital hallways -- http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/long545.html). In the end, the WHO decides UK has better healthcare because there the harder you work to have more money, the more money it costs to get the same pitiful access.

in support of apathy and of also being able to see the link without having to mouse over it, so in support of laziness as well:

<WTF> never saw that lameness filter before ("that's an awfully long string of characters ...")</WTF>

damn, I can't just paste it in, but go ahead and mouse over this if you have the energy or inclination.

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This one I can reasonably assume has something to do with things that are long.

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This one could be anything from Rickroll to malware to goatse.

Which one would you rather click on?

Aside from twitter and SMS which both have self-imposed limits, what's the point of these things?!

A demonstration is in order!

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In fact, that first url will not let me post because it says "Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there." So there's a good reason!

I don't know how economists would calculate Rockefeller's wealth, but that Wikipedia article is citing this page (and two others that present similar methodology):

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/first5.html

and deriving the $300 billion by translating the amount of the economy Rockefeller had captured in 1916 into a dollar figure based on the modern economy (using inflation, 1 billion 1915 dollars is closer to 20 or 23 billion 2008 dollars:

http://oregonstate.edu/cla/polisci/faculty-research/sahr/sahr.htm#_Download_Conversion_Factors_1

). Throw in the enormous growth in the economy and stronger antitrust laws (I'm pretty sure that Microsoft faced stronger enforcement than Standard Oil) and Gates isn't a ridiculous choice. Let's pretend I said richest man in recent history.

I think that carrying journalists is routine. Here's one source that mentions this. Apparently the number of journalists that assigned to the President is too large to fit on Air Force One so a chartered plane usually follows Air Force One around.

Funny as hell

What a bunch of maroons. But somebody did make a small bundle, no doubt.

Those specialized bikes are not allowed in peloton because of safety issues. If there is a crash, you don't want those pointy aerodynamic stuff being thrust up your ars now, do you?

Tour is about bike race and strategy, not about bicycle types. That's why you can only ride regular bikes. If we get these crazy looking bikes,

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/fastest19.html

and then how will the peloton look, if we even have any??? Sorry, but having Tour bikes as-is, is probably a good decision.

did anyone else happen to notice the insanely long URL for the linked site? http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/ that has to be a record of some sort...

Either I'm having DNS resolution difficulties or the site http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/first71.html has dropped off the air.

...Jay Ohrberg, who also designed and/or built such notable vehicles as the original cruiser for RoboCop (not the spraypainted Taurus we now know), the 100' limo, the original Bat-mobile (designed by George Barris), the Pink Panther car, and a handful other more or less practical vehicles.

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Oh how I wanted to do that.

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...more interesting. The World's First Patent