I agree, private insurance companies are a big part of the problem. I don't think HMOs are any better, though. The government needs to encourage a free market and competition. Then doctors and hospitals find ways to encourage patients to use alternative insurance companies that are more fair to doctors and hospitals. That's likely to be better for the patients, since they get the proper treatment. Then the insurance companies begin to cater to the hospitals and doctors, they compete for the business that the doctors have influence over.
The HMOs stifle that competition, they reinforce the prices and policies of the rest of the market - of the private companies. Get rid of them, make room in the market for competition.
The tact of your response speaks for itself. You are referring to the failure of managed care: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_care
Due to the federal government's coveting of the HMOs, they are immune from malpractice litigation. This destroys the competitive market of healthcare. The HMOs dictate treatment and are immune from repercussions. It is market economics - capitalism works when the government doesn't interfere.
I am not an expert, however. If you can convince me I'm wrong, I am listening.
Yeah. Great. Are any of the candidates proposing to abolish the fucking TSA. Yes. Ron Paul. No joke. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5ZXM3h4jig 1min 10secs in. The airlines should be in charge of airline security, not the government.
..and it's happening.
All Americans need to research the Presidential candidates *now* - the next President is being chosen *now*, not next year. The primaries are fast approaching, and in some states it's already too late to change your party, excluding you from voting for your choice.
Don't wait any longer or it will be too late. Do something about this!
It is my opinion that over the past decade the telecom industry has become very consolidated under the encouragement of both Clinton and Bush's administrations and the permission of their pet, the FCC.
This consolidation provided the government easy access to private records of the entire nation. The FCC indirectly facilitated the government's ability to violate your privacy; ignorance is allowing the FCC to investigate corruption that has tainted itself.
I am not going to argue your point; I'll merely observe you are strengthening my original point. The FCC is not the appropriate entity to perform such an investigation.
Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious, but is this your way of calling me a communist supporter because I don't think the FCC would perform a good investigation?
The FCC has been heavily biased toward the policies of this administration, at least while under Michael Powell's leadership. Now that the FCC has given up their chance to fake an investigation, a more respectable organization can perform a thorough, honest investigation.
They should dump a few tons of super glue down there. That'll fix her.
So now multiple nations are inhabiting space..
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Do these governments have a common vision of what they'll do in space? Or is this simply a race to claim more territory? What about space terrorism, wars on the moon?
We should all agree and work together before we start inhabiting other bodies. We have enough conflict here on Earth.
You don't need to become a billionaire.
Manufacture your own wire/fiber, hire & train men to run the lines.
Sure, it'd take time. But it wouldn't take nearly a billion dollars.
The 1-click patent is obvious to anyone who has purchased something online and found the opportunity to confirm their payment convenient. That recognition of convenience is derived from the juxtaposition of the opportunity with the possible lack of said opportunity - the 1-click.
The controversy should be the drilling of the moon. It's possible we could destroy evidence within the geology of the moon that could never be recovered. Our geological techniques and our ability to derive energy will both only continue to advance into the future. Why should we take a chance in destroying something precious, so close to Earth, when it is likely to be unnecessary in the future?
So then, if someone violated the law with your patented technique, not only can the state penalize for unlawful acts, but you can seek monetary reward for patent infringement..
1) Patent commonly violated law (e.g. speeding)
2) Wait for public record of convictions
3) Profit!!
I would recommend against using Miranda. Sure, I once had the same opinion as you - nice, light IM utility. I thought it was perfect. After a few months of use, however, I discovered an annoying small bug.
It drops all your incoming messages into a black hole. It seems as though you're online, and it's working fine. But your friends don't respond to you. You never receive the messages they send. This also happened to a friend using Miranda, after a few months of use. It is disconcerting until you discover what's happened.
Maybe it's fixed by now, I'd hope so. This happened with their newest release about six months ago.
Have sex outside of marriage, or in some "deviant" (i.e., anything other than missionary) position? I'll bet that's a capital offense in some religion-infested place. The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), U.S. military law, specifies up to 1 year confinement for adultery, and up to 5 years for "unnatural carnal copulation" which includes oral and anal acts.
Ever heard of Itanium?
It has a bit more than 8 registers:
The architecture implements 128 Integer registers, 128 Floating point registers, 64 1-bit predicates, and eight branch registers. The floating point registers are 82 bits long to preserve precision for intermediate results. It has an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) core:
The goal of EPIC was to increase the ability of microprocessors to execute software instructions in parallel, by using the compiler, rather than complex on-die circuitry, to identify and leverage opportunities for parallel execution. This would allow performance to be scaled more rapidly in future processor designs, without resorting to ever-higher clock frequencies, which have since become problematic due to associated power and cooling issues.
If the system is a black box, and trade activity is the input, then build two independent black boxes and connect them in parallel with the input. If one system goes kooky, try the other one! I think the space shuttle systems were built the same way.
Google is still a corporation with profit at the top of its agenda. If they make a great deal of money from ads, and people only look at ads when their regular search results suck (as I do), then Google has incentive to reduce the quality of the search results.
Wonder what son of a bitch sold out Google to begin with? *shakes stick*
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I agree, private insurance companies are a big part of the problem. I don't think HMOs are any better, though. The government needs to encourage a free market and competition. Then doctors and hospitals find ways to encourage patients to use alternative insurance companies that are more fair to doctors and hospitals. That's likely to be better for the patients, since they get the proper treatment. Then the insurance companies begin to cater to the hospitals and doctors, they compete for the business that the doctors have influence over.
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The HMOs stifle that competition, they reinforce the prices and policies of the rest of the market - of the private companies. Get rid of them, make room in the market for competition.
Vote Ron Paul!
The tact of your response speaks for itself. You are referring to the failure of managed care:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_care
Due to the federal government's coveting of the HMOs, they are immune from malpractice litigation. This destroys the competitive market of healthcare. The HMOs dictate treatment and are immune from repercussions. It is market economics - capitalism works when the government doesn't interfere.
I am not an expert, however. If you can convince me I'm wrong, I am listening.
I think ending medicare would help health prices decrease. Free markets work - government-subsidized price floors don't.
Does it sound drastic? The nation's chief accountability officer, the Comptroller General, has been preaching for years about financial doom if we don't fix medicare and social security.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/01/60minutes/main2528226.shtml
http://www.gao.gov/cghome.htm
Seems Ron Paul has a plan to save our economy. What's your candidate got?
..and it's happening. All Americans need to research the Presidential candidates *now* - the next President is being chosen *now*, not next year. The primaries are fast approaching, and in some states it's already too late to change your party, excluding you from voting for your choice. Don't wait any longer or it will be too late. Do something about this!
It is my opinion that over the past decade the telecom industry has become very consolidated under the encouragement of both Clinton and Bush's administrations and the permission of their pet, the FCC.
This consolidation provided the government easy access to private records of the entire nation. The FCC indirectly facilitated the government's ability to violate your privacy; ignorance is allowing the FCC to investigate corruption that has tainted itself.
I am not going to argue your point; I'll merely observe you are strengthening my original point. The FCC is not the appropriate entity to perform such an investigation.
Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious, but is this your way of calling me a communist supporter because I don't think the FCC would perform a good investigation?
The FCC has been heavily biased toward the policies of this administration, at least while under Michael Powell's leadership. Now that the FCC has given up their chance to fake an investigation, a more respectable organization can perform a thorough, honest investigation.
They should dump a few tons of super glue down there. That'll fix her.
Do these governments have a common vision of what they'll do in space? Or is this simply a race to claim more territory? What about space terrorism, wars on the moon?
We should all agree and work together before we start inhabiting other bodies. We have enough conflict here on Earth.
Think of the children!
You don't need to become a billionaire.
Manufacture your own wire/fiber, hire & train men to run the lines.
Sure, it'd take time. But it wouldn't take nearly a billion dollars.
The 1-click patent is obvious to anyone who has purchased something online and found the opportunity to confirm their payment convenient. That recognition of convenience is derived from the juxtaposition of the opportunity with the possible lack of said opportunity - the 1-click.
Isn't this obvious?
The controversy should be the drilling of the moon. It's possible we could destroy evidence within the geology of the moon that could never be recovered. Our geological techniques and our ability to derive energy will both only continue to advance into the future. Why should we take a chance in destroying something precious, so close to Earth, when it is likely to be unnecessary in the future?
So then, if someone violated the law with your patented technique, not only can the state penalize for unlawful acts, but you can seek monetary reward for patent infringement..
1) Patent commonly violated law (e.g. speeding)
2) Wait for public record of convictions
3) Profit!!
I would recommend against using Miranda. Sure, I once had the same opinion as you - nice, light IM utility. I thought it was perfect. After a few months of use, however, I discovered an annoying small bug.
It drops all your incoming messages into a black hole. It seems as though you're online, and it's working fine. But your friends don't respond to you. You never receive the messages they send. This also happened to a friend using Miranda, after a few months of use. It is disconcerting until you discover what's happened.
Maybe it's fixed by now, I'd hope so. This happened with their newest release about six months ago.
It could lead to the development of drugs that reduce the ability to learn temporarily. Make it airborne, put it in a spray bottle - MIB, anyone?
Why not recharge them wirelessly while driving?
Anyone have an idea of how much bandwidth it provides?
If the system is a black box, and trade activity is the input, then build two independent black boxes and connect them in parallel with the input. If one system goes kooky, try the other one! I think the space shuttle systems were built the same way.
It's probably the best bet for patent reform to be taken seriously.
Google is still a corporation with profit at the top of its agenda. If they make a great deal of money from ads, and people only look at ads when their regular search results suck (as I do), then Google has incentive to reduce the quality of the search results. Wonder what son of a bitch sold out Google to begin with? *shakes stick*
Do you honestly believe most innovators are fueled by the enticement of economic wealth, and not by the reward of doing something great for society?