Doctors in America kill over 180,000 people every year due to malpractice. That's the number of people KILLED, and it does not include all the people who have had the wrong limb cut off or were severely injured due to negligence.
These malpractice lawsuits come because someone is grievously injured due to negligence, or is killed, by incompetent doctors. Ambulance chasers only show up after the damage has been done.
Think about that before you start busting on patients for suing.
I believe the recent Bono Copyright Extension Act ensured those cartoon characters won't go out of copyright for a long, long time. 2019 at the earliest.
For more, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copy right_ Term_Extension_Act
Canada has lower per capita health costs than the US. Their tax rate is not because of their health care program.
The United States citizen, on average, works more hours than people of any other industrialized nation, even Japan. We work 137 more hours per year than the Japanese. We also experience more job stress and stress-related illnesses and accidents, than these other countries.
So what this boils down to, is a trade off between a pay cut and a health hazard.
How can you look at the evidence in front of your eyes and piss and moan about a "sick" economy that is nothing of the sort.
You're right. The bankruptcies, the 41 million people who can't afford medical insurance, and the first President to have a net loss of jobs since Hoover, are all extremely hard to see and even harder to identify as signs of a messed up economy.
All this whining about the "sick" economy marks you as an idiot. I'm sick of trying to get through your pessimistic worldview. Come back when you've woken from your bad dream.
Great debating skills you have. You sound like this tard named Ishmael on Literotica. Is that you?
Doctors don't ever STOP going to medical school. They are constantly reading journals and attending conferences to learn how to do what they do better. They're constantly talking to their peers to learn new things. Of course, it's possible that new technology may make a specialty technique obsolete. If so, it's the doctor's job to keep constantly appraised of the new technology and techniques so that he can adapt his skills to a new area.
Yes, but you're missing the point. The doctor does not ever get laid off and forced to take up something else like, say, accounting, every time there's a change.
No matter how much retraining a programmer got in the 90's, that job is gone now. They'll have to take up a whole new career now, which'll probably be outsourced out of America in 10 years (instead of 20 for IT).
You seem to imply an equation: Training = expensive classes. But that's inaccurate; school training, in fact, sucks ass. School is good for "book learning," but it's not a wonderful place to learn how to code.
Find me a company out there that will hire a programmer without a degree.
Training is always expensive. The only non college educated people who get jobs are Wal-Mart clerks.
CS degrees were largely useless to begin with, other than as a way to say, "Hey, look, I've been to a college." If you don't know how to learn new things, and don't actively desire to constantly do so, you don't belong in the industry in the first place.
The point is, while learning to do new things, you're spending a lot of time out of work and earning no money.
And even if you were right, that means until the time that you retire, you're doing 8 hours at work, and then 8 hours at home learning something new.
When, exactly, do you have time for a life?
I guess you forgot the other fact that job stress is killing Americans. See: http://www.usatoday.com/careers/news/usa039.htm, http://www.ttgconsultants.com/articles/stressworkp lace.html, http://www.workhealth.org/news/APHA%20policy%20sta tement%20on%20Job%20Stress%202000.html
No, seriously. Closely read the facts outlined in those references before you come back at me with an attempt at an argument.
"Don't you think we're helping the US economy by doing the work here?" asks an exasperated Lalit Suryawanshi. It frees up Americans to do other things so the economy can grow, adds Jairam.
To do what?
There aren't any new industries that are coming up that require lots of human workers. The next revolution is supposed to be in biotech. But biotech work is very easy to automate and what human work is needed will only be done by the elite of the elite.
I know what "other things" Americans will be doing.. they'll be spending their time fighting even harder over fewer jobs.
I've been getting my music via second hand stores or I've been getting free (not bootlegged, but totally freely given) music from places like http://www.modarchive.com.
I'll keep going until the companies that support the RIAA are bankrupted or they relent with their assault on fair use rights.
200 years ago you also had more lawlessness as a result of hungry and destitute people fighting for survival.
I won't get into the lower life expectancy resulting not only from 18th century medical technology, but mostly from the unsanitary conditions that plague the poor - vagrancy, poorly built shelters (which you'll see a lot of in poor areas of Mexico today), lack of plumbing and sewage control, etc.
Oh and feel free to show me one tax-free nation that had roads and infrastructure.
Raw laizzes-faire capitalism is what creates a biz-ocracy, or oligocracy.. better known as an aristocracy.. aka the rule of the many by a select few.
Most countries didn't realize this was going to happen. They didn't know these corporations would come, screw up their environment, sell them their stuff back to them for more than they're paid to make it, and then pull up and run to a cheaper nation (or for robotic production), leaving them in an irrepairable environmental mess and fairly well drained of natural resources.
Companies nowadays are probably dealing with a more aware third world. But again, they will counter this with: a) paying off their leaders, who will sell their own people out, and will b) inflict media blackouts to keep their populace ignorant c) kill any international interloping adolescents (scoobydoo-ese: meddling kids) who try and educate the populace about what's to come
He didn't romanticize farms at all. The problem is, when industries enter into 3rd world countries, they do their thing, and when they leave, the land is in far worse shape than before they arrived. In their wake they leave people even less self sufficient than ever before.
MicroSoft would have to damage the credibility of VPC itself in order to block Linux... that is to say they'd have to break things, which would not only stop Linux from running, but also potentially a wide variety of Windows based apps. No one could possibly predict which apps would be broken by such a move, but it's guaranteed that it would include something major.
For once in MicroSoft's life they've decided it's not worth burning the village to save it from the Penguins.
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Doctors in America kill over 180,000 people every year due to malpractice. That's the number of people KILLED, and it does not include all the people who have had the wrong limb cut off or were severely injured due to negligence.
These malpractice lawsuits come because someone is grievously injured due to negligence, or is killed, by incompetent doctors. Ambulance chasers only show up after the damage has been done.
Think about that before you start busting on patients for suing.
I just bought one 2 minutes ago upon seeing your post.
Maybe they'll pull a DirecTV and sue Lik-Kang and try and get my address. There's no way I'm going to settle in court if they try to sue me.
There's nothing I like better than signing up for a stand up fight that I believe in.............
But not those who have had experience with the X Consortium/X11R6.4...
what else should we ever need to learn to speak? :)
I believe the recent Bono Copyright Extension Act ensured those cartoon characters won't go out of copyright for a long, long time. 2019 at the earliest.
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For more, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Cop
Man may not make it to the Moon again any time soon, but if this merger happens, your cable rates will!
Canada has lower per capita health costs than the US. Their tax rate is not because of their health care program.
The United States citizen, on average, works more hours than people of any other industrialized nation, even Japan. We work 137 more hours per year than the Japanese. We also experience more job stress and stress-related illnesses and accidents, than these other countries.
So what this boils down to, is a trade off between a pay cut and a health hazard.
"Working 50 and 60 hour weeks with no vacation is very 1890s. Slaving away like a serf for a king is very 1300s."
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I'm putting that in my
You're right. The bankruptcies, the 41 million people who can't afford medical insurance, and the first President to have a net loss of jobs since Hoover, are all extremely hard to see and even harder to identify as signs of a messed up economy.
Great debating skills you have. You sound like this tard named Ishmael on Literotica. Is that you?
Such a novel won't sell. What do you know sells nowadays without a dash of John Woo?
Yes, but you're missing the point.
The doctor does not ever get laid off and forced to take up something else like, say, accounting, every time there's a change.
No matter how much retraining a programmer got in the 90's, that job is gone now. They'll have to take up a whole new career now, which'll probably be outsourced out of America in 10 years (instead of 20 for IT).
Find me a company out there that will hire a programmer without a degree.
Training is always expensive. The only non college educated people who get jobs are Wal-Mart clerks.
The point is, while learning to do new things, you're spending a lot of time out of work and earning no money.
And even if you were right, that means until the time that you retire, you're doing 8 hours at work, and then 8 hours at home learning something new.
When, exactly, do you have time for a life?
I guess you forgot the other fact that job stress is killing Americans. See: http://www.usatoday.com/careers/news/usa039.htm, http://www.ttgconsultants.com/articles/stresswork
No, seriously. Closely read the facts outlined in those references before you come back at me with an attempt at an argument.
To do what?
There aren't any new industries that are coming up that require lots of human workers. The next revolution is supposed to be in biotech. But biotech work is very easy to automate and what human work is needed will only be done by the elite of the elite.
I know what "other things" Americans will be doing.. they'll be spending their time fighting even harder over fewer jobs.
I've been getting my music via second hand stores or I've been getting free (not bootlegged, but totally freely given) music from places like http://www.modarchive.com.
I'll keep going until the companies that support the RIAA are bankrupted or they relent with their assault on fair use rights.
With as much money as Sony has? Hardly anything at all, I bet.
200 years ago you also had more lawlessness as a result of hungry and destitute people fighting for survival.
I won't get into the lower life expectancy resulting not only from 18th century medical technology, but mostly from the unsanitary conditions that plague the poor - vagrancy, poorly built shelters (which you'll see a lot of in poor areas of Mexico today), lack of plumbing and sewage control, etc.
Oh and feel free to show me one tax-free nation that had roads and infrastructure.
Raw laizzes-faire capitalism is what creates a biz-ocracy, or oligocracy.. better known as an aristocracy.. aka the rule of the many by a select few.
It's a reference to the new version of the movie "Time Machine" where the underground Morlocks overrun the surface world :)
He implied they were rooms for improvement.
Major difference.
Internet outages when they start putting high speed internet on power lines...
No.
Servers get hijacked all the time. Someone just happened to find a way into a sensitive server and did what computer hijackers do.
I see nothing different here than what happens with any hijacking.
No, they just release it, virus or hacks and all. :)
(just kidding)
(That's a Half-Life 2 joke)
Most countries didn't realize this was going to happen. They didn't know these corporations would come, screw up their environment, sell them their stuff back to them for more than they're paid to make it, and then pull up and run to a cheaper nation (or for robotic production), leaving them in an irrepairable environmental mess and fairly well drained of natural resources.
Companies nowadays are probably dealing with a more aware third world. But again, they will counter this with:
a) paying off their leaders, who will sell their own people out, and will
b) inflict media blackouts to keep their populace ignorant
c) kill any international interloping adolescents (scoobydoo-ese: meddling kids) who try and educate the populace about what's to come
So who's fault is it, really?
He didn't romanticize farms at all.
The problem is, when industries enter into 3rd world countries, they do their thing, and when they leave, the land is in far worse shape than before they arrived. In their wake they leave people even less self sufficient than ever before.
VirtualPC can run Linux as it stands.
MicroSoft would have to damage the credibility of VPC itself in order to block Linux... that is to say they'd have to break things, which would not only stop Linux from running, but also potentially a wide variety of Windows based apps. No one could possibly predict which apps would be broken by such a move, but it's guaranteed that it would include something major.
For once in MicroSoft's life they've decided it's not worth burning the village to save it from the Penguins.
Hear, hear. Those action scenes ROCKED far too much not to see again!!!