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  1. Re:Like everywhere else it's been tried... on Near-universal Mexican Healthcare Coverage Results From Science-informed Changes · · Score: 1

    You falsely assume that .gov regulation lowers pricing. If the .gov orders big pharma "provide us with pill X for $Y", you falsely assume that big pharma won't tell the .gov bureaucratic weasel to stuff it where the sun doesn't shine and stop making pill X at a loss. You're somehow blinded that the .gov can make an edict and majically all ills are corrected. It is hard for me to understand how you can believe that these bureaucrats are somehow gods are all knowing and wise.

    Your rhetorical question about the 'Q tip' is a 'Michael Mooresque diversion' to accuse and isn't looking for a real answer so I won't take the bait to respond.

    You and your country men are free to stay out of the US healthcare system. We see the financial crisis du jour that this 'free healthcare' has brought to the EU and want no part of that madness.

  2. Re:Like everywhere else it's been tried... on Near-universal Mexican Healthcare Coverage Results From Science-informed Changes · · Score: 1

    1. Solution: put doctors on salary. You seem to forget that doctors are Free people and are not serfs owned by the Crown.
    2. Solution: end-of-life counseling and legalizing euthanasia Well, duh. Just how do you figure when a person is going to die? I've worked with hospice patient for the past 15 years and cannot tell you when a patient is going to die. A better option would be to add all the 3rd generation entitlement citizens and sterilize them after their first child. If you're going to go that road, might as well get some mileage out of it.
    3. Solution: Single payer and single provider, so there's nobody else to haggle with. And you don't shop around for a better price on your commodity items and just go to the local monopoly store to buy your food? Haggling brings down prices. And you believe that some bureaucratic drone that cannot make it in real job can make better decisions than anyone else. Ahh.... The hubris of the socialists.
    4. Solution: Cover everybody. They tend to seek care in ER's since they know that they cannot be turned away due to the laws. Change the laws back and make them goto a clinic for the sniffles. That way we don't have to cover their ER visits and don't have to pay for their healthcare.

    I've taken care of foreigners that came to the US to get medical care here since they didn't want to be treated by the cattle call system in their homelands. I've been in the European hospitals and seen the 'ward' nurse system. Thank you very much but I'll keep what we got in the US. Warts and all, it is still the healthcare system in the world and only 0bama jizz drinkers like Michael Moore go offshore then that isn't for anything serious.

  3. Nothing new for Mexico on Near-universal Mexican Healthcare Coverage Results From Science-informed Changes · · Score: 1

    So, what are they going to do? Just ship everyone to el norte to sit in our ER's to get 'free healthcare' since they cannot be turned away or asked their immigration status like they've been doing for the past 20 years?

  4. Re:Power in developing countries... on Half of India Without Electricity As Power Grid Crisis Deepens · · Score: 1

    You're falsely assuming that the waste are toxic. If rising sea levels are so destructive, the explain how our world is so 'right' compared to 8500 years ago as shown in http://tinyurl.com/cby6z95 . There have been multiple periods of glaciation and warming since the Pleistocene Epoch started and even up to today.

    This blackout was caused by India shutting down due to a lack of coal generated electricity. The real tragedy is that the greenies in the US are going to miss this point and try to ram down our throats even more pie-in-the-sky schemes for 'renewable energy'. Guess we need to start growing some algae.

  5. still illegal for felons on The World's First 3D-Printed Gun · · Score: 1

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    people who have had their licenses revoked
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    If a person is disqualified from firearm ownership, constructing one with a 3D printer or a block of wood with a rasp or sheet metal with a riveter are still in violation of federal law.

  6. Re:It's only 92% accurate ... on FDA Approves HIV Home-Use Test Kit · · Score: 2

    When I worked in a major hospital in Plano, Texas several years ago; anyone that came through ED as a trauma patient was given a drug scan, HIV, and HepC tests unbeknownst to the patient. It was done to protect the staff from these diseases. The drug scan was to give us a measure what the patient had on board so as to not overdose them with pain medicines and judge their tolerance for opiates.

    The HIV rate was ~12% and HepC was > 50%. So, there is a definite need for this. There is a greater need for a HepC test.

  7. sounds like echoes of the John Birch Society on The U.N.'s Push for Power Over the Internet · · Score: 1

    This sounds like a John Birch Society member spouting off a conspiracy theory while frothing at the mouth about the UN/Illuminati trying to deprive people of their human rights.
    Oh, it is the UN trying to violate 'freedom of speech' for totalitarian regimes.

    Well, 'magine that.

  8. There is no transparency in the pricing on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    of medical equipment. Even the US .gov cannot get actual cost information on joint replacement devices due to the firms have the doctors signed into NDA's. No surprise that hearing aids are also wrapped up in this fiscal fiasco.

  9. Nuke the trash on Invasive Species Ride Tsunami Debris To US Shore · · Score: 1

    In the same vein as "You have to destroy the village to save the village."; we need to destroy the environment to save the environment.

  10. Who is going to decide on Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? · · Score: 1

    what is flag? The hoplophobic libtards would have to hold up one leg up in the aire to keep from defecating down both if they saw the searches that I used to buy my latest AR15.

    This whole idea is based on the failed notion that libtards that a totally safe society is possible.

  11. Re:Still a bad guy=-BooHooHoo on The Nice Guy At the World's Largest Weapons Expo · · Score: 1

    If that is so, then give your home, car, & iPad away and go back to wherever your ancestors originated. Oh, you're tied to those. Hypocrisy, how does it work again?

    The fact that hard work, sweat, and a populace having a sense of ethics make developed countries is lost on your mind scrambled by years of Maoist indoctrination in public schools.

  12. Re:That's not funny on Backyard Brains Can Help Satisfy Your Inner Frankenstein (Video) · · Score: 1

    How is this any different from spraying cockroaches with a dilute nerve agent?
    You are getting all choked up over a flipping cockroach yet are totally silent on how a human fetus is ripped to shreds.

  13. or why they did so." on Backdoor Found In Hacked Version of Anti-Censorship Tool Simurgh · · Score: 1

    Seriously, do you have to ask or are you that naive?

  14. right wing heads explode? on Federal Court Rejects NDAA's Indefinite Detention, Issues Injunction · · Score: 1

    Your bias is showing. The 'right wing'(aka freedom lovers) are more vocal in their opposition to this constitutional rights killing monstrosity than all the left wing socialists that cannot say anything against their cocoa messiah since they're too busy giving him a Lewinsky.

  15. Most Powerful but on Member Claims Anonymous "Might Well Be the Most Powerful Organization On Earth" · · Score: 1

    Ironic that they claim to have so much power but are afraid of a flat foot cop on the beat with a pair of handcuffs.

  16. Re:The Campaign for Liberty Platform on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 1

    Don't scrap the Federal Reserve until they find the $8 trillion that they 'lost' during the bailouts. >:o

  17. MAD is only effective against logical people. on Russia Threatens Pre-emptive, Destructive Force On US Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    When you're facing fanatics that want to die killing you so that they have an automajix ticket punch to paradise, don't project your logical Western mores on them. Unfortunately, the best way to deal with them is to give them what they want but on their turf as to not sully yours.

    This is the best example of why we need a Ronaldus Magnus as POTUS rather than a Zer0bama. What a stark contrast as compared to 'TEAR THIS WALL DOWN"!

  18. Opposite of my experience as an RN on Redheads Feel Pain Differently Than the Rest of Us · · Score: 1

    It has been my experience in the past 17 years as an RN working in med/surg that "Gingers" experience higher levels of pain and require more pain medications than other patients. Have to admit that none of my patients had capsicum injected into their arms but all had typical medical incisions.

  19. Re:Important to note on LightSquared CEO Resigns Amid Appearance of Bribery · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Gunwalker started under Bush and was ended because the Mexican authorities weren't catching them on their side. The Mexican authorities were informed prior to the sale unlike F&F were it was unilaterally decided to let weapons go.

    Fast & Furious was 0bama's baby. We're three years into this mess and time for 0bama to 'man up' to take responsibilities.

  20. I like the comment attributed to Goering on Against Online Surveillance? You Must Be 'For' Child Porn, Says Legislator · · Score: 1

    that goes, " People will tolerate any loss of liberty as long as it is put as 'Good for the children.' "

  21. They should be happy on Eye of Tiger Composer Sues Gingrich To Stop Campaign From Using Song · · Score: 1

    that they're getting some air time and some sales from an otherwise dead listing. Seriously, when was the last time you heard that song other than a late night umpteenth time Rockie rerun?

  22. Re:Yawn on 10-Year Gary McKinnon Case To End This Year · · Score: 1

    And the door analogy breaks down quite fast, because most doors/locks AFAIK isn't designed to

    The legal aspect is that there was a door and he kicked it down. The crime of 'breaking and entering' can be charged even if there was as much as a cobweb that was broken. Let me rehash my favorite 2 scenarios.

    First scenario. A group of disaffected youth break into a business with a crowbar. They steal the cash box and trade the list of credit card reciepts to the local dope dealer for a couple of lids. They trash the inventory and take what they want. The local police later arrest the group trying to fence the stolen goods at a local pawn shop. They goto court and their defense is that it was the shop owner's fault that he didn't have an infantry squad guarding his store. They are sentenced to 1-3 years in the penitentary and the community is glad that the group of thugs are off the street.

    Second scenario. A group of disaffected youth gain entrance into the computer system of a business with a script. They take the database table of credit card users and sell it online to the Russian mafia then go buy a couple of lids. They truncate the database's table of customers and have online system ship electronic goodies to their Mom's basement. They go online and claim that it is the business owner's fault that he didn't have the latest and greatest security system. The Slashdot crowd acclaim their skillz and anxiously await their next exploit.

    Explain the difference to me.

  23. Bush's fault. on OzLog: Unlimited Private Data Retention For Australia? · · Score: 1

    As always. :-\

  24. They gave 0bama a N0bel though on JRR Tolkien Denied Nobel Due To Low Quality Prose · · Score: 0

    Considering that the same group gave a Nobel Peace Prize to s0me0ne in H0pe that he might d0 s0mething, it isn't surprising.

  25. Re:correct response: "OK, put me on the list." on US Threatens Spain For Not Implementing SOPA-Like Law · · Score: 1

    Always follow the money. The Hollywood studios are helping to finance 0bama's re-election. This is his payback for their campaign donations. And who cares about the free exchange of information when everything has to go through media controlled routers? Hope that you enjoy the same restrictions on your 1A rights that I've had to suffer on my 2A.