in a single payer system, she has no option to pay for insurance that covers those leaches. And because the entire system is governed by a single entity, no research will go into stuff that's "proven ineffective" much like acupuncture and chiropracty... both of witch have now been proven to reduce doctor visits and lower medical costs... granted it's likely a placebo effect, but the fact of the matter is, under a single payer system they'd have faded away. The only reason they still exist in England is due to research done elsewhere.
You live in Canada. You have a VASTLY different prescription drug landscape than we do. To compare drug formularies with ours is apples and oranges. Our political system in the US is flat out corrupt at this point. For the rest of the world to tell us that their governments are doing fine at healthcare is rather silly. Our laws are literally written by businesses that want them to be written in their favor. We only have 2 political parties, with no option to vote outside that 2 party system... and both of those parties take money from the very businesses that will profit from a single payer system. It may work for you, but there is no way in hell it will work here until we figure out a way to clean out our government. I don't foresee that happening anytime soon.
You have a choice in insurance companies. Through my employer I have a choice of 6 different plans. They all cover various things and costs of the most expensive is more than double that of the cheapest plan. But it has more coverage for my family and a wider selection of drugs. I could chose a plan that only partially pays for generic only drugs. Or the more expensive plan that covers generics in full and has a co-pay on non-generic (and many drugs are not available in generic form in the US due to heavy lobbying by drug companies) The point being is that I have choice as long as I can afford it. If I want to spend half my paycheck on health insurance I can.
I had an uncle that had terminal cancer. The doctors said they could go in and cut it out... put him through Chemo... give him another 5 years maybe. But this guy was a Korean war vet. He was a POW 3 times, had 5 bullet holes in his back (he said if you ever got shot while running towards a gun you were a damned fool) Great guy... He told the doctors to go fuck themselves, please write me a prescription for strait morphine. That's exactly what the doctors did. He was high as a kite until his death about a year later. That was his choice. I wouldn't have made the same choice, but it was up to him. I want to have a choice.
We don't even have people that travel outside the country and yet your security standards state that: A. The laptop is wiped and re-imaged upon return. Every time. B. The user simply uses the laptop to VPN into our corporate network which is protected by a random keyfob plus all the usual security. C. Corporate laptops never leave the site of the user. You take it with you everywhere you go. Period.
Granted, I don't think C gets followed all that much. But A and B are pretty solid. Who the hell keeps a personal laptop for work anymore?
Do you have any evidence to support this? We don't even know if there is life currently living on Venus, much less in its ancient history. It's doubtful that anything resembling earth-like life lives on Venuses surface, but there could be certainly be life we don't understand yet. It also likely had vast oceans in it's past that have dried up... And as far as earth-like life, the atmosphere of Venus is almost identical to earths pressure and temperature at about 50 to 60km up... although it's almost pure CO2 so it would have to be plant life.
This idea that to support life a planet must resemble our own is getting old. Our planet is as unique and the life that evolved on it... I think we'll find that nearly every planet we find life on will be equally as unique.
You just don't understand do you? It's not up to you if it's worth trying or not. It's HER life. She gets to decide if she wants to try leeches to cure her cancer. In a private system, she can seek out and purchase insurance that covers what she wants. In a single payer system you HAVE NO CHOICE. A panel of doctors decides if your treatment is worthwhile or not. In a single payer system, the least cost solution wins. The cheapest way to cure some diseases is to simply make the patient wait long enough that the problem "goes away" in this case the patient paid for it out of pocket, in other cases they just die.
I'm not a republican by any means. But the government absolutely sucks at everything they do. Keep them out of my healthcare please. The roads on the way to the hospital are bad enough, I don't need the medical system to be full of holes as well.
As a kid we used to take a board with a hole drilled into it, put a rifle round in it and smack it with a hammer to set it off. Got good enough that we were actually hitting targets at 20 yards with it. No one was killed surprisingly. Where you have to worry about with bullets is A. being in front of it when it goes off... and B. having the gas trapped due to a poorly made bullet or a barrel obstruction. There's not really a way for what he made to fail in such a way that the gun would blow up. I'd be sure to check the barrel after every shot though.
No, it's like I walk into your store, pick up a box that says "Blue shirt" on it, pay you $50, walk out the door, open the box and find that the shirt that is locked inside a second box with a lock on it. That lock has a note that says "By opening this shirt you agree to allow our store to track your movements via GPS, take video with hidden cameras installed in this shirt and sell those videos to the Tosh.0 show if any of them are deemed funny"
If I don't agree, I don't get the shirt I just paid for... I take it back to you and you tell me "All sales are final!" So what the hell is the customer supposed to do? It'd be one thing if you had to agree to the EULA before you paid... but after the fact?
wait wait wait... lol... God you demopublicans will say whatever nonsense our party puts in your mouth wont you?
Bush tried to get NASA to go to the moon and mars... NASA, using probably their oldest fundraising gag, said "but wait, we'll need more money, guess we'll have to cancel (insert popular program here: Hubble/Voyager/Mars Rovers) unless we get more funding!" They, of course, didn't get anymore money, and yet still didn't cancel the program. They've threatened to shut down Hubble dozens of times.
Stop falling for political games. They're ALL lying to you. Especially your own party.
Microsoft are fucking idiots. Every enterprise customer they have already wants to get away from them, but the cost of migration is just too steep. What they did here was change that... even if the new rates still keep the cost bellow some threshold that would make it easier to migrate to something else, what they've really done is say to all their customers "We will price gouge you in the middle of a recession" and you can bet every IS/IT department in the country is going to be having meetings regarding just how quickly it'll really take to get out from under the chains of.NET
The android desktop OS is coming... we all know it. It'll be free and Google will have hordes of experts ready to fly out to your site and help you migrate... then what Microsoft?
You really misunderstand what I said. ART that is profitable to the ARTIST isn't really art. Either way, they are still an artist. But if the work you're doing, is for profit, then profit will guide your hand. And it stops being creative at that point. The artist can still create art, and he can still create profit, but the two are mutually exclusive.
Articles like this drive me crazy. We have no idea how life starts in a solar system. We only have the most remote clue regarding how it arose here on earth. We have absolutely no idea if life exists on other planets in this solar system, there may even be intelligent life here, trapped under ice, or perhaps not caring to talk to us... To suggest any of the ridiculously scant data we have on even the nearest of our neighbor stars is any clue we can use to determine if life is possible there is idiotic. These sorts of articles are the sorts of things that future generations will dig up to laugh at how dumb we were way here in the stupid ages.
Wouldn't a US ban on Samsung products constitute a ban on... pretty much everything electronic? I doubt there's a single electrical device in your home that doesn't contain at least some Samsung components.
It doesn't even mean that... shatter proof means it wont end up in a zillion razor sharp shards for you to step on. It could still be easy to break. Jello is shatter proof...
Samsung is probably the top electronics manufacturer in the world right now. All your geek gadgets either came from them or contain parts made by them.
That's important... but what's more important to me is this thing is DESIGNED to do what I want to do with it. I've been doing the HTPC thing since the 90s, when all I had was a very expensive soundcard with a digital channel to my stereo. All this time it's evolved and served me well. But the fact of the matter is my HTPC is by far the most powerful PC in my house now. More processing power, more memory, better video card, everything. I'm hardly utilizing it's power, but that's what you need when you're doing experimental shit that the PC was never designed to do. There's all sorts of little glitches that aren't show stoppers but are annoying. If I could spend $100, and have something I did't have to fuck with anymore and get to use that computer for something other than streaming video, I'd be in heaven.
This thing sounds great. Especially if it can run XBMC... that would make it incredibly useful. But their site is in terrible need of a FAQ. Can it decode x264? Can it play full 1080p video? can you use multiple controllers? Can you have peripherals? Specifically a remote? Does it have a network connection? Wifi?
I think the problem is rather clear... we need to sue Greenland for dumping all their waste water into the ocean. How can they be this irresponsible?!?
Yes, but your problem is that you're thinking that money belongs to the "people" or some such. It doesn't. It belongs to an individual. And you have no right to take it from them. A flat tax rate DOES tax the rich more... that's why it's a percentage. 30% of my salary is a hell of a lot less than 30% of bill gates. What we need to do is dump ALL taxes other than sales tax. We should have a purely consumption based tax system. The rich buy more, and will pay more. People will have incentive to save. It's good on all accounts.
Our overcomplicated tax system servers one purpose: To hide how much you're being taxed. I doubt anyone in this country, even the IRS, knows how much anyone else really is paying in taxes.
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Next time you vote, make sure it's for someone that doesn't have a (D) or an (R) next to their name. That's how.
unless you're libertarian... but I doubt we'll find any of those around here.
in a single payer system, she has no option to pay for insurance that covers those leaches. And because the entire system is governed by a single entity, no research will go into stuff that's "proven ineffective" much like acupuncture and chiropracty... both of witch have now been proven to reduce doctor visits and lower medical costs... granted it's likely a placebo effect, but the fact of the matter is, under a single payer system they'd have faded away. The only reason they still exist in England is due to research done elsewhere.
You live in Canada. You have a VASTLY different prescription drug landscape than we do. To compare drug formularies with ours is apples and oranges. Our political system in the US is flat out corrupt at this point. For the rest of the world to tell us that their governments are doing fine at healthcare is rather silly. Our laws are literally written by businesses that want them to be written in their favor. We only have 2 political parties, with no option to vote outside that 2 party system... and both of those parties take money from the very businesses that will profit from a single payer system. It may work for you, but there is no way in hell it will work here until we figure out a way to clean out our government. I don't foresee that happening anytime soon.
You have a choice in insurance companies. Through my employer I have a choice of 6 different plans. They all cover various things and costs of the most expensive is more than double that of the cheapest plan. But it has more coverage for my family and a wider selection of drugs. I could chose a plan that only partially pays for generic only drugs. Or the more expensive plan that covers generics in full and has a co-pay on non-generic (and many drugs are not available in generic form in the US due to heavy lobbying by drug companies) The point being is that I have choice as long as I can afford it. If I want to spend half my paycheck on health insurance I can.
I had an uncle that had terminal cancer. The doctors said they could go in and cut it out... put him through Chemo... give him another 5 years maybe. But this guy was a Korean war vet. He was a POW 3 times, had 5 bullet holes in his back (he said if you ever got shot while running towards a gun you were a damned fool) Great guy... He told the doctors to go fuck themselves, please write me a prescription for strait morphine. That's exactly what the doctors did. He was high as a kite until his death about a year later. That was his choice. I wouldn't have made the same choice, but it was up to him. I want to have a choice.
We don't even have people that travel outside the country and yet your security standards state that:
A. The laptop is wiped and re-imaged upon return. Every time.
B. The user simply uses the laptop to VPN into our corporate network which is protected by a random keyfob plus all the usual security.
C. Corporate laptops never leave the site of the user. You take it with you everywhere you go. Period.
Granted, I don't think C gets followed all that much. But A and B are pretty solid. Who the hell keeps a personal laptop for work anymore?
Life never thrived on Venus.
Do you have any evidence to support this? We don't even know if there is life currently living on Venus, much less in its ancient history. It's doubtful that anything resembling earth-like life lives on Venuses surface, but there could be certainly be life we don't understand yet. It also likely had vast oceans in it's past that have dried up... And as far as earth-like life, the atmosphere of Venus is almost identical to earths pressure and temperature at about 50 to 60km up... although it's almost pure CO2 so it would have to be plant life.
This idea that to support life a planet must resemble our own is getting old. Our planet is as unique and the life that evolved on it... I think we'll find that nearly every planet we find life on will be equally as unique.
You just don't understand do you? It's not up to you if it's worth trying or not. It's HER life. She gets to decide if she wants to try leeches to cure her cancer. In a private system, she can seek out and purchase insurance that covers what she wants. In a single payer system you HAVE NO CHOICE. A panel of doctors decides if your treatment is worthwhile or not. In a single payer system, the least cost solution wins. The cheapest way to cure some diseases is to simply make the patient wait long enough that the problem "goes away" in this case the patient paid for it out of pocket, in other cases they just die.
I'm not a republican by any means. But the government absolutely sucks at everything they do. Keep them out of my healthcare please. The roads on the way to the hospital are bad enough, I don't need the medical system to be full of holes as well.
Ok...
Doctors leaving Germany over low wages:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/german-brain-drain-sick-of-bad-pay-doctors-flee-germany-a-399537.html
Waiting lists for hospital treatment:
http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/nireland/healthcare_ni/healthcare_nhs_healthcare_e/nhs_patients_rights.htm#Hospitalwaitinglists
Hospitals unable to meet maximum wait times and resorting to fraud to meet guidelines:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-90691/Patients-cheated-NHS-waiting-list-scandal.html
Wait times continue to increase despite government pressure:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/apr/19/david-cameron-pressure-nhs-waiting-times
"Recent hospital figures show the average waiting time across all 19 departments to be about eight months. While breast surgery patients are seen in less than a month, patients waiting for a pain management appointment can expect to wait years"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-20238418
Remember those "death panels" that were such a joke? Meet a victim of one:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/2910780/NHSs-refusal-to-fund-cancer-treatment-costs-mother-21000.html
The vote isn't even recognized unless 30% of all Facebook users vote.
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=76815337130
30% of 1 billion = 300 Million
So 300 million people have to vote for them to even consider the results.
Good luck. This vote is just for show.
As a kid we used to take a board with a hole drilled into it, put a rifle round in it and smack it with a hammer to set it off. Got good enough that we were actually hitting targets at 20 yards with it. No one was killed surprisingly. Where you have to worry about with bullets is A. being in front of it when it goes off... and B. having the gas trapped due to a poorly made bullet or a barrel obstruction. There's not really a way for what he made to fail in such a way that the gun would blow up. I'd be sure to check the barrel after every shot though.
No, it's like I walk into your store, pick up a box that says "Blue shirt" on it, pay you $50, walk out the door, open the box and find that the shirt that is locked inside a second box with a lock on it. That lock has a note that says "By opening this shirt you agree to allow our store to track your movements via GPS, take video with hidden cameras installed in this shirt and sell those videos to the Tosh.0 show if any of them are deemed funny"
If I don't agree, I don't get the shirt I just paid for... I take it back to you and you tell me "All sales are final!" So what the hell is the customer supposed to do? It'd be one thing if you had to agree to the EULA before you paid... but after the fact?
As do I. You don't count if you actually work for Microsoft.
wait wait wait... lol... God you demopublicans will say whatever nonsense our party puts in your mouth wont you?
Bush tried to get NASA to go to the moon and mars... NASA, using probably their oldest fundraising gag, said "but wait, we'll need more money, guess we'll have to cancel (insert popular program here: Hubble/Voyager/Mars Rovers) unless we get more funding!" They, of course, didn't get anymore money, and yet still didn't cancel the program. They've threatened to shut down Hubble dozens of times.
Stop falling for political games. They're ALL lying to you. Especially your own party.
Microsoft are fucking idiots. Every enterprise customer they have already wants to get away from them, but the cost of migration is just too steep. What they did here was change that... even if the new rates still keep the cost bellow some threshold that would make it easier to migrate to something else, what they've really done is say to all their customers "We will price gouge you in the middle of a recession" and you can bet every IS/IT department in the country is going to be having meetings regarding just how quickly it'll really take to get out from under the chains of .NET
The android desktop OS is coming... we all know it. It'll be free and Google will have hordes of experts ready to fly out to your site and help you migrate... then what Microsoft?
You really misunderstand what I said. ART that is profitable to the ARTIST isn't really art. Either way, they are still an artist. But if the work you're doing, is for profit, then profit will guide your hand. And it stops being creative at that point. The artist can still create art, and he can still create profit, but the two are mutually exclusive.
Articles like this drive me crazy. We have no idea how life starts in a solar system. We only have the most remote clue regarding how it arose here on earth. We have absolutely no idea if life exists on other planets in this solar system, there may even be intelligent life here, trapped under ice, or perhaps not caring to talk to us... To suggest any of the ridiculously scant data we have on even the nearest of our neighbor stars is any clue we can use to determine if life is possible there is idiotic. These sorts of articles are the sorts of things that future generations will dig up to laugh at how dumb we were way here in the stupid ages.
Wouldn't a US ban on Samsung products constitute a ban on... pretty much everything electronic? I doubt there's a single electrical device in your home that doesn't contain at least some Samsung components.
It doesn't even mean that... shatter proof means it wont end up in a zillion razor sharp shards for you to step on. It could still be easy to break. Jello is shatter proof...
Samsung is probably the top electronics manufacturer in the world right now. All your geek gadgets either came from them or contain parts made by them.
Art that is profitable to the artist, isn't really art.
That's important... but what's more important to me is this thing is DESIGNED to do what I want to do with it. I've been doing the HTPC thing since the 90s, when all I had was a very expensive soundcard with a digital channel to my stereo. All this time it's evolved and served me well. But the fact of the matter is my HTPC is by far the most powerful PC in my house now. More processing power, more memory, better video card, everything. I'm hardly utilizing it's power, but that's what you need when you're doing experimental shit that the PC was never designed to do. There's all sorts of little glitches that aren't show stoppers but are annoying. If I could spend $100, and have something I did't have to fuck with anymore and get to use that computer for something other than streaming video, I'd be in heaven.
This thing sounds great. Especially if it can run XBMC... that would make it incredibly useful. But their site is in terrible need of a FAQ.
Can it decode x264?
Can it play full 1080p video?
can you use multiple controllers?
Can you have peripherals? Specifically a remote?
Does it have a network connection? Wifi?
I think the problem is rather clear... we need to sue Greenland for dumping all their waste water into the ocean. How can they be this irresponsible?!?
Yes, but your problem is that you're thinking that money belongs to the "people" or some such. It doesn't. It belongs to an individual. And you have no right to take it from them. A flat tax rate DOES tax the rich more... that's why it's a percentage. 30% of my salary is a hell of a lot less than 30% of bill gates. What we need to do is dump ALL taxes other than sales tax. We should have a purely consumption based tax system. The rich buy more, and will pay more. People will have incentive to save. It's good on all accounts.
Our overcomplicated tax system servers one purpose: To hide how much you're being taxed. I doubt anyone in this country, even the IRS, knows how much anyone else really is paying in taxes.