Gah i misread what you meant, you're exactly correct that if this data is kept AWAY from insurance companies, it will NOT mean the end of private insurance.
I completely agree that if this kind of detail is commonly available that THAT scenario would eventually lead to the end of private insurance.
Because if you reduce the margins enough, you end up with a scenario where ones premiums equal exactly the cost of ones expected medical treatment. If your premiums for insurance are equal to your cost of medical care, what the hell is the point of insurance?
at least thats the way i see it as a medical insurance salesman.
How can you "stock up" on insurance? By purchasing coverage for a period of time further into the future such that medical conditions that arise mid-policy do no have an overly long stability requirement.
Because insurance companies manage their rates based on trackable probabilities and their claims history. If an insurance company a show that those with genetic pre-dispositions for certain conditions have higher claim rates, this will become a metric for increasing prices without actually having a diagnosis for the conditions in question.
Trust me, this is not a good thing for the consumer if such data becomes a standard part of ones medical history and I SELL travel medical insurance.
Personally, I do not think he is missing anything. I think he knows exactly what open source is capable of, but he certainly isn't going to come out and say "yeah open source software which directly competes with us with an impossible difference in cost is fine, go ahead and enjoy it".
CEO or not, he's not going to laud the competition if he can avoid it. Especially when said competition comes with a price tag of employee-setup-and-maintenance-hours-only.
Now that is an awesome idea. You could even have it set up such that you could sms back to a system tied cell line if you suddenly received your own password without requesting. the sms could trigger a change in the configs so that it uses a next-domain-in-the-rotation or failing that, change the current url for the frontend. If the users of the system knew the list of possible domains/urls that'd make it even tighter heh.
damnit, why didn't i think of that one you bastard =)
or is it time to start looking at mac or linux? It wasn't before now? I'm constantly amazed at peoples threshold for tolerating pain as long as they're told it won't hurt =)
Easily could have been a code phrase, its a really really OLLLD line and theres about a bajillion paraphrases i've run into. Personally, i got it from The Tick where it was effectively nonsense =).
If they state their own article itself as the only reference they have, isn't that useful information in and of itself? This just tells people that the article is effectively pulled direct out of someones head.
As long as it's not saying there ARE other data sources involved and NOT listing those, then what exactly is the issue here? I'd be more worried if someone found as many bogus references that were close as possible to pad the article, ensuring people think it is exhaustively researched.
Seems we're just nitpicking of whether being abused through drugs (uninformed usage through pressure) and deciding to abuse drugs is the same thing (understanding the risks and saying...ah what the fuck i'd rather be that way).
I don't see how the difference has any impact on anything. Whether its "illegal drug use" or "illegal drug abuse" usually has more to do with the person describing the situation rather than the situation itself.
The nations i am referring to are the ones most in need of agricultural reform and who are NOT self sufficient food economies. I'm not referring to the aid component as that is already above and beyond what they are able to deal with themselves, I'm referring to their own ability to purchase.
And what could possibly be more rude than to temporarily ignore them to accept an interruption If he received the interruption on YOUR cell phone instead of his?
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Gah i misread what you meant, you're exactly correct that if this data is kept AWAY from insurance companies, it will NOT mean the end of private insurance.
I completely agree that if this kind of detail is commonly available that THAT scenario would eventually lead to the end of private insurance.
My bad, i'm on vacation =).
heh just for clarity's sake, that was a quote from the movie Gattaca
Because if you reduce the margins enough, you end up with a scenario where ones premiums equal exactly the cost of ones expected medical treatment. If your premiums for insurance are equal to your cost of medical care, what the hell is the point of insurance?
at least thats the way i see it as a medical insurance salesman.
those that can and know, do.
pricey capital investment though.
Because insurance companies manage their rates based on trackable probabilities and their claims history. If an insurance company a show that those with genetic pre-dispositions for certain conditions have higher claim rates, this will become a metric for increasing prices without actually having a diagnosis for the conditions in question.
Trust me, this is not a good thing for the consumer if such data becomes a standard part of ones medical history and I SELL travel medical insurance.
they call it.
But no one takes the law seriously.
Personally, I do not think he is missing anything. I think he knows exactly what open source is capable of, but he certainly isn't going to come out and say "yeah open source software which directly competes with us with an impossible difference in cost is fine, go ahead and enjoy it".
CEO or not, he's not going to laud the competition if he can avoid it. Especially when said competition comes with a price tag of employee-setup-and-maintenance-hours-only.
Now that is an awesome idea. You could even have it set up such that you could sms back to a system tied cell line if you suddenly received your own password without requesting. the sms could trigger a change in the configs so that it uses a next-domain-in-the-rotation or failing that, change the current url for the frontend. If the users of the system knew the list of possible domains/urls that'd make it even tighter heh.
damnit, why didn't i think of that one you bastard =)
Easily could have been a code phrase, its a really really OLLLD line and theres about a bajillion paraphrases i've run into. Personally, i got it from The Tick where it was effectively nonsense =).
Calmer than you are.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetent malice.
If they state their own article itself as the only reference they have, isn't that useful information in and of itself? This just tells people that the article is effectively pulled direct out of someones head.
As long as it's not saying there ARE other data sources involved and NOT listing those, then what exactly is the issue here? I'd be more worried if someone found as many bogus references that were close as possible to pad the article, ensuring people think it is exhaustively researched.
Am I correct in assuming that you're saying slashdot users are normal visitors?
woah.
You are an evil, evil person.
Why thank you, now I have scenes from the Crimson Permanent Assurance short burnt into the back of my eyes for the rest of today.
You quoted those quoting others. Or possibly quoting those quoting those quoting others
I thought Carrot Top wasn't allowed back here.
Because.
Seriously...thats all.
yes, and we can all imagine a beowolf cluster of them, comparisons with automobile tonnage, and how in soviet russia, 2 tonn calculator uses YOU.
yep.
Seems we're just nitpicking of whether being abused through drugs (uninformed usage through pressure) and deciding to abuse drugs is the same thing (understanding the risks and saying...ah what the fuck i'd rather be that way).
I don't see how the difference has any impact on anything. Whether its "illegal drug use" or "illegal drug abuse" usually has more to do with the person describing the situation rather than the situation itself.
The nations i am referring to are the ones most in need of agricultural reform and who are NOT self sufficient food economies. I'm not referring to the aid component as that is already above and beyond what they are able to deal with themselves, I'm referring to their own ability to purchase.
Theres a lot of them.
That and a number of already starving nations will starve even harder.