Hospital billing rates and contract insurance reimbursement rates are no great secret. Government reimbursement rates are certainly no secret (medicare/medicaid).
My employer offered health plan also covered my transplant. The deductible kind of sucked but it was still pretty tiny when compared to the cost of the transplant.
Healthcare affordability in the US is more about people choosing to live beyond their means and never considering any sort of financial hick-up. They will blow money on crappy Apple products but expect doctors to be free.
In other words, the real world is the EXACT OPPOSITE of your stupid trolling.
So the Linux gamer buys the same card that his Windows counterpart would. What's the tragedy? Certainly no one is using Intel for gaming. So at worst you are only losing one option (rather than two).
...and DAMN the long term consequences of pretending that those problems don't exist and don't need to be addressed in some way.
My favorite example is school lunches. It sounds like a pinko liberal handout. It's was actually intended as a measure to improve military readiness. "Ignoring the problem" caused a hardship for the Army.
Each faction will happily abuse the law so long as they view it as going their way in the beginning. Of course none of them are smart enough or adult enough to think about the situation even 5 minutes into the future.
Neither faction is capable of "thinking shit through".
That's another word that the terrorist sympathizers abuse like "genocide".
In truth, Israel is by far the most progressive country in the middle east treating Palestinians as equals. They also do the same for all of the indigenous minorities that the BDS movement conveniently forgets about.
In other Arab countries, Palestinians are perpetually kept in "refugee camps" and prevented from assimilating. A Palestinian is better treated in Israel (or the US) than by their own people.
And let's not forget who keeps the other side of Gaza bottled up. The Egyptians don't like Hamas any more than the Israelis do.
Since flour and sugar pretty much coincide with civilization in general and the ability to record anything, the idea that "disease suddenly appears" is a pretty obvious thing. Whether or not it's anything to get hysterical about is another matter.
I wouldn't expect many of those "other apps" to run terribly well on a $100 x86 PC. This is probably not something that will be a suitable gateway for all of those Windows legacy apps unless it's through running an RDP client.
> Your point being? Or since the Raspberry Pi is like numerous other products before it we should have shrugged it off too?
I did shrug it off after I actually tried it and found it far less exiting than I thought I would. It was interesting in that it was really cheap and was a platform that couldn't run Windows. Beyond that, I didn't find it terribly useful.
Also, what kind of idiot thinks that the PI "invented" this kind of form factor?
> The space program and the Internet are examples of military spending by the government.
The American space program was indeed civilian and academic. There were other rocket programs dedicated to killing people.
Once you have Sputnik in orbit, the military part of your space program is pretty much done. You already have your ICBM that you can used to rain down nukes on your enemy.
The problem with socialism is that it it has to be "built". In "building socialism" you end up with all of the flaws and abuses that socialists would like to disown.
Hero of Alexandria worked for a government funded research institution. Whether his work was based on any sort of pure theory or it was just pure experimentation, the end result was not a product of "market economics".
Bullshit. The price hike was classic MONOPOLY behavior.
This idiot thought he had a monopoly on a drug that was well out of patent. The whole thing was idiotic and just screaming for a competitive beat down. It didn't even make sense originally.
Again, if "single source generics" are even a problem then it's a lack of Sherman Anti-Trust act enforcement. Again, we know monopolies are bad. We have ancient laws against them. We just have too many blithering Ayn Rand cultists running round screeching about how corporations should act like the scum of the Earth.
Corporate emergency response is why we have the government do it. When you leave it in the hands of corner cutting corporations, it can get so bad that your bad reputation follows you 2000 years later.
Like others have said. It's far better to get the REAL help rolling and to know and be sure that such help is actually coming rather than depending on your corporate master to do the right thing.
How can you people be so stupid and misinformed? Are you trolling on purpose. You have to be. There's no way you could possibly be this ignorant.
If you go to the doctor for every little cough, they aren't going to take you seriously. They aren't going to engage in "excessive diagnostic procedures" and find that "mystery disease". They're just going to think you're a wasteful hypocondriac.
People with REAL diseases have enough trouble getting doctors to take them seriously as is.
Even "poor" people can afford that kind of convenience should they so desire it. If that's not something they value, then they can squander that $8 on something that makes them feel wealthier than they really are.
"Those poors" are not debt ridden suburbanite conspicuous consumers. They know the value of money and don't squander it. They PAY CASH for services rendered and they don't even suffer for it.
Some of "those poors" are more solvent than you are.
Why would anyone here want to go into too much detail? If you make it easy to identify yourself then you're just putting a target on your back for every kook and troll on the planet.
No. Obamacare DOUBLED the rate of increase for plans. My state had respectable individual plans that could not be canceled. Except Obamacare caused them to be canceled. Now the decent replacement plans look like they're going to be canceled and nothing will be left but total crap.
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Hospital billing rates and contract insurance reimbursement rates are no great secret. Government reimbursement rates are certainly no secret (medicare/medicaid).
My employer offered health plan also covered my transplant. The deductible kind of sucked but it was still pretty tiny when compared to the cost of the transplant.
Healthcare affordability in the US is more about people choosing to live beyond their means and never considering any sort of financial hick-up. They will blow money on crappy Apple products but expect doctors to be free.
Yet Nvidia is there and Valve is there.
In other words, the real world is the EXACT OPPOSITE of your stupid trolling.
So the Linux gamer buys the same card that his Windows counterpart would. What's the tragedy? Certainly no one is using Intel for gaming. So at worst you are only losing one option (rather than two).
...and DAMN the long term consequences of pretending that those problems don't exist and don't need to be addressed in some way.
My favorite example is school lunches. It sounds like a pinko liberal handout. It's was actually intended as a measure to improve military readiness. "Ignoring the problem" caused a hardship for the Army.
Each faction will happily abuse the law so long as they view it as going their way in the beginning. Of course none of them are smart enough or adult enough to think about the situation even 5 minutes into the future.
Neither faction is capable of "thinking shit through".
Being "appalled" is no excuse for censorship.
Not allowing "heresy" is the death of democracy and academic freedom.
That's another word that the terrorist sympathizers abuse like "genocide".
In truth, Israel is by far the most progressive country in the middle east treating Palestinians as equals. They also do the same for all of the indigenous minorities that the BDS movement conveniently forgets about.
In other Arab countries, Palestinians are perpetually kept in "refugee camps" and prevented from assimilating. A Palestinian is better treated in Israel (or the US) than by their own people.
And let's not forget who keeps the other side of Gaza bottled up. The Egyptians don't like Hamas any more than the Israelis do.
What you are describing is not "moderation", especially the part that includes "not to eat".
...or they could just stop subsidizing sugar production.
Since flour and sugar pretty much coincide with civilization in general and the ability to record anything, the idea that "disease suddenly appears" is a pretty obvious thing. Whether or not it's anything to get hysterical about is another matter.
It still beats the alternative.
That "nuisance" can interfere with his drug supply.
Something that interferes with his drug supply can KILL him.
I wouldn't expect many of those "other apps" to run terribly well on a $100 x86 PC. This is probably not something that will be a suitable gateway for all of those Windows legacy apps unless it's through running an RDP client.
> Your point being? Or since the Raspberry Pi is like numerous other products before it we should have shrugged it off too?
I did shrug it off after I actually tried it and found it far less exiting than I thought I would. It was interesting in that it was really cheap and was a platform that couldn't run Windows. Beyond that, I didn't find it terribly useful.
Also, what kind of idiot thinks that the PI "invented" this kind of form factor?
> The space program and the Internet are examples of military spending by the government.
The American space program was indeed civilian and academic. There were other rocket programs dedicated to killing people.
Once you have Sputnik in orbit, the military part of your space program is pretty much done. You already have your ICBM that you can used to rain down nukes on your enemy.
The problem with socialism is that it it has to be "built". In "building socialism" you end up with all of the flaws and abuses that socialists would like to disown.
Hero of Alexandria worked for a government funded research institution. Whether his work was based on any sort of pure theory or it was just pure experimentation, the end result was not a product of "market economics".
Bullshit. The price hike was classic MONOPOLY behavior.
This idiot thought he had a monopoly on a drug that was well out of patent. The whole thing was idiotic and just screaming for a competitive beat down. It didn't even make sense originally.
Again, if "single source generics" are even a problem then it's a lack of Sherman Anti-Trust act enforcement. Again, we know monopolies are bad. We have ancient laws against them. We just have too many blithering Ayn Rand cultists running round screeching about how corporations should act like the scum of the Earth.
Corporate emergency response is why we have the government do it. When you leave it in the hands of corner cutting corporations, it can get so bad that your bad reputation follows you 2000 years later.
Like others have said. It's far better to get the REAL help rolling and to know and be sure that such help is actually coming rather than depending on your corporate master to do the right thing.
How can you people be so stupid and misinformed? Are you trolling on purpose. You have to be. There's no way you could possibly be this ignorant.
If you go to the doctor for every little cough, they aren't going to take you seriously. They aren't going to engage in "excessive diagnostic procedures" and find that "mystery disease". They're just going to think you're a wasteful hypocondriac.
People with REAL diseases have enough trouble getting doctors to take them seriously as is.
Don't be such an innumerate MORON.
It's $8, not $800.
Even "poor" people can afford that kind of convenience should they so desire it. If that's not something they value, then they can squander that $8 on something that makes them feel wealthier than they really are.
"undocumented freeloaders" just pay cash.
They actually work, so they have it to spend.
You are confusing "undocumented freeloaders" for our urban poor that are too proud to take certain kinds of jobs.
"Those poors" are not debt ridden suburbanite conspicuous consumers. They know the value of money and don't squander it. They PAY CASH for services rendered and they don't even suffer for it.
Some of "those poors" are more solvent than you are.
Why would anyone here want to go into too much detail? If you make it easy to identify yourself then you're just putting a target on your back for every kook and troll on the planet.
The average slashbot should be smarter than that.
No. Obamacare DOUBLED the rate of increase for plans. My state had respectable individual plans that could not be canceled. Except Obamacare caused them to be canceled. Now the decent replacement plans look like they're going to be canceled and nothing will be left but total crap.