You can choose whether or not to have a car: but you cannot choose whether or not to have a body!
There is nothing good about the State having control of your body.
True, debt reduces your options: but you have an individual choice about going into debt. Taxes are the choices of others: unless overturned you have no choice.
Electorally accountable! That's every freaking TWO-FOUR YEARS! And that's if you think your one vote is going to make a change in policy. (unlikely)
Right now you can vote each and every time you chose a medical provider/service
Look, the "conscience" or motivation of the corporation is purely to make money: if they have a bad product: don't buy it and they will go out of business. (Yes this means you must read the fine print and chose the good over the bad.) But right now you get chose every time: once government sets something evil you'll need a lawyer and/or a two-year campaign to get it changed!
Health-care reform should be about removing any price and service protections afforded the health care industry (by the government) that insulate it from competition. True, insurance companies play some part of that insulation. Don't use evil insurance companies. Heck, don't use insurance: http://www.simplecare.com/
But keep your right to choose: keep the government out of it.
If its the insurers you hate: I would rather outlaw medical insurance (private and public) and force everything to cash then to give the government direct power over the bodies of its citizens.
You are willing to give up your liberty and the liberty of every person in the country: just so you can visit a doctor paid with your tax dollars instead of your take-home pay. You are giving up plurality to a choices (freedom) for a single system (no choice).
I fail to see how narrowing some choice among health insurers (or the choice of not having insurance and paying cash) compares remotely to single-payer (no choice) government snail-mail health care.
So what we really need is bunch of airborne centrifuges over the high-emission areas
East Siberian Arctic Shelf
Cattle yards
Anywhere Al Gore is speaking
Obviously there would be energy expended, but ideally the harvested methane could be used to power the blimp-bourne centrifuges. If NASA was still doing space work, the methane could also be used for methane-hydrogen space shots (you know, find another planet while "saving" this one)
Notice the EU is going after the money even after Intel and AMD settled.
Must be nice to extort 1.5 billion without having to make, invest, or risk anything.
Maybe it would work if the whole world privatized...so royalty would stop coming to the US when they need some special treatment and raise the price for everyone here.
But really, you only have to look at college tuition. When the government provided loans (I think it was Reagan, actually) for students, suddenly college tuition went up because any student could get a loan. The more the government subsidized the more those greedy liberal colleges jacked up their prices. Remove the subsidy, remove the guaranteed loans, and in a few years, when the student applications dry up because no one can afford 100,000 a year for school without a government loan, colleges will have to lower their prices if they want to get any tuition money.
This is a good example why government should stay out of health care. Medicare fraud is bad enough. Imagine what crooks will do when no one has any other choice. I really doubt this is going to bring down any "cost" at all...
I could speculate as to why you're so invested in the current system, but as the answers range from somewhere between being paid to advocate for the insurance companies right the way down to the possibility that you'd rather other people die than you have to pay for health insurance, I don't really want to know the answer.
We'd rather let people die than be forced to pay for other people's health insurance under threat of fine, prison, or the end of a gun.
And why is that? Because the government forms rules that are not just for the public good. Cleaning up government (i.e. less) is the answer, not creating more rules that favor this group or that group.
I agree, exercise can be fun. I hate running, but if you put a ball or a Frisbee in the mix with a little competition I'll run around a field for hours
They don't need to sit down with each other, the project manager needs to define the project goals: i.e. give them problems to work on. Mating the systems is part of that and would be in the requirements.
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They're okay. The 2GB RAM limit sucks. I won't be buying another one anytime soon.
Cities should not try to make up for tax short-falls with citations: they need to cut spending instead.
This website contains no CSS formatting: delusions of living in 1995 may ensue.
This should really be a bluetooth application.
I for one salute our freely elected overlords!
You can choose whether or not to have a car: but you cannot choose whether or not to have a body!
There is nothing good about the State having control of your body.
True, debt reduces your options: but you have an individual choice about going into debt. Taxes are the choices of others: unless overturned you have no choice.
Electorally accountable! That's every freaking TWO-FOUR YEARS! And that's if you think your one vote is going to make a change in policy. (unlikely)
Right now you can vote each and every time you chose a medical provider/service
Look, the "conscience" or motivation of the corporation is purely to make money: if they have a bad product: don't buy it and they will go out of business. (Yes this means you must read the fine print and chose the good over the bad.)
But right now you get chose every time: once government sets something evil you'll need a lawyer and/or a two-year campaign to get it changed!
Health-care reform should be about removing any price and service protections afforded the health care industry (by the government) that insulate it from competition. True, insurance companies play some part of that insulation. Don't use evil insurance companies. Heck, don't use insurance: http://www.simplecare.com/
But keep your right to choose: keep the government out of it.
If its the insurers you hate: I would rather outlaw medical insurance (private and public) and force everything to cash then to give the government direct power over the bodies of its citizens.
You are willing to give up your liberty and the liberty of every person in the country: just so you can visit a doctor paid with your tax dollars instead of your take-home pay. You are giving up plurality to a choices (freedom) for a single system (no choice).
I fail to see how narrowing some choice among health insurers (or the choice of not having insurance and paying cash) compares remotely to single-payer (no choice) government snail-mail health care.
Obviously there would be energy expended, but ideally the harvested methane could be used to power the blimp-bourne centrifuges. If NASA was still doing space work, the methane could also be used for methane-hydrogen space shots (you know, find another planet while "saving" this one)
Perfect! No legislation needed: just give ISPs the hint to be hard on their ignorant customers.
Mod parent up!
Notice the EU is going after the money even after Intel and AMD settled.
Must be nice to extort 1.5 billion without having to make, invest, or risk anything.
Maybe it would work if the whole world privatized...so royalty would stop coming to the US when they need some special treatment and raise the price for everyone here.
But really, you only have to look at college tuition. When the government provided loans (I think it was Reagan, actually) for students, suddenly college tuition went up because any student could get a loan. The more the government subsidized the more those greedy liberal colleges jacked up their prices. Remove the subsidy, remove the guaranteed loans, and in a few years, when the student applications dry up because no one can afford 100,000 a year for school without a government loan, colleges will have to lower their prices if they want to get any tuition money.
This is a good example why government should stay out of health care. Medicare fraud is bad enough. Imagine what crooks will do when no one has any other choice. I really doubt this is going to bring down any "cost" at all...
Self-preservation is a right. Carrying out self-preservation may require you to seek care from others.
But there is no right to force others to care for you. If you are forcing people to care for you, you are enslaving them.
There is no right to violate the rights of others
I could speculate as to why you're so invested in the current system, but as the answers range from somewhere between being paid to advocate for the insurance companies right the way down to the possibility that you'd rather other people die than you have to pay for health insurance, I don't really want to know the answer.
We'd rather let people die than be forced to pay for other people's health insurance under threat of fine, prison, or the end of a gun.
And why is that? Because the government forms rules that are not just for the public good. Cleaning up government (i.e. less) is the answer, not creating more rules that favor this group or that group.
That is totally freaking awesome. Mod parent up.
all ur base are belong to us
I agree, exercise can be fun.
I hate running, but if you put a ball or a Frisbee in the mix with a little competition I'll run around a field for hours
They don't need to sit down with each other, the project manager needs to define the project goals: i.e. give them problems to work on. Mating the systems is part of that and would be in the requirements.
I think you completely missed his point. Try rereading his post.
Of course! Didn't you watch Live Free or Die Hard?
I want to know if OpenBSD thought of this already and blocked it, or if this is their 3rd hole
I guess you have to be at the right place at the right time to get a ticket to Guantanamo.
Maybe if he had been hacking via an Afghan proxy server?
Alien vs. Predator