Well, I have many similar stories. I live in Toronto so it is not as terrible as it is for the GP, but lets just say that my family members cannot get appointments with specialist sooner than 6 (sometimes 8) months away even IF those are life threatening situations. Within 2 years we lost 2 people here this way. Personally I have a few issues with my knees, that no one here wants to deal with, I am constantly misdiagnosed here, I have to go to Germany and the US (thanks Buffalo Medical Group and good Doctors at Baden-Baden!)
In Canada it is difficult to get many things out of the health care system: getting a new family doctor, getting appointments with specialists, getting emergency care and not waiting for 15 hours to see a Dr even with a bunch of broken bones, getting your actual diagnosis results to see them, getting correct diagnosis. Sometimes it looks like the 'doctors' here are on purpose telling the patients that there is no problem and not after a very long waiting period the person dies from that problem that didn't exist.
To be honest, I have much more unpleasant personal and family/friends experiences from the Canadian 'health care system' than good ones.
First of all it's lose, not 'loose'. You make me cringe every time by spelling it this way and I am not a native English speaker.
Secondly, it makes no sense to attempt to lose any elections at all, especially elections during times of such great turmoil as they are now. It only makes sense to really attempt and win such elections even more, because during such difficult times it is much simpler to subvert the law of the land for your own purposes, be it monetary or ideological benefit. It is much simpler to rule during 'tough times' by invoking 'tough measures' and getting more and more power as these measures are invoked.
No, the Republicans and the Democrats (and the rest) are doing the best they can come up with to win these elections. The 80 year old 'maverick' and the 'lipsticked wolf hunter', that's their new sociological experiment. They are trying a new formula, just like Clinton tried and new formula during his elections (you know, concentrate on the small issues) and probably what Reagan did etc.
BTW, it's said that it's better to rule in Hell...
Ok, so here is your solution: declare this to be a tie between Obama, McCain and some libertarian, say Ron Paul or Barr, whatever, have all three of them preside over the government at the same time.
How will they make major decisions in case if one opposes the other? A 3 way vote is one approach. Another approach is a dance-off.
It may seem that I am joking but that's a misunderstanding.
Just would like to point out that you are mistaken about some people willingness to create rules limiting freedoms just based on bad experiences, like some kid dying from a salmonella poisoning. There are always people who will require government to declare how they should live their lives and how others should behave, but many people would be able to continue living their lives free even if it was their kid dying from that salmonella.
I have a point as well, just because you think Canada is so much better at these things than the US doesn't make it so. The health care system is pathetic here, I don't want it even for free, not to mention that we pay for it in taxes (including the Dalton McGuinty's 900/year extra tax that didn't make the waiting lines any shorter.)
You believe that Canadian economy is somehow stronger than the US economy and that people will hurt less here, well if US closes its borders to most of the Canadian exports then you will have to rethink that.
Our health care system is also inaccessible to a very large portion of population, those people who can't even get a family physician will not be able to see any specialist and their only hope is the emergency room, which is pretty much screwed up.
Seems you like to think Canada is much better than the US but what you don't see is that Canada is basically the unofficial US state, where is that army that will keep the independence of this country if the US decides to declare that there is no such thing?
We have lobbying and they do have their welfare system. These systems are not at all as far apart as you may think. You don't have any moral high ground.
Yes. Welcome to the world of triage. Either we triage based on who needs the care more, or who can afford it. Suck it up. Better than a large fraction of your population going completely uncovered.
- are you familiar of the concept of false dichotomy? Germany has a dual system that works better than either the US or Canadian.
Did I say they didn't? No. That said, I've heard *many* people here on/. rail against the American public school system, and given how it rates relative to the rest of the world, I'd say it is, to put it mildly, mismanaged.
- Canadian public school system is just as mismanaged, nothing to be proud of here.
Uhh... okay. If you say so.
I can say that Canadian universities are *extremely* well regarded in areas of computing science, biotechnology, and nanotech, among others.
- nice to know that there are lucky people out there who get good professionals as opposed to useless ones, who can't even diagnose correctly, forget about treatment.
Yes, welcome to the free rider problem. Suck it up.
- why suck it up? There is no reason why it should be impossible to get rid of the free riders, this is a political problem of a country that is too liberal for its own good.
No worse than the US (once you factor in things like employer-paid health care benefits). And yet we get more for our money. Which was the entire point of my post.
- in Toronto we don't get more for our money.
We get doctor shortage. We get competent doctors shortage, which is a subset of the first problem. We get emergency rooms with 1 doctor, who is too busy to attend to actual emergencies because he is 'teaching' the residents. We get to wait for 9 month to see a specialist and 1/2 of a year for biopsy. We get crumbling infrastructure with no new roads built, no new subways, but we get these new wonderful and useless bike lanes (soon on our highways) and streetcars that take lanes away from normal traffic. We get our property taxes shooting up by 30% this year. We get RRSPs sinking 30% this quarter, so forget about that 'comfortable retirement plan' that your government was forcing you into. We get shootings every day, people wake in their pathetic cardboard houses with bullets in them that were meant for some gangster. We get 600sq/ft apartments for half a million. We get the manufacturing being outsourced all the way to the cheapest of the cheap and then we get baby pacifiers back with lead in them.
Incidentally, on a side note, here in my country, Canada, we have universal healthcare
- yeah, it only works well as long as you are young and healthy. My wife and I routinely drive to Buffalo, NY from Toronto ON to get prompt medical attention and once every couple of years fly to Germany for stuff that would be prohibitively expensive to do in the US but that is still light years better of what Canadian system has to offer.
universal education
- in US, don't they have universal education for primary and high schools just as well?
university tuition that's actually affordable
- and doctors who are useless after these universities.
old age security benefits
- and the gov't that promotes buying mutual funds as RRSPs, let's see how much of that was lost within the past 2 months?
and a welfare system
- which is abused.
And we're running a *surplus*.
- gee, you think it has nothing to do with being overtaxed?
Your voting machine must be not electronic, but electric instead. You come into the booth, there is a table with buttons on it, each button is a vote. Each button is located near a name/picture/party description of a candidate. You push a button, which is connected electrically to a mechanical counter. The wire from the button goes into one of the counters, the old mechanical counters, and the lever to increase the count is pulled by an electromagnet.
To prevent you from pushing more than one button more than one time there is also an extra wire, which detects that you pushed the button once and disconnects all power by flipping a switch on the outside of the booth until you exit from the booth. Before the next person enters, the relay is switch is flipped on so that the next voter can push his button.
If redundancy is required, the button you push can also invoke a card puncher, which will provide you with a card with paper being punched out (not by hand, by an electric card puncher). You put this paper into a box.
The mechanical counters are outside of the voting box, under a cube of fiberglass but the numbers are not visible, they are behind a piece of cardboard.
On the punch card you can see the name of the candidate and a hole punched next to the name.
The mechanical counters can only go up and not down due to their mechanical nature, until they reach their maximum and reset to 0 by overflowing.
It is very easy to inspect such system and if all the wiring is directly visible then it is not going to be easy to tamper with them no matter where they spend the night before elections.
Once the elections are over all that is needed is to open the faces of the counters by removing the cardboard.
Not 12, but I have 4TBx4TB in RAID 1 configuration at home. So hopefully RAID 1 will be a bit better protected than RAID 5. I am not going after speed, only after reliance and size.
I understand MMP and I am against it. 1. This is equivalent to electing politicians without representation. 2. It allows NDP to have more seats in the parliament, and to me this is morally disgusting.
Remarkably, both galaxies contain super-massive black holes, each capable of powering a billion, billion, billion light bulbs. The implications are wide reaching
- yes, the implications are wide reaching. Where exactly are we going to get that many light bulbs from? We can't just let all that energy go to waste. Did anyone notice Usama bin Laden in close vicinity to the black hole? If so, can we please notify Bush?
When did it become so unfashionable to admit that you don't know something? Queen might be larger than a bread box, it also might be smaller, depending on what Queen and what breadbox we are talking about and what it means to be larger? (Something maybe larger by volume, some people may be said to be 'larger than life').
Anyway, do people always have to answer and are they often lying?
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and nothing of value has been lost
How is it possible for a felon convicted on 7 charges and who was trailing by 22% to win the election?
it just means that many people don't like MS and don't trust it and don't want it. I am one of those people
You can never really be proven innocent. You can be found not guilty for a particular set of data, but you will never be again innocent.
You have stated no facts - yet of course your post is insightful?
- you are a retard, not the GP. It is totally possible to be insightful without providing any formal proof to a set of propositions.
It would be wrong for the GP to be moded INFORMATIVE, but Insightful works well.
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muhaha, why don't you stick that turd, you call cock, in your own ass
Well, I have many similar stories. I live in Toronto so it is not as terrible as it is for the GP, but lets just say that my family members cannot get appointments with specialist sooner than 6 (sometimes 8) months away even IF those are life threatening situations. Within 2 years we lost 2 people here this way. Personally I have a few issues with my knees, that no one here wants to deal with, I am constantly misdiagnosed here, I have to go to Germany and the US (thanks Buffalo Medical Group and good Doctors at Baden-Baden!)
In Canada it is difficult to get many things out of the health care system: getting a new family doctor, getting appointments with specialists, getting emergency care and not waiting for 15 hours to see a Dr even with a bunch of broken bones, getting your actual diagnosis results to see them, getting correct diagnosis. Sometimes it looks like the 'doctors' here are on purpose telling the patients that there is no problem and not after a very long waiting period the person dies from that problem that didn't exist.
To be honest, I have much more unpleasant personal and family /friends experiences from the Canadian 'health care system' than good ones.
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First of all it's lose, not 'loose'. You make me cringe every time by spelling it this way and I am not a native English speaker.
Secondly, it makes no sense to attempt to lose any elections at all, especially elections during times of such great turmoil as they are now. It only makes sense to really attempt and win such elections even more, because during such difficult times it is much simpler to subvert the law of the land for your own purposes, be it monetary or ideological benefit. It is much simpler to rule during 'tough times' by invoking 'tough measures' and getting more and more power as these measures are invoked.
No, the Republicans and the Democrats (and the rest) are doing the best they can come up with to win these elections. The 80 year old 'maverick' and the 'lipsticked wolf hunter', that's their new sociological experiment. They are trying a new formula, just like Clinton tried and new formula during his elections (you know, concentrate on the small issues) and probably what Reagan did etc.
BTW, it's said that it's better to rule in Hell...
Ok, so here is your solution: declare this to be a tie between Obama, McCain and some libertarian, say Ron Paul or Barr, whatever, have all three of them preside over the government at the same time.
How will they make major decisions in case if one opposes the other? A 3 way vote is one approach. Another approach is a dance-off.
It may seem that I am joking but that's a misunderstanding.
He should be on AOL instead.
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I hope y'all realize that was an insult albeit insightful insult
Just would like to point out that you are mistaken about some people willingness to create rules limiting freedoms just based on bad experiences, like some kid dying from a salmonella poisoning. There are always people who will require government to declare how they should live their lives and how others should behave, but many people would be able to continue living their lives free even if it was their kid dying from that salmonella.
I have a point as well, just because you think Canada is so much better at these things than the US doesn't make it so. The health care system is pathetic here, I don't want it even for free, not to mention that we pay for it in taxes (including the Dalton McGuinty's 900/year extra tax that didn't make the waiting lines any shorter.)
You believe that Canadian economy is somehow stronger than the US economy and that people will hurt less here, well if US closes its borders to most of the Canadian exports then you will have to rethink that.
Our health care system is also inaccessible to a very large portion of population, those people who can't even get a family physician will not be able to see any specialist and their only hope is the emergency room, which is pretty much screwed up.
Seems you like to think Canada is much better than the US but what you don't see is that Canada is basically the unofficial US state, where is that army that will keep the independence of this country if the US decides to declare that there is no such thing?
We have lobbying and they do have their welfare system. These systems are not at all as far apart as you may think. You don't have any moral high ground.
Yes. Welcome to the world of triage. Either we triage based on who needs the care more, or who can afford it. Suck it up. Better than a large fraction of your population going completely uncovered.
- are you familiar of the concept of false dichotomy? Germany has a dual system that works better than either the US or Canadian.
Did I say they didn't? No. That said, I've heard *many* people here on /. rail against the American public school system, and given how it rates relative to the rest of the world, I'd say it is, to put it mildly, mismanaged.
- Canadian public school system is just as mismanaged, nothing to be proud of here.
Uhh... okay. If you say so.
I can say that Canadian universities are *extremely* well regarded in areas of computing science, biotechnology, and nanotech, among others.
- nice to know that there are lucky people out there who get good professionals as opposed to useless ones, who can't even diagnose correctly, forget about treatment.
Yes, welcome to the free rider problem. Suck it up.
- why suck it up? There is no reason why it should be impossible to get rid of the free riders, this is a political problem of a country that is too liberal for its own good.
No worse than the US (once you factor in things like employer-paid health care benefits). And yet we get more for our money. Which was the entire point of my post.
- in Toronto we don't get more for our money.
We get doctor shortage.
We get competent doctors shortage, which is a subset of the first problem.
We get emergency rooms with 1 doctor, who is too busy to attend to actual emergencies because he is 'teaching' the residents.
We get to wait for 9 month to see a specialist and 1/2 of a year for biopsy.
We get crumbling infrastructure with no new roads built, no new subways, but we get these new wonderful and useless bike lanes (soon on our highways) and streetcars that take lanes away from normal traffic.
We get our property taxes shooting up by 30% this year.
We get RRSPs sinking 30% this quarter, so forget about that 'comfortable retirement plan' that your government was forcing you into.
We get shootings every day, people wake in their pathetic cardboard houses with bullets in them that were meant for some gangster.
We get 600sq/ft apartments for half a million.
We get the manufacturing being outsourced all the way to the cheapest of the cheap and then we get baby pacifiers back with lead in them.
Oh yeah, it's peachy.
Incidentally, on a side note, here in my country, Canada, we have universal healthcare
- yeah, it only works well as long as you are young and healthy. My wife and I routinely drive to Buffalo, NY from Toronto ON to get prompt medical attention and once every couple of years fly to Germany for stuff that would be prohibitively expensive to do in the US but that is still light years better of what Canadian system has to offer.
universal education
- in US, don't they have universal education for primary and high schools just as well?
university tuition that's actually affordable
- and doctors who are useless after these universities.
old age security benefits
- and the gov't that promotes buying mutual funds as RRSPs, let's see how much of that was lost within the past 2 months?
and a welfare system
- which is abused.
And we're running a *surplus*.
- gee, you think it has nothing to do with being overtaxed?
not necessarily true, it is possible to have an electrical system that is easy to verify for anyone and that does the work.
didn't we just discuss the same thing here?
Your voting machine must be not electronic, but electric instead. You come into the booth, there is a table with buttons on it, each button is a vote. Each button is located near a name/picture/party description of a candidate. You push a button, which is connected electrically to a mechanical counter. The wire from the button goes into one of the counters, the old mechanical counters, and the lever to increase the count is pulled by an electromagnet.
To prevent you from pushing more than one button more than one time there is also an extra wire, which detects that you pushed the button once and disconnects all power by flipping a switch on the outside of the booth until you exit from the booth. Before the next person enters, the relay is switch is flipped on so that the next voter can push his button.
If redundancy is required, the button you push can also invoke a card puncher, which will provide you with a card with paper being punched out (not by hand, by an electric card puncher). You put this paper into a box.
The mechanical counters are outside of the voting box, under a cube of fiberglass but the numbers are not visible, they are behind a piece of cardboard.
On the punch card you can see the name of the candidate and a hole punched next to the name.
The mechanical counters can only go up and not down due to their mechanical nature, until they reach their maximum and reset to 0 by overflowing.
It is very easy to inspect such system and if all the wiring is directly visible then it is not going to be easy to tamper with them no matter where they spend the night before elections.
Once the elections are over all that is needed is to open the faces of the counters by removing the cardboard.
For recounting there is paper.
Not 12, but I have 4TBx4TB in RAID 1 configuration at home. So hopefully RAID 1 will be a bit better protected than RAID 5. I am not going after speed, only after reliance and size.
NDP being 1/3 of the government? Isn't that sweet, the communists with their Leni^C^C^Cayton. NDP and their supporters can go fuck themselves.
I understand MMP and I am against it. 1. This is equivalent to electing politicians without representation. 2. It allows NDP to have more seats in the parliament, and to me this is morally disgusting.
It honestly didn't click right away, for some reason I decided to check how many clothing irons I have around.
Remarkably, both galaxies contain super-massive black holes, each capable of powering a billion, billion, billion light bulbs. The implications are wide reaching
- yes, the implications are wide reaching. Where exactly are we going to get that many light bulbs from? We can't just let all that energy go to waste. Did anyone notice Usama bin Laden in close vicinity to the black hole? If so, can we please notify Bush?
"Is the Queen larger than a breadbox?"
- my answer is simple: I don't really know.
When did it become so unfashionable to admit that you don't know something? Queen might be larger than a bread box, it also might be smaller, depending on what Queen and what breadbox we are talking about and what it means to be larger? (Something maybe larger by volume, some people may be said to be 'larger than life').
Anyway, do people always have to answer and are they often lying?