That way, I could make sure that I don't have it. If I keep it around forever, I know I won't ever collect it again. Do me a favor and let me know when you die though, so I can put it back.
Has private health care. AS do Germany, the Netherlands, and lo, look at Canada, otherwise, people would not get supplemental medical insurance to cover what the government pays.
So you lied about that
Your quote is a distortion. The reason that Canada outlaws private insurance covering what the government covers is so that a private insurance company won't charge people for something that they already pay for, or, conversely, prevent doctors from double dipping.
And if you don't want to pay taxes for health care, then fix Medicare and leave everyone else's health care alone.
Health insurance is a redistribution of wealth, whether Aetna does it, or Uncle Sam does it. It's pretty cut and dry.
Bottom line is this: if US health insurance companies didn't totally suck, they would not be in the mess that they are in. But the fact is, they suck.
And if you really believe that doctors do not get beat up over what the insurance company says, then you have never written software for insurance companies. The name of the game for health insurance companies is to kick sick people off and charge the young a ton of money, ram treatments that don't cost too much down doctor's throats (including the prescription of generic drugs that are not the same), and then have everyone sign non-disclosure agreements about it.
It's a joke.
If insurance companies are so good, then lets have this public option. Let them compete against the government. If they are so efficient, and government, socialized government is so terrible, then no one in their right mind would sign up for the plan. But I'll tell you what, if a public plan comes up that's cheaper than what the private sector is, I'm signing.
If conservatives were to make genuine, rational arguments about health, then they would admit that health care is expensive, and accept that either medicare is going to have to ration health care (along with the rest of the country), and kick off baby boomers, or, fricking pay for it. If keeping grandma alive was so important, this country could have set aside money for it over the last, what, 30 years? But it didn't.
What a joke.
If you are going to argue against socialized medicine, at least be honest about it.
1. Your house, my gasoline. Pour, light match. By by.
2. 90% of what proves your house is your house is your possession of it. Bits and bytes are the same way.
3. INSERT INTO player_inventory actually costs something to make. First, you have to define the thing to insert, then you have to define the database, the storage, the network, the software... all of that is work, and the investment that is put into these systems, the work, is what people are trying to preserve when they call it property.
For one thing, insurance companies don't ration using waiting lists. For another, insurance companies aren't a monopoly.
For one thing, they do. For the other thing, they essentially are because they are allowed to trade rate and underwriter information.
But ultimately, if the insurance company won't pay, I can pay out of pocket. The government plans will eventually eliminate this option.
There is no socialized medicine country where this has happened. Instead of saying "must", why not deal in facts.
In the current system, doctors decide when something is medically necessary. The insurance companies can argue, but when the doctor is correct, the insurance companies lose
Doctors don't win. Insurance companies do.
But even if it were true, you can take your financial arguments and cram them up your ass. We're free citizens in a free society. We won't just shuffle off to die on a waiting list. We won't allow ourselves to be made slaves to someone's need to control their health care budget.
Well, that's theft is what you are talking about. I should not have to pay higher rates because your grandmother was too lazy to get a better job and save more in life. If you want to pay for her to get a new hip, do it on your dime, not mine, and certainly not on my insurance plan.
. Some of us aren't willing to have our life-and-death choices subject to government bureaucratic decision trees.
What's the difference between government and an insurance company? I just don't get it. I'm not seeing how you could be any more bureacratic that Cigna, Aetna or Blue Cross.
. And this is a matter of life and death for me and everyone else who uses health care.
Either way, its not your money. Your life or death decisions are making my health care more expensive, public or private.
That is since this afternoon when someone clever realized an unregistered domain was about to receive a s;ashdotting. Wonder how much those ads earned him today.
Probably not a lot. While I've never had the full benefit of a good slashdotting, I've posted links to my own content sometimes when I felt it to be relevant. Its not a profitable adventure, so, guys looking to make a quick buck will probably be disappointed. Most slashdotters either don't click on ads when they go from slashdot to other sites, so you can get a lot of traffic but with no clicks.
Incidentally, this is probably why newspapers are so pissed off at content linkers in general. The content linker gets the ad revenue but when people jump to the original article, they read the article, then jump back to their original integration point, whether it is slashdot, drudge, or somebody else.
I would think if you were going to try and get yourself slashdotted, I would do it with the expectation that you are going to take a good server beating, not make any immediate money off of it, and go forth from there. It's more of a name recognition thing, then anything else, and the real hope is that the content you provided has some innate legs to it such that some fraction of the people that slashdotted you will spread it themselves via "internet of mouth" and then from there that will, over the long term, grow your site more organically.
The federal deficit will soon be at a level where no amount of gdp increase will be able to pay it off.
If US GDP goes up by 10%, the covers the existing budget gap and then some. Historically, this usually takes place every two or three years. Right now, we're in a recession. The problem with US finances is that Medicare is going up at an even faster rate. Health care does ultimately need to be rationed, or basically, people are going to have to be thrown off of Medicare, simply to control costs. I'm not a big Obama fan but he is right when he said that Grandma's hip replacement might not be something we can afford, and, Republicans are really disingenuous when they say reform means rationing. National bankruptcy means rationing too. We simply can't afford to grow health care by 8% a year forever.
For those that want to look at nature, there's plenty of male chauvinism to go around for bitter old men to look at. One example of pure chauvinistic genius is one animal, and I think its the giraffe, whose schlong goes and mashes up whatever giraffe baby might already be in there, just to make sure that he knocks up the lady giraffe with his own seed. Then, there's the lion, who, after killing off a rival, causes the lady to spontaneously miscarry, and she then mates with him to carry his seed.
Gasp, I can't believe I'm writing this, but I'll lay it out for you.
a) computers are getting faster and faster and we're going to get better at controlling magnetic fields. b) free electron lasers increasingly have the oomph to make cool things happen.
Horseshit. The unions were much more complicit in the downfall of GM and Chrysler
If unions are so terrible, then why is it that the heavily unionized blue states continue to subsidize the non-union red states? If you wanted to actually look at facts, you would find that the state of Michigan has been paying out far more in federal taxes than it receives in benefits, and that's all so states like Alabama can turn around and build Japanese car plants. Bottom line is, the real traitors aren't the guys in the union, but the assholes that buy Japanese cars and throw other people's tax money on the table to accelerate the foreign occupation of the USA. I don't get how red states that are so against immigration have no problem watching every domestic industry go belly up. I guess the south must just want to be a bunch of useless white only morons.
And yes, Toyota or any other car company can be put in the exact same situation if their unions get the kind of control they had over GM.
Well no, because in other countries the taxpayers pick up the cost of health care and old age retirement. Every taxpayer pays for it. In the USA, only big corporations with unions pay for health care.
GM and Chrysler should have been left to die. Period. They're businesses sucked and so did they're products.
It would be fine to say that they sucked compared to foreign competitors but the free trade deals the USA has stupidly put together were a one way street. The fact of the matter is that GM and Chrysler and Ford have been hip deep into the government's pocket for the last fifty years and have taken every stupid idea the government has put forth on the chin. It's not a surprise that GM went belly up. What's a surprise is that more companies did not go belly up. Of course, when we look at the US manufacturing sector, just about every company did.
Nope. Let's see, we pile on legislation to make our products more expensive, sign stupid trade deals with insincere trading partners for the sole purpose of expanding military power into the Pacific so that we can defend these assholes from each other, and what do they do? They screw us by jacking up our currency.
My plan is simple. Kick the Koreans out. Kick the Japanese out. Kick the Chinese out. Withdraw US troops from South Korea and Japan, and let the asian countries do what they will. The only country in the Pacific that the USA should defend or accept imports from is Australia and the rest can go to hell.
Do you realise that most of the guts of Windows is actually written in C++? And that the secretary of the C++ Standards Committe, Herb Sutter, works for Microsoft? Are you even a C++ developer at all?
Yes, I am a C++ developer, and I'm watching C++ languish on Windows. Half of the new stuff Microsoft comes out won't even work with native code any more. Where's WPF bindings for native C++? Or how about WCF? All of the new technology initiatives are based on.NET.
Sure, Microsoft might be on the committee, and sure Microsoft might be adding a few features to Visual C++, but that's not where the company is headed.
I would be willing to bet that some vendors that make more than one language are probably not too crazy about doing more with an open language like C++. Not that I would make any association with a large software vendor founded in the 1970s that leveraged a pretty good BASIC interpreter into operating system and tools dominance... but
Concepts are not too different from the way generics work in C#. If garbage collection and concepts had found their way into C++, one wonders how much the pendulum might have shifted back towards C++ from other languages, since C++ is really the only major language with a real standards process behind it...
as it is, I think C++ is pretty much dead as it is, and its' probably going to have to be up to gcc to just grab the bull by the horns and implement new features by fiat and create a defacto standard.
This itself was a new view of the mid to late 19th century, just saying
Good point... I could argue that it might be the basis of the Age of Reason going back to the 18th century.. but, sure, you are right, our definition of intelligence changes with the times.
This sounds like more of an invented problem than a real one.
I have three hard drives in my machine, one IDE and two SATA. I change the order of the drives from my BIOS and put Windows 7 on one of the drives.
When I want to boot to a different drives, I flip the drive order in the BIOS and that way no OS sees any other. I have Linux on one drive, Windows Vista on another and Windows 7 on the third, and each has its own little world.
Why even worry about boot loaders and the like, when its so easy to pick a drive to boot from in the BIOS, and disks are so relatively cheap.
OpenOffice (as StarOffice way back) reinvented the whole "OLE 2" thing to support in-place editing on multiple platforms, which of course wasn't (I don't know about now) compatible with MS Office's implementation
Yeah but without the tools to support it, its a moot point. When MS committed to OLE 2.0, they put their Office to use it, Visual C++ to produce components... they put the company behind it. You had products that used it, an operating system that shipped the DLLS to implement. And of course they had Microsoft press cranking out books about it.
Of course, this is all about UNO vs COM. Open Office builds itself on top of UNO and it calls it a competitor to COM, so much so, that it seems Windows machines blessed with an Open Office installation will have two registries - one for Uno and one for COM. That's just lovely. Of course UNO is about a decade's worth of bloody experience behind where COM is, and so all the good stuff that exists today to support COM isn't out there for UNO...
And, with all of that, there doesn't seem to be an OLE like library on top of UNO. I don't see any examples of how to make my application, running as a separate process, appear inside of an Open Office application. I mean, come on, where's SCRIBBLE for UNO....?
With a day side temperature of more than 4300 degrees, I'm trying to think of what on the planet would not actually be flat out molten or even vaporized.
The innovative thing is that they got OLE In Place Editing to save its streams to an XML document. It's actually may be something of a hack, but most notably, unlike Excel, you really can round trip a Word 2003 document with nested OLE in Place spreadsheets and other stuff and it works. I just created a Word 2003 document, created an Excel sheet inside of it, confirmed it by doing Excel stuff and using Excel menus in Word, saved the whole shebang as Xml, and I was frankly pretty pleased that it loaded it up again.
The thing is, I don't know that Open Office ever really supported OLE In Place Editing on Windows and I would bet probably not because OLE 2.0 is a set of COM libraries and I don't see such how they'd port it over to other platforms. That's a big job. In fact, I really can't think of any other Word processor besides Word that can be an OLE 2 host... seems like nobody else did the Scribble App that happened to be writing word processors....
In any case, so yeah, Word is way more powerful than anybody else when it comes to round tripping Xml, and its easy to demonstrate. Everybody else could at best only save a version, but, Microsoft can round trip the active nature of the content, and that is pretty cool, new, and innovative.
The problem with the country is that there are obviously too many lawyers and right now the legal industry is utterly desperate. So they are thinking up new ways to try and sue people and going to lean on their puppets in Congress to promote those new kinds of cases just as much as the defendant's puppets in Congress will oppose them. Should be interesting to see how it all pans out, so long as, our puppets that are opposed to such lawsuits win.
If your concern is shipping object code to a card to be processed may end up being so time consuming that it would not be worth i
Not so much as the code but the data. If you have a giant array of stuff to crunch, then yeah, shipping it to the card makes sense. But if you have a lot of tiny chunks of data then, it may not make as much sense to ship it all over to the card. That same problem is really what haunts multicore designs as well - its like you can build a job scheduler that takes a list of jobs and have threads servicing it, but at some point, the overhead of having your thread wait to get a job is more than its worth and certainly the act of creating a thread is pretty expensive.
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That way, I could make sure that I don't have it. If I keep it around forever, I know I won't ever collect it again. Do me a favor and let me know when you die though, so I can put it back.
France: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_France
Has private health care. AS do Germany, the Netherlands, and lo, look at Canada, otherwise, people would not get supplemental medical insurance to cover what the government pays.
So you lied about that
Your quote is a distortion. The reason that Canada outlaws private insurance covering what the government covers is so that a private insurance company won't charge people for something that they already pay for, or, conversely, prevent doctors from double dipping.
And if you don't want to pay taxes for health care, then fix Medicare and leave everyone else's health care alone.
Health insurance is a redistribution of wealth, whether Aetna does it, or Uncle Sam does it. It's pretty cut and dry.
Bottom line is this: if US health insurance companies didn't totally suck, they would not be in the mess that they are in. But the fact is, they suck.
And if you really believe that doctors do not get beat up over what the insurance company says, then you have never written software for insurance companies. The name of the game for health insurance companies is to kick sick people off and charge the young a ton of money, ram treatments that don't cost too much down doctor's throats (including the prescription of generic drugs that are not the same), and then have everyone sign non-disclosure agreements about it.
It's a joke.
If insurance companies are so good, then lets have this public option. Let them compete against the government. If they are so efficient, and government, socialized government is so terrible, then no one in their right mind would sign up for the plan. But I'll tell you what, if a public plan comes up that's cheaper than what the private sector is, I'm signing.
If conservatives were to make genuine, rational arguments about health, then they would admit that health care is expensive, and accept that either medicare is going to have to ration health care (along with the rest of the country), and kick off baby boomers, or, fricking pay for it. If keeping grandma alive was so important, this country could have set aside money for it over the last, what, 30 years? But it didn't.
What a joke.
If you are going to argue against socialized medicine, at least be honest about it.
1. Your house, my gasoline. Pour, light match. By by.
2. 90% of what proves your house is your house is your possession of it. Bits and bytes are the same way.
3. INSERT INTO player_inventory actually costs something to make. First, you have to define the thing to insert, then you have to define the database, the storage, the network, the software... all of that is work, and the investment that is put into these systems, the work, is what people are trying to preserve when they call it property.
For one thing, insurance companies don't ration using waiting lists. For another, insurance companies aren't a monopoly.
For one thing, they do. For the other thing, they essentially are because they are allowed to trade rate and underwriter information.
But ultimately, if the insurance company won't pay, I can pay out of pocket. The government plans will eventually eliminate this option.
There is no socialized medicine country where this has happened. Instead of saying "must", why not deal in facts.
In the current system, doctors decide when something is medically necessary. The insurance companies can argue, but when the doctor is correct, the insurance companies lose
Doctors don't win. Insurance companies do.
But even if it were true, you can take your financial arguments and cram them up your ass. We're free citizens in a free society. We won't just shuffle off to die on a waiting list. We won't allow ourselves to be made slaves to someone's need to control their health care budget.
Well, that's theft is what you are talking about. I should not have to pay higher rates because your grandmother was too lazy to get a better job and save more in life. If you want to pay for her to get a new hip, do it on your dime, not mine, and certainly not on my insurance plan.
Suddenly after that, the proven kernel will be brought to its knees when someone adds a driver for an old graphics card.
. Some of us aren't willing to have our life-and-death choices subject to government bureaucratic decision trees.
What's the difference between government and an insurance company? I just don't get it. I'm not seeing how you could be any more bureacratic that Cigna, Aetna or Blue Cross.
. And this is a matter of life and death for me and everyone else who uses health care.
Either way, its not your money. Your life or death decisions are making my health care more expensive, public or private.
That is since this afternoon when someone clever realized an unregistered domain was about to receive a s;ashdotting. Wonder how much those ads earned him today.
Probably not a lot. While I've never had the full benefit of a good slashdotting, I've posted links to my own content sometimes when I felt it to be relevant. Its not a profitable adventure, so, guys looking to make a quick buck will probably be disappointed. Most slashdotters either don't click on ads when they go from slashdot to other sites, so you can get a lot of traffic but with no clicks.
Incidentally, this is probably why newspapers are so pissed off at content linkers in general. The content linker gets the ad revenue but when people jump to the original article, they read the article, then jump back to their original integration point, whether it is slashdot, drudge, or somebody else.
I would think if you were going to try and get yourself slashdotted, I would do it with the expectation that you are going to take a good server beating, not make any immediate money off of it, and go forth from there. It's more of a name recognition thing, then anything else, and the real hope is that the content you provided has some innate legs to it such that some fraction of the people that slashdotted you will spread it themselves via "internet of mouth" and then from there that will, over the long term, grow your site more organically.
The federal deficit will soon be at a level where no amount of gdp increase will be able to pay it off.
If US GDP goes up by 10%, the covers the existing budget gap and then some. Historically, this usually takes place every two or three years. Right now, we're in a recession. The problem with US finances is that Medicare is going up at an even faster rate. Health care does ultimately need to be rationed, or basically, people are going to have to be thrown off of Medicare, simply to control costs. I'm not a big Obama fan but he is right when he said that Grandma's hip replacement might not be something we can afford, and, Republicans are really disingenuous when they say reform means rationing. National bankruptcy means rationing too. We simply can't afford to grow health care by 8% a year forever.
So it looks like its not Microsoft's fault in -my case-.
For those that want to look at nature, there's plenty of male chauvinism to go around for bitter old men to look at. One example of pure chauvinistic genius is one animal, and I think its the giraffe, whose schlong goes and mashes up whatever giraffe baby might already be in there, just to make sure that he knocks up the lady giraffe with his own seed. Then, there's the lion, who, after killing off a rival, causes the lady to spontaneously miscarry, and she then mates with him to carry his seed.
Free trade is a lie.
I agree with you, 100%.
Gasp, I can't believe I'm writing this, but I'll lay it out for you.
a) computers are getting faster and faster and we're going to get better at controlling magnetic fields.
b) free electron lasers increasingly have the oomph to make cool things happen.
Horseshit. The unions were much more complicit in the downfall of GM and Chrysler
If unions are so terrible, then why is it that the heavily unionized blue states continue to subsidize the non-union red states? If you wanted to actually look at facts, you would find that the state of Michigan has been paying out far more in federal taxes than it receives in benefits, and that's all so states like Alabama can turn around and build Japanese car plants. Bottom line is, the real traitors aren't the guys in the union, but the assholes that buy Japanese cars and throw other people's tax money on the table to accelerate the foreign occupation of the USA. I don't get how red states that are so against immigration have no problem watching every domestic industry go belly up. I guess the south must just want to be a bunch of useless white only morons.
And yes, Toyota or any other car company can be put in the exact same situation if their unions get the kind of control they had over GM.
Well no, because in other countries the taxpayers pick up the cost of health care and old age retirement. Every taxpayer pays for it. In the USA, only big corporations with unions pay for health care.
GM and Chrysler should have been left to die. Period. They're businesses sucked and so did they're products.
It would be fine to say that they sucked compared to foreign competitors but the free trade deals the USA has stupidly put together were a one way street. The fact of the matter is that GM and Chrysler and Ford have been hip deep into the government's pocket for the last fifty years and have taken every stupid idea the government has put forth on the chin. It's not a surprise that GM went belly up. What's a surprise is that more companies did not go belly up. Of course, when we look at the US manufacturing sector, just about every company did.
Nope. Let's see, we pile on legislation to make our products more expensive, sign stupid trade deals with insincere trading partners for the sole purpose of expanding military power into the Pacific so that we can defend these assholes from each other, and what do they do? They screw us by jacking up our currency.
My plan is simple. Kick the Koreans out. Kick the Japanese out. Kick the Chinese out. Withdraw US troops from South Korea and Japan, and let the asian countries do what they will. The only country in the Pacific that the USA should defend or accept imports from is Australia and the rest can go to hell.
Do you realise that most of the guts of Windows is actually written in C++? And that the secretary of the C++ Standards Committe, Herb Sutter, works for Microsoft?
Are you even a C++ developer at all?
Yes, I am a C++ developer, and I'm watching C++ languish on Windows. Half of the new stuff Microsoft comes out won't even work with native code any more. Where's WPF bindings for native C++? Or how about WCF? All of the new technology initiatives are based on .NET.
Sure, Microsoft might be on the committee, and sure Microsoft might be adding a few features to Visual C++, but that's not where the company is headed.
I would be willing to bet that some vendors that make more than one language are probably not too crazy about doing more with an open language like C++. Not that I would make any association with a large software vendor founded in the 1970s that leveraged a pretty good BASIC interpreter into operating system and tools dominance... but
Concepts are not too different from the way generics work in C#. If garbage collection and concepts had found their way into C++, one wonders how much the pendulum might have shifted back towards C++ from other languages, since C++ is really the only major language with a real standards process behind it...
as it is, I think C++ is pretty much dead as it is, and its' probably going to have to be up to gcc to just grab the bull by the horns and implement new features by fiat and create a defacto standard.
This itself was a new view of the mid to late 19th century, just saying
Good point... I could argue that it might be the basis of the Age of Reason going back to the 18th century.. but, sure, you are right, our definition of intelligence changes with the times.
Windows has never played nice with other operating systems one the same machine
But at least Windows doesn't change the BIOS time.... Linux dutifully does that, every time...
This sounds like more of an invented problem than a real one.
I have three hard drives in my machine, one IDE and two SATA. I change the order of the drives from my BIOS and put Windows 7 on one of the drives.
When I want to boot to a different drives, I flip the drive order in the BIOS and that way no OS sees any other. I have Linux on one drive, Windows Vista on another and Windows 7 on the third, and each has its own little world.
Why even worry about boot loaders and the like, when its so easy to pick a drive to boot from in the BIOS, and disks are so relatively cheap.
OpenOffice (as StarOffice way back) reinvented the whole "OLE 2" thing to support in-place editing on multiple platforms, which of course wasn't (I don't know about now) compatible with MS Office's implementation
Yeah but without the tools to support it, its a moot point. When MS committed to OLE 2.0, they put their Office to use it, Visual C++ to produce components... they put the company behind it. You had products that used it, an operating system that shipped the DLLS to implement. And of course they had Microsoft press cranking out books about it.
Of course, this is all about UNO vs COM. Open Office builds itself on top of UNO and it calls it a competitor to COM, so much so, that it seems Windows machines blessed with an Open Office installation will have two registries - one for Uno and one for COM. That's just lovely. Of course UNO is about a decade's worth of bloody experience behind where COM is, and so all the good stuff that exists today to support COM isn't out there for UNO...
And, with all of that, there doesn't seem to be an OLE like library on top of UNO. I don't see any examples of how to make my application, running as a separate process, appear inside of an Open Office application. I mean, come on, where's SCRIBBLE for UNO....?
With a day side temperature of more than 4300 degrees, I'm trying to think of what on the planet would not actually be flat out molten or even vaporized.
The innovative thing is that they got OLE In Place Editing to save its streams to an XML document. It's actually may be something of a hack, but most notably, unlike Excel, you really can round trip a Word 2003 document with nested OLE in Place spreadsheets and other stuff and it works. I just created a Word 2003 document, created an Excel sheet inside of it, confirmed it by doing Excel stuff and using Excel menus in Word, saved the whole shebang as Xml, and I was frankly pretty pleased that it loaded it up again.
The thing is, I don't know that Open Office ever really supported OLE In Place Editing on Windows and I would bet probably not because OLE 2.0 is a set of COM libraries and I don't see such how they'd port it over to other platforms. That's a big job. In fact, I really can't think of any other Word processor besides Word that can be an OLE 2 host... seems like nobody else did the Scribble App that happened to be writing word processors....
In any case, so yeah, Word is way more powerful than anybody else when it comes to round tripping Xml, and its easy to demonstrate. Everybody else could at best only save a version, but, Microsoft can round trip the active nature of the content, and that is pretty cool, new, and innovative.
The problem with the country is that there are obviously too many lawyers and right now the legal industry is utterly desperate. So they are thinking up new ways to try and sue people and going to lean on their puppets in Congress to promote those new kinds of cases just as much as the defendant's puppets in Congress will oppose them. Should be interesting to see how it all pans out, so long as, our puppets that are opposed to such lawsuits win.
If your concern is shipping object code to a card to be processed may end up being so time consuming that it would not be worth i
Not so much as the code but the data. If you have a giant array of stuff to crunch, then yeah, shipping it to the card makes sense. But if you have a lot of tiny chunks of data then, it may not make as much sense to ship it all over to the card. That same problem is really what haunts multicore designs as well - its like you can build a job scheduler that takes a list of jobs and have threads servicing it, but at some point, the overhead of having your thread wait to get a job is more than its worth and certainly the act of creating a thread is pretty expensive.