PLUS Opera's Turbo mode is great for people with slow connections like Dialup or Cellular/wireless. It makes the connection look about 5 times faster than it really is.
Opera's innovations remind me of how Mosaic (and later Netscape) innovated in the early 90s.
...when they still existed. I remember having the option between a $13 CD or an $8 "inferior" cassette version, so I picked the cassette. I didn't see why I should have to pay a $5 premium for the disc version.
Now it appears the same pricing has come to CDs. Why pay $13 for a CD when I can just download my favorite 2-3 songs at about $3. The internet is forcing music companies to drop the pricetag for the "inferior" CD format to about $8.
>>>it's derived from F= d(mv)/dt... So F=ma is only true if mass is constant with respect to time
Yep and you explained it in just 10 seconds. I don't need a 50 minute lecture on it, but that's exactly what many professors do, and bore the students in the process. Sometimes I think profs do this on purpose, because they have nothing else to talk about but need to fill-in the scheduled time.
Okay then. Make sure not to watch any BBC comedies like As Time Goes By or Are You Getting Served or Yes Prime Minister. YOU won't find them funny.
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Yes prelim findings are great. Except those findings are for the OLD bill, not the one coming-up for vote today or Saturday, so they are *irrelevant* except as interesting historical/obsoleted data.
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>>>Why don't you just use life expectancy as a metrics
Because life expectancy is a correlation, not a causation. Yes Americans have lower expectancy, but the cause is not lack of government care. The cause is hard living (dangerous jobs like farming/logging with premature deaths, and/or simply being fat slobs).
If you think U.S. life expectancy would suddenly rise if healthcare was provided "free" by the government, then you're thinking wrong. We would still have a deathage that is earlier than Europeans due to how we live.
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>>>there are still private hospitals, right?
Yes just like we have private schools here in the U.S. Too bad most citizens can't afford them, unless they are wealthy, so essentially you're stuck with what the government provides (or does not provide, due to neglect).
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There are only 7-8 million U.S. citizens (key word) that are chronically uninsured. i.e. Not covered by an existing government program (SCHIP, medicare, SS), or their own private insurance (like me).
That's less than 3% of our citizens. All we need to do is extend existing programs to help those persons in need, not screw the other 97% by forcing them to adopt something they don't want.
Not really. 500 billion is being subtracted from Medicare to fund this new program (if the bill pases). So Medicare will race towards bankruptcy even faster. It's a destructive program.
Meanwhile the increased expenditures to support the new Pelosicare means they'll be increasing the U.S. debt by about 500 billion more each year, or 4 trillion between now and 2020.
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What CBO analysis? They said they have not had time to review the new revised bill, so there is NO analysis.
And Kucinich is a politician, yes, but he also has to explain himself to the people who voted for him as a Socialist. He's already on record as saying he will never vote for a bill that does not include a Governement-run Option, and now he's flipped. That won't please the people back home.
>>>I don't know how mandating citizens to purchase health insurance is going to pass Constitutional muster.
The same way in Wickard v. Filburn, the U.S. court was able to tell a farmer, even if his ~20 acres of wheat are only used to feed his cows and sheep (private, personal consumption), is subject to fines for exceeding his 10 acre allowance.
My reading of the Constitution gives Congress no such power as to regulate a private person's property, but apparently the Court found the non-existent words. (Probably as a result of FDR threatening the judges.)
>>>the Supreme Court to rule the action as unconstitutional/illegal
They won't. The Supreme Court serves the same master as the Congress and the President - the United States Government. Just as they rammed through the unconstitutional rationing of farmers' *privately-owned* crops (Wickard v. Filburn), so too will the uphold this Pelosicare bill. And then all three branches will all go have a party to celebrate.
The only hope we have is that the independent States, not having to rely on the U.S. Government for a paycheck, will nullify the bill as violating amendments 9 and 10.
"But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union, assembled by their deputies in convention, at the call of Congress or of two-thirds of the States. Let them decide to which they mean to give an authority claimed by two of their organs. And it has been the peculiar wisdom and felicity of our Constitution, to have provided this peaceable appeal, where that of other nations is at once to force."
Nobody is entitled to take YOUR money that you earned with Your labor and your body. We killed-off slavery 150 years ago - why are we trying to revive it?
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How about Canada? There people get put on 6-9 month waiting lists. This is why Tom Green flew from Canada to the U.S. when he developed testicular cancer..... better to get instant care than risk dying while on the waiting list. ----- Many parts of Canada have no doctor whatsoever, so the towns hold lotteries to decide who gets to see the Circuit Doctor when he finally comes to visit. Didn't win the lottery this year? Too bad... maybe next year you'll get to see somebody.
Or the Soviet Union where healthcare was "free" but the hospitals were literally falling apart and many patients died in their rooms.
For all its flaws the U.S. is still superior to government-run hospitals. People can get free care simply by walking into the ER, with the cost borne by the megarich corporations (who can easily afford it). I think that's a good system, and certainly better than if Uncle Sam Care was run like Uncle Sam Amtrak or Uncle Sam Postal Service (both nearly-bankrupt).
"Insurance companies may not reject customers," (like you) is the ONLY part of the bill I support, and that only needed to be 1-2 pages long. The rest of the bill is filled with nonsense like fines against poor and middle income citizens, shortchanging Medicare by about 500 billion, increasing our national debt another 1/2 trillion per year, and so on.
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You're right.
I'm surprised Congressman Kucinich caved and decided to vote "yes". I don't agree with his "let the government treat citizens as children," but I could always count on him to stand by his principles (like Congressman Paul stands by his), and now it looks like Kucinich sold out on a bill that fixes nothing.
I don't have health insurance.
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I have catastrophic insurance, so if I get cancer and my bills go over $20,000 then THEY will cover the cost. Like a safety net.
But most of the time I pay CASH (about $200 a year), which means I deal *directly* with my doctor. I like it that way because it makes the doctor attentive to MY needs not some insurance bureacrat or congressional politician or HMO.
If this Pelosicare Bill forces me to abandon my system of paying cash for product (or else be fined by the government), then I will be very very angry. I will also be concerned what else "they" might force down my throat. "Buy a Prius or other hybrid, else we'll fine you $1000."
This is not freedom. This is like a return to 1770 when Parliament dictated to citizens as if they were Serfs.
>>>"Yes", right-wing blowhards might say, "Obama is ruining this country." They then proceed to spout complete lies and distortions >>>
Yeah except that I heard Obama say *with his own mouth* that he wants to collect blood samples from every citizen, that he think cellphones should be tracked, that he signed the Patriot Act into renewal, that he created an executive order to turn-off the net, and so on.
Nice try though.
You VERY effectively discredited Beck and other talk show hosts, but how are you going to discredit the words that came out of your own President's mouth? Please try. I want to see you bend-over backwards and distort your body as you try to convolute what Obama said.
Even if what you say might be true (that Obama's *percentage* of FOIA requests is no different than Bush's), there are also some other secretive/questionable actions Obama is taking:
- Renewing the Patriot Act - Announcing his adminstration will start tracking our movement via our cellphones - Signing an executive order that gives himself power to turn off the internet. - Saying in a speech he thinks taking blood samples of all citizens is a good idea. (Sounds like East German Stasi.)
I'm starting to think Obama is just Bush in disguise, based upon his actions. He likes to spy on us just as much as Bush did. Obama == Dubya Part 2, except twice as bad. (IMHO)
- My Dialup ISP (the dialup is okay but the web accelerator refuses to run) - Games - Atari or Nintendo emulators - Flash - Opera 10 (refuses to install) - RealPlayer - Ipod-encoded (MP4) video
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PLUS Opera's Turbo mode is great for people with slow connections like Dialup or Cellular/wireless. It makes the connection look about 5 times faster than it really is.
Opera's innovations remind me of how Mosaic (and later Netscape) innovated in the early 90s.
>>>the ballot is presented by IE
Correction - The ballot WAS presented by IE, but Opera and others objected, so the EU ordered Microsoft to use a generic window.
...when they still existed. I remember having the option between a $13 CD or an $8 "inferior" cassette version, so I picked the cassette. I didn't see why I should have to pay a $5 premium for the disc version.
Now it appears the same pricing has come to CDs. Why pay $13 for a CD when I can just download my favorite 2-3 songs at about $3. The internet is forcing music companies to drop the pricetag for the "inferior" CD format to about $8.
Why inferior?
CDs aren't portable. And take-up a lot of space.
>>>it's derived from F= d(mv)/dt... So F=ma is only true if mass is constant with respect to time
Yep and you explained it in just 10 seconds. I don't need a 50 minute lecture on it, but that's exactly what many professors do, and bore the students in the process. Sometimes I think profs do this on purpose, because they have nothing else to talk about but need to fill-in the scheduled time.
Okay then. Make sure not to watch any BBC comedies like As Time Goes By or Are You Getting Served or Yes Prime Minister. YOU won't find them funny.
Yes prelim findings are great. Except those findings are for the OLD bill, not the one coming-up for vote today or Saturday, so they are *irrelevant* except as interesting historical/obsoleted data.
>>>Why don't you just use life expectancy as a metrics
Because life expectancy is a correlation, not a causation. Yes Americans have lower expectancy, but the cause is not lack of government care. The cause is hard living (dangerous jobs like farming/logging with premature deaths, and/or simply being fat slobs).
If you think U.S. life expectancy would suddenly rise if healthcare was provided "free" by the government, then you're thinking wrong. We would still have a deathage that is earlier than Europeans due to how we live.
>>>there are still private hospitals, right?
Yes just like we have private schools here in the U.S. Too bad most citizens can't afford them, unless they are wealthy, so essentially you're stuck with what the government provides (or does not provide, due to neglect).
There are only 7-8 million U.S. citizens (key word) that are chronically uninsured. i.e. Not covered by an existing government program (SCHIP, medicare, SS), or their own private insurance (like me).
That's less than 3% of our citizens. All we need to do is extend existing programs to help those persons in need, not screw the other 97% by forcing them to adopt something they don't want.
LINK - http://www.google.com/search?q=%22chronically+uninsured%22
Not really. 500 billion is being subtracted from Medicare to fund this new program (if the bill pases). So Medicare will race towards bankruptcy even faster. It's a destructive program.
Meanwhile the increased expenditures to support the new Pelosicare means they'll be increasing the U.S. debt by about 500 billion more each year, or 4 trillion between now and 2020.
What CBO analysis? They said they have not had time to review the new revised bill, so there is NO analysis.
And Kucinich is a politician, yes, but he also has to explain himself to the people who voted for him as a Socialist. He's already on record as saying he will never vote for a bill that does not include a Governement-run Option, and now he's flipped. That won't please the people back home.
>>>I don't know how mandating citizens to purchase health insurance is going to pass Constitutional muster.
The same way in Wickard v. Filburn, the U.S. court was able to tell a farmer, even if his ~20 acres of wheat are only used to feed his cows and sheep (private, personal consumption), is subject to fines for exceeding his 10 acre allowance.
My reading of the Constitution gives Congress no such power as to regulate a private person's property, but apparently the Court found the non-existent words. (Probably as a result of FDR threatening the judges.)
>>>Republicans had years in which they could have pushed through health care reform
They did.
Or have you forgotten the new Prescription Medicine Reform where people can get "free" medicine? Or the Tort Reform to help reduce expenses?
>>>the Supreme Court to rule the action as unconstitutional/illegal
They won't. The Supreme Court serves the same master as the Congress and the President - the United States Government. Just as they rammed through the unconstitutional rationing of farmers' *privately-owned* crops (Wickard v. Filburn), so too will the uphold this Pelosicare bill. And then all three branches will all go have a party to celebrate.
The only hope we have is that the independent States, not having to rely on the U.S. Government for a paycheck, will nullify the bill as violating amendments 9 and 10.
"But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union, assembled by their deputies in convention, at the call of Congress or of two-thirds of the States. Let them decide to which they mean to give an authority claimed by two of their organs. And it has been the peculiar wisdom and felicity of our Constitution, to have provided this peaceable appeal, where that of other nations is at once to force."
--Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823
>>>the entitlement generation
Nobody is entitled to take YOUR money that you earned with Your labor and your body. We killed-off slavery 150 years ago - why are we trying to revive it?
Ezxcept in the UK where people are apparently dying of thirst and/or left sitting in their own shit (due to government neglect): http://www.google.com/search?q=UK+patients+die+of+thirst - Or dying of cancer because they are denied the right of preventative care (PAP smears). http://www.google.com/search?q=UK+NHS+refused+pap+smear - Or hospitalization/drugs are rationed by an organization called NICE that is now nicknamed "nasty" - http://www.google.com/search?q=UK+NHS+NICE
How about Canada? There people get put on 6-9 month waiting lists. This is why Tom Green flew from Canada to the U.S. when he developed testicular cancer..... better to get instant care than risk dying while on the waiting list. ----- Many parts of Canada have no doctor whatsoever, so the towns hold lotteries to decide who gets to see the Circuit Doctor when he finally comes to visit. Didn't win the lottery this year? Too bad... maybe next year you'll get to see somebody.
Or the Soviet Union where healthcare was "free" but the hospitals were literally falling apart and many patients died in their rooms.
For all its flaws the U.S. is still superior to government-run hospitals. People can get free care simply by walking into the ER, with the cost borne by the megarich corporations (who can easily afford it). I think that's a good system, and certainly better than if Uncle Sam Care was run like Uncle Sam Amtrak or Uncle Sam Postal Service (both nearly-bankrupt).
"Insurance companies may not reject customers," (like you) is the ONLY part of the bill I support, and that only needed to be 1-2 pages long. The rest of the bill is filled with nonsense like fines against poor and middle income citizens, shortchanging Medicare by about 500 billion, increasing our national debt another 1/2 trillion per year, and so on.
You're right.
I'm surprised Congressman Kucinich caved and decided to vote "yes". I don't agree with his "let the government treat citizens as children," but I could always count on him to stand by his principles (like Congressman Paul stands by his), and now it looks like Kucinich sold out on a bill that fixes nothing.
I have catastrophic insurance, so if I get cancer and my bills go over $20,000 then THEY will cover the cost. Like a safety net.
But most of the time I pay CASH (about $200 a year), which means I deal *directly* with my doctor. I like it that way because it makes the doctor attentive to MY needs not some insurance bureacrat or congressional politician or HMO.
If this Pelosicare Bill forces me to abandon my system of paying cash for product (or else be fined by the government), then I will be very very angry. I will also be concerned what else "they" might force down my throat. "Buy a Prius or other hybrid, else we'll fine you $1000."
This is not freedom. This is like a return to 1770 when Parliament dictated to citizens as if they were Serfs.
>>>"Yes", right-wing blowhards might say, "Obama is ruining this country." They then proceed to spout complete lies and distortions
>>>
Yeah except that I heard Obama say *with his own mouth* that he wants to collect blood samples from every citizen, that he think cellphones should be tracked, that he signed the Patriot Act into renewal, that he created an executive order to turn-off the net, and so on.
Nice try though.
You VERY effectively discredited Beck and other talk show hosts, but how are you going to discredit the words that came out of your own President's mouth? Please try. I want to see you bend-over backwards and distort your body as you try to convolute what Obama said.
Even if what you say might be true (that Obama's *percentage* of FOIA requests is no different than Bush's), there are also some other secretive/questionable actions Obama is taking:
- Renewing the Patriot Act
- Announcing his adminstration will start tracking our movement via our cellphones
- Signing an executive order that gives himself power to turn off the internet.
- Saying in a speech he thinks taking blood samples of all citizens is a good idea. (Sounds like East German Stasi.)
I'm starting to think Obama is just Bush in disguise, based upon his actions. He likes to spy on us just as much as Bush did. Obama == Dubya Part 2, except twice as bad. (IMHO)
>>>Install a linux of some sort
Yep. And then I won't be able to run:
- My Dialup ISP (the dialup is okay but the web accelerator refuses to run)
- Games
- Atari or Nintendo emulators
- Flash
- Opera 10 (refuses to install)
- RealPlayer
- Ipod-encoded (MP4) video
But HEY at least I'm virus free!
I trust MSE about as much as I trust IE.
I also use an Amiga, so that's probably not helpful for you.
Spybot Search & Destroy does a good job of protecting not only your browser (makes it immune) and adware, but also cleans up viruses.
Well sure.
It wastes water. Didn't you watch Dune?