I also remember a 60 Minutes episode showing literally piles and piles of them waiting in vaults for economic conditions to change and reduce oversupply.
Could be. But I would suspect that until there is a complete understanding of costs, including treating those not covered, nothing can really be done. It's just rearranging the desk chairs on the Titanic.
Properly pricing services and prohibiting the charging of different amounts to different customers will clearly expose the biggest piggy sucking at the public teat. It all comes down to the idea that you can't fix something until you truly know what is wrong.
If doctors practiced medicine like the health care "reformers" are practicing reform, they would lose their licenses and be put in jail.
Ever notice that all the "fixes" proposed in Washington revolve around getting more people into this failed economic model and accommodating the costs? No one asks why a scan costs some $3000 or why a drugs costs $750 per dose.
It's time to just re-tool the whole thing from the ground up, focusing on having prices that reflect the actual costs or services. A probably not so far fetched example, a one million dollar MRI machine. Amortized over 5 years, 8 scans a day, that comes out to about $68. Add on the technician's fees and misc. for power and space in the hospital and your scans should not cost more than a couple hundred dollars sans the radiologist's fees to read them.
Health care reform should be 100% about bringing transparency and predictability to the costs. Only then can you look at how to cover more people.
Maybe being tossed nakkid into the ring with several pissed off bulls.
Force them to spend a month solid working closely (close quarters) with Nancy Pelosi.
Fix it up so that in order to eat and drink, they have to make that browser window that keeps asking, "Are sure you want to leave?", go away by only clicking in the browser window.
Five thousand hours of Steve Ballmer doing the monkey dance.
Do you really think that world, national, or even local policy is going to be changed based on a post on Slashdot that no one will read 8 hours after it was posted? Do you really believe that?
Nope, policy arguments will be carried out in the press. And the press has caught on, despite their best efforts to ignore that fact that the AGW crowd is coming apart like an over spun flywheel.
No one cares what I wrote. No one cares what you wrote. In fact, today, no one will even read this post or anything else posted yesterday. I'm cool with that because I'm not try to change minds. Merely passing the time ridiculing self important jackasses who would pretend to be able to tell me and others how we should live our lives.
So you go right on posting your echo chamber garbage. I'm sure everyone in congress is reading Slashdot.
"We" are hard working people who are not about to turn over our hard earned cash to a cabal of governments selling a load of snake oil and pushing for wild ass tax schemes to "save the earth".
Day be day your arguments fall apart. The IPPC (or whatever they call this waste of ink and paper) report was "God" at first. Everyone pointed to it. Now we know it's mostly made up garbage.
So you fall back on this and that. "Pay no attention to our first lame ass arguments and evidence...take a look at THIS!"
If you people were at all serious about AGW, you would be pushing unrelentingly for nuclear power as it is the only plausible way out of the mess you claim we are in.
Since you don't, then I am unlikely to believe your chicken little fantasies and am even less likely to agree to your totalitarian solutions.
“The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change,” said John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a former lead author on the IPCC.
* Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing
* There has been no global warming since 1995
* Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes
Per Dr. Phil Jones:
* Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing
* There has been no global warming since 1995
* Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes
Per Dr. Phil Jones:
* Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing
* There has been no global warming since 1995
* Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes
Slashdot Mirror
Everyone should dress up like Gandhi and march down to the bay to make salt.
Wanted:
Java developer with 40 years experience in Code Bubbling concepts.
5 years experience with the Code Bubble IDE.
...take Windows 30 seconds to list what is in My Documents folder.
Summary: ...allowing many patients to walk or run who have not been able to do so for years
Reality:
Within months some patients can walk or run in ways they haven’t been able to in years.
What is this? A late night infomercial?
Use the deportation catapult!
the deportation catapult
Nice. I like it.
You can contact them here:
Asshole1
U.S. Senate, Washington D.C.
Asshole2
U.S. Senate, Washington D.C.
Be sure to include the numbers as generic reference to Asshole will end up spamming the entire Senate.
Except if you want Oracle and you call and ask them how much, 99% of the time they will say $100,000, and you won't get it until you pay for it.
Why are diamonds so expensive? Because they artificially reduce availability.
I also remember a 60 Minutes episode showing literally piles and piles of them waiting in vaults for economic conditions to change and reduce oversupply.
Chicken or the egg eh?
Could be. But I would suspect that until there is a complete understanding of costs, including treating those not covered, nothing can really be done. It's just rearranging the desk chairs on the Titanic.
Properly pricing services and prohibiting the charging of different amounts to different customers will clearly expose the biggest piggy sucking at the public teat. It all comes down to the idea that you can't fix something until you truly know what is wrong.
If doctors practiced medicine like the health care "reformers" are practicing reform, they would lose their licenses and be put in jail.
Ever notice that all the "fixes" proposed in Washington revolve around getting more people into this failed economic model and accommodating the costs? No one asks why a scan costs some $3000 or why a drugs costs $750 per dose.
It's time to just re-tool the whole thing from the ground up, focusing on having prices that reflect the actual costs or services. A probably not so far fetched example, a one million dollar MRI machine. Amortized over 5 years, 8 scans a day, that comes out to about $68. Add on the technician's fees and misc. for power and space in the hospital and your scans should not cost more than a couple hundred dollars sans the radiologist's fees to read them.
Health care reform should be 100% about bringing transparency and predictability to the costs. Only then can you look at how to cover more people.
It's Friday man. You need to relax.
...some extrajudicial punishment is in order.
Maybe being tossed nakkid into the ring with several pissed off bulls.
Force them to spend a month solid working closely (close quarters) with Nancy Pelosi.
Fix it up so that in order to eat and drink, they have to make that browser window that keeps asking, "Are sure you want to leave?", go away by only clicking in the browser window.
Five thousand hours of Steve Ballmer doing the monkey dance.
Suggestions welcome.
May all the bastards, including the idiot mdsolar who's just trying to hawk his solar panel snake oil, freeze to death.
Do you really think that world, national, or even local policy is going to be changed based on a post on Slashdot that no one will read 8 hours after it was posted? Do you really believe that?
Nope, policy arguments will be carried out in the press. And the press has caught on, despite their best efforts to ignore that fact that the AGW crowd is coming apart like an over spun flywheel.
No one cares what I wrote. No one cares what you wrote. In fact, today, no one will even read this post or anything else posted yesterday. I'm cool with that because I'm not try to change minds. Merely passing the time ridiculing self important jackasses who would pretend to be able to tell me and others how we should live our lives.
So you go right on posting your echo chamber garbage. I'm sure everyone in congress is reading Slashdot.
"We" are hard working people who are not about to turn over our hard earned cash to a cabal of governments selling a load of snake oil and pushing for wild ass tax schemes to "save the earth".
Day be day your arguments fall apart. The IPPC (or whatever they call this waste of ink and paper) report was "God" at first. Everyone pointed to it. Now we know it's mostly made up garbage.
So you fall back on this and that. "Pay no attention to our first lame ass arguments and evidence...take a look at THIS!"
If you people were at all serious about AGW, you would be pushing unrelentingly for nuclear power as it is the only plausible way out of the mess you claim we are in.
Since you don't, then I am unlikely to believe your chicken little fantasies and am even less likely to agree to your totalitarian solutions.
You better start thinking of another doomsday scare. This one is about all used up. How about...wifi radiation! Now there's something for ya.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7026317.ece
“The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change,” said John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a former lead author on the IPCC.
Even if they can get their butts between the armrests, the rest of them overflows into the next seat.
They should have required him to buy two seats, since he takes up two seats and twice the gas as a normal person.
OF course, you can read it from the Horse's keeper's month:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8511701.stm
Sure...a link to the same crowd where all they say, "it aint true!".
I don't guess you care that their "wild accusations and sensationalist reporting" is coming from Dr. Jones.
Hmmm...slight problem there eh?
So the AGW camp is reduced to quoting from wikipedia?
Me thinks the argument has been lost.
As for the signature, it is a quote from your hero, Dr. Jones.
Per Dr. Phil Jones:
* Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing
* There has been no global warming since 1995
* Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html##ixzz0fWNe9VeK
Per Dr. Phil Jones:
* Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing
* There has been no global warming since 1995
* Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html##ixzz0fWNe9VeK
Per Dr. Phil Jones:
* Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing
* There has been no global warming since 1995
* Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html##ixzz0fWNe9VeK
Spin it!
You are right. I should have said, "Cheating is wrong".
Now that would have sparked a nice discussion and brought in many view points. It may have even prevented some idiot AC from posting.