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  1. Re:Healthcare on Computer Model Reveals Escape Plan From Poverty's Vicious Circle · · Score: 1

    In serious discussions about medicine and its funding, I really wish newspapers would know the difference between plastic (treating those with disfigurements from accident or birth etc) and cosmetic (my hairline and or tits have changed since I was 19, poor me!) surgery

  2. Re:Healthcare on Computer Model Reveals Escape Plan From Poverty's Vicious Circle · · Score: 1

    your health system can be excellent since you manage to be 33rd even though one in three americans are fat.

    Reducing obesity rates is part of preventive medicine, so by definition such high rates are evidence of an at least partly failing healthcare system. In that you are unable to stop such grotesque obesity that the fat scooter is actually a thing.

  3. Re:very understandable on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 1

    when you don't know jack shit other than the propaganda you've heard about how awesome it is.

    What, precisely can you prove about the knowledgablity of the GP poster?

  4. Re:very understandable on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 1

    I might not be from your country, but any pharmacist asking me questions about my ailment, or other matters I would expect to discuss only with a doctor would receive a sharp "None of your business!" and possibly a letter to their registering body.

  5. Re:very understandable on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 1

    It may be very useful, but it means at least one other person accesses confidential (and potentially reputation ruining) information.
    Is it really only the registered pharmacist? What if the first person behind the counter sees the paper that has the diagnosis?
    You need to demonstrate that the good will almost always outweigh the harm if you allow this.

  6. Re:England on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That anecdote shows why the market is not the infallible benificence that libertard fundies claim.
    It is obvious to anyone with an education that hundreds of millions of plastic bags that will never rot is a bad thing.
    You cannot wait for companies who are interested only in their own profits. They will not change.

  7. Re:England on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1


    Almost all supermarkets do that in many countries. And that is a different problem - failure to return a piece of company property.
    Presumably not as much of a problem in North America since no-one walks anywhere.

  8. Re:England on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1

    ALDI (a German super discount, no-frills at all supermarket & newcomer to Britain) charges for plastic bags. They don't do it because "hey man we gotta save the whales", but because bags are not free to manufacture. ALDI does very well.

  9. Re:Plastic bag weight on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 1

    "litter patrol" like they do in England with McDonalds.

    The problem is not that the streets near supermarkets have plastic bags on them.
    The problem is that the millions of plactic bags do not rot when end users throw them away at their home address.

  10. Re: LOL Tesla on Third Tesla Fire Means Feds To Begin Review · · Score: 1

    And some combination of the two is literally impossible, is it?
    I hear of people in not particularly sunny parts of the world who can charge their car off solar panels on their roof.
    Bear in mind, that's something that a goddam greenwash hippy faggot might well have had already

  11. Re: LOL Tesla on Third Tesla Fire Means Feds To Begin Review · · Score: 1

    I call BS on....average US residential rate of $.125 per kWhr

    So in order to be telling the truth (as you claim he can't be) all he needs is :
    - to live in an area with cheaper than average electricity
    and/or
    - have some renewable source in his house. Not that unlikely, we are talking about someone whose interests include sustainable/renewable enrgy and transport, and he has enough money for a brand new car

  12. Re:Sorry, no. on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 3, Informative

    And Total Recall. And Showgirls. And Basic Instinct. And Hollow Man.

  13. Re:Sorry, no. on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 1

    Black Book was. The world is bigger than the continuous 48.

  14. Re:Gasoline is FAR safer on Third Tesla Fire Means Feds To Begin Review · · Score: 1

    Please be quiet you anonymous child.

  15. Re: LOL Tesla on Third Tesla Fire Means Feds To Begin Review · · Score: 1

    Wiki says there are 50 available (to lease only) in the whole US. Partly because only Southern CA has the hydrogen refill stations.
    Honda believes they could start mass producing in 2018.

  16. Re:What wouldn't Atlantic publish? on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 1

    Very little of this is in a movie — and it was justly derided for the omission.

    We hear in the school scenes that "Only citizens can vote", we hear implied in the recruitment video section that military service is useful in getting permission to reproduce -
    [KATRINA] "I wanna be a mom. It's easier to get a licence if you've served."

  17. Re:starshit troopers is still starshit troopers on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 2

    Well, I disagree. Starship Troopers was better than either robocop or esepcially total recall.

  18. Re:Sorry, no. on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately you are wrong.
    The film/movie's use of then common news media tropes show this:
    for example, embeds and nods to even-handedness in TV news , immediately dismissed as hopelessly naïve -
    [embed reporter] "Some say the bugs were provoked by human attempts to colonize within the AQZ, that a "live and let live" policy is preferable to war with the bugs..."
    [Rico] "I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill'em all !"
    The use of onscreen info and hyperlinks "Would you like to know more?"
    All Fair and Balanced, just like a certain popular outlet
    I would also point you to responses to Verhoeven other famous work - Robocop. Described by noted American critic Ebert as a laudable satire.
    I have no doubt that Heinlein meant every po-faced word he typed, Verhoeven was clearly not playing it straight. Verhoeven probably left Hollywood because it is very very difficult to make good films there. Black Book has 77% on RT

  19. Re:Orson Scott Card on Movie Review: Ender's Game · · Score: 1

    Even assuming your (not, you're) reasoning is correct re: "Liberal" motivation you are still wrong.
    Drumming up support for boycotts and the like is a symptom of anyone who dislikes something.
    Remember W ketchup? Have you heard of the Parents Television Council? Biblical literalists response to that Dr Pepper ad? Christian response to The Life of Brain, or The Last Temptation of Christ? Muslim response to The Satanic Verses? This last one of course was by far the worst in that some Muslims appear to call for murder in response to works of art they are not obliged to look at.
    2 further examples to help your side, Chick-fil-a and Domino's pizza

  20. Re:Orson Scott Card on Movie Review: Ender's Game · · Score: 1

    Ahhh,

    Why do right-wingers think that starting a response with the above means that they automatically win?

  21. Re:Orson Scott Card on Movie Review: Ender's Game · · Score: 1


    Dunning-Kruger strikes again!
    You misunderstand time dilation. The simple way to remember it is: "Moving clocks run slow"

  22. Re:Orson Scott Card on Movie Review: Ender's Game · · Score: 1

    Child molestation is "acting immorally yourself"? I don't care how you try to justify anything else in your life. You're a lump of shit.

    Not sure what you mean here....are you suggesting that such acts are not immoral?

  23. Re:Orson Scott Card on Movie Review: Ender's Game · · Score: 1, Insightful


    There is a different between acting immorally yourself and campaigning to increase the incidence of acts seen by some as immoral.
    That is why this author's statements managed to get traction among campaigner types.
    They probably see it as an eye for an eye; "We will raise our troops against you since that's what you try to do to us."

  24. Re:Orson Scott Card on Movie Review: Ender's Game · · Score: 1

    ....... How about The Piano?

    You mean the Pianist., not The Piano.

  25. Re:Really doesn't compute on 8 US States Pushing For 3.3 Million Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Because:
    1 They are run by a billionaire who enjoys being famous and well liked, this is great publicity for him.
    2. They have no conflict of interest, Tesla only makes electric cars.
    3. (Slightly conspiratorial this one) Pressure from big oil to slow down moves away from fossil fuel will be far less effective on a company like Tesla.