but doesn't cover dental or the cost of anything but out-patient surgery, as far as I can tell (doesn't cover surgery? then what's the point?)
It's difficult to explain without explaining the whole system. The UK has the NHS providing healthcare, so the health insurance is really providing "top-ups". Private rooms, skipping waiting lists, paying you extra money while you're in hospital, etc. Surgery is "free" already* so it's not counted. Other things are capped [for example, any prescriptions in Scotland are now £4 per item]. Dental insurance seems to be sold separately for the most part, but it's only about £8 a month, probably because dental treatments' costs are also capped, so most folk just pay as they go.
Excuse the square brackets, my "0" key is broken.
[* of course it's not free, it's paid in taxes, but as I've already mentioned we pay less in taxes per capita than you pay in the US for your public health service]
So you concede that it was wrong to generalise that public healthcare was a bad idea, from your limited experience?
BTW, did you look at the link I gave in my previous post? Was the quote comparable to what you pay now? I really don't know what's "usual" for the USA.
I suppose if you work part time at McDonalds, government run health care seems like a good idea, but if you have a job where you can actually afford real healthcare, it's terrible.
Except that's nonsense. Perhaps Canada has a poor system (I really don't know), but why compare with the worst example?
I know the UK isn't the best in the world, but we pay less on public healthcare (per capita) than the USA does.
And I also believe our private healthcare is far cheaper too; I know it would be for me. Look at this and see for yourself how it would work out for you, bearing in mind that most people don't bother with private insurance as they're quite happy with the NHS.
Actually, the most expensive UK option there, Platinum cover with zero excess, was cheaper than the cheapest US quote I could find, but I admit I don't know the ins and outs of the US system.
Image this scenario: Five million people are hired for one hour of simultaneous manual labor. Does it cost you $10, or $50,000,000?
Imagine this scenario: those Five millions people all have to change their Firefox settings, and therefore all actually work 1 hour and 2 seconds. Do you have to pay $50,000,000 or $50,027,777?
It's missing from the "oldest" gospel, at least in any meaningful form, as is the statement that he's the son of god and, now that you mention it, the piece on ascension.
Mark is missing the long ending; this isn't the first codex to miss it. The mention of the Son of God is there, the ascension isn't (because that's part of the long ending).
Just minor little pieces.
Try stating something concrete rather than vague insinuations.
If protons don't decay as we suspect, then universe slowly tunnels to iron-56, (light nuclei via fusion and heavier via fission) in about 10^1500 years, which coalesce into black holes or neutron stars in about 10^10^76 years (yup, double exponent).
Session Restore - "Unexpected shutdown? Go back to exactly where you left off." Tires unexpectedly fall off? Can I have a browser that doesn't need to have this feature?
Where in that person's post do you see that the person is British? Is it in his username, "Lemming Mark"? Is it his UID? What part of his post tells me his country of origin?
His home page.
I think you are the idiot.
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I stand by my original comment posted above: Leave the "British-isms...on your own side of the ocean.
People do not need to travel to the US to post on slashdot. They use "the Internet".
Knowledge. And not just knowledge gained through experimentation or research, sometimes you can gain profitable information just looking out the window at the right moment.
Actually, thinking about it, I retract my previous comment. Information has to be counted as wealth, even if it makes it a rather weird kind of wealth.
However, information gathering certainly counts as labour. How easy it is, is irrelevant. You could stumble across a nugget of gold on the ground, but gold mining is still labour.
Knowledge. And not just knowledge gained through experimentation or research, sometimes you can gain profitable information just looking out the window at the right moment.
I'm not sure information can be classed as wealth. Wealth can not usually be infinitely duplicated at zero cost. Which definition of wealth are you using?
The Marxian view that the only source of wealth is labor just doesn't work "outside of the lab". Resource limitations, energy limitations, social fads (paying adults millions to play a childs playground game), private property issues...
You could be right, but none of the things you listed creates wealth, so I'm not sure what the point of listing them was. What, other than labour, creates wealth?
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That's not a redirect.
[just kidding...I think...]
Except that the phrase was coined by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman.
Why the hell did you choose to try it out if you didn't want to try it out?
Click "Turn off Buzz".
Yes! Then you could have had a Windows 7 Launch Party instead!
No, xnu is not a microkernel. See this.
Considering I've seen normal Windows updates break machines in just about every conceivable way, I'm wondering what the hell a Hotfix might do!
Perhaps something like The Ring, only with Steve Ballmer climbing through your monitor, dripping sweat and groaning about developers...
It's difficult to explain without explaining the whole system. The UK has the NHS providing healthcare, so the health insurance is really providing "top-ups". Private rooms, skipping waiting lists, paying you extra money while you're in hospital, etc. Surgery is "free" already* so it's not counted. Other things are capped [for example, any prescriptions in Scotland are now £4 per item]. Dental insurance seems to be sold separately for the most part, but it's only about £8 a month, probably because dental treatments' costs are also capped, so most folk just pay as they go.
Excuse the square brackets, my "0" key is broken.
[* of course it's not free, it's paid in taxes, but as I've already mentioned we pay less in taxes per capita than you pay in the US for your public health service]
So you concede that it was wrong to generalise that public healthcare was a bad idea, from your limited experience?
BTW, did you look at the link I gave in my previous post? Was the quote comparable to what you pay now? I really don't know what's "usual" for the USA.
Yes you do.
No it isn't.
Perhaps you should visit more countries.
Except that's nonsense. Perhaps Canada has a poor system (I really don't know), but why compare with the worst example?
I know the UK isn't the best in the world, but we pay less on public healthcare (per capita) than the USA does.
And I also believe our private healthcare is far cheaper too; I know it would be for me. Look at this and see for yourself how it would work out for you, bearing in mind that most people don't bother with private insurance as they're quite happy with the NHS.
Actually, the most expensive UK option there, Platinum cover with zero excess, was cheaper than the cheapest US quote I could find, but I admit I don't know the ins and outs of the US system.
Imagine this scenario: those Five millions people all have to change their Firefox settings, and therefore all actually work 1 hour and 2 seconds. Do you have to pay $50,000,000 or $50,027,777?
Negligible time intervals are negligible.
Mark is missing the long ending; this isn't the first codex to miss it. The mention of the Son of God is there, the ascension isn't (because that's part of the long ending).
Try stating something concrete rather than vague insinuations.
Well, you have now, so that's something.
No, because it isn't. Didn't it occur to you to check this was true, when you first heard it?
Actually, there is. It's the side, that at night, doesn't get any earthshine.
No, this means 5,768,000 users will have to change their setting, meaning ONE SECOND (0.000012 days) of lost time overall.
They don't change the setting one at a time.
Have a look at this for an interesting view of the same game.
10^640 years should be enough for anyone.
Yes, Firefox 3 will include a Virtual UPS.
Learn to duck.
His home page.
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People do not need to travel to the US to post on slashdot. They use "the Internet".
Since you kind of like UKIP ideas, but not the racism, what about the English Democrats?
Actually, thinking about it, I retract my previous comment. Information has to be counted as wealth, even if it makes it a rather weird kind of wealth.
However, information gathering certainly counts as labour. How easy it is, is irrelevant. You could stumble across a nugget of gold on the ground, but gold mining is still labour.
I'm not sure information can be classed as wealth. Wealth can not usually be infinitely duplicated at zero cost. Which definition of wealth are you using?
You could be right, but none of the things you listed creates wealth, so I'm not sure what the point of listing them was. What, other than labour, creates wealth?
...and this will be my last slashdot post of 2009. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Will have minimum contact with computers for my holidays!