The classic counterargument is that Courbusier advocated frill-less (and thus cheaper) "functional" towers, but himself chose to live in a replication of a medieval Italian villa.
+5 karma to those of you who get the 'Blade Runner' reference.
Seriously, if your GP / family doctor is ony making $40K/yr, and spending 3-5hrs a day filling out paperwork, you're either in a very odd place, or your GP is stupid. He could pay someone to fill out that paperwork and serve more clients; like my GP, he could install software that automates a lot of it.
You're not the poster I was taking issue with; my beef, was mostly with the gross misrepresentation of salaries and realities. I did not mean at all, to imply these matters are simple; rather, that those who spout off misleading information and opinion, are a blight on the social body:) that will not be resolved in the terms of our current political maliase.
>Until the Mexican government builds a massive electrified fence all the way across the northern border to stop impoverished US immigrants from stealing their health care.
>Back in the 80s, he worked 10 hours a day, saw 40-50 patents a day and made more than $250k a year. Now, he works 10-12 hours a day and the made less than $40k.
Yeah right.
Inflation adjusted, the average GP made $1M in the 80s. Today they make $300k, work *less* hours, and complain about it. YMMV for your particular doctor; whatever, outliers don't count, and you're lying to make a point, so fuck you, asswipe.
> The BIGGEST contributor to the outrageous health care costs in the US is, by far, a lack of pricing regulations over pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers (which every other developed country in the world has)
Yes... BUT... without these price/profit incentives (the US assuming costs), how many entities around the world would be spending *anything* on R&D, that is, what actually makes innovation and progress *happen*?
My mom is a 90-something senior with "severe immological deficiencies" (to choose an insufficient phrase). That people near where she lives are not only choosing not to immunize, but exchanging cultures through the mail and trying them out on their kids after refusing to immunize their kids, "drives me crazy."
Best of luck. I'd make an ironic joke about those who believe its all a plot by "The Man," but most here wouldn't get my irony. I can't really believe the US has come to this...
>If you don't get vaccinated, you can spread diseases to people who are too young to get vaccinated, people who's vaccinations didn't take (vaccination isn't 100% effective for everyone), people who can't get vaccinated due to allergies/illness/etc.
Don't forget (at least): the elderly; those with compromised immune systems from disease or other conditions;...
Your description of policy is essentially equal to the norm in the US. What these people (read: idiots) are doing is claiming an exemption from the policy, based on personal conscience.
I'd really like to be able to litigate against them, but (oversimplifiying a bit) the US legal tradition only recognizes actual, not potential or theoretical damages, as actionable. You can't say "this is stupid, I shouldn't be exposed to this risk, make these people pay based on the risk they're giving me;" you have to demonstrate you caught the disease, and that their child gave it to you (or your child), and then claim actual damages... alas.
1) You're in the Valley. You've pretty much chosen the best place in the US, other than here and there.
2) Respectfully, I think your birth stories are relatively anecdotal. I could give great stories from the Benelux, and very bad stories from the US South, Midwest, Chicago, and East Coast-- which make your bad story sound great. It's not all the Silicon Valley in the US; and doctors etc in the Benelux will work and respond after-hours, even making house calls, though, quite frankly, that's often a matter of family and social connections (as well as paid health care), which are quite often racial in nature of distribution.
3) I suspected as much about treatment of Muslims was involved here. Look, it's bad throughout Europe, and it's always been bad (relatively). But it's also bad in much/most of the US. My Kurdish friends in the South get the same treatment; as a Kippah-wearing Jew, in the South even in big cities, people often think I'm muslim and treat me the way they think muslims should be treated (not that this is in any way an excuse, or that I mind being identified with muslims/etc).
I thus recognize why you might prefer San Jose to Utrecht, etc., but it's not as simple a comparison. There are bad, small-minded people in both places, and I'll buy that things have gone downhill in the Netherlands in the past decades. On the other hands, even in the Valley, there's nothing quite like the neighborhoods in Benelux filled with 'this is a hate-free place' placards; and in the Benelux, I think there's nothing quite as noxious as the racism of the US South, which has spread elsewhere.
Best wishes for you, though, regardless of where you choose to live.
What's that, Webster? Try the OED or some other historical coorespondence which lists historical usages of words.
It may be that Mr. Webster (or whomever) did not have enough foresight to conceive that a "book" (concept: a collection of words) might be a class that could be instantiated in something other than the form he had experienced it in. That's an error of induction.
You make a lot of sweeping, broad-brush accusations, especially about health care. There are huge differences in the quality of care you'll receive in much of urban California, various parts of the East Coast, and more rural or recently developed areas. One thing you might be concerned about is safety (vs. frills and niceness) if anything goes wrong with the birth, as well; a clean modern-looking lobby and a comforting hand from the nurses, is far less valuable than a doctor who can take the right action in a critical situation-- thus, I'm inclined to discount your anecdotal, third-and-fourth hand heresay evidence from the eyes of persons giving birth:P
As far as your neighbors and collegues and acceptance, well, again, you omit any critical etails. The Netherlands are generally known for acceptance, weet je wel? You've heard of this Paul Ryan guy? Anything that isn't treated well in parts of the Netherlands, I would guess, would be treated worse in the majority of the US.
And 'civilized?' At this point, I wonder if you're being sarcastic. The US is going backwards on education, general and specific; the US is known for being anti-intellectual. Where exactly are these civilized Americans?
About 11,000 people were guillotined during the Terror, out of a population far greater than the Colonies. In comparison, the US Revolution was far bloodier, with essentially ethnic classes wiped out or forced to flee (families who supported the Crown). (See Wikipedia for details). FWIW.
the vast majority of the voting public, simply doesn't care. There could be an online database that checked what every congresscritter etc said, and the average Joe would still vote by party and personal prejudice. (Or as Lakoff puts it: according to their favorite frame).
In the view of the Average Joe. Q. Proleblius, facts don't matter; in fact I rather suspect, they don't even exist.
You're confused. Tried the interface on an Android device lately? I'll be damned if I can tell what turns the volume up and down, and why it takes 8 clicks to adjust the brightness, much less tether, and WHY THE HELL THE DAMN THING HAS TO ASSIGN ARBITRARY IPs UPON TETHER?!?
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DMCA would seem to require a good faith belief in the merit of a copyright claim. I'm not sure an "AI" bot meets that standard.
Thank you for clarifying that for me. Does your dad know you're online?
it's called 'facade' versus 'functionality.'
The classic counterargument is that Courbusier advocated frill-less (and thus cheaper) "functional" towers, but himself chose to live in a replication of a medieval Italian villa.
+5 karma to those of you who get the 'Blade Runner' reference.
Seriously, if your GP / family doctor is ony making $40K/yr, and spending 3-5hrs a day filling out paperwork, you're either in a very odd place, or your GP is stupid. He could pay someone to fill out that paperwork and serve more clients; like my GP, he could install software that automates a lot of it.
But regardless: outlier, outlier, outlier!!!
LOL to your reply.
You're not the poster I was taking issue with; my beef, was mostly with the gross misrepresentation of salaries and realities. I did not mean at all, to imply these matters are simple; rather, that those who spout off misleading information and opinion, are a blight on the social body :) that will not be resolved in the terms of our current political maliase.
Thanks for you comment, regardless.
>Until the Mexican government builds a massive electrified fence all the way across the northern border to stop impoverished US immigrants from stealing their health care.
FTFY.
>Back in the 80s, he worked 10 hours a day, saw 40-50 patents a day and made more than $250k a year. Now, he works 10-12 hours a day and the made less than $40k.
Yeah right.
Inflation adjusted, the average GP made $1M in the 80s. Today they make $300k, work *less* hours, and complain about it. YMMV for your particular doctor; whatever, outliers don't count, and you're lying to make a point, so fuck you, asswipe.
>I very strongly suspect that "Obamacare", if not repealed or nullified (some states have already done that), will not make that situation any better.
You're the same kind of person who supported Jim Crow, aren't you?
Is there anything that can stop people such as you, short of a bayonet blade in the gullet?
> The BIGGEST contributor to the outrageous health care costs in the US is, by far, a lack of pricing regulations over pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers (which every other developed country in the world has)
Yes... BUT... without these price/profit incentives (the US assuming costs), how many entities around the world would be spending *anything* on R&D, that is, what actually makes innovation and progress *happen*?
Evidence, not mere assertion, please?
I suspect they didn't go to biology class?
My mom is a 90-something senior with "severe immological deficiencies" (to choose an insufficient phrase). That people near where she lives are not only choosing not to immunize, but exchanging cultures through the mail and trying them out on their kids after refusing to immunize their kids, "drives me crazy."
Best of luck. I'd make an ironic joke about those who believe its all a plot by "The Man," but most here wouldn't get my irony. I can't really believe the US has come to this...
>If you don't get vaccinated, you can spread diseases to people who are too young to get vaccinated, people who's vaccinations didn't take (vaccination isn't 100% effective for everyone), people who can't get vaccinated due to allergies/illness/etc.
Don't forget (at least): the elderly; those with compromised immune systems from disease or other conditions; ...
>Justify why a newborn needs a hepatitis b vaccine. Go ahead call me stupid when I've done the research.
Stupid!
Your description of policy is essentially equal to the norm in the US. What these people (read: idiots) are doing is claiming an exemption from the policy, based on personal conscience.
I'd really like to be able to litigate against them, but (oversimplifiying a bit) the US legal tradition only recognizes actual, not potential or theoretical damages, as actionable. You can't say "this is stupid, I shouldn't be exposed to this risk, make these people pay based on the risk they're giving me;" you have to demonstrate you caught the disease, and that their child gave it to you (or your child), and then claim actual damages... alas.
Ok:
1) You're in the Valley. You've pretty much chosen the best place in the US, other than here and there.
2) Respectfully, I think your birth stories are relatively anecdotal. I could give great stories from the Benelux, and very bad stories from the US South, Midwest, Chicago, and East Coast-- which make your bad story sound great. It's not all the Silicon Valley in the US; and doctors etc in the Benelux will work and respond after-hours, even making house calls, though, quite frankly, that's often a matter of family and social connections (as well as paid health care), which are quite often racial in nature of distribution.
3) I suspected as much about treatment of Muslims was involved here. Look, it's bad throughout Europe, and it's always been bad (relatively). But it's also bad in much/most of the US. My Kurdish friends in the South get the same treatment; as a Kippah-wearing Jew, in the South even in big cities, people often think I'm muslim and treat me the way they think muslims should be treated (not that this is in any way an excuse, or that I mind being identified with muslims/etc).
I thus recognize why you might prefer San Jose to Utrecht, etc., but it's not as simple a comparison. There are bad, small-minded people in both places, and I'll buy that things have gone downhill in the Netherlands in the past decades. On the other hands, even in the Valley, there's nothing quite like the neighborhoods in Benelux filled with 'this is a hate-free place' placards; and in the Benelux, I think there's nothing quite as noxious as the racism of the US South, which has spread elsewhere.
Best wishes for you, though, regardless of where you choose to live.
What's that, Webster? Try the OED or some other historical coorespondence which lists historical usages of words.
It may be that Mr. Webster (or whomever) did not have enough foresight to conceive that a "book" (concept: a collection of words) might be a class that could be instantiated in something other than the form he had experienced it in. That's an error of induction.
Waar in de VS? En waar in Nederland?
(Where in the US? And where in the Netherlands?)
You make a lot of sweeping, broad-brush accusations, especially about health care. There are huge differences in the quality of care you'll receive in much of urban California, various parts of the East Coast, and more rural or recently developed areas. One thing you might be concerned about is safety (vs. frills and niceness) if anything goes wrong with the birth, as well; a clean modern-looking lobby and a comforting hand from the nurses, is far less valuable than a doctor who can take the right action in a critical situation-- thus, I'm inclined to discount your anecdotal, third-and-fourth hand heresay evidence from the eyes of persons giving birth :P
As far as your neighbors and collegues and acceptance, well, again, you omit any critical etails. The Netherlands are generally known for acceptance, weet je wel? You've heard of this Paul Ryan guy? Anything that isn't treated well in parts of the Netherlands, I would guess, would be treated worse in the majority of the US.
And 'civilized?' At this point, I wonder if you're being sarcastic. The US is going backwards on education, general and specific; the US is known for being anti-intellectual. Where exactly are these civilized Americans?
About 11,000 people were guillotined during the Terror, out of a population far greater than the Colonies. In comparison, the US Revolution was far bloodier, with essentially ethnic classes wiped out or forced to flee (families who supported the Crown). (See Wikipedia for details). FWIW.
An ebook is a book. A book on parchment or scrolls is a book. You said "books suck." That's imprecise unless you want to cover all books.
You mean *printed* books. Be precise!
the vast majority of the voting public, simply doesn't care. There could be an online database that checked what every congresscritter etc said, and the average Joe would still vote by party and personal prejudice. (Or as Lakoff puts it: according to their favorite frame).
In the view of the Average Joe. Q. Proleblius, facts don't matter; in fact I rather suspect, they don't even exist.
You're confused. Tried the interface on an Android device lately? I'll be damned if I can tell what turns the volume up and down, and why it takes 8 clicks to adjust the brightness, much less tether, and WHY THE HELL THE DAMN THING HAS TO ASSIGN ARBITRARY IPs UPON TETHER?!?
Perhaps we could arrange for them to be electrically shocked while it bit them on the arse, and simultaneously, offer the smell of raw steak.
*bing bing bing bing bing*
/me evidently thought that *sarcasm* tags were not necessary for this audience. Don't know why...
*sarcasm* tags. (original filtered out by /. darn editing software)