Is he saying that people shouldnt' come into work with flu (fair enough, but I can't believe that many do?) or is he saying they shouldn't come in whenever they have a cold (which seems a bit much - I'd probably get a couple of months off a year if I did that)?
Maybe you should wonder why you get so many colds? If you don't have kids I bet you're catching them at work.
Someone always end up paying for the health care somehow. Rule of thumb: When the government is involved it ends up costing FAR more than when it's not.
Inconsistent with reality.
All universal health care systems are cheaper than the US system.
If your theory doesn't match reality then your theory is wrong. Sorry.
You just don't understand do you? It's not up to you if it's worth trying or not. It's HER life. She gets to decide if she wants to try leeches to cure her cancer. In a private system, she can seek out and purchase insurance that covers what she wants. In a single payer system you HAVE NO CHOICE. A panel of doctors decides if your treatment is worthwhile or not. In a single payer system, the least cost solution wins. The cheapest way to cure some diseases is to simply make the patient wait long enough that the problem "goes away" in this case the patient paid for it out of pocket, in other cases they just die.
Then isn't a good thing that your fantasy of a "single payer system" doesn't exist. In the UK if you want private health insurance you can have it. If she wanted the drugs that the NHS wouldn't pay for she just had to pay for them herself.
Hmm, one problem I have with the full GPL is that it *is* by design rather intent on spreading itself virally and to the exclusion of other legitimate models, and thus a restriction on what software the hardware would be allowed to run would be unfortunately in keeping with the GPL.
Please engage brain before typing.
Simple thought experiment - can you compile closed source code with gcc? Can you write copyrighted text with Abiword? So why couldn't you run closed source code on a processor who's design was licenced under the GPL?
What licencing the processor under the GPL means is that any modified versions of that processor also have to be licenced under the GPL. No more, no less.
It's entirely possible to have something cyclical and trend in a direction.
Of course it's possible - like I said there's clearly a 365 day cycle. The point is that the cycle is irrelevant - all it does is sometimes hide the trend, (1998 anyone?) and sometimes exaggerate it.
But worrying about mysterious a-physical sine waves is purest mathturbation.
Did you ever notice that I didn't take a side? So how am I spreading FUD, when I'm not actually being a global warming denier or a global warming alarmist?
Oh, you took a "side" alright.
The fact is, we just don't know for sure. [...] no one truly knows for a fact what is going on. [...] There is enough data on both sides to warrant looking at.
That's purest FUD which tells me what "side" you're on.
The ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting at an ever-quickening pace. Since 1992, they have contributed 11 millimeters — or one-fifth — of the total global sea-level rise
The ice sheets in Antarctica are growing.
You're confusing land ice and sea ice.
Land ice (Greenland and Antarctic) is melting.
Arctic sea ice is melting.
Antarctic sea ice is growing in extent. (Though by much less than Arctic sea ice is shrinking).
The problem is sea ice has nothing to do with sea level - it floats.
1000 years ago Greenland had no ice as well because the Vikings were living on it. we know this because they left a lot of garbage before they left as the ice sheet came back.
Amusing, but not actually true.
they were making wine in england 1000 years ago because it was warm enough to grow grapes.
It's still warm enough to make wine in England. The only time wine has not been made in England seems to be between the end of WWI to just after the end of WWII. http://www.english-wine.com/history.html
That's not what I am saying. What I'm saying is that there is just as much FUD thrown around on the global warming alarmist side as there is on the skeptic side.
Maybe you should learn what FUD means.
Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
Denialists specialise in "Uncertainty" and "Doubt". They like to throw a little Fear around from time to time "it's a conspiracy"!
Looking back at data from various sources shows it's cyclical with a trend towards ice melt not being restored by the subsequent winter ice freeze from one year to the next.
"cyclical with a trend"
So you admit the reduction in ice extent (volume, mass, whatever) is not caused by the "cycles".
(How long are these cycles you see anyway - 365 days?)
The US starts the clock one a breath is made by the child. Other European countries use weight, length, and some other factors to determine when life starts. With the US saving so many premature and all of them counting when they die from being so premature it lowers the US numbers.
[ citation needed ]
What we actualy see is::
The 10 countries with the highest rates of preterm birth per 100 live births:
Looking at e50 for example the US is behind AUS, CAN, DNK, ESP , FRA.
The CIA seem less bothered about the comparison problem than you:
This entry contains the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year, if mortality at each age remains constant in the future. The entry includes total population as well as the male and female components. Life expectancy at birth is also a measure of overall quality of life in a country and summarizes the mortality at all ages. It can also be thought of as indicating the potential return on investment in human capital and is necessary for the calculation of various actuarial measures.
um... can you point to instances of premeditated violence against non-combatants as sanctioned by the US government?
Why should I have to? It isn't me who decided to define terrorism in such a way as it couldn't apply to a government. I suppose they had a reason for that.
collateral is not exactly premeditated.
I never said anything about "collateral", however:
If I do a thing at it has an effect I can assume that if I do it again it might have the same effect.
The second (and subsequent) times I can't claim that that effect is unintended.
agents engaged in active conspiracy against US citizens and military targets are not non-combatants.
I never said anything about this, either, however:
It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.
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Is he saying that people shouldnt' come into work with flu (fair enough, but I can't believe that many do?) or is he saying they shouldn't come in whenever they have a cold (which seems a bit much - I'd probably get a couple of months off a year if I did that)?
Maybe you should wonder why you get so many colds? If you don't have kids I bet you're catching them at work.
Take two, you'll feel better in the morning.
Well. no.
Some treatments are never used in many places in Europe at all because they don't work.
Someone always end up paying for the health care somehow. Rule of thumb: When the government is involved it ends up costing FAR more than when it's not.
Inconsistent with reality.
All universal health care systems are cheaper than the US system.
If your theory doesn't match reality then your theory is wrong. Sorry.
You just don't understand do you? It's not up to you if it's worth trying or not. It's HER life. She gets to decide if she wants to try leeches to cure her cancer. In a private system, she can seek out and purchase insurance that covers what she wants. In a single payer system you HAVE NO CHOICE. A panel of doctors decides if your treatment is worthwhile or not. In a single payer system, the least cost solution wins. The cheapest way to cure some diseases is to simply make the patient wait long enough that the problem "goes away" in this case the patient paid for it out of pocket, in other cases they just die.
Then isn't a good thing that your fantasy of a "single payer system" doesn't exist. In the UK if you want private health insurance you can have it. If she wanted the drugs that the NHS wouldn't pay for she just had to pay for them herself.
Hmm, one problem I have with the full GPL is that it *is* by design rather intent on spreading itself virally and to the exclusion of other legitimate models, and thus a restriction on what software the hardware would be allowed to run would be unfortunately in keeping with the GPL.
Please engage brain before typing.
Simple thought experiment - can you compile closed source code with gcc? Can you write copyrighted text with Abiword? So why couldn't you run closed source code on a processor who's design was licenced under the GPL?
What licencing the processor under the GPL means is that any modified versions of that processor also have to be licenced under the GPL. No more, no less.
expensive? an SMS costs me exactly 0 EUR.
actualy SMS has a 140 octet limit - it just uses 7bit chars.
140 * 8 / 7 = 160
try typing a non gsm 03.38 char in a SMS and see how the number of chars left drops as it changes to utf8 mode.
fucking mod fucking parent up !
.I think mankind exacerbated the natural heating/cooling cycle of Earth
I.E. you accept the evidence for AGW, so why did you say:
Nobody can say with certainty what's causing this
And what is your evidence for:
and it would be futile to try to reverse it;
and
but doubt we can do anything to reverse it.
Which seem to translate into "I can't be bothered to get off my fat arse".
It's entirely possible to have something cyclical and trend in a direction.
Of course it's possible - like I said there's clearly a 365 day cycle. The point is that the cycle is irrelevant - all it does is sometimes hide the trend, (1998 anyone?) and sometimes exaggerate it.
But worrying about mysterious a-physical sine waves is purest mathturbation.
Did you ever notice that I didn't take a side? So how am I spreading FUD, when I'm not actually being a global warming denier or a global warming alarmist?
Oh, you took a "side" alright.
The fact is, we just don't know for sure. [...] no one truly knows for a fact what is going on. [...] There is enough data on both sides to warrant looking at.
That's purest FUD which tells me what "side" you're on.
So "THE WORLD IS ENDING" is not Fear, Uncertainty, or Doubt?
Who said that?
The fact is, we just don't know for sure.
Huh. FUD!
I'm open to any theory based on scientific research, but no one truly knows for a fact what is going on.
FUD
There is enough data on both sides to warrant looking at. The Earth is warming, but what is causing it?
FUD
When you say "you're wrong" you leave no wiggle room for a change in your ideas. Isn't that the whole point of science?
FUD.
The ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting at an ever-quickening pace. Since 1992, they have contributed 11 millimeters — or one-fifth — of the total global sea-level rise
The ice sheets in Antarctica are growing.
You're confusing land ice and sea ice.
Land ice (Greenland and Antarctic) is melting.
Arctic sea ice is melting.
Antarctic sea ice is growing in extent. (Though by much less than Arctic sea ice is shrinking).
The problem is sea ice has nothing to do with sea level - it floats.
1000 years ago Greenland had no ice as well because the Vikings were living on it. we know this because they left a lot of garbage before they left as the ice sheet came back.
Amusing, but not actually true.
they were making wine in england 1000 years ago because it was warm enough to grow grapes.
It's still warm enough to make wine in England. The only time wine has not been made in England seems to be between the end of WWI to just after the end of WWII. http://www.english-wine.com/history.html
That's not what I am saying. What I'm saying is that there is just as much FUD thrown around on the global warming alarmist side as there is on the skeptic side.
Maybe you should learn what FUD means.
Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
Denialists specialise in "Uncertainty" and "Doubt". They like to throw a little Fear around from time to time "it's a conspiracy"!
Looking back at data from various sources shows it's cyclical with a trend towards ice melt not being restored by the subsequent winter ice freeze from one year to the next.
"cyclical with a trend"
So you admit the reduction in ice extent (volume, mass, whatever) is not caused by the "cycles".
(How long are these cycles you see anyway - 365 days?)
California is 424,000 km, only Sweden, Ukraine, Spain and Germany are bigger.
France (551,695 km2) isn't in Europe now?
In fact if you include all of France, not just metropolitan France it's not much smaller than Texas (674,843 km2 compared to 696,241 km2 for Texas)
According to whom?
Stefan Rahmstorf, Grant Foster and Anny Cazenave.
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/4/044035/article
So if I'm 20 feet above sea level now, my property value is expected to go up! Fuck yeah.
Well, no. The squatters from the lower lying land tend to depress the value of your land.
The only way to reach a sustainable equilibrium is to drastically reduce the world population, maybe by 300 million.
FTFY.
The Sheep Look Up
The US starts the clock one a breath is made by the child. Other European countries use weight, length, and some other factors to determine when life starts. With the US saving so many premature and all of them counting when they die from being so premature it lowers the US numbers.
[ citation needed ]
What we actualy see is::
The 10 countries with the highest rates of preterm birth per 100 live births:
Malawi: 18.1 per 100
Comoros: 16.7
Congo: 16.7
Zimbabwe: 16.6
Equatorial Guinea: 16.5
Mozambique: 16.4
Gabon: 16.3
Pakistan: 15.8
Indonesia: 15.5
Mauritania: 15.4
I.E. high preterm birth rates are a good sign of being a 3rd world country.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs363/en/index.html
Also death counting is different, US counts all people who die on its soil for other countries they don't count non-citizens.
[ citation needed ]
Look at charts to see life expectancy from ages 5,25,50,75 and that listing changes.
Got a link?
This looks interesting:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62587/
Looking at e50 for example the US is behind AUS, CAN, DNK, ESP , FRA.
The CIA seem less bothered about the comparison problem than you:
This entry contains the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year, if mortality at each age remains constant in the future. The entry includes total population as well as the male and female components. Life expectancy at birth is also a measure of overall quality of life in a country and summarizes the mortality at all ages. It can also be thought of as indicating the potential return on investment in human capital and is necessary for the calculation of various actuarial measures.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html
um... can you point to instances of premeditated violence against non-combatants as sanctioned by the US government?
Why should I have to? It isn't me who decided to define terrorism in such a way as it couldn't apply to a government. I suppose they had a reason for that.
collateral is not exactly premeditated.
I never said anything about "collateral", however:
If I do a thing at it has an effect I can assume that if I do it again it might have the same effect.
The second (and subsequent) times I can't claim that that effect is unintended.
agents engaged in active conspiracy against US citizens and military targets are not non-combatants.
I never said anything about this, either, however:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=3
It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.
I mean, just take a look at the actual policies of the current administration, compared to those of the previous one
'cos GWB was so keen on health care reform.
(2) the term “terrorism” means premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by people who are not us