Modern medicine and research is what has increased life expectancy and quality of life everywhere, including Asia, even those parts where they will rip you off offering "alternative medicine" (i.e. not peer reviewed).
In the UK people are as capitalistic as anywhere else and dislike too much government intervention in many parts of their life, and at some points they will push very hard back, much more than US people ever would.
And nevertheless, it is pretty much a national consensus that socialized health care is the best, fairer solution for all the inhabitants of this country.
I have known of people in the US that where all gun-ho about socialized medicine, until their first insurance claim was rejected.
"Why should everybody be entitled to health care?"
Because it is morally and ethically indefensible not to. Only people with suspect morals find justifications not to try to alleviate the pain and suffering of other human beings.
"How much health care is everyone entitled to?"
As much as society can reasonably offer.
"I for one, don't agree that health care is a "right".
So? There are people that do not agree about lots of things and that agree about lots of indefensible ones, that does not mean you are right or that you are in a majority, that is how we sort out these differences of opinions in democracies.
"Is an alcoholic entitled to a new liver when he wears out the old one?"
Maybe, you would need to have clear rules about how you organize the provisions for this, but I don;t see why not if society can afford it. Of course this would need to come paired with education and preventive social services, so we have as few situations as possible like the one you describe.
"Is a fat person entitled to diabetes treatments even though they caused (and perhaps still contribute to) their condition?"
Yes, if it is affordable. Again, where is the help for that person in educational, psychological and support terms?
"How long should the taxpayers pay to keep a smoker in an iron lung?"
How long would you do that for somebody you love?
"The biggest question I have is, why aren't people accountable for their own health?"
A socialized system could take care of that, as a matter of fact there are always discussions about how to deal with situations like those you describe, raising taxes on alcohol, tobacco and greasy fast food that would go directly to the health system is an option, but I am sure that you are allergic to the word "taxes", but I am sure a psychiatrist paid be a socialized health service would help you to deal with your irrational, unfounded fears.
There are plenty of museums (Louvre in Paris, Del Prado in Madrid, Picasso's in Barcelona, Antropologia in Mexico City, and many, really many others) that allow you to take pictures as long as you turn the flash off, and some not even that.
There are of course museums that are anal about the matter, but by no means is all of them.
Galleries is another matter, but it is more a matter of accepting the rules of behaviour in somebody else's private property rather than copyright issues.
Microsoft, with traditional finesse, shouldered out Linux from it.
But that is a vane attempt to stop the obvious: Android, Linux on its many incarnations, Chrome, Jolicloud, even OSX. And then applications in the Net and the yet nebulous cloud. Do you see much talk about Microsoft leadership ? Nope.
The game is up, Linux arrived last year, the year the monopoly had to explicitly brush it aside (if Linux had been a corporation perhaps MS would be doing some explaining in an antitrust tribunal, they may still do...)
If they are the more fertile then men will find them more attractive.
And in any case, I question the sanity of men salivating after stick thin girls who often are not healthy, not physically and often neither emotionally.
And what about the stereotyping of tall women not digging for shorter men? If anything men should be happy that women would have one less excuse to filter prospective partners.
Answer: breaking the law in as many localities as they possibly can, bullying international standard bodies, issuing patent threats to the competition.
Should I go on or do you need a bigger clue stick?
But using the same names and situations pretending that the author would have so wished is unethical and immoral.
This would be the case regardless of how long copyright was, what makes it worst is that current copyright terms mean that is money not talent, what decides which new vision gets done.
Wanting to have saner, much shorter copyright terms is not opposed (and I for one frankly fail to see where you are finding the irony) to call a cynic money grab for what it really is.
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Congrats.
For bunnies sakes, please move.
Modern medicine and research is what has increased life expectancy and quality of life everywhere, including Asia, even those parts where they will rip you off offering "alternative medicine" (i.e. not peer reviewed).
Racist drivel.
In the UK people are as capitalistic as anywhere else and dislike too much government intervention in many parts of their life, and at some points they will push very hard back, much more than US people ever would.
And nevertheless, it is pretty much a national consensus that socialized health care is the best, fairer solution for all the inhabitants of this country.
I have known of people in the US that where all gun-ho about socialized medicine, until their first insurance claim was rejected.
200 mg Irony, 3 times a day before meals.
The US will collapse economically if something is not done.
"Why should everybody be entitled to health care?"
Because it is morally and ethically indefensible not to. Only people with suspect morals find justifications not to try to alleviate the pain and suffering of other human beings.
"How much health care is everyone entitled to?"
As much as society can reasonably offer.
"I for one, don't agree that health care is a "right".
So? There are people that do not agree about lots of things and that agree about lots of indefensible ones, that does not mean you are right or that you are in a majority, that is how we sort out these differences of opinions in democracies.
"Is an alcoholic entitled to a new liver when he wears out the old one?"
Maybe, you would need to have clear rules about how you organize the provisions for this, but I don;t see why not if society can afford it. Of course this would need to come paired with education and preventive social services, so we have as few situations as possible like the one you describe.
"Is a fat person entitled to diabetes treatments even though they caused (and perhaps still contribute to) their condition?"
Yes, if it is affordable. Again, where is the help for that person in educational, psychological and support terms?
"How long should the taxpayers pay to keep a smoker in an iron lung?"
How long would you do that for somebody you love?
"The biggest question I have is, why aren't people accountable for their own health?"
A socialized system could take care of that, as a matter of fact there are always discussions about how to deal with situations like those you describe, raising taxes on alcohol, tobacco and greasy fast food that would go directly to the health system is an option, but I am sure that you are allergic to the word "taxes", but I am sure a psychiatrist paid be a socialized health service would help you to deal with your irrational, unfounded fears.
Most people get treated.
There are certain circumstances were it is simply not cost effective, but even then you would be offer pain control or other paliative measures.
And under all circumstances you can still contract private insurance if you can afford it.
There are plenty of museums (Louvre in Paris, Del Prado in Madrid, Picasso's in Barcelona, Antropologia in Mexico City, and many, really many others) that allow you to take pictures as long as you turn the flash off, and some not even that.
There are of course museums that are anal about the matter, but by no means is all of them.
Galleries is another matter, but it is more a matter of accepting the rules of behaviour in somebody else's private property rather than copyright issues.
The slogan had to do with the fact that Sun made very easy to implement a server or client for any protocols on any machine.
When you got a Solaris system back then, the restrictions and differences between a basic system and a high end monster were minimal.
There are ways to test in critical environments.
In Linux you can make a copy of your current disk and use that for testing.
Try that with Windows....
I have no idea how that chap thought about that workaround, but it seems to be working ....
Linux started the Netbook market.
Microsoft, with traditional finesse, shouldered out Linux from it.
But that is a vane attempt to stop the obvious: Android, Linux on its many incarnations, Chrome, Jolicloud, even OSX. And then applications in the Net and the yet nebulous cloud. Do you see much talk about Microsoft leadership ? Nope.
The game is up, Linux arrived last year, the year the monopoly had to explicitly brush it aside (if Linux had been a corporation perhaps MS would be doing some explaining in an antitrust tribunal, they may still do...)
Sexist, quasi racist, and mostly baseless and uninformed.
Good effort mate.
If they are the more fertile then men will find them more attractive.
And in any case, I question the sanity of men salivating after stick thin girls who often are not healthy, not physically and often neither emotionally.
And what about the stereotyping of tall women not digging for shorter men? If anything men should be happy that women would have one less excuse to filter prospective partners.
Answer: breaking the law in as many localities as they possibly can, bullying international standard bodies, issuing patent threats to the competition.
Should I go on or do you need a bigger clue stick?
... banks and other companies handling millions per transaction use mostly Java.
But what do they know.
If you achieve it in an ethical manner, it must feel great.
If you don't, you may need to look for ways to pacify your conscience.
It was standard practice when you were studying Computing Engineering, even in places so far detached from cutting edge tech as Mexico City .....
Or become a hacker in your free time.
I wrote a PDP-11 assembler emulator in BASIC. Those were the days.
Of course having Roman numerals in your last name really helps, but doing some things are not as daunting as you think they are.
But if you want some admiration for your ingenious use of the English language, here is your reward: clap, clap, clap, you are fucking clever...
Where did I hear that one?
It is about the human condition.
You clearly need to re read "I robot" again.
But using the same names and situations pretending that the author would have so wished is unethical and immoral.
This would be the case regardless of how long copyright was, what makes it worst is that current copyright terms mean that is money not talent, what decides which new vision gets done.
Wanting to have saner, much shorter copyright terms is not opposed (and I for one frankly fail to see where you are finding the irony) to call a cynic money grab for what it really is.
... and *thick* coaxial cables ....