The problem is that fundamentally insurance is not a good fit for the requirements of health care.
Insurance for a business or consumer provides protection in the event of catastrophic but exceeding rare events, generally events so rare that the probabilities defeat the human imagination and most people are unable to make realistic judgements about them.
Catastrophic events can happen in terms of someone's health, and insurance is a good solution for a surgery or other treatment resulting from an accident or new diagnosis. Insurance is not a fit for predictable events. An annual physical is predictable. Once identified a pre-existing condition is predictable. A prescription medication which manages (but does not cure) a particular condition is predictable.
Spreading risk is the function of insurance. Spreading predictable costs is correctly labelled socialism. Expecting profit-driven insurance companies to do both successfully leads to disappointment.
In fact the employees will carefully document everything about their jobs, and even in a fit of generosity, their previous jobs, in a summary (or résumé, as the French say). They may even have other employers proofread it to get an objective measure of how clear, thorough, and concise it is.
Obviously it's documenting evolution in action. Adam had the first authentically human genome, necessarily coming from a population of proto-humans, one of which became Cain's wife.
If there's any other bits that don't seem entirely factual, just assume they're metaphors.
Racism is more than one problem, and some of those problems have been solved.
Racism that is legally required is difficult to oppose, but it was abolished in law a long time ago. Racism that is systemic and socially acceptable has largely, though not wholly, disappeared. The racism that is left is still racism, and it's still wrong, but it's mostly a fringe belief that has to be buried under a different, objective, phenomenon such as poverty or a broad statistical phenomenon such as ethnic identity or culture.
Most - not all, but most - racism has been eliminated, and we're reaching the point where it gets harder to know what to do about it - how do you fight something that is rapidly vanishing on its own, and where interventions are ineffective or counter-productive?
Regulation does have its value. Civilization is better off when food, buildings, etc. are safe, and freeloaders are not cheating. There are risks associated with the unregulated enterprises. Still, even simple things like barter and sales of second-hand merchandise are important contributions to quality of life.
But do the benefits outweigh the costs? That question doesn't get asked enough.
Of course, sometimes 'economy' is just a euphemism for 'bank accounts of the already ultra-rich', which is what some economists seem to think.
It's not actually about technology, it's about creating a wholly self-contained and self-sufficient community. If you're too small to have, say, a steel mill, then there are limits to the range of products you can produce.
Evil versus non-evil is image, not morality. A positive image is an asset in a competitive situation, but irrelevant for a monopoly. Evil without being caught is just as good, but Google understands the Internet well enough not to try that.
Creating a new definition for God and debating Its existence does nothing to prove or disprove the existence of a God according to any of the other definitions.
Unless all of the definitions are metaphorical. In which case the question of existence becomes trivial.
That's not an argument for existence, it's just another definition of God. A God so defined may or may not exist, and it may or may not have any resemblance to the other metaphors the word 'god' is used for.
In almost all of my university courses there was an expectation that the student would come to lecture having already read the relevant chapters of the textbook. Generally the professor did not rely on the students actually having done so, but this is essentially the same thing just using a different medium.
Snowden might be better off without asylum in a country too friendly with the Americans. Even if they wanted to in good faith, none of they could actually keep him safe.
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So many Americans actually believe this that it's more tragedy than comedy.
Bad guys win? The legitimate government of the Republic overthrew the tyranny of the Jedi theocracy and restored law and order.
The problem is that fundamentally insurance is not a good fit for the requirements of health care.
Insurance for a business or consumer provides protection in the event of catastrophic but exceeding rare events, generally events so rare that the probabilities defeat the human imagination and most people are unable to make realistic judgements about them.
Catastrophic events can happen in terms of someone's health, and insurance is a good solution for a surgery or other treatment resulting from an accident or new diagnosis. Insurance is not a fit for predictable events. An annual physical is predictable. Once identified a pre-existing condition is predictable. A prescription medication which manages (but does not cure) a particular condition is predictable.
Spreading risk is the function of insurance. Spreading predictable costs is correctly labelled socialism. Expecting profit-driven insurance companies to do both successfully leads to disappointment.
In fact the employees will carefully document everything about their jobs, and even in a fit of generosity, their previous jobs, in a summary (or résumé, as the French say). They may even have other employers proofread it to get an objective measure of how clear, thorough, and concise it is.
Code is a mass noun, and it's number is indeterminate, neither singular nor plural.
Being over enemy territory but not over the target does not mean that it wouldn't be your own troops the bomb fell on.
Obviously it's documenting evolution in action. Adam had the first authentically human genome, necessarily coming from a population of proto-humans, one of which became Cain's wife.
If there's any other bits that don't seem entirely factual, just assume they're metaphors.
The whole point is that faith is belief in something untrue.
Anyone can believe something true - believing something demonstrably false proves you have faith.
The soul is a metaphor, not a physical object. So it exists, the way any other metaphor exists.
No-one cares about unions not working. But they prevent people who want to work from doing so.
A car that is a necessity (not convenience - necessity) of getting to work is an investment.
The other cases are all consumption.
That's the distinction that matters *every* time anyone talks about debt.
Bankruptcy takes money out of circulation.
Guess who gets to heroically lose their money?
They're people who apply scientific principles to economic data.
Not surprising you've never heard of them before.
Please. Racism isn't a solved problem.
Racism is more than one problem, and some of those problems have been solved.
Racism that is legally required is difficult to oppose, but it was abolished in law a long time ago. Racism that is systemic and socially acceptable has largely, though not wholly, disappeared. The racism that is left is still racism, and it's still wrong, but it's mostly a fringe belief that has to be buried under a different, objective, phenomenon such as poverty or a broad statistical phenomenon such as ethnic identity or culture.
Most - not all, but most - racism has been eliminated, and we're reaching the point where it gets harder to know what to do about it - how do you fight something that is rapidly vanishing on its own, and where interventions are ineffective or counter-productive?
Regulation does have its value. Civilization is better off when food, buildings, etc. are safe, and freeloaders are not cheating. There are risks associated with the unregulated enterprises. Still, even simple things like barter and sales of second-hand merchandise are important contributions to quality of life.
But do the benefits outweigh the costs? That question doesn't get asked enough.
Of course, sometimes 'economy' is just a euphemism for 'bank accounts of the already ultra-rich', which is what some economists seem to think.
It's not actually about technology, it's about creating a wholly self-contained and self-sufficient community. If you're too small to have, say, a steel mill, then there are limits to the range of products you can produce.
Evil versus non-evil is image, not morality. A positive image is an asset in a competitive situation, but irrelevant for a monopoly. Evil without being caught is just as good, but Google understands the Internet well enough not to try that.
Obviously. They're saying it's turtles all the way down *and* N-dimensional black holes all the way up.
There's no contradiction....
Creating a new definition for God and debating Its existence does nothing to prove or disprove the existence of a God according to any of the other definitions.
Unless all of the definitions are metaphorical. In which case the question of existence becomes trivial.
I don't see how politicians think a tablet/laptop/computer/ebook reader will make students better.
Manufacturers have lobbyists.
Students do not.
Whose lives do you think politicians are really trying to make better?
That's not an argument for existence, it's just another definition of God. A God so defined may or may not exist, and it may or may not have any resemblance to the other metaphors the word 'god' is used for.
It's frightening how plausible that sounds.
Except that never happens.
That's never happened yet.
There is no guarantee that the next time won't be different.
In almost all of my university courses there was an expectation that the student would come to lecture having already read the relevant chapters of the textbook. Generally the professor did not rely on the students actually having done so, but this is essentially the same thing just using a different medium.
Snowden might be better off without asylum in a country too friendly with the Americans. Even if they wanted to in good faith, none of they could actually keep him safe.