America becoming the biggest power on earth had more to do with WW2 smashing the other powers flat and leaving America relatively unscathed.
America losing its edge now has a lot to do with China and India having several decades of relative peace and a population that massively outstrips America.
And America did seem to work surprisingly well 80 years ago.. Of course, that's 1925, 5 years later it was a complete mess that lasted for a decade.
In other words, America's overall tax-rate actually has very little to do with its overall performance.
Good grief. The British system has experienced significant declines not from being a public system, but because they're taking steps to privatise it. Take an actual look at the system, including what doctors from Britain have been desparately trying to tell Canada over the last while as they see us perhaps looking to follow in their footsteps.
He asks you if the CMA will get any more medical students, and you say you doubt it based on the way Ontario is poaching doctors from your town now? How the heck do you draw any link from "encouraging medical students" to "doctors are being poached right now"
As for the 15% of the population statistic, you missed the point. It wasn't that they manage to receive basic medical care, but that in receiving this basic care, their entire financial futures re jeapordized.
What doesn't work are the economics of a private health-care system, and the reason for this is multiple:
1. Supply and demand: This does not apply to healthcare, since demand is infinite There isn't a point where you say, "Oh, that bypass is a bit too expensive. I'll see about saving up for it and maybe getting it next year."
2. Threats of disease and contagion: Just because you pay your healthcare insurance doesn't mean you can't catch the disease that's been happily breeding in the guy next to you who didn't.
3. And finally, the economic ripple effects: When a person cannot attain reasonable health care, they become an additional burden on society. Prevention of a serious illness costs much much less than curing the same illness. Causing there to be some reason to not have an illness treated early (such as an inability to afford it) means the person winds up being less productive and costs the society more in the long run if there's any medicare at all.
Yes, there are a couple of anecdotal stories out there about a person or two who has died while waiting for a surgery. Look into it more and you'll find the cause is often the same as it is anywhere else -- misdiagnosis. Somebody didn't realize how serious it actually is. The Canadian system is very good at saving lives without ruining futures.
What it is not so good at is simply making lives more comfortable and convenient. You will not die from a lack of the latest hip-surgery techniques, which means you will probably be on a waiting list so that we can ensure those who would die don't.
My only qualms with a two-tiered health program is that doctors are a limited supply. By diverting some portion of them out of the public system into a private system, we run a danger of actually lessening the ability of the public care system to handle what it needs to do.
Even if there are networks of agents acting as middlemen, how do they know if the non-agent they're connecting to on either side isn't simply another middleman? They still don't know if they have the final destination/sender.
One Second Life resident, who asked to be identified only by her screen name, Diamond Hope, said... "With all the things you can buy in Second Life," she said, "it's hard not to want them, just like real-life stuff.
Is it really, dear? Is it really that hard? It strikes me as about as difficult as not banging your head against a wall. I mean, unless you have some psychotic need to bang your head against walls, and if that's the case, the money could probably be better spent on therapy anyway.
You also forgot where the federal budget has been balanced for 7 years, which repeatedly scores above the US in "best place to live in" surveys by the UN, where getting sick doesn't equate to going bankrupt, and lower gun crime per capita.
On the con side, 5 months winter or worse, higher income tax, and a fairly continuous shafting by the US in trade agreements.
The aquarium may have less surface area than his computer, but the computer isn't the part that gets hot.. it's really just the CPU chip (and perhaps some graphics processing chips) that get hot.
Care to wager the surface area of those is higher than that of the aquarium?
Not to mention that by allowing all these things to go through, the judge is setting SCO up to have it's corporate veil pierced. Be damn hard for SCO to claim that they didn't know they had a case when the evidence shows them spinning it left and right as fast as they could.
For any Canadians out there who are worried about having to choose between the butt-reaming we'll get from the US if the conservatives are elected, and the butt-reaming we'll get from our taxes if the NDP are elected, might I suggest taking a look at the Green Party? Seriously.
So far it's the only one I've seen that actually mixes corporate accountability with sensible taxation reform by moving taxation away from taxing people to taxing resource use. So yeah, your gas tax goes up, but at the same time your income tax goes down -- and you can take steps to use less gas.
This very much sounds like the Dev's were screwing around trying to develop some fantasy game. Got told to upgrade SWG on limited time/money, and rather than working, took what they had and threw it in.
Now they're in the crapper, so are frantically trying to play clean-up to hide it from the upper management.
If all I wanted was to grok the way it's executed, I'd just run the program.
If I want to understand why it's executing the way it does, give me comments. Maybe your time is cheap enough that you don't mind looking through 28 dependancy files to finally figure out what pointer is screwing with the function you're trying to debug. Mine isn't.
Considering the title of these posts, your comment is ironic at best.
To suggest that the ideal purpose of GM foods is something that simply isn't happening now is ignoring pragmatism completely. One could just as easily say that the ideal purpose of a nuclear weapon is to become fuel for an atomic reactor. Ideal purpose doesn't mean a thing.. what we need to look at is the real purpose.
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America becoming the biggest power on earth had more to do with WW2 smashing the other powers flat and leaving America relatively unscathed.
America losing its edge now has a lot to do with China and India having several decades of relative peace and a population that massively outstrips America.
And America did seem to work surprisingly well 80 years ago.. Of course, that's 1925, 5 years later it was a complete mess that lasted for a decade.
In other words, America's overall tax-rate actually has very little to do with its overall performance.
Good grief. The British system has experienced significant declines not from being a public system, but because they're taking steps to privatise it. Take an actual look at the system, including what doctors from Britain have been desparately trying to tell Canada over the last while as they see us perhaps looking to follow in their footsteps.
He asks you if the CMA will get any more medical students, and you say you doubt it based on the way Ontario is poaching doctors from your town now? How the heck do you draw any link from "encouraging medical students" to "doctors are being poached right now"
As for the 15% of the population statistic, you missed the point. It wasn't that they manage to receive basic medical care, but that in receiving this basic care, their entire financial futures re jeapordized.
What doesn't work are the economics of a private health-care system, and the reason for this is multiple:
1. Supply and demand: This does not apply to healthcare, since demand is infinite There isn't a point where you say, "Oh, that bypass is a bit too expensive. I'll see about saving up for it and maybe getting it next year."
2. Threats of disease and contagion: Just because you pay your healthcare insurance doesn't mean you can't catch the disease that's been happily breeding in the guy next to you who didn't.
3. And finally, the economic ripple effects: When a person cannot attain reasonable health care, they become an additional burden on society. Prevention of a serious illness costs much much less than curing the same illness. Causing there to be some reason to not have an illness treated early (such as an inability to afford it) means the person winds up being less productive and costs the society more in the long run if there's any medicare at all.
Yes, there are a couple of anecdotal stories out there about a person or two who has died while waiting for a surgery. Look into it more and you'll find the cause is often the same as it is anywhere else -- misdiagnosis. Somebody didn't realize how serious it actually is. The Canadian system is very good at saving lives without ruining futures.
What it is not so good at is simply making lives more comfortable and convenient. You will not die from a lack of the latest hip-surgery techniques, which means you will probably be on a waiting list so that we can ensure those who would die don't.
My only qualms with a two-tiered health program is that doctors are a limited supply. By diverting some portion of them out of the public system into a private system, we run a danger of actually lessening the ability of the public care system to handle what it needs to do.
You can write software in small discrete chunks.
You try to write music a bar or two at a time and you're going to wind up with a mess.
Something about fat old business men not being well suited for a 5G takeoff.
Why do you assume 2 and 3 are mutually exclusive?
Heh.
Is it just me or does providing a link to screen shots of a game where what's being touted is the game play strike a bit of "missing the point"
Even if there are networks of agents acting as middlemen, how do they know if the non-agent they're connecting to on either side isn't simply another middleman? They still don't know if they have the final destination/sender.
Oh.. just that they're.. well.. NOT REAL.
Seriously, take out the reference to the MMOG and listen to what she's saying.
"With all the things you can buy in my imaginary environment, it's hard not to want them, just like real stuff."
Shit lady, just close your eyes for half a second and imagine it. Just as real and a hell of a lot cheaper.
The saddest part about the article:
... "With all the things you can buy in Second Life," she said, "it's hard not to want them, just like real-life stuff.
One Second Life resident, who asked to be identified only by her screen name, Diamond Hope, said
Is it really, dear? Is it really that hard? It strikes me as about as difficult as not banging your head against a wall. I mean, unless you have some psychotic need to bang your head against walls, and if that's the case, the money could probably be better spent on therapy anyway.
You also forgot where the federal budget has been balanced for 7 years, which repeatedly scores above the US in "best place to live in" surveys by the UN, where getting sick doesn't equate to going bankrupt, and lower gun crime per capita.
On the con side, 5 months winter or worse, higher income tax, and a fairly continuous shafting by the US in trade agreements.
Second war of Independance? When was the first one? There was that English civil war a while earlier, but America wasn't a country then, dumbass.
They're not.
But the people running the open relay won't like the subsequent bill they get, and may be encouraged to take steps to stop it.
The aquarium may have less surface area than his computer, but the computer isn't the part that gets hot.. it's really just the CPU chip (and perhaps some graphics processing chips) that get hot.
Care to wager the surface area of those is higher than that of the aquarium?
Not to mention that by allowing all these things to go through, the judge is setting SCO up to have it's corporate veil pierced. Be damn hard for SCO to claim that they didn't know they had a case when the evidence shows them spinning it left and right as fast as they could.
Isn't one enough?
For any Canadians out there who are worried about having to choose between the butt-reaming we'll get from the US if the conservatives are elected, and the butt-reaming we'll get from our taxes if the NDP are elected, might I suggest taking a look at the Green Party? Seriously.
http://www.greenparty.ca/
So far it's the only one I've seen that actually mixes corporate accountability with sensible taxation reform by moving taxation away from taxing people to taxing resource use. So yeah, your gas tax goes up, but at the same time your income tax goes down -- and you can take steps to use less gas.
Ah. You are Canadian with massive penis. Such a gargantuan penis make Canadian very powerful. ...
Actually, it's almost the exact opposite.
In nearly every case brought before NAFTA, the US has lost.
The difference is, they just ignore the rulings and continue on anyway.
And, unlike the US tariffs, are entirely consistent with NAFTA as a legal retaliatory measure. They stop when the illegal US tariffs stop.
This very much sounds like the Dev's were screwing around trying to develop some fantasy game. Got told to upgrade SWG on limited time/money, and rather than working, took what they had and threw it in.
Now they're in the crapper, so are frantically trying to play clean-up to hide it from the upper management.
If all I wanted was to grok the way it's executed, I'd just run the program.
If I want to understand why it's executing the way it does, give me comments. Maybe your time is cheap enough that you don't mind looking through 28 dependancy files to finally figure out what pointer is screwing with the function you're trying to debug. Mine isn't.
Because, in general, men suck at conversation.
This is why most dates involve something that encourages both people to sit down and shut up except for occasional one-off comments to each other.
Perhaps you've heard of something called hyperbole.. which isn't a math construction.
And they still are.
The court just ruled the DVD wasn't properly labelled to show that's what it was doing so.
This is a court acting in favor of consumer choice.
Considering the title of these posts, your comment is ironic at best.
To suggest that the ideal purpose of GM foods is something that simply isn't happening now is ignoring pragmatism completely. One could just as easily say that the ideal purpose of a nuclear weapon is to become fuel for an atomic reactor. Ideal purpose doesn't mean a thing.. what we need to look at is the real purpose.