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  1. Re:Sad, but I can see doing it too on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    The ER is not going to treat your chronic conditions. The ER is fine for a broken arm, but I can pay that out of pocket. The ER is not going to be great for pancreatic cancer though, and that is something very few could pay for out of pocket.

    Go ask your Dr how cheap chemo is when you pay cash.

  2. Re:Sad, but I can see doing it too on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    80% coverage afterwards?
    So a $108k surgery costs you $28k?
    So you can have insurance and still choose to die rather than get chemo, just so your wife can keep the house. What a wonderful policy.

  3. Re:Sad, but I can see doing it too on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    That deal is so good for the USA he is almost surely part of a group plan. Normal prices for a 20 something with those sorts of deductibles are regularly twice that. If you have any sort of chronic condition expect it to be 6 to 10 times that, if you can get care at all.

  4. Re:Sad, but I can see doing it too on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    either priced into the stratosphere due to adverse selection and/or because insurance companies exit that market.

    So no change for most then?
    Individual prices are already obscene and many can't get anything.

  5. Re:Sad, but I can see doing it too on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    No that is because the USA has the best medical care if you can afford it. If you are a Sheik that is one way to afford it, for most NHS would be a huge improvement.

  6. Re:Sad, but I can see doing it too on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    Third world universal systems?
    Try living in the EU or Canada for while.
    The poorest American is left to die or rob banks if he gets a chronic condition. That does not happen in those other first-world nations.

  7. Re:Sad, but I can see doing it too on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 2

    Which may still be worth the healthcare. Of course the police would get away with it, but that is the normal state of police in the USA.

  8. Re:No surprises here on EFF Stops Accepting Bitcoin, Regifts All Donations · · Score: 1

    Problem is they are a charity, that means you could deduct your bitcoin donations from your taxes. That is a rather poor way, but a way to launder money.

  9. Re:Regression testing on Dropbox Password Goof Let Any Password Work For 4 Hours · · Score: 1

    Who says that matters?
    If I have a list of hashes I know who has what files.
    If the provider does the encryption they have the keys and any privileged user there can decrypt.

  10. Re:eris on Verizon To Drop Unlimited Data Plans In Two Weeks · · Score: 1

    Eris can get newer OS. The Droid never got anything beyond 2.2 and mine is rocking 2.3.3.

  11. Re:Let me summarize every comment that will appear on Dropbox Password Goof Let Any Password Work For 4 Hours · · Score: 1

    The machines are wiped before auction, otherwise the auction company and the seller are on the hook. Used hardware is pretty common in the server room.

  12. Re:Pay-you-go on Verizon To Drop Unlimited Data Plans In Two Weeks · · Score: 1

    I use data a lot, but generally only when I am in civilization. Otherwise sprints data roaming is fast enough to use google maps to get me back to civilization.

  13. Re:No surprises here on EFF Stops Accepting Bitcoin, Regifts All Donations · · Score: 1

    The worry is that bitcoin may not be legal at all. Would you as the head of a charity want to take that risk?

  14. Re:Neighborhood-size NAT on Codemasters Shuts Down GRID Online Multiplayer · · Score: 1

    If you ISP NATs find a new one. NAT breaks the internet.

    That has nothing to do with hosting a gameserver or not.

  15. Re: $7,200/yr. on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    After food, rent and other necessities of that caliber I would wager most American families don't even have 1/4 of their income left.

  16. Re:Let me summarize every comment that will appear on Dropbox Password Goof Let Any Password Work For 4 Hours · · Score: 1

    What about if the company goes bankrupt? SLAs mean zilch then, and all privately stored data can be put on a torrent for anyone to download, and there is nothing anyone can do to stop that.

    Bankruptcy DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY. Doing that would expose the people doing that to lawsuits.

    I like you idea, but would prefer stronger labeling laws and enforcement to more regulation. This is because the regulation would mean nothing eventually.

  17. Re:Questions ... on Verizon To Drop Unlimited Data Plans In Two Weeks · · Score: 1

    The death of T-Mobile will grow Sprint. Those are not customers that will want to be with AT&T. I am leaving Verizon as soon as my contract is up. Between locked bootloaders, ridiculous data pricing and horrible customer service I am done with them.

  18. Re:Sad, but I can see doing it too on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    $7200/year is something many people could not afford at all. I would wager the majority of American families could not swing it.

  19. Re:Sad, but I can see doing it too on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    Your policy will be canceled the first time you go over the out of pocket, well maybe not canceled but not renewed at that price. You will also not be able to afford it once you stop being young.

    Are you sure this is not a group policy?

  20. Re:Sad, but I can see doing it too on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    Which means he just wont pay for it and thus go to jail, or will break house arrest and turn himself in for the same result.

  21. Re:Questions ... on Verizon To Drop Unlimited Data Plans In Two Weeks · · Score: 1

    T-mobile will not be around much longer. AT&T is more expensive and Sprint will probably grow. I don't even have a landline, nor would I go back to one. I would go without a phone before that. Since they use public easements, get government loans and subsidies they should sell at a reasonable price, or return the tax payers money and buy or lease any piece of land they want to crossover.

  22. Re:Pay-you-go on Verizon To Drop Unlimited Data Plans In Two Weeks · · Score: 1

    They roam onto the verizon network, so their coverage is only as spotty as verizon for voice.

  23. Re:One opinion on More Users Are Shunning Facebook · · Score: 2

    Conversely they cannot express their true thoughts either for fear of their family and friends reactions.

  24. Re:"Running a server" in home ISPs' AUP on Codemasters Shuts Down GRID Online Multiplayer · · Score: 1

    How much more at most what $30?
    You ISP will never notice a game server, trust me.
    Quotas won't enter into it, game servers are not shipping much data around, they can't or performance would suck.

    The only valid point you make is the greed one.

  25. Re:What Else Did They Do? on Dropbox Password Goof Let Any Password Work For 4 Hours · · Score: 1

    So what magic do they use to rollback the breach of your privacy?