Which was my point. You didn't get bypass surgery in 1974. Or rather, the vast majority did not. Organ transplants were sometimes successful, but rather rare. Yes, doctors were developing (and even implanting) joint replacements, but you had nothing like the number of knee replacements that have just exploded over the last decade. Health care by any measure is now more expensive: vs. GDP, per capital, absolute numbers, pick your metric.
If one can look at Europe's huge deficits, debt, and unfunded liabilities - which are not even included in their debt numbers - and say they can afford it...
Obama health care plan is less ambitious than the health care plan propose by Richard M Nixon in 1974.
Health care was a lot less ambitious in 1974. That predates open heart surgery, organ transplants, joint replacements, most cancer treatments, MRI, CAT scan, and even the discovery that ulcers were caused by H. pylori.
Whether he understands technology is kind of besides the point, isn't it? I'm also not sure how Amazon's profitability is germane. My point is that Amazon - not a major publisher - wound up selling ebooks through their device and their marketplace successfully, despite the rather large disadvantage of not actually owning any content. That the Times didn't even TRY to market an ebook with, at the very least, the Times content should be pretty embarrassing to them.
I had problems with things like sleep and power management on a no-name laptop, but I'll fully admit my inexperience was at play. I have not had problems with Linux on Thinkpads or Dells and the like. I had similar problems with Windows, as the drivers were tough to track down.
Those do exist. So-called "white box" laptops. My very limited experience with them is that getting your Windows install to play nice is a very similar experience to getting Linux to play nice with an off-brand laptop... it can be very time consuming, so if you value your time you just pay for some company to do it for you. And at the low end, you don't save any money because the components are largely part of the mainboard on crappy laptops. Thin-n-light like the Air is not possible at all.
I wasn't claiming that what he did was rocket science, just that he made the first commercially successful one. Really, it should have been a publisher - who would have had a much easier time securing content. There were e-books - hell, the Kindle even uses an existing format - but nothing else that took off.
Yes, I think I agree. While I have the same impulse as any other human to want to know what the hell is going on right now, I have come to realize that I'm probably getting dumber by watching "real-time coverage". Unless the event is happening near me, I probably don't need to know until they get it all sorted out. The Boston bombing coverage was just... awful. CNN kept reporting that they had suspects in custody and whatnot and then retracting it. Terrible.
A few years ago when the Times bought the Boston Globe a friend and I mused that they could probably give every subscriber an e-reader that updates on a cellular network and/or WiFi and dispense with the dead tree stuff altogether. Of course, old people and some old-at-heart young people still love dead trees, so you sell your press operations with a long-term leaseback on the capacity. If you really execute well, you could even have had a repository for other published works on the same e-reader, and you could make a killing selling people content on their "free" tablet.
The thing that I find amazing is that Bezos is the one to launch a successful e-reader, and he did it the hard way! No subscription base to start from, no content to sell initially. Bezos had to convince people to buy the damn things at or above cost, not get them for free with a subscription they were already paying for. He had some huge disadvantages, but he wasn't stuck in the dark ages, and new he is buying the newspapers with his pocket change... just for his amusement. Adapt or die, indeed.
I am in complete agreement. Saddling future generations with debt for non-infrastructure is morally corrupt. The REALLY nasty part is that most people agree with this, and so we have demanded that pensions in the private sector are either fully funded, or show up as liabilities on a company's balance sheet. We do no such thing in the public sector, and where we do, we almost always exempt health coverage. People simply do not understand the issue, and politicians keep it that way when they cloud the issue with misleading statements... like when congress all of the sudden decided that the Post Office, and only the Post Office, should be forced to fully fund it's pension in 10 years without raising any new revenue. Then, the opposition starts throwing out statements like "they are funding 75 years out into the future!" instead of pointing out the real problems with the plan. I hate them all.
Well, naturally, but most people aren't farmers or hunter gatherers anymore. Less than 1% of the population is involved with food production, and even a lowly vegan can in theory be a cattleman.
Yes, you need a certain amount of motor-control brain, and the more muscle you have, the more mass you need for motor control. That's why it is not impressive that a giraffe has a bigger brain than a rhesus monkey. Or, similarly, that a human has 4-5 times less brain mass than an elephant.
It's not a stunt at all. It's a beautiful way to improve your weapons-delivery systems without overtly creating a "missile". The H-II series of rockets lets Japan keep the capacity to deploy satellites (commercial or military) and keeping up with basic rocket tech lets them create a crash ICBM plan should the need arise.
It's all about preferences. I think a grilled portobello can be delicious, but when I get a burger craving, I want ground beef (or some combination thereof). That "rubbery" texture that you describe is exactly what I am looking for. The bean-based stuff I've tried seems mushy to me, or has that funky texture that makes tofu so off-putting to many.
Awesome, now make a similar chart where you show the number of deaths as a percentage of interactions - because having an orca in captivity kind of implies a lot of human interaction. If they were really so dangerous, not many of these "students of orca" would get in the damn pool, so I'm quite skeptical.
My point is that when even untrusted sites are whitelisted, I wasn't really protecting myself anymore, just being anal. I'm sure I was slightly safer that way, but it was no longer worth the effort to me. Clearly you value your time and effort differently than I do mine in relation to the amount of protection you are afforded.
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Jesus, way to miss the point of my post. Were any of those things commonplace in 1974?
Which was my point. You didn't get bypass surgery in 1974. Or rather, the vast majority did not. Organ transplants were sometimes successful, but rather rare. Yes, doctors were developing (and even implanting) joint replacements, but you had nothing like the number of knee replacements that have just exploded over the last decade. Health care by any measure is now more expensive: vs. GDP, per capital, absolute numbers, pick your metric.
If one can look at Europe's huge deficits, debt, and unfunded liabilities - which are not even included in their debt numbers - and say they can afford it...
Way to be pedantic. None of the things I listed were common health care tools. Look up the numbers for knee surgeries alone.
My point is it may have been more "ambitious" in terms of coverage of available care, but a _LOT_ less ambitious in terms of cost.
Obama health care plan is less ambitious than the health care plan propose by Richard M Nixon in 1974.
Health care was a lot less ambitious in 1974. That predates open heart surgery, organ transplants, joint replacements, most cancer treatments, MRI, CAT scan, and even the discovery that ulcers were caused by H. pylori.
Also, at least based on the reviews I've read of my local paper, the Kindle version at least isn't the entire paper.
Amazing, isn't it? The newspaper companies are literally stuck in a world of 20 years ago.
I like your interface idea. That would probably work well on something with a small screen.
Whether he understands technology is kind of besides the point, isn't it? I'm also not sure how Amazon's profitability is germane. My point is that Amazon - not a major publisher - wound up selling ebooks through their device and their marketplace successfully, despite the rather large disadvantage of not actually owning any content. That the Times didn't even TRY to market an ebook with, at the very least, the Times content should be pretty embarrassing to them.
I had problems with things like sleep and power management on a no-name laptop, but I'll fully admit my inexperience was at play. I have not had problems with Linux on Thinkpads or Dells and the like. I had similar problems with Windows, as the drivers were tough to track down.
Those do exist. So-called "white box" laptops. My very limited experience with them is that getting your Windows install to play nice is a very similar experience to getting Linux to play nice with an off-brand laptop... it can be very time consuming, so if you value your time you just pay for some company to do it for you. And at the low end, you don't save any money because the components are largely part of the mainboard on crappy laptops. Thin-n-light like the Air is not possible at all.
I wasn't claiming that what he did was rocket science, just that he made the first commercially successful one. Really, it should have been a publisher - who would have had a much easier time securing content. There were e-books - hell, the Kindle even uses an existing format - but nothing else that took off.
Yes, I think I agree. While I have the same impulse as any other human to want to know what the hell is going on right now, I have come to realize that I'm probably getting dumber by watching "real-time coverage". Unless the event is happening near me, I probably don't need to know until they get it all sorted out. The Boston bombing coverage was just... awful. CNN kept reporting that they had suspects in custody and whatnot and then retracting it. Terrible.
A few years ago when the Times bought the Boston Globe a friend and I mused that they could probably give every subscriber an e-reader that updates on a cellular network and/or WiFi and dispense with the dead tree stuff altogether. Of course, old people and some old-at-heart young people still love dead trees, so you sell your press operations with a long-term leaseback on the capacity. If you really execute well, you could even have had a repository for other published works on the same e-reader, and you could make a killing selling people content on their "free" tablet.
The thing that I find amazing is that Bezos is the one to launch a successful e-reader, and he did it the hard way! No subscription base to start from, no content to sell initially. Bezos had to convince people to buy the damn things at or above cost, not get them for free with a subscription they were already paying for. He had some huge disadvantages, but he wasn't stuck in the dark ages, and new he is buying the newspapers with his pocket change... just for his amusement. Adapt or die, indeed.
I am in complete agreement. Saddling future generations with debt for non-infrastructure is morally corrupt. The REALLY nasty part is that most people agree with this, and so we have demanded that pensions in the private sector are either fully funded, or show up as liabilities on a company's balance sheet. We do no such thing in the public sector, and where we do, we almost always exempt health coverage. People simply do not understand the issue, and politicians keep it that way when they cloud the issue with misleading statements... like when congress all of the sudden decided that the Post Office, and only the Post Office, should be forced to fully fund it's pension in 10 years without raising any new revenue. Then, the opposition starts throwing out statements like "they are funding 75 years out into the future!" instead of pointing out the real problems with the plan. I hate them all.
There will still be winter.
Well, naturally, but most people aren't farmers or hunter gatherers anymore. Less than 1% of the population is involved with food production, and even a lowly vegan can in theory be a cattleman.
Yes, you need a certain amount of motor-control brain, and the more muscle you have, the more mass you need for motor control. That's why it is not impressive that a giraffe has a bigger brain than a rhesus monkey. Or, similarly, that a human has 4-5 times less brain mass than an elephant.
Low hanging fruit. Low hanging fruit.
Anyway, I'm not sure picking up a tray of beef at the grocery store takes any more or less brain power than picking up a box of lentils.
It must have been terribly promoted. I never even heard of it until a physicist friend hooked me up with it online.
It's not a stunt at all. It's a beautiful way to improve your weapons-delivery systems without overtly creating a "missile". The H-II series of rockets lets Japan keep the capacity to deploy satellites (commercial or military) and keeping up with basic rocket tech lets them create a crash ICBM plan should the need arise.
It's all about preferences. I think a grilled portobello can be delicious, but when I get a burger craving, I want ground beef (or some combination thereof). That "rubbery" texture that you describe is exactly what I am looking for. The bean-based stuff I've tried seems mushy to me, or has that funky texture that makes tofu so off-putting to many.
Well done. I came here to say that.
Awesome, now make a similar chart where you show the number of deaths as a percentage of interactions - because having an orca in captivity kind of implies a lot of human interaction. If they were really so dangerous, not many of these "students of orca" would get in the damn pool, so I'm quite skeptical.
They make mistakes, but for each time they are factually wrong, Huff Post is wrong hundreds or thousands of times.
My point is that when even untrusted sites are whitelisted, I wasn't really protecting myself anymore, just being anal. I'm sure I was slightly safer that way, but it was no longer worth the effort to me. Clearly you value your time and effort differently than I do mine in relation to the amount of protection you are afforded.