1) The legislation is in English
2) The legislation is long
3) The legislation amends current law
Seems to me that *any* important legislation has these "flaws," including laws that have had very positive consequences (i.e., McCain-Feingold).
Thankfully, other websites actually parse and interpret the legislation rather than whine about its length.
If this can save so much money why isn't the health care industry already doing it? Are they really that stupid or are all the promises of big savings not likely to pan out?
Two reasons. First, it's a collective action problem: if all companies but one were digitizing records in a common format, then the last company would indeed jump on board without government prodding. But it might be inefficient to be the first-mover.
Second, in this economy, businesses are unwilling to post short-term losses for long-term gains because their margins are so thin right now. And even if they wanted to make that trade-off, banks are hoarding their money and might not make the loan.
2: "The number of households in foreclosure increased 79 percent in 2007, with about one of every 100 U.S. households at some stage of the foreclosure process, according to the latest numbers from data aggregator RealtyTrac." Not sure if all of these people are going to "lose their homes", but it does appear that millions is the correct magnitude.
I'm not too confident in "our" experts either, Sips and Pouwelse, given the missing word in the first sentence of the following paragraph, and the continued misspelling of pollution.
This research group focused the polution in Kazaa9. Pollution refers to meaningless files and mismatches between filenames and their actual content. Kazaa was found to be severly poluted. For many recent pop songs, more than 50% of the copies were polluted. Our research group at Delft University has found similar polution levels in Kazaa for all types of content.
It's important to note that, from what the article said, this study did not employ a control group of political moderates or apathetics. The partisans were asked to listen to Tom Hanks (as a sort-of control), but mixing treatment with non-treatment does not seem like the best execution of the scientific method.
We don't know how people who are not members of political parties would have reacted. Perhaps they use even more emotions that political stalwarts. Or perhaps they just tune everything out. This study doesn't tell us.
Another hidden gem in this movie is Wallace Shawn (Vizzini from The Princess Bride) as "Bob Parr's" boss in the insurance company. Fortunately, his role includes the lightning quick monologues that he's famous for.
Wouldn't obvious failures (like the failure of a sensor) be detected by Mission Control without LV2?
But how does Mission Control know whether the physical apparatus failed or the sensor that reports the status of the apparatus failed? I'm pretty sure that's where LV2 comes in.
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The blogger's complaints seem to boil down to:
1) The legislation is in English
2) The legislation is long
3) The legislation amends current law
Seems to me that *any* important legislation has these "flaws," including laws that have had very positive consequences (i.e., McCain-Feingold). Thankfully, other websites actually parse and interpret the legislation rather than whine about its length.
If this can save so much money why isn't the health care industry already doing it? Are they really that stupid or are all the promises of big savings not likely to pan out?
Two reasons. First, it's a collective action problem: if all companies but one were digitizing records in a common format, then the last company would indeed jump on board without government prodding. But it might be inefficient to be the first-mover.
Second, in this economy, businesses are unwilling to post short-term losses for long-term gains because their margins are so thin right now. And even if they wanted to make that trade-off, banks are hoarding their money and might not make the loan.
2: "The number of households in foreclosure increased 79 percent in 2007, with about one of every 100 U.S. households at some stage of the foreclosure process, according to the latest numbers from data aggregator RealtyTrac." Not sure if all of these people are going to "lose their homes", but it does appear that millions is the correct magnitude.
2a: link?
It's important to note that, from what the article said, this study did not employ a control group of political moderates or apathetics. The partisans were asked to listen to Tom Hanks (as a sort-of control), but mixing treatment with non-treatment does not seem like the best execution of the scientific method.
We don't know how people who are not members of political parties would have reacted. Perhaps they use even more emotions that political stalwarts. Or perhaps they just tune everything out. This study doesn't tell us.
Another hidden gem in this movie is Wallace Shawn (Vizzini from The Princess Bride) as "Bob Parr's" boss in the insurance company. Fortunately, his role includes the lightning quick monologues that he's famous for.
But how does Mission Control know whether the physical apparatus failed or the sensor that reports the status of the apparatus failed? I'm pretty sure that's where LV2 comes in.
Not sure what you meant by "average," but the median household income in the US for 2003 [pdf, 791KB] was $43,318. (See chart on page 3 of report.)
From what I can discern on page 5, the median income for an individual is betweeen $30-40K.
Actually a quick google search reveals otherwise.