>In a previous post, you stated "In canada you can get an MRI anytime you want from a private provider if you want to pay." which means that wealth does change the way MRIs are prioritized in Canada.
You can not bump off somebody who needs it more. You have to go to a private provider which is not providing MRIs for poor people (just like the US).
>But you seem to want to imply that only wealth affects medical priorities in the US, which is quite clearly false.
That's 100% true. The only way a poor person gets medical care is by going to the emergency room and even then they could be sent to a different hospital (and die on the way).
>Unfortunately, you seem to have a deep emotional need to believe that US healthcare is horrid,
It is horrid. According any same measurement we are way worse then any modern first world country. Study after study points this out but zealots like you have your minds shut to scientific evidence.
>This is false - free clinics, Medicare/Medicade, and lots of charities are there to help. Maybe not as much or as you like, but they are there.
Not even close to being enough to meet demand. Oh and charities also exist in other countries too.
>I was under the impression that private insurance was illegal, and that you couldn't be billed for procedures that the government would have payed for.
You are under the wrong impression.
>And I'll take your insults as an admission that I have made a good point that you can't rebut.
No take it as an admission that you are an ignorant, uninformed fool.
>Wouldn't it be better to just have enough machines so that doctors don't have to make an educated guess about your health?
Yes it would but that would also mean higher taxes.
Here is the way it works. In canada they triage patients by importance. In the US they triage patients by ability to pay. If you can't afford it they you don't get the MRI and the guy who can afford it gets it.
In both countries there are not enough machines which is why it costs so much.
>You'll give people breast enhancement for free, as long as the rich gal can't pay to get hers done a little faster.
Obviously you are completely ignorant about the canadian system.
Why are you lying? The contract was found to be illegal, the country threatened sanctions, MS gave in. They are not a reasonable company, they simply wanted to avoid losing money by fighting in court or paying sanctions.
>PHBs of this world who want someone they can point at and shout "fix it", and (while I have no direct experience) I would imagine the military is chock-full of such PHBs.
Honestly if there are PHBs like this I wish somebody would put their companies on a web site so I can make sure I am not investing in them.
Every PHB I know knows that you call the vendor, the vendor takes your name down and promises to get back to you sometime in the near future. It then calls you back to tell you that they need more information. Then you give them the information and they say they will get back to you. Then they get back to you and ask you to reboot the machine or to uninstall your database or some other program they don't like and try again, yadda yadda yadda.
Everybody knows MS or Oracle or Veritas aren't going to do jack shit because your PHB said "fix it damnit". If a PHB thinks they are going to threaten MS when windows crashes is a dumbass who is going to grind his company into the ground due his stupidity.
I once worked a case with veritas for three weeks before some completely random person on the internet said "did you try X?" and it worked. I told veritas about the solution and they didn't believe me!.
I am happy when MS gets sued because it depletes their money pile. Every cent they spend defending a lawsuit is a cent they are not spending on bribing politicians, or paying lobbyist, or whatever else they do.
I would like to see a million people file frivolous lawsuits against MS till they run out of money to pay their lawyers to sue people for their use linux IP.
Nobody else offered you a job? You sold out your principles because you thought the only other alternative was to be unemployed and posting at slashdot? You actually thought your career could not advance if you didn't work at MS?
In what way is a purposefully crippled application which can never be extended by plug ins "outstanding". Outstanding compared to notepad maybe but outstanding compared to eclipse?
That guy didn't work for dell. Dell got in touch with a local computer company who sent the tech out. You are lucky it was a drive, anybody can go down to the store and pick up a drive. If it was a server motherboard or a PERC raid controller you would have been shit out of luck.
"if we have a dead drive, we get a dell service hobbit on site within 4 hours with a new drive. "
You must live in a big city. We were going to go with HP for some server because they promised quick turnaround and then they told us we didn't live in a major metropolitan area and that the best they could to is to promise a technician visit within 24 hours and overnight shipping for parts.
I called around to other vendors and got the same story.
Called a local guy who promised us he would give us his cell number and had plenty of spare parts in stock at all times. Since his hardware cost less then half as much as the HP hardware we bought two machines from the local guy and kept one as a spare in the store room and he gave us his mobile number.
We never did have to call him. The machine ran for three years without a problem and we upgraded to a new machine at that time demoting the two old machines to lesser tasks.
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So they actually used LGPLed code without talking to a lawyer who has read the license? What kind of an idiot are these guys?
>In a previous post, you stated "In canada you can get an MRI anytime you want from a private provider if you want to pay." which means that wealth does change the way MRIs are prioritized in Canada.
You can not bump off somebody who needs it more. You have to go to a private provider which is not providing MRIs for poor people (just like the US).
>But you seem to want to imply that only wealth affects medical priorities in the US, which is quite clearly false.
That's 100% true. The only way a poor person gets medical care is by going to the emergency room and even then they could be sent to a different hospital (and die on the way).
>Unfortunately, you seem to have a deep emotional need to believe that US healthcare is horrid,
It is horrid. According any same measurement we are way worse then any modern first world country. Study after study points this out but zealots like you have your minds shut to scientific evidence.
You deserve way more insults then I am giving you. You are truly one of the stupidest people I have dealt with on slashdot and that's saying a lot.
Here let me encapsulate the argument for you.
In Canada MRI scans are prioritized according to who needs them most urgent (health reasons)
In the US MRI scans are prioritized on the ability to pay (wealth reasons).
Got it?
>This is false - free clinics, Medicare/Medicade, and lots of charities are there to help. Maybe not as much or as you like, but they are there.
Not even close to being enough to meet demand. Oh and charities also exist in other countries too.
>I was under the impression that private insurance was illegal, and that you couldn't be billed for procedures that the government would have payed for.
You are under the wrong impression.
>And I'll take your insults as an admission that I have made a good point that you can't rebut.
No take it as an admission that you are an ignorant, uninformed fool.
>That's incorrect. In the US they triage by both importance and ability to pay.
Nope. In the US you can't get an MRI if you are poor unless you show up at the emergency room. By that time of course it's an emergency.
>Then they suggest that I'm insane, evil, and that I should preform unnatural sex acts on myself.
You certainly are uninformed and stupid. I don't know about your evilness but I wouldn't put it past you.
In canada you can get an MRI anytime you want from a private provider if you want to pay.
I love reading republicans talk about clinton. It's like listening to the voices in the head of a schizophrenic.
>Wouldn't it be better to just have enough machines so that doctors don't have to make an educated guess about your health?
Yes it would but that would also mean higher taxes.
Here is the way it works. In canada they triage patients by importance. In the US they triage patients by ability to pay. If you can't afford it they you don't get the MRI and the guy who can afford it gets it.
In both countries there are not enough machines which is why it costs so much.
>You'll give people breast enhancement for free, as long as the rich gal can't pay to get hers done a little faster.
Obviously you are completely ignorant about the canadian system.
The republicans said the same thing about her husband and he turned out to be an excellent president.
If it's not urgent then they should wait. Obviously it was not urgent if they made an appt, traveled to the US and got them.
That's the way things should work. People who are in urgent need should be taken care of first.
Why are you lying? The contract was found to be illegal, the country threatened sanctions, MS gave in. They are not a reasonable company, they simply wanted to avoid losing money by fighting in court or paying sanctions.
>PHBs of this world who want someone they can point at and shout "fix it", and (while I have no direct experience) I would imagine the military is chock-full of such PHBs.
Honestly if there are PHBs like this I wish somebody would put their companies on a web site so I can make sure I am not investing in them.
Every PHB I know knows that you call the vendor, the vendor takes your name down and promises to get back to you sometime in the near future. It then calls you back to tell you that they need more information. Then you give them the information and they say they will get back to you. Then they get back to you and ask you to reboot the machine or to uninstall your database or some other program they don't like and try again, yadda yadda yadda.
Everybody knows MS or Oracle or Veritas aren't going to do jack shit because your PHB said "fix it damnit". If a PHB thinks they are going to threaten MS when windows crashes is a dumbass who is going to grind his company into the ground due his stupidity.
I once worked a case with veritas for three weeks before some completely random person on the internet said "did you try X?" and it worked. I told veritas about the solution and they didn't believe me!.
I am happy when MS gets sued because it depletes their money pile. Every cent they spend defending a lawsuit is a cent they are not spending on bribing politicians, or paying lobbyist, or whatever else they do.
I would like to see a million people file frivolous lawsuits against MS till they run out of money to pay their lawyers to sue people for their use linux IP.
More often then not posting questions on the forums will get you faster response then any vendor.
That EULA applies to users of VS express. MS needs to sue everybody who installs this plug in.
Nobody else offered you a job? You sold out your principles because you thought the only other alternative was to be unemployed and posting at slashdot? You actually thought your career could not advance if you didn't work at MS?
Average joe is not familiar with the new office. OO looks more like the old office then the new office does.
If the CIO is smart he will minimize his training costs by switching to OO.
Only if you modify the source code AND distribute it. Otherwise you can do whatever you want.
People do it because it seems to get the astroturfers panties in a wad.
Oh. Again did you mean outstanding as compared to notepad or outstanding as compared to eclipse? If you meant the latter you are sadly mistaken.
The only people who think VS is awesome are people who used the previous version of it and never use anything that isn't made by MS.
In what way is a purposefully crippled application which can never be extended by plug ins "outstanding". Outstanding compared to notepad maybe but outstanding compared to eclipse?
Only if you are a MS zealot I suppose.
Is it possible to do .NET development with eclipse?
That guy didn't work for dell. Dell got in touch with a local computer company who sent the tech out. You are lucky it was a drive, anybody can go down to the store and pick up a drive. If it was a server motherboard or a PERC raid controller you would have been shit out of luck.
"if we have a dead drive, we get a dell service hobbit on site within 4 hours with a new drive. "
You must live in a big city. We were going to go with HP for some server because they promised quick turnaround and then they told us we didn't live in a major metropolitan area and that the best they could to is to promise a technician visit within 24 hours and overnight shipping for parts.
I called around to other vendors and got the same story.
Called a local guy who promised us he would give us his cell number and had plenty of spare parts in stock at all times. Since his hardware cost less then half as much as the HP hardware we bought two machines from the local guy and kept one as a spare in the store room and he gave us his mobile number.
We never did have to call him. The machine ran for three years without a problem and we upgraded to a new machine at that time demoting the two old machines to lesser tasks.
>Why are you addressing me? I'm not doing this project.
The metaphorical YOU,
Mac users don't want to user open source package managers and neither to windows users.
Your efforts would be better spent making wine better so we can use windows software on linux.