Canada, the stereotype polite society. Handgun ownership rate is about 1/6th that the USA and carry permits, much less concealed carry, outside of professional need are all but unheard of.
It's not really hybrid. Private stuff in Canada is supplementary. It covers stuff above the public system (e.g. prescriptions and dental. The latter not being covered by the public system is one of my pet peeves.), but it doesn't get to replace anything the public system provides.
Alright then, let's duplicate the obviously superior country in that comparison, Finland.
First we'll get on with doing the True Finnish Thing and start with abolishing those pesky unions, then we'll....oh wait, 95% of Finnish teachers are members of the Opetusalan Ammattijarjesto (Eng: Trade Union of Education in Finland).
Unions are for people in professions in which any worker cannot be differentiated from the next based on skill, so they have no individual bargaining power and need to band together. Then they reward seniority and loyalty to the union, since skill or job performance is unimportant. If you think you work in an industry where employees have differentiated skills and have some leverage to bargain with employers, you do NOT want a union.
Yes, because you are SPECIAL! You are UNIQUELY TALENTED! An ARTISTE! You have the corporation with thousands of times your financial resources over a barrel and can dictate terms to them! They couldn't possibly get by without your unsurpassed brilliance and they would never toss you out on your ass if you got too uppity.
Even actors and writers are unionized, and those are some of the most skill-and-identity-differentiated professions around. Or do SAG-AFTRA and the Writer's Guilds of America not exist in your universe?
It is irrational to expect that you can expand coverage without increasing the cost.
Can you explain to me by what magic trick (if we switch to a single payer system) the coverage can be made universal while maintaining the same standard of care, without people who pay for it paying more?
Economies of scale? Increased purchasing power? It's not a magic trick anymore than making a pencil disappear is.
I suppose you think it's fucking magical that Dell can buy components cheaper than you can when they're ordering stuff in lots of millions.
See Texas' tort reform. Resulted in a massive reduction in malpractice suits, a massive reduction in malpractice insurance premiums, but didn't do a damn thing about medical costs or the rate of increase thereof.
"Simply go to a universal system" would mean higher cost for worse coverage, just like in UK. NHS costs about $5K a year per taxpayer.
You are either completely unaware of how much the USA spends on healthcare or you're using some really inventive mathematics, because $5k/year is substantially less than what the USA spends.
Bureaucracy. Even if the entire fucking world knows something, even if the information is completely fucking obvious, if it was classified, it remains classified until and unless it is explicitly declassified.
"Roberts stressed that the decision does not speak to the merits of the law. "We do not consider whether the act embodies sound policies. That judgment is entrusted to the nation's elected leaders," he said. "
Yes. The Constitution does not prohibit legislatures from enacting stupid laws.
Quantum computing is not a silver bullet. It'll break current public key encryption (Shor's algorithm) and symmetric ciphers with short key lengths (Grover's algorithm), but longer symmetric key ciphers (256 bits and longer) will remain secure.
Something like 3-4 per 1,000, though the numbers may be higher than that due to under-diagnosis, as the most common ones (XXX and XYY) are frequently asymptomatic.
Well barring racially-scoped genetic diseases anyway (for example haemophilia is restricted to people with modern African ancestry - an unfortunate consequence of getting a double-dose of a gene that confers immunity to malaria).
We don't boil water in order to sterilize it. Why should they have to?
Sterilize? We're not talking about sterilizing water (though that's also useful), we're talking about desalinating water, and steam distillation is about the simplest/cheapest means of doing that.
Yes, tipped employees can be paid a lower minimum wage. But wage+tips still needs to be at least equal to the regular minimum wage for the hours worked, at least in theory.
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No and they're not claiming they do either.
They're claiming that they own the copyright on Game of Thrones (true) and that a copy of VLC is Game of Thrones (false).
The latter claim isn't made under penalty of perjury, only the former.
Welcome to reason ERROVERFLOW why the DMCA is a horrible law and should be erased from existence.
An armed society is a polite society.
Canada, the stereotype polite society.
Handgun ownership rate is about 1/6th that the USA and carry permits, much less concealed carry, outside of professional need are all but unheard of.
Can you read? No, seriously, are you actually able to read?
No. That's why he's got a hatred for subtitles.
Besides, esophageal cancer is so common in old men of 58 years.
Yes, esophageal cancer is very common in old men of 58 years who smoke like chimneys.
Why would a Democrat postpone ObamaCare?
To implement a sensible single payer system?
And what else is new? They're called "smoke-filled rooms" for a reason.
Which party is the sensible party again?
Justice.
It's not really hybrid. Private stuff in Canada is supplementary. It covers stuff above the public system (e.g. prescriptions and dental. The latter not being covered by the public system is one of my pet peeves.), but it doesn't get to replace anything the public system provides.
Alright then, let's duplicate the obviously superior country in that comparison, Finland.
First we'll get on with doing the True Finnish Thing and start with abolishing those pesky unions, then we'll....oh wait, 95% of Finnish teachers are members of the Opetusalan Ammattijarjesto (Eng: Trade Union of Education in Finland).
Unions are for people in professions in which any worker cannot be differentiated from the next based on skill, so they have no individual bargaining power and need to band together. Then they reward seniority and loyalty to the union, since skill or job performance is unimportant. If you think you work in an industry where employees have differentiated skills and have some leverage to bargain with employers, you do NOT want a union.
Yes, because you are SPECIAL! You are UNIQUELY TALENTED! An ARTISTE! You have the corporation with thousands of times your financial resources over a barrel and can dictate terms to them! They couldn't possibly get by without your unsurpassed brilliance and they would never toss you out on your ass if you got too uppity.
Even actors and writers are unionized, and those are some of the most skill-and-identity-differentiated professions around. Or do SAG-AFTRA and the Writer's Guilds of America not exist in your universe?
It is irrational to expect that you can expand coverage without increasing the cost.
Can you explain to me by what magic trick (if we switch to a single payer system) the coverage can be made universal while maintaining the same standard of care, without people who pay for it paying more?
Economies of scale? Increased purchasing power? It's not a magic trick anymore than making a pencil disappear is.
I suppose you think it's fucking magical that Dell can buy components cheaper than you can when they're ordering stuff in lots of millions.
I spend substantially less than $5K/year
I rather suspect you're not including employer contributions in that $5k nor tax dollars spent on medicare/medicaid.
In total expenditures (public+private), the USA spends more than twice as much on healthcare as the UK does.
It isn't, in relative terms.
See Texas' tort reform. Resulted in a massive reduction in malpractice suits, a massive reduction in malpractice insurance premiums, but didn't do a damn thing about medical costs or the rate of increase thereof.
"Simply go to a universal system" would mean higher cost for worse coverage, just like in UK. NHS costs about $5K a year per taxpayer.
You are either completely unaware of how much the USA spends on healthcare or you're using some really inventive mathematics, because $5k/year is substantially less than what the USA spends.
or on the 15th and the 30th.
The term for that is "semi-monthly".
Larger bag than the last guy. 30 half-ounce pieces of silver would only be worth about $300 today.
Bureaucracy. Even if the entire fucking world knows something, even if the information is completely fucking obvious, if it was classified, it remains classified until and unless it is explicitly declassified.
"Roberts stressed that the decision does not speak to the merits of the law. "We do not consider whether the act embodies sound policies. That judgment is entrusted to the nation's elected leaders," he said. "
Yes. The Constitution does not prohibit legislatures from enacting stupid laws.
In terms of deaths, the War on Coal is about 1/3rd as morally sound as the War on Nazis.
Pollution from coal power production results in about 400,000 deaths per year.
Averaged out, the Holocaust killed about 1.2 million per year.
Algae requires a feed stock with high levels of Phosphorus (aka chemical fertilizer)
Or aka human feces and urine.
I don't think we're going to be running out of sewage anytime soon.
Quantum computing is not a silver bullet. It'll break current public key encryption (Shor's algorithm) and symmetric ciphers with short key lengths (Grover's algorithm), but longer symmetric key ciphers (256 bits and longer) will remain secure.
Something like 3-4 per 1,000, though the numbers may be higher than that due to under-diagnosis, as the most common ones (XXX and XYY) are frequently asymptomatic.
Well barring racially-scoped genetic diseases anyway (for example haemophilia is restricted to people with modern African ancestry - an unfortunate consequence of getting a double-dose of a gene that confers immunity to malaria).
That's sickle-cell anemia, not haemophilia.
We don't boil water in order to sterilize it. Why should they have to?
Sterilize? We're not talking about sterilizing water (though that's also useful), we're talking about desalinating water, and steam distillation is about the simplest/cheapest means of doing that.
Yes, tipped employees can be paid a lower minimum wage. But wage+tips still needs to be at least equal to the regular minimum wage for the hours worked, at least in theory.