You must live somewhere with healthy competition. I figure they're probably like Walmart: they lose money on having the best shop in town until they have the only shop in town. Then they have the only shop in town, so why keep losing money?
Here's what I think about when people mention universal health care.
Population density in people per square mile: France - 304 UK - 656 Germany - 611 US - 88
Now, as someone who isn't a coal miner and doesn't have a lifetime of poverty ahead of me, where would I rather live? Because, let me tell you, healthcare costs, they don't bother a lot of people.
This kind of thing always makes me wonder why you see so many homeless people. They could just smash someone's head in with a rock and have a nice, clean, warm home with three squares a day and plenty of time to read or watch TV.
The reason is, those homeless people, unlike the bankers, aren't heartless sociopaths. I think when the bankers rob you of everything you've spent your life saving, you may find the same is true of you, unfortunately.
Um, which is the discussion we were having. I said it was an LED screen, he said it was just LED backlit LCD, and he was right. I don't understand how that wasn't clear.
Yes, it was an LED backlight. Which is why I said he was right, that it was an LED backlight, and I was wrong. I don't see how this could be so readily misunderstood.
What part of my post made it look like I thought Kim Jong Il was Chinese? And this is nothing to do with "empires rising and falling," and has everything to do with stopping imperialism all together. It might not be the truth you like, but America isn't actual an expansionist empire. Maybe we need China to start a war to make idiots like you realize what empires really look like.
Well, if we stop being #1 with our military, China will start. And then everyone will be #1 in everything, because we'll all be Chinese, and we all know that in China, China is always #1.
What I mean to say is, that kind of crap rhetoric that us idiot Americans spew all the time isn't always just BS propaganda. Without someone to keep the Kim Jong Ils from actually attacking, no one gets to compete for "best" healthcare or whatever BS. That, and there are places far, far worse than the US.
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Hey, I didn't pick the countries. Those are the ones he mentioned.
You must live somewhere with healthy competition. I figure they're probably like Walmart: they lose money on having the best shop in town until they have the only shop in town. Then they have the only shop in town, so why keep losing money?
Here's what I think about when people mention universal health care.
Population density in people per square mile:
France - 304
UK - 656
Germany - 611
US - 88
Now, as someone who isn't a coal miner and doesn't have a lifetime of poverty ahead of me, where would I rather live? Because, let me tell you, healthcare costs, they don't bother a lot of people.
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I do not think it means what you think it means...
Wow, I knew old computers were a lot slower than modern ones, but 1.78 thousandths of a cycle per second? Jeez!
Artistic? Are we sure it's her baby?
Wait, you've lost me here... what about human beings can't be explained with classical physics?
Not if each character has its own segment, like a proper Nixie.
For many of us, having a positive financial return is hardly a reason to do anything at all.
If that $14T was all spent on actually worthwhile endeavors like NASA, we'd be having this idiotic argument on Mars.
My Nixies have 256 segments. Whats the point unless you can do full ascii?
They asked me why I wanted two segments that consumed power but were completely blacked out. They just don't understand.
No, no, it's wall to wall Denon AK-DL1.
"That's funny... all our HFT algorithms keep investing in our own datacenter technologies..."
This kind of thing always makes me wonder why you see so many homeless people. They could just smash someone's head in with a rock and have a nice, clean, warm home with three squares a day and plenty of time to read or watch TV.
The reason is, those homeless people, unlike the bankers, aren't heartless sociopaths. I think when the bankers rob you of everything you've spent your life saving, you may find the same is true of you, unfortunately.
Yes, I know. That's why I put in that link, so you could see that it was just an LED backlit LCD. How was that not clear?
Um, which is the discussion we were having. I said it was an LED screen, he said it was just LED backlit LCD, and he was right. I don't understand how that wasn't clear.
Yes, it was an LED backlight. Which is why I said he was right, that it was an LED backlight, and I was wrong. I don't see how this could be so readily misunderstood.
Psh, 14 segment LED displays? My 80x24 uses Nixie tubes.
So it is. I suppose I'm ahead of the times.
Or maybe it's actually an LED screen. You may find that you are behind the times here, chum.
Um, hate to break it for you, but we're not leading anything or anyone. You can go ahead and continue to follow by example all you like, though.
Well, it is pretty orgasmic...
What part of my post made it look like I thought Kim Jong Il was Chinese? And this is nothing to do with "empires rising and falling," and has everything to do with stopping imperialism all together. It might not be the truth you like, but America isn't actual an expansionist empire. Maybe we need China to start a war to make idiots like you realize what empires really look like.
So your suggestion is that we all act honestly in the hopes that the politicians will start to follow suit?
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Well, if we stop being #1 with our military, China will start. And then everyone will be #1 in everything, because we'll all be Chinese, and we all know that in China, China is always #1.
What I mean to say is, that kind of crap rhetoric that us idiot Americans spew all the time isn't always just BS propaganda. Without someone to keep the Kim Jong Ils from actually attacking, no one gets to compete for "best" healthcare or whatever BS. That, and there are places far, far worse than the US.