Why yes, it's true, just like all those African's were much better off when they were brought to America, sure, they were slaves, and they spent all day picking cotton and all they got back was a bowl of soup and a lumpy bed, but hey, when they were slaves in Africa, they were working even harder and getting even less food and no bed, they all had a much better life in the US, those white slave owners did them a big favour.
Wait, you not going to suddenly go all inconsistent and say that's totally different are you?
no, it's cash spend on actual healthcare only, not research.
Research for all science is far below that figure, if the US was spending 9% of it's GDP on medical research we would all be living to 100 by now. The actual figure spent on ALL research by government and private industry is less than 3%. In the UK, it's a little under 2%.
Anyway, you should realise that most medical research is done by drug companies who make money from it, a course of Erbitux costs the same for NHS as it does for a private hospital, so they are paying for it's development just the same as everyone else who benefits from it. And when the NHS pays a surgeon's salary, they are paying for the development of the surgical techniques they have learned just the same as any other hospital who employs them.
lol! you think a private capitalist system would have delivered better?
Let's all remind ourselves that the UK ranks 18th in the world (this is according to the WHO), and the USA ranks 37th, and to rub it in a bit more, the USA spends a higher percentage of it's GDP than any other country (something like 15% I believe), and the UK spends just 6% of it's GDP on healthcare. So you tell me which system is the one that works here?
No doubt in the US, they would have paid a private contractor thousands to build a kid-sized dialysis machine, the insurance company wouldn't pay for it, then they kid would have died before they finished it.
no, no, it's noting to do with the mail, the device is used to indoctrinate people into loving the Queen, hence they are forced to look at hte stamp and receive painfull jelly fish stings when they fail to sing God Save the Queen right, the tuning fork is there so they can check they are in the right key (if it's not the right key, they don't really mean it).
that's cos everyone opens the article in a background tab, then starts looking at a couple of comments while it's loading, but by the time they've finished reading 50 screens full of trolling, bitching and offtopic arguements, they don't have time to read the article and close the tab without reading it.
No, you drive to Alaska, then drive over the ice in the Bering straight, (or you could drive over the north pole, although note that the furthest anyone has got in a car is when Top Gear went to the magnetic pole, also the Bering straight has only been crossed by a specialy adapted floating snowcat), then on across Russia to Europe.
Oh, you don't wanna start on that road mate, a mathematician will be waiting round the corner for you. Now let's stop this civil war and go laugh at some 'social sciences' people.
Well, if some guy says he measured the planet with a twiddly angle thing and looking at a shadow in a well, and he knows the width of the Atlantic, another guy says he thinks its a different size and he sails across it, and got to India and comes back with a load of loot and some dark skinned people to prove it. If you were the average 15th century Spaniard, your not a scientist, nor a mathematician, who are you going to believe? The guy who claims he worked it all out with angles, or the guy who said he's been there and has the proof?
Australia formed peacefully? Well if by that you mean the Aborigines didn't put up much of a fight when the white man conquered them...
As for the countries formed from te former USSR, well, there may not have been open warfare, but well, you think they just called the Kremlin and said, 'hello chaps we're independent now' and the Russians said 'Jolly good, well we'll withdraw our troops and let you get on with it'?
I've never heard of a ditchwitch before, so I just googled for a picture of one, and I have to ask the question: Why on has no one thought to have the hero drive one of these things in a zombie film?
I was going for funny, I thought Slashdoters were dedicated pun connoisseurs.
And as far as corectness, that's a matter of perspective. Crude oil is just a mixture of hydrocarbons with a large enough formula to be liquid, and natural gas is hydrocarbons with a small enough formula to be gas. The fact that ethane, propane, butane, and pentane are in both just goes to show the distinction is arbitrarily based on phase. Unless you know some special reason why all the hydrocarbons are counted as crude oil, except the ones that are gasses?
no no, if you apply the standard patent office standards, then scrabulous is totally and absolutely innovative, new and unprecedented, because it's exactly like something that's been around for 60 years, but it's on the internet!
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don't be so stupid, it's obviously a mistype, they are actually turning it into some old school electronic music.
Why yes, it's true, just like all those African's were much better off when they were brought to America, sure, they were slaves, and they spent all day picking cotton and all they got back was a bowl of soup and a lumpy bed, but hey, when they were slaves in Africa, they were working even harder and getting even less food and no bed, they all had a much better life in the US, those white slave owners did them a big favour.
Wait, you not going to suddenly go all inconsistent and say that's totally different are you?
no, it's cash spend on actual healthcare only, not research. Research for all science is far below that figure, if the US was spending 9% of it's GDP on medical research we would all be living to 100 by now. The actual figure spent on ALL research by government and private industry is less than 3%. In the UK, it's a little under 2%.
Anyway, you should realise that most medical research is done by drug companies who make money from it, a course of Erbitux costs the same for NHS as it does for a private hospital, so they are paying for it's development just the same as everyone else who benefits from it. And when the NHS pays a surgeon's salary, they are paying for the development of the surgical techniques they have learned just the same as any other hospital who employs them.
tell her she can, but still has to wear the scooby doo mask and do the voice tho.
You poor fucking plebs! Stop trying to clean those cartridges with your home made shit, do it the official way!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_Cleaning_Kit
no, no, I think you will find that packs of carnivorous dinosaurs roaming our streets is the last thing humanity needs.
My asplode just headed.
lol! you think a private capitalist system would have delivered better?
Let's all remind ourselves that the UK ranks 18th in the world (this is according to the WHO), and the USA ranks 37th, and to rub it in a bit more, the USA spends a higher percentage of it's GDP than any other country (something like 15% I believe), and the UK spends just 6% of it's GDP on healthcare. So you tell me which system is the one that works here?
No doubt in the US, they would have paid a private contractor thousands to build a kid-sized dialysis machine, the insurance company wouldn't pay for it, then they kid would have died before they finished it.
no, no, it's noting to do with the mail, the device is used to indoctrinate people into loving the Queen, hence they are forced to look at hte stamp and receive painfull jelly fish stings when they fail to sing God Save the Queen right, the tuning fork is there so they can check they are in the right key (if it's not the right key, they don't really mean it).
that's cos everyone opens the article in a background tab, then starts looking at a couple of comments while it's loading, but by the time they've finished reading 50 screens full of trolling, bitching and offtopic arguements, they don't have time to read the article and close the tab without reading it.
No, you drive to Alaska, then drive over the ice in the Bering straight, (or you could drive over the north pole, although note that the furthest anyone has got in a car is when Top Gear went to the magnetic pole, also the Bering straight has only been crossed by a specialy adapted floating snowcat), then on across Russia to Europe.
Sure it's entertaining. Once.
I don't need to see 50 people all do it, and then I don't need to see the whole thing again every 4 years.
The same goes for seeing people running, jumping and throwing different shaped objects.
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet."
- Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
What if it was called stinkblossom?
- Bart Simpson
That's cos we have more CCTV cameras in London than N.Korea.
Oh, you don't wanna start on that road mate, a mathematician will be waiting round the corner for you.
Now let's stop this civil war and go laugh at some 'social sciences' people.
Doc Brown was a Heretic,
and now he is no more,
we swapped his glass of H20,
for H2SO4.
Well, if some guy says he measured the planet with a twiddly angle thing and looking at a shadow in a well, and he knows the width of the Atlantic, another guy says he thinks its a different size and he sails across it, and got to India and comes back with a load of loot and some dark skinned people to prove it. If you were the average 15th century Spaniard, your not a scientist, nor a mathematician, who are you going to believe? The guy who claims he worked it all out with angles, or the guy who said he's been there and has the proof?
Australia formed peacefully? Well if by that you mean the Aborigines didn't put up much of a fight when the white man conquered them...
As for the countries formed from te former USSR, well, there may not have been open warfare, but well, you think they just called the Kremlin and said, 'hello chaps we're independent now' and the Russians said 'Jolly good, well we'll withdraw our troops and let you get on with it'?
How hard is it to run a kosher bidding process?
I thought they were Native Americans, not Jews.
Are you saying McDonald's hamburgers are not the best? Yea right, who am I gunna believe, you or the TV?
I've never heard of a ditchwitch before, so I just googled for a picture of one, and I have to ask the question: Why on has no one thought to have the hero drive one of these things in a zombie film?
and the film will be Gay Niggers From Outer Space!
Great, that's lifted the guilt about what I did to your mum last night.
I was going for funny, I thought Slashdoters were dedicated pun connoisseurs.
And as far as corectness, that's a matter of perspective. Crude oil is just a mixture of hydrocarbons with a large enough formula to be liquid, and natural gas is hydrocarbons with a small enough formula to be gas. The fact that ethane, propane, butane, and pentane are in both just goes to show the distinction is arbitrarily based on phase. Unless you know some special reason why all the hydrocarbons are counted as crude oil, except the ones that are gasses?
no no, if you apply the standard patent office standards, then scrabulous is totally and absolutely innovative, new and unprecedented, because it's exactly like something that's been around for 60 years, but it's on the internet!