It seems to me that the Federal government may not have the authority to create a workable system for universal coverage.
They don't have to mandate it, just make everyone eligible and the private insurance companies won't cover you as a primary -- just like Medicare.
There already exists "universal" insurance plans for two segments of the population, Medicare for everyone 65+ and one for military personnel (I can't remember what it's called).
There was a great special on Frontline called
Sick Around The World about 5 capitalist democracies (United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, Switzerland) and how they provide universal healthcare. The show focuses on if the US can learn lessons from these countries.
Hotpatching... the idea seems to be patented by Microsoft.
Hasn't NASA been doing this with satelites and probes since whenever (well, since they started probing things anyway)? Haven't computer viruses (and organic for that matter) been doing this since the first infection?
There's plenty of meat that's quite healthy for you.
In addition, how much one eats is usually more important than what. Anything once a day/week/month is probably not a problem. Three times a day is something else...
Vegans object to the use of animals, as it cannot be done except as exploitation (the animals, incapable of negotiation or resistance, cannot extract a fair and reasonable price for being eaten, yet get to suffer extensive pain the process).
Reasonably, could I then expect less resistance to the eating of wild animals that have died of natural causes? Impractical yes, but asking as a thought experiment...
According the the Wiki article, JP-7 fuel has a flashpoint of 140 F. I heard an anecdote that a lit match thrown into a bucket of JP-7 would simply go out (which may be common for these types of fuel, I don't know, but sound cool).
The Dilbert site managers, responding to the overwhelmingly negative reaction by users to the recent Flash makeover, just announced that the Flash enhancements will be removed and replaced with Silverlight.
China is pretty much a race. China has had a culture of extermination and assimilation for the last couple thousand years that has led them to have 92% of their subjects sharing a single ethnicity.
our computers automatically choose words from the site that has the form; for select menus, check boxes, and radio buttons on the form, we choose from among the values of the HTML...
...post invoice forms ordering expensive items to be shipped to Google. Be sure to log incoming IP addresses for verification.
Hold your index finger out in front of your face... In less time than it would take a beam of light to travel from your knuckle to your fingertip, the new IBM chip would complete one task and start looking for the next...
IBM has also patented this "holding finger in front of nose" process for measuring CPU speed.
If the state government maintains strict controls on slot machines and has access to the source code of slot machines....why the hell doesn't it have a better grasp on voting machines?
Simple: Voting *costs" money and gambling *makes* money for the state. Voting machine companies aren't really held for any liability and casinos are.
Add some vendor-inaccessable accounting to the voting machines and fine the vendors for every discrepancy and see if the quality of their product changes, or (more likely) see if they simply stop making voting machines.
...and, you know, the voting machines fell off the back of a truck -
if you know what I mean - which is why the state was able to get them "wholesale". You got a problem with that? I got your warranty right here.
...increasingly we have evidence that Venus lost most of its water and Earth lost most of its atmospheric carbon dioxide...
I blame the Solar-System economy, Free-Trade agreements and open borders. If only the planets were farther apart or someone had built a fence... (Ya, I'm talking to you Mars.)
Find anyone in a position of power that has done a lot of cocaine, and they will always have a disconnect from reality in which they always believe they are just and right in their ambitions, regardless of the facts presented to them.
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They don't have to mandate it, just make everyone eligible and the private insurance companies won't cover you as a primary -- just like Medicare.
There already exists "universal" insurance plans for two segments of the population, Medicare for everyone 65+ and one for military personnel (I can't remember what it's called).
There was a great special on Frontline called Sick Around The World about 5 capitalist democracies (United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, Switzerland) and how they provide universal healthcare. The show focuses on if the US can learn lessons from these countries.
Hasn't NASA been doing this with satelites and probes since whenever (well, since they started probing things anyway)? Haven't computer viruses (and organic for that matter) been doing this since the first infection?
Seems eBay posted the lawsuit on the "Casual Encounters" board.
The original dog started acting strangely and had to be put down after sniffing his own ass on the cloned dog.
In addition, how much one eats is usually more important than what. Anything once a day/week/month is probably not a problem. Three times a day is something else...
Reasonably, could I then expect less resistance to the eating of wild animals that have died of natural causes? Impractical yes, but asking as a thought experiment...
According the the Wiki article, JP-7 fuel has a flashpoint of 140 F. I heard an anecdote that a lit match thrown into a bucket of JP-7 would simply go out (which may be common for these types of fuel, I don't know, but sound cool).
The Dilbert site managers, responding to the overwhelmingly negative reaction by users to the recent Flash makeover, just announced that the Flash enhancements will be removed and replaced with Silverlight.
Sounds like Microsoft. :-)
Dear dumb-ass reporter, 5 years is "bouncing back", not 50.
Here you go: In Soviet Russia, faceboogles you.
For the record, "faceboogle" sounds like something that happens at the end of a pr0n film.
Too soon?
See what happens when you remove the talon's phallic inhibitor that restricts the Centurions', um robots', higher functions.
[Note to self: don't piss off 6.]
IBM has also patented this "holding finger in front of nose" process for measuring CPU speed.
... 13,999 pages of EULA and 1 page of secrets, well secret: "Have a well crafted EULA (see above)."
Just wait until Google ColonView debuts later this year...
If the state government maintains strict controls on slot machines and has access to the source code of slot machines....why the hell doesn't it have a better grasp on voting machines?
Simple: Voting *costs" money and gambling *makes* money for the state. Voting machine companies aren't really held for any liability and casinos are.
Add some vendor-inaccessable accounting to the voting machines and fine the vendors for every discrepancy and see if the quality of their product changes, or (more likely) see if they simply stop making voting machines.
...and, you know, the voting machines fell off the back of a truck - if you know what I mean - which is why the state was able to get them "wholesale". You got a problem with that? I got your warranty right here.
I blame the Solar-System economy, Free-Trade agreements and open borders. If only the planets were farther apart or someone had built a fence... (Ya, I'm talking to you Mars.)
Yes, but non-delivery of Nigerian auction purchases - HUGE.
So you've read W's diary.
- ...
- And the druids! Long robes, long beards, (early transvestites, didn't get their shaving together).
- They built Stonehenge, one of the biggest henges in the world.
- No one's built a henge like that ever since.
- No one knows what the fuck a henge is.
- Before Stonehenge there was Woodhenge and Strawhenge.
- ...
- Eddie Izzard, Dress to KillShowed up for work on time, clean-shaven and in nice clothes.