Oh Bullshit. Come on. Who do you think pays the highest prices for pharmaceuticals? The US. We are bankrolling all that research, either directly or by being willing to pay the built-in research prices they include in drugs that sell in the US.
The entitlement generation is a silly term, you're right. There are actually 4-5 of them. Anyone born after about 1950 is part of the entitlement generation. Actually, considering the Social Security pyramid scheme, even some older people are being dragged into being honorary members of the entitlement generation.
Exactly. I always thought SlashDot was kind of Libertarian leaning, maybe it used to be but it's all about Free Shit now. And they like to couch it in terms that make them so reasonable. Like comparing a country with the US's demographics to countries with populations smaller than California. "See, Australia has single payer - it works!". Or making boogey men out of the insurance industry, which actually has a tiny profit margin.
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Yeah, it's crazy when people blame something responsible for such a small part of the problem, right? Like rabble rousers who blather on about the big insurance companies that pull in like a 3-4% profit margin. Oh My God! 3-4% - they're milking the system and contributing greatly to the cost of health care, amiright?!!!
Good luck finding a government system that works with overhead in that range.
Sorry, I tune out anytime someone mentions the lie about infant mortality (the US uses a much more critical measure, other countries discard a lot of cases the US considers an infant mortality). I also tune out when people pretend life expectancy isn't highly tied to culture and factors other than health care.
Your premise is simply flawed. The US has the best health care in the world, for those of us who have good insurance. So ultimately this is just another case of "to each according to his needs" - a growing majority of have-nots forcing the haves to reduce the quality of their health care so that the have-nots can get their "fair share".
Oh God, more laughable scapegoating of the insurance companies. Have you looked at their profit margins? They aren't raking in money hand over fist like the rabble rousers would have us believe.
Agreed. Based on the dearth of information available right now, my pat answer is "old people having kids". I'm sure my answer will change as more research is done, or at least become more nuanced.
That doesn't explain autism itself, but it would/could explain why the rates are going up.
God, why do people keep embarrassing themselves and posting this idiocy?
Someone sued vaccine makers asserting they were damaged because the big, bad Thimerosol caused autism. The court was then asked to weigh all the available scientific evidence and decide. The found there was insufficient evidence and hence ruled that it had not been proved that the vaccines caused the autism.
So they made a legal finding based on available science. They did not do science.
It's old people having kids. Pretty simple really. There are more people cheating nature and having kids past 30 than ever before. Autism rates go up with older parents, especially the father.
That word... strawman. It doesn't mean what you think it means.
I have had Apple fans literally in front of my face explaining why Multitasking was a bad idea in a phone. You can find similar comments all over the web...and this posting thread.
The point was simply to mock Apple fanbois. I find them silly.
Anytime you mention multitasking to an Apple fanboi they come up with 20 reasons why it's a bad idea and wasn't implemented. I'm sure they're just irate about this new feature and will be pissed off to no end that Apple is adding it, right?
This is an incredibly obvious patent and not at all novel. Is the bar for non-obviousness now simply that nobody else has patented it yet? Bit of a..."circular" (to put it nicely) definition, no?
We'll see how that universal health care works out for you in the long term, dude. When the life expectancy has gone up to about 95, and your birth rate is even further in the shitter you tell me how that's working out for you, ok? You think the US is imploding economically, wait until you see what happens to the EU with it's simply unsustainable social policies. It's not going to be pretty.
Wow, how positively dramatic of you. If you were at a podium would you pound on it and have tears (for effect, of course) streaming down your face?
The fact that you are typing on SlashDot on a computer right now shows you are putting a price on life, you fucking hypocrite. You could be working your fingers to the bone donating money to feed starving children, or to pay for research into a cure for Malaria or some other disease.
I love the holier than thou brigade. They're always so completely full of shit.
The US has the best health care available, if not the best "system". I'm tired of seeing the same old lies about e.g. infant mortality where the US measures them differently than other countries. We have the best medicine. I have access to that medicine, as do a majority of Americans.
Where the US falls short is that not all Americans have access to that system, and it can place a financial burden on some people.
Exactly. Similar to how the iPod was "me too" in response to the already existing DAP market, or how the iPad is a "me too" to tablet PC's that have been around for a decade.
The benefit is obviously that you get twice the screen real-estate when it's "open" and it's more portable when it's "closed". Not exactly rocket surgery, dude.
Oooh, you're smart! Just like that guy back in 95 who wrote an article mocking e-commerce. I mean who wants their credit cards out on "teh interwebs", amiright?!
a) Microsoft pays very intelligent, very educated people ridiculous sums of money to make sound business plans and they realize cloud computing is going to be a major factor in the coming years.
b) Some dipshit on SlashDot is smarter than all these people and "knows" that cloud computing is just a "near-meaningless buzzword".
Jesus Christ. I can just see that ridiculous sneer on your fact over that unkempt, patchy bear that covers half your fat neck.
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Oh Bullshit. Come on. Who do you think pays the highest prices for pharmaceuticals? The US. We are bankrolling all that research, either directly or by being willing to pay the built-in research prices they include in drugs that sell in the US.
The entitlement generation is a silly term, you're right. There are actually 4-5 of them. Anyone born after about 1950 is part of the entitlement generation. Actually, considering the Social Security pyramid scheme, even some older people are being dragged into being honorary members of the entitlement generation.
Exactly. I always thought SlashDot was kind of Libertarian leaning, maybe it used to be but it's all about Free Shit now. And they like to couch it in terms that make them so reasonable. Like comparing a country with the US's demographics to countries with populations smaller than California. "See, Australia has single payer - it works!". Or making boogey men out of the insurance industry, which actually has a tiny profit margin.
Yeah, it's crazy when people blame something responsible for such a small part of the problem, right? Like rabble rousers who blather on about the big insurance companies that pull in like a 3-4% profit margin. Oh My God! 3-4% - they're milking the system and contributing greatly to the cost of health care, amiright?!!!
Good luck finding a government system that works with overhead in that range.
Sorry, I tune out anytime someone mentions the lie about infant mortality (the US uses a much more critical measure, other countries discard a lot of cases the US considers an infant mortality). I also tune out when people pretend life expectancy isn't highly tied to culture and factors other than health care.
Your premise is simply flawed. The US has the best health care in the world, for those of us who have good insurance. So ultimately this is just another case of "to each according to his needs" - a growing majority of have-nots forcing the haves to reduce the quality of their health care so that the have-nots can get their "fair share".
Oh God, more laughable scapegoating of the insurance companies. Have you looked at their profit margins? They aren't raking in money hand over fist like the rabble rousers would have us believe.
Agreed. Based on the dearth of information available right now, my pat answer is "old people having kids". I'm sure my answer will change as more research is done, or at least become more nuanced.
That doesn't explain autism itself, but it would/could explain why the rates are going up.
God, why do people keep embarrassing themselves and posting this idiocy?
Someone sued vaccine makers asserting they were damaged because the big, bad Thimerosol caused autism. The court was then asked to weigh all the available scientific evidence and decide. The found there was insufficient evidence and hence ruled that it had not been proved that the vaccines caused the autism.
So they made a legal finding based on available science. They did not do science.
Mystery solved.
Well, it doesn't explain autism exactly but it explains why rates are going up. People having kids at an older age.
It's old people having kids. Pretty simple really. There are more people cheating nature and having kids past 30 than ever before. Autism rates go up with older parents, especially the father.
That word... strawman. It doesn't mean what you think it means.
I have had Apple fans literally in front of my face explaining why Multitasking was a bad idea in a phone. You can find similar comments all over the web...and this posting thread.
The point was simply to mock Apple fanbois. I find them silly.
Like bills to outlaw the word "bitch" or define Pi as 3, there's no reason to get all worked up about it as it has 0 chance of ever passing.
Anytime you mention multitasking to an Apple fanboi they come up with 20 reasons why it's a bad idea and wasn't implemented. I'm sure they're just irate about this new feature and will be pissed off to no end that Apple is adding it, right?
This is an incredibly obvious patent and not at all novel. Is the bar for non-obviousness now simply that nobody else has patented it yet? Bit of a..."circular" (to put it nicely) definition, no?
That's a truly stupid comment. Money is real, it represents the work one person is willing to do for another.
I'll tell you what. How about you quit your job and go work in hospice care for free. After all, money's not real and those people need you.
"Money's not real". Seriously, how fucking facile can one be?
We'll see how that universal health care works out for you in the long term, dude. When the life expectancy has gone up to about 95, and your birth rate is even further in the shitter you tell me how that's working out for you, ok? You think the US is imploding economically, wait until you see what happens to the EU with it's simply unsustainable social policies. It's not going to be pretty.
Wow, how positively dramatic of you. If you were at a podium would you pound on it and have tears (for effect, of course) streaming down your face?
The fact that you are typing on SlashDot on a computer right now shows you are putting a price on life, you fucking hypocrite. You could be working your fingers to the bone donating money to feed starving children, or to pay for research into a cure for Malaria or some other disease.
I love the holier than thou brigade. They're always so completely full of shit.
The US has the best health care available, if not the best "system". I'm tired of seeing the same old lies about e.g. infant mortality where the US measures them differently than other countries. We have the best medicine. I have access to that medicine, as do a majority of Americans.
Where the US falls short is that not all Americans have access to that system, and it can place a financial burden on some people.
Huh? Certainly if the patient can pay the bills this is the case. What if someone else (insurance company, tax payers) are footing the bill?
Exactly. Similar to how the iPod was "me too" in response to the already existing DAP market, or how the iPad is a "me too" to tablet PC's that have been around for a decade.
And we don't have thousands of home machines lassoed into a botnet (and by definition compromised).
For the vast, vast majority of users their data will be safer in "the cloud" than it will be on their hard disk on their laptop or desktop.
The benefit is obviously that you get twice the screen real-estate when it's "open" and it's more portable when it's "closed". Not exactly rocket surgery, dude.
Oooh, you're smart! Just like that guy back in 95 who wrote an article mocking e-commerce. I mean who wants their credit cards out on "teh interwebs", amiright?!
You are a retard.
Which is more credible:
a) Microsoft pays very intelligent, very educated people ridiculous sums of money to make sound business plans and they realize cloud computing is going to be a major factor in the coming years.
b) Some dipshit on SlashDot is smarter than all these people and "knows" that cloud computing is just a "near-meaningless buzzword".
Jesus Christ. I can just see that ridiculous sneer on your fact over that unkempt, patchy bear that covers half your fat neck.
Another great thing about Android is developers can get a free phone.