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  1. Re:nonsense on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The country that got to be rich and powerful by innovation and thought

    More like by having a large land mass and being mostly spared from WW1 and WW2.

  2. Re:nonsense on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    Well, there are some doctors who are "appointment only" but there are usually enough to chose from (although it might be more difficult in very small towns and villages). Many public health insurance companies have a service where they themselves can search for a doctor and make an appointment on request. Doctors usually also give private insured patients a higher priority (they pay better) . Some doctors only take private insured patients (either because they pay better - this is mostly relevant for specialists, less so for GPs - or because they have lost their public health service accreditation). Urgent care is normally meant for serious problems or for patients that arrive outside the usual working hours. The public health service accreditation also means that the doctor is not allowed to turn a patient down if he can somehow find time for the patient.

    All in all it is not a perfect system, it has its fair share of problems, but it usually works.

  3. Re:nonsense on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    You either call several doctors searching for one who has time for an appointment at the same day or you go to the doctor's office without an appointment and accept some waiting time (one or two hours for a GP, longer for a specialist).

  4. Re: Good on Uber Forced Out of Kansas · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That didn't work in EU so they became an actual bank in Luxembourg.

  5. Re:Just downgraded on Google Can't Ignore the Android Update Problem Any Longer · · Score: 1

    Same here with Galaxy S5. Lollipop is stupid on an AMOLED screen - the UI is way too bright, it eats the battery like there is no tomorrow. But to be honest, if I had a choice, I'd use Gingerbread (CM7) - that was the last Android version I actually enjoyed to use. It had a good looking, comfortable consistent UI, not the flat look UX crap where you need to go through several menus to find what you want.

  6. Re: The 30 and 40-somethings wrote the code... on Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' · · Score: 1

    Not so high end at all, here in Germany, many nerds had ISDN by that time, it was in fact cheaper than having two analogue lines and way faster than a 28800 modem.

  7. Re:Some love it so much they retell it on Why Scientists Love 'Lord of the Rings' · · Score: 1

    The book was good, but the spy story was way too long.

  8. Re:welcome to Europe my dear Americans... on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    Stop speaking for European. You Greeks aren't . Not by legacy, not by work ethics, not even really by geography (if Greece is in Europe, then so is Turkey). And I really really hope your lazy cheating country will be thrown out of EU.

  9. Re:Shakespeare on Why Scientists Love 'Lord of the Rings' · · Score: 2

    Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends!

  10. Re:tell it to family of Sofia Liu insurance gaps c on Uber Office Raided By Police In China, Accused of Running 'Illegal' Car Business · · Score: 1

    In a civilised country they are required to. German driver insurance policy has to be, by law, at least EUR 7.5 million for personal damage - per person, capped to 100 millions per case.

  11. Re:Who will win? on Uber Office Raided By Police In China, Accused of Running 'Illegal' Car Business · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Right, so if I go fly a plane with no training or testing it's ok, because I'll only do it once?

    And this is why private pilot and commercial pilot licenses are very different.

    The emissions and brakes, sure, but guess what? Those are things the RIDERS will notice, and they will get bad rating for it and get deactivated before too long.

    Even airlines skip on maintenance. This has already killed people. These airlines still exist, making your point unconvincing at best.

    Further, lots of Uber drivers don't actually drive that much. Certainly not more than, say, someone who commutes in a major city, or who goes on road trips. If you are going to harp on this further, I would suggest a better system would be to have inspections based on miles driven, rather that periods of time elapsed.

    And now you are pulling numbers out of your arse. There is a reason why insurance companies insist on commercial insurances for professional drivers.

    And in any event, you are ignoring the elephant in the room, the enormously expensive medallions/good-old boy "regulations" that price everyone out of the market and create artificial scarcity.

    Uber has problems with the law even in cities/countries that go without a medallion (i.e. anybody who has a commercial driver license and commercial insurance can have their own taxi).

  12. Re:Draw The Pedophile on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    Concentration camps were invented by the Brits during the Boer wars (which was colonial warfare at its finest). First world war had colonial rivalry as one of the causes, second world war had also several colonial wars (North African campaign, Pacific war). Even Vietnam war started as a colonial war.

  13. Re:Herbivores dying out? Not cows I hope! on Empty Landscape Looms, If Large Herbivores Continue to Die Out · · Score: 1

    Why are Americans so obsessed with beef?

  14. Re:Wilders didn't campaign to ban de Quran as such on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 2

    Mein Kampf is not banned in Germany, it is just all rights belong to the federal state of Bavaria, and they have decided not to publish the book. That copyright will expire late this year, so things should get interesting.

  15. Re:welcome to Europe my dear Americans... on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Sorry, but no. The ancient Greeks are not related to the current ones (who are ethnically mostly Turkish) in any way. Besides, your Christian religion was a hindrance for Europe for many centuries, not a blessing. It directly contributed to the downfall of the Roman empire, hundreds of wars and lost knowledge.

    This is so funny about you nationalists, no matter from where. You are convinced that you are a blood legacy of some master race, but the reality is usually very different.

  16. Re:"xenophobic fascist" on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 2

    Germanic people are a tiny minority in Latvia - the tiny rest of the former upper class. Baltic people are descendent of the lowest class (farmers, fishers) and are most closely related to Slavs. Sad, but true.

  17. Re:Draw The Pedophile on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    Concentration camps weren't anachronistic activities, they actually fit very well in their time (colonial warfare).

  18. Re:Bernie Sanders (any real shot at winning?) on Bernie Sanders, Presidential Candidate and H-1B Skeptic · · Score: 2

    No, that is not it. If he'd call himself European style, he'd call himself a social democrat, not democratic socialist. It is not the same.

  19. Re:Oh come on. on Long Uptime Makes Boeing 787 Lose Electrical Power · · Score: 4, Funny

    And this is why C should never be used for mission critical software.

  20. Re:queue the.. on Long Uptime Makes Boeing 787 Lose Electrical Power · · Score: 5, Informative

    Only theoretical, though. Windows 9x would crash long before reaching this uptime.

  21. Re:so sorry...but.. on Can Riots Be Predicted By Social Media? · · Score: 1

    Say hello to survival bias.

  22. Re:A Fish rots from the head down on The United States Just Might Be Iran's Favorite New Nuclear Supplier · · Score: 1

    No, I said what I meant. Eastern Ukraine. Not the war zone, because it is just a part of Eastern Ukraine. If I wanted to say "war zone", I would have said so. My basic communication skills are good enough and you are the first person who has interpreted me like this. So it is your reading comprehension that is malfunctioning. Please don't project your own problems on me.

    If you said "I went to Fukushima" then it would mean that you went to the Fukushima perfecture, or maybe to the city of Fukushima, which is still outside the exclusion zone. So the problem we have here exists only in your head. And if I say to you that a visit to Pripyat and Chernobyl is next on the list, presumably in mid-October when I have more time, then this is what it is.

    Your problem is that you absolutely cannot admit that you were wrong. Instead you weasel around, move the goalposts, accuse others of being liers and and generally hurl more insults. Like I said, go visit a therapist. You might not recognise it, but you really need professional help.

  23. Re:Quick question on The Next Generation of Medical Tools May Be Home-brewed · · Score: 1

    Ah, I see. Thank you for the explanation.
    I agree with you, for safety critical parts it is definitely important. Shoddy construction has often enough led to bad accidents.

  24. Re:A Fish rots from the head down on The United States Just Might Be Iran's Favorite New Nuclear Supplier · · Score: 1

    *double facepalm*
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

    The territory is heavily urbanized and commonly associated with the Donbas. The three largest metropolitan cities form an industrial triangle within the region. Among the major cities are:

            Kharkiv
            Dnipropetrovsk
            Donetsk
            Zaporizhia
            Luhansk
            Mariupol
            Kryvyi Rih
            Makiivka

    Central Ukraine starts at about Poltava so it seems that the only ignoramus here are yourself.
    I seriously doubt that you have managed anything, besides of hurling baseless insults at other people. From how you communicate here, you'd be 16 at most writing out your parents' basement, having that teenage rebellious phase right now. Seriously, grow up. Get some universal education. Learn a few languages. Go and see more of the world. Then we can have a discussion on eye level. And for fuck's sake, stop being hysterical if you want people to actually take you seriously. If you can't do it by yourself, go see a therapist.

  25. Re:A Fish rots from the head down on The United States Just Might Be Iran's Favorite New Nuclear Supplier · · Score: 1

    *facepalm*
    There are other cities in Eastern Ukraine than Donetsk and Lugansk. Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk for example. There is no war there. Life there goes on as usual, the only exception is that there are soldiers now at the central railway stations, which was not the case three years ago. Also some right sector recruitment boots - unheard of previously. And yes, these cities were more pleasant than Kiev. Cleaner, better looked after, even though both are actually heavy on industry - for example Kharkiv is defined by its tank and aerospace factories (wanted to visit Khartron, but, alas, no entry for foreigners). Also people were generally more relaxed. Kiev had more historical sites, but otherwise the city is fugly and dirty. The all-encompassing poverty is also much more pronounced there.