I love the false dilemma there. It's not like competition will also bring down the price of the highest bidder too.
It's like you have never had any real world experience before. Just because you hire some Mexicans off the nearest hardware store parking lot doesn't mean that PROFESSIONAL SERVICES work the same way, you ignorant boob.
But those prices have ALREADY been driven down by OTHER PEOPLES negotiations.
From the way you talk, you would think that someone who really needed a job would have to negotiate with their potential employer whether they would be allowed to use the restroom or take a lunch break. Just because you really need the job doesn't mean that things that have become normal go flying out the window.
This is true. Why do you have to have someone who went to school for 28 years to set a broken bone, or do some stitches, or write a prescription for something available for use on animals in a feed store?
Because the old doctors running the AMA don't like competition. This is also the same reason why degree requirements for doctors keep going up, while those who already have their licenses don't have to go back and take more classes.
High quality, low cost goods and services are a hallmark of a free market. Check the success rates before you write it off as "budget". You trust your life to a $0.35 gas valve too. And loads of other things that are very cheap and high quality because they have to be or they lose market share.
In the first two cases, they give a certain amount of money to the "consumer". In the case of medical care, they do "something" that no-one can really see, and prices explode everywhere.
But you don't have to, because the prices have already been driven down by earlier negotiations.
You don't repeat these negotiations every time. Prices are on display, and people don't just gouge their customers for no reason. It would make them look bad. When charging them after the fact, though, they can do whatever they want. Same with single payer. Just throw in some lobbyists and word will come down from on high to let them charge what they want.
Sorry, Pinkie, but the free market is the ONLY thing that works. What doesn't work is calling fascism free market.
Yeah, especially since the rebound in Arctic ice that started even before the end of summer has already been so extreme that it destroys the "ice free Arctic" "thesis".
15 years of no warming despite CO2 emissions continuing, greatly increased Arctic Ice coverage, increasing Antarctic ice thickness. increasing Antarctic sea ice coverage, and no observed retreat in Himalayan glaciers.
Sounds kind of collapsey to me. But what do I know? I'm just the guy who has been making physical chemistry arguments that show that CO2 has no net effect on the heat capacity of the atmosphere for the last few years, arguing instead that what warming we saw was from increased water vapor emissions, which maintain a tight equilibria with their rate of emissions (thus the lost decade global growth lead to a lost decade of warming), and bringing AGW idiots to take because they are ignoring the real threat from CO2--ocean acidification and the collapse of already overstressed fisheries.
But hey, let's all ignore physics and pretend like Al Gore is is a priest of the AGW god, who we must appease by throwing money at him.
If your units are moles, then it is 1:1. If you are using weight, then yes, the CO2 weighs much more than the carbon burned, as O2 is quite heavy, and you get two of them added on. The ratio would be 1:3.7 in that case.
China is not sane. That is not to say that Thorium isn't the future, and needs to be brought into the present as quickly as possible, but China as a nation is as certifiable as Japan was 30 years ago.
I know right? Why use our brains when we "think" of the children? No need to have sentences that mesh with the crime. After all, why should there be any difference between the sentences for downloading a couple of images into your cache and kidnapping, violently raping, torturing, and then murdering a hundred children? I mean, that's practically the same thing right?
Today, 0.00001% of computers are used for such applications. Not much different than the 0.00000% of computers that were used as such twenty years ago, especially when we are talking about the majority of computing applications ie home computing.
I am typing this on a PPC mac that I am going to have to abandon soon, even though it does everything I need it to, because no-one supports it any more, and things are breaking due to updates.
What? Are you honestly trying to say that inflation CAUSES technological advancement? Not only that but you are saying it increases the standard of living? Even as wages fail to keep pace? Are you NUTS!? Oh, I get it, you work for the Fed.
I see you cannot into math. You see, there is this thing called a denominator. When the denominator gets larger, the answer gets smaller. Arbitraging the difference between systems with different denominators is what I am talking about here. If you can't understand that, then you probably have a PhD in economics from Princeton, and a masters in witch medicine from Monkey Money University (I hear it's a prestigious school).
I bet you are a firm believer in homeopathic medicine too. It is the same as the "economics" you espouse.
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I love the false dilemma there. It's not like competition will also bring down the price of the highest bidder too.
It's like you have never had any real world experience before. Just because you hire some Mexicans off the nearest hardware store parking lot doesn't mean that PROFESSIONAL SERVICES work the same way, you ignorant boob.
But those prices have ALREADY been driven down by OTHER PEOPLES negotiations.
From the way you talk, you would think that someone who really needed a job would have to negotiate with their potential employer whether they would be allowed to use the restroom or take a lunch break. Just because you really need the job doesn't mean that things that have become normal go flying out the window.
This is true. Why do you have to have someone who went to school for 28 years to set a broken bone, or do some stitches, or write a prescription for something available for use on animals in a feed store?
Because the old doctors running the AMA don't like competition. This is also the same reason why degree requirements for doctors keep going up, while those who already have their licenses don't have to go back and take more classes.
High quality, low cost goods and services are a hallmark of a free market. Check the success rates before you write it off as "budget". You trust your life to a $0.35 gas valve too. And loads of other things that are very cheap and high quality because they have to be or they lose market share.
Do you have to worry when your currency is collapsing because of out of control costs? Or when the death panel decides that you aren't worth treating?
In the first two cases, they give a certain amount of money to the "consumer". In the case of medical care, they do "something" that no-one can really see, and prices explode everywhere.
But you don't have to, because the prices have already been driven down by earlier negotiations.
You don't repeat these negotiations every time. Prices are on display, and people don't just gouge their customers for no reason. It would make them look bad. When charging them after the fact, though, they can do whatever they want. Same with single payer. Just throw in some lobbyists and word will come down from on high to let them charge what they want.
Sorry, Pinkie, but the free market is the ONLY thing that works. What doesn't work is calling fascism free market.
lol, that's the first time I heard that one. How about a source there, Chicken Little?
Yeah, especially since the rebound in Arctic ice that started even before the end of summer has already been so extreme that it destroys the "ice free Arctic" "thesis".
15 years of no warming despite CO2 emissions continuing, greatly increased Arctic Ice coverage, increasing Antarctic ice thickness. increasing Antarctic sea ice coverage, and no observed retreat in Himalayan glaciers.
Sounds kind of collapsey to me. But what do I know? I'm just the guy who has been making physical chemistry arguments that show that CO2 has no net effect on the heat capacity of the atmosphere for the last few years, arguing instead that what warming we saw was from increased water vapor emissions, which maintain a tight equilibria with their rate of emissions (thus the lost decade global growth lead to a lost decade of warming), and bringing AGW idiots to take because they are ignoring the real threat from CO2--ocean acidification and the collapse of already overstressed fisheries.
But hey, let's all ignore physics and pretend like Al Gore is is a priest of the AGW god, who we must appease by throwing money at him.
I think you just forgot to read between the lines.
Of course, because in National Socialist America, EVERYONE is a terrorist and a criminal.
It's impossible to rule a nation of innocents.
If your units are moles, then it is 1:1. If you are using weight, then yes, the CO2 weighs much more than the carbon burned, as O2 is quite heavy, and you get two of them added on. The ratio would be 1:3.7 in that case.
China is not sane. That is not to say that Thorium isn't the future, and needs to be brought into the present as quickly as possible, but China as a nation is as certifiable as Japan was 30 years ago.
I know right? Why use our brains when we "think" of the children? No need to have sentences that mesh with the crime. After all, why should there be any difference between the sentences for downloading a couple of images into your cache and kidnapping, violently raping, torturing, and then murdering a hundred children? I mean, that's practically the same thing right?
I'll take "government regulation slows, then freezes progress" for $200,000,000,000,000, Alex.
Not in science, but in people.
Despite what you read on the internet, people are really pretty awesome.
Unless we make a pocket universe with different physics to put our computers in.
It's hard coded into their core utility function.
At least, you'd better hope so, atom-bag.
"Stop thinking about things I don't like!"
I think someone dumped them in the arctic. Also Antarctica. Of course, the glaciers in the Himalayas are fine.
Today, 0.00001% of computers are used for such applications. Not much different than the 0.00000% of computers that were used as such twenty years ago, especially when we are talking about the majority of computing applications ie home computing.
I am typing this on a PPC mac that I am going to have to abandon soon, even though it does everything I need it to, because no-one supports it any more, and things are breaking due to updates.
Ah, the backwards thinking of the cargo cult of modern economics. It would be quaint if it wasn't so genocidal.
What? Are you honestly trying to say that inflation CAUSES technological advancement? Not only that but you are saying it increases the standard of living? Even as wages fail to keep pace? Are you NUTS!? Oh, I get it, you work for the Fed.
I see you cannot into math. You see, there is this thing called a denominator. When the denominator gets larger, the answer gets smaller. Arbitraging the difference between systems with different denominators is what I am talking about here. If you can't understand that, then you probably have a PhD in economics from Princeton, and a masters in witch medicine from Monkey Money University (I hear it's a prestigious school).
I bet you are a firm believer in homeopathic medicine too. It is the same as the "economics" you espouse.