... this is getting any attention is that the headline contains the words "book" and "burn" together, even though it has nothing to do with suppression or censorship.
Medicare describes administrative costs as a ratio of processing costs divided by claims. In 2003, says the study, the average medical cost for a Medicare beneficiary per year was $6,600. The average medical cost for someone with employer-sponsored health insurance was $2,700. "Because of the higher cost per beneficiary," writes Matthews, Medicare's method of calculation makes administrative costs, albeit unintentionally, appear to be lower than they really are."
Also, I've heard that part of the reason that (for example) drug costs are higher in the U.S. is that in other countries there are price caps, so that the U.S. is effectively subsidizing foreign health care systems. If the U.S. also enforced price caps, the drug companies may decide to abandon some drug research because they don't think they will recover the research cost.
As I see it, free market competition almost always works best for the most people. The best way to "fix" health care in this country might be to introduce some competition.
Okay, I guess being a silly poem cop is worse than being a spelling cop, but I remembered a different version of that poem. A little googling found this:
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
Facts objectively show that government sponsored health care systems (as they have in Canada, the UK, and most of Europe) are more efficient than our private/public amalgamation here in the US.
Okay, we're off topic here, but what are these facts and how do you define efficiency? If by efficient you mean equitable, then by definition a system that guarantees everyone the same healthcare would be more equitable. That does not prove it will be cheaper for the same quality of care.
I only had one really annoying experience with steam (I may be in for another one when I replace my computer and try to reinstall things!). I have a little home theater setup and I wanted to try the "Ravenholm" level in a dark room with a big screen. I only had a little free time to move the computer and get everything set up (the wife and kids were out and I didn't want to traumatize them with big screen surround sound zombies screaming and burning and getting blown up and decapitated), only to realize that I couldn't play without connecting to steam. Well, I didn't have an internet hookup in the theater area, so after fruitlessly trying to get around it (There just had to be a way to play offline, right!), I gave up. Now apparently, I could have set it up to play offline while I was online (yeah, that makes sense), and then gone offline and played. Anyway, my opinion is if they lose the requirement to connect each time you play, source would be great. I don't even care if it tries to connect every time, as long as it still lets me play if it fails to connect. I don't get to plan all my network outages!
The coolest thing about HalfLife and HalfLife2 was the freedom that you were given.
I have not played EP1 (I will as soon as I can afford to replace my broken gaming computer!), but I would say HL2 gave you an amazing illusion of freedom, while still being a pretty linear story. Even within a level, there was pretty much one way of going through the level, and they did a very good job of steering you that way, while leaving you thinking you could have gone anywhere. I admit I haven't played a lot of different games (I've played the heck out of the ones I have, but I don't have very many), so maybe in HL1 and 2 you had a lot of freedom compared to other FPS games, but I think it's more about how well they designed it to feel open-ended. Maybe EP1 just didn't pull this off as well. I mean, even in HL2, was I the only one who wandered around the basement of the citadel for a looong time before realizing I was actually supposed to get caught in that cable-car trap thingy?
The problem is the evidence for warming does seem to be selective. Everything "hotter" supposedly proves global warming (or anything colder, or anything unusual in any way), but any example to the contrary "doesn't disprove anything". Okay, if any one counter-example doesn't disprove it, then any one example doesn't prove it, either. It's just as foolish to ignore all of either type of example just because any single example doesn't carry much weight.
+1 insightful (my mod points expired yesterday, darn it!)
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Actually, you don't even need one stupid person falling for the spam-vertisements. All you need is stupid marketing managers who will pay for the spam campaign -- whether or not it is working.
I also questioned the author's non-geek status. Especially when she closed the article with the words, "... turning my Microsoft Windows partition into blank oxide.". However, even if she is only pretending to be a newbie, I think it was a useful exercise and an interesting write-up.
It might have more to do with cost/safely than the "time of day". Buried power lines require better insulation and cost more for installation and service I would think, and though it might sound safer because they're out of sight, I've heard of people getting injured walking over a buried cable that was damaged.
Personally, I'm just happy they don't run the gas and sewer lines overhead.
Halo is not a revolutionary game by any stretch of the imagination.
Not the graphics, or story, or control scheme, but as I understand it the physics engine was pretty advanced. I was following Halo 1 development and one of their mottos was "better gaming through physics". I was very disappointed when Bungie was bought by MS. I didn't play Halo until it came out for the PC and by then it was definitely nothing new. I just can't bring myself to play a FPS with a gamepad. I mean, that's just WRONG!
Your strategy only works if all the ISPs agree to it, and that ain't gonna happen.
I have to disagree. Why would it work in GB and not in the US? I may not be the "typical" user, but I would not object to having my computer blocked if the ISP detected that it had become bot-infected. On the contrary, I would even be glad they had detected it and recommend that ISP to others for that very reason!
Hmmm. I'll be right back. I have to go get a business loan...
Would global warming increase the availability of solar energy? My first thought is no, because global warming is just retaining more heat in the atmosphere, and not increasing the amount of energy reaching the earth's surface. Does anyone have a different take on that?
Let's see, with Florida, much of California, Michigan, and many East Coast states, including much or all of New York City completely under water...
The author is not ignoring those predictions, one of his main points is that they may be inaccurate. FTA:
Also, more detailed simulations have allowed climate researchers to paint a considerably less dire picture than in the past -- gone is the talk of giant storms, the melting of the Antarctic ice shield and flooding of major cities.
So he's not just saying, "Hey! I like warm weather!"
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... this is getting any attention is that the headline contains the words "book" and "burn" together, even though it has nothing to do with suppression or censorship.
mod parent -1 "whiney".
just post your comment and take your negative mod points like a man!
... a stockpile of Iraqi WMDs.
This is interesting (from this article)...
Medicare describes administrative costs as a ratio of processing costs divided by claims. In 2003, says the study, the average medical cost for a Medicare beneficiary per year was $6,600. The average medical cost for someone with employer-sponsored health insurance was $2,700. "Because of the higher cost per beneficiary," writes Matthews, Medicare's method of calculation makes administrative costs, albeit unintentionally, appear to be lower than they really are."
Also, I've heard that part of the reason that (for example) drug costs are higher in the U.S. is that in other countries there are price caps, so that the U.S. is effectively subsidizing foreign health care systems. If the U.S. also enforced price caps, the drug companies may decide to abandon some drug research because they don't think they will recover the research cost.
As I see it, free market competition almost always works best for the most people. The best way to "fix" health care in this country might be to introduce some competition.
"Bureaucrats pander to protect funding!", says disgruntled former employee. Details at 10.
Okay, I guess being a silly poem cop is worse than being a spelling cop, but I remembered a different version of that poem. A little googling found this:
Eye halve a spelling chequerIt came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
I only had one really annoying experience with steam (I may be in for another one when I replace my computer and try to reinstall things!). I have a little home theater setup and I wanted to try the "Ravenholm" level in a dark room with a big screen. I only had a little free time to move the computer and get everything set up (the wife and kids were out and I didn't want to traumatize them with big screen surround sound zombies screaming and burning and getting blown up and decapitated), only to realize that I couldn't play without connecting to steam. Well, I didn't have an internet hookup in the theater area, so after fruitlessly trying to get around it (There just had to be a way to play offline, right!), I gave up. Now apparently, I could have set it up to play offline while I was online (yeah, that makes sense), and then gone offline and played. Anyway, my opinion is if they lose the requirement to connect each time you play, source would be great. I don't even care if it tries to connect every time, as long as it still lets me play if it fails to connect. I don't get to plan all my network outages!
I'm sorry, what did you say? I wasn't paying attention :-)
And then those that think your views are stupid will go to their websites and get their proof, ...
Ironically, "the 'hockey stick' graph is wrong" is listed in the article as one of the myths.
(dons flame-proof suit and covers up)
Actually, you don't even need one stupid person falling for the spam-vertisements. All you need is stupid marketing managers who will pay for the spam campaign -- whether or not it is working.
I also questioned the author's non-geek status. Especially when she closed the article with the words, " ... turning my Microsoft Windows partition into blank oxide.". However, even if she is only pretending to be a newbie, I think it was a useful exercise and an interesting write-up.
Personally, I'm just happy they don't run the gas and sewer lines overhead.
... live with it. The more LEDs, the more high tech everything looks. You also need the new machine that goes "Bing!"
Not the graphics, or story, or control scheme, but as I understand it the physics engine was pretty advanced. I was following Halo 1 development and one of their mottos was "better gaming through physics". I was very disappointed when Bungie was bought by MS. I didn't play Halo until it came out for the PC and by then it was definitely nothing new. I just can't bring myself to play a FPS with a gamepad. I mean, that's just WRONG!
Hmmm. I'll be right back. I have to go get a business loan ...
Would global warming increase the availability of solar energy? My first thought is no, because global warming is just retaining more heat in the atmosphere, and not increasing the amount of energy reaching the earth's surface. Does anyone have a different take on that?