Just for the heck of it, how does this work when you wake up with a sore throat? Do you get an visit in a few days when the worst is past?

Same problem in the U.S.

In the U.S., the single payer would not be great. It would be just as wasteful and inadequate as all the other programs that single payer runs now.

And the care providers will get the same treatment - arbitrary fee reductions, slow payment, random denials, paperwork.

Let's see how this works. It COULD work well, if competence was a desirable trait for our single payer, but it hasn't been for a while now, and I see no signs of that changing.

"taxpayer control"?

You don't live here, do you?

He doesn't, of course. But the people who gather together and try to talk to him prefer to do it indoors, with the lights on, heat or A/C as appropriate, and sometimes they even pay people to lead these sessions, so they don't have to work at McDonald's to maintain their lives and be somewhat distracted. All that takes money.
It's really very simple. Just think it through.

BTW, m./..org really does suck, suck hard, and without excuse.

He doesn't, of course. But the people who gather together and try to talk to him prefer to do it indoors, with the lights on, heat or A/C as appropriate, and sometimes they even pay people to lead these sessions, so they don't have to work at McDonald's to maintain their lives and be somewhat distracted. All that takes money.

It's really very simple. Just think it through.

Trumpet was not a Microsoft product.

Well, I got my introduction to electronics in the service. The RCA CDP1802 was the CPU in the equipment I learned to service. Yeah, it was actually used in something that sold for money. I felt kinda disappointed in what was available to civilians for a bit after separation.

I was fortunate to have gotten a lot of digital electronics back then. Playing with 74xx logic kept me off the streets for a few years.

Who remembers figuring out Procomm Plus for the first time? Usenet? Trumpet Winsock?

I'm 61, my first useful PC was an XT clone. I transitioned from office machines to PC service, then networking, helped run a dialup ISP, spent a decade connecting my clients to that Internet thing.

My clients were using email, intranet and extended web sites to share work, and working remotely before there was Google or Facebook.

I've been digital since there was digital. I was even playing MMOG before there was Internet.

I should go to college just to annoy the kids. I already work with teams where the 25- year-olds are in charge, and we do fine. After our team proves them somewhat misled, they listen to us.

Sounds like a video game.

That's not a knock. Publish a buggy game and watch players complain. Then watch your stock plummet. Then watch the sheriff padlock the doors. And that's just a game.

Software is important.

Lines of code = complexity?

Lemme guess. You're a programmer.

Ignat.

And what would have been the upgrade from Sametime in 1998? Postcards? Voice mail?

Do quit. Other more accommodating individuals will take your place.

Here, on /. , we find people who think you can leave your Windows machine running 24x7 with not a care in the world. As if it would never abend, never update and reboot, nor would any badly behaved app or driver decide to crash and take the kernel with it.

These same people extol the virtues of any Linux distro able to avoid these unpleasant circumstances with aplomb.

So which is it? Is Windows a time bomb waiting to take your data day or night, or is it stable enough to to leave unattended, or does it really matter?

I thought so.

Nor is it a new story, or a new anything.

And this current system is working oh-so- well?

Seriously, you actually believe your own drivel?