Comment Re:so why not set up shop elsewhere? (Score 1) 293
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/medical-liability-costs-us/
Malpractice isn't why the US pays so much for health care. Please correct your knowledge base.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/medical-liability-costs-us/
Malpractice isn't why the US pays so much for health care. Please correct your knowledge base.
Yes, I think you need to go on. Find a health care system that's in the private sector and is more cost effective than the public sector. That was the topic at hand.
If you need an American example, public (US Armed Forces) soldiers are more cost-effective than private security contractors.
Replacement batteries aren't usually that expensive. Definitely cheaper than a new laptop.
No one in the history of man has released open source without a license. That doesn't even make sense.
You're so upset to be binding people to conditions of a license, but have no problem binding them to the far more restrictive copyright law. Does this make sense to you?
I think you probably should stop using the term open source until you understand what it means.
If they want to redistribute your created work, then they are extremely vulnerable to your whims.
> If they want to use the whole thing, then fine.
Without a license to redistribute your work, it's copyright infringement.
There's no gift here, because publishing it isn't releasing any of your rights, except the right of first sale. You didn't give them a damned thing except legal liability. It sounds like you either have no understanding of copyright law or you intentionally have your head up your ass.
I've often heard this meme about soldiers refusing to fire on their own countrymen. Is there any example of a professional military refusing such orders?
Is 137 your IQ also?
You were mislead. Russian is a European language and can be learned with effort. The different alphabet isn't a hindrance since it works in the same way. People like to exaggerate how difficult their own languages are to learn, but usually without much comparison.
Asian languages are measurably harder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difficulty_of_learning_languages#Native_English_speakers
Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regressive_tax
Learning is better than going to school.
tl;dr;hate learning;
Regressive taxation has nothing to do with the effect it has on humans. It is entirely about percentages and there is no room judging what is fair or unfair. Regressive is not a value judgement.
IP is granted a monopoly. It's not part of a free market.
Flat is flat. Regressive is regressive. The meaning of regressive taxation is that the percentage of income paid as taxes goes down as income raises.
Consumption based taxes are usually regressive. I would be curious to know if the US has a regressive or progressive tax policy after summing all taxes and involuntary contributions. I bet it is regressive, primarily due to capital gains and the use of tax shelters.
65 degrees? Are you serious?
50-55F (10-13 degrees centigrade) seems to be the right number. reference: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/747431.html
The claim was that there is no state called America. There is a state called America. There are also continents called America, and my neighbor has a pet dog called America. Neither of which invalidate the existence of a state that is called America.
Here's another example that might make sense. vipw isn't written on my passport, but I am called vipw.
Wow. What amazing ignorance. The United States of America is called America. See the post you are replying to if you need an example of it in a sentence. If you need to see a dictionary to believe something is true: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/america
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