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Comment ARM suffers from the same problem every risc has (Score 1) 215

Every RISC cpu is great for a particular level of complexity. And ARM is great for in order, no speculation, no branch prediction, ultra power sipping designs. Through smart use of their instruction set they have made themselves great for ultra low power, low IPC, low frequency platforms. ARM for a PC misses the point of why x86 has been successful, its easy to tack crap on the side without resolving to use of "co-processors", and the less commonly thought about advantage of x86 the fact that x86 instruction code is basically a hardware interpreted byte code at this point. No modern x86 actually runs x86 is breaks it down or decodes it into a RISC setup that is suited to the particular level of complexity of the current generation/transister count/die shrunkenness/frequency. If anyone truly cared to replace x86 they would design a fixed width CISC instruction set chip where the instructions are purposely designed to be a little higher level then risc and layed out in a way thats easy to decode into whatever the chip is actually doing the work in, so that when the next generation of chips come out you don't have to throw the whole thing out and start over like RISC has continually done over the ages.

Comment Re:That's it? (Score 1) 325

"The reason this isn't happening is your medical associations artificially limit supply of doctors to drive rates up for the elite specialists." Complete BULLSHIT. What limits the supply of qualified doctors is the difficultly of the education and the cost of that education. It takes 8+ years of college, 2 years of residency, $250,000 to $400,000 dollars of student debt. All for a career that forces you into a specialist field if they plan to make any money what so ever as private insurance plays endless insufferable games, 20% of their customers never pay, and the consistent low profit side of the business(medicaid/medicare) that represents 70% of their business could easily be turned unprofitable by right wing loony's cutting the programs at any time.

Comment Re:Angry Voters (Score 1) 255

1% of households more likely, so triple to quadruple that 1% to the actual number of people effected by the law, Also note that people most effected by the law are likely of voting age, along with plenty of non-directly effected people who can see the effects of this law by observation of those that are effected. I would bet after you weight some of these factors in that you have closer to that 10% you speak of, and if you count it based on voting eligible it is likely higher.

Comment Re:What other products (Score 2) 1019

However in the enumerated powers congress is given to ability to raise taxes for the purposes of general welfare,... And the use of this power for the purpose of health care is supported as several founding fathers voted for and passed the "Act for the Relief of Sick Disabled Seamen July 1798", John Adams signed this into law as the then current president.

from Article 1 section 8,

"The Congress shall have power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;"

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