Not really. It switches to HTTPS for me right now.

No caps. For real. No BS. No filtering either.

If you're using the recorded details of the two known Level 7 Incidents, Fukushima's still not QUITE as bad as Chernobyl by the numbers. The thing is, though, it's going to probably have a farther reaching impact than land-locked Chernobyl- and it's still not over with (they can claim it's a new incident with this "leak", but it's still part of that level 7 that started with the Tsunami.) and it's reaching the 1/6th the total radiation at this point and no signs of being over and has signs of possibly being worse or getting worse than they're claiming.

Fukushima's actually a Level 7, right on up there with Chernobyl. The leak's a level 3 incident? That's news? I thought this was an aspect of the still ongoing level 7 Incident.

It's not "as bad" as Chernobyl...yet.

Sue 'em for breach of agreement. Quite simple, really. Much like the horse boarding facility in Texas found out- you breach the agreement on YOUR end, you can't expect anything from the other party in return.

Here's some of the news involved with what I'm talking to:

Court Affirms Judgement Allowing Boarders to Move Horses Due to Stable Employees Smoking In Barn

Actually, it's not.

You don't get the juicy $150k per incident of willful infringement statutory damages if you don't register it, per the law.

...it doesn't help that you can't really lay your hands on an IPTV (Direct or Multicast) vendor unless you're talking someone like AT&T (U-Verse), CenturyLink (Prism), or Verizon (FiOS). I've tried, to no avail, to get access to decent service that way. No. Go.

Uh... Horses aren't people (Though I understand that some are confused on that score...). Your analogy goes straight to Hell in a handbasket at that point.

Actually, they allow it- you just can't register the foal in the AQHA registry at that point.

You'll see part-bred Arabians all the time and the AHA allows them to be registered as Partbred-Arabians in a seperate segment of the whole registry.

Why would you want to do this? Simple. You very often get the best of both worlds when you do it. It's just not a breed unto itself and won't "breed true".

Nature sets the stage. Nurture turns it into the product they are trying to clone.

Unless the clone goes through the exact same process of growth, training, etc. it's not going to be the same horse. Genetically, it will be- but it won't show/race/etc. the same way as the original.

It's not just to race. There's quite a bit more to the Registries than that.

Let's see... It's to...

- Race.
- Show in Working Cow
- Show in Cutting
- Show in Ranch Sorting
- Looking for specific characteristics for a horse for the task you're looking at one for.

There's a whole host of things. Say, for example, you want to get a good-to-awesome Cutting horse to do real cattle work with. You're not going to just buy a horse and hope for the best (though some do...)- you're going to go look at who's won out of the registry roles for that breed and then look for horses that tie back to those bloodlines. A clone kinda will work for that, but it really muddies up the whole registry.

The main reasoning they have for this is to have a clone for a major producer under their own control (hint: Cloning a horse is rather expensive, really...quarter of a million) or if one were to die due to old age or accident to have a "backup" of something like Rocking Rodder or King so they can continue showing and breeding a prize stallion.

Honestly, I'd love to have a "backup" of my $500 gem (She took the first-ever Arabian Horse Association Youth Nationals in the Half-Arabian division and is 2012's Reserve National Champion- I bought her as a minimum bid at one of the big Arabian Horse auctions... Oh, little did they know about her... :-D )- but I can't see where it's a monopoly to exclude them like the Judge and the Jury saw it. The registry's purpose is to verify and certify parentage (A clone has but one "parent"- the animal being cloned) and to manage things like competitions. The rules state a purebred foal/horse is one of two purebred parents, a dam and a sire, a mare and a stallion. A clone doesn't HAVE that. Genetically, it's a purebred, so long as you're not genesplicing it as well- and how do you prove that one out?

There's a mess there and it's not something where the decision is a good one. Worse, the suit was brought by a group of individuals that are really solely doing it for financial gains- they're involved with one of the main companies doing the horse cloning. It wasn't a case of someone wanting to clone a Rocking Rodder...it was a case of the bunch doing the cloning to open the floodgates for their business.

Actually, Medicare's out of touch with reality.

It's bureaucrats determining what is medically necessary and when they do how much they're willing to pay for it so that they can cover their own *sses and make their budgets look "good" so they can get more from Congress.

Supplying the device? I don't think so. It'd probably injure you. Honest.

It's not just insurance companies, lawyers, and big pharma to blame. You fingered a solid part of the cause and then you go and blame insurance companies (which are part of the problem, but not the root cause...they typically only pay 30% over what Medicare pays- and typically, they'd have paid only $25, not $35- that's more the private insurance payout in most cases...)- go for one of the root causes. Big pharma just simply comes out of your pockets in most cases and not out of the doctor's hide. Not so sure about the malpractice story. Some of this is legitimate. Much of it isn't. Thing is...could you tell? Could anyone else? In the end, what you're seeing is government regulation causing a LOT of these woes.

Try a little different line there and you'd have it.

Private insurance typically pays out 30% of what Medicare pays out.

Medicare pays out 25-30% maximum in most cases with a few exceptions like powered wheelchairs for the disabled. They don't do dental. They don't do vision.

Tell me again that it's JUST the for-profit industry...