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Comment Re:Conspiracy! (Score 1) 659

Yes, the American hospital system is insanely expensive. Although I don't think the source of the income for that system is the reason it is so expensive. Rather, US regulation is.

It's also worth noting many of those countries (eg: Canada) refuse to permit a patient access to non-government-approved medicine. No, I'm not saying the hospital won't let you have cocaine to ease the pain, I'm saying expensive cancer drugs are banned because they would increase healthcare costs to US levels:

http://www.fraserinstitute.org/research-news/news/display.aspx?id=18745

Australia has a socialised health care system where everyone earning above $19,404 per annum pays into it. That system provides better outcomes for the whole of the population (not just the rich who can afford adequate cover) at under half the cost of the US per capita.

Comment Re: Your sig (Score 1) 513

The sig is mainly aimed at leftists who frequently call libertarians conservative in spite of the fact that they want to end the drug war, promote equal protection under the law including marriage equality, end interventionary foreign policy, reform immigration, etc. etc.

There's really nothing conservative about libertarians at all, they hate almost everything about the status quo.

What is conservative about Libertarians is their economics. Giving more freedom to capital entrenches the status quo.

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Submission + - Islamic hacker group resumes attacks on banks (infoworld.com)

tsamsoniw writes: "PNC, Bank of America, SunTrust, and other major financial institutions have experienced a wave of DDoS attacks and site outages over the past couple of days, and Islamic extremist hacker group Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters is claiming responsibility. The group, which launched similar attacks earlier this year, reiterated its demands: that a controversial YouTube video mocking the prophet Mohammed "be eliminated from the Internet.""

Submission + - Atheist blogger sentenced to 3 years of prison for insulting Islam (alarabiya.net)

An anonymous reader writes: Egyptian blogger Alber Saber, maintainer of the Egyptian Atheists Facebook page, has been
sentenced to three years in prison under Egypt's blasphemy law for posting the trailer for the anti-Muslim film Innocence of Muslims. This film was widely blamed for al-Qaeda's coordinated attacks on US embassies on September 11 of this year, which were meant to pressure the US for the release of Omar Abdel-Rahman, who is imprisoned in the US for his role in the World Trade Center attack of 1993.

Comment Re:Damn... (Score -1) 602

Only if you define the set of symptoms to be a specific disorder. In which case you can create any number of diseases you like, as long as you define a set of corresponding symptoms to be a disorder first.

Comment Re:Since you mention Irish... (Score 2) 137

"They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards. 'The Irish of Asia.'" -- P. J. O'Rourke

Mind you, P. J. is of Irish extraction, so he meant that as a mix of compliment and self-deprecation.

The Irish have nothing on Australians when it comes to drinking. I'm afraid we've set a very high benchmark for the rest of the world.

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