My pre-obamacare insurance was useless. There were zero providers in my area accepting new patients. I had 0% coverage. So if I have useless coverage now, at least nothing is worse.

The FDA and ADA won't change their stance. Otherwise, we'd have banned smoking ages ago. People are going to do what they're going to do.

I used to believe the same, because that's what the hospital taught me in the diabetes management courses *mumble* years ago. I was one of the few Type 1s in the class, and I was normal weight. Most, but not all, of the Type 2 were overweight, so it kind of made sense.

I see my endocrinologist several times a year. Everyone should, but most don't. Then again, most don't follow their doctor's orders either. But the only time you'll see me chug down a soft drink is when I'm about to pass out from an insulin reaction.

i kan(t) read:

You know very well that Tim hits various events and videotapes whomever or whatever he considers interesting. If we were paid for running "video ads," each one would be clearly marked "ad" or "sponsored content."

Should we interview you? Know someone else we should interview? Email me with contact info. Maybe we will.

You can fax legal documents and keep the fax header as proof of service.

A quick search shows that the state of Utah allows alternate service by email or social media. A judge allowed the FTC to serve notice via facebook. New York allowed email service in 2006, and Australia allows it, and anther New York case of service via facebook was discussed on slashdot last month.

The old ways are dying. Requiring someone to buy a laser device to burn "stamps" onto envelopes and packages won't work.

No, there is no guarantee that the user will not use a mobile phone to access his online banking (and the idiocy of some banks pushing out mobile apps for online banking doesn't actually improve security in that area either).

You can't make the user secure. You can only offer it to him and hope that he's intelligent enough to accept it.

The post office already allowed people to print up their own custom stamps for an extra fee. It bombed.

And there's no way that anyone is going to buy a laser etcher when mailing things is becoming obsolete.

The Canadian government has already told people that mailing payments will cease over the next few years.

Additionally, home delivery of the mail is being ended to most of the population. It's already stopped for 1/3 of the population, and the other 3rd that don't live in apartment buildings will be stopped over the next few years. Why the exception for apartment buildings? Because it saves Canada Post the cost of building and maintaining public mailbox collection stands.

There are plenty of competitors for parcel delivery - Canada Post already owns one of them - Purolator Courier.

The only things I've mailed this decade are registered mail - which requires a visit to a postal substation anyway. The post office is going to be dead before BSD.

I have some bills which will get "lost" if they are not sent at least certified mail. Sent electronically, it isn't anywhere near as concrete proof [1] as a piece of physical mail sent with a signature trail.

Paper complaints, especially legal work are hard to ignore. E-mail, even calls, there is no paper trail and can be hidden. However, a certified message either gets received or it gets refused. Either way, someone had to interact with the document in a provable way. Even now, our society isn't paperless and when it comes to legalities, there is no beating physical paper documents.

As for banking software on my phone, I'd say that iOS and Android have a better record for security with a few caveats [2], than a desktop machine. However, my biggest concern with too much stuff on a phone is if it gets stolen. Of course, the ideal would be having the banking software use KeyChain or Google's equivalent and ask for a PIN before it is run, so all sensitive data is encrypted, not just by the phone's encryption, but by a specific API.

[1]: Proof to judges and juries who are still in the pen and paper age, and those are the people who need to be persuaded if worse comes to worst. You can talk crypto all day long to a jury, and their eyes will glaze over. Show them a piece of paper with a physical John Hancock on it, they will make a decision.

[2]: Depending on how well the jailbreak is crafted, it can destroy's iOS's security, where an app can go hog wild and do what it wants to.

Android is more secure in this regard, but apps ask for a lot of permissions . However, a rooted Android device is just as secure (barring a dumb user) than a non rooted one. Attacks like a compromised Web browser will have far less effect than they do on a PC.

2) Easier to use for one off jobs, where you have one letter. 3) They envision ending/greatly reducing the physical stamp program. This will piss off the collectors a lot.

4) They get paid for it, rather than the company that makes the QR codes etc.

Basically, I don't think it has enough advantages to catch on somewhere where they already have stamps. But ISIL might want it for their new country, I bet they want to replace Syria's and Iraq's old postal system.

Only if you will start over from page 1 and actually read it. If you are going to "skim it" instead and keep giving random soundbites of anger instead of reasoned criticisms then there is no point in trying.

Who watches that noise? I take in HGTV and a little NBC News 4. For a total of 1-2 hours/week.

Oh! The light bulb! Of course! If only we could just incentivize that godforsaken light bulb!
If only the light bulb could defeat that majority rule bugbear!
Does the light bulb have to break itself and stab the majority rule bugbear in some critically vulnerable area, so that the bugbear bleeds to death? Or is the bugbear just light sensitive, and the proper wavelength from the light bulb will make it whither?

tl;dr: We're all doing what we can. How about something substantive, and a little less mumbo-jumbo?