They also manufactured their competition by announcing so early. Instead of being the first to market, they're going to be Johnny-come-lately to a market segment that they carved out (at least for this iteration of VR).
Their competition gets to ride along on the hype that Occulus pumped out and if the competition fouls up the implementation then the scene is soured for Occulus, too. Very poor business planning.
I am not impressed by the media narrative.
You will have to do better than that.
That's why I specifically picked media outlets from the "free market" Right. So how about the Wold Health Organization?
How about the Kaiser Foundation? They know a little about health care.
Have you ever wondered why you don't see people from Denmark or Germany or Sweden or Singapore flying over to the US for the superior health care? In fact, you know those stories about all the tens of thousands of Canadians running to the US for health care? It turned out to not be true.
For that matter, have you ever wondered why you don't see those populations fighting to flee their Socialist hellholes and coming to the US as political refugees?
I already know what Tim Cook wants to do with my DNA.
Sure, pick the places that sort of work okay.
You don't think the US has the know-how to do something better than Germany or New Zealand or Israel or Singapore?
What I hear from Canadian patients inspires no envy what so ever.
You should update what you hear. Canada's health care system is ranked 7 spots higher than that of the United States, even before the ACA was implemented.
Even Forbes magazine, no socialist propaganda sheet, ranks Canada's health care system higher. And Bloomberg ranks it twenty-three spots higher in terms of efficiency.
http://thepatientfactor.com/ca...
I typically get explanation-of-benefits that runs like, "X-Ray radiology 800$, Paid by insurance company 100$, discount to insurance 685$, you owe them 15$". Any one without an insurance will be billed 800$. No body would pay such an insane bill.
I think most places will give a discount if you're uninsured, too.
I wonder if this "discount" issue isn't really about tax breaks. In Hollywood accounting style, the hospital can claim that they are taking a loss on every procedure. The discounts could be written off as charity or losses of some kind.
Stuff like that will never get to court unless you're contesting something huge, like a $50000 bill. In my experience, just calling and contesting the bill is enough to get them to start significantly cutting down the balance. There's no use fighting individual patients over a couple thousand dollars when >90% of the patients (or their insurance) will pay without complaint.
Also, so much of the various provider bills are double charged and flat-out manufactured that it's simpler to just drop charges than have to concoct a plausible explanation for them.
Well, if the government handling it is out of the question, I guess we're left with vigilante actions and hired private "enforcers". That's a much better solution, right?
The dummy did produce thrust. They repeated that for emphasis. That ruled out the inventor's idea that the slots were necessary.
They do understand ablation, and have compensated. The next round will double-damned sure eliminate that possibility.
No, fraud would be publishing results that are not valid and claiming that they are. Right now, they are experimenting, and will continue to do so until they have something to publish. You are free to speculate on experimentation you have no access to, but your judgement is ill-advised and unwarranted. No one is claiming anything. All the noise is from non-scientists trying to be scientists and getting it wrong.
1. No.
2. Maybe.
And the author of the article is confusing two different experiments, the EMDrive tests and the Cannae drive investigation, so just discount the entire idiot debate. It all comes from wrong premises. Like the cold fusion debacle, it's mostly about high school lunch table character assassinaton and little about science. The cold fusion mess of the 80s was about a secretive experiment and scientists trying to cash in, not the science. Cold fusion by chemical bond compression is a possiblity, just not realized in experimentation, and it is a damned shame no one can go near it now because of the nattering childishness of human tribal shaming.
These hidden costs that cannot be challenged is the end result of a "free market" system. Sooner or later, when it's dog eat dog, you get a very big, very mean dog who just gives no fucks.
As long as we're going to reinvent the wheel again, we might as well try making it round this time. - Mike Dennison
