I agree, covering your son until he is 26 is a great thing. I think it would be even better to cover him until he is 72, don't you agree? Why stop at him being 26?

Do you see what the problem becomes? The problem becomes what do we want to cover and for how long. The answer depends on the amount of resources you want to devote to that issue. We could cover every medical condition for everyone forever until they die. Do we want to pay that amount of money as a society? What are the other implications of developing that kind of system? What abuses will occur? When you start taking other people's money to do something for yourself, you will find that other people have other priorities. Maybe they prefer to save their money for retirement. Maybe they prefer to use that money to provide their kids an education instead of healthcare. Maybe they want to buy a nicer car instead. Who knows?

The problem you have is that we as a society don't agree on what the best use of our money is yet. Clearly we agree it was wasted on this website so far. What other waste are we going to find? If we find too much problems with the system, we don't have an easy out when its run by the government. When it is run privately, we can take our money somewhere else. Don't like this hospital? There is another one down the road. Don't like this doctor, go to that one. Don't want to pay this money for all the options on that health care plan? Here is an alternative cheaper one that doesn't cover quite as much.

When you have the government run it you start losing the options. And you don't have the option to picking up your money and taking it elsewhere. Unless you are open to moving overseas.

Darn it, what am I going to use for Checkpoint command line then? Because with Checkpoint, SPLAT is where its AT!

If you want your resume to be read by HR people (Remember, the programs used to sort through resumes use keywords), find job posts seeking people for the job you want, take all the keywords out of those job posts, and put them in your resume. Even if you have minimal experience in something, you can place the keyword in your resume in some context, even "Learning about ...." or whatever. I get calls ALL THE TIME seeking to interview me, and I'm convinced its because I keyword spam the heck out of my resumes.

If there is a stupid system, just figure out the system and use it to your advantage. The interview will sort you out if you aren't the type of worker they are looking for.

I started looking for a job and got one within 2 weeks, this was only a few months ago. It can be done.

Here is your car: http://www.smartusa.com/models/pure-coupe/overview.aspx Although the black is glossy. I'm not sure why you would want to buy it, but you can.

So now that we know all this stuff the Bad Astronomer said, I want to lay down a challenge. I noticed the Bad Astronomer included no actual plume information. How tall ARE the plumes? How far away are they from each other? How did you calculate your figures? I won't be able to work on it until after my real work, but lets see if any enterprising Slashdot aficionado can come up with the info, preferably using math, not an online source. Don't make me break out my TI-86 and be the first to come up with the data!

I think you need to check your own science. You assertion that global warming as it is currently understood poses a threat to "human survival" is not based on any scientific assessment of Global Warming from any reputable source I have seen. You also need to understand the current difference in official policy between Democrats and Republicans is so small in actual effects on the environment as to be statistically insignificant. So we are back to the "You are mad because he is playing to a different base than you find yourself in" spot.

It's fine to find yourself with different political ideas than Santorum has, but take a few breaths and calm down. You'll have a happier life.

I find it amusing that you haven't been able to find any Democrat policies that will reverse Global Warming, eliminate the deficit or turn our economy around. So the 3 major problems facing our country today really aren't being addressed by the Democrat party. Don't you find that alarming?

Please, you all are framing the debate as if the Democratic party is pro science, and the Republicans anti. Please name the Democrat policy that will reverse global warming or make any noticeable difference in it. Please name the Democrat policy that will eliminate our deficit using numbers that reflect reality and not some political pipe-dream. Please name the Democrat policy that will actually help our economy turn around.

I don't see how Santorum is any worse than any other politician out there, except that he is playing to a different base than you prefer personally.

I never said it was due to friction from the comet's motion. The comet tail is indeed caused by friction, however. It is caused by interaction with charged particles from the solar wind.

Incorrect. Comet tails receive their gases from ablation from the sun, but solar wind is what pushes it away from the sun. Solar wind is caused by charged particles, which do indeed produce drag. If they didn't, comets wouldn't have a tail, and instead would have a cloud of vapor going around them instead of going out in a tail. The drag may not be a lot for us right now, but if you travel close to the speed of light, the effects could become significant. Also you didn't address the benefits of deflecting kinetic and laser energy. Additionally, the ship may want to enter the upper atmosphere of a planet, perhaps to dump speed or to change vectors more quickly.

This is always said, but it is not necessarily true. There is matter in space, and it does create drag. If you speed a ship up to a significant portion of the speed of light, it WILL affect it. If you don't believe me, look at comets. Why are they creating tails instead of some rotating cloud of vapor? And highly aero-dynamic shapes also help in deflecting kinetic and laser energy. Look at tanks, and how they have wedges in front to deflect rounds.

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE (to decrease compression in music)! This is important enough of an issue that I feel you should threaten to quit your job, strike, start revolutions and foment rebellion! This is very comparable to working conditions in the 1850's where people were treated like slaves and worked in environments that would regularly cripple or kill them, and not pay them a wage that allows them to get adequate housing and food.

While I understand that Jonas brothers isn't the best in the world, I'm still not equating being a music engineer for the Jonas brothers with working for the steel mills and railroads in the 1800's. But this is Slashdot, so there's always someone looking for a revolution.

That's a very rare type of hd failure indeed. I myself have never heard of that issue before on SATA drives. Was that a brand new drive that had that happen?

No, refurbished drives do NOT mean the drive failed. It means someone returned the drive, and the thing tested good, or that someone returned a computer that they parted out, and the hard drive tested good. Bad hard drives are VERY rarely repaired, and only if it is a very easy, cheap and quick fix, and I can't think of any such repair except maybe unbend a pin or put the jumper on correctly, and SATA drives don't have either of those issues. They simply don't cost enough to justify repair.

Everything else Microsoft makes is pretty crap? Your examples are Windows (7 I presume) and Microsoft Office I'd have to disagree with you about, because I haven't found a better alternative. Windows 7 I find on par with OS X Lion, either can be better than the other depending on what you are doing. And Microsoft Office is tons better than any alternative I know of.

Just install Launcher Pro Plus, and you won't have to deal with the Sense UI anymore. I did it on my HTC Sensation. It works great and runs a bit quicker now. This is the silliest reason ever to avoid buying HTC phones, as you can choose to not use the Sense UI anytime you want to switch to something else.