I second this nomination, he might not be young in age but he is definitely has done a lot of cool stuff.

Both examples are optional procedures. The real competition isn't with other vets and LASIK practitioners but with the customer's choice to perform said procedures. When it comes to life saving health care people don't look at the cost. Unless people are unwilling to pay X amount of money for life saving procedures and walk out the door (assuming you can in an emergency), health care will always be expensive unless other regulatory limiters bring it down.

I wouldn't worry about people emigrating....odds are they would move to a country with a government run health care system anyway...they just don't realize it. Even Rush made that mistake with this quote:

By the way, Costa Rica has a health care system subsidized by the state:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/357920/costa_rica_a_look_at_its_national_healthcare.html?cat=5

..and with the way real estate prices have gone in the U.S. they won't be moving anytime soon. In 5 years they'll have forgotten about what they were bitching about anyway.

Ah, no...they would be 7th as the U.S. landed 6 times on the moon despite all of those self-centered attitudes and special interest agendas in those days.

We need to work in our local cities and communities to retrofit our urban designs so that we aren't forced into a very expensive lifestyle.
Two great sources to start:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_suburbia.html

http://www.amazon.com/Suburban-Nation-Sprawl-Decline-American/dp/0865476063/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263584896&sr=8-20

I don't even know how this got marked up insightful...but then again a really high quality remake with really deep dramatic writing on the plight of the fast food worker could be a funny dark comedy action game.

BURGER TIME.

'Nuff Said

did he grab any prune juice while on the way out of the store.

I didn't see a section devoted to governance of SOA because without a strong IT Department your "Zen of SOA" will quickly become the "Art of Interdepartment War" as each division of the company will try to control or influence the service if they they have to connect to it. A strong IT Department can push back on the other departments for the greater good of the company and force departments with rogue apps to eventually use the services.