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Comment Re:humans (Score 1) 525

Yeah, it would be nice if American drivers kept to the right. Awhile back I was driving in the right lane at about 60 MPH (the speed limit was 55), and came up on a truck in the middle lane. It had a sign the said "Don't pass on right". The only problem is, it was barely doing 40! So my only options were to slow to a crawl, pass on the right, or try to cross 2 lanes and probably get creamed by the cars doing 70+. I said a bad word and passed on the right.

Comment Re:Um, what? (Score 1) 433

Presumable he is referring to this:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/th...

One of the ACA architects has stated that:

A) the bill was written in such a way so that the CBO did not interpret the fine's as Taxes.

b) said : “In terms of risk-rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in—you made explicit that healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed, okay. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to passLook, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not.”

this was in the news recently.

Comment Re:How online? (Score 1) 45

It's not even limited to the "developing world". My mom is totally offline; no computer, no internet, no cellphone. She does occasionally ask me to order something online that she heard about on the radio, but that's it. My GF isn't much better; she has an email, but doesn't use it much, and no facebook.

Comment Re:$1200+ for a 15 min trip! (Score 4, Funny) 112

The President himself sabotaged that possibility by accusing doctors of performing unnecessary amputations, which besides depicting surgeons as being suitable for the leading roles in either "Little Shop of Horrors" or "Sweeney Todd", is nonsensical because amputations actually are relatively inexpensive.

I dunno. I heard they cost an arm and a leg.

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