The only healthcare system that is that affordable is what happens in Africa: you let people die. Oh, you got appendicitus? Do you have ten-thousand dollars on you? Oh, sorry I guess you will have to use our dying room out front by the grate.

Someone has to be able to pick up for when something unexpected occurs. The hospitals can't magically start charging the same for a flu-shot and a 10 hour operation to save a car-accident victim. Almost anyone can afford the latter, while less than ten percent of the population could afford the latter (real costs, you have 3 nurses, 2 doctors, the support staff, the person who cleans the OR, and all the supplies needed). The only way this works out for society is that someone has to calculate the risk, calculate the bet, and be there when something unexpected happens.

I would put a giant bowl of allegedly in front of that %0.1. Given that all the studies I have seen couldn't even agree on duration and intensity, nor are there ANY inspections of the machines.

Find a study of the actual machines in use before quoting those numbers.

The difference in this case is the use of stem cells to replace known bad cells. The Atala group used differentiated cells, which is of more limited use when dealing with potentially cancerous organ tissues.

I will admit that I have not tried it on Linux, but zfs is the best of the next gen filesystems. It does cryptographically assured reads and writes (remember that transitory undetected disk malfunctions occur at a rate of ~1/TB of data), it can snapshot changes, it fricken slices bread. If it had a gender, I would probably marry it (well, I guess I can date it for a while and see how things work out). http://zfs-fuse.net/

That actually flies in the face of two centuries of constitutional law. Just because Bush decided to scribble with crayon on a fine historical document doesn't mean that what was written in ink and blood was changed.

I can see this style of device being accepted if it comes with magazine subscriptions (free reader with your newsweek subscription, reader copies only), but otherwise I would anticipate it flopping. People don't like cash outlay for products to use other products, leading to the razor/razorblade phenomenon.

Well, this at least confirms that Amazon does have absolute power over the Kindle and relegates it to the land of Zune for me. That, and that iRiver's mp3 player has a text reader as well.