And in all these years, they just never noticed the name is now Microsoft? Give me a fucking break. It's on purpose.
It's the same as those who use Ipad instead of iPad. For all the pedantic grammar and spelling nazi's on Slashdot, I've never understood why this kind of thing is accepted, and indeed, encouraged.
You are right, mostly. Canada actually has "insurance" as well, it's just that the health insurance is done provincially. For example, here is OHIP, which anyone who lives in Ontario will tell you, is our Ontario Health Insurance Plan: OHIP. And, I do pay for this every month as well, but it's indirect. It's through my income tax fees, which is much higher than in the US, and through our 13% HST tax.
Our gov't health insurance also doesn't cover everything. For example optometrist visits and dental is not covered, nor are drugs. Typically these are augmented by company insurance plans. But you are right in that all required surgery/doctor appts/tests (i.e. non-elective), are covered, and there's no deductible. I wish ACA had of gone all the way, for the sake of the US citizens.
Isn't that how a free market works? Groups of people get paid what the entities want to pay, and if they don't like it, they work elsewhere forcing wages to rise, or they just do it anyways and potentially form a union.
If it's so much better to work as a grocery clerk financially, and that's what your measure of 'success' is, then do that. Nobody is entitled to any salary, nor is anyone forced into any career. In fact, if workers for these jobs were more rare, you can bet salary would go up.
I find the "OMGZ i have to get health insurance this is slavery!!!11!!" posts to be insane.
Canada's health care isn't perfect, but I have never had to pay a dime for going to the doctor, hospital, or any operation (and I've had a few). I've never even thought about it. When I was kid, I just always assumed doctor's were free. In addition, I make "normal" (slightly above the national average) money, and I can afford a reasonable house, a normal car, etc. without more debt than just a mortgage. I am not a slave, my quality of life is high, and I have no complaints.
So, what's the problem here? Why is there such an irrational fear to a health system that is obviously working in many other countries? Health care shouldn't be something you worry about because you can't afford it. That's a totally asinine approach to me.
Just curious, but why is the Canadian option so high? (I'm a Canadian).
Does our reputation for being polite make people think our spying is also polite? Like, maybe you get a note indicating you're being spied on, along with a poutine and a tim horton's coffee?
Or does everyone just think/know that our intelligence agencies are rather harmless...
It would seem, the mAH doesn't seem to matter: KitKat (and presumably, with ART as well, as people have reported, but not the example I'm about to cite) have improved battery performance immensely. Here is one example of many.
Personally, I am getting 4 hours screen-on with 16 hours standby, and still have 15% battery left, using Dalvik, Google now (all options on), WiFi+LTE (but GPS and bluetooth off), which is more than acceptable IMO and great.
So maybe, much like the CPU MHz, we should stop concentrating on the numbers so much, and instead concentrate on the actual results.
While I agree with liberty first and foremost, transfats are an artificial creation used to save money regardless of health risks. No consumer, if properly educated, would ever choose to eat transfats because they "taste better", or something like this. They don't. There's no advantage, to the consumer to eat them.
So, attempting to bring in liberty to this argument I think is an overreaction, which is why I didn't really want to relate smoking to it (as smoking does "have" a reason why people do it: they enjoy it), and it also isn't in a lot of foods as a "hidden" ingredient that is simply there to replace something else that is not dangerous in order to save the manufacturer money.
That's not the point of removing trans fats. Rather (from the wikipedia article) "In humans, consumption of trans fats increases the risk of coronary heart disease[2][3] by raising levels of the protein LDL (so-called "bad cholesterol") and lowering levels of the protein HDL ("good cholesterol")."
Should we not ban something that is directly linked to an increased risk in heart disease? I suppose smoking is also directly linked, but not banned, so I leave that debate up to everyone who isn't me.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
