If they really wanted apple to feel it they could have made them use Ariel.

Where do you see low prices on Fiber? Does it get down to the price of Cat5e?

Yeah, exactly or maybe one that just reads "FREEDOM".

Since you can't opt out of public healthcare

They can tax my absence_of_healthcare but I'll never let them tax my tea.

I was under the impression that high deductible plans shifted cost to me, namely that I pay deductible for most healthcare.

Wow, yes.

Yes, it is a tax on you. You will be paying for vouchers to support those who fall into a broad category of people who can't (or "can't") afford it.

Actually, you'll be paying for me. I'm a volunteer abroad living well below the poverty federal level. I carry a high deductible low premium policy that covers me abroad and in the states and I have set aside money to cover the deductible. I take care of basic healthcare our of pocket and will only rely on my insurance in case of a health disaster.

But unfortunately my current policy will soon be illegal. I will be forced into a plan that provides more coverage at a higher cost that I can not afford, but everyone else will pick up the cost of the premium (I will use a voucher).

In the end it means that instead of me paying a doctor for basic care, you will be paying an insurance company, via the government, for nothing, especially since my geographic location prevents me from using most preventative and maintenance benefits.

So I have two things to say, I'm sorry for being such a terrible waste of your money and thank you for paying my premiums, I would have never asked.

But if you're on Chrome, you read it, even if you didn't :)

(but StatCounter didn't count you)

Cost?

Even if we did care, here in Northern Mozambique there is no place to buy genuine original discs of anything. All DVD are pirated, all music is pirated and there is no store to buy a copy that supports either the industry or the artist.

Also, I called Microsoft to see about bulk licensing of office and I could not get anyone to tell me where I could pay. Supposedly the office that covers Mozambique is in Namibia but none of the emails or phone number work. The South African office refuses to license for companies in Mozambique. So what option do people have? In our lab we just used other software but if you buy MS Office in a store here, you get a pirated copy.

It appears no one is interested in selling to people in a country where average income is less than a few hundred USD per month, save the pirates. And they seem to make money just fine, even at a dollar a copy for multi-movie (crap quality) DVDs. So, industry, if you're not providing a legitimate alternative, you may stop complaining.

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3rd world nations pirate windows, even where you can pay for it, it's pirated. I live in Northern Mozambique and have yet to see Linux preloaded on anything and every Ubuntu install I've done comes back a week later erased and reinstalled with Windows, including viruses.

Better yet, get us internet at a speed and price competitive with the US.

Knowledge is power, we can't even get sufficient 10th, 11th and 12th grade school books this year. (Pemba, Mozambique).

Ahh that grande country, Africa.

Disclaimer: I live in Mozambique

Yup. And backing you up is the claim that the only thing that tastes good is the Ice Cream . . . which is prepackaged by not_the_airline. That and the peanuts. Airplane food isn't good because they don't make it well. They don't make it well because it cuts into profits. Just that.