By what measure? We probably rank first in cost per patient and expensive testing machines per patient. But I don't know of any measure of outcomes where the US ranks first (for most procedures, not even in the top 10-20).

To an average English speaker who has never heard of Star Trek, the text quoted is far more understandable than the average legal document. Who should pay for the usually required translation from legalese?

When greater than 95% of experts agree, trying to turn it into a liberal/conservative position is spin.

That said, defining the problem should not dictate the solution, any more than disagreeing with a proposed solution should be just cause for denying the problem.

Though really, I don't think I need another water type against the Elite Four.

Right. And if only the pesky meddling government would stop interfering, they wouldn't be legally obligated. That's fixes things, right?

It isn't just semantics. Incorporation confers many actual functional differences from free forming groups, even excepting taxation, which free forming groups do not have. You can imagine a fantasy world where this is not true, just please don't confuse it with the actual one we live in.

For this to be true, Libertarians will need to back the dissolution of all corporations. Corporations are, after all, a charter granted by the government (which, in theory, is acting on behalf of the collective citizenry).

This is a provably false assertion. I know a large number of free citizens who do not own weapons.

It was corporate interests that sold Americans on the idea that Capitalism went hand in hand with Christianity. I love the irony of Christianity arguing back. (It isn't just the pope, there have been some fundamentalist groups making the same basic argument recently).

The existence of hubs makes the question moot for normal daily usage. But when you need to do repairs or diagnostics, being able to boot from a usb drive and plug in a second usb drive to transfer files is always nice.

So you're saying there are no illegal aliens in the US?

I'm willing to throw in with the anti-meter spelling police if they will band together and join me in purging the internet of definately.

finite.definite.definitely.This has nothing to do with anyone named Nate.

While I (vaguely) understand the notion that you are asserting, if the value of people can fluctuate (that is, human life has no intrinsic value), then what is the value standard in such a marketplace? Gold? dollars?

This also leads to a rather dismal world in which some murders are ok, and some are slightly more ok than others. Of the choices of available dystopias, this one sounds less appealing than average.

If an individual life has negative value, then the total number of lives worth saving is 0, and there's no reason to care whether a particular act causes an increase in suffering or not.

Let's say we transplant Bob's head onto Steve's body. After the surgery, will Bob say he has a new body, or will Steve say he has a new head? (Hint: don't believe anything Steve says. He's talking through his ass.)