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Comment Re:Health Care vs. Health Insurance (Score 1) 415

Part of the "care and maintenance of your body" should include, at the very least include annual check-ups and routine blood work. Part of the problem now is that people without insurance cannot afford to see a family doctor and learn they have a medical issue that can be easily (and usually more cheaply) treated and instead learn years on down the line they have a serious health condition.

Comment Re:It's a complete game changer (Score 1) 121

As a Type 1 diabetic:
I can already eat whenever I want.
I bolus my insulin for the amount of carbohydrates I'm eating, so I don't have to keep eating to compensate.
I don't need to wake up in the middle of the night to test my glucose - if I wake up in the middle of the night and feel low, I will test and have a glucose table if necessary.
I do check before I go to the gym, especially if I'm feeling low - again, I take a glucose tables or two if required.

Comment Re:Not surprising... (Score 2) 216

I haven't seen 64-bit versions of Windows (Vista and 7) having any problem running 32-bit applications. What I have noticed is that a number of older applications utilize 16-bit installers which 64-bit versions of Windows won't run, but many times those will lay down 32-bit executables and libraries that the OS handles fine.
 
As an aside, I run the 64-bit version of Debian at home and I haven't had any issue running 32-bit applicaitons, assuming ia32-libs is installed (Wouldn't be a bad idea to install this by default (a la SUSE) or at least prompt during the install).

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