That doesn't sound like a problem at all. Technology that works as intended.

Race to the bottom? Why not, instead of wishing for your fellow man to be deprived of a benefit, wish your benefits to rise up instead?

The corporations and media owners tell us to fight each other over our benefits, but instead we should be fighting together for better benefits for everyone. Why not? Corporations use their mass to bargain collectively, don't they?

Historically, corporations have been found guilty of paying goons to join strikes and cause damage to the corporation, thus harming the union movement and themselves appearing to be innocent victims.

From a med student's perspective I can say this:
Medicine is partly science and partly art. That is because we as a people don't have a) knowledge of everything in the body and b) the money to support every test needed to rule out every suspicion. A test can be anything from a physical exam to a lab test. So a physician will find their own balance between accuracy and cost depending on where they practice. In United States, we expect better healthcare (= higher accuracy) so we pay higher costs. In India for example, my cousins and relatives place more emphasis on cost and they are more tolerant of errors.

I may be wrong, but I see healthcare as a sliding scale between cost and accuracy. We sit somewhere in that compromise that is different from, say India.

• UAE: 24 strike aircraft
• Qatar: 4-6 strike aircraft
• Spain: two airbases; 4 FA-18s; air refuelling and surveillance assets; submarine and frigate
• Cheese-eating surrender monkeys: pretty much their entire navy and air force
• Canada: Lots of air assets (not clear what yet)
• Italy: several bases including 3 in Sicily

All of them made in USA......priceless!!

Prison terms should be for people who cause severe direct harm to another person. For economic damage, there are always civil suits. Just because a trade group has lobbying money, shouldn't mean that they get to play with society's rules.

CNN, FOX, CNBC, BBC dont have enough propaganda already?

This is an issue I have personally grappled with a lot and I think that it depends on what you are learning. For example, I was an engineering student who faithfully took all my notes on paper with pencil. It was easier than computer due to having tons of equations, graphs, diagrams, etc which could not be conveyed to a keyboard so easily. When I started med school, I was so used to the paper and pen model, I didn't see the need to use a netbook. Big mistake. The information they present in med school is BIG on volume, and I could not keep up with class. I found that after switching to netbook w/onenote, life improved by a lot. If I could type faster than the professor spoke, I had time to think about things. I miss not being able to copy down graphs, etc but frankly the CT scans and cells they show in here could never be conveyed to paper anyway, they are easier to copy+paste from professor's slides into one note for later review. The best medium of notetaking really depends on what you're doing. IMO.

If it works out, who gets the patents - IBM or US Govt?

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