I don't think PSX means what you think it means.

I think you mean Pippin.

It doesn't really affect anything other than land line use. Calling another area code usually results in higher "long distance" charges. Currently there is no long distance charges for cell phones. As an example, say you move from one corner of the country to the other. You keep your mobile phone number so it still has the area code from where your family and friends are. They can call you on the land line all they want and they won't incur long distance charges even though you are 2000 miles away. On the other hand, when your new friends there try to call you from the land line, they will have to pay long distance. No problem if they call on a mobile.

The problem is you have it backwards. If a procedure costs $50 to do, they want to charge the uninsured person $75 and insurance company X $400. But the insurance company cartels have successfully lobbied to make different pricing illegal. So now, everyone pays $400.

My experience is mostly in pharmacy, and in that business, your example is sorta true. Using your price example, a drug costs a pharmacy $50. The pharmacy wants to charge the uninsured person $75. If you are on welfare, the pharmacy only gets $15. So in an attempt to make some sort of profit despite the massive losses from all the people on welfare, the pharmacy charges insurance companies $400.

Again, the insurance cartels have made different pricing illegal at the federal level. So, for that same $50 medication, the pharmacy has to charge the uninsured person $400, and the insurance companies $400, and they only get $15 from welfare.

Here is where the corruption comes in. That same $50 medication only costs $5 to manufacture. In order for the $50 medication to be placed on Insurance Company X's formulary, the company making the medication has to give them rebates. After the rebates, how much of the $400 is Insurance Company X really out? $15. But wait, isn't that your copay? Funny how that works out.

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

And this is different from taxes how?

Thats pretty much how mac hardware works.

Also that same 32MPG car from the 1970s is probably only making 70 - 80 horsepower. Today, it would be making 120 - 150 horsepower. Or, if Ford's commercial for the new 6 cylinder mustang is to be believed, 300 horsepower.

If I had mod points, I would have modded you funny.

That can mean only one thing: Barack Obama hates black people.

Or come November, we won't be capable of manned space flight.

Or an 18 year old having consensual sex with his or her 17 year, 11 month old partner.

You must be too young to remember Loki Games.

Which turn based strategy to you speak of? We would like to play.

When left to my own devices, 6am is also when my body seems to want to go to sleep. Though, because of when I need to get up for work, 3am is when I usually go to sleep. My favorite gem from the article:

This really struck a chord with me. I have tried this technique multiple times and each has failed magnificently. I will stay awake through Saturday and be tired enough to nap up until about 8pm which is when I seem to get a second wind and I am fairly wide awake after this point. I will attempt techniques like dull reading or watching something uninteresting on tv which will eventually put me to sleep by 11pm. Without fail I will spontaneously awake at 3am, even without sleep deprivation, and won't be capable of sleep again until 6am.