That is not the whole story.

The US health system is more like a layered cake of expenditures with private money coming on top of public money.

see https://ourworldindata.org/fin...

The US governement actually spends per capita as much as Germany, Belgium or France. These spending are then doubled by the private sector. All that to end up performing way lower than these countries (and about all the other rich countries in the world) in terms of life expectancy (4 years), child and maternal mortality.

see https://ourworldindata.org/the...

I think a much deeper problem is at works here : the twisted chain of accountability that separates a doctor from his patient. US is the only country I know of where you get a health insurance through your job, the health insurance contracts with an hospital, the hospital hires doctors which you end up consulting with because of the job you got in the first place.

In Belgium or France, the patient choses his Doctor. Much simpler relationship, much better results

Alternate facts, Government-led Misinformation Campaigns. When we get so used to talk through euphemisms, we are getting dangerously close to an Orwellian world. I think it is time to name the Trump administration bullshit for what it really is. Propaganda.

So the basic idea is : Cows produce methane that participates to the global warming. But because cows might not survive the climate change, we are going to create super-cows than are immune to this self-regulating mechanism instead of let's say switch to bugs.

Really sounds like a great idea.

I imagine that when we have really screwd the climate for us, we will have to come up with genetically engineered human beings that will drive heavily modified cars that are working OK when it's 60C.

I would probably go for a VIA Nano mini ITX platform with Linux installed on a Compact Flash and a Green 1 or 2 TB WD hard drive with aggressive sleep settings.

A.

Two words:

Laser Saber

The Star Wars RPG explains this is the way laser sabers are supposed to work.

Because in this case it would compete too directly with the macbook pro line. Plus, Apple always seems to speculate on the irrationnal need some people have to spend the extra money for the useless feature that makes it cool. Black in this case. I have strictly no problem with Apple trying to make extra money with the very psychological exclusive black "high" end macbook as long as the low end is feature full (read dual core instead of single core, iSight included,...).