Vote Ron Paul in the Republican primary. He will at least raise everybody's game. Find out if your state has an open or close primary. If closed, you ought to register with party, if open, you can vote in the Republican primary.

Who the fuck mod'd this flaimbait? FUCK YOU. Mod me down as this is a garbage account. It only exists so I can set my prefs to eliminate the Karma bonus, the dick$uckup bonus, and the hit ACs take for being principled and posting AC. Every post starts off the same. SO FUCK YOU MODERATORS!

(even though using a national healthcare system reduces the cost to each person over a private system *and* has the altruistic bonus of covering the less fortunate)

There is no private health care when the government can

1 Dicate who can practice medicine (or who can certify those to practice medicine)
2 Dictate what drugs you can take
3 Meddle with insurance companies (require coverage of this if buying that)
4 Restrict the production or import of medicines or medical devices via unreasonable tariffs or patent protections*
5 Use perverse tax incentives to tie health care to your present employer. Why not encourage our corporate overlords own our fucking houses like Pottersville?

* Time has long past - if ever there was one - for the utility of patents. For them to go forward, it should be a strictly reward based system. Alternatively, nobody should be allowed to restrict the use of a patent particularly when NO MONEY is changing hands. The boogeyman was always some evil person profiting off of another's work. Take away the profit, take away the patent fees. I would have bargaining, mandated if necessary, so that anybody could pay the fee to use the patent not unlike the way music is licensed to radio stations. Maybe the "one click shopping" patent is worth $0.00001 and that would be what you pay to use it each time. Of course, it is worth $0, but you get the idea.

Because for about two per thousand cases, it causes meningitis which kills about half of the affected patients, leaving many of the survivors brain damaged for life. For quite a few who don't get meningitis, it causes blindness and deafness (measles was the #1 cause of both in the 50s.)

This suggests a few questions to me:
1) What is the rate of complications from the MMR immunization?

This link:
http://pediatrics.about.com/cs/immunizations/a/mmr_vis_2.htm
Suggests mild complications in 1 of 6 and death in 1 of 1,000,000.

2) If the odds of getting measles is less than 1 in 1000, and the most negative affects (death) are at 1 in 1000, then NOT getting the shot puts you at 1 in 1,000,000 chance of death. Just like getting the effing shot in the first place.

3) Why not let the measles run a little wild and see if "the market" or whoever can find some solutions to that. Make this a win-win-win.

To be sure, I am pro vaccination. But unlike Rick Perry, I am opposed to FORCED vaccination by the government.

This is not society's fault, nor the fault of the police, or the government, but the fault of a generation of bottom feeding scum sucking opportunists that need a harsh lesson in reality dealt to them.

Governments do a lot of things to destroy jobs and employment opportunities. Off the top of my head there is:

1. Minimum wage laws - like 'em or not - they reduce employment levels
2. Restrictions against firing people - if you can't fire "at will", why hire unless you need to? Outsource!
3. Regulations on opening a business - BS like needing a liquor license
4. Creation of black markets - gambling, prostitution, narcotics - these may be "jobs" but they are necessarily populated and run with a disrespect for the law and, arguably, society in general. These are 100% the fault of government
5. Welfare. Why work when you get free money? I'd argue, if you have to prevent the collapse of society from starvation or exposure, then it would be better to hand out food directly or open shelters. Giving out money makes the problem worse. Is there ANY private charity that just hands out cash to poor people? Not grants, not scholorships, not loans. I mean a Church that is handing out cash to an obvious bum, addict, thug, or malcontent. THEY DO NOT DO THIS! They identify a specific need, food, shelter, medical, and provide that specific need.

Nobody I know who builds their own PC uses the stock cooler of either Intel or AMD unless they are on a very tight budget and even then it's the first thing getting replaced.

Do you know how hard it is to find a good low profile HSF. If the stock one works, see feedback here, then why change? Then again, I build PCs for business use mainly and personal use only on occasion. In both cases, the only non-stocks I use are the custom heating solutions that come with Shuttle XPC (integrated case, PSU, and motherboard).

To me, a bigger question is why more people don't build their own PCs. It takes less time to slap the hardware together than it does to de-crapify a consumer/small business Dell PC (or HP or just about anyone else).

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It is only necessary to enable v3.co.uk. There are about a dozen other sites trying to run mysteryware that can be kept disabled. Also, it works my US-easy-list Adblock.

Regardless of whether or not the Windows security model you speak of is broken or not, Its security problems are there for Apple to observe.

You can observe and learn from a fool as well as a mentor.

No True Scotsman. Try not using an intentional logical fallacy.

Consider how many on the left are disappointed at Obama for not being ____ enough (____ = socialist, democratic, progressive). There are as many of those people - if not more - on the right with actual political parties that have won national elections and are regionally of greater significance in limited areas. However, it is more convenient for you to misinterpret a logical fallacy. Nobody is talking about "'True' Scotsman". The talk is about "Scotsman" and, thus, you have no point.

On a 55mph road you'll have a sign saying 35 on a turn on which you can easily do 45 even in the rain, followed by a turn which says nothing on which you should be doing 25.

Are you driving a semi-tractor trailer or are on an ice/snow/slush-covered road? That is what those signs are for - the worst-case scenarios. Rain under your performance tires is not a worst-case scenario.

Audible slow-down warnings would be nice as well as red-light/speed camera/trap notifications.

Ah yes "teh marketz will solve everything!". I hope YOUR job gets shipped overseas. I'm sure YOU wouldn't expect anyone in government to care. Maybe if you became more efficient and worked for less money...

I can almost guarantee you would work for 1970 minimum wage if it was paid in Gold equivalents. You are focused on the price on a check not on what it can buy, not on the few-to-several percents stolen every year by the government and its bankers. At the time $1.60/hr would be (let's assume) $10 after taxes and 8 hours on the low-paying job. $10 would buy - at the time - 1/4 oz of gold which is ~$450 today.

Somebody brainwashed you to hate on Wal*Mart so you would ignore them. This is why so many people in the middle-east are anti-Semitic.

Don't buy food from them either. Don't let them drive all the other grocery stores in town out of business, the way they did all the department stores and mom-and-pops. Don't encourage them.

Their competition is hardly "mom-and-pops". Besides, why should I patronize their (other grocery stores) coupon games with their fine print BS? Wal*Mart offers lower pricing, no coupon BS needed, NO CLUB CARD, and they are closer than many other choices. Am I to drive further and pay more just so mega-corp Target can get my money? Or you want me to drive even further and pay even more so the boutique "mom and pop"-looking store gets the profits. Why?

Please do some research before you imply Hitler and Mussolini are not right-wing.

Right wing can mean libertarian/Objectivist and it can also mean fascist. These two are exclusive ideas yet are described the same depending on whether or not you are a classical liberal or a progressive liberal (another example of opposites, yet both described as liberal - go figure). This is why political idealogy is often mapped onto a grid (e.g., a social freedom axis and an economic freedom axis). How did this knowledge escape you?

Our current and sole problem - the show stopper - is not running SAP's Business One. This vs that is an entertaining sideshow that few outside the tech community are aware of.

So IN CONCLUSION, what you've shown is that if we look at only "urban interstate" traffic, ignore "rural interstate" traffic, and assume that an average semi weighs no more than about 25 tons (as opposed to the 40-ton maximum that shipping companies aim for) then and only then do cars and trucks break even. In all other cases, trucks pay less (proportionally) than cars do. Unless you want to venture from the confines of actual road costs and try to include fuzzy concepts like "societal costs". But I'm sure a guy of such rigorous devotion to hard data wouldn't want to do that.

The societal cost which cannot be ignored, IMO, is congestion. The flaw, with the left sided graph - which you prefer - is that it only looks at marginal costs. In many of these rural areas, without the truck traffic, I doubt there would be funds to pay for a nice, paved road.

What are you trying to defend at this point? The 24,000X factor is thrown far out the windown. At best, the factor is 10? Let's ignore the fact that we haven't discussed the benefits of travel. Driving Susie forty miles to her soccer game can't compare with delivering a truck groceries.

Also, the oft-quoted but rarely thought about "4th power rule" as a meaningful cost is debunked. It is one factor that goes into the cost of roadways.

So now that you've dug up all this data to help me prove my point, what's next?

You have a point? If so, it is a moving target.