Thank you airman. I for one appreciate your grasp on reality and your sacrifice both past, present, and future. I'm most thankful that you know what you did and are aware of the differences between war time and peace time. I can not express my thanks to you and everyone like you as much as I would like to.

I always wanted to fly military aircraft, I was just never sure that when the time came, and others lives were on the line, that I'd be able to do the deed, even though I have no problem doing it in all sort of video games. Frankly, I don't have the balls to put myself in that situation, knowing that if I hesitate people could die, not just myself.

Thank you for doing what I could not, so I do not have to.

+1. GP isn't a troll; at worst, this entire article is trolling.

That's only "bad" if you turn out to be predisposed, in which case your higher risk will no longer be subsidized and you'll have to pay fair premiums in proportion to your risk.

Thereby making the cost of insurance prohibitive to those with genetic predisposition to serious, expensive-to-treat maladies. This works out exactly the same as denying those people insurance coverage, unless they are very wealthy.
This defeats the general purpose of medical insurance (which IS for the healthy to subsidize the sick).

From a libertarian standpoint (yours, I'm assuming, from prior discussions), why not just get rid of health insurance altogether? That's the only way to ensure that everyone pays their "fair" costs into the system. That seems to be what you're getting at, so why mince words?

"And guess what. You're not as good looking as you think. More than likely you look like some one in need of attention. When I look at resumes I toss instantly the ones with photo's. Why? Most likely the person has some social issues."

It is very agreeable to me to know that there are people out there that can judge the character of a human being by guessing the reasons a person had to put a photograph on a CV.

It makes you marvel at human ingenuity.

The possibility that people put a photograph of themselves for a myriad of reasons is valiantly eluded by somebody that has cracked this sociological nut, by bining CVs of otherwise worthy candidates for only this reason.

it makes me happy to be sharing the world with such enlightened folk.

the people collecting signatures are usually the ones with an agenda, and thus the ones most likely to falsify information. As such they are the least appropriate group to be trusted with putting up roadblocks to validation of that information. As its been said before, a petition signature isn't a vote. It's not anonymous and it shouldn't be.

Doesn't read that way to me.

Hardware mixing is actually *less* common now than it used to be, since there's less need for it (because Windows does software mixing).