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The market is all well and good, keeps prices low, makes sure everyone performs to their best etc. In this case though the most cost effective health care ensurer one could imagine is the one that finds the most excuses for denying expensive treatment. PR firms are a lot cheaper than payouts and they do a lot more for a company's reputation than simply conducting business fairly. The market still wins and the shareholders make money, the patients lose though. You pay all this money into the system, and if you ever get a life threatening illness your ensurer might pay, probably will pay, and then again maybe not. It's utterly insane that a majority of Americans prefer it this way.

How about if you only work 1 hour a year.

Call me stupid, but I actually think there would be money in a PST sequel.

Today I watched all four episodes of a documentary on the Vietnam war from work, then stayed late and scuffled madly do get my workload done before everyone had left the building.

It's things like switching off the million dollar scanner and going home because it's a Sunday, instead of maximizing on it 24/7 until the people in need of it have been serviced.

Our govt was just in a scandal for overpaying private hospitals who were to take the overflow from the public system, so yes we do worry about what the govt does with our money. Apparently the Germans and the Swedes are much better at managing UHC than us, to the tune of being 10-20% more effective.

I think they call that animation, anime is the really weird stuff. You might want to check out tonari no totoro, I think that might possibly be my favorite. Nausica is ok I guess, but it's, well, a little old and not as well crafted as the newer stuff. Making an animated films a lot of the quality depends on budget. I thougth Chihiro was the good kind of weird, not the 'I don't understand what the hell is going on' kind.

Try this for emotional impact, the first 2 minutes: Other emotionally powerful moments: *Shadow of the Colossus as a whole *FFX endgame *BGII ToB, conversations before the final confrontation/epilogues *final scene in Mafia, even thought you know its coming *Planescape Torment as a whole Some really great scores in those games. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPjjoxtX7VU...feature=related I couldn't find my other favorites. You can extract them from your game though, although they were never otherwise released.

I guess maybe PST. Dionara and Annah, and also talking to D'akkon. I was really annoyed that that game had to end.

You know what annoys me about our great socialist health care system. I've only been in hospital once, I broke my arm when I was 8, and the last time I went to the dentist I had to pay 12000 kr. What did I get for all those years of exorberant taxes exactly, a cast ?. Free dentist treatment would have made me feel I got something back for my trouble. Everybody goes to the dentist, regardless of how much a drain they are on the hospital system. Given the choice though I prefer living in a country where you can get quality professional care regardless of your ability to pay Nothing in life is certain, but honestly, you pay all this money and when or if you ever get in serious trouble your HMO is motivated by the great invisible hand of the market to find a loophole in the contract and turn your claim down. I would want a medical professional who is paid to look out for me to make decisions on treatment.

Ohh I'm well aware they don't fly the flag to support slavery or racism, it's a statement of identity. A lot of people are very offended by it though, it's divisive even in the south, and the confederacy does have something to do with slavery. With all that you might be tempted to ask, why bother.

Also, how cool is this

The Higaran(s) My favorite moment was when the Bentusi sacrificed their harbour ship to allow the fleet to escape in Cataclysm. Great voice acting, great score.

Swine flu thrives on people with good immune systems. It's the young and healthy more than the old and frail who get it. I just knew all those years of smoking and no exercise would pay off.

I wouldn't call that an army, it's yet another peacekeeping force. NATO is not under the purview of the EU.

They have been talking forever about a common EU foreign policy and an 'EU army'. A foreign policy representing 27 countries, that would be about as useful for getting things done as the United Nations. It's never going to happen. The EU is about trade, although the political dimension also means giving up a sizable chunk of independence.

I wonder what it is though, this movement to reintroduce the confederate flag. This is not the first stunt of this kind. Several hundred years ago the south fought on the wrong side in the defining war of the country. That's not something to be ashamed of on it's own, but slavery is, and to most people the confederate flag says 'racism' much in the same instant recognition fashion that the Jolly Roger says 'pirates'.

They are private citizens right, they can do whatever they like. The NAACP can hang a giant stars and stripes next to it.

I'd say my favorite mech design is a shadowcat or a vulture, just purely from a perspective of aesthetics.

Well, better spiders than flies.

As opposed to what. The employer paying more value in money than the work is worth. I like it!. Do you have a word for that too, and where can I find these employers ?

How about 5 years in the slammer for suggesting the pope would get boinked up the arse by 'very active homosexual devils' once he died. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/f...icle4732048.ece This was in response to the popes position on contraception which is hurting AIDS campaigns in developing nations, and various other reactionary backwardsness after Ratzinger took office, or was appointed by god or whatever they call it.

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Karl Marx mostly makes sense in a situation where a majority of the population slave away in factories and have to band together to do more than barely survive. It's not terribly relevant in the information age. History tells us that Capitalists systems are neither inherently unstable or headed towards implosion and revolution. Capitalism is merely the default organisation, a force of nature more than a system of government or ideology. Everything looked a lot different in the aftermath of the industrial revolution though.