Herd instincts?

Another right-wing delusionist. Have you checked how many euro's a U.S. dollar will buy recently? Today a single U.S. dollar will buy

for the current exchange rate.

The US seems to have finally gotten around to globalising its economy back down to third world status - it's healthcare never has never risen above that level.

As Will Hutton pointed out in 2002 in "The World We're In" ISBN-10:

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Try it sometime. I might have done better if I'd spent serious money on advertising my services, but I really couldn't see where I could get the message to the sort of people who might have used me as a consultant, and I could see that I could waste a lot of money if I failed to hit the right audience.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Sure he can. But he finds it "boring" to be reminded that he doesn't know as much about biology as he'd like to think.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Wow! You're not only stupid, Dimbulb, but have zero sense of humor.

Take a look at the present situation in France.

...Jim Thompson

Fox seems to catch a number of items BEFORE they appear on the BBC.

...Jim Thompson

Wrong again. I've got two brothers, and all three of us have got a (different) random mix of our parents genes, so we have about half our genes in common. My nieces and nephews have each got half of that, so they've got a quarter of my genes - eight of them mean that there are twice as many of my genes out there than my original allocation. This is worked out again and again in every article on the evolution of altruistic behaviour, though it turns out to be less important there than was originally thought - doing good things for other members of your tribe turns out to generate enough of a survival advantage to positively selected.

I'm pointing it out to an abysmally ignorant and decidedly vocal minority on this user-group who do seem to be rather slow to get the message. This would be more correctly described as idiot-bashing, but since you choose to line up with the idiots, this view of the situation isn't one that you be likely to appreciate.

I dislike seeing errors of fact propagated into an archived record. If someone goes to the trouble of pointing out that they are errors, the gullible have at least been warned.

Telling people that they are wrong does upset them. If you try to be diplomatic enough not to offend them, the idea that they are being told that they are wrong doesn't actually penetrate.

It's much easier to write me off as an irritating person than it is to confront the source of the irritation.

But it looks as if they will charge you if you have any capacity to pay, and the level of care offered to the indigent is unlikely to be impressive. We had a similar system in Australia in the 1960's, and I knew a woman who worked on the Melbourne poverty survey at the time. Unexpected health costs were the most frequent cause of families falling into poverty.

You may feel good about it, but it is a drop in the bucket compared with the total costs of health care. In Europe health care is paid for out of tax or by compulsory health insurance (which comes to the same thing). The bureacracy involved isn't cheap, but it is lot cheaper than the baroque bureaucracies than run your health system, which is one of the reasons you waste 14% of GDP on a health system that doesn't deliver the level of health care we get in Europe for around

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Clearly it never occurs to Slowman that he might be incompetent to handle the position?

...Jim Thompson

So far, it looks like Sarkozy is winning.

John

I certainly hope so.

...Jim Thompson

True that!

They MIGHT keep his predecessor's genes going, but not his, unless things are like you said they'd have to be.

That was humor, dumbass.

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:50:18 -0800 (PST), snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org wrote:

--- Regardless of what you may think he knows or doesn't know, he's right about you being boring.

It seems that no matter what was going on in a thread before you join it, soon thereafter you'll be ranting about the stupidity of GWB, the inadequacy of the US health care system, and the slow demise of the American economic system, all couched in a patronizing tone which does become monotonous when it happens over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

-- JF

Jim Thompson wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

trouble is,AP and other media sources often do not print the ENTIRE article written by one of their people.The Orlando Sentinel and the AP site itself both posted an article on guns,and both of them omitted the part of their own AP article that mentioned use of firearms in defense on school campuses,but the Fox version of that same article included it. You just can't TRUST the media these days.

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There are more than a few regular posters here that pull this retarded horseshit.