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My main problem with leaving it to the states, is that some states are just downright retarded. I could see Mississippi passing some kind of "faith-based healthcare" wherein when you got sick, a Pentecostal preacher would slap you in the head and yell "BE HEALED!"

As to this:

Now, I'm not opposed to giving as many people access to this care as possible and I never said it wasn't a problem.  I get the idea that you think that's where I'm coming from... and you are blanket attacking me because you think I'm somehow totally opposed to giving people access to this...

I think maybe it has something to do with this:

How can everyone have a chance of being successful, declare bankruptcy when that happens and have no worries in life?  That's what you're asking for.  If nobody has to worry about starving to death or being able to afford a lifesaving operation, where's the motivation to continue doing things that you may not like doing but must be done? 

You certainly seemed to think that the utter lack of a social safety net was a good cattle prod to keep those lazy plebians working. BTW, despite what you've said, I think you'd love modern-day China. Cause they've pretty much thrown that whole Communism thing out the window. Yeah, the government still runs everything, but now if you're a worker and get your hands chopped off in a factory accident, there's none of this pinko worker's compensation crap. Your ass better learn to beg really good, Stumpy, otherwise you're going to starve. But if you can start a B2B facilitator to help ship cheap plastic crap to American retailers? Oh yeah, we're talking McMansion, Maserati, Gucci suit, live-in maid, maybe a vacation house in another country.

Go to Shanghai. You will see what REAL capitalism looks like. 5% of the population live like rock stars, maybe 20% live a "middle-class" life, and the rest are scraping s**t off the streets. And that's not counting the carnival sideshow of cripples who litter the subways, the waterfront, the shopping districts.

See, America has already been there and done that, about 130 years ago. We had a handful of guys who pretty much owned everything. A small "middle class" of clerks, doctors and other educated citizens, and then a big old mass of coal miners, steel mill workers, factory workers, etc. who just squeaked by and tried not to die too early. And as a society, we pretty much said that's not acceptable. That's why we have things like OSHA and the FDA now. So that we won't have to go through things that China is going through, like poisoned milk, tainted cough medicine and incredibly hazardous coal mines and fireworks factories.

So, pretty self-explanatory, what are you occupations/hopeful occupations? I'm personally planning to go to Cornell and get into architecture, possibly historical architecture (repair and reconstruction, maybe in Prague, that would be cool! ).

You should consider NC State. They have a highly-considered School of Design, with a satellite program in conjunction with Charles University in Prague. And it's got a lot of pairings with NC State's materials science departments, so you could build things with nanomaterials and whatnot.



As for myself, let's call it "Information Services" and leave it at that.

There seem to be a lot of surveys going on here, of late.

The next survey will be about survey-taking habits.

Sounds like you're looking for a database more than a word processor. Something like Access with a VB script to do the collapsible bit.

A fun tangent: What are the strangest names in your family tree?

Our family had a set of triplets back in the mid 1800's named Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Fun times, back when the Anglo population in the US was big into Hebrew names. Think we had a Zipporah too. And a Pinckney:

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PINCKNEY
Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: English

Pronounced: PIK-nee

Contributed by earthnut on 9/9/2008
 
From the surname Pinckney originally denoting someone from Picquigny, France, which derives from a Germanic personal name, Pincino (of obscure derivation) and the Latin locative suffix -acum. This surname was brought to England by the Normans and was used as a given name in the American south.

Quote from: Dwarf on May 05, 2010, 12:19:07 pm

I think what you are missing is that with a gun, one can easily kill persons from a distance away with next to no effort, especially with sniper rifles readily available.

And anyone with a tiny degree of competence could rig up an IED and blow someone up as far away as they'd like.
 Plus the fact that hunting rifles are literally never used in crimes (I'd be amazingly surprised if it came up as even .01% of gun crimes involved the use of a rifle).

Difficult to tell, given that as far as I can tell, nobody keeps publicly available statistics of crime by specific type of firearm.

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Despite the legislature's claim of a terrorist threat, as of 2009, there has been no terrorist attacks involving a .50 BMG. In fact, not only has the .50 BMG never been used to harm or kill anyone in California, there is no record of a .50 BMG rifle ever being used in the United States to commit a crime.[5][6][7]

Off of the Wikipedia page for California's "WE HATE BIG BULLETS" law.

And yet, for such a rare firearm, they seem to pop up disproportionately in the hands of criminals, terrorists and militia nutballs "responsible gun owners". Odd that.

Not to necro this, but The Onion chimed in on this. I lol'ed.