Stan Shannon wrote: because seeing some soulless, uncaring bureaucrat would just make all the difference GPs are self-employed practitioners, who mix private practice with contracted work from the NHS. Over the years, my family and I have been treated by 12 different NHS GPs around the UK, none of them were soulless, uncaring, or bureaucratic (even the two that I did not like). Bob Emmett

Not the wine so much, it gets in the way of the women and the songs. Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

Oakman wrote: Aha! We are working from different datasets Yep, thanks, that clears it up. If that is accurate the professor behaved like an idiot pretty much from start to finish. :) Oakman wrote: But there can't be different rules for Christians and non-Christians or Black and White or Men and Women. Nor can someone be terminated because the boss doesn't like his employee's religion. Exactly.

Christian Graus wrote: I am saying I don't want to live in a place where people solve their differences by shooting each other. Unfortunately, Christian, you do. It's called Earth, Gaea, or Sol Three, and you didn't get asked about whether you wanted to live here. Now it may be that on your block, or in your neighborhood, or even in all of Australia that everything is sweetness and light and you all sit around singing kubayah, but the majority of this world that you have to live in is a very different place and expecting other people to live the way you live when they don't have the benefit of having the kind of neighbors you do is, forgive me, asinine. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

Your heading is bullshit. The hospitals treated foreign patients in Britain for a fee. That is a standard practice with government run services. Australia does the same for university students. Locals get a subsidised education: foreign students pay full fees. From the article you linked to Foreigners pay around £75,000 for a liver transplant. The money is shared between the transplant surgeon, who may get around £20,000, and the hospital trust. The money does not pay for the organ itself, but for hospital accommodation and pre- and post-operative care. John Carson

MrPlankton wrote: Then you found out how much a girly-man car costs, and discovered $5 doller coffe is dumb... and bought your self a fine Ford truck? Oh no. Then I decided to do what any small, foreign-oil-loving guy would do: buy a Hummer. ;P ShamWow

Ravel H. Joyce wrote: OK then, Mr Economics, perhaps you'd like to give a reasonably in-depth treatment of game theory? First, he finds some sucker and begs them to give him a quarter. Then he tries to hit the slot in the machine with it. :laugh: "Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." -- P.J. O'Rourke

Oakman wrote: Stan and Obama both want to produce nothing of value in return for our money. Precisely the point. Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

EliottA wrote: Your politics dictate it's common sense, not mine You're right. In Massachusetts or California (for instance) it would have to be classified as uncommon sense. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

You're not seriously judging the value of a person's life by the cost of the bullet you'd use to kill them are you? Giving you the benefit of the doubt on that one, and whilst I agree that there should be no sympathy for lawbreakers, would you agree that you have a fairly "extreme" view, or is it one that you belive many to hold? You didn't clarify on my other point - what if they were Americans? C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.

MrPlankton wrote: I was hopping to find out, how those who are enjoying summer hard to believe there is a summer, while freezing here. How high did you hop? Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

Its a sad day when you validate Heinze. This statement is false

I was amazed at how calm he was. No change or inflection in his voice. Amazing. MrPlankton “If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world but I am sure we would be getting reports from hell before breakfast.” William Tecumseh Sherman

One of my major clients has just started using that EXACT line on their emails... -------------------------------------------------------- Knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad!!

Synaptrik wrote: Grover Norquist It's been awhile since I heard that name. I've met him several times many many years ago. I guess he's still kicking. :) MrPlankton “If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world but I am sure we would be getting reports from hell before breakfast.” William Tecumseh Sherman

bulg wrote: I don't think pushing retarded kids around is funny. Cry me a fuckin' river. These two schools shouldn't have even been scheduled to play each other to begin with. In fact, I don't see how that could have happened unless the kids parents from the smaller school raised a ruckus with the local school board. If anyone is to blame here, it's whoever coerced the school district into scheduling the match-up. The coach was doing his job, and firing him because he's not sorry is total bullshit. Yeah, it's unfortunate that one team got totally pasted by another, but ya know what? In a sporting contest, there can be only one winner, which means the other team is the loser. Mercy rule? That smacks of socialism, where nobody is allowed (or expected) to excel at anything. "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

My server room. Good thing I heard the alarms going off when I came into work today. But now I see a problem. I have two linux boxes that email me when their cpu gets warm. however neither of them are in the server room. John

MrPlankton wrote: I suspect you disagree with Gordon Brown? If I take the word of every Brit here: he's an idiot, who am I to go against the received wisdom of such an august body of my peers? As to the argument that this is protectionism, only assholes like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce which lives in the hip pockets of the multinationals and probably owes as much allegiance to Hong Kong as it does to the U.S., would claim that a governmental spending bill directing that its proceeds only go the U.S. citizens is the same as raising tarriffs. There are good and sufficient reasons for any money raised from the citizens of this country be spent on companies that employ the citizens of this company and that pay taxes themselves. If Walmart, which won't receive any funding afaik, wishes to continue to buy cheap goods from slave labor countries, then they should be allowed to do so without hindrance. If the Feds want to build a new highway or fix the potholes in the ones already around, they damn well should hire Americans to do it (not illegal aliens, regardless of what the Chamber thinks) and they damn well should buy the raw materials from American suppliers. The concept of taxing U.S. Steel Corp to buy steel from China is revolting. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

His tax problems would be enough to sink him if he were a Republican applying for position. I am a member of neither party. A Republican is a Democrat-light (at least now a days). If I wanted to be a Democrat (socialist) I would associate with the real deal and not the copy-cat want-a-be. A pox on both their houses. MrPlankton Mexican boy: Viene la tormenta! Sarah Connor: What did he just say? Gas Station Attendant: He said there's a storm coming Sarah Connor: [sighs] I know.