StringJunky

Yes, they are good tutors for those that will follow their example. It does takes quite long time, as a neophyte, to alter ones approach but it's worth it.

Yes, there's all the other concomitant negative effects of a shareholder-driven system supplying what should be humanitarian-motivated services.

It's not what you are that matters, it's what you say and how you support it. You don't see the professional specialists here, arguing from authority, and saying "Shut up, I'm a scientist".

Think about this bit again: yes, it struggles but it it would only be worse for the service users if they have to pay a company's profits on top. Universal healthcare costs what it costs and that's the cheapest we are going to get it. If the price to maintain that service is higher National Insurance at some point that''s the way it has to be but we can console ourselves that this is the cheapest system that is available...and the best relatively.

Yes, the government cost and voluntary cost is about half each in the US. Our government cost is about $3750 (in 2014) with no more patient costs and the US is about $4600 government costs plus the same for the patient. It's nearer $10 000 now total in the US. The reason they fail is because there is a sizeable profit element in their health services and also those service providers have to show growth in order to attract new investment. This necessitates putting the prices up artificially and on a periodic basis. The shareholder/private model can not work in the essential infrastructure services. It can only lead to rising prices; look at our UK rail and water prices, for two examples. Edited.

Dream on...2014 numbers:

If the available pot is finite then capitalism can only give more to fewer. There can be no equality in those areas where it applies.

Time for xkcd

The day science thinks it's certain is the day it becomes a Faith.

Yes, you Americans pay a lot for your healthcare. I saw a graph recently of annual per capita medical costs and the UK was about $4000, which was middling amongst the rest of the world plus/minus $2000, and the US was all on it's own at $9000. I'll see if I can find it again.

A beautiful example of this is Apple slowing down the phone as the battery loses capacity and you can't easily replace the battery. An Apple has a built-in 3 or 4 year life, which is about the useful life of a LiPo battery. They are making the phone appear to maintain useful battery by reducing the demand on the battery by slowing it down. This is nothing more than designed obsolescence.

I think we see more of what you are saying than vice versa. They cant stomach the scientific consensus so they feel they have to make up their own explanation.

You should become an Olympian. I would give you gold for mental gymnastics.

'Classified' by Nature herself?

The variation is the noise is, isn't it?

Yes, I''ve watched it a few times too. He's got some serious nerves and talent to behave the way he does and do that stuff that as well. Edit: Cocked up. Replying to Koti. Yes, there is a hippy element in his routine.

Reggie Watts disorients you in the most entertaining way.

How can they be when they are scalar and vector respectively? Punch a screen in a straight path there is no change in momentum or KE but punch the screen with a constant speed in a curved path, the KE stays the same but the momentum changes because of the change in direction.

Not random. I gave you one. Your posts are increasingly annoying to read in spite of advice from people

Take up art and develop a mind's eye. Are you good at remembering blocks of words you've read or with numbers? It's all down to what you are used to doing.

But you are using someone elses effort in describing something and not your own. Attribution is required, regardless of the origins of the ideas. All good scientists do it.It's no big deal to do it. If you put up something that you spent significant time on, how would you feel to see your work used with no attribution to you? Citation is an important part of the scientific method.

If you want to be taken seriously, do it properly.

"Don't touch the kettle, it's hot" Yells. "Awww come here my love. Have you hurt your hand. Nasty kettle" Who's to blame, an animate object? Not one of your finest posts.

Is there no light coming through that window? You could fit a clear polycarbonate sheet as another glaze or stick solar film to the window to remove the UV and still sit in the light.