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They're showing it at USF. The reason they can do that is because it's a student-sponsored event by the democratic student organization.

It's interesting to note that the same trial lawyers introduced 2 medical liability bills. # Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A. (Florida) # Grossman and Roth, PA (Florida)

Once again, the wording on this one will get it passed, but it's a horrible, horrible amendment. You're right pangloss, many physicians, especially high-risk physicians, already have 3 or more cases against them. If this amendment is passed you will see more and more high-risk specialists refusing to do procedures. Take for example Joe Neurosurgeon who just finished residency and passed his boards. Joe specializes in neurotrauma cases in which the brain has been exposed to all sorts of nastiness from the outside. >60% of these cases result in death. In the past five years Joe has been practicing, he's had 5 suits filed against him, two of which he lost. Now Joe risks losing his right to practice in Florida, and thus leaves the state. Joe was an excellent neurosurgeon, but juries don't care about that. They award emotionally. All they knew was that someone lost a loved one because Joe decided to operate on the brain. Specialists like Joe are hard to come by. Next time someone is in a car accident and they need the type of surgery Joe was good at, they'll be stuck with whatever they hospital has to offer, which won't be Joe. These things come up in all sorts of specialties. You have very experienced, good physicians who have four or more lawsuits against them. It's statistically bound to happen after praticing so many years in certain fields.

Indeed, it's such a strawman issue for candidates. If you can graduate with a 3.0 GPA from highschool (incredibly easy if you apply yourself) and >970 on the SAT, the state of Florida will pay 75% of your tuition. Most universities will pick up the other 25% if you apply early. That's free money, essentially. If you work a little harder, you can actually make money in college. My friend gets over $6,000 in scholarship surplus every year that goes straight into his pocket. Free college, free apartment, easily. If you apply yourself, the funds are there. Furthermore, if you fail to secure scholarships for whatever reason, you can always take out federal stafford loans which don't acrue any interest until you graduate. Thus, you get a college degree and ~12k debt [state univ.] which can be payed off over a period of 10-20 years. That's not a huge burden, in my opinion. It's all about how hard you work.

Pangloss, could you post them? I'm particularly interested in your opinion on the three that deal with the health system.

John Stewart is the host of "The Daily Show" on comedy central, which is a satire news show. Not necessarily satire in the sense of "The Onion", but they run quotes and news bits and make fun of them, etc. etc. Anyhow, cross-fire is a serious CNN politics show in which a democrat and a republican argue with two guests on the show. Nevertheless, John Stewart was tired of their crap and told them so. You could actually see them get a bit nervous after he wouldn't put up with them.

Work over time? Say WATT?!?

http://nanoware.org/Crossfire-20041015-John_Stewart.avi

Also here: http://www.contemporaryinsanity.org/video/ for those of you who don't have bittorrent.

Did anyone see John Stewart on CNN's Crossfire? Here's the bittorrent if you didn't see it: http://bitflood.org:8080/?file=791b2f5d95a54d1381b85f271b51f71e73964185

Yea, college is real easy if you just float through. I watch kids do it all the time. I've spent the last four years of my life sweating every single little homework assignment, quiz, and test. I've added so many gray hairs to my head, all in the name of medical school. I've had so many classes where missing ONE SINGLE question in it's entirety on an exam means you lose a whole letter grade in the class. That's death for a premedical student. I've made so many sacrifices in my personal and my social life for my school work for four straight years. I've spent countless weekends at the library, the first one in, the last one out. All my friends go out on the weekend, and I spend the majority of my weekend with my nose in the books. For four straight years I've given school everything I have. It's payed off, I got into medical school. But what does medical school mean? Four more years of classes, except this time I'll be have lecture straight from 8-3. Then 2 hours of labs and at least 4 hours of studying. Any social life I did have will be gone, completely. And I can't wait. This is what I've been working for. I'm a senior in college now, and I'm graduating with a 3.8. That's a lot of hard work. College taught me how to learn, you're right. And honestly I think that's one of the most important things it's taught me. There comes a time in a college student's career when he's ready to move on to the next step, and that's where I am. I'm looking back at my college career with pride, and toward my medical career with excitement. Does anyone in this position honestly want to be up at 7 in the morning to go to microbiology lecture, when I'm just a few credit hours away from my degree, I've already secured a seat in medical school, and I've been working hard for four years to be in this position? I realize one day waking up at 7 in the morning will probably be a dream, but I'd like to be able to have just a few mornings to myself before I'll never have one again. It's like climbing a mountain and finally reaching the top, and stopping for a breath of fresh air before you start climbing the next one. It's undergrad. Well, I start medical school next year, and all they require is a good personality, biology, chemistry, organic chemistry, physics and insanely good grades. Those are the requirements. My knowledge of early childhood literature will likely not come into play in medical school or in my career. You're right, you'll never know what you need, but I have a good idea. I'm incredibly greatful to have been able to go to college, but I'm ready to be finished with it right now.

Just an observation

It does seem the more Westernized China becomes, the stronger they become, however.

Don't think he was wired, but I think skye's quote sums the whole issue up.

Well, more specifically I hate waking up at 7am to go to my general microbiology lecture. I also hate doing work in my literature class (requirement). I just want my degree! Four years of college work that I'm never going to apply in my life is old and busted. I enjoyed all my sciences and maths for the most part, but I'll never use 98% of the things I learned. I suppose one could make the argument that they provide a good foundation, but PSHFTHAP!H! !! GIVE ME MY DEGREE.

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anyone else tired of it at the moment?

haha, that was hilarious. I got tired of statistics real fast. Kerry probably wasted a good 15-20 seconds quoting statistics on almost everything. Bush wasted a lot of time too, but I think Kerry had the edge on time used for statistics. The debate was just a rehash of everything we've already heard from both sides. I want a debate where opponents can directly address each other and ask each other direct questions. I want to see them argue back and forth, taking turns countering and asking each other questions. I want a debate where the candidates an speak from their heart, not from what they've memorized (it's so obvious both candidates pre-memorized all kinds of lines, especially buzz-words). I just want to see a genuine debate; like old highschool debates. There are way too many rules. These debates were basically extended commercials for each party. The candidates weren't challenged on any issues.

I think the BBC does have a slight bias. I don't really think this can be traced to any push by BBC leaders; it probably just comes down to individual writers. Take for example http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/wtwta/2957412.stm "Cities are organised around the car, there are multi-lane highways, drive-thru facilities, drive-by shootings and wars about oil." Here is the BBC misquoting the whitehouse spokesmen. Apparently what's happening in Israel doesn't qualify as terrorism: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2348387.stm "The administration condemns the most recent attack in Israel. Peace must be pursued and the violence must be stopped," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said. He actually said: "MR. FLEISCHER: Okay. The administration, the President condemns the most recent attack in Israel. It's another reminder of how it's so important for peace to be pursued and for terror to be stopped. " (http://usinfo.org/wf-archive/2002/021021/epf101.htm) I've heard the BBC is pretty "anti-Israel" overall. Some people point to this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2541455.stm for an example of the BBC witholding information that would show Israel's side of the story. They didn't even devote one sentence to reporting Israel's defense. "Iain Hook was shot by an Israeli sniper as he negotiated the evacuation of Palestinian civilians and staff from a UN compound in Jenin on 22 November." What the BBC didn't ignored is that Israel was being fired upon from within the UNRWA compound. Iain left a voicemail shortly before he was shot saying, "The shabab have knocked a hole in the wall, which I'm not happy about at all. I'm trying to keep them out, and I will just keep my people pinned down in the corner until I hear from you. OK? Over." Their own photo shows the compound's sign torn up and in a stack of rubble. They reported it as if a sniper singled out Iain and shot him in the back while negotiating inside the compound. I still think they are clearly superior to our news organizations.

Well that excuses everything.

So when people talk about qubits and quantum computers, are qubits actually in that superposition, or is it simply the way we mathematically describe it because we can't know what position it's in? It seems to me like if it were simply a mathematical description, quantum computers wouldn't work. I don't know if I'm articulating well enough what I'm thinking here: I mean, if the particles aren't really in a superposition, how would it behave any different than a binary system. Isn't a functioning quantum computer evidence for particles actually existing in a superposition?

Not me. I think this country was founded on the principle of personal responsibility, and I think that's the way it should stay.

That's not necessarily a good argument because the same justification could be applied to the murder of an adult. I'm with Kerry on this issue.

At least he had a choice to opt-in and opt-out; he's forced to pay for someone's food stamps.

Apparently you missed the debates. Chalk "a" and "c" off your list.