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by Skipjack
Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:43 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Liberal view of Government.
Replies: 305
Views: 67032

For Car insurance, there is a "high risk" pool for clumsy drivers. A series of car accidents doesn't mean you can't get car insurance. Why not something similar for individuals and "pre-existing" condition situations for health care? It's simple, and it has been done before. Because unlike car driv...
by Skipjack
Sun Dec 20, 2009 2:32 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Liberal view of Government.
Replies: 305
Views: 67032

Since I don't want to have to get one, I dont engage in risky activities that would expose me to that risk. LOL, neither did I and I ended up with a heart attack at the age of 33. I was not overweight, did not smoke or drink coffee and was doing exercise 3 times a week. The only risk factor that I ...
by Skipjack
Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Since we had this discussion about UAVs and F22s etc...
Replies: 132
Views: 64996

For what I know the fighter and reconnaissance planes are affected by this as well. In any case it should be easy to fix on the planes and UAVs. It is just a matter of cost. The signals are meant to be viewed by the ground troops via some sort of PDA (I am sorry I am not totally up to date on this p...
by Skipjack
Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Liberal view of Government.
Replies: 305
Views: 67032

And here in the US we have medicare/medicaid. Not everyone is eligible for medicare/medicaid, as you might know. What about someone who is self employed? There are really no people in the US who don't have health care access who intentionally do not pay for it but are able to. Bullshit! I know plen...
by Skipjack
Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Liberal view of Government.
Replies: 305
Views: 67032

Yup, but no inherent right to shoot you dead and take your property, as is the case with government. The government of Austria has not done that in 65 years. I also dont see anywhere in the US constitution that they have the right to do that. I do very much see though that noone might have taken hi...
by Skipjack
Sun Dec 20, 2009 12:25 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Liberal view of Government.
Replies: 305
Views: 67032

"A private corporation owned by the residents"? Sounds like another name for "government" to me. Whatever rings your bell. LOL, I thought the same thing. Let me guess: and everyone in the community gets to vote on important matter, ROFL... Diogenes, but health care costs are lower here in Austria, ...
by Skipjack
Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:16 am
Forum: News
Topic: First steps towards a Polywell fusion device prototype
Replies: 28
Views: 12589

Bah - I want a nice gravity modification drive to create an antigrav field for my flying car...
Me too!

I would settle for an ME thruster too though, for now anyway ;)
by Skipjack
Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Greatest thing about this East coast storm.
Replies: 12
Views: 3480

Events like these are fairly common, always have been. Nowadays it is just the media making more fuss about it. I guess they have nothing else to bitch about at the moment.
by Skipjack
Sat Dec 19, 2009 12:00 am
Forum: General
Topic: Since we had this discussion about UAVs and F22s etc...
Replies: 132
Views: 64996

As I said, this mistake was not limited to UAVs. It affects all US military aircraft. So the UAVs do not really have a disadvantage out of it.
by Skipjack
Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:55 pm
Forum: News
Topic: First steps towards a Polywell fusion device prototype
Replies: 28
Views: 12589

Gee, I would already be happy with a normal 66 KW car engine, you know for the every day comuting and all that.
Same thing again for the electricity in my house ;)
by Skipjack
Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:43 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Since we had this discussion about UAVs and F22s etc...
Replies: 132
Views: 64996

And we all know that encryption can never, never, ever be defeated. Muwahhahahhahhahhhhahhhahahhh! Sure it can be. Any encryption can be. But by the time the enemy has decrypted it, it will be outdated data that noone cares for anymore, if the enemy is still alive at that point. If it was such a BI...
by Skipjack
Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Liberal view of Government.
Replies: 305
Views: 67032

Well, as you all know... there are people that can not get health insurance. This can be because they are inbetween two jobs, because they are suffering from a preexisting condition, or because they are simply poor. People without health insurance wont get treatments unless they are very rich. Peopl...
by Skipjack
Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Since we had this discussion about UAVs and F22s etc...
Replies: 132
Views: 64996

Another reason to keep the targeting loop within the confines of the airframe This has been blown out of proportion and your conclusions are wrong for multiple reasons. First of all all they did was intercept images sent to the ground by the drones to the handheld field systems deployed with the gr...
by Skipjack
Thu Dec 17, 2009 6:26 pm
Forum: News
Topic: First steps towards a Polywell fusion device prototype
Replies: 28
Views: 12589

awe, isnt it a cute little polyweeeell!
So small and already in a nuclear lab all by itself...
by Skipjack
Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:50 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1347866

So what does it mean?
Anything new that we can read out of this?