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by Skipjack
Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:15 pm
Forum: News
Topic: More: The $8 million award
Replies: 60
Views: 25147

Now that EMC2 has the money to determine if polywell will work or not, it would be nice for John Slough to get some money for his FRC concept, in the event that polywell does not work out. True that would be nice, but lets not get greedy here. It is already a small miracle to me that this much fund...
by Skipjack
Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 189548

I also want to add that with the more we learn about the human genome, the bigger the chance will get that insurance companies will want a gene test before they insure you (or wont insure you). I see the number of uninsured people in the US go up.
by Skipjack
Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Pretty unbelieveable...
Replies: 225
Views: 139139

Yeah and that at much more thrust... At least from what I understand. Pretty cool if it works. Still, you are effectively limited in the amount of acceleration you can do (for manned flights anyway) with it. E.g. you wont be doing much more than 1 g for polonged periods of flight. You might be able ...
by Skipjack
Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 189548

I didn't see those, but the MSM is overwhelmingly leftist so most likely they are giving only one side of the story. Generally what you find in these cases is that the insured lied about their medical condition. People have some strange ideas about what "insurance" is. You can't buy fire insurance ...
by Skipjack
Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:32 am
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 189548

Well, I still dont agree that these victims should not get health insurance. It just is wrong. Anyway, here in Austria they get it, without questions asked. Whether drugs are the right treatment for their problems are a entirely different topic (though we had that topic drift in here before). I just...
by Skipjack
Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:12 am
Forum: News
Topic: More: The $8 million award
Replies: 60
Views: 25147

I can't figure out why a .8T pulsed machine is going to cost $8 mil. Unless it is very big. Say 2 m or larger coils.
Maybe an experiment to veryfy the scaling that Dr Bussard predicted?
by Skipjack
Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:06 am
Forum: News
Topic: And a little bit of $ for ITER
Replies: 38
Views: 10051

Yeah, I think that by this time we all know that the only thing that will ever ignite in ITER is money ;)
by Skipjack
Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 189548

Then victims do not take responsibility. As I said earlier - victims were often abused children. Then they grow up and incite situations to repeat the abuse. Are they really victims? I find this a quite disturbing way to look at things, Msimon. Sorry, but this is quite perverted. Putting the guilt ...
by Skipjack
Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 189548

Well, in my world view the victims are always the ones that deserve protection. No matter whether the guy was looking to get mugged, the mugger was not forced to mug him after all. I also want to point out that while the abused abuser picture gets held up very often by lawyers, it rarely is the trut...
by Skipjack
Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:17 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 189548

They can be sued, which can cost more than the treatment even if they win, and such cases generate bad publicity besides. I posted some more examples from the Washington Post. Well maybe they are "fact challenged" too. I have a feeling though that they both are true. Insurance companies have entire...
by Skipjack
Tue Sep 15, 2009 2:51 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 189548

It's not an unimaginable scenario, but I doubt it's common, or has even occurred. It is one of the nastinesses of domestic violence that victims usually dont talk about it. Most never gets reported. That is a fact. So it does not seem a far stretch to me that victims would not report it to the insu...
by Skipjack
Tue Sep 15, 2009 2:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 189548

No, not denial of treatment, but denial of coverage. If domestic abuse is handled as a preexisting condition, then they can deny coverage if they think that you widthheld that information during application for an insurance. After all, they can generally deny you coverage if you widthheld informatio...
by Skipjack
Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 189548

The government is going to take $100 a month from me for an insurance option (Medicare) I do not want. Well yeah, but it is already going to do that, no matter whether Obamas plan happens or not, right? Your mate might have a good option, but it is left to wonder whether the insurance company will ...
by Skipjack
Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:41 am
Forum: General
Topic: Pretty unbelieveable...
Replies: 225
Views: 139139

Where did you get this from? If my understanding of the Mach Effect (ME) is accurate, you have to have a change in the internal energy of the "mass" in order to "see" or "use" the ME. Mhmm, so maybe I missunderstood this. To be honest, I have not even the slightest idea about the physics of this. I...
by Skipjack
Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:05 am
Forum: General
Topic: Pretty unbelieveable...
Replies: 225
Views: 139139

Well, if I am not mistaken, you have to accelerate at 1g (10 m/sec^2) for "just" a year to reach the speed of light. Now as Msimon said, with an engine that does not need to exhaust anything this is much easier, than with a chemical or even nuclear engine that has to expell some mass in order to gen...