SNOW

We have our first snow on the ground for the whole winter so far. It was nice to look out the window at, but then I found our new car doesn't perform so well in it, even with just 2 inches so far. Took me 90 minutes to get the kids off to school and work. The Mrs took the truck today, and I think we're going to have to share it on snow days. Going to try some snow tires on the car, too. Vroom vroom.

 NICE BIG EMPTY SPACE

Going into SL shortly to do some terraforming and testing of the hockey script. We had a Stats site problem yesterday, no one registering as being on the ice, thus statistics such as assists, +/-, and most goaltender stats were incomplete or missing entirely.

The GOHA statistics engine is incredibly detailed, realistic, the first and best of its kind in SL. It does require SL to be communicating well and so that sometimes presents a problem we must solve!

TreeSong

 TRYING TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO WITH RINK

In the meantime, I got caught up in a conversation about healthcare, particularly in the United States, on the SLU forums. 

Jack Belvedere Clearing my cache Edit Status Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: USA Posts: 953

Quote: Originally Posted by Sonja Aeghin  Yeah, well, those lower costs more often than not are the result of government-imposed price controls, which apparently you don't acknowledge. It's not a matter of failing to acknowledge. See Misty's post. Quote: Originally Posted by Seyla Warden  We already pay much more than what a procedure 'really costs'. Yes, exactly, I think that's the area where many people are misunderstanding and blaming government-imposed price controls in other countries, etc. While most of us have some conflicting economic issues with heavy govt-imposed price controls, the numbers don't lie in revealing how poorly the United States' health care system works (both in economy and patient outcome). Even disregarding all the clear data on outcome (which sucks), how can anyone effectively argue that government-imposed price controls are bad when the data clearly shows that other countries both perform and spend significantly better than we do? In the US, almost 20% of the nation is uninsured, and YET: more money per person is spent on health care than any other nation in the world. Yet we rank 50th in life expectancy, 72nd in level of health, have a high infant mortality rate and twice as much healthcare costs as a percentage of the GDP as say, Japan, the UK and Australia. Do you see? All other industrialized countries have better-run health care with more effective and financially solvent results. Does a line need to be drawn? Absolutely! On the United States' profiteering greed.

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SLU is a great site. Gets a little testy like any forum sometimes but fantastic for in-depth conversations on just about any topic and very fairly moderated by the owner, Cristiano Midnight.

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