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Comment It costs money to get money from people (Score 1) 240

It is going to cost your hospital money to get money from people without insurance. If you can get some money from them right now even if it is much less than your costs you do it. In the end you would probably spend more money (money and staff time are the same thing) than you would getting trying for a large amount later. Hospitals make their money from insurance companies and insurance companies are will to do this for at least two reason. #1 Insurance companies are paid to give people access to hospitals so keeping hospitals in business is a good idea. #2 It is really not the insurance companies money as they are all selling basically the same regulated product and it is no difference to them if they have to raise prices to cost paying hospitals more.

The incentives are all messed up and this is not defense of the current US system.

Comment Re:Guns actually protect people (Score 3, Informative) 191

It is also worth noting that British crime data is fiddled with at every level all the way up to Scotland Yard. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Also murders in England and Whales are only counted after arrest, conviction, retrial and been jailed. This is unlike literally every other country where "Dude he was murdered and we do not know the killer" is the rule to count as a murder.

Comment Re:Tasers? (Score 1) 712

A puffy jacket also works well. Before you say 'shoot for the legs' you should know that taser are not super accurate and the chest is a nice big target to hit. Also tasers are not as incapacitating as people think. There is a video (that I can not find) of an officer being tased and still drawing and firing accurately as part of a demonstration. Also once the taser runs out of batter power you come out of it pretty quick unless your hart gave out and you are dead.

Comment Canvas LMS is open source (Score 1) 49

They provide support and hosting both of which you can do yourself. Some schools host it themselves for legal data reasons and some do it if they are in a geo location that Instructure does not provide support in. They explicitly that their business model is providing better support than you or someone else can. SO far they are doing pretty well and because you can host your own copy it is much easier to both test and build integrations. It is also helpful when trying to debug something.

Comment Re:The DEA is just doing their job (Score 1) 577

Nope they do not prohibit possession of firearms. They are restricted in a number of ways and concealed carry generally is not allowed. That said there are plenty of fully automatic rifles in the hands of criminals and others. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
banning something has little effect on the non law abiding. Look at the speed limits in the US they are designed with the assumption that they will be broken by people going about 7% over the posted limit.

Comment Re:Wait.. (Score 1) 716

I would rather live in a society where the assholes would stand behind their words so she could give them the swift kick to the junk that they need. They have not received the negative feed back to their actions that they need to become members of society.

Comment Re:I won't be buying one... (Score 2) 632

Pistols and most other firearms are made to function for tens of thousands rounds with out parts wearing out. Here is an example of a pistol being fired 50,000 times with cleanings at every 7,000 rounds and a few springs at each 10,000 proactively. Nothing was broken during that time. This an extreme case but he has done this with a number of other models and has gotten similar (but not quite as good) results.
http://pistol-training.com/archives/4027

Firearms that have been used for generations and that are still functioning fine are the norm and not the exception.

As to ammunition contamination we are a 100 years since getting your powder wet was an issue. Modern brass cased cartridges are pretty well sealed up solid with crimping of both the primers and actual bullet. In the case of defensive and military ammunition they add extra sealant sometimes for an extra measure. For an example of how little effect even things like penetrating oil has read the following.
http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot39.htm

Comment Have the police and military use it first. (Score 1) 632

Given that most firearms technology starts with the military and then spreads out to the civilan market Congress should require this technology for the military. Also since the police are becoming most militarized they should also use. When it is good enough for the Special Forces and the Secret Service protective details I might consider it.

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