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True. But if we had a real market where the insurance is disconnected from the vendor (i.e. Like car repair), then you wouldn't have to travel for that. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

RJ, your friend could have had his hip replacement for 25k all in over here (in the US): https://surgerycenterok.com/pricing/total-hip-arthroplasty-hip-replacement-includes-implants/ Of course, that is a cash price and as such reflects the true cost. I think the difference is more about...

I think this has some good info. http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2014/02/media-botching-coverage-netflix-comcast-deal-getting-basics-wrong.html?fb_action_ids=10203141218795374&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582 I think we agree that (effective)...

That would be their monopoly in the last mile, no? Enable robust competition there, and the rest is sorted out for you. If some packet shaping happens that people don't like, and they have viable competition, they will move and the problem will be corrected. You're taking it farther than I...

I don't think torrents are a good comparison, because they utilize a swarm of streams (both directions from a client). Torrents speak more to the baseline utility of the internet than to the specific business/consumer issues that a Netflix brings up. The main issue with Netflix (don't get me...

I'm curious what you all think about this viewpoint (The author ran an ISP in Chicago). http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=3355222 It seems to be similar to the decision to fund a stadium. Not everybody wants to attend the games, but the area would potentially benefit. Perhaps...

Good to know. Thanks!

I have not been able to get the Prime borrowing library to work on the iPad with the Kindle app. It seems you need an actual Kindle device.

According to the 911 call he wasn't just calling about a guy in a hoodie in the rain, he said something like he looked suspicious and "on drugs" and like he was up to something. Race wasn't mentioned until the operator asked. That said, he could have just made up the other stuff and been...

Good post. My guess at the chain of events is similar. I think when you boil everything off it comes down to "assumed profiling of a black kid by a 'white' guy = justified beat-down". Everything after that is trying to square the beat-down against the law saying you can't do that.

What evidence is there that GZ started the physical fight? There is evidence that he called the cops, that he followed TM, and, obviously, that he killed TM, but nothing about who started the fight. There is also evidence (pretty compelling) that places TM on top of GZ providing a beat down...

Whatever (and I think you are nuts, so there). Unlike others, I don't give a flip about my post count. I've been reading the boards for more than a decade and had hundreds of posts on the other board, but I was not concerned that they transferred anywhere. I think they were reset more than...

Your argument makes no sense. It's somehow less of a risk for that teen to put a beat-down on the guy that called the cops (while the cops are en-route) than to just have gone home in the time he could? I thought TM was an "innocent 12 year old with some skittles"...what kind of risk would he...

There is no evidence that GZ instigated the confrontation (aside from "following" or asking a question). The violence started with fists. TM's trust in his physique and fighting skills gave him the "courage" and "bravado" to put a beat-down on someone with lesser skills. Your solution is for...

Wow. Do you honestly believe TM would be dead if that was all he was doing? Nothing at all happened between an innocent walk down the street and being shot dead? It's amazing how many people gloss over the beat-down TM was putting on GZ. Either that, or they just offhand believe TM was...

I'd guess more like 35. I'm 39 and I grew up watching the ACCT in school with teachers wheeling out the cart to do it. That was classic.

The way the article was written, you could definitely come away with the line Mitt gave after a quick skim. I agree, that isn't what the article was saying. "...about making Jeeps in the world’s largest auto market, said Mike Manley...Chrysler hasn’t built Jeeps there since before Fiat took...

This thread is silly. The very first line in the OP is that Romney said "I saw a story today that one of the great manufacturers in this state Jeep — now owned by the Italians — is thinking of moving all production to China,". Unless RJ can prove that Romney didn't see a story that said that...