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theali
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RedSkyThanks!
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oritteropo
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RedSkyThanks again!
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Why Britain Sucks At Product Placement
RedSkyWhat irritates me the most is product placement on news sites.
With everyone using AdBlock I can imagine they're struggling for revenue, but it's frustrating when you see say tech sites previously with good editorial commentary running "XX releases new product" every second post which all read like a press release. Or "xmas gift ideas" articles that are pretty much glossy ad inserts.
oritteropo
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RedSkyTa!
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Who Is Stephen Colbert?
RedSkyA riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
I don't remember my coding, but in the bar graphs I was pretty much exactly down the middle in every category, so I figure I aced it. Totally zen, that's me.
newtboy
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RedSkyMy gratitude to you, oh bringer of fortuitous tidings!
Happy wishes on this anniversary of your eviction from your mothers womb.
chicchorea
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RedSkyThank you
HAPPY BIRTHDAY REDSKY ! ! ! ! ! ! !
...AND MANY MORE ! ! ! ! ! ! !
ENJOY ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Zawash
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RedSkyThanks!
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Crash Course: War and Nation Building in Latin America
RedSky*beg
Health care in Canada
RedSkyInteresting. When free trade agreements are usually about removing corporate interests at an international level like stagnant subsidies and industry handouts, it's sad to see the opposite occurring.
In relation to the TPP, on the anti-piracy side here in Australia you had the conservative Liberal party currently in power attempt to move us towards a three strikes policy, although that seems off the table for now.
Yep, this is currently a big issue with the Trans Pacfic Partnership trade agreement between the US and NZ (among others).
In NZ, there is a government subsidised drug buying agency called Pharmac. It standardises what treatment is used for each disease and as such, buys drugs in bulk at a discount.
The US pharmaceutical industry really wants to get rid of this, so they can shaft NZ like everywhere else, but it would be political suicide to get rid of it.
Health care in Canada
RedSkyOn costs, it's super simple too. In countries who have a single payer system, the government is a monopsony or (near) single buyer with huge market power to bring down price of drugs and treatment. This is primarily why the US health care industry is so deathly afraid of a single payer system and demonized it. The final AHA, to appease the industry, had provisions specifically stating the government would not attempt to push down prices.
Insurance companies and union groups in the US are nowhere near as powerful because of their relative size and can't dictate price. At an individual consumer level there is also no competition because for those with work provided cover, the cost is hidden as an income deduction. Whereas those without cover get hosed with chargemaster prices and as an individual have no ability to contest high prices anyhow.
theali
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RedSkyThank you very much
FlowersInHisHair
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RedSkyWhy, thank you!
Coca Cola vs Coca Cola Zero - Sugar Test
RedSkyAnd both cause tooth erosion! Yay!
Jerry Seinfeld Thinks He Has Autism
RedSkyI think you're kind of saying the same thing as me, just in a different way
Not to me...Seinfeld was about NOT understanding social interaction, but being able to analyze it logically to see the foibles, where normal people never notice them. These are foibles in front of your face daily that you never saw until he points them out....because he thought about it completely differently.