I was looking for a video I'd seen on boing boing that makes the time travel portion easier to understand, but couldn't find it . So I submitted it . Kids Teaching Time Travel.

Let's not even mention the "I'm so cool, jazzy piano with sexy bass line and dj scratching" music. That's the worst part. That, or the British accent to make this seem legitimate. >> ^Xax:

Self-congratulatory assmunches.

So, are there, or aren't there fire ants in Australia?
>> ^dag:

Man, I hope these never make it to Australia- like fire ants.

So the original made me think "oh that's neat" this one made me crack up!

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Missed Wilhelm opportunity at 1:12.


My thoughts exactly while watching this! Of course I'm always thinking "missed Wilhelm".

Is there an " *unnecessarily long " tag?

It's called the "transit" of Mercury. Just being a stickler.

This guy is on my shortlist of possible members for a barbershop quartet.

I really don't like soccer, but I don't like football much either. Upvote for HANDEGG!

5th rule of gun safety - always jump in between a shooter and their target with shovels.

What about the people who don't have good health care? Do we need to raise taxes on people who make over $250k a year to pay for the people who don't have good health care? Why should those that make more money be expected to pay more taxes? I still don't have a good answer for that.

Also, I am already paying for the healthcare of both those too poor to afford healthcare (medicaid) and too old to afford their treatment. (medicare). Also I am paying for the continued welfare of the elderly (social security). I also pay for the healthcare of the members of the national military(unspecified income tax). Interestingly enough I plan to pay for my own health care and my own retirement.

Does my self reliance come across as being totally uncaring?

>> ^conan:
i hope folks aren't so incredibly stupid as to believe that GOP BS. Look around you! Every other industrialized nation has a _working_ healthcare for all their people except the US. Some are better (i.e. the german one as of today but that'll change soon), some could need improvement (i.e. the irish one). But still: They are there, they work. I really wish for US americans that they'll too get a decent healthcare.


I'm a US American, and I have a decent healthcare. Also I pay for it. I don't particularly like the idea of paying for the health care of others. Which is how the people "around me" seem to be doing it.

Maybe I'm jaded because I work in healthcare - I try pretty hard to keep myself healthy. Many of my patients do not try at all, and are now very sad, physically sick people that require all sorts of medical help just to live a normal life.

I also have money saved to pay for medical expenses, the insurance that I have has a very high deductable. That means if there is a medical expense under $8k I pay it out of pocket. That seems reasonable - the health insurance I have is there to cover unexpected costs. If I go to the doctor, I pay the doctor, not my insurance company, not extra taxes. If I take an ambulance ride and need a limb reattached it costs me $8k (pretty reasonable) and the insurance company loses the gamble they took when they wrote the policy for me.

I don't want government provided healthcare because when someone who did not prepare for their eventual decline in health (either by being unhealthy or being unlucky) I will have to pay for it (increased taxes) and then my ability to be prepared for my eventual decline in health will be reduced. Why am I the one paying to keep an unhealthy person treated - when I have to keep myself healthy and pay for my own treatment? It seems a little backwards to me.

You buy car insurance, because you expect that your car won't fail on you. When the car gets really run down and old, the insurance just pays you a fee when it is broken beyond reasonable repair (totaled). The fee gets smaller as the value of your car decreases. Car insurance is profitable.

You buy house/home insurance because should your house suddenly go up in flames, get flooded or some other disaster you will want another home. This statistically happens very infrequently, and home insurance is profitable.

Then you have health insurance- which is weird because every person that buys health insurance will lose all of their health at some point. As you get older, and sicker the care required - medical check ups, medications, medical procedures - increases dramatically. Since this is statistically significant (100% chance) and you increase the costs with time, health insurance is only profitable if you increase costs with care/age/illness (current american system.)

Health and Life insurance should be combined - so that if you get really sick you may get a notice from the insurance company that you have been totaled. (I guess this already happens when they tell you a max compensation statement - or just drop you as a customer.)

It seems heartless, but do you know anyone that isn't going to die someday? - If so the insurance companies need to give that guy a policy!