I'm Grandfathered in, for now.

[Bill Sloman]

Sloman is pathetic. He keeps telling us how smart he is and how dumb we are but hasn't been personally productive in decades. He's been trying to build a useless oscillator for 10 years or so now.

I've not worked since 2003, so I've not been all that productive for one decade, not decades, and the useless oscillator really is useless - in the sense that I don't have any immediate application for it - but I started working on it around the 14th February 2012, which is eighteen months ago, not ten years.

Larkin's grip on reality is tenuous. Just as well - he'd have trouble maintaining his inflated ideas about his own competence if he had better understanding of the outside world. It would probably drive him into a lethal depression, and put his employees out of work. Some delusions can be useful.

 

[Greegor]

BS > I've not worked since 2003, so I've not
BS > been all that productive for one decade,

So it's easy for you to promote outright socialism.

 

[Bill Sloman]

BS > I've not worked since 2003, so I've not

BS > been all that productive for one decade,

So it's easy for you to promote outright socialism.

I'm 70 and retired. I'd love to be productive, but it's difficult to arrange.

I was a "socialist" long before I found myself retired - I was an active member of the British Labour Party in Cambridge UK (mainly because I was prepared to mange my ward's membership list on my computer, and printed out a bunch of address labels every month) back when I was very productively employed.

My political opinions haven't changed significantly since then - I was firmly middle-of-the-road Labour then, and wouldn't have voted for the Dutch socialist Party if I'd had a vote in the Netherlands national elections. I did vote for the Dutch Labour Party - Partij van de Arbeid - in the municipalelections where we did have a vote.

Your own ideas about "socialism" are a little hazy, and one wonders what you might think meant by "outright socialism".

 

[Bill Bowden]

On Sunday, 10 November 2013 03:12:19 UTC+11, Joerg wrote:


That's not what I recall. But the claim that they are "subpar" depends on the proposition that the US level of testing represents some kind of gold standard, which isn't true.


The US over-tests, which is expensive - and given the inevitable false positives - not just financially but also in terms of damage to patients.

So, why do so many Canadians come to the US for MRI screening? I hear the US has 35 MRI machines per million while Canada has only 6 or so. Is this a case of the US over-testing people with hypochondria?

-Bill

 

[amdx]

So, why do so many Canadians come to the US for MRI screening? I hear the US has 35 MRI machines per million while Canada has only 6 or so. Is this a case of the US over-testing people with hypochondria?

-Bill

I've told this story here before, but again.
I herniated a disc and was going to see a surgeon,
I went shopping for an MRI. I called a couple places and while on an
errand about 1:30 in the afternoon I stopped to get a quote and they
said $382, I said that's good when can we do it. They ask me if I could
come back at 9pm. I got the MRI 7 and 1/2 hrs after I ask for it.
Turned out I had two herniated discs. I suffered for over 3 years.
3 and 1/2 years later I have little back pain with occasional
bouts of minor sciatica. I never had the surgery.
Mikek

 

[Greegor]

1. He is always well informed. You aren't

Herein read "well indoctrinated"

2. You are a rabid right wing septic. Bill isn't.

Anything right of Karl Marx is to you then.

Septic? LOL

 

[Bill Sloman]

Herein read "well indoctrinated"

I think the distinction that he had in mind was that I often post URLs pointing to the information I want to convey. You could argue with the choice of the URLs and post your own, but you don't.

Anything right of Karl Marx is to you then.

I'm definitely well to the right of Karl Marx - great innovator in economicthought, rotten politician - but since Greegor is more interested in splitting the difference between Hitler and Mussolini, or Nixon and Reagan, thislevel of discrimination is beyond him.

Septic? LOL

Septic tank = yank (American). Peculiarly apt in this particular case.

 

[Greegor]

Sloman is like Obama's version of Baghdad Bob.