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    Top Defense Officials Seek to End ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

    We were in the same war 4 years ago that we are in now (and probably will still be in another 4 years). Secondly how does that change the rights of gays and lesbians in the military? Why should they not be treated equally to anyone else?
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    NASA grounded

    I think you hit the nail on the head here. The best of the best are willing to work for NASA for not a whole lot of money because they are idealistic and like the idea that they are advancing man kind and knowledge in general. However if you want those same people to work for Lockheed...
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    Alberta parents fight to keep hospital from removing life support.

    Where do you think those grants come from? Usually the government. Unless your area is significantly different from the rest of the US, most of the cost of the uninsured is borne by the government: How Much Medical Care Do The Uninsured Use, And Who Pays For It? -- Hadley and Holahan...
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    NASA grounded

    So far Virgin Galactic has put no one in space, so any claims otherwise would be pure speculation.
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    Alberta parents fight to keep hospital from removing life support.

    I am aware that hospitals have charity patients. However, the majority of the costs of uninsured patients is borne by the government and the hospitals themselves. Even in the case of hospitals seeing charity patients, where do you think the money comes from?
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    Alberta parents fight to keep hospital from removing life support.

    The vast majority of costs for the uninsured rest on the government and hospitals, not benevolent donors.
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    Alberta parents fight to keep hospital from removing life support.

    Then you (or the hospital) are incredibly lucky. Do you really think benevolent foundations pay for all such cases?
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    NASA grounded

    Private space flight is WAY behind NASA. I agree with scrapping the moon landing projects, they were going to achieve very little, however I disagree with handing the study and exploration of space over to private industry. Private industry just isn' there yet.
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    NASA grounded

    How many people has Virgin Galactic put in space? How many weather satellites have they launched?
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    Alberta parents fight to keep hospital from removing life support.

    The two issues you talk about below are intimately related. It is not a simple as this baby is using a NICU bed therefore some other baby will die. But it is an issue of resources. The money being spent on this baby is not being spent elsewhere on health care. It is not like the insurance...
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    NASA grounded

    I don't think that is a "fact". It is an ideology and an opinion. And so far it has not proven to be true.
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    NASA grounded

    That doesn't seem to stop all the other commercial airspace users, Boeing etc. Notice that in your list almost none of these projects are actually operational? I do think that routine orbital payload launches should be left to commercial operators. But the commercial operators are no...
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    NASA grounded

    How is that?
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    NASA grounded

    Really? There is nothing stopping anyone from having there very own space program right now, yet we haven't seen any private company put a man in orbit (something the public sector did almost 50 years ago), why not?
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    Alberta parents fight to keep hospital from removing life support.

    Not me, the same people who are responsible for keeping the person alive. There seems to be this huge disconnect with modern medicine, we trust doctors to make decisions to keep people alive all the time, but we don't trust them not to make those decisions.
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