Interesting Links for 02-10-2013

[andrewducker]

• Visualizing the most unisex names in U.S. history
  (tags: names gender usa )
• Note 3’s benchmarking “adjustments” inflate scores by up to 20%
  (tags: fraud samsung )
• Mid-life stress may increase a woman's risk of developing dementia
  (tags: mental dementia stress women )
• This is what happens when you ask a woman to test your games
  (tags: games funny

Comments

[philmophlegm]

Wouldn't "socialized healthcare" be where the healthcare providers were owned by the workers, or at a stretch, the state? So Reagan's requirement that private healthcare providers have to treat people doesn't make that "socialized", but then neither does Medicare, or Obamacare. (And for that matter, neither does the healthcare systems of those developed countries which have private insurance or privately-owned hospitals, unless the owners of the hospitals are the workers.)

[andrewducker]

I think that, in this case, they're using the US definition of "socialized" which means that the government gets to tell you to do something.

After all, if the government tells you that you have to treat people for free then it's effectively taken ownership of some of your means of production.

[cartesiandaemon]

As it was explained to me, in America, "socialism" means "communism" and "communism" means "festering pustule on the nipple of Satan".

[apostle_of_eris]

yes

[apostle_of_eris]

yes