a patriot confronts the specter of socialized health care

[cola_fan]

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[oniugnip]

:D

Also: in Spain, do beginning CS students have an easier time dealing with linked lists? That's a beautiful approach -- no need to keep the queue encoded physically.

[cola_fan]

You anticipated my explanation. Arrays no more!

[lindseykuper]

That's a beautiful approach -- no need to keep the queue encoded physically.

Will you go out with me?

[cola_fan]

you guys are adorable

[britta43]

Socialized Medicine that works? I thought that was impossible!!

[cola_fan]

I think it depends on how you do it.

[lindseykuper]

Ow! I can't really tell what's wrong from the picture, but losing the use of a finger certainly doesn't sound fun.

Also, until now I never thought about how, in Spanish, even the "Doctor" title is gendered.

[cola_fan]

Nothing broken. Things should be fine in about a week, when the inflammation should go away.

Yes, besides the gendered-ness of the Latin languages. Did you know there are laws here that prohibit gender-ambiguous names? An excerpt from a recent law of names that restates a point from a 1957 law of names:

LEY 40/99, de 5 de Noviembre sobre NOMBRE Y APELLIDOS
http://procuradores-alicante.com/ley%20NOMBRE%20Y%20APELLIDOS.htm

Quedan prohibidos los nombres que objetivamente perjudiquen a la persona, así como los diminutivos o variantes familiares y coloquiales que no hayan alcanzado sustantividad, los que hagan confusa la identificación y los que induzcan en su conjunto a error en cuanto al sexo.

They remain prohibited those names that would objectively damage the person, like diminutives or familiar variants or colloquialisms that have not achieved permanence, those that would make confusing the identification (of said person), and those that would lead to an error with account of the sex (of the person).

[lindseykuper]

Wild! I've also read that there are strict laws on naming in Germany, although I think that those laws have more to do with prohibiting profanity.