Mumblefratz

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[quote]A verification of honesty by the people paying for his results is pretty worthless. If he's altered his findings for their funding, they'll be the last people to dispute them.[/quote]A Parliamentary inquiry is a pretty big fucking deal. Certainly if such an inquiry found any evidence of wrong doing you would have been all over it like stink on shit. But given that Parliament *totally* exonerated Phil Jones, all you're left with is sour grapes. Deal with it.

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[quote]Interesting.[/quote][quote]Indeed.[/quote]Mind telling us where you're quoting from?

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[quote]If it's really that big of a deal I'll remove the Off-Topic forum (capital T) from GalCiv2 entirely to reduce confusion (and possibly merge the posts to the Off-topic forum (lowercase t)).[/quote]No one thing is a "big deal", heck even the cumulative total of all these things are not that big of a deal. In the case of the two off-topic forums I do think merging and deleting of forum/349 probably does make sense. Also did you go take a look at the two forums I pointed ou

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[quote who="narbytrout" reply="251" id="2579308"]Mumblefratz, I did what I said I did, except you need to add one step... after going to your member page, click "Wincustomize Site" above the avatar. [/quote]Finally. Thanks. As I had mentioned: [quote who="Mumblefratz" reply="248" id="2578690"] ... the links that are accessible from your profile page are different based on which of Stardock's 12 or more forum sites you're accessing these forums from. So th

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Look here. http://forums.demigodthegame.com/forum/484 Demigod News or here. http://forums.demigodthegame.com/forum/485 Game Journals Try to find out "where" you are. Or on any site use the following link to see what "invisible" forums exist on that site.

Reply to can we please do some sort of forum consolidation? in Forum Issues JoeUser Forums

[quote]Much of those are the same forums, only accessed from different sources [sites].[/quote]Yes and no. There are "invisible" forums that are not on any sites top forum list and cannot be navigated to by any conventional means but when and if new threads get created in them or replies added to existing threads they scroll by on a number of sites recents posts lits. There many strange duplications of close but not exactly the same forums. There are forums that seem to be rel

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I think the man has a legitimate point about forum consolidation. http://forums.demigodthegame.com/ https://forums.elementalgame.com/ https://forums.galciv2.com/ http://forums.impulsedriven.com/ https://forums.joeuser.com/ <a h

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Climate Scientist Phil Jones Exonerated by British House of Commons "The British House of Commons today issued a report exonerating Professor Phil Jones, the director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. Dr. Jones was embroiled in controversy following the theft of internal emails and documents from the University&rs

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[quote]Click on the member name. You should now have a drop down menu, and the first choice should be " view narbytrout's profile"--- click on that, it will take you to my member page.[/quote]Yes of course, everyone knows that. However your motto is not on that page and the links that are accessible from that page are different based on which of Stardock's 12 or more forum sites you're accessing these forums from. So the question is from which site did you access my member page that y

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[quote]they haven't proven that it's lack of insurance that is the 'cause' in the first place, only that there is an association.[/quote]In the same way that there is an association between smoking and death, but of course cigarettes aren't *proven* to be harmful. Just as statins aren't *proven* to reduce heart attacks and strokes, and on and on and on. So do you prescribe statins for your patients with high level's of ldl or not? Do you recommend that your patients

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[quote]That is a false statement, for which no scientific evidence exists. It is an extrapolated guess based on an association. I know the ears are deaf, but I repeat "Association is not causation." There is no evidence that 45,000 uninsured people would not have died had they been insured last year.[/quote]Fine, Then *you* publish a study disproving the referenced study. "Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published onli

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[quote]If you click a person's username, you get a dropdown with several choices. The top one sends you to their profile. So he meant he was looking at this page[/quote]Yeah that page is pretty consistent regardless of which site you view it from. However your profile page does not display your motto, unless I'm missing something. It used to be different when the sites were a bit more independent which is why I asked if there was some other way to view someone's motto, since it doesn'

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[quote]But they are obligated to assist in enrolling that individual who needs on-going care in Medicaid or its equivalent (they also have a financial interest in doing so). A large percentage of Medicaid patients enter the system this way, and they are able to get Chemo &/or Radiation Therapy if needed once enrolled. I suspect you know this.[/quote]Yes I do. Just as you know that stabilization is not in *all* cases totally equivalent to the care someone would receive if they had insuranc

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[quote]Some people just can't google. REALLY[/quote]"In 1986, Congress enacted the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA) to ensure public access to emergency services regardless of ability to pay. Section 1867 of the Social Security Act imposes specific obligations on Medicare-participating hospitals that offer emergency services to provide a medical screening examination (MSE) when a request is made for examination or treatment for an emergency medical condition (EMC), includi

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[quote]I looked at your member page[/quote]You mean my Metaverse Profile page? http://metaverse.galciv2.com/?g=sdnetaccount&acid=2547964 Or is there some other way to view this?

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[quote]Mumblefratz... I looked at your member page because I was wondering if your age was on there. [/quote]Yes, my age is there and is in fact correct. 57. [quote]How can someone so full of energy concerning "sharing of the wealth", ie. we should all pitch in and pay for everyone to have health coverage, post on his member page as his motto "He that would not work should not eat"?[/quote]That's my Lutheran upbringing showing. While I am not a particularly religious person, personall

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[quote]yes I made a mistake though as it was unintentional.[/quote]Don't get your panties in a bunch. A simple oops, my bad, is sufficient. The thing that made it funny and worth comment was the fact that you followed it up with what you said 2 replies later. Without the latter I might not have even noticed to former. [quote]So in the end, this whole problem: The "Health Care Law" will be found unconstitutional at it's core. Guaranteed.[/quote]So you guarantee it? Wow. Is this a

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[quote who="Daiwa" reply="216" id="2576345"]I'm with narby - neither health insurance nor medical care is a 'basic human right'. And, yes, that was some of kingbee's classic oblique humor. Richard - where ya been? [/quote]Actually you would be with Jacob G. Hornberger who is the real author of the article "Health Care Is Not a Right" which narby plagiarized without acknowledgement. Which makes the f

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[quote]we must force government to keep its hands off medicare,[/quote]Huh? This is a joke right? Making fun of the teabaggers signs that said "Keep your government off my Medicare", as if Medicare wasn't a totally run government program to begin with? If you are being literal here then there is no danger whatsoever that there will ever be any success at eliminating or privatizing either Medicare or Social Security. Any party that really tried it would be voted out of office f

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[quote]You need to do a much better job generalizing, then. I know damn well several comments about that have been directed at me personally. I expect more shortly.[/quote]My comment was more directed at Daiwa's response to Starkers reply. Basically my point was that insults are usually explicit enough that you don't need to wonder whether or not something was an insult. If you're getting to the point where you're *assuming* an insult was *implied* then perhaps your skin is st

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[quote]I wish we applied the standard we would wish for ourselves to others.[/quote]You mean do unto others as we would have others do unto us? Yeah. Wouldn't that be something. [edit] I hate "turning the page" on a significant post because I'm afraid that by doing so it will be missed. To anyone that missed my reply #200 I would request that you take the time to go back and give it a read. Thanks. [/edit]

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[quote][quote]Now if more people in the world would look beyond self and see the bigger picture. The necessary implication that folks who disagree with you about how to go about helping others in need means they only think of themselves is insulting and wrong. [/quote]Thing is, some tar themselves with that brush, by their own words and simply by refusing to participate in life outside their own egos, wants, needs and desires. [/quote]I'm pretty sure Daiwa's point was that just becaus

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[quote who="starkers" reply="191" id="2575646"]@ Mumblefratz Not too many in this thread have actually made sense regarding health care, in fact, some just came in to engage in a political pissing contest, but I do like your way of thinking here and commend you for your compassion and humanity.[/quote]I definitely appreciate the support. It's for the occasional comment like this that I willing suffer the insults and denigrations that are my typical reward.

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[quote who="Daiwa" reply="188" id="2575611"]The degree of disgust in which you hold the values of individual autonomy & self-determination is itself disgusting. [/quote]And you lecture me about ascribing motivations to people. I'm all for individual autonomy & self-determination. Just not to the extent that others should be left to suffer and die just so that I can save a nickel on my taxes. You might try reading some Locke and Rousseau instead of leaning so heavily on