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Exactly. Look what liberal policies did to Afghanistan.

If you can find a bug in VB6, then yes, it will never be fixed. And you're right in that it won't support new features. However, I've seen the update cycles for Microsoft software and having a fully patched compiler is a huge benefit compared to the poor quality of development tools they cycle...

VB6 is also debugged and it has completed its service pack cycle. Bugs that will exist for years in .net have been eliminated in VB6. Having said that, though, it depends on what the program needs to do. If, for example, it needs to feed keystrokes into another application, VB6 would be...

It's interesting how similar your approach has been to mine. I run a variant of NN's and used a Pearson correlation coefficient to select inversely correlated NN predictions.

You need to study portfolio allocation. I recommend Ralph Vince. Although you don't want to use the original optimal-f as written, his book Portfolio Management Formulas is an excellent introduction to the mathematics of risk and optimal portfolio growth. A bit of reading is preferable to...

It's a simple, simple question about borders and distances. I can understand why you can't answer it.

Hellodollar and you are not the same poster? If not, I apologize, however it's hard to tell your posts apart given that they contain the exact same, incorrect, content. Is the 100,000 earner incorporated? Because if he is, Canada's the place to be. I'm sorry, but you have to prove that...

So you think more people are going to fly across an ocean to the US for medical care than will drive an hour across the border to Switzerland for medical care?

Anecdotes are factoids. You claim that most foreigners travel to the US for the best medical care, which, naturally, you can't prove. I will, for devil's advocate purposes, say it's Switzerland since you can't post even a single national statistic in support of your claim. Meanwhile a 2008...

Actually, I think most people travel to Switzerland. Since you're spouting an unsourced factoid, I don't believe that either one can be disproved. Actually the 9/11 firemen who had severe respiratory problems due to the dust after 9/11 were brought to Cuba and treated, for free as they...

Ah, I see you wish to run away screaming from your previous point that workers would only save "$4" on the "$1000" that they pay for health insurance per year. Changing the topic to the bill itself is an excellent choice for you at this point. The bill has a variety of methods in it to...

Red herring. The bill does not, however that doesn't allow you to escape from the gaping maw of the point. The point being that cost efficiencies are gained through a wide variety of approaches and using only one measure (and with incomplete numbers at that) for "profit" and claiming that cost...

Yes, it would be easy for me to do the math, wrong. You're making two errors: 1) Getting the real profit margin incorrect, and 2) not accounting for cost reductions outside of solely profit margin. Taking Wellpoint as one, simple, example: "investigators had received internal company...

The average yearly payments for a family is something around $13000 a year right now, not $1000 a year. <img...

Again, as I already pointed out, when the public is polled regarding each benefit of the health care bill they are in favor of it. It is similar to when the public is polled about whether or not gays should have equal rights, they're against it, however when they're polled if gay couples...

I've worked in both the US and Canada and the tax rates were comparable in Canada (or even less if you compare Alberta to a state with a higher state tax.) Additionally, getting back to health care, there is no metric where any state health care metric outperforms even the entirety of Canada...

I believe the headline is from the time period of Obama's quote about the "majority of Americans" wanting the bill, so the article is timely. In addition, as the article points out, any bill with a public option and medicare buy-in gets majority support. Furthermore when polls are conducted...

Ten seconds of Googling regarding a bill that includes a Medicare buy-in and a public option... Public option gains support CLEAR MAJORITY NOW BACKS PLAN http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/19/AR2009101902451.html

Well that's an out-of-context statistic. In order to know if the bill has the preference of Americans, you really have to know if more Americans prefer it to the status quo. Ie. do Americans see it as a positive change, or a negative change. I'm just trying to explain the most simple...

In order to evenly compare statistics, how many people polled supported the 39% health insurance premium increases, ie. the status quo?