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We have the best health care system ever!

These are the facts.

January has turned out to be a banner month for fans of American exceptionalism. As documented in voluminous detail in a 404-page report released last week by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, Americans lead shorter lives than Western Europeans, Australians, Japanese and Canadians. Of the 17 countries measured, the United States placed dead last in life expectancy, even though we lead the planet in the amount we spend on health care (17.6 percent of gross domestic product in 2010 vs. 11.6 percent each for France and Germany). We get radically less bang for the buck than comparable nations. If that’s not exceptionalism, I don’t know what is.

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But a funny thing happens to Americans’ life expectancy when they age. The U.S. mortality rate is the highest of the 17 nations until Americans hit 50 and the second-highest until they hit 70. Then our mortality ranking precipitously shifts: By the time American seniors hit 80, they have some of the longest life expectancies in the world.

What gives? Have seniors discovered the Fountain of Youth? Do U.S. geriatricians outpace all our other physicians?

Part of the answer is Darwinian: Those Americans who have been less able to access reliable medical care, maintain good diets and live in neighborhoods that are not prey to gun violence have disproportionately died off before age 80. That isn’t natural selection but social selection — the survival of the economically fittest in a nation that rations longevity by wealth.

But the larger part of the answer is that at age 65, Americans enter a health-care system that ceases to be exceptional when compared with the systems in the other 16 nations studied. They leave behind the private provision of medical coverage, forsake the genius of the market and avail themselves of universal medical insurance. For the first time, they are beneficiaries of the same kind of social policy that their counterparts in other lands enjoy. And presto, change-o: Their life expectancy catches up with and eventually surpasses those of the French, Germans, Britons and Canadians.

It’s funny how quite a few of the people who whine and complain about healthcare for all happen to be in the elderly bracket. Another case if IGMFY.

Are you fucking serious?

What will facebook come up with next? A fucking motherboard design!

And it’s called group hug. O_o

“Group Hug” board: Facebook is contributing a new common slot architecture specification for motherboards. This specification — which we’ve nicknamed “Group Hug” — can be used to produce boards that are completely vendor-neutral and will last through multiple processor generations. The specification uses a simple PCIe x8 connector to link the SOCs to the board.

All in an Overlord's day / Computing / Ramblings

Do you ever feel guilty about all the time you spend online? I don’t.

I was asked recently by one of my elder co-workers how much time I spend online a day. One or two hours they guessed? Hah! I honestly couldn’t tell them (nor would I want to).

It’s kind of difficult to explain to some people that a computer is for more than just gaming or surfing social networking sites. You can easily look at my Steam stats and see what games/apps I’ve been playing and how much time I spend in them. But that’s not all that I do when I’m on here. I do a lot of things that can’t be done in just “one or two hours”.

If you couldn’t tell by reading my blog I follow a lot of things. Sometimes technical, political or whatever stupid thing happens to be taking place (making fun of Facebook like every other day). I have a lot of interests. I follow a lot of sites (RSS or not). I enjoy playing with HTML when I’m in the mood (phpBB would even fall under this category), I also like making movies in Source Filmmaker and Adobe products. I can easily spend several hours doing those alone! That and of course gaming. But even then that can be divided up too. Since I like looking at things from the gamers perspective and the server side perspective depending on the game. For example I like playing with and putting together servers because 1, it’s fun and 2, it’s a learning experience.

I also like looking at modifications and addons. One of the reasons why I liked doing You Can’t Do That On XBox was because I enjoy looking at what people create. Be it good or bad. People are always reviewing new games that are coming out or what game or DLC the companies will be releasing next, which is fine and good. But you don’t really get to see what people mod for PC games (although platforms like Steam have been doing a good job showing these things off in their own right). I’ve shown an interest in this stuff since the early days of DOOM. I still have some old custom WAD files on Floppy discs somewhere around here.

I can do all of this and still manage to go to work, go out partying, or any other real life obligations. So I’m pretty sure my digital polymath antics are not getting in the way of anything. Find your balance.

News

The First Bookless Public Library… In Texas!

The library of the future. Based in the nads of the United States.

It sounds like an oxymoron, but come the fall of 2013, San Antonio’s Bexar County is going to be home to the BiblioTech, the country’s first book-less public library. Of course, there will be books — just e-books, not physical books.

I get it. So THAT’S what the book burnings were for. Making room for e-books. 😀

All in an Overlord's day

Watch what you say. It might come back to haunt you.

10:58 PM – mais4u humps wilddobo13
10:58 PM – wildlobo13: oh god
10:58 PM – mais4u: i know rite
10:58 PM – mais4u: welcome
10:58 PM – mais4u: ;p
10:58 PM – OverlordTomala: lol
10:58 PM – wildlobo13 beats mais with a stick
11:00 PM – wildlobo13: i must have knocked him out
11:00 PM – mais4u: 🙁
11:01 PM – OverlordTomala: You[‘re beating him off with your stick? Well, to each their own 11:02 PM – wildlobo13: omg wats wrong with u pervs 11:03 PM – mais4u: ^^ 11:03 PM – OverlordTomala: Hey you said it not me 11:03 PM – mais4u: im lucky it wasnt hard rite 11:05 PM – wildlobo13 storms out the room 11:11 PM – wildlobo13 peeks back inside

Are you fucking serious? / Clown Shoes2

Stupid Facebook news of the day.

Nothing says put me in jail like stealing tons of jewels then posting about it on facebook…

Investigators combed CCTV footage, which allegedly revealed that Rodriguez had followed the man prior to the attack. Investigators also searched telecommunications and social media, which indicated he left the U.K. with a false passport for a vacation to Rio de Janeiro, then headed to Colombia, investigators said.

Police said his Facebook page was “littered with pictures” of his trip to Rio.

:roll:

Are you fucking serious? / Clown Shoes / Gaming

Dead Island’s bust is a bust.

So, who would like to own their very own ripped apart female torso wearing a bikini of the British flag?

Needless to say I’m not surprised. It’s disturbing without a doubt, but to each their own. My only question is why no male zombified torso? I mean you know… Equality and all.

Oh, there’s also this interesting find.

Last night on the Steam forums, a Dead Island player revealed that he’d discovered a shockingly offensive skill name when digging through the game’s code.

The ability, titled “FeministWh*rePurna” was discovered uncensored in the Data0.pakDatadefault_player_setup.scr file. It is believed to have been an early name for the Gender Wars skill, which gives female character Purna extra damage against male opponents.

Oddly enough, Dead Island was one of the titles I got during the last Steam sale. I haven’t gotten around to playing it yet. But might have to play as that character specifically. :P

Oh how one bit of code can make a difference. :lol:

Are you fucking serious? / Clown Shoes / Humor

Have you heard about the sex bots being outlawed in Canada?

No? Well you and Canada have something in common. Mens Rights Activists are worried about these imaginary sex bots being outlawed in Canada. They made it up so it must be true. :O

You may wonder: Why didn’t I read anything in the papers about this Human-Robot Personal Relationship Act? Why haven’t I heard about this Ministry of Robots and Artificial Intelligence?

Well, you guessed it. Because neither of them exist.

Why can’t these people be pissed off at something that isn’t imaginary?

Before blogging about this I showed it to Yutram who happens to live in Canada. This new “act” hasn’t changed anything for us. The Microsoft USB dildo is just too pricy…

TY1