niczar

Why couldn't you be fucked to spare a couple words to tell us what "Balsamiq" was? I have no idea what it is and, I suspect, neither do 99.99% of those who read this headline.

Look outside the US, and you will find that your solution (primary care done by nurses) isn't unlikely to be the right one.

In France, going to the doctor (general practitioner) costs €22, before insurance (it's €5 or €1 after insurance, the co-pay as you'd call it). It's much cheaper because:

- he didn't have to spend 200k to go to med school, it's free

- he doesn't need 5 employees to fill insurance forms, or waste 2h a day calling insurers -- it's all automagic, no paper involved.

Being unemployed in France is nowhere near as bad as in the US. You get free healthcare and good unemployment benefits.

Typical neoliberal bullshit from The Economist, the magazine who famously blamed the irish for their laziness during the great potato famine.

Let me address a few points:

- The apparently huge unemployment among the youth is meaningless due to the huge enrollment in free higher education. Basically, those 18-24 who are looking for a job are those who wouldn't stay in school, not those who couldn't afford like in the US or even the UK. Not exactly surprisingly, they are not all prime recruiting material.

- Unemployment is defined as (read this carefully) the proportion of people actively looking for a job. This means that if you want to reduce that ratio, you can either give them jobs, or convince them to give up looking, for example by giving them money for not looking. That's what they do in the UK or in the Netherlands (relatively speaking). Guess what we do in France? The exact opposite, we give you plenty of money if you look for a job.

- I'm not entirely sure how blacks in the South have it better than Arabs in France. I'm sure how they don't, though.

In conclusion, this yet another BS piece trying to extoll the theoretical virtues of wage slavery in the face of overwhelming evidence of the contrary.

They can pry my 35h (which have worked to create jobs) from my cold dead hands.

2006

I use the otherwise useless CapsLock key as my compose key. Works like a charm: << « >> » ^0 ° ,c ç `e è "i ï /o ø

Stupid idea. That's what's already done today and it's not good enough: doesn't reflow, doesn't zoom properly, does not work for dynamic texts (eh buddy, ever heard of FUCKING BLOGS?), isn't that great for accessibility, SUCKS a lot for the mobile web, and so on and so forth. Why, oh why do I have to state the fucking obvious here?

Is the "%" key missing from your keyboard? If not, why are you abbreviating "percent" to "pct"?