tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post3192664776112941598..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: TOF and the FootpathTheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-69846085670732756572016-05-02T22:15:09.884-04:002016-05-02T22:15:09.884-04:00I think it's pronounced "Dritbts", b...I think it's pronounced "Dritbts", but dabbling in Slavic languages has destroyed my conception of how many consonants in a row is "pronounceable".Sophia's Favoritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871625814389904112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-69479310262288947822016-04-29T09:42:46.702-04:002016-04-29T09:42:46.702-04:00dermot,
Called in because they were doing a study...dermot,<br /><br />Called in because they were doing a study has nothing to do with the healthcare system as normally funtioning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-67429103498376157732016-04-26T09:39:56.743-04:002016-04-26T09:39:56.743-04:00Clearly the DRJTBC is pronounced like "dirtbi...Clearly the DRJTBC is pronounced like "dirtbike".Eriknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-31584233213888784432016-04-22T12:47:09.615-04:002016-04-22T12:47:09.615-04:00"The only way to ensure that the Plan is foll..."The only way to ensure that the Plan is followed is to enforce the following of it with penalties, fines, and rewards for good behavior."<br /><br />I'm always *not* reading about such stories in the UK. The suggestion that the NHS is punishing people for having unhealthy lifestyles is daft. And don't confuse the jerry rigged ACA with 'socialism'.<br /><br />The Irish system is a lot more socialist than the US. My dad's diabetes was diagnosed by the family doctor calling to him to come in for a free check ("we're doing a study on men of your age"). Caught his diabetes in the early stages, he's alive and healthy. Boooo, Socialismsms.<br /><br />And going from Bernie to Stalin (Joseph), hoo-eee. <br /><br />Too much 'logic' here for one day. I'm out.dermothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10814535373795945000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-37138508674290306032016-04-22T12:44:49.408-04:002016-04-22T12:44:49.408-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.dermothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10814535373795945000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-5883884413913583902016-04-17T12:20:46.272-04:002016-04-17T12:20:46.272-04:00"..the phalanx of toll booths by which people..."..the phalanx of toll booths by which people had to pay to leave New Jersey." When I first moved to the Bay Area - "San Francisco and its suburbs: as Herb Caen called it - I quickly noticed that one paid to get into San Francisco and away from Oakland (tolls are only collected in one direction, we being less enlightened, toll-maximization-wise, than New York and its suburbs). Like New Jersey, there are many nice things about Oakland; like New Jersey, one wonder if, on balance the good stuff can outweigh the negatives - e.g., Newark. <br /><br />Compounding the inadequacy of planning when brought in contact with real people is the attractiveness to some people of the opportunity to do the required enforcing. You start with the avuncular Bernie, but to make it work in the logically complete sense one needs the avuncular in nickname only Stalin.Joseph Moorehttps://yardsaleofthemind.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-74298309601884803252016-04-17T00:26:26.875-04:002016-04-17T00:26:26.875-04:00Frequently, the issue is that they fail to have so...Frequently, the issue is that they fail to have someone who <i>isn't</i> deeply in the same line of thought as themselves check their plan. <br /><br />See, for example, various studies that show that the "zipper" method of merging works best for traffic... which carefully avoided checking the differences between places where the lane ACTUALLY ENDS soon after the "lane ends, merge left" sign, the high speed "lane ends" with a normal distance and the low speed "lane ends" with a long distance. (they always get applied to low speed, long distance merges... usually by people who jump out of the right lane, zip up to the front, and get pissed nobody let them in)Foxfierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10161683096247890834noreply@blogger.com