Cow-orkers

[draconis]

and no, that's not a typo.

I love it when people continue to try to tell me I'm wrong, even when I offer them facts and they have nothing to back up their position.

I just had a long debate with one of my cow-orkers about whether or not International Law was considered part of US Law. I pointed out that the US Supreme Court had repeatedly ruled that International Law was a component of US Domestic Law. He denied that this had ever occured, even when I offered to show him copies of the rulings from those cases.

I only had the information from one of those cases from my International Law course last summer, which I sent to him. I'll be very curious to see what response I get, if any.

Oh, well... just further proof that there's no shortage of idiots in the world.

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[shrewreader.livejournal.com]

Oh, I ran into one of those at the eyeglasses place Saturday.

Never mind that I -know,- and can prove, that every rate that every insurance company negotiates with every provider is an -algebraic function of the medicare rate.-

The medicare rate (AKYB,) is set by the government.

THEREFORE, who is setting the price you pay at the doctor's office -- and de facto, controlling the market price of healthcare?

But no. 'But we negotiate different rates with every company!' means that that can't possibly be true.

This was the same crew that insisted on pulling out lens shapes that contained precisely the element I had objected to in the first set.

I think I will only be going back when the particular person I want to talk to is there from this point forward. these people are too stupid for darwin.