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2013 WILL SOON be upon us.
Most of us can see that 2012′s four big trends will get bigger next year: mobile, social, cloud, and big data.
Market-research company IDC has gone one further, predicting how these trends will unfold next year—to the tune of billions of dollars.
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Someone who arrives at an A&E with an alcohol related illness might think twice about clogging up valuable resources if they were sent a nice hefty bill for the pleasure. It’s the only way to knock some sense into some people.
Point taken
I’ll drink to that!
Why are you assuming that a person in hospital because of alcohol related issues must be on the dole ??? Very small minded
read my comment again Erin….I said that you pay (if you are working) ,and if you are not working then your dole gets reduced by some ammount. How is that small minded? Its a fair approach to ensure everyone pays something and thereby learns to take responsibility for the consequences of their drunken bed blocking!!
interesting statistics, I’d quite like to see the numbers associated to the percentages, you have to keep in mind that men don’t have bed days associated with child birth which might push the women’s numbers down artificially.
and the cost of Cannabis-related illness was……
A New York type “Trunk Tank” might be a better deterrent.
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