Further, I maintain that the insurance requirement has nothing to do with taxation until we note that its dollar-amount will soon appear on a W2, and that businesses will receive tax credits for their efforts.

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Although we'll have to wait until the second half of the year before HMC 1.0 products appear in earnest, the Consortium already has a next-gen blueprint due in early 2014 that should nearly double individual data link speeds (from 15Gbps to 28Gbps).

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