Let me guess, the OP works at a state college. This is the norm for that environment. I was going to say they we're calling him Google because he didn't know shit, but now I'm guessing his co-workers never look anything up, go home and game, and bitch about the college not paying to train them.
Not really. It is easy to file a lawsuit. You file pleadings, the defendant must answer (no answer = default), and the judge can be asked to rule on the pleadings or make a summary judgement. No court, no lawyers, probably get a judgement against the student which will allow the court to garnish them if the evidence is not in dispute.
The impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is still a mystery. Some provisions of the law are straight-forward, such as the pre-existing conditions clause. We know that people will be able to secure insurance despite their pre-existing medical conditions, which is the way it should be, but what remains to be seen is the overall impact after consumers and insurance companies both seek their greatest advantage by exploiting the letter of the law and that which is not laid out in the actual wording.
It is impossible to craft legislation of this scope to cover every caveat and cost. Big, technical projects often require an incremental approach to tweak the system to near perfection. A big contention and worry is the impact this will have on small businesses. The ACA exempts businesses with less than 50 employees from most penalties, but there are a lot of companies that technically have more than 50 employees across all of their marginally profitable business units.
Restaurants quickly come to mind but there are other businesses in the same position as well. Small restaurant chains are often organized under a single corporation with less than 50 employees at each location, amounting to hundreds of employees spread over the entire organization. In our current economic climate these companies have been struggling to make any profit with a majority of their affluent customers cutting back on unnecessary expenses (eating out). Under the letter of the law these companies will have to pay a penalty on each employee in the corporation who does not have insurance. Most of the employees at a restaurant do not have insurance and a large swath of food service employees are on Medicaid. The ACA also levies a penalty on employers who’s employees are covered by Medicaid.
We might see a couple of things happen. Often, people predict doom and gloom by saying that businesses will just close their doors. This is far from the truth as owners typically do not want to close down a business if there is a chance of making a profit. Instead they will change their business to comply with the letter of the law. First, many will change the status of their employees to avoid insurance penalties, meaning many will be scaled back to part-time status if it results in savings. This already happens quite a bit, SSCC has 384 part-time (39 hours) employees and 93 full-time—it’s cheaper to cycle two employees through a schedule instead of having one full time. Others will reduce the number of employees and perhaps try to use “contractors” for more services and saddle the remaining employees with more work. If I owned a restaurant chain I might try to find a way to reorganize so that each location was its own business unit (corporation), each with less than 50 employees.
Another possibility is that employers would require employees to carry and pay for company sponsored insurance. In a restaurant, this would probably consume two weeks of pay from each employee that had to do that. This is not a solution, but it could very well be forced. There may be a lot of cases brought forth that will test and ultimately tweak the new health care law in this regard.
Besides these scenarios that I mention, the health care law is a very attractive and progressive measure that should have been adopted long ago. One provision that looks good on paper is the 80/20 requirement. Health insurance companies have to spend at least 80% of revenue on premiums. Were they already doing this anyway, I don’t know. Its affect yet remains to be seen. Another striking provision of the ACA lets people buy insurance across state lines, rather it lets insurance companies sell across state lines. I didn’t know this wasn’t possible before, but this should level the playing field of the market and stir up a bit more competition—always a good thing.
Another thing that is very popular is a provision letting “children” stay on a parent’s health
There are some priced at $30000+ per month for cystic fibrosis. A disease which usually renders the sufferer poverty stricken. Not to mention the other drugs that those with CF have to take which cost thousands per month. The state foots the bill. Well, except for the $30000 per month one.
You uneducated fuck. There is no viable argument against capitalism as the good far outweighs any of the, more news worthy, bad.
It is not like infrastructure at all. What corporations are taking care of infrastructure for us? How many are independently researching and manufacturing drugs? I'm not fan-boy'ing for pharma, I'm just saying your diarrhea of the brain needs some remedy. If you are going to rant on something at least come to the keyboard with a half-stable argument.
Yeah, there are tons of anti-psychotics prescribed when most people just need a cheap harmless dose of lithium. A simple metal salt that costs a few cents.
You are confusing advertising and marketing. Advertising is an aspect of marketing. Most of marketing is determining who your customers are, the customer's needs (segment), and where they are (place).
At age 30 my doctor told me I was pre-hypertensive (borderline hypertensive) I asked him what the solution was. He said pill. I said how long do I have to take it. He said "the rest of your life." I said, no thank you, I'll cut the salt and caffeine instead. I made diet changes, blood pressure dropped, no pills. WA-A-AY cheaper, and much less side-effects. He didn't suggest diet changes though. It seems like you have to pull teeth to get nutrition advice from doctors. I've had trouble on several of the very few occasions where I have visited the doctor.
The Drosophila Melanogaster Associtation of America claims their members have been using 750 eyes now for several hundred million years and have filed claims with the US 2nd District Court to seek remedy against Apple's recent patent.
There is obviously a model whereby you can get a patent for anything. For the patent office to make a thorough and accurate examination of every patent application is ludicrous. They let you have pretty much any trivial patent and push the problem on to the courts. The Seventh US District Court just bitch-slapped Apple and Google over trivial patents that they already held and were using for litigation claims. The judge, a well respected legal scholar who's opinion carries a lot of weight in the legal field, said that all software patents are implicitly void (ruling with prejudice). The story is hidden behind the magnificent WSJ pay-wall, but they will let you read it coming in from Google (Google: Silly Apple Google).
WTF are you talking about? Have you ever read the GPL? Oh, no, OK. Why would you have to give someone else your modified code if it is kept within your own infrastructure? Making this a requirement of free software is laughable.
Gravity is the tendency of spacetime to curve in the presence of objects with mass (and/or energy).
No, that is the way we understand it through metaphor based on our very limited perception. Not really a correct description of reality and I would say it even causes us to limit our minds in trying to determine the real cause.The real cause may not even be intellectually quantifiable. Much like we describe light as waves and particles, while our description of the behavior is provable it doesn't mean it is actually a technically correct description. Understanding is limited and based on a small number of behaviors or states of being, where we derive explanation for other things using "it is like." We live and breath metaphor, but lets not start confusing it for truth in every case.
Electricity is an interaction between A and B. A relays charge state to B, interaction. The way electricity is taught through metaphor is technically incorrect.
The criteria for legally stamping Made in USA amounts to cursory assembly. I knew a guy who worked at SENCO (American nail gun manufacturer) who told about how they would ship hardware (nail strips) from Asia, run them through a process to re-glue the nails (nail strips are held together by adhesive) and repackage them as Made in USA. It seems their customer base was adamant about their products being made in the USA. On a side note, I learned that American manufacturing output is higher than it ever has been. It's just that half of the 339,000 American manufacturers only employ 10 or less people each. Our efficiency has increased substantially.
Uh, you are wrong. According to law, as unintuitive and egregious as it may sound, they (corporations) are people under the law. Real people as in those with unalienable rights.
By speech they mean monopoly. REcently Verizon changed their data plans and "signaled" as much to the "market" before doing it. This is public collusion between them and AT&T. They were basically winking to AT&T that they could change their data plans as well. This follows the running standard of raising rates instead of improving infrastructure. This is all fine and good until it is seen that this results in higher prices AND less choices for consumers. Not only that, but they feel they are above the law and this stretching of the freedom of speech argument clearly marks that. Recently, they imposed a $30 fee on people for a free phone upgrade! On their website they had, as usual, plastered FREE on the many certain phones available for those who choose to engage a new two year contract. The catch? When you finally try to close the deal you find their is a newly imposed fee of $30. It is called bait-and-switch and it is illegal. The practice continues and the Attorney Generals look the other way.
All of this has taken place in the midst of record increasing profits. I'm all for profit, which has a clear benefit to society, but the system is also supposed to ensure that prices drop and that consumers have more choices. When you see illegal behavior from these companies fire off a concise one-two paragraph letter (no email) to your Attorney General--citing the factual offense and asking for remedy. If several people do this they will start to pursue these unethical, ungrateful assholes. You can also file your own lawsuit asking for a judgement on pleadings. If you cite factual offenses and provide clear evidence they will be put into a tough position that must be answered and remedied without the need for a trial. You can also petition the AJ for help in this matter as well.
Instead of bitching, we need to start using these simple and effective measures to curtail their abuse of society. I do appreciate their excellent services, but they don't get a free pass to squeeze their customers at every turn. Take a little action.
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those guys have most likely been worn down by the bureaucracy of their environment.
Got my vote.
Don't judge the people around you, learn from them.
Learning helplessness is bad advice.
Let me guess, the OP works at a state college. This is the norm for that environment. I was going to say they we're calling him Google because he didn't know shit, but now I'm guessing his co-workers never look anything up, go home and game, and bitch about the college not paying to train them.
don't create anything
We create demand you insensitive clod!
Not really. It is easy to file a lawsuit. You file pleadings, the defendant must answer (no answer = default), and the judge can be asked to rule on the pleadings or make a summary judgement. No court, no lawyers, probably get a judgement against the student which will allow the court to garnish them if the evidence is not in dispute.
The impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is still a mystery. Some provisions of the law are straight-forward, such as the pre-existing conditions clause. We know that people will be able to secure insurance despite their pre-existing medical conditions, which is the way it should be, but what remains to be seen is the overall impact after consumers and insurance companies both seek their greatest advantage by exploiting the letter of the law and that which is not laid out in the actual wording.
It is impossible to craft legislation of this scope to cover every caveat and cost. Big, technical projects often require an incremental approach to tweak the system to near perfection. A big contention and worry is the impact this will have on small businesses. The ACA exempts businesses with less than 50 employees from most penalties, but there are a lot of companies that technically have more than 50 employees across all of their marginally profitable business units.
Restaurants quickly come to mind but there are other businesses in the same position as well. Small restaurant chains are often organized under a single corporation with less than 50 employees at each location, amounting to hundreds of employees spread over the entire organization. In our current economic climate these companies have been struggling to make any profit with a majority of their affluent customers cutting back on unnecessary expenses (eating out). Under the letter of the law these companies will have to pay a penalty on each employee in the corporation who does not have insurance. Most of the employees at a restaurant do not have insurance and a large swath of food service employees are on Medicaid. The ACA also levies a penalty on employers who’s employees are covered by Medicaid.
We might see a couple of things happen. Often, people predict doom and gloom by saying that businesses will just close their doors. This is far from the truth as owners typically do not want to close down a business if there is a chance of making a profit. Instead they will change their business to comply with the letter of the law. First, many will change the status of their employees to avoid insurance penalties, meaning many will be scaled back to part-time status if it results in savings. This already happens quite a bit, SSCC has 384 part-time (39 hours) employees and 93 full-time—it’s cheaper to cycle two employees through a schedule instead of having one full time. Others will reduce the number of employees and perhaps try to use “contractors” for more services and saddle the remaining employees with more work. If I owned a restaurant chain I might try to find a way to reorganize so that each location was its own business unit (corporation), each with less than 50 employees.
Another possibility is that employers would require employees to carry and pay for company sponsored insurance. In a restaurant, this would probably consume two weeks of pay from each employee that had to do that. This is not a solution, but it could very well be forced. There may be a lot of cases brought forth that will test and ultimately tweak the new health care law in this regard.
Besides these scenarios that I mention, the health care law is a very attractive and progressive measure that should have been adopted long ago. One provision that looks good on paper is the 80/20 requirement. Health insurance companies have to spend at least 80% of revenue on premiums. Were they already doing this anyway, I don’t know. Its affect yet remains to be seen. Another striking provision of the ACA lets people buy insurance across state lines, rather it lets insurance companies sell across state lines. I didn’t know this wasn’t possible before, but this should level the playing field of the market and stir up a bit more competition—always a good thing.
Another thing that is very popular is a provision letting “children” stay on a parent’s health
There are some priced at $30000+ per month for cystic fibrosis. A disease which usually renders the sufferer poverty stricken. Not to mention the other drugs that those with CF have to take which cost thousands per month. The state foots the bill. Well, except for the $30000 per month one.
money-grubbing capitalists
You uneducated fuck. There is no viable argument against capitalism as the good far outweighs any of the, more news worthy, bad.
It is not like infrastructure at all. What corporations are taking care of infrastructure for us? How many are independently researching and manufacturing drugs? I'm not fan-boy'ing for pharma, I'm just saying your diarrhea of the brain needs some remedy. If you are going to rant on something at least come to the keyboard with a half-stable argument.
Whoa now, Viagra does address a real problem! What if you were so fat you couldn't get it up anymore!? Viagra could be a real benefit then. You suck!
Yeah, there are tons of anti-psychotics prescribed when most people just need a cheap harmless dose of lithium. A simple metal salt that costs a few cents.
You are confusing advertising and marketing. Advertising is an aspect of marketing. Most of marketing is determining who your customers are, the customer's needs (segment), and where they are (place).
At age 30 my doctor told me I was pre-hypertensive (borderline hypertensive) I asked him what the solution was. He said pill. I said how long do I have to take it. He said "the rest of your life." I said, no thank you, I'll cut the salt and caffeine instead. I made diet changes, blood pressure dropped, no pills. WA-A-AY cheaper, and much less side-effects. He didn't suggest diet changes though. It seems like you have to pull teeth to get nutrition advice from doctors. I've had trouble on several of the very few occasions where I have visited the doctor.
The Drosophila Melanogaster Associtation of America claims their members have been using 750 eyes now for several hundred million years and have filed claims with the US 2nd District Court to seek remedy against Apple's recent patent.
Do you have a newsletter?
There is obviously a model whereby you can get a patent for anything. For the patent office to make a thorough and accurate examination of every patent application is ludicrous. They let you have pretty much any trivial patent and push the problem on to the courts. The Seventh US District Court just bitch-slapped Apple and Google over trivial patents that they already held and were using for litigation claims. The judge, a well respected legal scholar who's opinion carries a lot of weight in the legal field, said that all software patents are implicitly void (ruling with prejudice). The story is hidden behind the magnificent WSJ pay-wall, but they will let you read it coming in from Google (Google: Silly Apple Google).
Therefore he is from Texas for political purposes. Geesh.
....and that is why I've never heard of it.
WTF are you talking about? Have you ever read the GPL? Oh, no, OK. Why would you have to give someone else your modified code if it is kept within your own infrastructure? Making this a requirement of free software is laughable.
Gravity is the tendency of spacetime to curve in the presence of objects with mass (and/or energy).
No, that is the way we understand it through metaphor based on our very limited perception. Not really a correct description of reality and I would say it even causes us to limit our minds in trying to determine the real cause.The real cause may not even be intellectually quantifiable. Much like we describe light as waves and particles, while our description of the behavior is provable it doesn't mean it is actually a technically correct description. Understanding is limited and based on a small number of behaviors or states of being, where we derive explanation for other things using "it is like." We live and breath metaphor, but lets not start confusing it for truth in every case.
Electricity is an interaction between A and B. A relays charge state to B, interaction. The way electricity is taught through metaphor is technically incorrect.
If I drink a bunch of coffee I get real tired.
The criteria for legally stamping Made in USA amounts to cursory assembly. I knew a guy who worked at SENCO (American nail gun manufacturer) who told about how they would ship hardware (nail strips) from Asia, run them through a process to re-glue the nails (nail strips are held together by adhesive) and repackage them as Made in USA. It seems their customer base was adamant about their products being made in the USA. On a side note, I learned that American manufacturing output is higher than it ever has been. It's just that half of the 339,000 American manufacturers only employ 10 or less people each. Our efficiency has increased substantially.
If I can't thread-jack, I don't comment. Period.
Uh, you are wrong. According to law, as unintuitive and egregious as it may sound, they (corporations) are people under the law. Real people as in those with unalienable rights.
By speech they mean monopoly. REcently Verizon changed their data plans and "signaled" as much to the "market" before doing it. This is public collusion between them and AT&T. They were basically winking to AT&T that they could change their data plans as well. This follows the running standard of raising rates instead of improving infrastructure. This is all fine and good until it is seen that this results in higher prices AND less choices for consumers. Not only that, but they feel they are above the law and this stretching of the freedom of speech argument clearly marks that. Recently, they imposed a $30 fee on people for a free phone upgrade! On their website they had, as usual, plastered FREE on the many certain phones available for those who choose to engage a new two year contract. The catch? When you finally try to close the deal you find their is a newly imposed fee of $30. It is called bait-and-switch and it is illegal. The practice continues and the Attorney Generals look the other way.
All of this has taken place in the midst of record increasing profits. I'm all for profit, which has a clear benefit to society, but the system is also supposed to ensure that prices drop and that consumers have more choices. When you see illegal behavior from these companies fire off a concise one-two paragraph letter (no email) to your Attorney General--citing the factual offense and asking for remedy. If several people do this they will start to pursue these unethical, ungrateful assholes. You can also file your own lawsuit asking for a judgement on pleadings. If you cite factual offenses and provide clear evidence they will be put into a tough position that must be answered and remedied without the need for a trial. You can also petition the AJ for help in this matter as well.
Instead of bitching, we need to start using these simple and effective measures to curtail their abuse of society. I do appreciate their excellent services, but they don't get a free pass to squeeze their customers at every turn. Take a little action.
I saw no comparison with iGoogle. Tried it, probably never going back.