Obamacare has resulted in health care benefits to some people, but the rates have doubled or even trippled for others.
For the insurance companies, the best thing about Obamacare is that it gave them a convenient foil. It allowed them to raise premiums like they were going to without the ACA, and just like they had before the ACA was passed, but now they can blame "Obamacare" as if they weren't going to raise prices and gouge customers if the law was never passed.
You can stop people from distributing and charging money for it.
How? How do they stop people from hosting it off of some sketchy website in a country that ignores their lawsuits? They can't even stop private WoW servers that charge for access (or "donations"), no way would they be able to stop something as easy-to-distribute as this.
So your suggestion is just to let terrorists do their thing and don't worry about them?
The suggestion is that we don't terrorists change our way of life, and we don't compromise our cherished freedoms and ideals because we're scared of the big bad middle-eastern boogeyman.
If they release the source, then someone else gets to make the new graphics pack - maybe even improve on the game itself (imagine that!) - and Blizzard doesn't get a cut.
If only there were licenses that prohibit distribution of modified software.
Once the genie is out of the bottle, you're not shoving him back in again. Once the source is out, you can't take it back, and you can't stop others from doing anything they like with it and distributing it.
None of my friends that play RTSs will touch SC2 with a ten foot pole. It just isn't as good as the original. Or at least wasn't.
I'm not sure about that; its interface is definitely far better than SC1's, allowing for more control and group bindings, and eschewing SC1's ridiculously low group limits. Half the time I played that game I felt I was struggling against the interface as much as against the Zerg.
Oh, with Trump climate change just.. goes away? Burying your head in the sand doesn't work. It never has. At some point you have to accept reality, because reality will not pity your ignorance.
You're easily tricked, and likely think yourself clever for seeing through the smoke and mirrors you think are there, but to paraphrase Feynman, "reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
Seems like many (if not all) companies no longer care about the long term stability of their company. They have all become so obsessed with short term profits that you have to wonder if any of them care at all about the 'big picture'?
They care just fine. Maybe they looked at the big picture and found this was the way to long-term profitability. Are they wrong? The market has shown no signs of punishing them, most people don't care or just shrug their shoulders when they hear, and after the third-party suppliers die, most people will forget that the company even banned third-party suppliers.
I wouldn't expect the courts to reverse this either.
Does it have the full dvd complete with unskippable preroll ads and warnings or is it a stripped down copy with just the movie?
Unfortunately they often have stripped down versions (no extras), but stripped down doesn't mean it doesn't have preroll ads and warnings. They'll always find room for those.
That said, I can't remember the last time I got a dvd/bluray with unskippable ads. At the very least, I can fast-forward super-fast so they're a blip.
Because thanks to Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and The Walking Dead they think they are a high-demand channel and they have been jacking up their carriage fees year over year. Now they are afraid of tipping over their cash cow. Problem is 2 of those shows are now history and the third is wearing thin with viewers. Compounding that is the fact that none of their new shows have been big hits
So far Better Call Saul is very highly regarded, and it seems pretty good. But yeah, outside of that...
Screwed by a lot more than the CIA. They have no economy outside of oil, so if oil tanks, so does the country. That's the peril of being a one-product country.
no one suggested that you 'pay someone for their mere existence' you fucking prick.
No? We have various people in this thread alone talking about UBI, which is exactly paying someone for their mere existence. There's a lot of theorizing about what to do with jobs that are eliminated by automation, shrinking the job pool.
Rotten Tomatoes has two aggregate scores. It has an aggregate critic score, which was 27% for Dawn of Justice, and an aggregate audience score which was 63%.
I'll usually trust a critic score over an audience score. The critic score has its biases, but they're a lot less biased than the audience score. IE, the people who went to see Batman v Superman are far more likely to be predisposed to like such a movie than a random sampling of the population, or a random sampling of moviegoers.
It's gotten bad enough where the exit poll of the movie Business, Cinemascore, has an A-F grade. A means a great movie, A- means an ok one, and if you get into the low Bs, you've got a potential bomb on your hands.
Of course this shows another important point with reviewers: it's important to read the actual review rather than just the star rating
Roger was also honest about the limitations of the star rating system he used, explicitly that they were really only supposed to be compared to movies from similar genres and styles. So a 3.5 star movie is not necessarily a "better movie" than a 3 star movie. It depends on what the filmmakers were going for, how successful and/or imaginative they were at it, and how did it compare to movies which aimed to create something similar.
I think that sometimes Ebert had a bit of a blind spot with video games (but in his defense, there are very very VERY few video games where I think the quality of the writing and characters is better than your average movie), but overall, he's the best movie review writer I've ever read.
Indeed. And mostly by letting them know where you were.
Yeah, so? I'm willingly volunteering selected information to them. Most people go in knowing exactly what they're giving up, and for the most part, they don't give a shit because they don't need to.
It's just another example of the incredible projection and hypocrisy that infects the Democratic party to its core. Anytime a progressive starts yelling about outlawing something, look closely because she's probably doing a lot of that thing herself.
FTFY
You didn't really fix that, because it's not as accurate.
The whole water thing is a dumb argument environmentalists dreamed up to make us feel bad about being alive.
The water thing is a real thing, but often done for different reasons that people assume. For instance, environmentalists detest the loss of a stream and valley to create a dam reservoir for water storage.
Now that California is out of its drought (maybe), environmentalists are once again calling for the demolition of the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite to return the valley (originally said to be as spectacular as neighboring Yosemite Valley) it to its natural splendor. It provides much of the water for the SF Bay Area, but environmentalists usually hand-wave that without having a replacement plan.
The bottom 50% paid 2.8% of all US Income tax paid in 2015
Yeah, when you have almost no money to pay taxes, it's no surprise when you don't pay very much. If they actually got paid good wages at their jobs, they might have something for income taxes.
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Obamacare has resulted in health care benefits to some people, but the rates have doubled or even trippled for others.
For the insurance companies, the best thing about Obamacare is that it gave them a convenient foil. It allowed them to raise premiums like they were going to without the ACA, and just like they had before the ACA was passed, but now they can blame "Obamacare" as if they weren't going to raise prices and gouge customers if the law was never passed.
Ironically, the "House Freedom Caucus" supported this bill.
It's not ironic at all, it's totally in the interests of freedom to not have the government say what ISPs can and cannot do with their data.
You can stop people from distributing and charging money for it.
How? How do they stop people from hosting it off of some sketchy website in a country that ignores their lawsuits? They can't even stop private WoW servers that charge for access (or "donations"), no way would they be able to stop something as easy-to-distribute as this.
The really hilarious part, this game isn't even fun to watch or to try to go pro gaming on.
I'd disagree with that, I think SC2 is easily the best game to watch pro gaming tournaments on. I couldn't get into any of the others.
So your suggestion is just to let terrorists do their thing and don't worry about them?
The suggestion is that we don't terrorists change our way of life, and we don't compromise our cherished freedoms and ideals because we're scared of the big bad middle-eastern boogeyman.
If they release the source, then someone else gets to make the new graphics pack - maybe even improve on the game itself (imagine that!) - and Blizzard doesn't get a cut.
If only there were licenses that prohibit distribution of modified software.
Once the genie is out of the bottle, you're not shoving him back in again. Once the source is out, you can't take it back, and you can't stop others from doing anything they like with it and distributing it.
Pretty much.
None of my friends that play RTSs will touch SC2 with a ten foot pole. It just isn't as good as the original. Or at least wasn't.
I'm not sure about that; its interface is definitely far better than SC1's, allowing for more control and group bindings, and eschewing SC1's ridiculously low group limits. Half the time I played that game I felt I was struggling against the interface as much as against the Zerg.
Oh, with Trump climate change just.. goes away? Burying your head in the sand doesn't work. It never has. At some point you have to accept reality, because reality will not pity your ignorance.
You're easily tricked, and likely think yourself clever for seeing through the smoke and mirrors you think are there, but to paraphrase Feynman, "reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
Seems like many (if not all) companies no longer care about the long term stability of their company. They have all become so obsessed with short term profits that you have to wonder if any of them care at all about the 'big picture'?
They care just fine. Maybe they looked at the big picture and found this was the way to long-term profitability. Are they wrong? The market has shown no signs of punishing them, most people don't care or just shrug their shoulders when they hear, and after the third-party suppliers die, most people will forget that the company even banned third-party suppliers.
I wouldn't expect the courts to reverse this either.
Wait, didn't AMC start out as a free cable channel? Why yes, yes it did Anonymous Coward, then it showed old movies, heavy on the westerns.
"Free" as in your cable subscription paid for it, as did commercials.
Used to be when you paid for cable you were paying for commercial-free channels.
I remember cable companies trying to hook us that way too, unfortunately it lasted all of a few months.
Does it have the full dvd complete with unskippable preroll ads and warnings or is it a stripped down copy with just the movie?
Unfortunately they often have stripped down versions (no extras), but stripped down doesn't mean it doesn't have preroll ads and warnings. They'll always find room for those.
That said, I can't remember the last time I got a dvd/bluray with unskippable ads. At the very least, I can fast-forward super-fast so they're a blip.
Because thanks to Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and The Walking Dead they think they are a high-demand channel and they have been jacking up their carriage fees year over year. Now they are afraid of tipping over their cash cow. Problem is 2 of those shows are now history and the third is wearing thin with viewers. Compounding that is the fact that none of their new shows have been big hits
So far Better Call Saul is very highly regarded, and it seems pretty good. But yeah, outside of that...
Yep. Screwed by the CIA.
Screwed by a lot more than the CIA. They have no economy outside of oil, so if oil tanks, so does the country. That's the peril of being a one-product country.
no one suggested that you 'pay someone for their mere existence' you fucking prick.
No? We have various people in this thread alone talking about UBI, which is exactly paying someone for their mere existence. There's a lot of theorizing about what to do with jobs that are eliminated by automation, shrinking the job pool.
Rotten Tomatoes has two aggregate scores. It has an aggregate critic score, which was 27% for Dawn of Justice, and an aggregate audience score which was 63%.
I'll usually trust a critic score over an audience score. The critic score has its biases, but they're a lot less biased than the audience score. IE, the people who went to see Batman v Superman are far more likely to be predisposed to like such a movie than a random sampling of the population, or a random sampling of moviegoers.
It's gotten bad enough where the exit poll of the movie Business, Cinemascore, has an A-F grade. A means a great movie, A- means an ok one, and if you get into the low Bs, you've got a potential bomb on your hands.
While I rather liked them, I could totally see why they wouldn't work well at all for a lot of people.
Of course this shows another important point with reviewers: it's important to read the actual review rather than just the star rating
Roger was also honest about the limitations of the star rating system he used, explicitly that they were really only supposed to be compared to movies from similar genres and styles. So a 3.5 star movie is not necessarily a "better movie" than a 3 star movie. It depends on what the filmmakers were going for, how successful and/or imaginative they were at it, and how did it compare to movies which aimed to create something similar.
I think that sometimes Ebert had a bit of a blind spot with video games (but in his defense, there are very very VERY few video games where I think the quality of the writing and characters is better than your average movie), but overall, he's the best movie review writer I've ever read.
I wish I had mod points. This is a delightful trolling.
Police Station background would be ironic.
Then police officers will start filming at police stations since everyone assumes the police station photo isn't real. When will it end!
It's the GPS coordinates that will help the cops.
Indeed. And mostly by letting them know where you were.
Yeah, so? I'm willingly volunteering selected information to them. Most people go in knowing exactly what they're giving up, and for the most part, they don't give a shit because they don't need to.
It's just another example of the incredible projection and hypocrisy that infects the Democratic party to its core. Anytime a progressive starts yelling about outlawing something, look closely because she's probably doing a lot of that thing herself.
FTFY
You didn't really fix that, because it's not as accurate.
The whole water thing is a dumb argument environmentalists dreamed up to make us feel bad about being alive.
The water thing is a real thing, but often done for different reasons that people assume.
For instance, environmentalists detest the loss of a stream and valley to create a dam reservoir for water storage.
Now that California is out of its drought (maybe), environmentalists are once again calling for the demolition of the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite to return the valley (originally said to be as spectacular as neighboring Yosemite Valley) it to its natural splendor. It provides much of the water for the SF Bay Area, but environmentalists usually hand-wave that without having a replacement plan.
The bottom 50% paid 2.8% of all US Income tax paid in 2015
Yeah, when you have almost no money to pay taxes, it's no surprise when you don't pay very much. If they actually got paid good wages at their jobs, they might have something for income taxes.
And it does not matter we're talking about food not the latest iphone garbage. It's not an optional purchase.
"Food" is not an optional purchase, but beef is.
When I was growing up, beef was a luxury, something you maybe had once a week.