Last year when there was the final nail in the coffin of the fraud of the medical doctor who said that vaccines caused autism my youngest had his 3 month shots and checkup. So while the doctor was checking him out I started talking to him about the vaccine "issue". At first he thought I was one of the nut job anti-vaccine people as they are the only ones who typically ask about vaccines but I think he was pleased that I wasn't after the discussion got started. One of the more interesting things I found out was that the state of Minnesota tracks and scores doctors, especially pediatricians. One of the important factors that the state uses is percentage vaccinated and that a number of pediatricians were starting to refuse patients who would refuse to have their children vaccinated because it would lower their score which I guess has some effect on their reimbursement rate from the state. He also mentioned that he didn't turn anyone away even the anti-vaccination patients because for a number of his patients he was the only pediatrician near by and their kids wouldn't get any medical services if he turned them away. He still tries to convince each of the anti-vaccination patients that they really should be vaccinated but said it is difficult when you have celebrities like Jenny McCarthy, Oprah (a real powerhouse in shaping women's opinion) and others saying the exact opposite. I guess this is why celebrity endorsement works in advertising.
I have also seen people in this thread mention that public schools won't allow a kid in who hasn't had their vaccines. The truth is they will but it takes some doing and they really want all kids to be properly vaccinated for the reasons mentioned elsewhere in this thread. It is the state that sets these requirements so it takes a waiver from the state to get out from under them. Also schools are breeding grounds for disease, the kids are like little filthy plague rats
The more responsible farmers around me will rotate between soy beans and corn as the soy beans (any legumes for that matter) are nitrogen fixers which the corn really depletes from the soil.
One of their favorites strangely is the bear claw. Old stale ones from a bakery where they were going to toss any way work great for bear baiting. I think it is the almond and dried fruit sent that attracts them the most.
I was there for a while and I could never get over the 5 weeks I went without seeing the sun. What finally broke the cycle was that I drove out into the high desert until I found it. I did find it funny how the whole city of Portland shuts down the slightest hint of snow and how the weather people there use words like dangerous and frigid to describe the coldest night of the year which had a low of 27F. Toss in the career pan handlers and you can keep Portland, OR.
You could say the same thing about any form of energy. Coal, natural gas, solar, wind they all create vast amounts of CO2 in the production and transportation of the necessary components or fuel.
And this is why I am looking into getting a geothermal heat pump when my furnace or air conditioner is ready for replacement. It appears that you can now get units the will meet all of your heating and cooling needs (don't need an auxiliary heater or AC) for places like Minnesota. Problem is they are still fairly expensive but given that my wife has bad allergies so I can't ever open the windows it looks like it would be a pay back of 5 or 6 years for us.
I understand the blending the paint part taking some time (the technique is called feathering) but it seems likely that they did the repair in a more expensive way than needed. Given the cost and that it was 75% labor the most likely thing they did was to cut out the damaged area and make a patch piece and spot weld it in. This is time consuming as I have done it on my project car. Additionally the probably used a hammer and dolly to take the dents out in the surrounding area again another labor intensive job. The quoted price they gave you was probably for purchasing and painting a new door but the cheapest solution would have been to get a junkyard door and refinish that. Given your vehicle's age (7 years) and assuming it was a fairly common one the repair should have come in under $1000 if it was a junk yard door. Now a junkyard door may not have been available or the shop doesn't source body parts from the junkyard but the body shop that I went to does and still offers the same warranty on refinished junkyard body parts as that they do on new ones (lifetime).
You knew my sister. 15 accidents in 12 months, one was a high enough speed collision to total her car when it hit the dumpster in the parking lot at her work.
Sounds like my Jeep, limited use so I got a limited use policy. My insurance company has 2 levels of mileage =7500/year. In a typical year the vehicle that has filled the role of my current Jeep has had less than 3000 miles put on it. The nice thing is I pay $43 every six months for insurance on the Jeep while my daily driver I pay $185 or so every six months.
Most insurers have a limited use category for vehicles that have fewer miles put on them but be sure to not go over. My Jeep is on one of those plans and I can drive up to 7500 miles a year which I never come close to as I typically put less than 3,000 miles a year on vehicles like that. Insurance on it is liability only and it costs $43 every six months as this was the cheapest insurance I could get. My daily drive has the standard unlimited mileage plan most people have and has full coverage with a $500 deductible and costs $185 every 6 months and for the past 5 years I have put at least 25,000 miles a year on it.
...baked out of their gourd going the wrong way. Who the hell manages to drive 20,000 miles a year doing it in the middle of the night unless you are a professional in which case you have a CDL and all of those regulations.
I am astounded at the people who manage to get into accident in stop and go traffic. When you are going you maybe can reach 5mph before you have to stop again and if you get into an accident in that you deserve to have your rates hiked.
Sounds like you went to a rather dodgy shop. Last year when my door handle broke on my daily drive (cheap pot metal handle) it cost $230 or so dollars to get it repaired professionally and that included paying to get the new handle painted to match the rest of the door. I could have done the repair my self for probably half of that but I didn't want to fix it in the middle of winter in an unheated garage and deal with the side impact airbags as those are dangerous and expensive if you set them off accidentally. This was on a 14 year old car at the time, but then I take better care of my vehicles than most.
A situation like this was the only time I almost hit someone. Stupid pedestrian decided to jaywalk across a major road and stepped out almost right in front of me on an icy road in a snow storm. I really hate the laws that state that pedestrians always have the right of way because of shit like that.
In working with some GIS data sets from the state of Minnesota this information is encoded in the shapefiles that anyone can download. I would imagine the same is true with the data sources that the GPS providers use as well. What I want to know is why is it that the maps that they ship with are off by so much. On my handheld GPS I have when I create a track and then zoom in I can see basically a parallel track to the roads that is off by 30 to 50 feet, yet when that track is loaded into some GIS software and compared to the data from the MN DNR or MN DOT the track is usually well within the error of the GPS from the roads. Even Google and the other online maps (mapquest, bing, yahoo) seem to do a better job on aligning their maps than GPS providers. I have noticed that the TIGER dataset from the US Census Bureau is less accurate so I wonder if that is where they get their info.
Reminds me of a data mining stat my professor brought up that people who buy beer on Thursday at a grocery store tend to also buy diapers at the same time. After that class on data mining and expert systems I started to notice how there were being used as I worked at a gas station/convenience store. They would study what what items are frequently bought together and lay the store out accordingly (they change the layout every 1-2 years) so as to maximize sales. In the summer you would always want the jerky displays next to the Gatorade/Powerade as construction workers will buy lots of Gatorade and Powerade and will frequently impulse buy jerky. They also won't waste time wandering the store and if you put them close to the registers they will grab more. You see similar things other places as well.
I have wondered what would happen if I sought this on my project car. Granted it does have some "advanced" electronics like auto dimming intermittent head lights but doesn't have any diagnostic ports or any data recorders.
Congress, specifically the house, is the body of government responsible for creating a budget to send to the president. The president can propose a budget but congress does not have to pay any attention to it. The only power the president has over the budget is to sign or veto it. Now you could argue that since Reagan signed those budgets he was for them but what were the budgets he proposed, but at that time the house and senate (after the 1986 election) were both controlled by the Democrats.
It is not the regulation part that I have a problem with it is their utter incompetence along with their ability to take over. If you honestly believe that they will make good regulations like keep your shit off the internet they you must be woefully ignorant of their past decisions.
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Sounds like a good instance of prior art.
Last year when there was the final nail in the coffin of the fraud of the medical doctor who said that vaccines caused autism my youngest had his 3 month shots and checkup. So while the doctor was checking him out I started talking to him about the vaccine "issue". At first he thought I was one of the nut job anti-vaccine people as they are the only ones who typically ask about vaccines but I think he was pleased that I wasn't after the discussion got started. One of the more interesting things I found out was that the state of Minnesota tracks and scores doctors, especially pediatricians. One of the important factors that the state uses is percentage vaccinated and that a number of pediatricians were starting to refuse patients who would refuse to have their children vaccinated because it would lower their score which I guess has some effect on their reimbursement rate from the state. He also mentioned that he didn't turn anyone away even the anti-vaccination patients because for a number of his patients he was the only pediatrician near by and their kids wouldn't get any medical services if he turned them away. He still tries to convince each of the anti-vaccination patients that they really should be vaccinated but said it is difficult when you have celebrities like Jenny McCarthy, Oprah (a real powerhouse in shaping women's opinion) and others saying the exact opposite. I guess this is why celebrity endorsement works in advertising.
I have also seen people in this thread mention that public schools won't allow a kid in who hasn't had their vaccines. The truth is they will but it takes some doing and they really want all kids to be properly vaccinated for the reasons mentioned elsewhere in this thread. It is the state that sets these requirements so it takes a waiver from the state to get out from under them. Also schools are breeding grounds for disease, the kids are like little filthy plague rats
Actually no. The constitution clearly states "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." . To the strict constructionist we the people would have a right to air travel since the constitution is silent on the issue of air travel. What muddies the water is the interstate commerce clause and the overly broad interpretation that has been take of it.
Is it bad that I initially read "Fire the bastards and shut down the TSA" as "Fire bomb and shut down the TSA".
The more responsible farmers around me will rotate between soy beans and corn as the soy beans (any legumes for that matter) are nitrogen fixers which the corn really depletes from the soil.
One of their favorites strangely is the bear claw. Old stale ones from a bakery where they were going to toss any way work great for bear baiting. I think it is the almond and dried fruit sent that attracts them the most.
Agreed because there are always people looking to make a buck like with "baby carrots".
We already have sailing in winter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_yachting
And skiing, snowmobiling, drinking in a shack, outdoor hockey, and lots of other stuff that you need the cold to do.
FTFY
We don't get 10 foot snow drifts here in Minnesota unless you are talking along the north shore. We do get some rather bitter cold in the middle of January into the beginning of February as well as some oppressive humidity in the summer.
I was there for a while and I could never get over the 5 weeks I went without seeing the sun. What finally broke the cycle was that I drove out into the high desert until I found it. I did find it funny how the whole city of Portland shuts down the slightest hint of snow and how the weather people there use words like dangerous and frigid to describe the coldest night of the year which had a low of 27F. Toss in the career pan handlers and you can keep Portland, OR.
You could say the same thing about any form of energy. Coal, natural gas, solar, wind they all create vast amounts of CO2 in the production and transportation of the necessary components or fuel.
And this is why I am looking into getting a geothermal heat pump when my furnace or air conditioner is ready for replacement. It appears that you can now get units the will meet all of your heating and cooling needs (don't need an auxiliary heater or AC) for places like Minnesota. Problem is they are still fairly expensive but given that my wife has bad allergies so I can't ever open the windows it looks like it would be a pay back of 5 or 6 years for us.
I understand the blending the paint part taking some time (the technique is called feathering) but it seems likely that they did the repair in a more expensive way than needed. Given the cost and that it was 75% labor the most likely thing they did was to cut out the damaged area and make a patch piece and spot weld it in. This is time consuming as I have done it on my project car. Additionally the probably used a hammer and dolly to take the dents out in the surrounding area again another labor intensive job. The quoted price they gave you was probably for purchasing and painting a new door but the cheapest solution would have been to get a junkyard door and refinish that. Given your vehicle's age (7 years) and assuming it was a fairly common one the repair should have come in under $1000 if it was a junk yard door. Now a junkyard door may not have been available or the shop doesn't source body parts from the junkyard but the body shop that I went to does and still offers the same warranty on refinished junkyard body parts as that they do on new ones (lifetime).
You knew my sister. 15 accidents in 12 months, one was a high enough speed collision to total her car when it hit the dumpster in the parking lot at her work.
Sounds like my Jeep, limited use so I got a limited use policy. My insurance company has 2 levels of mileage =7500/year. In a typical year the vehicle that has filled the role of my current Jeep has had less than 3000 miles put on it. The nice thing is I pay $43 every six months for insurance on the Jeep while my daily driver I pay $185 or so every six months.
Most insurers have a limited use category for vehicles that have fewer miles put on them but be sure to not go over. My Jeep is on one of those plans and I can drive up to 7500 miles a year which I never come close to as I typically put less than 3,000 miles a year on vehicles like that. Insurance on it is liability only and it costs $43 every six months as this was the cheapest insurance I could get. My daily drive has the standard unlimited mileage plan most people have and has full coverage with a $500 deductible and costs $185 every 6 months and for the past 5 years I have put at least 25,000 miles a year on it.
...baked out of their gourd going the wrong way. Who the hell manages to drive 20,000 miles a year doing it in the middle of the night unless you are a professional in which case you have a CDL and all of those regulations.
I am astounded at the people who manage to get into accident in stop and go traffic. When you are going you maybe can reach 5mph before you have to stop again and if you get into an accident in that you deserve to have your rates hiked.
Sounds like you went to a rather dodgy shop. Last year when my door handle broke on my daily drive (cheap pot metal handle) it cost $230 or so dollars to get it repaired professionally and that included paying to get the new handle painted to match the rest of the door. I could have done the repair my self for probably half of that but I didn't want to fix it in the middle of winter in an unheated garage and deal with the side impact airbags as those are dangerous and expensive if you set them off accidentally. This was on a 14 year old car at the time, but then I take better care of my vehicles than most.
A situation like this was the only time I almost hit someone. Stupid pedestrian decided to jaywalk across a major road and stepped out almost right in front of me on an icy road in a snow storm. I really hate the laws that state that pedestrians always have the right of way because of shit like that.
In working with some GIS data sets from the state of Minnesota this information is encoded in the shapefiles that anyone can download. I would imagine the same is true with the data sources that the GPS providers use as well. What I want to know is why is it that the maps that they ship with are off by so much. On my handheld GPS I have when I create a track and then zoom in I can see basically a parallel track to the roads that is off by 30 to 50 feet, yet when that track is loaded into some GIS software and compared to the data from the MN DNR or MN DOT the track is usually well within the error of the GPS from the roads. Even Google and the other online maps (mapquest, bing, yahoo) seem to do a better job on aligning their maps than GPS providers. I have noticed that the TIGER dataset from the US Census Bureau is less accurate so I wonder if that is where they get their info.
Reminds me of a data mining stat my professor brought up that people who buy beer on Thursday at a grocery store tend to also buy diapers at the same time. After that class on data mining and expert systems I started to notice how there were being used as I worked at a gas station/convenience store. They would study what what items are frequently bought together and lay the store out accordingly (they change the layout every 1-2 years) so as to maximize sales. In the summer you would always want the jerky displays next to the Gatorade/Powerade as construction workers will buy lots of Gatorade and Powerade and will frequently impulse buy jerky. They also won't waste time wandering the store and if you put them close to the registers they will grab more. You see similar things other places as well.
I have wondered what would happen if I sought this on my project car. Granted it does have some "advanced" electronics like auto dimming intermittent head lights but doesn't have any diagnostic ports or any data recorders.
And nothing of value will be lost.
Congress, specifically the house, is the body of government responsible for creating a budget to send to the president. The president can propose a budget but congress does not have to pay any attention to it. The only power the president has over the budget is to sign or veto it. Now you could argue that since Reagan signed those budgets he was for them but what were the budgets he proposed, but at that time the house and senate (after the 1986 election) were both controlled by the Democrats.
It is not the regulation part that I have a problem with it is their utter incompetence along with their ability to take over. If you honestly believe that they will make good regulations like keep your shit off the internet they you must be woefully ignorant of their past decisions.