But... in the one hand you're calling this a fairly simple website, while on the other hand we'be been hearing from the right wing since forever about how this project is doomed to failure due to its vast complexity. Which matches the analyses of lots of industry figures who point out that this "simple" website has to integrate the user's personal data, the IRS data, the state healthcare management database, and the data from all the insurers selling I'm that site, with highest security for each database, at a large volume.
Add to that the fact that this article is actually talking about the Oregon state exchange not the federal exchange, and your observation regarding the greater competence of smaller governments would seem questionable.
Similarly, the average American has an estimate of the amount of our foreign aid which is inflated by a couple of orders of magnitude; and the amount they feel it should be "reduced" to is in fact more than what we actually spend.
In both cases, it does seem true; Americans are closer in their gut feelings, but differ in their "facts", with one side of the divide having "facts" which are more in time with what we call "reality", while the other side feels free to deny actual data, because it doesn't support the "reality" which is described to them by their authority figures.
Maybe people should be free to speak their mind without being arrested. I'd rather live in a world where someone can call me a name and not be locked up than any alternative.
Yeah, many Jews in Germany felt the same before WWII. People who are not at any risk from speech are always quicker to defend it than those who are not. (I'm on the free speech side myself, but I can see why others may be a bit more anxious)
Exactly. 90% of the time when some stranger starts up a conversation I end up praying their phone will ring and they'll get involved in a long call. Without me.
When I was a kid somebody whose house had a view of the local drive in got arrested when they discovered he had tapped into their speaker system; they charged him with theft of electricity, i imagine there not being a law regarding theft of audio signal. That would make this guy's nickel theft look like grand larceny. See, this is what happens when you don't know about parabolic mikes.
I bet Dad could have just parked his big old diesel pickemup truck under an open window and left the motor running the whole half hour giving everyone in school a nice dose of heavy metal particulates soaked in carcinogens, and Mr. Liberals-feel-entitled here would feel compelled to defend that due to his good libertarian principles.
I would have a hard time voting for a brilliant businessman who noted that in the worst recession in decades a lot of people had no income tax, and putting two and two together came up with the conclusion that it was because they would never "take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
Yes, Obama will never be the organizational genius Bush was, but nobody could ever match that particular pinnacle of experienced republican competence. Him and his whole administration.
Given that the insurance companies have to actually shell out for the actual medical expenses they most assuredly do have a for profit interest in keeping their members healthy. Unlike the providers of medical products and services, who unfortunately still operate on the basis of not making money unless somebody gets sick, thus the drive to find a different model for the medical industry.
Yeah but they'll run it in such a way as to pollute the hell out of whatever poor hole has the honor digging up the rare earths or whatever that will be required in large quantities. The basic problem is the externalized costs of capitalism; AGW, nuclear waste, black lung disease, etc are merely the symptoms. Which is just another way of saying that there are always enough bastards who will screw somebody to make a buck and the rest of us at some point will look away because we would like to just live our lives, unless it comes home to us by threatening the whole damn climate. And I don't have a clue how it can be fixed.
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But. .. in the one hand you're calling this a fairly simple website, while on the other hand we'be been hearing from the right wing since forever about how this project is doomed to failure due to its vast complexity. Which matches the analyses of lots of industry figures who point out that this "simple" website has to integrate the user's personal data, the IRS data, the state healthcare management database, and the data from all the insurers selling I'm that site, with highest security for each database, at a large volume.
Add to that the fact that this article is actually talking about the Oregon state exchange not the federal exchange, and your observation regarding the greater competence of smaller governments would seem questionable.
Similarly, the average American has an estimate of the amount of our foreign aid which is inflated by a couple of orders of magnitude; and the amount they feel it should be "reduced" to is in fact more than what we actually spend.
In both cases, it does seem true; Americans are closer in their gut feelings, but differ in their "facts", with one side of the divide having "facts" which are more in time with what we call "reality", while the other side feels free to deny actual data, because it doesn't support the "reality" which is described to them by their authority figures.
Maybe people should be free to speak their mind without being arrested. I'd rather live in a world where someone can call me a name and not be locked up than any alternative.
Yeah, many Jews in Germany felt the same before WWII.
People who are not at any risk from speech are always quicker to defend it than those who are not. (I'm on the free speech side myself, but I can see why others may be a bit more anxious)
Can you still buy cell phone jammer kits anywhere?
Exactly. 90% of the time when some stranger starts up a conversation I end up praying their phone will ring and they'll get involved in a long call. Without me.
"However did people manage to drive cars before it was invented?"
600 hp mid engine cars? Mostly they didn't.
Like saying Toyot instead of Toyota.
Abs is really counterproductive in soft stuff like unpacked snow or sand. Then you need to lock brakes so that it piles up in front of the wheels.
The classic rear engine Porsche layout was pretty tricky in turns but they got that tamed.
When I was a kid somebody whose house had a view of the local drive in got arrested when they discovered he had tapped into their speaker system; they charged him with theft of electricity, i imagine there not being a law regarding theft of audio signal. That would make this guy's nickel theft look like grand larceny. See, this is what happens when you don't know about parabolic mikes.
I'm Texas, to save money they now require murder victims to draw their own chalk outlines. Not much per case, but it adds up with the volume.
I bet Dad could have just parked his big old diesel pickemup truck under an open window and left the motor running the whole half hour giving everyone in school a nice dose of heavy metal particulates soaked in carcinogens, and Mr. Liberals-feel-entitled here would feel compelled to defend that due to his good libertarian principles.
As if anyone whose cell phone was dying and had a charger would think twice about just plugging that in.
Koch blocking?
Look it up if the translation isn't obvious.
I would have a hard time voting for a brilliant businessman who noted that in the worst recession in decades a lot of people had no income tax, and putting two and two together came up with the conclusion that it was because they would never "take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
Yes, Obama will never be the organizational genius Bush was, but nobody could ever match that particular pinnacle of experienced republican competence. Him and his whole administration.
Given that the insurance companies have to actually shell out for the actual medical expenses they most assuredly do have a for profit interest in keeping their members healthy. Unlike the providers of medical products and services, who unfortunately still operate on the basis of not making money unless somebody gets sick, thus the drive to find a different model for the medical industry.
On the other hand we get candy corn. I think we lost.
I don't care.
So who who wants to try out the maize maze?
Really, depression is a behavioral problem.
Whereas one of the differences between her and the spree shooters is that they are invariably male.
She's not even trying to come to the US for a holiday, she just wants to pass through on her way to the ship.
Yeah but they'll run it in such a way as to pollute the hell out of whatever poor hole has the honor digging up the rare earths or whatever that will be required in large quantities. The basic problem is the externalized costs of capitalism; AGW, nuclear waste, black lung disease, etc are merely the symptoms. Which is just another way of saying that there are always enough bastards who will screw somebody to make a buck and the rest of us at some point will look away because we would like to just live our lives, unless it comes home to us by threatening the whole damn climate. And I don't have a clue how it can be fixed.