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  1. Re:Global warming.. on Puzzled Scientists Say Strange Things Are Happening On the Sun · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That's just dumb. When reality is unknown, you make your decisions on the best available evidence - period.

  2. Blockbuster died... on How Blockbuster Could Have Owned Netflix · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...for me when they claimed they could not stop the computer from charging a fine to my credit card when I returned a movie 2 hours late. I cut my BB card in half in front of the cashier. Circa 2002.

  3. Re:Government Involvement on How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov · · Score: 1

    Like one of those Bronze level plans with a 6K deductible and 12K cap on yearly expenses can be classified as anything but crappy. Now they're just government sanction and way more expensive than they were. But of course you can enjoy the free birth control pills.

  4. Re:Expensive! on How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov · · Score: 1

    Actually, before this law went into effect, I had insurance that was less expensive than any of the quoted prices and paid 100% of my costs. ($500 deductible).

  5. Re:Errr... no. on How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov · · Score: 1

    If they can provide me estimates without signing up, why can't they provide me actual quotes without signing up?

  6. Re:How would it handle a large load? on How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov · · Score: 2

    But it pretty effectively prevents transparency. Journalists can't go on the site and report prices, and describe scenarios.

  7. Re:How would it handle a large load? on How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov · · Score: 1

    No, you were able to view estimates of plans and subsidies provided by the Kaiser Foundation.

  8. Re:How would it handle a large load? on How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov · · Score: 1

    ehealthinsurance.com works just fine.

  9. Re:Government Involvement on How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov · · Score: 1

    Huh. I thought McCarran-Ferguson specifically bars us from being able to purchase health insurance from out of state. That's not a problem. The Government will just argue that not buying insurance somehow affects interstate commerce, and gives them the power to regulate non-activity.

  10. Re:Government Involvement on How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No his plan got cancelled because it didn't meet new federal requirements, idiot. Just like mine did.

  11. Re:Curved Display? on Apple Developing Curve Screen iPhones and Improved Sensors · · Score: 1

    What's a curved display? The article was clear that we're talking about curve displays. Are you retard or something?

  12. Re:How about wood heat? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    Were EPA certified, you mean.

  13. Re:Which company bought this 'new' rule? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I guess all that wax that drips down the side of a beeswax candle are just wax vapors that condensed outside the point of combustion.

  14. Re:Which company bought this 'new' rule? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    I guarantee this guy burned hand dipped beeswax.

  15. Re:Which company bought this 'new' rule? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    Stop lights are a pretty valid use for tax revenue. They benefit many. The revenue doesn't go directly to line someone's pockets. Stop light cameras, not so much.

  16. Re:How about wood heat? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    I see. Now poor people will have to pay twice as much for something to meet new federal rules. Where have we seen that before?

  17. Re:Which company bought this 'new' rule? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, I've figured out how redistribution works. Like paying taxes so a rich, smug, socialist can get a tax credit on a $70,000 electric car or solar array for his backyard.

  18. Re:Which company bought this 'new' rule? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I bet most foods are too salty for you, aren't they? I remember in art metals class in college, I was melting some beeswax for a pattern. A fellow student walked up to me and told me I was heating the wax too hot and the burning wax smoke (there was no smoke) was carcinogenic. I asked him if he liked candles, he said yes. He didn't get it.

  19. Re:Which company bought this 'new' rule? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    You left the part out where they force someone else to pay for those tax breaks, so joshmo can get a new furnace that meets the EPA decree of the day.

  20. Re:Scaremongering??? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    Combustion temperature.

  21. Re:When are they going to weigh-in on on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 0, Troll

    Once you realize that the modern American political definition of liberal no longer has any basis with the latin word liber, the phrase liberal fascism starts to make sense, particularly in the context of modern American liberalism.

  22. Re:Which company bought this 'new' rule? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 2

    Or perhaps it was an established stove company that can meet the new guidelines, but doesn't want new competitors.

  23. How about wood heat? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    I live in rural Wisconsin, out here there's not a lot of money. I would say about 30% of the people around here have converted to wood heat since other fuels have gotten so expensive. Does this "ruling" cover wood burning boilers like this?:

    http://www.centralboiler.com/

    If it does, this is really going to affect a lot of people in a harmful way.

  24. Re:Furloughed workers on "War Room" Notes Describe IT Chaos At Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    What are these benefits you speak of? Do you mean subsidies? The ACA doesn't offer benefits. It just forces people to buy insurance with a federal government middle man and more rules added to the mix.

  25. Re:Furloughed workers on "War Room" Notes Describe IT Chaos At Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    Who said I was eligible for subsidies? My income happens to be too low. I am involved with a startup, and my income is low right now because I am living off the initial capital loan, while everything else goes into the business. If I want subsidized insurance I have to enroll in medicaid. I bet you didn't realize that if your income is too low your only option for subsidized insurance is medicaid. I wouldn't touch that crap with a 10 foot pole.