There are 1 million threads criticizing ACA, this just didn't happen to be one of them. You may say it's trivial, which just shows you aren't in the crowd who (because of ACA) has an urgent need to get insurance through this exchange (or an insurance company who desperately needs a great many young and healthy people to sign up for those high-profit plans that subsidize the loss plans).
Until your "nearly done" typing when the car in front of you starts moving, and you just have a bit to finish entering that address or send that text or whatever. Or you start looking down when you start braking at the red light, instead of when your car has stopped, just to glance down for a second.
The way to be sure you don't do something dangerous is to also stop doing the actions that lead to something dangerous, wherever you can.
I think there's another effect giving people a false sense of security: looking down at a phone is far more dangerous than merely "zoning out", or even talking on the phone. Evolution has left us highly adapted to snap attention to something in our field of vision as long as we're not actively looking elsewhere. As bad as chatting on the phone while driving can be, you at least have a chance if your eyes are on the road. As soon as you look at something interesting, you have no chance at all.
The first minor violation is a mulligan in every jurisdiction I've ever worked, with every carrier I've ever represented.
Every insurance company I've used has given a 10% or so "safe driver discount" for no tickets, which is just a marketing-approved way to jack up your rates 10% when you get a ticket.
Just wait till you get there. Seriously. You never need to send a text while driving, you just have such amazingly low willpower that you recklessly endanger others, and don't even get anything out of it.
It is simply not acceptable, and you should stop doing this immediately, and feel shame that you ever did.
The networks that matter are often owned by government-granted monopoly providers. This law makes good sense in that batshit-insane and stupid context.
I've been to Best Buy twice this year, due to trips to see the parents. They were actually quite nice for buying a TV, both the saleslady and the guy from Samsung (Samsung has someone at ever Best Buy, apparently, to provide the sort of technical product info that Best Buy has always failed so hard at knowing). I don't think they even pushed the warranties (though they sill push cables).
I still wouldn't buy anything computer-related there, but they seem to be getting some kind of clue for consumer electronics.
And I think it would help for people to see how much their lifestyle is costing them. Smoker? Drunk? Obese? Eat fast food ten times a week?
Wow - this idea is made of awesome. Yes, the biggest problem with the medical industry is the complete inability to determine up front how much anything major will cost, but I had never thought of this aspect of it before. A little "monthly lifestyle cost estimator" would be an eye opener.
No, Blockbuster deliberately misstated their 2-day rental as a 3-day rental. At least, that's why I left them forever in the 90s, and I'm delighted to see their death.
As I see it the major failure (which continues full force) is the belief that they need to sell a phone OS, instead of a software development platform that's cross-platform to Android. Sure, if Windows phone had taken off there would have been a ton of money there, but in this universe that's a dead idea. OTOH there may be a bunch to be made long term by becoming a major player on Android phones.
I don't have enough going on yet to see how outlook.com handles conversations, but MS is foolish if it hasn't gotten there yet! I like that the MS one has both folders and tags, though I don't see the gmail cleverness of the "archive" anti-tag. Hmm, maybe I can make my default view "inbox and not tagged archive" - I'll have to try that.
Just found out about mine (company plan) - fortunately it didn't go up, but my deductible went up $500/year. From what I've heard I got lucky! Good luck with yours.
IBM's mainframe division is still a major cash cow for IBM. Sure, you have to keep up, like MS is trying to with their cloud-based Office offerings, but once you offer something basic that a business needs, by all means keep doing that!
The reason I bring up UTX is that there's nothing magical or special about "computer company". All new technologies start as something that changes and innovates constantly, but over time they mature, they reach the point where they mostly do what most people need, and innovation slows to the same pace as other mature technologies. UTX has a big business in elevators and escalators. There's still technological advancement in that field, but it's not like they need to keep up with startups. "Computer companies" are reaching the same place, and the enterprise stuff as largely gotten there. It's been mostly about cost control for a while now, and that road ends with everything in the cloud.
Enterprise software has matured, feature-wise. Non-mobile computing has matured. Game consoles have matured. Mobile computing is still changing fast, but we're just not that far away from them reaching the same place PCs have reached, where buying the latest gets you nothing new.
I don't think your opinion of the website is worth anything if you are just dead-set against any kind of law that doesn't please the for-profit health insurance lobby.
So do you find dismissing the opinion of technical experts who don't line up with your policy vies to be a wise plan? It's pretty clear that's exactly what happened with the web site - for damn sure the engineers involved weren't saying it was ready.
I also like the way you seem to think "for profit" is a bad thing. "Profit" just means that it costs less to produce X than the value the consumer sees in X. When that's not the case, why do X?
Anyhow, I would dump the ACA and replace it with (a) federal standards for medical insurance claims paperwork - get all companies on the same (electronic) claims system, at gunpoint if necessary, and (b) a "high risk pool" approach to the difficult-to-insure (as with car insurance in most states). My understanding is that several states have actually done (b) as part of their implementation of the ACA, but I'm seeing the standardized plan as just for the high risk pool, leaving 90% of people unaffected by the law.
They went one UI fuckup too far for me, and I tried using outlook.com. I was surprised. I don't know what you need in terms of "tags and intelligent conversation view / management", but you might give it a try and see, it does what I needed in that regard (which might be radically different from you) - it has tags and tag-based views, at least. I'm still fiddling with email forwarding so I'm not 100% sure (I like the way gmail works with vanity domain email forwarding, don't know yet about outlook.com), but at least the UI is simple and inoffensive.
I'm not sure you got my point. If you had to pay 5% of book sales to the estate of that dead woman for a no-limits license for your derivative works, and you didn't need to obtain this license ahead of time, doesn't that unblock you?
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There are 1 million threads criticizing ACA, this just didn't happen to be one of them. You may say it's trivial, which just shows you aren't in the crowd who (because of ACA) has an urgent need to get insurance through this exchange (or an insurance company who desperately needs a great many young and healthy people to sign up for those high-profit plans that subsidize the loss plans).
Until your "nearly done" typing when the car in front of you starts moving, and you just have a bit to finish entering that address or send that text or whatever. Or you start looking down when you start braking at the red light, instead of when your car has stopped, just to glance down for a second.
The way to be sure you don't do something dangerous is to also stop doing the actions that lead to something dangerous, wherever you can.
I think there's another effect giving people a false sense of security: looking down at a phone is far more dangerous than merely "zoning out", or even talking on the phone. Evolution has left us highly adapted to snap attention to something in our field of vision as long as we're not actively looking elsewhere. As bad as chatting on the phone while driving can be, you at least have a chance if your eyes are on the road. As soon as you look at something interesting, you have no chance at all.
The first minor violation is a mulligan in every jurisdiction I've ever worked, with every carrier I've ever represented.
Every insurance company I've used has given a 10% or so "safe driver discount" for no tickets, which is just a marketing-approved way to jack up your rates 10% when you get a ticket.
Just wait till you get there. Seriously. You never need to send a text while driving, you just have such amazingly low willpower that you recklessly endanger others, and don't even get anything out of it.
It is simply not acceptable, and you should stop doing this immediately, and feel shame that you ever did.
What we need is a way to measure the money put into legislation like this.
It's called openscrets.org
NetFlix probably hasn't put much into the political process.
They're spending about $1 million per year, which ain't chump change.
If by "copper" you mean "fiber", you're absolutely right. The last mile needs to be a public utility completely indifferent to content.
Sorry boss, Netflix and Youtube outbid us.
The networks that matter are often owned by government-granted monopoly providers. This law makes good sense in that batshit-insane and stupid context.
I've been to Best Buy twice this year, due to trips to see the parents. They were actually quite nice for buying a TV, both the saleslady and the guy from Samsung (Samsung has someone at ever Best Buy, apparently, to provide the sort of technical product info that Best Buy has always failed so hard at knowing). I don't think they even pushed the warranties (though they sill push cables).
I still wouldn't buy anything computer-related there, but they seem to be getting some kind of clue for consumer electronics.
And I think it would help for people to see how much their lifestyle is costing them. Smoker? Drunk? Obese? Eat fast food ten times a week?
Wow - this idea is made of awesome. Yes, the biggest problem with the medical industry is the complete inability to determine up front how much anything major will cost, but I had never thought of this aspect of it before. A little "monthly lifestyle cost estimator" would be an eye opener.
No, Blockbuster deliberately misstated their 2-day rental as a 3-day rental. At least, that's why I left them forever in the 90s, and I'm delighted to see their death.
Plus, Netflix didn't lie to me "Three Day Rental--Including Today, the Day you return it by 10AM, and a day we made up!"
Yep. Blockbuster did that to me and I left them forever, years before Netflix. Now they're dead, and I smile.
Getting rid of the USPS is unconstitutional.
How I long for the days when that mattered.
You're telling me! Last time I used Best Buy to try on pants they were downright miffed.
As I understand it, Archive.org uses robots.txt to censor old, already captured data. That's a serious flaw in an archive IMO.
As I see it the major failure (which continues full force) is the belief that they need to sell a phone OS, instead of a software development platform that's cross-platform to Android. Sure, if Windows phone had taken off there would have been a ton of money there, but in this universe that's a dead idea. OTOH there may be a bunch to be made long term by becoming a major player on Android phones.
Ahh, well, if you won't give up 5% for the creative work that your commentary is centered on, then I have little sympathy.
I don't have enough going on yet to see how outlook.com handles conversations, but MS is foolish if it hasn't gotten there yet! I like that the MS one has both folders and tags, though I don't see the gmail cleverness of the "archive" anti-tag. Hmm, maybe I can make my default view "inbox and not tagged archive" - I'll have to try that.
Just found out about mine (company plan) - fortunately it didn't go up, but my deductible went up $500/year. From what I've heard I got lucky! Good luck with yours.
BTW "preventative" => "preventive".
IBM's mainframe division is still a major cash cow for IBM. Sure, you have to keep up, like MS is trying to with their cloud-based Office offerings, but once you offer something basic that a business needs, by all means keep doing that!
The reason I bring up UTX is that there's nothing magical or special about "computer company". All new technologies start as something that changes and innovates constantly, but over time they mature, they reach the point where they mostly do what most people need, and innovation slows to the same pace as other mature technologies. UTX has a big business in elevators and escalators. There's still technological advancement in that field, but it's not like they need to keep up with startups. "Computer companies" are reaching the same place, and the enterprise stuff as largely gotten there. It's been mostly about cost control for a while now, and that road ends with everything in the cloud.
Enterprise software has matured, feature-wise. Non-mobile computing has matured. Game consoles have matured. Mobile computing is still changing fast, but we're just not that far away from them reaching the same place PCs have reached, where buying the latest gets you nothing new.
I don't think your opinion of the website is worth anything if you are just dead-set against any kind of law that doesn't please the for-profit health insurance lobby.
So do you find dismissing the opinion of technical experts who don't line up with your policy vies to be a wise plan? It's pretty clear that's exactly what happened with the web site - for damn sure the engineers involved weren't saying it was ready.
I also like the way you seem to think "for profit" is a bad thing. "Profit" just means that it costs less to produce X than the value the consumer sees in X. When that's not the case, why do X?
Anyhow, I would dump the ACA and replace it with (a) federal standards for medical insurance claims paperwork - get all companies on the same (electronic) claims system, at gunpoint if necessary, and (b) a "high risk pool" approach to the difficult-to-insure (as with car insurance in most states). My understanding is that several states have actually done (b) as part of their implementation of the ACA, but I'm seeing the standardized plan as just for the high risk pool, leaving 90% of people unaffected by the law.
They went one UI fuckup too far for me, and I tried using outlook.com. I was surprised. I don't know what you need in terms of "tags and intelligent conversation view / management", but you might give it a try and see, it does what I needed in that regard (which might be radically different from you) - it has tags and tag-based views, at least. I'm still fiddling with email forwarding so I'm not 100% sure (I like the way gmail works with vanity domain email forwarding, don't know yet about outlook.com), but at least the UI is simple and inoffensive.
I'm not sure you got my point. If you had to pay 5% of book sales to the estate of that dead woman for a no-limits license for your derivative works, and you didn't need to obtain this license ahead of time, doesn't that unblock you?
Right, that 25 year old fad. I don't think that word means what you think it means.