Social Security is deficit neutral. But this year we're supposedly going to find out what happens when this "deficit neutral" program with $2.5 trillion saved in a "trust fund" decides to actually draw down some of it.
Most people don't understand the the way that Congress treats the Social Security Trust Fund, and they have been doing this for years.
Do you really think Health Care Reform going to be any different of a shell game?
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Those under 65 have had their right to life revoked to create a false market so health insurance companies can siphon billions from hospitals and doctors.
You are quick to blame insurers, but the problem is really the providers. The Feds can go a long way toward health care reform with much simpler legislation... just make it a crime for health providers to charge vastly different rates to individuals and insurance companies.
A few months ago Quest Diagnostics sent me a bill for $186.20 for a set of blood tests yet "negotiated" a rate of $30.44 with my insurance company. That is completely insane... if I didn't have insurance they would gouge me 6 times over.
If not for these overinflated bills I, and probably most people, wouldn't even need insurance for most things other than catastrophic illnesses. And that's exactly how the insurance companies want it.
But is your bank writing checks for you? I use the billpay feature on my bank's website, but more often than not it sends a physical check to the recipient. Sure I didn't write the check but effectively it is still the same thing.
Whenever I pay cash for medical treatment (since I can't get insurance) the doctors and nurses are delighted that they don't have to jump through a bunch of hoops and instead can give me exactly what I need.
The question is are you paying anything close to the "negotiated" rate that the insurance company pays the doctor?
I completely fail to understand why I would be charged $200+ (minus a 10% discount if I sign up for a "discount" card) for a round of blood tests, but my insurer only pays about $25. Sure they get a volume discount, but an 87% discount is a bit crazy.
If medical providers would charge people something a lot closer to what they charge insurers most people would not need anything but catastrophic insurance. But I suppose that's the whole point... the insurer effectively sets the prices to enable their own existance.
Lots of low tech intertia there. It's easy to use a new system with electronic documents with new accounts, but not so easy to deal with migrating the 2.7 million existing accounts, especially when a lot of physical paper is involved. It just won't happen overnight. Meanwhile you have to support both the old and new systems.
Generalizing... Self-taught usually means that the person has a technical interest in programming. You're likely to find more of them to be competent as they've spent the time scouring the manuals to figure out how the thing works. From there you have to find out what else they have... do they have good business fundamentals to understand how to apply programming to what you need for your business, or good math fundamentals if your need is complex scientific programming?
With Schooled you'll get some of the people as above who really have a technical interest in programming, but you also get a bunch of yahoos who are just there to learn enough about programming to get by and land a job. The former will be both good programmers and will have either a rudimentary business or mathmatical foundation taught to them as well. The latter are probably more likely to end up in management...
So well in fact that, when seated at my desktop computer, I still prefer to use the iPhone app over the full-size web browser.
You must be very young with great eyesight. I have no interest in using a web browser on a 4" diagonal screen when I have a 24" one available that I can actually read.
Apple primarily makes money on the hardware sales, any money coming in from software is mostly gravy. Microsoft primarily makes money on software sales, so piracy means they get nothing.
If Apple did not have a monopoly on computers which can run OS-X then it's very likely you would be seeing license keys, activation and anti-counterfeiting measures in place.
Toyota has had quality problems for quite a while now. The accelerator problem is just the latest and greatest.
Two or three years ago I watched a news program where they were interviewing the President of Toyota USA about Toyota's declining product quality at that time. Rather than saying that they are investigating/correcting/increasing quality efforts he spent the time defending their quality as in-line with industry standards. Yes, he effectively said that he was satisified with only being just as good as everyone else. At that point I knew that Toyota had lost their quality edge and that it would just go downhill from there.
In late 1988, Obama entered Harvard Law School. He was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year,[35] and president of the journal in his second year.[36] During his summers, he returned to Chicago, where he worked as a summer associate at the law firms of Sidley Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990.[37] After graduating with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude[38] from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago.[35]
Why would they cause cancer (any more than wifi/general EM radiation)? It's not ionising radiation as far as i know and short bursts of exposure to any sort of radiation is fine - people live in Chernobyl without any side effects and the background radiation level there is substantially above the norm.
There is a bit of a difference in field intensity between "wifi/general EM radiation" and pressing a RF emitter up against your skull for hours on end.
Now compare this to Lung cancer due to smoking. 90% of all lung cancer cases are attributable to smoke inhalation and a 23-fold increase. That is a fundamentally different statistic, 23-fold is 2300% and is definitely something to worry about. It's not a totally accurate conversion, but suffice to say 23 times more likely is much worse than an increase of 3 odd percent.
People have been smoking for thousands of years and it was only in the early to mid 1900's that they started to make the connection between smoking and lung cancer. How many years do you have to smoke before you hit that 23 fold increase?
Cell phones have been in wide use for less than 15 years. That is not enough time to know what the long term effects might be. In another 20 or 30 years you could end up seeing that 23 fold increase in cancers in those that have been using cell phones all that time.
People are always looking for the immediate yes or no answer, but I don't think we have it yet. In the meantime using them in moderation until we know more wouldn't hurt (although now it appears you may increase your chances of getting Alzheimer's as a result).
Don't you at least need to assert an unregistered trademark with "TM" somewhere? Nowhere on the "Bing! Information Design" web page do I see a "TM". How would MS have known that "Bing!" was a trademark if there was no assertion? And wouldn't "Bing!" be different than "Bing"?
Unless you're talking about a different case it appears to be Sony Corp vs Sony's Restaurant. So it is the same name, although given that Sony Corp doesn't sell any food that I'm aware of I'm not sure why they got excited about it. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-1331412.html
Higher level person ganks lower level person. Lower level person stands no chance.
Group of people gank smaller group/single person. Smaller group/single person stands no chance.
I was really hoping that they would make Cataclysm an individual story progression (like Crusader's Pinnacle/Ebon Hold/Shadow Vault/etc.) so that all of the 80+'s would be separated away from the lower level people in the Old Kingdom/Kalimdor areas. That would greatly reduce the amount of high/low ganking.
At least on EVE you can interact with every other EVE player.
Must make choosing names a chore if everyone is on the same "server". It's already hard enough to come up with a name without goofy special characters or random sequences of letters in WoW.
the knockback change is primarily because knockbacks are ridiculously powerful already. This has nothing to do with "making the game easier", it's about balance
The knockback change is about griefing. Mages were using it (via Fire Blast) to knock people off their mounts while flying causing them to die by falling. That incurs the equipment damage penalty which is why they nerfed it.
It would have been nicer if they could just not do the equipment damage penalty if you die as a result of falling during PvP but I imagine that fix would be harder to make, and they almost always do the easy fix.
What does "deserved" mean? Did the boy in question do something that merited a punishment or is he simply guilty for being different or not part of the in crowd in some way.
This appears to just be a flame war gone bad. The alleged son was defending his mother, a candidate for local public office, in a newspaper comment section of an article related to her. Many of the alleged son's postings have been deleted as against the site TOS which leads me to believe that he was the bully in this case and Hipcheck16 just snapped back. It's not clear when or if Hipcheck16 knew it was supposedly her son.
What I find hard to believe is that is that the person who made the comments has any balls at all considering they went all the way to court to protect their identity, rather than say it to a person's face.
Well, we're talking about a local political race in the Chicago area. This is all about political retaliation. If the guy turns out to be a nobody, the mother gets free publicity for protecting her "son" (there is question if that was even him who was posting, or was her or one of her campaign staffers). If the guy turns out to be one of her political opponents she's going to run him out of town.
This is the "end" of a chain of lawsuits. The court has already ordered the newspaper to release the guy's IP address, and they did. The court has already ordered Comcast to release the identity of the guy who was using that IP address and they did.
So the court knows who the guy is and the guy is represented by a lawyer. She can go ahead and sue 'John Doe' based on the information the court already possesses if she really thinks she has a case. There is really no reason for the mother to know the guys identity other than to personally harrass him (presumably as this was a debate over a local election the guy lives in her district).
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Define "deficit".
Social Security is deficit neutral. But this year we're supposedly going to find out what happens when this "deficit neutral" program with $2.5 trillion saved in a "trust fund" decides to actually draw down some of it.
Most people don't understand the the way that Congress treats the Social Security Trust Fund, and they have been doing this for years.
Do you really think Health Care Reform going to be any different of a shell game?
Those under 65 have had their right to life revoked to create a false market so health insurance companies can siphon billions from hospitals and doctors.
You are quick to blame insurers, but the problem is really the providers. The Feds can go a long way toward health care reform with much simpler legislation... just make it a crime for health providers to charge vastly different rates to individuals and insurance companies.
A few months ago Quest Diagnostics sent me a bill for $186.20 for a set of blood tests yet "negotiated" a rate of $30.44 with my insurance company. That is completely insane... if I didn't have insurance they would gouge me 6 times over.
If not for these overinflated bills I, and probably most people, wouldn't even need insurance for most things other than catastrophic illnesses. And that's exactly how the insurance companies want it.
I've never, ever, written a check.
But is your bank writing checks for you? I use the billpay feature on my bank's website, but more often than not it sends a physical check to the recipient. Sure I didn't write the check but effectively it is still the same thing.
i7= 4 or 6 cores. Makes sense since the first thing I think when I hear 7 is "must be 4 or 6!"
Some of the i7 models for mobile use only have 2 cores, just to confuse things even further.
Whenever I pay cash for medical treatment (since I can't get insurance) the doctors and nurses are delighted that they don't have to jump through a bunch of hoops and instead can give me exactly what I need.
The question is are you paying anything close to the "negotiated" rate that the insurance company pays the doctor?
I completely fail to understand why I would be charged $200+ (minus a 10% discount if I sign up for a "discount" card) for a round of blood tests, but my insurer only pays about $25. Sure they get a volume discount, but an 87% discount is a bit crazy.
If medical providers would charge people something a lot closer to what they charge insurers most people would not need anything but catastrophic insurance. But I suppose that's the whole point... the insurer effectively sets the prices to enable their own existance.
I think if the Veterans Affairs system or the USPTO system were implemented fresh today they would be very different.
The Veterans benefit system was already in the process of being upgraded long before Kundra showed up... http://veterans.senate.gov/hearings.cfm?action=release.display&release_id=2b3c1e81-a85c-4cdf-8af6-51ce711dad8f
Lots of low tech intertia there. It's easy to use a new system with electronic documents with new accounts, but not so easy to deal with migrating the 2.7 million existing accounts, especially when a lot of physical paper is involved. It just won't happen overnight. Meanwhile you have to support both the old and new systems.
Generalizing... Self-taught usually means that the person has a technical interest in programming. You're likely to find more of them to be competent as they've spent the time scouring the manuals to figure out how the thing works. From there you have to find out what else they have... do they have good business fundamentals to understand how to apply programming to what you need for your business, or good math fundamentals if your need is complex scientific programming?
With Schooled you'll get some of the people as above who really have a technical interest in programming, but you also get a bunch of yahoos who are just there to learn enough about programming to get by and land a job. The former will be both good programmers and will have either a rudimentary business or mathmatical foundation taught to them as well. The latter are probably more likely to end up in management...
You might need to do more than that.
My son's iTouch went through a full washing machine cycle. It took about a week to dry out but it still works perfectly.
So well in fact that, when seated at my desktop computer, I still prefer to use the iPhone app over the full-size web browser.
You must be very young with great eyesight. I have no interest in using a web browser on a 4" diagonal screen when I have a 24" one available that I can actually read.
What job? You say that people will say that the Ipad "gets the job done", what job? What is the job that the Ipad is the perfect device for?
It does the exact same job that an iTouch does, except it can also do it for older people that don't have arms that are long enough anymore. ;-)
Just because you are omnipotent doesn't mean you can't also be lazy and take the easy way out.
Apple primarily makes money on the hardware sales, any money coming in from software is mostly gravy. Microsoft primarily makes money on software sales, so piracy means they get nothing.
If Apple did not have a monopoly on computers which can run OS-X then it's very likely you would be seeing license keys, activation and anti-counterfeiting measures in place.
Toyota has had quality problems for quite a while now. The accelerator problem is just the latest and greatest.
Two or three years ago I watched a news program where they were interviewing the President of Toyota USA about Toyota's declining product quality at that time. Rather than saying that they are investigating/correcting/increasing quality efforts he spent the time defending their quality as in-line with industry standards. Yes, he effectively said that he was satisified with only being just as good as everyone else. At that point I knew that Toyota had lost their quality edge and that it would just go downhill from there.
In late 1988, Obama entered Harvard Law School. He was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year,[35] and president of the journal in his second year.[36] During his summers, he returned to Chicago, where he worked as a summer associate at the law firms of Sidley Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990.[37] After graduating with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude[38] from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago.[35]
Why would they cause cancer (any more than wifi/general EM radiation)? It's not ionising radiation as far as i know and short bursts of exposure to any sort of radiation is fine - people live in Chernobyl without any side effects and the background radiation level there is substantially above the norm.
There is a bit of a difference in field intensity between "wifi/general EM radiation" and pressing a RF emitter up against your skull for hours on end.
Now compare this to Lung cancer due to smoking. 90% of all lung cancer cases are attributable to smoke inhalation and a 23-fold increase. That is a fundamentally different statistic, 23-fold is 2300% and is definitely something to worry about. It's not a totally accurate conversion, but suffice to say 23 times more likely is much worse than an increase of 3 odd percent.
People have been smoking for thousands of years and it was only in the early to mid 1900's that they started to make the connection between smoking and lung cancer. How many years do you have to smoke before you hit that 23 fold increase?
Cell phones have been in wide use for less than 15 years. That is not enough time to know what the long term effects might be. In another 20 or 30 years you could end up seeing that 23 fold increase in cancers in those that have been using cell phones all that time.
People are always looking for the immediate yes or no answer, but I don't think we have it yet. In the meantime using them in moderation until we know more wouldn't hurt (although now it appears you may increase your chances of getting Alzheimer's as a result).
Don't you at least need to assert an unregistered trademark with "TM" somewhere? Nowhere on the "Bing! Information Design" web page do I see a "TM". How would MS have known that "Bing!" was a trademark if there was no assertion? And wouldn't "Bing!" be different than "Bing"?
Unless you're talking about a different case it appears to be Sony Corp vs Sony's Restaurant. So it is the same name, although given that Sony Corp doesn't sell any food that I'm aware of I'm not sure why they got excited about it. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-1331412.html
Or if you die in an extremely amusing way, like walking out the drain pipe under Dalaran like I did once. I felt like Wile E Coyote.
I did that once. It's ashame I forgot that I was a Paladin and could have bubbled before impact.
I was really hoping that they would make Cataclysm an individual story progression (like Crusader's Pinnacle/Ebon Hold/Shadow Vault/etc.) so that all of the 80+'s would be separated away from the lower level people in the Old Kingdom/Kalimdor areas. That would greatly reduce the amount of high/low ganking.
At least on EVE you can interact with every other EVE player.
Must make choosing names a chore if everyone is on the same "server". It's already hard enough to come up with a name without goofy special characters or random sequences of letters in WoW.
the knockback change is primarily because knockbacks are ridiculously powerful already. This has nothing to do with "making the game easier", it's about balance
The knockback change is about griefing. Mages were using it (via Fire Blast) to knock people off their mounts while flying causing them to die by falling. That incurs the equipment damage penalty which is why they nerfed it.
It would have been nicer if they could just not do the equipment damage penalty if you die as a result of falling during PvP but I imagine that fix would be harder to make, and they almost always do the easy fix.
No reason it would have to be the same tower... just hammer one from each service provider (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, US Cellular, etc.).
What does "deserved" mean? Did the boy in question do something that merited a punishment or is he simply guilty for being different or not part of the in crowd in some way.
This appears to just be a flame war gone bad. The alleged son was defending his mother, a candidate for local public office, in a newspaper comment section of an article related to her. Many of the alleged son's postings have been deleted as against the site TOS which leads me to believe that he was the bully in this case and Hipcheck16 just snapped back. It's not clear when or if Hipcheck16 knew it was supposedly her son.
What I find hard to believe is that is that the person who made the comments has any balls at all considering they went all the way to court to protect their identity, rather than say it to a person's face.
Well, we're talking about a local political race in the Chicago area. This is all about political retaliation. If the guy turns out to be a nobody, the mother gets free publicity for protecting her "son" (there is question if that was even him who was posting, or was her or one of her campaign staffers). If the guy turns out to be one of her political opponents she's going to run him out of town.
This is the "end" of a chain of lawsuits. The court has already ordered the newspaper to release the guy's IP address, and they did. The court has already ordered Comcast to release the identity of the guy who was using that IP address and they did.
So the court knows who the guy is and the guy is represented by a lawyer. She can go ahead and sue 'John Doe' based on the information the court already possesses if she really thinks she has a case. There is really no reason for the mother to know the guys identity other than to personally harrass him (presumably as this was a debate over a local election the guy lives in her district).
The "main" requirement to be considered a patent troll is to file the case in East Texas.
Nokia filed the case in Delaware, so they must feel they have a pretty solid case here.