In the US, our contract disputes play out on little bars at the bottom of the TV. The network gives us a little bar telling us to call our provider and tell them to cave. The provider gives us a little bar to call the network and tell them to cave. The only time I have any sympathy for my provider is when someone is asking them to pay more (and subsequently raise my bill) for channels that I don't watch.
Terrible gas mileage but no worse than anything else that will hold 6 people. Get a bed cover, you'll have a place to store groceries and may even improve your gas mileage. It is difficult to park, but it is a big vehicle. What I don't get is why it doesn't make any economic sense to make a fuel efficient vehicle for a family size that should be well within 1 standard deviation above the mean.
Under ACA, insurers are not allowed to spend less than 80% of premium dollars on health costs. Failure to do so makes them subject to issuing a refund to policyholders.
And then the cops need to figure out if it was your neighbor, someone drifting through the neighborhood for your wifi, or just you using the public SSID to hide your shadier internet business. Everybody's computer in half a mile is going to take a trip downtown.
The idea of a single payer system is good, but saying single payer is the solution and implementing single payer are different animals. How deep do you make it governmental? Every place the government and private sector have to interface is the opportunity for profiteering and potential denial of care. It is easy to say that other countries have done it successfully, but you are going to take the largest health care system on the planet out of private hands into government management. That is going to have severe market ripples. Can we talk about side effects and mitigation strategies before we dive in? Instead of this is the solution, when we find problems with it suck it up like we've done with ACA?
As a customer, insurance isn't about getting more money out than I put in. Insurance means that I will have the cash flow to deal with an unexpectedly and required large payout that I could never reliably have savings to cover. I've been working for 12 years now and one automobile accident could easily exceed the entirety of my collective savings including retirement. Over the same period the amount that I have paid in premiums over all my family's vehicles has been less than the replacement value of my current vehicle.
Not just liability. My car isn't going to put itself in a full garage because a hailstorm is coming. It isn't going to turn itself on and dodge a tree during a tornado. It isn't going to roll down the windows to protect itself when I'm mowing. I'll probably expect lower rates based on the lower risk to my vehicle, but I'm still going to need coverage.
It has been a while, but I read something from a proponent of insects in the diet. The argument was that the additional farming to provide necessary protein for vegans/vegetarians caused more pollution and harmed more "traditionally-feeling" animals than eating insects as your protein. He stated that insects don't process and feel pain in the way that traditional meat sources do and that vegans would be environmentally and ethically better off using insects for protein. I wasn't particularly interested so I didn't fact check, but it seemed plausible.
And the data says: western nations are already at or close to replacement levels. There isn't any point to restricting the pursuit of happiness for the few individuals in developed nations who enjoy large families. So, you've got to go through the sticky situation of telling developing nations how many kids a mother can have, despite higher mortality rates than in the developed world, despite the fact those children may be the result of assault. Good luck with that. Maybe we could just worry about mortality rates and poverty in the developing world and see if it corrects itself like it has in the developed world.
I'm not much of one to sympathize with politicians but I'm pretty certain this is what we sound like to someone in office:
Terrorist attack...
Constituents: "Why didn't you stop all these people from dying? Do something to keep it from happening again."
Does something...
Constituents: "Why are you attacking the freedoms of all these innocent people? You are being racist and evil."
Terrorist attack...
Constituents: "Why didn't you stop all these people from dying? Do something to keep it from happening again."
I got the impression from the summary that cars would need to be mini data centers to support the sorts of features that consumers expect from their cars, not that consumers want to drive around in a mini data center. Also: my wife bought a GMC last year; it already is a phone/tablet. They even wanted to sell us a phone plan with monthly minutes and its own number for a system that can already connect with our phones.
As a child of the 80's, this was going on prior to lightspeed peer to peer communication. It was the beginning of news having to fight for ratings. Walking to school was never really an option for me, but overprotective parenting because of the kidnapping risk was prevalent for me and my friends. I try my best to not let that upbringing influence my own parenting, but there are plenty of times I step back and see I'm micromanaging my kids over irrational fears for their safety.
Welcome to the US. When something needs to be done politically then today is too late. Doing it correctly is never as important as doing something now. If we go through the proper process, the voters won't remember why it was a political success.
While I agree with your analysis of the outcomes, I'm not so sure I agree with pinning it on the "anti-education" culture or at least anything I would see elsewhere discussed as anti-education culture. The anti-education culture of the students stems from being forced to participate in education at the time they are most resistant to authority. It has very little to do with any philosophical stance against the educational material or process.
Actually I don't. I'd take any of the clowns the Republicans are putting up over Clinton with the possible exception of Trump. And I've got to hand it to Mr. Trump; it takes a lot to make me question my long-standing conclusion that Hilary Clinton should not be allowed to hold any political office.
I'm not sure which I admire more in a candidate: The Republicans willingness to be upfront with the public how much they want to screw over the American people or the Democrats ability to keep it a secret until it is too late to do anything about it.
As someone who lives in Tornado alley. Not only does every community have kooks, a "newsworthy" personality is far more likely to end up on the news than someone who can give a coherent interview.
They keep trying to get me to upgrade and they don't even have the equipment installed to serve my street. We tried a couple of years ago and it took 3 techs coming out to our house to figure out that that was the problem.
I live near one of the cities in question. Last year, our local utilities company started a search for a fiber internet provider for the municipality. They decided they didn't want to be the provider but we needed to have one. Right now the major internet suppliers are AT&T and Comcast. The timing of this announcement makes me think they realized they were going to be driven out of town by another company pretty soon. I wonder how many other cities on the list are doing the same.
A shared story doesn't have to be visualized the same way. In fact much of the depth of folklore that D&D is based on is from how people coming out of a shared culture subtly shift their understanding and interpretation of stories over time.
There is however a fundamental difference between we didn't secure your social security number well enough and it was taken by a third party and we will sell your social security number to anyone interested in "research."
"A friend of mine who can't get recruiters to leave him alone tells me he makes a point to study weekly, constantly learning. Anyone who is concerned about the level of outsourcing and illegal H1-B usage might keep that in mind." This might be a good short term strategy, but I don't think it works in the long term. Even if I'm cream of the crop, if enough of my industry shifts out of country then I'm going to see a wage drain and eventually even probably lose my job. And even if I'm the best the US has to offer in my field (which I'm not), odds are India has 4 people with at the very least my potential if not my capability.
Actually, if they were anything like me, a whole lot of people told them to take the loans. I was smart enough to choose a well-paying field but when I finished school the situation for me wasn't as rosy as everyone encouraging me to take loans along the way had said it would be. When I was using loans, everyone was saying CS grads were being stolen from the school before they could even get degrees. If you take loans you can get through and have better opportunities on the other end. (Dot com bubble by the way.) However, even outside my field, there was plenty of pressure for my friends to take loans and make it up on the back end over working and possibly never finishing.
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In the US, our contract disputes play out on little bars at the bottom of the TV. The network gives us a little bar telling us to call our provider and tell them to cave. The provider gives us a little bar to call the network and tell them to cave. The only time I have any sympathy for my provider is when someone is asking them to pay more (and subsequently raise my bill) for channels that I don't watch.
Terrible gas mileage but no worse than anything else that will hold 6 people. Get a bed cover, you'll have a place to store groceries and may even improve your gas mileage. It is difficult to park, but it is a big vehicle. What I don't get is why it doesn't make any economic sense to make a fuel efficient vehicle for a family size that should be well within 1 standard deviation above the mean.
Under ACA, insurers are not allowed to spend less than 80% of premium dollars on health costs. Failure to do so makes them subject to issuing a refund to policyholders.
And then the cops need to figure out if it was your neighbor, someone drifting through the neighborhood for your wifi, or just you using the public SSID to hide your shadier internet business. Everybody's computer in half a mile is going to take a trip downtown.
The idea of a single payer system is good, but saying single payer is the solution and implementing single payer are different animals. How deep do you make it governmental? Every place the government and private sector have to interface is the opportunity for profiteering and potential denial of care. It is easy to say that other countries have done it successfully, but you are going to take the largest health care system on the planet out of private hands into government management. That is going to have severe market ripples. Can we talk about side effects and mitigation strategies before we dive in? Instead of this is the solution, when we find problems with it suck it up like we've done with ACA?
As a customer, insurance isn't about getting more money out than I put in. Insurance means that I will have the cash flow to deal with an unexpectedly and required large payout that I could never reliably have savings to cover. I've been working for 12 years now and one automobile accident could easily exceed the entirety of my collective savings including retirement. Over the same period the amount that I have paid in premiums over all my family's vehicles has been less than the replacement value of my current vehicle.
Not just liability. My car isn't going to put itself in a full garage because a hailstorm is coming. It isn't going to turn itself on and dodge a tree during a tornado. It isn't going to roll down the windows to protect itself when I'm mowing. I'll probably expect lower rates based on the lower risk to my vehicle, but I'm still going to need coverage.
It has been a while, but I read something from a proponent of insects in the diet. The argument was that the additional farming to provide necessary protein for vegans/vegetarians caused more pollution and harmed more "traditionally-feeling" animals than eating insects as your protein. He stated that insects don't process and feel pain in the way that traditional meat sources do and that vegans would be environmentally and ethically better off using insects for protein. I wasn't particularly interested so I didn't fact check, but it seemed plausible.
And the data says: western nations are already at or close to replacement levels. There isn't any point to restricting the pursuit of happiness for the few individuals in developed nations who enjoy large families. So, you've got to go through the sticky situation of telling developing nations how many kids a mother can have, despite higher mortality rates than in the developed world, despite the fact those children may be the result of assault. Good luck with that. Maybe we could just worry about mortality rates and poverty in the developing world and see if it corrects itself like it has in the developed world.
I'm not much of one to sympathize with politicians but I'm pretty certain this is what we sound like to someone in office:
Terrorist attack...
Constituents: "Why didn't you stop all these people from dying? Do something to keep it from happening again."
Does something...
Constituents: "Why are you attacking the freedoms of all these innocent people? You are being racist and evil."
Terrorist attack...
Constituents: "Why didn't you stop all these people from dying? Do something to keep it from happening again."
I got the impression from the summary that cars would need to be mini data centers to support the sorts of features that consumers expect from their cars, not that consumers want to drive around in a mini data center. Also: my wife bought a GMC last year; it already is a phone/tablet. They even wanted to sell us a phone plan with monthly minutes and its own number for a system that can already connect with our phones.
How far up the management chain do you have to go in your organization before no one knows any of the technical details of what you do?
As a child of the 80's, this was going on prior to lightspeed peer to peer communication. It was the beginning of news having to fight for ratings. Walking to school was never really an option for me, but overprotective parenting because of the kidnapping risk was prevalent for me and my friends. I try my best to not let that upbringing influence my own parenting, but there are plenty of times I step back and see I'm micromanaging my kids over irrational fears for their safety.
Welcome to the US. When something needs to be done politically then today is too late. Doing it correctly is never as important as doing something now. If we go through the proper process, the voters won't remember why it was a political success.
While I agree with your analysis of the outcomes, I'm not so sure I agree with pinning it on the "anti-education" culture or at least anything I would see elsewhere discussed as anti-education culture. The anti-education culture of the students stems from being forced to participate in education at the time they are most resistant to authority. It has very little to do with any philosophical stance against the educational material or process.
Actually I don't. I'd take any of the clowns the Republicans are putting up over Clinton with the possible exception of Trump. And I've got to hand it to Mr. Trump; it takes a lot to make me question my long-standing conclusion that Hilary Clinton should not be allowed to hold any political office.
I'm not sure which I admire more in a candidate: The Republicans willingness to be upfront with the public how much they want to screw over the American people or the Democrats ability to keep it a secret until it is too late to do anything about it.
As someone who lives in Tornado alley. Not only does every community have kooks, a "newsworthy" personality is far more likely to end up on the news than someone who can give a coherent interview.
But that does mean, at least for my town, they have to roll out a solution prior to our utilities company finishing its process.
They keep trying to get me to upgrade and they don't even have the equipment installed to serve my street. We tried a couple of years ago and it took 3 techs coming out to our house to figure out that that was the problem.
I live near one of the cities in question. Last year, our local utilities company started a search for a fiber internet provider for the municipality. They decided they didn't want to be the provider but we needed to have one. Right now the major internet suppliers are AT&T and Comcast. The timing of this announcement makes me think they realized they were going to be driven out of town by another company pretty soon. I wonder how many other cities on the list are doing the same.
A shared story doesn't have to be visualized the same way. In fact much of the depth of folklore that D&D is based on is from how people coming out of a shared culture subtly shift their understanding and interpretation of stories over time.
There is however a fundamental difference between we didn't secure your social security number well enough and it was taken by a third party and we will sell your social security number to anyone interested in "research."
"A friend of mine who can't get recruiters to leave him alone tells me he makes a point to study weekly, constantly learning. Anyone who is concerned about the level of outsourcing and illegal H1-B usage might keep that in mind." This might be a good short term strategy, but I don't think it works in the long term. Even if I'm cream of the crop, if enough of my industry shifts out of country then I'm going to see a wage drain and eventually even probably lose my job. And even if I'm the best the US has to offer in my field (which I'm not), odds are India has 4 people with at the very least my potential if not my capability.
Actually, if they were anything like me, a whole lot of people told them to take the loans. I was smart enough to choose a well-paying field but when I finished school the situation for me wasn't as rosy as everyone encouraging me to take loans along the way had said it would be. When I was using loans, everyone was saying CS grads were being stolen from the school before they could even get degrees. If you take loans you can get through and have better opportunities on the other end. (Dot com bubble by the way.) However, even outside my field, there was plenty of pressure for my friends to take loans and make it up on the back end over working and possibly never finishing.