Yes there is. Single payer. It's ridiculous the US spends so much money on such mediocre healthcare. Why pay all this money to insurance companies who then turn around, keep some of the money, pay the remainder to the hospitals, then leave us to pay even more money to the hospitals? It makes much more sense to pay money to the government who can then pay the hospitals for us. Bonus points for no more chargemasters, no more different prices for insured/uninsured, 2 hospitals a block away charging vastly different amounts for the same procedures. When the government pays it can control the prices.
And before you argue anything, you don't hear about places with single payer such as the UK or Europe with shortages of doctors, do you? The government can still set prices so that doctors and hospitals make a profit, but there is no reason to unnecessarily give profits to middlemen like the insurance companies. You might end up paying a little more in taxes than you do in premiums, but with no more copays, no deductibles, etc you would very quickly come out ahead. Healthcare has to be done at the national level or you will inevitably end up with massive disparities in quality of care between states.
This kind of reminds me of longshoremen having to turn up at the docks every morning and stand on the stones just for a chance to get picked to work that day, with no guarantee that you would be working tomorrow. At least Amazon is providing health benefits, but I've heard horror stories about working for them, both in the warehouses and in technology positions.
Companies hold job fairs all the time, especially if they have a large number of openings, such as ramping up a new facility. Don't see why you are so worried. Maybe people are turning out in droves to Amazon because, while the pay might not be great, it's a strong, stable company which means you are more likely to have a stable job. Plus, (as you basically admit) most jobs at those wages don't offer healthcare-and with all the fuss in DC right now, the opportunity to get healthcare if you are lower income cannot be passed up, as who knows how long Obamacare will last.
Is the US going to experience more floods or become a desert? By definition it can't be both.
Yes it can. The US is pretty damn big. Some areas may see increased rainfall, other places increased desertification. And the kicker is that this won't just happen in places that are already rainy or deserts. Some places that are prime, fertile farmland could turn into deserts. This can cause significant population displacement and economic chaos.
So who decides where to draw the line? The parents? Doctors? Politicians? How far along the spectrum do you have to be before autism is considered "serious" enough to be edited? Do you edit out all mutations, or just enough to slide to a higher functioning level on the scale? How do you control for the environmental factors? While many people embrace their "genius", plenty of others fall into depression and would gladly trade a few points of IQ just for the ability to socialize and feel comfortable around people. While Down's Syndrome could be "fixed" (for lack of a better term) relatively easy, autism is much more complicated.
My floor just went to an open plan a few months ago. Half of our team rooms-the ones that actually were big enough for 5-6 people to work in together-have already been turned into official offices (with desks and internet hook ups installed) while a good 1/3 of the desks on our floor have no one assigned to them, forcing us to either jam people into small rooms or working feet from other people at their desks. The only people that were all for the change to an open floor plan were the ones that got to keep their offices.
Good point.
Leave it to GRRM to figure out way to kill off characters twice. Or more.
He should set up gofundmes so his fans can bribe him to unkill their favorite characters.
Well, I am assuming the show will at some point (re)kill The Mountain since he is Cersei's personal bodyguard (and it's quite possible that Jamie leaves Cersei or might even be the one to kill The Mountain himself). In which case the show would have killed someone, revived him, and the killed him again. And how many times has Berric Dondarrion died now?
Part of me wonders if this was planned all along (and by all along I mean the last few days) as a way to get rid of Preibus. Trump obviously isn't happy with the GOP and getting rid of Priebus was a good way to put a shot over the GOP's bow. So, bring in Mooch, have him get into a pissing match with Priebus, use that as an excuse to get rid of Priebus, and bring in Kelly who might be more loyal to Trump. Then, when Mooch has done his job, cut him loose. Trump gets to get rid of poor Spicey, gets to rebuke the GOP over their failed repeal of Obamacare, and gets a new Chief of Staff and (eventually) a new Communications Director.
Of course, the other part of me thinks Trump is so unhinged and disjointed he can't even plan far enough ahead to decide whether he wants original or extra crispy KFC waiting for him in the limo that takes him from Air Force One to Mar a Lago on his biweekly "definitely not golfing" weekend golf trips.
But given that Apple's already invested $5 billion into this new campus, complete with iPhone-influenced custom-built toilets for the space, it's hard to believe this decision was about penny-pinching. The other possible argument for skipping private offices would be if a company didn't know that's what its workers would prefer.
Or the 3rd choice: They don't really care what their employees prefer.
Amazon still doesn't sell files. To call them convenient is a joke. You can only run their player (the only player able to stream their stuff) on certain types of computers using special software. It's not standardized at all.
Yes, Amazon is so inconvenient. I can only watch (and download) Amazon videos on my phone, my tablet, my Kindle Fire, my Fire TV stick, my Sony smart TV, my blu-ray player, my wife's iPad, my wife's Macbook, and my desktop PC. I should be able to watch Amazon on my smart fridge too(if I had one), dammit!
Unless the White Walkers win, in which case some people un-die. Depending on how soon in the story and where they die, it's possible that some people will die, un-die, and then re-die as they fight the White Walkers and die, get reanimated as a White Walker, then get killed again fighting humans.
i mean.. unless i'm wrong.. there's this thing called a book.. that you could read.. right? no need to take the script
At the point the story in the show is beyond the point of the story in the books. So the writers actually have a fair bit of creative room, and it would actually be fairly interesting when all is said and done to see how divergent the show ends up being from the book.
That was my first thought as well. Planning a premature death, are you Travis? In sticking with the black turtleneck theme you might be better off (Elizabeth) "Holmesing" it, but a bro like you would probably prefer to be dead than broke and irrelevant anyway.
More a statement that, especially when the information is true and goes against his own narrative, Trump is very interested in finding out the identity or attacking the source of that information.
I don't understand why you would keep bringing them into this world if you can't afford them.
Maybe if they actually had received effective sex education in school or have access to family planning and abortion services poorer people wouldn't keep having kids. But nope, sorry, abstinence-only sex ed for everyone! Defund Planned Parenthood! People who undertake a perfectly normal bodily function must be punished!
Kids are expensive. Ultra expensive if you give them a chance to go to college. They are a major drain on finances. Like it or. Ot their own decisions have put them in the situation.
My wife and I make 300k combined in Atlanta. We are talking about 1 kid. Figuring out how we will budget for daycare, college, food, clothes, etc. plus any life emergencies and our retirement. Three kids would not only break us but be unfair to them.
Me and my wife live in Atlanta (well, Woodstock) and are talking about our first kid as well. We make less than 1/3 of what you do. Of course, we live in a suburb, own a house that is priced and sized correctly for our income and expected family size (2k sq ft) located in a very desirable neighborhood(10 minute walk, 1 minute drive to physically be in downtown Woodstock), own 2 cars outright, and paying off about 30k in student loans (one of the loans we just paid off in cash a few months ago). We contribute to my 401k monthly from my salary, my wife contributes to savings monthly from her salary, we do not live paycheck to paycheck, and have plenty in bank accounts to account for medical/home repair/car repair emergencies. If we have a kid, we could easily get by on my salary alone while my wife stays home to take care of the kid/does some light work from home or side jobs. You are doing it completely wrong. Move out of your Buckhead condo or John's Creek McMansion, stop leasing brand new Mercedes or BMWs every 2 years, and on 300k a year you could easily have enough for retirement and to put your kid through college debt free.
I've had 4 different jobs within that company in 10 years, and not even scratched the surface. I'm currently working on getting informal training for some skills that i can then parley into another position wirhin my company that is 1-2 pay grades higher than i currently am. It's also an international company with 10s of thousands of employees. There's plenty of room left for new and exciting, and I don't have to worry about losing vacation time or seniority by moving to a new company.
If the military cared so much about suicide rates you'd think they would do a lot more to help all those veterans committing suicide, who are homeless, can't find jobs, or get medical care. Hell, we just had a veteran here die because he was so depressed from lack of medical care and couldn't even afford food that he used what he said was a bomb and took hostages in a bank.
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There isn't a one-size-fits-all solution.
Yes there is. Single payer. It's ridiculous the US spends so much money on such mediocre healthcare. Why pay all this money to insurance companies who then turn around, keep some of the money, pay the remainder to the hospitals, then leave us to pay even more money to the hospitals? It makes much more sense to pay money to the government who can then pay the hospitals for us. Bonus points for no more chargemasters, no more different prices for insured/uninsured, 2 hospitals a block away charging vastly different amounts for the same procedures. When the government pays it can control the prices.
And before you argue anything, you don't hear about places with single payer such as the UK or Europe with shortages of doctors, do you? The government can still set prices so that doctors and hospitals make a profit, but there is no reason to unnecessarily give profits to middlemen like the insurance companies. You might end up paying a little more in taxes than you do in premiums, but with no more copays, no deductibles, etc you would very quickly come out ahead. Healthcare has to be done at the national level or you will inevitably end up with massive disparities in quality of care between states.
This kind of reminds me of longshoremen having to turn up at the docks every morning and stand on the stones just for a chance to get picked to work that day, with no guarantee that you would be working tomorrow. At least Amazon is providing health benefits, but I've heard horror stories about working for them, both in the warehouses and in technology positions.
Companies hold job fairs all the time, especially if they have a large number of openings, such as ramping up a new facility. Don't see why you are so worried. Maybe people are turning out in droves to Amazon because, while the pay might not be great, it's a strong, stable company which means you are more likely to have a stable job. Plus, (as you basically admit) most jobs at those wages don't offer healthcare-and with all the fuss in DC right now, the opportunity to get healthcare if you are lower income cannot be passed up, as who knows how long Obamacare will last.
Is the US going to experience more floods or become a desert? By definition it can't be both.
Yes it can. The US is pretty damn big. Some areas may see increased rainfall, other places increased desertification. And the kicker is that this won't just happen in places that are already rainy or deserts. Some places that are prime, fertile farmland could turn into deserts. This can cause significant population displacement and economic chaos.
...the Democrats and the institutional media in the US have been playing this game for years
Because the alternative media is SO much more truthful...
So who decides where to draw the line? The parents? Doctors? Politicians? How far along the spectrum do you have to be before autism is considered "serious" enough to be edited? Do you edit out all mutations, or just enough to slide to a higher functioning level on the scale? How do you control for the environmental factors? While many people embrace their "genius", plenty of others fall into depression and would gladly trade a few points of IQ just for the ability to socialize and feel comfortable around people. While Down's Syndrome could be "fixed" (for lack of a better term) relatively easy, autism is much more complicated.
With the lock-on feature, I'm thinking more the screens from the conference room in Demolition Man.
You could probably find a silver lining when buried under 50 feet of shit.
*Buried under 50 feet of shit* Well, it could be worse. I could be working in the Trump administration.
What's left after The Mooch?
Kalanik might be looking for a temp gig while he waits to triumphantly return to Uber
My floor just went to an open plan a few months ago. Half of our team rooms-the ones that actually were big enough for 5-6 people to work in together-have already been turned into official offices (with desks and internet hook ups installed) while a good 1/3 of the desks on our floor have no one assigned to them, forcing us to either jam people into small rooms or working feet from other people at their desks. The only people that were all for the change to an open floor plan were the ones that got to keep their offices.
Good point. Leave it to GRRM to figure out way to kill off characters twice. Or more. He should set up gofundmes so his fans can bribe him to unkill their favorite characters.
Well, I am assuming the show will at some point (re)kill The Mountain since he is Cersei's personal bodyguard (and it's quite possible that Jamie leaves Cersei or might even be the one to kill The Mountain himself). In which case the show would have killed someone, revived him, and the killed him again. And how many times has Berric Dondarrion died now?
Part of me wonders if this was planned all along (and by all along I mean the last few days) as a way to get rid of Preibus. Trump obviously isn't happy with the GOP and getting rid of Priebus was a good way to put a shot over the GOP's bow. So, bring in Mooch, have him get into a pissing match with Priebus, use that as an excuse to get rid of Priebus, and bring in Kelly who might be more loyal to Trump. Then, when Mooch has done his job, cut him loose. Trump gets to get rid of poor Spicey, gets to rebuke the GOP over their failed repeal of Obamacare, and gets a new Chief of Staff and (eventually) a new Communications Director.
Of course, the other part of me thinks Trump is so unhinged and disjointed he can't even plan far enough ahead to decide whether he wants original or extra crispy KFC waiting for him in the limo that takes him from Air Force One to Mar a Lago on his biweekly "definitely not golfing" weekend golf trips.
But given that Apple's already invested $5 billion into this new campus, complete with iPhone-influenced custom-built toilets for the space, it's hard to believe this decision was about penny-pinching. The other possible argument for skipping private offices would be if a company didn't know that's what its workers would prefer.
Or the 3rd choice: They don't really care what their employees prefer.
Amazon still doesn't sell files. To call them convenient is a joke. You can only run their player (the only player able to stream their stuff) on certain types of computers using special software. It's not standardized at all.
Yes, Amazon is so inconvenient. I can only watch (and download) Amazon videos on my phone, my tablet, my Kindle Fire, my Fire TV stick, my Sony smart TV, my blu-ray player, my wife's iPad, my wife's Macbook, and my desktop PC. I should be able to watch Amazon on my smart fridge too(if I had one), dammit!
Unless the White Walkers win, in which case some people un-die. Depending on how soon in the story and where they die, it's possible that some people will die, un-die, and then re-die as they fight the White Walkers and die, get reanimated as a White Walker, then get killed again fighting humans.
i mean.. unless i'm wrong.. there's this thing called a book.. that you could read.. right? no need to take the script
At the point the story in the show is beyond the point of the story in the books. So the writers actually have a fair bit of creative room, and it would actually be fairly interesting when all is said and done to see how divergent the show ends up being from the book.
That was my first thought as well. Planning a premature death, are you Travis? In sticking with the black turtleneck theme you might be better off (Elizabeth) "Holmesing" it, but a bro like you would probably prefer to be dead than broke and irrelevant anyway.
More a statement that, especially when the information is true and goes against his own narrative, Trump is very interested in finding out the identity or attacking the source of that information.
Who gives a shit about the messenger, if the message is true?
Looking at some recent tweet storms regarding leaks, it seems Trump does.
Well, Obama did promise more transparency in government. He never specified what kind of transparency.
a flyover state like Atlanta.
While the Atlanta metro area is huge, I don't think it's quite hit state size yet.
Hey, they did just build a brand new amphitheater downtown
I don't understand why you would keep bringing them into this world if you can't afford them.
Maybe if they actually had received effective sex education in school or have access to family planning and abortion services poorer people wouldn't keep having kids. But nope, sorry, abstinence-only sex ed for everyone! Defund Planned Parenthood! People who undertake a perfectly normal bodily function must be punished!
Kids are expensive. Ultra expensive if you give them a chance to go to college. They are a major drain on finances. Like it or. Ot their own decisions have put them in the situation.
My wife and I make 300k combined in Atlanta. We are talking about 1 kid. Figuring out how we will budget for daycare, college, food, clothes, etc. plus any life emergencies and our retirement. Three kids would not only break us but be unfair to them.
Me and my wife live in Atlanta (well, Woodstock) and are talking about our first kid as well. We make less than 1/3 of what you do. Of course, we live in a suburb, own a house that is priced and sized correctly for our income and expected family size (2k sq ft) located in a very desirable neighborhood(10 minute walk, 1 minute drive to physically be in downtown Woodstock), own 2 cars outright, and paying off about 30k in student loans (one of the loans we just paid off in cash a few months ago). We contribute to my 401k monthly from my salary, my wife contributes to savings monthly from her salary, we do not live paycheck to paycheck, and have plenty in bank accounts to account for medical/home repair/car repair emergencies. If we have a kid, we could easily get by on my salary alone while my wife stays home to take care of the kid/does some light work from home or side jobs. You are doing it completely wrong. Move out of your Buckhead condo or John's Creek McMansion, stop leasing brand new Mercedes or BMWs every 2 years, and on 300k a year you could easily have enough for retirement and to put your kid through college debt free.
I've had 4 different jobs within that company in 10 years, and not even scratched the surface. I'm currently working on getting informal training for some skills that i can then parley into another position wirhin my company that is 1-2 pay grades higher than i currently am. It's also an international company with 10s of thousands of employees. There's plenty of room left for new and exciting, and I don't have to worry about losing vacation time or seniority by moving to a new company.
If the military cared so much about suicide rates you'd think they would do a lot more to help all those veterans committing suicide, who are homeless, can't find jobs, or get medical care. Hell, we just had a veteran here die because he was so depressed from lack of medical care and couldn't even afford food that he used what he said was a bomb and took hostages in a bank.