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  1. Well.. that USED to be true. These days the fine has been reduced to zero by the current administration has it not?

    The tax bill passed by Congress effectively removed the personal mandate but that isn't until next year, meanwhile it is still required.

  2. Then they are in violation of the Affordable Care Act which requires everyone to purchase insurance or sign up for Medicare otherwise they face IRS fines.

  3. Re:Keeping an eye on developments... on Nikon Announces Development of Full Frame Mirrorless Camera (petapixel.com) · · Score: 2

    I think I read somewhere they were working on focusing using the actual sensor so they wouldn't need to split the light, but don't think that's been released yet.

    It's called Dual Pixel Auto Focus and Canon has had it for years now.

  4. Re:coal? on SpaceX Enters a New Stage of Reusability (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    To be honest, my comment was made in jest.

    To be honest, my comment was made in jest as an attempt to top your jest.

  5. Re:coal? on SpaceX Enters a New Stage of Reusability (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    We should get off oil and use nuclear!

    No, no, the only serious nuclear powered rocket is Project Orion.

  6. Re:No, I really don't. on People Like Getting Thank You Notes, Research Finds (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Do not send me thank you notes, you stupid motherfucker.

    No, it's do not send me someone else's thank you notes.

    Several times a day I get...

    To: Bob and about 30 other people including me
    From: Tedious manager
    Thanks Bob!

  7. Re:I'm taking bets on Why London's Heathrow Airport Sometimes Hosts 'Ghost Flights' With No One on Them (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I had never heard of such a thing until a couple of months ago when someone posted on Nextdoor that there were a lot of 'chemtrails' that day. I corrected him that condensation trails was condensed to 'contrails' and for my trouble got a wild rant about what a naive fool I was to not know about how my mind was being controlled by government spraying. It seemed to me in his case more medication was needed.

  8. Fastest SSD ... installed by an OEM? on The New MacBook Pro Features 'Fastest SSD Ever' In a Laptop (macrumors.com) · · Score: 0

    OEM options are always mediocre at best. One can probably buy SSDs that are much faster.

  9. Re: It's all about that business model on Wells Fargo's Scandals Finally Hurt Its Bottom Line (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Usury is an unfair or punitively high rate of interest. Interest is just the time value of money. Pretending it doesn't exist or forbidding it fir nysterious reasons is willful ignorance.

  10. Meanwhile, almost 2 out of 3 college students are female...

    But by the time they get to college they're "women". I think this initiative that's hired girls is some kind of scheme to pay peanuts for child labor.

  11. Out of interest what sport is an AR-15 suited to?

    Shooting.

  12. "tailored for the Chinese server market"? on China Begins Production Of x86 Processors Based On AMD's IP (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    translation: fabs owned by fairly high ranked party officials' brothers-in-law and making timely deposits to Panamanian accounts.

  13. Never mind phones, WTF dishwasher soap? on Owning an iPhone is the Number-One Way To Guess if You're Rich or Not, Research Finds (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Look at the charts in TFA... why is there always a disparity between having a dishwasher and using dishwasher detergent?? The detergent is horrifically caustic so who is using it not in a machine? Either that or what genius is using a machine without detergent? Messed up....

  14. Re:Let's do Metric Time Instead! on EU Polls The Public About Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (europa.eu) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No more need for time zones, or the dreaded DST, at all! One time zone to rule them all!

    You're trying to be funny but actually in China this is exactly what they do. The whole country is on Beijing Time despite being what would normally be a 4 time zone wide country. And they don't bother with DST either.

  15. Re: Structural problems on EU Polls The Public About Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (europa.eu) · · Score: 1

    Wrong.

    They spend more time at work.

    Well, yeah, the office has AC.

  16. Third riches business person, you mean on Mark Zuckerberg Becomes World's Third-Richest Person (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Let's see, Kim Ill owns his whole country outright, then Xi and Putin pretty much de facto own theirs... then there's the members of the junta who own Myanmar, etc, etc.

  17. Re:A new high. on EPA Blocks Warnings on Cancer-Causing Chemical: Report (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, who here is snorting formaldehyde ?

    Everyone who works in an office building whose windows are sealed shut.

  18. Re:Way ahead of you... on How Much Americans Could Save by Ridesharing Driverless Cars Over Owning · · Score: 1

    You have a very weird and unrepresentative work situation.

    I could say the same about the people who live in such high density areas that they complain owning a car is too expensive and too hard to park.

  19. Re:Not sure - Big Flex Pipe? on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish someone could explain how they actually got in there in the first place. Even before it flooded it seems like a tough place to get too. Who led them there and why? Is he facing any punishment?

    If you're in the part that's easy to get to and water starts pouring in the way you came, the narrow parts that lead away up-slope become surprisingly easy to squeeze through.

  20. Re:How about SCUBA and a winch? on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    P.S. Am I the only one wondering where they're shitting?

    In a cave.

  21. The opposite is true for US travelers to China on The World's Largest Phone Network China Mobile Censors Content -- Even in the United States (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    if you have T-Mobile. Everything goes through t-mo's vpn so you have full access to all US sites that are normally blocked for Chinese. Although strangely enough, Google blocks downloadable / offline maps for China so you can only navigate as long as you have a good cell signal and don't go too fast.

  22. Re:Misleading title... on How Much Americans Could Save by Ridesharing Driverless Cars Over Owning · · Score: 2

    Which means New York? That's about the only US city that qualifies. Taking 3 buses and spending 2.5 hours to get across town doesn't.

    New York is frequently in the news for their transit system that is crumbling before their eyes with constantly delayed or cancelled subway trains.

  23. Re:Way ahead of you... on How Much Americans Could Save by Ridesharing Driverless Cars Over Owning · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You've got the money part covered but notice the headline includes saving time. This is the real comedy; waiting around for a ride share is supposed to save time somehow?

  24. Fhat's the reaction a lot of us had in the 70s when it first became fashionable to wear clothing with branding prominently displayed. What kind of fool turns himself into a billboard for a clothing manufacturer?

    It turns out, the answer was a commonplace fool.

    Do you not remember the fashion alternatives in the 70's??? A logos on a single color shirt was a VAST improvement on plaid.

  25. Re:Move fast, break things, shoot each other in th on Samsung Phones Are Spontaneously Texting Users' Photos To Random Contacts Without Their Permission (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not the release schedule that's Agile, its' the development process...

    Deployment to production is the last step of an Agile sprint. Otherwise you're doing Agile halfassed.