More likely she pissed someone off and they called the insurance company. I know I've wanted to do that when someone I knew cheated on their income tax big time and they pissed me off. I didn't do it, but I wanted to.
As I noted in my post.. the first link as all about studies showing smoking in the home. And that BS about asthma attacks applies to car fumes, carpet outgassing, and a host of other items. Asthma attacks are not caused solely by cigarette smoke, which is why they carry medication with them at all times.
The second talked about eliminating smoking indoors. NEITHER attempted any measure of the affects of a person walking through a cloud of cigarette smoke on their way into a building once or twice a day. Yep.. smoke has bad stuff in it. Check the air you breathe if you live in the city, and I'm sure you will find a host of nasty things also.
I have no problem with eliminating smoking indoors. But I'm tired of all the BS that is thrown about by people who are ignorant and don't bother to read what is really in the studies, what they actually studied, and how the statistics can be used and abused.
If I had been in a car, both vehicles would have been close to being totaled because this moron pulled out into traffic that she couldn't see coming because of a line of stopped cars, which she admitted to the police officer. Because I was driving a motorcycle, I was able to react far more quickly than in a car. If I had been in a car, I would have rear ended her at 45 mph and ending up with head and neck injuries that could have cost far more. Because I was on a bike, I was able to veer sharply to the right. I bounced off her rear quarter panel, kept the bike upright, and I coasted to a controlled stop. Total bike bill --- $900. Her car received over $2K worth of damage from my foot peg and foot.
The cost to society because so many morons drive cars and DON'T PAY ATTENTION is far more disproportionate than their contribution to society, regardless of whether or not motorcycles are involved. The majority of motorcycle crashes are caused by either alcohol (mostly single vehicle crashes that result in the application of Darwin's theory of evolution) or idiots in cars. Motorcycles, and their handicapped twin the scooter, cause far less congestion and road wear due to their smaller size and could reduce the amount spent on road costs every year. They use far less gas (my bike gets 45-50mpg, about what a Prius gets), require fewer resources to make, and are much cheaper. If Congress mandated catalytic converters on bikes, they would generate far less pollution also. But converters get up to around 800F degrees, and it's tough to find a place to put them so that legs don't get burned.
In other words, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
Get this.. I was prescribed an 'air cast'. I had to drive to an office, fill out forms, and then be 'fitted' for what was essentually two Dr. Scholls air pillows with some stiff plastic and velcro. Cost billed?? $120. If I had known ahead of time, I could have made due with a $3 ace bandage.
Yes.. our health care does need to be fixed. Maybe someday we could get a congress that recognizes that health care is so expensive because the damned doctors and hospitals charge too much instead of trying to fix my insurance that paid for all of the excessive charges at reduced rates.
The three day/two night 2 hour surgery bill was only $43K. The rest was surgeons, doctors, anesthesiologists, physical therapy, ambulance, etc. Visit Adventures in Healthcare Land for more details of what is screwed up with our health care system
What a bunch of bs.... post the medical findings and I'll listen.
I have not seen ANY studies that suggest that OCCASIONAL exposure to second hand smoke is a hazard. Yep.. working in a bar 8 hours a day that is filled with smoke is. Living in a house with parents that smoke is. But NOT walking through a cloud of smoke for 5 seconds, or working on a computer.
Find one that suggests how often somebody has to walk through a cloud of smoke or work on a computer and I'll accept this. Until then.. they can STFU.
People use Fuck because it is vulgar and profane. I use it sparingly because sometimes, a vulgar and profane word fits. We NEED vulgar and profane words to express anger and other intense emotions. There is a significant difference in calling something 'stupdi' and calling something 'FUCKING STUPID!!!'
The newspaper did the right thing. Someone repeatedly posting something after it has been deleted should be addressed. It was vulgar, and a large part of society thinks so. He did not get the poster fired, the poster resigned because he was discovered doing something he knew he shouldn't be doing and thought he couldn't be found out. Tough shit.
I told my son once when he lamented about people treating him based on the way he dresses that he was right, it's not fair. So he can either dress that way to try and change people's perceptions and accept the consequences until they do, or he can dress better. Neither one is the right answer, both influence one's life.
He choose to continue to dress the way he wanted, and decided he didn't care what people thought. The guy posting the vulgarity should have known that it would not be appreciated, and deal with the consequences of getting caught for his actions like an adult.
I agree.. keeping them in a file is a recipe for disaster. I use a similar idea where I can figure out what the password is within the normal 3-5 try limit of most systems. I also don't use the same username everywhere. I do cheat and use Firefox passwords with a security passphrase on my desktop.
As long as the passwords are unique enough that if someone finds one, they can't either figure out the scheme or use the one they figure out on all your social networking site.
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And the solution to my RDBMS problem today isn't in the RDBMS based on the article and comment, it requires me to move to something else.
And someday, this new thing will have similar problems. Because no matter how clever we think we are, reality has a way of finding new twists and turns that no one thought of.
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I was an admin on a system that spread the data across 10 database servers. Each server had a complete set of some data, like accounts, but the system was designed so that ranges of accounts stored their transaction type data a specific server, and each server held about the same number of accounts and transactions. As data came in, it was temporarily housed on the incoming server until a background process picked it up and moved it to the 'correct' one. This is a very simplistic view, but the reality was that it worked quite well. Occasionally, there was a re-balancing that had to be done. But it was very scalable. The incoming data wasn't so time sensitive that if it took a few hours to get moved, everything was still OK. When an 'online' session needed data, it knew which server to connect to to get it. Processing was done overnight on each server, then summarized and combined as needed.
So yes...people have been coming up with innovative ways to solve these problems for a very long time.
So.. explain how impacting the lives of 90% of the population for 10% is about 'the general welfare'. The government has full power to regulate the medical profession and insurance industry. This bill does NOTHING to reduce health care costs. How do I know this?? Show me any part of it where it requires the medical profession to change any of their habits, or places any limits on their costs.
High insurance costs are a direct reflection of high medical costs. And it's higher today than 20 years for one reason.. it's better. I broke my foot in a motorcycle accident in February, and the associated doctor bills were $70,000US. This was for a SIMPLE fracture of the fibula, no bones sticking through the skin or multiple breaks. Fifty years ago they would have slapped a cast on me and sent me home. Now I stay in the hospital for 3 days, they put a plate in, and no cast. The care is far better, I had no cast or the associated discomfort, the break is healing well through the physical therapy.
So the next time someone whines about the cost of medical care, remind them of how many people survive cancer, or severe burns, or quadruple bypass surgery. All treatments that didn't exist 50 years ago and are very, very expensive today.
Of which this POS bit of legislation doesn't address at all. Treatments we all have the right to have access to.
But it should be the responsibility of the INDIVIDUAL to figure out how to pay for it, not the government. Take up a collection, setup a payment plan, beg. I don't care. It's not my problem that someone I don't know can't take care of themselves. I help my friends, their friends can help them.
Maybe some adults know that a minority of adults act like children and don't know how to providing for themselves and refuse to pay for their childish behavior. Ask yourself this if you have no insurance... are you putting 100-200 dollars a month into a savings account in case you have to go to the doctors?? After all, that is how much your insurance premium would be if your employer offered it. Have you looked into a high-deductible plan at least to protect you from major surgeries?? I had one that had a $5,000 deductible, and it only cost me $20/month through my employer. Granted, I now had to do this called called budgeting for my doctor visits, but that is MY responsibility, not the governments nor the private sector. If you have no insurance, aren't putting any money aside, and have never called Blue Cross for a quote, then shut the fuck up. You don't deserve to have anyone take care of you because you won't even try to take care of yourself.
Your employer doesn't offer a health plan?? Then they are selfish. ALL employers can offer health plans, they choose not to. Employers don't have to pay any of the premiums and can pass the whole thing onto the employees if they can't afford it. ALL employers can offer their employees a high-deductible health plan where the employees pay the entire premium, so if you employer does not he is lying to you about not being able to offer health care.
So because less than 10% of the population don't have insurance, the other 90% will now have to pay for it. And of that 10%, a large portion CHOOSE not to have insurance even when it's offered. I know this from personal experience, two people I know do not have insurance even though their employer offers it. These are not low paying jobs, these are mid to upper middle class incomes who choose to purchase expensive toys rather than carry insurance on themselves.
This furthers drives the US economy down the shitter, just as Obama has been doing since he was elected.
American society has many public and private swimming pools with swimming instructors and scheduled classes that aren't very expensive. Parents drop their kids off every morning for a couple of weeks, and pick them up four hours later. They can progress from beginner through advanced classes if they choose and learn a variety of swimming strokes, floating methods, and water treading techniques.
Instructors can learn how to teach babies, infants, toddlers, children, teens, and adults with different techniques appropriate for their age level and attention span. I've seen instructors teach babies who can't walk how to swim. I've seen them teach seniors that can barely stand up how to exercise and strengthen with easy swimming techniques. (I worked a few summers as a lifeguard in the summer at a public pool in a small, rural town in Ohio.)
After they learn to swim, children can be taken to the pool and parents don't have to watch them because they have lifeguards. Same with the ocean beaches and lakes.
THAT kind of infrastructure. I'm sure there are lifeguards, instructors and pools and such in India, but my guess is they aren't as prevalent or as accessible. I didn't see a lifeguard tower on the beach I was on in Chennai.
Sorry I wasn't clearer in what I meant by 'infrastructure' in a place where power would flicker off a couple times a day for seemingly no reason. I loved Chennai and it's people, but I wouldn't want to live there.
The "Why can't I own a Canadian" is a wonderful essay that slams using religious texts for moral arguments by using parts of the bible people don't quote to justify slavery, stoning, and killing. As part of the essay, it uses Old Testament text that seems to justify owning slaves as long as they are not from your own country. As for the peroxide search, it's a treatment for getting wax out of your ear, although I don't know if it works or not.
I was in Chennai several years ago and noticed no one was in the water other than wading. My friend told me most Indians don't know how to swim. I figured it was probably because they don't have the same infrastructure in place as the US in teaching swimming. Maybe someone from India can shed some additional light on that and solve that mystery.
Just another worthless piece from what passes for news these days. Maybe someday reporters will get away from their desks and actually go out and report on news.
While I have no doubt a computer program could figure out that I like certain tempos and time signatures and musical patterns, none of it says whether it is any good.
What I don't understand is the concept that it has to be 'fair'. There are thousands of wonderful singers, songwriters, musicians,and drummers out there. I can listen all day to great music, who cares if some unknown in Gary Indiana is better and is being ignored. Tell him to get off his fat ass and work to get noticed like everyone else has had to. Times are changing, and myspace, facebook. blogs in general, and other Internet features make it simple to get your work out there and link to albums on Amazon if someone wants to buy it. Tell these kids to stop whining because no one knows about it. As the parent said, if it is any good... they will. When it hits critical mass, it will start being recommended.
If these kids would stop listening to their mother and boyfriend/girlfriend's opinions, maybe reality would set in and they would find out they are just as mediocre as everyone else is.
Kids these days... expect everything to be handed to them. And GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
My ex-wife had an amazing memory. She could remember names and phone numbers of people she had only met once. She could remember all the SKU numbers when she worked part time at Sears. When she got her RN license, she filled her head with drug information and could spout interactions on request.
But she wasn't so good at things like programming a VCR or directions. I noticed that while she had a great memory, she was terrible at spatial type tasks. Where I was just the opposite... I have a terrible memory but can write code like crazy because I can keep several parts of a program in my head and understand the requirements, interactions, and dependencies. I never memorized math formulas, but the idea behind them.
Cooking was very telling. I'm a passable cook, but not very inventive. She was a better cook, but had problems when she had to cook more than a couple of items at a time in getting the sequence of the various recipes merged so that everything was ready at the same time. That part, I was very good at.
The telling point came one day when we were talking about taxes. We owed a lot because she had started working part time as an RN and we didn't pay attention to the amount being withheld from her paycheck for taxes. When I did the taxes normally, i.e. married filing jointly, we owed $3,000. She came back to me a few days later and said that if she filed as married, filing separately, she would get $1,000 back. I explained that I always did our taxes both ways and then when we did it that way, she did get $1,000 back, but I ended up owing $5,000. I was never able to get her to understand how the tax brackets worked and why this was the case. So I gave in and took it to HR Block. Guess what, the best way to file was married, filing jointly. For years she thought I was trying to cheat her out of money and refused to increase her withholding to the same percent of income as mine, so I had to withhold even more from mine. Which meant she had to put more into the household account in order to pay bills, so the end result was the same anyway.
As I told my son at the time... there are some battles that just aren't worth fighting. Because even if you win... you lose.
I remarried three years ago, and my lovely wife can talk with me about such matters. It's a wonderful thing to find someone that is smart, beautiful, and thinks sex is only dirty when it's done right.
Orchards hire bee keepers or keep bees themselves to pollinate the orchards. It is a very common practice even among organic orchards to do this. And since there is no label on an apple to say whether or not it is 'naturally' pollinated, by eating store bought apples, even from an organic store, one perpetuates the exploitation of bees.
The argument that honey isn't vegan because bees are killed in the process has some merit. But again, eating that organic apple may have been possible because some bee keeper was hired to pollinate the orchard, and he sold the honey. Someone who eats the apple but doesn't eat honey is being a hypocrite unless they have verified that the apple was pollinated 100% naturally from non-exploited sources.
That's not true of all fruits. Date palms, for instance, are male and female. There are no natural pollinators of dates as they are wind pollinated, so it is common practice to hand pick the pollen sheaths from the male plant, extract the pollen, and apply them by hand again to the female plants. The female flowers are then covered with a large sack to keep insects and animals from eating the dates, and to keep the ripe dates from falling to the ground and being ruined.
Of course, eating dates perpetuates the exploitation of low skilled workers by the bourgeois upper class. So if one cares about one's fellow human beings, I guess they need to only get dates from collective farms where all workers carry an equal share.
If one truly wants to not exploit bees, they need to do further homework to determine which growers do not use bees, or which fruits are pollinated without them. THAT was the point of the discussion with my son. Don't take a valid point and misuse it to suit ones on purpose. Understand it and apply it without prejudice.
The basis for the litigation is simple. As I recall, the Apple license specifically excludes loading OS X on anything but Apple labeled hardware. So loading it onto and into Pystar hardware is copyright infringement because they do not have such a license.
I applaud Pystar's attempt to create an alternative to Apple hardware. But the Apple license is pretty explicit. I think.. I wasn't able to find a current copy on their web site.
The media is a reflection of the population itself. It gives what the population wants. Most people won't take the understand one issue, let alone several.
Which is why we are not a democracy, I'd bet that 75% of the population have not done any real reading on any single topic beyond what appears on the front page of their newspaper or in emails their like-minded friends send.
Unfortunately, the population can't really distinguish a leader from an orator like Obama. And many think that being famous gives someone insight into political wisdom. So we get mindless rantings and half-truths from the left and right, and most of the population follow it blindly depending on their own personal beliefs. When people with 'new ideas' like Ron Paul show up, the frustrated run to their half-baked ideas without any real analysis either.
Here is an example... my son won't eat honey because it 'exploits' bees. I explained to him then that he had better stop eating many fruits, because the fruits are also pollinated by those same exploited bees. He simply grabbed onto an idea without really looking at what 'exploited' really means because it suited his purpose, not eating honey.
And that, my friends, is really what goes on. Most people latch onto ideas that prove the point of view they already have, and won't take the time to examine any opposing opinion. When presented with such opinions, they shut down or simply state 'you just a liberal/conservative sheep spouting talking points'.
Are you talking rural 'homes' or 'business'. A rural farm that has sales in the hundreds of thousands or more can justify phone and electrical service as a cost of doing business and take tax breaks for it. It would be cheaper to pay for their increased costs via higher food prices than the hidden costs and inefficiences of federal and state taxes. Except that it is now a 'pure' cost regardless of income level v/s being subsidized by the wealthier. Like a soda tax, everyone pays the same for the can of soda, instead of paying more if they make more.
But I was talking about people who choose to live in rural areas but do not make a living there. I grew up in a rural farming community where most homes outside the city limits were farms, not those that don't like urban/suburban living. If someone wants to go live in the country or retire there, why should I subsidize their broadband. A farmer can justify it as a cost of doing business.
As to those that whine about 'I live in the country and don't get any government services'.. tough. You have chosen to live there. But then again, you have to drive into the city to buy things, so you gain from the government taking away their trash and providing taking care of the streets that the goods are transported on. If you lived in the country and didn't earn any income at all and lived off the land, then the amount of taxes you would be paying would be very minimal.
Life's not fair and we all have to make choices. I do not wish to pay for the bad choices people make. But a farmer won't install broadband unless he feels it is a competitive advantage, and thus becomes a cost of doing business along with all the other farmers.
Why does it suck?? I've got broadband and it works great. Almost everyone I know has it also. The only people that don't are in places where it is very expensive to provide. So.. you want the 90% who have decent broadband to pay even more so that the 10% in places where it is expensive don't have to pay so much, even though they choose to live there. And they don't want to pay for dial-up, even though most services on the Internet work just fine without it, it just takes a little longer and you can't really download free movies or watch YouTube.
You probably helped write the health care reform bill also....
The best day traders make money from the worst day traders. Women flock to money, so the good day traders will breed, the rest will have to spend all day on/. posting how unfair day trading is.
What a bunch of bs...putting labels on things and trying to force people into tiny boxes.
I've been writing code for 30+ years. I've seen all of these disciplines come in and out of favor.
Each started with a simple concept, and was then perverted into something so that people who couldn't code could design and run projects and get paid more than the coders. Agile programming was the closest to anything useful, then it too was perverted with a bunch of useless rules and methodology structures that everyone had to be sent off to class to learn.
The top percentage of coders are already architects without the label. All they need is a software request and a rough diagram of system components in order to get started. They understand how to write code so it interacts nicely with other code.They know how to write code the traps and handles errors properly. They know how to write code that doesn't blow up because some unknown data crept into the system. They know how to write efficient code and do performance testing. They don't need to sit down and design an entire system down to each module, they can pick a spot to start and just begin coding. Sure, they might have to change a few things as they go, but I've never seen a system designed by architects that didn't need some tweaking along the way either.
What it all comes down to is we still do modular programming and design with flowcharts, there just called different things and have different rules now.
Architects are needed for developers with poor design skills. Developers are needed for architects with poor coding skills. Take the time to find employees with both and just get the work done. Let your competition spend too much money hiring too many people and follow fads.
So I guess you aren't against any company installing security cameras and keyboard loggers to make sure their employees don't goof on on company time. I may pay a cops salary through taxes, but I also pay a developer's salary when I buy software. I should have the RIGHT to make sure the developers aren't posting on/. on company time.
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More likely she pissed someone off and they called the insurance company. I know I've wanted to do that when someone I knew cheated on their income tax big time and they pissed me off. I didn't do it, but I wanted to.
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As I noted in my post .. the first link as all about studies showing smoking in the home. And that BS about asthma attacks applies to car fumes, carpet outgassing, and a host of other items. Asthma attacks are not caused solely by cigarette smoke, which is why they carry medication with them at all times.
.. smoke has bad stuff in it. Check the air you breathe if you live in the city, and I'm sure you will find a host of nasty things also.
The second talked about eliminating smoking indoors. NEITHER attempted any measure of the affects of a person walking through a cloud of cigarette smoke on their way into a building once or twice a day. Yep
I have no problem with eliminating smoking indoors. But I'm tired of all the BS that is thrown about by people who are ignorant and don't bother to read what is really in the studies, what they actually studied, and how the statistics can be used and abused.
If I had been in a car, both vehicles would have been close to being totaled because this moron pulled out into traffic that she couldn't see coming because of a line of stopped cars, which she admitted to the police officer. Because I was driving a motorcycle, I was able to react far more quickly than in a car. If I had been in a car, I would have rear ended her at 45 mph and ending up with head and neck injuries that could have cost far more. Because I was on a bike, I was able to veer sharply to the right. I bounced off her rear quarter panel, kept the bike upright, and I coasted to a controlled stop. Total bike bill --- $900. Her car received over $2K worth of damage from my foot peg and foot.
The cost to society because so many morons drive cars and DON'T PAY ATTENTION is far more disproportionate than their contribution to society, regardless of whether or not motorcycles are involved. The majority of motorcycle crashes are caused by either alcohol (mostly single vehicle crashes that result in the application of Darwin's theory of evolution) or idiots in cars. Motorcycles, and their handicapped twin the scooter, cause far less congestion and road wear due to their smaller size and could reduce the amount spent on road costs every year. They use far less gas (my bike gets 45-50mpg, about what a Prius gets), require fewer resources to make, and are much cheaper. If Congress mandated catalytic converters on bikes, they would generate far less pollution also. But converters get up to around 800F degrees, and it's tough to find a place to put them so that legs don't get burned.
In other words, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
Get this .. I was prescribed an 'air cast'. I had to drive to an office, fill out forms, and then be 'fitted' for what was essentually two Dr. Scholls air pillows with some stiff plastic and velcro. Cost billed?? $120. If I had known ahead of time, I could have made due with a $3 ace bandage.
.. our health care does need to be fixed. Maybe someday we could get a congress that recognizes that health care is so expensive because the damned doctors and hospitals charge too much instead of trying to fix my insurance that paid for all of the excessive charges at reduced rates.
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The three day/two night 2 hour surgery bill was only $43K. The rest was surgeons, doctors, anesthesiologists, physical therapy, ambulance, etc. Visit Adventures in Healthcare Land for more details of what is screwed up with our health care system
What a bunch of bs .... post the medical findings and I'll listen.
.. working in a bar 8 hours a day that is filled with smoke is. Living in a house with parents that smoke is. But NOT walking through a cloud of smoke for 5 seconds, or working on a computer.
.. they can STFU.
I have not seen ANY studies that suggest that OCCASIONAL exposure to second hand smoke is a hazard. Yep
Find one that suggests how often somebody has to walk through a cloud of smoke or work on a computer and I'll accept this. Until then
So do car drivers....should we ban them also??? After all, driving a car is a privilege, not a right.
I was in the hospital not too long ago, cost $70K to fix a broken foot because a car hit my motorcycle.
People use Fuck because it is vulgar and profane. I use it sparingly because sometimes, a vulgar and profane word fits. We NEED vulgar and profane words to express anger and other intense emotions. There is a significant difference in calling something 'stupdi' and calling something 'FUCKING STUPID!!!'
The newspaper did the right thing. Someone repeatedly posting something after it has been deleted should be addressed. It was vulgar, and a large part of society thinks so. He did not get the poster fired, the poster resigned because he was discovered doing something he knew he shouldn't be doing and thought he couldn't be found out. Tough shit.
I told my son once when he lamented about people treating him based on the way he dresses that he was right, it's not fair. So he can either dress that way to try and change people's perceptions and accept the consequences until they do, or he can dress better. Neither one is the right answer, both influence one's life.
He choose to continue to dress the way he wanted, and decided he didn't care what people thought. The guy posting the vulgarity should have known that it would not be appreciated, and deal with the consequences of getting caught for his actions like an adult.
I agree .. keeping them in a file is a recipe for disaster. I use a similar idea where I can figure out what the password is within the normal 3-5 try limit of most systems. I also don't use the same username everywhere. I do cheat and use Firefox passwords with a security passphrase on my desktop.
As long as the passwords are unique enough that if someone finds one, they can't either figure out the scheme or use the one they figure out on all your social networking site.
And the solution to my RDBMS problem today isn't in the RDBMS based on the article and comment, it requires me to move to something else.
And someday, this new thing will have similar problems. Because no matter how clever we think we are, reality has a way of finding new twists and turns that no one thought of.
I was an admin on a system that spread the data across 10 database servers. Each server had a complete set of some data, like accounts, but the system was designed so that ranges of accounts stored their transaction type data a specific server, and each server held about the same number of accounts and transactions. As data came in, it was temporarily housed on the incoming server until a background process picked it up and moved it to the 'correct' one. This is a very simplistic view, but the reality was that it worked quite well. Occasionally, there was a re-balancing that had to be done. But it was very scalable. The incoming data wasn't so time sensitive that if it took a few hours to get moved, everything was still OK. When an 'online' session needed data, it knew which server to connect to to get it. Processing was done overnight on each server, then summarized and combined as needed.
.. .people have been coming up with innovative ways to solve these problems for a very long time.
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And they will continue to do so.
So .. explain how impacting the lives of 90% of the population for 10% is about 'the general welfare'. The government has full power to regulate the medical profession and insurance industry. This bill does NOTHING to reduce health care costs. How do I know this?? Show me any part of it where it requires the medical profession to change any of their habits, or places any limits on their costs.
.. it's better. I broke my foot in a motorcycle accident in February, and the associated doctor bills were $70,000US. This was for a SIMPLE fracture of the fibula, no bones sticking through the skin or multiple breaks. Fifty years ago they would have slapped a cast on me and sent me home. Now I stay in the hospital for 3 days, they put a plate in, and no cast. The care is far better, I had no cast or the associated discomfort, the break is healing well through the physical therapy.
High insurance costs are a direct reflection of high medical costs. And it's higher today than 20 years for one reason
So the next time someone whines about the cost of medical care, remind them of how many people survive cancer, or severe burns, or quadruple bypass surgery. All treatments that didn't exist 50 years ago and are very, very expensive today.
Of which this POS bit of legislation doesn't address at all. Treatments we all have the right to have access to.
But it should be the responsibility of the INDIVIDUAL to figure out how to pay for it, not the government. Take up a collection, setup a payment plan, beg. I don't care. It's not my problem that someone I don't know can't take care of themselves. I help my friends, their friends can help them.
Maybe some adults know that a minority of adults act like children and don't know how to providing for themselves and refuse to pay for their childish behavior. Ask yourself this if you have no insurance ... are you putting 100-200 dollars a month into a savings account in case you have to go to the doctors?? After all, that is how much your insurance premium would be if your employer offered it. Have you looked into a high-deductible plan at least to protect you from major surgeries?? I had one that had a $5,000 deductible, and it only cost me $20/month through my employer. Granted, I now had to do this called called budgeting for my doctor visits, but that is MY responsibility, not the governments nor the private sector. If you have no insurance, aren't putting any money aside, and have never called Blue Cross for a quote, then shut the fuck up. You don't deserve to have anyone take care of you because you won't even try to take care of yourself.
Your employer doesn't offer a health plan?? Then they are selfish. ALL employers can offer health plans, they choose not to. Employers don't have to pay any of the premiums and can pass the whole thing onto the employees if they can't afford it. ALL employers can offer their employees a high-deductible health plan where the employees pay the entire premium, so if you employer does not he is lying to you about not being able to offer health care.
So because less than 10% of the population don't have insurance, the other 90% will now have to pay for it. And of that 10%, a large portion CHOOSE not to have insurance even when it's offered. I know this from personal experience, two people I know do not have insurance even though their employer offers it. These are not low paying jobs, these are mid to upper middle class incomes who choose to purchase expensive toys rather than carry insurance on themselves.
This furthers drives the US economy down the shitter, just as Obama has been doing since he was elected.
American society has many public and private swimming pools with swimming instructors and scheduled classes that aren't very expensive. Parents drop their kids off every morning for a couple of weeks, and pick them up four hours later. They can progress from beginner through advanced classes if they choose and learn a variety of swimming strokes, floating methods, and water treading techniques.
Instructors can learn how to teach babies, infants, toddlers, children, teens, and adults with different techniques appropriate for their age level and attention span. I've seen instructors teach babies who can't walk how to swim. I've seen them teach seniors that can barely stand up how to exercise and strengthen with easy swimming techniques. (I worked a few summers as a lifeguard in the summer at a public pool in a small, rural town in Ohio.)
After they learn to swim, children can be taken to the pool and parents don't have to watch them because they have lifeguards. Same with the ocean beaches and lakes.
THAT kind of infrastructure. I'm sure there are lifeguards, instructors and pools and such in India, but my guess is they aren't as prevalent or as accessible. I didn't see a lifeguard tower on the beach I was on in Chennai.
Sorry I wasn't clearer in what I meant by 'infrastructure' in a place where power would flicker off a couple times a day for seemingly no reason. I loved Chennai and it's people, but I wouldn't want to live there.
The "Why can't I own a Canadian" is a wonderful essay that slams using religious texts for moral arguments by using parts of the bible people don't quote to justify slavery, stoning, and killing. As part of the essay, it uses Old Testament text that seems to justify owning slaves as long as they are not from your own country. As for the peroxide search, it's a treatment for getting wax out of your ear, although I don't know if it works or not.
I was in Chennai several years ago and noticed no one was in the water other than wading. My friend told me most Indians don't know how to swim. I figured it was probably because they don't have the same infrastructure in place as the US in teaching swimming. Maybe someone from India can shed some additional light on that and solve that mystery.
Just another worthless piece from what passes for news these days. Maybe someday reporters will get away from their desks and actually go out and report on news.
Thank you!!!
... they will. When it hits critical mass, it will start being recommended.
... expect everything to be handed to them. And GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
While I have no doubt a computer program could figure out that I like certain tempos and time signatures and musical patterns, none of it says whether it is any good.
What I don't understand is the concept that it has to be 'fair'. There are thousands of wonderful singers, songwriters, musicians,and drummers out there. I can listen all day to great music, who cares if some unknown in Gary Indiana is better and is being ignored. Tell him to get off his fat ass and work to get noticed like everyone else has had to. Times are changing, and myspace, facebook. blogs in general, and other Internet features make it simple to get your work out there and link to albums on Amazon if someone wants to buy it. Tell these kids to stop whining because no one knows about it. As the parent said, if it is any good
If these kids would stop listening to their mother and boyfriend/girlfriend's opinions, maybe reality would set in and they would find out they are just as mediocre as everyone else is.
Kids these days
My ex-wife had an amazing memory. She could remember names and phone numbers of people she had only met once. She could remember all the SKU numbers when she worked part time at Sears. When she got her RN license, she filled her head with drug information and could spout interactions on request.
... I have a terrible memory but can write code like crazy because I can keep several parts of a program in my head and understand the requirements, interactions, and dependencies. I never memorized math formulas, but the idea behind them.
... there are some battles that just aren't worth fighting. Because even if you win ... you lose.
But she wasn't so good at things like programming a VCR or directions. I noticed that while she had a great memory, she was terrible at spatial type tasks. Where I was just the opposite
Cooking was very telling. I'm a passable cook, but not very inventive. She was a better cook, but had problems when she had to cook more than a couple of items at a time in getting the sequence of the various recipes merged so that everything was ready at the same time. That part, I was very good at.
The telling point came one day when we were talking about taxes. We owed a lot because she had started working part time as an RN and we didn't pay attention to the amount being withheld from her paycheck for taxes. When I did the taxes normally, i.e. married filing jointly, we owed $3,000. She came back to me a few days later and said that if she filed as married, filing separately, she would get $1,000 back. I explained that I always did our taxes both ways and then when we did it that way, she did get $1,000 back, but I ended up owing $5,000. I was never able to get her to understand how the tax brackets worked and why this was the case. So I gave in and took it to HR Block. Guess what, the best way to file was married, filing jointly. For years she thought I was trying to cheat her out of money and refused to increase her withholding to the same percent of income as mine, so I had to withhold even more from mine. Which meant she had to put more into the household account in order to pay bills, so the end result was the same anyway.
As I told my son at the time
I remarried three years ago, and my lovely wife can talk with me about such matters. It's a wonderful thing to find someone that is smart, beautiful, and thinks sex is only dirty when it's done right.
Orchards hire bee keepers or keep bees themselves to pollinate the orchards. It is a very common practice even among organic orchards to do this. And since there is no label on an apple to say whether or not it is 'naturally' pollinated, by eating store bought apples, even from an organic store, one perpetuates the exploitation of bees.
The argument that honey isn't vegan because bees are killed in the process has some merit. But again, eating that organic apple may have been possible because some bee keeper was hired to pollinate the orchard, and he sold the honey. Someone who eats the apple but doesn't eat honey is being a hypocrite unless they have verified that the apple was pollinated 100% naturally from non-exploited sources.
That's not true of all fruits. Date palms, for instance, are male and female. There are no natural pollinators of dates as they are wind pollinated, so it is common practice to hand pick the pollen sheaths from the male plant, extract the pollen, and apply them by hand again to the female plants. The female flowers are then covered with a large sack to keep insects and animals from eating the dates, and to keep the ripe dates from falling to the ground and being ruined.
Of course, eating dates perpetuates the exploitation of low skilled workers by the bourgeois upper class. So if one cares about one's fellow human beings, I guess they need to only get dates from collective farms where all workers carry an equal share.
If one truly wants to not exploit bees, they need to do further homework to determine which growers do not use bees, or which fruits are pollinated without them. THAT was the point of the discussion with my son. Don't take a valid point and misuse it to suit ones on purpose. Understand it and apply it without prejudice.
The basis for the litigation is simple. As I recall, the Apple license specifically excludes loading OS X on anything but Apple labeled hardware. So loading it onto and into Pystar hardware is copyright infringement because they do not have such a license.
.. I wasn't able to find a current copy on their web site.
I applaud Pystar's attempt to create an alternative to Apple hardware. But the Apple license is pretty explicit. I think
The media is a reflection of the population itself. It gives what the population wants. Most people won't take the understand one issue, let alone several.
... my son won't eat honey because it 'exploits' bees. I explained to him then that he had better stop eating many fruits, because the fruits are also pollinated by those same exploited bees. He simply grabbed onto an idea without really looking at what 'exploited' really means because it suited his purpose, not eating honey.
Which is why we are not a democracy, I'd bet that 75% of the population have not done any real reading on any single topic beyond what appears on the front page of their newspaper or in emails their like-minded friends send.
Unfortunately, the population can't really distinguish a leader from an orator like Obama. And many think that being famous gives someone insight into political wisdom. So we get mindless rantings and half-truths from the left and right, and most of the population follow it blindly depending on their own personal beliefs. When people with 'new ideas' like Ron Paul show up, the frustrated run to their half-baked ideas without any real analysis either.
Here is an example
And that, my friends, is really what goes on. Most people latch onto ideas that prove the point of view they already have, and won't take the time to examine any opposing opinion. When presented with such opinions, they shut down or simply state 'you just a liberal/conservative sheep spouting talking points'.
Are you talking rural 'homes' or 'business'. A rural farm that has sales in the hundreds of thousands or more can justify phone and electrical service as a cost of doing business and take tax breaks for it. It would be cheaper to pay for their increased costs via higher food prices than the hidden costs and inefficiences of federal and state taxes. Except that it is now a 'pure' cost regardless of income level v/s being subsidized by the wealthier. Like a soda tax, everyone pays the same for the can of soda, instead of paying more if they make more.
.. tough. You have chosen to live there. But then again, you have to drive into the city to buy things, so you gain from the government taking away their trash and providing taking care of the streets that the goods are transported on. If you lived in the country and didn't earn any income at all and lived off the land, then the amount of taxes you would be paying would be very minimal.
But I was talking about people who choose to live in rural areas but do not make a living there. I grew up in a rural farming community where most homes outside the city limits were farms, not those that don't like urban/suburban living. If someone wants to go live in the country or retire there, why should I subsidize their broadband. A farmer can justify it as a cost of doing business.
As to those that whine about 'I live in the country and don't get any government services'
Life's not fair and we all have to make choices. I do not wish to pay for the bad choices people make. But a farmer won't install broadband unless he feels it is a competitive advantage, and thus becomes a cost of doing business along with all the other farmers.
Why does it suck?? I've got broadband and it works great. Almost everyone I know has it also. The only people that don't are in places where it is very expensive to provide. So .. you want the 90% who have decent broadband to pay even more so that the 10% in places where it is expensive don't have to pay so much, even though they choose to live there. And they don't want to pay for dial-up, even though most services on the Internet work just fine without it, it just takes a little longer and you can't really download free movies or watch YouTube.
You probably helped write the health care reform bill also....
Day trading furthers the evolution of humans ...
/. posting how unfair day trading is.
The best day traders make money from the worst day traders. Women flock to money, so the good day traders will breed, the rest will have to spend all day on
What a bunch of bs...putting labels on things and trying to force people into tiny boxes.
.. I got shit to do.
I've been writing code for 30+ years. I've seen all of these disciplines come in and out of favor.
Each started with a simple concept, and was then perverted into something so that people who couldn't code could design and run projects and get paid more than the coders. Agile programming was the closest to anything useful, then it too was perverted with a bunch of useless rules and methodology structures that everyone had to be sent off to class to learn.
The top percentage of coders are already architects without the label. All they need is a software request and a rough diagram of system components in order to get started. They understand how to write code so it interacts nicely with other code.They know how to write code the traps and handles errors properly. They know how to write code that doesn't blow up because some unknown data crept into the system. They know how to write efficient code and do performance testing. They don't need to sit down and design an entire system down to each module, they can pick a spot to start and just begin coding. Sure, they might have to change a few things as they go, but I've never seen a system designed by architects that didn't need some tweaking along the way either.
What it all comes down to is we still do modular programming and design with flowcharts, there just called different things and have different rules now.
Architects are needed for developers with poor design skills. Developers are needed for architects with poor coding skills. Take the time to find employees with both and just get the work done. Let your competition spend too much money hiring too many people and follow fads.
Gotta go
So I guess you aren't against any company installing security cameras and keyboard loggers to make sure their employees don't goof on on company time. I may pay a cops salary through taxes, but I also pay a developer's salary when I buy software. I should have the RIGHT to make sure the developers aren't posting on /. on company time.
I hate ribbons too .. but I know in Excel you can hide it. So I do!