Except... the costs will actually go UP as a result of all the added payout costs. Insurers will put ridiculous terms in contracts to discourage those with pre-existing conditions from signing with them. It just gets worse.
I see you have no grasp of economics. Insurance costs (and profits) will go UP in a captive market. It always does (short of government regulations capping the insurance rates). The mandate creates the captive market.
They did slip in a backdoor to the public option. It's called the no-insurance penalty. Just don't buy insurance, do pay the penalty, and demand your pre-paid health care.
1a. Why paperwork? I hate paperwork. I refuse to fill it out. You can't make me. It's unconstitutional. Let's hear what the Supreme Court says. I dare them to call paperwork a tax.
1b. So do Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. And health care is an even lower part of their GDP.
2. Health Maintenance Organizations. It's another scam. Don't go there.
3. Because those who have an interest in keeping power in the hands of amoral profit seeking corporations (e.g. Republicans) have been effective at sabotaging the government's resources and ability to carry out the best interested of the nation (e.g. Boehner and crew, ala "the NO men", in the current session).
This is why I am looking overseas to start my new business idea. And I won't be able to hire American's, even though I would be hiring mostly telecommuting developers. I'll most likely be doing it in highly taxed Scandinavia. That might seem wrong, but it actually works out better in the long run because it is a healthier work force pool.
Removing employment from the equation is one of the important things we need to do. Health care should be a NATION issue, not an employer issue. We ended up with this because long long ago a few corporations started paying for the hospital costs of their executives as an incentive to work for that company, so that they had something better than the general population. What we should be trying to do is raise the health care level of the general population. We should then let business add on to that for their employees if they want to (and mostly they will not), and focus on the general population without regard to their employment.
Processing this through two extra levels of bureaucracy just adds overhead costs (employer and insurance provider). We need to eliminate those wasteful costs entirely and go straight to Single Payer Universal Health Care.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts knew you would do this, and knows you will vote for Mitt Romney, who will repeal the entire ACA and give control to the Health Insurance providers. He's so clever and smart.
"Tax" is a word. The government is forcing you to pay up, whatever word is used for that. Don't listen to what they say, observe what they do.
As for me, I'll just refuse to buy insurance and pay the penalty. Then I'll demand my coverage based on having paid for it through that "tax". It's the public option backdoor!
Absolutely. Corporations will... by definition... take everything they can get. A handful of privately owned corporations are exceptions. None of the publicly owned ones deviate from that lest they lose the institutional investors. Read my blog for more info on my political direction.
Chattanooga does have gigabit fiber to the home. It's not dirt cheap, but if you are decently employed, and love the high speed, you might be willing to pay the $350/mo.
Per the article, she is already a US Citizen. So the store employee is in the wrong. The government prohibition is against sale into or transfer into those countries. It does not apply to US Citizens of descent from those countries.
It's time for an occupation of this store that refuses to sell to certain US Citizens.
This is what happens when the meaning of "tech savvy" gets usurped and people that can use apps in a smartphone get labeled "tech savvy" and think they know enough to make legislation that involves truly technical details about something like how the internet works.
Being "tech savvy" has lost it's meaning these days. People are considered "tech savvy" by just being able to use a smartphone. And that is effectively increasing the pool of people called "tech savvy". But the number of people that genuinely understand security is not growing. If anything it is shrinking.
... small (I don't need more than 60GB) but fast SSD (250MB/sec sustained write, 400MB/sec sustained read) that plugs directly into a PCI-Express slot (4x or larger to get some speed), and works reliably in Linux (e.g. NOT a Marvell controller). Given the larger capacities generally available today, it would seem to make more sense to achieve this smaller faster design with some redundancy.
An interesting alternative (but still needs to be NOT based on a Marvell controller) would be a PCI-Express card that can hold a small 2.5 inch laptop style SATA3 drive. Even better if you can slide the drive in from the rear through an open slot as long as it goes almost all the way in and has a clip to help hold it in place. I would be using this for the OS and use the rotating platter drives entirely for bulk data.
Don't you just hate it when solutions are simple. Just get rid of all the root servers. Let anyone with enough DNS brains run their own root server. Let there be a free market for which root server is used. ISPs will provide a default root server to their customers, who can simply just change to another if they wish.
Oh, I hear a complaint already... it will fragment the internet. But that's the whole idea. It keeps the UN and governments from taking over.
I do both. I stream music where it is useful. But I don't stream while at home for music I downloaded, though I do stream to hear other stuff. If I really like it, I'll download it.
I remember when music started showing up online. I downloaded music at first NOT to keep it, but to sample it. What I liked I went and bought a CD for. Now CDs are too cumbersome so I just download what I like in full quality, and stream to hear new choices.
Basically it's a mixed setup. I stream for when streaming works best (listening when away from my collection, or to hear new things), and play from my collection when that works best (higher quality, selections never go away).
... to charge people for music based on how much they listen to (e.g. how many minutes they are listening) rather than on the size of the choice available whether actually listening or not.
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Except ... the costs will actually go UP as a result of all the added payout costs. Insurers will put ridiculous terms in contracts to discourage those with pre-existing conditions from signing with them. It just gets worse.
I see you have no grasp of economics. Insurance costs (and profits) will go UP in a captive market. It always does (short of government regulations capping the insurance rates). The mandate creates the captive market.
They did slip in a backdoor to the public option. It's called the no-insurance penalty. Just don't buy insurance, do pay the penalty, and demand your pre-paid health care.
They slipped it back in undercover. It's the penalty for not buying insurance from evil private corporations. It's the "public option backdoor".
1a. Why paperwork? I hate paperwork. I refuse to fill it out. You can't make me. It's unconstitutional. Let's hear what the Supreme Court says. I dare them to call paperwork a tax.
1b. So do Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. And health care is an even lower part of their GDP.
2. Health Maintenance Organizations. It's another scam. Don't go there.
3. Because those who have an interest in keeping power in the hands of amoral profit seeking corporations (e.g. Republicans) have been effective at sabotaging the government's resources and ability to carry out the best interested of the nation (e.g. Boehner and crew, ala "the NO men", in the current session).
This is why I am looking overseas to start my new business idea. And I won't be able to hire American's, even though I would be hiring mostly telecommuting developers. I'll most likely be doing it in highly taxed Scandinavia. That might seem wrong, but it actually works out better in the long run because it is a healthier work force pool.
Removing employment from the equation is one of the important things we need to do. Health care should be a NATION issue, not an employer issue. We ended up with this because long long ago a few corporations started paying for the hospital costs of their executives as an incentive to work for that company, so that they had something better than the general population. What we should be trying to do is raise the health care level of the general population. We should then let business add on to that for their employees if they want to (and mostly they will not), and focus on the general population without regard to their employment.
Processing this through two extra levels of bureaucracy just adds overhead costs (employer and insurance provider). We need to eliminate those wasteful costs entirely and go straight to Single Payer Universal Health Care.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts knew you would do this, and knows you will vote for Mitt Romney, who will repeal the entire ACA and give control to the Health Insurance providers. He's so clever and smart.
Or try this tactic ... go ahead and pay the penalty (which is lower than insurance premiums) and then demand the health care you paid for.
"Tax" is a word. The government is forcing you to pay up, whatever word is used for that. Don't listen to what they say, observe what they do.
As for me, I'll just refuse to buy insurance and pay the penalty. Then I'll demand my coverage based on having paid for it through that "tax". It's the public option backdoor!
Actually, this is just John Roberts' very clever plan to swing the presidential election to Mitt Romney. It's pure genius!
Then you don't love the speed enough. Internet is not as big a part of your life as for some. You want your car, too. In summary ... You have a life!
Go for the 100 megabit. It still beats Comcast.
Absolutely. Corporations will ... by definition ... take everything they can get. A handful of privately owned corporations are exceptions. None of the publicly owned ones deviate from that lest they lose the institutional investors. Read my blog for more info on my political direction.
Chattanooga does have gigabit fiber to the home. It's not dirt cheap, but if you are decently employed, and love the high speed, you might be willing to pay the $350/mo.
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... some slashdoterdood named Anonymous Coward.
... Jerry Sandusky. Or maybe Bernie Madoff.
Per the article, she is already a US Citizen. So the store employee is in the wrong. The government prohibition is against sale into or transfer into those countries. It does not apply to US Citizens of descent from those countries.
It's time for an occupation of this store that refuses to sell to certain US Citizens.
This is what happens when the meaning of "tech savvy" gets usurped and people that can use apps in a smartphone get labeled "tech savvy" and think they know enough to make legislation that involves truly technical details about something like how the internet works.
Isn't there an Android app that is a copy of Stephen Hawking's voice?
Being "tech savvy" has lost it's meaning these days. People are considered "tech savvy" by just being able to use a smartphone. And that is effectively increasing the pool of people called "tech savvy". But the number of people that genuinely understand security is not growing. If anything it is shrinking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive
... small (I don't need more than 60GB) but fast SSD (250MB/sec sustained write, 400MB/sec sustained read) that plugs directly into a PCI-Express slot (4x or larger to get some speed), and works reliably in Linux (e.g. NOT a Marvell controller). Given the larger capacities generally available today, it would seem to make more sense to achieve this smaller faster design with some redundancy.
An interesting alternative (but still needs to be NOT based on a Marvell controller) would be a PCI-Express card that can hold a small 2.5 inch laptop style SATA3 drive. Even better if you can slide the drive in from the rear through an open slot as long as it goes almost all the way in and has a clip to help hold it in place. I would be using this for the OS and use the rotating platter drives entirely for bulk data.
Why the hell are they calling "fast forward" a "trick mode"?
Don't you just hate it when solutions are simple. Just get rid of all the root servers. Let anyone with enough DNS brains run their own root server. Let there be a free market for which root server is used. ISPs will provide a default root server to their customers, who can simply just change to another if they wish.
Oh, I hear a complaint already ... it will fragment the internet. But that's the whole idea. It keeps the UN and governments from taking over.
I do both. I stream music where it is useful. But I don't stream while at home for music I downloaded, though I do stream to hear other stuff. If I really like it, I'll download it.
I remember when music started showing up online. I downloaded music at first NOT to keep it, but to sample it. What I liked I went and bought a CD for. Now CDs are too cumbersome so I just download what I like in full quality, and stream to hear new choices.
Basically it's a mixed setup. I stream for when streaming works best (listening when away from my collection, or to hear new things), and play from my collection when that works best (higher quality, selections never go away).
Then don't listen to that Jihadist music from the terrorists.
... to charge people for music based on how much they listen to (e.g. how many minutes they are listening) rather than on the size of the choice available whether actually listening or not.