Here's what Oregon Senator Jeff Kruse says about this in an email that I got:
I want to share some thoughts about Cover Oregon, or the insurance exchange...
We were one of five states granted federal dollars ($48 million) to develop the technology. The agreement was we would then share what we had developed with other states, which is a reasonable approach. The warning that immediately went up is the fact the State of Oregon has a miserable track record when it comes to IT development. In this case, even though much of the work was contracted out to a company called Oracle, we have held true to our record of failure. We have been assured all of the problems can be fixed, and maybe that is true over time, but here we are with a non-functioning web site and 400 new government employees to do manual processing....
The federal government also gave Oregon nearly 250 million dollars to operate the exchange for two years. Another pot of federal money in play is the subsidies for people buying insurance in the exchange. It is on a graduated scale, but everyone up to 400% of the federal poverty level (for a family of four that is an income of $90,000) can get federal dollars to help pay their premiums. This will, to a degree, offset the premium increases, but only short term. In two years the operational funds as well as the subsidies are scheduled to go away.
"New information just in suggests that if you logged into the fake Demonoid and used the same user/password combo on any other site (torrent, email, Steam, PayPal) you should change them immediately."
Yup. After all those LinkedIn passwords were leaked last year, I wised up and changed the passwords to all the websites I visit each to something different. So now if my username/password combo is compromised, it's only good for that one particular website.
I guess Mormon missionaries sometimes/frequently get in trouble at airports because they will refer to the Book of Mormon as the B.O.M. and somebody will overhear them.
At least, this was a story I heard way back when, pre 9/11 days.
I'm not surprised that this guy is from Portland, OR. We got so many weird people here. sigh....
From the website, it says one of the votes was whether or not this guys should become a vegetarian. 453 votes for yes, 288 for no. Ah Portland, you never disappoint.
Probably not quite what you're looking for, but have seen the armor made by Forcefield? Their back protector is soft and flexible, but it hardens up in a impact. It may not offer you quite the same level of protection from piercing damage as hard shelled armor, but it's every bit as good if not better for blunt force. ATGATT!!
Back when E10 was used in the winter and summer was still 100% pure gasoline, I was getting 24 mpg in the summer and 21.5 in the winter. Now, I always get 21.5 mpg because E10 is used all the time.
To travel 200 miles, I would burn through 8.33 gals of regular gasoline at 24 mpg. With E10 I would burn 9.30 gals of fuel, of which 8.37 gal was gasoline and 0.93 gals was ethanol.
I know the it doesn't make sense, but the numbers don't lie. My car literally burns more gasoline by volume when using E10.
I also found the same 10% mileage drop with E10 when used in my motorcycle too. It goes from 50 mpg on the highway to about 45 mpg.
For only $2.6 billion, sounds like a bargain to me. For some perspective, here's what else $2.6 billion can buy or is equivalent to:
- F22 Raptor - About one day of War on Terror - 60% of the money spent during the 2013 Presidential campaign. - The Mars Science Laboratory - Total worldwide box office revenue for Avatar
This particular excerpt just helps to show how out of control things have gotten:
The case began in February 2011, when Stuart says he and his wife got the Kim Dotcom treatment after about 30 local Arizona law enforcement agents wearing SWAT gear and camouflage dress — some of them with bushes attached to their shoulders to blend into the woods around his house — descended on his home and threatened to send him and his wife to prison for 35 years if he didn’t cooperate.
The search warrant used in the raid said Stuart and his wife were engaged in money laundering, operating an illegal enterprise and engaging in the promotion of gambling. Stuart has tried to obtain a copy of the affidavit used to get the search warrant, but it’s currently sealed.
Why yes of course, 30 Arizona SWAT agents to take down a husband and wife accused of online crimes in New York. Sounds about right. At the very least, SWAT got the right address and didn't shoot anybody's dog.
According to this link, the U.S. is going to stop producing pennies and nickels in 2013.
Though I'm not sure how much faith one can put into this article. I've tried looking for more concrete news about this, but I have yet to turn up anything. Anybody else hear about this?
So people were actually stranded because they couldn't get into their cars because their keyless fobs wouldn't work? The driver's door should at least have a keyed lock.
The article said people actually had their cars towed to the dealership because they couldn't unlock them, so I'm disinclined to this this is operator error, but a really bad design by asshat engineers. At least the article gives us a clue as to which car companies to avoid in the future: "Cars made by Ford, Lexus, Toyota, BMW and Mercedes were reportedly affected."
My person opinion, no. Automatic fire isn't really that much more dangerous. It's just scarier.
Automatic fire really only has one useful function, and that's for fire suppression. Other than that, it's a big waste of ammo. In fact, while the first version of the M16 could fire fully automatic, I believe the military found this to be a waste of ammo and today's version of the M16s (now called the M4) have a "burst" mode (3 rounds per trigger pull).
I don't think banning semi-automatics would solve much. With just a little bit of practice, one can fire a pump/level/bolt action firearm very quickly. Limiting the the magazine capacity is also another way to "slow down" a shooter, but in reality re-loading doesn't take that long with practice.
An ArmaLite 15 (AR-15) is not an assault rifle. It's a semi-automatic (which means, one trigger pull = one bullet, and the rifle automatically loads another round for you without you having to manual use a pump, lever, or bolt mechanism to load it yourself) rifle than shoots a relatively, albeit incredible fast, small rifle round. Commonly, it can be describe as a varmint rifle.
An assault rifle is normally a rifle that has full auto capabilities (one trigger pull = more than one bullet), firing a small intermediate-sized rifle round. This would include the military version of the AR-15, the M16, as well as the AK47.
Yes, both the M16 and AR-15 look similar, which is why people like yourself can't tell the difference. But, they are not the same gun (despite what the media wants you to think). The AR-15 might look black and scary, but they do come in pink with hello kitty stickers if that's more your style.
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I want to share some thoughts about Cover Oregon, or the insurance exchange...
We were one of five states granted federal dollars ($48 million) to develop the technology. The agreement was we would then share what we had developed with other states, which is a reasonable approach. The warning that immediately went up is the fact the State of Oregon has a miserable track record when it comes to IT development. In this case, even though much of the work was contracted out to a company called Oracle, we have held true to our record of failure. We have been assured all of the problems can be fixed, and maybe that is true over time, but here we are with a non-functioning web site and 400 new government employees to do manual processing....
The federal government also gave Oregon nearly 250 million dollars to operate the exchange for two years. Another pot of federal money in play is the subsidies for people buying insurance in the exchange. It is on a graduated scale, but everyone up to 400% of the federal poverty level (for a family of four that is an income of $90,000) can get federal dollars to help pay their premiums. This will, to a degree, offset the premium increases, but only short term. In two years the operational funds as well as the subsidies are scheduled to go away.
It isn't, but please delete your account anyway.
I consider myself to have strong libertarian leanings, and I don't think this article belongs here either.
"New information just in suggests that if you logged into the fake Demonoid and used the same user/password combo on any other site (torrent, email, Steam, PayPal) you should change them immediately."
Yup. After all those LinkedIn passwords were leaked last year, I wised up and changed the passwords to all the websites I visit each to something different. So now if my username/password combo is compromised, it's only good for that one particular website.
I guess Mormon missionaries sometimes/frequently get in trouble at airports because they will refer to the Book of Mormon as the B.O.M. and somebody will overhear them.
At least, this was a story I heard way back when, pre 9/11 days.
I'm not surprised that this guy is from Portland, OR. We got so many weird people here. sigh....
From the website, it says one of the votes was whether or not this guys should become a vegetarian. 453 votes for yes, 288 for no. Ah Portland, you never disappoint.
Probably not quite what you're looking for, but have seen the armor made by Forcefield? Their back protector is soft and flexible, but it hardens up in a impact. It may not offer you quite the same level of protection from piercing damage as hard shelled armor, but it's every bit as good if not better for blunt force. ATGATT!!
For a second there, I though you were talking about the US.
No.
So what?!
I have to plan out my trips too when I want to take my motorcycle.
Great news!
That's been pretty much my experience too!
Back when E10 was used in the winter and summer was still 100% pure gasoline, I was getting 24 mpg in the summer and 21.5 in the winter. Now, I always get 21.5 mpg because E10 is used all the time.
To travel 200 miles, I would burn through 8.33 gals of regular gasoline at 24 mpg. With E10 I would burn 9.30 gals of fuel, of which 8.37 gal was gasoline and 0.93 gals was ethanol.
I know the it doesn't make sense, but the numbers don't lie. My car literally burns more gasoline by volume when using E10.
I also found the same 10% mileage drop with E10 when used in my motorcycle too. It goes from 50 mpg on the highway to about 45 mpg.
According to the article, it is:
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon
I want to work for this company as their Material Defender. You know, just in case those robotic satellites malfunction and turn hostile.
Soulskill is killing my soul with this "story".
what does the water in Lake Vostok taste like?
For only $2.6 billion, sounds like a bargain to me. For some perspective, here's what else $2.6 billion can buy or is equivalent to:
- F22 Raptor
- About one day of War on Terror
- 60% of the money spent during the 2013 Presidential campaign.
- The Mars Science Laboratory
- Total worldwide box office revenue for Avatar
This particular excerpt just helps to show how out of control things have gotten:
The case began in February 2011, when Stuart says he and his wife got the Kim Dotcom treatment after about 30 local Arizona law enforcement agents wearing SWAT gear and camouflage dress — some of them with bushes attached to their shoulders to blend into the woods around his house — descended on his home and threatened to send him and his wife to prison for 35 years if he didn’t cooperate.
The search warrant used in the raid said Stuart and his wife were engaged in money laundering, operating an illegal enterprise and engaging in the promotion of gambling. Stuart has tried to obtain a copy of the affidavit used to get the search warrant, but it’s currently sealed.
Why yes of course, 30 Arizona SWAT agents to take down a husband and wife accused of online crimes in New York. Sounds about right. At the very least, SWAT got the right address and didn't shoot anybody's dog.
According to this link, the U.S. is going to stop producing pennies and nickels in 2013.
Though I'm not sure how much faith one can put into this article. I've tried looking for more concrete news about this, but I have yet to turn up anything. Anybody else hear about this?
Anybody have a link to one of the 15 NNI member newspapers?
So people were actually stranded because they couldn't get into their cars because their keyless fobs wouldn't work? The driver's door should at least have a keyed lock.
The article said people actually had their cars towed to the dealership because they couldn't unlock them, so I'm disinclined to this this is operator error, but a really bad design by asshat engineers. At least the article gives us a clue as to which car companies to avoid in the future: "Cars made by Ford, Lexus, Toyota, BMW and Mercedes were reportedly affected."
My person opinion, no. Automatic fire isn't really that much more dangerous. It's just scarier.
Automatic fire really only has one useful function, and that's for fire suppression. Other than that, it's a big waste of ammo. In fact, while the first version of the M16 could fire fully automatic, I believe the military found this to be a waste of ammo and today's version of the M16s (now called the M4) have a "burst" mode (3 rounds per trigger pull).
I don't think banning semi-automatics would solve much. With just a little bit of practice, one can fire a pump/level/bolt action firearm very quickly. Limiting the the magazine capacity is also another way to "slow down" a shooter, but in reality re-loading doesn't take that long with practice.
An ArmaLite 15 (AR-15) is not an assault rifle. It's a semi-automatic (which means, one trigger pull = one bullet, and the rifle automatically loads another round for you without you having to manual use a pump, lever, or bolt mechanism to load it yourself) rifle than shoots a relatively, albeit incredible fast, small rifle round. Commonly, it can be describe as a varmint rifle.
An assault rifle is normally a rifle that has full auto capabilities (one trigger pull = more than one bullet), firing a small intermediate-sized rifle round. This would include the military version of the AR-15, the M16, as well as the AK47.
Yes, both the M16 and AR-15 look similar, which is why people like yourself can't tell the difference. But, they are not the same gun (despite what the media wants you to think). The AR-15 might look black and scary, but they do come in pink with hello kitty stickers if that's more your style.
For those that didn't get it, it's a quote from Star War Episode 1. The answer is "invasion".
Nothing like security through obscurity.
That would have been awesome back in middle school! I would surely have made it onto the A team then.