No, that's the whole idea behind Obamacare. The idea behind insurance is that it is a personal choice to have it or not. Now it's just a tax that unfairly impacts young healthy people.
This is the attitude that drives me NUTS. People act like not having health insurance is like not having a spare tire in their trunk. You all know good and damned well if something happens to you, you're going to fully expect to be able to call 911 and get treated. If you have some severe onset of disease or accident, you're not planning on crawling into a cubbyhole in the forest and dying because you can't afford coverage. What you WANT is the right to offset the costs of your healthcare risktaking onto the rest of the country.
The point of Obamacare is we *all* agree to chip in for healthcare to bring down the costs for everyone.
It was probably on the Discover channel (yeah yeah I know) about scientists and fusion research. One in particular was a geek girl who happened to belly dancer (what made it so memorable) who made the comment that she thought they'd have positive energy fusion power technology developed within 5 years. The thing that struck me was that it wasn't the typical "oh, in 15 years or so" vague timeline that never arrives. That kind of a statement struck me as peculiarly confident.
And, what you are not getting is that for a GOVERNMENT your word (laws) is your bond. When you pass a law that says you're going to build a school, THAT is your obligation to the WORLD that you're going to spend $50 million on that campus. That's what dollar evaluations are about. It's about the full faith and credit of a government. For us, raising the debt limit is about covering the debts we ALREADY taken on. This isn't you calling Discover Card because you want to buy a big screen TV.
You keep arguing with me and making my point that people do not understand how funding governments work. You keep trying to argue that no paying off our obligations is irrelevant since we didn't get a receipt from Walmart. You do not understand no matter how much you might think you do.
He's an ex-cop who makes videos about all the extremely shady tactics cops use to get a drug bust; including lying to gain access to your property where they would have no rights to search or manipulating search dogs to create fake drug hits.
I have no clue who this Haselton guy is, but he sounds like douche. I got 1/3 through the article and decided he's not worth listening to. Find Barry Cooper's videos and you'll understand why. Yes cops ARE that corrupt.
She did more than that. She even started to erase documents/emails which she somehow restored after thinking it through. Honestly, I think her case was a red herring to take the attention off of the much larger fish that were committing corporate crimes at the time.
Yet again, let me clarify that this "tradition" exists because no one was fool enough to challenge the Constitutionally-enforced notion that the US government must pay its debts. You're not understanding that the budget is the credit card balance. Funding is paying it off. We've already spent the money!
And, you're showing your naivety because you see where that leads. No one has ever thought to challenge the idea that government shouldn't pay its debts. What you're not getting is the money is SPENT! This is just about paying the bill!
There's the budget (our laws and our obligations) and there's *funding* our budget which SHOULD be a simple procedural vote. This is the point I'm making. I don't agree with shutdowns, but there's a difference between shutting down government because you can't agree on what obligations you're giong to take on and shutting down the government because the Congress has already *voted* on obligations and people are now trying to block paying for them.
This ruse is only working because people aren't aware of the subtleties of how governments are financed; particularly OURS. We're a country where just calling Obamacare the ACA increases favorability by 10% or more. And, pointing out what it actually does increases it by more than that.
Look at some of the uninformed, superficial arguments being regurgitated here "but Republicans presented 4 proposals and Obama refuses to negotiate!"
Yes, the great anonymous park ranger whose quote has been running the rounds in the Conservative blogosphere.
"This is all a ruse by Ted Cruz destabilize the country enough that when the next 2 election cycles come around, Republicans can scream 'incompetence' and take over the Senate and Presidency." -- Anonymous Congressman
This isn't how it works. The LAWS of this nation dictate how much we tell the world we're obligating ourselves to spend indirectly. The funding is supposed to be nothing more than a procedural matter. Think of our laws as a credit card balance. Whether we agree to fund the government or not, the money is already spent. When we DON'T fund the government, then we become a deadbeat nation (as rating organizations will start to reflect).
Now, if that doesn't make sense, think about all of the contractors, businesses, and organizations that for the life of this nation base their policies on the LAWS of this nation. When Congress says "OK here are the new healthcare regulations and here are the subsidies" all the insurance companies started committing resources to make that happen. When the world can no longer depend on the full faith and credit of the United States' laws, that is when the value of the dollar starts dropping like a rock.
I don't blame you for not getting it. This entire charade by the Ted Cruz wing has been designed to take advantage of the fact that most Americans don't understand this basic point.
...or his kid's. Nothing changes in this country unless someone rich, famous, or powerful is affected. Google was saying just a few months ago they didn't care at all about this stuff.
An arrest isn't an indication of guilt. Can you imagine being falsely accused of something like rape or murder, never being even charged, but having a "Rape" mugshot following you around?
Because, God help us an inner sense of decency isn't doing it. It sucks that we need a law for this situation, but we DO need a law for this situation. And, the problem has been around for a long time. I believe it was ex-Miss America Vanessa Williams who had candid nude pics her boyfriend took of her leaked to the press.
We're not talking about some attention-whoring coed. What about a woman in a committed long-term relationship who's a-hole EX decides to get revenge by posting nude pics everywhere. You assume that this only happens when some dingbat texts a nude selfie to the cute boy in Econ.
Yeah, kind of like they "abandoned" Total Information Awareness and just adopted another program that did the exact same thing. This is more of the PR pushback after they've been getting torched for the last year.
The story ran its course and Gordon won. The writing had gotten much less interesting than the first 3 parts. Episode 2 had the "rescue the girl" and "emotional daddy death" that I had predicted the instant I met those characters. It was still fun, but that ending was a slapped on setup for a sequel you'd expect from any franchise fishing for a reason.
This is the Kardashian model of what makes news worthy. Any idiot saying or doing anything shocking to most of us becomes a media sensation. Just because it was on Twitter doesn't make it relevant to this audience. I'm hoping this trend of dumping crap here skimmed off TMZ headlines doesn't continue.
This is the kind of management you'll be facing when you get out in the real world. There are herds of guys with this mentality being churned out by US business programs. They think that their "vision, drive, and leadership" is more important than your ideas and hard work. Don't be modest. If you come up with a great idea make sure everyone knows it was YOU and and not some 20-ish up-and-coming bureaucrat who will invariably take credit for it when you're not around or voicing a contrary opinion (I know from experience!).
I watched a tv documentary a while back that said the rate of loss of atmosphere is slow enough to make terraforming Mars possible. I'm not sure what you do about the lack of a magnetic field or ozone layer. I'm assuming it builds up over time after plants start generating oxygen.
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No, that's the whole idea behind Obamacare. The idea behind insurance is that it is a personal choice to have it or not. Now it's just a tax that unfairly impacts young healthy people.
This is the attitude that drives me NUTS. People act like not having health insurance is like not having a spare tire in their trunk. You all know good and damned well if something happens to you, you're going to fully expect to be able to call 911 and get treated. If you have some severe onset of disease or accident, you're not planning on crawling into a cubbyhole in the forest and dying because you can't afford coverage. What you WANT is the right to offset the costs of your healthcare risktaking onto the rest of the country.
The point of Obamacare is we *all* agree to chip in for healthcare to bring down the costs for everyone.
I've had all kinds of issues with my home theater and TVs with devices getting out of sync and content not moving from one to the other.
It was probably on the Discover channel (yeah yeah I know) about scientists and fusion research. One in particular was a geek girl who happened to belly dancer (what made it so memorable) who made the comment that she thought they'd have positive energy fusion power technology developed within 5 years. The thing that struck me was that it wasn't the typical "oh, in 15 years or so" vague timeline that never arrives. That kind of a statement struck me as peculiarly confident.
And, what you are not getting is that for a GOVERNMENT your word (laws) is your bond. When you pass a law that says you're going to build a school, THAT is your obligation to the WORLD that you're going to spend $50 million on that campus. That's what dollar evaluations are about. It's about the full faith and credit of a government. For us, raising the debt limit is about covering the debts we ALREADY taken on. This isn't you calling Discover Card because you want to buy a big screen TV.
You keep arguing with me and making my point that people do not understand how funding governments work. You keep trying to argue that no paying off our obligations is irrelevant since we didn't get a receipt from Walmart. You do not understand no matter how much you might think you do.
He's an ex-cop who makes videos about all the extremely shady tactics cops use to get a drug bust; including lying to gain access to your property where they would have no rights to search or manipulating search dogs to create fake drug hits.
I have no clue who this Haselton guy is, but he sounds like douche. I got 1/3 through the article and decided he's not worth listening to. Find Barry Cooper's videos and you'll understand why. Yes cops ARE that corrupt.
She did more than that. She even started to erase documents/emails which she somehow restored after thinking it through. Honestly, I think her case was a red herring to take the attention off of the much larger fish that were committing corporate crimes at the time.
Yet again, let me clarify that this "tradition" exists because no one was fool enough to challenge the Constitutionally-enforced notion that the US government must pay its debts. You're not understanding that the budget is the credit card balance. Funding is paying it off. We've already spent the money!
And, you're showing your naivety because you see where that leads. No one has ever thought to challenge the idea that government shouldn't pay its debts. What you're not getting is the money is SPENT! This is just about paying the bill!
There's the budget (our laws and our obligations) and there's *funding* our budget which SHOULD be a simple procedural vote. This is the point I'm making. I don't agree with shutdowns, but there's a difference between shutting down government because you can't agree on what obligations you're giong to take on and shutting down the government because the Congress has already *voted* on obligations and people are now trying to block paying for them.
This ruse is only working because people aren't aware of the subtleties of how governments are financed; particularly OURS. We're a country where just calling Obamacare the ACA increases favorability by 10% or more. And, pointing out what it actually does increases it by more than that.
Look at some of the uninformed, superficial arguments being regurgitated here "but Republicans presented 4 proposals and Obama refuses to negotiate!"
Yes, the great anonymous park ranger whose quote has been running the rounds in the Conservative blogosphere.
"This is all a ruse by Ted Cruz destabilize the country enough that when the next 2 election cycles come around, Republicans can scream 'incompetence' and take over the Senate and Presidency." -- Anonymous Congressman
See how that works?
This isn't how it works. The LAWS of this nation dictate how much we tell the world we're obligating ourselves to spend indirectly. The funding is supposed to be nothing more than a procedural matter. Think of our laws as a credit card balance. Whether we agree to fund the government or not, the money is already spent. When we DON'T fund the government, then we become a deadbeat nation (as rating organizations will start to reflect).
Now, if that doesn't make sense, think about all of the contractors, businesses, and organizations that for the life of this nation base their policies on the LAWS of this nation. When Congress says "OK here are the new healthcare regulations and here are the subsidies" all the insurance companies started committing resources to make that happen. When the world can no longer depend on the full faith and credit of the United States' laws, that is when the value of the dollar starts dropping like a rock.
I don't blame you for not getting it. This entire charade by the Ted Cruz wing has been designed to take advantage of the fact that most Americans don't understand this basic point.
...or his kid's. Nothing changes in this country unless someone rich, famous, or powerful is affected. Google was saying just a few months ago they didn't care at all about this stuff.
An arrest isn't an indication of guilt. Can you imagine being falsely accused of something like rape or murder, never being even charged, but having a "Rape" mugshot following you around?
I'm liberal, so I considered it consensual.
Because, God help us an inner sense of decency isn't doing it. It sucks that we need a law for this situation, but we DO need a law for this situation. And, the problem has been around for a long time. I believe it was ex-Miss America Vanessa Williams who had candid nude pics her boyfriend took of her leaked to the press.
We're not talking about some attention-whoring coed. What about a woman in a committed long-term relationship who's a-hole EX decides to get revenge by posting nude pics everywhere. You assume that this only happens when some dingbat texts a nude selfie to the cute boy in Econ.
They think reversing the connectors on Voyager's sensors is a big joke.
Yeah, kind of like they "abandoned" Total Information Awareness and just adopted another program that did the exact same thing. This is more of the PR pushback after they've been getting torched for the last year.
The story ran its course and Gordon won. The writing had gotten much less interesting than the first 3 parts. Episode 2 had the "rescue the girl" and "emotional daddy death" that I had predicted the instant I met those characters. It was still fun, but that ending was a slapped on setup for a sequel you'd expect from any franchise fishing for a reason.
I liked the last design more.
This is the Kardashian model of what makes news worthy. Any idiot saying or doing anything shocking to most of us becomes a media sensation. Just because it was on Twitter doesn't make it relevant to this audience. I'm hoping this trend of dumping crap here skimmed off TMZ headlines doesn't continue.
This is the kind of management you'll be facing when you get out in the real world. There are herds of guys with this mentality being churned out by US business programs. They think that their "vision, drive, and leadership" is more important than your ideas and hard work. Don't be modest. If you come up with a great idea make sure everyone knows it was YOU and and not some 20-ish up-and-coming bureaucrat who will invariably take credit for it when you're not around or voicing a contrary opinion (I know from experience!).
I watched a tv documentary a while back that said the rate of loss of atmosphere is slow enough to make terraforming Mars possible. I'm not sure what you do about the lack of a magnetic field or ozone layer. I'm assuming it builds up over time after plants start generating oxygen.
No, next step is heating Mars up with probably greenhouse gasses.