The New York Times reported that 20% of Americans under 65 with health insurance had trouble paying their medical bills over the past year. Of those, 63% claim to have used up all or most of their savings to tackle their healthcare expenses
So even if people have medical insurance, in many cases they are spending every dollar they have for medical costs. This doesn't happen in most other countries. A lot of "shitholes" can provide all their people with medical care, but in the US it's not possible because the people who are making a lot of money off of other people's misery are much too powerful because of the horrible political system. If campaign finance is fixed then maybe there is a chance for this to change, but currently both the corporate parties are currently fully bought and owned which is the same reason that we don't have universal gun background checks or legal marijuana even though a majority of the people support such measures. We used to have a representative government, and we still do, but now the representatives work for the corporations and the rich rather than for the general public.
Yes, your link shows that there are a few corner cases where a rear-ended driver might be considered partially at fault, but even then the other driver is partially at fault too. From your link: "The driver of the car that rear-ends a leading vehicle will almost always be considered at least partially negligent." The point is moot though, since in the specific case were were discussing (car autobrakes unexpectedly) the driver of the leading car would never be considered negligent. The rear-ending car might have a case against the car's manufacturer but they certainly wouldn't have a case against the driver of the rear-ended car as he was not negligent -- he didn't design the auto-braking system and didn't use it improperly.
Fortunately, more knowledgeable people have done more sophisticated analyses of this very hypothetical, and they put their estimates [antarcticglaciers.org] closer to 3.44 meters, aka 11 feet of sea-level rise.
The total potential contribution to global sea level rise from Antarctica is 58 metres, similar to previous estimates but a much more accurate measurement
Of course, your source doesn't say what you says it does, the figure you quoted is for the West Antarctic ice sheet and the Antarctic Peninsula only:
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet has a global eustatic sea level contribution of 3.2 m... The Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet would contribute 0.24 m to global sea level rise on full melting... The East Antarctic Ice Sheet has a sea level equivalent of approximately 60 m
Yes, it's not likely that all that ice will melt any time soon, we should be much more worried about things like permafrost melting or a massive amount of methane clathrates being released as the ocean warms, but at least get the figures right.
You can read Trump's executive order or Obama's executive order yourself, but basically it boils down to human rights abuses, muzzling the press, violently suppressing your political opponents, etc. Not necessarily a threat, just "quit being such a dictatorship!"
You originally posted "Obama could have chosen not to do the bailout, and just let the big banks fail. He was President." and I showed that in fact, he was not President and he could not have chosen not to do the bailout (although he did vote for it as a Senator). Obama could have pushed for the end of the TARP program after he became president but that's not what you said. I agree that both parties are complicit in the massive handout to banks but quit moving the goalposts and acting like you were right in your previous post when clearly you were wrong.
What? Are you talking about the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008? That's the only recent bank bailout of which I'm aware and it was signed into law by George W. Bush.
If China wants a space station, they will simply launch it, like they are already planning on doing and have already done. Why the hell would they want the old, crappy ISS when they could have a new, cutting-edge space station built with modern technology?
Buahahahahaha, this is the US we are talking about. There are no privacy protections. If a company employs you, they basically own you. They can look at absolutely anything they want if you're on a corporate-owned device. You are basically locked into a company because if you leave somewhere you no longer have health insurance and your company may blacklist you so you can't find a job elsewhere. Only laws that benefit corporations are ever passed as the governmental officials are owned by the corporations. Companies can do anything they want, down to regulating what activities you do when not at work or dictating when you piss. They can fire you at any time for almost any reason. The only exception is for certain protected classes (rage, gender, religion, etc.) but if they are firing someone for being black they just say "they aren't a team player" or "didn't align with our corporate culture" - it doesn't really matter as long as you don't mention their protected class and cite something sufficiently nebulous. The only real protected class is the US is profit.
Walking into a hospital saying you want to kill yourself will likely result in medical attention regardless of cost.
Sure, but you'll still be on the hook for thousands of dollars. It's not free, they just can't refuse you treatment. Adding a new large debt will surely alleviate the depression and suicidal thoughts!
Sure, that works fine for credit cards but the whole financial industry has shitty security when it comes to authenticating users. When someone takes out a loan in my name using information obtained from the Equifax breach (a company with whom I have no business relationship), what is my recourse? It's not like I can choose to patronize another company. Perhaps if companies were punished for such breaches then they would pay more attention to security.
Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers or viewers as a sincere expression of the parodied views.
Sorry, it's true. The US Census Bureau's own data says so - and Politifact (hardly a right-wing site) confirms it is, indeed, a valid claim. California has the highest poverty rate when you factor in the cost of living.
From your link: "If you look at the official poverty measure in California, we’re about average with the rest of the country," Mayes said.
And from the actual report it references: "The ITWG stated that the official poverty measure, as defined in Office of Management and Budget Statistical Policy Directive No. 14, will not be replaced by the SPM. They noted that the official measure is sometimes identified in legislation regarding program eligibility and funding distribution, while the SPM will not be used in this way. "
Adjusting the poverty measure for cost state-wide cost of living is stupid because most of the people living in poverty don't live in the high cost of living areas of the state. The cost of living in somewhere like Barstow is much lower than the national average but since millionaires in Mountain View are paying a lot for their houses a person making a decent living in Barstow is suddenly "in poverty" even though their local cost of living is low. The measure might be useful to identify people in poverty in narrow areas but to apply it to a whole state makes no sense.
In your future uninformed rants, just try to be more general: "the poverty rate is our of control!" I know it's popular these days to lie about everything being the best or worst or bigliest but the pros know how to do it without making any specific claims. You need a lot more troll practice to get to that level.
Around here, we just call it a "phone". We may use the terms "cell" or "land line" if the term "phone" is ambiguous in the situation. I seldom hear anyone use "smartphone" in conversation.
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Your anecdote does not invalidate the data. The data is that medical bills are the number 1 cause of bankruptcy in the US. From the USA Today/Motley Fool article:
So even if people have medical insurance, in many cases they are spending every dollar they have for medical costs. This doesn't happen in most other countries. A lot of "shitholes" can provide all their people with medical care, but in the US it's not possible because the people who are making a lot of money off of other people's misery are much too powerful because of the horrible political system. If campaign finance is fixed then maybe there is a chance for this to change, but currently both the corporate parties are currently fully bought and owned which is the same reason that we don't have universal gun background checks or legal marijuana even though a majority of the people support such measures. We used to have a representative government, and we still do, but now the representatives work for the corporations and the rich rather than for the general public.
What's a "private county ambulance"? It sounds like an oxymoron.
Yes, your link shows that there are a few corner cases where a rear-ended driver might be considered partially at fault, but even then the other driver is partially at fault too. From your link: "The driver of the car that rear-ends a leading vehicle will almost always be considered at least partially negligent." The point is moot though, since in the specific case were were discussing (car autobrakes unexpectedly) the driver of the leading car would never be considered negligent. The rear-ending car might have a case against the car's manufacturer but they certainly wouldn't have a case against the driver of the rear-ended car as he was not negligent -- he didn't design the auto-braking system and didn't use it improperly.
Fortunately, more knowledgeable people have done more sophisticated analyses of this very hypothetical, and they put their estimates [antarcticglaciers.org] closer to 3.44 meters, aka 11 feet of sea-level rise.
This article (linked in a comment above) says it's much more than that, based on a study by the British Antarctic Survey:
Of course, your source doesn't say what you says it does, the figure you quoted is for the West Antarctic ice sheet and the Antarctic Peninsula only:
Yes, it's not likely that all that ice will melt any time soon, we should be much more worried about things like permafrost melting or a massive amount of methane clathrates being released as the ocean warms, but at least get the figures right.
you're likely to get plowed into from behind, and then you'll be at fault.
What country do you live in where you're at fault when you're rear-ended?
You can read Trump's executive order or Obama's executive order yourself, but basically it boils down to human rights abuses, muzzling the press, violently suppressing your political opponents, etc. Not necessarily a threat, just "quit being such a dictatorship!"
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is dying, and I expect that any islands of sanity in today's world are as well.
You originally posted "Obama could have chosen not to do the bailout, and just let the big banks fail. He was President." and I showed that in fact, he was not President and he could not have chosen not to do the bailout (although he did vote for it as a Senator). Obama could have pushed for the end of the TARP program after he became president but that's not what you said. I agree that both parties are complicit in the massive handout to banks but quit moving the goalposts and acting like you were right in your previous post when clearly you were wrong.
What? Are you talking about the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008? That's the only recent bank bailout of which I'm aware and it was signed into law by George W. Bush.
LOL, probably a little Freudian slip there, I had a little rage going on when posting that screed.
If China wants a space station, they will simply launch it, like they are already planning on doing and have already done. Why the hell would they want the old, crappy ISS when they could have a new, cutting-edge space station built with modern technology?
Buahahahahaha, this is the US we are talking about. There are no privacy protections. If a company employs you, they basically own you. They can look at absolutely anything they want if you're on a corporate-owned device. You are basically locked into a company because if you leave somewhere you no longer have health insurance and your company may blacklist you so you can't find a job elsewhere. Only laws that benefit corporations are ever passed as the governmental officials are owned by the corporations. Companies can do anything they want, down to regulating what activities you do when not at work or dictating when you piss. They can fire you at any time for almost any reason. The only exception is for certain protected classes (rage, gender, religion, etc.) but if they are firing someone for being black they just say "they aren't a team player" or "didn't align with our corporate culture" - it doesn't really matter as long as you don't mention their protected class and cite something sufficiently nebulous. The only real protected class is the US is profit.
Wow, with this technology they would be able to produce enough salt to last them forever!
Walking into a hospital saying you want to kill yourself will likely result in medical attention regardless of cost.
Sure, but you'll still be on the hook for thousands of dollars. It's not free, they just can't refuse you treatment. Adding a new large debt will surely alleviate the depression and suicidal thoughts!
Sure, that works fine for credit cards but the whole financial industry has shitty security when it comes to authenticating users. When someone takes out a loan in my name using information obtained from the Equifax breach (a company with whom I have no business relationship), what is my recourse? It's not like I can choose to patronize another company. Perhaps if companies were punished for such breaches then they would pay more attention to security.
Elon said in the news conference that the battery on the second stage is good for about 12 hours after launch.
Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers or viewers as a sincere expression of the parodied views.
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Please, BridgeCoin's got nothing on PonziCoin
there are plenty of technologies that can load and unload a truck without a person being involved.
Like what?
Here are some of the thousands of automated forklifts that are already on the market. They can only get more capable and prevalent.
Sorry, it's true. The US Census Bureau's own data says so - and Politifact (hardly a right-wing site) confirms it is, indeed, a valid claim. California has the highest poverty rate when you factor in the cost of living.
From your link: "If you look at the official poverty measure in California, we’re about average with the rest of the country," Mayes said.
And from the actual report it references: "The ITWG stated that the official poverty measure, as defined in Office of Management and Budget Statistical Policy Directive No. 14, will not be replaced by the SPM. They noted that the official measure is sometimes identified in legislation regarding program eligibility and funding distribution, while the SPM will not be used in this way. "
Adjusting the poverty measure for cost state-wide cost of living is stupid because most of the people living in poverty don't live in the high cost of living areas of the state. The cost of living in somewhere like Barstow is much lower than the national average but since millionaires in Mountain View are paying a lot for their houses a person making a decent living in Barstow is suddenly "in poverty" even though their local cost of living is low. The measure might be useful to identify people in poverty in narrow areas but to apply it to a whole state makes no sense.
Take a look - Moonbeam has increased the State debt, we're back facing deficits - and we have the highest poverty in the nation.
Not even fucking close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In your future uninformed rants, just try to be more general: "the poverty rate is our of control!" I know it's popular these days to lie about everything being the best or worst or bigliest but the pros know how to do it without making any specific claims. You need a lot more troll practice to get to that level.
Syria used chemical weapons against its own pop
That one simply wasn't put together well enough to be convincing (I guess shilling's like anything else; you win some, lose some).
I'm sorry, are you saying that's false? Did the following attacks not happen?
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Around here, we just call it a "phone". We may use the terms "cell" or "land line" if the term "phone" is ambiguous in the situation. I seldom hear anyone use "smartphone" in conversation.
Which is why I said it was unlikely, not impossible.
If it's -13F, it is very unlikely to be snowing. Source