Obamacare is the greatest legislative achievement in the last 50 years. I'm certainly not trying to pin it on the GOP--they fought against it tooth and nail every step of the way..,for the most part because it was proposed by an African-American democratic President.
Your side lost an election and elections have consequences. Democrats had a majority in the House and a super-majority in the Senate and a very popular new president. They passed sweeping health care reform which by any reasonable measure has been successful. You feel like you got the raw end of the deal and maybe you did--but that doesn't mean that there was anything nefarious going on.
Rate increases are essentially public right now and they look very reasonable. All this data is out there. ACA has been a godsend for many people, including people I know personally. The macro-economic effects are stunning.
You are just wildly lying about people losing their insurance. That *is not* happening. Look at the curves, millions and millions more people have insurance now than had it before--that's not a matter of opinion and not something I'm interested in debating because it can easily be resolved using Google. Sure, some people are paying more than they did before--generally people who had crap insurance before but were lucky enough to not have noticed it.
You hate the president and democrats and that has nothing to do with your health care costs. Let's be completely honest, if Mitt Romney had passed the exact same plan then you wouldn't have any problem with it.
You're over 55, self-employed. Two people. Fairly expensive area, probably on some sort of a Bronze plan. Given all that, your health care costs look pretty reasonable to me. I can understand if you feel screwed, but in all likelihood your previous insurance was crap and [thank god] you never had to use it enough to learn that. You are getting to an age where health problems are unpredictable and costs are high--perhaps you've been lucky until now but statistically this is what it costs to insure someone in your area at your age.
I think you have this vision that your rates have been jacked up to pay for welfare queens or something; that's just not true--most of your increase is due to the new requirements blocking predatory plans (low caps on lifetime expenses, exclusions for pre-existing conditions, etc.).
Approximately 100% of these Obamacare horror stories have collapsed on deeper inspection. It's possible that you fall into some gap that is disproportionately worse off if the planets aligned just right. That would require a number of conspiring factors (too high income to qualify for rebates, replacing junk insurance, not covered by an employer plan, no chronic medical problems, etc.). It's certainly possible, but factor in your irrational ranting about Obama and Pelosi and drug addicts and it smells very much to me like someone who has just read a lot of conservative blogs and has constructed a faux martyr persona.
> (which now requires us to buy things like no-deductible comprehensive child-bearing services despite no longer young enough to even have kids, and comprehensive no-deductible drug treatment coverage for addictions we don't have)
You also don't have Ebola, but your insurance covers that. That's the way insurance works. It covers you for things you don't have yet and things you might never need--that's how risk pools work.
Costs haven't tripled, deductibles haven't quadrupled--that's completely absurd. You are just a stone-cold liar. Every study shows that Obamacare has bent the cost curve, dramatically.
Do you have any data which shows that it isn't working? Lots more people are covered and the rate of rise of health costs has been significantly and measurably slowed. The economy is doing great; any assertions about Obamacare destroying the economy are absurd on their face.
The wall plug is the same as for the iPhone or iPad, it uses an inductive connector on the watch side so that the watch doesn't have exposed terminals and can therefore be water-resistant.
I don't think Obama is perfect--but I'm completely befuddled at any notion that he's worse than Bush. Do you have any idea how bad things were under Bush? Think about it for a second: 1. We went to war in Iraq under a false premise at the cost exceeding a trillion dollars and thousands of American lives, hundreds of thousands of troops deployed 2. We suffered a nearly complete collapse of the economy. worst recession since the great depression ultimately resulting in unemployment >10%. 3. Andrew Card & Karl Rove exposed an undercover CIA agent for political reasons--Bush pardoned Card and lets Rove slide 4. Disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina 5. 45 million+ Americans without health insurance with skyrocketing health care costs 6. September 11th...the list goes on and on...
Now think about: what Obama has accomplished: 1. A nearly completely recovered economy, Unemployment around 5%. 2. Dramatic reduction in uninsured people and a significant slowing of health care cost increases 3. Competent responses to disasters (BP oil spill, Hurricane Sandy, etc.) 4. Withdrawal of nearly all military personnel in Iraq & Afghanistan, no new wars.
Like the software that runs on your microwave and your automobile? Do you plan on protesting outside of GE and Ford?
> 2. NSA Spying
Do you realize that the NSA is actually not the same as Apple? Do you also realize that no company has made more of a stand against the NSA than Apple?
> 3. Corporate Spying
?!??!??
> 4. Cannot (easily) change battery on IPhone
Then don't buy one. It's not a political party--pick the product you want, you don't need to march on Washington because you made a different choice than other people.
> 5. Proprietary power/data cables on IPhone
Ditto.
> 6. In the 80's, unlike my TRS-80, Apple computers required a boot disk just to fire up.
That one is actually pretty original and funny. It's not actually true because the TRS-80 did require a boot disk--but at least you finally said something original that wasn't fed to you verbatim by the Slashdot orthodoxy.
> 7. Steve Jobs is a weiner (Wozniak, by comparison, is a minor deity)....groan...what is it with wannabe nerds and their geek-hero worship?
All those billions of iPhone users won't have access to your critically super-important app, left only to make due with the literally 1 million other apps that are available on Apple's app store.
And think of Apple, having to wallow in misery that your app isn't available to their customers; forced to lead a hopeless existence of swimming in their hundreds of billions of dollars like Scrooge McDuck while not even knowing that you or your breathlessly important app even exist.
The bad chips are advertising themselves as genuine FTDI parts. The FTDI driver is making a reversible change to the EEPROM of the imposter chip so that it nolonger masquerades as a genuine FTDI part.
I agree it's a borderline case, but I think in this case it's defensible.
1. 21 stops * 0.5 hours / stop != 17 hours 2. 170 miles * 21 == 3570 miles. 3570 miles / 65 miles / hour ~= 55 hours (which is > 2days even if you drove straight). 3. 170 miles / 65 miles/hour == 2.6 hours; 0.5 hours / 2.6 hours ~= 20% additional road time for the electric car, not 50%
I'm not sure what any of this has to do with Microsoft--Apple sells Microsoft software in its stores right now. Apple has by no means broken ties with every non-Apple company. They have to make nuanced decisions about how to deal with partners and competitors and they just might have more information on which to base those decisions than you do.
I just always find it hilarious when some random internet dude living in his Mom's basement is certain that Apple is doomed. I found it hilarious when Apple was at a $10B market cap, and again at $50B, and then again at $100B, and then again at $200B, and then $300B, $400B, $500B and now $600B.
It's so misleading that it is effectively dishonest. Apple makes approximately 0% of their revenue off of ads; they make hundreds of billions of dollars selling actual hardware to willing consumers. It would be absurd for them to threaten their main cash cow by building a perception that they are spying on their customers.
The truth is: they needed to enable advertising supported applications and so they created a platform which supported demographic targeting and analytics while properly anonymizing user info and keeping third party companies in-line.
Again, this has nothing to do with their 'ethics', it has everything to do with economics.
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Obamacare is the greatest legislative achievement in the last 50 years. I'm certainly not trying to pin it on the GOP--they fought against it tooth and nail every step of the way..,for the most part because it was proposed by an African-American democratic President.
Your side lost an election and elections have consequences. Democrats had a majority in the House and a super-majority in the Senate and a very popular new president. They passed sweeping health care reform which by any reasonable measure has been successful. You feel like you got the raw end of the deal and maybe you did--but that doesn't mean that there was anything nefarious going on.
Rate increases are essentially public right now and they look very reasonable. All this data is out there. ACA has been a godsend for many people, including people I know personally. The macro-economic effects are stunning.
You are just wildly lying about people losing their insurance. That *is not* happening. Look at the curves, millions and millions more people have insurance now than had it before--that's not a matter of opinion and not something I'm interested in debating because it can easily be resolved using Google. Sure, some people are paying more than they did before--generally people who had crap insurance before but were lucky enough to not have noticed it.
You hate the president and democrats and that has nothing to do with your health care costs. Let's be completely honest, if Mitt Romney had passed the exact same plan then you wouldn't have any problem with it.
You're over 55, self-employed. Two people. Fairly expensive area, probably on some sort of a Bronze plan. Given all that, your health care costs look pretty reasonable to me. I can understand if you feel screwed, but in all likelihood your previous insurance was crap and [thank god] you never had to use it enough to learn that. You are getting to an age where health problems are unpredictable and costs are high--perhaps you've been lucky until now but statistically this is what it costs to insure someone in your area at your age.
I think you have this vision that your rates have been jacked up to pay for welfare queens or something; that's just not true--most of your increase is due to the new requirements blocking predatory plans (low caps on lifetime expenses, exclusions for pre-existing conditions, etc.).
Approximately 100% of these Obamacare horror stories have collapsed on deeper inspection. It's possible that you fall into some gap that is disproportionately worse off if the planets aligned just right. That would require a number of conspiring factors (too high income to qualify for rebates, replacing junk insurance, not covered by an employer plan, no chronic medical problems, etc.). It's certainly possible, but factor in your irrational ranting about Obama and Pelosi and drug addicts and it smells very much to me like someone who has just read a lot of conservative blogs and has constructed a faux martyr persona.
> (which now requires us to buy things like no-deductible comprehensive child-bearing services despite no longer young enough to even have kids, and comprehensive no-deductible drug treatment coverage for addictions we don't have)
You also don't have Ebola, but your insurance covers that. That's the way insurance works. It covers you for things you don't have yet and things you might never need--that's how risk pools work.
Costs haven't tripled, deductibles haven't quadrupled--that's completely absurd. You are just a stone-cold liar. Every study shows that Obamacare has bent the cost curve, dramatically.
Liar.
Do you mean the 10 million more people who have access to healthcare now? or the dramatic reduction in the rate of increase of healthcare costs?
Do you have any data which shows that it isn't working? Lots more people are covered and the rate of rise of health costs has been significantly and measurably slowed. The economy is doing great; any assertions about Obamacare destroying the economy are absurd on their face.
The wall plug is the same as for the iPhone or iPad, it uses an inductive connector on the watch side so that the watch doesn't have exposed terminals and can therefore be water-resistant.
The charger comes with the watch. They wanted a fully sealed chargeport.
Everything isn't a conspiracy.
I don't think Obama is perfect--but I'm completely befuddled at any notion that he's worse than Bush. Do you have any idea how bad things were under Bush? Think about it for a second: ...the list goes on and on...
1. We went to war in Iraq under a false premise at the cost exceeding a trillion dollars and thousands of American lives, hundreds of thousands of troops deployed
2. We suffered a nearly complete collapse of the economy. worst recession since the great depression ultimately resulting in unemployment >10%.
3. Andrew Card & Karl Rove exposed an undercover CIA agent for political reasons--Bush pardoned Card and lets Rove slide
4. Disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina
5. 45 million+ Americans without health insurance with skyrocketing health care costs
6. September 11th
Now think about: what Obama has accomplished:
1. A nearly completely recovered economy, Unemployment around 5%.
2. Dramatic reduction in uninsured people and a significant slowing of health care cost increases
3. Competent responses to disasters (BP oil spill, Hurricane Sandy, etc.)
4. Withdrawal of nearly all military personnel in Iraq & Afghanistan, no new wars.
It's okay, we can all hear your dog whistle words.
They will usually find some way to blame everything on Barack Obama.
what's it like to be a huge liar?
> 1. Proprietary Software/Closed Source
Like the software that runs on your microwave and your automobile? Do you plan on protesting outside of GE and Ford?
> 2. NSA Spying
Do you realize that the NSA is actually not the same as Apple? Do you also realize that no company has made more of a stand against the NSA than Apple?
> 3. Corporate Spying
?!??!??
> 4. Cannot (easily) change battery on IPhone
Then don't buy one. It's not a political party--pick the product you want, you don't need to march on Washington because you made a different choice than other people.
> 5. Proprietary power/data cables on IPhone
Ditto.
> 6. In the 80's, unlike my TRS-80, Apple computers required a boot disk just to fire up.
That one is actually pretty original and funny. It's not actually true because the TRS-80 did require a boot disk--but at least you finally said something original that wasn't fed to you verbatim by the Slashdot orthodoxy.
> 7. Steve Jobs is a weiner (Wozniak, by comparison, is a minor deity). ...groan...what is it with wannabe nerds and their geek-hero worship?
It's amazing how often that straight-up lie is bandied about by people who just wish it was true soooooo much.
Enjoy your open source droid made out of hemp or whatever. The rest of us will be here in the real world.
All those billions of iPhone users won't have access to your critically super-important app, left only to make due with the literally 1 million other apps that are available on Apple's app store.
And think of Apple, having to wallow in misery that your app isn't available to their customers; forced to lead a hopeless existence of swimming in their hundreds of billions of dollars like Scrooge McDuck while not even knowing that you or your breathlessly important app even exist.
That's also a fact.
The bad chips are advertising themselves as genuine FTDI parts. The FTDI driver is making a reversible change to the EEPROM of the imposter chip so that it nolonger masquerades as a genuine FTDI part.
I agree it's a borderline case, but I think in this case it's defensible.
1. 21 stops * 0.5 hours / stop != 17 hours /hour == 2.6 hours; 0.5 hours / 2.6 hours ~= 20% additional road time for the electric car, not 50%
2. 170 miles * 21 == 3570 miles. 3570 miles / 65 miles / hour ~= 55 hours (which is > 2days even if you drove straight).
3. 170 miles / 65 miles
It's awesome.
If by large you mean tens of megabytes. Downhill, with a stiff breeze at its back.
I'm not sure what any of this has to do with Microsoft--Apple sells Microsoft software in its stores right now. Apple has by no means broken ties with every non-Apple company. They have to make nuanced decisions about how to deal with partners and competitors and they just might have more information on which to base those decisions than you do.
I just always find it hilarious when some random internet dude living in his Mom's basement is certain that Apple is doomed. I found it hilarious when Apple was at a $10B market cap, and again at $50B, and then again at $100B, and then again at $200B, and then $300B, $400B, $500B and now $600B.
It's so misleading that it is effectively dishonest. Apple makes approximately 0% of their revenue off of ads; they make hundreds of billions of dollars selling actual hardware to willing consumers. It would be absurd for them to threaten their main cash cow by building a perception that they are spying on their customers.
The truth is: they needed to enable advertising supported applications and so they created a platform which supported demographic targeting and analytics while properly anonymizing user info and keeping third party companies in-line.
Again, this has nothing to do with their 'ethics', it has everything to do with economics.
It needs to be robustly demonstrated or else it is essentially a worthless claim.
That's the problem with insisting on a proof of a negative--it's really just a transparent way of spouting lies.
So...we all done here?