It's the complete lack of financial security that's fucking this generation.
That's one problem right there. Go ahead and have kids and start a family, then you can listen to Republicans scream and howl at you for being irresponsible and starting a family you can't support etc etc etc.
Specifically, Onan was told to knock her up. Onan took advantage of the deal to screw her, but failed to keep his end of the bargain by blowing his load elsewhere. He'd probably have survived as an outcast or had his balls fall off or something if he had just said "no".
I don't have a kid and I'm not outraged, because I see having a child as simply adding more responsibilities, i.e. when I have a kid, the "adult" thing to do would be to make sure my responsibilities to the child are complete for the day, then fire up the gamestation. (Quietly, so he doesn't wake back up.;-)
But the first one is a Real Man, for using his leisure time in only Adult-Approved (TM) ways. The second is still a child, because he plays video games. Even if his wife is spamming mad dots next to him.
I was pretty much the odd one out in a small town when I was a kid, and that was even before we got a C64 and I taught my father to use it to type papers. My parents expected me to spend time outside so I'd go up the street (literally about a quarter mile uphill) to see if the neighbor's kids felt like playing with me or throwing rocks at me to chase me back down. I ended up spending a lot of time just wandering around in the woods around the house.
Now that I'm an adult, what I find wrong with society is that "adulthood" itself is screwed up. When I was a kid, I thought growing up was about taking on responsibilities and getting work done. So wrong! It doesn't matter if you're the President or you're a drunk, what makes you an adult is how you entertain yourself. If you do anything with your leisure time more fun than reading War and Peace or putting together ships in a bottle or something, you're still a "kid".
Except that it was technically valid. It's not his fault that she hosted 13 other sites on the same account that she used the copyrighted artwork on without permission.
Piggly Wiggly, America's first true self-service grocery store, was founded in Memphis, Tenn. in 1916 by Clarence Saunders. In grocery stores of that time, shoppers presented their orders to clerks who gathered the goods from the store shelves.
similar to the way the FCC can impose restrictions, levy fines, and carry out other actions without Congressional approval.
Congress pre-approved the FCCs actions by law. They're welcome to revise their law to not give away so much of their power, but then they'd have to waste their time on mundane day-to-day shit about running the country rather than making themselves look like heroes to their constituents by passing laws against terrorists and pedophiles while grandstanding on abortions, flag burning, gay marriage, etc.
What it means to be a moderate is not that you have weak opinions, but that you have a hard time finding someone that agrees on all the same issues as you. I think it is modern and mature to take a different positions on a set of issues.
Damn, I already posted so I can't mod you up. Wish more "hardliners" understood that we can't all be cookie-cutter copies of them, no matter how they scream whatever-INO.
He should get a plan which corresponds to his current risks, rather than over-paying for those 20 years
Except that everyone's "current" risk is that they'll develop/contract something that gives them a "preexisting condition" and they become uninsurable.
If that basic catastrophic insurance is currently over-priced compared to the cost of providing the care, try a non-profit insurance co-op.
The problems:
1: Health insurance is incredibly overpriced. Prior to "obamacare" insurance companies had a lifetime maximum payout of $3M to $5M. Very few people suffer long enough to hit that. A healthy 20 year old could easily get a million dollar whole (ie they WILL pay as long as you don't kill yourself or they find some other way out of it) life policy for about $150/mo. For $450-$750/mo your survivors could get more money from your life insurance company than you'd ever hope to get out of your health insurance company. 2: What passes for "Catastrophic" insurance these days is itself catastrophic. After your thousands-dollar deductible, you're on the hook for 20-50% of the rest. About 60% of personal bankruptcies cite medical problems, 75% of those were insured at least until they were too sick to work and lost their job. http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/insured-but-bankrupted-anyway/
Perhaps care providers are being forced to accept too much of the risk involved in medical advise and treatment (suggesting tort reform),
It's too late to turn back now. Malpractice has taught doctors that if they do 5 times the number of tests to keep from being sued, they make 5 times as much. Stopping the suits now won't change a thing. Also, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all After tort reform, doctors' malpractice rates went down, and the docs spent the savings on new testing equipment.
we're systematically over-paying (and need more competition)
Barrier to entry: hundreds of thousands of dollars of med school bills aren't going to pay themselves. At least for Doctors. Nurse-Practitioners are sprouting up all over and can see you for a discount. Unless you want to see a real doctor.
or perhaps we're simply expecting more health care than we can really afford.
But then little Timmy will die! How can you call yourself a good parent if you don't spend your retirement fund, your other kids' college funds, sell your house, and live in a gutter just to keep little Timmy alive another month?! If the government can't let little Timmy die for religious reasons, how the hell do you expect it to let him die because you're too cheap? http://www.imperfectparent.com/topics/2012/05/10/court-over-rides-parents-decision-to-refuse-treatment-for-infant/
Debit cards have a PIN, but most of them double as a "credit" card that doesn't use the PIN but still sucks the funds direct from your bank account.
The really interesting thing here is using plastic to buy more plastic. I could have sworn that prepaid cards had to be bought with cash around these parts, but I don't go around buying prepaid cards so I don't know.
Your DHS whistleblower is insane. As is a significant fringe of Republicans, who seem to think that cooperation and democratic principles don't matter anymore, because the wrong guy is sitting in the White House.
The funny thing is, by the time the 2008 election was coming up, there were a number of liberals who were absolutely certain Bush would declare martial law or something and just keep on going.
I have a DVR with a blue power LED on front that apparently is just the right wavelength to be screwed with by my glasses. As I move my head around (or just move my glasses around) the LED appears to move around on the front of the thing. The closer to the edge of my glasses, the farther the displacement. I can even get it to overlap the other LEDs if I turn far enough, so it seems to just be that wavelength of light that's distorted, and it has to be a fairly narrow band that is affected since I've never noticed it anywhere else.
Drives me crazy sometimes, I try not to look at it.
a report of a suspicious car that included no license plate number. Such tips are entered into its computer system even if there is no way to follow up on them.
child labor stopped - answer: we stopped needing them to work to avoid starvation and grownups are generally more productive (productivity which leads to excess, excess which allows for the leisure to learn)
And yet at least one Republican candidate publicly challenges child labor laws and proposes that kids get put to work to replace the adult janitors on the (government) payroll.
X0 hour work weeks - this is debatable but things were trending in a given direction but given the nature of this offshore venture, it may be like an oil rig or crab boat or whathaveyou - lots of hours during work followed by lots of vacation time. In general, "X0 hours per week" we'll be at a sustainable level or the venture will suffer
This being Silicon Valley where "crunch time" and X0 (for X>7) work weeks are quite common, the most likely outcome is honestly not enslavement or floggings or anything ridiculous like that, the most likely outcome will be Indians brought in to work 70-80 hour weeks until the project is done and then sent home and a new set of Indians brought in to work more 80 hour weeks.
sex with subordinates - you're weird. Given the choice of two jobs, one where you must sleep with ugly superiors and one where you can tell them to fuck off, people will generally prefer the non-prostitution job.
First, see my answer above. Then, realize that nobody is retarded enough to tell people that they're going to be hired as sex toys to keep a boatfull of men happy. Sex slave trafficking generally begins with an offer of a real job. It's not until after the woman is illegally in a country where she doesn't speak the language that she's told her employment contract has been unilaterally changed.
firing injured people. Their are three ways this can be dealt with. The employee can buy private insurance. The employer can buy private insurance. Or the government can mandate this insurance.
Or (more likely) be returned to their home country. I doubt that they're going to be doing any significantly risky manual labor. The most likely problem would be the entire ship coming down with Listeria or some other typical cruise-crud.
Tell me if you can spot the huge logic hole in this statement:
Tell me if you can spot the huge logic hole in this statement:
All the methane is going to vanish and no more will be added to the atmosphere in 9-15 years so there can't possibly be a 100 year effect from methane in the atmospehere
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It's the complete lack of financial security that's fucking this generation.
That's one problem right there. Go ahead and have kids and start a family, then you can listen to Republicans scream and howl at you for being irresponsible and starting a family you can't support etc etc etc.
Specifically, Onan was told to knock her up. Onan took advantage of the deal to screw her, but failed to keep his end of the bargain by blowing his load elsewhere. He'd probably have survived as an outcast or had his balls fall off or something if he had just said "no".
I don't have a kid and I'm not outraged, because I see having a child as simply adding more responsibilities, i.e. when I have a kid, the "adult" thing to do would be to make sure my responsibilities to the child are complete for the day, then fire up the gamestation. (Quietly, so he doesn't wake back up. ;-)
But the first one is a Real Man, for using his leisure time in only Adult-Approved (TM) ways. The second is still a child, because he plays video games. Even if his wife is spamming mad dots next to him.
I was pretty much the odd one out in a small town when I was a kid, and that was even before we got a C64 and I taught my father to use it to type papers. My parents expected me to spend time outside so I'd go up the street (literally about a quarter mile uphill) to see if the neighbor's kids felt like playing with me or throwing rocks at me to chase me back down. I ended up spending a lot of time just wandering around in the woods around the house.
Now that I'm an adult, what I find wrong with society is that "adulthood" itself is screwed up. When I was a kid, I thought growing up was about taking on responsibilities and getting work done. So wrong! It doesn't matter if you're the President or you're a drunk, what makes you an adult is how you entertain yourself. If you do anything with your leisure time more fun than reading War and Peace or putting together ships in a bottle or something, you're still a "kid".
Technically invalid
Except that it was technically valid. It's not his fault that she hosted 13 other sites on the same account that she used the copyrighted artwork on without permission.
Stores used to work like that. Then everything changed.
Odd, I got here and a guy gave me a nice long sleeve jacket, but there's no tinfoil.
You're also neglecting reuse of the artificial lake's water. Most of them are used as reservoirs for irrigation or public water supply.
I've got one weird tip that will fix all your problems!
similar to the way the FCC can impose restrictions, levy fines, and carry out other actions without Congressional approval.
Congress pre-approved the FCCs actions by law. They're welcome to revise their law to not give away so much of their power, but then they'd have to waste their time on mundane day-to-day shit about running the country rather than making themselves look like heroes to their constituents by passing laws against terrorists and pedophiles while grandstanding on abortions, flag burning, gay marriage, etc.
'it's now really challenging to show where there is no life.
In the atmosphere. You're welcome.
You fail it
Damn, I already posted so I can't mod you up. Wish more "hardliners" understood that we can't all be cookie-cutter copies of them, no matter how they scream whatever-INO.
Except that everyone's "current" risk is that they'll develop/contract something that gives them a "preexisting condition" and they become uninsurable.
The problems:
1: Health insurance is incredibly overpriced. Prior to "obamacare" insurance companies had a lifetime maximum payout of $3M to $5M. Very few people suffer long enough to hit that. A healthy 20 year old could easily get a million dollar whole (ie they WILL pay as long as you don't kill yourself or they find some other way out of it) life policy for about $150/mo. For $450-$750/mo your survivors could get more money from your life insurance company than you'd ever hope to get out of your health insurance company.
2: What passes for "Catastrophic" insurance these days is itself catastrophic. After your thousands-dollar deductible, you're on the hook for 20-50% of the rest. About 60% of personal bankruptcies cite medical problems, 75% of those were insured at least until they were too sick to work and lost their job. http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/insured-but-bankrupted-anyway/
It's too late to turn back now. Malpractice has taught doctors that if they do 5 times the number of tests to keep from being sued, they make 5 times as much. Stopping the suits now won't change a thing. Also, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all After tort reform, doctors' malpractice rates went down, and the docs spent the savings on new testing equipment.
Barrier to entry: hundreds of thousands of dollars of med school bills aren't going to pay themselves. At least for Doctors. Nurse-Practitioners are sprouting up all over and can see you for a discount. Unless you want to see a real doctor.
But then little Timmy will die! How can you call yourself a good parent if you don't spend your retirement fund, your other kids' college funds, sell your house, and live in a gutter just to keep little Timmy alive another month?! If the government can't let little Timmy die for religious reasons, how the hell do you expect it to let him die because you're too cheap? http://www.imperfectparent.com/topics/2012/05/10/court-over-rides-parents-decision-to-refuse-treatment-for-infant/
Debit cards have a PIN, but most of them double as a "credit" card that doesn't use the PIN but still sucks the funds direct from your bank account.
The really interesting thing here is using plastic to buy more plastic. I could have sworn that prepaid cards had to be bought with cash around these parts, but I don't go around buying prepaid cards so I don't know.
The funny thing is, by the time the 2008 election was coming up, there were a number of liberals who were absolutely certain Bush would declare martial law or something and just keep on going.
I have a DVR with a blue power LED on front that apparently is just the right wavelength to be screwed with by my glasses. As I move my head around (or just move my glasses around) the LED appears to move around on the front of the thing. The closer to the edge of my glasses, the farther the displacement. I can even get it to overlap the other LEDs if I turn far enough, so it seems to just be that wavelength of light that's distorted, and it has to be a fairly narrow band that is affected since I've never noticed it anywhere else.
Drives me crazy sometimes, I try not to look at it.
Man-made elements are not natural... because humans are supernatural beings?
Because humans get to define the word "natural".
See also: the Chinese Room argument.
Ununseptium?
The FBI has nothing to do all day long but assemble files on people who are not suspected of nything.
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/03/26/are-95-of-people-investigated-under-new-guidelines-innocent-but-entered-into-database/
They obviously have time to spare on ...
Check, your move.
This one says it outputs 10mW nominal. They've got a version that looks dash-mounted with the same claimed wattage, so I don't think it's due to being small.
And yet at least one Republican candidate publicly challenges child labor laws and proposes that kids get put to work to replace the adult janitors on the (government) payroll.
This being Silicon Valley where "crunch time" and X0 (for X>7) work weeks are quite common, the most likely outcome is honestly not enslavement or floggings or anything ridiculous like that, the most likely outcome will be Indians brought in to work 70-80 hour weeks until the project is done and then sent home and a new set of Indians brought in to work more 80 hour weeks.
First, see my answer above. Then, realize that nobody is retarded enough to tell people that they're going to be hired as sex toys to keep a boatfull of men happy. Sex slave trafficking generally begins with an offer of a real job. It's not until after the woman is illegally in a country where she doesn't speak the language that she's told her employment contract has been unilaterally changed.
Or (more likely) be returned to their home country. I doubt that they're going to be doing any significantly risky manual labor. The most likely problem would be the entire ship coming down with Listeria or some other typical cruise-crud.
Tell me if you can spot the huge logic hole in this statement:
Tell me if you can spot the huge logic hole in this statement: