Actually, it's even worse than mere corruption. If Congress nationalized healthcare tomorrow, they'd create some huge new federal agency to run it (in all likelihood). Where would this agency get the "trained" people to function?
That's right...from the now-defunct health insurance companies. The people currently denying healthcare to average Americans would STILL be doing so.
if you do the research you'll find that bombs going off inside people don't make that much of a bang. Us big sacks of water can absorb quite a bit of explosion.
I thought it was that they had 10 years to try to claim more money from you but you only had 3 years to amend your return to try to claim more money from them.
1.7T in 1999...3.52T in 2009...1.7 T*2=3.4 T, so even at 3.52 in 2009 it's still more than double. Not as much as he claimed but not wrong at all. $120 billion is nothing to sneeze at.
How about the property owner (owner of where the last mile ends) handles their own last mile?
Make it fiber and make it WDM capable so one wavelength can handle TV and another IP connectivity and maybe another be a private link to your neighbor's house.
Instead of huge central offices, make a lot more small nodes for these fibers to terminate at.
ISPs could offer to monitor your physical line for you for an additional $9.95 a month...
If you want to switch, it becomes a simple matter of patching into another panel in the small node.
To make the obligatory automotive analogy, think of this as akin to owning your driveway.
How about simply making the hold requirement the minimum average length of time it would take an average off the street human to immediately buy and then sell the stock? Have the SEC round up random samples of people and have them try to buy and then sell stocks as fast as possible on each broker's site. Take the average of that and make that the hold requirement.
Assume company A brings in $100 in premiums. They have to pay out $85 in medical care. They have $15 in profits.
How do they increase those profits so that the stockholders are happy next quarter?
Simple. Increase premiums...and payouts.
If you double premiums to $200 and double payouts to $170, they now have $30 in profits...and all their policyholders just paid twice as much for nothing more.
The stockholders won't care that their profit margin is only 15%...they will just care about the total amount of $.
The doctors on the receiving end of those doubled payouts will make more than ever.
The only way you can counter this is to impose price controls but that would lead to doctors quitting which would lead to rationing because there would literally no longer be enough doctors to meet medical needs here.
Gee. Hulu. A way to get TV shows that isn't the iTunes store. A way to get TV shows without paying Apple. I think I see why there is no Flash for the iDevice lineup.
Exactly. We don't need ANY airport security anymore. Just laws granting civil and criminal immunity to passengers and crew defending themselves on flights. The people onboard can and will protect themselves.
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Actually, it's even worse than mere corruption. If Congress nationalized healthcare tomorrow, they'd create some huge new federal agency to run it (in all likelihood). Where would this agency get the "trained" people to function?
That's right...from the now-defunct health insurance companies.
The people currently denying healthcare to average Americans would STILL be doing so.
Actually, I think sales of shotgun and automatic weapons would skyrocket.
Especially if he only says "Grainssssssss" over and over.
Simple. You most likely still pay for misdirected traffic in that case.
if you do the research you'll find that bombs going off inside people don't make that much of a bang.
Us big sacks of water can absorb quite a bit of explosion.
And every software developer who has to deal with the fun of timezones. I've seen a bunch who can't get it right.
And the only possible password will be 12345
Nah, just his iLiver.
Um, the ipad can connect to both HDMI and VGA monitors now. Sure, you do have to buy adapters but you have to do so for many android devices too.
10 trillion USD...Maybe he's Ben Bernanke.
I thought it was that they had 10 years to try to claim more money from you but you only had 3 years to amend your return to try to claim more money from them.
Small merchants would be exempt from this bill as well.
For now. That's how it always begins. They go after the "rich" or the "big corporations" then find some excuse to hit EVERYONE with it.
"China is set to overtake America in scientific output as soon as 2013" sounds like something that would bubble up in a Civ 4 or 5 game.
Simply unplug your modem for 30 seconds and it will
The year is currently MMX.
The year is a set of Intel CPU instructions?
1.7T in 1999...3.52T in 2009...1.7 T*2=3.4 T, so even at 3.52 in 2009 it's still more than double. Not as much as he claimed but not wrong at all. $120 billion is nothing to sneeze at.
Why not do a couple passes of pure 0s after the random wiping? Clears out the random bits and gives you an additional load test.
How about the property owner (owner of where the last mile ends) handles their own last mile?
Make it fiber and make it WDM capable so one wavelength can handle TV and another IP connectivity and maybe another be a private link to your neighbor's house.
Instead of huge central offices, make a lot more small nodes for these fibers to terminate at.
ISPs could offer to monitor your physical line for you for an additional $9.95 a month...
If you want to switch, it becomes a simple matter of patching into another panel in the small node.
To make the obligatory automotive analogy, think of this as akin to owning your driveway.
Easy solution: tell people it's kinda like golf scores...the closer to 0 the better.
How about simply making the hold requirement the minimum average length of time it would take an average off the street human to immediately buy and then sell the stock?
Have the SEC round up random samples of people and have them try to buy and then sell stocks as fast as possible on each broker's site. Take the average of that and make that the hold requirement.
"money isn't your primary motivator"...or in other words, "we can manipulate/trick/persuade you into working 80 hours weeks for nothing"
They tried. We had better weapons, for the most part.
Well, let's think through what you're saying.
Assume company A brings in $100 in premiums. They have to pay out $85 in medical care. They have $15 in profits.
How do they increase those profits so that the stockholders are happy next quarter?
Simple. Increase premiums...and payouts.
If you double premiums to $200 and double payouts to $170, they now have $30 in profits...and all their policyholders just paid twice as much for nothing more.
The stockholders won't care that their profit margin is only 15%...they will just care about the total amount of $.
The doctors on the receiving end of those doubled payouts will make more than ever.
The only way you can counter this is to impose price controls but that would lead to doctors quitting which would lead to rationing because there would literally no longer be enough doctors to meet medical needs here.
I read that pushState / replaceState link and it scared me. Note the following from it:
Suppose http://mozilla.org/foo.html executes the following JavaScript:
var stateObj = { foo: "bar" };
history.pushState(stateObj, "page 2", "bar.html");
This will cause the URL bar to display http://mozilla.org/bar.html, but won't cause the browser to load bar.html or even check that bar.html exists.
Why do I have a feeling that said effect can and will primarily be used for horribly evil purposes?
Gee. Hulu. A way to get TV shows that isn't the iTunes store. A way to get TV shows without paying Apple. I think I see why there is no Flash for the iDevice lineup.
Exactly. We don't need ANY airport security anymore. Just laws granting civil and criminal immunity to passengers and crew defending themselves on flights. The people onboard can and will protect themselves.