Now you can analyze your girlfriend's* DNA and see if she's only acting happy and would become miserable after marriage!
It's a lot easier than that. Just plan a wedding. Whatever she's like during that process is what she'll be like after marriage. Bridezilla == Wifezilla.
Then throw a screaming baby and some surging hormones into the mix.
Neither a Fusion or the Escape had adequate cargo space for my needs. Also, I live in snow country and my annual summer vacation destination involves a 45 minute drive through deep sand. It's hard for Slashdotters to understand this, but there really are people who need four wheel drive.
I drove the Escape to the grocery store tonight. The stroller in the back takes the entire cargo area (it's only about 2 feet deep). I had to stack the groceries on top of the stroller. A rearward facing baby seat takes the entire rear center seat and encroaches upon both left and right rear seats.
Throw in a collapsible crib, rocker, two suitcases, cooler, books, beach chairs, umbrella, and supplies and.. well, it just doesn't even remotely fit. I was kind of surprised at how little would fit since this was my first vacation with a family. I'd really hoped to drive the Hybrid since it gets 35mpg.
Colossians 3:10-12: Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
So it's okay with my "man-in-the-sky".
I'm sitting here with my 7 week old son sleeping in my lap. He's whole and un-cut. It was quite a fight with my wife (Catholic) but I got him home all in one piece, the way God made him. He will thank me some day.
Again, I don't apologize. I would prefer she drive a Ford Excursion Diesel. It's 9000 pounds of crashworthy steel behind a 7.3 liter turbo diesel battering ram. The crumple zone is whatever car is in front of it. There isn't a vehicle large enough and heavy enough to protect my 12 pound baby. And if I could, I'd be standing on the roof with a machine gun, ready to mow down anybody that might pull out in front of them.
We test drove one. It was so large she couldn't drive it. And I don't have a machine gun. Yet.
Anybody who puts their family in a little car "For the Good of the Community" has their priorities all wrong. It IS a battlefield out there.
Fitting a roll cage without the occupants wearing helmets would be counterproductive. That's pretty well known in the off-roading world. Too easy to bash your head in on a rollbar.
I put my wife and baby in an SUV because, if I have to play those odds, I want them stacked in MY family's favor. Call me selfish. I don't care. That's survival instinct. Put your family in a Smart Fortwo if you wish. Not me.
It happens to be the smallest most efficient SUV I could get. Ford Escape Hybrid. 35mpg. I've been surprised to find that it is not big enough. We went on vacation last week and it would not fit a week's luggage and the required baby items. We took my work truck because we needed the space.
Although I was being sarcastic, I do believe that a vast number of people are going to take the "fine" instead of coverage and then pick up "insurance" when they do get sick. In this way, Obamacare is designed to bankrupt the health care industry. In a few years when that mission is accomplished, then-President Pelosi can step in and socialize the entire healthcare industry, not just the insurance industry. So it's part of a larger conspiracy.
Although women's sex drive (supposedly) increase through late 30's, fertility does not. All that worry in your 20's about your girlfriend getting pregnant turn into worries in your 30's that your wife won't get pregnant.
No they won't. Go to your doctor and tell them ahead of time you will be paying cash. You'll get the discount or better.
The inflated rate is charged when they know you won't pay so they can write off the inflated "loss" and then moan about how much the uninsured cost their business.
It sure is a boost. I'm going to drop my policy completely, pay out-of-pocket for general care, and then call up Aetna when I get really sick. Even with the fine (tax?) I'll save lots of money.
If only they'd fix car insurance, too. Then I'll buy my insurance after I've already crashed my car.
You and every liberal is missing the point..Nobody wants people going without healthcare. We (crazy rightwingers) don't want the Federal Government running healthcare.
Back to the fire and police analogy, would you want your State Police dissolved and your neighborhood patrolled by the FBI? Your local Fire Department replaced by FEMA? You probably don't.
Oregon has a fine public healthcare system. Romneycare is supposedly pretty good. I wouldn't mind if my state enacted some kind of public health system. But I do not want the U.S. federal government running my healthcare!
Health savings account? Most young people (the ones in the best health) can't afford to save money, they're living paycheck to paycheck, and they deserve a little leisure too so they don't go insane. Also, many health problems are caught with routine physicals and treated, or they become more expensive and/or impossible to treat satisfactorily. You're advocating for a system with more illness, not less.
1. Nothing's free. What you're saying is, young people should have free health coverage. That means *I* have to pay for it. I already work two weeks out of every month to pay for government programs.
2. Routine care is cheap to pay out of pocket. It's about $125 for a family doctor visit, or less if you shop around (go capitalism!). So it's always a better deal to buy catastrophic illness insurance and then pay out-of-pocket for regular care - unless you go to the doctor more than twice a month.
If Apple stops pumping iPods, iPhones and iPads tomorrow, what's the worst that will happen?
If Exxon-Mobil stops pumping out oil and refining gas, diesel and jet fuel, what's the worst that will happen?
I think option #2 is best, I can live in an iMicrocosm, as long as I get clean air and water to breathe and drink.
If Exxon stopped pumping oil, instead of a truck delivering your iPhone, it would be carried on the back of a Unicorn and floated gently down a rainbow to your doorstep.
Craigslist just doesn't enter suspected spam into the index so it never shows up. The URL they email still works but nobody will ever see it in the list or the search results.
For a long time just about everything I posted ended up this way. I think using correctly formed HTML was their trigger, since there was absolutely no way the ads I posted could be considered spam. It was very annoying as a user.
Whatever gets me Netflix in high res is fast enough. As for general use, 384k DSL was fast enough. Everything else is just a marketing game between Verizon and Comcast, as far as I'm concerned.
I would like it to be cheaper. Any way you slice it, it's over $100/month for high speed internet. That's IF you can get it. I know a lot of people who are still stuck with Dialup, even in the Washington D.C. suburbs.
Arthur C. Clark's 2001 A Space Odyssey predicted the iPad in 1968. He called it a "Newspad" and it connected to all major newspapers over the "ether". In the book, Heywood Floyd reads it on his way to the space station. In the movie, you can see Bowman and Poole watching the news on them during the first scenes on Discovery.
Nothing is green in Silicon Valley either, unless somebody waters it. I remember not being allowed to water a lawn or wash a car when I lived there, so everything was brown.
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Now you can analyze your girlfriend's* DNA and see if she's only acting happy and would become miserable after marriage!
It's a lot easier than that. Just plan a wedding. Whatever she's like during that process is what she'll be like after marriage. Bridezilla == Wifezilla.
Then throw a screaming baby and some surging hormones into the mix.
Somebody kill me.
Neither a Fusion or the Escape had adequate cargo space for my needs. Also, I live in snow country and my annual summer vacation destination involves a 45 minute drive through deep sand. It's hard for Slashdotters to understand this, but there really are people who need four wheel drive.
I drove the Escape to the grocery store tonight. The stroller in the back takes the entire cargo area (it's only about 2 feet deep). I had to stack the groceries on top of the stroller. A rearward facing baby seat takes the entire rear center seat and encroaches upon both left and right rear seats.
Throw in a collapsible crib, rocker, two suitcases, cooler, books, beach chairs, umbrella, and supplies and.. well, it just doesn't even remotely fit. I was kind of surprised at how little would fit since this was my first vacation with a family. I'd really hoped to drive the Hybrid since it gets 35mpg.
Colossians 3:10-12: Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
So it's okay with my "man-in-the-sky".
I'm sitting here with my 7 week old son sleeping in my lap. He's whole and un-cut. It was quite a fight with my wife (Catholic) but I got him home all in one piece, the way God made him. He will thank me some day.
Again, I don't apologize. I would prefer she drive a Ford Excursion Diesel. It's 9000 pounds of crashworthy steel behind a 7.3 liter turbo diesel battering ram. The crumple zone is whatever car is in front of it. There isn't a vehicle large enough and heavy enough to protect my 12 pound baby. And if I could, I'd be standing on the roof with a machine gun, ready to mow down anybody that might pull out in front of them.
We test drove one. It was so large she couldn't drive it. And I don't have a machine gun. Yet.
Anybody who puts their family in a little car "For the Good of the Community" has their priorities all wrong. It IS a battlefield out there.
This.
It's CAFE that we have to thank for the SUV.
It's too expensive. That will be the fate of the entire industry at 54.4MPG CAFE.
Fitting a roll cage without the occupants wearing helmets would be counterproductive. That's pretty well known in the off-roading world. Too easy to bash your head in on a rollbar.
And here's a youtube of a Range Rover t-boning a Civic.
I put my wife and baby in an SUV because, if I have to play those odds, I want them stacked in MY family's favor. Call me selfish. I don't care. That's survival instinct. Put your family in a Smart Fortwo if you wish. Not me.
It happens to be the smallest most efficient SUV I could get. Ford Escape Hybrid. 35mpg. I've been surprised to find that it is not big enough. We went on vacation last week and it would not fit a week's luggage and the required baby items. We took my work truck because we needed the space.
Although I was being sarcastic, I do believe that a vast number of people are going to take the "fine" instead of coverage and then pick up "insurance" when they do get sick. In this way, Obamacare is designed to bankrupt the health care industry. In a few years when that mission is accomplished, then-President Pelosi can step in and socialize the entire healthcare industry, not just the insurance industry. So it's part of a larger conspiracy.
Although women's sex drive (supposedly) increase through late 30's, fertility does not. All that worry in your 20's about your girlfriend getting pregnant turn into worries in your 30's that your wife won't get pregnant.
No they won't. Go to your doctor and tell them ahead of time you will be paying cash. You'll get the discount or better.
The inflated rate is charged when they know you won't pay so they can write off the inflated "loss" and then moan about how much the uninsured cost their business.
It sure is a boost. I'm going to drop my policy completely, pay out-of-pocket for general care, and then call up Aetna when I get really sick. Even with the fine (tax?) I'll save lots of money.
If only they'd fix car insurance, too. Then I'll buy my insurance after I've already crashed my car.
You're an asshole. Go fuck a blender.
You and every liberal is missing the point. .Nobody wants people going without healthcare. We (crazy rightwingers) don't want the Federal Government running healthcare.
Back to the fire and police analogy, would you want your State Police dissolved and your neighborhood patrolled by the FBI? Your local Fire Department replaced by FEMA? You probably don't.
Oregon has a fine public healthcare system. Romneycare is supposedly pretty good. I wouldn't mind if my state enacted some kind of public health system. But I do not want the U.S. federal government running my healthcare!
Health savings account? Most young people (the ones in the best health) can't afford to save money, they're living paycheck to paycheck, and they deserve a little leisure too so they don't go insane. Also, many health problems are caught with routine physicals and treated, or they become more expensive and/or impossible to treat satisfactorily. You're advocating for a system with more illness, not less.
1. Nothing's free. What you're saying is, young people should have free health coverage. That means *I* have to pay for it. I already work two weeks out of every month to pay for government programs.
2. Routine care is cheap to pay out of pocket. It's about $125 for a family doctor visit, or less if you shop around (go capitalism!). So it's always a better deal to buy catastrophic illness insurance and then pay out-of-pocket for regular care - unless you go to the doctor more than twice a month.
I suppose you consider fertility treatments to be frivolous.
I have private health care to thank for my 6 week old baby. I'd still be on a waiting list in England. And probably elsewhere.
Let's compare meaningful value.
If Apple stops pumping iPods, iPhones and iPads tomorrow, what's the worst that will happen?
If Exxon-Mobil stops pumping out oil and refining gas, diesel and jet fuel, what's the worst that will happen?
I think option #2 is best, I can live in an iMicrocosm, as long as I get clean air and water to breathe and drink.
If Exxon stopped pumping oil, instead of a truck delivering your iPhone, it would be carried on the back of a Unicorn and floated gently down a rainbow to your doorstep.
Craigslist just doesn't enter suspected spam into the index so it never shows up. The URL they email still works but nobody will ever see it in the list or the search results.
For a long time just about everything I posted ended up this way. I think using correctly formed HTML was their trigger, since there was absolutely no way the ads I posted could be considered spam. It was very annoying as a user.
Like the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act".
Damn, and I've been wondering why nobody's called my BBS in 20 years.
Whatever gets me Netflix in high res is fast enough. As for general use, 384k DSL was fast enough. Everything else is just a marketing game between Verizon and Comcast, as far as I'm concerned.
I would like it to be cheaper. Any way you slice it, it's over $100/month for high speed internet. That's IF you can get it. I know a lot of people who are still stuck with Dialup, even in the Washington D.C. suburbs.
A Cat 5 impacts the East Coast and we are worried that Facebook or Amazon might be down?
Well, sure. If Facebook is down, I can't update my profile with pictures of the tree that crushed my house.
Arthur C. Clark's 2001 A Space Odyssey predicted the iPad in 1968. He called it a "Newspad" and it connected to all major newspapers over the "ether". In the book, Heywood Floyd reads it on his way to the space station. In the movie, you can see Bowman and Poole watching the news on them during the first scenes on Discovery.
Nothing is green in Silicon Valley either, unless somebody waters it. I remember not being allowed to water a lawn or wash a car when I lived there, so everything was brown.