Unlike Andy Pruitt, I would not consider three broken bones in 40 years to be "safe". I have been cycling for about that long, but no more than a couple thousand miles per year on average, and I have never broken a bone, not cycling, not in any other activity - and my activities include flying (powered and unpowered craft), motorcycles, white water kayaking, and mocking senior management.
It was a light comment, intended to be amusing. However, I was raised in NY, and *have* lived in lots of places. None tougher than NY, in the sense of difficult, i.e. expensive, large, etc., although also in physically intimidating.
Boston has its negatives, and Philly's up there, but neither one of them is quite as challenging to live in as NY.
The Onion ran a story once about the NYC subway system upgrading the rolling stock to use octagonal wheels, instead of the square wheels, and how much quieter and smooth the ride would be.
That's about right... I still have fond memories of the 7 line though.
I had to once walk out of the room and I was still so mad I just went home mid day. The next day when I came back to the room the guy that made me mad still hadn't corrected his mistake and still hadn't finished his work.
Well then, you did exactly the right thing, didn't you? Bravo!
Your nihilistic, dismissive attitude just doesn't make any sense. Your response isn't even logical. Nothing's going to penetrate, so I'll leave you to it.
Once again - raising the debt ceiling is NOT giving the President more money to borrow, it's so we can pay for what the CONGRESS already allocated to spend!
And the "current budget" you mentioned is the level of spending at the sequester level, not an increased budget.
The principle here is that the President refused to allow the crazy wing of the Republican party to use the economic health of the country, and likely the world, as a bargaining chip. Sane adults don't do that.
If you think we need "a real fight with real consequences to tighten our belts and enter a season of sacrifice" and you defend the Republicans who were trying to push the U.S. into another devastating recession, you are neither sane nor an adult.
Preventive health care is like finding mistakes in the requirements before delivery of the product. The earlier you get it, the less expensive it is to fix the problem. Does that state it in a way you can understand?
Btw, for the last decade or so, who was shooting at us in Iraq and Afghanistan? oh yeah, it was terrorists.
In Afghanistan, there were legitimate targets... at first. Then the U.S. invasion began creating more "terrorists" than it was killing, that is, people who object to being invaded and seeing wedding parties massacred, and join the only group opposing the invasion.
And in Iraq? We encouraged the "terrorists" to go there to oppose the U.S. invasion. And created lots more "terrorists" when they lost family members to U.S. troops and trigger-happy mercenaries like Blackwater.
Your kind of thinking gives me the willies. No, the heebie jeebies.
I would like to believe the ACA can evolve into single payer, but I don't think it will. The ACA is an expansion of the current commercial insurance model, and it would be a huge upheaval to turn that into single payer, a massive battle between good and evil.
I don't expect single payer in less than 20 years, but I'd be happy if I were wrong.
If the topic were computers (which it isn't), and if I had posted something breathtakingly ignorant (which I have not), then you should feel free to call me ignorant - I don't think that counts as "calling names".
In this case, a foolish comment was posted about a topic on which I am extremely well informed, and I called out the author.
I see no point to your comment except to tweak, so bravo, sir, bravo.
If you're proud of your little comment here, you should probably get tested for ASD.
I work with autistic children, and yours is the most ignorant comment I've seen in weeks. You say that GP's "comment was merely meant to offend and had no merit whatsoever"? Pot, meet kettle.
I didn't say it should be separated from the other work for purposes of deciding whether to censor it, I said it should be separated from other work to distinguish mild mommy porn from nasty shit. Your implication is irrelevant.
My opinion was not a *premise* to my argument at all, my argument (if you can call it that, I just said two things should be judged according to their characteristics) WAS my opinion.
And I still said (TWICE) that even the nasty shit shouldn't be censored, but you still keep coming, because you don't like that I said it was nasty. I think you won't let this go because you don't like judgment of any kind, or you are still confused and unable to separate my OPINION about something from whether I think it should be censored.
That's a brilliant idea! If we had a Green Party president with a Libertarian VP, the rest of the country would give them a chance to try their policies the first year, then hang them both and reform the D and R parties.
Not to worry. It is not like the customers of Healthcare.Gov are going to go shopping anywhere else. They have captured 100% of the market at the barrel of a gun. It is like the old American Telephone & Telegraph phone service, except they can go into your checking account for a billing dispute, or take your tax refund if you refuse to do business with them.
Sorry, you're just full of crap. Didn't you even read the summary of the summary about the bill? If you have insurance from *any* source, you don't need healthcare.gov. Even if you *don't* have healthcare now, you can still go to the state exchange... if you don't live in one of the Republican-run states that stamped their feet and refused to set up and exchange to help their own people.
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Unlike Andy Pruitt, I would not consider three broken bones in 40 years to be "safe". I have been cycling for about that long, but no more than a couple thousand miles per year on average, and I have never broken a bone, not cycling, not in any other activity - and my activities include flying (powered and unpowered craft), motorcycles, white water kayaking, and mocking senior management.
It was a light comment, intended to be amusing. However, I was raised in NY, and *have* lived in lots of places. None tougher than NY, in the sense of difficult, i.e. expensive, large, etc., although also in physically intimidating.
Boston has its negatives, and Philly's up there, but neither one of them is quite as challenging to live in as NY.
The Onion ran a story once about the NYC subway system upgrading the rolling stock to use octagonal wheels, instead of the square wheels, and how much quieter and smooth the ride would be.
That's about right... I still have fond memories of the 7 line though.
...Never been to NY tough, so maybe people are completely different there...
I was born and raised in NY, so I can tell you; if you come to NY, you had *better* come tough.
I had to once walk out of the room and I was still so mad I just went home mid day. The next day when I came back to the room the guy that made me mad still hadn't corrected his mistake and still hadn't finished his work.
Well then, you did exactly the right thing, didn't you? Bravo!
I love how you jumped to other roles to blame on programmers' failures.
Having held most roles in IT and operations, I think the hardest thing for programmers is relating to other human beings. They really suck at that.
Your nihilistic, dismissive attitude just doesn't make any sense. Your response isn't even logical. Nothing's going to penetrate, so I'll leave you to it.
Once again - raising the debt ceiling is NOT giving the President more money to borrow, it's so we can pay for what the CONGRESS already allocated to spend!
And the "current budget" you mentioned is the level of spending at the sequester level, not an increased budget.
The principle here is that the President refused to allow the crazy wing of the Republican party to use the economic health of the country, and likely the world, as a bargaining chip. Sane adults don't do that.
If you think we need "a real fight with real consequences to tighten our belts and enter a season of sacrifice" and you defend the Republicans who were trying to push the U.S. into another devastating recession, you are neither sane nor an adult.
Preventive health care is like finding mistakes in the requirements before delivery of the product. The earlier you get it, the less expensive it is to fix the problem. Does that state it in a way you can understand?
Btw, for the last decade or so, who was shooting at us in Iraq and Afghanistan? oh yeah, it was terrorists.
In Afghanistan, there were legitimate targets... at first. Then the U.S. invasion began creating more "terrorists" than it was killing, that is, people who object to being invaded and seeing wedding parties massacred, and join the only group opposing the invasion.
And in Iraq? We encouraged the "terrorists" to go there to oppose the U.S. invasion. And created lots more "terrorists" when they lost family members to U.S. troops and trigger-happy mercenaries like Blackwater.
Your kind of thinking gives me the willies. No, the heebie jeebies.
I would like to believe the ACA can evolve into single payer, but I don't think it will. The ACA is an expansion of the current commercial insurance model, and it would be a huge upheaval to turn that into single payer, a massive battle between good and evil.
I don't expect single payer in less than 20 years, but I'd be happy if I were wrong.
If you actually do have a child who is on the spectrum, that just makes your flip and ignorant comment even worse.
If the topic were computers (which it isn't), and if I had posted something breathtakingly ignorant (which I have not), then you should feel free to call me ignorant - I don't think that counts as "calling names".
In this case, a foolish comment was posted about a topic on which I am extremely well informed, and I called out the author.
I see no point to your comment except to tweak, so bravo, sir, bravo.
If you're proud of your little comment here, you should probably get tested for ASD.
I work with autistic children, and yours is the most ignorant comment I've seen in weeks. You say that GP's "comment was merely meant to offend and had no merit whatsoever"? Pot, meet kettle.
Luckily, my parents granted me with the mental fortitude and tools to survive.
It's too bad they didn't also correct your grammar.
Boink!
Whoosh!
I do - a police detective was dumping this great dog, so I adopted him. I didn't name him, he came with it.
Dude, you took a cheap shot at a good show, so I tweaked your nose.
Anyway, I'm guessing that you haven't read all of the "Dexter" novels, so you have no basis to judge anything related to it.
Boink! I did it again!
I didn't say it should be separated from the other work for purposes of deciding whether to censor it, I said it should be separated from other work to distinguish mild mommy porn from nasty shit. Your implication is irrelevant.
My opinion was not a *premise* to my argument at all, my argument (if you can call it that, I just said two things should be judged according to their characteristics) WAS my opinion.
And I still said (TWICE) that even the nasty shit shouldn't be censored, but you still keep coming, because you don't like that I said it was nasty. I think you won't let this go because you don't like judgment of any kind, or you are still confused and unable to separate my OPINION about something from whether I think it should be censored.
This doesn't change my point at all.
Why is it anything you don't like is "fiat"? Way to use loaded language instead of thinking about it.
Go ahead, try - see if you can figure out why the employers got an extension, but individuals cannot.
That's a brilliant idea! If we had a Green Party president with a Libertarian VP, the rest of the country would give them a chance to try their policies the first year, then hang them both and reform the D and R parties.
Not to worry. It is not like the customers of Healthcare.Gov are going to go shopping anywhere else. They have captured 100% of the market at the barrel of a gun. It is like the old American Telephone & Telegraph phone service, except they can go into your checking account for a billing dispute, or take your tax refund if you refuse to do business with them.
Sorry, you're just full of crap. Didn't you even read the summary of the summary about the bill? If you have insurance from *any* source, you don't need healthcare.gov. Even if you *don't* have healthcare now, you can still go to the state exchange... if you don't live in one of the Republican-run states that stamped their feet and refused to set up and exchange to help their own people.
I find it hard to believe that preventive care (such as checkups, mammograms, etc.) were not at least partly covered on your plan.
Or didn't you do annual checkups? From your post, I guess not.