...and thumbs down on where this country is going.
In a backward and paper-based country, a cyberattack that disables things properly will hurt. Over here, it will cripple.
But at the same time, online access to government offices is a huge time saver. When people get it, they don't want to go back, any more than we would want to go back to having to schedule a library visit to look up any kind of reference information.
We can't avoid having to fix the online security problem.
As if you're in any condition to negotiate prices when you're having a heart attack.
Or when you have a child dying from cancer.
Those are not the times when you negotiate for medical care. A market in medicine would be a market in prearrangements. That was the whole point of the ACA, and is why people liked it better than "You have a choice of the one insurance company that goes with your job. You do have a job, don't you?"
The downside of ACA is that it did nothing to control costs. That is what we could use capitalism for.
"Free American security" is only an indirect, peripheral reason that is sometimes given for for lower overseas health costs. For real industrial-strength bullshit, you have to turn to the pharma lobby. Their claim is that through their ludicrous American pricing we subsidize lower overseas prices for the same compounds.
In actual fact, all medications are priced at what the local market will bear Pharma companies sell at a profit in every market other than the occasional African charity operation. And yes, this includes Canada.
Before we try socializing everything, we could save a substantial amount of money for all existing payers just by opening up the medical market to the same capitalist competition that keeps prices down in all our other markets. This could start with letting American purchasers buy FDA-approved compounds on the world market, and could expand into letting doctors prescribe medications which have passed foreign testing schemes that have similar standards to our own.
Want to make a copy of something at the library? Just put JotNot on your iOS phone, and use it in place of a flatbed scanner to make library articles into PDFs that look just as good as if you used a flatbed.
I really like the Libby/Overdrive digital loan system. At first it didn't have anything I wanted to read, but that is changing fast as authors get more used to this kind of licensing.
Tuna is a fish. All of the animals we routinely eat are now farmed, and a large percentage of the fish. Farming of tuna is a hard problem because it’s a wide-ranging top predator species, but the Japanese are working on a tuna farming project, because this fish is highly valued in Japanese cuisine.
What is the difference between hunting whales and all the other animals we eat (besides tastiness level but that's opinion based)?
Whales are the only animal they eat that can't be farmed. Hunting and gathering is sustainable only for small human populations, which is why a large percentage of the fish we eat are being farmed today, over the dead bodies of environmental romantics.
The whale population has revived since the nineteenth century age of whaling, but resuming hunts would make whales as threatened as bison were until we started farming them.
In fact the only whale delicacy served is thin, very expensive, slices of kujira no tama, or testicle. There is no dietary reason why they would want to resume large scale whaling.
I run a houseful of IoT sensors The app will bing a notification on my phone if something leaks or catches fire. All of the information flows one way, though. I'm not currently using the system to control anything.
No. Hot tubs can take days to heat up, you'd turn it up before you left your house. It's more efficient to keep it at constant temp than to raise and lower it anyhow.
I had a home hot tub in the Eighties. Worst case, with electrical heating, it would take about 4-5 hours to heat up in the winter (lowland urban Arizona). Much faster than that with gas.
That was in the Eighties, but I can see a use case for an IoT hot tub today: an attached webcam that streams all activity to an escrowed server at your lawyer's office. Then if some PoundMeTooer accuses you of creepy behavior, you have video proof or what actually happened.
My point is that because the USGS is able to see all damaging seismic events worldwide, we have a duty to warn other people about something that we can see. It's like being first at a car wreck. It's not your fault and not your problem, but it's human nature to be helpful if you can.
If we didn't without a valid excuse, you anti-American lefties would be the first to whine about it.
Until they become successful, just like everyone else. More importantly, the major farmers who want to keep the illegal insurgency going as their personal end run around the Thirteenth Amendment vote Dem. Call it Big Lettuce if you wish.
But that "tiny part that is shut down" should not include emergency notification of global disasters. Imagine if the 2004 megatsunami had occurred during a US shutdown? The Indian Ocian had no Pacific-style warning system of its own.
It's as though the "left" has decided FOX News tactics are correct. It's REALLY troubling.
That's why they have turned CNN into their own mirror image of Fox. Remember when there were major journalism houses that, although they had clearly labeled editorial opinions of their own, could be relied on for basic news accuracy?
In rural Arizona, dollar stores spring up in those places that don't quite have the population density for a full-service grocery, where they offer local service in in competition with a big-box store that might be a 20-minute drive away. I even see them tucked into strip malls that already have supermarkets. In such places, they offer more selection in such things as school supplies. Think of them as the next step up from convenience stores.
It had nothing to do with tax cuts. Because there are numerically more Boomers than Xers, net payments into Social Security peaked in the Nineties, just in time to produce a "surplus" if added to federal revenue. Now that Xers are the folk paying into the system, inward payments are down while the huge cohort of Boomers is drawing from the program.
Which President was the last one to actually balance the "check book" and have a surplus of funds at the end of the year (you know, not add to the national debt)?
it was the one who noted that by adding the Boomers' peak year payments into the Social Security system to revenue, he could claim a budget surplus that year. Today, those Boomers are retired and drawing from the program rather than paying into it, so Clinton's accounting hack no longer works.
But did they allow him to blather about the program for a while I hope, and is there video? Lol. What a fucking moron.
I guess this means we now have to be against quantum computing.
By the same token, after two years of the progressive enlightened telling us we have no business fighting in Syria, suddenly the same people are calling for a Middle Eastern forever war.
Manned space programs are going private because any mission more adventurous than milkruns to LEO involves great personal risk to those on the mission. NASA should focus on the robotic missions it has become so good at, and let the personal risk be undertaken by entrepreneurs who are responsible to nothing and no one.
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...and thumbs down on where this country is going.
In a backward and paper-based country, a cyberattack that disables things properly will hurt. Over here, it will cripple.
But at the same time, online access to government offices is a huge time saver. When people get it, they don't want to go back, any more than we would want to go back to having to schedule a library visit to look up any kind of reference information.
We can't avoid having to fix the online security problem.
As if you're in any condition to negotiate prices when you're having a heart attack.
Or when you have a child dying from cancer.
Those are not the times when you negotiate for medical care. A market in medicine would be a market in prearrangements. That was the whole point of the ACA, and is why people liked it better than "You have a choice of the one insurance company that goes with your job. You do have a job, don't you?"
The downside of ACA is that it did nothing to control costs. That is what we could use capitalism for.
"Free American security" is only an indirect, peripheral reason that is sometimes given for for lower overseas health costs. For real industrial-strength bullshit, you have to turn to the pharma lobby. Their claim is that through their ludicrous American pricing we subsidize lower overseas prices for the same compounds.
In actual fact, all medications are priced at what the local market will bear Pharma companies sell at a profit in every market other than the occasional African charity operation. And yes, this includes Canada.
Before we try socializing everything, we could save a substantial amount of money for all existing payers just by opening up the medical market to the same capitalist competition that keeps prices down in all our other markets. This could start with letting American purchasers buy FDA-approved compounds on the world market, and could expand into letting doctors prescribe medications which have passed foreign testing schemes that have similar standards to our own.
In the 1700s, you will have so much fun dying of smallpox and overwork.
Want to make a copy of something at the library? Just put JotNot on your iOS phone, and use it in place of a flatbed scanner to make library articles into PDFs that look just as good as if you used a flatbed.
I really like the Libby/Overdrive digital loan system. At first it didn't have anything I wanted to read, but that is changing fast as authors get more used to this kind of licensing.
The issue is not just age, but whales being large-brained cetaceans. We don't really know much about their state of consciousness.
This article was posted two weeks ago and now reappearing as a dupe. Was the first one returned to Amazon?
Tuna is a fish. All of the animals we routinely eat are now farmed, and a large percentage of the fish. Farming of tuna is a hard problem because it’s a wide-ranging top predator species, but the Japanese are working on a tuna farming project, because this fish is highly valued in Japanese cuisine.
What is the difference between hunting whales and all the other animals we eat (besides tastiness level but that's opinion based)?
Whales are the only animal they eat that can't be farmed. Hunting and gathering is sustainable only for small human populations, which is why a large percentage of the fish we eat are being farmed today, over the dead bodies of environmental romantics.
The whale population has revived since the nineteenth century age of whaling, but resuming hunts would make whales as threatened as bison were until we started farming them.
In fact the only whale delicacy served is thin, very expensive, slices of kujira no tama, or testicle. There is no dietary reason why they would want to resume large scale whaling.
And right at the moment, banks are backing away from ALL investments except possibly Yapese stone disks.
I run a houseful of IoT sensors The app will bing a notification on my phone if something leaks or catches fire. All of the information flows one way, though. I'm not currently using the system to control anything.
I'm afraid I can't install that, Dave.
No. Hot tubs can take days to heat up, you'd turn it up before you left your house. It's more efficient to keep it at constant temp than to raise and lower it anyhow.
I had a home hot tub in the Eighties. Worst case, with electrical heating, it would take about 4-5 hours to heat up in the winter (lowland urban Arizona). Much faster than that with gas.
That was in the Eighties, but I can see a use case for an IoT hot tub today: an attached webcam that streams all activity to an escrowed server at your lawyer's office. Then if some PoundMeTooer accuses you of creepy behavior, you have video proof or what actually happened.
My point is that because the USGS is able to see all damaging seismic events worldwide, we have a duty to warn other people about something that we can see. It's like being first at a car wreck. It's not your fault and not your problem, but it's human nature to be helpful if you can.
If we didn't without a valid excuse, you anti-American lefties would be the first to whine about it.
Until they become successful, just like everyone else. More importantly, the major farmers who want to keep the illegal insurgency going as their personal end run around the Thirteenth Amendment vote Dem. Call it Big Lettuce if you wish.
But that "tiny part that is shut down" should not include emergency notification of global disasters. Imagine if the 2004 megatsunami had occurred during a US shutdown? The Indian Ocian had no Pacific-style warning system of its own.
Yes, let's turn the world over to the loving embrace of the Chinese and the Russians.
No the world, but the Middle East in particular. The place richly deserves it.
It's as though the "left" has decided FOX News tactics are correct. It's REALLY troubling.
That's why they have turned CNN into their own mirror image of Fox. Remember when there were major journalism houses that, although they had clearly labeled editorial opinions of their own, could be relied on for basic news accuracy?
In rural Arizona, dollar stores spring up in those places that don't quite have the population density for a full-service grocery, where they offer local service in in competition with a big-box store that might be a 20-minute drive away. I even see them tucked into strip malls that already have supermarkets. In such places, they offer more selection in such things as school supplies. Think of them as the next step up from convenience stores.
It had nothing to do with tax cuts. Because there are numerically more Boomers than Xers, net payments into Social Security peaked in the Nineties, just in time to produce a "surplus" if added to federal revenue. Now that Xers are the folk paying into the system, inward payments are down while the huge cohort of Boomers is drawing from the program.
Which President was the last one to actually balance the "check book" and have a surplus of funds at the end of the year (you know, not add to the national debt)?
it was the one who noted that by adding the Boomers' peak year payments into the Social Security system to revenue, he could claim a budget surplus that year. Today, those Boomers are retired and drawing from the program rather than paying into it, so Clinton's accounting hack no longer works.
But did they allow him to blather about the program for a while I hope, and is there video? Lol. What a fucking moron.
I guess this means we now have to be against quantum computing.
By the same token, after two years of the progressive enlightened telling us we have no business fighting in Syria, suddenly the same people are calling for a Middle Eastern forever war.
Manned space programs are going private because any mission more adventurous than milkruns to LEO involves great personal risk to those on the mission. NASA should focus on the robotic missions it has become so good at, and let the personal risk be undertaken by entrepreneurs who are responsible to nothing and no one.