The problem that the idea of a "perfectly healthy lifestyle" changes every few years or so. Is fat the demon? Or is is sugar? Or maybe carbs?
Eat a fad-free diet and get lots of exercise, and you will stay in the best of health. No matter what happens in the world of fashion, that core recommendation never changes.
Here in BC, Canada it's a whopping $75/month per family, assuming two adults.
But how long will it be before your single-payer system makes the same decision as Teh Evil Insurance Companies, and makes you wear a monitoring smartwatch 24/7?
Most people in the US get their health insurance either from their employer, or from the Obamacare exchanges. In both cases they're not treated as individuals (from a buying point of view) by the health insurance industry, instead they're treated as part of a group (on the exchanges this is called "community rating")
The point of the article is that although individual lifestyle rating is not being done yet, today's data mining could be used to implement such a scheme whenever insurance companies find such data lucrative enough to justify putting in the IT infrastructure to monitor it.
The count of stars, or exoplanets, or moons within the solar system are all that we now know. Every jump in accuracy or our detection methods brings forth more. This does not mean that we somehow screwed up in our first estimation.
Airline pilot used to be a prestige job which for a system airline could be a lifetime career. Starting pilots now make $24 an hour, which is slightly higher than a Walmart greeter: http://fortune.com/2014/03/03/...
Think about that the next time you roar down the runway on your way somewhere.
When Indians have a problem with their iDevices, they get shunted to a Bay Area call center whose people speak in thick California accents and who insist on trying multiple approaches based on their training, rather than following comfortable scripts in the manner that local people are used to.
Because this a criminal case, rather than civil, the prosecution must prove he was lying. How would it go about reading his mind?
Another right that low-level authorities have, though, is to simply steal any funds the defendant might have to pay lawyers because use of the M-word makes it a drug case, even if that is the explicitly intended use of the money.
Although following the judge's order would be blatant self-incrimination, any attempt to use a Constitutional argument in a low-level court is declared 'frivolous' and will get you additional charges for contempt of court. This judge is betting that the defendant doesn't have the resources to take the case to those higher levels where Constitutional arguments are taken seriously.
What is so special about this specific type of power generating infrastructure?
The problem is energy sprawl. Each wind tower is a small, fluctuating source of power, so you need to cover the sacred Environment with a lot of them to generate a usable amount of power. At maintenance and eventual decommissioning time, this adds up to a large number of towers, nacelles, concrete foundations, and the network of ‘logging roads’ that connect them.
Or...you could build one big nuclear plant that is by comparison invisible in the landscape.
So you thought that decommissioning costs applied to only the one industry you don’t like?
I’m not that concerned about decommissioning wind turbines, because each tower contains a trove of industrial metals, including such goodies as a big hunk of neodymium, that can be recycled. The problem I see is maintenance. Intricate mechanical gearing and electronics, high off the ground, in many cases lashed by that salt spray that has a history of ruining everything. The good news is that maintenance will mean lifetime employment for a lot of Germans.
The bad news is that metal thieves have already become a problem for European wind farms.
That's a wash because climate activists are peculiarly uninterested in putting technology to work on fixing the problem. They don't support the largest carbon-free energy sources (even hydro, which is still by far the most important renewable worldwide) and they don't support geoengineering to sequester carbon already in the environment. The latest sequestration effort heading for the leftist dumper is a chickpea that has been genetically modified to pull carbon from the air into the soil, where it becomes a long-term stabilant.
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So what happens if google just refuses to pay?
Then the EU will sortie its massive military forces to...
Oops - those forces that happen to be largely American.
Gotta keep those lush social programs going while minimizing the threat of a taxpayer revolt.
The problem that the idea of a "perfectly healthy lifestyle" changes every few years or so. Is fat the demon? Or is is sugar? Or maybe carbs?
Eat a fad-free diet and get lots of exercise, and you will stay in the best of health. No matter what happens in the world of fashion, that core recommendation never changes.
Here in BC, Canada it's a whopping $75/month per family, assuming two adults.
But how long will it be before your single-payer system makes the same decision as Teh Evil Insurance Companies, and makes you wear a monitoring smartwatch 24/7?
Most people in the US get their health insurance either from their employer, or from the Obamacare exchanges. In both cases they're not treated as individuals (from a buying point of view) by the health insurance industry, instead they're treated as part of a group (on the exchanges this is called "community rating")
The point of the article is that although individual lifestyle rating is not being done yet, today's data mining could be used to implement such a scheme whenever insurance companies find such data lucrative enough to justify putting in the IT infrastructure to monitor it.
So we'll check you off in the 'no opposing viewpoints' column, then.
There's a plummy job waiting for you in Brussels!
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Thanks for making my point for me.
The count of stars, or exoplanets, or moons within the solar system are all that we now know. Every jump in accuracy or our detection methods brings forth more. This does not mean that we somehow screwed up in our first estimation.
Airline pilot used to be a prestige job which for a system airline could be a lifetime career. Starting pilots now make $24 an hour, which is slightly higher than a Walmart greeter:
http://fortune.com/2014/03/03/...
Think about that the next time you roar down the runway on your way somewhere.
And also the first porn that young nerds ever encountered.
And you also eliminate the interesting AC comments.
I would just eliminate AC posting entirely. Those who post interesting AC comments will just get accounts, which offer exactly the same anonymity.
When Indians have a problem with their iDevices, they get shunted to a Bay Area call center whose people speak in thick California accents and who insist on trying multiple approaches based on their training, rather than following comfortable scripts in the manner that local people are used to.
It's money laundering.
Pay lots of money for an item of very little value. Money becomes legit.
No, $2,630.52 is the Kindle price. $0.99 is the paperback price. It costs money to haul bits around and store them on servers, after all.
At least in the case you cite there was a prior record of bad blood between the parties. There was no such record in the cellphone case.
"I forgot" is so clearly telling the Judge "yuck fou"
Which in this case is precisely what was called for. The judge had no business asking for self-incrimination.
Because this a criminal case, rather than civil, the prosecution must prove he was lying. How would it go about reading his mind?
Another right that low-level authorities have, though, is to simply steal any funds the defendant might have to pay lawyers because use of the M-word makes it a drug case, even if that is the explicitly intended use of the money.
This defendant’s best shot would be to catch the interest of a legal foundation like Institute For Justice.
Certainly, but this was a municipal court, where protecting police revenue outweighs Constitutional concerns.
Although following the judge's order would be blatant self-incrimination, any attempt to use a Constitutional argument in a low-level court is declared 'frivolous' and will get you additional charges for contempt of court. This judge is betting that the defendant doesn't have the resources to take the case to those higher levels where Constitutional arguments are taken seriously.
U.S. LEOs have urban assault vehicles, fully automatic assault rifles, grenade launchers, and maybe even a battlefield tactical nuke.
How else would you handle the average wrong-house raid these days? Dude might be hiding an overdue library book in there.
What is so special about this specific type of power generating infrastructure?
The problem is energy sprawl. Each wind tower is a small, fluctuating source of power, so you need to cover the sacred Environment with a lot of them to generate a usable amount of power. At maintenance and eventual decommissioning time, this adds up to a large number of towers, nacelles, concrete foundations, and the network of ‘logging roads’ that connect them.
Or...you could build one big nuclear plant that is by comparison invisible in the landscape.
Donate them to law enforcement for target practice... It'll all be in 5mm chunks in no time.
No they won’t. LEOs are notoriously poor marksmen. That’s why their favored target is a family dog at point-blank range.
So you thought that decommissioning costs applied to only the one industry you don’t like?
I’m not that concerned about decommissioning wind turbines, because each tower contains a trove of industrial metals, including such goodies as a big hunk of neodymium, that can be recycled. The problem I see is maintenance. Intricate mechanical gearing and electronics, high off the ground, in many cases lashed by that salt spray that has a history of ruining everything. The good news is that maintenance will mean lifetime employment for a lot of Germans.
The bad news is that metal thieves have already become a problem for European wind farms.
That's a wash because climate activists are peculiarly uninterested in putting technology to work on fixing the problem. They don't support the largest carbon-free energy sources (even hydro, which is still by far the most important renewable worldwide) and they don't support geoengineering to sequester carbon already in the environment. The latest sequestration effort heading for the leftist dumper is a chickpea that has been genetically modified to pull carbon from the air into the soil, where it becomes a long-term stabilant.
From that well-known fascist source, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:
https://thebulletin.org/2018/0...