I agree that we can't have real reform until you control the costs associated with being in health care (malpractice insurance which is expensive due to malpractice suits; 50 separate insurance markets due to individual State mandates...why can't we have a single market????)
Insurance should be for catastrophic events (the Big C, major car accident) -- routine health care should be out of pocket which would be cheaper if the market weren't so skewed already.
Never did I think that I would be the "Get Off My Lawn" guy at age 37 -- kids these days have such an incredible sense of entitlement it is sickening. I graduated from a top State school with a BS in Chemistry in 1994 -- not the world's best job market. After working a number of temp jobs -- including one at ETS as a customer service rep -- I decided to move to Boston to live with my brother. Been here ever since, never had a job in Chemistry. College is about learning how to think critically which is a skill that is widely applicable. A number of our interns in my department are all "MIS Majors" at a local private university -- I don't even know what that means. It's not a Liberal Arts curriculum; it might be a business tract.
Is this in the US? Canada? Europe? It's kind of hard to formulate a legal defense/explanation for this without knowing the jurisdiction. The Internet is Global, what passes muster in one country may be completely alien in another. Please provide more context or a link to the original forum post.
Really? The waste stacks in residential homes are not PVC?
I remember seeing on This Old House a renovation they did in Chicago or a close suburb where all residential wiring had to be in conduit. That seems like overkill to me seing that MOST OF THE US doesn't require that.
Good start. Don't forget an inefficient system of State Mandates on what is covered. Each state is different which makes it harder for insurance companies to provide services when it needs to comply with each of the 50 states' mandates. Things would be a lot cheaper in New England if MA, RI, CT, ME, VT, and NH could all agree on a single set of coverage mandates which would allow insurace companies to treat these 6 states as a single market. Now extend that to ALL 50 states? Insurance companies would then be able to cut their costs and pass that down.
Then you need to reform the liability angle...
Never mind. It will never happen.
Really what needs to be done (as I sort of alluded to above) is break the link between employer and health coverage (they get a big tax break) and give that break to the individual and OPEN UP COMPETITION ACROSS STATE BOARDERS and things will look a lot better.
If that were the case, and I was single, I'd buy a major medical policy and pay out of pocket for Dr visits and I'd make out better.
I could ramble on, but nobody will read these comments, they're too far down and too old... --Mike
I've worked with offshore programmers in both China and India. Time zones make it difficult, but the Indian company moved their working hours so there'd be more overlap. China had swing shifts going. Getting someone to talk to wasn't hard.
Understanding them was difficult. I found the Indians to have better English, both in terms of grammar AND accent.
Both produced working code and very, very good technical documentation.
I remember it used to be that way in NJ. Don't know if it is anymore. Here in MA, they have a cop at all hearings, it might not be THE cop that pulled you over, but this cop will have a copy of the report, signed by the issuing cop. I somehow manage to get a speeding ticket once every 3 years, just as the points are dropped from my license. Grrrr.
an ivy league kid would've known to put the sight on better hardware...
Two things...
1. I replaced "site" with "sight" on purpose to make it, you know, FUNNY. 2. I am not an Ivy Leaguer.
One would think that most of the people replying with "he used the wrong word" should've realized it was a joke. Anyhow, they must have some sort of inferiority complex about they're education.
Aluminum is very recyclable. I really doubt many Aluminum chasis make it past the sorters and into a landfill. Hell, Al cans vanish out of my recycling bin before the truck even gets there. It's magic!
is not the education itself, but the doors it opens (because people see the name brand), and the connections you make (by knowing lots of other people who have open doors)
Thank you!
The people who wind up at Ivy League Schools (after the kids whose parents went there) are the ones that want it. Cost means nothing because they want the ivy degree so badly they will figure out how to get there. Now, these are the people you want to be around. They're motivated, smart, and will go on to do big things more often than those who didn't go to a high-caliber school.
Here's a little writeup that tries to explain how Apple books revenue from iPhones/iPods and why some software upgrades cost money while others don't. It basically boils down to "the correct way" vs "the accepted way which can lead to investor lawsuits in the right jurisdiction especially if people have been scrutinizing your option accounting methods in the past."
They did it in BSG, why can't they do it in SF? I'm sure the NSA could get in if they already haven't. Where are the vendors? There's not mention of the platform this is running on.
this is all well and good until you replace someone's desktop and the techs are too lazy to go back and rename things. we have plenty of p-smithj1 or psmithj-01s floating around.
I don't have the statistics, but you need to also consider what % of the population has access to reliable electricity. It's a little annoying to me that people are focused on getting people online when other, more basic services should be addressed first. Being online actually costs money.
Also, what % of the world's population WANTS to be online. Living in the US and having access to non-dialup since 1998 and dialup since 1994, I find it weird that my better half's brother in Germany (non city, not Wyoming-like-rural, kind of like living in the suburbs of Harrisburg, PA) not only isn't online, but doesn't even own a computer. He's 35 years-old and makes a good wage as a technical drawer. He spends his free time rebuilding old cars and fire engines. He occasionally has the need to research parts for these vehicles, so he calls his sister (my better half) in Massachusetts to lookup parts online for him or to order him a parts catalog. To him, being online is a nice-to-have, not a necessity. His approach is baffling to me. I always pictured Germany as a land of plugged-in people who just happen to be the masters of thrift and frugality.
Both of my girlfriend's German Grandfathers were captured on the Eastern front and sent deep into the USSR to work and weren't repatriated to Germany until 1948. One fell and broke his leg so badly that he was of no use in the labor camp so they sent him home. The other was so good at what he did, mason?, that they sent him back to E. Germany to work there.
If that's the case, I recommend Sheeba. However, it's more expensive and if you're in this predicament, you probably wouldn't be able to afford it anyway.
The number of times I fed the cats and used my finger to scrape out the, for lack of a better word, aspic out of the can and then accidentally licked my finger...it's not bad, but it's not good.
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You are a purveyor of lies. That or you heard it once and never bothered to keep current.
Someone doesn't like you -- you got mod'd down.
I agree that we can't have real reform until you control the costs associated with being in health care (malpractice insurance which is expensive due to malpractice suits; 50 separate insurance markets due to individual State mandates...why can't we have a single market????)
Insurance should be for catastrophic events (the Big C, major car accident) -- routine health care should be out of pocket which would be cheaper if the market weren't so skewed already.
--Mike
I am GenX as well...
Never did I think that I would be the "Get Off My Lawn" guy at age 37 -- kids these days have such an incredible sense of entitlement it is sickening. I graduated from a top State school with a BS in Chemistry in 1994 -- not the world's best job market. After working a number of temp jobs -- including one at ETS as a customer service rep -- I decided to move to Boston to live with my brother. Been here ever since, never had a job in Chemistry. College is about learning how to think critically which is a skill that is widely applicable. A number of our interns in my department are all "MIS Majors" at a local private university -- I don't even know what that means. It's not a Liberal Arts curriculum; it might be a business tract.
--Mike
One other advantage of the PDF is it cannot be easily edits.
Kind of like Slashdot comments?
No shit Sherlock.
Is this in the US? Canada? Europe? It's kind of hard to formulate a legal defense/explanation for this without knowing the jurisdiction. The Internet is Global, what passes muster in one country may be completely alien in another. Please provide more context or a link to the original forum post.
Thank you.
--Mike
Won't play on iPods like a cd won't play on an iPod. Awesome reporting. Wasn't biased or anything, right?
--mike
Really? The waste stacks in residential homes are not PVC?
I remember seeing on This Old House a renovation they did in Chicago or a close suburb where all residential wiring had to be in conduit. That seems like overkill to me seing that MOST OF THE US doesn't require that.
--mike
Is the guy doing maintenance on the robot overlord, er I mean, welder Union as well?
Robots are great for repetative, dangerous tasks. No so good for filling orders at Burger King or working in a chicken processing plant.
Good start. Don't forget an inefficient system of State Mandates on what is covered. Each state is different which makes it harder for insurance companies to provide services when it needs to comply with each of the 50 states' mandates. Things would be a lot cheaper in New England if MA, RI, CT, ME, VT, and NH could all agree on a single set of coverage mandates which would allow insurace companies to treat these 6 states as a single market. Now extend that to ALL 50 states? Insurance companies would then be able to cut their costs and pass that down.
Then you need to reform the liability angle...
Never mind. It will never happen.
Really what needs to be done (as I sort of alluded to above) is break the link between employer and health coverage (they get a big tax break) and give that break to the individual and OPEN UP COMPETITION ACROSS STATE BOARDERS and things will look a lot better.
If that were the case, and I was single, I'd buy a major medical policy and pay out of pocket for Dr visits and I'd make out better.
I could ramble on, but nobody will read these comments, they're too far down and too old...
--Mike
I've worked with offshore programmers in both China and India. Time zones make it difficult, but the Indian company moved their working hours so there'd be more overlap. China had swing shifts going. Getting someone to talk to wasn't hard.
Understanding them was difficult. I found the Indians to have better English, both in terms of grammar AND accent.
Both produced working code and very, very good technical documentation.
--Mike
I remember it used to be that way in NJ. Don't know if it is anymore. Here in MA, they have a cop at all hearings, it might not be THE cop that pulled you over, but this cop will have a copy of the report, signed by the issuing cop. I somehow manage to get a speeding ticket once every 3 years, just as the points are dropped from my license. Grrrr.
--Mike
an ivy league kid would've known to put the sight on better hardware...
Two things...
1. I replaced "site" with "sight" on purpose to make it, you know, FUNNY.
2. I am not an Ivy Leaguer.
One would think that most of the people replying with "he used the wrong word" should've realized it was a joke. Anyhow, they must have some sort of inferiority complex about they're education.
(again, using the wrong homophone on purpose)
--Miguel
Aluminum is very recyclable. I really doubt many Aluminum chasis make it past the sorters and into a landfill. Hell, Al cans vanish out of my recycling bin before the truck even gets there. It's magic!
is not the education itself, but the doors it opens (because people see the name brand), and the connections you make (by knowing lots of other people who have open doors)
Thank you!
The people who wind up at Ivy League Schools (after the kids whose parents went there) are the ones that want it. Cost means nothing because they want the ivy degree so badly they will figure out how to get there. Now, these are the people you want to be around. They're motivated, smart, and will go on to do big things more often than those who didn't go to a high-caliber school.
--Mike
an ivy league kid would've known to put the sight on better hardware...
Here's a little writeup that tries to explain how Apple books revenue from iPhones/iPods and why some software upgrades cost money while others don't. It basically boils down to "the correct way" vs "the accepted way which can lead to investor lawsuits in the right jurisdiction especially if people have been scrutinizing your option accounting methods in the past."
http://macjournals.com/news/iPhonerevenues.html
They did it in BSG, why can't they do it in SF? I'm sure the NSA could get in if they already haven't. Where are the vendors? There's not mention of the platform this is running on.
Laptops/Desktops:
p-smithj (j smith's 1st desktop)p-smithj-02 (j smith's 2nd desktop)l-smithj (j smith's laptop)
h-smithj (j smith's home machine)
this is all well and good until you replace someone's desktop and the techs are too lazy to go back and rename things. we have plenty of p-smithj1 or psmithj-01s floating around.
--Mike
On a serious note...women in NYC have that right.
I don't have the statistics, but you need to also consider what % of the population has access to reliable electricity. It's a little annoying to me that people are focused on getting people online when other, more basic services should be addressed first. Being online actually costs money.
Also, what % of the world's population WANTS to be online. Living in the US and having access to non-dialup since 1998 and dialup since 1994, I find it weird that my better half's brother in Germany (non city, not Wyoming-like-rural, kind of like living in the suburbs of Harrisburg, PA) not only isn't online, but doesn't even own a computer. He's 35 years-old and makes a good wage as a technical drawer. He spends his free time rebuilding old cars and fire engines. He occasionally has the need to research parts for these vehicles, so he calls his sister (my better half) in Massachusetts to lookup parts online for him or to order him a parts catalog. To him, being online is a nice-to-have, not a necessity. His approach is baffling to me. I always pictured Germany as a land of plugged-in people who just happen to be the masters of thrift and frugality.
--mike
Is he German?
Just like Venezuela and Bolivia!!
Both of my girlfriend's German Grandfathers were captured on the Eastern front and sent deep into the USSR to work and weren't repatriated to Germany until 1948. One fell and broke his leg so badly that he was of no use in the labor camp so they sent him home. The other was so good at what he did, mason?, that they sent him back to E. Germany to work there.
If that's the case, I recommend Sheeba. However, it's more expensive and if you're in this predicament, you probably wouldn't be able to afford it anyway.
The number of times I fed the cats and used my finger to scrape out the, for lack of a better word, aspic out of the can and then accidentally licked my finger...it's not bad, but it's not good.
--mike