I have no doubt that debt collectors sue. Nobody was arguing with that. We're talking about a bankruptcy petition. If you are bankrupt and somebody sues you, you will get notified. You can then file bankruptcy which stalls all other litigation until the bankruptcy is resolved. Usually that other litigation becomes part of the bankruptcy proceedings. If you wait until after a judgment is entered and file for bankruptcy, that's a much different situation. I'm not a lawyer. The problem we have in this country is that people wait too long to file because they seem to have moral concerns about it. Debt is priced such that bankruptcy is accounted for so you've paid for the right to file bankruptcy. If you have good income it's very unlikely that a judge will entirely dismiss debts but will instead make you restructure. That's no surprise. The idea isn't to get out of paying what you owe. The idea is that sometimes people just can't pay their debts. In any event, medical bills shouldn't result in being bankrupt.
You're applying a standard by which nobody would ever have told the truth. What if I say "The sun rises in the east." Am I lying? Well if I'm at the exact north pole, I don't think that this is true. So do I have to say "The sun rises in the east unless you're at the north pole." Oh wait. No. "The sun rises in the east unless your at the north pole or maybe on another planet or maybe another solar system." You can find people debating whether water is wet. http://www.debate.org/opinions... The spirit of the ACA was to improve overall healthcare while being as minimally disruptive as possible. Whether or not that was achieved is an interesting discussion. But whether or not we can say Obama "lied" is pretty clear cut. His statement was the equivalent of "The sun rises in the east" which has never been construed to be a lie. Being wrong is also not lying. But he wasn't generally wrong either. The ACA is, overall, a great piece of legislation that has gotten millions of people insured.
This post (despite it being modded up) is the quintessential example of why we aren't going to have credible conservative voices in this country for a long time.
It suffers from multiple basic failures of reasoning in an attempt to make an emotional appeal that doesn't hold water.
Good policy is not defined by what parties advocate for it. The fact that the Democratic party was historically infused with terrible racism in no way excuses the Republican party from embracing it today. Now Republicans aren't the only voice for conservatism and admittedly not even a good one. But as long as conservatism and the toxic Republican party are intertwined, there really is no way to advocate for conservative positions without stepping on a landmine. It's not okay for either party to embrace racism and keeping score of past wrongs may be interesting but isn't a mechanism to guide current thinking. Instead we should look for sound policy.
Comparing consequences of having unpopular viewpoints with genuine discrimination is a perfect example of fallacy. Youtube does not discriminate against conservatives. They're welcome to use the same platform as everybody else. Conservatives can share their cat videos. They demonstrate proper lightbulb changing techniques. Welcome to setup a thousand dominoes and show a video of them falling down. In short, conservatives can use Youtube the same as everybody else. Nobody asks for your political viewpoints when you sign up.
A fast food restaurant isn't discriminating against homeless if they don't allow those people to panhandle on the premises. They are discriminating if they refuse to sell the homeless person (who has the money) a hamburger. Likewise, they aren't discriminating against me if they refuse to let me stand in the middle of the restaurant with a bullhorn shouting profanities.
Indeed, if a business refused to do business with someone simply because that person was racist, there may be an argument about discrimination. But if they refuse to serve a customer because that person is engaging in a racist tirade, that's not discrimination.
"Conservatives" seem to think they should be able to behave however they want and associate with whatever unsavory characters they desire and not suffer an consequences. So much for "personal responsibility."
In short, a person can't control their gender, race, or a variety of other factors which is why those are protected statuses. A person can control their behavior which is why it's okay for a business to refuse to serve those who won't behave in ways compatible with the business. Those two are as different as night and day. But it's exactly these two that the parent conflates. Too bad there isn't a -1 Propaganda mod.
Which basically proves the ACs point and rebuts your own. You had a plan that didn't meet the minimum requirements which is a fancy way of saying that you were self-insuring for a good portion of your healthcare. There were many awful plans out there or as the AC put it, the 'policy you had was really more of a "yeah, sure we'll be glad to take your money and offer you pretty much nothing in return."' President Obama spoke poorly about "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan" because he likely didn't expect anybody would *like* a lot of the plans out there. That is he conflated a plan that people like with a good plan. I can see how one would expect a 1:1 correlation between the two. But apparently there were a lot of people who liked bad plans. I'm in the same boat as the AC. At the time of the ACA, my employer (private company) was *very* transparent about our healthcare costs. We had good insurance and nothing changed. What the ACA did take away was a chance to "roll the dice" and be under-insured which apparently a lot of people were doing because healthcare is so expensive. It's not surprising that ACA polls poorly. Without addressing the *cost* of healthcare, anything related to insurance is going to be unpopular.
I don't think that condensed coolants entering the pump is the issue. Coils can freeze with lack of proper air flow due to dirty filters, having all of the vents closed, or for many other reasons. It certainly seems that such a system *should* be possible but reasonable that an end-to-end design would be better. There are good dual-zone systems that aren't terribly expensive. As an example, many houses in my neighborhood have attic rooms that have much different heating/cooling requirements. The solution is to use a 5ton multi-speed compressor with two air handlers. Usually a 3.5 and 1.5. Then you can turn off the AC to the attic room at will. I'm sure that's more expansive than a standard 5 ton system and some Keen vents. But it also lets you do things like go upstairs to the attic and turn on the AC to cool it down even if the rest of the house is already at the correct temperature. I've actually looked at adding mini-split systems to auxiliary rooms. PITA to get the HOA to approve it, though. A full mini-split system is about the same cost as a dozen keen vents. I'm not saying the keen vents are bad as I don't have experience with them. But they also aren't super-convincing for what they do unless your primary goals are cheap and easy and you're dismissive of airflow concerns.
Probably very highly correlated. But the AC units don't run constantly. A simple version of this is already in place where the demand can be smoothed out by scheduling the AC units to not run all at a time but still keep the buildings cool.
Yes we expect overseas demand to continue to rise until per capita demand is about the same as it is here in the US. Then we expect per capita demand to level off in the same way. Why would one anticipate anything else?
The first part of this is probably true and +1 Insightful. The res should be -1 Flamebait! Even without government intervention, the ICE is pretty much dead for private transportation. It's just a question of how much longer it can hold out. As vehicle-to-vehicle communication improves and autonomous driving takes hold, public transit as we know it may become outdated. Will be cheaper to give the poor a self-driving taxi voucher. I have no idea why so many people are emotionally attached to ICEs. I can't wait until I can switch to a BEV. The only reason I haven't is that we are currently in temporary (rental) housing where it would be a PITA to charge. Of course if my office would install chargers it would be a no brainer.
The point is that children aren't getting *any* of these lessons at home. Inability to hold a writing implement was what they used as visible evidence of lack of strength/dexterity. The actual article isn't about teaching to hold a pencil. It's about the fact that there is a physical development issue that results from playing less with physical things and more with virtual things.
I agree with you, but I'm not sure the point is to preserve (archaic) handwriting. But we *do* need to preserve finger dexterity. It's useful for many things like tying your shoes.
They have a proprietary system. Don't know how it works. But you get it from gate to gate and it's fast enough for WebEx meetings with no audio drop outs. (And before somebody comments, I don't talk on those meetings, only listen. If I have something to add, I use the chat feature)
When I was fresh out of college, I had to handle a return code from a function that I thought could never actually fail and used the error code "I am a fish." That was a painful lesson.
There are many people who won't take their cars through an automated car wash because of a (real or perceived) fear of damage and prefer a hand wash. There are hand wash places all over large cities. You go down a conveyor just like an automated car wash but there are a line of people to do the washing. In high volume locations, the price isn't much higher. You don't see this in more suburban places where customers are intermittent.
I have no doubt that you heard about this, but not from a reliable source. https://data.bls.gov/timeserie... Coal mining employment has been relatively constant over the last year and still very low compared to where it was at the start of the Obama administration. Where this is due to politics or just the fact that nobody wants to buy coal when natural gas is cheaper could be debated. But there isn't a mountain of coal jobs coming back. More importantly, there just aren't many coal jobs at all so even if the number doubled, it would be a rounding error in overall employment numbers. https://www.google.com/url?sa=...
We've had things like VMWare and VirtualBox but containers like Docker are relatively new. Not sure if the question was serious or you were going for a -1 Troll
You don't ever have one blanket and two chilly people. You have ten blankets and two chilly people. But one of them gets a blanket and the other is told that it isn't offered at their level. Or you have somebody who desperately needs the bathroom and the first-class one is open but no matter what the situation they won't be allowed to use the bathroom. In one sense it's quite reasonable. These are pure economic criteria. But it's also dehumanizing.
Lug it around the airport all day? You must not travel for business? Vacation travelers tend to show up at the airport 2-3 hours before their flight. Regular travelers leave their house an hour before the flight, walk to the gate, and get on the plane. We're not in the airport long enough to stop for the bathroom. Okay I don't usually leave an hour before the flight, I target 1.5 hours, but that gives a half an hour leeway in case something goes wrong. When everything is smooth, have a half an hour to answer some emails before boarding. It's not hard to move a black pull-bag around. And your backpack fits over the handle so it's ergonomically superior to carrying the backpack if you have anything heavy (like a Dell "laptop")
Well of course I would and I assume that others would do the same thing. But what I wouldn't do is declare that my family members are somehow innately superior just because they are my family member. If my sister were second in line for a kidney transplant, I wouldn't go murder the person ahead of her. That's an apropos example if you remember Steve Jobs doing what amounted to jumping the transplant queue.
The rate of malicious logins is likely a constant so the ratio is entirely affected by the rate of real logins. Popular services with a lot of real logins have lower rations. But every IP is probably seeing a constant stream.
I agree that the OP was flamebait. And I'm not a proponent of class warfare. But somebody's value as a *person* is not the same as their *economic* value. There are poor people who are very decent and rich people who are real bastards. But air travel certainly does seem to blur these lines. Travel often and you're worthy of a blanket. Not so much and you can just freeze to death. Reminds you of the scene in Titanic where they evacuate the first class passengers first. That's probably coming at some point to air travel. "In the event of an emergency please evacuate with your assigned cabin."
As others have said, early boarding is the price you pay in order to get an overhead space which is really an awful system. I travel a lot for business and would gladly pay for a reserved overhead space if that was available. But instead the airlines charge for checked baggage (something that most of us go to great lengths to avoid). If checked baggage were free and cabin baggage were $50, I'd pay the fee every time and board dead last. It's really a function of the airlines not knowing their customers. I guess people who work for airlines don't every fly on business.
Well when the only thing they have to compete on is price, what else would happen? People only shop by fare. Not that I blame the other customers. I do the same thing.
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I have no doubt that debt collectors sue. Nobody was arguing with that. We're talking about a bankruptcy petition. If you are bankrupt and somebody sues you, you will get notified. You can then file bankruptcy which stalls all other litigation until the bankruptcy is resolved. Usually that other litigation becomes part of the bankruptcy proceedings. If you wait until after a judgment is entered and file for bankruptcy, that's a much different situation. I'm not a lawyer. The problem we have in this country is that people wait too long to file because they seem to have moral concerns about it. Debt is priced such that bankruptcy is accounted for so you've paid for the right to file bankruptcy. If you have good income it's very unlikely that a judge will entirely dismiss debts but will instead make you restructure. That's no surprise. The idea isn't to get out of paying what you owe. The idea is that sometimes people just can't pay their debts. In any event, medical bills shouldn't result in being bankrupt.
You're applying a standard by which nobody would ever have told the truth. What if I say "The sun rises in the east." Am I lying? Well if I'm at the exact north pole, I don't think that this is true. So do I have to say "The sun rises in the east unless you're at the north pole." Oh wait. No. "The sun rises in the east unless your at the north pole or maybe on another planet or maybe another solar system." You can find people debating whether water is wet. http://www.debate.org/opinions... The spirit of the ACA was to improve overall healthcare while being as minimally disruptive as possible. Whether or not that was achieved is an interesting discussion. But whether or not we can say Obama "lied" is pretty clear cut. His statement was the equivalent of "The sun rises in the east" which has never been construed to be a lie. Being wrong is also not lying. But he wasn't generally wrong either. The ACA is, overall, a great piece of legislation that has gotten millions of people insured.
It suffers from multiple basic failures of reasoning in an attempt to make an emotional appeal that doesn't hold water.
Good policy is not defined by what parties advocate for it. The fact that the Democratic party was historically infused with terrible racism in no way excuses the Republican party from embracing it today. Now Republicans aren't the only voice for conservatism and admittedly not even a good one. But as long as conservatism and the toxic Republican party are intertwined, there really is no way to advocate for conservative positions without stepping on a landmine. It's not okay for either party to embrace racism and keeping score of past wrongs may be interesting but isn't a mechanism to guide current thinking. Instead we should look for sound policy.
Comparing consequences of having unpopular viewpoints with genuine discrimination is a perfect example of fallacy. Youtube does not discriminate against conservatives. They're welcome to use the same platform as everybody else. Conservatives can share their cat videos. They demonstrate proper lightbulb changing techniques. Welcome to setup a thousand dominoes and show a video of them falling down. In short, conservatives can use Youtube the same as everybody else. Nobody asks for your political viewpoints when you sign up.
A fast food restaurant isn't discriminating against homeless if they don't allow those people to panhandle on the premises. They are discriminating if they refuse to sell the homeless person (who has the money) a hamburger. Likewise, they aren't discriminating against me if they refuse to let me stand in the middle of the restaurant with a bullhorn shouting profanities.
Indeed, if a business refused to do business with someone simply because that person was racist, there may be an argument about discrimination. But if they refuse to serve a customer because that person is engaging in a racist tirade, that's not discrimination.
"Conservatives" seem to think they should be able to behave however they want and associate with whatever unsavory characters they desire and not suffer an consequences. So much for "personal responsibility."
In short, a person can't control their gender, race, or a variety of other factors which is why those are protected statuses. A person can control their behavior which is why it's okay for a business to refuse to serve those who won't behave in ways compatible with the business. Those two are as different as night and day. But it's exactly these two that the parent conflates. Too bad there isn't a -1 Propaganda mod.
It's really up to the judge in your case and your individual situation. Also depends on whether the creditors even show up in court.
Which basically proves the ACs point and rebuts your own. You had a plan that didn't meet the minimum requirements which is a fancy way of saying that you were self-insuring for a good portion of your healthcare. There were many awful plans out there or as the AC put it, the 'policy you had was really more of a "yeah, sure we'll be glad to take your money and offer you pretty much nothing in return."' President Obama spoke poorly about "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan" because he likely didn't expect anybody would *like* a lot of the plans out there. That is he conflated a plan that people like with a good plan. I can see how one would expect a 1:1 correlation between the two. But apparently there were a lot of people who liked bad plans. I'm in the same boat as the AC. At the time of the ACA, my employer (private company) was *very* transparent about our healthcare costs. We had good insurance and nothing changed. What the ACA did take away was a chance to "roll the dice" and be under-insured which apparently a lot of people were doing because healthcare is so expensive. It's not surprising that ACA polls poorly. Without addressing the *cost* of healthcare, anything related to insurance is going to be unpopular.
I don't think that condensed coolants entering the pump is the issue. Coils can freeze with lack of proper air flow due to dirty filters, having all of the vents closed, or for many other reasons. It certainly seems that such a system *should* be possible but reasonable that an end-to-end design would be better. There are good dual-zone systems that aren't terribly expensive. As an example, many houses in my neighborhood have attic rooms that have much different heating/cooling requirements. The solution is to use a 5ton multi-speed compressor with two air handlers. Usually a 3.5 and 1.5. Then you can turn off the AC to the attic room at will. I'm sure that's more expansive than a standard 5 ton system and some Keen vents. But it also lets you do things like go upstairs to the attic and turn on the AC to cool it down even if the rest of the house is already at the correct temperature. I've actually looked at adding mini-split systems to auxiliary rooms. PITA to get the HOA to approve it, though. A full mini-split system is about the same cost as a dozen keen vents. I'm not saying the keen vents are bad as I don't have experience with them. But they also aren't super-convincing for what they do unless your primary goals are cheap and easy and you're dismissive of airflow concerns.
https://www.energyvanguard.com...
There is a question about whether these actually save any energy.
Probably very highly correlated. But the AC units don't run constantly. A simple version of this is already in place where the demand can be smoothed out by scheduling the AC units to not run all at a time but still keep the buildings cool.
Yes we expect overseas demand to continue to rise until per capita demand is about the same as it is here in the US. Then we expect per capita demand to level off in the same way. Why would one anticipate anything else?
The first part of this is probably true and +1 Insightful. The res should be -1 Flamebait! Even without government intervention, the ICE is pretty much dead for private transportation. It's just a question of how much longer it can hold out. As vehicle-to-vehicle communication improves and autonomous driving takes hold, public transit as we know it may become outdated. Will be cheaper to give the poor a self-driving taxi voucher. I have no idea why so many people are emotionally attached to ICEs. I can't wait until I can switch to a BEV. The only reason I haven't is that we are currently in temporary (rental) housing where it would be a PITA to charge. Of course if my office would install chargers it would be a no brainer.
The point is that children aren't getting *any* of these lessons at home. Inability to hold a writing implement was what they used as visible evidence of lack of strength/dexterity. The actual article isn't about teaching to hold a pencil. It's about the fact that there is a physical development issue that results from playing less with physical things and more with virtual things.
I agree with you, but I'm not sure the point is to preserve (archaic) handwriting. But we *do* need to preserve finger dexterity. It's useful for many things like tying your shoes.
They have a proprietary system. Don't know how it works. But you get it from gate to gate and it's fast enough for WebEx meetings with no audio drop outs. (And before somebody comments, I don't talk on those meetings, only listen. If I have something to add, I use the chat feature)
When I was fresh out of college, I had to handle a return code from a function that I thought could never actually fail and used the error code "I am a fish." That was a painful lesson.
There are many people who won't take their cars through an automated car wash because of a (real or perceived) fear of damage and prefer a hand wash. There are hand wash places all over large cities. You go down a conveyor just like an automated car wash but there are a line of people to do the washing. In high volume locations, the price isn't much higher. You don't see this in more suburban places where customers are intermittent.
I have no doubt that you heard about this, but not from a reliable source. https://data.bls.gov/timeserie... Coal mining employment has been relatively constant over the last year and still very low compared to where it was at the start of the Obama administration. Where this is due to politics or just the fact that nobody wants to buy coal when natural gas is cheaper could be debated. But there isn't a mountain of coal jobs coming back. More importantly, there just aren't many coal jobs at all so even if the number doubled, it would be a rounding error in overall employment numbers. https://www.google.com/url?sa=...
We've had things like VMWare and VirtualBox but containers like Docker are relatively new. Not sure if the question was serious or you were going for a -1 Troll
You don't ever have one blanket and two chilly people. You have ten blankets and two chilly people. But one of them gets a blanket and the other is told that it isn't offered at their level. Or you have somebody who desperately needs the bathroom and the first-class one is open but no matter what the situation they won't be allowed to use the bathroom. In one sense it's quite reasonable. These are pure economic criteria. But it's also dehumanizing.
Lug it around the airport all day? You must not travel for business? Vacation travelers tend to show up at the airport 2-3 hours before their flight. Regular travelers leave their house an hour before the flight, walk to the gate, and get on the plane. We're not in the airport long enough to stop for the bathroom. Okay I don't usually leave an hour before the flight, I target 1.5 hours, but that gives a half an hour leeway in case something goes wrong. When everything is smooth, have a half an hour to answer some emails before boarding. It's not hard to move a black pull-bag around. And your backpack fits over the handle so it's ergonomically superior to carrying the backpack if you have anything heavy (like a Dell "laptop")
Well of course I would and I assume that others would do the same thing. But what I wouldn't do is declare that my family members are somehow innately superior just because they are my family member. If my sister were second in line for a kidney transplant, I wouldn't go murder the person ahead of her. That's an apropos example if you remember Steve Jobs doing what amounted to jumping the transplant queue.
The rate of malicious logins is likely a constant so the ratio is entirely affected by the rate of real logins. Popular services with a lot of real logins have lower rations. But every IP is probably seeing a constant stream.
I agree that the OP was flamebait. And I'm not a proponent of class warfare. But somebody's value as a *person* is not the same as their *economic* value. There are poor people who are very decent and rich people who are real bastards. But air travel certainly does seem to blur these lines. Travel often and you're worthy of a blanket. Not so much and you can just freeze to death. Reminds you of the scene in Titanic where they evacuate the first class passengers first. That's probably coming at some point to air travel. "In the event of an emergency please evacuate with your assigned cabin."
As others have said, early boarding is the price you pay in order to get an overhead space which is really an awful system. I travel a lot for business and would gladly pay for a reserved overhead space if that was available. But instead the airlines charge for checked baggage (something that most of us go to great lengths to avoid). If checked baggage were free and cabin baggage were $50, I'd pay the fee every time and board dead last. It's really a function of the airlines not knowing their customers. I guess people who work for airlines don't every fly on business.
Well when the only thing they have to compete on is price, what else would happen? People only shop by fare. Not that I blame the other customers. I do the same thing.