Just another credibility-destroying Executive Order that has united people against his policies. Not that he had any credibility as a politician to begin with... the 0.0001%ers who backed him must be mighty pissed off already, and dreading what the next 205 weeks hold in store.
And other citizens aren't uncomfortable with people like you, so what's your point? I hope Trump stays in office the full 4 years - he is doing so much damage to racists, xenophobes, and the far right that he'll be a far better purge than anything that the left could have come up with.
When companies spend millions on superbowl ads to publicly give him and his policies the middle finger, they're doing it because their marketing teams are saying "this is what the public REALLY wants." His actions have helped unite people against anti-muslim and anti-immigrant policies.
The companies that spent $MILLIONS for superbowl ads critical of Trump's policies should tell you something - hating on Trump has gone mainstream. There's a reason why.
Hopefully he won't be impeached and replaced by someone more able to push the alt-right agenda. His twitter account alone does more damage to his cause than everything else combined. The question now is, can the republicans survive him?
"switching to a new systems language"? Sorry, rust is not a system language. When people start shipping operating systems in it, then you might have an argument.
... since they didn't have the numbers for it. Still their aqueducts lasted centuries and millennia. Nassim Taleb says a side effects mathematics is to optimize and cut corners, making things fragile. He also quoted a science historian that before the 13th century no more than five persons in Europe knew how to perform a division. But their architects made all those cathedrals that are more or less still standing.
In other words, the available evidence seems to indicate he's full of shit. Same as the convict probably didn't get much "love" while in jail thanks to math.
If everyone watermarked their pictures, it would make it a bit harder for scammers to just grab anyone's pic and claim it's theirs. There should be an automatic watermark plug-in so you can mark all photos before uploading.
If would be even easier if Facebook didn't strip off any embedded info you add to images (such as your name) so that they can sell them to others. Time to watermark the sh*t out of everything.
Do I look like I give a sh*t? Manufacturers of unhealthy processed foods (see Kellogg's latest commercials) are spending big bucks convincing people that being fat is okay. It's NOT. Obesity kills. It should be treated the same way we dealt with smoking. Taxes, public shaming, banning of advertising for unhealthy products, packaging with pictures of what obesity does to your insides, and educational programs.
The extra is the 53rd week in the year because it's a leap year - so their last financial quarter had 14 weeks instead of 13. That was the fluke. Take that extra week out, and sales were down again on a quarter-to-quarter bases - despite it being the quarter where Christmas should have given them a big additional boost.
Using recent health and medical spending surveys, researchers calculated that 8.7 percent of all healthcare spending, or $170 billion a year, is for illness caused by tobacco smoke, and public programs like Medicare and Medicaid paid for most of these costs.
Also, tobacco taxes in Holland are a LOT higher (excise tax alone is 56% of retail price, though stil less than WHO recommended level) than in the US (federal excise tax is $1.01 per pack of 20 no matter what the retail price), so there's more tax revenue from tobacco going to the feds to pay for health care than in the $1.01 a pack in the US to pay for federal health care programs that pay for the majority of smoker's health care.
Using recent health and medical spending surveys, researchers calculated that 8.7 percent of all healthcare spending, or $170 billion a year, is for illness caused by tobacco smoke, and public programs like Medicare and Medicaid paid for most of these costs.
In that analysis, 9.6 percent of Medicare spending, 15.2 percent of Medicaid spending and 32.8 percent of other government healthcare spending by sources such as the Veterans Affairs department, Tricare and the Indian Health Service, were attributable to smoking.
Of the $170 billion spent on smoking-related healthcare, more than 60 percent was paid by government sources, they wrote in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
The feds aren't taking in enough revenue from the $1.01 a pack excise tax to pay that $170 billion a year in costs. That would require every single American - of all ages right down to newborns - to smoke more than 500 packs a year. So no, it's not a myth that smokers cost more than they pay.
We need to get back to the point where its okay to shame people for unhealthy health styles, rather than be afraid it will hurt their self image. Telling kids it's okay to be obese is not doing them any favors. Because no, it's not okay to eat your own body weight every month.
It was Gruber who picked Rolex for his comparison, not me. So I just ran with it, and pointed out how ridiculous the comparison is. Now, if you want to go by popularity (it's what you said - "Clearly the answer is popularity" - offer people a choice of either the $17,000 gold iWatch, or a similarly priced Rolex, and let's see just how unpopular the iWatch is. Hint - even Apple couldn't make a go of it with their gold iWatch.
It's a fair comparison - same price point, same market space (luxury watches)... okay, it's not a fair comparison. The iWatch can't tell time if you forget to recharge it every day and it's been taken off the market because, well, it was neither useful nor popular enough to justify the price premium.
The study you link to was done in Holland, not the US. Holland hospital care is far cheaper, so stop with the apples-vs-tomatoes comparisons, mkay?
The study, paid for by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports, did not take into account other potential costs of obesity and smoking, such as lost economic productivity or social costs.
It also didn't include the lost tax income from consumers living longer after they stop working. Al the money they continue to spend circulates in the economy, creating jobs and taxes. And many of them continue to work after 65, generating more work income to put back into the economy.
9.6 percent of Medicare spending, 15.2 percent of Medicaid spending and 32.8 percent of other government healthcare spending by sources such as the Veterans Affairs department, Tricare and the Indian Health Service, were attributable to smoking.
Of the $170 billion spent on smoking-related healthcare, more than 60 percent was paid by government sources, they wrote in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
The majority of the costs of health care for smokers are paid for by the public, not private insurance. And this doesn't take into account the lost revenue from taxes when they can't work or die early.
You're full of shit. When I was a kid, there was a garage owner who owned a Rolex, that thing got covered in motor oil, grease, brake dust, you name it. He'd just wash it with a bit of Varsol or gritty hand cleaner and put it back on.
First - it was the article that made the comparison, not me. Second, you can spend $17,000 on an iWatch, or even $115,000. Both are for people with more money than brains.
Yes - the cars were harder. Much larger surface areas, higher torsion transmitted by the car frame from bumps or a wheel mounting a curb, etc. Other phone manufacturers have done it too, for a LOT more phones (Apple is now #5, so 4 others are doing more), so the supply chain is not as big a deal as the Apple fans make it. And his failures in the supply chain with sapphire glass speak for themselves.
e-cigs do not help people quit. It's just wishful thinking. It's funny watching all these vaping idiots extolling how it helped them quit, then a month later they're back smoking.
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Just another credibility-destroying Executive Order that has united people against his policies. Not that he had any credibility as a politician to begin with ... the 0.0001%ers who backed him must be mighty pissed off already, and dreading what the next 205 weeks hold in store.
And other citizens aren't uncomfortable with people like you, so what's your point? I hope Trump stays in office the full 4 years - he is doing so much damage to racists, xenophobes, and the far right that he'll be a far better purge than anything that the left could have come up with.
When companies spend millions on superbowl ads to publicly give him and his policies the middle finger, they're doing it because their marketing teams are saying "this is what the public REALLY wants." His actions have helped unite people against anti-muslim and anti-immigrant policies.
The companies that spent $MILLIONS for superbowl ads critical of Trump's policies should tell you something - hating on Trump has gone mainstream. There's a reason why.
Hopefully he won't be impeached and replaced by someone more able to push the alt-right agenda. His twitter account alone does more damage to his cause than everything else combined. The question now is, can the republicans survive him?
Yeah, but they get to retire earlier.
All religions teach people to think uncritically.
He already had it - that's why the self-evident brain damage.
"switching to a new systems language"? Sorry, rust is not a system language. When people start shipping operating systems in it, then you might have an argument.
... since they didn't have the numbers for it. Still their aqueducts lasted centuries and millennia. Nassim Taleb says a side effects mathematics is to optimize and cut corners, making things fragile. He also quoted a science historian that before the 13th century no more than five persons in Europe knew how to perform a division. But their architects made all those cathedrals that are more or less still standing.
In other words, the available evidence seems to indicate he's full of shit. Same as the convict probably didn't get much "love" while in jail thanks to math.
If everyone watermarked their pictures, it would make it a bit harder for scammers to just grab anyone's pic and claim it's theirs. There should be an automatic watermark plug-in so you can mark all photos before uploading.
If would be even easier if Facebook didn't strip off any embedded info you add to images (such as your name) so that they can sell them to others. Time to watermark the sh*t out of everything.
Do I look like I give a sh*t? Manufacturers of unhealthy processed foods (see Kellogg's latest commercials) are spending big bucks convincing people that being fat is okay. It's NOT. Obesity kills. It should be treated the same way we dealt with smoking. Taxes, public shaming, banning of advertising for unhealthy products, packaging with pictures of what obesity does to your insides, and educational programs.
Nothing else will work.
The extra is the 53rd week in the year because it's a leap year - so their last financial quarter had 14 weeks instead of 13. That was the fluke. Take that extra week out, and sales were down again on a quarter-to-quarter bases - despite it being the quarter where Christmas should have given them a big additional boost.
Using recent health and medical spending surveys, researchers calculated that 8.7 percent of all healthcare spending, or $170 billion a year, is for illness caused by tobacco smoke, and public programs like Medicare and Medicaid paid for most of these costs.
Also, tobacco taxes in Holland are a LOT higher (excise tax alone is 56% of retail price, though stil less than WHO recommended level) than in the US (federal excise tax is $1.01 per pack of 20 no matter what the retail price), so there's more tax revenue from tobacco going to the feds to pay for health care than in the $1.01 a pack in the US to pay for federal health care programs that pay for the majority of smoker's health care.
Using recent health and medical spending surveys, researchers calculated that 8.7 percent of all healthcare spending, or $170 billion a year, is for illness caused by tobacco smoke, and public programs like Medicare and Medicaid paid for most of these costs.
In that analysis, 9.6 percent of Medicare spending, 15.2 percent of Medicaid spending and 32.8 percent of other government healthcare spending by sources such as the Veterans Affairs department, Tricare and the Indian Health Service, were attributable to smoking.
Of the $170 billion spent on smoking-related healthcare, more than 60 percent was paid by government sources, they wrote in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
The feds aren't taking in enough revenue from the $1.01 a pack excise tax to pay that $170 billion a year in costs. That would require every single American - of all ages right down to newborns - to smoke more than 500 packs a year. So no, it's not a myth that smokers cost more than they pay.
We need to get back to the point where its okay to shame people for unhealthy health styles, rather than be afraid it will hurt their self image. Telling kids it's okay to be obese is not doing them any favors. Because no, it's not okay to eat your own body weight every month.
It was Gruber who picked Rolex for his comparison, not me. So I just ran with it, and pointed out how ridiculous the comparison is. Now, if you want to go by popularity (it's what you said - "Clearly the answer is popularity" - offer people a choice of either the $17,000 gold iWatch, or a similarly priced Rolex, and let's see just how unpopular the iWatch is. Hint - even Apple couldn't make a go of it with their gold iWatch.
It's a fair comparison - same price point, same market space (luxury watches) ... okay, it's not a fair comparison. The iWatch can't tell time if you forget to recharge it every day and it's been taken off the market because, well, it was neither useful nor popular enough to justify the price premium.
And the same can be said about the shitty iWatch - can't even tell time if you don't remember to recharge it every damn day!
The study you link to was done in Holland, not the US. Holland hospital care is far cheaper, so stop with the apples-vs-tomatoes comparisons, mkay?
The study, paid for by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports, did not take into account other potential costs of obesity and smoking, such as lost economic productivity or social costs.
It also didn't include the lost tax income from consumers living longer after they stop working. Al the money they continue to spend circulates in the economy, creating jobs and taxes. And many of them continue to work after 65, generating more work income to put back into the economy.
A dead person don't do any of that.
9.6 percent of Medicare spending, 15.2 percent of Medicaid spending and 32.8 percent of other government healthcare spending by sources such as the Veterans Affairs department, Tricare and the Indian Health Service, were attributable to smoking.
Of the $170 billion spent on smoking-related healthcare, more than 60 percent was paid by government sources, they wrote in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
The majority of the costs of health care for smokers are paid for by the public, not private insurance. And this doesn't take into account the lost revenue from taxes when they can't work or die early.
You're full of shit. When I was a kid, there was a garage owner who owned a Rolex, that thing got covered in motor oil, grease, brake dust, you name it. He'd just wash it with a bit of Varsol or gritty hand cleaner and put it back on.
Oh, how quickly people forget Apple's failed attempt to sell a gold iWatch for $10,000 - $17,000. Or the $115,000 iWatch?
And as another poster pointed out, you're a sucker to take it in for maintenance every year. It doesn't need it.
First - it was the article that made the comparison, not me. Second, you can spend $17,000 on an iWatch, or even $115,000. Both are for people with more money than brains.
Yes - the cars were harder. Much larger surface areas, higher torsion transmitted by the car frame from bumps or a wheel mounting a curb, etc. Other phone manufacturers have done it too, for a LOT more phones (Apple is now #5, so 4 others are doing more), so the supply chain is not as big a deal as the Apple fans make it. And his failures in the supply chain with sapphire glass speak for themselves.
The "extra fluke" was 14 weeks in a quarter, moron.
e-cigs do not help people quit. It's just wishful thinking. It's funny watching all these vaping idiots extolling how it helped them quit, then a month later they're back smoking.
Nope. Vegans die at the same rate as everybody else.
I'd expect them to die younger - what's life like without BACON!!!!