.............And the less leadership knows of the area they are leading, the less effective they are. Electing a first term senator to the highest elected office in the nation might have been folly. Oh, wait. I see it IS folly.
You have to have been a solid player in the game, in order to successfully know if you are making a wise choice, or being played.
You want a technology-AWARE person. Someone who's been in the field, and done some hardcore programming, network design, or a combination of tech skills and project management/people management combined with a tech background. Ultimately, the CTO/CIO is a manager that comes FROM a tech background, not moves TO one.
O'Reilly's discourse is generalized and vague enough to land me a job as a teacher at MIT, if I use the same level of granularity in my resume'. While the guy may have actually done something, I do not get a Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Linus Torvaldis, etc kind of feel about his accomplishments.
I'd probably fail miserably at that teaching job, and this guy seems similarly equipped for his position.
I hope I am wrong. I also hoped i'd be wrong about a dem President+Congress combo meal. That combo is going to give me a heart attack from all the pork in it, and the price is so high that the entire country can't afford it.
I voted for McCain. Not because I was stoked about 'staying the course' or experiencing little change. It was because I am deathly afraid of anyone that makes me feel genuinely uplifted and excited when I listen to them. I usually use that approach when uncapping the K-Y. So did ObangYa.
Truthfully, it is insightful. It is also incorrect in one major area. The company doesn't go down the tubes, because those few brilliant people with zero aspirations or self motivation will never be fired, and will tirelessly crank out results for their management. The will be paid more than their soon to be released peers, but never anywhere near their true worth.
It is the way corporate America works. There are many subtle variations on this, but it always boils down to competent "followers" and incompetent, but politically savvy (and greedy) leadership.
Insert the usual, IMO, YMMV, FWIW, and I{don't like}ANAL.
This is actually how the stock market is designed to work. As a shareholder, you are banking on a company's future success, in order to get a return on that investment.
The unfortunate reality is that the way the market actually works, dividends paid out by holding onto shares are very small compared to the money being made by buying and selling at the best times for each. Like any other monetary investment, it helps to fully understand how the stock market works in day to day use, before diving in. I do not get involved in the stock market because of my lack of full understanding of it. I do see and understand that if you put money into most companies on the market, you should expect to cash in those stocks and switch them out at intervals. The result of bad timing is what happened to some of these Charter stock holders.
I really feel that the stock markets give too much importance to showing profits at any cost. companies lie, and do things to get short term profits to keep their stock price supported. I often muse over whether a CEO is running a company or a stock value.
While I am offtopic, i'll also throw in there that the media seems to rely upon the stock market for how the economy is doing. Oddly enough, the stock market is also affected by what the media's perception of current economic climate. This causes some amusing results, as a sudden spike in either feeds the other. While these spikes are limited overall, it still makes for some good entertainment while I wait to get any kind of employment.
Do you not realize that it was the current administration's own offices that put the bonus payouts IN the bill as it was passed? You didn't catch that the writers were told by the treasury dept that it needed to go in?
Obama: It's easier to beg forgiveness and feign concern than to ask permission or right a wrong.
Viewed with a cynical eye, factcheck uses careful spin on mentioning some facts, while no actually disclosing ALL facts for the reader to peruse. I specifically noted excerpts given from enactments during the Bush administration used to deride claims that the national health record system is not new in steering treatment.
Firstly, the 2004 legislation does not provide teeth, as it is written. The current legislative excerpt is notably absent for comparison. The FACT is that the recommendations of a money-wielding government bureau have a lot of weight in influencing a doctor's choice in treatment, when that treatment will be on record. A record that will be statistically parsed, and available to insurance companies for identifying doctors that put saving lives above saving lives "cost effectively". While there is certainly abuse in the current system, by drug marketing, I don't feel that having a "guiding authority" is a good thing. The opinions of these people that supposedly "know what works" will be used as argument against treatment or payout from insurance companies. If we ever move to a socialized model, the treatment will simply be denied.
Create a totally ineffective shaping, and ensure that it does almost nothing to load the equipment. You probably would cripple small ISP equipment by deep inspection, anyway. Make some per user, time of day specific, limits on max b/w. Or similar. When nothing changes, tell the boss that you are clearly simply oversubscribed, and users are probably watching legit streaming video during peak times, from what you see.
Bandwidth isn't expensive. $50 per megabit is high. $10K for a DS3 loop? Better be international. Try more like $1800/month or so in most areas, unless you really want a direct connect to Level 3, and want to peer with the world.
As of last summer, Cogent was ~$11 per megabit. Your boss is greedy. Let him pay the extra few dimes for bandwidth upgrade. If you are using a copper WAN link, that's foolish. If you are using fiber, the upstream provider can dial it up, unless you need a new card to go higher. That isn't your problem. Teach your boss to sell value added services, like 10 mail boxes for $2/month, free personal web site hosting.
If you are not using hardly any outbound bandwidth, design web sites (simple ones....) and sell hosting for $2 per month. Etc etc. I am not an ISP guy. I'm just a lowbie network grunt. ISP guys could go on all day with ways to use outbound bandwidth to fund more overall bandwidth.
Another idea is to have an ISP home page with a ton of locally cached Youtube vids, and a local (as in, amlng your customers only) file storage area.
The list goes on.
Taking away freedom, or playing binary big brother is not a good answer.
I may be wrong on this, but here is my understanding of the potential of electrics:
Pros: Low heat output Max torque from zero to near max RPM, flat RPM ranges that extend WELL past 10K Simple driveline setup (no cams, timing, etc etc)
Cons: Limited range at this time due to.... Limited energy storage.
As a performance car, I expect that, aside from the expected games manufacturers play to differentiate models, the electric would destroy any fossil burner. There is no contest when you have huge torque at less than 100 RPM, and you can develop linear torque throughout the rev band.
HP=(TqxRPM)/5252 So: 400Tqx10,500RPM=~800 HP. Torque is limited by simple electric motor designs. In theory, you could use a 2 speed or no transmission, eliminating shift times, and leveraging raw off the line torque for steeper gearing.
But they'd be totally silent, engine wise. Creepy.
You can hear my exhaust for 2 blocks, IF I step in it, messing around. I can hear games late into the night from a stadium over 1 linear mile away from my house. Sometimes announcers are heard inside.
Perhaps we should all drive silent econoboxes, and live in 900 square foot homes, in tightly packed neighborhoods, to minimize our impact on the world, though.
Oh, wait. You don't live in a 900Sq foot domicile? You have a big wasteful yard? Why do you need x number of PCs, when 1 would suffice? Why aren't you buying the lowest power consuming electronics?
Insert any other little bit of luxury you give yourselves, and consider why you have/do it, since it impacts the world around you.
Then realize that I pound the SHIT out of my gas coming down any block I see populated by judgemental fucks with 4 SUV in their 5 person home's driveway.
Safety note: 1st gear only. Up to the legal limit of 25, or less.
He's DEAD wrong. Audi A4: Lesser suspension, completely different engines, and some minor styling and interior. There is no "flip switch" action. A new ECU on my biturbo S4 meant a change in fueling, and pushing the turbos (Borg Warner K03s) to the lower threshold of what similar RS4 turbos output. This takes tens of thousands of miles off of the life of the parts, unless you spend close to $5000.
As far as engines go, the closest Audi gets to the described activity is the W8 engine, which is normally aspirated. 340 crank HP on the S4, and 420 crank HP on the RS4. There are, of course, fuel consumption changes, and different cams, etc, I believe, but a stock B6 S4 isn't balanced around the extra power, thus ruining the "feel" of the vehicle.
True luxury performance cars aren't all about speed. It's about an elegantly balanced drivability on the streets.
He should probably go to www.audiworld.com, and look at the various platform and engine discussions. There are no sub-$1000 aftermarket mods that give crazy power levels of an S line, without ALWAYS ruining longevity.
Incorrect. Much more difference. I'll limit the humiliation somewhat.
Different versions allow for different memory configurations. With software ever- marching towards a 2 GB MS OS load and 1 GB in startup items/"toolbars", one needs to plan somewhat further ahead than "how much memory will I be using next month".
This bring me to your other, completely idiotic statement. Home Basic users DO need 64 bit. Vista benefits greatly from more memory, due to the way it loves to cache everything. It is not unusual for a normal home user to have 1 GB of real actual RAM used at bootup. In fact, that is the lowest I recall seeing on non-optimized version using. With 2 Firefox windows, media player, and powerpoint working, most users are in real world usage popping 2GB. Since 32 bit is going to pretty much top out at 3GB (assuming you have 4 loaded), you aren't really able to do much memory caching of opened items, and windows prefetch is an utter waste, as you really won't be able to prefetch much of jack squat.
Wrong, and wrong. And this is just on the memory issue. If you are buying a bloated, monolithic turd like Vista, you're probably wanting the Polished Turd Ultimate glitter. Heaven forbid you need to attach to a business network with your non-biz version.
What of programs like Maya, that can benefit from 64 bit calculations? Many of these programs are less technical, and more available to home users, i'm told.
Microsoft limits key features that many users WILL eventually need, thus forcing you to upgrade now or later.
I only really know MicroShaft OSes, and at this point it's really pissing me off.
They are legal in at least a few states. You do have to register with the ATF, and lose some rights relating to when/how your home can be searched. Other than that, and being flagged in a database somewhere, you are fine.
Where does that $5K come from, on $400 per week? Taking the worst-case stereotype of societal leech and applying it to all less wealthy U.S. citizens is a sad attempt to validate your opinion.
Having known many people earning far less than 50k per year as a -family-, I will tell you that I have proof that your generalization is exactly that, or worse, completely misrepresenting the situation. The people that I know and have known in these classes are largely motivated and hard working people that do not carry debt. Your apparently "measly" $4000 delivery represents over 2 month's pay for too many people. while they are saving for that for those nine months, may they please be allowed to have shelter,food, and some type of transport to work? I realize that you probably believe that any idiot can make big money, since, after all, you do, but that skews with reality.
I have no sympathy for people that overspend themselves into oblivion. I also cannot understand how people can honestly feel that being poor is only caused by lack of motivation, or a personal failure. I used to puzzle at why people would ever drive around on bald tires. Surely, they are capable of putting safety as a priority, right?
I now realize that eating and continuing to not freeze to death might be the priority for many Americans.
We aren't all fat, lazy, ignorant, and rich. some of us just catch a bad break, or can't get a lucky break. For those people, a $1000 bill for delivery can't be paid any time soon by selling their 10 year old 27 inch tube set.
I personally am currently unemployed, and face many obstacles to getting re-employed. Should I be selling everything i've worked for the last 10 years, if I get sick? I don't expect anyone to repair 4th or 5th gears on my expensive transmission, but I won't turn down help with medical bills, since I paid into a system that is bailing out the richest men and women in America's businesses.
The picture is big. And I don't have a big screen TV.
Socialized medicine doesn't cover "optional" procedures?
Socialized medicine cannot cater to elitists that want the best of the best, and will pay for it?
Socialized medicine will not cover cosmetic "upgrade" procedures?
I think in those reasons, and a few similar reasons, the bulk of it is explained.
I have waited 4 hours in a -not- busy E.R., with head trauma and a good bit of blood loss, as a child. Here. In the U.S.. This was with G.E.'s blue Cross medical coverage (nothing better in 1980, that I know of), and few others even in the waiting area. It took threat of physical violence from my father to get service. Somehow, somebody magically became freed up.
This scenario is very common. We have plenty of 8 hour waits in cities that have actual populations. What are there, 15 people in your city?
"but if you're obese, its YOUR fault and YOU need to get your diet under control. Instead of making excuses (or letting others do it for them) these people need to act."
Ok.....
Whole foods, and foods not built around cheap fillers and/or laden with cheap processed sugars are.... EXPENSIVE to those less capable of funds. I used to run 50 miles or more a month, own 2 businesses, and truly believed that if you didn't have something it's because you weren't trying hard enough.
Wrong. some are gifted with affluence and/or influence from birth. Some have a natural genetic tendency towards being thin. Some of us were born with exceptional intellect.
I have two young daughters, one eats a fair amount, the other EATS. They both don't remotely exercise enough. One has an absolutely perfect figure by magazine standards, the other will suffer verbally from ignorant asshats like you. The "fat" one eats less, btw. she is intellectually gifted. The other is very normal.
I would spew senseless vitriol at you, but instead, I recommend you try to not be completely ignorant when making definitive statements.
As soon as she violated my space or property, i'd treat her like anyone else not in my family or friends circle.
She'd back the fuck up, or i'd clock her right there. You don't steal from me. Yes, i'd go to jail over it if need be.
Just like his voting record, questionable birth record, clear marxist ties, and tie ins with the Savings and Loan industry and numerous other things. Clinton perjured himself, shredded Whitewater documents, and several other things. I just wonder why anyone votes for either major party's candidates at all anymore.
Oh, wait, you meant conservatives. I guess that play on words worked!
You should maybe reconsider throwing that useless half baked "new" word around. You really aren't superior or more educated, or even automatically more thoughtful by invoking images of hate mongerers when discussing someone else's political views.
Shouldn't you be out attending a socialist celebration somewhere?
corporate executives already make 250K or less actual salary in many cases. Do you think this is sheer coincidence? Stocks, perks, etc do not count as salary.
Wow. Obama sure is saving the middle class. If, by middle class you mean 200K/yr salary, and 1 million+in perks, stocks, and benefits not counting directly to income.
This is why Obama got elected. Promise something that is completely easy to never actually deliver on. Something so vague in definition that you didn't ass fuck the nation, that condom you wore did. In fact, accuse the condom of raping you while you're at it.
I don't think Obama has ever connected with the common man on any level, ever. Campaigning to the bulk of America, while catering (via senate votes and campaign donations received) to the wealthy and elite was a very tough trick to pull off. Props for appearing to understand what middle class people want, and working to deliver it.
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.............And the less leadership knows of the area they are leading, the less effective they are. Electing a first term senator to the highest elected office in the nation might have been folly. Oh, wait. I see it IS folly.
You have to have been a solid player in the game, in order to successfully know if you are making a wise choice, or being played.
To wit:
Our Secretary of State has no balls.
What?
You want a technology-AWARE person. Someone who's been in the field, and done some hardcore programming, network design, or a combination of tech skills and project management/people management combined with a tech background. Ultimately, the CTO/CIO is a manager that comes FROM a tech background, not moves TO one.
That last part highlights my issue with this guy.
O'Reilly's discourse is generalized and vague enough to land me a job as a teacher at MIT, if I use the same level of granularity in my resume'. While the guy may have actually done something, I do not get a Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Linus Torvaldis, etc kind of feel about his accomplishments.
I'd probably fail miserably at that teaching job, and this guy seems similarly equipped for his position.
I hope I am wrong. I also hoped i'd be wrong about a dem President+Congress combo meal. That combo is going to give me a heart attack from all the pork in it, and the price is so high that the entire country can't afford it.
I voted for McCain. Not because I was stoked about 'staying the course' or experiencing little change. It was because I am deathly afraid of anyone that makes me feel genuinely uplifted and excited when I listen to them. I usually use that approach when uncapping the K-Y. So did ObangYa.
Truthfully, it is insightful. It is also incorrect in one major area. The company doesn't go down the tubes, because those few brilliant people with zero aspirations or self motivation will never be fired, and will tirelessly crank out results for their management. The will be paid more than their soon to be released peers, but never anywhere near their true worth.
It is the way corporate America works. There are many subtle variations on this, but it always boils down to competent "followers" and incompetent, but politically savvy (and greedy) leadership.
Insert the usual, IMO, YMMV, FWIW, and I{don't like}ANAL.
This is actually how the stock market is designed to work. As a shareholder, you are banking on a company's future success, in order to get a return on that investment.
The unfortunate reality is that the way the market actually works, dividends paid out by holding onto shares are very small compared to the money being made by buying and selling at the best times for each. Like any other monetary investment, it helps to fully understand how the stock market works in day to day use, before diving in. I do not get involved in the stock market because of my lack of full understanding of it. I do see and understand that if you put money into most companies on the market, you should expect to cash in those stocks and switch them out at intervals. The result of bad timing is what happened to some of these Charter stock holders.
I really feel that the stock markets give too much importance to showing profits at any cost. companies lie, and do things to get short term profits to keep their stock price supported. I often muse over whether a CEO is running a company or a stock value.
While I am offtopic, i'll also throw in there that the media seems to rely upon the stock market for how the economy is doing. Oddly enough, the stock market is also affected by what the media's perception of current economic climate. This causes some amusing results, as a sudden spike in either feeds the other. While these spikes are limited overall, it still makes for some good entertainment while I wait to get any kind of employment.
You were reading it right before you posted? Under that chair over there. Elvis is everywhere, and so is the liberal media!
Do you not realize that it was the current administration's own offices that put the bonus payouts IN the bill as it was passed? You didn't catch that the writers were told by the treasury dept that it needed to go in?
Obama: It's easier to beg forgiveness and feign concern than to ask permission or right a wrong.
No weight is applied to which promises are truly relevant. Coupled with an overall liberal slant.... again do your own fact check.
Viewed with a cynical eye, factcheck uses careful spin on mentioning some facts, while no actually disclosing ALL facts for the reader to peruse. I specifically noted excerpts given from enactments during the Bush administration used to deride claims that the national health record system is not new in steering treatment.
Firstly, the 2004 legislation does not provide teeth, as it is written. The current legislative excerpt is notably absent for comparison. The FACT is that the recommendations of a money-wielding government bureau have a lot of weight in influencing a doctor's choice in treatment, when that treatment will be on record. A record that will be statistically parsed, and available to insurance companies for identifying doctors that put saving lives above saving lives "cost effectively". While there is certainly abuse in the current system, by drug marketing, I don't feel that having a "guiding authority" is a good thing. The opinions of these people that supposedly "know what works" will be used as argument against treatment or payout from insurance companies. If we ever move to a socialized model, the treatment will simply be denied.
Do a fact check on fact check, please.
Create a totally ineffective shaping, and ensure that it does almost nothing to load the equipment. You probably would cripple small ISP equipment by deep inspection, anyway. Make some per user, time of day specific, limits on max b/w. Or similar. When nothing changes, tell the boss that you are clearly simply oversubscribed, and users are probably watching legit streaming video during peak times, from what you see.
Bandwidth isn't expensive. $50 per megabit is high. $10K for a DS3 loop? Better be international. Try more like $1800/month or so in most areas, unless you really want a direct connect to Level 3, and want to peer with the world.
As of last summer, Cogent was ~$11 per megabit. Your boss is greedy. Let him pay the extra few dimes for bandwidth upgrade. If you are using a copper WAN link, that's foolish. If you are using fiber, the upstream provider can dial it up, unless you need a new card to go higher. That isn't your problem. Teach your boss to sell value added services, like 10 mail boxes for $2/month, free personal web site hosting.
If you are not using hardly any outbound bandwidth, design web sites (simple ones....) and sell hosting for $2 per month. Etc etc. I am not an ISP guy. I'm just a lowbie network grunt. ISP guys could go on all day with ways to use outbound bandwidth to fund more overall bandwidth.
Another idea is to have an ISP home page with a ton of locally cached Youtube vids, and a local (as in, amlng your customers only) file storage area.
The list goes on.
Taking away freedom, or playing binary big brother is not a good answer.
I may be wrong on this, but here is my understanding of the potential of electrics:
Pros:
Low heat output
Max torque from zero to near max RPM, flat
RPM ranges that extend WELL past 10K
Simple driveline setup (no cams, timing, etc etc)
Cons:
Limited range at this time due to....
Limited energy storage.
As a performance car, I expect that, aside from the expected games manufacturers play to differentiate models, the electric would destroy any fossil burner. There is no contest when you have huge torque at less than 100 RPM, and you can develop linear torque throughout the rev band.
HP=(TqxRPM)/5252
So:
400Tqx10,500RPM=~800 HP.
Torque is limited by simple electric motor designs. In theory, you could use a 2 speed or no transmission, eliminating shift times, and leveraging raw off the line torque for steeper gearing.
But they'd be totally silent, engine wise. Creepy.
You can hear my exhaust for 2 blocks, IF I step in it, messing around. I can hear games late into the night from a stadium over 1 linear mile away from my house. Sometimes announcers are heard inside.
Perhaps we should all drive silent econoboxes, and live in 900 square foot homes, in tightly packed neighborhoods, to minimize our impact on the world, though.
Oh, wait. You don't live in a 900Sq foot domicile? You have a big wasteful yard? Why do you need x number of PCs, when 1 would suffice? Why aren't you buying the lowest power consuming electronics?
Insert any other little bit of luxury you give yourselves, and consider why you have/do it, since it impacts the world around you.
Then realize that I pound the SHIT out of my gas coming down any block I see populated by judgemental fucks with 4 SUV in their 5 person home's driveway.
Safety note: 1st gear only. Up to the legal limit of 25, or less.
He's DEAD wrong. Audi A4: Lesser suspension, completely different engines, and some minor styling and interior. There is no "flip switch" action. A new ECU on my biturbo S4 meant a change in fueling, and pushing the turbos (Borg Warner K03s) to the lower threshold of what similar RS4 turbos output. This takes tens of thousands of miles off of the life of the parts, unless you spend close to $5000.
As far as engines go, the closest Audi gets to the described activity is the W8 engine, which is normally aspirated. 340 crank HP on the S4, and 420 crank HP on the RS4. There are, of course, fuel consumption changes, and different cams, etc, I believe, but a stock B6 S4 isn't balanced around the extra power, thus ruining the "feel" of the vehicle.
True luxury performance cars aren't all about speed. It's about an elegantly balanced drivability on the streets.
He should probably go to www.audiworld.com, and look at the various platform and engine discussions. There are no sub-$1000 aftermarket mods that give crazy power levels of an S line, without ALWAYS ruining longevity.
Incorrect. Much more difference. I'll limit the humiliation somewhat.
Different versions allow for different memory configurations. With software ever- marching towards a 2 GB MS OS load and 1 GB in startup items/"toolbars", one needs to plan somewhat further ahead than "how much memory will I be using next month".
This bring me to your other, completely idiotic statement. Home Basic users DO need 64 bit. Vista benefits greatly from more memory, due to the way it loves to cache everything. It is not unusual for a normal home user to have 1 GB of real actual RAM used at bootup. In fact, that is the lowest I recall seeing on non-optimized version using. With 2 Firefox windows, media player, and powerpoint working, most users are in real world usage popping 2GB. Since 32 bit is going to pretty much top out at 3GB (assuming you have 4 loaded), you aren't really able to do much memory caching of opened items, and windows prefetch is an utter waste, as you really won't be able to prefetch much of jack squat.
Wrong, and wrong. And this is just on the memory issue. If you are buying a bloated, monolithic turd like Vista, you're probably wanting the Polished Turd Ultimate glitter. Heaven forbid you need to attach to a business network with your non-biz version.
What of programs like Maya, that can benefit from 64 bit calculations? Many of these programs are less technical, and more available to home users, i'm told.
Microsoft limits key features that many users WILL eventually need, thus forcing you to upgrade now or later.
I only really know MicroShaft OSes, and at this point it's really pissing me off.
They are legal in at least a few states. You do have to register with the ATF, and lose some rights relating to when/how your home can be searched. Other than that, and being flagged in a database somewhere, you are fine.
Congress makes the laws, and the budgets. No wonder you posted AC. I'd want to be anonymous, too, were I you.
Is it to late to convince his mother to abort him, then?
What? I'm juss sayin....
Where does that $5K come from, on $400 per week? Taking the worst-case stereotype of societal leech and applying it to all less wealthy U.S. citizens is a sad attempt to validate your opinion.
Having known many people earning far less than 50k per year as a -family-, I will tell you that I have proof that your generalization is exactly that, or worse, completely misrepresenting the situation. The people that I know and have known in these classes are largely motivated and hard working people that do not carry debt. Your apparently "measly" $4000 delivery represents over 2 month's pay for too many people. while they are saving for that for those nine months, may they please be allowed to have shelter,food, and some type of transport to work? I realize that you probably believe that any idiot can make big money, since, after all, you do, but that skews with reality.
I have no sympathy for people that overspend themselves into oblivion. I also cannot understand how people can honestly feel that being poor is only caused by lack of motivation, or a personal failure.
I used to puzzle at why people would ever drive around on bald tires. Surely, they are capable of putting safety as a priority, right?
I now realize that eating and continuing to not freeze to death might be the priority for many Americans.
We aren't all fat, lazy, ignorant, and rich. some of us just catch a bad break, or can't get a lucky break. For those people, a $1000 bill for delivery can't be paid any time soon by selling their 10 year old 27 inch tube set.
I personally am currently unemployed, and face many obstacles to getting re-employed. Should I be selling everything i've worked for the last 10 years, if I get sick? I don't expect anyone to repair 4th or 5th gears on my expensive transmission, but I won't turn down help with medical bills, since I paid into a system that is bailing out the richest men and women in America's businesses.
The picture is big. And I don't have a big screen TV.
Socialized medicine doesn't cover "optional" procedures?
Socialized medicine cannot cater to elitists that want the best of the best, and will pay for it?
Socialized medicine will not cover cosmetic "upgrade" procedures?
I think in those reasons, and a few similar reasons, the bulk of it is explained.
I have waited 4 hours in a -not- busy E.R., with head trauma and a good bit of blood loss, as a child. Here. In the U.S.. This was with G.E.'s blue Cross medical coverage (nothing better in 1980, that I know of), and few others even in the waiting area. It took threat of physical violence from my father to get service. Somehow, somebody magically became freed up.
This scenario is very common. We have plenty of 8 hour waits in cities that have actual populations. What are there, 15 people in your city?
"but if you're obese, its YOUR fault and YOU need to get your diet under control. Instead of making excuses (or letting others do it for them) these people need to act."
Ok.....
Whole foods, and foods not built around cheap fillers and/or laden with cheap processed sugars are ....
EXPENSIVE to those less capable of funds. I used to run 50 miles or more a month, own 2 businesses, and truly believed that if you didn't have something it's because you weren't trying hard enough.
Wrong.
some are gifted with affluence and/or influence from birth. Some have a natural genetic tendency towards being thin. Some of us were born with exceptional intellect.
I have two young daughters, one eats a fair amount, the other EATS. They both don't remotely exercise enough. One has an absolutely perfect figure by magazine standards, the other will suffer verbally from ignorant asshats like you. The "fat" one eats less, btw. she is intellectually gifted. The other is very normal.
I would spew senseless vitriol at you, but instead, I recommend you try to not be completely ignorant when making definitive statements.
Stupid fuck.
As soon as she violated my space or property, i'd treat her like anyone else not in my family or friends circle. She'd back the fuck up, or i'd clock her right there. You don't steal from me. Yes, i'd go to jail over it if need be.
Just like his voting record, questionable birth record, clear marxist ties, and tie ins with the Savings and Loan industry and numerous other things. Clinton perjured himself, shredded Whitewater documents, and several other things. I just wonder why anyone votes for either major party's candidates at all anymore.
Oh, wait, you meant conservatives. I guess that play on words worked! You should maybe reconsider throwing that useless half baked "new" word around. You really aren't superior or more educated, or even automatically more thoughtful by invoking images of hate mongerers when discussing someone else's political views. Shouldn't you be out attending a socialist celebration somewhere?
corporate executives already make 250K or less actual salary in many cases. Do you think this is sheer coincidence? Stocks, perks, etc do not count as salary. Wow. Obama sure is saving the middle class. If, by middle class you mean 200K/yr salary, and 1 million+in perks, stocks, and benefits not counting directly to income. This is why Obama got elected. Promise something that is completely easy to never actually deliver on. Something so vague in definition that you didn't ass fuck the nation, that condom you wore did. In fact, accuse the condom of raping you while you're at it. I don't think Obama has ever connected with the common man on any level, ever. Campaigning to the bulk of America, while catering (via senate votes and campaign donations received) to the wealthy and elite was a very tough trick to pull off. Props for appearing to understand what middle class people want, and working to deliver it.