many who sincerely enjoy doing hard work for a living, find their work deeply satisfying, and often its own reward.
No one said they didn't. The question is whether they would prefer to have had an office job for livelihood and done the 'hard work' stuff as a hobby.
Ask most 55+ yr old trade workers in the 'hard' trades and you'll find most of them no longer find it worth the trade offs with their old and broken bodies. Hard work is satisfying, but it has costs you don't always recognize until it's too late.
New England is a proving ground for Belicheck's (sp?) prowess as a talent scout. I despise the man and his tactics, but he's been the top of heap for figuring out how to make effective use of other teams cast-off players. Eventually teams price themselves out of the competition.
I don't know that you can build a franchise anymore. You have to have that 1 or 2 super stars to build it around and they don't come around that often - but if you guess wrong on them, and the Bills do this quite often, you're screwed no matter what you do.
Heck even with Jim Kelly they got screwed because he went to the USFL for almost half his career.
Are you sure? My wife's 2012 Kia Soul is keyless entry (with a physical key inside the fob) and doesn't have a visible key slot, but does apparently have one in the glove box for such situations.
I'm not saying use the number on the form, I'm saying use the number at the register, don't even bother to fill out a form. Someone already did.
You get the discount and a fake account gets the credit.
I had stopped shopping at our local chain for a while and when I moved and lived next to one I'm back. My old phone number is now registered to someone else but its still active. So they can get the extra points for my purchases, I get the discount prices and the chain gets data that is skewed. I call that a win-win.
Nuclear is none of those things. It's only 'clean' in regards to atmospheric emissions. It has waste issues we still haven't been able to deal with and for every 'year' of operation it mandates 100+ years of storage; that's not sustainable.
'Safe' is very very relative. We've seen significantly higher mortality rates around Chernobyl. 15000 dead? That Fukushima hasn't yet reached those levels (and may never) doesn't make it safe. It makes Japan 'lucky' - this time.
'Cheap'? Seriously, you're calling nuclear power CHEAP? It's only doable when the government guarantees the loans because the potential liability is astronomical. Without government subsidy it would never happen in the first place. Then there's the cost with storing the fuel for 100+ years. Who pays for that? Oh yea, the government, not the utility. So the prices you pay for electricity from nuclear are heavily subsidized. It is anything but cheap.
Wind is a loser? It's FREE electricity. Seriously how is it a loser? Everything has infrastructure costs, but wind has NO fuel costs. Hence the 'free'.
Solar is the same. Neither will supplant grid scale power until we have better energy storage technology.
Thorium nuclear is an entirely different tech than uranium and I agree it has significant potential without much of the downsides to current Uranium plants.
My understanding is thorium fuel is much much more plentiful. We don't have the chemical/mechanical engineering parts of Thorium reactors done yet (caustic molten salts in a container that must last 20 years without corrosion).
When you have actual arguments and points to support them, feel free to post. but sheesh "I'm safe next to one so it must be fine" is a fine case of sand you've got your head in.
Nuclear will be a necessary evil for the next 50-100 years.
My beef is when they argue that nuclear is 'safer' than coal. Not true in any sense unless you exclude what 'could' happen.
The tiger by the tail situation is that we need to get off fossil fuels basically yesterday, and the only available option for grid scale right now is nuclear. But we need to be investing in renewable now at the same time and usually the argument is that nuclear is the 'answer' and it isn't.
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The damage from lack of activity can be mitigated with, funnily enough, more activity.
The damage from too much hard activity....not so much.
They cost far more than a shitty car...lexus level or higher
many who sincerely enjoy doing hard work for a living, find their work deeply satisfying, and often its own reward.
No one said they didn't. The question is whether they would prefer to have had an office job for livelihood and done the 'hard work' stuff as a hobby.
Ask most 55+ yr old trade workers in the 'hard' trades and you'll find most of them no longer find it worth the trade offs with their old and broken bodies. Hard work is satisfying, but it has costs you don't always recognize until it's too late.
Cool, glad you found the link, I was thinking the exact same thing.
;-)
I was also thinking the guy in the NOVA special could probably sell that sword for many thousands of dollars
no no. the joke is:
What does BILLS stand for?
Boy I Love Losing Superbowls
New England is a proving ground for Belicheck's (sp?) prowess as a talent scout. I despise the man and his tactics, but he's been the top of heap for figuring out how to make effective use of other teams cast-off players. Eventually teams price themselves out of the competition.
I don't know that you can build a franchise anymore. You have to have that 1 or 2 super stars to build it around and they don't come around that often - but if you guess wrong on them, and the Bills do this quite often, you're screwed no matter what you do.
Heck even with Jim Kelly they got screwed because he went to the USFL for almost half his career.
The Bills might prove me wrong
Well they've been proving us fans wrong for years ;-)
Well we agree, the Bills are certainly no 'bomb threat'
I'm a Bills fan too...and they suuuuuuuuuck and have for years. But not just suck, they give you a little hope before crushing it :)
due to bad defense that allows easily defended ground balls to become runs scored
If only there was some statistic in baseball for this...
As a life long Bills fan, any person hoping their team 'follows the Bills' path is more certifiable than I am for being a life long fan ;-)
Are you sure? My wife's 2012 Kia Soul is keyless entry (with a physical key inside the fob) and doesn't have a visible key slot, but does apparently have one in the glove box for such situations.
Now you're arguing how to 'change' existing companies policies? We're not talking about how to secure such systems.
I'm just talking about how you can use those systems as they currently are.
I'm not saying use the number on the form, I'm saying use the number at the register, don't even bother to fill out a form. Someone already did.
You get the discount and a fake account gets the credit.
I had stopped shopping at our local chain for a while and when I moved and lived next to one I'm back. My old phone number is now registered to someone else but its still active. So they can get the extra points for my purchases, I get the discount prices and the chain gets data that is skewed. I call that a win-win.
Or just use (area code) 867-5309.
Jenny is your friend.
What's "evil" about clean, safe, cheap power?
Nuclear is none of those things. It's only 'clean' in regards to atmospheric emissions. It has waste issues we still haven't been able to deal with and for every 'year' of operation it mandates 100+ years of storage; that's not sustainable.
'Safe' is very very relative. We've seen significantly higher mortality rates around Chernobyl. 15000 dead? That Fukushima hasn't yet reached those levels (and may never) doesn't make it safe. It makes Japan 'lucky' - this time.
'Cheap'? Seriously, you're calling nuclear power CHEAP? It's only doable when the government guarantees the loans because the potential liability is astronomical. Without government subsidy it would never happen in the first place. Then there's the cost with storing the fuel for 100+ years. Who pays for that? Oh yea, the government, not the utility. So the prices you pay for electricity from nuclear are heavily subsidized. It is anything but cheap.
Wind is a loser? It's FREE electricity. Seriously how is it a loser? Everything has infrastructure costs, but wind has NO fuel costs. Hence the 'free'.
Solar is the same. Neither will supplant grid scale power until we have better energy storage technology.
Thorium nuclear is an entirely different tech than uranium and I agree it has significant potential without much of the downsides to current Uranium plants.
My understanding is thorium fuel is much much more plentiful. We don't have the chemical/mechanical engineering parts of Thorium reactors done yet (caustic molten salts in a container that must last 20 years without corrosion).
You're exact argument was that since you paid premiums your claim should be paid.
It doesn't work like that and you know it...assuming you read your policies.
When you have actual arguments and points to support them, feel free to post. but sheesh "I'm safe next to one so it must be fine" is a fine case of sand you've got your head in.
Insurance is a bit like a casino
Without a doubt insurance is legalized gambling. The OP is just complaining because he bet and lost....
we're talking about paying for a service and not getting it.
No you're complaining that a company charged with paying for tragedy...in an industry that is rife with fraud....denied your claim, that you paid for.
You're still arguing 'your' situation obviously merits response over others.
Nuclear will be a necessary evil for the next 50-100 years.
My beef is when they argue that nuclear is 'safer' than coal. Not true in any sense unless you exclude what 'could' happen.
The tiger by the tail situation is that we need to get off fossil fuels basically yesterday, and the only available option for grid scale right now is nuclear. But we need to be investing in renewable now at the same time and usually the argument is that nuclear is the 'answer' and it isn't.
Perhaps he was referring to the ACTUAL reports?
Would you rather your insurance company just hand out cash willy nilly? Such that when you ask they say 'sorry we're broke'.
Oh wait 'your' emergency is somehow obvious and more important than everybody elses?
never had a natural disaster have you?