THIS! And poverty is pretty closely linked to being DESCENDED FROM SLAVES. Africa had advanced societies before Europeans went in there and fucked everything up and kidnapped half of everybody (sometimes with the African leadership's consent but two wrongs don't make a right). The you got Jim Crow and various other social atrocities. "Hey I know lets stack the socioeconomic deck against the blacks and then blame them for not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps! Heheheh".
Obamacare subsidies are based on your MAGI, which is your AGI with some other income that only rich people have added back (dividends?), so for most people it's your AGI. AGI is your gross income minus business expenses and some other things (but not taxes, including self employment taxes). It's all on page 1 of form 1040.
It's a significant difference for somebody trying to feed three dependents on one income on a tight budget, so yes I am complaining. That extra $3840 isn't just going to fly out of my ass. Also Bruce said he had coverage through his wife.
While that might lower my tax burden, I don't think it would affect my subsidy eligibility. It would just move the income from 1040 box 12 to 1040 box 13 or something. My MAGI and hence subsidy eligibility would remain unchanged.
A big part of the difference is the cost of covering my kids. On the old plan, they were covered at a MUCH lower rate than my wife and I, only $121/mo. On the new plan it's pretty much the same for all of us, $400. To add insult to injury if I made somewhat less each year my kids would qualify for Dr. Dynasaur (VT expanded medicare for kids) which would be only $60/mo and of course my wife and I could get federal subidies for our coverage but then I couldn't pay my other bills. It's a catch 22. I'm glad somebody's getting something good out of obama care because I feel like I'm getting taken out to the woodshed. My only hope is that Vermont rolls out single payer on schedule and it sucks less.
VT has had relatively strict health insurance laws for some time. E.g. vermont insurers cannot discriminate by prexisting conditions if the customer has had continuous coverage. If you let your coverage drop you're screwed though. Well that's changed now I suppose.
I also have my own company, with one employee. I have been purchasing coverage on the private market for my family of 4 for about $880 / mo. Now that plan is being cancelled by my insurance company because it's not grandfathered. To purchase an equivalent plan through my state exchange is going to cost about $1200 mo. I make just enough that I don't qualify for meaningful subsidies, and being self employed my subsidy eligibility doesn't take into account my huge self employment tax burden. So I am left with the unpalatable options of going with a crappy "bronze" plan with a huge deductable, or having to spend spend an extra $320/mo for the the coverage I already have. If the new state plan is "better" in some way than my old coverage it's not obvious to me how. I'm sorry you had so many issues signing up for private insurance, but for me it seems like ObamaCare is a significant net loss.
But the legal effort to resist the state's efforts cost the utility money as did the public relation campaign.
The lawsuit cost them a trifle and they won an important precident for their industry. And the PR campain went on for decades and achieved jack squat. Entergy made it clear they couldn't care less about it. These are not the reasons they closed.
The real reason here is that electricity rates have dropped do to Natural Gas production and operating/decommissioning costs have risen since the plant was commissioned due to changing regulations. All this as conspired to give us the problem we now have and like it or not, pretty much everybody will be paying for this in some way.
Like I said. The real reason it closed is economics. Nothing else really mattered. If they thought the plant would turn a profit they would surely continue to operate it.
Digital. Bought it years ago. The walmart web site has little to no relation to what they sell in the stores, in my experience. The store has different multimeters all the time.
I am holding in my hand at this very moment a grey faced yellow bodies multimeter which was made in china and sold at walmart. I guess laws only apply to the little guys.
We are still disposing of them, yes, there's always crates full of them at the dump (in Vermont).
There's no used market for them though. I see people trying to sell them, but I never see anybody buy them. Their value is in the negative numbers; IE you typically have to pay to get rid of them. Even the thrift stores sell LCDs now. Only a fool would pay money for a CRT in this market.
I don't even know where to begin.
The ocean is a harsh environment and ships work hard and maintenance and upkeep is a constant chore day in and day out both in port and while underway. The engineering crew is basically the travelling maintenance department. If the ship doesn't carry a crew, it will have to come out of service for maintenance and repairs, which means not only is it not making money, it's tying up an expensive berth in port. If it does break down while underway, how is anybody going to get to it? It could take days.
Honestly, not much, except perhaps demand better software. Better processes, better languages. I'm just hypothesizing here but it might not have happened if they had e.g. followed better development standards like the MISRA C standard, or don't use C at all, use Ada or something. Better QA processes might have caught it before it went into production, e.g. using a dynamic stack profiling tool, input fuzzing, whatever. Fundamentally a system like this should have an independant hardware watchdog timer to at least try and make it fail-safe in the event of a CPU crash. Finally any motor vehicle ought to have a manual cutoff switch wired into the fuel pump or ignition circuit so that when the CPU shits it's bits you can still turn the damn thing off before you crash crash.
They're talking about something the size of a boulder according to TFA. Earth gets hit by objects this size all the time.
The diameter of the biggest impactor to hit Earth on any given day is likely to be about 40 centimeters, in a given year about 4 meters, and in a given century about 20 meters.
"There are other elements involved, but if size were the only factor, we'd be looking for an asteroid smaller than about 40 feet (12 meters) across," said Paul Chodas, a senior scientist in the Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
This has sadly been my experience as well, in medium to large commercial orgs. I remember once I was given the choice, and shown a chart, with two career tracks, management and engineering. The management track went through through the usual layer cake. The engineering chart went Engineer -> CTO. Of course there can only be one CTO, and he wasn't going anywhere, so basically it was their way of preventing engineers from ever getting promotions. But they did offer me management track. I'm not sure if I should have been flattered or offended.
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THIS! And poverty is pretty closely linked to being DESCENDED FROM SLAVES. Africa had advanced societies before Europeans went in there and fucked everything up and kidnapped half of everybody (sometimes with the African leadership's consent but two wrongs don't make a right). The you got Jim Crow and various other social atrocities. "Hey I know lets stack the socioeconomic deck against the blacks and then blame them for not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps! Heheheh".
Obamacare subsidies are based on your MAGI, which is your AGI with some other income that only rich people have added back (dividends?), so for most people it's your AGI. AGI is your gross income minus business expenses and some other things (but not taxes, including self employment taxes). It's all on page 1 of form 1040.
No, I think I was just really paying the market rate for a reasonable plan. It WAS good coverage. It wasn't catestrophic, it didn't have a cap.
It's a significant difference for somebody trying to feed three dependents on one income on a tight budget, so yes I am complaining. That extra $3840 isn't just going to fly out of my ass. Also Bruce said he had coverage through his wife.
While that might lower my tax burden, I don't think it would affect my subsidy eligibility. It would just move the income from 1040 box 12 to 1040 box 13 or something. My MAGI and hence subsidy eligibility would remain unchanged.
Old plan: https://swp.mvphealthcare.com/...
New Plan, closest to old plan AFAICT: http://www.discovermvp.com/con...
A big part of the difference is the cost of covering my kids. On the old plan, they were covered at a MUCH lower rate than my wife and I, only $121/mo. On the new plan it's pretty much the same for all of us, $400. To add insult to injury if I made somewhat less each year my kids would qualify for Dr. Dynasaur (VT expanded medicare for kids) which would be only $60/mo and of course my wife and I could get federal subidies for our coverage but then I couldn't pay my other bills. It's a catch 22. I'm glad somebody's getting something good out of obama care because I feel like I'm getting taken out to the woodshed. My only hope is that Vermont rolls out single payer on schedule and it sucks less.
VT has had relatively strict health insurance laws for some time. E.g. vermont insurers cannot discriminate by prexisting conditions if the customer has had continuous coverage. If you let your coverage drop you're screwed though. Well that's changed now I suppose.
Hi Bruce,
I also have my own company, with one employee. I have been purchasing coverage on the private market for my family of 4 for about $880 / mo. Now that plan is being cancelled by my insurance company because it's not grandfathered. To purchase an equivalent plan through my state exchange is going to cost about $1200 mo. I make just enough that I don't qualify for meaningful subsidies, and being self employed my subsidy eligibility doesn't take into account my huge self employment tax burden. So I am left with the unpalatable options of going with a crappy "bronze" plan with a huge deductable, or having to spend spend an extra $320/mo for the the coverage I already have. If the new state plan is "better" in some way than my old coverage it's not obvious to me how. I'm sorry you had so many issues signing up for private insurance, but for me it seems like ObamaCare is a significant net loss.
It's a "Small-waterplane-area twin hull" or SWATH, not a catamaran. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
But the legal effort to resist the state's efforts cost the utility money as did the public relation campaign.
The lawsuit cost them a trifle and they won an important precident for their industry. And the PR campain went on for decades and achieved jack squat. Entergy made it clear they couldn't care less about it. These are not the reasons they closed.
The real reason here is that electricity rates have dropped do to Natural Gas production and operating/decommissioning costs have risen since the plant was commissioned due to changing regulations. All this as conspired to give us the problem we now have and like it or not, pretty much everybody will be paying for this in some way.
Like I said. The real reason it closed is economics. Nothing else really mattered. If they thought the plant would turn a profit they would surely continue to operate it.
Entergy is shutting it down because it's unprofitable. It's purely by choice. The state's efforts to shut it down were thrown out in court.
Digital. Bought it years ago. The walmart web site has little to no relation to what they sell in the stores, in my experience. The store has different multimeters all the time.
I'm sorry, who's email did he read exactly?
I am holding in my hand at this very moment a grey faced yellow bodies multimeter which was made in china and sold at walmart. I guess laws only apply to the little guys.
My wife is Polish. Her grandmother lived through both the German and Russian occupations. She said she preferred the Germans; more polite, less rapey.
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We are still disposing of them, yes, there's always crates full of them at the dump (in Vermont). There's no used market for them though. I see people trying to sell them, but I never see anybody buy them. Their value is in the negative numbers; IE you typically have to pay to get rid of them. Even the thrift stores sell LCDs now. Only a fool would pay money for a CRT in this market.
Pretty much constantly. Entropy is a bitch and the sea generates a lof of it.
I don't even know where to begin. The ocean is a harsh environment and ships work hard and maintenance and upkeep is a constant chore day in and day out both in port and while underway. The engineering crew is basically the travelling maintenance department. If the ship doesn't carry a crew, it will have to come out of service for maintenance and repairs, which means not only is it not making money, it's tying up an expensive berth in port. If it does break down while underway, how is anybody going to get to it? It could take days.
Honestly, not much, except perhaps demand better software. Better processes, better languages. I'm just hypothesizing here but it might not have happened if they had e.g. followed better development standards like the MISRA C standard, or don't use C at all, use Ada or something. Better QA processes might have caught it before it went into production, e.g. using a dynamic stack profiling tool, input fuzzing, whatever. Fundamentally a system like this should have an independant hardware watchdog timer to at least try and make it fail-safe in the event of a CPU crash. Finally any motor vehicle ought to have a manual cutoff switch wired into the fuel pump or ignition circuit so that when the CPU shits it's bits you can still turn the damn thing off before you crash crash.
They're talking about something the size of a boulder according to TFA. Earth gets hit by objects this size all the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoroid#Frequency_of_large_meteoroid_collisions_with_Earth
Not really. Couldn't robots do this at a fraction of the cost and risk?
I've worked as an engineer in a partnership with a project management guy and I've found it to be highly effective.
This has sadly been my experience as well, in medium to large commercial orgs. I remember once I was given the choice, and shown a chart, with two career tracks, management and engineering. The management track went through through the usual layer cake. The engineering chart went Engineer -> CTO. Of course there can only be one CTO, and he wasn't going anywhere, so basically it was their way of preventing engineers from ever getting promotions. But they did offer me management track. I'm not sure if I should have been flattered or offended.
At least he didn't get fired.
There's a bottle in front of you right now, judging from your last sentence.