... and I am glad I never waste any of my time in fb
Don't worry -- at least half a dozen of your friends are working hard to make sure you are not forgotten (posting and tagging fotos, marking "I know this person from..." questions, etc.)
No, the plan doesn't suck. You can't know that without actually having some real information about it. You're willingness to declare something in the absence of any actual real information
You are right that I should have been clear that this is my educated guess and not a fact. However, I think it is a good guess, junk health insurance is (apparently) a real thing. I would have expected they were illegal already but they were not.
"You can't be trusted to decide for yourself. We will run your life for you."
I believe in the "social contract" theory advanced by many. You should be able to decide for yourself, sure.
But if you decide to forego insurance that will actually cover you in case of an emergency, then you should also decline your right to be treated at any emergency room for free. And since we do not consider the latter to be acceptable...
(note that all of this applies to anyone who prefers "affordable" insurance to the real kind. If you cannot afford any insurance, that's a different story)
Blue Cross had a plan that they liked. Blue Cross had a plan the customer liked. Both were happy.
Indeed -- and this idyllic utopia was going to be maintained until the customer needed some significant coverage. I am sure the plan was great until you had to use it to actually cover stuff.
People are notoriously bad at reading fine print (or their contracts in general, in fact).
I think no matter what else ACA did, instituting a minimal requirement of what counts as "health insurance" is definitely a good thing.
He tried to spin this as "removing the under-insured" but no... People had plans they liked.
These two statements are not in contradiction. I just read an article about one of those "plans" that people liked which had a payout cap of $50 for any medical expense, no matter what how high it was. The plan was really cheap, so of course people liked it, but it was also useless (which people would only truly learn after they had to use it)
what it was like to watch a movie without seeing "Buffering" messages and heavy compression artifacts. Yep, streaming is so superior to those ancient physical discs alright.
Not to worry, your local cable company owned movie provider will have good quality streaming service which will not count towards your regular bandwidth cap.
However this is difficult to translate into a movie especially with the Captain American/Iron Man style they chose to make it in.
"Translate" into a movie? They usually just buy the rights to the title of the book/the names of the character and then make their own movie ("I, Robot" is certainly a prime example of that).
Does anyone actually believe that if he had gone to the Senate or the House that anything would change, that the concerns would have been addressed?
Not only that, but does anyone believe that he would not have been redirected to one of the NSA agents to air his concerns? I am sure Senate/House intelligence committees just stand by to address people's complaints (and is not spending all of their time fundraising).
Speeding fines are there to provide some disincentive to doing stupid things prior to going to jail for it.
Speeding fines are there to collect some money for municipalities.
Otherwise they would be uniformly and much more strictly enforced. Currently they are enforced in a haphazard manner, often collected at locations where speedlimit rapidly changes.
If speed limits were uniformly and strictly enforced (rather than an occasional tax on the driver), there would likely be enough outrage to repeal them.
How can you possibly know that? The Bush administration was arguably the most secretive administration ever.
Certain things are easily visible even if they do not "officially" exist
For example, no matter how secretive and non-existent in US, drone bombings get noticed by affected countries. Obama expanded drone operations quite a bit (perhaps not 100-fold, but significantly).
We basically flipped the sh#t sandwich over and are eating it from the other side now.
It's a lot worse now!
In Bush years, at least Democrats used to protest against (some) of the human rights violations. Now they all agree without any discussion.
Google has decided to put the private back in VPN by supporting uProxy,
Even if they don't plan to install a backdoor, it is hard to believe in Google's interest in our privacy. Who supported privacy measures before Snowden's revelations?
Cheap streaming: Premium Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc. Payment: 1 low monthly fee.
Except that last I heard, Premium Hulu still has commercials. For your payment you just get an expanded library of commercial-laden content. I have no idea who pays for that.
The companies that WOULD actually heed your opt-out are also the ones where you don't NEED an opt-out.
That's not at all true
Nowdays, EVERY business I ever did anything with decides that I really want to know about their promotions. A hotel in Spain and another one in NY (each of which I have visited once, years ago) tried to send me regular notes about their
"specials"
I guess doing business once with them allows them to do so (no one asked me to opt-in), but opt-out really helped here.
Obama freely admits that he was voting for political reasons and he has now come to understand that it was the wrong way to go. Yes, a politician admitted he was wrong once. AMAZING!
This does not count for shit, until a politician ACTS to right a wrongdoing. If a politician does something wrong, then admits it to be "wrong" but makes no effort to fix it, that hardly changes the outcome.
If you look at Obama's speeches (particularly the ones before the election), you would be far more impressed than based on his actual performance in the office.
It'd rather see all phone manufacturers switch to the Lightning connector instead.
Ah, but even phone manufacturers did adopt Lightning connector and it sold cheaply, Apple would design a new Thunder connector to once again sell them at $30+ each
It's not the question of who has the better design -- it is that Apple intentionally keeps their connectors completely incompatible with the rest of the phones.
The people allowed the app, complete with special warning, to 'post tweets on their behalf'.
Problem is, there is no way to say "install the app, but block all tweet-related permissions"
Can't install anything on Android nowdays. Each app wants permissions to make phone calls, take pictures with your camera (without your knowledge, not just while it is used) or read address book and current phone state. No good reason for the app to want this, but no way to install without allowing everything the app asks for.
Yes. More than a few software packages try to incorporate a Bing bar plug in and set the search engine/homepage to Bing. That includes some software that is not outright malware (well, at least not before they chose to make money on pushing toolbars).
DirectX install tries to peddle Bing Bar which is installed with default settings.
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... and I am glad I never waste any of my time in fb
Don't worry -- at least half a dozen of your friends are working hard to make sure you are not forgotten (posting and tagging fotos, marking "I know this person from..." questions, etc.)
No, the plan doesn't suck. You can't know that without actually having some real information about it. You're willingness to declare something in the absence of any actual real information
You are right that I should have been clear that this is my educated guess and not a fact. However, I think it is a good guess, junk health insurance is (apparently) a real thing. I would have expected they were illegal already but they were not.
"You can't be trusted to decide for yourself. We will run your life for you."
I believe in the "social contract" theory advanced by many. You should be able to decide for yourself, sure.
But if you decide to forego insurance that will actually cover you in case of an emergency, then you should also decline your right to be treated at any emergency room for free. And since we do not consider the latter to be acceptable...
(note that all of this applies to anyone who prefers "affordable" insurance to the real kind. If you cannot afford any insurance, that's a different story)
Blue Cross had a plan that they liked. Blue Cross had a plan the customer liked. Both were happy.
Indeed -- and this idyllic utopia was going to be maintained until the customer needed some significant coverage. I am sure the plan was great until you had to use it to actually cover stuff.
People are notoriously bad at reading fine print (or their contracts in general, in fact). I think no matter what else ACA did, instituting a minimal requirement of what counts as "health insurance" is definitely a good thing.
He tried to spin this as "removing the under-insured" but no... People had plans they liked.
These two statements are not in contradiction. I just read an article about one of those "plans" that people liked which had a payout cap of $50 for any medical expense, no matter what how high it was. The plan was really cheap, so of course people liked it, but it was also useless (which people would only truly learn after they had to use it)
all of us were "ok" with the companies collecting this information. When an intelligence agency combines this info, we suddenly scream for privacy.
Google does not have the ability to put us on the no-fly list. "Ok" or not, the threat level just isn't the same.
I just don't understand all of these companies with names that take some word and stick 'ly' at the end.
It's simple -- they are the companion websites to all those "-ster" websites everywhere.
I wonder what Feedster is doing!
WHOIS feedster.com
Registration Service Provider: Dotster.com, support@dotster-inc.com
Do you really not see a difference between an experimental, opt-in location system and an international, clandestine spy program?
They are all opt-in when they are starting out. Doesn't make it equal to NSA, but "opt-in" is only temporary until it's not
EZ-Pass and their ilk were totally opt-in (and even offered a discount, at least in NH) when they started.
what it was like to watch a movie without seeing "Buffering" messages and heavy compression artifacts. Yep, streaming is so superior to those ancient physical discs alright.
Not to worry, your local cable company owned movie provider will have good quality streaming service which will not count towards your regular bandwidth cap.
My sister still likes going to the store and browsing.
"Digital delivery" for which the market has spoken does not work in combination with crappy (monopolistic and sometimes transfer-capped) internet.
Having a near-by rental store had its benefits.
However this is difficult to translate into a movie especially with the Captain American/Iron Man style they chose to make it in.
"Translate" into a movie?
They usually just buy the rights to the title of the book/the names of the character and then make their own movie ("I, Robot" is certainly a prime example of that).
Does anyone actually believe that if he had gone to the Senate or the House that anything would change, that the concerns would have been addressed?
Not only that, but does anyone believe that he would not have been redirected to one of the NSA agents to air his concerns? I am sure Senate/House intelligence committees just stand by to address people's complaints (and is not spending all of their time fundraising).
Speeding fines are there to provide some disincentive to doing stupid things prior to going to jail for it.
Speeding fines are there to collect some money for municipalities.
Otherwise they would be uniformly and much more strictly enforced. Currently they are enforced in a haphazard manner, often collected at locations where speedlimit rapidly changes.
If speed limits were uniformly and strictly enforced (rather than an occasional tax on the driver), there would likely be enough outrage to repeal them.
Remember folks, you're not the customer, you're the product.
Sometimes against your will, too. You might be a commodity brought in by other "products"
People have posted pictures/tagged me without my knowledge.
How can you possibly know that? The Bush administration was arguably the most secretive administration ever.
Certain things are easily visible even if they do not "officially" exist
For example, no matter how secretive and non-existent in US, drone bombings get noticed by affected countries. Obama expanded drone operations quite a bit (perhaps not 100-fold, but significantly).
I take it this appointment did not require a joint Democrat/Republican confirmation?
We basically flipped the sh#t sandwich over and are eating it from the other side now.
It's a lot worse now!
In Bush years, at least Democrats used to protest against (some) of the human rights violations. Now they all agree without any discussion.
Google has decided to put the private back in VPN by supporting uProxy,
Even if they don't plan to install a backdoor, it is hard to believe in Google's interest in our privacy.
Who supported privacy measures before Snowden's revelations?
Cheap streaming: Premium Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc. Payment: 1 low monthly fee.
Except that last I heard, Premium Hulu still has commercials. For your payment you just get an expanded library of commercial-laden content. I have no idea who pays for that.
The companies that WOULD actually heed your opt-out are also the ones where you don't NEED an opt-out.
That's not at all true
Nowdays, EVERY business I ever did anything with decides that I really want to know about their promotions. A hotel in Spain and another one in NY (each of which I have visited once, years ago) tried to send me regular notes about their "specials"
I guess doing business once with them allows them to do so (no one asked me to opt-in), but opt-out really helped here.
The only subtle distinction is that the terror that we need to worry about are increasingly of the domestic variety.
the important question is if the increase is the cause of our actions or effect of them.
Sadly, we won't be able to tell much until someone defines "terrorism"
Right now, it could be anything. Regular crime, cyber-crime, hateful propaganda, having a wrong name...
Obama freely admits that he was voting for political reasons and he has now come to understand that it was the wrong way to go. Yes, a politician admitted he was wrong once. AMAZING!
This does not count for shit, until a politician ACTS to right a wrongdoing. If a politician does something wrong, then admits it to be "wrong" but makes no effort to fix it, that hardly changes the outcome.
If you look at Obama's speeches (particularly the ones before the election), you would be far more impressed than based on his actual performance in the office.
If money is speech as is precedent in the U.S, why is his donation to a terrorist group not protected under the first amendment?
Who's marking it down as a troll?
There is no "-1 Disagree" mod. If you have a counter-argument, post it instead of down-modding.
It'd rather see all phone manufacturers switch to the Lightning connector instead.
Ah, but even phone manufacturers did adopt Lightning connector and it sold cheaply, Apple would design a new Thunder connector to once again sell them at $30+ each
It's not the question of who has the better design -- it is that Apple intentionally keeps their connectors completely incompatible with the rest of the phones.
The people allowed the app, complete with special warning, to 'post tweets on their behalf'.
Problem is, there is no way to say "install the app, but block all tweet-related permissions"
Can't install anything on Android nowdays. Each app wants permissions to make phone calls, take pictures with your camera (without your knowledge, not just while it is used) or read address book and current phone state. No good reason for the app to want this, but no way to install without allowing everything the app asks for.
People use Bing?
Yes. More than a few software packages try to incorporate a Bing bar plug in and set the search engine/homepage to Bing. That includes some software that is not outright malware (well, at least not before they chose to make money on pushing toolbars).
DirectX install tries to peddle Bing Bar which is installed with default settings.
Is there a good reason why the blurb for this is so poorly worded/written?
The editors must be furlough-ed?
Please pass the budget or /. will have poorly worded summaries!