What is the annual or lifetime max on your $86/mo plan? Isn't it pretty hard to imagine how that could possibly cover even the slim chance of you getting cancer and the resulting multi-millions in medical bills?
Here is a quote from forbes.com:
The average cost of healthcare for a typical American family of four in an employer-sponsored health plan in 2012 was $20,728. On average, employers paid $12,144 of that total cost while employees paid the rest.
That averages out to $1600/mo. That is how much a real health care plan costs. (Those numbers align almost perfectly with what I see on my own paystub, by the way). Those are numbers from before Obamacare.
The point of the law is to remedy under-insurance, so obviously it will raise insurance costs on average. That's the cost. The benefit is that when people later incur health care expenses, they will collect on the new or improved policies they are now paying more for, instead of paying it all out of pocket, or going broke and pushing the costs on to the rest of us.
It's just silly to count the cost of insurance without counting the benefits of the coverage.
The benchmark is Microsoft's return on investment from their investment in Mobile, starting in the early 90's I'd guess.
This gets to an odd contradiction right in the summary: the mobile division is "burning serious cash," yet also making $2B which is "pretty much all profit." It's as if the author sees no connection between investing in a business unit to generate intellectual property, and subsequently profiting from that investment.
They had ten stable quarters with >6 billion in revenue and >500 million euro profit, the Windows Phone deal is announced and boom they go from a 750 million euro profit to a 200 million euro loss and their sales have been in free fall ever since.
It's hard to determine causality, though, because human beings try look into the future and "react" to imminent calamities that haven't happened yet. Sometimes not-so-successfully.
I largely share your skepticism, but Microsoft seems almost uniquely positioned to get a lot of value from a real leader, if they can find one. On the one hand, it is a highly profitable company with huge resources and a culture of making large, sustained investments. On the other hand, it seems to have trouble rallying around an uncompromised, clear-minded vision.
The truth is Microsoft could also make a lot of money for many years yet with nothing at the top but a hard-nosed accountant/administrator. But it could also be much more. I suppose most likely they will get the administrator and pay him like a visionary.
$1.6M for the Veyron. More like $2.5M for the Super Sport. $70K for tires on a $2M car is proportional to $700 for tires on a $20K car which seems disproportionate, although not wildly so. It would be easy to spend $700 on tires for a $20K pickup truck.
Wikipedia's entry on the Veyron: " It uses special Michelin PAX run-flat tyres, designed specifically to accommodate the Veyron's top speed, and cost US$25,000 per set. The tyres can be mounted on the rims only in France, a service which costs US$70,000." Ouch.
Besides enormous inertia stressing the tires, a car is propelled ONLY through its tires. When a Veyron hits top speed, it is dumping its entire 1000 HP output into stressing those poor tires. Even though moving at a constant rate, your are stressing the tires as much as when accelerating as fast as possible, except for minutes on end.
would have turned into the OK Corral...that is how it plays out in Hollywood, and in your imagination, not in the real world.
It IS how it turns out in Gangland America, for example Chicago, as was observed by the person I was disagreeing with. They are trapped in a cycle of never-ending retaliatory shootings. Law enforcement is considered irrelevant and self defense means being armed. The result is carnage.
As for the TSA shooting, the guy was carrying a suicide note.
No way! One guard was killed at the airport attack. With hundreds frightened morons whipping out their guns LAX would have turned into the OK Corral. Just getting the normal cops to not shoot too many innocent bystanders is hard enough.
Chicago has the strictest gun laws in the nation, but more people die there every year than most of the rest of the country combined.
I'm more impressed that all of WWII cost the US only 300 BN. That's $3.7T in today's dollars, which happens to be equal to the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars put together:
The most recent major report on these costs come from Brown University in the form of the Costs of War project, which said the total for wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan is at least $3.2-4 trillion.
Of course the cost of WWII to the US was very small compared to the costs to nations where it was actually fought.
Ha, I had a couple 21" CRTs on my desktop throughout the 2000s running 1600x1200. But in 1988, that must have cost a fortune, and the graphics to run it, even moreso. Even the video ram to hold a single frame buffer would have been several hundred if not a couple thousand dollars.
Here is a pretty cool graph showing the size/watts curve for plasma, LCD/fluorescent, and LCD/LED.
I had thought increasing sizes were offsetting the power reductions obtained by more efficient backlighting, but not really... a 55" LED uses about half the power of a 40" plasma.
Unfortunately desktop display resolutions have been stagnant for nearly 10 years now. (The Apple 30" was released June 2004).
I was disappointed the new MacBook Pro does have Thunderbolt2, but does not support 4k displays. I have a Dell 30" on my old MacBook Pro but was looking forwarding to an upgrade, finally, but no.
Anyways, any sensible interpretation of the Golden Rule re-interprets it to treat others as they wish to be treated in preference to how you like to be treated, if you happen to know how their preferences are not yours. I.e. don't take a vegetarian out for steaks.
There actually were quite a few Iraqis who opposed Hussein, and many of them did want us to invade You can read about them. Naturally the pro-invasion movement here gave the Iraqi opposition lots of attention, and they tried to convince us that most Iraqis were silently on their side (supporting their case with lies at times). The Kurds hated Hussein so much that there had been sporadic civil war in Iraq for decades, they wanted the government of Iraq off their backs enough to fight and die for it.
you want to be a morally just person? Remember one rule: treat every other person the way you want to be treated.
That logic can be used to argue both sides of almost anything, from making kids eat their veggies to invading Iraq (if you convince yourself you'll be greeted as a liberator).
This seems to be largely a game of semantics. It is known that 85% of gravitation is unaccounted for by current theories about gravity and observed matter, and "dark matter" really has little more definition than "gravity generator" does it? You find some effect, you name the cause of it "X", and so long as everything discovered subsequently doesn't contradict anything your asserted about "X" too much, you are credited as the discoverer of X.
Perhaps it's more significant that the 5s is faster, being already 2 or 3 weeks old:)
Then again, the benchmark registers 14.27 on one and 15.54 on the other. This is where techies start quibbling about unfairness in benchmarks that could easily tip the balance either way, and where the majority of consumers simply stop caring about unnoticeable, incremental one-upsmanship. What is the next significant innovation in mobile?
I think smartphone graphics are more interesting as an avenue for general purpose computing when connected to a full-size screen and keyboard. (And by "connected" I mean wirelessly, from inside my pocket!)
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Sure, what's to stop a punk from knifing the tires on your car at any time? Nothing.
Here is a quote from forbes.com:
That averages out to $1600/mo. That is how much a real health care plan costs. (Those numbers align almost perfectly with what I see on my own paystub, by the way). Those are numbers from before Obamacare.
It's just silly to count the cost of insurance without counting the benefits of the coverage.
This gets to an odd contradiction right in the summary: the mobile division is "burning serious cash," yet also making $2B which is "pretty much all profit." It's as if the author sees no connection between investing in a business unit to generate intellectual property, and subsequently profiting from that investment.
For me it's the opposite, it was cheaper to get Comcast with the rock-bottom TV service (no ESPN) than to get the Internet alone from them.
It's hard to determine causality, though, because human beings try look into the future and "react" to imminent calamities that haven't happened yet. Sometimes not-so-successfully.
The truth is Microsoft could also make a lot of money for many years yet with nothing at the top but a hard-nosed accountant/administrator. But it could also be much more. I suppose most likely they will get the administrator and pay him like a visionary.
What do you use as a wallet? Not a rigid box made of metal and glass, I'll wager.
$1.6M for the Veyron. More like $2.5M for the Super Sport. $70K for tires on a $2M car is proportional to $700 for tires on a $20K car which seems disproportionate, although not wildly so. It would be easy to spend $700 on tires for a $20K pickup truck.
Because it really doesn't matter much. You will never find one victim of this Adobe hack who would rather have been in a fender bender.
Besides enormous inertia stressing the tires, a car is propelled ONLY through its tires. When a Veyron hits top speed, it is dumping its entire 1000 HP output into stressing those poor tires. Even though moving at a constant rate, your are stressing the tires as much as when accelerating as fast as possible, except for minutes on end.
It IS how it turns out in Gangland America, for example Chicago, as was observed by the person I was disagreeing with. They are trapped in a cycle of never-ending retaliatory shootings. Law enforcement is considered irrelevant and self defense means being armed. The result is carnage.
As for the TSA shooting, the guy was carrying a suicide note.
Chicago has no borders.
Of course the cost of WWII to the US was very small compared to the costs to nations where it was actually fought.
Well, that and a bedpan installed in your driver's seat.
Ha, I had a couple 21" CRTs on my desktop throughout the 2000s running 1600x1200. But in 1988, that must have cost a fortune, and the graphics to run it, even moreso. Even the video ram to hold a single frame buffer would have been several hundred if not a couple thousand dollars.
I am delighted to hear that! I work with maps a lot - they aren't dynamic but they love detail.
I had thought increasing sizes were offsetting the power reductions obtained by more efficient backlighting, but not really... a 55" LED uses about half the power of a 40" plasma.
I was disappointed the new MacBook Pro does have Thunderbolt2, but does not support 4k displays. I have a Dell 30" on my old MacBook Pro but was looking forwarding to an upgrade, finally, but no.
Anyways, any sensible interpretation of the Golden Rule re-interprets it to treat others as they wish to be treated in preference to how you like to be treated, if you happen to know how their preferences are not yours. I.e. don't take a vegetarian out for steaks.
There actually were quite a few Iraqis who opposed Hussein, and many of them did want us to invade You can read about them. Naturally the pro-invasion movement here gave the Iraqi opposition lots of attention, and they tried to convince us that most Iraqis were silently on their side (supporting their case with lies at times). The Kurds hated Hussein so much that there had been sporadic civil war in Iraq for decades, they wanted the government of Iraq off their backs enough to fight and die for it.
That logic can be used to argue both sides of almost anything, from making kids eat their veggies to invading Iraq (if you convince yourself you'll be greeted as a liberator).
This seems to be largely a game of semantics. It is known that 85% of gravitation is unaccounted for by current theories about gravity and observed matter, and "dark matter" really has little more definition than "gravity generator" does it? You find some effect, you name the cause of it "X", and so long as everything discovered subsequently doesn't contradict anything your asserted about "X" too much, you are credited as the discoverer of X.
Then again, the benchmark registers 14.27 on one and 15.54 on the other. This is where techies start quibbling about unfairness in benchmarks that could easily tip the balance either way, and where the majority of consumers simply stop caring about unnoticeable, incremental one-upsmanship. What is the next significant innovation in mobile?
I think smartphone graphics are more interesting as an avenue for general purpose computing when connected to a full-size screen and keyboard. (And by "connected" I mean wirelessly, from inside my pocket!)