He's spreading a right-wing talking point, debunked here, italics mine:
Section 163 sets out goals for electronic health records. One of the goals is to include features that "enable electronic funds transfers, in order to allow automated reconciliation" between payment and billing. The legislative summary says the intent in the section is "to adopt standards for typical transactions" between insurance companies and health care providers. The legislation generically describes typical electronic banking transactions and does not outline any special access privileges.
According to Mark Evanier, who's been in animation for decades:
If you're an aspiring cartoon voice actor who thinks "This is my break," think something else. They'll get thousands of submissions and it's unlikely that anyone with hiring capacity will ever listen to any of them. This is, like I said, not the way to really find a replacement. It's just a showy means of intimidating the actors and their agents...a way which costs the studio nothing. They don't even have to book time in a recording studio or have producers sit and listen to auditions. The whole idea is to be able to say to Billy West's agent, "Hey, we've got three thousand demos from guys who can imitate your boy's voice." But I know Billy's agent. He's been at this a long time and he knows how to not be intimidated and to arrive at a reasonable deal.
You can "garage a car" just fine, although it doesn't so much mean "put your car in a garage" as it does "routinely put your car in a garage", in the formation as seen on an insurance form: "Where is this car garaged?" Google claims about 130k hits on "garage a car".
That's certainly an accurate description of InTrade, but you still haven't explained why you don't consider it gambling. Is it because of the secondary market, or because the thing you're betting on isn't totally random? In your example, the contract you bought is equivalent to betting OBL would be found, or almost-found, and when you sold it you were betting that he wouldn't be.
Every time I see their new ad that talks about having sold 1 billion pills, I try to calculate how many suckers 1 billion pills translates into.
They sell a product that's an obvious scam, and you're busy trying draw conclusions from the sales figures that they themselves are claiming? Who's the sucker here?
There was a time was everyone understood that the word "inappropriate" is supposed to be followed by "for", as in "inappropriate for children" or "inappropriate for the occasion". But now it seems to just mean "bad". Screw that.
Exactly. My college roommate was in the WTC (70th-80th floor) for both the 1993 bombing and the big one. In the first, he spent 4 hours trying to get down a staircase. From then on, he told everyone that what he had learned was that he should just stay put if it happened again. On 9/11, the other tower was the first to be hit; he stayed put. Fifteen minutes later, the second plane hit above his floor; apparently he was able to make it a fair way down the stairs before he was killed in the collapse. (Or overcome by smoke. Pick your story.)
The PP left out the key facts, there...in the Heinlein juvenile "The Rolling Stones", there's an extended sequence involving furry creatures that seem cute but turn out to reproduce so copiously that the ship ends up full of them. David Gerrold realized this late in the production process and he/Paramount went groveling to Heinlein to make sure he wouldn't sue.
Gilbert and Sullivan had a big problem with this; people would come to their London openings, write down as much of the words and music as they could, take the boat to America, and put on knock-off productions. For this reason, The Pirates (!) of Penzance premiered in New York, not London.
Check out F/X's Damages, in which a long subplot this year has to do with the (ab)use of the GPS capability of a car which, they happen to mention, is a Cadillac. It was sort of subtle until they mentioned the brand, 3 weeks into the plot line.
The other responses are correct, in the long term, but it's possible that the withholding algorithm is funky such that the actual take-home pay is higher, and then it works itself out next April 15th. Or the parent is wrong. Or not in the USA. What do I know?
But in our system, we generally solve this problem with side-constraints like "no voter gets to eat any other voter for dinner". We don't give the sheep a jillion extra votes, especially where there are dozens of ways to divide up the electorate such that most of them are in some minority group or other.
So I keep hearing, always from Republicans who are pissed off that Gore won more votes in 2000 nationwide than Bush. But in every actual election that I've seen, certainly at the Presidential level, every precinct counts its own votes and reports those upwards, in parallel, and those are summed to give the result. And of course there are more elections going on than just the Presidential one, so it's probably easier to count all votes on the single ballot, especially if there's any automation involved. So in conclusion: I don't buy it.
If they win the airline, they can have their revenge by allowing the current ownership to keep it on the condition that they change its name back to ValuJet. Or has everyone forgotten why they changed their name?
If a Republican had been a patron of Reverend Wright's church for 20 years, his candidacy would have been over. The media would never let anyone forget it.
Right. That's why it was only the #1 media obsession for a couple of weeks, followed by Obama giving a major speech regarding it and other racial matters. Because the media dropped the ball on it. Your complaint is with the voters, who insisted on not caring as much as you think they should have, not the media.
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And before that, the four color theorem.
Are you sure which of them has the gun in that version?
He's spreading a right-wing talking point, debunked here, italics mine:
Section 163 sets out goals for electronic health records. One of the goals is to include features that "enable electronic funds transfers, in order to allow automated reconciliation" between payment and billing. The legislative summary says the intent in the section is "to adopt standards for typical transactions" between insurance companies and health care providers. The legislation generically describes typical electronic banking transactions and does not outline any special access privileges.
According to Mark Evanier, who's been in animation for decades:
You can "garage a car" just fine, although it doesn't so much mean "put your car in a garage" as it does "routinely put your car in a garage", in the formation as seen on an insurance form: "Where is this car garaged?" Google claims about 130k hits on "garage a car".
That's certainly an accurate description of InTrade, but you still haven't explained why you don't consider it gambling. Is it because of the secondary market, or because the thing you're betting on isn't totally random? In your example, the contract you bought is equivalent to betting OBL would be found, or almost-found, and when you sold it you were betting that he wouldn't be.
Every time I see their new ad that talks about having sold 1 billion pills, I try to calculate how many suckers 1 billion pills translates into.
They sell a product that's an obvious scam, and you're busy trying draw conclusions from the sales figures that they themselves are claiming? Who's the sucker here?
Don't forget: Woodward and Bernstein weren't in the WH press corps at all.
There was a time was everyone understood that the word "inappropriate" is supposed to be followed by "for", as in "inappropriate for children" or "inappropriate for the occasion". But now it seems to just mean "bad". Screw that.
Exactly. My college roommate was in the WTC (70th-80th floor) for both the 1993 bombing and the big one. In the first, he spent 4 hours trying to get down a staircase. From then on, he told everyone that what he had learned was that he should just stay put if it happened again. On 9/11, the other tower was the first to be hit; he stayed put. Fifteen minutes later, the second plane hit above his floor; apparently he was able to make it a fair way down the stairs before he was killed in the collapse. (Or overcome by smoke. Pick your story.)
"...yesterday's weekly show?"
Speaking as one of the people who gets #7: thanks. I think of "Soap" every time I see Cottle.
I can't believe I'm reading this argument. In 1933 the unemployment rate was 25%. In 1940 it was 22%.
Or maybe 14.6%
The PP left out the key facts, there...in the Heinlein juvenile "The Rolling Stones", there's an extended sequence involving furry creatures that seem cute but turn out to reproduce so copiously that the ship ends up full of them. David Gerrold realized this late in the production process and he/Paramount went groveling to Heinlein to make sure he wouldn't sue.
Gilbert and Sullivan had a big problem with this; people would come to their London openings, write down as much of the words and music as they could, take the boat to America, and put on knock-off productions. For this reason, The Pirates (!) of Penzance premiered in New York, not London.
Check out F/X's Damages, in which a long subplot this year has to do with the (ab)use of the GPS capability of a car which, they happen to mention, is a Cadillac. It was sort of subtle until they mentioned the brand, 3 weeks into the plot line.
The other responses are correct, in the long term, but it's possible that the withholding algorithm is funky such that the actual take-home pay is higher, and then it works itself out next April 15th. Or the parent is wrong. Or not in the USA. What do I know?
But in our system, we generally solve this problem with side-constraints like "no voter gets to eat any other voter for dinner". We don't give the sheep a jillion extra votes, especially where there are dozens of ways to divide up the electorate such that most of them are in some minority group or other.
So I keep hearing, always from Republicans who are pissed off that Gore won more votes in 2000 nationwide than Bush. But in every actual election that I've seen, certainly at the Presidential level, every precinct counts its own votes and reports those upwards, in parallel, and those are summed to give the result. And of course there are more elections going on than just the Presidential one, so it's probably easier to count all votes on the single ballot, especially if there's any automation involved. So in conclusion: I don't buy it.
If they win the airline, they can have their revenge by allowing the current ownership to keep it on the condition that they change its name back to ValuJet. Or has everyone forgotten why they changed their name?
Don't forget, "My Computer" may have been renamed.
Mr. Berra is not late yet.
What good is HD for a debate?
I think you need the HD feed of CNN to watch the approve/disapprove meters, if you're into that.
I have a hard enough time convincing people that I'm not a social leper.
That doesn't seem like the kind of thing you can argue your way out of.
If a Republican had been a patron of Reverend Wright's church for 20 years, his candidacy would have been over. The media would never let anyone forget it.
Right. That's why it was only the #1 media obsession for a couple of weeks, followed by Obama giving a major speech regarding it and other racial matters. Because the media dropped the ball on it. Your complaint is with the voters, who insisted on not caring as much as you think they should have, not the media.