i am against tort reform..i want my dr to be BROKE and penniless if he amputates my leg by mistake.
You have to be pretty smart to be a dr BUT not that smart. I mean more people could be dr's we just need more medical schools. And maybe incentives for some kinds of dr's like deliver babies( high insurance costs) for ten years and we pay your loans off.
Doc's should make a good living, but many make several hundred k per year..this is more than they should be worth, but they are worth it due to limited supply.
but in most cases in the US, the working (and non working )poor have a tax rate lower than -1%. This is due to government programs esp the earned income tax credit, which is really just a check for mor than the taxes you paid in as a refund.
plus you can not watch a movie on your ipod when driving..well you should not anyway..time on public transit need not be dead time, exp on 30 min or more commutes.
I am tired of people ripping on truck/SUV owners... How about people who commute? Why not rag on them. I drive 1 block to where i work. My dailey commute in my V8 ford p/u uses less than 5.00 in gas per week. A guy driving 30 miles a day in a pruis will have a MUCH larger carbon footprint than mine.
well cars painted red are more likley to get in accidents too, but I doubt it is due to the color...more likely that they are more likely to be sports/compact and driven by young males.
Any REAL data would not look at simply injuries OR chances of crash per car, but would control for drivers/passengers. If it does not it is a bullshit number.
you are wrong. Larger engines ( justthe engine not he whole car) last longer, at least when we talk about standard internal combustion. A heavier engine uses stronger internal parts and is mroe resistant to wear from heat and the transition in temp.
Let's letthem keep them copyrighted for 200 years, but lets TAX THE HELL out of the rights holder after the first say 25. Let's make an IP tax. Kinda like a property tax, but for IP. Let's say NO tax for IP untill it's 25th B day. Then we charge a pretty penny to keep it OUT of teh public domain. I mean if I own a building I pay tax on it. NY could tax disney for there IP, CA too. they could generate lots of revinue.
the reason the loans are toxic is not just that the value of the real estate has gone down, but that many are financed with ARMs. The price of paying the note has gone UP and the home owners can;t afford them. The best thing the country could do is NOT bail out banks but bail out home owners. the cost of this bail out will be enough to PAY OFF most of those toxic loans in FULL. Why not instead just allow the home owners to refinance at a lower rate they can afford directly from the fed? Maybe split the loss with the original lender as such
I borrowed 100k on a house worth 80k now. My loan was at 4% now the ARM is 7%. I refinance at 90k for 5% and I keep the house. I lost 10k( i paid 90k for an asset valued at 80k) and the bank lost 10k. This would keep people in homes, and keep the market for homes from going down as much. It would cost the banks( and stock holders more) BUT it would help the market for houses and the common guy in the street. If taxpayers are gonna pay for a bail out why should it help investors in CHASE or Citi group?
oddly enough cocaine and heroin( in many forms morphine for example) can be proscribed. Cocaine is used in hospitals for surgery to slow bleeding. Grass however can not be prescribed it is NOT scheduled.
the hlaf a million or so for the transplant is not that bad considering what we are spending on drugs per year for decades to treat a person in the west. In africa this is just not an option yet. But just because we can not help africa does not mean we should not treat people in the west. The procedure will lead to something cheaper if done a bunch. the problem now is the mortality from marrow transplants.
dude bone marrow is collected then cultured. you take a little from a donor then grow it. you really only need a few donors to produce a lot over time.
godwins law anyone?
All current genetic counseling does the same thing. In fact so does every woman at a singles bar when she selects the guy she fucks that night. The difference is in the science and more importantly the methods.
first off most of the men with HIV in the west(US) are gay so they are not likely to reproduce very much. Gay men with HIV are almost never sperm donors.
secondly you assume that resistance to HIV/black death is the only trait that genetic marker carries. The article states that resistance comes at a price of increased death from west nile( much easier to catch than HIV it is airborne) and maybe a host of other diseases.
this assumes the poster will not be traveling in the sun without his laptop on. My guess is most outdoor types who bring a laptop on the trip do just this. Example of a cycling trip where you ride almost all day( charging your laptop while riding) and use it at night to check email, surf, blog your trip( look at porn) etc.
if you have panels with a 10 year payback and new ones come out in 2 years just factor the cost of the old unit when calculating the new ones payback. If it still makes sense UPGRADE if not wait until your current unit breaks OR upgrade is worth it.DUH
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i am against tort reform..i want my dr to be BROKE and penniless if he amputates my leg by mistake. You have to be pretty smart to be a dr BUT not that smart. I mean more people could be dr's we just need more medical schools. And maybe incentives for some kinds of dr's like deliver babies( high insurance costs) for ten years and we pay your loans off. Doc's should make a good living, but many make several hundred k per year..this is more than they should be worth, but they are worth it due to limited supply.
but in most cases in the US, the working (and non working )poor have a tax rate lower than -1%. This is due to government programs esp the earned income tax credit, which is really just a check for mor than the taxes you paid in as a refund.
yea but firemen get LAID all the time.. I mean really there is like NO other job in the same pay range that will get you that much sex.
sorry had to.. "The good of the many outweighs the good of the few, or one."
no they should grad thier ankles and squeal like pigs!
maybe the radar in the car will look in reverse also and an AI will determine the best action?
so why not put the crumple zone behind a rigid bumper that can withstand a low speed collision?
so driving an SUV to work 15 miles a week is less moral than taking a pleasure cruz to a natural park 1500 miles away?
plus you can not watch a movie on your ipod when driving..well you should not anyway..time on public transit need not be dead time, exp on 30 min or more commutes.
I am tired of people ripping on truck/SUV owners... How about people who commute? Why not rag on them. I drive 1 block to where i work. My dailey commute in my V8 ford p/u uses less than 5.00 in gas per week. A guy driving 30 miles a day in a pruis will have a MUCH larger carbon footprint than mine.
well cars painted red are more likley to get in accidents too, but I doubt it is due to the color...more likely that they are more likely to be sports/compact and driven by young males. Any REAL data would not look at simply injuries OR chances of crash per car, but would control for drivers/passengers. If it does not it is a bullshit number.
you are wrong. Larger engines ( justthe engine not he whole car) last longer, at least when we talk about standard internal combustion. A heavier engine uses stronger internal parts and is mroe resistant to wear from heat and the transition in temp.
Let's letthem keep them copyrighted for 200 years, but lets TAX THE HELL out of the rights holder after the first say 25. Let's make an IP tax. Kinda like a property tax, but for IP. Let's say NO tax for IP untill it's 25th B day. Then we charge a pretty penny to keep it OUT of teh public domain. I mean if I own a building I pay tax on it. NY could tax disney for there IP, CA too. they could generate lots of revinue.
the reason the loans are toxic is not just that the value of the real estate has gone down, but that many are financed with ARMs. The price of paying the note has gone UP and the home owners can;t afford them. The best thing the country could do is NOT bail out banks but bail out home owners. the cost of this bail out will be enough to PAY OFF most of those toxic loans in FULL. Why not instead just allow the home owners to refinance at a lower rate they can afford directly from the fed? Maybe split the loss with the original lender as such I borrowed 100k on a house worth 80k now. My loan was at 4% now the ARM is 7%. I refinance at 90k for 5% and I keep the house. I lost 10k( i paid 90k for an asset valued at 80k) and the bank lost 10k. This would keep people in homes, and keep the market for homes from going down as much. It would cost the banks( and stock holders more) BUT it would help the market for houses and the common guy in the street. If taxpayers are gonna pay for a bail out why should it help investors in CHASE or Citi group?
because it's there!
oddly enough cocaine and heroin( in many forms morphine for example) can be proscribed. Cocaine is used in hospitals for surgery to slow bleeding. Grass however can not be prescribed it is NOT scheduled.
sorry about your mom.. the symtomns of BMT transplant are kinda like what a person goes through before they die of AIDS. We need to perfect this.
the hlaf a million or so for the transplant is not that bad considering what we are spending on drugs per year for decades to treat a person in the west. In africa this is just not an option yet. But just because we can not help africa does not mean we should not treat people in the west. The procedure will lead to something cheaper if done a bunch. the problem now is the mortality from marrow transplants.
dude bone marrow is collected then cultured. you take a little from a donor then grow it. you really only need a few donors to produce a lot over time.
godwins law anyone? All current genetic counseling does the same thing. In fact so does every woman at a singles bar when she selects the guy she fucks that night. The difference is in the science and more importantly the methods.
first off most of the men with HIV in the west(US) are gay so they are not likely to reproduce very much. Gay men with HIV are almost never sperm donors. secondly you assume that resistance to HIV/black death is the only trait that genetic marker carries. The article states that resistance comes at a price of increased death from west nile( much easier to catch than HIV it is airborne) and maybe a host of other diseases.
"On the other hand, that child might be the next serial killer" thus reducing the world's carbon footprint even more!
this assumes the poster will not be traveling in the sun without his laptop on. My guess is most outdoor types who bring a laptop on the trip do just this. Example of a cycling trip where you ride almost all day( charging your laptop while riding) and use it at night to check email, surf, blog your trip( look at porn) etc.
if you have panels with a 10 year payback and new ones come out in 2 years just factor the cost of the old unit when calculating the new ones payback. If it still makes sense UPGRADE if not wait until your current unit breaks OR upgrade is worth it.DUH
payback can take a lot of forms...try lugging a gas powered generator on your next backpacking trip and see if solar is worth it!