Either way, they are not a company that makes jeans. They are a company that orders and sells jeans.
As to quality, Levi's biggest innovation recently has been their Signature line, made specifically for Walmart, and now sold at many low cost retailers. These are jeans that are so cost focused they omit many of the normal Levi's features. They use cheaper dyes, lower QA, thinner denim. I think that sort of thing speaks for itself.
The richest 10% have more than 3/4 the wealth. Fair would be a percentage of income above some threshhold, and a reverse income tax for all. I know that sounds darn socialist, but before you lose your mind try to realize that is an idea I stole from Milton Friedman. You cannot tax the poor to pay for healthcare they cannot already afford. You can't get blood from a stone.
As to my mental health, every society does this on some level. Even we have ER care available to all. You are the one who seems to be suffering a gross over reaction to any sort of civilization.
The issue is not whether they should die or not. The issue is whether you have the right to use force to take my money to pay for their survival.
That bridge was crossed long ago, otherwise we would have no police, roads or fire departments. This is one of the costs of having a society, if you do not like it feel free to live apart from your fellow man. Taxes are the price you pay to be part of society.
You said that you would gladly pay more to provide universal health care; so why don't you do that? There are charities that provide free health services to the poor and you are free to contribute.
I do contribute to charities, but none provide universal healthcare. They only help the less fortunate, that is not universal.
The rest of your comment is not worth discussing, If you really think taxes are theft, please do act on that and move to a tax free area. Somalia is a good place to start looking. The rest of us will continue to realize that is with our tax dollars that we purchase civilization.
Way to put words in people mouths. I don't hate anyone, hate is not healthy. I don't want anyone to pay more than their fair share in taxes, I support tax cuts to help the economy and I would gladly pay more than I do know if that is what it took to provide healthcare to all.
How you can live with yourself when you believe innocent children and anyone too infirm to work should die I do not know.
You believe that everyone deserves the same thing everyone else is getting.
Nope, just a bare minimum for everyone. With each who can afford more free to purchase more. The Soviet Union was the authority on State capitalism, nothing else.
My Droid has a similar CPU and video chat with it only sucks due to the lack of a front facing camera. You have to use a mirror, they make one you can stick on. Webcam support in flash was not added on the N900 because flash sucks, not because it is that CPU intensive to encode low res video.
Where in the name of the FSM are you getting 12% today? I have a 5 figure amount of money on hand I would love to get 12% on. No joke, 12% sounds fucking awesome. I would love to hear about anything above 3.5%.
You don't have to spend it, your survivors could always get it.
You can try to redefine language however you like, good luck with that.
that of universal equality and public service Wow, you missed to boat completely. Good luck with you life, remember mental disease is not something the ER will treat for free.
Levy's is not still with us today. There is a company that owns the name and has it sown on to someone elses clothes, but the actual company that made the product you are talking about has not existed for years, probably decades.
I forgot to mention, when did you live in one of those European nations and see their "socialist health care plans"? I ask because I have and I quite liked it.
Please remember that when you get old. I don't want to hear about you collecting any SS or disability money. None of that evil dirty Medicare and Medicaid either. Oh wait, Nevermind I am not the asshole you are, if you get ill feel free to use those programs that is why they exist.
I bet you call yourself a "Christian" as well. Quite a common religion for those on the right. Their book is interesting though, as some great quotes that really make your type nervous, "Whatsoever you do to the least of my people, that you do unto me" that sort of thing. Even if you don't believe in that mythology, it sure sounds nice.
For your information Socialist is not an insult, nor is it an accurate description of the political beliefs of many here who do believe health care is a human right. Please try to learn some new words.
How are they preventing you from getting a Dr to write a note? I don't see what one has to do with the other? Do you mean you can't get medicaid and should?
28k is nothing if you need Chemo. Lets use more realistic numbers, lets say the bill comes out to $508k. You think you will have $108k laying around in that mutual fund?
You think it would be ok to spend that $108k, leave your wife and kids with nothing and still die? I know people that made decisions like that.
Anybody who thinks health care will cost less after the federal government gets a hold on it hasn't looked much at everything else the federal government already has a hold of.
Or maybe they have been to nations were it is affordable? Try traveling a little to gain some perspective on issues like this.
It was an attempt to make any money at all on the ER. My mother works as an accountant who basically has to make the case for paying for patients care.
She is today advocating that the hospital pay ~$2000/month to cover a patients health insurance premiums so they can treat him. He has two kids and a wife, rather than bankrupt them and leave them homeless he is willing to go without treatment. He lost his job, because he has cancer and can't go to work. When that happened he lost his insurance as well.
The hospital might make a little money actually on that one. Nothing like the loggers that come into the ER with chainsaw wounds and no ability to pay at all.
What early 20-something can afford that? I sure could not. Even today if my company was not paying for it I would not have a data plan. I pay $15 for two lines and data after the company chips in. This is because we only have 500 minutes and 250 text messages between us. The company pays for the rest since they assume unlimited text messages and unlimited voice. We are considering getting rid of the text messages and only using google voice for that.
Please do link to this policy. Let's see what this kid gets for his $100/month.
For fun, assume he has one of the following conditions, diabetes, hyper/hyporthroidism, early onset arthritis, or has gone without medical care for more than 1 year before this.
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Either way, they are not a company that makes jeans. They are a company that orders and sells jeans.
As to quality, Levi's biggest innovation recently has been their Signature line, made specifically for Walmart, and now sold at many low cost retailers. These are jeans that are so cost focused they omit many of the normal Levi's features. They use cheaper dyes, lower QA, thinner denim. I think that sort of thing speaks for itself.
The richest 10% have more than 3/4 the wealth. Fair would be a percentage of income above some threshhold, and a reverse income tax for all. I know that sounds darn socialist, but before you lose your mind try to realize that is an idea I stole from Milton Friedman. You cannot tax the poor to pay for healthcare they cannot already afford. You can't get blood from a stone.
As to my mental health, every society does this on some level. Even we have ER care available to all. You are the one who seems to be suffering a gross over reaction to any sort of civilization.
The issue is not whether they should die or not. The issue is whether you have the right to use force to take my money to pay for their survival.
That bridge was crossed long ago, otherwise we would have no police, roads or fire departments. This is one of the costs of having a society, if you do not like it feel free to live apart from your fellow man.
Taxes are the price you pay to be part of society.
You said that you would gladly pay more to provide universal health care; so why don't you do that? There are charities that provide free health services to the poor and you are free to contribute.
I do contribute to charities, but none provide universal healthcare. They only help the less fortunate, that is not universal.
The rest of your comment is not worth discussing, If you really think taxes are theft, please do act on that and move to a tax free area. Somalia is a good place to start looking. The rest of us will continue to realize that is with our tax dollars that we purchase civilization.
Go google "Rods From God". Know you know that bombing Baghdad would not be impossibly at all, just a lot worse for Baghdad.
Way to put words in people mouths. I don't hate anyone, hate is not healthy. I don't want anyone to pay more than their fair share in taxes, I support tax cuts to help the economy and I would gladly pay more than I do know if that is what it took to provide healthcare to all.
How you can live with yourself when you believe innocent children and anyone too infirm to work should die I do not know.
Have a nice day, you are truly a terrible person if you believe that to be justice. I hope you never find yourself without enough money to live.
There is always the Phoronix test suite. They might be chicken littles, but their test suite is at least open and repeatable.
Only as a brand, they don't make jeans.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2873672/Levi-Strauss-shuts-down-last-factories-in-America.html
Oh noes rationing, the same exact thing US healthcare does using money instead of another metric.
Those who can't afford it, don't get a choice. They would much prefer to live than have your foolish pride.
You believe that everyone deserves the same thing everyone else is getting.
Nope, just a bare minimum for everyone. With each who can afford more free to purchase more. The Soviet Union was the authority on State capitalism, nothing else.
They don't make any jeans. They just order them and have them labeled.
My Droid has a similar CPU and video chat with it only sucks due to the lack of a front facing camera. You have to use a mirror, they make one you can stick on. Webcam support in flash was not added on the N900 because flash sucks, not because it is that CPU intensive to encode low res video.
Where in the name of the FSM are you getting 12% today?
I have a 5 figure amount of money on hand I would love to get 12% on. No joke, 12% sounds fucking awesome. I would love to hear about anything above 3.5%.
You don't have to spend it, your survivors could always get it.
You can try to redefine language however you like, good luck with that.
that of universal equality and public service
Wow, you missed to boat completely. Good luck with you life, remember mental disease is not something the ER will treat for free.
So it can work as well everywere as it does on my PS3 and Droid. Neither one of those uses silverlight.
Levy's is not still with us today. There is a company that owns the name and has it sown on to someone elses clothes, but the actual company that made the product you are talking about has not existed for years, probably decades.
I forgot to mention, when did you live in one of those European nations and see their "socialist health care plans"? I ask because I have and I quite liked it.
Please remember that when you get old. I don't want to hear about you collecting any SS or disability money. None of that evil dirty Medicare and Medicaid either. Oh wait, Nevermind I am not the asshole you are, if you get ill feel free to use those programs that is why they exist.
I bet you call yourself a "Christian" as well. Quite a common religion for those on the right. Their book is interesting though, as some great quotes that really make your type nervous, "Whatsoever you do to the least of my people, that you do unto me" that sort of thing. Even if you don't believe in that mythology, it sure sounds nice.
For your information Socialist is not an insult, nor is it an accurate description of the political beliefs of many here who do believe health care is a human right. Please try to learn some new words.
How are they preventing you from getting a Dr to write a note?
I don't see what one has to do with the other?
Do you mean you can't get medicaid and should?
Why 59?
What does that add to the story, sounds like ageism to me.
Why Human? Could have been a Gorilla that knew sign language, sounds like specism to me!
28k is nothing if you need Chemo. Lets use more realistic numbers, lets say the bill comes out to $508k. You think you will have $108k laying around in that mutual fund?
You think it would be ok to spend that $108k, leave your wife and kids with nothing and still die? I know people that made decisions like that.
Anybody who thinks health care will cost less after the federal government gets a hold on it hasn't looked much at everything else the federal government already has a hold of.
Or maybe they have been to nations were it is affordable?
Try traveling a little to gain some perspective on issues like this.
Depending on his condition that might be ok. If you need Chemo, a swift end might be an acceptable alternative.
It was an attempt to make any money at all on the ER. My mother works as an accountant who basically has to make the case for paying for patients care.
She is today advocating that the hospital pay ~$2000/month to cover a patients health insurance premiums so they can treat him. He has two kids and a wife, rather than bankrupt them and leave them homeless he is willing to go without treatment. He lost his job, because he has cancer and can't go to work. When that happened he lost his insurance as well.
The hospital might make a little money actually on that one. Nothing like the loggers that come into the ER with chainsaw wounds and no ability to pay at all.
What early 20-something can afford that?
I sure could not. Even today if my company was not paying for it I would not have a data plan. I pay $15 for two lines and data after the company chips in. This is because we only have 500 minutes and 250 text messages between us. The company pays for the rest since they assume unlimited text messages and unlimited voice. We are considering getting rid of the text messages and only using google voice for that.
Most people are not as rich as you think.
Please do explain how we can make Chemo cheaper. That is non-critical and the ER will turn you away. Clearly we all have a lot to learn from you.
Please do link to this policy. Let's see what this kid gets for his $100/month.
For fun, assume he has one of the following conditions, diabetes, hyper/hyporthroidism, early onset arthritis, or has gone without medical care for more than 1 year before this.