We effectively lost it when health emergencies became unaffordable to any but the super-wealthy. My wife's car accident would have cost us $200k+, if the insurance hadn't covered it. (Through a billing error I saw the dollar amount.) If that's your rainy day fund, congrats, man.
I wasn't advocating NO insurance.
I was talking more about going back to having insurance more along the lines of what we used to refer to as "major medical"...basically something only to be used in catastrophic cases, like your wife's car wreck.
But for routine care....birth control, allergy meds...even insulin, etc....save monthly in a HSA pre-tax for your routine visits to a Dr. and meds. That's what I was referring to more as far as personal responsibility to your medical needs was.
I'm all for personal responsibility as soon as the wealthy give up their vast fortunes and start over with me. Until then I support the government leveling the playing field to prevent the wealthy from running roughshod over me.
Seriously?
Ok...exactly who is in charge of setting the limit on what a person can make? I mean, where is it in the constitution that says "if you make too much $$, you have to start giving everything over X amount to someone who has less, who doesn't work as hard, who didn't struggle to earn...etc?
And can you please tell me how you or anyone else has had roughshod run over them by a wealthy person?
I'm not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination, but every year, I'm working harder, coming up with ideas and pursuing them, and I'm doing better every year. I hope to be wealthy in a few years (wealthy to my personal definition where I don't really worry about any of my living expenses, have savings and not worried about retirement, I'm pretty easy)....but you know? I've never been put down, or held back by anyone that is wealthy.
The government has done more to impede me than any wealthy person....
It would be an old joke...if Sony STILL wasn't making products that require memory sticks rather than something more common and standard, like SD cards or MicroSD.....
As opposed to waving your keychain RFID tag in front of a plate, or insert a smart card, like people do today, you mean?
At least with that...you have a choice. I do NOT use rfid tags on a keychain or credit card...I've told the CC people to only send me NON-RFID cards.
Now, I've never heard about one on the plate...you mean some states have RFIDs on the state issued license plate on a car?!!?? What state is that?
This must be why gas pumps also read the vehicle they pump the fuel into and bill accordingly.
How does a gas pump know what car it is pumping gas into?
The only way a gas pump knows any information about me, is if I happen to choose to pay with a CC instead of cash.....I try to do cash for most all of my transactions.
I guess you haven't heard about the Leaf or Volt, Tesla Motors, etc?
I've heard of them.
Now..actually seeing them out on the road is another thing altogether!!
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I've heard of the Leaf, and decent things about it...I've heard of the Volt, mostly through the news concerning concerns about the battery safety, and how FEW of them have sold despite huge govt subsidies in various forms....and Tesla?
Well...everyone here just goes on in every article about how $$$ they are and that no one can afford them.
If Tesla could put back out their performance sports car at a price more in line with that of a Vette, then, well, they'd have me sold on one.
But really...at this point, clamorning for electric cars is about as wide spread as the blackberry tablet was in another thread.
Now, if you incite someone else to hatred, that's hate speech, and a little easier to pin down in court.
Actually, I think I can freely incite someone else to hate....hate is an emotional feeling, and I don't see them outlawing that.
However, if I incite people to a riot, or violence (physical acts), then, well, we already have laws against that.
I just don't want to see any kind of speech....no matter how vile the idea it expresses, to be banned or made unlawful. Too easy to get someone in power to change what is 'offensive' to them.
One of the basic tenets of Free Speech is, that by definition, if you have Free Speech, you cannot have Freedom from being Offended.
If you grant freedom from offense...then the world will be getting quite a bit quieter very quickly.
I'm trying to see if I can come up with a reason why anyone would possible want tracking like this?!?!?
I mean, I already pay for my electricity usage...per kilowatt hour...why would I need to let the power company drill down to see what specific fucking amounts my appliances or computers is using?
Is this going to be one of those things that you might get a few cents off your rate if you let them nose into what your running, similar to that spy device that Progressing insurance is having their customers put in their car to 'monitor their driving habits'?
Seriously, what even remotely intelligent consumer out there wants this shit?
Perhaps so they don't have unwanted children, who grow up to cost society a fortune? Ever heard the saying an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure? Or penny wise, pound foolish?
So, I have to pay for people that don't use common sense, who are careless and irresponsible...who fuck anyone, can't make and adult decision to keep it in their pants....?
What happened to personal responsibility? We used to have it in this country.
If you're free to succeed, then you should be free to fuck up, and live with the consequences of your actions. I've lived responsibly, had no kids I could not afford....why should I have to pick up the tab for someone else who isn't smart enough to see what their actions will lead to?
When did it become your right to have ME pick up the tab for your irresponsibility?
It's a right as much as any other form of health care.
I'd say ability to find healthcare is a right...but I dont' believe that having everyone else PAY for your healthcare is an innate right. When did this happen? When did we lose personal responsibility for saving for a rainy day (including health emergencies) ?
I think you mean "personal responsibility"...something the US was founded upon, and what many people want to go back to.....before we slide into the mess other parts of Europe are doing, like Greece.
The US govt was not set up to make your decisions or be your Mommy and Daddy and bail you out when you fuck up.
Contraception is more critical to women's health and wellbeing than to men's because men walk away from pregnancies without health problems, an STDs are more infectious to women. Denying contraception is a way to keep women down.
Wouldn't that work the opposite then?
If women have all the contraception they want....they're liable to have sex more often, resulting in greater exposure to STDs?
I mean, I'm guessing that the contraception for women here 99% of the time is going to be specific to them, the pill or intrauterine devices, all of which do nothing to prevent STDs.
Why don't they just make it easier to set up and run your own HSA (Health Savings Account) so the average person can load it up pre-tax for medical spending, don't have it forced to be associated with a high deductible insurance acct the way it currently is set up.
Then, let the person pay into it pre-tax...and women can use that to purchase their contraception...and it is then back to a personal thing.
Frankly I'm all for women being on the pill....not having to worry about her getting knocked up is a HUGE peace of mind thing.
Its gonna take sacrifice and likely major overhaul of the social programs for the US too....medicare/medicade and SS are the largest money pits of the US Feds....at some point, and soon, we have to do something about those!!
Hell, if they just for a START, would let the Feds negotiate for drugs for medicare/medicade like the VA system does...a lot of $$ could be saved in on quick step!!!
Why should we be sending all that money to another country to begin with???
How does that help or strengthen the US's position?
Do we not have US citizens still getting AIDs here ? Why are we not eradicating the problem here and getting our own house in check...before throwing our hard earned money to foreigners all over the world?
They don't want to admit it is realty about attacking Obama while controlling women. Does that mean Obama has no agenda? Of course not, but giving women the free choice to engage in sex without shame and with medical attention, well that is just and right.
What? I mean..really....what???
No one is controlling women. They are just as free as men to fuck at will....with our without shame.
But why the fuck should someone pay for them to do so? If they want birth control, they are just as free now to get it as before....why should other Joe/Jane Q. citizens have to pay to subsidize them fucking? Something that I think everyone will agree upon...is a decision that is up to the individual to make.
I was asking about the composting thing, because, aside from being able to pronounce the word, I know nothing about the act.
Are there any good DIY posts ya'll know of on how to do it, or build whatever apparatus you might need?
I see one person responded with something to do with a worm farm...not sure if that was joking or not, but not so much wanting to raise worms, but just something to make soil to use as fertilizer, which is what I guess composting is....
Just get a VitaMix instead, problem solved, plus more healthy you get all the fiber.
Actually, I do have a Vitamix too....once I got off the juice only fast, I've gone back to using it for smoothies and soups...and soon, to start experimenting with grinding my own whole wheat flour from wheat berries into bread...
But like I stated above...the juicer still has a place in my daily diet...I can eat whole foods from Vitamix or regular cooking...but with the juicer, I can increase my intake even more of the micronutrients in fruits and veggies....and I also get to have fun coming up with some very nifty and unique flavors with the juice....
Simplest thing to do: put the pulp back into the juice.
Well, I was on a 30 day juice fast...only juice, no pulp.
Going forward, I eat (sensibly now), and I like smoothies, but I also like to juice, without the pulp, I can squeeze even more veggie/fruit micro nutrients into my diet, that I could not do eating all of them...this is in addition to normal eating of veggies and fruits too whole or blended.
I've recently made "juicing" a large part of my diet. I watched the excellent documentary, "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" which was pretty inspiring.
I got a Breville Ikon juicer and it works wonders...but I'd been trying to think what to do with all the dry pulp that comes out of it.
I'd been thinking to try to save some of it, particularly the veggie stuff from the green juices...and maybe boiling it to make vegetable stock....I don't know anything about composting, but was thinking to research and explore that, to see if it was viable to try to compost all of this stuff, and use it for fertilizer for my garden this spring.
Anyone out there know much about reusing plant 'waste' or leftovers from the home in such a manner? Links? Suggestions?
If I had the $$$$ that I assume this guy must have...I'd have quit a LONG time ago....and spend the rest of my life enjoying my money...traveling the world, bedding new babes, basically one long party the rest of my life.
But, I guess to each his own...everyone has something different that makes them happy. Whatever it is...DO IT...life on this planet is short, make sure you have no regrets on your deathbed.
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I wasn't advocating NO insurance.
I was talking more about going back to having insurance more along the lines of what we used to refer to as "major medical"...basically something only to be used in catastrophic cases, like your wife's car wreck.
But for routine care....birth control, allergy meds...even insulin, etc....save monthly in a HSA pre-tax for your routine visits to a Dr. and meds. That's what I was referring to more as far as personal responsibility to your medical needs was.
No need for massive govt. intervention.
Seriously?
Ok...exactly who is in charge of setting the limit on what a person can make? I mean, where is it in the constitution that says "if you make too much $$, you have to start giving everything over X amount to someone who has less, who doesn't work as hard, who didn't struggle to earn...etc?
And can you please tell me how you or anyone else has had roughshod run over them by a wealthy person?
I'm not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination, but every year, I'm working harder, coming up with ideas and pursuing them, and I'm doing better every year. I hope to be wealthy in a few years (wealthy to my personal definition where I don't really worry about any of my living expenses, have savings and not worried about retirement, I'm pretty easy)....but you know? I've never been put down, or held back by anyone that is wealthy.
The government has done more to impede me than any wealthy person....
It would be an old joke...if Sony STILL wasn't making products that require memory sticks rather than something more common and standard, like SD cards or MicroSD.....
At least with that...you have a choice. I do NOT use rfid tags on a keychain or credit card...I've told the CC people to only send me NON-RFID cards.
Now, I've never heard about one on the plate...you mean some states have RFIDs on the state issued license plate on a car?!!?? What state is that?
How does a gas pump know what car it is pumping gas into?
The only way a gas pump knows any information about me, is if I happen to choose to pay with a CC instead of cash.....I try to do cash for most all of my transactions.
I've heard of them.
Now..actually seeing them out on the road is another thing altogether!!
I've heard of the Leaf, and decent things about it...I've heard of the Volt, mostly through the news concerning concerns about the battery safety, and how FEW of them have sold despite huge govt subsidies in various forms....and Tesla?
Well...everyone here just goes on in every article about how $$$ they are and that no one can afford them.
If Tesla could put back out their performance sports car at a price more in line with that of a Vette, then, well, they'd have me sold on one.
But really...at this point, clamorning for electric cars is about as wide spread as the blackberry tablet was in another thread.
Considering the dearth of electric vehicles out there...I think you could understand my not thinking of that possibility.
Actually, I think I can freely incite someone else to hate....hate is an emotional feeling, and I don't see them outlawing that.
However, if I incite people to a riot, or violence (physical acts), then, well, we already have laws against that.
I just don't want to see any kind of speech....no matter how vile the idea it expresses, to be banned or made unlawful. Too easy to get someone in power to change what is 'offensive' to them.
One of the basic tenets of Free Speech is, that by definition, if you have Free Speech, you cannot have Freedom from being Offended.
If you grant freedom from offense...then the world will be getting quite a bit quieter very quickly.
Since it is from Sony, I hear it will require the use of Memory Sticks.
I mean, I already pay for my electricity usage...per kilowatt hour...why would I need to let the power company drill down to see what specific fucking amounts my appliances or computers is using?
Is this going to be one of those things that you might get a few cents off your rate if you let them nose into what your running, similar to that spy device that Progressing insurance is having their customers put in their car to 'monitor their driving habits'?
Seriously, what even remotely intelligent consumer out there wants this shit?
That can be defined so broadly, that it would definitely suppress a lot of speech.
I'm glad I can't be arrested, fined or thrown in jail just for saying I think ____ all suck, or I hate ____s...
It might not be politically correct, but you shouldn't run afoul the law for your opinions no matter what they are....
Yes, BUT, exactly WHEN was the last we were involved in an official declared war??
Does the president get war powers even when not in a declared war?
When was the last declared war...WW2 or Korea? Hasn't everything since Vietnam till now been police actions?
So, I have to pay for people that don't use common sense, who are careless and irresponsible...who fuck anyone, can't make and adult decision to keep it in their pants....?
What happened to personal responsibility? We used to have it in this country.
If you're free to succeed, then you should be free to fuck up, and live with the consequences of your actions. I've lived responsibly, had no kids I could not afford....why should I have to pick up the tab for someone else who isn't smart enough to see what their actions will lead to?
When did it become your right to have ME pick up the tab for your irresponsibility?
I'd say ability to find healthcare is a right...but I dont' believe that having everyone else PAY for your healthcare is an innate right. When did this happen? When did we lose personal responsibility for saving for a rainy day (including health emergencies) ?
I think you mean "personal responsibility"...something the US was founded upon, and what many people want to go back to.....before we slide into the mess other parts of Europe are doing, like Greece.
The US govt was not set up to make your decisions or be your Mommy and Daddy and bail you out when you fuck up.
Wouldn't that work the opposite then?
If women have all the contraception they want....they're liable to have sex more often, resulting in greater exposure to STDs?
I mean, I'm guessing that the contraception for women here 99% of the time is going to be specific to them, the pill or intrauterine devices, all of which do nothing to prevent STDs.
Why don't they just make it easier to set up and run your own HSA (Health Savings Account) so the average person can load it up pre-tax for medical spending, don't have it forced to be associated with a high deductible insurance acct the way it currently is set up.
Then, let the person pay into it pre-tax...and women can use that to purchase their contraception...and it is then back to a personal thing.
Frankly I'm all for women being on the pill....not having to worry about her getting knocked up is a HUGE peace of mind thing.
Hell, if they just for a START, would let the Feds negotiate for drugs for medicare/medicade like the VA system does...a lot of $$ could be saved in on quick step!!!
Why don't they do something like that? Hmm.....
How does that help or strengthen the US's position?
Do we not have US citizens still getting AIDs here ? Why are we not eradicating the problem here and getting our own house in check...before throwing our hard earned money to foreigners all over the world?
What? I mean..really....what???
No one is controlling women. They are just as free as men to fuck at will....with our without shame.
But why the fuck should someone pay for them to do so? If they want birth control, they are just as free now to get it as before....why should other Joe/Jane Q. citizens have to pay to subsidize them fucking? Something that I think everyone will agree upon...is a decision that is up to the individual to make.
Since when is birth control a fucking right??
Insightful?
If they could just make the roadster in this price range...THEN talk to me about getting an electric car!!
I'm just not interested in a 'family car'.....which is anything with > 2 functional seats.
Are there any good DIY posts ya'll know of on how to do it, or build whatever apparatus you might need?
I see one person responded with something to do with a worm farm...not sure if that was joking or not, but not so much wanting to raise worms, but just something to make soil to use as fertilizer, which is what I guess composting is....
Actually, I do have a Vitamix too....once I got off the juice only fast, I've gone back to using it for smoothies and soups...and soon, to start experimenting with grinding my own whole wheat flour from wheat berries into bread...
But like I stated above...the juicer still has a place in my daily diet...I can eat whole foods from Vitamix or regular cooking...but with the juicer, I can increase my intake even more of the micronutrients in fruits and veggies....and I also get to have fun coming up with some very nifty and unique flavors with the juice....
Well, I was on a 30 day juice fast...only juice, no pulp.
Going forward, I eat (sensibly now), and I like smoothies, but I also like to juice, without the pulp, I can squeeze even more veggie/fruit micro nutrients into my diet, that I could not do eating all of them...this is in addition to normal eating of veggies and fruits too whole or blended.
I got a Breville Ikon juicer and it works wonders...but I'd been trying to think what to do with all the dry pulp that comes out of it.
I'd been thinking to try to save some of it, particularly the veggie stuff from the green juices...and maybe boiling it to make vegetable stock....I don't know anything about composting, but was thinking to research and explore that, to see if it was viable to try to compost all of this stuff, and use it for fertilizer for my garden this spring.
Anyone out there know much about reusing plant 'waste' or leftovers from the home in such a manner? Links? Suggestions?
If I had the $$$$ that I assume this guy must have...I'd have quit a LONG time ago....and spend the rest of my life enjoying my money...traveling the world, bedding new babes, basically one long party the rest of my life.
But, I guess to each his own...everyone has something different that makes them happy. Whatever it is...DO IT...life on this planet is short, make sure you have no regrets on your deathbed.