Do you have any hard information ( not anti-vac or alternative healthy copy ) to base that on?
Nope. Just good old fashioned follow-the-money. If the insurance company would rather risk the chance of you getting the flu than pay up front for the shot, then that is a good indicator that they don't think the shot is going to help you.
Boston suffered 334 deaths from motor vehicles last year.
And Boston is considered to have a low Motor Vehicle Death rate. Probably because they can't find a street that goes in one direction long enough to get up to lethal speed.
It is worth $30 ( shame on you CareFirst Blue Cross/Blue Shield for not covering it ) to make sure that I am done with that kind of crap for the winter. Just do it.
If you are like me, then having gotten your shot, you will now get sick.
Also, if BCBS thought that it would be worth paying $30 to prevent you from getting a more expensive sickness, then they would do it in a heartbeat. The fact that they didn't makes me think they don't believe the flu shot will do any good.
And stop your damn coughing and learn how to clear your throat properly.
I don't understand coughing. Even when I'm sick, I hardly ever feel the urge to cough. It is only if I try to talk when i am very sick that I will get a tickle in the back of my throat that makes me cough. My wife, on the other hand, coughs a lot at night, even when she is not sick. There are people at work that just always cough, sick or not sick, all day long. I don't get it.
Are we such a society of debters that we're living hand-to-mouth and one lost paycheck would break us?
Well, I didn't used to be but inflation has caught up to and surpassed me. It used to be that I was able to get by and even had some nice luxuries like a $40,000 sports car. Unfortunately, in the intervening years, the cost of living has gone up by 20% or so per year and my salary has gone up by 0% per year, and now the sports car is gone, several other luxuries are gone, and I live paycheck-to-paycheck. Every year with my salary remaining the same and the cost of living going up brings the inevitable bankruptcy closer to fruition.
I did put a lot of money away for a rainy day, but most of it was stolen away from me by wall street thiefs, and the rest of it is tied up in "retirement" funds which I can't get without paying a hefty tax burden and also a penalty for early withdrawal. Once I reach retirement age, I should be pretty comfortable for about 2 or 3 years, but I don't know if I'll make it to retirement.
I also was confused when they say it is 10 times as bad, and yet somehow only twice the percentage of people who came to the doctor had flu-like symptoms. Of course, the only people I know of who go to the doctor when they are sick are people who don't pay any co-pays or -co-insurance. The rest of us just stay and sleep, or go to work and make everybody else sick because we'll get fired if we don't.
I got a flu shot once and got sicker than a dog afterwards. I don't know if I had the flu. My understanding is likely not because the flu is fairly often fatal. But just to be safe, I haven't had a flu shot since.
I took some sick time off this week because I was feeling too woozy and lightheaded to drive. Turns out some people made some bad decisions on products that I am ultimately responsible for while I was away and I didn't find out about it until I got back. Seems I can't leave the company for a day or two without people screwing things up. Even though I spent at least half the day online working from home, nobody thought to solicit my advice on what to do in areas which were clearly my responsibility.
I have never had the real flue and I try to point out to the hundreds and hundreds of people I meet every year who think that they have the flu that if they really had the flu, there is a 1 in 5 chance they'd be dead right now. Somehow, none of the hundreds of people I know who think they had the flu ever died from it.
I've seen places try to be even "smarter" and combine 2 weeks vacation and 2 weeks sick time into 3 weeks of combined "annual leave" or "paid time off".
As mentioned above, my company recently combined 2 weeks of vacation and however much sick time you need in to 2 weeks of "paid time off". They also at the same time discarded all of my unused vacation time over the last 6 years. With my seniority, I now get 4 weeks of vacation a year, but there is no possible way to take it with all of the project deadlines and they would be pissed if I took a vacation right in the middle of a big project (and we are always in the middle of a big project). They also decided that when you quit or get fired they will only pay half of your "Paid time off" since they still try to make a distinction between sick leave and vacation when it is in their favor to do so.
Several copies of the paperwork have been dropped on my desk to sign over the last several weeks, and none of them have gotten signed yet. I'm trying to think of the correct wording to add into the contract.
Interesting that the competitor to Cisco did that. Apparently Cisco has also screwed people over on vacation time, shutting down at the end of the year and forcing people to take vacation time or go unpaid for several days.
Where my ex works, they had to get rid of sick days.
See, everyone got 10 sick days a year but they were bankable. So you had people coming in baked out of their minds on cold meds getting everyone else sick and banking the time to use as extra vacation time.
They just did the opposite where I work. We had two weeks of paid vacation per year and if you were sick, you were sick, and anybody abusing that got dealt with on a case by case basis. Now, they have changed to you have two weeks of paid time off per year period, including vacation and sick time. So, obviously the upshot of that is that people are going to come to work when they are sick so they don't lose their vacation time.
They even managed to try to spin it like this conversion from two weeks plus sick days to two weeks minus sick days was somehow a good thing.
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children? Why, the RFID system will be able to detect when unauthorized people are on school grounds. All we have to do is get the unauthorized people to wear a badge that has been programmed to say that they are unauthorized.
I have had a job where you had to have such a badge, but then when I left it at home occasionally and then eventually lost it I still didn't have any trouble getting in. Luckily, as an employee I have the option of quitting and going to another company that doesn't require me to wear a badge. I currently don't have to wear a badge where I work.
Because it doesn't matter if you have the best idea in the world, if you believe in God, your idea needs to be ridiculed and shot down. Remember, you should judge people based on their religion, not on their actions.
Citing a thing like "FAA identified errors in the assembly of fuel line couplings in the Dreamliner." when the actual fire, according to this morning's Boston Globe, was "[a] Small electrical fire..."
This article brought to you by Airbus Industries.
And when your child dies of aniphylactic shock because the school could not reach you on your listed emergency number and the company IP based phone system was down, then you can sue that company for everything they have or ever will have.
How is the company responsible for you giving a cell phone number instead of your work number? Also, there are multiple emergency contact numbers requested just for the reason that the primary emergency contact is unreachable. Also, if your child was dying of anaphylactic shock and they got ahold of you, what would you do? By the time you drove to the school, your child would likely be dead, or at the hospital, which is where they would take someone who was having an emergency of that nature, with or without your permission. To do any less would mean to get sued, thanks to today's sue-happy hoverparents.
It's quite a different world ten years ago.
That's true. 10 years ago, we had 1/10th of the methods of communicating that we have now and we communicated 10 times better than we do now.
I have a 7 year old child in school. The school has my cell phone number in case of emergency, so that I can go pick up the child.
Schools, children and emergencies all existed for thousands of years before cell phones and people got by just fine.
Windows 8 is also failing because there are not very many touch screens out there. Who wants to upgrade their hardware just to put a new OS on it? Even the hardware that is ONLY AVAILABLE with Windows 8 thanks to Microsoft's illegal and anti-competitive practices often enough does not come with a touch screen.
I was not contesting that trucks do more damage, just that it is the ground pressure that makes the difference. If it were ground pressure, than we should ban bicycles (90 PSI) and all drive tanks (15 PSI).
The reality is fuel efficient vehicles are light, generally have low power and have the least impact on roads.
Well, that is correct for fuel efficient cars, but not as true for hybrids and full electrics. A fully electric vehicle weighs more and does more damage to the road than a gas engined car of the same size.
Without GPS, how do they know when you leave the state? And with GPS isn't that a serious privacy issue?
How is this not an issue with the gas tax as well? Are people buying gas as a percentage of which state they drive in? I find it more likely they try to buy gas in whichever state has the cheapest gas taxes.
Miles driven does nothing to the road compared to pounds per square inch.
If that is the case, then an automobile causes more damage than an 18 wheeler. A passenger car puts 30 PSI on the ground. An 18 wheeler puts about 10+ PSI on the ground.
Sure your car weighs 1/10th as much, but the two front tires of a big rig have more contact area than your entire car.
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Do you have any hard information ( not anti-vac or alternative healthy copy ) to base that on?
Nope. Just good old fashioned follow-the-money. If the insurance company would rather risk the chance of you getting the flu than pay up front for the shot, then that is a good indicator that they don't think the shot is going to help you.
Boston suffered 334 deaths from motor vehicles last year.
And Boston is considered to have a low Motor Vehicle Death rate. Probably because they can't find a street that goes in one direction long enough to get up to lethal speed.
It is worth $30 ( shame on you CareFirst Blue Cross/Blue Shield for not covering it ) to make sure that I am done with that kind of crap for the winter. Just do it.
If you are like me, then having gotten your shot, you will now get sick.
Also, if BCBS thought that it would be worth paying $30 to prevent you from getting a more expensive sickness, then they would do it in a heartbeat. The fact that they didn't makes me think they don't believe the flu shot will do any good.
And stop your damn coughing and learn how to clear your throat properly.
I don't understand coughing. Even when I'm sick, I hardly ever feel the urge to cough. It is only if I try to talk when i am very sick that I will get a tickle in the back of my throat that makes me cough. My wife, on the other hand, coughs a lot at night, even when she is not sick. There are people at work that just always cough, sick or not sick, all day long. I don't get it.
Are we such a society of debters that we're living hand-to-mouth and one lost paycheck would break us?
Well, I didn't used to be but inflation has caught up to and surpassed me. It used to be that I was able to get by and even had some nice luxuries like a $40,000 sports car. Unfortunately, in the intervening years, the cost of living has gone up by 20% or so per year and my salary has gone up by 0% per year, and now the sports car is gone, several other luxuries are gone, and I live paycheck-to-paycheck. Every year with my salary remaining the same and the cost of living going up brings the inevitable bankruptcy closer to fruition.
I did put a lot of money away for a rainy day, but most of it was stolen away from me by wall street thiefs, and the rest of it is tied up in "retirement" funds which I can't get without paying a hefty tax burden and also a penalty for early withdrawal. Once I reach retirement age, I should be pretty comfortable for about 2 or 3 years, but I don't know if I'll make it to retirement.
I also was confused when they say it is 10 times as bad, and yet somehow only twice the percentage of people who came to the doctor had flu-like symptoms. Of course, the only people I know of who go to the doctor when they are sick are people who don't pay any co-pays or -co-insurance. The rest of us just stay and sleep, or go to work and make everybody else sick because we'll get fired if we don't.
I got a flu shot once and got sicker than a dog afterwards. I don't know if I had the flu. My understanding is likely not because the flu is fairly often fatal. But just to be safe, I haven't had a flu shot since.
I took some sick time off this week because I was feeling too woozy and lightheaded to drive. Turns out some people made some bad decisions on products that I am ultimately responsible for while I was away and I didn't find out about it until I got back. Seems I can't leave the company for a day or two without people screwing things up. Even though I spent at least half the day online working from home, nobody thought to solicit my advice on what to do in areas which were clearly my responsibility.
I have never had the real flue and I try to point out to the hundreds and hundreds of people I meet every year who think that they have the flu that if they really had the flu, there is a 1 in 5 chance they'd be dead right now. Somehow, none of the hundreds of people I know who think they had the flu ever died from it.
I've seen places try to be even "smarter" and combine 2 weeks vacation and 2 weeks sick time into 3 weeks of combined "annual leave" or "paid time off".
As mentioned above, my company recently combined 2 weeks of vacation and however much sick time you need in to 2 weeks of "paid time off". They also at the same time discarded all of my unused vacation time over the last 6 years. With my seniority, I now get 4 weeks of vacation a year, but there is no possible way to take it with all of the project deadlines and they would be pissed if I took a vacation right in the middle of a big project (and we are always in the middle of a big project). They also decided that when you quit or get fired they will only pay half of your "Paid time off" since they still try to make a distinction between sick leave and vacation when it is in their favor to do so.
Several copies of the paperwork have been dropped on my desk to sign over the last several weeks, and none of them have gotten signed yet. I'm trying to think of the correct wording to add into the contract.
Interesting that the competitor to Cisco did that. Apparently Cisco has also screwed people over on vacation time, shutting down at the end of the year and forcing people to take vacation time or go unpaid for several days.
Where my ex works, they had to get rid of sick days. See, everyone got 10 sick days a year but they were bankable. So you had people coming in baked out of their minds on cold meds getting everyone else sick and banking the time to use as extra vacation time.
They just did the opposite where I work. We had two weeks of paid vacation per year and if you were sick, you were sick, and anybody abusing that got dealt with on a case by case basis. Now, they have changed to you have two weeks of paid time off per year period, including vacation and sick time. So, obviously the upshot of that is that people are going to come to work when they are sick so they don't lose their vacation time.
They even managed to try to spin it like this conversion from two weeks plus sick days to two weeks minus sick days was somehow a good thing.
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children? Why, the RFID system will be able to detect when unauthorized people are on school grounds. All we have to do is get the unauthorized people to wear a badge that has been programmed to say that they are unauthorized.
I have had a job where you had to have such a badge, but then when I left it at home occasionally and then eventually lost it I still didn't have any trouble getting in. Luckily, as an employee I have the option of quitting and going to another company that doesn't require me to wear a badge. I currently don't have to wear a badge where I work.
Because it doesn't matter if you have the best idea in the world, if you believe in God, your idea needs to be ridiculed and shot down. Remember, you should judge people based on their religion, not on their actions.
RFID offers a better way of tracking students while they're on campus
Well, not necessarily better, but certainly more expensive and invasive.
Citing a thing like "FAA identified errors in the assembly of fuel line couplings in the Dreamliner." when the actual fire, according to this morning's Boston Globe, was "[a] Small electrical fire..."
This article brought to you by Airbus Industries.
And when your child dies of aniphylactic shock because the school could not reach you on your listed emergency number and the company IP based phone system was down, then you can sue that company for everything they have or ever will have.
How is the company responsible for you giving a cell phone number instead of your work number? Also, there are multiple emergency contact numbers requested just for the reason that the primary emergency contact is unreachable. Also, if your child was dying of anaphylactic shock and they got ahold of you, what would you do? By the time you drove to the school, your child would likely be dead, or at the hospital, which is where they would take someone who was having an emergency of that nature, with or without your permission. To do any less would mean to get sued, thanks to today's sue-happy hoverparents.
It's quite a different world ten years ago.
That's true. 10 years ago, we had 1/10th of the methods of communicating that we have now and we communicated 10 times better than we do now.
I have a 7 year old child in school. The school has my cell phone number in case of emergency, so that I can go pick up the child.
Schools, children and emergencies all existed for thousands of years before cell phones and people got by just fine.
Windows 8 is also failing because there are not very many touch screens out there. Who wants to upgrade their hardware just to put a new OS on it? Even the hardware that is ONLY AVAILABLE with Windows 8 thanks to Microsoft's illegal and anti-competitive practices often enough does not come with a touch screen.
I was not contesting that trucks do more damage, just that it is the ground pressure that makes the difference. If it were ground pressure, than we should ban bicycles (90 PSI) and all drive tanks (15 PSI).
The reality is fuel efficient vehicles are light, generally have low power and have the least impact on roads.
Well, that is correct for fuel efficient cars, but not as true for hybrids and full electrics. A fully electric vehicle weighs more and does more damage to the road than a gas engined car of the same size.
Without GPS, how do they know when you leave the state? And with GPS isn't that a serious privacy issue?
How is this not an issue with the gas tax as well? Are people buying gas as a percentage of which state they drive in? I find it more likely they try to buy gas in whichever state has the cheapest gas taxes.
Miles driven does nothing to the road compared to pounds per square inch.
If that is the case, then an automobile causes more damage than an 18 wheeler. A passenger car puts 30 PSI on the ground. An 18 wheeler puts about 10+ PSI on the ground.
Sure your car weighs 1/10th as much, but the two front tires of a big rig have more contact area than your entire car.