Now that you mention it, I can't remember when I last heard an ad on Pandora. Maybe they are doing the visual ads, but once I start it running I only go back to the tab when it shuts down.
I would prefer they do the visual ads. That way I don't have to look at them and can ignore them as I do with all advertisements. Unfortunately, audio advertisements waste my time while I ignore them while the visual ones can just be occurring while i am doing something else and still listening to music.
Every clearinghouse in the country also supports the idea of a Token that is not your card number. That doesn't mean the vendors will, either on the current system or on the proposed system.
Phone companies are not regulated as Credit Card companies, and until they are, they should not be allowed to facilitate these transactions. They are enjoying the benefit of processing these transactions without any of the added extra cost of enforcing consumer protection. Instead, if you say you didn't buy something, then they say "tough. If you don't pay it, we are going to report you to the credit agencies,"
That's probably the difference then. I had an individual plan prior to Obamacare because coverage through the company was too expensive. I paid about 1/3 of what I would have paid through my company insurance for my family. People used to complain that you couldn't get affordable insurance except through a company, but I think that was a rumor spread by the corporations to keep people from leaving them.
Unfortunately, when Obamacare came along, my previously affordable insurance went about by a factor of 4 or 5. It was still cheaper than my company's insurance plan, which also went up by about 50%, so I stayed with my individual plan, but I had to switch to a different individual plan to get it down to only 3 times the previous year's plan.
Not to mention that it shows that he is a hypocrite. While everybody in every other field gets an F because they are not an expert in his chosen field, he obviously knows nothing about the software development profession. Why does everybody have to be an expert, while not everybody has to be an expert in software development, banking, law, medicine, etc.?
In other words, don't be yourself, try to be something you are not in order to attract someone who then hopefully will be willing to settle when they find out who you really are. Brilliant! Just start the whole relationship on the basis of deception.
This works great in business. You get somebody hooked on your product with a bunch of promises and by the time they find out they are too deep in to back out. Not sure how well it works in relationships. Oh, wait, the divorce rate continues to rise even though there is a huge jump in the number of couples living together and not getting married at all. Huh, I guess founding your relationship on a lie is a bad idea after all.
I don't see anything wrong with red light cameras per se. The problem is the money grubbing on the back end which entices the shorter yellows. There should be a standard measurement for how long a yellow is, and it should be based upon the speed limit, reaction time and the length of the intersection. If the yellow is not as long as that, then the road is closed until it is fixed.
Since people who blast through red lights two seconds after it turned red are plenty numerous, I for one am more than happy that they get busted. Perhaps the red light can snap all the license plates of the people who observed the guy blowing the red light and didn't crash into him. Then some large percentage of the fine can be awarded to the people that the red light runner placed in harm's way so that he could avoid another 45 second light cycle.
Back in the day, kids were given textbooks. Six classes of textbooks cost $600-$800. They get lost, damaged, and cost a fair amount of money to keep up with.
So the proposal is to buy each of the students an ipad, so the cost is $600 times the number of students PLUS the $600-$800 because as we know, the cost of an ebook is the same as the physical book (sometimes even higher). And now you have a piece of electronics floating around that is going to get lost or stolen, and the parents will have to pay $600 for it, as opposed to if a book gets lost or stolen, the parent only has to pay $30 or so. Add to that that an ebook is not reader friendly, and it seems like the whole idea starts at bad and gets worse from there.
So why is your insurance deal so much worse than what everyone else is getting? What's so different about your personal situation to drive your prices dramatically up with millions of people are seeing the opposite?
Well, I am not aware of anyone whose insurance is only going up 3-5% per year and am not aware of anyone for whom their insurance didn't got up by at least 30% when Obamacare happened. And I know a lot of people for whom it doubled or tripled and one case where it went up by a factor of 5.
My situation was that I had a perfectly good Major Medical plan, and then when Obamacare happened, I was no longer able to get that plan, and they put me into a plan which was still Major Medical, but the coverage was not as good and the deductibles were higher, and it cost 4 times as much. I was able to eventually find the cheapest available plan, which was only a little over twice as much as the pre-Obama plan, but it also went up by about 25% the next year.
It's a private plan with regulations to keep the price reasonable because it wouldn't be otherwise.
Right, because my insurance was going up by 10-15% each year, severely outpacing inflation. But thankfully, Obama put a stop to that with the Obamacare plan, which only made it go up 400% the first year and 25% the next year. Those are the only two years of data points so far. I admit there is every possibility that next year, my insurance could drop by a factor of 6 putting it in line with what my insurance formerly was trending.
We're still up in arms, I think. Frankly, I'm on the employees side. if A123 wanted to retain them, the way to do it wasn't by holding the threat of law over them. Instead, they should pay them more. Non-competes are illegal in California and for good reason. It is a fundamental right to be able to work at your chosen profession. Any court that upholds a non-compete is violating basic human rights and the constitution of the United States of America and the court needs to be removed from authority.
You think the only people buying $67K cars are rich? Umm, wow.
No, I am well aware that the lower middle class also buy cars like that. However, only the rich can AFFORD cars like that. Back when I had a job, my household income was just about $110k, and I considered an affordable car for my income to be about $25k. People shouldn't be buying cars that cost more than their yearly income. They really shouldn't be buying cars that are even 1/4 of their yearly income.
Teslas are for rich people. Why is the government giving subsidies to people for buying these cars? That means middle class people like me have to pay more in taxes so we continue to not be able to afford an expensive car like a Tesla and so that the rich can afford to buy a Tesla for less than the true cost.
You can't just go around taking on 240 Volt 20 Amp outlets everywhere. The wiring from the panel has to be large enough to accommodate the current. Where I live, that would be 6 gauge wire. This is not the typical wire running to a typical lightpole. Light poles are usually 110 Volt, so you would probably be missing a wire and the wire would not be large enough because even overhead streetlamps are typically 400 watts on the high side and that is less than 4 Amps at 110 Volts.
Then you have to consider whether your panel is even able to provide the service needed to power a couple of people plugged into 240 Volt 20 Amp circuits. A large home may have as much as 200 Amp service (rated according to 110 Volts). A parking garage may have 200 Amp service if they are running elevators, soda machines and the like. Otherwise, lights don't take much power, so they may only have 50 or 100 Amp service. If they have 200 Amp service (at 110V) that is only 100 Amps at 220V, or enough to power only 5 outlets simultaneously assuming that no other lights or electrical devices are in use. Upgrading the service on the box may require upgrading the incoming electrical service., which could potentially involve having to upgrade electrical substations.
So no, unfortunately, it is not a simple matter of buying a 220V 20 Amp dock and slapping it up on a lightpole.
Actually, if we drop all of the energy subsidies, your money spent will go WAY up.
Of course, that is not possible because the energy subsidies are coming from somewhere, ie taxes. If the energy subsidies were dropped, the total money spent would be the same. In fact lower because of the "handling charge" that the government gets for taxing you and giving it to the energy companies.
From cancer.org
"There is still concern that marijuana may cause toxic side effects in some people, and any benefits must be carefully weighed against its potential risks.
A number of reviewers have concluded that the scientific evidence does not support smoking marijuana as a medicine because of problems with dosing and the variable amounts of any one compound that might be delivered. "
It goes on to list a number of other side effects, including loss of intelligence, impairment of driving, paranoia, low blood pressure, fast heartbeat, dizziness, slow reaction time, lung infections, heart palpitations.likelihood of heightening of existing psychosis, increased risk of heart attack, etc.
Don't waste your time on tobacco when there's medicinal herb with much better health benefits and much better side effects too!
Cannabis smoke contains many of the carcinogens as tobacco smoke and can lead to some of the same afflictions. The fact that someone has associated the term "medicinal" with cannabis means that someone needs to go to jail for crimes against humanity.
Yes, especially roadside wildfires from illegally throwing flaming sticks out of their window which cost billions of dollars a year in firefighting costs and cause the death of thousands of innocent people and the loss of thousands of homes.
You can't be protected against the judge unless you have equal or greater captialism power.
You can't be protected against a criminal. These days, if you protect yourself from a criminal, it's a tossup whether you will end up in jail. At least, you should make sure to have the criminal remove their mask first and make sure of their race. Defending yourself from a minority criminal is a jailable offense now.
Still that is better than not defending yourself at all, because if you comply 100%, the criminals will still often kill you.
The criminals have the law on their sides these days. A normal law abiding person has no one on their side if the criminal decides to target them.
What's so hard to understand is how the company broke the law. Did the company upload or download copyrighted materials? I thought it was their users that did that. I thought the company made a tool which could be used for uploading and downloading files. Unless the tool was made specifically for uploading and downloading illegal files, then I don't see the problem. In fact, if it was specifically used for uploading and downloading illegal files, then it would be important that we get a hold of their algorithm because nobody else has a good algorithm for determining if a file is illegal or not.
But if you get paid to modify a car to help smuggle drugs across the border then you are an accomplice. It has to do if you should reasonably have known your actions were contributing to the execution of a crime.
And much like the manufacturer of a hammer, they have no way of knowing whether that hammer will be used to nail together pieces of wood or open up the back of someone's head, and so they are therefore not responsible when someone misuses the tool which is intended for beneficial use.
Probably the part about "once involved in a criminal conspiracy". How exactly was the programmer involved? He wrote code that allowed users to upload and download files, the content of which the programmer could not possibly know or be responsible for?
If the programmer is responsible, then so is the uploader and downloader's ISP, and the manufacturer of their switches and hubs and the operator of the telephone lines, etc, etc.
The only way the programmer is responsible is if his boss said "we want you to write a program that violates copyright" and he did so.
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Now that you mention it, I can't remember when I last heard an ad on Pandora. Maybe they are doing the visual ads, but once I start it running I only go back to the tab when it shuts down.
I would prefer they do the visual ads. That way I don't have to look at them and can ignore them as I do with all advertisements. Unfortunately, audio advertisements waste my time while I ignore them while the visual ones can just be occurring while i am doing something else and still listening to music.
Every clearinghouse in the country also supports the idea of a Token that is not your card number. That doesn't mean the vendors will, either on the current system or on the proposed system.
Phone companies are not regulated as Credit Card companies, and until they are, they should not be allowed to facilitate these transactions. They are enjoying the benefit of processing these transactions without any of the added extra cost of enforcing consumer protection. Instead, if you say you didn't buy something, then they say "tough. If you don't pay it, we are going to report you to the credit agencies,"
Yes, I'm sure if we outlaw guns, that will be the one law that the criminals decide to obey.
That's probably the difference then. I had an individual plan prior to Obamacare because coverage through the company was too expensive. I paid about 1/3 of what I would have paid through my company insurance for my family. People used to complain that you couldn't get affordable insurance except through a company, but I think that was a rumor spread by the corporations to keep people from leaving them.
Unfortunately, when Obamacare came along, my previously affordable insurance went about by a factor of 4 or 5. It was still cheaper than my company's insurance plan, which also went up by about 50%, so I stayed with my individual plan, but I had to switch to a different individual plan to get it down to only 3 times the previous year's plan.
Not to mention that it shows that he is a hypocrite. While everybody in every other field gets an F because they are not an expert in his chosen field, he obviously knows nothing about the software development profession. Why does everybody have to be an expert, while not everybody has to be an expert in software development, banking, law, medicine, etc.?
What a coincidence, I always thought Bill Nye's knowledge of science was rather shallow. Apparently he thinks the same of me.
In other words, don't be yourself, try to be something you are not in order to attract someone who then hopefully will be willing to settle when they find out who you really are. Brilliant! Just start the whole relationship on the basis of deception.
This works great in business. You get somebody hooked on your product with a bunch of promises and by the time they find out they are too deep in to back out. Not sure how well it works in relationships. Oh, wait, the divorce rate continues to rise even though there is a huge jump in the number of couples living together and not getting married at all. Huh, I guess founding your relationship on a lie is a bad idea after all.
I don't see anything wrong with red light cameras per se. The problem is the money grubbing on the back end which entices the shorter yellows. There should be a standard measurement for how long a yellow is, and it should be based upon the speed limit, reaction time and the length of the intersection. If the yellow is not as long as that, then the road is closed until it is fixed.
Since people who blast through red lights two seconds after it turned red are plenty numerous, I for one am more than happy that they get busted. Perhaps the red light can snap all the license plates of the people who observed the guy blowing the red light and didn't crash into him. Then some large percentage of the fine can be awarded to the people that the red light runner placed in harm's way so that he could avoid another 45 second light cycle.
Back in the day, kids were given textbooks. Six classes of textbooks cost $600-$800. They get lost, damaged, and cost a fair amount of money to keep up with.
So the proposal is to buy each of the students an ipad, so the cost is $600 times the number of students PLUS the $600-$800 because as we know, the cost of an ebook is the same as the physical book (sometimes even higher). And now you have a piece of electronics floating around that is going to get lost or stolen, and the parents will have to pay $600 for it, as opposed to if a book gets lost or stolen, the parent only has to pay $30 or so. Add to that that an ebook is not reader friendly, and it seems like the whole idea starts at bad and gets worse from there.
So why is your insurance deal so much worse than what everyone else is getting? What's so different about your personal situation to drive your prices dramatically up with millions of people are seeing the opposite?
Well, I am not aware of anyone whose insurance is only going up 3-5% per year and am not aware of anyone for whom their insurance didn't got up by at least 30% when Obamacare happened. And I know a lot of people for whom it doubled or tripled and one case where it went up by a factor of 5.
My situation was that I had a perfectly good Major Medical plan, and then when Obamacare happened, I was no longer able to get that plan, and they put me into a plan which was still Major Medical, but the coverage was not as good and the deductibles were higher, and it cost 4 times as much. I was able to eventually find the cheapest available plan, which was only a little over twice as much as the pre-Obama plan, but it also went up by about 25% the next year.
It's a private plan with regulations to keep the price reasonable because it wouldn't be otherwise.
Right, because my insurance was going up by 10-15% each year, severely outpacing inflation. But thankfully, Obama put a stop to that with the Obamacare plan, which only made it go up 400% the first year and 25% the next year. Those are the only two years of data points so far. I admit there is every possibility that next year, my insurance could drop by a factor of 6 putting it in line with what my insurance formerly was trending.
We're still up in arms, I think. Frankly, I'm on the employees side. if A123 wanted to retain them, the way to do it wasn't by holding the threat of law over them. Instead, they should pay them more. Non-competes are illegal in California and for good reason. It is a fundamental right to be able to work at your chosen profession. Any court that upholds a non-compete is violating basic human rights and the constitution of the United States of America and the court needs to be removed from authority.
You think the only people buying $67K cars are rich? Umm, wow.
No, I am well aware that the lower middle class also buy cars like that. However, only the rich can AFFORD cars like that. Back when I had a job, my household income was just about $110k, and I considered an affordable car for my income to be about $25k. People shouldn't be buying cars that cost more than their yearly income. They really shouldn't be buying cars that are even 1/4 of their yearly income.
$30k for an electric car doesn't sound too bad. Now drop the weight by half and double the range and count me in.
Teslas are for rich people. Why is the government giving subsidies to people for buying these cars? That means middle class people like me have to pay more in taxes so we continue to not be able to afford an expensive car like a Tesla and so that the rich can afford to buy a Tesla for less than the true cost.
If everybody charges their electric vehicle at night, then electricity will no longer be cheap at night.
You can't just go around taking on 240 Volt 20 Amp outlets everywhere. The wiring from the panel has to be large enough to accommodate the current. Where I live, that would be 6 gauge wire. This is not the typical wire running to a typical lightpole. Light poles are usually 110 Volt, so you would probably be missing a wire and the wire would not be large enough because even overhead streetlamps are typically 400 watts on the high side and that is less than 4 Amps at 110 Volts.
Then you have to consider whether your panel is even able to provide the service needed to power a couple of people plugged into 240 Volt 20 Amp circuits. A large home may have as much as 200 Amp service (rated according to 110 Volts). A parking garage may have 200 Amp service if they are running elevators, soda machines and the like. Otherwise, lights don't take much power, so they may only have 50 or 100 Amp service. If they have 200 Amp service (at 110V) that is only 100 Amps at 220V, or enough to power only 5 outlets simultaneously assuming that no other lights or electrical devices are in use. Upgrading the service on the box may require upgrading the incoming electrical service., which could potentially involve having to upgrade electrical substations.
So no, unfortunately, it is not a simple matter of buying a 220V 20 Amp dock and slapping it up on a lightpole.
Actually, if we drop all of the energy subsidies, your money spent will go WAY up.
Of course, that is not possible because the energy subsidies are coming from somewhere, ie taxes. If the energy subsidies were dropped, the total money spent would be the same. In fact lower because of the "handling charge" that the government gets for taxing you and giving it to the energy companies.
From cancer.org "There is still concern that marijuana may cause toxic side effects in some people, and any benefits must be carefully weighed against its potential risks.
A number of reviewers have concluded that the scientific evidence does not support smoking marijuana as a medicine because of problems with dosing and the variable amounts of any one compound that might be delivered. "
It goes on to list a number of other side effects, including loss of intelligence, impairment of driving, paranoia, low blood pressure, fast heartbeat, dizziness, slow reaction time, lung infections, heart palpitations.likelihood of heightening of existing psychosis, increased risk of heart attack, etc.
Don't waste your time on tobacco when there's medicinal herb with much better health benefits and much better side effects too!
Cannabis smoke contains many of the carcinogens as tobacco smoke and can lead to some of the same afflictions. The fact that someone has associated the term "medicinal" with cannabis means that someone needs to go to jail for crimes against humanity.
Yes, especially roadside wildfires from illegally throwing flaming sticks out of their window which cost billions of dollars a year in firefighting costs and cause the death of thousands of innocent people and the loss of thousands of homes.
Except you can be protected against the criminal.
You can't be protected against the judge unless you have equal or greater captialism power.
You can't be protected against a criminal. These days, if you protect yourself from a criminal, it's a tossup whether you will end up in jail. At least, you should make sure to have the criminal remove their mask first and make sure of their race. Defending yourself from a minority criminal is a jailable offense now.
Still that is better than not defending yourself at all, because if you comply 100%, the criminals will still often kill you.
The criminals have the law on their sides these days. A normal law abiding person has no one on their side if the criminal decides to target them.
What's so hard to understand is how the company broke the law. Did the company upload or download copyrighted materials? I thought it was their users that did that. I thought the company made a tool which could be used for uploading and downloading files. Unless the tool was made specifically for uploading and downloading illegal files, then I don't see the problem. In fact, if it was specifically used for uploading and downloading illegal files, then it would be important that we get a hold of their algorithm because nobody else has a good algorithm for determining if a file is illegal or not.
But if you get paid to modify a car to help smuggle drugs across the border then you are an accomplice. It has to do if you should reasonably have known your actions were contributing to the execution of a crime.
And much like the manufacturer of a hammer, they have no way of knowing whether that hammer will be used to nail together pieces of wood or open up the back of someone's head, and so they are therefore not responsible when someone misuses the tool which is intended for beneficial use.
Probably the part about "once involved in a criminal conspiracy". How exactly was the programmer involved? He wrote code that allowed users to upload and download files, the content of which the programmer could not possibly know or be responsible for?
If the programmer is responsible, then so is the uploader and downloader's ISP, and the manufacturer of their switches and hubs and the operator of the telephone lines, etc, etc.
The only way the programmer is responsible is if his boss said "we want you to write a program that violates copyright" and he did so.