Well I signed up, under duress, but it did take me 6 tries and I had to scan in IDs and attach it to the account twice and then I had to delete the account and create a brand new account, and then even after doing that, the cheapest possible plan was still twice what I was paying a two months early (not one month earlier because one month earlier my insurance company raised the premium by a factor of 4).
My daughter-in-law attempted to sign up for Obamacare. She is in school and makes no money. Between her and my stepson, they make maybe $4-$5k per year, about $10,000 of which goes to pay for school. Yes, I know that doesn't add up. Anyway, she tried to sign up for Obamacare, and the cheapest plan she could get would have cost her $143 a month. She can't afford that, so she didn't sign up. She asked about the penalty and they said since she didn't make much money, she doesn't have to pay the penalty. So what does that mean? It means Obamacare did nothing. Poor people still don't have insurance. They don't have to pay the penalty either. They just go to the emergency room like they used to. Nothing has changed except that the people who already HAD insurance now pay twice as much.
I'm sure if my stepson and daughter-in-law were to drop out of school have a kid and sit at home all day THEN Obamacare would kick in and pay for them. After all, that is what Obama really wants, is for people to sit at home and make babies, not waste their time on education.
I'm sure a lot of those people were already insured, but their insurers dropped them due to Obamacare. That has happened to a lot of people I know. It didn't happen to me, but it was practically the same thing. My Major Medical plan went from $242 a month to $960 a month, with no notice.So I was forced to drop the plan and seek other coverage. I used their stupid webpage to shop for coverage. Turns out that is a bad idea, as their web page is so incredibly sucky that you have to put your information in multiple times, they can never verify your identity, they will ask you to scan in an ID, but there is no link on your account to do so, etc. Andnow, I am one of the $7.1 million users of their wonderful system, according to them. No, I was fine before Obamacare, and now the best I can get is a plan that costs twice as much and doesn't cover as much. I chose the absolute cheapest bronze plan I could get, which was still twice what I was paying before.
False. Auto insurance makes no guarantee to pay car repairs for people who cannot afford auto insurance. There is not even a sliding scale. Auto insurance only pays for those who pay in and the amount you pay in is determined by their statistical assessment of how much they are likely to have to pay out for you personally.
Also, before auto insurance was made mandatory, it was also a lot cheaper. I pay more per month now than I paid per year when I was 16 years old, and the car I had when I was 16 was 8 years old, versus the 13 year old car I have been driving. I have had 0 accidents in my entire lifetime, 0 hail damage, 0 payouts of any kind. When I was 16, insurance wasn't mandatory, but now it is.
I just saw the nice new box on my W2 that shows "employer health insurance" payments. It was about five times what I would have paid out of my own pocket for my health care last year. Had my employer been legally allowed to hand me that money directly and allow me to pay as I go, I'd be several thousand dollars ahead of the game.
Yes, and I just got the wonderful news that despite having made no changes in my salary or withholding, I owe $4,000 in taxes and penalties this year, as opposed to the $2,000 I got back last year. Plus I now have to pay quarterly estimated taxes the first of which is due in 5 days. So something made a $6,000 difference in my taxes between last year and this year, which pretty much means a $18,000 change in income. I suppose that must be the fact that insurance premiums are no longer deductible, although what my employe was paying for my healthcare premiums was nowhere near $18,000 last year.
If my tax burden is going to go up by $6,000 a year, the least somebody can do is give me an extra $6,000 post tax to pay it with. I can't continue to have no raise, no COLA, and have Obama continue to take more and more percentage out of my paycheck.
Yes, you are right, evolution is a science. It's supposedly the way humans came into being. So what does morality have to do with that ? There is NO morality in evolution. It's all about survival of the strongest, smartest, fastest. The weak, stupid, slow die off so that eventually they no longer add to the race. The only "morality" is the survival of the human race. That's it.
When morality comes into it is when we decide that the weak, stupid and slow ought to have the same (or better) shake at passing on their genes as the strong, smart and fast do. In fact, the strong, smart and fast tend to limit themselves on their offspring to only what they can support, while the weak, stupid and slow have as many children as they possibly can, on the dime of the strong, smart and fast.
Possibly true (certainly true in all examples I can think of), however inconvenience doesn't automatically mean security.
That certainly seems to be the mentality of most corporate IT departments that I know of. They figure if security is always inconvenient, then making things inconvenient will automatically make them secure. Correlation equals causation right?
The updates were the reason I had to redo my system twice
Microsoft Updates are the reason I had to upgrade last time. I had a legitimate Windows XP system bought from Dell, had all the certificates and codes. After an update from Microsoft, it suddenly started telling me that my windows was not legitimate and wouldn't boot up. I tried reinstalling, searched the web and found various other things to try. Nothing worked. I tried calling Microsoft, who also suggested reinstalling, and then after that still didn't work offered to sell me another XP license. No thanks, I already have one. I ended up eventually building a new system and putting the old drives in temporarily so I could keep all my data.
One of the benefits of cars is that they seldom get picked up by a sudden gust, flipped over, and slammed into the ground during takeoff, killing the pilot and passenger.
That's one of the benefits of planes, too. In fact, this probably happens more frequently in trucks than in airplanes. In fact, I can only recall zero instances of this happening in an airplane.
You forgot about the weather. We had TWO Cessna crashes with fatalities in my state in since February. Both may have been weather related.
You can always pull over in a car when the weather gets rough.
In an airplane, you just don't fly when the weather is rough or might get rough. Unfortunately, some people choose to take off anyway. Even then, in most cases, a 180 degree turn is enough to get you out of trouble. These days, many accidents are caused by people trying to use in-cockpit weather systems to try to navigate around active weather cells, rather than using them to avoid taking off at all.
If you just surf the web and do email then no, you don't need to max out.
I beg to differ. With enough tabs open in the browser, frequently run out of memory with 8GB.
Yes, but that is because browser writers write sloppy, leaky code. I have 6 tabs open in Firefox right now, and it is using 629 MB. That is completely unnecessary. The entirety of the text displayed in those 6 tabs could be done in probably 16k. Add in memory for the firefox core and some other things, and you probably bump it up to needing 8 MB or so.
I would be schocked, though if firefix could manage to use 8 GB of memory before it collapsed under it's own weight, which it seems to do often enough on mine before ever hitting 1 GB.
Be that as it may, I still don't see the connection to the outsourcing companies. How does the fact that they're getting a large proportion of the allocated visas help prove that the visas aren't really needed?
Why is it, do you suppose, that the outsourcing companies are having so much trouble finding local talent that literally 100% of their consultants are H1bs? And then, why do you suppose it is that they are able to place a consultant at company B for less than that company B would pay a full time employee, and then the outsourcing company still manages to pay a competitive salary to their employee, plus profit? The answer? They don't.
Ah, a political bigot. Thanks for putting that up front and saving me the effort of reading any more. Next you'll be telling us how Obama caused your erectile dysfunction.
Which is a shame, because his post was spot on. We used to import the best and brightest, and now we import whoever has a pulse and is willing to do the job for 20% less money.
The people that we used to import had PhDs, and had knowledge that was rare in the workforce. Now, we import people who do grunt work for which any number of unemployed Americans have the skill and knowledge to do.
Gay rights activists rarely care about people's personal religious beliefs, it is when they put resources into having those beliefs enshrined in law and thus using state power to force their religion on others that people get annoyed.
I had to reread that due to the pronoun. I thought you meant the GRAs were having their beliefs enshrined in law and thus using state power to force their religion on others. I mean, the shoe seems to fit on both feet.
Actually, you do have to pay capital gains tax on foreign currency in many circumstances. However, for most consumer cases, it is not worth the effort to go after people. In the case of bitcoin, the value change is signficant enough that it is worth their while to pursue the taxation.
We already have the technology to machine form custom shoes. Sadly, very few if any people know how to run these machines any more, and there has been almost no demand for the service for the last 100 years.Technology allowed us to mass produce shoes that fit well enough and custom made shoes went the way of the Dodo.
I have no doubt that thousands of hipsters will throw tons of money at the opportunity to use this "new technology" which was already invented over a 100 years ago.
Not limiting login attempts is not the end of the world, especially if they institute a delay between logins. If you screw up your password, it is going to take at least one second before you make your second attempt anyway, so why not enforce that one second delay on the server side? With a 6 digit password composed of numbers and letters, it would take 69 years to guarantee breaking a password. By them they will probably have a gen 2 Tesla that requires a 7 digit password.
I've never seen a login delay enforced in the wild, but it pretty much neuters any brute force attack. At least , if they are attacking the server, it does. If they get ahold of the encrypted passwords, then they can brute force it at their whim.
Dry rock does slide or collapse, it just doesn't do it until a lot more pressure has built up. I would think it would be preferable to have a lot of little earthquakes than one big one.
Undoubtedly, some geologist, meteorologist, seismologist or other expert has condemned every hill, valley, riverside, coast, flood plain, swamp, open plain, and so forth in the United States. Undoubtedly, every square inch of the United States is uninhabitable. Still, you have to live somewhere.
Come, now. We've only had 5 earthquakes in the last day in Oklahoma, and not a one above 3.2.
Seriously though, I have to wonder about whether the frequency is a bad thing. Are they earthquakes that would have occurred in the fullness of time, in other words, from plate shift? In that case, the more frequent the better, in my opinion. Rather a 100 small vibrations than one big shock. On the other hand, if the shocks are caused by emptied out caverns underground collapsing, then again, fracking would serve to lessen that by filling the caverns with fluid. Fracking is being used in Oklahoma mostly for forcing out natural gas. So they caverns are already empty. Fracking fluid should prevent rather than accelerate cave-ins.
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Well I signed up, under duress, but it did take me 6 tries and I had to scan in IDs and attach it to the account twice and then I had to delete the account and create a brand new account, and then even after doing that, the cheapest possible plan was still twice what I was paying a two months early (not one month earlier because one month earlier my insurance company raised the premium by a factor of 4).
Insurance premiums went up after Obamacare, not down.
My daughter-in-law attempted to sign up for Obamacare. She is in school and makes no money. Between her and my stepson, they make maybe $4-$5k per year, about $10,000 of which goes to pay for school. Yes, I know that doesn't add up. Anyway, she tried to sign up for Obamacare, and the cheapest plan she could get would have cost her $143 a month. She can't afford that, so she didn't sign up. She asked about the penalty and they said since she didn't make much money, she doesn't have to pay the penalty. So what does that mean? It means Obamacare did nothing. Poor people still don't have insurance. They don't have to pay the penalty either. They just go to the emergency room like they used to. Nothing has changed except that the people who already HAD insurance now pay twice as much.
I'm sure if my stepson and daughter-in-law were to drop out of school have a kid and sit at home all day THEN Obamacare would kick in and pay for them. After all, that is what Obama really wants, is for people to sit at home and make babies, not waste their time on education.
I'm sure a lot of those people were already insured, but their insurers dropped them due to Obamacare. That has happened to a lot of people I know. It didn't happen to me, but it was practically the same thing. My Major Medical plan went from $242 a month to $960 a month, with no notice.So I was forced to drop the plan and seek other coverage. I used their stupid webpage to shop for coverage. Turns out that is a bad idea, as their web page is so incredibly sucky that you have to put your information in multiple times, they can never verify your identity, they will ask you to scan in an ID, but there is no link on your account to do so, etc. Andnow, I am one of the $7.1 million users of their wonderful system, according to them. No, I was fine before Obamacare, and now the best I can get is a plan that costs twice as much and doesn't cover as much. I chose the absolute cheapest bronze plan I could get, which was still twice what I was paying before.
Also, this is EXACTLY how car insurance works.
False. Auto insurance makes no guarantee to pay car repairs for people who cannot afford auto insurance. There is not even a sliding scale. Auto insurance only pays for those who pay in and the amount you pay in is determined by their statistical assessment of how much they are likely to have to pay out for you personally.
Also, before auto insurance was made mandatory, it was also a lot cheaper. I pay more per month now than I paid per year when I was 16 years old, and the car I had when I was 16 was 8 years old, versus the 13 year old car I have been driving. I have had 0 accidents in my entire lifetime, 0 hail damage, 0 payouts of any kind. When I was 16, insurance wasn't mandatory, but now it is.
I just saw the nice new box on my W2 that shows "employer health insurance" payments. It was about five times what I would have paid out of my own pocket for my health care last year. Had my employer been legally allowed to hand me that money directly and allow me to pay as I go, I'd be several thousand dollars ahead of the game.
Yes, and I just got the wonderful news that despite having made no changes in my salary or withholding, I owe $4,000 in taxes and penalties this year, as opposed to the $2,000 I got back last year. Plus I now have to pay quarterly estimated taxes the first of which is due in 5 days. So something made a $6,000 difference in my taxes between last year and this year, which pretty much means a $18,000 change in income. I suppose that must be the fact that insurance premiums are no longer deductible, although what my employe was paying for my healthcare premiums was nowhere near $18,000 last year.
If my tax burden is going to go up by $6,000 a year, the least somebody can do is give me an extra $6,000 post tax to pay it with. I can't continue to have no raise, no COLA, and have Obama continue to take more and more percentage out of my paycheck.
Yes, you are right, evolution is a science. It's supposedly the way humans came into being. So what does morality have to do with that ? There is NO morality in evolution. It's all about survival of the strongest, smartest, fastest. The weak, stupid, slow die off so that eventually they no longer add to the race. The only "morality" is the survival of the human race. That's it.
When morality comes into it is when we decide that the weak, stupid and slow ought to have the same (or better) shake at passing on their genes as the strong, smart and fast do. In fact, the strong, smart and fast tend to limit themselves on their offspring to only what they can support, while the weak, stupid and slow have as many children as they possibly can, on the dime of the strong, smart and fast.
As a southerner myself, I would be confused to see a nor by itself, as I would expect it to be only be used after a neither.
Possibly true (certainly true in all examples I can think of), however inconvenience doesn't automatically mean security.
That certainly seems to be the mentality of most corporate IT departments that I know of. They figure if security is always inconvenient, then making things inconvenient will automatically make them secure. Correlation equals causation right?
The updates were the reason I had to redo my system twice
Microsoft Updates are the reason I had to upgrade last time. I had a legitimate Windows XP system bought from Dell, had all the certificates and codes. After an update from Microsoft, it suddenly started telling me that my windows was not legitimate and wouldn't boot up. I tried reinstalling, searched the web and found various other things to try. Nothing worked. I tried calling Microsoft, who also suggested reinstalling, and then after that still didn't work offered to sell me another XP license. No thanks, I already have one. I ended up eventually building a new system and putting the old drives in temporarily so I could keep all my data.
unless your only goal is to overcome the limitations of working in a space the size of a graphics card. In which case it ROCKS!
Unless the water cooling system is built on the graphics card itself, in which it case, it sucks.
One of the benefits of cars is that they seldom get picked up by a sudden gust, flipped over, and slammed into the ground during takeoff, killing the pilot and passenger.
That's one of the benefits of planes, too. In fact, this probably happens more frequently in trucks than in airplanes. In fact, I can only recall zero instances of this happening in an airplane.
You forgot about the weather. We had TWO Cessna crashes with fatalities in my state in since February. Both may have been weather related. You can always pull over in a car when the weather gets rough.
In an airplane, you just don't fly when the weather is rough or might get rough. Unfortunately, some people choose to take off anyway. Even then, in most cases, a 180 degree turn is enough to get you out of trouble. These days, many accidents are caused by people trying to use in-cockpit weather systems to try to navigate around active weather cells, rather than using them to avoid taking off at all.
I beg to differ. With enough tabs open in the browser, frequently run out of memory with 8GB.
Yes, but that is because browser writers write sloppy, leaky code. I have 6 tabs open in Firefox right now, and it is using 629 MB. That is completely unnecessary. The entirety of the text displayed in those 6 tabs could be done in probably 16k. Add in memory for the firefox core and some other things, and you probably bump it up to needing 8 MB or so.
I would be schocked, though if firefix could manage to use 8 GB of memory before it collapsed under it's own weight, which it seems to do often enough on mine before ever hitting 1 GB.
Be that as it may, I still don't see the connection to the outsourcing companies. How does the fact that they're getting a large proportion of the allocated visas help prove that the visas aren't really needed?
Why is it, do you suppose, that the outsourcing companies are having so much trouble finding local talent that literally 100% of their consultants are H1bs? And then, why do you suppose it is that they are able to place a consultant at company B for less than that company B would pay a full time employee, and then the outsourcing company still manages to pay a competitive salary to their employee, plus profit? The answer? They don't.
Ah, a political bigot. Thanks for putting that up front and saving me the effort of reading any more. Next you'll be telling us how Obama caused your erectile dysfunction.
Which is a shame, because his post was spot on. We used to import the best and brightest, and now we import whoever has a pulse and is willing to do the job for 20% less money.
The people that we used to import had PhDs, and had knowledge that was rare in the workforce. Now, we import people who do grunt work for which any number of unemployed Americans have the skill and knowledge to do.
Gay rights activists rarely care about people's personal religious beliefs, it is when they put resources into having those beliefs enshrined in law and thus using state power to force their religion on others that people get annoyed.
I had to reread that due to the pronoun. I thought you meant the GRAs were having their beliefs enshrined in law and thus using state power to force their religion on others. I mean, the shoe seems to fit on both feet.
Actually, you do have to pay capital gains tax on foreign currency in many circumstances. However, for most consumer cases, it is not worth the effort to go after people. In the case of bitcoin, the value change is signficant enough that it is worth their while to pursue the taxation.
We already have the technology to machine form custom shoes. Sadly, very few if any people know how to run these machines any more, and there has been almost no demand for the service for the last 100 years.Technology allowed us to mass produce shoes that fit well enough and custom made shoes went the way of the Dodo.
I have no doubt that thousands of hipsters will throw tons of money at the opportunity to use this "new technology" which was already invented over a 100 years ago.
Not limiting login attempts is not the end of the world, especially if they institute a delay between logins. If you screw up your password, it is going to take at least one second before you make your second attempt anyway, so why not enforce that one second delay on the server side? With a 6 digit password composed of numbers and letters, it would take 69 years to guarantee breaking a password. By them they will probably have a gen 2 Tesla that requires a 7 digit password.
I've never seen a login delay enforced in the wild, but it pretty much neuters any brute force attack. At least , if they are attacking the server, it does. If they get ahold of the encrypted passwords, then they can brute force it at their whim.
Dry rock does slide or collapse, it just doesn't do it until a lot more pressure has built up. I would think it would be preferable to have a lot of little earthquakes than one big one.
Undoubtedly, some geologist, meteorologist, seismologist or other expert has condemned every hill, valley, riverside, coast, flood plain, swamp, open plain, and so forth in the United States. Undoubtedly, every square inch of the United States is uninhabitable. Still, you have to live somewhere.
Come, now. We've only had 5 earthquakes in the last day in Oklahoma, and not a one above 3.2. Seriously though, I have to wonder about whether the frequency is a bad thing. Are they earthquakes that would have occurred in the fullness of time, in other words, from plate shift? In that case, the more frequent the better, in my opinion. Rather a 100 small vibrations than one big shock. On the other hand, if the shocks are caused by emptied out caverns underground collapsing, then again, fracking would serve to lessen that by filling the caverns with fluid. Fracking is being used in Oklahoma mostly for forcing out natural gas. So they caverns are already empty. Fracking fluid should prevent rather than accelerate cave-ins.
Just like being an organ donor, you agree to it before it becomes an issue.
This is quite clearly something that should be an opt-in, not an opt-out. Actually I can't think of anything that should be opt-out.