Cosmos is at best watered down science and at worst, factually inaccurate. A creationist segment would only make it moderately worse.
The problem with Cosmos is that people watch it and then think they have an understanding of science. Anyone who had paid attention in High School science would be able to nitpick Cosmos apart.
Ahh but they accept those things because that is "microevolution" as opposed to what they call "macroevolution" which they claim would have to be something like a dog giving birth to a pig.
Nope, never heard anybody claim that. But I guess it is easier to erect a strawman and beat that down, when the actual argument is beyond your ability to counter.
I've got a friend who has always been well known (in our circle) for his conspiracy theories. Over the last 5 or 6 years, though, he hasn't been able to come up with anything outlandish enough, off the wall enough, invasive enough, impossible enough.Every time he comes up with something new he thinks the government is doing, all we can say is "Yep, they even admitted it on $NationalNewsNetwork last week."
I don't necessarily want to use open source. It is more of a company mandate to never write a line of code that is not necessary. Me, I would prefer to write something that does A myself in a day, having full knowledge of how it works and be certain it works with our system rather than spend weeks trying to understand and integrate a package that does A-Z, where only A is required, but does not quite work in the way that our system needs it to, and fails in various difficult to troubleshoot ways deep in the heart of some code three dependencies deep.
So I guess the open source community is a retard.
Where I work, we are still on Java 6 because certain Open Source projects upon which we depend do not work in Java 7. Now, it being Open Source, I suppose we could go in and fix that, but then what is the point of standing on the shoulders of giants if you have to build the giant?
For a good programmer, asking whether you can use a new language or framework is like asking someone who builds watches if he feels he could learn how to tell time. Of course you can. Anybody who knows the foundations on which the tool is built is far preferable to someone who merely knows how to use the tool.
Now, you'll never get passed HR, who is only looking for people who used that tool exclusively and recently and doesn't care whether you actually WROTE the tool.
It's not like condoms cost a lot of money. It is hard for me to imagine someone who is so poor that they can't afford a condom or can't get to one of the many places where they hand them out like candy. If there is someone who is so poor that they can't afford a condom, perhaps having sex should not be so high on their priority list.
Birth control pills are rather more expensive, and also more effective at preventing pregnancy, but don't do anything as far as protecting from disease. I can understand people not being able to afford those, but I see no reason why society should pay for them.
According to some handouts I got at a panel on Obamacare, the entire Obamacare premium for a family of 3 earning $78,000 would be $600 a month. So if they dropped Obamacare and got Major Medical instead, they wouldn't save $600 a month
Major Medical is fine for people who are healthy and won't get sick. Any insurance is fine for people who are healthy and won't get sick.
The problem comes when people get sick. If you develop multiple sclerosis, your medical costs will go up enormously. You could easily spend $100,000 in the first year. You could be spending $500 and $1,000 on specialist visits.You could get a dozen MRI scans at $10,000 apiece. Your medical savings account won't cover it..
Even if you did get sick and used your entire deductible on a Major mediical plan, your maximum out of pocket would still be cheaper than just the premiums on a typical health plan, and that is before all of the copays, coinsurance and deductibles which are also included on a typical health plan.
I know! When I drove across town the other day I only saw like 500 small businesses! It must be like that because they are so hard to start!
Starting them is easy. Transforming them into a business that pays a livable wage with decent hours is something else entirely. Just like every citizen is a criminal, every business is also acting illegally, and there are a whole host of regulations and laws out there to prevent competition from rising up through the ranks.
I am also in the Bible belt, and the condoms are out there for anyone to pick up. I believe the biggest issue with contraception is people are embarrassed to buy it because they don't want people to know about their sex life. This leads to either theft, no sex, or pregnancy depending on the individual.
The government can and they should just set across the board prices for medical procedures in line with the medicare prices.
If they were to do that, then it would become an issue trying to get certain procedures done because doctors won't find it worth the effort. This is already happening even with insurance company contracted rates. I ran into this issue trying to get shots for my kids so they could go to school. My insurance covered the shots, but the doctors don't feel that the contracted rate is worth the money so they simply won't do them.
The biggest problem is that once people have to pay for "routine" visits, they don't go on routine visits. Obviously you are one of those people who can afford to pay for a $200 doctor's visit out of pocket. Maybe half of Americans are in your category. The other half aren't.
Perhaps if they chose a Major Medical plan instead of an ObamaCare plan, they could use the $600 a month savings to put some money aside to go to the doctor once a year.
Definitely. I mostly agree with the THEORY of insurance not covering your routine visits (other than the part where the doctors overcharge and you don't have the benefit of insurance negotiated prices, so you pay $600 for a $100 visit). But in PRACTICE it really just means people skipping the cheap routine visits to save themselves money (so they can pay off that 60" TV they just bought) and instead racking up huge bills treating expensive-but-easily-preventable (or inexpensive-if-caught-early) illnesses.
With Major Medical, you pay out of pocket for the routine visits, but the contract rate still applies Even though the doctor charges $500 for the visit, the plan adjudicates it down to $50 and you pay that. All for $600 a month. (Used to be $150, but you know, ObamaCare). Even if you add up your Major Medical premiums and max out your deductible, you will find that it is still cheaper than just the premiums on a typical healthcare plan. And don't forget that typecal healthplans STILL have deductibles, copay and coinsurance on top of the premiums.
Those $200 corporate plans that everyone is raving about? They're $200 because your company is shelling out $1400 as part of your benefits package.
No. he is talking about Insurance, now more often known as Major Medical or High Deductible plans. Anything other than these type of plans is not actually insurance, but a gourmet health plan.
About 5 years ago, I paid $175 a month for my Major Medical plan covering my wife and kids. Now, it is about $350 a month. If I tried to sign up fresh for this plan right now, it would be $589. I can't think of anything else that has happened in the last 5 years that would cause the cost of this plan to go up by 400% other than ObamaCare.
I was about to point out that you could get Major medical for probably $450, as that is what they were going for in January, but now they seem to have gone up by 30% or so. The cheapest I can find is $589. Still that is better than $1,000 a month.
Check out ehealthinsurance. You can compare rates from a bunch of different companies and plans.
Most pre-obamacare individual policies were the functional equivalent of the rock I keep in my pocket to ward off tigers. They made you feel good and may have actually helped with small emergencies, but they were useless when the serious issues that you thought you were covering actually came up.
That is bullcrap. I had individual insurance prior to ObamaCare, and it works just fine. It is far cheaper than the plan I could have gotten at work.
The downside is that the premiums have gone up by 100% in the three years that I have been on it, but it is still cheaper than the insurance at work, and I looked around and found that it is still cheaper than any other options.
In December, while browsing carriers, the carriers were showing 50% difference between signing up in December 2013 versus signing up in January 2014. For example, a Major Medical plan starting in December would have been $300 a month (which is very high for major medical) and if you signed up in January it would be $450 a month.
The person might have been talking about asset seizure as part of a criminal investigation, which after the various Silk Road arrests many have focused on as 'government theft' under the idea that money made via commission of a crime is still 'theirs'... or at minimal anything that generates a profit is inherently ethical because it shows demand and if there is demand then it must be ethical.
Not all of the bitcoins seized from silk road belonged to the CEO. Most likely the majority of those bitcoins belonged to account holders. An analogy would be if Bank of America had been shutdown for the massive fraud, money laundering and drug deals which they have facilitated instead of being given interest free loans, and all of the money in their account holders checking and savings account had been confiscated.
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Because Cosmos is a science show.
Cosmos is at best watered down science and at worst, factually inaccurate. A creationist segment would only make it moderately worse.
The problem with Cosmos is that people watch it and then think they have an understanding of science. Anyone who had paid attention in High School science would be able to nitpick Cosmos apart.
Ahh but they accept those things because that is "microevolution" as opposed to what they call "macroevolution" which they claim would have to be something like a dog giving birth to a pig.
Nope, never heard anybody claim that. But I guess it is easier to erect a strawman and beat that down, when the actual argument is beyond your ability to counter.
I've got a friend who has always been well known (in our circle) for his conspiracy theories. Over the last 5 or 6 years, though, he hasn't been able to come up with anything outlandish enough, off the wall enough, invasive enough, impossible enough.Every time he comes up with something new he thinks the government is doing, all we can say is "Yep, they even admitted it on $NationalNewsNetwork last week."
I don't necessarily want to use open source. It is more of a company mandate to never write a line of code that is not necessary. Me, I would prefer to write something that does A myself in a day, having full knowledge of how it works and be certain it works with our system rather than spend weeks trying to understand and integrate a package that does A-Z, where only A is required, but does not quite work in the way that our system needs it to, and fails in various difficult to troubleshoot ways deep in the heart of some code three dependencies deep.
Wait, according to all the news and slashdot articles, the only thing that can be printed with a 3D printer is a gun.
So I guess the open source community is a retard.
Where I work, we are still on Java 6 because certain Open Source projects upon which we depend do not work in Java 7. Now, it being Open Source, I suppose we could go in and fix that, but then what is the point of standing on the shoulders of giants if you have to build the giant?
For a good programmer, asking whether you can use a new language or framework is like asking someone who builds watches if he feels he could learn how to tell time. Of course you can. Anybody who knows the foundations on which the tool is built is far preferable to someone who merely knows how to use the tool.
Now, you'll never get passed HR, who is only looking for people who used that tool exclusively and recently and doesn't care whether you actually WROTE the tool.
I prefer a vehicle that doesn't fall over when there is a code failure or the battery dies.
Are you serious? We've had stronger earthquakes here in Oklahoma and there was damage to maybe two houses.
You do realize that those guys in tight pants in college, for bringing in money that paid for your science, engineering and arts labs...
Except that it was exposed that barring only a few schools, the vast majority of sports programs were a financial net negative for the school.
meanwhile I coulda had finished the book
You're right. They screwed you up pretty bad.
Gifted students should be able to teach themselves with little if any guidance. Remedial students need help.
You can teach yourself what you don't know, but you can't teach yourself what you don't know that you don't know.
Apparently it's to allow a third-party access to your private key, so that they can steal all of your bitcoins.
I think you mean public key and can't steal all of your bitcoins.
It's not like condoms cost a lot of money. It is hard for me to imagine someone who is so poor that they can't afford a condom or can't get to one of the many places where they hand them out like candy. If there is someone who is so poor that they can't afford a condom, perhaps having sex should not be so high on their priority list.
Birth control pills are rather more expensive, and also more effective at preventing pregnancy, but don't do anything as far as protecting from disease. I can understand people not being able to afford those, but I see no reason why society should pay for them.
According to some handouts I got at a panel on Obamacare, the entire Obamacare premium for a family of 3 earning $78,000 would be $600 a month. So if they dropped Obamacare and got Major Medical instead, they wouldn't save $600 a month
Major Medical is fine for people who are healthy and won't get sick. Any insurance is fine for people who are healthy and won't get sick.
The problem comes when people get sick. If you develop multiple sclerosis, your medical costs will go up enormously. You could easily spend $100,000 in the first year. You could be spending $500 and $1,000 on specialist visits.You could get a dozen MRI scans at $10,000 apiece. Your medical savings account won't cover it..
Even if you did get sick and used your entire deductible on a Major mediical plan, your maximum out of pocket would still be cheaper than just the premiums on a typical health plan, and that is before all of the copays, coinsurance and deductibles which are also included on a typical health plan.
The elimination of caps was done several years ago, so there was no lifetime cap on my Major Medical policy.
I know! When I drove across town the other day I only saw like 500 small businesses! It must be like that because they are so hard to start!
Starting them is easy. Transforming them into a business that pays a livable wage with decent hours is something else entirely. Just like every citizen is a criminal, every business is also acting illegally, and there are a whole host of regulations and laws out there to prevent competition from rising up through the ranks.
I am also in the Bible belt, and the condoms are out there for anyone to pick up. I believe the biggest issue with contraception is people are embarrassed to buy it because they don't want people to know about their sex life. This leads to either theft, no sex, or pregnancy depending on the individual.
The government can and they should just set across the board prices for medical procedures in line with the medicare prices.
If they were to do that, then it would become an issue trying to get certain procedures done because doctors won't find it worth the effort. This is already happening even with insurance company contracted rates. I ran into this issue trying to get shots for my kids so they could go to school. My insurance covered the shots, but the doctors don't feel that the contracted rate is worth the money so they simply won't do them.
The biggest problem is that once people have to pay for "routine" visits, they don't go on routine visits. Obviously you are one of those people who can afford to pay for a $200 doctor's visit out of pocket. Maybe half of Americans are in your category. The other half aren't.
Perhaps if they chose a Major Medical plan instead of an ObamaCare plan, they could use the $600 a month savings to put some money aside to go to the doctor once a year.
Definitely. I mostly agree with the THEORY of insurance not covering your routine visits (other than the part where the doctors overcharge and you don't have the benefit of insurance negotiated prices, so you pay $600 for a $100 visit). But in PRACTICE it really just means people skipping the cheap routine visits to save themselves money (so they can pay off that 60" TV they just bought) and instead racking up huge bills treating expensive-but-easily-preventable (or inexpensive-if-caught-early) illnesses.
With Major Medical, you pay out of pocket for the routine visits, but the contract rate still applies Even though the doctor charges $500 for the visit, the plan adjudicates it down to $50 and you pay that. All for $600 a month. (Used to be $150, but you know, ObamaCare). Even if you add up your Major Medical premiums and max out your deductible, you will find that it is still cheaper than just the premiums on a typical healthcare plan. And don't forget that typecal healthplans STILL have deductibles, copay and coinsurance on top of the premiums.
Those $200 corporate plans that everyone is raving about? They're $200 because your company is shelling out $1400 as part of your benefits package.
No. he is talking about Insurance, now more often known as Major Medical or High Deductible plans. Anything other than these type of plans is not actually insurance, but a gourmet health plan.
About 5 years ago, I paid $175 a month for my Major Medical plan covering my wife and kids. Now, it is about $350 a month. If I tried to sign up fresh for this plan right now, it would be $589. I can't think of anything else that has happened in the last 5 years that would cause the cost of this plan to go up by 400% other than ObamaCare.
I was about to point out that you could get Major medical for probably $450, as that is what they were going for in January, but now they seem to have gone up by 30% or so. The cheapest I can find is $589. Still that is better than $1,000 a month.
Check out ehealthinsurance. You can compare rates from a bunch of different companies and plans.
Most pre-obamacare individual policies were the functional equivalent of the rock I keep in my pocket to ward off tigers. They made you feel good and may have actually helped with small emergencies, but they were useless when the serious issues that you thought you were covering actually came up.
That is bullcrap. I had individual insurance prior to ObamaCare, and it works just fine. It is far cheaper than the plan I could have gotten at work.
The downside is that the premiums have gone up by 100% in the three years that I have been on it, but it is still cheaper than the insurance at work, and I looked around and found that it is still cheaper than any other options.
In December, while browsing carriers, the carriers were showing 50% difference between signing up in December 2013 versus signing up in January 2014. For example, a Major Medical plan starting in December would have been $300 a month (which is very high for major medical) and if you signed up in January it would be $450 a month.
The person might have been talking about asset seizure as part of a criminal investigation, which after the various Silk Road arrests many have focused on as 'government theft' under the idea that money made via commission of a crime is still 'theirs'... or at minimal anything that generates a profit is inherently ethical because it shows demand and if there is demand then it must be ethical.
Not all of the bitcoins seized from silk road belonged to the CEO. Most likely the majority of those bitcoins belonged to account holders. An analogy would be if Bank of America had been shutdown for the massive fraud, money laundering and drug deals which they have facilitated instead of being given interest free loans, and all of the money in their account holders checking and savings account had been confiscated.